Here’s quick heads-up for detailed industry bench-mark report on Smartphone market futures in Japan.

Machine Translation:

The investigation of a domestic maximum scale to 2886 active users has been put on the market about execution ‘Smart phone use trend investigation report book 2010′.

Internet media General Institute that is the think tank section of Impress RD Ltd. that handles the business of media related to the corporate information communications technology in the IMPRESS group, I will put ‘Smart phone use trend investigation report book 2010.

IPhone 3G that had been put on the market in 2008 was accepted to not only the early adapter and the businessman layer but also general layers, and activated the smart phone market at a dash. Moreover, the smart phone market steals the limelight as the terminal equipped with open platform “Android” of the Google that becomes the first domestically is put on the market, and the platform duel intensifies.

‘Smart phone use trend investigation report book 2010′ is mobile computing promotion consortium (MCPC) The current state of the market is brought together by the smart phone promotion committee’s explaining “Definition of a smart phone” and “View in the industry trend and the future” and three fixed quantity investigations are executed.

IMPRESS RD Internet media General Institute is scheduled to investigate the use trend of a mobile device of the individual and the enterprise continuously in the future, and to report.

Result of the survey of ‘Smart phone use trend investigation report book 2010′

In “Smart phone used most”, iPhone 3GS from which iPhone 3G had been put on the market by 24.6% in June, 1st place and 2009 became 2nd place 21.5%. “W-ZERO3[es]” and “WILLCOM 03″, etc. equipped with Windows Mobile that was the main current up to now drop the share. “HT-03A” equipped with open platform “Android” of Google was ranked to 10th place by 2.3%.

The number of users who use the data communication for 30 day minutes or more increases up to 55.3%. The use time of the function with a data communication is in the increasing tendency every year. “Do not use it” user is a small portion, and the number of users who use it for 30 minutes or more a day increases from 42.0% in 2008 to 55.3%. It rises with 66.8% in the machine user equipped with 66.8% and Android in 77.3% and iPhone 3G users in the iPhone 3GS user while it is 54.6% are equipped with 44.5% and Windows Mobile equipped with Windows Mobile when the ratio of users who use it for 30 minutes or more is seen.

Smart phone use trend investigation report book 2010
Release date: December 11, 2009
Price: CD(PDF) version 60,900 yen
Number of pages: Page 180
http://r.impressrd.jp/iil/smartphone2010

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