{"id":104351,"date":"2016-09-19T08:53:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T06:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=104351"},"modified":"2016-09-19T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T08:41:52","slug":"the-iphone-7-has-one-of-the-weirdest-hardware-flaws-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/104351-the-iphone-7-has-one-of-the-weirdest-hardware-flaws-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone 7 has one of the weirdest hardware flaws of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the announcement of the iPhone 7, the internet is once again up in arms about Apple&#8217;s upcoming flagship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tech vultures have circled their ears down on the new iPhones\u2019 speakers where a loud hissing or wooshing noise could be heard,&#8221; reports <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketnow.com\/2016\/09\/18\/iphone-7-hissgate?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pocketnow+%28pocketnow.com%29\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pocketnow.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was Stephen Hackkett of the 512 Pixels podcast who originally discovered the flaw when he was restoring data from iCloud to his iPhone 7 Plus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter picking the device up from my desk, it was clear the sounds are coming from the back of the phone,\u201d Hackett said, \u201cpossibly from the CPU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there doesn&#8217;t seem to be anything actually wrong with the phone it is quite ironic that the same phone which removed a headphone jack for aesthetic purposes now hisses at you.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally the issue has been dubbed &#8220;#Hissgate&#8221; and thousands have already taken to social media to defend or call out Apple.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Waiting for the Apple to come up with a HISSING removal adapter for 15000 rs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Phone7?src=hash\">#Phone7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HissGate?src=hash\">#HissGate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 T\u03a3CH TR\u03a9LLS (@TechQuotesDaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TechQuotesDaily\/status\/777756471136100352\">September 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ogs_g9BlGQc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Which brand of graphics card should you buy?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/98724-which-brand-of-graphics-card-should-you-buy.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Which brand of graphics card should you buy?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Highest-rated video games of 2016 (so far)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/99002-highest-rated-video-games-of-2016-so-far.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Highest-rated video games of 2016 (so far)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to buy an Oculus Rift in South Africa: what it will cost\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99350-how-to-buy-an-oculus-rift-from-south-africa-what-it-will-cost.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to buy an Oculus Rift in South Africa: what it will cost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out why the internet is up in arms about #Hissgate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":103715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,2226],"tags":[959,21959,20668],"class_list":["post-104351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-hissgate","tag-iphone-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104357,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104351\/revisions\/104357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}