No, Phil doesn’t have a front facing camera on his iPhone

For those of you who’s attention was grabbed by the images above during the presentation of MobileMe by Phil Schiller, whatever was on the top of his iPhone is definitely not a front-facing camera. A front-facing camera was one of many features that missed the iPhone 3G boat, much to the dismay of many Apple fanboys and girls. At 1:18:28 in the stream of the Keynote, Phil Schiller is seen demonstrating MobileMe on the iPhone, when, strangely, some sort of gunk (I really don’t want to know what it actually is) appears on the top of Phil’s iPhone. Many people jumped to the conclusion that this stuff was an effort to conceal front facing cameras on the 3G iPhone, but, sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, it definitely most certainly is not. Interestingly, the mysterious unnamed substance is only seen on the iPhone at that one time, so it could just be an error in the video, not an actual occurrence. Whatever it is, it is definitely not one of the missing features of iPhone 2.0.

Via [Engadget]