First off, they had some this morning.  Apparently there were multiple rumors flying around about apple telling stores not to sell anymore because of the itunes server issues.  This morning though, the apple store had some in stock.  The Lakeline mall did not nor did the store near there in Texadelphia.  But, a few scattered AT&T stores near Parmer/35 and also near the domain/arboretum did have some.

One of our readers “superman” went this morning to be number 16 in line at a store and talked to a guy who was 2 away yesturday from getting one and had he arrived 5 minutes sooner he would have got one today.  That has so got to suck to wait for 6 hours and still have nothing to show for it.

As far as my own iphone goes - last night I was able to activate as soon as I got home from work.  iTunes backs up your iphone, syncs of contacts if you have that setup on your apple computer - syncs with mobile me, and then syncs any applications you’ve already downloaded.

One of the cool features (and slightly scary): Sitting on my couch in the corner of my house and then clicking on the maps - finding my location and having the blue dot right on the corner of my house where I am - with the satalite hybrid picture of my roof.  I also like the twitter plug in - it allows you to show pictures really quickly to others.

Thinking about getting one now? Forget about it.  At least thats what friends of mine have been told now by the very unhelpful AT&T people.  I got mine, but I also waited outside at 6am.  I was number 73 at the ATT store on 1431.  I have to say the people there were much nicer than the A&TT workers at Lakeline Mall.

While some store actually received shipments today, apparently they can’t sell them today.  All AT&T is offering now is direct ship which is 7-10 days.    But let me explain what the AT&T people were trying to do to keep you inline and to make you buy today regardless of stock.

I got back to my office and my co-worker decided that he wanted to check at lunch to see if there were any left - since we had heard there was another shipment coming in today.  We decided to hit up Lakeline Mall AT&T store.  We walked up, the line was short and they took 2 people at a time into the store.  Out front was a greeter so we asked how many they had left - she said that she can’t give out their stock.  We said, ok well should we wait or will you be out of stock by the time we wait - as it could have been over an hour of waiting only to find out that its 7-10 days.  She said that she couldn’t give out the stock.  So after more questions and a bit of waiting we saw a shipment be delivered by Fedex.  My co-worker decided to ask some more questions and come to find out they couldn’t get into that shipment today and the other slightly more helpful AT&T worker alluded to the fact that he most likely would not get an iphone today.  But, they are trying to keep people standing in line so they can make their numbers for the day.

All in all pretty sucky for him - then again he also has to pay $400 because he’s already an AT&T customer.

Now you may ask, “How do you like your new iphone?”

Glad you asked.  I wish I knew but the itunes servers are dead and we can’t activate them.  The AT&T store couldn’t do it, and as of right now I’m still not able to activate my phone.