Excellent article in the Washington Post summarising the findings of recent research in to smartphone ownership and use

A third of all American adults own a smartphone and for many minority and low income users, those mobile devices have replaced computers for Internet access.
The findings released Monday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project highlight the breakneck speed consumers are adopting smartphones — faster than just about any high-tech product in history.
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I am not ready to cut the cord yet but am continually supprised by how much you can do on a phone. Not quite there for long form text communication, at least for my slow fingers. But great tools for consumption and production of images, audio & video. Don’t use it as a phone much;-)