According to the BGR report, a YouTube broadcaster named Scotty Allen recently developed a folding screen iPhone by himself. It is worth mentioning that he uses Is a folding screen produced by BOE.
Scotty Allen is a senior software engineer who knows Shenzhen Huaqiangbei very well. As early as when the iPhone 7 was released, he bought parts from Huaqiangbei to assemble an iPhone 7 with a 3.5 mm headphone jack. This time Allen came to life again: he bought two BOE flexible screens and used a Raspberry Pi to transform an old iPhone into a folding screen mobile phone.
From the assembly video, the two folding iPhones are very simple in structure. Except for the flexible screen, motherboard, etc., there is no battery, camera module, or case, and the screen cannot be completely folded. But Allen said that his next step will be to design them similar to the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip and intends to directly transplant the parts into the Galaxy Z Flip shell.
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Unlike his previous iPhone hardware transformation, Allen’s dream of a foldable iPhone may not be realized. Related practitioners believe that it is not enough to obtain a foldable display screen. He must find a way to make the screen and the system connect stably.
Even if he succeeds, he still needs to find a foldable shell and stuff a large number of components into this shell, which is almost impossible from an engineering point of view.
Many broke the news that Apple is developing a foldable iPhone. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that if Apple can solve the key technology and mass production problems of folding mobile devices in 2021, it is likely to launch a 7.5 to 8-inch foldable iPhone in 2023. At least for now, Apple has lost to the DIY god.
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