For those curious and don't want to watch the entire video: He uses an iphone backplate, three other parts (touch id etc), and the logic board. So he's using Apple OS.
How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video]
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#12Great experiment, and it looks like a lot of fun. But to be practical, the amount of time + effort + risk required to pull this of would offset any amount of money saved.
The monetization made off of Youtube should offset all of that and then some.
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#13pretty cool!! more like buying and assembling an iphone from parts tough
Was there something else implied?
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#14A fun hobby and project, but I'm guessing nearly all those parts are knock offs and of very cheap quality.
Because quality increases when Apple repackages Chinese components in a shiny white case.
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#15A fun hobby and project, but I'm guessing nearly all those parts are knock offs and of very cheap quality.
Yeah, found this amusing from the write up:
> Battery – These are everywhere, and _really_ cheap. Like $5 USD cheap. No clue if it’s real, but I was told it is, and it looks like it is.
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#17I've tried to fix the screen on an iPad and an iPhone. In both cases, I destroyed a ribbon cable connector and rendered the devices useless. I tried to follow the instructions, I tried to use proper tools and go as slowly as possible, and in both cases, the delicate surface mount connectors just turned into powder and flaked right off the board.
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#18With a 2-4x standard margin mark-up he hits the price point of a new retail iPhone. Minus his time and Apple support of course. :)
also R&D
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#19A fun hobby and project, but I'm guessing nearly all those parts are knock offs and of very cheap quality.
Yeah, found this amusing from the write up: > Battery – These are everywhere, and _really_ cheap. Like $5 USD cheap. No clue if it’s real, but I was told it is, and it looks like it is.
Given the large amount of iPhones that get smashed and then sent to recycling (in Shenzhen) loong before the battery is near EoL, my guess is these are likely genuine, used Apple batteries.
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#20A fun hobby and project, but I'm guessing nearly all those parts are knock offs and of very cheap quality.
Because quality increases when Apple repackages Chinese components in a shiny white case.
Definitely.
Apple should add many QA steps filtering out the vast majority of bad parts. First there would be incoming QA on any received shipments. And any well run assembly line contains many check steps to make sure the unit has good constituent parts. This way you don't burn good parts farther down the line on a unit that was never going to pass. Then there is out going inspection and burn in testing.
All that testing increases overall quality and value.