Nearly all U.S. adults have cell phones, and 1 in 4 uses a smart phone, compared with about 16 percent last year, Carson said.
Nielsen, which surveyed 4,000 mobile-phone subscribers in August, predicts that the majority of mobile subscribers in the United States will have smart phones by the end of 2011.
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The last survey in June showed 20 percent penetration for smartphones in the US.
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