As smartphones proliferate, some users are cutting the computer cord - The Washington Post: A third of all American adults own a smartphone and for many minority and low income users, those mobile devices have replaced computers for Internet access.
The findings released Monday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project highlight the breakneck speed consumers are adopting smartphones — faster than just about any high-tech product in history.
It’s been four years since the introduction of the
iPhone and rival devices that run Google’s Android software. In that time, the devices have turned much of America into an always-on, Internet-on-the-go society.
A quarter of Americans with smartphones use the devices as their main way to get onto the Internet, the Pew study found. About nine in 10 owners of such devices access the Web and check their e-mail each day through their device.
