The Geek and I

Call 1-800-331-0500
Have your iPhone 3G S box handy.
Explain that your iPhone 3G S won’t activate and that you would like to read off your IMEI and SIM Card # and ICCID # from the back of the box.
Power off, Power on.
Zing!  You are done!  How easy is that?
Found info via Apple Forums here.

Each time an iPhone release is done, the activation system is overload.
Both phones for my wife and I failed (look below), while friend of mine just did his phone moments ago and went through fine.  Guess I get to wait the ‘48 hours’ or some such.
Todays fail included for your viewing enjoyment…
Now that’s some fail!  [...]

OOoh, so I upgrade my 3G (and my wife’s 2G) to 3.0 yesterday.
And now we both have battery life issues with the battery draining quite quickly and charging is pretty lame as it charges but never gets full.
Others via the Apple forums are seeing the same thing.
I’ll be updating and adding to this post as [...]