a. Reasons for smartphone preference“The reason I use a smartphone is that I can easily access anything so I do not need to go to the internet café. Because, like, you send emails from home, all you need is data then you are sorted. It gives you access to social media.” [Maroon, FGD 6]
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b. Smartphone usage among friends
“My friend…most of the time she likes perhaps to go out and boast to me so she believes in taking photos and likes to send me pictures to show me what her weekends are like…So, it is easy for her to take photos, but if she was having a ‘tilili’ [standard phone] she wouldn’t be able to take photos.” [White, FGD 5] “Most of my friends are using smartphones for WhatsApp because when… airtime runs out, it is easy to communicate by WhatsApp and Facebook. The other thing with a smartphone you can go to a place even if you don’t know where it is, it directs you…GPS.” [Red, FGD 1] “My friends are using it and I don’t; WhatsApp and Facebook they are using them…I use it to send SMS and phoning only.” [Red, FGD 2]
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c. Phone sharing
“No, I don’t share. Mine is having a password and I am the only one who knows it.” [White, FGD 2] “I don’t share my phone with other people…what is on the phone is mine. Facebook is mine, WhatsApp is mine, messages are mine, numbers on the phone are mine.” [Green, FGD 4] “I do share whenever someone asks to use my phone. Maybe their phone has problems and they wanted to use WhatsApp.” [Black, FGD 4] “I share with my family my phone; the person I don’t share my phone with is my boyfriend.” [Purple, FGD 1] “I share my phone with my husband, especially Facebook and WhatsApp.” [Blue, FGD 1]
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