While my iPhone was away, I fell for an android| Catherine Shoard

I didn't expect expect to like the replacement but I came to adore its idiosyncrasies - does that make me a bad person?

According to Samsung's UK president, Andy Griffiths, 80% of people would never consider switching between Android and Apple. Or vice versa. Smartphone wars are therefore waged over the small number of undecided and unfussed. All those advertisements, all that spend - it's just for the benefit of what Griffiths calls "floating voters".

Last week I was pushed into this pool when, halfway through the holiday, my iPhone - like so many tourists - reacted badly to rain. It then failed to revive after, as advised, I had sealed it in a bag of rice and left it on the radiator. Stricken with a panic that my ancestors presumably felt when faced with a really major pack of mammoths, I bought a supermarket Samsung - specifically, a E1200 basic simple model in white - and put the sim in that instead. Now my phone weighs less than a Twix. It fits snugly even in my midget grip. I've only charged it once in a fortnight.

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