Americans Using Their Cell Phones More For Internet and Games
The use of non voice programs on their cell phone has developed significantly within the last year. This happens as more and more of us are using our phones as a video recorder and camera and for our email, internet and even so we can play games. This is all according to the study that comes out of the Pew Research Center. Specifically it was for their study on the Internet and American Life Project.
The cell phone and their owner have become a broad-spectrum and symbiotic relationship for chatting, texting, gaming, sharing photos and media hub which is an indispensable utility when it comes to work and a very fancy toy when it comes to us having some phone.
Compared to one year prior the Pew had said that cell phone owners are more likely now than before to use their mobiles for:
• Taking pictures, up from 66% in 2009 to 76% currently
• Sending and receiving text messages, up to 72% from 65%
• Accessing the internet, 38% now up from 25% then
• Playing games, 27% then up to 34% now
• Sending or receiving emails 34% from 25%
• Recording a video, skyrocketed from 19% to 34%
• Playing music, from 21% to 33%
• Sending or receiving instant messages, up 10% to 30%
Over half of the cell phone internet users will go online with their mobile phone at least daily, totaling 55%.
Mobile giving, or donating to a chosen charity by someone’s cell phone had finally reached critical mass after the earthquake in Haiti. This was when over 10s of millions of dollars were donated, via mobile phone, to various non-profit groups. Pew had stated that 11% of the people that were surveyed said that they had made a donation such as this using their cell phone within the last year.
Almost 60% of all Americans go online wireless through a laptop or a cell phone. Out of that 60%, 47% of those people will actually go online through both a laptop and a cell phone. 33% of those people will use only a laptop and 20% of those people will use a cell phone only.
Tertiary Devices and Internet Access
There are actually a very large and growing number of tertiary devices which are able to connect to the internet along with a small number of Americans that are using these to do just that right as you’re reading this now. Out of this there are 9% of adults that are using an MP3 player, E-Book reader, game console or a tablet computer in order to get online.
There are 42% of Americans that own a game console like either the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 360 and out of that there are 29% of those that use the game console for accessing the internet. Of the 46% of the Americans that own an MP3 player there are 16% of those people that use them to go online.
The fledging technology category of E-Book readers and tablets are being used widely for internet access. According to the Pew studies there are 4% of Americans that now own an E-Book reader of one type or another and 46% of that 4% state that they use that device in order to access the internet. 3% of those that were surveyed stated that they own a tablet computer and they use that for accessing the internet.
Mobile Data and Younger Users
It’s not very surprising at all that young adults, considered between the ages of 18-29, have the peak usage levels when it comes to mobile data applications. Those aged 30-49 are coming up really strong.
Among those cell phone owners that are aged 18-29:
• 95% of those send and/or receive text messages
• 93% of those use their mobile phones for taking pictures
• 81% of those will send photos and/or videos to others
• 65% of those will access the internet through their mobile device
• 64% of those will play music on their mobile phone
• 60% of those will use their mobile phones to record a video or play games
• 48% of those have accessed a social networking site through their mobile phone
• 40% of those have watched a video on their mobile phone
• 33% of those have either posted a video or photo online through their phone
• 21% of those have used a service for status updating, like that of Twitter from their mobile phone
• 20% of those have purchased something through their mobile phone
• 19% of those have made a donation to charity through text message
Pew had surveyed 2,252 adults through the dates of April 29th and May 30th. Their margins of error are 2% for the entire sample.
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