The lifestyle of people nowadays keeps on changing almost every year with any trend found in the internet. Also, smartphones have been somewhat an extension of someone's existence. It was just reported that Americans, an influential country in the world, check their smartphones almost 9 billion times daily. It is such a great number!

According to Time, there was a research study conducted by Deloitte which has found out that Americans collectively have the time to check their smartphones over 9 billion times. It is the accumulated number of all Americans who look at their mobile handsets from time to time on a daily basis.

This study of Deloitte had included all brackets of ages that check their phones with an average of 46 times per day. In an average, it's almost 33 looks in 2014. Deloitte had arrived into billion statistics as they have multiplied the number of looks per day by the number of smartphone users in the United States. Well, as the young ones or the young professionals are so much involved with technology, they were top on the list. People who are between 18 and 24 years old most often check their phones at 74 times as average.

They have found out that most people look at their phones while they are watching television, shopping or during any leisure time. On the other hand, they research study revealed that most people check their phones when they are dining in a restaurant. "Some of this is going to require new etiquettes emerging," says Craig Wigginton, Vice Chairman and U.S. Telecommunications Leader for Deloitte.

According to WTop, Wigginton has mentioned that the reliance of people nowadays on mobile devices has changed the nature of a person to person communication. Also, Deloitte's survey found out that people check their smartphones every after 15 minutes of walking up, as they check messages or updates.

Overall, this is such a numerous number and all of us should also be watchful on where we should spend our precious time respectively.