I can't say anything positive about the design of the 880 Bitt. The buttons are terrible and will fail - every one I've seen has failed in some way or another after a few years (my volume up requires extreme pressure to operate). The screen is ultra-bad and the fact it's colour serves no purpose other than to waste batteries quicker.

The One looks half-decent, but I'm not holding my breath. Logitech engineers everything with a relatively short lifespan in mind it seems.

As far as pack-in remotes go, you're right, most of them are terrible. The TiVo's is an exception, and I also quite like the newer one included with Squeeze Box 3 and Transporter from Slim Devices.