If you use something like Touchdown from Nitrodesk for $20 yes (not sure about chars in contacts). I have none of the issues mentioned on my Nexus One but have heard of them on some of the very first ones. If you complained hard enough your vendor gave you a new phone because they knew it was a hardware issue. I do expect that on occasion I will have to reboot my phone but compared to how often I had to do that to my BlackBerry this one is minimal like maybe once a month. As far as bit rot I have no observable slowness over time. Kinda like a PC the more $hit you pile on it and have running in the background the less responsive it becomes. KISS