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This morning i got an email from O2 stating that i could now pre-order a new 3G iPhone for delivery on it’s 11th of July release date. Now i’ve been waiting for this for quite a while as some of you may know from my previous attempts at iPhone ownership, this is my hope that V2 will be an improvement on V1. Anyway, after half an hour of attempting to pre-order one i gave up and started work.

A few hours later i check various forums and it turn’s out hardly anybody has had any luck ordering one, mainly a few people that got in around 8am seem to have had their orders accepted, but nobody else seems to have had much luck due to huge periods of O2’s servers being down. They’re now reporting to be out of stock of all 8GB and 16GB 3G iPhone’s and “to check back on the 10th of July”. According to several different sites, nobody has been able to upgrage their V1 iPhone using the O2 code’s and website.

So, well done again O2 for making an absolute balls up of what should surely be a fairly straight forward task…it’s really not inspiring me to sign up for an 18 month contract with you. Never mind though, from the looks of it i won’t be able to get an iPhone (or contract) unless i try my luck in the shops on Friday morning and i’m not sure i’ll bother, as the most disappointing thing is the knowledge that after all the man hours put in to dedicating myself to getting a 3G iPhone - i’ll be bored of it after 8 days.