Good, basic 2m/440 radio. It can on monitor one band, though. Rugged with no frills. Personally, I would just buy a Wouxun for 1/2 the price, though.
I'm looking for a new dual band HT and was wondering if anyone has any experience, good and bad, with the Icom IC-T70A. Thanks!
FWIW, I owned an Icom IC-T70A and wrote a review article on it here: http://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/icom-ic-t70a-review.49429/
It's a good radio, no doubt, but it is no-frills. For the price, I don't like that it isn't even dual RX. There are a lot of things that I don't like about the Wouxon's and other Chinese radios - you mentioned most of them - but Icom is charging too much for this radio from a feature-per-dollar perspective.