>>I'd be thrilled to see any of these smartphones reliably handle phone calls where all the calls started with "hello" and ended with "goodbye" and didn't require multiple "hello? are you still there?"'s in the middle. I remember a time when telephones actually handled calls reliably.

LOL... thanks for the laugh on a Friday morning! Not sure how much is down to network overloading as minutes and data consumption increases... next we'll discover that all this wireless really is bad for you and the new WP will be a wired circular dial Bakelite model with no electronic RF and no exposure to plastic toxins. LOL.