Smartphone user: activities on smartphones 2012.S. survey

This statistic illustrates types of activities that smartphone owners undertook on their phones in the United States in the first quarter of 2012. 75 percent of respondents reported sending and reading emails.

Which of the following activities have you used your smartphone for?

Characteristic	Percentage of respondents
Emailed (sent or read)	75%
Browsed the internet	73%
Accessed a social network (e.g. updated a status message checked messages or friends' pages)	64%
Played games	63%
Listened to music	61%
Watched videos on a video sharing website	54%
Read news on newspaper or magazine portals	38%
Reviewed websites blogs or message boards	37%

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Release date

May 2012

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Region

United States

Survey time period

Q1 2012

Number of respondents

1,000 respondents

Age group

18-64 years

Special properties

Private smartphone users who use the internet in general

Method of interview

Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)

Supplementary notes

During the survey, this question was posed as follows: "Which of the following activities do you do with your smartphone? Please indicate whether you ever do this at all."
Multiple answers were possible.

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