"Although the company suggests problems will only occur in hot climates or with direct sunlight"

Ok, no more iphones in Panama

..in Phoenix. The kicker is AT&T doesn't provide service to indoor areas.

I can't wait for Congress to act on these exclusivity deals.

Battery problem down the road.

The MacBook and MacBook batteries were flawed in the first place, but the heat made it worse. Apple is still standing behind the battery exchange program for the four-year-old PowerBook, but not so for these two-year-old Intel units.

Your indoor problem is likely due to poor GSM coverage, not because the only US carrier is AT&T. Even if you were to use another carrier it would probably still have the same coverage in your area. Apple would need to produce another version of the iPhone with let's say CDMA - AKA Sprint (which usually has even worse rural coverage.) Or there would need to be more cell towers put up in your area.

I used my iPhone for a 30 minute call (on 3G) this weekend while out in a blazing hot sun. It got no warmer than my forehead.

This problem I think is due to a manufacturing defect in a small percentage of batteries. Very small percentage, since there are very few real cases of this problem posted on the web, from what all I can find. Let's be generous and say there are 50 of them... 50/1,000,000 = 0.005%. Isn't that about the chance of being hit by lightning?

...BETTER NOT STAND NEXT TO ANYONE WITH AN BURNT 3GS IPHONE DURING AN ELECTRICAL STORM!

;-)

ps: i think 'wings_rfs' is on-to-it

The first thing that came to my mind was being stuck in the desert, stranded, and having the iPhone not work......

...to Texas, where temperatures often hovers past 100 degrees for days or weeks, I should ask for a refund for my iPhone 3G?

Don Montalvo, TX

not if your phone works.