Ars Technica and our sister blog Gadgetell have links to an interesting Pew Research survey on the demographics of smartphones. According to the survey, 46% of American adults now (think they) have smartphones. (8% aren’t sure whether what they have is a smartphone or not.)
There are some numbers in the study relating to the demographics break down, but the most interesting takeaway for here, I think, is that now nearly half of American adults own a device that may be capable of reading e-books. It’s unclear how many of those people care about reading e-books on such a tiny screen, but they could if they wanted to!
Then why aren’t Americans getting smasrter? Seems to be going the other way, despite these devices. Hmmmm.. Maybe that’s why we won’t see an increase in reading from these devices?
SMARTER, not smarster…oops!