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An intriguing video from an iPhone 4 user  reveals what appears to be another bug/quirk/fault with Apple’s new handset.

In the demo, Cameron Hunt can stop a web page loading in Safari dead in its tracks just by putting his finger on a certain spot on his iPhone’s case.

Unlike the much publicised ‘grip of death‘ this doesn’t involve holding the phone in a certain way – it seems that a single finger on the casing will cause the iPhone web content being downloaded.

Cameron goes on to say that the fault is erratic, and the comments on his vimeo page suggest that its something that only some users are suffering.

Check out the video below and drop us a line if you’re getting the same thing.

No fix in sight for the grip of death

Elsewhere, Gizmodo are reporting that AppleCare are acknowledging that the iPhone 4 update won’t solve the antenna problem that has been attracting so much attention over the past few weeks:

AppleCare has confirmed what we already knew: The incoming software update won’t fix the iPhone 4′s transmission and reception problems. They acknowledged the antenna problem exists, offering the same solution as before: Buy a case or hold the iPhone differently…

…While we already knew about it, the official AppleCare response is sad news. Like Gizmodo reader and former RF engineer for HP Medical products Gordon Cook said in a recent email: “Wrapping a metal antenna around a phone is simply asking for trouble, and Apple may in fact have realized too late that they had a real can of worms, so chose to release what they had instead of enduring a lengthy shipping delay. Now, after millions of phones shipped, and given the alternatives, screwing with the software is the only realistic way of fixing this, even if it’s mostly cosmetic.”

iPhone coverage “inconsistent”

Further evidence of the iPhone 4′s wobbly reception issues can be seen in this interesting iPhone 4 reception test which the author concludes that “the iPhone 4 3G cell signal reception is really inconsistent.”

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