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How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China

Strange Parts · 3 HN recommendations

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Scotty Allen of Strange Parts travels through Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei markets and learns to upgrade an iPhone 6s from 16GB to 128GB by swapping its flash chip. It is part 3 of his custom iPhone series and shows the difficulty of the hands-on repair work.

Why HN recommends it: HN people recommend it for its vivid look at Shenzhen's repair culture and for the flash chip upgrade, and cite it in discussions of hardware modding.

“it gives such a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to make and modify things” Read on HN ↗