A recent psychological study has shown that Android smartphone owners are more humble and honest in comparison to Apple iPhone owners. They were also more considerate and less extroverted.
This means that the device people choose to purchase (whether it is an iPhone or an Android-based device) can tell something about them and their personality traits.
The results are based on two separate studies that involved around 240 people who were asked to fill in a questionnaire about the essential qualities of smartphone users with different brands. Based on the results from the second study, researchers found out that women were "twice more likely" to buy an iPhone than an Android device and that most Android users avoided having similar phones as others.
The study was conducted by Heather Shaw and her team from the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln along with the Lancaster University in the U.K.
"This study provides new insights into personality differences between different types of smartphone users. Smartphone choice is the most basic level of smartphone personalisation, and even this can tell us a lot about the user," Shaw said. "Imagine if we further researched how personality traits relate to the applications people download. It is becoming more and more apparent that smartphones are becoming a mini digital version of the user, and many of us don't like it when other people use our phones because it can reveal so much about us."