I feel like I have already had a hands on trial - for 15 minutes at Best Buy and another 15 minutes in the Verizon store. Once I buy the phone, it's a royal pain to return it. The Verizon store and Best Buy are 90 miles from here. I don't want to buy the phone unless the chances are reasonably good that I will get a good one. I suppose I should mention that the guy behind me in line at the Verizon store had a Droid -that he bought the day before- die after 4 hours of use. I am looking at experience: the guy behind me, my own, the multiple people in this thread, and multiple people at other internet sites. To me, there seems to be a serious quality control issue with the Droid production; and in view of the comments above, it may be related to particular production runs. I did contact Lou Macadam's office (Verizon executive) about this, and they say there is no problem. I am not sure what to think - but I would like to see the real statistics for Droid return rates at Verizon stores, compared to other new release phones.