And they're killing the phone in the process.
This might seem very obvious (to most of you) but drilling anywhere in your phone is a very bad idea and could possibly render your device useless. However this hasn't stopped people from doing it to the newly released iPhone 7, which you guessed it, does not have a headphone jack.
A new video which was recently posted on Youtube by a user named " TechRax" shows how he used his drill to make a hole the size of a headphone jack, approximately 3.5mm. To further humour everyone, he tries to fit his headphone jack in the hole and surprisingly the headphone fit!
Since being posted on Youtube last week, the video has crossed 10 million views.
Its pretty obvious that the headphone jack doesn't actually work, and TechRax even demonstrates in his video that it doesn't work, However this did not stop several other users to try it out for themselves. This however , is very stupid and we do not advise anyone to drill a hole in their phones, especially a $650 one.
As mentioned before, several users have commented on the video stating that even though their old headphones now fit in the hole they made, the phone has stopped working. Whats even more preposterous is that some people are suggesting charging the phones for a long time to fix the damaged phones. Trust us when we say this , No phone will turn on after a hole has been drilled in it!
Perhaps the at the root of the problem is Apple, who decided to launch the iPhone 7 Duo without the conventional headphone jack. This lead to much controversy and now has led to people making holes in their phones. Apple did however release a fix for this problem but that can be classified as a very cumbersome solution to a very simple problem. They released an adapter with which you can connect your headphones to the lightning port of the iPhone and if you want to charge your phone while listening to music then you have to buy another adapter with which you have the option to connect a lightning cable as well as your headphone adapter together.
Apple also released it's wireless earphones called the "Airpods" for $159. However this has caused much controversy as well as people demand that Apple should at least provide cheap wireless earphones after the omission of the headphone jack. This video was also made on this very fact that people who do not want to buy $159 earphones could drill a hole in their iPhone 7's , but obviously people failed to see the joke in the video that TechRax was trying to convey.
In short, if you own an iPhone 7 and want to use your normal wired earphones with it, refrain from drilling holes in your phone and just use the adapter that Apple offers. You'd be much happier with a working iPhone 7 than with a brick that actually has no use other than essentially being a "brick".
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