Banning cell phone use is pointless. They passed that law here last year; for 4 months ahead of time they announced the date on the TV news, radio stations and newspapers. Then, for 2 months afterwards they issued non-citation "warnings" to people who were caught. :WTF: Now, you can drive up to a red light next to an officer and be yapping away on your phone... They don't care. At $127/ticket, they could rake in the $$$ around here.

Handsfree use is still legal, and I'm OK with that as long as the user doesn't fart around with the phone to dial. Full voice operation or nothing, IMO.
The big issue around here is the "speakerphone is OK" loophole, so instead of holding it to their ear, every shipdit on the road now holds their phone in their palm, right up in front of their face. I'm sure the law was written that way because some jackass whined that people who can't afford a BT-headset are being "discriminated against" and the state lawyers crapped themselves when they heard the D-word; but regardless of why it was put in there, it's pointless. Someone is still holding a phone instead of the steering wheel.