What is the mobile internet for migrant workers?

When we discuss the future of mobile internet and discuss the pros and cons of Android and iOS when discussing the prospects for SNS, we rarely take into account the tens of millions of of workers who are now gathering in the coastal areas of China, who also have a demand and a desire for them, and they have a huge user market. How do they use smartphones? What is the difference between their use of mobile internet and our imagination? What is the difference between their use of smartphones and ours? In Dongguan, more than 2000 kilometres from Beijing, the Pea pod team, after roots, presented us with a special report in which We will see another class of mobile internet survival Records. The article comes from knowing, the respondent is the Pea Pod product designer Zhang (@hidecloud), Tech2ipo the original answer is abridged. What is the purpose of the study? The purpose of the research is to understand the survival status of young people in the factory, how they use smartphones, and how to get the content they need to consume daily. What is the process? For the household groups to do a good job of design, need more product designers to connect grounding gas. We spent three days and nights in Changan Town, Dongguan, and interviewed three smartphone users, visiting a few concentrated factories and communities around the world. The following week, another colleague, Jiangnan, also came over here and set up a stall to download free content for the coworkers to get a chance to talk. What are the gains? The scene where the user is using the phone is still far behind our imagination, though most are touch-screen of the domestic Android phone, but the use of the basic as a function machine use, such as the SD card plug film, install the application by copying to the SD card and then install and change the phone address book moved to the SIM And then replace the movie in this circle is really big business, workers usually pastime, with mobile phone to watch movies or more popular, because reluctant to open traffic, so social application, in fact, they chat little; PC-side computer software, they use very little, mainly rely on internet cafes, as well as some stores to copy and install things; Android system itself some of the features they are also familiar with, such as the long by dragging and unloading applications, set widgets, as well as the menu and other management, are still more familiar; The popularity of Wi-Fi is higher than the imagination, workers will use, basically no threshold, some of the larger factories, such as high step, OPPO and so on. There are also some factories to recruit workers in the dormitory has free Wi-Fi, mobile phone clerk also said that the Wi-Fi coverage in Dongguan is everywhere can be easily obtained. Three cell phone shop shorthand 1. A mobile phone store in the domain, the shop assistant will be very active to tell users to download applications using the Android Market can be, mobile store can be free to help users install applications, copy Video music, bought the time to come back to install all no problem, has been with me universal Wi-Fi Install the concept of free application. He has no ads for the system, and it doesn't seem to care., but he said 360 can intercept these spam messages, application ads can also intercept, he to the computer QQ mobile phone assistants to promote the more hard. 2. Noyasin (Noain) has a big four core at the door of the shop. Users of the four-core dual-core understanding, they think the quad is faster, the other no effect, asked him power consumption situation, he said that Android, 1 days, it does not matter, if the standby do nothing for 3 days. Install the application of Video music, the store can also be installed free of charge, this side of the Androuan wisdom basically belong to one. 3. The town center of a mobile phone shop This is completely two, this side of the mobile phone are relatively high-end, there are a lot of Samsung mobile phones, note, and so on, next to the IPhone store, with the previous visit a few completely different style, it seems that the polarization of Dongguan is very serious. There is free Wi-Fi in the shop, as long as buy mobile phones, can be installed free of charge, but do not help to install the film, mainly he said the weekend more people, the film TV slow, do not want to provide this service. User Interview background: Toy shop workers, using Oppo's mobile phone, just bought 2 months. Living in the dormitory, 4 people a dormitory, the dormitory does not have Wi-Fi, or even can not charge (toy factory does not allow privately with the socket board, there has been a rotation charge or to the security Pavilion charge). A day basically 8 hours class, noon have 1.5 hours rest, can play mobile phone, see a movie Listen to music. Use what SNS on QQ, micro-letter what the use of nothing, but know, because the fear of flow, basic rarely open flow, such as income about the scope of income is 1300, including overtime, such as can reach 3300, usually sent home about half when the frequency of using mobile phone more work with mobile phone, rest, Can watch video. Night after work to use the most mobile phone frequency, the square to see the show, will also look at, mainly electronic books have no computer computer. Want to use Wi-Fi, will go to internet cafes to have bought something online? No, very little online buy, mainly shopping malls to buy mobile phone price and buy time mobile phone average price is 1000-1300, the current use of mobile phones to buy 2 months, before using the function machine to buy a mobile phone mainly concerned about what price, screen is big ( His own or 800x480, but he felt very big) the flow of the bill does not open the package, worry about the flow of mobile phones do not usually do phone calls, send text messages, see the video with what app more cool dog music online watching video? Listen to music? Only listen to local copy of music and video copy business local video, have "Professional download" auxiliary, copy 50 set 5 Yuan, store will provide a few movies and TV series menu, and then give a few small paper, users can write numbers and so on, and then pull out the SD card to the boss, the boss input number, Then search out the user's choice of movies and TV dramas, a key copy came over. The image of the Internet café is just starting the desktop, Dudu Cow is an internet café management tools, used for checkout. The ads in the lower right-hand corner didn't find out.who played it. Note that this Internet café also offers an Apple jailbreak service at 50. QQ Internet Cafes This product can not only see friends with Internet cafes, and other people's micro-blog, but also can see the Internet Café users in other games in Tencent points ranking. In the Internet café this Launcher flash, in addition to the game there are some tool applications, such as here we see the familiar 360 mobile phone assistants and Tencent mobile phone butler.