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)
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 »
Here is the second of this week’s smartphone surveys, this time it is iShare reporting on smartphones, voice calls and VoIP, where VoIP is Voice over Internet Protocol, in other words calls made computer to computer using an internet connection rather than phone to phone dialed calls. The best-known VoIP packages are probably Skype and Google Talk.
Demographics
Over the 3rd and 4th of October 2011 1,209 smartphone using members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.2% of the sample were female, 29.4% in their twenties, and 70.6% in their thirties.
Voice call costs don’t bother me as the only person I phone is my wife, and I get free calls to her. Anyway, I don’t phone her much anyway, as we almost exclusively email. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is the second of this week’s smartphone surveys, this time it is iShare reporting on smartphones, voice calls and VoIP, where VoIP is Voice over Internet Protocol, in other words calls made computer to computer using an internet connection rather than phone to phone dialed calls. The best-known VoIP packages are probably Skype and Google Talk.
Demographics
Over the 3rd and 4th of October 2011 1,209 smartphone using members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.2% of the sample were female, 29.4% in their twenties, and 70.6% in their thirties.
As we saw from yesterday’s survey, about one in three smartphone users also have a standard mobile. However, all the questions in this survey referred to smartphone usage only.
I’m getting the itching to buy a smartphone again. I was looking at the pricing and as you can now get free wifi, and access to docomo’s official smartphone web mail sp-mode free from data package charges, it should be possible to run a smartphone for less than I currently pay for my dumb phone, namely 2,500 yen per month or so. Read the rest of this entry »
This week will be smartphone week, with three (at least) surveys coming up on various aspects of smartphones. First out of the gate is this from DIMSDRIVE Research conducted back in May of this year.
Demographics
Between the 11th and 26th of May 2011 11,893 members of the DIMSDRIVE monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.0% of the sample were male, 0.6% in their teens, 7.5% in their twenties, 24.5% in their thirties, 32.8% in their forties, 21.0% in their fifties, and 13.6% aged sixty or older
As with other surveys, this survey shows that a lot of people carry both a smartphone and a feature phone, but unfortunately no reason was reported for why people kept both. Read the rest of this entry »
iShare recently reported on a survey conducted into the characteristics of global versus galapagos smartphone users. Here galapagos refers to the Galapagos Syndrome, how Japanese mobile phones have evolved to address Japanese market needs, yet are totally unsuited to the global market. Galapagos smartphones are the usually Android-based phones loaded with local must-haves like infra-red, one seg digital television, and Osaifu Keitai, contactless IC Chip-based payments.
Demographics
Between the 19th and 22nd of August 2011 736 smartphone-owning members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 65.1% of the sample were male, 11.3% in their twenties, 36.7% in their thirties, 37.4% in their forties, and 14.7% in their fifties.
It was interesting to see that people with global smartphones were more likely to use Twitter and Facebook; it would have been useful to select a couple of representative Japan-born equivalents (not sure what would be Twitter, but mixi is Facebook) to see if galapagos owners tend to remain in isolation.
Note that most of the questions below have separate columns for global smartphone and galapagos smartphone owners. Read the rest of this entry »
iShare recently reported on a survey conducted into the characteristics of global versus galapagos smartphone users. Here galapagos refers to the Galapagos Syndrome, how Japanese mobile phones have evolved to address Japanese market needs, yet are totally unsuited to the global market. Galapagos smartphones are the usually Android-based phones loaded with local must-haves like infra-red, one seg digital television, and Osaifu Keitai, contactless IC Chip-based payments.
Demographics
Between the 19th and 22nd of August 2011 736 smartphone-owning members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 65.1% of the sample were male, 11.3% in their twenties, 36.7% in their thirties, 37.4% in their forties, and 14.7% in their fifties.
I will probably buy a gala-sma versus a glo-sma, to use the abbreviated terms for the two types, although I’m also tempted by a Samsung Galaxy (assuming Apple don’t sue them out of the market…) which seems to be a nice halfway house. If I was being logical, I’d just choose an iPhone, but I have a dislike of the image surrounding Apple users and their network stinks! Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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