By ROSIE WATERLAND
Are you nomophobic? Or are you living with one?
A recent study in the UK has revealed that 53% of mobile phone users get anxiety if they run out of battery or have no network coverage, so the scientists involved coined the clever term ‘nomophobia’ (no-mobile-phone-phobia… Get it? ZING!) to describe the desperados who can’t go five minutes without a working phone.
We’ve developed a handy list to help you identify whether you, or anyone you may know, is a nomophobe:
1. They have a sixth sense… For network coverage.
2. They are constantly jonesing for a cord fix.
3. They have super-human vision. But only when looking for power outlets
4. They have a seventh sense… For battery percentages
5. They know more about power-charging technology than they do about themselves.
6. They have developed stealth phone checking skills.
7. They won’t go anywhere new.