iPhone 3G launch coverage roundup

Even though the dust ought to have settled three and a half days later, people all over the country (and world?) are still spending hours in line for an iPhone 3G. It's a tall order for a phone, but clearly people are ravenous -- so here's all the news you need to catch yourself up on the goings on of the past few days.

P.S. -Sick of the iPhone news? Don't sweat it, we'll be live from the Sony and Nintendo E3 keynotes later this morning!

Review!

• iPhone 3G review

Hands-on coverage

• iPhone 3G first look, what do you want to know?
• Video: iPhone 3G unboxing and first look
• Black iPhone 3G vs. white iPhone 3G... fight!

Activation fiasco

• iPhone activation servers back online; stock updates from around the world
• iTunes activation servers go down, iPhone 3G customers being sent home unactivated, first-gen iPhone customers stuck with dead iPhones

News and roundups

• Are you having problems with iPhone 2.0?
• iPhone 3G and firmware 2.0: the day after
• iPhone 3G: guts, plants, and free SMS
• iPhone 3G at one million sold and counting, App Store hits 10 million downloads

More after the break.

Software and apps

• Best of the worst: the App Store's hits and misses
• iPhone Dev Team officially Pwns firmware 2.0 on video
• iPhone App Store to host loads of home automation programs
• Apple's Remote: turns your iPhone into a WiFi remote control
• App Store hands-on, notable apps
• 'Official' iPhone firmware 2.0 now available for download, seriously, for real
• Ad network offers promise of revenue for free App Store apps
• Apple says turn-by-turn GPS coming to iPhone, copy / paste not a high priority

Too many lines

• iPhone 3G international launch lineblog
• Meet the world's first ten iPhone 3G owners
• iPhone lines cut off on East Coast and Midwest, west side still rockin'
• iPhone 3G: The Waiting Game: Part II: Redux
• 5th Ave. iPhone Who Farm campers leave store lacking iPhones, dignity