Americans and Their Cell Phones
Mobile devices help people solve problems and stave off boredom, but create some new challenges and annoyances
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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How smartphone owners describe their phones
Along with asking about smartphone adoption and usage in our May 2011 survey, we also included a question that asked cell phone owners to provide the one word that best describes how they feel about their phones.
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Overview of smartphone adoption
In its first standalone measure of smartphone ownership,[1. In past surveys (in 2006 and 2007) we asked respondents two separate questions: “Do you have a cell phone?” and “Do you have a Blackberry, Palm or other personal digital assistant?” In more recent surveys we have combined all cell phones into a single question: “Do you […]
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Smartphones as an internet appliance
Nearly nine in ten smartphone owners (87%) use their phones to access the internet or email, with 78% of these users saying that they go online using their phone on a typical day.[4.numoffset=”4″ Just as our standard definition of an “internet user” includes those who use the internet or email, our definition of a “smartphone […]
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Platform differences in smartphone adoption
As noted in the introduction to this report, our definition of smartphone ownership includes a question based on the platform (operating system) of each respondent’s phone. The relative adoption rates for different platforms among all cell owners and within the smartphone population are as follows:[5.numoffset=”5″ Our findings for the proportion of smartphone owners with Android, […]