Strange Parts - How I Made an Android Phone

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https://youtu.be/MjwtTSoIYYs?si=e-yFRkLMd7atptZB

This guy went to the big electronics Huaqiangbei streetmarket in Shenzhen, China, bought a bunch of parts, and constructed his own working Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus. The video shows his shopping trips in China’s Silicon Valley, his brief research on the phone’s FCC-submitted teardown document, then him actually constructing, and turning on the phone.

As a note, at the time of its posting, the video maker was unsure why Samsung parts were much rather than iPhone parts in the market. That’s because Samsung parts can be purchased directly and easily from Samsung itself. Apple doesn’t sell parts to anybody, hence there’s more of a need for a greymarket.