Americans check 8 smartphones billions of times a day

Experts consulting company Deloitte calculated how often Americans look at the screens of their smartphones.

46 once a day US residents are checking your smartphones. Thus, they do this procedure about every half hour. Considering that 185 of millions of smartphone owners live in the States, the total number of such checks per day exceeds the mark of 8 billions.

It should be noted that 46 is an average. The frequency of checks may vary depending on the age group. So, Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 years look at the 74 smartphone screen once a day. 25-34-year-olds in the United States do it 50 times, and 35-44-year olds do it 35 times.

As a rule, Americans check smartphones while shopping or watching TV. 81% of US residents are drawn to the tubes during dinner in restaurants. In the Deloitte note that such facts suggest the need to update the rules of etiquette.

According to Deloitte, this year, Americans began to glance at their devices even more often. Last year, they only glanced at the screen 33 times per day. According to the company's vice chairman, Craig Wigginton, this is due to the fact that Americans are increasingly using mobile payment systems.

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