But they plan to keep these phones for a long, long time – longer than before. Based on last week’s poll, half of the voters are currently using phones.
Based on last week’s poll, half of the voters are currently using phones that are a year or two old. But that’s not the average age of a phone and that average may be growing – going forward, half of users will have a phone that’s 3 years or younger.
Let’s start with the first question we asked – how old is your current phone? The top answer was “1-year-old”, which suggests that a lot of people upgraded recently. There’s more evidence of that in the other charts too, but we’ll get to those.
Beyond a year, it’s a fairly even split between 2-year-old and 3-year-old phones.
