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Mobile Technology Fact Sheet

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Highlights of the Pew Internet Project’s research related to mobile technology.

MAY. 12, 2015

(Note: This page will be updated whenever new data is available.)

America’s Changing
Religious Landscape

As of October 2014:

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64% of American adults own a smartphone.

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As of January 2014:
90% of American adults own a cell phone

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For the data behind device ownership trends, please visit our device ownership key
indicator page.

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smartphone, 7% are “smartphone-dependent.”

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For more information on U.S. smartphone ownership, visit this in-depth report.

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67% of cell owners find themselves checking their phone for messages, alerts, or calls —

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Some smartphone owners — particularly younger adults, minorities and lower-income
Americans — depend on their smartphone for internet access. Of U.S. adults who own a

even when they don’t notice their phone ringing or vibrating.
44% of cell owners have slept with their phone next to their bed because they wanted to
make sure they didn’t miss any calls, text messages, or other updates during the night.
29% of cell owners describe their cell phone as “something they can’t imagine living
without.”
(Above info based on April 2012 data found in this report.)
The demographic breakdown of cell and smartphone owners (January 2014):

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Cell internet access:

As of May 2013, 63% of adult cell owners use their phones to go online.
34% of cell internet users go online mostly using their phones, and not using
some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer.
For more specific information on cell internet access, visit our recent report.

How Americans use their cell phones (activities):

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Location:
74% of adult smartphone owners ages 18 and older say they use their phone to get

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18% say they use Foursquare, and 14% say they use Google Plus, among other
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directions or other information based on their current location.

services.

Mobile phone problems:
In April 2012, we found:
72% of cell owners experience dropped calls at least occasionally. Some 32% of cell
owners say they encounter this problem at least a few times a week or more
frequently than that.
68% of cell owners receive unwanted sales or marketing calls at one time or
another. And 25% of cell owners encounter this problem at least a few times a week
or more frequently.

Some 79% of cell phone owners say they use text messaging on their cells. We asked
them if they got spam or unwanted texts:

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69% of those who are texters say they get unwanted spam or text messages. Of
those texters, 25% face problems with spam/unwanted texts at least weekly.

Some 55% of cell phone owners say they use their phones to go online — to browse the
internet, exchange emails, or download apps. We asked them if they experience slow
download speeds that prevent things from loading as quickly as they would like:
77% of cell internet users say they experience slow download speeds that prevent
things from loading as quickly as they would like. Of those cell internet users, 46%
face slow download speeds weekly or more frequently.

“Just in time” information:
An April 2012 survey finds that some 70% of all cell phone owners and 86% of
smartphone owners have used their phones in the previous 30 days to perform at least
one of the following activities:
Coordinate a meeting or get-together — 41% of cell phone owners have done this in

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Look up a score of a sporting event — 23% have used their phone to do that in the
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past 30 days.
the past 30 days.

Get up-to-the-minute traffic or public transit information to find the fastest way to
get somewhere — 20% have used their phone to get that kind of information in the
past 30 days.
Get help in an emergency situation — 19% have used their phone to do that in the
past 30 days.

Overall, these “just-in-time” cell users — defined as anyone who has done one or more of
the above activities using their phone in the preceding 30 days—amount to 62% of the
entire adult population. (See Just-in-time Information through Mobile Connections.)
Privacy:
More than half of app users have uninstalled or decided to not install an app due to
concerns about their personal information.
One in five cell owners have turned off the location tracking feature on their phone,
and one in three have cleared their cell phone browsing or search history

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More information on privacy and data management on mobile devices can be found
at http://www.pewinternet.org/2012/09/05/privacy-and-data-management-on-mobiledevices/
9% of adults have texted a charitable donation from their mobile phone. Mobile giving
played an especially prominent role during the aftermath of the January 2010 Haiti
earthquake, as individual donors contributed an estimated $43 million to the assistance
and reconstruction efforts using the text messaging feature on their cell phones:
The first-ever, in-depth study on mobile donors — which analyzed the “Text to Haiti”
campaign after the 2010 earthquake — finds that these contributions were often
spur-of-the-moment decisions that spread virally through friend networks.
74% of Haiti text donors say that their donation to the Haiti earthquake relief was the
first time they had used their phone’s text messaging function to make a donation to
an event, cause or organization.
22% had texted a donation of some kind prior to their contribution to Haiti
earthquake relief

You can find more information in our report, Real Time Charitable Giving.

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