Ken Pillonel creates the phone as ‘tongue-and-cheek’ project for April Fools’ Day.
The robotics student who built a modified iPhone with a USB-C port last year has returned with an Android phone outfitted with Apple’s Lightning port. In a Friday YouTube clip, graduate student Ken Pillonel showed off a Samsung Galaxy A51 that’s had its USB-C port replaced with a working Lightning port. “And data is also supported,” according to Pillonel, who demoed the port transferring files from a connected PC. Pillonel, who is studying at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, decided to create the Lighting port-Android phone as a “tongue-in-cheek” project for fun.
