OK, maybe "solid" was not the right choice of adjectives.  Today I'm on my 3rd iPhone 4s in about a month.  The first one had a short in the silence switch.  Verizon swapped it out for me.  The 2nd one had intermittent audio problems while on calls  and Apple finally swapped that one out for me.  Isn't there some law of electronics that says when you produce millions of something, if you do it in China, this type of thing is going to happen?    

I'm not planning on trading it in just yet.  Aren't all phones made in China these days?  But I am amused how on the back of my phone, Apple tries to soften the phrase "Assembled in China", by also saying "Designed...in California".  Nice try.  It's still made in China.  It still has cost me hours of headache and troubleshooting.  So next time someone tells me they love Apple products because they "just work", well... I suppose they are the lucky ones.