I've been using cell phones since 1992. I used to have people stop me on the street just to look at what I was using (back then it was an Oki 900 while most people who had cell phones were using the Motorola brick). It was the smallest phone you could get back then. Nothing is that big now. Anyway . . .
Dropped calls were a common phenomenon in the early-to-mid-90's. After the mid 90's, the service stabilized quite a bit, and dropped calls were rare -- that is -- until AT&T purchased my carrier. I had one carrier buy out another a few times over the years. There was no effect on call quality, so I just went with it. I put up with absolutely crappy call quality for 6 months and a few different cell phones on AT&T until I finally gave up on them. I just couldn't take being in the year 2004 and having call quality that reminded me of 1992. I switched to Verizon in 2004 and have been happy with the call quality ever since.
Oh, and we're not even talking about the absolutely 100% crappy customer service I received from AT&T. Out of the top 5 worst customer service experiences I've had in my life, TWO of them were with AT&T. HORRIBLE treatment regarding legitimate issues.
So, be warned. I'm positive the iPhone is a spectacular phone based on my experience as an iPod Touch owner. But, the carrier comes with that phone, and from my experience, the carrier SUCKS!
Granted, the Storm has its glitches and you can either live with them or not. I'm living with mine in hopes of better performance with the next firmware upgrade (hoping it comes before my trial period expires). But there's NO WAY I would go with AT&T as a carrier regardless of how much I wanted a phone that is exclusive with them.
