That's interesting and totally different than my experience. My Flex cameras have skipped a few checkins but I have never lost them for more than a day, and although they have only been in field for a few months, haven't shown any issues. But I always thought the pictures were terrible! I am paying for these expensive cameras and then paying for this service to send me bad photos, and then I have to pay even more if I want them to send me the HD photos so I can actually tell what is in the photo. Now you are telling me that these are the better cameras? Damn.