iShare recently took a look at smartphones, including a look at what non-users thought smartphones might be like to use.
Demographics
Between the 17th and 21st of September 2010 406 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.2% of the sample were male, 31.8% in their twenties, 30.3% in their thirties, and 37.9% in their forties.
Entertainingly (I’m easily entertained) one of the smartphones mentioned was the Brack Berry.
In Q1, I’m not sure how much the 22.7% of men carrying a smartphone reflects reality versus the kind of demographic that uses CLUB BBQ’s services, as it does seem a little high to me.
Q1SQ5 is a bit difficult to interpret; mail ease of use implies the ability to use emoji and the like, thus women have a worse impression of smartphone email. Good usability implies, I think, the overall user experience, whereas being easy to use implies how well each individual application functions. Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 12th and 14th of October 2010 1,042 members of the goo Research online monitor group who had also subscribed as mobile phone users completed a private mobile phone-based questionnaire. 55.0% of the sample were female, 2.9% in their teens, 25.8% in their twenties, 36.9% in their thirties, 26.2% in their forties, and 8.3% aged fifty or older.
There’s actually not much exciting about these results, I think, but here you go anyway.
Note that the goo Research monitor group initially signs up everyone as a computer-based user, then they can elect to further complete mobile phone surveys too, thus there would be a tendency for the sample to consist of computer-centric people, so the results as difficult to extrapolate Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 30th of September and 5th of October 2010 483 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.2% of the sample were male, 32.3% in their twenties, 33.3% in their thirties, and 34.4% in their forties.
Regular readers will know that I am not enamoured by 3D movies, so I was pleased to read that Harry Potter 7.1 will be 2D only, in the UK at least, due to the 3D remastering taking longer than planned to perform. Here’s hoping that they don’t get it finished in time for the Japanese release too!
Oh, and yes, the fifth movie Atashin-chi does have a stupidly-long title; that often seems to happen with cartoons over here. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 21st and 22nd of September 2010 1,072 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 68.2% of the sample were female, 10.4% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 29.8% in their thirties, 26.2% in their forties, 8.7% in their fifties, and 7.0% 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.
Not placing anywhere on the list is the Doom series – I’d be interested in seeing a 3D remake of at least Doom 1, preferably with the original sprite-based 3D. The source code is out there, so I’m sure some enterprising soul will remake it (if they haven’t already) for a 3D-supporting device.
And just in case you are wondering what “Loveplus” is, perhaps this will explain:
This survey from iShare into enjoying a foreign holiday with a camera is rather appropriate as I’m currently on a foreign holiday business trip in Hawaii, as you can perhaps see from the photo below.
Demographics
Over the 14th and 15th of September 2010 2,468 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service who had had a foreign holiday completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 75.4% of the sample were male, 44.4% in their thirties, 44.5% in their forties, and 11.1% in their fifties.
I’m usually pretty hopeless at taking photos, both quantity and quality-wise, but hopefully this time at Hawaii I have redeemed myself!
Sometimes I present surveys that are difficult to believe, and this is one of these cases, a look at software licences by goo Research and rported on by japan.internet.com, where almost one in three who are aware of licences and have installed software in the last year claimed to usually or always read the accompanying licence!
Demographics
Between the 5th and 9th of October 2010 1,093 members of the goo Research online monitor goup completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.3% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, 15.6% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.
I am surprised that so many do – it’s just one more click-through for me. Only if I am downloading software that tries to force a spammy toolbar install do I check the licence to see if it mentioned anything about data collection. Read the rest of this entry »
Although this recent survey by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com showed Apple way out ahead in the smartphone market in Japan, this gap will surely narrow in the near future, not least thanks to Sharp’s soon-to-come iPhone killer.
Demographics
Between the 6th and 8th of October 2010 1,086 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.2% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.7% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, and 27.4% aged fifty or older.
Sharp’s new IS03 is getting heavy advertising coverage right now, although it does look more like a promotion for Usian Bolt than a cell phone advert. The reason to suspect it might be an iPhone killer is first that Sharp have a track record for producing smartphones even before the term was invented (the W-ZERO3 series mentioned in Q1SQ1) and have made other innovations like the Netwalker (although it priced itself out of the market), but second and more importantly, the IS-03 is an iPhone for the Japanese market, with both One-Seg digital television decoder and FeliCa electronic cash chip on board. Furthermore, the carrier, au, have a much better image than Softbank, so there would be less resistance to switching carrier just for the device. It needs a sexier name than IS-03, however! Read the rest of this entry »
This survey from iShare was educational for me, and I hope it will be educational for some of my readers who may be unaware of the Japanese names in this look at month names, in both English and classical Japanese.
Demographics
Between the 24th and 29th of September 2010 461 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.5% of the sample were male, 28.6% in their twenties, 30.6% in their thirties, and 40.8% in their forties.
In modern Japanese, the months are ridiculously easy to remember, being basically “Month 1″, “Month 2″, and so on up to “Month 12″, but before they adopted the Gregorian calendar there was a completely different set of names which I rarely see and could not name any of them at all. Note that although in Q1SQ I mention the English month, there’s not really a direct one-to-one correspondence as the old Japanese calendar was lunar-based, so they tended to repeat months here and there to stop things getting horrendously out of sync. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 23rd and 24th of August 2010 1,127 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.3% of the sample were female, 11.7% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 23.2% in their forties, 10.9% in their fifties, and 8.7% 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.
I can speak from experience that for guys to do 1 or 2, and especially both 1 and 2, is the quickest way to convince her you’re gay, or at least completely and utterly herbivorous! Towards the bottom of both lists are techinques that seem pretty much guaranteed to start a fist fight or a cat fight, and as for the second last for men, I think some people have been watching far too many Hollywood romances! Finally, I’m most surprised to see that spreading rumours comes dead last in the women’s list. Read the rest of this entry »
A popular topic of discussion these days is the Galapagosation (it sounds better in Japanese) of the Japanese phone market, how handsets has evolved to suit the Japanese market (or is it vice versa?). This recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, their 53rd regular look at mobile upgrade needs showed that many of the desired features are those popular in Japan alone.
Demographics
Between the 28th and 30th of September 2010 exactly 1,000 mobile phone-owning members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were female, 1.2% in their teens, 15.9% in their twenties, 32.5% in their thirties, 27,4% in their forties, and 23.0% aged fifty or older.
I’m driven by handset price too, with that as the main barrier to me upgrading. Maybe around Christmas I’ll buy last year’s model at a sensible price. I have my heart set on a smartphone, but my wallet says no, however, as the flat rate packet price, as I discuss every time I post about smartphones, is still too high…
As there’s nothing decent to graph, here instead is a video showing how it’s a dog eat dog (stewpot set) market out there…
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