Monday Fun Video: Aqua iPhone or Human Farce?
Either an iPhone 3GS was dropped in a pool and kept on recording, or as Richard Lai demonstrates in this second video [NSFW-L] someone was smart enough to cover it in plastic wrap first.
You can decide for yourselves, but we’re not letting our iPhone’s anywhere near water without full deep sea gear and a mini sub…
[Thanks everyone who sent this in!]
June 29th, 2009 at 6:26 am
I’m not quite calling bs on this… but I’d be a bit more worked up than that guy was if I dropped my brand new iPhone in a pool.
What I mean is I’d be a tad bit more explicit than he was as he calmly commented “it still freakin works.”
June 29th, 2009 at 6:54 am
@Derek
Maybe, but you have to take his lifestyle into consideration.
Maybe hes religious and doesnt swear or get upset easily. Or maybe there were kids around.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Im gonna call total shenanigans.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Looks real to me
June 29th, 2009 at 8:37 am
lol @ Minisub
June 29th, 2009 at 8:45 am
@ iShirk… What does being religious have to do with it? Sure he might not want to use foul language if there were kids around… but that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t have emotion in his voice when he drops a brand new $700 object in the pool.
Even the most even keeled people show concern in their voices in the midst of extreme circumstances.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:48 am
It’s only a phone, there are millions just like it
June 29th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Lol please only apple fanboys could believe this…http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/iphone-3gs-water-resistant-video-fake – there you have it. FAKED
June 29th, 2009 at 11:44 am
The camera strap was the first thing I noticed, and it was later mentioned on the link from @Mr E. Glad I caught that.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
“we’re not letting our iPhone’s anywhere near water….”
Why the apostrophe? Surely you meant “we’re not letting our iPhones anywhere near water….”
June 29th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I believe it. I’ve dropped a (different) phone in a pool before and it still worked. I wouldn’t doubt that the iPhone would work either.
And a big LOL to the people who think the video is fake just because the guy isn’t cursing at the top of his lungs. Please reenact this video just so I can see how a “normal” person would respond.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
@Sean
I’ll get right on that. In the meantime, why don’t you go light $700 on fire to see if you would get upset.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
@sean nilay patel (iirc) of endgadgets iPhone didnt fair to well with water