Smartphones

About four-in-ten smartphone owners say they used their phones recently to look up a sports score.

Amanda Lenhart spoke at the 2012 Lawlor Summer Seminar in Minneapolis, where she discussed the rise in smartphone ownership among youth, the demographics of mobile phone ownership and the changes wrought as youth begin to have access anytime, anyw...

74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location with friends.

74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to "check in" to certain locations or share their location with friends

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

Texting volume is up while the frequency of voice calling is down. About one in four teens say they own smartphones.

Texting volume is up while the frequency of voice calling is down. About one in four teens say they own smartphones.

The migration of audiences toward digital news advanced to a new level in 2011 and early 2012, the era of mobile and multidigital devices. More than three-quarters of U.S. adults own laptop or desktop computers, a number that has been stable for some years.1 Now, in addition, 44% of adults own a smartphone, and the number of tablet owners grew by about 50% since the summer of 2011, to 18% of Americans over age 18.

46% of American adults now have a smartphone of some kind, and for the first time smartphone owners outnumber users of more basic phones

How do consumers feel about privacy in this new era of smartphones and how does that enter into their decisions about their transportation options?