how long do people keep smartphone
Entner: Average Time People Keep Cellphones Rises to 26 Months. Approximately 90 percent of the 143 million mobile phones sold in the U.S. in 2014 were smartphones, according to wireless analyst firm Recon Analytics.
But itâs not just smartphone penetration thatâs growing. Consumers are also spending more time using them, as time spent using smartphones now exceeds Web usage on computers in the U.S., U.K. and Italy. Americans spent 34 hours using smartphone apps and on the mobile Web in December 2013, up six hours from December 2012.