When everyone was complaining that besides going to work, they had to work overtime, have no time to fall in love, watch movies, or go shopping, a foreign idler secretly sneaked into the "Holy Land of the Technology Circle" and started to cause trouble
Yes, former Silicon Valley programmer Scott Allen spent a year and a half wandering around in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, exploring the Chinese mobile phone market, and even DIYed an iPhone 6s! Just like the real thing!
He is not an employee of Apple, nor does he have any internal secrets. He is a pure novice when it comes to making mobile phones. However, this time he uploaded a video of himself making an iPhone to YouTube, and he made nearly two videos in one day. Millions of views. The best thing about this little brother is that he understands the market very well and knows where to find cheap and high-quality mobile phone spare parts. It feels like he has completely eaten up the mobile phone market in Shenzhen... He found the almighty Huaqiangbei, Start shopping and making at the same time.
Many Chinese people still don’t know this place, and some people think it is a market specializing in the production of copycat mobile phones. In fact, the main industry of Huaqiangbei is the production of electronic accessories and assembly. It is also responsible for the recycling and repair of mobile phones. You Many of the high-end brands you can see here are in the form of street stalls.
The contrast is real... But the most mysterious thing about Huaqiangbei is that it can not only repair apples, but also make new apples. This foreign guy experienced it himself this time. First let’s see what the foreign guy is going to buy? The main accessories required for iPhone 6s are these four: metal back, screen, battery, and motherboard. Seeing mobile phone back plates all over the street, I couldn’t wait to buy one. Unfortunately, the appearance of this second-hand mobile phone back plate was damaged...
Well, let’s go to the mall. Each counter is filled with brand new iPhone 6S back panels, and the guy actually chose a rose gold one. It’s just that the Apple logo is so unprofessional and needs some laser markings. Next is the mobile phone screen. The foreign guy randomly entered a repair shop to see what screen parts he could buy, but it turned out that the shop had everything! The shy clerk said he didn’t speak English, but the skill and speed of making the screen shocked the foreign guy
Use a magic soldering iron-cum-razor tool to remove the polarizing layer. Put the mobile phone screen into this heated screen pressing machine, which will press the LCD screen and the glass cover together.
Then there is this defoaming machine that looks a bit crude but is very powerful. It can drive air bubbles away from the optical adhesive layer in minutes. Add backlight and the screen is complete.
The most amazing thing is that when checking out, the foreign guy paid 480 yuan using WeChat. Yes, this is the total price of an iPhone 6s screen accessories and processing fee! You must know that the accessories needed to assemble the screen include glass cover, digitizer, LCD display, backlight, optical adhesive... so many accessories.
What’s interesting is that when the boy said he wanted to make his own mobile phone, the clerk’s face didn’t show any emotion at all. It seems that there are too many people who can play with black technology in Huaqiangbei! It was time to make the motherboard, but this time it was not as smooth as making the back panel and screen of the mobile phone. The foreign guy went through a lot of twists and turns. First, he happily spent a few dollars to buy a second-hand motherboard. He went home and planned to solder various parts by himself. In order to fix the motherboard, he spent several weeks buying various tools and researching chips. The result...
He also went to a mobile phone repair school in Guangzhou to seek advice from a teacher, and finally decided that it would be more sensible to just buy a good motherboard, which would have a higher success rate of assembly. Or go back to Huaqiangbei, choose the motherboard and quickly go home to assemble it. 502 The artifact also appeared...it couldn't be more real! Of course, you also need these small parts: protective covers, screws, cables, speakers...
Assembled successfully! Coupled with thepackaging box, manual, charger, and headphones, a brand new The iphone 6s is born! Can you tell the difference between it and the real thing? And its cost price is only $300! In addition to the mobile phone market, it is also very convenient to buy iPhone accessories in Moubao. The price is very popular among the people. It seems that you can save a lot by buying the accessories yourself and having them repaired... motherboard, screen, backplane, home button, camera, cable, battery... ...I have everything I want, and are you satisfied that you can try out black technologies like Apple?
