Don't you have to activate the phone via Apple before you can use it? I imagine regardless of how early you are able to buy an iPhone 4, you won't be able to use it until everyone else can.
Phone comes out on the 24th. If you're going away on the 25th, you can get one.
Yeh GG fat fingers I meant 24th
Then preorder the phone for pickup in the location you will be. Pick it up at the local Apple store when you get there.
No Apple Store in Little Rock Arkansas. Would an AT&T store have issues activating a phonenback there but with a California phone number?