Smartphone Habits Survey: 17% Check Phone Upon Wakingby Andrew Burger, telecompetitor.com, 10 December 2015
Americans have become a nation obsessed with mobile phones and multi-tasking, according to Deloitte’s fifth annual 2015 Global Mobile Consumer Survey. Americans in aggregate look at their smartphones 8 billion times a day. Furthermore, they’re doing so while engaging in an expanding variety of activities, including while watching television, shopping and while talking to friends and family.
Conducting the largest and most extensive survey in the five years since publishing its first Global Mobile Consumer Survey (nearly 50,000 survey participants across six continents and 31 countries), Deloitte found that 7 in 10 respondents said they own smartphones. Half (51 percent) own tablets while 14 percent own wearables. Nine percent own all three types of mobile devices.
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