goo Research started yet another new survey series, according to this report from japan.internet.com, this time looking at shopping site use by mobile phone users.
Demographics
Between the 8th and 10th of August 2011 1,098 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private mobile-based (including smartphone) survey. 58.3% of the sample were female, 3.8% in their teens, 27.8% in their twenties, 35.8% in their thirties, 23.5% in their forties, and 9.1% aged fifty or older.
I’ve never done any mobile shopping, for all the three reasons listed, and I could probably fill out the “other” answer with a number of additional reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 6th and 7th of June 2011 1,148 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were male, 12.1% in their teens, 16.9% in their twenties, 28.0% in their thirties, 25.4% in their forties, 9.7% in their fifties, and 7.9% 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.
The one time I used my mobile phone overseas all I used was SMS as proper email and all other uses involving data packets are horrendously expensive; one SMS in itself was 100 yen, and although email data packets would be cheaper for the equivalent 140 SMS characters, email would encourage my wife to start pasting in decomail icons or attaching photos…
goo Research started another new regular survey series that is actually just a renaming of an old series, changing title from “mobile phone upgrade needs” to “mobile phone and smartphone upgrading”. This survey was reported on by japan.internet.com and far less interesting than the headline suggests.
Demographics
Between the 22nd and 26th of July 2011 1,001 mobile phone-owning members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were female, 1.7% in their teens, 12.5% in their twenties, 29.7% in their thirties, 28.7% in their forties, 27.5% aged fifty or older.
I want a smartphone whenever I get round to upgrading, and if docomo bring out something like the SoftBank Android device in the video embedded below, I’d buy it:
Between the 24th and 27th of June 2011 1,871 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service who had downloaded an app to their smartphone completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 84.7% of the sample were male, 5.4% in their twenties, 43.6% in their thirties, 40.0% in their forties, and 11.0% in their fifties.
Not having a smartphone myself, and not having played with such an app on someone else’s smartphone, I cannot really make any comment here! Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com reported on another new regular survey series from goo Research, this time being a look at the display of mobile advertisements.
Demographics
Between the 11th and 13th of July 2011 1,094 mobile phone-using (including smartphones) members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private mobile phone-based questionnaire. 59.3% of the sample were female, 3.2% in their teens, 27.0% in their twenties, 37.5% in their thirties, 23.6% in their forties, and 8.8% aged fifty or older.
I’ve seen advertisements on my mobile, but as the default iMode home page has an advertisement, I’m surprised that as many as 5.7% had not seen advertisements; perhaps as the ads are so well blended in that most of that 5.7% haven’t actually realised they are seeing them. Read the rest of this entry »
With viruses – well, more often Trojans – spreading to smartphones, in particular to Android devices, this recent survey from goo Research looked at smartphone security, with japan.internet.com reporting in particular on anti-virus software installation.
Demographics
Between the 11th and 15th of July 2011 1,082 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.5% in their forties, 15.1% in their forties, and 12.2% aged sixty or older.
Android security is a very interesting subject; given the security model, I think even for an experienced user a security solution is necessary. Anti-virus is the default choice for people coming from the PC world, but on the limited resources of a mobile phone there has to be a better way! Some of the more interesting solutions are those offered by Mocana, the secure firmware implementation called WishperCore, TOMOYO Linux, and Kirin and TraintDroid, to name but a few. Read the rest of this entry »
The previously-reported on regular goo Research survey into computer use by mobile phone users (the last one I translated was the 26th) has now become the first regular mobile phone users’ mail use survey. As usual, japan.internet.com did the reporting.
Demographics
Between the 4th and 6th of July 2011 1,081 members of the computer-based (or perhaps they might have signed up via a smartphone browser?) goo Research monitor group who had also registered as mobile phone monitors completed a mobile phone-based (including smartphone) questionnaire. 58.1% of the sample were female, 2.8% in their teens, 24.4% in their twenties, 37.0% in their thirties, 25.7% in their forties, and 10.1% aged fifty or older.
I suppose if I think about it I actually send more email (on a message count basis) from my mobile phone than from my computer, as I send a bare minimum of three mobile phone emails to my wife per day. Home PC-based mail is much less, as I either use social media for communication or just don’t bother… Yes Mum, I’ll get round to an email soon… Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on the results of goo Research’s 9th regular survey into keitai (mobile phone) novels.
Demographics
Over the 27th and 28th of June 2011 1,121 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.2% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.9% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 11.9% aged sixty or older.
Keitai novels are usually serialised books that are written in mobile phone email slang, on the whole. A number of them have crossed over into print, but I don’t really know how popular they are these days. Ahh, I just feel bitter that goo Research stopped their regular look at RSS readers and replaced it with this topic! Read the rest of this entry »
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include "/home/kenyn/public_html/libchart/libchart.php";
$chart = new PieChart(400, 200);
$chart->setTitle(“How often do you watch video on your mobile phone?”);
$chart->addPoint(new Point(“Very often watch”, 6.2));
$chart->addPoint(new Point(“Often watch”, 11.0));
$chart->addPoint(new Point(“Sometimes watch”, 36.8));
$chart->addPoint(new Point(“Just watched once or twice”, 28.9));
$chart->addPoint(new Point(“Never watched, can’t watch”, 17.2));
$chart->render(“/home/kenyn/public_html/image11/often-watch-video-2.png”);
?> japan.internet.com reported on the 71st regular realtime mobile phone survey by goo Research, with the focus this time on mobile phone video.
Demographics
Between the 14th and 16th of June 2011 1,019 mobile phone-owning members of the goo Research monitor group completed a mobile internet-based questionnaire. 60.9% of the sample were female, 5.4% in their teens, 31.4% in their twenties, 33.0% in their thirties, 22.7% in their forties, and 7.6% aged fifty or older.
Between the 14th and 16th of June 2011 968 female members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 10.8% of the sample were in their twenties, 45.1% in their thirties, and 44.0% in their forties.
The second half of the survey concentrated mostly on smartphone users. I’m not really suprised that in Q10SQ Bluetooth is the most frequently unused feature, but I am surprised that music playing is. Perhaps worries about battery life outweigh the desire to use the feature? Read the rest of this entry »
goo Research started yet another new survey series, according to this report from japan.internet.com, this time looking at shopping site use by mobile phone users.
goo Research started another new regular survey series that is actually just a renaming of an old series, changing title from “mobile phone upgrade needs” to 
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japan.internet.com reported on another new regular survey series from goo Research, this time being a look at the 
With viruses – well, more often Trojans – spreading to smartphones, in particular to Android devices, this recent survey from goo Research looked at 
The previously-reported on regular goo Research survey into computer use by mobile phone users (the last one I translated was 
japan.internet.com recently reported on the results of goo Research’s 9th regular survey into 
japan.internet.com reported on the 71st regular realtime mobile phone survey by goo Research, with the focus this time on 
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