The only way to guage the seriousness of this issue would be to provide an actual number of those affected. Whoever wrote this article should find another career cause journalism ain’t it.
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Several iPhone X Owners Experiencing 'Crackling' or 'Buzzing' Sounds From Earpiece Speaker
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I have the sound off with most of my notifications because if I didn't, my iPhone would become really annoying and not only to me.No one should have their phones at full volume anyway. With all the messages and notifications we get these days, phone sounds are starting to become noise pollution. Put your phone on vibration and be happy! - but by all means, get it replaced if it's interfering with your phone calls
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I don't think Apple would ever release that number.
I think it went over your head...
“The gross margin generated by the iPhone 8 is 59 percent with iPhone 8 Plus selling at $799 and iPhone 8 selling at $699. In Australia, where the iPhone X is sold at $1579, the margin would be about 70 percent using the same cost estimate from Techinsights.” Simple google search.
I like Apple products but you’re giving silly excuses for Apple that it’s okay to charge a phone £1000. My iPad Pro 12.9 2nd gen costs less than that £919. Now, please don’t say they’re different categories, as there are no justification. Samsung Note 8 goes through the same as you mentioned above (minus the iPhone X Face ID as they reported a year 2 ahead of the competition) yet it costs less than it. Your argument is weak. If this continues Apple will charge us for future iPhones £1.5 or even £2k, and you don’t even see it
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You mean like a 1200$ for a phone? Wich its primary function is .... well hearing and talking to people?
How can it not be an issue?? I mean I am sure people would scream scandal if it was Samsung having this "non issue".
Well let the "beta testing" continue
No a phone speaker during a call shouldn't ever crackle
I tried it on all my idevices and could hear hissing at max volume and poor quality playback that could be considered breaking up/crackling, thought from more reports this could be something else and a fault . I don't have it . For me poor audio quality at max volume is the norm from tiny speakers
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I agree , the pricing is becoming stupid, without gains is quality . In some cases backwards steps like intel modems. It's not about quality / value with Cook, it's just profit
Just because idevices do that does not make it "normal". Again, when you spend mega money (because 1200$ is MEGA MONEY) you expect to have better internals....unless you are paying that ammount just for a logo that is.
My 320$ phone might lacks lots of the X cool tech but at least I can hear loud and clear even at max volume.
I tested video and music playback. I agree that a phone speaker at max volume should not have issue during a call.
Im very unimpressed with my phones £1150 price
If you think I'm a blind apple fan, barking up the wrong tree
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She is as quilty of gender as you are of bringing animals into the discussion..... You are creating an issue that is not there.
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I tested video and music playback. I agree that a phone speaker at max volume should not have issue during a call.
Im very unimpressed with my phones £1150 price
If you think I'm a blind apple fan, barking up the wrong tree
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She is as quilty of gender as you are of bringing animals into the discussion..... You are creating an issue that is not there.
Unfortunately, I am not creating an issue. I don’t care about this but what I care is if someone can have an intellectual debate with me. When someone’s mentions something like this, they have a reason for it and waiting for her response.
Customers hear the echo of their cash being trickled into fiscal-free territory.
The one thing I absolutely hate about Apple is that they don't fully knowledge the problem until a couple years later. By then, you most likely would have sold the product. And yet, I keep buying their products lol sigh.
A previous poster had the issue and their replacement also had the issue. This tends to indicate the problem is not with a few dozen out of millions. Just based on the balance of probabilities.
A replacement having the same fault could just be a bad batch, which ended up shipping to a similar location/stockpile etc...
Or could indeed be a bad sign for Apple.
Or could indeed be a bad sign for Apple.
You‘d love to believe everything on the Internet, pay less than the price Apple asks for their hardware and yet expect them to stay in business. Good engineers, designers, marketing guys etc. cost good money. You wouldn‘t want to earn less money yourself in your profession just because your customers „don‘t feel that the price is right“ or „googled the price of components“. Business always goes both ways, and Android makers who cut too many corners just to hit certain price points are going out of business left and right. It‘s that simple.
Lots of little defects on iPhone X. I can't help thinking that it was rushed to manufacture and rushed during manufacture.
I was told by a genius that it was "within factory tolerance" but I could pay for a repair out of my own pocket :\
Honestly... all I can see in this kind of post are people trying to convince themselves that they made a good choice not buying the ipX, or that they do not need it just because they can’t afford it.
[doublepost=1510566928][/doublepost]I’ve personally seen 1k$ speakers making noises when pumped to the limit...
Sometimes I think MacRumors posts these articles to sit back, eat popcorn and read people’s fighting in the comments.
Mine distorts bad when i hear piano tracks. Otherwise its Perfect (podcasts edm charts)
Hmm ...
Hmm ...
Yes, but good design would ensure that speakers couldn't be increased to that level preventing damage and poor sounding output.
Some percentage of new first-gen early adopter devices will always have some issues because not every problem might appear in testing or because some issues only appear in mass manufacturing, leading to slight method tweaks all the time along the lifetime of a product, or some issues appear that rare that the chance to appear in the pre-release test units was so low the issue didn't appear beforehand. Apple is no different and hasn't been in the past.
Don't quite know why this would be a software issue; my guessing is either damaged/not 100% quality speakers, speakers not fixed/glued to the device 100% so it can vibrate a little, speaker grille not fixed 100% or not up to 100% designed quality so parts of or on it vibrate. Speakers need to sit as tight as possible and no parts should move that are designed to not move for perfect quality. And on a $1500 phone (in Germany) I expect it to be perfect, but that's what consumer protection laws and return/repair possibilities are for.
Software could only suppress symptoms by making the speakers less loud so they will move less and cause less unwanted vibration or by possibly filtering out certain frequencies that reverb in the case or on which frequency other parts of the device vibrate that make these noises. Like there probably is a tone you make in the shower that gets really loud because it is exactly on the frequency with which your surrounding resonates. But these would be cosmetic patches to a manufacturing issue.
Don't quite know why this would be a software issue; my guessing is either damaged/not 100% quality speakers, speakers not fixed/glued to the device 100% so it can vibrate a little, speaker grille not fixed 100% or not up to 100% designed quality so parts of or on it vibrate. Speakers need to sit as tight as possible and no parts should move that are designed to not move for perfect quality. And on a $1500 phone (in Germany) I expect it to be perfect, but that's what consumer protection laws and return/repair possibilities are for.
Software could only suppress symptoms by making the speakers less loud so they will move less and cause less unwanted vibration or by possibly filtering out certain frequencies that reverb in the case or on which frequency other parts of the device vibrate that make these noises. Like there probably is a tone you make in the shower that gets really loud because it is exactly on the frequency with which your surrounding resonates. But these would be cosmetic patches to a manufacturing issue.
All the phones I have tested sound like this. Apple Stratford London (All display models),
Covent Garden store all display models. Both mine and my wife's phones sound exactly the same.
Covent Garden store all display models. Both mine and my wife's phones sound exactly the same.