Far too shiny

It seems the new iPhone is far too shiny.

As I know, the O2 site went down pretty soon after the pre-order emails went out. Seems the order rate went totally ballistic and the site just crumbled.

Current wisdom is that it's going to be really tricky to get one (esp the 16GB) for a few weeks, so I still think it's worth having a go on Friday. Each store is supposed to have stock of "a few dozen", it's just going to be a question of picking the right store (and deciding what time to go and start queueing) - I'm hoping for bad weather on Friday!

Having just spoken to my local store and they're definitely getting some, but don't know how many - they'll be opening at 8:02.

It'll be interesting to see the fallout from all this and how many phones actually were pre-sold and sold on launch day.