7 million dollar worth phones lost every day

According to a survey, coffee shops and repair shops are the common places where people misplace their cellphones but in India, it is theft at busy metro rails and restaurants that mainly contributes to the loss. Overall, mobile phones worth $7m are lost every day around the world - and here's how people lose their phones in India.

IN A shocking revelation, mobile phones worth almost 7 million dollars are lost around theworldeach day, and out of three phones that go missing; two disappear between 9pm and 2am. Mobile security company Lookout revealed the results after analysing data from their 15 million users who had used the company's application to locate their lost or stolen devices in 2011.

While Indians who have ‘more access to phones than toilets’ can’t be an exception but here cell phones are lost not because of the negligence of users – they are mostly stolen from them in busy metro rails and restaurants. Only last year, a survey by Internet service provider Norton revealed that ‘every second Indian has lost his/her cellphone at some point and it has bizarrely found that victims were ready to pay ransom to resolve the situation'.

More than 84% population inIndiais projected to own a phone by the end of 2012 and by these standards almost every Indian owns a phone, there are concerns of losing it as well and the misuse and loss of contacts has remained a biggest concern.

While the Lookout study suggests that cellphones are mostly lost at the coffee shops, church and repair shops, according to the Telegraph, in India, the situation seems quite different with people losing phone more because of thefts.