Don't try this at home

My girlfriend dropped her 3G in water just last night. After fishing it out immediately, we checked the moisture sensors (in the headphone jack and near the dock connector) and neither was triggered. She really lucked out!

As for whether or not it works, well, we're still letting it dry out. :)

why do ppl always think they need to debunk a bit of good footage or a picture of something seemingly surreal? who cares? if its fake, it looks good. if it's real, awesome. just enjoy the footage, the picture, whatever, for what it is.

Without hard evidence, i'm going to say fake.

But:
@dagamer: it is possible that the air in the free space around the mic/speaker/headphone jack holes prevented water from filling in the phone. Over time, they would, and if you dropped your phone in long ways, the pressure would probably do it, but the back of the phone (where the camera is) is pretty sealed. So it is possible to immerse it in water briefly and remove it without it filling with water.

It's not the immersion in water that would make the iPhone stop working. It's when the water evaporates and leaves minerals on the circuitry. He could rinse it in distilled water and everything should be fine.

My iPhone 3G survived a swim with me in a pool a couple of weekends ago when a 'friend' decided to push me in fully clothed... with iPhone in pocket...

The mic and speaker stopped working for about 12 hours, but it all (miraculously) came back to life eventually!

definitely fake

Could be real.. I dropped my 1g in the toilet.. it acted weird when I first pulled out out but i turned it off, dried it and left it alone for about an hour or so. Worked fine after that.. Never had any problems..

@atothej "whatever makes you say it's a French fellow?"

Because the story has passed from site to site like a Chinese whisper. The fellow was born in Paris but lived in the US for the past 28 years. He is indeed a professional photographer who is hardly likely to have risked his reputation by faking what is a not uncommon occurrence.

The Internet is chock a block with stories of iPhones that have been submerged one way or another and survived - including various YouTube efforts wherein the iPhone is submerged in a sink or under a tap and keeps on going. It's the interior corrosion in a few weeks time that will end its life.

yeah, I don't care if its fake or not, but my 3G didn't survive a drop into the pool.

I'd say it could be real. If you look closely at the video, a few seconds before the iPhone hits the ground of the pool, you can clearly see an iPhone-shaped shadow. It could still be in a waterproof case of course, but a friend of mine had his iPod Touch falling into his vanity basin with clear water, it was submerged for a few seconds but it still worked afterwards.