Let's face it. Today and tomorrow will be about one thing. The iPhone. And not just in the tech blogs. As we saw earlier, the mainstream press has got iPhone Fever, too, although US stalwarts Mossberg, Pogue and Baig didn't fall over themselves with gushing praise like they did last year.

So, ahead of tomorrow's Second Coming, what do we know? Here's a roundup of the latest leaks and announcements.

First, we know that the handset is already in the wild. Gadget Lab's all-action playboy, Danny Dumas, showed us the World's first unboxing, and the Boy Genius Report went one better with a video of an iPhone sneaked to them by an Apple insider.

Software, too, has started to trickle out. ITunes 7.7 is already available from both the Apple website and via Software Update, and some of the new features are live (App Store: Yes. iPhone 2.0 OS: No). And Mobile Me, the replacement for the withering dotmac service, is already available for download (for Mac users, at least), and, for some, already live.

One of our own contacts, Kyle Wiens from iFixit, had a 3G iPhone flashed at him in the queue outside a New Zealand store, doubtless accompanied by the words "na-na na na-na". Kyle mailed me from the line last night, where he's waiting to get a phone to tear apart and photograph for our pleasure:

Someone came by the line in NZ with a 3G iPhone to show off. I'm guessing it's one of the demo units... I'm told the screws are easily visible, and look like #00 Philips. We're #4 in line, so we'll have our own soon enough.

Soules flew in from California on Wednesday afternoon and quickly grabbed a spot in line [...] "hopefully, at 12.30am, I will be pulling [the device] apart.

This mania will doubtless continue until the weekend. Lines are already forming in the US, and Gear Diary has a blog covering the goings on outside Apple's flagship glass cube in New York.

To many, it might seem rather pointless, especially after the launch of the original iPhone: When the queues dispersed, customers were able to walk in and just buy one, no waiting required. What these naysayers miss, though, is the camaraderie and carnival atmosphere amongst the Apple fans. As Gear Diary's Wayne Schulz says:

It seems more likely that this line is some type of odd family picnic.