PCs Pushed Aside in Japan as Mobile Takes Over
November 7th, 2007
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The trend in Japan is the dominance of smart phones that act like pocket-size computers, and regular computers are almost forgotten. Millions of Japanese consumers download music directly to their mobiles, use their handsets for online shopping and to play games.
One of the fastest growing social networking sites in Japan is Mobagay Town, which is designed exclusively for cell phones.
According to a 2006 survey by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 50 per cent of Japanese people send e-mails and browse the Internet from their mobile phones. The same survey found that 30 per cent of people with e-mail on their phones used PC-based e-mail less, including 4 per cent who said they had stopped sending e-mails from PCs completely.
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