No, there’s no study that measures how much UK iPhone users actually “love” their iPhone’s on-screen keyboard. That would be silly, measuring love. What we can do is look at mobile email adoption rates among UK iPhone users to indirectly measure how iPhone owners in the UK feel about their virtual keyboard. New data from ComScore indicates that iPhone-wielding Brits are more than twice as likely to use mobile email than other smartphone owners in the UK. With over 75% of UK iPhone owners using mobile email (compared to 35% of overall smartphone users), it’s clear that the iPhone’s virtual keyboard isn’t quite the hassle that some smartphone makers would have you think.
In the UK, the data suggests that iPhone users are more than twice as likely to access mobile email, news and information through the mobile browser and use downloaded applications than is the general smartphone-using public. iPhone users are almost twice as likely to access a social networking site and web search than the smartphone masses.
The iPhone’s on-screen keyboard is apparently not as big a detractor for text-heavy application as many in the mobile space would have you believe. The Nokia N95 dominates the UK smartphone market, but its lack of any QWERTY keyboard, on-screen or physical, has relegated it to serving as music-listening and picture-messaging device. The iPhone, on the other hand, has seen everyday users readily adopting mobile email on a relatively massive scale.
For what it’s worth, a little practice is all it takes to start typing faster on an iPhone than any mobile QWERTY keyboard.
[Via: MocoNews]