As one of Sprint's Eco Phones (the first being the ), the Milano boasts several ecologically friendly features. Bundled with the phone is a free mailer that you can use to recycle your old cell phone batteries properly. The Milano also offers an Eco Mode, where you can adjust various phone settings (such as screen timeout and display brightness) to conserve power. How changing your phone's wallpaper will lessen your impact on the environment, I'll never know, but the option is there for you in case you want it.

Normal phone operations such as navigating menus and browsing the Web went smoothly, but I had some trouble installing apps on the Milano. The phone would begin installing an application but then fail after a few minutes. This phenomenon usually occurs with phones that have a restrictively small amount of internal storage.

The phone occasionally lost its data connection, too. Using 3G, I could stream Netflix movies without a hitch, but at times I couldn't download apps from the Android Market. In addition, I frequently lost bars in areas where I had had full coverage just seconds before.

Call quality in San Francisco was decent, though volume through the earpiece wasn't as strong as I would have liked, even at the maximum setting. After a day of moderate to heavy use, with GPS and Bluetooth switched on (and including my streaming of an entire episode of the show Wings), I only managed to drain the battery to about the halfway mark.

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