This has led to many instances of me turning up the in-call volume to hear someone and then almost blowing out my eardrum when I hang up the phone

Blow out your eardrums with the end of call beep.

The fact that the HTC has a lower resolution did not bother me as that has nothing to do with a good picture.

but, I work a

The soft keys on the bottom stink as they are so close to the space bar on every keyboard that I frequently hit the Home key with my thumb and have to re-access my SMS-text or an email that I am writing

So far my pictures don't look as sharp as with the