Earlier this week, robotics student Ken Pillonel shared a video explaining how he modded an iPhone X with a functional USB-C port in place of the usual Lightning connector. The USB-C port works for ...

Last week, an iPhone X modified with a USB-C port was listed on eBay as "the world's first USB-C iPhone," and now, a few days after intense bidding, the USB-C iPhone has been sold for $86,001. The ...

Despite ever-increasing demand from fans, Apple has yet to create an iPhone with a USB-C charging port, and so robotics engineer Ken Pillonel decided to just build his own, and the final product is ...

With instructions not to use the modified iPhone X as a daily phone With instructions not to use the modified iPhone X as a daily phone The fact that the mod has sold for over eighty times its ...

After months of work, an engineering student modded Apple's iPhone X with a working USB-C charging port. You can even technically recreate it yourself.

Update: The phone sold for $86,001. It had hit $100,100, but it appears that bidder didn’t make good, so it likely went to the second-placed bidder. A robotics engineer dismayed by the lack of a USB-C ...