Apple replaced the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 with a fake speaker grill

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The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus went on sale around the world on Friday.

That means some people have started to buy the phones only to immediately disassemble them, like the team at iFixit did early on Friday morning.

They bought an iPhone 7 Plus in Australia, as soon as it went on sale, and started taking it apart. And their teardown reveals what's in place of the headphone jack that Apple removed.

In short: nothing complicated, just some plastic. No speaker, and no electronics.

"In place of the headphone jack, we find a component that seems to channel sound from outside the phone into the microphone... or from the Taptic Engine out," they write.

Yep — in the place where the headphone jack used to be there's a piece of molded plastic. "No fancy electronics here, just some well-designed acoustics and molded plastic," iFixit writes.

http://www.thisisinsider.com/apple-...lastic-where-headphone-jack-used-to-be-2016-9

 

[Imp]

Structural integrity? Yo?

 

[PottedMeat]

truly courageous

 

[Printer Bandit]

symmetry for those with OCD

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Anyone that buys an Apple product deserves what they get. Or what they don't get.

 

[shortylickens]

symmetry for those with OCD

FUCK YOUR SYMMETRY!!

 

[Imp]

Is Natalie Dormer's face really that asymmetric? She is hot.

 

[shortylickens]

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Is Natalie Dormer's face really that asymmetric? She is hot.

Yep, she's famous for having a crooked smile. It's her thing and it works. She's one of those women that looks better than the sum of her parts.

 

[Skeeedunt]

Half the ports are fake and it still works better than Android. Sad

 

[BudAshes]

But does it catch fire and blow up. Because that's really what I'm looking for in phone these days.

 

[freeskier93]

The holes and plastic piece are a barometric vent.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/16/1...lastic-behind-where-headphone-jack-used-to-be

 

[John Connor]

Anyone that buys an Apple product deserves what they get. Or what they don't get.

QFT.

 

[LikeLinus]

But does it catch fire and blow up.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/02/iphone-6-fire-cycling-fall-australia/

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...-after-iphone-catches-fire-mid-flight-n543516

http://www.phonearena.com/news/iPhone-6-Plus-catches-fire-in-mans-bed_id77021

Yes, yes they do.