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25 Jun 09
Vicki DavisResearch shows that cell phones are a vital part of student identities with four out of five students having a cell phone. Now, nearly half of kids aged 8-12 years own cell phones. Most kids get their first cell phone between 10 and 11.
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The wireless trade association CTIA and Harris Interactive surveyed some 2,000 teens across the country and learned that teens feel that cell phones have become a vital part of their identities.
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Another recent survey conducted by Nielsen revealed that kids are getting cell phones even before they hit their teens. Nearly half of kids age 8 to 12 years old own cell phones in the U.S, according to the Nielsen report. And on average kids get their first cell phone between the ages of 10 and 11 years old.
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Most of the teens on the panel agreed that Apple's
href="http://www.cnet.com/apple-iphone.html" class="link" target="new">iPhone is the coolest phone on the market. But none of them owned one, largely because the devices are too expensive and so is the monthly service fee from AT&T. -
And 42 percent of those surveyed say they could text blindfolded.
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third of teens surveyed say they regularly play games on their phones
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20 percent of them use their phones for social networking.
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36 percent of teens in the survey said they don't like buddy-tracking features that reveal their physical location to others
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30 Sep 08
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Wesley FryerCell phones have become almost as important to American teens as the clothes they wear, according to a nationwide survey of teenagers released last week.
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