Voice calls, txt messages and what?

I have a nice Sony Ericsson phone (a gift from Ericsson after the 2006 Stockholm Challenge) that I sue as follows.

1. Voice calls
2. txt messages
3. reminders of meetings or commitments and locations
4. alarms

That's it. Nothing more. I've tried using it for notes but I keep forgetting that I have added them and never look them up. I don't use any of the games. Apart from the last, looks like I am no different from the latest iPhone user, except for being $900 better off.

Fickle iPhone users tiring of apps.

More than 500 million applications for the Apple iPhone have been downloaded from the California company's online App Store, but a new study indicates that users quickly lose interest in them.

The study by Pinch Media found that fewer than five percent of iPhone users are still actively using an application a month after downloading it. Apple iPhone users loss interest in free programs slightly faster than in paid ones, said Pinch Media, a company which offers advise to developers of applications for the hot-selling smartphone.

"Paid applications generally retain their users longer than free applications, although the drop-off is still pretty steep," it said. It said only one percent of total downloads have a long-term audience.

The company said the "biggest usage differentiator" is category. "Games are used for longer periods than any other type of application," Pinch Media said.

So much for productivity tools on the move, and yes, I know Euan is the exception, but is anyone else?