I want this to be a quick post to make people aware of a certain bug/feature in iOS UITableView. For example Skype people are either not aware of it, or just don't know how to fix that. My guess is that they are aware, as you can see that the cells are fading in as if they wanted to hide that:
Even though the cells are being faded in you can see as the top cells get recycled and transformed/animated...