FingerMotion (Nasdaq: FNGR): One Company Reports Trying To Repair The Cellphones Of More Than A Billion Users Chances are excellent you’ve broken or lost one of your cell phones. With smartphone ownership in the U.S. at 70%, according to Nielsen Holdings PLC ’s (NYSE: NLSN ) survey arm, that number is expected to grow. Cellphone users are pretty consistently clumsy when it comes to carrying and using their mobile devices. According to Statista, 74% of respondents to a recent poll reported dropping their phones on the ground. The study also found that phones fell from pockets at a 49% rate. SquareTrade Inc., a third-party electronics warranty company, says 18- to 24-year-olds are 16% more likely to break their phones and men are 70% more likely to lose their phones. Women are 42% more likely to have their phones stolen. In a European study last year by Swiss cloud storage company pCloud, the type of phone most commonly broken is Apple Inc. ’s (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iPhone 11, which topped Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. ’s (KRX: 005930) Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus. Chinese Cell Phone Users Top 1.2 Billion Insurance plans offered by carriers or third-party companies have been trying to keep up with breakage and loss claims, but imagine the difficulty of protecting the world''s largest nation of cell phone users — China.