10-year-old mobile phones are worthless?
Some time ago, Guozi saw on the Internet that more than 400 million used mobile phones are produced in mainland China every year, and more than half of these mobile phones are idle and retained by consumers, and only about 5% go to professional waste recycling channels.
Many people leave their phones idle instead of selling them because they can't sell them at a high price and are worried about privacy leaks. In the spirit of being idle and idle, many netizens began to transform the waste mobile phones at home.
On Xiaohongshu, the most common note about the transformation of old mobile phones is to transform mobile phones into page-turning clocks.
The transformation method is relatively simple, first prepare an old mobile phone, install a page-turning clock app, buy a wooden photo frame, make basic preparations, and then you can start the transformation.
Depending on the size of the phone screen, cut out a box on the jammed paper.
Prepare a data cable to power the mobile phone, for the sake of beauty and easy to hide, similar to the elbow data cable is the best.
The phone is held in place with objects on the back, such as the card slot in this blogger's photo frame and the use of chopsticks. If it is not convenient to use chopsticks, you can also paste them directly with tape, how to make it easy.
The effect is like this, it is indeed very literary and beautiful, it is a very good decoration on the desktop and wall, and the production process can also harvest the joy of hand-transformation.
The most important thing is that idle mobile phones from more than ten years ago suddenly have use value.
However, because too many netizens are interested in this, there are now many Xiaohongshu bloggers who have mass-produced this photo frame, and they can directly buy a ready-made one for a few dozen yuan.
In addition to being used as an alarm clock, the screen of the old phone can also be turned into an electronic photo frame, which can be implemented in the same way as a clock, just by installing a different app.
Some netizens also feel that it is troublesome to transform like this, and put the old mobile phone directly on the wall to use it as a clock, which is ugly in appearance, but the functional elements are also complete, and the practicality is not to be said.
However, charging for a long time may lead to a bulging battery, which is a potential safety hazard, so it is recommended to charge the phone regularly with a timing socket according to the battery life and charging speed of the old mobile phone.
In addition, the screen of the mobile phone may be burned after a long time, and there have been bloggers who have broken the mobile phone because of the burned screen two months after the transformation.
In addition to the screen, many netizens also make use of the multimedia function of the old mobile phone.
Some netizens have tried to use the mobile phone as a TV box,Just like the picture below,Use an HDMI cable and adapter,The adapter is connected to the mobile phone at one end,The other end is connected to the power supply and TV,The TV signal source selects"HDMI",You can use the mobile phone to project the screen to the TV for playback。
You can use the TV app to watch live broadcasts or play videos of AIYOUTENG.
This approach seems like a redundant move, after all, wireless screen projection can also be carried out, but through HDMI projection, it is directly using mobile phone signals, if you use the "Aiyouteng" App, you need to add money to upgrade your membership.
If your old phone is a Hammer phone that supports TNT, that's even better, and it can also be used directly as a trackpad.
Lao Luo's pants are still shining.
In addition to the TV box, the mobile phone is used to play music, which doesn't need to be introduced too much, but some changes can be made in the form.
For example, the clock in front of it, replaced with a music player, is still elegant (iPad is used here as an example).
If you find it troublesome to click on the phone screen every time you change songs, buy a Bluetooth remote control to switch songs, and then buy a base that supports charging + 3.5mm headphone jack, external speakers (or Bluetooth connected speakers), and turn your old phone into a practical music player.
In addition to the screen and media playback on old phones are features that can be utilized, the camera has also been used by many netizens, such as CCD-style photos that are very popular in 2023.
Regarding the use of the old iPhone as a retro ccd camera, the fruit has been introduced before, you can read this article→ this 10-year-old iPhone, suddenly exploded in price.
Some users have already tried to turn their phone into a surveillance device, and the method is relatively simple, just install a monitoring app and connect another phone.
Parents can monitor children, and pet owners can monitor furry children.
However, the battery life of the old mobile phone is short, and it is back to the old problem, and it is best to connect it to the power supply for a long time and charge it with a timed socket.
Using the camera of the old mobile phone, some netizens fixed the mobile phone on the car and turned it into a dash cam.
What's more hardcore is to directly remove the old phone camera, and then solder it with a USB cable, connect it to the phone, and turn it into a real-time camera.
*Source: Douyin @ Fun Gadgets
It's just that this kind of old mobile phone is too hardcore and not suitable for most friends.
The screen, multimedia playback and camera are all used up, is the old mobile phone worthless? That is too underestimating the human imagination, in recent years, a kind of mobile phone disassembly photo frame is becoming popular.
Just like the picture below, the mobile phone is taken apart and fixed in the photo frame, and a mobile phone parts are directly displayed and hung on the wall, which has a unique industrial beauty.
If you don't know about the disassembly of the mobile phone, this kind of photo frame does not need to be made by yourself, you can buy a ready-made photo frame for a few dozen yuan on Taobao, and the location of each part is also marked on it.
It really squeezed out a little bit of the value of the old mobile phone, and even the "corpse" of the mobile phone was not spared.
My friends found that there is a problem with the transformation of several old mobile phones introduced earlier, that is, the battery life of old mobile phones is short, and there will be potential safety hazards when connected to the power supply for a long time.
Can the battery life of the mobile phone be longer through transformation? Blogger @eatDemolish Play transformed a BYD blade battery into a mobile phone battery, and iPhone X directly became iPhone M (Roman numeral "100").
The capacity of this blade battery reaches 135Ah, which is converted to 0.432 kWh, and after connecting to the mobile phone, the battery capacity of the mobile phone is directly increased by 43 times.
The blogger took this "root" modified mobile phone to attend the class reunion, and a battery saved the selfie stick. After a month of experience, the blogger's phone still stays on.
No matter which old mobile phone, adding a blade can solve the problem of battery life, the only problem is that the learning cost is 100 million points high, and friends with strong hands-on learning ability can try it......
Most of the above models are "ancient" mobile phones that cannot be sold at high prices, if they are mobile phones launched in recent years, the second-hand market still has a relatively high value, and it is actually a better choice to buy a clock or monitor at the price of selling a second-hand mobile phone.
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Editor: Mu Yi