By DAVID POGUE
THE NEW YORK TIMES

You hear it all the time: “These cellphones are too complicated, by cracky! I don’t want to play music or surf the Internet. I just want to make phone calls!”

It may turn out, though, that these complaints are misdirected. Maybe the real problem isn’t new features — it’s the complexity added to the phones’ designs.

But what if there were a way to add features without changing the phone itself?

There is. Several super-simple cellular services are so sweet and satisfying, you can’t believe they’re free. They work by recognizing your voice, so you don’t have to master anything new on the phone itself — all of the complexity is hidden from you.

READ MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/technology/personaltech/05pogue.html?pagewanted=1&8dpc&adxnnlx=1212638726-vPt6iDG%20cwAP0AH92yB33w

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