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Nov 30, 2012Aaron Smith
Mobile phone owners like the convenience and ease of connectivity, but rue that they can be interrupted more easily, have to pay the bills, and face bad connections.
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Sep 11, 2012Lee Rainie
66% of those ages 18-29 own smartphones; 68% of those living in households earning $75,000 also own them
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Nov 25, 2012Maeve Duggan, Lee Rainie
Photo taking, texting, and accessing the internet are the most popular activities people pursue with their mobile phones
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Jun 26, 2012Aaron Smith
17% of cell phone owners do most of their online browsing on their phone, rather than a computer or other device.
Most do so for convenience, but for some their phone is their only option for online access.
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Oct 4, 2012Lee Rainie
A quarter of American adults now own tablet computers, a major increase from the first measurement of tablet ownership by Pew Internet in the late summer of 2010.
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Aug 2, 2012Jan Lauren Boyles, Lee Rainie
Telemarketing calls and spam texts are realities for most cell phone users. Smartphone owners are particularly likely to report dropped phone calls and slow download speeds.
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May 7, 2012Lee Rainie, Susannah Fox
86% of smartphone owners used their phone in the past month to make real-time queries to help them meet friends, solve problems, or settle arguments
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Jan 23, 2012Lee Rainie
Between mid-December and early January, the number of owners of each device rose from 10% to 19%. Overall, 29% of adults own at least one of them.
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Jan 30, 2012Aaron Smith
During the holiday season, 25% of cell owners used their phone inside stores to gather price comparisons; 24% used them to look up online reviews.
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Jan 12, 2012Aaron Smith
Why mobile phone users texted millions of dollars in aid to Haiti earthquake relief and how they got their friends to do the same
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