To bad you fell for the battery meter problem.
These suckers will go forever on 5%

The other phones you got I have no clue about.
but your first and last were as mine was.
I left the plastic on the keyboard.
Works good.

The GPS is a bit buggy though due to 1.5 stuff from what i've read. I have no luck with signal in google maps, but i can get signal with other programs.
I think maybe sprint navigation might be screwing it up. Possibly.

It's a good phone, just wait for some updates before you go exchanging them for problems that are not hardware related.

 

Just buy a spare battery and you'll be set. Exchanging a phone for a tiny varianation in battery life is extreme.

 

Interesting. I got my moment on the first day of release, and was the first person to come into the store for one that day... and mine feels very solid, battery can last up to 30 hours, and I haven't had to pull the battery for any reason yet.

Maybe Samsung has a bad batch out there.

 

Ditto....I was the first one in Daytona Beach to pick one up at Best Buy. Mine was as the first one described. I get 24 hours plus on the battery...however, a good portion of that time is spent below 15% with no keyboard or screen back light

 

Yeah, I bought my phone right at opening Sunday the 1st, too. No problems with build quality. According to the Samsung site when I registered mine, it has a build date of 10/25 and only had plastic on the screen and behind the slide.

 

I was a doubter of this idea but...I had to swap my phone for another for a few hours the other day and despite heay internet use,talking and all programs being equal. The battery outlasted my original by mucho tiempo. My old one would die with all of that within a few hours but this one lasted and had 60% left when I went to bed after 4 hours of that abuse. I ran "white noise" all night and got up to 40% then used the phone for work a lot and internet some and I finally got complete drain at about 1. So when I quit using that phone I discreetly swapped batteries.