Inside Chinese Market Where You Can Build A Smartphone From Scratch In A Couple Of Hours

CNN features Shenzhen, a Chinese Market Where You can walk around and buy some parts and build a phone within a couple of hours.


Watch the CNN video to see how it works.

Vendors in this Chinese market can build a smartphone from scratch in a couple of hours.

Shenzhen produces most of the world's consumer electronics -- and the Huaqiangbei district is its innovation epicenter: https://t.co/swVRxt76HD pic.twitter.com/3AdsZ9TwH3

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Vendors in this Chinese market can build a smartphone from scratch in a couple of hours.

Shenzhen produces most of the world's consumer electronics -- and the Huaqiangbei district is its innovation epicenter. 

At the Chinese Huaqiangbei Market in Shenzhen, you can build a smartphone from scratch in a couple of hours.

Spread over several floors and covering hundreds of thousands of square feet, the market is home to vendors selling the parts that make up your standard phone — cameras, motherboards, frames, screens and so on. All you have to do is buy the right bits and know how to put them all together. 

And it's not just smartphones. You can find the parts here for almost any consumer electronics device you can think of, like portable power banks and drones. 

CNN reports.