{"id":309566,"date":"2026-02-21T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309566\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:16:10","slug":"the-smartphone-split-how-your-age-can-tell-us-which-phone-you-probably-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309566\/","title":{"rendered":"The smartphone split: how your age can tell us which phone you probably own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Gen Z go Apple, Gen X go Android, and with clear patterns emerging, the choice has become a marker of generational identity<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Generartion phone: Overs 30s are more likely to own a Samsung (right) than an iPhone (left0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/472a8175-e97a-4755-9282-d1de8a32637a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Generartion phone: Overs 30s are more likely to own a Samsung (right) than an iPhone (left0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hi there grandad, nice new Samsung phone. According to new figures, Ireland is a country where your phone can indicate your age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gen Z, by a large majority, won\u2019t touch anything but iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gen Z go Apple, Gen X go Android, and with clear patterns emerging, the choice has become a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[8819,32880,61,60,202,279,80],"class_list":["post-309566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-apple-company","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-review-magazine","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}