What phone does Aamir Khan use? You know what, that’s a great question. A question for which we might not find the answer easily. But we can make some intelligent guesses. My guess is Aamir Khan is using a Android powered phone, and probably the one of the few celebrities (NTR from Telugu movie uses one) who isn’t using an iPhone or a Blackberry. I know we can always expect something new from this Khan. But what about Mallika Sherawat? What toys, sorry, what gadgets does she use? Mallika seems to be liking her toys. While her last tweet came from a Blackberry she has previously used an iPhone and an Android powered phone.
The easiest way to find out is to call them up and ask. We might not necessarily have all of their phone numbers, but we have the next best thing – their twitter handle. Twitter is the biggest beehive of Indian celebrities, though they don’t share much, we can find out quite a few things. We can find out what time they sleep, what they tweet about, what they share, what they care and of course, what gadget they are using to tweet.
Blackberry is the undisputed leader in the smartphone category. It is distantly followed by iPhone and remotely followed by Android. iPad as a tablet looks like a popular choice amongst celebrities who chose to tweet from one.
iPad
Madhuri Dixit, Shah Rukh Khan, Murali Kartik and Dino Morea have all tweeted from an iPad. Madhuri Dixit is an Apple fan girl. She owns (I presume) an iPad, iPhone and a Mac. Telugu movie star Nagarjuna is also a Apple fanboy. He has tweeted from iPad and an iPhone.
Nokia
Priyanka Chopra and Gul Panang are the only two celebrities who have used a Nokia phone to tweet. An indication that Nokia isn’t doing too well in the smartphone segment. Priyanka might jump to an Android whenever her contract with Nokia ends. I don’t know Priyanka very well but that’s a hunch.
iPad and Blackberry are the top choices of Indian celebrities.
The celebrities in this list are picked from Pinstorm’s India influencers which uses Klout, PeerIndex scores to arrive at an aggregated ranking. Salman Khan is the top celebrity with a Aggregate score of 76.5 and he uses Blackberry. Preity Zinta has an aggregate score of 76.3 and she uses Blackberry too. There are some celebrities who are not on Pinstorm’s list but I have added them, because I felt like it.
Here’s the list of celebrities and their gadgets, divided in to categories :
Cricket
- MS Dhoni : Blackberry
- Vireder Sehwag : Blackberry
- Murali Kartik : Blackberry, iPhone, iPad
- Sachin Tendulkar : Blackberry, Ubersocial, Ubertwitter
- RP Singh : Blackberry
Movies – Bollywood
- Madhuri Dixit : iPhone, iPad, Mac – An Apple fan girl.
- Priyanka Chopra : Nokia, Twittefic, WhoSay
- Neil Nitin Mukesh : Blackberry
- Lata Mangeshkar : Blackberry
- Bipasha Basu : Blackberry
- Ram Gopal Verma : Blackberry
- Gul Panang : Nokia
- Uday Chopra : iPhone
- Preity Zinta :Blackberry
- Arjun Rampal : Blackberry
- Salman Khan : Blackberry
- Lata Mangeshkar : Blackberry
- Aamir Khan : Android
- Shilpa Shetty : Blackberry
- Lara Dutta : Blackberry
- Farhan Akthar : Ubertwitter, Blackberry, mobile web
- Shah Rukh Khan : Blackberry, iPad, WhoSay
- Ayesha Takia : Blackberry
- Dino Morea : iPad, Blackberry
- Sanjay Dutt : Blackberry
- Shabana Azmi : Blackberry
- Sonu Nigam : Blackberry
- Sushmita Sen : Blackberry, Twuffer,
- Ranvir Shenoy : Blackberry
- Genelia D : Blackberry
Movies – South (Telugu)
- Mahesh Babu : Blackberry
- Nagarjuna : iPad, iPhone
- Rana Daggubati : Blackberry and Android
- Sumanth : Blackberry
- NTR : Android
- Vishnu Manchu : Blackberry
- Manoj Manchu : Blackberry
- Lakshmi Manchu : Blackberry
- Ram Charan Tej : Blackberry
- Prakash Raj : Blackberry
- Ram : Blackberry
Business
- Vijay Mallya : Blackberry
- Anand Mahindra : Blackberry
Politics
- Omar Abdullah : Blackberry
- Shashi Tharoor : Blackberry
Media : Writers/Columnists/TV
- Sidin Vaidukut : iPhone
- Chetan Bhagat : Blackberry
- Burkha Dutt : Blackberry
- Rajdeep Sardesai : Blackberry ( lot of tweets are from web, and only one tweet from Blackberry)
Few folks have used either web, tweet deck or Uber social. The gadget used cannot be found out with these twitter clients. Narendra Modi has used Tweet Deck. While Sid Mallya, Deepika Padukone, Riteish D and Hrithik Roshan have used Uber Social.
Why is Blackberry the most popular gadget?
Is it the keypad? If yes, there are a lot of Android (HTC, Samsung) phones which come with pretty nice keypads they throw in a touch screen too. Nokia E7 is one of the nicest mobiles with a keypad. E7 might actually help these celebs typing skills too.
Do you know of any other celeb using Android, iPhone or anything non-Blackberry? Let us know.
3 Responses to “Indian Celebrities and their gadgets!”
June 26, 2011
Applefangirli LOVVVEE this article..BB is amazing! bt for that money..i think ur pocket will force u to go in for an iphone..value for money concept anyone!
July 14, 2011
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August 19, 2011
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