Going down on one knee might be the classic fairy tale image of an ideal proposal, but that's not the case for everybody. More than half of the Chinese (58 per cent ) and Indians (54 per cent) polled in Microsoft's recently 'How Mobile Are You?' survey, find it acceptable for marriage proposals to occur over their mobile phones.
Commissioned by the Windows Mobile team to better understand mobile preferences across Asia, the survey polled 2,500 respondents in five markets - Australia, India, China, Japan and Taiwan and came up with some very interesting findings.
A surprising 20 per cent of Taiwanese respondents polled said that they are likely to use their mobile phones in extremely intimate moments.
The survey also revealed that one third of Indians polled shot vouyeristic photos on their mobile phone on at least one occasion.
If you a man having an affair in Japan, it would do good to delete those flirtatious SMS messages.
According to Microsoft's survey data, Japanese women are most lilkely to check their husbands mobile phone messages and caller lists at 71 per cent of respondents polled who gave an affirmitive answer.
Indian husbands lead the pack compared to the other countries at 46 per cent.
The Japanese are the most conservative SMS/MMS users in all the countries polled, with fewer than 10 per cent of respondents flirting or sending pornographic material over their phones.
The Chinese came in tops when it comes to SMS flirting, with 79 per cent of positive responses, while the Australians are the most likely to send or receive x-rated material on their mobiles.
With phone prices coming down and mobile services becoming increasingly affordable, it is understandable that mobile phones are becoming an increasingly integral part of life in Asia.
Cases of mobile phone affairs and have made the news in Asia over the past few years.
According to an AFP report earlier this year, a Malaysian man sued his ex-fiance after her father broke their engagement via SMS. The would-be-groom took the case to court demanding more than 70,000 ringit ($30,000) to cover the cost of cancelled wedding preparations.
This is not the first time a text message tiff has ended up before Malaysian courts. Three years ago, a senator was fined in an Islamic court for divorcing his wife via SMS and leaving her a voicemail on her mobile phone.
