Even better, it was made to look like a 40-year-old rotary phone. Two years later, a promised purchasable DIY kit allowing anyone to build their own, complete with a working rotary dial, is ...

7. Create a stand and speaker access for your phone. The box is designed so your phone fits into a slot on the top, with a small hole to direct the phone’s audio into the speaker cavity.

The FlexPai was seemingly rushed out the door as quickly as possible to beat other companies to market, and as a result the folding phone suffered from a slew of issues, such as bulges and creases ...

How about neither. With this Ringo DIY Mobile Phone Kit, you can create your own. Building a phone yourself with this kit won't stand up to your brand-new iPhone 11, but it's still pretty cool.

After decades of using a phone someone else has built, how cathartic and rewarding it must be to build one yourself, truly personalize it, and understand how the components all come together.

The total cost for the project was $158 and that included $48 for the GSM module and $40 each for the Pi and a screen. He wrote his own phone interface and all the phone can do is make and receive ...

Now, before you get too excited, the phone you’ll be making won’t challenge the Galaxy S4 in terms of tech, or the iPhone 5S for looks. In fact, it ‘ll struggle to match a $25 feature phone.

Motorola has partnered with iFixit to sell DIY repair kits for some of its smartphones. The kits range from $40 to $200 and include all the parts and tools you'll need, plus a handy step-by-step ...

Fowler wanted to try a few DIY screen repair kits to see how they work. She rounded up some cracked iPhone 6's and fixed them for about $50 but found out it was actually really hard.