japan.internet.com recently reported on a sruvey by goo Research, their third regular survey into mobile phone users’ email usage. Note that mobile phone here covers both existing feature phones and smartphones.
Demographics
Between the 16th and 18th of January 2012 1,086 members of the computer-based goo Research monitor group who had also registered as mobile phone monitors completed a mobile phone-based (including smartphone) questionnaire. 58.8% of the sample were female, 2.9% in their teens, 26.8% in their twenties, 33.9% in their thirties, 25.6% in their forties, and 10.8% aged fifty or older.
Since getting my smartphone I’ve started using it as my main device for emailing my parents, as I cannot get as much time as I want on my real computers, and now with a better camera it is quite easy to attach photos. Furthermore, docomo’s sp-mode email tool offers now not just embedded animated emoji, but also full animation that dances all over the email page via a mechanism that I haven’t actually got round to investigating yet but I suspect is HTML 5 scripting. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey by goo Research looking at mobile phone manners, but sadly only presenting a very small subset of the results.
Demographics
Between the 19th and 22nd of December 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.4% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 18.4% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.5% in their fifties, and 11.% aged sixty or older.
When I had a dumb phone I was forever using it while walking, but since getting a smartphone the combination of a smaller font, the inability to type blind, and my usual mail program’s over-sensitivity to motion causing the screen to bounce at the slightest provocation means that I just cannot use it on the move at all! Read the rest of this entry »
This recent survey from Media Interactive looked at upgrading to a smartphone, specifically from current Japanese feature phones, often called Galapagos mobiles in both English and Japanese due to their unique evolution to fit the needs of the Japanese market.
Demographics
Between the 9th and 11th of December 2011 300 feature phone-using members of the iResearch monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. No further demographic information was provided.
There definitely is a problem regarding viruses, worms and other malware on Android in particular, but it is debatable how likely the average user is to encounter them; I would guess that not often enough to make buying a virus scanner a good investment. Do any of my readers use smartphone virus scanners, and if so, why and how?
Looking at the list of negative reasons from Q1, if one thinks about the iPhone on SoftBank, lack of electronic cash, infrared and One Seg (terrestrial digital television), a need to change email addresses (I believe), poor reception, lack of design choice and no waterproofing all count against it. For Android phones from Japanese manufacturers on Docomo, virus worries and perhaps a lack of apps (or at least a perception of a lack) count against it. That gives a total of 62.3 points against the iPhone, versus 29.7 against Android, about twice as few negative votes for Android. Curiously enough, just about twice as many people want an Android versus an iPhone4S according to Q3 and Q4. Read the rest of this entry »
What Japan Thinks kicks off the New Year properly with a proper survey, this time from iShare, looking at portable gaming machines, a definition that stretches to include not just Nintendo-like devices, but also smartphones and tablets.
Demographics
Between the 22nd and 26th of December 2011 714 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service who owned and were interested in portable gaming machines completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.0% of the sample were male, 30.0% in their twenties, 49.9% in their thirties, and 20.2% in their forties.
My gaming device is my Android smartphone (Panasonic P-01D), and the only two games I have on it at the moment are Andoku (sudoku) and Nethack. I should really download Angry Birds (I’m still to play it on any device!), I suppose, but as I’m trying to keep my data charges down I don’t want to have adverts being fetched from the internet as I play! Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by goo Research, their second regular survey into video use, specifically focused on mobile use.
Demographics
Between the 2nd and 7th of December 2011 1,001 members of the goo Research research panel completed a private mobile phone-based questionnaire. 55.0% of the sample were female, 3.0% in their teens, 23.2% in their twenties, 38.7% in their thirties, 26.1% in their forties, and 9.1% aged fifty or older.
Just for the sake of this survey, I did a search for “cat video” (in Japanese) on my smartphone, and here’s the one I watched – ack, it’s not embeddable, so here’s another one:
japan.internet.com recently reported on goo Research’s second regular survey into web site viewing, specifically comparing computer versus mobile phone (including smartphone) browsing habits.
Demographics
Between the 28th and 30th of November 2011 1,092 members of the goo Research mobile monitor group complete a private mobile (including smartphone) internet-based questionnaire. 58.2% of the survey were female, 3.3% in their teens, 22.8% in their twenties, 37.1% in their thirties, 26.0% in their thirties, and 10.8% aged fifty or older.
I’ve now finally joined the odern age and got my smartphone, a dinky wee P-01D job. However, I don’t have an unlimited packet deal, and as one of the reasons I signed up was to get access to my carrier’s wifi system, any mobile browsing will tend to be done on my netbook, not smartphone. Anyway, it also supports tethering, so if I do go unlimited, it will be spending a lot of time acting as a hot spot for my real computer.
Note that tablet computers were not asked about – it doesn’t say if they were specifically excluded, but the impression I get from the text is that they were. However, the article does mention that it would be good to start explicitly asking about tablet habits too, as they combine many of the good points of both smartphones and computers. Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 18th and 20th of October 2011 1,092 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.3% of the sample were male, 11.2% in their teens, 16.2% in their twenties, 25.7% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, 11.5% in their fifties, and 9.5% 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 ranking implies that the higher the score, the less likely people are to know the term. I’d never heard about drawr (!NSFW!) before, but I don’t know if it really is that much of a topic of conversation. UPDATE: Oops, my mistake – it was drawer, not drawr; that term’s made me embarrassed too!
I’m familiar with all the terms except for “home app”; Google suggests that it’s some kind of replacement for the default Android shell.
Ranking result
Q: What smartphone technical terms are you too embarrassed to display your ignorance by asking about them? (Sample size=1,092)
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into online shopping showed that credit card was by far the most popular payment method.
Demographics
Between the 31st of October and the 4th of November 2011 1,086 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private mobile phone (including smartphone)-based questionnaire. 59.9% of the sample were female, 3.8% in their teens, 29.7% in their twenties, 34.5% in their thirties, 24.5% in their forties, and 7.6% aged fifty or older.
I’ve never shopped online from my mobile for all the three reasons listed in Q1SQ2, and other reasons would include that the services I buy from are all overseas, and they don’t work very well, if at all, on Japanese mobiles. Read the rest of this entry »
My last smartphone survey for the week is this from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, looking at mobile devices, the second in a regular series.
Demographics
Between the 26th and 29th of October 2011 1,085 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, and 27.6% aged fifty or older.
I was looking at docomo smartphones and tablets today, and I was quite surprised how cheap they are! There’s a new Panasonic P-01D out with a 3.2 inch screen that’s just about 10,000 yen to upgrade to, the 7 inch Galaxy Tab is just 3,000 yen if you pick it up as a second phone, and even a top-end 10 inch water-resistant Honeycomb tablet with LTE 4G is just a touch over 20,000 yen. The offers last until Christmas, so don’t leave it too late! I’m very tempted by the tiny Pana I mentioned, and if I use my saved-up points I can get it for just about free! If I can set up a firewall or router or the like on the phone, I can force it to use wi-fi all the time and avoid packet charges, making it in theory cheaper than my current feature phone. Here’s a video of it in action – I’ll give the pink a miss this time…
Here’s another very interesting smartphone survey, this time looking at smartphones and privacy awareness, and conducted by goo Research.
Demographics
Over the 30th and 31st of May 2011 1,573 smartphone owning members of the goo Research online monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.4% of the sample had an iPhone, 47.6% an Android-based phone; 1.0% had had their smartphone for less than a month, 12.5% between one and three months, 28.3% between three and six months, 25.3% six months to a year, 22.8% for one or two years, and 10.1% more than two years. 71.9% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their twenties, 34.6% in their thirties, 29.9% in their forties, 14.9% in their fifties, and 3.9% aged sixty or older.
I’m really surprised about the very low disclosure rate of who one works for, but it does very much ring true with what people who were sceptical of whether LinkedIn could make it in Japan said. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on a sruvey by goo Research, their third regular survey into mobile phone users’ email usage. Note that mobile phone here covers both existing feature phones and smartphones.
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What Japan Thinks kicks off the New Year properly with a proper survey, this time from iShare, looking at 
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