92.7% for smartphones, 15.1% for feature phones ... Mobile device usage (Fuwa Raizo) --Individual--Yahoo! News

Japanese conventional mobile phones (feature phones) have access to the Internet, are rich in visual aspects, and have high functionality that is also called a multimedia phone, so users are satisfied with the functions. Although the shift to smartphones has been delayed compared to other countries, the shift is progressing rapidly these days. Since most of the new models introduced to the market as new models are smartphones, it is clear from each survey that the smartphone usage rate of young people in particular is increasing significantly on a yearly basis. This time, from the "Survey on Information and Communication Media Usage Time and Information Behavior in the 2nd Year of Reiwa" (*) announced on the official website by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as a survey result of the Information and Communication Policy Research Institute in August 2021, conventional mobile phones , Smartphones, and tablet terminals as the same mobile device, check the current status of use in all three types.

The graph below shows the usage rate of conventional mobile phones, smartphones, and tablet terminals by age group. It's not an ownership rate, so you don't have to worry about ownership (even if you're a teenager, it may not be your property).

For example, in the 20s, the total response value of smartphones and conventional mobile phones exceeds 100% to 109.4%, indicating that not a few people are using both terminals at the same time. Whether it is used properly as a usage style or simply in the process of migration is different for each person, but looking at the response rate by age group of both items, the transition from conventional mobile phones to smartphones is gradually occurring from the younger generation. It can be estimated that there is.

Overall, the difference between smartphones and conventional mobile phones is 77.6 percentage points, but smartphones are higher than those in their teens to 40s. In addition, more than one in five people in their 60s still use conventional mobile phones, but by the time they are in their 50s, it does not reach 20%.

The smartphone usage rate peaks in the 20s, and after that it is almost the same until the 40s, and gradually decreases after the 50s. The minimum value for conventional mobile phones is for teens, and after that, the value increases with age. At the moment, smartphones are superior to all age groups up to the 60s.

On the other hand, although it is a tablet terminal, the peak is in the 40s, but the value itself does not differ by age group as much as the mobile phone. This is mentioned in the previous article, but there are not many cases of personal ownership, there are many cases where the whole family uses it as an organic place by household, and the factor is that it is difficult to make a difference in the utilization rate by age group. Conceivable. It is also noteworthy that the overall value has reached nearly 40%, exceeding the value of conventional mobile phones.

The usage status of mobile phones is composed of young people, whose smartphone usage rate is extremely higher than that of conventional mobile phones, and elderly people, who are still using conventional mobile phones in their own way. A tablet-type terminal that has many home-shared styles and does not have much disparity between age groups. The wave of smartphones that has already approached saturation in the younger generation, has shifted to the middle-aged group, and has begun to affect the elderly. The results show that the trends seen in other mobile phone-related and mobile-related surveys have been clarified as they are.

In particular, the trend of shifting from conventional mobile phones to smartphones is valuable data, and it is possible to estimate how the spread of smartphones will change in the future. As far as the results of this case are concerned, the usage rate of smartphones exceeds that of conventional mobile phones in all age groups. However, more than a quarter of people in their 60s still use conventional mobile phones.

If you imagine the usage style of the elderly, unless there is a dramatic change in technology, the usage rate of smartphones will continue to rise, but it is easy for the usage rate of conventional mobile phones to remain high in the future. Can be imagined. Or will services such as LINE, in which smartphones are virtually indispensable for use, help improve the usage rate of smartphones for the elderly?

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* Reiwa 2nd year Survey on information and communication media usage time and information behavior

From January 12th to January 18th, 2021, 125 sites nationwide will be sampled by random location quarter sampling (a method of randomly sampling survey points, allocating a sample number to each site, and extracting survey subjects in the relevant area). 1500 samples of 13-69 years old were extracted and used by the home-visit indwelling survey method. Questionnaire surveys and diary surveys are conducted in parallel, with the latter being conducted on weekdays 2 days and holidays 1 day. Therefore, although it is "teen" in the graph notation, it means 13 to 19 years old in a strict sense.

Irregular movements can be confirmed in some survey results depending on the timing of the survey, but the report states that "the impact of different survey timings and the possibility of a temporary tendency for a single year cannot be denied, and it is continuous. It is necessary to take into account the results of future surveys, etc., in order to understand these trends. " It is also necessary to pay attention to the fact that it is a new one. "

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