Commentary: An engineer says he bought everything at public phone parts markets in Huaqiangbei, China. And he’s made a video to prove his case.
And the construction begins.
It’s only an iPhone 6S 16GB. And who wants one of those?
Still, here’s Scotty Allen building one from bits and pieces.
Allen says on his website that he used to work in Silicon Valley and now lives part-time in Shenzhen, China. The explanation for his building project, he says, is that „You know the thrill of walking down a back alley in hopes you might find something amazing? I f***ing live for that. “
So here is a 23-minute video of how he painstakingly put together his phone.
The idea was to go around the public cell phone markets in the Huaqiangbei area of Futian, which is known as a significant home of electronics manufacturing.
First, Allen looks for phone backs. It doesn’t seem that hard to find many in various conditions.
