I got an iPhone 3G on Friday, and I’m really quite happy with it now. It wasn’t an easy process, however; the closest store to my house claimed to have 10 units in total, and so, reasoning that there weren’t any bigger stores closer by, and that there were people waiting overnight at the main Toronto store, I decided to head for the main store. They should have plenty on hand, I thought, or at least if they don’t have enough I’ll know at 8am-ish, so I’ll have plenty of time to find a smaller store with no lineup by 10am when the other stores opened.

So, I queued up with a bunch of other folks on Friday outside the Rogers store at Yonge & Dundas, with all the press & suchlike. I arrived at 6:15am, and left — with an 8GB iPhone 3G, thankfully — at about 4:45pm. For most of the afternoon, I was less than 20 yards from the door of the Rogers store, watching one person go in about every 30-45 minutes or so.

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