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.
As noted below, almost everyone I see, both male and female, has a case for their smartphone. Given that the most popular style of feature phone is the clamshell, perhaps people are not in the habit of carefully stowing phones away from keys and other sources of scratches? Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey from goo Research looked at internet telephony, or VoIP, and the report on japan.internet.com focused on a pair of questions about Skype.
Demographics
Between the 13th and 16th of June 2011 1,091 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, 15.4% in their fifties, and 12.4% aged sixty or older.
I’m surprised with the high percentage using Skype on their smartphones; I wonder what the pattern of usage is? Do people leave it always loaded as a replacement for the phone, or do they just load it up for specific calls, or do they send an email to tell the other end to load up the program? Perhaps one day I’ll find a report on that… Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on the result of goo Research’s 28th regular survey into mobile phone users computer use.
Demographics
Between the 6th and 8th of June 2011 1,086 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private mobile phone internet-based questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample were female, 2.7% in their teens, 24.4% in their twenties, 35.9% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, and 9.6% aged sixty or older.
The text of the article answers one big question I had about this survey – the mobile monitor group includes smartphone users, but both ordinary mobile phones (or feature phones, or gala-kei as the slang labels them) users and smartphone users were grouped together under the same label here. However, both the article and I hope that in the future they will split out smartphone users. Personally, I feel the percentage reporting a mobile phone as their main device indicates that there are few smartphone users in that group, and the article too speculates that there will be a trend towards the smartphone web as people’s main viewing platform. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the new features in the Nintendo 3DS is StreetPass, the ability to exchange information with people when you pass within range. This survey from goo Ranking looked at what people thought might be fun information to exchange in passing, using this or similar technologies.
Demographics
Between the 20th and 22nd of April 2011 1,110 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.5% of the sample were female, 10.8% in their teens, 16.2% in their twenties, 27.4% in their thirties, 26.4% in their forties, 9.3% in their fifties, and 9.9% 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.
This survey reminds me a little of an Augmented Reality Twitter app that I read about once. However, the whole idea sounds a bit creepy to me, so I don’t think I’d want a mobile device that had such a feature! If I were to do so, though, I’d probably advertise either my blog URL or Twitter handle. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, was their 70th regular real-time mobile users survey, with the focus on mobile shopping.
Demographics
Between the 20th and 30th of May 2011 1,100 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research monitor pool completed a mobile phone-based questionnaire. 60.7% of the sample were female, 4.7% in their teens, 26.6% in their twenties, 35.0% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, and 8.3% aged fifty or older.
A little apology for being a bit quiet for the last few days, but I’m currently in Germany at a rather busy conference. Normal service should be resumed next week! Read the rest of this entry »
The 27th regular survey of mobile phone users’ use of computers, conducted by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com, focused on the theme of email newsletters, and in particular mobile phone email newsletters.
Demographics
Between the 9th and 11th of May 2011 1,052 mobile phone using members of the goo Research online monitor panel completed a mobile phone-based questionnaire. 55.5% of the sample were female, 3.3% in their teens, 22.8% in their twenties, 37.3% in their thirties, 26.9% in their forties, and 9.7% aged 50 or older.
Decomail is a registered trademark of docomo, an abbreviation of “decorated email”. “HTML email” is probably the more familiar English term for it, email with embedded graphics.
I am subscribed to four low-volume (once a week or so) mailing lists on my mobile phone, one from DCMX (docomo’s credit card) which is quite decomail heavy, one from Mr Donuts that has just emoji, and two others that are text only, although one of the text ones sets the font colour to grey for some strange reason. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent report from japan.internet.com on a survey conducted by goo Research into mobile phone manners found that most people are not far from their mobile phones.
Demographics
Between the 27th of April and the 6th of May 2011 1,092 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.
One curious omission from Q1SQ is watching television or video; I don’t think just 0.5% have done so!
Also, although just 1.1% reported regularly talking on their phones on trains, I suspect that meant people who make calls without bothering about the annoyance they might be causing others. In my experience there’s always one or two people furtively making or receiving calls when I ride the train home! Read the rest of this entry »
A survey by goo Research into mobile phones in bed revealed some rather interesting habits about what goes on between the sheets.
Demographics
Between the 11th and 25th of March 2011 1,818 businesspeople who were members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 912 of the sample were male, 447 were in their twenties, 440 in their thirties, 453 in their forties, and 468 in their fifties. Furthermore, 1584 owned ordinary mobile phones, 107 had Android-based ones, 108 iPhones, and 19 other smartphones.
I am in the up to five hours category, although it’s been more “up to” than “five hours” recently as my wife has got addicted to a Japanese version of Farmville. I never use my mobile in bed, however, as I’m far too tired, and anyway I’ve had my fill of the internet via my desktop before bedtime. Read the rest of this entry »
Despite the iPhone having an almost 18 month head start on Android, according to this survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into mobile devices (the 9th time this regular survey has been conducted) Android and Android-derived OS users now equal iPhone users.
Demographics
Between the 25th and 28th of April 2011 1,080 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.6% of the sample were male, 15.8% in their teens, 18.1% in their twenties, 21.8% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, and 27.9% aged fifty or older.
I have another marketplace-based survey that I will translate later that shows that Android is outselling iPhone, which of course is implied by the results of this survey.
Note that until last autumn about the only Android devices available were lower-end HTC devices and a couple of local attempts, all of which were very poor compared to the iPhone, and hopeless when compared to the Japanese standard feature phone. However, now every Japanese manufacturer is now in the game, and the features that Japanese consumers expect, namely One Seg digital television, Osaifu Keitai electronic cash and deco-mail (HTML mail) are available. Furthermore, the iPhone is only available from SoftBank, which has just 20% of the handset market, whereas SoftBank plus the other two big players, docomo and au, have huge numbers of Android-based phones.
Finally, note that Galapagos is Sharp’s own customised Android version – they cannot use the Google trademarks due to the heavy customising they have done. Read the rest of this entry »
The 55th regular survey into mobile phone upgrade needs by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com found out that a small majority of current standard feature phones would rather keep using them than upgrade to a smartphone; I would have thought that more would want to stay with feature phones.
Demographics
Between the 18th and 20th of April 2011 exactly 1,000 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.5% of the sample were male, 1.4% in their teens, 12.8% in their twenties, 29.9% in their thirties, 30.8% in their forties. and 25.1% aged fifty or older.
Furthermore, the report highlights that according to a separate survey 49% of women in their twenties and seven-tenths in their teens want a smartphone, which perhaps suggests why Panasonic are this summer bringing out the P-07C My First Smartphone
Talking of SoftBank, here’s an English lesson from them:
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