He did get “priority wait-listed” before leaving, which sounds important but which he suspects brings all the authority of a library card from the public library. And he got to play with an iPhone 4 for a bit. His friend the Bigfoot had one reserved and only had to wait in line about three hours (two-thirds of which was before the store opened).

The Macalope hesitates to call the device stunning, but if your predilections swing the technology way, there’s no denying it’s a looker. And, like all the good-looking ones, this one’s .

Turns out Apple’s nifty design choice in putting the antenna on the outside (tip o’ the antlers to ). When the heel of your hand touches the bottom antenna (the phone-cally one), the signal can drop dramatically. Notice the use of

, there’s a simple solution:

Just don’t hold it that way then.