TORONTO – A new report suggests Canadian smartphone owners estimate they spend nearly 90 per cent of their free time staring at one of their many screens.
An online poll of 28,000 Canadians was conducted in August by Ipsos on behalf of Google.
Half of the respondents said they owned a smartphone.
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Of the smartphone users, 99 per cent also had a computer, 88 per cent had a TV, and 39 per cent had a tablet.
Smartphone owners admitted to pollsters that they think their screen time across all their devices takes up about 86 per cent of their free time, or seven hours a day.
On the flip side, they figured they spent only 14 per cent of their leisure time daily listening to the radio, reading a printed page, or enjoying another non-digital activity.
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