For those who like using an Apple iPhone with huge ROM, you can find one in China now since they have figured out a way to upgrade the iPhone’s internal storage up to 128GB. Isn’t it amazing?

Actually, some repair shops in China have a service of expanding iPhone’s ROM just in an hour and charge an affordable fee. According to CCTV News, which has sent their reporter a shop like that to try the service. A person called Xu has a phone repair shop in Chongqing, China and mentions Apple iPhones have storage chips that can help expand the ROM but they need verification before being activated.

Note that it was impossible to do so until now. A special tool has been created by someone and it enables the repairers to directly access the storage chip and read the serial number placed on it. This allows them to activate it easily. After everything has been done, we mean the activation, the original chip has to be replaced at once and who does that needs to be careful in welding the new chip on to sixty pinpoint soldered joints.

With this method, Xu claimed he updated more than seventy iPhones in a week and so far there has been no reports of any problems or failures. As we told you, the fee is not expensive. It will only cost you 580 Yuan (about RM400) and one hour of waiting. If you have a 16GB iPhone 6S priced at RM3,199, you can pay RM400 more to turn your phone into a 128GB iPhone 6S instead of buying an original 128GB model costing RM1,000 more.

However, one problem you have to be aware of is that after the procedure, your phone’s warranty is not longer valid and your information can be stolen, which may lead to more serious issues. At the moment, Apple China’s officials have not announced anything for such a case but perhaps in the future, they will do something with their own products to prevent access to the storage chip’s serial numbers.

To recap…

…we cannot deny the idea of expanding an iPhone’s ROM, especially up to 128GB, without spending too much money is great. Yet, the risks coming along with that are unknown and can be dangerous. So, what would you say? We should or should not do that if the service appears in Malaysia someday?