the plastic seems somewhat cheap, and the programming is vague, and online support website is poorly designed.

It looks like a brick, but it's not as ugly as the useless plastic inserts, particularly the puke green one

Has a hard ,slick plastic ,and my requests to have it programmed the third time I send it back have been ignored

Has a hard ,slick plastic ,and my requests to have it programmed the third time I send it back have been ignored

For a $450 radio, i'd expect a sturdier belt clip, not cheap plastic covered by some metal.

The ugly: - Tiny, low contrast, black and white display, with lots of cryptic symbols. - Protective rubber case with aesthetics of a brick. - Useless ugly plastic inserts to rubber case

Wish I knew more about using scanners but it works as it should as far as I know.

I was able to program it right out of the box via the build in SD card databases, as well as get the windows software installed and configured with ease