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. 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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