O2 creaks under strain, apparently, of would-be iPhone upgraders

O2 seems not to have realised quite how many people would have the werewithal (and determination) to upgrade from the old iPhone to the new 3G version: we've been seeing reports on Twitter from people all morning saying that they can't get into the upgrade website - to quote iPhone app developer Fraser Speirs,

I can't order my iPhone upgrade because O2 hired the people that Twitter rejected to run their website.

Ed Parson, chief map honcho at Google UK, wants one for all that GPS-ness but calls it a "useless website"

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Then the site came back up - and seems already to have run out of 16-gigabyte models. "BORKED!" groans Mark Simpkins.

And finally our own Jemima Kiss notes that her brother calls it the Chakademus and Pliers upgrade route: "Tease me, Tease me, Tease me baby, till I lose control..."

And that's before we get around to all the commenters on this blog. Go on, share the anger. It'll help. Well, not much, but it's fun.

Update: follow the Twitter fun of it all on Summize. O2 is not getting what you would call a whole lotta love (to continue the musical theme..)

Update: 2.45pm: Ed Parsons says they're now out of stock and asks "Did anybody actually buy one?" Well, did ya?

, while Ian Betteridge that "every attempt to order fails".