If you are such an Apple fanboy that you must have your new 3G iPhone before absolutely everyone else, there is only one place you can go to fulfill that dream; hop a jet and head down to the land of the kiwis, and reap the benefits of the trip down there (48 hours and $5,000 later) and get your iPhone.
Recently, Vodafone NZ announced they will have the iPhone 3G available at their three major locations (Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch) at exactly 0:01 on July 11th (for those of you who don’t do 24 hour clocks, that’s the equivalent of 12:01 a.m.). Thus, the New Zealanders get the iPhone 3G a whole 19 hours before the actual employees of Apple out in Cupertino (its still 5:01 AM Thursday there when the iPhone 3G hits New Zealand).
And hey, maybe you can even get back stateside soon enough to rub it in peoples faces.
Via [Engadget]
The interesting question is whether Apple's iTunes store will be ready 19 hours in advance!
From Vodafone NZ (http://www.vodafone.co.nz/iphone/support/), it seems that the phone has to be activated via iTunes.
Last year, I remember getting Leopard a day in advance, but there was no support on Apple's main site until it had launched in the States.