Currently, 88% of American adults have a cell phone, 57% have a laptop, 19% own an e-book reader, and 19% have a tablet computer; about six in 10 adults (63%) go online wirelessly with one of those devices.

A spreadsheet of the above data is available for download here .

This section contains our latest data about device ownership by American adults (age 18+). For information about device ownership and use by American teens (ages 12-17), please click here.

Nearly half (46%) of American adults are smartphone owners as of February 2012, an increase of 11 percentage points over the 35% of Americans who owned a smartphone last May. Two in five adults (41%) own a cell phone that is not a smartphone, meaning that smartphone owners are now more prevalent within the overall population than owners of more basic mobile phones. For more information on smartphone ownership by adults, please see our recent report Nearly half of American adults are smartphone owners.

For more information about e-reader and tablet computer ownership and use, please see our recent report Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period (2012). 

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