Don't ask how we know, but if you happen to be using a copy of Leopard you found on the internet, you're probably having some trouble activating your iPhone. iTunes updates and installs to 7.3, but hangs on the first activation screen when the iPhone's plugged in. Anyone else have similar experiences? Similar to this theoretical person, that is.

All the people who camped out for over 24 hours—ahem Greg Packer—should feel really foolish right about now. As of 9:17 PM PDT (12:17 AM EDT), the San Francisco store has both 4GB and 8GB iPhones in stock. The New York 5th Avenue Store? The same. If you still want one, head on down and grab it.

You think CNBC's not bitter because they didn't get an iPhone? Think again. Watch as solemn TV news voiceover meets an impudent teenage girl whose parents won't...uh...give her an iPhone. Yeah, we didn't think that metaphor through.

Wirelessinfo knows what they're talking about when it comes to cellphone calls. They're the Mythbusters of cellphones, pulling out all sorts of scientific equipment to determine whether call quality is good—not just doing a "oh, this sounds good" test. Their results for the iPhone? Best they've seen. It scores higher on the frequency response test compared to the BlackBerry 8800, Helio Ocean, LG Prada, Nokia N95 and the Treo 750. The audio quality is great as well, as is the send frequency response. The iPhone did have a bit of "side tone", which is the amount that you hear yourself in a conversation. Wireless Info

My first sixty seconds of iPhone typing were spent typing the lyrics to Rump Shaker. While listening to Rump Shaker. It's not bad when you hunt and peck by index, but it's terrible by thumbs. A minute later I found a typing method that gave me nearly 100% accuracy.

The crazy folks over at Think Secret took apart an iPhone. They've got 49 shots of the process, but we just wonder how many shots they'll need to put the thing back together. iPhone Takeapart [ThinkSecret]

Picture this. We're heading in to buy our iPhones, and what do we see? A massive wall of Apple employees, clapping and cheering and offering high fives to all. It was a very surreal, and frankly scary experience. Remind us never, never to do that again, even if the Jesus Phone rises a second time.

We were actually "surprised" that the video loaded as quickly as it did. We were in EDGE, so the quality was downgraded, but the experience was shockingly close to the Apple ad. Score one for the Jobs-man. Seriously, we were not expecting such an easy job.

Here's a little demo of the iPhone camera feature. Say, who are those two lovely guys on the first photo? Working hard, from the looks of it! The iPhone zooms and slides easy, and the pinch, after you figure out which way you're going, is nice and smooth. The gyroscope is great for landscapes and cool to boot, and the iris effect is just a nice touch. The only real complaint is that sliding often leaves smudges, which is distracting when you're trying to look at photos. – Video by Nick McGlynn

OK, it's just Day 1. Whether I turn out to be a Mossberg (typing is "a nonissue") or a Levy ("Maybe I'm a spaz") remains to be seen, but on my very first outing it took me a while just to type a simple text message. (1 down, 199 text messages to go!) Notice, though, that the system did correct my fumbly entries... twice. – Video by Nick McGlynn

The gates finally opened and the ravenous masses spilled inside. Pacman was up first, of course, and the rest followed in his wake. Finally, after days of waiting, those who left their paying jobs will finally be able to spend a ton of money and walk out with their brand new iPhones. Hope Greg's card went through!

We assume you tuned in at 6:15pm EST and caught us live—without sound. (Sorry gang, but this was beta to the max.) In case you didn't, though, you can watch the camcorder version, with a rockin' soundtrack.

Reader.mac.com is live now. This is a capture of what you get when you try to access the reader.mac.com address directly from an iPhone. And yes it's an RSS application that handles your feeds' URLs in iPhone's Safari. Just enter the feed address and the app at reader.mac.com will handle the representation of the XML file.

Haven't activated it yet, but here are the first shots after our wild n' crazy live unboxing. Stay tuned!!!

In case it wasn't clear how long the SF iPhone line is, check out this video where we got them to do the wave. How? By giving them T-Shirts. Stick around for the very end. You know why. We're getting pumped up, since it's almost our turn to get in. Video by Sarah Meyers and Richard Blakeley

Update: The stream's up, but there's no audio. Stick around kiddies, because we've got a live unboxing of the iPhone here coming up. This is super, super beta stuff, so it may be kinda glitchy, but we've got our best trained monkeys on the job. Live unboxing, here, on Gizmodo. iPhone. Be here.

What are these people angry at? No, it isn't not being able to get an iPhone, it's not being able to get into the Apple store when they closed it down at 2PM to prepare for the 6PM launch. Apparently either some people's watches were a little off, or Apple closed the store down a little early, but they're pissed at not being able to get into the store. That's why we love SF—everyone always has things in perspective.

We thought it was a little strange that the first person in the AT&T iPhone line didn't know anything about the iPhone, but we're glad to hear that it's not widespread. You see, the people who camped at an Apple store-proper? They know about the iPhone. See as they nail just about all the questions we throw at them and win a T-Shirt in the process.

An advertising agent out of Brazil is the master craftsman behind these awesome miniature motorcycles. Assembled from watch parts and bits of other accessories such as eyeglasses, these motorcycles challenge the ideas of identity and representation, while putting us in the mood to BS about philosophy instead of just calling them "neat". These motocycles aren't for sale—which is all the better since my wife is convinced that despite their small stature, I'd manage to both ride one and be flattened by a car. Design Page [via gearlog]

Second in line in SF's Apple Store, Mark wants $1500, no less, for his spot in line. This is not an Apple Fan. choice quote: "Game recognize Game, Blood!"

Depending on how you feel about Apple, this iPhone cake may be better than the real thing. Sure, that icing looks like tar coated with airbrushed crude oil, but it's actually 100% butter cream—better known as the best parts of butter and cream combined into an (ultimate?) frosting suitable for the (ultimate?) phone. Also like the iPhone, there is absolutely no way we'd eat it. iPhone Cake [via boingboing]

Here we have lnelyiphonefan30 wearing denim trousers and a limited-edition Gizmodo iPhone Launch T-Shirt, for a casually aggressive, yet elegantly cheerful look. See how that black cotton follows his fabulous form, and puckers up to his shapely yet firm moobs. Clad in his Giz garment, Lnelyiphonefan30 is a long, cool drink of style. Rowr!

We're at the AT&T store in SF and quizzing line campers on the iPhone. People who got the questions right get a free limited edition Gizmodo iPhone shirt. Those who don't, get the whole internet laughing at him/her. It's like camping out for a Star Wars movie and not knowing what a Lightsaber is. Video by Sarah Meyers and Richard Blakeley

How many Steve Jobses are there? According to this iPhone-waiting gang amusing all in line at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York City, Steve Jobs appears in many forms. As promised, here's video of the parade of strangeness. They're all members of Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB), an NYC improv group that puts together quality comedy shows seven nights a week. Pick your fave shapeshifting Apple CEO, right here. Will the real Steve Jobs please ... give away an iPhone?

A group of Steve Jobs' just walked down the line and tried to get into the store to "check on their iPhones." Apparently the Steves didn't let security know about their visit ahead of time, as they were cruelly denied access at the door. Don't they know who runs this company?! Stay tuned for video, coming very soon.

The Wi-Fi Alliance has passed their first two draft 2.0 applicants in the never-ending race to full 802.11n certification. The D-Link Xtreme N Router and Xtreme N Notebook Adapter both passed the Alliance's testing, and now tower over their wireless kingdom, mocking all of the 1.0-certified brethren with full 2.0 certification. And 2.0 matters to you because it's guaranteed compatible with the final draft. Don't expect the Alliance to get their act together with that final draft until sometime around 2008 or even 2009. Still, if you want your current 802.11n setup to be compatible with the future of Wi-Fi, these D-Link products are the best guarantees on the market until more certified 2.0 products are announced. Press Release [PRnewswire]

When finding yourself bored while spending a day on sunny Lake Washington, what's a man to do? Fish, waterski, drink a brewski...maybe stalk a little Bill Gates?

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Allegedly, this is the dude who tried to snag the mic/iPhone out of a reporter's hand live on Fox News. Looks like the cops got their man up here at the Midtown Apple store. When will you people learn: stupid publicity stunts don't pay. Also, don't return to the scene of the crime, you dumbass.

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There have been rumors since The Fifth Element's Blu-ray release that this poorly transferred movie would see a new edition, breaking the hearts of early adopters everywhere. Well, score one for Sony, because these rumors were only half right. After writing Sony Entertainment, tipster Jason received this response:

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We went down the iPhone line in NY and asked the campers whether they were aware they could get many other great things for the same price as an iPhone. Hilarity ensued. Video by Alex and Nick McGlynn

Take that, AT&T! Take that, EDGE! Take that Jobs, and anyone else who wears black mock turtlenecks! Everywhere in Verizon's current EV-DO network, downloads are jumping from 600kbps to 1.4Mbps, with uploads cruising around 500kbps and 800kbps. That's only... Read More »

The just-released iTunes 7.3 has a little secret: a folder containing icons for ringtones. Found in the resource folder, these images aren't part of the iTunes interface just yet, but obviously Apple is leaving themselves room to grow. Conspiracy theories, anyone? Ringtone Images Hidden... [engadget]

During a 2002 project for the government, Agentai developed a non-lethal round of ammunition that could be shot out of a regular gun, and also contained a chemical agent. One suggested chemical agent to be used? Laughing gas. Such a round would "allow the military to punch, slap and hit an individual repetitively from a distance and in a manner, which provides no injuries." But at the same time—it would get criminals high.The problem with laughing gas is that it's positive reinforcement. Law enforcement might as well give the bad guys cable and allow conjugal visits while they're so strictly "prescribing" those beatdowns. Oh, wait. Laughing Bullets [via dangerroom]

My God. This was by far the biggest response to a Photoshop contest yet, with entries filling my inbox every minute or so for the past 24 hours. Stop! For the love of everything holy, please stop! I can't take looking at this guy any more! I feel completely dead inside. Consider this the last post focusing on Greg Packer on Gizmodo unless he invents a new laptop or something. Below, punish yourself with over 50 of the most warped and unsettling Photoshops your precious eyes will ever see. I'm sorry in advance.

The Xda "Helen" from O2 has made its way onto the forums and it's looking HOT (yeah, we thought we'd go all summer car commercial on you, turn things up a notch). A slider running Windows Mobile 6 Pro, the Helen clocks in at 520MHz with 64MB of RAM. Micro SD compliments a handy 256MB of built-in memory, the 2MP/3MP cameras are nice, and the quad band GSM and EDGE with limited 3G support and Wi-Fi is necessary. The FM tuner? Maybe overkill. The only uncertainty is whether we'll see a stylus to navigate WM6 Pro. Slider+stylus=evidence that smartphones are getting way more/less geeky every day. REVEALED: O2 Helen [via newlaunches]

The Lawnchair is a way to bring the outside into your...outside. Its 25lb base is constructed from steel, rubber and felt. From there, the process works like a Chia Pet. You "upholster" the chair by adding sod, and a "built-in moisturizing" system (translation: garden hose hooked to tubing) keeps the grass hydrated when your sweat alone can't cut the mustard. Chia Pet Lawnchair grooming was not covered, but for those looking for more permanent fixtures, the base can be constructed of concrete . While the Lawnchair isn't for sale at the moment, it's more than just a concept. Bookmark the product page, and you can be the first on your block who never let's their dog "go on the lawn". Product Page [via geekologie]

Other than waiting outside an Apple or AT&T store, what could be better on a brilliant sunny Friday than going to the beach to use one of these Portable Pillows with F