New study finds most people can't go without their phone

Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff
Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff

(Fargo, ND) -- Tuesday marks 50 years since the first mobile phone call was made on April 3rd, 1973.

A new survey reveals just how vital mobile phones are to people.

It found nearly 72 percent of people couldn't imagine going more than a weekend without their mobile phone, while nearly more than 23 percent believe they could last an hour at most.

Forty-one percent are more willing to give up the gym, TV for 25 percent of millennials, or even sex for 22 percent of Gen Z responders than their mobile phones.