[HTC Inspire 4G] henryher:
I have a different story. Sorry. My wife has the iP4 and she loves it. I got the inspire from Amazon at $69 with an upgrade. I had to send it back because the speaker was very tinny and it was too low. The signal was pathetic also and it had no service in my house most to the time which I never had an issue with before. Granted, my Pure and my wife's iP4 only got two bars but the Inspire was at one bar sometimes and no service most of the time. Even in the town I work in my Pure got full bars but the Inspire fluctuated between two and three bars and sometimes lost the service. I called Amazon and I have to say that they are a pleasure to work with. They had no issues in sending me a new phone overnight and emailing me a return label for free shipping for the first Inspire. The second Inspire had better speaker quality and I thought it would be a keeper. I loved everything else about the Inspire and was able to repel my wife's insistance that I get an iPhone instead. My main concern with the iPhone was no wireless hotspot capability. Two days ago my boss complained that he was trying to call me and I was not answering him. I checked and the Inspire was showing no service again. I took my car winshield holder and put it in the company car to keep the phone higher up instead of on the holster on my waist. I got written up on the second day because again my boss said that I was shutting the phone down so as not to talk to him. I finally last night forwarded all my calls to my wife's iPhone and had to take it to work with me today. The company gives us a moto rzr which I hate and since I have more minutes than I can use I wanted to use my personal phone. Besides my boss only calls me a few times while I am out. Well I called Amazon today and told them I wanted to return this phone. No problem, I called about 15 minutes ago and the return shipping label already arrived by email.

So I am sending the Inspire back and I am going to surrender to my wife's insistance. I am getting the iP4. I have to say the the size of the screen on the Inspire makes the iP4 screen look pitiful. But the iP4 screen is a lot higher definition, much clearer and the sound is louder and of better quality than the Inspire. I decided that the wifi hotspot was not important enough to keep a phone that I can't trust to give me a consistent signal.

I called ATT when I had the signal and sound problem on the first phone and they gave me a new sim card. Well the signal didn't get any better. I called htc and they were very nice but after having me hard reset the phone told me to return it.

I am going to miss a lot of features on the Inspire but there are some things I didn't like. For instance the volume buttons kept getting in the way when I was pulling the phone out of the holster and from the car cradle. The volume would change and sometimes be too silent to hear the phone. When I fixed all the home screens the way I wanted them to look it would be nice to have a way to lock the screen lay out so it doesn't want to delete widgets if you keep your hand on the phone for a couple of seconds. I found that very annoying. I loved the speed of the phone and found it very smooth but I have to say that when the Japan earthquake hit my wife and I both had our phones out searching for news and videos of the disaster. The Inspire was quick to find the sites but when we both were watching the same video the iP4 speakers blew the Inspire speaker out of the water and while the iP4 screen looked pitifully smaller the detail and definition of the screen made the picture look a lot better and easier on the eyes. The iP4 was also just as fast at surfing the net. I will see how it goes once I have my own iP4 but I am not sure that I will miss the Inspire any.