Do-It-Yourself Apple iPhone from Parts
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Posted on 04/13/2017 11:24:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog
A like-new(but really refurbished) iPhone 6S 16GB made entirely from parts purchased in the public cell phone parts markets in Huaqiangbei.
Good for him. We need people who enjoy the challenge of assembling a functioning phone piece by piece. Meanwhile, I would just as soon purchase the finished product, already assembled. I don’t even like putting IKEA furniture together.
I know some people that would put together your IKEA furniture for free.
swordguy swoops in to declare that this is yet another exhibit in the undeniable case for crapple supremacy in the universe . . . in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..
Johnny Cash - One piece at a time
Frogboy comment there:
How I got a some Chinese people to make my own iPhone - in China
Lol! Very interesting video, more about the tech scene in Huaqiangbei. Reminds me of the personal computer scene on the west coast of the USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with people dabbling in building personal computers, buying and selling parts. Only these parts are much tinier.
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You are so silly...
Do you actually think that this problem hasn’t been encountered before in China? There are all kinds of work arounds for this. Not a problem. Not at all.
DIY is very big in China, and the number of small mom-and-pop shops offering to do this kind of work number in the tens of thousands.
Really cool. . .
No, re-registering the four secure components is a big problem. It's one reason why you see lots of components but very few complete Frankenstein-iPhones for sale. Before Apple incorporated these inter-registered components iPhones were THE number one stolen item in big cities. Now the thieves have gone back to something the fences are willing to buy that can be resold. iPhones are unusable except for spare parts on the black market.
I used to buy dead iPods on eBay and cobble together working iPods, back in the day. It was pretty simple, really. Not much to them.
There is no other smartphone then Apple and Steve Jobs is it prophet .. Apple Akbar! (Boom!)
/ sarcasm off
Is there anyone who likes piecing together pressed board furniture?
A word to the wisecto those who huy pressed board furniture. As one who moved often in a military career, pressed board does not move well at all. Nothing does worse. Hint: buy solid wood furniture. Little bit more expense on the front end, but it can last multiple lifetimes.
I got my iPhone one piece at a time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHniL8MyMM
I would try to combine iPods with all kinds of failures. Dead batteries were the easiest fix. Dead hard drives were about a quarter. Dead or cracked screens were the other quarter.
You could get aftermarket batteries pretty easy. A iPod with a dead battery was money in the bank.
I usually just wiped all the music. The very first thing done was to wipe all the photos. No need to borrow trouble.
I have an early iPod among others. Back then the hard drives were very expensive. There was a non-Apple portable music player being offered at discount for under $200, everyone snapped them up including me. We ripped out the Apple-compatible spinning hard drive and put it in our Apple iPods as an upgrade, because the hard drives retailed at around $400 to $500 each. A smaller compact-flash card was inserted in the non-Apple player to make further use of it. But iPods were the desired player of the day. A few years ago I bought some of those 1-inch hard drives for a few bucks each to use in my TAMs (1997 twentieth-Ann'y-Mac), holds much more data than the much larger original hard drives.
Totally agree. I sometimes snatch up discarded furniture just for the wood. My wife complains, but I convince her that solid wood is worth it. Most of the stuff discarded is the man-made pressed sawdust stuff. A neighbor of mine offered me a "solid-wood" desk and cabinet, I showed him that it was laminated plastic over pressed-wood. Lots of people don't know the difference! I recycle the real wood, rout connecting edges, glue and press them with clamps to make wider pieces and plane them smooth, then make furniture from them. As you say, they'll last multiple lifetimes (daughters plan on passing on furniture I made, to their children when they grow up).
Apple content: same can be said for Apple products, they have higher resale value than the other stuff out there. Writing this on a used Mac Mini I bought from someone else who upgraded. Used Apple stuff has a long life for many purposes versus the other stuff.
Interesting video. Thanks for posting.
A large portion of our furniture was solid wood purchased at various auctions and refinished. Like you say, it’s so much better than flakeboard. Years ago my with accidentally spilled nail polish remover on a piece of “wood” furniture we’d bought. Not only was the grain phony but the wood was phony. Never bought anytging except solid wood since.
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