[jimmytop]

Mine is build 10/20/08. This phone bites. Speaker is very tinny, sounds like an old crappy transistor radio with bad reception inside a tin bucket. Battery life is truly terrible. I don't think this is a function of the build though, I've seen lots of people on here proclaiming how great their battery life is with the touch pro because it lasts one day before they have to charge it. Huh?? One day are you kidding me? And that's the holy grail that the other bad-build-date owners are hoping to get??? That's absurd.
As it is mine can't make through an 8 hour work day. By 2pm it's crapped out. That's just not acceptable. So now I have to go do registry hacks to try and get another hour or two? Which brings me to the last part. Another big part of the problem is Windows Mobile. It's clear that sometime during the transition from NT to XP to Vista Microsoft stopped communicating internally in any sensible manner. This carried over to WM also, as it is such a hodge podge mess.