To start I am a HUGE apple fan, I own a majority of the products apple has released within the past 5 years. The latest device I came to own was the iphone 4. Now let me say it wasn't easy to purchase the phone; even though I reserved online for store pick-up. I had to wait 11 HOURS in line to get into the apple store, finalize my order, and walk out. As many of you were, I walked out as a happy customer knowing I just bought the newest apple product that will please me for the next 10 months. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the design, the "retina" display, facetime, and all the new features from this gorgeous phone. But what many, including myself, don't seem to realize is that it's a phone first. You SHOULDNT have problems making or receiving calls from the PHONE, now if your having problems because of the network (AT&T) then thats a different story. I live in miami I've NEVER had any problems with the network, maybe 1 or 2 dropped calls a month.
Back to my story, tonight I got really heated with just how annoyed I was with this phone. I make a call to my friend and it goes well for a minute or two, but then I hear the sound of numbers being dialed. I ignore it thinking it was my buddys phone, but then again i hear a short dot sound and as I look at my phone facetime was starting up. I ignore that as well, and continue my conversation with my friend. 30 seconds later, the call drops; I look at my phone and I have 0 bars. I call my friend back and in no more than 2 minutes the call drops once again. This has been happening since the day I bought it, and you can't say maybe I'm in a bad reception area because I have been in 3 different cities and I also commute a lot. I'm just getting really annoyed that I cant have a conversation with anyone because of these ridiculous problems, whether it be the proximity or antenna design.
Everyone may ignore this statement, but the iphone should be considered a phone FIRST. It needs to be able to operate perfectly by hardware to accommodate the network. Apple really screwed up, and I know many of you are going to flame me and just tell me to return the phone if I don't like it, etc.. Truth is I LOVE this phone and apple, and I have faith in them to fix these problems. This is just my opinion, I know there are a lot of biased one-sided fanboys in this forum, so all I ask is to take this thread with a grain of salt and respond honestly
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