Screen Grabs: Dahlia Malloy can't decide how to hold her iPhone

Screen grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com.

Dahlia Malloy certainly has plenty of issues on her mind -- she's living a false life as Cherien Rich, she's married to a compulsive liar and con man played by Eddie Izzard, and she's this close to going back to jail -- but that still doesn't explain why she didn't notice her phone was upside down on last night's episode of The Riches. Making matters worse, she was talking on it the right way up earlier in the show, which means we're betting Minnie Driver did this on purpose to get our attention. That's got to be it, right? Second grab after the break -- check out that reaction to browsing at EDGE speeds.

[Thanks, Gadgnormous]

"Please don't make me use the mail client again!"

[Argot @ Apr 10th 2008 2:04AM]

Wow, breaking news!

[fred @ Apr 10th 2008 2:35AM]

"Apple screen grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of Apple products in today's movies and TV. Send in your Apple sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com. Non Apple products will be tossed in from time to time to make it seem like we really want to see other companies devices, but 99.9% of the example will only be for Apple."

Fixed.

[snitch @ Apr 10th 2008 3:08AM]

For last freaking time, they know they're holding it the wrong way!!!!!!!!!! i'ts just so people don't see the dam apple logo Gzzzzzz

[Tim @ Apr 10th 2008 9:59AM]

seriously, can the Screen Grabs feature die already? It was good for a few things like the satellite phone on Lost, but unless its showing some heretofore unseen tech, why bother?

[Jeff @ Apr 10th 2008 2:05AM]

Look! That guy is holding the iPhone the wrong way!!! BURN THEM AT THE STEAK!

[nerdtalker @ Apr 10th 2008 2:07AM]

Death by steaks, yes. Tasty indeed.

Death by burning at the stake, no. Not tasty.

[Chuckles McGee @ Apr 10th 2008 2:08AM]

No, no, I'll eat the delicious T-bone steak, let's burn her at the stake instead. Don't waste food.

[Jeff @ Apr 10th 2008 2:48AM]

I got confused yes....that second picture reminded me of a huge chunk of cow.

[Andrei @ Apr 10th 2008 6:51AM]

Yes, just like our friend Izzard would say.. DEATH BY TRAY IT SHALL BE!!!

[Ryan Trevisol @ Apr 10th 2008 2:42PM]

If they arrange the wood just right, burned at the stake could turn YOU into steak.

[patsy @ Apr 10th 2008 8:20AM]

Come now, Minnie's not that bad!

[Tamer Brad @ Apr 10th 2008 2:08AM]

hahaha holy shit that person is holding an iphone in a manner it was not intended to be held in, i better write a news post on engadget about this

[craig#2 @ Apr 10th 2008 2:10AM]

That isn't even an iPhone in the second picture..

[MuffinsPancakesMD @ Apr 10th 2008 2:13AM]

Whoops nevermind

[h_2_o @ Apr 10th 2008 2:13AM]

so when will engadget start having news flash updates when they see someone on the street using an iphone or have any other apple product. come on enough is enough already who really gives a piss if some chick on a tv show has a freaking iphone.

[Chirag Patnaik @ Apr 10th 2008 2:13AM]

New template.. huh! looks cool...

[KangMin @ Apr 10th 2008 2:13AM]

woah! a crazy new layout!! UPDATE!!!

[z3r0D @ Apr 10th 2008 2:16AM]

For some reason, it reminds me of AOL...

[optV @ Apr 10th 2008 2:31AM]

The new layout is horribly ugly! What happened to the awesome *in your face t-mobile* magenta?

[collide007 @ Apr 10th 2008 3:12AM]

It aint ugly, its clean and fresh, vast improvement to the old one, its got a much more 'organised feel to it.

[trongod @ Apr 10th 2008 2:15AM]

Is this even news worthy? I'm guessing if your spending all your time on spotting stuff like this you don't use your penis a whole lot do you?

[Paul @ Apr 10th 2008 2:42AM]

Its only because you're such Apple fanboys that you care so much (wot not upside down Nokia screen grabs).

BTW if so many people make this mistake maybe the things not as intuitive as its said to be?

[Oskin @ Apr 10th 2008 1:36PM]

My guess is if they we're actually using the phone they would probably notice that its upside down!

[A.C.E.R. @ Apr 10th 2008 2:58AM]

This series of articles is even worse than Crap Gadget.

[collide007 @ Apr 10th 2008 3:05AM]

Will you guys quit bitching and whining, its just a quirky fun series, its not like they doing this instead of news, you get that too.

[collide007 @ Apr 10th 2008 3:08AM]

And if you recall they chronicled a razr not long ago, its not that they are deliberately looking for apple products, its just the iPhone is very popular, despite if you think its unworthy of being so, that its turning up often.

[Matthew @ Apr 10th 2008 5:57AM]

If by fun you mean annoying and stupid, then you are correct.

[Al @ Apr 10th 2008 3:33AM]

I swear 75% of the time I pull mine out of my pocket it is upside down. It's really hard to tell until you start feeling around the edges for what buttons are where. I would actually be really excited if they made it less vertically symmetrical for the next rev :)

[ill trooper @ Apr 10th 2008 4:30AM]

This Upside-down iPhone Syndrome was occurring almost weekly on NBC's 'Journeyman' last season too... Plus, it looks ten pounds heavier.

[supermeerkat @ Apr 10th 2008 4:32AM]

I remember the days when Eddie Izzard used to be funny. It must be at least a decade ago now, in the days of Glorious.....

[joii @ Apr 10th 2008 5:41AM]

ya, it reminds me of a Mac. All clean and crisp. Organized and easy to read through.

[Paul Novak @ Apr 10th 2008 5:59AM]

I applaud you for posting Minnie Driver stories (as long as pictures are included) and encourage you to continue finding such groundbreaking news!

[Sam Zebian @ Apr 10th 2008 6:12AM]

LOL I was watching that the other night and noticed that...

[trumpton @ Apr 10th 2008 6:30AM]

What a great article! Riveting, cutting edge stuff.

[SteveJ @ Apr 10th 2008 7:49AM]

At this point I have to presume that Apple requests these TV shows to have their stars use the iPhone upside down as it gets them free advertising on Engadget.

[holycow @ Apr 10th 2008 8:07AM]

for a second i thought the title said 'Mahalo Daily' and i got a bit excited...

[MEAT! @ Apr 10th 2008 9:33AM]

"Making matters worse, she was talking on it the right way up earlier in the show, which means we're betting Minnie Driver did this on purpose to get our attention."

How did you come to that conclusion? If she didn't understand which way was up, one would expect her to sometimes put it upside down, and sometimes put it right side up.

Christ, I feel as close to a gossiping housewife as a plate of meat can be. This article is plain stupid.

[Valke @ Apr 10th 2008 9:48AM]

That was obviously a joke

[MEAT! @ Apr 10th 2008 10:19AM]

Obviously it's a joke, because it's not like Engadget has [http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/22/charlie-shes-trying-to-tell-you-the-iphones-upside-down/] over-analyzed [http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/screen-grabs-disoriented-time-traveling-hodgman-takes-call-on/] this [http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/screen-grabs-matt-saracen-has-iphone-trouble-is-still-really-c/] before [engadgetmobile.com/2007/11/09/cant-hear-anything-try-turning-that-iphone-around/] or anything.

[James Scott @ Apr 10th 2008 9:44AM]

It's not upside down, it's the new 3g iPhone! Apple is taunting us with it in plain sight!

[Wwhat @ Apr 10th 2008 10:43AM]

Oh dear, you released an apple story without prior consent, expect yourself and your family in quantanamo soonest.