Imagine you walked into a computer store and asked rattled off a list of specifications to the sales consultant that aren’t that spectacular in themselves, but which you rarely see together in a retail notebook.

Several attempts to transfer contacts and calendar data onto the Smartflip resulted in the calendar data but just a handful of contacts. Attempts to transfer music files in order to assign them as ringtones failed altogether.

Don’t bother turning it off, just flick the cover screen up or down to bring it back to life or put it back to sleep. You can have the Cybershot out of your pocket, take the perfect shot and stash it away again in the blink of an eye.