The design is great in my opinion. It only has 1 button in the front that works as a 'return to menu' fast button. It has a 3 inch latest techology touchscreen which covers almost the entire phone (and I like that). The phone is 56.1 mm wide, 108.9 mm long and 12.4 mm deep. It weighs 102 grams, which is not much for a phone this size and it has 1.5GB internal memory. Another thing that makes the viewty so special is the 8.0 megapixel camera, which is better than any phone on earth (there might be another phone with 8.0, but nothing better). The back looks like some sort of metal coloured material, but it's just hard plastic. It looks great though. It has 2 buttons on the side for volume/zoom/..., an OFF/ON button (obviously) and 2 ports for battery charge, computer connection, and the other one for a memory card.