It’s been known since Saturday, May 10th that the Apple online store has a sign on the iPhone, “Currently Unavailable.” Not just the US web site – Our friends in the UK can’t get one either when they want to pull it up.
My prediction: the 3G iphone is coming sooner than once thought, and that will be this week. More specifically, Tuesday May 13th. Yes, I am being bold, but there is no other explanation for the sporadic oddities snapping about. That is – if it isn’t announced on Monday the 12th.
Apple doesn’t miscalculate demand for 
the current iPhone. That’s ridiculous. Some say that Apple is being rarely polite and nice to the would-be purchasers of the 1st gen. iPhone. Don’t want people buying the phone now, when the new one is coming out in a day or two. Sure, that’d be a way to avoid major amounts of disappointed people, throngs of them showing up to return theirs for the new devise. Imagine the craziness if those people and the newbies swarmed in all at once. I don’t get that either – they’re going to sell the 1st generation iPhone anyway. They’d be crazy not to have it on hand for those that still want it as an option.
Tomorrow we’ll see though – Monday is gonna be fun.