Acquiring an iPhone 4 - how not to do it

I had a plan, and the plan was sound; get up early on iphone release day, arrive at the O2 store by 8am, buy an iPhone 4. Execution was rubbish, unfortunately, as I just couldn't get up early enough to avoid the traffic and the net result is that I'm still using my 2 year old iPhone 3G.

So what now? The O2 website has a list of stores holding stock (http://stock.o2.co.uk) that updates several times a day. The mix of stores with stock changes at each update so they are obviously receiving a trickle of deliveries; the name of the game is to check the site and head to the closest stockist as soon as possible. That's what I'll be doing tomorrow, 'cos they've got the 16Gb version in Winchester. Tally ho!