When your smartphone makes it so easy to connect to the Internet, why bother firing up a clunky desktop or laptop computer? Two-thirds of cell-phone owning Americans use their phones to surf the Web and check e-mail, according to the latest study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That's double the amount from 2009, when only 31% of people said they used their phones to go online. For a growing segment of people, phones aren't just a secondary way to check the news or send off a quick e-mail. According to Pew, 21% of phone owners use their devices as their primary way of accessing the Internet, more than PCs and tablets.
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More people are turning to their phones to access the Internet and e-mail
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A new Pew study found that two-thirds of U.S. phone owners use their devices to go online
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For a small but growing of people, phones are the primary way they check the Internet
Since Pew began tracking @placeholder and phone usage in 2009, the numbers have steadily risen year-over-year.