For Many, Being on the Phone Means Being on the Internet
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Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Using your mobile phone to only make calls is so landline.
The latest Pew Internet & American Life Project on cellphone use reveals that 88 percent of U.S. adults now own some kind of mobile device and 55 percent of them use their phone to go online.
In fact, 17 percent say that most of their Internet browsing is done on the phone and some admit they use it exclusively to get online, forgoing computers and other devices.
According to Pew, 45 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 do the majority of their browsing on their cellphones while 51 percent of African-Americans and 43 of Latinos rely on their phones go online.
In the phone survey of 2,254 adults 18 and older, the Pew report concluded, “Cellphones are convenient, always available — 64 percent of cell-mostly Internet users mention factors related to convenience or the always-available nature of mobile phones when asked for the main reason why they do most of their online browsing on their cellphone.”
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