If the rumors are to be believed, Apple may need a future iPhone that’s fully free from ports. This means that there’s a likelihood Apple may skip USB-C and go straight from Lightning to portless. Of course it stays to be seen if that can occur, however that didn’t cease engineer Ken Pillonel from creating his personal iPhone with a USB-C port.

The modified iPhone X was then placed on eBay for public sale the place it went as much as as a lot as $100,000. Now in keeping with a report from Gizmodo, the public sale for the telephone has ended the place the profitable bid was a staggering $86,001. It appears that there may need been some joke/troll bids as a result of there have been some bids over $100,000 that had been later retracted.

That being stated, $86,001 continues to be some huge cash and we’re unsure if the winner will really be prepared to pay that a lot for it, so there’s a likelihood this might fall by way of. However, it’s a very fascinating and a really tough mod to tug off and it’s not nearly taking out the Lightning port and placing in a USB-C one.

According to Pillonel, he needed to really reverse engineer Apple’s C94 connector and create a customized circuit board, whereas modifying the chassis to ensure it suits the USB-C’s barely bigger connector. This implies that a variety of work was put into it and possibly the $86,001 price ticket may very well be justified.

Filed in Apple >Cellphones. Read extra about iPhone and iPhone X. Source: gizmodo