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

Why HN readers recommended 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.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Strange Parts

Topic

iphone hardware modding

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Your last sentence reminds me of this recent post [VIDEO] and it gives such a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to make and modify things.

• There's a video of a western guy living in China learning to desolder Flash memory chips from an iPhone and then solder higher capacity chips in their place from back in 2018. [VIDEO] Being in Shenzhen China, he was able to buy the needed tools …

• Another cool episode is where he upgrades a 16GB iPhone to 128GB by soldering a larger flash chip onto the board: [VIDEO]