Where the headphone jack would normally sit is now "a component that seems to channel sound from outside the phone into the microphone or from the Taptic Engine out". The Taptic Engine -- the small component that provides you with haptic feedback when using Force Touch -- is taking up the majority of the freed up space. And with more room inside the phone, the battery received a bit of a boost, coming in at 2,900 mAh, a small step above the 2,750 mAh battery housed in the iPhone 6s Plus. In the process of disassembling the phone, iFixit also commented on the extra adhesives, pointing to a lot of the work that had gone into making Apple's new phone water-resistant. There's also a strong suggestion that removing the headphone jack and building the dual-camera bump into the chassis were both done in the name of the new water resistance feature.
iFixit will follow up its close look at the 7 Plus with teardowns of the Apple Watch Series 2 and iPhone 7, iFixit's teardown of the iPhone 7 Plus finds a bigger battery and revved-up Taptic Engine, It's new iPhone day, which means that people are already malibu iphone case hard at work tearing the shiny new phones apart and feasting (their eyes) on the gooey innards, Chief among the deconstructionists is repair site iFixit, Apple plays its cards quite close to the chest when it comes to the build on its products, so iFixit's teardowns are usually the first chance most people will get to peek under the hood of Apple's hardware..
It's not the first time robots have replaced us human meat sacks on iPhone launch day. Last year, one Australian woman used a "telepresence robot" (read: iPad on wheels) to hold her place in the Sydney queue for the iPhone 6S. This year, New Zealand carrier Spark used 100 Alpha 1 robots, created by Chinese company UBtech, to stand in line on behalf of customers. Each robot was controlled with a phone app and programmed to dance and move, and they were also fitted out to live-stream the queue. Spark's general manager of customer and marketing, Clive Ormerod, said the robots gave customers the thrill of waiting in line in digital form.
"Queuing is an iconic part of new device malibu iphone case fan culture," said Ormerod (in one of the most generous uses of the word iconic we've seen in some time), "We wanted to give our existing customers an experience of the atmosphere and excitement of the queue, without actually having to line up and wait it out until launch day."It's good to know that when the robot uprising finally comes, they'll know how to queue politely, Want to experience the thrill of standing in a queue for the new iPhone 7, but without the downsides, like standing in a queue? Now a dancing robot can do it for you..
We've taught them to move like humans, play games like humans, and now, robots are experiencing one of the last true joys of being a real person: queuing. A phalanx of mini robots were among the first in the world to get their metal claws on the brand new iPhone 7 when it launched in New Zealand on Friday. Thanks to the country's proximity to the international dateline, NZ got a few hours' head start on Australia's early launch, and the Kiwis weren't going to pass up that opportunity, using robots to spruik the iPhone launch.
