世論 What Japan Thinks

Despite today being Silly Sunday, and despite this survey being from goo Ranking, I have to apologise for this actully quite sensible and useful set of results from goo Ranking, when they looked at what people first installed after buying their smartphones. I’ve linked to the Android versions of the applications, and some are exclusively for Android.

Demographics

Over the 18th and 19th of February 2011 1,097 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 67.6% of the sample were female, 6.8% in their teens, 21.0% in their twenties, 32.1% in their thirties, 24.0% in their forties, 9.0% in their fifties, and 7.1% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. Obviously, only those with smartphones could answer, but how many that was, it doesn’t say.

As I don’t have a smartphone I cannot say anything about the software below. Evernote, however, is something I keep hearing about but never really seeing the point of; perhaps if I actually used it it might make some sense?

Ranking result

Q: What were the first applications you downloaded on buying your smartphone? (Sample size=smartphone owners)

Rank		Score
1	QR Code Scanner	100
2	駅探★乗換案内, train route finder	72.2
3	Jorte, appointment organiser	64.6
4	WebMemo, saves web pages to SD card	35.9
5	Simeji, various software keyboards	32.2
6	Evernote	29.3
7	Dolphin Browser	25.2
8	twicca BETA, Twitter client	24.6
9	履歴消しゴム, history eraser	19.7
10	Galapagos browser, view iMode sites on Android	17.1