![]() Audio Clarity: The output audio is very transparent and high quality.‘Text Talk’ survey conducted by .uk in June 2017 with 1,017 UK respondents (aged 18+) that own and regularly use a smartphone.The quality of our tool is judged by many criteria but some of the very important points are as follows: Whether you're a text lover or avoider, you can find the perfect smartphone for you over at .uk To help anyone still struggling to understand ‘text talk’, discover our top 50 text abbreviation translator below: Worried about your data usage when sending all those IMs? Discover how much data you get through every month right here. Smartphone apps and trends come and go, but the ease and convenience of a short written message has never fallen from favour. Regardless of how advanced our smartphones have become, one item that has always proved popular is the instant message. The city most fluent in ‘text talk’ is Belfast, with 39% of all phone users’ messages containing an abbreviation, yet residents send half the number of messages of those living in London and Newcastle – just 12 messages a day on average. ![]() London is the country’s IM hotspot, with residents sending an average of 24 messages a day – totalling a whopping 8,687 instant messages sent a year.īirmingham and Liverpool are also amongst the country’s biggest IM fans, with residents sending an average of 23 messages a day (or 8,650 a year). ![]() Other ‘text talk’ fails include mistaking SMH for ‘ so much hate’ instead of ‘ shake my head’ and FYI for ‘ for your eyes only’ instead of ‘ for your information’. If you have even received a confusing LOL at the end of a text from a romantic partner, don’t be alarmed as LOL is the most misused abbreviation, despite being the most used, with many believing it stands for ‘ lots of love’ instead of ‘ laugh out loud’. Other text abbreviations we struggle to understand include DGMW ( don’t get me wrong), KMN ( kill me now), and C-P ( copy and paste). However, 'text talk' has proved to be a difficult language to master, with 75% of those surveyed struggling to become fluent in the language of text.įOAK ( first of a kind) and HAK ( hugs and kisses) are the text abbreviations we find the most confusing to understand, with almost nine in ten (88%) of unclear what they mean!
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