How has it gone for everyone else? I got mine right around 11am(est) and plugged in and was ready to go. No waiting inline, No waiting for activation, everything was smooth!
Got mine at 10:30. Pop-up said the servers were busy and it couldn't activate right now. Set it to restore from back up and it was activated before the restore finished.
Ill be honest, I was sweating bullets this week with all the crap going on with AT&T but at the end of they day they did indeed deliver, at least for me. I got the phone today at 12:30 PM EST and they knocked the $200 off. A very satisfied customer indeed.
Experience was great, not knowing when it would come was the hardest part (had some fun tracking planes and such in the meantime).
Arrived at 9:45 AM. No wait for activation, restore from backup was 10 minutes if that and sync was under a half hour (A movie, 200 songs, and around 100 apps).