>>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.
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>Funny. There is a saying that with an AT&T iPhone you will never hear a "goodbye."

I think that's true close to 50% of the time anyway (yeah - I'm paying AT&T for this crap).