I guess one of the benefits of having a blog is my ability to publicly vent.  I love my iPhone overall, but I am extremely frustrated with the ATT/Cingular service.  I had Sprint for 10 years and never once had a dropped call.  I’ve had ATT with my iPhone for a couple months, and it nearly drops every call.  And I live in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.  I have to go out onto my balcony for people to hear me, and even then the voice transmission fades in and out.  Had I known that the ATT service was so bad, I would not have purchased an iPhone and switched carriers.

Does anybody know a public petition for iPhone users taking a stance against ATT?  Otherwise, I’m tempted to create one. Of course, there are now fixes, but I’m already locked into a contract with ATT, and my suspicion is that any workarounds will probably be plugged.

The data speed is also incredibly slow.  This was a tradeoff that Apple made to maximize the iPhone’s battery life, but my preference would be to have a shorter battery life, and have faster data. We as consumers should be able to make that choice.