About one-third of Japanese primary school students aged 7-12 years old use cellphones, by the time they get to high school that figure has shot up to 96 percent, according to a government survey released last month.
They are using their phones to read books, listen to music, chat with friends and surf the Internet — an average of 124 minutes a day for high school girls and 92 minutes for boys.
While the wired world they now inhabit holds enormous advantages for learning and communicating, it also brings a downside, say experts who point to a rise in cyberbullying and a growing inability among teenagers to deal with other people face to face.
“Kids say what’s most important to them, next to their own lives, is their cellphone,” said Masashi Yasukawa, head of the private National Web Counselling Council.
“They are moving their thumbs while eating or watching television,” he said.
Golly gee. I’m so glad we don’t have that problem here.
They’re all turning into robots.
I don’t understand how these kids can even see the keys, you can blind fold them with dental floss.
Yeah, that’s an enlightening and insightful (read: racist) comment.
There’s lots of kids obsessed with computers (clocking up a LOT more than 124 minutes a day); if our mobile phones were as good as theirs I’m sure we’d be there too.
You do realize that the average Japanese cell phone is MUCH BETTER than ANYTHING sold outside Japan?
“You do realize that the average Japanese cell phone is MUCH BETTER than ANYTHING sold outside Japan?”
So with Japaneses phones you can talk to better people, surf a different internet and listen to music that doesn’t play on phones outside japan.
#5 in Korea you can watch TV on theirs!
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=26378897
So yes they have better phones overseas.
#5
For starters, the iPhone is 2 to 3 years behind to what they sell in Tokyo.
7- Who said the iPhone was the height of innovation? No MMS, no IM, no video record, no copy/paste, need I go on? It’s a trinket heaped upon the mindless masses of ‘I gotta have that hot apple product!’ who know nothing of quality gear and care only about the image.