The day is upon us. Reports have been flying in from everywhere telling of horrendous wait times and downed iTunes servers all trying to cope with the onslaught worldwide of waves of new iPhone 3G owners.

I didn’t think anyone here @ BraveNewCode would be one of them at day’s end, I know I certainly wasn’t going to be one- I’m running a first-gen model right now and didn’t see any need to wait in line for hours to get borked up the rear by Rogers. But I have been now clearly shown to be wrong…

After talking at length with Duane about whether or not to pick up an iPhone 3G over the last little while, it seemed to me that he was going to pass and wait off on it… but I was dead wrong, it seems. Around 6pm this afternoon I got this e-mail today, CC’d to everyone on his contact list, from Duane:

Hey guys,

I picked up the new iPhone 3G today. I had to get a new phone #. My new phone # is [...]. None of my old phone numbers work, so use this one from now on.

Also, I had most of your numbers in my old phone which no longer works, so please forward me your phone numbers or SMS me real quick.

Thanks,
Duane

So, Duane’s the first BraveNewCoder with a 3G. No word yet on which model he picked up. Congrats buddy on duping me huge into thinking you could resist the dark forces of Steve’s reality distortion field and hold off for more than 24 hours.

I’m sure he’ll have some nice Flickr shots up soon, and maybe a post about his new girlfriend.

Looks like our ‘write-offs’ just got a boost from Storey.