If you got a full night of rest last night, you were probably in the minority. Although the frenzy didn't reach the pitch of the original iPhone release, many techies choose to stand, sit and sleep on line last night for the new iPhone 3G.
But sleepiness hasn't been the only problem some new users have faced. Initial plans were to activate the 3G in-store, a procedure that could take an extra 10 to 15 minutes. However CNET reports "overloaded activation servers made lines slow to a crawl, with outages across the country."
USA Today heard from AT&T spokesman Michael Coe that , "employees are telling buyers to go home and perform the last step by connecting their phones to their own computers."
A DVice blogger reports, "I was lucky enough to get the last 16GB 3G from an AT&T store in midtown, but the people in the store couldn't finish the last step in activation because 'iTunes is down,' they told me. Now I'm here in front of my work computer, patiently awaiting my company's IT department to install the latest version of iTunes (7.7) so I can finally see this baby in action. Tick, tock, tick, tock…"
Although the 3G does have numerous cool tricks, those of you waiting in line to purchase an iPhone for its navigation functionality are in for more disappointment -- there is indeed no turn-by-turn navigation, and therefore, no point on throwing out your Garmin.
As for its other capabilities, USA Today notes "Apple has delivered a prodigy -- a slender fashion prone, a slick iPod and an Internet experience unlike any before it on a mobile handset."
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