...3G

My painful iphone 3g experience:

So I get to the mall where the apple store is in at 7:30 and get in line. There's about 40 people ahead of me so I feel pretty good. About 20 minutes later someone mentions that this is actually the AT&T store line and that the Apple store line is on the other side of the mall...oh great. Well It's 10 minutes until launch so I figure the AT&T has to have like 100 or so....asking the AT&T how many units they have in stock is about as useful as talking to a wall - he's "not sure". At about 8:45, the employees come to the line and announce that they are all sold out...they had 16 total 16 gig iphones and didn't tell everyone in line.

Now I goto the Apple store line which seems to have about 300-400 people waiting. The line is moving at a decent clip until it hits 9 AM Eastern time at which it stops moving. It turns out that every time a new time zone came online the activation and/or itunes servers failed. It took about 20-25 mins to get moving again but this time much more slowly. When 11:00 AM hit, noone moved for an hour+.

The line continued to move really slowly for another hour, then picked up. I ended up getting mine at 1:30 PM after 5 hours in line :(

My quick impression: It's a neat little device, but not worth it if you already have a first gen iphone....and it still doesn't get signal in my bedroom! Also, syncing is a pain in the ass...why can't I sync to firefox bookmarks or my thunderbird address book?