@Siddharth Speak on it. :)

My Droid is going back to Best Buy.

I'm not sure what to think of the dot in between the hardware buttons. Here's hoping it's some sort of optical sensor as with the BlackBerry trackpad.

Honesty, I wish that AT&T had that kind of coverage in Denver. I don't want to break my contract and go to Verizon but I feel like I'm paying for a service and not getting to use it. I moved from T-Mobile and the performance and reliability of AT&T's network only is just not commensurate with the cost. With T-Mobile, at least you're getting a deal.

Your experience is far from all-inclusive. It's great that get such wonderful service from AT&T, I actually get five bars most of the time in the Denver area. This of course has no bearing on real service quality because the backhaul portion of their network is the part that really needs help. I average at least one failed call to every eight completed and I'm frequently having to retry to load web pages because my data connection stalls.

@nerdtalker and @ Seraphim Did both of your forget the very expansive (compared to any contemporary efforts) PC World test from earlier this year? They pretty much verified that AT&T and T-Mobile have spotty coverage and that Verizon and Sprint have comprehensive and reliable networks. I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

You pay more because you are receiving the benefit of the subsidy. Those paying full price for their phones are getting a deal to offset the extra sum they have to invest in the handset.

@Tor

It should have also been included that I'm running the .247 revision of the BB OS on my Bold. I believe that this addresses the issues that you brought up concerning BB RAM management. I have not seen any memory problems since moving away from AT&T's standard OS build. I'm know I'm biased but I just haven't seen anything compelling about this Nokia. All of the coverage that I've read has focused on the price difference and downplayed the S60 platform. That being said, I'll drop by an AT&T store to try out the E71 and give it a fair shake.

How dirty are your hands that the trackball gets so filthy? More capable specs? The Bold has a 70% faster processor, 9 times the storage and the same amount of RAM. Anyway, to me rolling a trackball is more comfortable. I'm glad you've had such a good run with Nokias holding together but the Bold feels better in my hand than any Nokia I've ever used. I guess my hand is larger than the average cell phone user because a device smaller than the bold is too small for me. As for the OS we'll leave that one alone. I don't know what versatility you're speaking of but I have yet to see a demonstration.

If you're wondering about the figures, gsmarena can assist you further.

Comparing the E71 to the Bold? I think that's giving the Nokia too much credit. Neither the OS or display is anywhere near comparable.