Japanese Cell Phone Strap Usage
This is a really interesting survey on how many Japanese people actually use a cell phone strap and the types of straps they attach to their phones. This survey was conducted by goo Research and was taken off What Japan Thinks.
This survey was conducted via internet questionnaires with 1,007 people. The age range of the interviewees were pretty spread out: 18.1% in their teens, 20.2% in their twenties, 17.1% in their thirties, 17.0% in their forties, 16.9% in their fifties, and 10.8% aged sixty or older.
Do you have straps attached to your cell phone or phones? (Sample size=880)
Yes, to all of them 72.6% Yes, to some of them 1.7% No, to none of them 25.7%
How many straps do you have attached to your cell phone? If you have more than one phone, answer for the one with the most straps attached. (Sample size=654)
One 54.4% Two 26.0% Three 11.8% Four 4.6% Five or more 3.2%
What kind of straps do you have attached to your cell phone?
(Sample size=654, multiple answer)
Character strap
50.3%
Ordinary strap
35.0%
Screen cleaner, light, ghost detector, other tool
14.8%
Neck strap
10.6%
Clip-on type strap
10.4%
Brand strap
8.6%
Strap supplied with phone
2.8%
Other
8.1%
Why don’t you have a strap attached to your cell phone? (Sample size=226)
Don’t feel it’s needed 51.8% No designs I like 18.6% Gets caught when I pull the phone out of my bag, etc 13.3% Adds weight 5.8% Don’t have a strap to attach 3.1% Other 7.5%
Summing up: I guess its like what we always imagined, people do frequently attached a strap to their cellphone. One interesting thing is that about half of those with handphone straps actually attached more than one straps to their phones.
So how about you? Do you have more than 1 strap on your cellphone?
I’ve got four…
I used to have one sarubobo that I bought from Japan, but it snapped off when I was at camp…
Am going to buy anime ones during my next trip there ^^
I used to use the default strap that came with my old phone. but now that I finally got to buy strap during my last trip to Japan, I realise my new iphone doesn’t have a place to put the new strap on.
(^o^;)>
Only got one. Though I’m tempted to get the anime theme strap ^^.
I’ve got 3 or 4 right now…I rotate them seasonally but the screen cleaner remains the same.
@waffo: woah thats a lot, doesn’t it feel heavy to attach four at one go?
@chraen: those sarubobo are really cool
@griever: thats a good idea, I think my my haruhi strap has been on my phone for too long, maybe I should rotate a few so I wouldn’t grow bored of them
I used straps all hte time but my most recent phone has no attachment for them :*(
I have a sort of nice strap with my phone, but I don’t bother to use it as it’s two long and people tug it or it gets caught on things (it’s only a little longer then a ruler).
Used to have a gray colored cord strap and Asuka Langley gashapon strap but removed them as it was bothersome. Now, I’m sorta collecting strap.
Currently own a D.grayman strap, Mikuru Asahina Strap, Yuki Nagato Strap, Miyako(ef) strap, evangelion school gashapon strap.
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