If you love gadgets and prefer owning the best of them, you need to have an iPhone at least once in your life. The amount of refinement that you get from an iPhone is unparalleled, along with a boosted status quo in your society. Everything works on a n iPhone the way they should on a smartphone. As Apple said, if you don’t have an iPhone, you don’t have an iPhone.
That said, none of us can ignore the facts that iPhones are extremely expensive and fragile. If you damage your iPhone, you have to head to an Apple service center where the repair charges are pretty expensive. And, if you can't get it repaired, you have no choice other than disposing it off.
However, Scotty Allen – a computer engineer, thought that you don’t always need to shell out immense amount of money to get an iPhone. He thinks that all you need is some time and recycled parts from older iPhones to assemble a new iPhone.
Scotty headed to Shenzhen, China and explored the local electronics markets for grabbing second hand parts and recycled components from older iPhones. He arranged a backplate, battery, screen and various parts connecting all of them. He had to spend a lot of time (and money) to get the right components for his assembled iPhone. Check out his video where he documents himself assembling the iPhone 6S from hundreds of parts from a thousand other devices.
He initially wanted to assemble the iPhone 7 but couldn’t do that because of shortage of parts in the black market. So, he started with a broken screen from a iPhone 6S and ended up making a “Rose gold” 6S 16GB, complete with a box. He demonstrates a lot of patience while doing his complex DIY project and gathers reliable advice from various phone-repairing colleges and experts.
Through his YouTube video, not only does he demonstrate that making an iPhone 6S isn’t any rocket science, but also shows the booming Chinese electronics markets flooding with easy-to-find cheaper parts. Scotty does end up spending $1000 in assembling his DIY iPhone 6S but he points out that most of the tools mounted the expenses to that figure. He says that in reality, the phone costs only around $300 to make, making it a lot cheaper than a brand-new iPhone 6s.
