Here’s a fun one: Tap the microphone image in the Voice Memos application in iPhone OS 3.0 and the virtual VU meter will respond.
The peak light will even flash red, just like a real recorder attached to a real mic.
Blowing into the screen will do nothing, however.

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Hey, it looks like Bluetooth support will coming sooner than I expected:
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/07/01/iphone-os-3-1-features-non-destructive-video-editing-voice-control-over-bluetooth-and-more/
-systemsboy
Good spot. So they’ve made the mic ‘react’ in the same way as the real world ribbon designs it’s been modelled on.
Wonder how it responds to Tay Zonday-styled ‘moving away from the mic to breathe in’ manoeuvres?
Ha!
I have no idea what that means.
-systemsboy