My teenage daughters have no problem with over-complex Android. They love it. Just what level of intellect are they aiming WP7 at?

Why not? There's a statement with no foundation in fact. The Samsung Galaxy is already being pushed in the major smartphone outlets here. I'd have one but I'm waiting to see what the HTC offering looks like.

There should be mod points for grammar. -ve for errors and +ve for pointing them out. Those who object to being corrected are just happy being ignorant. Non-native English speakers would win by being aware of correct usage.

When I first picked up an iPhone, I had no idea how to drive it. The only thing that was obvious was how to get back to where I started. There was a button for it. The home button is a 'get me back to the start' route for the uninitiated. If you have to use a non-obvious gesture (and let's face it, most gestures aren't obvious until you know them), new users will not be able to use the phone without some basic tuition.

There is no such thing as an invulnerable company. It doesn't matter how big they are or how many products they ship. History is full of fallen Goliaths.

Nokia's respect for the privacy of its (not it's) customers doesn't extend to allowing you to unsubscribe from their annoying mailing lists. I made the mistake of registering when I had an N95. That went a long time ago but efforts to opt out of mailshots are completely ignored. I don't just get emails but SMSs too. I deleted my Ovi account but they continue to pester me.

While companies are growing, waxing profitable and don't feel threatened, it is easy for them to be honest and straight forward. It's when they see market share suffering or competition gaining the upper-hand that they tend to resort to deceptions and shady practices. Big media feels threatened by YouTube and the wider copyright violation/pirating issues but are too fat, comfortable and lazy to innovate around it. They'd much rather litigate because it's easy and avoids all that messy thinking.

The problem is that while there is now a perception of depth, the viewer isn't able to focus on what takes their attention. If the camera is focused on the foreground and you want to look at something in the background, it will be blurry. Your eye attempts to correct this but it doesn't work. This is confusing to the optical system and it's why a some people come out of 3D viewings with a headache. It's not at all obvious how this can be corrected without a personalised viewing experience that detects the viewers point of interest and brings it into focus.

I've never been able to buy anything from Amazon with just one click. Have you counted them? WARNING: More than 1 click may be required unless you are already logged on and a bunch of other requirements are in order - which they probably aren't. Please allow 30 minutes to purchase.

And what a total pain in the arse it all is when you're trying to get actual work done.

Android is still new and until very recently there was only a single handset and it had bit of a geeky reputation. There are a whole bunch of Android phones from a fat handful of manufacturers about to hit the market before the end of this year which is going to change the landscape completely. I've had the HTC Hero for a few weeks. It's a brilliant phone and impresses everyone who sees it. I was showing it to a couple of guys in a shop and before long I had a small crowd who were all saying they wanted one.

Well, I would have modded it funny.

And, while I'm at it, can we stop trying to make things smaller by multiplying them by large numbers? "1000 times less intense" is a nonsense. "A one thousandth as intense" or "a thousandth of the intensity" is what they mean. If you can't handle fractions, then "it would need to be a thousand times brighter to be visible to the naked eye".