Tag: Smartphone Owners

In the Nordics, smartphones have become more widespread than laptops. Owning a smartphone is changing even how Nordic consumers interact with banks, but they have also given life to new ways of payments. This has brought Nordic countries to the rise of mobile wallets, although mobile wallets are not a new phenomenon, in the last …

Gaming has long played a prominent role in entertainment both online-and-offline, and gaming communities have expanded significantly. Gaming has now become so mainstream, with 86% of internet users worldwide said they have gamed on at least one device within the past month – going up to 92% among 16-24s. This extensive growth has been driven …

Americans carry the internet in their pockets. The smartphone also lives in the pockets of 84% of American consumers. It appears that everyone in the US owns more than one type of “smart” device. Read the below points and be aware of which devices different demographics of the American adults prefer to use and what …

Over two-thirds of millennials use Samsung or Apple smartphones with high expectations for their devices. Scared of being disconnected, long battery life is the most important feature, followed closely by camera quality and shatter protection. 67% of the U.S. millennials are using their smartphones mostly to make phone calls, while 64% indicated that they are using …

In 2017, the smartphone penetration rate in the US has increased by 5% to record 82% after 77% in 2016. The highest increasing rate occurred among US smartphone users who age 45-54 years old, achieving 82% penetration rate in 2017 after 75% in 2016. But the category aged 18-24 years still has the highest rate …

There are some activities that smartphone users in the US are doing more on their devices. “Adestra” conducted a study to tease out these activities. Data came to show that on an average base, all generations surveyed in the US are using their smartphones for texting; most of them are Baby Boomers – aged 56-67 …

The vast majority of all Gen Zers smartphone users in the US are using iOS and Android operating systems. They are almost equally with a rate of 42.3% for iOS and 41.3% for Android. Gen Zers females are much more preferable to iOS than Android – 46.2% iOS vs. 38.8% -, while Gen Zers males prefer the …

In 2016, there were 2.3 billion smartphone users globally which equal 31% of the total population. At the end of 2016, 2.8 billion smartphones were in use in addition to 260 million tablets. Samsung is the leading smartphone manufacturer with 859 million of all smartphones in use globally with a rate of 31%. Apple ranked …