i went to best buy the other day and strangely, the two iphones (at their own booth in the cellphone department) were tethered but completely functional. just about every other android phone was tethered the same way but had a dummy screen.

i can't imagine that the vendors requested that the units be fake (why would you not want a working demo?) so it must be best buy that did this. yet the iphones were more expensive and possibly fragile than any of the other android phones there and they were real.