Originally Posted by Addicted23

I think you are wrong.

The super geeks that make up this message board are not representative of the average user. You can't expect an average user to do registry hacks (see, I don't even know what I'm talking about) in order to bring battery life to an acceptable level or to bring the earpiece & speaker volumes to a good level. There's certain quality issues that this phone is lacking out of the box. And hearing other people look past problems and say everything is "just fine" just makes others more paranoid about their phones.

I'm on Week 1 of this phone. I'm trying to be patient but.........

1) Phone froze twice. Once during charging. Once just texting and sliding out the keyboard.
2) Earpiece volume was horrendous out of the box. I literally could not hear the other person and had to use speakerphone all the time.
3) I need more time with this one, but my phone sometimes gets incredibly hot during longer calls. It's fine sometimes and other times it gets warm to hot. Same goes for charging. I often get a warm phone from charging.
4) Battery life is bad. I went from 4 bars to 1 bar warnings to charge my phone after my last call that only went 22 minutes.... 22 MINUTES!!! My phone was incredibly warm as well after that call.

There's just waaaaay too many problems one week into my usage.

I don't use IM. I don't use navigation. I just mainly text and use the phone and browse occasionally.

But I'm being patient. Some people have written that the battery gets better over time. I'll see. I have 3 more weeks. If not, by 30 days, I'll see if I'll be able to get by with the battery deficiency and just "live with it."

It's a very, very cool phone. But I don't trust it one bit to last me through my 2 year contract without problems. Note, I have NEVER returned a phone so it takes a lot to get me to this point. At the very least, I'll probably opt into the insurance program from best buy.