By way of a ZDNet blog, I learned of “Tryphone” a site that lets you “try out” various new mobile phones online. It currently just has the Apple iPhone, LG Muziq, Blackberry Pearl and Samsung Juke… but of course lets you buy the phone immediately after trying it if you wish. I don’t know that something like this can ever replace the experience of actually holding the phone in your hand, but it’s an interesting idea nonetheless.
Tryphone is okay, but check out GSMLive.ro phone simulators here: http://www.gsmlive.ro/telefoane/Apple/iPhone/simulator. You can see far more of the actual phone (there are also Nokias, SonyEricssons, LGs etc), you can scroll it like the real iPhone, you can search its content!
Oops, sorry for the mistake, you need to delete the period that is at the end of the link. This is the good one: http://www.gsmlive.ro/telefoane/Apple/iPhone/simulator