Bizarrely my device "seemed" to get better as the days went by, perhaps some kinda bell curve with the components... or sun spots

I don't expect the 770 to be perfect, or even near it. It's the same with my SX1 phone. I brought that when it first came out a couple of years ago (had to get it shipped from Germany) and there was the odd problem, but as an early adopter tech companies know such users can fix their own problems.

TripleNickle's comments remind me a little of my experience of PC games forums. I moderate one large one for a football manager game and also browse the Civ4 ones regularly, in all cases issues with products become almost self fulfilling prophecies - people without problems mystically start experiencing things others post about that they hadn't seen before, people start saying the game is rubbish basing their opinion on others' posts, aspects of the game even start being labelled "bugs" when they are nothing of the sort and are informed more of the user's ignorance than anything else.

Of course, the actual consumers have a right to support and the like, as they should receive the product they paid for. This will come with patches etc. But the reality is that as products become more complex they become harder to test and the economics involved suggest releasing the product can be advantageous as you instantly have a large user base which can file reports and the product can be improved.

Some might take offence at this, but they are not early adopters because they don't understand the "responsibility" (if you will) that comes with such a title.