That’s faster growth than the new phone market, which grew only 3%. Apple drove the majority of growth in the market. In several regions, the supply of refurbished phones outpaced sales.

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Forrester Research?s largest annual survey of Americans? technology adoption finds that 73 percent of the 37,000 respondents claim the mobile phone is the electronic device they use the most.