Study: majority of mobile users bank, shop on their devices
Prosper Insights & Analytics has released the results of a new survey of mobile users and found that three out of four users (77.1 percent) conducted banking activities using a smartphone or tablet. Additionally, more than half (57.9 percent) said they engage in shopping behaviors via mobile, the report said. Nearly half (44.5 percent) said they use their devices to pay bills.
As for payment method, the new study found that mobile users who purchase an item via a mobile device were most likely to use a credit card (39.2 percent) or PayPal (31.5 percent). One in four (24.9 percent) used a debit card. Fewer than one percent (0.8 percent) said they used Google Wallet to purchase an item via a mobile device.
The poll included 328 smartphone and tablet users surveyed between Jan. 28 and 30, 2013.
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