What country are you from? Uh, from the USA. United states of the usa? Yeah superb. I try to make my possess iPhone. Just right. I was once on the grill keep, here in China. I was once with people like me – the strong geeks on the electronics manufacturing scene here. Anyone mentioned, you understand, all these elements for phones in the market. Questioning if that you could build your own telephone? She has been coming and going from China for the prior 9 months, I can not eliminate this urgent question: can i make my own cell? Will persons promote the portions to a Western man like me who doesn’t even converse chinese? Welcome * in chinese Welcome* IPhone 6s? 4S? 6s. So, I did what any obsessed man did, dipped with both feet. Coming to Shenzhen is sort of a discuss with to the long run, but it surely’s this loopy, depressing, future BLADERUNNER-esque. So for making a cellphone I think i need 4 portions. I want the steel again of the cellphone – the shell sits the telephone in. I want a monitor I want a battery Then i would like the motherboard, which is the circuit board that has a processor, reminiscence and things like that on it. So, we are in the again road at the back of Xiamen (?) Market i’m gonna take a seem at what’s available here. Repeatedly there’s a phone look available for sale. So, it was exciting. I just went to a sales space, tried to purchase one of the crucial recycled backs, and that i was successful, however it is a bit shattered. Now let’s head throughout the main market, to see if i can get the history that appears new. I am now not gonna be competent to shoot with a big camera inside, but i’ll be competent to visualize my iPhone. Oh, excellent ones. This, uh, iPhone 7+. Yes, these are excellent – haven’t any brand. She would almost certainly get it day after today. Only one? I want this one for 6S. This? Real. This one is 6s? Sure, 6s. How a lot? Do you need the whole body, or the entire set? What i am pronouncing is, Do you want this and this and this? Do you need buttons? Right right. How a lot do you want? Only one. Ah, one. Just one? To this measure. Good enough. You have to take it? Sure, i’ll take it. That used to be an impressive success. Very swiftly, I was once capable to find a backpack that looks attractive and fresh. It does not have any of the laser parameters inside it like the ones used now not, And i would like those to align some cables, there’s a patch the place the antenna sticks. But I think there might be a situation for him to laser that can add these to me. So i will see if i will be able to to find it. I additionally found a bunch of rather cool designs of exclusive colours that did not appear like something Apple made. You tour sooner or later determined a laser engraving booth tucked right into a small cubicle below the steps. Himself, like the customary [n]. Like the whole lot you frequently do. Yeah. So, Apple, the ordinary factor for u.S.A.? Yes, usa indicators right here? I am outside McDonald’s and i’m waiting for Frank. So, Frank, Frank buyer, [said] buys a bunch of distinctive Apple parts in the markets Will aid me purchase spare parts to build the display. So, what I need to make, I make Avon 6s, proper. And i wish to reveal … We construct the mobilephone from scratch as so much as we can So, if we put the screen collectively, what do we’d like from the pieces? We need glass. The digitiser. Liquid crystal display screen. Backlight. Yes, that is visually clear adhesive. Yeah. Is there no such touch sensor, touch force? Within the liquid crystal display. Okay, so it is a component of the lcd. This procedure wishes to be accomplished … Without … Dusty? Or … With out dirt? Without dirt. Yeah. So the location have got to be very easy. Yeah. But they may be able to do it right here available in the market, you suppose so, and there are persons who can do it? We can go to the repair shop. So, we could buy the materials ourselves first and deliver it to the repair retailer? Or we ought to have a repair shop … Furnish that? First, seem at whether they are inclined to do it for us sure, will we buy the entire constituents? We buy [in] glass mobile, we buy digitiser
