I'm actually very positively impressed with the HTC Dream/G1 phone for durability. Before Thanksgiving last year I loaded up a couple of the free games that were already available for the phone, and at my sister's place let a number of kids play with the phone. I figured that if it can't hold up to what kids can do in a semi-unsupervised setting for a couple of hours, it isn't going to be able to handle the abuse I'm going to give it over a 2 year contract. It did well, and continues to do well.The two 'flaws' that the phone has as the moment (in my view, others see other flaws of course) are battery life and processor speed. Mutually exclusive of course, if you are planning on keeping the exact same form factor. But the Motorola phone shows that increasing the size of the phone isn't necessarily a bad thing, which means you can correct both flaws.