How is that a solution?

Left speaker is defective (hardware). It cracks at midlevel. It's not like I'm playing Blur - Song 2 (although my 5800 handles that pretty well). The cracking occurs for all audio: ringtones, youtube, video, music, you name it, and just for the left speaker (cover up the left speaker and the right speaker performs like one would expect). I'm sure anyone who hears it would concur. Perhaps I should've been more forceful in my assertion but I was blinded by not wanting to return this phone.

Excluding that, I like it so far. Internet over wifi is outstanding, UI is a significant improvement over S60 5th, probably the best resistive screen to date, and build quality thankfully doesn't suck.

I'll probably play with it for the day and consider if its worth getting an exchange or a refund. Too bad as I think I'll miss out on the $50 rebate.