Early iPhone 7 adopters might get a hidden surprise in their new purchases after the phone was released on Friday this week.
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Apple had plenty of lines outside its stores, so even if we don’t have the numbers, we know that tens of thousands of people lined up to get their hands on an iPhone 7.
The problem was first noted by Stephen Hackett at 512 Pixels, who said: ‘As my iPhone 7 Plus was restoring from iCloud, I thought I noticed some sound.
A number of customers reported putting their iPhone 7 under enormous stress and heard no hissing sound at all, leading some to speculate the problem could be a manufacturing issue rather than an inherent design quirk.
Claims of a mysterious hissing sound emanating from Apple’s new iPhone 7s are arriving from multiple sources now. As you can hear in the video he posted, it’s something like a cross between a Madagascar hissing cockroach and a tiny water sprinkler. As the report on iMore points out, “the coil noise” is most likely because of CPU overload, and it could be because of the A10 Fusion chip which is much more powerful.
As of now, it is unclear whether the hissing sound is a problem or simply a nuance of the hardware in the phones.
Reports suggest that this issue has been seen in the past as well with previous iPhone models. “There may be a good reason, but it’s still unfortunate and ungraceful”.
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The iPhone 7 Plus Google Octane V2 score (which measures how quickly a phone processes JavaScript) is nearly eight times that of the Samsung Galaxy S7. Apple iPhone 7 Plus starts at Rs 72,000 for the 32GB version, while the 128GB version is priced at Rs 82,000 and Rs 92,000 for 256GB.
