The document discusses why cell phone manuals are important. It notes that mobile devices have changed how the world communicates and will continue to proliferate. Understanding the terminology used in manuals is important for understanding how to use devices. The document then provides data from various cell phone manuals, including information on word counts, vocabulary sizes, and mentions of brands, phones, calls and touchscreen interactions. It includes this data in both table and graph form for six different phone models.
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2. The Sources: Instruction
Manuals
Good idea of terminology surrounding the
devices
Why Cell Phone Manuals? Mobile devices have
changed the world communicates and will only
continue to proliferate.
3. Data (Part 1)
Most
Good idea of terminology words Mentions of Mostthe
Mentions of word
Mentions of word "Phone"/ Word Mentions of
surrounding popular
"call"+"calls"/Wor
popular
tactile word
Phone
devices
"Phone" Count "call"+"calls" d Count tactile word mentions
iphone (ios6) 79 0.001691504 221 0.004731929 tap 918
Galaxy Nexus
(Android 4) 146 0.009647152 95 0.006277257 touch 272
Blackberry Curve 211 0.003966613 234 0.004398992 click 1670
Why Cell Phone Manuals? Mobile devices have
Motorolla RAZR
V3
changed the world communicates and will only
319 0.021413707 195 0.013089884 press 215
continue to proliferate.
Nokia 1100 230 0.020878722 133 0.012073348 press 149
Motorolla StarTAC 389 0.021576349 214 0.011869765 press 379
4. Data (Part 2)
Brand
Phone
Good idea of terminology surrounding Brand
Year Brand
Reason
Included
Total Vocab/Word
WordCount Total Vocab Count
the
Mentions
Mentions/
Word Count
devices Apple
iphone (ios6) 2012
Popular 2012
phone 46704 3117 0.0667 176 0.003768414
Galaxy Nexus Popular 2012
(Android 4) 2012 Google phone 15134 1601 0.11 77 0.005087882
Blackberry RIM Popular 2012
Curve 2011 Blackberry phone 53194 1832 0.03 542 0.010189119
highly
Why Cell Phone Manuals? Mobile devices have
promoted;
Motorolla my first
RAZR V3 changed the world communicates and will only
2004 Motorolla phone
14897 1874 0.125 35 0.002349466
continue to proliferate.
world's best
selling phone
Nokia 1100 2003 Nokia handset 11016 1653 0.15 99 0.008986928
first ever
clamshell/flip
Motorolla mobile phone
StarTAC 1996 Motorolla to date 18029 2312 0.13 32 0.001774918
5. Graphs: Total Word Count
Total WordCount
60000
50000
40000
30000
Total WordCount
20000
10000
0
iPhone (ios6) Galaxy Nexus Blackberry Motorolla Nokia 1100 Motorolla
(Android 4) Curve RAZR V3 StarTAC
6. Graphs: Total Vocab
Total Vocab
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500 Total Vocab
1000
500
0
iPhone (ios6) Galaxy Nexus Blackberry Motorolla RAZR Nokia 1100 Motorolla
(Android 4) Curve V3 StarTAC
8. Graphs: Brand Mentions /
Word Count
Brand Mentions/ Word Count
0.018
0.016
0.014
0.012
0.01
0.008
Brand Mentions/ Word Count
0.006
0.004
0.002
0
iPhone (ios6) Galaxy Blackberry Motorolla Nokia 1100 Motorolla
Nexus Curve RAZR V3 StarTAC
(Android 4)
9. Graphs: Phone / Word
Count
Mentions of word "Phone"/ Word Count
0.025
0.02
0.015
0.01 Mentions of word "Phone"/ Word Count
0.005
0
iPhone Galaxy Blackberry Motorolla Nokia 1100 Motorolla
(ios6) Nexus Curve RAZR V3 StarTAC
(Android 4)
10. Graphs: Call(s) / Word
Count
Mentions of "call"+"calls"/Word Count
0.014
0.012
0.01
0.008
0.006
Mentions of "call"+"calls"/Word Count
0.004
0.002
0
iPhone Galaxy Blackberry Motorolla Nokia 1100 Motorolla
(ios6) Nexus Curve RAZR V3 StarTAC
(Android 4)