He iPhone 16 It’s just around the corner and expectations are high, especially for the new developments in software and artificial intelligence that it will bring. iOS 18 with its launch. But whatever it is that is revealed next Monday Applewill not cause as much surprise as the Big iPhoneThis is a giant, functional iPhone that two technology-specialized YouTubers built and presented on Friday in a video uploaded to their channel.
The giant thing is not an exaggeration. It has a height of 2 meterslike its counterpart, has a structure of brushed aluminum and weighs, according to its creators Arun Mani and Matthew Perksbetween 150 and 200 kilograms. To comply with the mobile label it must be transported on a support with wheels, but otherwise it can be compared to an iPhone and surpass it in the rest of its sections thanks to some very high technical specificationsBut it doesn’t come cheap, the sum of all its components brings the price to $70,000, about 63,000 euros, And Mani and Perks have spent a year building it, during which time they have had to overcome various technical challenges.
The main one, the screen. Mount the panel of a television LG Signature Class Z2 PUA Series 88-inch with OLED technology and 8K resolution that comes out by $25,000. The TV is not touch-sensitive, so they applied another layer to give it that functionality using a special glue that does not interfere with the quality of the original panel. During the process, a first panel cracked, but it is not included in the final price. In any case, The final screen is touch-sensitive and allows you to control the device like a standard iPhone..
This was not the most expensive component, a merit that corresponds to the main camera. This is a Canon EOS R5 that records at 8K and it cost them $35,000. Its sensor, compared to the iPhone 15 Pro, is 1,000% bigger. Although the device simulates a set of cameras with three lenses, there are actually two, and the space corresponding to the third is occupied by a mirror that increases the zoom range of the second camera, a Sony RX10 Mark 4with which you get a x25 optical zoom and x100 digital zoom. The highest-end iPhone has it x5The selfie camera allows for conversations in which the participant is clearly visible up to 30 meters away from the device, while the Apple mobile phone does not exceed 3 meters. The camera module also includes a 400W flash, 2W on the iPhone 15.
The Big iPhone also has powerful sound. 8 speakers with a power of 53W each compared to the 3W of a standard iPhone. It has 2 batteries of 7,860 Wh and a functional connector that simulates the iPhone charging port. The side buttons are also operational and The phone, as you can see in the video, performs the functions of a standard iPhone.: video calls, video games, photos, apps, etc. It also has the functionality Dynamic Islandwhich here, due to its size, has been baptized as Dynamic Continent.
Inside there is no Apple hardware, but rather that of a high-end PC with a processor Intel Core i9 with 24 cores, a GPU 6950XT of AMD, 128 GB of RAM and 4 TB storage. Its performance, in the tests carried out, is about 10 times higher than the top-of-the-range iPhone.
As for the software, it is not possible to install iOS on hardware other than Apple’s, so they have opted for a version of Android customized to mimic iOS in every detail. In the video you can see how they even manage to Making electronic payments with the Big iPhonesending emails or setting an alarm. The world’s largest mobile phone is not very practical to use, but it is still impressive.