As I understand it, Nokia has maintained their numerical share by selling low-end smartphones, especially in emerging markets, while completely ceding the high end 'proper' smartphone market to iOS and Android (ie. the part of the market that buys apps and actually uses the 'smart' bit of a smartphone).

Hence their massive drop in profit share and the fact that (in my experience at least) commuter trains are now a sea of iPhones, Blackberries and Android phones with only a few Nokia low-end phones around.

Don't most GPS devices do that? My base model TomTom (in the UK) does all of that - I'm not sure about the last one, but when I used it in the US it gave me directions out of a giant mall parking lot.

Indeed. And the best way to stop the H264 guys exploiting their huge market share with high royalties is to have one or more "good enough" free alternatives widely available.

It's relatively common in the UK. This story is the most recent one I remember - young photo journalist prevented from taking photos of army cadets in public by a policeman who says something like "I don't need a law to be able to stop you". I've seen plenty of other similar stories.

If it is known that I have a boy, there is 1/3 probability that the other is also a boy.

I'm confused. Say we took 900 families with two children, one of whom is a boy. Are you saying that we would expect 300 of them to be (boy,boy) and 600 would be (boy, girl)?

Also (here in the UK at least), authors get something like 2p every time one of their books is borrowed from a library.

I think 2p per download on the Pirate Bay would be a lot of money :-)

And then the boundaries for vehicle tax are defined in g/CO2 per Km, just to further confuse things.

Does that Symbian figure include all S60 devices? I don't think I'd refer to something like the Nokia 5800 as a true 'smartphone'.

Flash performance on Maemo is pretty poor in my experience. BBC iPlayer worked at about 2 frames/second when I tried it.

I've had money taken from my account twice in 10 years. Both times I phoned my bank, reported the transactions as fraudulent and they credited me the money back by the next day. A week later they sent me a legal form to sign declaring that I didn't make the transactions, and that was the last I ever heard about them.

What does annoy me is the way they automatically block my card every time I use it abroad. Last time I went to the US they blocked my card after I used it to pay for my hotel room, then their automatic security system phoned me at 4am local time to ask if the transactions were legitimate.

Rubber banding is really annoying in racing games. Race really well for the first 2 laps and it makes no difference, you don't build up a lead. Make one mistake on the final lap and all your good driving is wasted as the AI shoots past you.

Personally I really don't like adaptive difficulty. Sure, let me select what difficulty to play on, but once I've chosen the difficulty don't do some hidden calculations in the background and change my selection.

Fry is a huge Apple fan, he's always used Macs. He's also got a major gadget addiction and suffers from bipolar disorder, he apparently goes on manic iPod/Mac buying sprees.