what the hell Mike are these iPhones they look like iPhones to me I am in the
middle of Mobile World Congress Android Land
I have Samsung here Huawei is here Android everywhere and I see a booth
that has a ton of iPhones iPhone 6 is iPhone 7 0 8 iPhone tens yeah but this
isn't Apple yeah and I said what is this so this is a company called remade and
what they do is they literally take broken-down iPhones the things that are
recycled and they turn them into brand new sellable phones with with 12-month
warranties brand new batteries I mean these look like iPhones to touch it yep
they are can you tell not not in the slightest
they feel like an iPhone they have the iPhone name Apple and they're covered by
a twelvemonth remade warranty not Apple's warranty and the way it works is
so your phone breaks your screen cracks it doesn't work anymore you recycle it
or someone recycles it and this company buys them in bulk from wherever company
recycles them so a good go is down the line and they take these phones and they
rip them apart they dissemble the entitle the entire thing take out the
guts the logic board the battery all the wiring the screen and they replace them
with new parts the batteries are completely new because of safety
concerns and they said that they get them from Germany and they're the same
capacity and the same type of battery that Apple uses except it's fresh and
new it's not going to be a used battery with the risk of you know blowing up
which we don't want that and otherwise you're getting a refurbished brand-new
iPhone just like you would from Apple's refurbished store for what he that I've
talked to says it's like 30 to 50 percent less then it would be if you
bought it new wait so is this available in America
it will be they have a plant that they just opened up he said in Miami and
they're working they're looking to partner with Verizon and other stores to
carry these things I can't imagine that Apple would allow that but I did ask him
if there was any pushback and he said no I mean Europe has different rules with
right to repair and selling of these things so it's a different world out
there once they get here Apple might say whoa and you cannot do this but if
there's some kind of a loophole or a workaround I mean this could be a great
way to get a relatively new iPhone for a hell of a lot less what if you want to
customize it yeah well these aren't so these are these these are the glass ones
and glass is tricky I talked to him about it and he said that they're
working on a way to bring different colors and different finishes to the
glass iPhones but if you look at the iPhone sevens I mean they had done green
and pink and blue it looks like the iPhone 10 are but and this is this is
the metal the metal case of the iPhone 7 with you know with the antenna lines and
all that in the button and it's you know they they take them and they strip the
original material they take the original back and they just strip off the color
and they add their own process that brings these bright vibrant colors that
you couldn't buy when it was new it does it feels like you know the the aluminum
that Apple makes the the logo is a little bit jagged on your on my finger
so you know usually it's smoother your your hand just kind of goes right over
it other than that this feel is the same
and I don't see any you know noticeable blemishes is of scratching or scuffing
you know there's a little these things have been handled quite a lot but you
know they're it's it's a it's a it's a different look it's a cool option and
you know we'll see what happens when that when they get here I mean Apple
might put the clamp down and say you know get out go back to France but hey
man it's it's a it's something different it's something cool and I never expected
to find that here but you gotta check into this further
man this yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna spend minute stay on top of it and we see a
lot of this with like super high-end iPhones where they have crushed them
with diamonds and they they they sell them for $5,000 and then made a gold and
this is the other end this is taking a $700 product and selling it for 450 and
making it new again so we'll see we'll see what happens
remade their logo when they're mono is better than refurbished and I'm going to
try to get my hands on one once I come here and see if it really is