Young and Well-Off Choose Smartphones, As Do Non-Whites

Release Date 12 Jul, 2011 in PC Magazine

 
   

35% of adults found to have smart phones

San Francisco Chronicle - Casey Newton - 12 Jul, 2011
Smart-phone ownership among adults has risen to 35 percent, according to survey results released Monday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey was the first of its kind from Pew, so there's no baseline to compare it against. ...

Young and Well-Off Choose Smartphones, As Do Non-Whites

PC Magazine - Mark Hachman - 12 Jul, 2011
About 35 percent of all adult US phone owners own a smartphone, according to a Pew report on Monday. Those that own them are among the most financially well off, college-educated, and non-white. Not surprisingly, the Google Android ...

One in three US adults packing smartphones (doesn't make 'em any smarter)

Kansas City Star - Scott Canon - 12 Jul, 2011
The Pew Internet Project interviewed more than 2200 people this spring and found that 35 percent now carry a smartphone. It was Pew's first standalone measure of smartphone ownership and found, unsurprisingly that the wealthier and more ...

Smartphones and Mobile Internet Use Grow, Report Says

New York Times (blog) - Nick Bilton - 12 Jul, 2011
Pew ResearchPew Research asked adult Americans to describe how they feel about their smartphone, which is illustrated in the word cloud above. Every few months a new report comes out showing the rapid adoption of smartphones, ...

Report: More than a third of US adults now own smartphones

CNN International - Amy Gahran - 12 Jul, 2011
A new study says Android is the most popular smartphone in the US at 35%, followed by BlackBerry and iPhone at 24%. Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and ...

Pew: One-third of US adults own smartphones

CNET - Christopher MacManus - 12 Jul, 2011
With so many manufacturers embracing Android, will it continue to be the defacto No. 1 mobile OS? Smartphone adoption is growing in many demographics, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. ...

More than a third of US adults own smartphones: study

AFP - 12 Jul, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO â€" A Pew Research Center study released on Monday indicated that 35 percent of US adults own smartphones as the Internet is increasingly being accessed using gadgets on the go. A quarter of US smartphone owners claimed to do most of their ...

More Than 1/3 of American Adults Own a Smartphone, Study Shows

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Tom Loftus - 12 Jul, 2011
Fully 35% of all American adults now own a smartphone, according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Of this number, 78% use their devices to access the Internet daily, and a quarter do most of their online ...

More than one third of US adults own smartphone: Pew study

Financial Post - 12 Jul, 2011
A man uses a smartphone to perform various tasks in New York Sept. 25, 2009. More than one third of US adults now own one of the devices, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. As Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. fight for market ...

Study Finds More Than a Third of Adults Have a Smartphone

PCWorld - Tony Bradley - 12 Jul, 2011
Do you have a mobile phone? Is your mobile phone a smartphone? According to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the odds are increasing that your answer to both of those questions is yes. ...

25 percent use smartphones, not computers, for majority of Web surfing

msnbc.com - Suzanne Choney - 12 Jul, 2011
As more of us gravitate to smartphones, we're relying on them for more of our Web surfing; 25 percent of Americans say they're now doing most of their Internet browsing on their phones instead of a computer, according to a new report ...

More than a third of American adults have a smartphone

Washington Post (blog) - Hayley Tsukayama - 12 Jul, 2011
More than a third of Americans adults surveyed said they own a smartphone. (JO YONG-HAK - REUTERS) A quarter of smartphone users rely mainly on their phones for Internet access, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and ...

Android Smartphones Used by 35% of US Users: Pew

eWeek - Clint Boulton - 12 Jul, 2011
Pew Research said Android took the top position in US smartphone owner count, followed by Apple's iPhones and RIM's Blackberry devices. 35% of users surveyed have smartphones. Some 35 percent of US adults now own smartphones, with 35 percent of ...

US Smartphone Users: 35 Percent of All Adults

CIO Insight - 12 Jul, 2011
By CIOinsight Android is the most popular smartphone platform, according to the latest report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. One quarter smartphone owners conduct most of their online browing on the the devices. ...

Breaking: Rich People Have Smartphones

Gizmodo - 12 Jul, 2011
More than one-third of Americans now have smartphones. If you live somewhere like San Francisco or Atlanta that may seem slightly low, and that's because 38 percent of urban and suburban residents have them, while only 21 percent of rural residents do. ...

Study shows more than a third of US adults own a smartphone

Examiner.com - 12 Jul, 2011
A study conducted by Pew Research Center that was released on Monday showed that 35% of US adults own a smartphone. Think about that. More than a third of the adults in the US have a smartphone. This spike in smartphone usage is because the people want ...

Study: 35% of US Adults Own Smartphones

XBiz - Lyla Katz - 12 Jul, 2011
WASHINGTON â€" More than one third of Americans, or about 35 percent, own smartphones and most of them access the Internet or email on the handheld device. The survey, conducted by the Pew Internet Project, found that 83 percent of ...

Survey: 25 Percent Of Users Prefer Smartphones To PCs For Internet Access

Mobile Marketing Watch - 12 Jul, 2011
According to the results of a first-ever survey on smartphone usage by the Pew Internet Project, it was found that 25 percent of respondents prefer to use their smartphones to access the Internet over traditional PCs. The survey found that 35 percent ...

Pew Internet Project says 35 percent of U.S. adults own a smartphone

ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) - Alex Gregory - 12 Jul, 2011
Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. PHOENIX - Adults in the US have more smartphones than college degrees, according to an article published on Mashable . ...

35% of Americans own a smartphone

Bizjournals.com - 12 Jul, 2011
About 35 percent of Americans own a smartphone, with the highest adoption among the financially well-off and well-educated, non-whites and those under the age of 45. Those are the conclusions of a new Pew Research Center report released on Monday. ...

Pew study: 35% of U.S. adults own a smartphone

FierceWireless - Phil Goldstein - 12 Jul, 2011
More than one-third of all US adults have a smartphone, according to a survey published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, one of the clearest snapshots yet of how smartphones are changing the US mobile landscape. ...

Twenty-five percent of smartphone owners prefer Internet on their devices: Pew

Examiner.com - 12 Jul, 2011
The Pew Research and American Life Project has released the results of a new survey, "Smartphone Adoption and Usage." It is Pew's first standalone look at smartphone ownership. The survey found that slightly more than one-third of US adults (35 ...

Survey Says Smartphones Replacing PCs in More and More Homes

International Business Times - James Lee Phillips - 12 Jul, 2011
A survey on smartphone usage shows the recent surge in ownership and usage over the last few months, with smartphones now in the hands of at least a third of all US adults. ...

Pew survey: Sixty-eight percent of smartphone owners browse the mobile web daily

Brafton - 12 Jul, 2011
As smartphone penetration continues to grow, owners are becoming more accustomed to browsing the web through their devices. According to a new report from Pew Research Center, nearly 25 percent of smartphone-owning Americans prefer to surf the internet ...

Research shows more minorities own smartphones

Examiner.com - 12 Jul, 2011
A recent independant study done by Pew Internet shows that a large majority of minorities own smartphones, even more so than caucasians. The study defined a "smartphone" as either an iPhone, BlackBerry, or any mobile device running Android, ...

1/4 of smartphone users rely on their device for Internet access

GigaOm - Ryan Kim - 12 Jul, 2011
For one-quarter of smartphone users, their handset is the primary way they access the Internet, according to new data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. It's a sign of the growing dependence ...

Pew: 35 percent of US adults use smartphones

mobihealthnews - Brian Dolan - 12 Jul, 2011
A new study by the Pew Research Center's Pew Internet Project reports that 35 percent of American adults now own smartphones. Of those owners, some 35 percent use an Android device, while 24 percent use an iPhone and another 24 percent use BlackBerry. ...

Smartphones: Who's getting them, how are they using them? Pew report

Knight Digital Media Center (blog) - Amy Gahran - 12 Jul, 2011
On smartphones, users can often access similar content via a publisher's web site and via platform-specific apps. However, the Pew report did not refer to apps as a channel for “online browsing,” so that statistic probably refers just to mobile web ...

More US Adults Own a Smartphone Than Have a Degree

Mashable - Sarah Kessler - 12 Jul, 2011
More Americans own Smartphones than hold a bachelor's degree or speak another language in their homes, according to a Pew Internet Project report released Monday. In a telephone survey, 83% of respondents said that they owned a cellphone of some kind ...

Pew Finds Significant Mobile Broadband 'Substitution'

TMC Net - Gary Kim - 12 Jul, 2011
Some 87 percent of smart phone owners said they access the Internet or email on their handheld devices, including 68 percent who do so on a typical day. When asked what device they normally use to access the Internet, ...

 

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