Digging through my drawers, what did I unearth? None other than my old HTC Touch, and I have to admit to falling in love with it all over again. Because, unlike the Diamond, it’s not incredibly annoying!

Why? First of all, and more important than anything else on a phone, the interface is simpler and more effective. No fancy flow effects might mean it’s less beautiful to behold than the Diamond (and its physical design is certainly more mundane), but it’s so much quicker to get to a favourite application – two presses rather than making a succession of gestures that look great on demos but are a pain in the arse in real life.

And I’m really not missing 3G (if I did, the HTC Touch 3G is now available). Admittedly, I don’t spend much of my time on the internet when using a phone, but when I do head over to BBC Sport or Facebook Mobile I find them no slower on the Touch than I did on the Diamond.

Likewise I’ve never really found a use for fancy features the Diamond includes over the original Touch, such as GPS, and frankly – for me at least – a lower-res screen of 240 x 320 is perfectly acceptable in return for slightly longer battery life.

I do realise that phones are a matter of personal preference, and I’d love to hear from anyone who actually likes the Diamond. Somehow, though, I don’t expect to get much response.

I own a reasonably bog-standard Nokia N73. In the smartphone world, this is the equivalent of a 2:1 from an ex-Polytechnic, as compared to say, the first-class honours from Oxford that is the Apple iPhone. There’s a mere smattering of non-core applications installed on the thing – the Opera Mini browser, the Gmail mobile app. No antivirus software or anything else that could potentially interfere with the boot process.

So why on earth does it take 50 seconds to get from pressing the power button to a phone that can actually, well, phone? I always turn my phone off at night to save battery and stop random drunk idiots waking me up at 4am in the morning, when they dial the number their mate Carl had 12 years ago. But should I wake up one night to find my house burning to the ground with only my mobile in reach, I’ll be suing Nokia for the 50 seconds it took my phone to kick into life, display a gruesome welcome message, and blast out that infuriatingly twee jingle, while my family are busy choking on the fumes.

And I bet the N73 isn’t the worst offender, either. Let us know how long your phone takes to wake up using the comments feature below.