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Cell Phone Statistics
Just how popular is the cell phone craze? Curious to know the buzz about teens? Check out the results from a National Survey by CTIA–The Wireless Association® and Harris Interactive. According to the survey, 78% of teens have a cell phone, and 15% have a smart phone with Internet access.
• 80% of teens said they want a more secure phone, where they are the only ones who can access their data.
• almost half use the cell phone primarily for making calls
• almost 40% said they use it for texting.
• Almost 20% of them to take or send pictures to each other.
• Only 28% have web-capability on their phones. And when they do, they use it for e-mail, checking weather, social networking and for sports scores.
• About half of the teens polled said that their cell phone has improved the quality of their lives, improved their communication with friends by making it a richer experience and improved their social lives.
• Almost all of them said that their cell phone is how they stay in touch and 78% of them said it made them feel safer.
• Most have used it to get a ride when they needed it and 1/3 used it to help someone else in need.
• Out of the top four things teens said help determine their social status (clothes, jewelry, shoes and cell phones), cell phones ranked second. And more females between the ages of 13 and 17 texted more than talked on their cell phones.
• And half of the teens said they could text blindfolded!
• Teens say that after their clothing, cell phones help determine social status the most.
In polls conducted by WiredSafety,
• 24% sleep with their cell phones so they won’t miss a text message or call.
• And 12% know of someone whose boyfriend broke up with them by text message.
• Sixty-five percent have sent a text message that was misunderstood by the recipient or sent to the wrong person.
• Forty percent received a text message from someone they didn’t recognize or didn’t know and
• 52% have received a text message promoting a product, service or website.
• more than 80% have gotten into trouble for high cell phone bills or for losing or breaking their phone.