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Prepare to GET! From putting a kiss on a text to your boss to accidentally playing a video at full volume revealed the Brits’ biggest ‘phone pass’ – so have YOU fallen victim to one of them?
- HMD Global asked 2,000 Britons about the phone habits that make them cringe
- Dropping your phone and smashing the screen was the biggest ‘phone pass’
We’ve all been there: you send a quick email to your boss, only to discover a second too late that you’ve accidentally added a cheeky “x” to the end of your message.
This chilling ‘phone pass’ has been revealed as one of the most embarrassing mobile mishaps of the British, according to a new study.
For the survey, HMD Global asked 2,000 Britons about the phone habits that make them cringe the most.
Dropping your phone and breaking the screen was revealed as the biggest “phone pass,” with 55 percent of respondents saying it left them with a pounding heart and sweaty palms.
This was followed by clicking a video at full volume in a crowded room (31 percent) and starting a long journey with three percent battery (27 percent).
For the survey, HMD Global asked 2,000 Britons about the phone habits that make them cringe the most
We’ve all been there – you send a quick email to your boss, only to discover a second too late that you accidentally added a cheeky ‘x’ to the end of your message (stock image)
According to HMD Global’s research, the average Briton suffers a whopping 36 ‘phone pass’ a year.
Forgetting to mute your phone at the movie theater was revealed as the fourth most embarrassing mobile accident, followed by clicking a spam link and dropping your phone in the toilet.
Meanwhile, accidentally kissing your boss on a text message (14 percent), liking an ex’s Instagram post (12 percent), adding a kiss to a work email (12 percent), matching with a co-worker on a dating site (11 percent) and accidentally dialing 999 (11 percent) also make our hearts beat faster, according to the study.
However, the pain of a broken phone screen was the most irritating, with more than half of respondents admitting to breaking their device within just 2.5 months of purchase.
“It is clear that our mobile phones have to endure a lot during their lifetime,” said Adam Ferguson, Head of Product Marketing at HMD Global.
“Since people replace their phones on average every four years, our devices have to withstand a whopping 144 drops, scratches, and slips.”
Thankfully, the days of having to dodge shards of glass while texting on a phone with a broken screen may soon be a thing of the past, according to a recent study.
A material as light as plastic, yet stronger than steel and 4 to 6 times harder to damage than bulletproof glass, could soon be used to protect smartphone screens.
Created by experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the fabric achieves something long thought impossible: polymerization in two dimensions.
The pain of a broken phone screen was found to be the most irritating, with more than half of respondents admitting to breaking their device within just 2.5 months of purchase (stock image)
Polymerization is a process in which small atoms called monomers join together, usually to form long, spaghetti-like chains called polymers.
These can then be injection molded into three-dimensional objects such as water bottles.
However, the researchers succeeded in creating a material that self-assembles into two-dimensional sheets that look more like lasagna than spaghetti.
These sheets, called polyaramids, are stacked on top of each other and are held together by robust hydrogen bonds, making the overall material extremely strong.
In addition to improving phone cases, the polymer could also be used as a protective coating on auto parts, or as a large-scale construction material.