Wearable Shoe Phone

Step 2 Preparing the phone

Remove the battery at the back of the phone. There are two screws, bottom left and bottom right, that are both covered by small stickers. Remove the stickers.

Note that the screws require tiny hex screwdrivers... If you already have one - GREAT - otherwise, take the phone to your local hardware store and show them - they should be able to find what you want.

Remove the screws, and then remove the phone's front face. Up the top of the circuit board, you might notice another little screw - remove it with the same screwdrivers.

Make sure to set the three screws aside somewhere safe.


Now you'll need to git off the phone's aerial. I just used a saw, and then sanded the stub back so it was almost flush with the phone. A tiny piece should fall out from the centre of the aerial, so it now has a nice hole in it. Solder a wire about 10cm long to the aerial's contact on the circuit board, and feed this wire through the hole where the aerial used to be.

You might like to spraypaint the front of the phone's case black now - just make sure you cover the screen with masking tape. I was silly, and waited until the phone was put back together.

Once you've put the phone back together, turn it on and make sure you're getting reception (and make sure you have a SIM card in the phone).

The phone is now ready to be put inside the shoe.