[drnezzy (Unverified) Posted Jun 7th 2007 12:17AM]

I don't want to get killed for this, but I really haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere, and ever since I watched the first clips, I've had the same question: Does anyone else think that the phone in the commercials isn't actually being used?

Not to say that it won't perform well when it's released, but wouldn't it make sense for Apple to have a pre-created show of sorts that will show off the system without a single hiccup (or smudge)? Matching up the touching and turning with the "movie" on the phone wouldn't be too difficult, and still shows off what the phone is going to be capable of.

If that were the case, could the Flash portion of the NYT site have been included merely by accident? Just want to see what other people think about this.

[MacVicta (Unverified) Posted Jun 7th 2007 1:12AM]

"Does anyone else think that the phone in the commercials isn't actually being used?"

I'm sure everyone asked themselves that question. Most can't believe that it performs so flawlessly.

I think if that were the case, drnezzy, Apple would be required to state somewhere in the ad that what we're watching is a simulated image.

It's also not in Apple's best interest to promise us something that won't be delivered. If anything they should be trying to level these high expectations. For users to spend their money on iPhones only for it to move sluggishly would be the last thing they need.

I believe it's real. I never doubted it was real. It moved as fluidly during the Macworld keynote and that was six months ago. Frankly, for such a price and the fact that it's an Apple product, I expected no less than what I see.

As for smudges, if the fingers are well cleaned along with the screen itself, you'd be hard pressed to see imperfections especially with the backlight on. Other than that, I've been keeping an eye out for initial accounts of usage. It seems the screen won't be the fingerprint magnet we all feared (and hoped for some of you) based on what I'm reading.

"And to answer the most-asked question of all: how smudgy does the screen get? 'Throughout use the phone screen never got messy or smudged. The outside seemed to absorb fingerprints,' responded Felix K. 'My customer definitely touched it every which way, too. We both had clean fingers. It had a very clear, non-glossy screen. The light in Balthazar is always indirect though so that might not apply in sunlight.'"

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/06/06/ars-reader-plays-with-iphone-describes-functionality-as-amazing

[Erik (Unverified) Posted Jun 7th 2007 5:04PM]

"Does anyone else think that the phone in the commercials isn't actually being used?"

Are you kidding me? It must kill people to see a phone that dosent freeze, slow-down, or show a error message every 5 minutes.