Nearly Half of American Adults Are Smartphone Owners 267
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."
Re:Are smartphones making us dumb? (Score:5, Interesting)
Albert Einstein refused to memorize telephone numbers because they could be written down. Clearly, he was an idiot.
Re:Smartphone service costs five times as much (Score:5, Interesting)
Cry me a river. When I was growing up mobile telephones had rotary dials and vacuum tube finals. Calls were about $1.25 a minute ($6 in today's money.) There were 1-3 channels per city and you had to wait your turn. There was no encryption, anyone could listen in. You didn't own your phone, the phone company did, and they installed it in your car.
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Lawn.