Americans who prefer to communicate and access information using the methods that were around before the internet are becoming harder to find.
According to a 2024 Pew Research survey, 98 percent of U.S. adults own a cell phone and 91 percent own a smartphone.
A 2011 survey, by contrast, found that 83 percent of Americans owned a cell phone and 35 percent owned a smartphone.
Still, non-smartphone owners are out there. Even among smartphone owners, there are those who prefer to use other methods instead of reaching for their internet devices.
“I have a flip phone, and I never got an iPhone, and I didn’t feel I needed one,” Michael Antonini, retired dentist and former San Francisco planning commissioner, told The Epoch Times….