We got our audio jack removed and now that space is left empty for fancy holes,Really Cheep idea Tim cook 
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iPhone 7's Secondary Speaker Holes May Be Purely Cosmetic
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According to Tim Cook you don't know what you want until they give it to you. So, apparently none of you knew you wanted a fake speaker. "Your Welcome"- Tim Cook
Hardware is hardware. And some of what Samsung is doing there these days is impressive. But at the end of the day it's still running Android. Lipstick on a pig.
Gods damnit, if that's true, I'm finally jumping ship to Android. i am so sick of this crap. Over the last year, half the production people I work with switched and they couldn't be happier.
Maybe it'll be another feature they save only for the 5.5" iPhone?
This site is called "macrumors" why do people's feelings get hurt when we speculate on "rumors"? Apple has a current track record of deleriving us half baked products
Unfortunately, most people commenting on this non-story don't understand acoustics. 2 speakers would be mere marketing with no substance. The many "advantages" of the competition are distinctions without a difference, and just mean that they are hoping to create marketing hype rather than providing real value. What everyone is missing is that the real advantage of Apple products is the simplicity of setting up an ecosystem where all of the machines that are supposed to make your work and life easier actually do that. It's in the way they seamlessly work together, the ease of use, simplicity of tasks, freedom of organization that they provide the user, not the me-too gimmicks of the mediocre.
Except when you buy the real deal which is what I thought Apple was?Nothing new here.
Even cars have dual exhaust exits but only one with an actual exhaust pipe...
Age of the looks fellas...
Stereo sound with 1 inch separation would have been just awesome, no!?
Nothing new here.
Even cars have dual exhaust exits but only one with an actual exhaust pipe...
Age of the looks fellas...
That's gotta be a fake AMG no?
It's possible they will offer a upgraded model for a extra $100 that will include the extra speaker. HaHa this is too funny, or is it just sad for us iphone owners.
They really want you to know that it's a POS.Nothing new here.
Even cars have dual exhaust exits but only one with an actual exhaust pipe...
Age of the looks fellas...
The easiest way to tell if something is an EV from a distance is to just look for a tailpipe. If any are present, it's a POS. If there's not, it's an EV (which doesn't rule out the possibility that it's also a POS, but it does reduce the probability to be less than 100%.)
Wow. Way to make a lackluster biennial update even less compelling.
So Apple is drilling holes just for the hell of it, and removed the headphone jack just to piss people off because they want to sell fewer, not more phones. Yeah that all makes perfect sense.
If the new design is verified, the metal surrounding the lens is part of the whole unibody, whereas earlier it was a steel/chrome ring(which IMHO, looked much better ). The current one looks ugly in comparison.
The holes will make the battery last longer and help to make it more waterproof and make the audio better quality, because they're digital holes.
IMO you are taking that sentiment too far. Of course materials will be altered and ornamental bits will be added for aesthetics. The iPhone 5 had the same holes (they weren't all microphones). The 15-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook have speaker grille holes that don't affect acoustics. They're their height and width so they line up with the keyboard and look tidy. Sometimes engineering makes things asymmetrical or ugly in order to function; I don't think it's untrue to follow up and make things neat.
Both are functional there be a pipe there! LolNothing new here.
Even cars have dual exhaust exits but only one with an actual exhaust pipe...
Age of the looks fellas...
That would be truly pathetic. The phone as it is, looks bad.
That was my first thought as well. Jony must have been hands-off on this if it's true.
I don't mind speculation on rumors: The iPhone 7 will likely remove the headphone jack next month. Fine.
I just think it's irrational, premature, and short-sighted to take offense when we only know the cons and not the pros of a design choice. I'm reacting to "Slap in the face" and other sentiments of hurt feelings from others getting worked up on incomplete information.
Yes. There are three benefits that I'm aware of: (1) potentially better volume, (2) potentially better sound quality as the result of more resonant space, and (3) avoidance of an issue where sound is muffled because one speaker is covered (e.g., by a thumb).