Fun fact: The suicide rate at Foxconn is LOWER than the average rate for China as a whole!
Just gonna throw that out there. (read this from either gizmodo or engadget)
BTW, my mom used to work at a factory in Taiwan as a teenager. This was over 30 years ago, so things may have changed or they may be worse in China, but she's never spoken of the experience negatively. It was just work for money, like most other jobs. It sure beats trying to peddle crops at a farmer's market or maybe worse. If you think of things that people living in the countryside might sometimes have to do to stay alive, a stable factory job isn't bad AT ALL.
CONGRATS HAMSTER!!! It really is a good phone. I've played with it several times already, a few at the Apple store, once from a friend. The antenna issue is true though. However, I was never able to get bars down using just one finger on any of the phones, only when I did the left hand death grip, which actually isn't a very comfortable position at all.
I did try the test of loading a webpage and taking my hand on and off the antenna merging place to see if it really could affect loading, and sure enough, it would stop as soon as my palm went over the lil black line.
Still, the screen is gorgeous! The camera is sharp, on par with any other smartphones, trading megapixels for clarity/less noise. Design feels much more refined, and YEP, it was noticeably faster than the 3G S I had with me.
Hope you get a case for it, btw. Not just for reception, but to protect the phone. Mine woulda cracked a couple times already if I didn't get one. And try to see if there are any nicer ones online than the bumper from apple. It'd be worth it. Plus it makes your phone much MUCH easier to keep up with, since quite a few people will have the phone by winter time.
BTW, why would they commit suicide? Well, my life is AMAZING here in the US overall, I got food, a nice computer, a car, a house, air conditioning, etc, but I still get moments of depression and have thought about suicide at one point in my life several years ago. If their lives just happened to dip low enough, they might just think about it, and maybe they'd decide to actually do it.
Still waiting for news on a hardware revision though. Resale value counts for me.