Have you ever had to fight with your phone just to get the wireless off? I have, on many occasions. If you have ever been through this little scenario I can empathise as it becomes so frustrating it almost steps into comedy as images of Basil Fawlty jumping up and down screaming at the little thing before teaching it a lesson it will never forget pass through the mind.

This is one of the few things I won’t actually miss about former pride and joy “do everything”  Nokia N95 8GB phone. The battle to switch off wireless once it gets in one of its insistent stroppy loops. I know we live in a connected world but I don’t always want the device to lock on and try and connect – take the phone beyond the limits of a wireless hotspot and I’m really in trouble if I have left the wireless on. Pressing the cancel button removes the pop up for a fraction of a second before it pops up again with some more helpful suggestions of alternate connections.

It becomes a frantic game of tag where I am simply trying to reach the “Switch WLAN scan off” option on the front screen but the phone always insists on throwing up increasing numbers of wireless search options. I have to time it quick enough to get the cursor on the screen in just the right position before yet another wireless search window pops up. Most of the time the quickest thing is to simply press and hold the power button on the top of the phone, then after powering back up quickly head to the “Switch WLAN scan off” option before it goes off into one of its moods.