Mobile and computer-based web site viewing, one of goo Ranking’s regular surveys, took an interesting turn in this report on japan.internet.com, where they described the result of specific questions to tablet owners. However, the sample size was tiny so the data cannot really be trusted.
Demographics
Between the 12th and 14th of March 2012 1,093 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private mobile internet-based questionnaire. 59.3% of the sample were female, 3.5% in their teens, 26.4% in their twenties, 33.2% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, and 11.1% aged fifty or older. Note that the survey includes smartphone users, and would also include tablet users who had a mobile phone contract attached to theirs.
I’ve considered getting a tablet myself, and if I were to I’d probably choose the four top reasons as listed below! 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…
This recent survey by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into tablets produced some very surprising results, showing Windows and Android to be closer to iOS (iPad OS) than I would have expected.
Demographics
Between the 30th of August and the 2nd of September 2011 1,087 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.2% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, 15.5% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.
The figures from Europe and the US suggest that it is only the iPad that sells, with at least 80% of the market, so are things really that different in Japan? Furthermore, where are the 8 Windows XP tablets coming from? The figures here seem just a bit too unusual to be reliable. Read the rest of this entry »
This recent survey from iShare looking at tablet computers produced some surprisingly high figures for user numbers.
Demographics
Between the 14th and 19th of October 2010 746 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.2% of the sample were male, 24.8% in their twenties, 34.0% in their thirties, and 41.2% in their forties.
I do find it a bit difficult to believe that according to Q2 almost one in five already have a tablet computer. I don’t know if people are wrongly classifying any touch-operated mobile as a tablet, or if the demographic is completely skewed.
I’ve got no intention of buying a tablet. The main use for my netbook is hacking up blog entries like this one, so I feel that the software keyboard will get in the way of my typing. Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 29th of January and the 3rd of February 2010 501 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.9% of the sample were male, 34.7% in their twenties, 32.5% in their thirties, and 32.7% in their forties.
I think the iPad will be a relative success in the USA amongst those people who are not interested in computers, but not until it has a camera and can do Skype calling relatively effortless. In Japan – well, I argued the iPhone would fail and I was reasonably correct until they fixed the flaws I had pointed out. I think the iPad, even more than the iPhone, needs a full digital television tuner; One Seg is too low resolution. With that I think they can sell it to people living in a typical shoebox as a reasonable substitute for a television and PC. Read the rest of this entry »
Mobile and computer-based web site viewing, one of goo Ranking’s regular surveys, took an interesting turn in this report on japan.internet.com, where they described the result of specific questions to tablet owners. However, the sample size was tiny so the data cannot really be trusted.
This recent survey by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into 
This recent survey from iShare looking at 
iShare recently surveyed its userbase to find out what they thought of 
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