September 7, 2010

Cell Phones and American Adults

Pew Internet has published some useful demographics about cell phone usage in the U.S. Here are a few points:

>82% of American adults own a cell phone, Blackberry, iPhone or other device that is also a cell phone.
>Texting by adults has increased over the past 9 months from 65% of adults sending and receiving texts in September 2009 to 72% texting in May 2010.
>Teens ages 12-17 send and receive, on average, 5 times more texts per day than adult texters.



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