Engineer Ken Pillonel succeeded in modifying the port of a Samsung Galaxy A51 to replace it with the iPhone connector.
Only a few weeks ago, we saw the first iPhone equipped with a USB-C port.
The engineer behind the iPhone USB-C has fun doing the operation in reverse
Even if this change of port is demanded with body and cries by many iPhone users, who would like to use any USB-C charger to charge their smartphone, this modification was not official. It is indeed a robotics student named Ken Pillonel who had fun modifying, successfully, the port of an iPhone.
But he did not intend to stop there and wished ” balance the chaos to use his terms, performing the same hack in the other direction.
So it’s this 1er April that the engineer published a video showing a Samsung Galaxy A51 equipped this time with a fully functional Lightning port, both for charging and data transfer.
A modification that is useless, but works
The operation was not easy and required more than a few welds to be completed, explains Ken Pillonel to our colleagues fromEngadget : “ The Lightning cables sold by Apple are not “dumb”. They can only charge Apple devices. So I had to find a way to trick the cable into thinking it was plugged into an Apple device. And the whole thing has to fit inside the phone, which is another challenge in itself. »
Let’s be honest, this modification is absolutely useless and is not within everyone’s reach. The student readily acknowledges this: I don’t think any sane person would want to do that to their device. It was for fun, I just wanted to see if I could do it. »
A longer video that details each step of adding a Lightning port should be posted on YouTube soon. The phone will not be sold, unlike the USB-C iPhone, which had exceeded $ 100,000 on eBay, but with fake auctions.
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Source: Engadget
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