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It cost over $70,000 to build this monstrous 88-inch iPhone.

Arun Maini and Matthew Perks spent about a year turning a $25,000 88-inch LG OLED TV into a towering functional smartphone running Android skinned to look like iOS.

Inside the phone are eight 50W speakers, 128GB of RAM, and Canon and Sony cameras for taking photos. It weighs upwards of 440 pounds and requires beefy Anker portable batteries to keep it powered.

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