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Trouble Ahead for Apple’s iPhone 4?

Apple fans may be snapping up the latest iPhone in record numbers, but that doesn’t mean they’re all satisfied customers once they bring their new toys home.

In the first three days of its international launch last week, the iPhone 4 found its way into more than 1.7 million hands around the world. The device, touted by CEO Steve Jobs as the “biggest leap” yet from the original iPhone, has had the most successful launch in Apple’s history, the company said.

But the otherwise impressive launch has been marred by complaints from customers that holding the phone in a certain way blocks the external antenna, leading to dropped calls and reception issues.

[Thanks: http://abcnews.go.com]

Apple iWork Coming to the iPhone? Not So Fast

A series of leaked screenshots depict what appears to be a version of Apple’s iWork productivity suite for the iPhone. The 9 to 5 Mac blog received a dozen screenshots of the alleged Pages app for iPhone and iPod touch devices from an unnamed source, but there are several clues they could be fake.

iWork is Apple’s response to Microsoft’s Office suite, and the company introduced in April a $10 mobile version of iWork exclusively for the iPad. iWork brings together three separate apps: Pages for word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets, and Keynote for presentations.

Rumors of an iPhone version of iWork first appeared in early June, when an Apple iOS4 support document showed a screenshot with an “open in Keynote” menu option, part of the Mail app’s capability to open documents with external applications. The screenshot was later removed.

A couple of fuzzy screenshots resurfaced a few weeks later, but in the typical blurry-leaked photos style (can’t leakers get a better camera?) they were dismissed.

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