56 percent of Americans now own smartphones, Pew study finds
Survey data also shows that wealthier Americans tend to prefer iPhones.
by Cyrus Farivar
Ars Technica
June 5 2013, 3:14pm CST
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/06/56-percent-of-americans-now-own-smartphones-pew-study-finds/
A new study
<http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Smartphone-Ownership-2013/Findings.aspx>
released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life
Project finds that for the first time, a majority of American adults (56
percent) own smartphones. Thirty-five percent have mobile phones that
aren't smartphones, with 9 percent owning no cell phone at all.
The research also found that, as you might expect, wealthier Americans
have a higher likelihood of owning a smartphone, but "younger
adults---regardless of income level---are very likely to be smartphone
owners." That seems to suggest that the trend toward smartphone adoption
will continue.
As we've seen over the last few months and years, Android users are on
<http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/04/worldwide-smartphone-shipments-outpace-dumbphones-for-the-first-time/>
the rise
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/apple-owns-us-smartphone-market-while-samsung-dominates-worldwide/>---now
representing 28 percent of all mobile phone users in America, with
iPhone users at 25 percent and BlackBerry users falling sharply to 4
percent, according to Pew.
iPhone users are also more likely to have higher incomes (not
surprising, given the higher price tag).
"Indeed, fully half---49 percent---of cell owners with a household
income of $150,000 or more say their phone is an iPhone," the report
says. "And African-American cell owners are more likely than whites or
Latinos to say that their phone is an Android device as opposed to an
iPhone."
The new data was conducted via telephone interviews conducted with over
2,200 adults (speaking English and Spanish), spread evenly across those
with landlines and cell phones.
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