It’s that time of year again, the newest a greatest iPhone is due to release tomorrow 6/24/10 and there are people already lining up at the Apple stores in order to get their hands on them. Hopefully they reserved one before standing in that line –  I could not possibly stand in a line just for the hype…however I will pre-order one and take a volume while waiting for the Fed Ex man to arrive (I don’t do well with anxiety!). I can only hope that I don’t run into the 6hr long screw up that happened to me with the 3GS.  The only thing worse than anxiety is talking on the phone to customer care.

AT&T and Apple, along with other authorized sellers, started taking pre-orders on 6/15 and I was up at 4am that morning checking to see if I was able to pre-order mine on AT&T’s website.  Unfortunatley I didn’t see the ability to do so and figured it wouldn’t start until some unspoken time that Apple had agreed upon — which I was wrong.  You would think that pre-ordering online these days would be fast and easy…but it was not.  AT&T’s “premier business” site did not have the iPhone 4 listed as an option to buy that morning, and Apple’s site kept failing on AT&T’s account verification step. Which, by the way, I don’t recall this verification step in the past.  I did finally get my order placed around 1pm CST that day and was excited to receive my email confirmation with the estimated delivery date of 6/24.

So the count down began!  I was able to keep myself busy during non-work hours by filling my weekend full of activities…but this week hit hard with rumors floating around of early deliveries of the iPhone. Anticipation hit hard Tuesday with the thought of receiving my order 1 day early and hit even harder after rumors of people receiving them 2 days early started hitting the web.  My TweetDeck was on FIRE! I was watching for every #iPhone4 tag. I then remembered that Verizon’s Droid X was to be announced on 6/23 and then had a few chuckles thinking that Apple allowed the early releases to stomp the web waves.  Not sure if this was actually to reduce the network traffic on 6/24 or just for the fun of trampling Droid.  Not to mention the poor Fex Ex people scrambling to over-night ship the quantity of iPhone orders on that given day.

Speaking of Fed Ex, I received my Shipping Confimation email from AT&T yesterday with the estimated delivery date of 6/23, and was giddy as a school girl (is that sexiest?), and could not stop refreshing my tracking number page to see its current status/location.  Which then I remembered that Fed Ex has an app for that.

On with the download of the Fed Ex app!! I’m actually curious if they had an increase in app installations after the pre-orders.  Anyways, this morning around 1am I noticed that my package coming from Fort Worth, TX and heading to Kansas City, MO arrived in Indianapolis, IN…which totally freaked me out.  I’m lucky I didn’t sit in the corner of the room and start rocking as I chanted “My iPhone will come, my iPhone will come”.  I was pleased to see that this morning my package departed from Indianapolis at 4:58am and safely made it to Kansas City at 5:08am.  Wait…what? So it made it here in 10 minutes.  You will be happy to know that I did the math on this one. Considering Indianapolis is 480 miles away, and it arrived in Kansas City in 10 minutes…they traveled a whopping 2880 MPH!! Now that’s service!! Which draws me to my conclusion that Fex Ex’s systems aren’t able to keep up…apparently.

So on with the wait for my Fed Ex delivery guy!!  Until then, enjoy some iPhone goodness:

p.s. – The Fed Ex man arrived at my door before I was able to publish this out…so on with the ACTIVATION!! Wish me LUCK!