Much as I'm interested in this phone, (though visually it is dull, IMO), I'm going to hold off and wait for reviews to see if they've significantly improved the reception. If people are getting more bars now then I'll buy it; otherwise I'm going to have to move to Android and Verizon. Can't stand AT&T's limited coverage with my current iPhone any more. Droid X, I hope you are good.
There's nothing wrong with the iPhone's reception. If you get a crappy signal in your area it's AT&T's fault. Waiting for reviews is pointless. And "getting more bars" is only half the picture of getting good reception. You might get full bars but still be unable to place a call because the current cell tower's bandwidth is already used up by other phones - there's no indicator for that.
As far as switching to a Droid... Good luck with that.
Read this review of another Android phone (the Evo) for a taste of what you can expect from Android phones:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/technology/personaltech/17pogue.html
"Unfortunately, these groundbreaking features come with enough fine print to give the White Pages an inferiority complex."
"The Evo is nice and thin, but it’s also tall and wide. It is not for the small of hand. People might mistake it for an iPad Nano."
"The Wifi hot spot... eats through a full battery charge in as little as one hour. And beware: the hot spot feature costs an extra $30 a month."
"O.K., so what about Flash? The Evo runs something called Flash Lite... it still can’t play the Flash videos on CNN.com or, sadly, TV shows on Hulu.com."
"All right, what about video calling? After two days of fiddling, downloading and uninstalling apps, manually force-quitting programs and waiting for servers to be upgraded, I finally got video calling to work — sort of. Sometimes there was only audio and a black screen, sometimes only a freeze-frame; at best, the video was blocky and the audio delay absurd."
"But come on — this is the first 4G phone in America! That’s got to be better than 3G, right? So far, Sprint has installed 4G coverage in only 32 areas — and they’re bustling metropolises like Boise, Idaho; Wichita Falls, Tex.; High Point, N.C.; and Milledgeville, Ga." LOL!
"...the 4G signal was “spottier than a kennel of Dalmatians. At his house, he sees four to five signal bars, but two blocks away there is no reception at all. Furthermore, it takes 20 seconds for the phone to recognize that a 4G signal is available, then six minutes to connect for the first time."
Battery life? "By quitting time, or dinner time if you’re lucky, it’s completely dead. On this phone, the battery gauge practically shrivels as you’re looking at it. Sprint suggests that you turn the 4G feature on and off as needed throughout the day to save juice — but that’s rearranging crackers on plates on deck chairs on the Titanic."
