World's largest iPhone launched, with flashlight brighter than car headlights

Can you imagine owning an iPhone 15 times bigger than the one you currently use? Popular British tech YouTuber Arun Maini, aka Mrwhosetheboss, made it happen by creating the world's largest iPhone 15 Pro Max replica, which is over 2 meters tall and weighs more than a refrigerator.

What’s impressive is that this giant device isn’t just for show, it’s fully functional, able to open apps, make contactless payments, and even send messages. It also has a 400-watt flashlight that’s bright enough to outshine a car’s headlights.

This giant iPhone was created by Arun to mark a special milestone when he surpassed Apple's official YouTube channel in terms of subscribers. To carry out this daring project, he collaborated with Matthew Perks - a famous creator of the DIYPerks channel, specializing in unique handmade technology projects. The result is a "monster" smartphone that required 8 people to lift, and was officially recognized by Guinness as the world's largest smartphone.

A phone built like a high-end PC

Despite looking like a blown-up iPhone 15 Pro Max, the inside of this giant replica is anything but. The team has equipped it with the hardware of a high-performance desktop, including an Intel Core i9 processor, 128GB of RAM, and an AMD Radeon 6950 XT graphics card.

The device runs Android instead of iOS, and also supports Windows, with a total storage capacity of up to 4 TB divided equally between the two operating systems.

Surprisingly, this super-sized iPhone replica can not only perform all the usual tasks such as video calling, texting or surfing social networks, but also go far beyond the limits of a phone.

Thanks to its powerful configuration, it can smoothly run the game Cyberpunk 2077 at the highest graphics settings, something that even the most powerful smartphones today cannot do.

The device’s display uses an 88-inch OLED panel manufactured by LG, the type typically found on ultra-high-end TVs. To turn it into a touchscreen, the team didn’t simply buy a ready-made LED touchscreen. Instead, they decided to use optical glue to “make” their own touch sensor for the OLED panel.

The first test resulted in a broken panel, but the end result was worth the effort: a responsive screen that allowed users to tap, pinch, and swipe just like on a real phone. They even made a successful video call from 30 meters away, just to prove that this giant device was serious.

Top camera and flashlight"terrible"” never seen on phone

What really sets this “giant iPhone” apart isn’t just its size, but its mind-blowing extras. First and foremost is the 400-watt flashlight, a level of brightness typically reserved for professional studios and almost unheard of on a mobile device.

The intensity was so great that the manufacturing team had to design a custom liquid cooling system to ensure the lamp operated stably without overheating.

The entire device is powered by two massive batteries with a combined capacity of 3,840 Wh, which is far more than any regular phone needs. To put that in perspective, the battery of an iPhone 16 Pro Max is only around 18 Wh.

In terms of photography, the phone has also been upgraded beyond the norm. Instead of using a mobile sensor, it integrates a Canon EOS R5 camera worth about $ 35,000, capable of taking extremely high-resolution photos. Alongside that is a custom zoom camera based on the Sony RX10, which can achieve 100x digital zoom, something that even modern high-end smartphones can only dream of.

Sound quality is equally well taken care of. The sound system consists of eight speakers, including four subwoofers, each with a capacity of 50 watts, many times higher than the 3 watts of a regular iPhone.

To even accurately simulate the feeling of pressing a key on a real iPhone, each button on the device uses a pneumatic system to recreate a surprisingly realistic physical feeling.