Eighty-four percent of people in a new TIME poll said...
Eighty-four percent of people in a new TIME poll said they could not go a single day without their mobile device in hand, with 20 percent saying they check their mobile device every 10 minutes. The poll, produced in cooperation…
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with Qualcomm, surveyed 5,000 people in the U.S., the U.K. China, India, South Korea, South Africa and Brazil, TIME said. The poll results were featured in TIME’s latest issue, which went on sale Friday. “It is hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones,” TIME Deputy Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs wrote Thursday. “Not the knife or match, the pen or page. Only money comes close -- always at hand, don’t leave home without it. But most of us don’t take a wallet to bed with us, don’t reach for it and check it every few minutes, and however useful money is in pursuit of fame, romance, revolution, it is inert compared with a smart phone -- which can replace your wallet now anyway” (http://xrl.us/bnk5kb).