noticed sometimes if i press the phone to my ear a little too much the speakerphone comes on while on a call and also the phone tends to switch to landscape - kinda annoying. anyone else experience this?

Since you're on the S1 I suggest getting a lock app such as (storm slider) which locks your screen while on call. Or you can do what I did - get the S2.

I use this one that someone poetically named "fat face fix".
Do a search for: fat face fix
It has a link to cellavant dot com and a product called Talk Lock
It works quite well.

Plus, make sure your OS is at the latest version. 5.0 fixed the problems for me when I had the Storm 1