Waking up by alarm clock or by mobile?
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Following on from yesterday’s look at using a mobile phone as a wristwatch, this time Marsh Inc looked at using a mobile as an alarm clock in a survey reported on by japan.internet.com.
Demographics
Between the 30th of July and the 1st of August 2009 300 members of the Marsh monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female, with 2.0% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, 20.0% in their fifties, and 20.0% aged sixty or older.
I use an alarm clock, I recently received one for my birthday, a cat-themed one that is insulated enough not to tick, but screams out in Japanese in the morning “GET UP! MEOWWWW! IT’S TIME! MEOWwwww! GET UP!” and rather than a lever to batter it into silence, I need to fiddle with a recessed switch, and as I turn it off it screams again “YOU’VE GOT UP, PERHAPS?” I should record it tomorrow and upload a movie…
Research results
Q1: How do you wake up? (Sample size=300, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage Mobile phone alarm (to Q2SQ after Q2) 180 60.0% Alarm clock 125 41.7% Wake up naturally 105 35.0% Family, flatmates wake me up 44 14.7% Radio timer 8 2.7% Television timer 7 2.3% Get woken by someone telephoning me 6 2.0% Audio system alarm 5 1.7% Other 2 0.7% Q2: Which is the main way that you wake up? (Sample size=300)
Mobile phone alarm 49.3% Alarm clock 23.0% Wake up naturally 22.7% Family, flatmates wake me up 2.3% Radio timer 0.7% Television timer 0.7% Audio system alarm 0.7% Get woken by someone telephoning me 0.0% Other 0.7% Q2SQ: How often do you use your mobile phone alarm functions? (Sample size=180)
Every day 56.1% Every weekday only 26.1% When staying away from home 6.1% When worried that another method will not work alone 7.8% Before napping 2.8% Other 1.1%
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Damn, you have the same defective “MEOWwwww! GET UP!” alarm clock that I have.
Have you found anyway to set it so it will not go off on the weekends and national holidays? Mine didn’t come with an engRish manual. Does the Japanese manual say anything about a Weekends setting or the turning off constant Vibration mode?