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I was two minutes off. Stupid train.

iPhone supply appeared excellent in the US  as of early this morning.   

Check supply here for Apple stores in the US  http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/availability.html

Any predictions on sales ?

Yeah, it seems the AT&T stores got a very limited supply.  The Apple store down town was still selling them strong around 6pm last night....but I didn't want to wait in another line.

Silly me again....

While the lack of tethering is uncool, i still want an iPhone.

Got a White one today at the Apple store in Skokie.  They were sold out of 16GB black ones...even though the iPhone tracker said they would have them today.  An employee was apologizing all morning when people asked...lol.

The Black one kind of looks cooler to me...they reflect more than the white ones.  But the White ones don't show finger smudges.  That was enough of a rationalization for me to buy on the spot.  lol   But yeah, the black is more preferred.  White is prolly selling 60% by choice and 40% by default.

The overall experience was better than I expected. I was greeted with a smile and a handshake from an Apple employee named Sheila.  She was very posed and calm when going over the list of things to do.  At no time did I feel she was rushing me through the process.  It really helped that I was starting up a new AT&T contract from scratch and that I wasn't transferring over my old #.  I was hearing that this is where a lot of the issues were coming from. 

One thing that surprised me was that before the phone was activated, she handed me the box and said, "Here's your new iPhone, open it."

So I still got that Apple experience of opening a sealed product.  At the AT&T store, they were doing all this for you behind the counter.   I was out of the store within 15min.  But, like I mentioned, I was probably one of the easier people to process.

For those of you still waiting to get one....I highly suggest going to an Apple Store over AT&T.

I was at the mall yesterday, and the iPhone activation line was still a half a block long. I kind of want a 3G iPhone, but not that badly. The 2.0 software is damn awesome and more then enough to hold me off for now.

I'll go 3G once there are some compelling applications that really require the bandwidth. Pandra / Last FM would sound better in the car, and that's tempting, but I think it's going to be Nav software that eventually makes me upgrade.