With viruses – well, more often Trojans – spreading to smartphones, in particular to Android devices, this recent survey from goo Research looked at smartphone security, with japan.internet.com reporting in particular on anti-virus software installation.
Demographics
Between the 11th and 15th of July 2011 1,082 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.5% in their forties, 15.1% in their forties, and 12.2% aged sixty or older.
Android security is a very interesting subject; given the security model, I think even for an experienced user a security solution is necessary. Anti-virus is the default choice for people coming from the PC world, but on the limited resources of a mobile phone there has to be a better way! Some of the more interesting solutions are those offered by Mocana, the secure firmware implementation called WishperCore, TOMOYO Linux, and Kirin and TraintDroid, to name but a few. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on the results of goo Research’s 9th regular survey into keitai (mobile phone) novels.
Demographics
Over the 27th and 28th of June 2011 1,121 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.2% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.9% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 11.9% aged sixty or older.
Keitai novels are usually serialised books that are written in mobile phone email slang, on the whole. A number of them have crossed over into print, but I don’t really know how popular they are these days. Ahh, I just feel bitter that goo Research stopped their regular look at RSS readers and replaced it with this topic! Read the rest of this entry »
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.
The second half of the survey concentrated mostly on smartphone users. I’m not really suprised that in Q10SQ Bluetooth is the most frequently unused feature, but I am surprised that music playing is. Perhaps worries about battery life outweigh the desire to use the feature? Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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:
Despite today being Silly Sunday, and despite this survey being from goo Ranking, I have to apologise for this actully quite sensible and useful set of results from goo Ranking, when they looked at what people first installed after buying their smartphones. I’ve linked to the Android versions of the applications, and some are exclusively for Android.
Demographics
Over the 18th and 19th of February 2011 1,097 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 67.6% of the sample were female, 6.8% in their teens, 21.0% in their twenties, 32.1% in their thirties, 24.0% in their forties, 9.0% in their fifties, and 7.1% 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. Obviously, only those with smartphones could answer, but how many that was, it doesn’t say.
As I don’t have a smartphone I cannot say anything about the software below. Evernote, however, is something I keep hearing about but never really seeing the point of; perhaps if I actually used it it might make some sense? Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 13th and 14th of January 2011 1,084 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.7% of the sample were female, 10.1% in their teens, 16.4% in their twenties, 29.8% in their thirties, 23.6% in their forties, 9.8% in their fifties, and 10.2% 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.
What would impress me most would be people putting their phones away.
I haven’t a clue what number 20 is supposed to mean, and I would guess that the people answering didn’t know either. Thinking of answer number 1, I really should convert my own diagnostic sites, brainscanner and My Buddhist Name, into apps! Read the rest of this entry »
Macromill Research recently published the results of a massive yet fascinating study into smartphones, looking at both smartphone users and those wanting to buy. This will be published in four parts.
Demographics
Over the 17th and 18th of February 2011 412 smartphone owning and 206 non-smartphone owning but thinking of buying members of the Macromill monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The 412 smartphone users were split into 290 male and 122 female, 73 in their twenties, 169 in their thirties, 111 in their forties, and 59 aged fifty or older. Furthermore, 209 owned an iPhone, 159 Android-based phones, and the remaining 44 had other OSes or didn’t know. Of the 206 non-smartphone users, 113 were male and 93 female, but their ages were not listed.
Q21 is interesting; the difference between the number of free apps for iPhone versus Android can perhaps partially be explained by the iPhone having been on the market longer, but the paid-for difference is due to people already having their credit card details in iTunes, so the barrier to paying is much lower than that for Android. Furthermore, Apple do not go out of their way to promote free applications, whereas Android users can find plenty of free applications from alternative stores, some of which might even be virus-free. Read the rest of this entry »
Macromill Research recently published the results of a massive yet fascinating study into smartphones, looking at both smartphone users and those wanting to buy. This will be published in four parts.
Demographics
Over the 17th and 18th of February 2011 412 smartphone owning and 206 non-smartphone owning but thinking of buying members of the Macromill monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The 412 smartphone users were split into 290 male and 122 female, 73 in their twenties, 169 in their thirties, 111 in their forties, and 59 aged fifty or older. Furthermore, 209 owned an iPhone, 159 Android-based phones, and the remaining 44 had other OSes or didn’t know. Of the 206 non-smartphone users, 113 were male and 93 female, but their ages were not listed.
In Q14, it’s interesting that over a quarter are tweeting more since getting their smartphone, although it might be a side-effect of the general expansion of Twitter in Japan rather than specifically smartphone-related, as there is a very usable interface for Twitter available for use by most feature phones too.
In Q17, naturally the iPhone comes tops, but the Toshiba Regza being second and fourth (different versions for different carriers) is a bit of a surprise as there is very little advertising that I have seen for it. What is even more interesting is that if you add together Toshiba’s and Samsung’s Galaxy family they beat out the iPhone4, although if you add in the iPhone 3GS Apple is probably second. Also note that Sharp’s Galapagos series are actually Android phones, but as they have customised the OS for their ebook readers, according to Google’s guidelines, they cannot call their phones Android phones.
You’ll also note that Panasonic is conspicuous by its absence, due to them not being due to release a smartphone until Autumn. Read the rest of this entry »
Macromill Research recently published the results of a massive yet fascinating study into smartphones, looking at both smartphone users and those wanting to buy. This will be published in four parts.
Demographics
Over the 17th and 18th of February 2011 412 smartphone owning and 206 non-smartphone owning but thinking of buying members of the Macromill monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The 412 smartphone users were split into 290 male and 122 female, 73 in their twenties, 169 in their thirties, 111 in their forties, and 59 aged fifty or older. Furthermore, 209 owned an iPhone, 159 Android-based phones, and the remaining 44 had other OSes or didn’t know. Of the 206 non-smartphone users, 113 were male and 93 female, but their ages were not listed.
I think the most interesting results are from the dissatisfied iPhone users in Q9B. Battery life is of course the top complaint of all smartphone users, but next is the reception. This is not the infamous Grip of Death (well, that might be an aspect), but rather that SoftBank have the worst reception area of the top three providers. No Flash support comes next, not surprisingly, then the two Japan-specific complaints of a lack of infrared and electronic cash support. I can understand the electronic cash issue, but what are people wanting to do with infrared, or is it just that it is missing from the tick list of standard features? Read the rest of this entry »
With viruses – well, more often Trojans – spreading to smartphones, in particular to Android devices, this recent survey from goo Research looked at smartphone security, with japan.internet.com reporting in particular on anti-virus software installation.
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