The "Greenphone" features a user-modifiable Linux OS,

Gaaahh!

I guess I am just some sort of telephobic Luddite or something... I would pay extra for a cell phone that had the following features:

If it rang, I could push a button and talk to someone.
If it didn't ring, I could push a button and then dial and talk to someone.

And N . O . T . H . I . N .G else.

I currently have what is supposed to be one of the simplest, bare-bones cell phones available. It has games on it. It has voice mail. It will connect to the internet. It has a camera. It has dozens of user-selectable ringtones, and ways of downloading even more of them. It has a message center. And a memory meter, and apparently can do something with faxes. In addition to the 10-key pad, it has ten more buttons on it, plus a four-way keypad thingy for navigating through a completely incomprehensible menu structure of dozens of features that I don't want and will never, ever use. It came with a 132 page instruction manual.

Every time the damn thing rings and I don't answer it, it starts beeping at me every three minutes to tell me I have a missed call, and I have to give the phone to SWMBO to make it stop because I sure as hell can't figure out how to do it.

Yeah, that's what I need, all right -- a phone with its own operating system so I can add even more useless things to it.

Sigh.... there. I feel much better now. Sorry for the rant.

tanstaafl.