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Indian Smartphone User Persona: 169 Mins Per Day Usage; Candy Crush, Flipkart, Gaana Emerge As Top Apps

As of now, there are 160 million users of smartphones in India, out of which 63% are under the age of 25. With such a vibrant demography of technology users, it becomes interesting to observe how personas are developed and which features of being used extensively by the smartphone users.

In a research conducted by Vserv, a smart data platform for mobile marketing and ecommerce, 6 major personas of Indian smartphone users were revealed.

These are:

App Junkies: These users download and use maximum number of applications and games in a month. They constitute 24% of all users in

Social Stars: These are the users who spent atleast 2 hours a day on social networking and messenger apps. They control 20% of the share of users

Conversationalists: These users are mainly using a smartphone to make and receive call; and have very low app usage. They have 16% share.

Entertainment Buffs: They are the biggest consumers of videos, online games, music and Internet; with 15% share among all users.

Utilitarians: These are the users who use utility apps the most, with little focus on messenger or social media apps. With 15% share, they are a dominant force.

Dabblers: These are novice smartphone users, who hasn’t yet realized it’s powers. No app usage, no Internet usage and very less voice calls. They constitute 10% share.

Some interesting highlights from the report:

App Junkies install 18.5 apps/games every month on an average, as they spent 160 minutes per day on apps. 6.7 GB is the average data consumption of these species.

Social Starts are spending whooping 236 minutes per day on social media and messengers apps

Candy Crush game reaches 32.5% of all app junkies, and they spent 11.2 minutes per day on an average on this game.

On an average, a typical Indian smartphone user will spend 169 minutes a day on his or her smartphone.

In terms of music streaming, Gaana has a reach of 13.4% among Entertainment buffs, whereas Wynk Music has 8.1% share and Saavn has 6.6% share

Overall, Flipkart is the #1 destination for ecommerce, with 33.9% share. Snapdeal is #2 with 20% share and Amazon comes #3 at 17.8% share.

Google Play, 9Apps and PayTm are the most frequented apps for an app junkie.

WhatsApp, Facebook and Hike are the most favorite apps for Social

Phone, Gmail and WhatsApp are the three most loved app by the Conversationalists.

For Entertainment Buffs, MX Player,Youtube  and Ganna are the top 3 apps.

Surprisingly, Viber, HDFC Bank and News Hunt are the top three apps for the Utilitarian.

Vserv, in their report, has stated that they have access to 74% of all mobile users in India; however, this survey about finding out personas was conducted by observing usage patter of 12,000 smartphone users in India.

These 6 major personas was found out after researching 22 actual usage parameters, and undergoing a two-step cluster analysis.

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