Some nuggets from new Pew Research Center report based on a survey of 9,513 U.S. adults conducted from June-August 2012 (including 4,638 mobile device owners)

• Half of all U.S. adults now have a mobile connection to the web through either a smartphone or tablet
• Nearly a quarter of U.S. adults, 22%, now own a tablet device-double the number from a year earlier
• 64% of tablet owners and 62% of smartphone owners say they use the devices for news at least weekly
• As many as 43% say the news they get on their tablets is adding to their overall news consumption. And almost a third, 31%, said they get news from new sources on their tablet
• Fully 60% of tablet news users mainly use the browser to get news on their tablet, just 23% get news mostly through apps and 16% use both equally