London, Nov 10 (ANI): The number of smartphone users who are around retirement age has jumped by five per cent in the last three months, according to new research.
Data from Nielsen shows that 30 percent of those aged 55- are now smartphone equippe. That rate of increase is outstripped only by those aged 18-24, reports the Telegraph.
Older people are still only likely to have a modern mobile phone in three out of every ten cases, the research indicates.
Nearly two-thirds of those aged 25-34, by contrast, own a device likely to be powered by software from Apple, Google, BlackBerry or Microsoft.
On the Nielsen blog, the company wrote that "while only 43 per cent of all US mobile phone subscribers own a smartphone, the vast majority of those under the age of 44 now have smartphones".
The firm said that "62 per cent of mobile adults aged 25-34 report owning smartphones. And among those 18-24 and 35-44 years old the smartphone penetration rate is hovering near 54 per cent".
By comparison, however, only four in ten 12-17 year-old teens and of 45-54 year-olds reported owning a smartphone.
The numbers of smartphone users around the world is likely to increase further, as a growing number of vendors launch handsets based on Android. (ANI)
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