Phonemag has some very interesting information about how much people who can afford to lose their data the least take their cell phones and PDAs for granted. I nearly dropped my Nokia a week ago from my flat’s balcony during a longish voice call. The top danger spot for electronic data devices, though, aren’t the viewing decks of apartments but taxi cabs.
Pointsec surveyed taxi companies in nine countries and compiled an almost implausible number of lost cell phones, PDAs and laptops. The U.S., Australia, Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Great Britain combined to a staggering 85,619 mobile phones, 21,460 PDAs and 4,425 laptops left in taxicabs for a period of six months. I trust the people who conducted the survey didn’t catch the nine cities in an especially busy half-year for absent-minded mobile and laptop users.
Londoners top the list in all three categories: 54,874 cell phones (more than 2 per cab), 4,718 pocket PCs, 3,179 laptops. With these numbers it’s hard to imagine anybody dropping his cell phone from a viewing deck and adding to the grisly statistics. I guess I’m just lucky.
Oh yeah, and here’s the “Top 10 Worst Places To Loose Your Cell Phone“.
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