You dont need a list of stats for teens to know that the smartphone is likely to be the device they consider the most important to their lives. Anyone who has seen a teen in any city will know that their most common posture is slumped and looking at a small screen. Eye contact is out of the question these days since they use these devices while sitting, walking and virtually everything else.
That said, while the smartphone may top the list, a high capacity portable battery pack is a close second. It might seem rather odd that something like a mobile battery bank could be that important to teens, but if you consider their reliance on rechargeable batteries, that opinion quickly changes. After all, it doesnt just stop at the smartphone. They also have wireless headphones and other gadgets that must all be recharged.
Equally, the smartphone alone would be enough to make a mobile battery bank a much beloved gadget. Consider some of the most recent cell phone use stats for teens. They clearly show that this is the generation that needs the most battery power simply because of the massive amount of time they spend on their devices.
More tech trivia proven in a recent teen study has shown that in 2013, 37 percent of teens from 13 to 17 years old had their own smartphone or at least had access to one. That said, it also revealed that this figure has grown substantially. In fact, it has more than doubled. Among todays teens, 88 percent now have access to a mobile phone.
Of all teens in the U.S. within that age group, 91 percent will at least occasionally access the internet on a smartphone, tablet, or other type of mobile gadget. At school, 28 percent of middle school students are carrying a cell phone every day, while more than half 51 percent of high school students carry a cell phone with them each day.
If youre thinking that teens are using their mobile devices the same way we used to use regular landline phones, think again. We may have been known for gabbing away the hours on a corded or cordless phone, but 54 percent of cell phone toting teens say their calls are usually 4 minutes long or less. For one third (33 percent) of teens, texting is their favorite way to communicate with their friends.
Short communications such as texts have become very hot with teens who typically send and receive an average of 30 texts per day.
That said, among those who use social media to communicate, it isnt Facebook that is appealing to them as much anymore which seem to be more about meaningful quotes and cat memes. While teens once flocked to the top social media platform, many of them have been abandoning their Facebook accounts or shutting them down altogether. The reason, according to teens, is that Facebook is meaningless. They prefer shorter, faster and more dynamic social platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.
That said, with all the pictures, video and rounds of short text being shared online, the mobile battery bank is what keeps the devices going until they can be plugged into a wall.
