As if the iPhone and Apple need more problems it has now come to light that the iPhone 3G is being shipped with hair line cracks in its casing.

The finding of these cracks (which show up everywhere on the phone) are leading to another lawsuit aimed at Apple over the iPhone 3G.

Apple Insider has a good write up complete with pictures; take a look here

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