Installing iOS 6

I admit, I have historically been a bit behind when it comes to wireless technology. I didn't get my first cellphone until 2004, and even then, it was one of the previous year's models (Sony Ericcson candy bar phone) that only cost a penny with a 2-year subscription. My next upgrade was a Windows Mobile (it came with Windows Mobile 5, but I quickly upgraded it to Windows Mobile 6) Samsung Blackjack (1)-This was probably a week before the Blackjack 2 phones came out, and I got my Blackjack 2 for a penny. A few years later, I graduated to a genuine Smartphone, one of the smallest android phones ever made, which also had 2 or 3 names, depending on who you ask. It was an HTC Intruder/Aria/Liberty. I got it for a penny (don't act surprised). It ran Android Froyo, which I quickly upgraded to Gingerbread. Then, I graduated to a real smartphone with a real screen and battery, the HTC Inspire (got it for a penny on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, I forget which). It was a single-core processor phone as dual-core processor phones were coming out. It came with Gingerbread. I rooted it and put a custom ROM on it, but I don't think I got ICS on it in the process. Before I had that phone for very long, my new job (at the time - March 2012) got me a phone, and my choices were basically either Blackberry or iPhone 4S. I went with Apple, gave the Inspire to my wife (as hers had been dropped resulting in her camera only taking X-rays instead of photographs), and I made my backup phone my small HTC Aria.
So, although I didn't get it until it had been out for nearly 6 months, I had the latest Apple phone. I am moving up in the world.
Only having my iPhone 4S for 6 months, I know I won't be one of the first to get an iPhone 5. But I am one of the first to get the associated iOS6!
As of yesterday, iOS 6 launched. I checked during the day, and no software update was available on my phone. Last night, it was available, but kept timing out.
This morning, I started downloading it. I had to leave for work, and I knew it would likely not continue to download without wi-fi, so I had to turn on the wireless hotspot feature on my HTC Aria to keep the download going while I drove to work.
It unpacked for a long time, then installed, then rebooted.

It finally finished the reboot. Can't wait to take it for a spin!