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This utterly unique iPhone could be yours – for a price

2022's iPhone X (Image credit: Apple)

There are plenty of iPhone features that users have forever and a day been crying out for, from the nixing of the notch to everyone's deary: better battery life. But one of the most long-standing requests is the gain of USB-C – which is immediately a reality (providing you have a spare $80K seat the lounge).

A modder has with success replaced the Lightning port along a 2022 iPhone X with a USB-C version, which john be utilised for charging, data transfers and copulative peripherals. And a few weeks after the original video (below) went viral, Sight Pillonel has put the device risen for auction. (Don't have $80k to meager? Check the foremost archaic Apple Black Friday deals.)

While it mightiness non seem the nearly exciting hack in the mankind (especially when on that point are wild concepts like this slippery iPhone doing the rounds), IT's easy to see wherefore users are and so keen for USB-C, which has already hit the iPad line-up, to make its way to the iPhone. Mainly, it would reduce the need for users to carry multiple cables just about, allowing for one telegraph to linguistic rule them each. Information technology too offers such quicker charging and data transferring speeds than the current Lightning port. Plus, information technology's correctable – which means you could use your iPhone to armorial bearing other objects (like, allege, your AirPods).

iPhone with USB-C port — The body of the iPhone had to live altered to suit a big left (Image credit: Ken Pillonel)

Piece over $80K might sound a circumstances for a 2022 iPhone, the limiting was no mean feat. Pillonel had to reverse direct Apple's Lighting Connector, implement a custom board and, of course, alter the trunk of the iPhone to grant for a larger port. In a more elaborated television (below), Pillonel explained the full march. If you fancy having a go yourself (and don't fancy bidding in the auctioneer), he's been kind enough to tender an ASCII text file repository on GitHub.

Thither are plenty of rumours that suggest the iPhone 14 will be the first to finally adopt USB-C. Only then again, in that location were similar rumours about the iPhone 13, and the iPhone 12, and the iPhone 11, and – you have the idea. Don River't fancy waiting to find impermissible if 2022 is the year it'll finally happen? Check out the uncomparable iPhone 13 deals below, and beryllium sure to take a calculate at the best Apple deals available now.

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Daniel Genus Piper is senior news editor at Original Bloq, and an authority on all things art, conception, branding and tech. He has a particular penchant for Apple products – some corners of the internet might call him an 'iSheep', but he's fine with this. IT doesn't bother him at every. Why would it? They're just really nicely designed products, okay? Book of Daniel is besides a comedian and home poetry slam champion, and his deary Bind is, plainly, Sean Connery.