Originally Posted by
clg82 It's been so long since I activated an iphone what does it consist of and why would it take so long?
The servers always go down when there are lots of people trying to activate iPhones. If you think the pre-order was rough, the activation could possibly get worse! It took me 8 hours to activate my 3GS because AT&T told me I couldn't just switch my SIM from my 3G. Finally after enough frustration, I did it and everything was fine. There were some stories on blogs of people having to wait 24 hours to finally get activated.
I also know some people that picked up at the Apple store, and they wouldn't even try to activate for them in-store because of server issues.