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iPhone 7's Secondary Speaker Holes May Be Purely Cosmetic
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Double the volume obviously.
I doubt it's an actual speaker. By now everyone should have learned to take their hopes and expectations.. and lower them.
Apple is not drilling holes for cosmetics. There is a purpose if not to house another speaker but for some type of acoustic purpose.
so they removed the jack, and put fake speaker in its place. How NICE
Removing a hole as a feature, and filling it up with emptiness? Now, that is interesting.
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Please enlighten us and Apple to how you would overcome the limits of technology and physics...
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
My guess: they'll "thinner" it away. Everyone seems to be expecting something tangible to replace something tangible being ejected. But I think they'll just thin the device so they can have their 8 seconds of spin at the big reveal.
But I'll hope right with you that something new and great goes there.
And they said we don't innovate: symmetry ftw. 
So why tf did they remove the headphone jack???
Finally someone says it! I've never watched anything longer than 10 secs in portrait mode. So 2 speakers on one side in landscape mode isn't really useful at all...
Wow its look good. Appreciated.!
While multiple sources and leaked components have pointed towards iPhone 7 models having dual speakers, which could very well be the case, a new design drawing spotted by French website NWE suggests the additional holes may be purely cosmetic to give the bottom edge a symmetrical design.
The text in the documents refers to the area that occupies the 3.5mm headphone jack on current iPhones as having simply a microphone and microphone mesh, with no mention of a speaker in that location. Most of the secondary holes would be non-functional, except for the one furthest to the right, which would double as a microphone.
The veracity of the photo cannot be confirmed, and the rumor conflicts with some previous reports, but at least one previous iPhone 7 design drawing has depicted the left speaker grille as ornamental. In the photos, the secondary holes are not cut all the way through except for what would be normally be the microphone hole.
The inclusion of dual speakers or lack thereof will be known for certain in less than a month. Apple is expected to announce the tentatively named iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus on September 7, likely followed by pre-orders on September 9 and retail availability on September 16 in first-wave launch countries.
Article Link: iPhone 7's Secondary Speaker Holes May Be Purely Cosmetic
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
This would not be new for Apple. Didn't iPhone 4 appear to have dual speakers cosmetically but only one actual speaker? Seems like I recall something else too that had the same appearance of dual speakers but only had one? Maybe one of the iPad models?
I will wait until i can see the real thing, then i will unleash my inner child if necessary.
Maybe the "symmetry" is also tactile. I know I find myself feeling around for the bottom of the iPhone in the dark to plug in the lightning cable.
This is so hilariously greedy and anti consumer I almost admire that this is what they're putting out amid falling sales.
I wonder how many Genius Bar appointments will be made for people whose iPhone's "second speaker" isn't working...
Oh boy, that's not very good lol. I feel like the two reasons people were "ok" with the headphone jack being removed was
A) some people thought it was going to add waterproof. Samsung shot that out of the water with their models this year though as they have a headphone jack and water resistance.
B) An extra speaker instead.
If this rumor is true, there's absolutely no reason to remove the headphone jack other than to sell some dongles. Very frustrating honestly.
A) some people thought it was going to add waterproof. Samsung shot that out of the water with their models this year though as they have a headphone jack and water resistance.
B) An extra speaker instead.
If this rumor is true, there's absolutely no reason to remove the headphone jack other than to sell some dongles. Very frustrating honestly.
If this is true I might as well hold on to my 6+ from 2014 and wait for the grand AMOLED 8 in 2017.
Purely decorative speaker holes would give the iPhone an overall fakey image in my opinion. Kinda like the plastic paneling made to look like brick that my Mom used in the kitchen in the 70's (love you Mom).
Please realize that Apple has been putting superfluous "speaker" holes in iPhones on and off for almost 10 years. The iPhone 1 and iPhone 5/5S/5SE all had "cosmetic speaker holes" in them. But now somehow people are disgusted and flabbergasted by it.
He's probably not involved with this what with being busy mining asteroids for some exotic metal to create the new $20,000 Apple Watch 2.
LOL!!
No headphone jack and in replacement ...
No headphone jack and in replacement ...
Exactly, what would the point be to provide stereophonic sound without the distance between speakers. It then is nearly identical to stereophonic mixed down to one output. iPad Pro makes sense because of the spacing between the speakers.