"Personally, I don't have a smartphone, and will continue to not have a smartphone. I hate a regular"~~
I was with you on that... "All I need, is JUST a phone"... with a good alarm.... with a good audio recorder... with a good camera... with internet abilities...
When waiting for the kid, I can check up on sites like this one and read articles like this... anywhere. When out with the kid, I took a picture of us at the museum and sent it to mom. If it didn't drain the battery so quickly, I'd use its MP3 music player function more... like at the GYM, so instead I have a little $30 CLIP MP3 player that lasts about 20+ hours of music playback between charges.
Someday... you will have a smart phone, because (A) the manufacturing of dumb phones are coming to an end. (B) Costs of a smart phone is $0~50, same as a typical entry dumb phone.
Go for a WindowsPhone7 type... the interface is very basic, and shows me only the things I need. But I don't have a WP7 Phone, I run an emulation launcher on my Android...