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Nearly Half of American Adults Are Smartphone Owners

Posted by samzenpus on from the gentlemen-start-your-apps dept.

First time accepted submitter saiful76 writes "Nearly half (46%) of American adults are smartphone owners as of February 2012, an increase of 11 percentage points over the 35% of Americans who owned a smartphone last May. Two in five adults (41%) own a cell phone that is not a smartphone, meaning that smartphone owners are now more prevalent within the overall population than owners of more basic mobile phones."

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  1. Re:Are smartphones making us dumb? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When electronic calculators started surfacing back in the 1960's/1970's, students stop memorizing the multiplication tables

    Now it's the turn of the smartphone that will affect a whole new generation of people

    Used to be that we know the address of a friend of ours

    No more

    With smartphone/tablets, you don't need to remember anything - by just tapping on the glass panel you will get all the info that you need

    The more gadgets we surround ourselves, the dumber we will become

    The more niggers there are in an inner city the more crime there is. Funny, that. Must be total coincidence.