Well this is something I wasn’t expecting. It appears that smartphones in Japan offer too many choices besides the obvious calls making feature. Play games, watch TV, listen to your favorite radio, use the GPS, surf the internet, even connect your Wii to a few models, but according to this Wired article these cell phones are too complicated to be used.

Cell phone manufacturers are working their brains off to deliver new smarphones that would do pretty much anything we would require. I guess those smartphones sold in Japan are the direct result of what the market have asked for. Am I to understand that those scientist did a poor job? Sure they inserted all those cool features but they are either running poorly either hard to find in a more complicated menu. Or is it that so many people are buying smartphones not because of their extra capabilities but just because it’s cool to have one?

Personally I don’t believe that smartphones will ever be too complex to use as long as we are interested in what they have to offer. And when/if that ever happens, I guess we will have more Terminator-like complicated problems than a complicated handset..

Or is all this just a subliminal campaign to suggest that a more simpler iPhone will improve your smartphone experience?