Remember when the Telephone was Simple ?

Just crank the handle and speak to Ernestine (Lily Tomlin) the Operator, or rotate the dial, or push button, answering machines, hands free, then came mobile phones.

Although most phones are no longer rotary dial, and we are getting away from the push button wired & cordless phones...there is the Wireless & Digital Age and we pay more for phone service, because now there is Messaging & Media, texting, digital photos, music, video, web...upload & download speeds, 3G, 4G, Battery Life, 21 Hours of Talk Time, Stand-By Time (the maximum length of time a wireless phone is fully charged, turned on and ready to send and receive calls or data transmissions)

and there are Data Plans, 1GB, 2GB 5GB, 10GB, 20GB of data, Shared Plans, Build Your Own Shared SmartPhone Plan, Contracts, Prepaid, No annual contract, Pick from monthly, daily, minute or Pay as You Go data plans.

Voice2Text, Connect 5, Share Everything Plan, Unlimited Messaging or Unlimited Text and a single pool of shareable data to power up to 10 devices

Phones to Buy or for Free, Certified Pre-Owned, Trade-in Programs, SmartPhone or a Dumb Phone (Basic), iPhone, with the Customer Sales Service Person asking you...what fits your needs, or what phone & plan did you have in mind, and the costs for that phone did you want to spend $0.01-$49.99, $50-$99.99, $100-$149.99, $150-$199.99, or $200+

and if it was not enough deciding on a car, truck or clothes to wear, its which phone to get, Apple, BlackBerry, Droid, DroidDoes, HTC, iPad, iPhone, Kyocera, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sonim, Sony or the I do not know yet Phone.

Which Features do you want, how long is the Battery Life, cost of replacement batteries, battery chargers, car charger, solar charger, Blue Tooth, accessories color, case, gorilla glass, water resistant or water proof, insurance plans, theft, I dropped it and the car ran over it, my dog ate it.

And the Service Carriers Offer Classes or more professional sounding "Wireless Workshops", or you can Earn Referral Rewards, Get an employee discount, Earn up to $300 for your old phone, etc.

Have you made up your mind yet...if not which Carrier should I go with...AT&T, Boost Mobile, Cingular, Cricket, MetroPCS, nTelos, Pure TalkUSA, Sprint, Straight Talk,T-Mobile, TracFone, U.S. Cellular, Verizon, Virgin Mobile, WalMart and what about Making Sense of SmartPhone Plans.

Finally you have a Phone, wait the battery goes dead, or The New Faster Improved, Faster Service, Larger Viewing Screen, the Phablet is Here.

As one Verizon Service & Sales Rep told me once, do not think of your SmartPhone as a Computer, this was my first SmartPhone and works just like my Computer, having used computers for over 25 years.

And so today, rabbit ears are out, digital is in, should I use/go with Cable, Satellite, DSL, Wireless...and we pay for Comcast xFinity for TV & Internet service which totals for the basic about $95 a month, Verizon $140-$165 a month or up to $3000 a year.

And to have 2 SmartPhone's you have to purchase the $30 a month media package = $60 a month of our bill