It's easy to hear people even in noisy environments but people can hear things on the other side, and on your end it's fairly "fuzzy" sounding.

This phone is intended for people who work in rough environments or people like me who decided that it's time to take a break from the nice sexy phones and stop being extremely careful with my phone

The bone-induction technology enhances the sound when held to your ear, especially in loud environments like sporting events, restaurants, bars, loud factories, all of which I find myself in a fair amount.

-The ear piece can be heard even is very loud environments

Because each one died from a broken screen, except the Droid DNA which died from water damage in a too humid/wet environment on a boat during a rain storm and some rain exposure

At about seven months in the charging cover with built in gasket also broke off, and just 5 days ago i happened to drop it on the concrete, not a new thing I drop my phones on the concrete a lot as I work construction, well this time the screen cracked