New Findings From Pew Internet: 45% of American Adults Own Smartphones
From the Pew Internet & American Life Project:
On the eve of Apple’s unveiling of the iPhone 5, 45% of American adults own smartphones. They are particularly popular with young adults and those living in relatively higher income households; 66% of those ages 18-29 own smartphones, and 68% of those living in households earning $75,000 also own them.
More American adults own smartphones than own feature cell phones—that is, the phones that can be used as a phone and for texting, but do not have a smartphone operating system such as Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android. Some 34% of adults have a feature phone; 5% of adults say they do not know if they have a smartphone or not; and 15% of American adults have no cell phone at all.
These latest figures show that smartphone ownership has increased from 35% in May of 2011 to 45%, though there has been no change in smartphone ownership from figures that the Pew Internet Project found in a survey at the beginning of the year.
See Also: Mobile: Young Adults and Teens Lead Growth Among Smartphone Owners (September 10, 2012)
See Also: comScore Reports July 2012 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share (September 4, 2012)
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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