Surely more than one has ever thought about the possibility of creating your own iPhone by buying all the components and assembling it, especially when those reports appear that claim that an iPhone costs about € 250 if we add the value of each of its parts individually . Well, there is someone who has not only thought about it but has achieved it. This is Scotty Allen, a software engineer, who traveled to China to get all the necessary parts and managed to assemble an iPhone 6s fully functional, and he tells us in this video.
The daring adventurer poses that satisfied after the odyssey of getting all the necessary components to build his own iPhone. He opted for an iPhone 6s because that way it would be easier for him to get all the components, and despite that it was not an easy task . Had to travel to China and search the market for Huaqiangbei all parts. Some he was able to achieve without problems, but others required the collaboration of the salespeople who work closely with Scotty to achieve his goal. The motherboard was the hardest part to find.
The end result was a fully functional 6GB storage iPhone 16s with TouchID. How much did your iPhone 6s cost you? Unfortunately the figure I do not think encourages many to repeat this feat, because Scotty says he spent about $ 1000 on that iPhone, not counting the trip to China or the time spent searching or mounting.. Broken parts, tools, and components that you did not need in the end are the cause that the price of the iPhone was even higher than the official price. In spite of everything, the video in which he shows his adventure in China is well worth watching.
And they still believe that there is intelligent life on this planet….
The turkey has not ridden anything. He has only bought the parts and the Chinese have assembled it for him. The credit is theirs, without a doubt. They even have an autoclave to remove the bubbles. Some cracks. It is as if I buy some tires for the car and I go to the mechanic on my street to mount them….
If you bother to look beyond minute 19 you can see how he himself is the one who assembles all the pieces. Only the screen and the motherboard had to be assembled for more than obvious reasons, the rest of the elements have been assembled by him.
The merit is not so much the assembly, at least in my opinion, but getting all the elements of an iPhone on the market.
Not only that, it is also that the touch id cannot work, and in the video it does not say that it does, nor is it seen to do so. The touch id is linked to the processor, unless it found both pieces together from the same iphone, nothing at all. Let's see if we find out better, that on this page you are supposed to be Apple experts ...
As you say, before giving information we make sure it is true, and we have done so, as always.
«It came with the touch id sensor, because the processor and touch id sensor are cryptographically paired. This means that touch id no longer works if you swap out the touch id sensor »
This text is from the main character himself. As you can see, it is something that he took into account.
Let's see if before recommending someone else to get informed, we are well informed ... we have to set an example if we want to give lessons.
It is the most absurd thing I have seen this week, I do not see anything useful in this when the cost is higher than if you buy it already assembled. what merit can he enjoy.