I'm in the same boat as you. The New York service is terrible. I disable 3G just so I can make phone calls. The majority of the time it get little to no reception for me, even in an open area. I would rather use the slightly slower edge network and enjoy battery life and reception. I remember why I switched to Verizon 4 or 5 years back now.

GPS drops out nearly as frequently as my service. God forbid you go to a populous area. I was at shea stadium last week for a concert. Didnt have reception the entire show. Could couldnt make calls, send texts or use the internet. I also found the phone trying so hard to keep up a connection that my battery went from 80% to completely dead in 4 hrs. I'm confident apple will get the dodgy software bugs fixed in the next few months. As for AT&T... I'm not expecting much from them anytime soon.

Did you try rebooting? (turn on phone, hold down lock button until "slide to power off" appears, then press lock buton to turn on)

Location dies fairly often for me, and I have to reboot to get it back (fairly often being once every 24-48hrs).

rebooting? that reminds me of one of those apple commercials with that trendy kid and that dorky guy in a suit.

"I'm a nokia, I'm an iPhon....<reboot>"

I had to reboot my 1.0 once week to maintain browsing stability. Now that I have the 3G I still maintain the same rebooting technique. Only difference I've noticed, is the texting delays.

However, the apps, in my opinion, make up for all the bugs. ;)

Thanks. Worked like a charm (as charming as rebooting my phone can be)

I'm in NYC and its been working fine, those are functions of the phone