For the last two days my 8800 has been giving me grief with short drop outs of several seconds. I have had this phone since last summer. Here are the symptoms:

* Can't hear other party
* Other party can't hear me
* If I talk, I get an echo
* Connection is maintained
* Dropouts are of varying lengths but generally under 10 seconds
* The call connection is maintained during drop outs

My gut instinct is that this is a hardware problem such as an intermittent connection within the circuitry. Other possibilities are a network or operating system problem.

I am on T-Mobile, have at least 3-bars of signal. I am running v4.2.1.74 (Platform 2.3.0.54). I don't know if this is relevant but I thought I would put it out there nonetheless.

Any ideas?