Brand new iphone 4 - NO SOUND

I bought my iPhone 4 (Operating system is 4.1 and the modem baseband is 5.14.02.)a week ago in NY Apple store. I bought it w/o an AT&T contract, since I live overseas.
Since the first use, I couldn't hear any audio coming out of the iphone. Tried changing the sound setting, sound button, restored my iphone usinf iTunes and even tried DFU. Nothing worked, still no sound.
A few important notes for understanding the exact problem:
1. When I connect headphones, there's no sound as well, however the iphone recognizes headphones are connected.
2. When I press the home button for a few seconds and voice control comes on, instead of a short beep there's a short vibration.
3. When I connect my phone via Blutooth to my computer, all sounds work fine through the computer speakers.
This is very frustrating.
What should I do?
Thanks in advance,
Shelly.

Thank you for all your answers, however....
1. My iPhone is not hacked.
2. The iPhone does distinguish between a plugged earphone situation and a speaker one, therefore can't be that it doesn't know if the earphones are plugged in or not. Plus there is NO sound when I plug the earphones in.
3. I will not be returning my iPhone, since there's going to be an unlock pretty soon.
Any other ideas..?
Thanx,
Shelly

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