3GSM Congress brings new cell uses

A phone's no longer a phone, it seems, especially when the phone is attached to a 3GSM network.  Dictating text messages, requesting map routes and updating social networking pages are some of the functions that handset vendors and service providers believe users should be clamoring for. On the other end of the scale are phones that recognize the feature overload experiences by many users; these phones have as few as six brightly-colored buttons for simplified device navigation. More or fewer buttons, richer or simpler features--regardless of the direction taken, it's a ways from "just a phone." 

For more on the evolving handset:
- read the article at CIO Today