There can be a striking gap between Apple ’s conception of the ideal phone – one withas few portsand release as possible – and the one dreamed up by the ship’s company ’s most inventive fan . And the latest hacker TV illustrate the extreme to which DIYers are prepared to go in Holy Order to add up hardware features that consist outside Apple ’s minimalist design ethos .
The Korean TV , “ iPhone USB - C TwinPort , ” hide the creation of a dual - port iPhone 12 mini with both Lightning and USB - C. It walk through the arduous - bet steps involved in creating space for the new port wine , by opening the chassis and removing and cut down other components , and then adding a USB - C embrasure . The utterer appears to suffer the most , being disregard in half and filed down , while a microphone do in for some punishment too .
“ This is a telecasting of making a TwinPort iPhone using the USB - C [ porthole ] on the iPhone 12 mini , ” the verbal description reads ( via Google Translate ) . “ I simply made it with the musical theme of using a C - type cable when needed sometimes . There are many parts that are lacking , such as handling of the speaker cavity resonator and grounding . ”
At the end of the video – which until this point is really a series of still images , edited together with some nice background music – the maker tests out the Frankenphone with a Windows PC , show that the Lightning and USB - snow ports are useable for both charging and data transfer . The iPhone 12 mini appears in iTunes whichever embrasure is used to connect it to the PC .
It ’s reasonably safe to say that Apple will never make a dual - port iPhone , which would take implications for sizing , cost , water underground , and audio quality , much as the theme is superficially appealing to inventive DIYers . And to legislators , presumptively ; a phone that supported USB - coulomb as well as the proprietary Lightning touchstone ought to sidestep upcominglegal difficultiesfor the Cupertino company . Instead , Apple is bear simply to move to USB - C from theiPhone 15onwards , in preparation for a portless iPhone a few more years down the line .
