TecAce Software Marketing Team April.

2011

Phone: (425) 748-5122 E-mail: hansoo@tecace.com

CAREACE SMARTPHONE SURVEY

What do smartphone users want? (Particularly regarding Samsung Smartphone users)

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Overview
CareAce Smartphone Survey
CareAce is our Samsung smartphone support site and we have conducted a survey as well as a giveaway event to celebrate its 3 year anniversary. The event was held for 2 weeks from Jan 6th to Jan 21st, 2011 for Samsung smartphone users and CareAce visitors in order to better understand our viewers smartphone usage behavior.

Key questions are as follows. 1. Current Smartphone brand & OS and decision factors. 2. Satisfaction level of the smartphone 3. Smartphone brand & OS in the future 4. Most important Smartphone features 5. Desire features in the future. We studied smartphone user behavior difference by brand and OS

We had over 200 participants from 50 different countries. Note (Possible bias): The survey reflects a larger proportion of Samsung users than the market average due to the focus on Samsung based support and product at CareAce.
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1. DECISION FACTORS OF CURRENT SMARTPHONE

DEMOGRAPHIC
Of the 205 participants surveyed, 85% were male and 15% were female users. Samsung Smartphone users were the plurality accounting for 46% of users while 51% surveyed were Android OS users. While male user age range spanned from 18 to 55+, 70% of female users were categorized in the 25 to 44 age range. Preference Change by Brand (Current Smartphone brand vs desired brand)

Samsung brand share is expected to increase slightly from 46% to 47% HTC has the highest increase from 16% to 22% (38% growth ratio)
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Preference change by OS (Current Smartphone OS vs Desired OS)

Android OS share is expected to increase from 51% to 69% Windows phone 7 OS has the highest increase ratio 120%

What factors are important to choose your smartphone?

For the question, the participants choose Product feature & spec as the most important factor and OS as the second.

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When we asked this question in Smartphone Usage Survey 2008, the design was the most vital factor for the users.

What is Samsung Competitive Advantage?

From the factors that people tend to consider, we have researched what Samsungs competitive advantages are.

Samsung Smartphone users like to choose the phones by product

feature and OS compared to other users.

Apple users choose their phones by brand, OEM application, and design. HTC users relatively like to choose their phones by Critics Review

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2. USER SATISFACTION AND LOYALTY BY OEM & OS

Are critics reviews of the Samsung Galaxy S correct?
We studied how content actual users were with experts reviews of the Samsung Galaxy S, and put them in terms of pros and cons. Samsung users are very satisfied with the Galaxy S display, but were less enthusiastic about customer service and build materials (plastic case). In these two categories Samsung has lower satisfaction rates compared to other OEMs. While these opinions are mirrored by expert review, the critics and users opinions are opposed to each other in terms of battery life; users actually claim that the OEM battery life is better than industry average.

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Samsung Smartphone Users are significantly satisfied with its display but customer service and build materials are unsatisfactory. (Significance

95%)
Apple users are significantly satisfied with Market applications. (Significance 95%) HTC Smartphone users are relatively satisfied with Customer Care and Build Material.

Who is the winner of the Brand Loyalty?

We have researched brand loyalty by asking users which brand smartphone they would buy in the future. 64.9% of current Samsung users would stick with the company, while 66.7% of HTC users and 45.5% of Apple users would continue to do so. In this survey, HTC users have shown the highest brand loyalty.
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Why the Samsung users leave?

We have also studied why current Samsung users want to leave.

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The users who want to leave from Samsung brand are not satisfied with their customer service and battery life.

Among people who would like to convert to Samsung phones, current Blackberry users are the least satisfied with their Customer care and App Market.(Significance 95%)

Who is the winner of OS Loyalty?

We have investigated OS loyalty by asking which OS users would like to choose in the future. Windows Phone 7 users have very high loyalty demonstrated by the fact that all the surveyed Windows Phone users would like to stick to the Windows phone 7 in the future. Android users have 93.2% loyalty while iOS, Blackberry, and Symbian have 50%, 30%, and 11% loyalty respectively.

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Why they love it?

We have also investigated why Windows Phone 7 has such a high retention rate.

<Satisfaction factors of Windows Phone 7 users> People who would like to choose Windows Phone 7 consider task and calendar management as key features. (Significance 95%) Windows Phone 7 users are significantly satisfied with the Display while they are not as happy with the App Market or Build Materials. (Significance 95%)

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3. WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT SMARTPHONE FEATURES

According to the study, Email and Internet Browsing are the most used features for current smartphone users.

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What are important features for each OEM?

We have studied what features are most important for each OEM.

Relative to other users, Samsung Smartphone users consider Camera, Multimedia, and eBook features of more importance while HTC and Blackberry users weigh more on Map and Email respectively.

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What are important features for each OS?

We have studied what features are most important features for each OS.

Relative to other users, Windows Phone 7 users place more importance on Email, Camera, and E-book features, while Android users weigh more on Maps and iOS users on Social Network Services

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4. WHICH FEATURES ARE MOST IMPORTANT FOR THE FUTURE

How users want to use their smartphones in the future
We asked users which features they plan to use in the future, so we could better understand their needs:

While Work Productivity was the most desirable smartphone feature for the future, Book Reading on the Smartphone is the least wanted feature among those 9 options.

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Please describe what feature you would like to see in future smartphones
Lastly, we asked our users to describe what features they would like to see in future smartphones. These were the results:

Innovative Battery life improvement and practical Video calling were the most mentioned features during the survey.

CONTACT US
For further information or inquiries regarding the report, please contact at contact@careace.net.
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