First you may also have noticed that I used the term, "g**d d****d" phone. There were two asterisks in "g**d" which was meant to imply gaud as in "gaudy". But good question... the phone is gaudy, it is actually a glassy looking reflective reddish color depending on the angle that you see it from. It was "free" and has an obnoxiously large screen and I am a cheapskate. Younger people might think that my large, stiff, beat-up old index finger could precisely hit the tiny representation of a keyboard on the screen.
The people that people pay a lot of money for much smaller Apple phones and the like seem to be plagued by the same problems. At some point I will no doubt have to revert back to a giant flip phone made for oldsters.
Sorry my comment got sent to the wrong thread.