Updated Sep.13,2004 19:56 KST

College Students Love to Shoot Photos with Phones
College undergraduates picked photo shooting as their favorite mobile phone function. Recruiting website Powerjob announced on Monday the results of a survey conducted on 806 collage students from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2., in which 52.4 percent of the respondents chose the camera or video camera as their favorite feature of mobile phones.

Audio or MP3 function (21.8 percent), payment functions such as credit card or transportation card function (10.4 percent), and discount coupon functions (7.4 percent) were also on the list of answers, reflecting the various ways of using cellular phones.

Respondents replied that they pay most consideration to brand (43.7 percent), price (27.0 percent), and design (24.6 percent) when purchasing a new handset. Meanwhile, 65.1 percent said that they have used their mobile phones during class, showing that cellular phone etiquette has not yet fully developed.

(englishnews@chosun.com )