[Palladium]

1) Voice sounds fine
2) speaker volume depends on app (phone is quieter than alerts, probably just a regedit issue still looking for that one...)
3) Scrapmaker, If you look at your photos, when I "touch" the A key with my thumb positioned like you had yours with the Touch, I get an A, when I touch it with my thumb positioned like you did with the TP, I get an S. Certainly a screen sensitivity issue, However, when I changed my touch panel sensitivity to 180, the accuracy improved to near perfect.

4) Battery Life: With NO Battery Registry Hacks:
with No polling email, heavy PPC usage, 1-2 hrs of phone usage 15-20 texts, and data on ONLY when sending emails and 30-40 minutes of web browsing all in a low signal area (-90 to -100db signal): 1.5 - 2 days.
With Polling email (Every 15 minutes) (everything else the same except data connection enabled) 12 hours Battery life
Change email Polling to every 30 minutes (everything else the same) about 24hrs (I was at 20% battery at 18 hrs when I put it on the charger)
Adding 2 hours of bluetooth during my commute decreased battery life about 1-2 hours.

Applied the powersave registry hacks, with 30 minute email polling and after 7 hrs off the charger I'm at 80% which should be about 1.5 days

(Yes I am very systematic in my approach to tweaking my unit, one variable at a time.....)

The heat issue (which you mentioned in another thread) has to be a radio problem, take the back off when your done with a long call and check I found that my Battery was as cool as a cuke, the electronics above it was as hot as a firecracker...

Also I picked mine up at BB....