[Hayden27]

I'm contemplating bringing my phone back to the Apple store for an exchange but I'm worried that I'm going to get another phone with the same (reception) issues.

Just curious how many people here had phones with reception issues and exchanged them for phones with no (or minimal) issues....i.e. phones that don't suffer as much from the "grip of death".

Seems that there are a lot of people here claiming to have no issues so that leads me to believe that some phones are better than others when it comes to reception and the grip of death.