Simple ring tones still favourite Japanese mobile phone audio
japan.internet.com recently publishd the results of a survey conducted by Cross Marketing Inc into the use of music playback features in mobile phones. Between the 7th and 8th of March they interviewed 300 mobile phone users from their online monitor group.
Demographics
From the 300 respondents, exactly half were of each sex, and exactly one fifth were in each age group from teens to the fifties.
Music playback is heavily promoted on phones, from DoCoMo’s Napster service and au’s LISMO to the forthcoming Apple iPhone, but how exactly are people using their features? For me, my phone is almost permanently in manner mode, and I actually haven’t downloaded any music whatsoever onto my new phone, nor used its SD Card playback feature.
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