From: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-us-children-who-own-mobile-phones-2010-1
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Kids With Cell Phones
February 1st, 2010
Kids Consuming Mobile Media
February 1st, 2010-
Young people in the U.S. now spend 49 minutes each day listening to music, playing games and watching video content on their mobile phones
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Kids spend 33 minutes per day talking on their phones.
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66 percent of young people ages 8 to 18 now own mobile handsets, up from 39 percent five years ago
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76 percent own iPods or rival MP3 players, increasing from 18 percent five years earlier.
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Although the amount of time spent watching regularly-scheduled TV dropped by 25 minutes a day between 2004 and 2009–the first-ever decline reported over the course of the study–total television consumption increased from 3 hours and 51 minutes to 4 hours and 29 minutes per day thanks to the rise in alternative, time-shifted viewing channels like mobile phones and portable media devices.
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Teens in grades 7 to 12 now spend an average of 95 minutes per day sending or receiving text messages. Time spent texting was not counted as media use in the study.
