I bought a white iPhone 3G when I was on a weekend holiday to London, as the Apple stores seem to have no problems with stock of any of the three models.
The buying process, from walking into the shop to walking out with a working iPhone, took just over an hour. Although I didn’t mind spending time in such a nice environment, about half of the waiting was sitting in a queue of three people, and the rest sitting in front of an iMac with an Apple member of staff filling out an online form on an O2 website.
I was a bit shocked to find that the O2 website was being used in Internet Explorer on a virtual Windows XP instance. I can’t imagine the conversations Apple would have had with their stores and O2 over such a weird necessity!
(This post has sat as a draft since the 7th of August! Sorry 
)
Tags: iPhone