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<\/figure>\n\nAmong smartphone owners, those ages 18-49 are more likely to use location-based information services than smartphone owners age 50 and older, and whites are more likely to use these services than African Americans.\u00a0 Those in households making at least $40,000 per year are more likely to use location-based information services than lower-income households, and smartphone owners with at least some college experiences are more likely to than those who have not attended college.<\/p>\n\n
In general, these patterns of usage are very similar to what they were in May 2011, as shown in the following table.<\/p>\n\n Slightly more recent data from April 2012<\/a> shows that 65% of smartphone owners say they have used their phone to get turn-by-turn navigation or directions while driving, with 15% doing so on a typical day. Additionally, in the past 30 days a third (33%) of smartphone owners have used their phone for up-to-the-minute traffic or public transit information to find the fastest way to get somewhere. More information about how Americans are using their phones for a variety of real-time activities is available in our recent report, \u201cJust-in-time Information through Mobile Connections<\/a>.\u201d[4. numoffset=”4″ Lee Rainie and Susannah Fox, \u201cJust-in-time Information Through Mobile Connections.\u201d Pew Internet, May 7, 2012. https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/Reports\/2012\/Just-in-time.aspx<\/a>]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost half of adult cell phone owners (and three-quarters of smartphone owners) use their phones to get real-time location-based information Almost three-quarters (74%) of smartphone users use their phones to get directions or recommendations based on their current location, up from 55% in May 2011. 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