While all of you iPhone owners are busily pushing the envelope with your new gadget, taking calls, pinching images and locating sushi bars, some people are actually coming up with useful, critical applications. No, not hacking it. I mean making it the perfect friend for the Peeping Tom in you. At least according to this story by one of our readers.
While relaxing with my iPhone, listening to some tunes, I accidentally started up the camera app. I didn't think much of it and was about to go back to the iPod functions when I noticed a pretty girl on the preview screen. I looked over to her and everyone else on the bus and got the impression that everyone thought I just had an iPod. Since the camera hole was so small and because iPhone pictures don't make a noise I was able to snag a couple of pics of this lovely lady next to me to fawn over on my private time (maybe I should work for Geek Squad.) The iPhone was just so perfect for the task. You could even take the picture with a pinky or ring finger while holding the device unsuspectingly in your lap. Just something us iPhone people can enjoy, until they update the iPhone and put a corny loud, doorbell noise whenever you take a pic.
So today, the good news is that the iPhone is already the perfect Peeping Phone out of the box because people think it is an iPod and everybody knows iPods have no cameras. The bad news will violently arrive when someone standing behind you sees your obsession with other people's girlfriend knickers.
[Thanks Xavier Allain for sharing the experience and the photoshopped image]











Comments
I notice the iPhone in that picture is makin' the O face. O, O, you know what I'm talkin' about...O.
Well, the reasons to buy the Iphone are quickly far surpassing the reasons to wait for V2. There's no camera shutter sound when taking pictures?
There's always a sound when I take pictures....
Maybe it has something to do with having the earphones in.
Why is that kid taking a picture of the ground when there's a hot chick in a miniskirt standing there? Sheesh.
now this kind of iphone news article is something I can ... get ... behind (doctor evil snikker)
And just where is this picture? She looks like a poor-man's Scarlett Johansson, and I wanna see the panties.
He is taking a picture of the ground - not the cooter.
just put it on vibrate, there will be no shutter sound.
The RAZR V3 is a much better phone to upskirt with so I am told. It's much smaller and can take images with the clamshell closed. Of course they are only VGA and not 2MP like the IPhone.
@Bob_Dobbs: Umm...because the ground is more interesting to look at.
Face like a schnauzer.
So anyone know if they will put the camera on the front panel in ver2 for video conferencing?
kaiser - LOL i know that O face
Is this really the place to encourage perverts to further denigrate women? I mean, does this girl he took pictures of really want him masturbating over her? I seriously doubt it. It's fine to glance at a woman, remember her, whatever. But take pictures of her? She's a fucking human being and she deserves privacy. So do all women. Gizmodo, you disappoint me.
@clanggedin:
The krzr can do the job ;)
@Mark 2000:
let me know if this comment gets you laid...i might want to try it out. I KEEED
Hey after the kid takes the picture he's gotta turn the phone around so iPhone can get some love too. Why do you guys thinks iPhone is going "OOOO..." hehe...
I'm gonna have to agree with Mark. Shame on you perverts. I guess it doesn't help that I'm still makin' the o face.
I agree with Mark 2000 on this one. Taking pictures up women's skirts is just plain wrong. I mean, you're just wasting your time if you don't get video. A meat mitt in motion is WAY better than a stationary sausage sleeve. Pictures - sheesh. How sophmoric!
it wouldn't help either asking for thos photos on a galery, right? hehehe
Next up: iPhone accidentally takes pictures from the inside of Giz editor's pants.
@Munch:
"meat mitt" now that makes give the O face LOL
I don't mind the iPhone news, but when are you guys gonna stop with this retarded jesusphone nonsense.
I bet it won't work too well with slow shutter speed too blurry.
Am I the only person who already uses his existing cell phone camera to take pictures secretly? It's a little hard to aim the lens while you're holding the phone up to your ear, but no one knows you're taking a picture. I have done this more times than I care to count, or admit to, for that matter.
@JEFF J-NJ
I'm sure alot of people would know you are taking a picture if you are pretending to talk on the phone with your head under some girls skirt. You must hang around alot of drunks if they don't notice lol.
"Fawn over" in your private time... yeah right.
Xavier (and some of you Gizmodo readers) need to get a life.
It's just one option setting in WM6 (though it's buried 8 menus deep) to disable the shutter sound and the iPhone is pretty obviously not an iPod even to the non-technical.
@IAMNOTDRTRAN
What's wrong if Jesus Diaz wants to name it after himself?
That is about four different kinds of creepy.
Maybe if you spent some of that cash taking a girl out instead of buying mental masturbation machines you could get a little REAL action and not lower yourself, well, pretty much into the lower rungs of humanity.
@foofighter28: I'm married, dude. I have at least one guaranteed sexual encounter a week. How much sexual intercourse do you get from your attitude? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm talking to people who think its cool to jerk off to secret pictures of women who'd never be bother with them. You know what? When you put it that way *I'm the loser*!
Surprisingly, you indeed hear no sound when taking a picture with the headphones plugged in. I wonder if a software update can even fix that if the speaker is turned off whenever the headphones are plugged in. But I'm not a hardware guy...
Let me know when they make a version that steals people's souls....
@Mark 2000: You've got some issues you should deal with, bro.
@Mark 2000:
mark i'm married with 3 kids so i think i had at least 3 encounters ;) ; dont take the internet so seriously...everyone fed off your responses and had fun w/ it
She will be easy to photograph if you keep her in the cage! High five!!!
I don't find it wrong or degrading to take pictures of random people, but I find it pretty stupid. Instead of taking pictures of girls you wish you were with, why not try to actually get one to take home with you.
Enough with the JesusPhone references.
JesusPhoneOnAPogoStick!
I have two kids, but I've never gotten laid? WTH???
@JEFF J-NJ - the funniest thing about apple fanboys is that they think that completely ordinary things are only possible on apple products, and that apple invented everything. you can take pictures with no shutter sound??! and, dude, you can, like, make phone calls with the iphone?!?! incredible!!
@manyou07:
I heard that LG and Motorola are now making phones that also make phone calls. Just more companies that are jealous of Apples innovation and stealing their ideas. I bet PC's are going to start using Intel chips now that Apple came up with the idea.
Everything old is new again when Apple does? Oh yeah, I guess that's always been the case. It's a camera phone, people, just like any other that has been around for the last 8 years! Nothing here that can't be done with any other phone - except some prick who thinks he's bragging by talking about his iPhone.
Ideas and discussions like this is what makes being a college aged female tech/gadget enthusiast increasingly hard. Not only does it make enjoying technology difficult but makes being taken seriously in careers involving technology near impossible.
I also have a sense of humor towards these things and will laugh at most things like this, but as an fyi: an easy fix to entice more women into technology would be to stop discouraging us.
Do guys really want to get their iphone broken when they try this on the wrong woman (or perhaps better said, try it on the RIGHT woman) and she smacks you so hard that you drop your iphone? Or perhaps she takes your iphone and throws it into traffic, into the nearest patch of water, in your face?
Wow, this is another game changer (maybe even a paradigm shift) of the iPhone, taking photos was never before possible on a mobile phone but now, hail the Jesus Phone, it is.
Thank you Steven Jobs, thank you fans.
That's not a kid, it's a midget.
Gizmodo ... you continue to lower your standards.
What's the difference between a peeping tom and a pickpocket?
A pickpocket snatches watches.
Haha! I'm amused.
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