You’d be forgiven for thinking it was an April Fool’s joke – after all, it was released on April 1st. But the modified Samsung Galaxy A51 with a Lightning port is very real. Manufacturer Ken Pillonel previously modified an iPhone with a USB-C port and, by popular demand, also did the opposite.
Why do this? For fun and also for the challenge. The first hurdle was to subvert the authentication hardware inside Apple accessories – this is primarily meant to disable knock-off products, however it will prevent an Android phone from using a Lightning cable. If the chip inside the cable does not detect successful authentication, it will refuse to carry power and data.
As you will see in the video, there is a way around this, but it’s not as simple as plug and play. The ultimate challenge was miniaturization – modern smartphones are so tightly packed that there’s hardly any room inside for new hardware.
Well, you already know that Ken managed to plug in a Lightning port on a phone that Cupertino would not approve. Now here’s how he did it:
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