17 hours, and the first batch of phones is already sold out. Only existing Verizon customers could order today, and it looks like quite a few did. Servers crashed under the load just as they tend to do whenever AT&T started accepting orders for a new iPhone.

And 4.2.6 is what all the review units had. Sounds like thats the shipping firmware, and it was posted for anyone doing clean restores of the phone once they get it. Current rumors have 4.3 coming out sometime before February 16th, to allow people to subscribe to The Daily. For now, it's being provided for free, thanks to Verizon sponsoring it.