The best phone phone from an RF and ruggedness perspective that I ever had
was a Motorola V CDMA phone.

Steve, thanks for response.
My primary and the only reason for having cell phone is talking. So
quality of sound and reception is the main points how I judge the
phone. Everything else is of no interest to me. For everything else I
have a computer and photo cameras. So if a phone needs some software
update to make it play game better or for some other reason -I
don't generally care as long as I can talk without interruption and
lost signal.
Having said that I always had an old Sanyo 4000 phone with sprint. Then
at some point switched to new (at that time) Samsung phones (sorry,
don't remember the model number). Those were not free phones; I
always pay for my phones and never buy cheap things. So, I only
switched the phones, service stayed the same. Guess what - I could
not get a signal in my own house after the switch, reception in all
other areas were very bad. After few months of discussion with Sprint
reps I simply went back to my old Sanyo phone. Everything went back to
normal - perfect reception everywhere.
Sorry, but after that I don't have much faith in Samsung phones. And
what I have heard about Motorola phones so far was that their reception
is far superior than most of the other brands.
Of course pone is not the only component that is responsible for good
reception. The other one is the network. And Sprint so far is pretty
good in my area (upstate NY), and some other states that I visit
sometimes. Unfortunately Sprint does not have Razr (and probably wont),
so I might take a risk and switch to Cingular just because of the phone
and see if their network is as good in my areas as Sprint.
Any comments are greatly appreciated.

That RULES! When can I get one from Sprint?