As this chart from Campus Technology illustrates, the electronic device owned now by the most college students is the cell phone. Close behind is the laptop. The chart is from a Snapshot: Personal Electronic Devices Owned by Students. This look at what college kids are doing also reports that:
most students spend up to five hours a day on the Internet, with a fairly even distribution between personal and school use, and e-mail remains the most popular communication tool and the preferred method of contact for all school purposes.
Comments
@ 10:49
As I read those numbers, the most owned device is a personal computer, not a cell phone. If you add the laptop and desktop numbers together, and subtract 30% for the students owning both, you get 98% own a computer, as compared to 97% with a cell phone.
However, 97% or 98% makes little difference, probably within the (unreported) margin of error of the poll. The real conclusion is that virtually every student has /both/ a cell phone and a computer. (I know my daughter and all her friends do.)
@ 13:50
It appears that 88% of students have some kind of PC, eh?
A student I know pointed out that “all” students have computers, but some don’t have cell phones. Why? You can’t turn in homework (or even do homework) without a computer. But he went to a school in an area with bad cell phone coverage.