27.6% of Japanese mobile phone users want an iPhone

Recently conducted poll by Mitsubishi Research Institute and Rakuten Research Inc. suggests that 27.6% of the mobile users in Japan are willing to buy Apple’s flagship handset. One would think that all their high-tech gizmos fill-in the demand of the Japan’s modern man/woman, but apparently some of them crave for that iPhone coolness Apple is pushing on us.

Anyway, according to the poll’s results, 5.2% of some 2,200 respondents said they were “very willing,” while 22.4% said they were “somewhat willing” to buy an iPhone. Of those saying they are willing to buy the iPhone, 11.8% said they would use the iPhone even if they have to switch mobile phone service providers.

See, Apple can do miracles - to make Japan’s savvy consumers jump into the iPhone craze.

[Via: slashphone]

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