It’s up to us as consumers to decide if we want to learn a new interface for each device or if one system is enough for every kind of data we need, whether it’s in gaming, mobile telephony or video playback.

If you use several computers and peripherals with different operating systems in your home or office, you know how agonising networking can be. Even an all-XP or all-Vista environment is fiddly.

The Samsung U900 was released as a media phone, but it isn’t the best example of one — during testing, music and videos were very low quality. That’s not to say it isn’t a good phone. The simplicity of use is a big plus in today’s fragmented phone market with so many features and capabilities around.