I've used the RAZR as my sole phone for over a year now, and though as a long-time Nokia user I resisted the less intuitive user interface of the RAZR, I've come to know and love this phone. It's easily the most durable phone I've ever used, which is suprising considering its obvious refinement and seeming delicacy. I've dropped it many times on concrete, and the most I've ever had to do is pop the battery cover back on. It's not even scratched. It syncs perfectly with my Mac, I can create and transfer my own MP3 ringtones via bluetooth without a hitch using the bluetooth software that comes with Mac OS X, the picture ID works as expected for a change, the voice dialing feature is easy to set up and use, the speaker volume (for rings, speakerphone, and earpiece) are the loudest I've ever heard in a phone, and it's the only flip phone I've found that's thin enough to fit comfortably in my pants pocket. I think it's wrong to rate phones based upon their ability to find a strong signal, because there are just too many factors at play and even identical models of any phone can show a different number of bars in the same area. It's a roll of the dice. That said, reception has been outstanding for me, even where some other models have failed. If you're not used to Motorola phones, just keep in mind that the user interface will take some time to master, but once you grow into it, you'll appreciate this phone's strengths.