While many got high-tech pressies getting them to work seems to have been more of a struggle for us Brits.

BT have said that nearly a third of the technical support calls it received on Christmas day were wireless-relate with punters confused over their new laptops, iPhones and other Wi-Fi devices. Things were not all wireless related with fifteen per cent of callers having problems with software, ten per cent with digital hardware and a further ten per cent were having trouble with new operating systems (i.e Vista).