Japanese people usually get their hands on cutting-edge technology before anyone else. But many of them don’t make much use of the latest in mobile phone hardware, a recent study has found.
The survey questioned almost 15,000 Japanese folk about which phone features they use most frequently. It found that 84 per cent of handset …
Those numbers seem pretty high to me. I don’t ever see 50% of people using phones to read barcodes here in the UK – even when we start getting these technologies.
We have had camera phones (albeit poor ones) for a fair old while now - I am pretty sure that camera usage is nowhere near as high as Japan.
Register
Japan loves low-tech handsets
Japanese people usually get their hands on cutting-edge technology before anyone else. But many of them don’t make much use of the latest in mobile phone hardware, a recent study has found. The survey questioned almost 15,000 Japanese folk about which phone features they use most frequently. It found that 84 per cent of handset …
This topic is closed for new posts.
Posted Wednesday 16th April 2008 12:02 GMT
Luke
Japanese low-tech = European high-tech? #
Those numbers seem pretty high to me. I don’t ever see 50% of people using phones to read barcodes here in the UK – even when we start getting these technologies.
We have had camera phones (albeit poor ones) for a fair old while now - I am pretty sure that camera usage is nowhere near as high as Japan.
This topic is closed for new posts.