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“The market for pre-washed, ready-to-eat salad grew from nothing in 1980 to $1.4 billion by 1999. Send an email to everyone you know in your company: table-ready lettuce, $1.4 billion. If someone can do this with a vegetable, what the hell is our excuse?”

Being something of a gadget fiend, I’m normally a sucker for anything that smacks of using small devices with flashing lights for interesting purposes. Nifty bits of software for P800 phones fall right into this category, although there’s not actually too many additional utilities that I actually use. At the end of the day, it’s a phone - and although things like password managers are useful, there’s limits to what I’d want to use the device for.

This is way off the scale as far as I’m concerned - keep track of your child’s vaccination schedule? On a phone? Erm - why? Full marks for thinking of useful things to do with a smartphone, but I can’t see that this is exactly going to be a killer application…