Photos: How Popular Is Your Smartphone?
A poll ranks the popular smartphones. Is yours on the list?
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How Popular is Your Cellphone? - If you’re still only using your landline, consider yourself a minority. Based on a new, national Pew Internet Project poll surveying over 2,200 adults, 83 percent of U.S. adults have a cellphone and 42 percent of those people have a smartphone. If you are a young adult still rocking a flip phone, you are indeed a minority, according to the Pew study. Fifty eight percent of adults between 25- and 34-years-old own a cellphone and 44 percent of Blacks and Latinos are smartphone users. How does your smartphone rank in popularity? Find out in the following pages.
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Android - Android phones rank as the most popular mobile platform. Thirty five percent of smartphone owners own a phone that uses an Android operating system and they are especially common among young adults and African-Americans.
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Apple iPhone - Twenty four percent of smartphone owners own an iPhone. Internet access is especially critical to iPhone and all smartphone owners. Eighty seven percent access the web or e-mail on their phone.
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Blackberry - Twenty four percent of smartphone owners own a BlackBerry. iPhones and BlackBerry devices are the most prevalent among college graduates and the financially well-off. Of adults who live in a household earning over $75,000 or more, 59 percent are smartphone owners; 48 percent of those with a college degree own smartphones like BlackBerry.
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Palm - Six percent of smartphone owners own a phone that uses a Palm-based operating system. Around 25 percent of those who own smartphones declare their phone, such as their Palm, as their primary source of connecting to the Internet.