The camera actually seems pretty well built compared to others in this price range. The next thing I noticed was the lack of an optical viewfinder. Personally, I would never purchase a camera without one, but I thought I should at least evaluate the effectiveness of the LCD viewfinder in this model.
Controls seem well placed and intuitive enough.
Ricoh may have outdone Olympus with an even flimsier cover over the jacks. I would give this cover about 2 months if treated with care. I did not read the manual for either model, so I tried to make sense of things as needed. The cameras were equally easy to figure out. I set up a tripod in the bathroom to take some shots of my children playing in the tub.