So Nokia is world's biggest computer maker in 2008 ➹

Part wishful thinking, part misguided comparisons to be taken with a sizable lump of salt, but reasonably correct in the base assumption that Nokia is very likely to ship more computing devices than anyone else. But the figures are unverifiable (all we get is a summary table and no real sources), and the basic assumptions are wrong - everything is a computer these days, and lumping smartphones with laptops is, in a word, stupid. What matters is not the underlying technology but the context in which you use the device and the needs it satisfies. As such, I think we badly need a redefinition of the word “smartphone” for 2009, if only to avoid this kind of pseudo-analysis.