We live in the "information age" according to a chappie named Graeme Codrington, in my latest Entrepreneur magazine. He's a Docter, so I'm sure he's right. This "information age" means that we're people who understand the art of communicating and processing information. We're experts at it. We can run businesses from pieces of equipment smaller than a block of butter. We tell the world about anything and everything over the world wide web. Our generation are the master information processors.

So why in the world did they not think of a useful way to do that on the Sony Ericsson X10 mini?

The device itself is impressive. Packed with multimedia madness. 5MP camera with flash, 30fps video, WiFi, Android, GPS, Qualcomm processor, RDS radio, a funky headset and it will fit in that tiny pocket on your jeans that you thought would never come in handy.

But it has one flaw. You can't type on it. Okay, you can type but the puny handset has sacrificed space, which cancels out a decent QWERTY keyboard. You now go back to the days when we only had Nokia and Ericsson to choose from, with the funny keyboard with three to four letters on each key, and it's really small. I don't want to go back to those days. I want to be able to run my blog, check my website admin and launch rockets to Benoni from one device.

But the X10 mini is small... very small. I mean, I haven't seen a device this small with this much power, ever. So that's a pretty good feat I guess.

In summary, if you want a phone that's tiny, can take pictures and movies and functions as a really cool mp3 player, but can't type to save the life of a small colony of ants, then it's for you.

Oh, and keep an eye out for the X10 mini pro, it comes with a keyboard which will stop all my moaning and make it one of the best devices of 2010. It's something Graeme Codrington would be proud of.