Many of the people this phone is directly market towards won't have the cleanest hands, and this thing is a fingerprint and smudge magnet to the extreme. Less important, but still annoying is the lack of any oleophobic coating on the glass. It's a shame, as the LCD is beautiful at 18 bit color, but you soon forget how nice it looks when you're constantly tapping two or three times to get the phone to do something. Blame it on the digitizer, or the overall sluggishness of the phone itself, but something is amiss. Years of handling hot parts and time at a soldering station, combined with a series of summertime accidents have left my fingertips a calloused mess, but I don't have any issues on other touch screen phones. Typing anything is a chore, and is only saved by the inclusion of Swype. At first, I had to check the specs from Motorola to be sure this was a capacitive screen and not resistive. It doesn't register all of the touch input, unless you go very slowly and press relatively hard. I could have a bad unit on my hands, but after tracking down a few other folks who use the i1, I don't think this is the case. The touchscreen digitizer is one of the worst I've ever come across. The video near the beginning of this review shows exactly what I mean. There are some serious flaws with this phone, and they affect just about everything and every way you would use it. That's not to say that everything is bad, it seems to work as designed, but it is a shocking leap backwards after using Android 2.1 and 2.2 for a while. You get exactly what you would expect from an Android phone running 1.5, and after using phones with higher builds of Android it's hard to be impressed by any of it. Most of the phone's features and software are mediocre. The push-to-talk feature is flawless, and unaffected by any random phone lag or slowdown - Motorola and Nextel engineers seem to have perfected this. There may be phones that are better built out there, but I've never seen or used one, and while the enhancements to ruggedize the phone are inconvenient for a casual user like myself, I don't doubt the Mil-Spec rating of the phone one bit. Star Earpiece for Nextel i875 - Single wire clear tube Earpiece with PTT (Push to Talk) Earpiece with in-line PTT button & microphone Surveillance audio tube. The build quality of the i1 is second to none. In fact I wish I had it on my Nexus One - it is that good. The camera and image editing software are great. I've talked as much as I can about what's good with the i1, and some of it's very good. I'm a firm believer in replacing feature phone operating systems with Android, so I try to see the good in everything, but there are a few glaring problems that I have to point out.
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