(keitai-l) Re: i-mode menu and user behavior

From: Jani PATOKALLIO <jpatokal_at_iki.fi>
Date: 03/22/01
Message-ID: <3AB9ACF1.9D34084D@iki.fi>
Renfield Kuroda wrote:
> Hubert Hung-Hsien Chang wrote:
> > And the usage of the i-mode phone was 34% voice, 42% email and 24%
> > internet (from InfoCom research, 2000 mentioned in the report by Devine
> > and Holmqvist) I wonder if it has do with how it is arranged.
> > ( email and internet percentage vs its menu locaiton.) Of course,
> > people do like to keep in touch.
> 
> 34% voice? I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds very wrong. Voice is
> far and away the most common use for i-mode phones.

Not necessarily if they're measuring time spent on each activity.
I, for one, tend to keep my phone calls short and to the point,
because I know I have to pay for them by the second, but spend
much more time composing email, which doesn't cost me a yen.
(Although this definitely has some correlation to my Japanese ability
or lack thereof...  =))

Cheers,
-- 
Jani PATOKALLIO / jpatokal@iki.fi / +81 90 7722 3557
Sanpo Laboratory, Mechano-Informatics Dept., University of Tokyo
ヤニ・パトカリオ / jani@sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp / 090 7722 3557
東京大学、工学系研究科、機械情報工学科、算法設計研究室

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Received on Thu Mar 22 09:26:54 2001