by Alexandra Ma, The Huffington Post, 29 June 2015
If you don’t think you could live without your smartphone, you’re not alone.
On Monday, Bank of America released its annual Trends in Consumer Mobility Report, which studies consumers’ behavior toward their gadgets. The results found that lots of people are still bringing their phone to bed with them or keeping it within reach at night -- despite the wealth of research showing how using these gadgets right before bedtime interferes with sleep patterns.
The survey was conducted among 1,000 checking or savings account holders, age 18 and above, who also own smartphones. A large majority of respondents, 71 percent, said they usually sleep with or next to their mobile phone -- and 3 percent of those people said they sleep with their device in their hand, 13 percent said they keep it on the bed and 55 percent leave it on the nightstand.
Almost one in four said that at one time or another, they've fallen asleep with their smartphone in their hand.
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