About three months ago, I decided to start using an Android smartphone out of curiosity. I was quite happy with my 5-year-old Nokia N73 but I wanted to get the hang of the open source OS. So I bought a cheap droid – the Micromax A60, which runs non-upgradable Eclair (Android 2.1).  My attitude was similar to learning to drive on an old cheap car – any damage you caused is financially relatively limited.