As is necessary on the day of release of a new handset, here’s the obligatory sample video and photo from the device:

Click here to view the embedded video.

(Or watch the same thing on Vimeo, which may or may not look a little bit better.)

The photo test is of some lavender in the garden.  There’s clearly some actual depth-of-field going on, and I was able to touch to move the focus to the foreground flower head, just like the demo at the WWDC keynote:

Year of the Ox and all that, and another unusually (but seasonally) popular photo on my Flickr photostream.