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Infographic: 79% of Canadians don’t leave home without their smartphone

By on June 30, 2012 at 12:55pm in Mobile News

It’s always good to see things in pictures. This infographic was compiled of recent Canadian mobile stats from the CWTA’s “2012 Cell Phone Consumer Attitudes Study,” plus comScore and others. There’s nothing terribly shocking, however, 74% of Canadians now own a mobile phone, which represent well over 26 million.

According to the stats, 48% own a smartphone and 47% of those are hooked on a data plan. 93% of people who own a smartphone send/receive text messages – the CWTA reported that Canadians sent 78 billion text messages in 2011. Other popular smartphone activities are searching for info, surfing the web, email and accessing social networking sites like Facebook. The chart also revealed that 79% of Canadian don’t leave home without their smartphone… which shows how connected we’ve become. Check out the full infographic below.

Source: Visually

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14 comments for “Infographic: 79% of Canadians don’t leave home without their smartphone”

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    Posted by Phil | June 30, 2012, 1:15 pm
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  2. Hey Phil, funny how you made a mistake when you typed that lol!

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    Posted by Nick | June 30, 2012, 1:19 pm
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    • My point is made about writing from a damn mobile device. Lol

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      Posted by Phil | June 30, 2012, 1:39 pm

  3. “The Canadian industry is eveloving at a rapid pace..”

    -No it is’t!!- The Canadian industry is evolving at the Pace of Three Year Contracts!!

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    Posted by LazarBB13 | June 30, 2012, 1:19 pm
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  4. I guess I am the other 21%. I love not taking my smartphone sometimes (switch the sim card into a regular mobile phone since I can’t T9 text for the life of me)! Often I would just take my book and journal, it is nice to get away from it all! :)

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    Posted by astudent | June 30, 2012, 1:37 pm
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    • totally misread the graphic, somehow I read 74% of cell phone owners have a smartphone. My mistake.

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      Posted by astudent | June 30, 2012, 6:16 pm

  5. How can 79% of Canadians not leave home without their phone if only 74% of the population own phones, or is that 79% of that 74%?

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    Posted by bajalaventana | June 30, 2012, 1:39 pm
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    • “or is that 79% of that 74%?”

      It’s even less than that, it’s 79% of the 48% who have smartphones. Which I think makes it around 38% of Canadians (or at least of respondents to this survey) Sloppy journalism.

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      Posted by Mike D. | June 30, 2012, 4:48 pm

  6. Winds cheap unlimited plans made this possible, I can now enjoy my smartphone as much as possible without having to worry about my bill

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    Posted by Carlos | June 30, 2012, 2:16 pm
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  7. The other 21% are BB10 smartphone users

    Unfortunately you cant leave your house with a product that doesnt exist.

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    Posted by BB10EXPERT | June 30, 2012, 2:48 pm
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  8. Welcome to 2012.

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    Posted by drone | June 30, 2012, 5:45 pm
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  9. In other news, 79% of Canadians don’t leave home without getting a****y r***d by the big three.

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    Posted by RobellusTroll | June 30, 2012, 6:03 pm
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  10. Only 47% of Smartphone users are hooked to a data plan? I can’t see it being that low….unless they meant 47% of mobile phone users have a data plan (which would still be surprising, given the number of feature phones still out there).

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    Posted by Dennis | June 30, 2012, 9:16 pm
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  11. bajalaventana & Mike D. – you’re right, it is 79% of Canadian Smartphone owners who don’t leave home without their Smartphone.

    The report we issued with the Infographic spells this out: http://bigfishmedia.ca/blog/infographs/canadians-go-wireless-in-increasing-numbers.html

    Thanks to Mobile Syrup for sharing.

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    Posted by BigFishMedia | July 24, 2012, 7:47 am
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