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Apple sued over iPhone 3G hairline cracks

Chicago (IL) – Next, please: A Long Island resident is suing Apple for not having responded to hairline cracks found in some casings of the iPhone 3G. The new suit adds to previous iPhone complaints over 3G reception issues and false advertising.

Reports of hairline cracks in the iPhone 3G casing started appearing in August, when iPhone 3G owners described the problem, which seemed to affect the back of the handset, edges and the camera lens, in forum posts on Mac-specific websites. Owners of the $299 16 GB white iPhone model where especially upset since dirt made hairline cracks much more visible than it was the case with the black model.

Apple has not responded to these complaints and apparently decided to remain completely mum on the issue. Long island resident Avi Koschitzki felt that only a legal move could convince Apple to respond and filed suit in a New York district court, seeking class-action status. He accuses AT&T and Apple of deliberately ignoring the issue, although many users reported the problem to the company and wrote about it in the Apple Discussion forum.

“Although Apple was and is aware that the iPhones were and are defective, and that consumers have experienced repeated instances of cracked housing, Apple has nevertheless allowed the defectively designed iPhones to be sold to the public,” the filing states.

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Apple sued over hairline cracks in iPhone 3G

Apple, meet lawsuit. Lawsuit, Apple.

The company is facing another lawsuit, this time over the performance of its iPhone 3G on AT&T’s network. But that’s not the real news: what’s notable are added allegations that Apple is ignoring the occurrence of hairline cracks in the handset’s enclosure.

AppleInsider reports:

The 23-page suit, filed in a New York district court by Nassau County resident Avi Koschitzki, joins a chorus of complaints (1, 2, 3, 4) filed earlier this year, each of which charge the iPhone maker and its exclusive US wireless carrier AT&T with misrepresenting the performance of the new touchscreen handset by advertising it as “twice as fast” as its predecessor.

“Based upon information and belief the 3G iPhones demand too much power from the 3G bandwidths and the AT&T infrastructure is insufficient to handle this overwhelming 3G signal based on the high volume of 3G iPhones it and Apple have sold,” Koschitzki’s attorneys wrote.

Apparently, because the 3G network is so overloaded, it’s common for iPhone users to get knocked down to the slower EDGE network after only a few minutes of 3G bliss - regardless one is in a geographical area saturated with 3G network coverage.

But the interesting part is the allegation that several hairline cracks form in the iPhone 3G’s casing at or around the camera module. Some customers have even noticed cracks immediately upon opening their new iPhones’ boxes for the first time, according to the suit.

“Although Apple was and is aware that the iPhones were and are defective, and that consumers have experienced repeated instances of cracked housing, Apple has nevertheless allowed the defectively designed iPhones to be sold to the public,” the document says.

Koschitzki is seeking class-action status on his suit, which names AT&T as a defendant.

[Thanks: http://blogs.zdnet.com]