This is an apple refurbished device and most people don't know that apple even sells
these at a slightly discounted price. Almost everyone who buys these devices is extremely
satisfied and some even go as far as to say that this is better than buying a brand
new device. These go through extensive testing before they're sold. Some argue that
the testing is even more extensive than when they sell them new. But here's the thing.
They replace the outer shell of every refurb, which is a pretty hefty repair with
a lot of room for error. I've never seen anyone take a look at the inside of these
phones. Will there be any clues as to what apple fixed? was the repair tech sloppy?
will there be mistakes? i don't know, but let's find out. its dull. Still works though.
Kind of sometimes
There we go. And here is the iphone 12 pro with pg q ep peculiar box.
And here is the iphone 12 pro. You can tell right away that the box is different from
what you would usually get although there is still an apple logo over here. And over
here it just says iphone 12 pro. So this actually cost me 1329
Canadian dollars. That's very expensive compared to all the other refurbed out there,
but it is by apple. So you are getting a good guarantee that this device is working
as you'd expect it to be. It's also 512 gigabytes, which is why it costs so much.
Let's take a look and see what's inside.
Something about plastic is just so satisfying but the turtles are more important we'll open up the box.
There it is that has the gold iphone 12 pro so far. This is basically the same unboxing
experience. If you were to buy this new, let's take a look at the actual phone. We
have the same seal that the new phone comes with.
So in this video, i'm going to be looking very closely at this phone because i don't
think apple would leave any obvious mistakes, but if anyone's been in this phone
before, i'll be able to tell. Right off the bat you can tell that the housing is
brand-new. There's no scratches, dust, or debris, it looks brand-new. The screen
also looks brand-new with absolutely zero scratches. From what i could tell, one
thing i want to see is if the imei is printed on the sim card tray because of this
is a new housing, there's probably also a new sim card tray we'll pop it out.
And there it is. So they must have reprinted the imei onto the sim tray. It's unlikely
you'll get this kind of meticulous attention to detail with any other refurbishing
company because you're paying a lot more for this refurbished device. These little
details really matter. we'll Power the device on.
And it seems like the device comes with no battery. That's very strange. I've never
had that before. Well looks like we're gonna have to go ahead and charge the phone
while the phone is charging. Let's take a look at the contents of the actual box.
So we have the same similar ejected pin. They give you the cheaper looking one. That's
kind of like a paperclip. We also have the apple sticker and the instruction manual.
Of course we have the charging cable but no charging cube because apple.
So i'm not really expecting to find anything wrong with the phone on the outside or
its functionality. I just want to see how good of a job they did on the inside, but
we got to make sure that everything works. So we'll activate the phone and then we're
going to go through some tests and i'll kind of show you guys how i test the phone.
Anyway. So now that we have the phone at the home screen, we're going to go ahead
and test some of the functionalities out. So to test the touch, what i typically
do is i hold down the power button, hold down the volume up button, and then i grab
this slider over here. You don't want to grab the sos one because.
So we'll grab this slider and we kind of just go back and forth. And this is how you
test the touch. We go edge to edge on the screen and i turned it off back to them.
And now we'll go ahead and test things like face id. So face id works or going to
go ahead and test all the microphones on. The speakers we'll go to voice memo and
we're going to hit record and basically just talk. So what this does is it tests
majority of the microphones and it also tests both the loudspeaker and the front speaker because when we hit play.
It plays out of the loudspeaker as well as a french speaker which both are working.
We're going to go ahead and test out the cameras. Now the main thing i'm checking
for is to see how well the autofocus works on each camera. Both the cameras and cellular
are functioning as they should. So we've confirmed pretty much all the functionalities
of this phone are working as they're supposed to be which is good and expected obviously
because this is by apple. But what we all came here for is to see what apple changed
inside the phone. I've never seen this done before. You probably haven't either.
So this is a moment to write down in history maybe. To do this we're going to be
using apple's display remover tool. We're also going to be putting on gloves because
well, we don't want to leave any fingerprints. So this device heats up the sides
of the iphone, the heat is transferred through those gold plates. Basically this
loosens the adhesive of the actual display and then you can lower the suction cup
and lift it up and the display will come with it. Now we can get a good look at this
refurb. So i haven't actually opened this up yet but the machine did most of the
work. I work for us because these displays keep getting thinner. A machine like that
is becoming more and more crucial for phone repair shops and the moment of truth.
Let's let's open this up and check that out. That is the refurbished iphone 12 pro.
Everything looks pretty good. The only thing i'm noticing is that this plate is a
little bit crooked which can happen when you're screwing on the plate and a bit of
the fingerprints here that could have been me but it is unlikely since i was wearing
gloves. Other than that i can't really find any fingerprints or any other signs that
this was even opened. But if we take a closer look, we might still find something
i am noticing that this crew seems to have been over tightened or perhaps tightened
improperly. It's a very minute detail but i mean, apple did refurbish this. So my
new details is probably all we're gonna find. Now we're going to take a deeper dive
and see if there are any secrets hiding within this almost perfect front. Aside from
this screw it actually looks really messed up. Will hit the crooked plate with an
unscrew. I have seen apple devices straight out of the factory with stripped screws
and other issues. So it'll be interesting to see what we can find we have a little
mark here. Very bad apple you doing? but again, this mark won't affect functionality.
We'll, disconnect the battery, disconnect the display on screw, remove this plate
and now we can completely remove the screen. I see absolutely no issues with this.
I really think that there must be something i can find underneath. Maybe a mistake
the technician made will tear this down a little bit deeper and see what we can find.
We'll remove the motherboard, the front camera, the back camera, the sim card reader,
the taptic engine, and the battery. Tearing this phone down felt like i was tearing
down a brand new phone but then i found something i never thought i would absolutely
nothing. This phone is basically brand-new aside from the scratches and the fingerprints
that we found earlier. There's early nothing to see here, which is what you'd expect
with an apple refurbished phone considering they make these devices. We've taken
a look at tons of devices from other refurbishing companies and obviously none of
them will hurt as good as this one. If you are looking to buy a brand new apple device,
look no further than the refurbished tab on apple's website. Not only is it cheaper,
but there's literally no difference compared to a brand new one aside from this interesting
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