More Than A Third Of American Adults Have A Smartphone

Hayley Tsukayama, Washington Post
Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:30am

More than a third of American adults have a smartphone

A quarter of smartphone users rely mainly on their phones for internet access, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, that also found that more than one-third of all American adults have taken the smartphone plunge. In the center’s first stand-alone examination of smartphone use, it found that 33 percent of users said their phones were smartphones and 39 percent said their phones operate a smartphone platform such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone or Palm. Read full article >>

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