Prior to acquiring bucketloads of fun-size mars bars for the screaming hordes of children in Chiswick on Saturday (Halloween), I popped into the Chiswick High Road Vodafone shop for an introduction to Vodafone 360.

And it was a highly unsatisfactory experience. Yet somewhat informative about how Big Red is viewing the noted release of the new platform, especially from a developer perspective. It's always fascinating to see how the end-consumer experience compares to the usually slick corporate presentation.

I shall regale you with the experience later on. Possibly in the newsletter this Friday -- as it's a biggie.

It's my current position that developing for Vodafone is a career limiting move. So limiting in fact, that you'd be better with Nokia and Symbian at the moment. And that is saying something.

Anyway, more later.