Nielsen: more than half of US teens now own smartphones

[froggyboy604]

Yes, we know Android is holding steady at about 52 percent of US smartphone market share. What's interesting is just who's driving growth as a whole. According to Nielsen, 58 percent of American teens between 13 and 17 now have a smartphone -- that's a big jump from 36 percent a year earlier and a sign that the youngest owners have a significant sway over where the market is going. Not that young adults don't have an impact. Although the 25-to-34 crowd isn't making as big a comparative leap, its smartphone ownership has climbed from 59 percent to a dominating 74 percent in the same space of time.

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I'm guesing most of these Smartphones are contract based Smartphones instead of Prepaid phones which cost more because you do not have to sign a 2+ year contract with the phone company.

I wonder what is the percentage of teens which own Tablets since you can get a pretty good tablet for 99-160 dollars these days.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I thought it was more than half really.

 

[froggyboy604]

Neilsen might have included teens which do not own any kind of cell phone into the survey instead of just teens which own cell phone. I think if they only surveyed teens which own cell phones, the number of teens which only smartphone would probably be higher then half.