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A majority of Americans have logged onto the internet with a wireless connection.

Nearly half of African Americans have gone online with a handheld device, helping to offset traditional lower levels of internet access among blacks.

While teenagers lagged well behind adults in cell phone ownership in 2004, today nearly as many teens (71%) as adults (77%) own a cell phone.

Nearly six-in-ten (59%) of all Hispanic adults in this country consider the cell phone a necessity, rather than a luxury, compared with fewer than half of non-Hispanic whites (46%) and non-Hispanic blacks (46%), a Pew survey finds.

That’s the percentage of American adults owning mobile phones who say they have used their hand-held device in an emergency and gained valuable help. Mobile women (77%) were more likely than mobile men (71%) to report this experience.