Seriously, the screen is AMAZING. Outside of that, it's an iPhone. You either like them by now or hate them.
Oh, as for the death touch...I go from 2.5-1.7mb down to 2.0 to 1.2 mb down when touching the phone. I've had other's try it out on my phone and they get the same results. It doesn't cause any dropped calls, but so far I've been in spots getting 4-5 bars of 3G goodness.
Maybe the issue is that AT&T still sucks?
(I'm with Rogers in Canada for those who might be wondering).