I got the first defective IPhone 4 in North America... :(

IPhone 4 arrived this morning. The screen has a manufacturing defect in it. It looks like whatever layer get's put down over the backlight is defective. I have dozens of "Bright spots" all over the screen. When I called Apple, the guy told me I am the first defect call they had received. Oh boy, lucky me.
The phone is usable but I can't imagine what it will be like to try and get a service replacement while everybody else is just waiting to get a retail one. Hopefully they reserve part of the new stock for service replacements.
Anybody else get a defective one???

I spoke with a tech support rep who then connected me to a senior adviser since she wasn't sure what to do since it's so new.
The sr. adviser told me since it officially isn't out until tomorrow their computers wouldn't let him create a repair order so I have to call back tomorrow.
Luckily it's not too bad so I can live with it for now I just hope it doesn't get worse.
I also noticed its not just 2 blobs in each corner, the top actually has issues all across which I can easily see with an all white image on screen.
Here's a photo of the lower right corner:
http://elitemrp.net/art/defectiveiphone4screen.jpg
Sorry it's really hard to see in the photo even though I increased the contrast and lowered the brightness a bit. It almost looks like lens flare but it's that blob in the right corner.
I'm curious if this orange/burnt color blobs is the same as the "bright spots" Sg42 is talking about?

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