A recent survey in the US has found that teenager’s cell phone use rockets by more than an hour per day over the summer.

Conducted by Disney Mobile "Cell and Tell", the results of the research show that children between the ages of ten and 17 are likely to use their mobile phones for a staggering three hours and 45 minutes each day when school is finished.

Some statistics from the survey show that 44 per cent of those questioned will use text messages as their primary form of contact, with over half (52 per cent) admitting to sending messages from the cinema.

For over a quarter (26 per cent) of respondents, texting is the first thing they do in the morning - often within ten minutes of waking up!

However, the kids are not just viewing their cellphones as fun but essential; a third of teenagers said they would give up video games before their mobiles, and a quarter admitted they would rather give up television..

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