Why does the Android Market app frequently tell me that an app update is available, but when I click on the app, it only gives me the option to open or uninstall the app?
It often lists an app as having an update right after I’ve installed an update.  Irritating.

Not sure if this is particular to Samsung Android devices or Android devices in general, but when I press and hold the Power/Lock button, the first item on the list of possible actions is the text “Silent Mode” in big letters, and then in smaller letters, “Sound is ON.”

This is bad, because I see the word “ON,” which is in all-caps, and I think that “Silent Mode” is “ON,” when that is not what it means at all. The header and the secondary line are contradictory, leading to confusion. (Yes, it turns out that if the phone is actually in “Silent Mode,” the icon changes, but that’s not obvious to the new user, and it’s very easy to make this mistake.)

Also, why are “Silent” and “Airport” modes listed as “ON” or “OFF,” but “Data Network Mode” is “activated?” (I suspect the reason for this that Data Network Mode” costs the user money, but it’s not clear why the text is lower case, when “ON” and “OFF” are upper case.

I’d love to use Google Listen to listen to my favorite podcasts, but it has a number of irritations. The number one irritation is that when it is done playing a podcast, it immediately starts playing the next one in my queue, or, if the queue is empty, it starts playing a recently downloaded subscribed poodcat. That is very, very, annoying. When I navigate down to a particular podcast, say, Scientific American’s “60 Second Science,” and I request a particular episode to play, I certainly don’t expect, when it is done, that Listen will jump to the most recent “This American Life” or whatever. I expect it will either (1) stop, or (2) play the next unplayed “60 Second Science” entry. This is really bad user interface behavior.