Every time a new iPhone comes out I'm always shocked to see the price tag. A 128gb iPhone 7+ is retailing on Apple's UK website for $1,028 USD (£819).
It's a ridiculous sum of money for a device - but when I realised how much I use my phone on a day to day basis, I figured it's probably worth the hefty cost.
Surely the cost of all the materials, the packaging and everything else warrants spending nearly a thousand pounds for a device.
Well thanks to the age we're living in being utterly awesome, one LAD has found a way to build his own iPhone from parts that he found at markets in China...
Introducing Scotty Allen, a software engineer who used to work in the Silicon Valley before he launched his own start up.
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On his website he says: "I've always been an adventurer, maker, and hacker.
"From riding a $120 bike through Laos and Cambodia, to building and racing land yachts, to planting coral underwater in Borneo.
"I've always sought out the weird, wonderful, and out-of-the-way thing to do."
In his 23 minute tutorial, he explains just how that can be done.
Scotty says the four main components of an 16gb iPhone 6s are: the metal back or the shell which will hold the phone, a screen, a battery and a logic board or circuit board which has the processor and memory.
When looking for the metal back, he goes to a back alley market where products are being sold in plastic tubs. There are literally dozens, if not hundreds of metal iPhone and Android casings.
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Now that was a little too easy. The screen was the next mission which is a bit trickier. But he managed to find the glass, the LCD part and the backlight without breaking a sweat.
But he enlists his mate Frank who buys and sells different Apple parts from markets to help him get these specific pieces.
The duo go to a shop which specialises in spare phone parts and the team there build a working screen with a bunch of cool machines.
Despite the logic board being the part which 'intimidates me the most', Scotty manages to find one at a market for just a few dollars.
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Once he found the four main components, he set out finding all the smaller pieces like speakers, a home button, brackets and screws. Luckily for Scotty - he managed to find all of those at the first place he looked. Bloody lucky.
After sorting out a few minor issues, Scotty put together his self-made iPhone together and it works perfectly.
He says the project took him several months: "I didn't know whether I'd be able to do this. But I've also learned a lot about how the phone eco-system and phone repair and phone refurbish ecosystem works here in Shenzhen.
"I think anyone watching this with enough patience could do this as well. This totally isn't rocket science, it's not a lot different from putting together your own desktop computer."
Not going to lie, it's a pretty feat.
Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Strange Parts