Pew study reveals 28 percent of smartphone users rely on them for Internet connection

28% of US smartphone owners use them as primary 'Net connection [Ars Technica] 

Smartphones are used by a little more than a third of all US adults. A new report from the Pew Internet Project says that 28 percent of these users rely on their smartphone as their primary connection to the Internet.

The report from Pew surveyed 2,277 adults and found that 83 percent owned a cell phone, and 35 percent owned a smartphone. The demographics of smartphone owners? Most had a college degree (some would argue you need one to use some smartphones) and high household income. Also, most smartphone users were under the age of 45.

The most notable finding in the report was the fairly significant number of respondents who claimed that they used their smartphone to access the Internet more than any other device or computer. A total of 28 percent of smartphone owners - 10 percent of all cell phone owners and 8 percent of all adults - claimed to turn to smartphones more frequently than anything other device for getting online. 

The demographic group that is most likely to rely on smartphones for Internet access is under 30 years-old and has relatively low income and education levels. This group tends to rely solely on their smartphones instead of traditional broadband Internet.

Comments

[Kevin]

‘Smartphone’ is now an outdated term, often used in the past by those who orglinaily used a separate PDA and phone. very true Austin. There was a time when the term samrtphone had meaning, but presently it is vague as every device has somehow a bit of smart built in. So Shaun instead of trying to get a definition that we get us nowhere, why not try and come up with a new word for the present devices?

[Sajeerkallara]

My definition has chenagd for now, I call a smartphone' an internet computing device that is so good at connecting me to the rest of the world that it is good enough for me to use INSTEAD of a computer. I do not care about technical specs per se just that it is a preferred method to get something done.We have a pair of Nokia phones that have a (on paper) decent camera, contact app, can text, and even connect to the web etc. On paper, they would pass muster as having many features listed for a smartphone.' But the implementation is SO bad, we basically use none of them.In contrast, a Palm Pre or iPhone really make surfing the web from a small pocket computer usable sometimes even preferred over pulling out a computer. I swear Google maps on my iPhone is easier to use than the same site connected by a computer because the latter does not have GPS info connected to it.

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