Vodafone have some cheek spinning their 3G network as a selling point with the Bold! I have had a Voda UK Bold for 4 weeks now. I have to leave it in 2G mode to reliably receive emails and for phone calls. When left with 2G and 3G, my Bold stops synchronising when on 3G, and calls drop out quite often.

The Vodafone UK forums are full of people with the same complaints. I notice that Vodafone UK quietly snuck out a firmware update for the Bold in the last couple of days, matching Orange's release firmware. Unfortunately it does NOT solve the issues with 3G (I've been using the Vodafone Germany firmware update for a week now).

Blame can be apportioned equally between the providers and RIM - the Bold is still not ready for release, but they pushed it out the door anyway. I can imagine the Storm is going to be as bad on release next month.