The AT&T store was cool and people were very nice and accomodating. Overall we were in line for just over two hours and walked out with two 8GB iPhone 3Gs. I can live with 8GB and the money saved isn’t a lot in the long run, but could be better used on other things right now.

I was in a rush to get to work, so Julie, my lovely geek-in-training, jumped right in to getting hers activated. The woman who never dreamed she would get the use out of an iPhone to justify its cost or that she would even understand most of it only had to call me once with a question about pulling the SIM from the old (!?!?) iPhone.

I finally pulled mine out at work to start the activation and got a call from Julie saying iTunes won’t activate the phone. This gels with the news reports I am seeing that the activation servers are overloaded. Drat!

So here I sit with my iPhone 3G connected to my laptop, iTunes running, regularly retrying the activation.

See: iPhone activation woes hit early buyers - Network World

I wonder if I should just get the 2.0 firmware on the old (!?!?) iPhone while I’m waiting.

Nah..