Oh, I don't think I've ever defended the G1's design. It's a bulky, pretty ugly phone.

The Moto Droid and the Moto Milestone are the same phone, just one is GSM and one is CDMA. So there are only two Droid phones, really.

I hate ball mice, but like I said, I've never seen a trackball on a phone that got messed up, so I think that's one of those YMMV things like "I never use X brand hard drives because I've had 10 that all failed." I've had experience with 4 trackball phones and they've all been fine over a total of 5 years. Maybe if I had one of those phones for more than 2 years I'd start seeing them get messed up.


As for the whole "why don't they call it the best" thing, well, the answer is pretty damn simple. HTC makes a lot of phones. They can't call it their best Android phone because it would piss off Sprint, and AT&T. If they call it their best phone period, well that pisses off the same companies plus Microsoft.