When the iPhone launched last year, it didn’t actually go on sale until 6PM.  Reports are being leaked out that at&t managers have received a memo stipulating that the sales begin at 8AM.  No specific time zone is listed, so we are left to assume that it will be 8AM local time.

This decision is likely based on the draconian activision policy being instituted, you have to activate in the store when you buy.  Purchase times will go from 5 minutes to upwards of 20 – 25 minutes, meaning if they wait to actually start selling the phones till six, it will drastically cut down on the actual sales numbers for the launch day.

This is good news for me, since I will just saunter over to an apple store during the work day and get my phone before the after work crowds form.