David Pogue asks the important question:

Do Nokia executives actually use Nokia cellphones? If they did, they would soon realize that turning a cellphone's ringer off - every time they walk into a movie, seminar, meeting or bedroom - is an important and common function. Perversely, Nokia buries this function in a menu that requires four button presses on two different sides of the phone.

And if that doesn't sound so bad, you've obviously never sat in church and had your pocket suddenly emit "Ride of the Valkyries" at 90 decibels.

Pogue asked cellular carriers to send him their simplest phones. None are all around winners (too many steps to turn off the ringer, small keys, etc.) but he rates the Kyocera 2325 as the simplest of the simple phones.