Don't get me wrong, EVERYTHING about the iphone 4 is excellent, EXCEPT for the fact that it constantly will drop calls and lose data connection if I hold it without a case (and sometimes WITH a case when in a lower signal area). I COULD have a bad copy but from what I have seen with others phones and of course read, it IS a problem.

Mine is going back next week, once I find another 3gs to move back to (yep, sold mine for 275$ going into the release - thought it was a great deal!) But, prices have dropped a lot on the 3gs since then.

I'll get another when their version 1.1 comes out (which I am CERTAIN it will) in the next few months.

I'm VERY surprised at the official response from apple yesterday, in my opinion all they managed to do was dig themselves DEEPER into the hole they are in and prolong the payment period. they could have just fixed it, done a voluntary swap out and got back on track with their HUGE sales volume 1 quarter later. As it is, again my opinion, they will ultimately LOSE sales due to this, if not in the immediate term over the next 12 months. As much as they think their riduculous .55% number is accurate (which it isn't) it will be possibly closer to multiples of that in lost sales. The math for that either return or LOST sale is going to be MUCH higher than making a change RIGHT NOW and getting on with it.

And bringing in Nokia and RIMM to the fray is only making it worse and nokia and RIMM will only benefit from their PR stupidity at this point.