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the New York times review also contains this quote:
"Making a call, though, can take as many as six steps: wake the phone, unlock its buttons, summon the Home screen, open the Phone program, view the Recent Calls or speed-dial list, and select a name. Call quality is only average, and depends on the strength of your AT&T signal."
It seems the device is as expected weakest function is being a phone. But as you said they still rate it as revolutionary but I have feeling that is more because of the size and design of the device rather than as a phone.
Have fun
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Well, that's the drawback to using GSM in the USA. The coverage isn't as good as it is here. Additionally, most of the coverage is in the 1900 Mhz bandwidth, so you don't have the signal penetrating the buildings very well. There is a bit of 850 coverage out there, but it's still pretty rare.
I'm sure you've noticed that your GSM coverage isn't so great when you're in the US. Have you ever tried one of the Verizon CDMA/Analog phones when you've been out there? The call quality is pretty good, on par with the quality I get here from Swisscom.
The iPhone should have much better call quality here in Europe when/if it gets released here.