...well in Adelaide anyway. Lined up at 8am (an existing customer priority queue was setup - normal punters were only allowed in at 9) and was out at 8.55am - 35 mins of that was waiting in the queue (which only had 2 people in front of me). Optus staff were complaing that the system was slow - and they didn't have a lot of 16 GB units - the only ones left were the white ones. Plenty of stock of the 8 GBs.

i upgraded mine online a it was delivered free to me at 8 am on launch day for free !!! and had activated it by 9 am , thank you o2 , all you ppl moaning bout queues and limited stock should learn to fill up an online form and order well in advance.....im not even an ipod fanatic and i beat the queues and the technical hitches, 

kudos to o2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

US launch was abysmal as well.

I really don't know how to break this to you but...

It's only a bl**dy phone!

Come on, surely you could have done something else instead of get another phone?

And you didn't even get the 16GB version, was that through choice or was it because you were feeling "Arghhh I've got to have a new iphone!!!!"?

/me *ducks*

So on Monday, I ordered through o2, for a friday before 10am delivery. After not hearing a thing from o2 (of course they took my money), I realised I would not get one. Luckily, during my lunch break I walked past the o2 store, and found they still had stock (Turns out I got the last iPhone). And now the joy is over - I tried activating the phone. Apparently o2 are aware of this problem, and they told me to check their website for status updates (which I cannot find on their site)
In short, dont feel bad if you did not get one - because most of us cant get ours activated.

I also used Carphone Warehouse (Meadowhall, Sheffield, UK). Adam the manager was great, yes they had some technical problems, but I did walk away with a16GB iPhone... thank you.