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I have a Bold 9700 and the wifey has an iphone.

I get much better reception than her in bad areas. I also get much better reception and network switching while travelling.

I have an iPhone 4, live in terrible coverage, when this blew up took it out of the bumper for past two weeks, and can't drop a call even in places my 3GS and Blackberry Pearl couldn't make calls at all... And so?

Bandwagons roll on squeaky wheels.

That's the thing: if you try, and hold it at the right place, you probably could have a problem. (In the right location and network situation.) In practice, you most likely don't — or, you do rarely have the problem, but don't trace it to that cause, just as the vast majority of network problems on phones aren't traced to their cause: people just try the call again.

The same is true of the iPhone 4. It's just easy to find the exact place where it happens on the iPhone because it's basically marked.