Shenzhen market walk-thru (Kasyan TV)

[Cliff Matthews]

Get a bag of chips and enjoy! (eating them)

[NiHaoMike]

Hasn't blueskull taken a trip there some months back and didn't really note much that was particularly interesting? (He might not have had time to do more than a very quick look, however.)

Is there a master list of electronics-related creators in Shenzhen? I only know of one (plus two other creators who do not do very much electronics stuff), but I'm sure there are a lot more.

[georges80]

Was there a few weeks ago for a few hours. I'd say you need a few days to check everything out in some kind of detail.

One multi-story building just had floors and stalls/shops with USB cables and cell phone cases. 100's of shops selling the exact same stuff/junk. Not sure how they possibly survive or what they are competing on...

One multi-story building had floors/shops of PC related stuff, mobos, graphics cards, disk drivers, power supplies, cases etc. Tons of similar items. Again, not sure how one shop competes against another.

Anyhow, interesting place and somewhere to revisit on a future business trip to China. I'm sure there's some neat/useful stuff somewhere to be found in the piles of useless stuff

cheers,
george.

[rdl]

Here's a documentary by Wired UK from a couple of years ago that's also pretty good.

[VK3DRB]

These people at the Shenzhen market are clearly addicted to mobile phones. They look like dead people walking .

[HighVoltage]

I was in Shenzhen 2 weeks ago and went to this market.
The size of the mall is absolutely impressive.

The funniest thing I bought, was a dual SIM cell phone,
that works perfectly in Germany.
Its sooo tiny and cute, I had to take it.
And it was only $10

[HighVoltage]

My friend got her iPhone 6 repaired
- New glass
- New LCD
- New home button
- New front and rear camera
All installed for $ 30

All on the spot within a few minutes.

There are an unbelievable amount of "repair" shops inside the mall.

[NiHaoMike]

I was in Shenzhen 2 weeks ago and went to this market.
The size of the mall is absolutely impressive.

The funniest thing I bought, was a dual SIM cell phone,
that works perfectly in Germany.
Its sooo tiny and cute, I had to take it.
And it was only $10

In the US, you'll occasionally find very low end smartphones for $10. (Not dual SIM, though.) Those were popular for Perk mining back in the day.

[HighVoltage]

Almost any parts you ever wanted can be found
Some cheap low end some really good quality

[Cliff Matthews]

@High Voltage: Thanks, what a neat idea! They're $20 CAD at Banggood (and great as a backup..). My son's birthday is coming and we promised him a replacement for his aging Galaxy S3. He can unwrap this before the real-deal and we can tell him "we thought you wanted something more compact..." 

[HighVoltage]

What a neat idea! They're $20 CAD at Banggood (and great as a backup..). My son's birthday is coming and we promised him a replacement for his aging Galaxy S3. He can unwrap this before the real-deal and we can tell him "we thought you wanted something more compact..." 

You will definitely make his day.
Especially, since the small one is working !

Here is another perspective of the size.

[Cliff Matthews]

What a neat idea! They're $20 CAD at Banggood (and great as a backup..). My son's birthday is coming and we promised him a replacement for his aging Galaxy S3. He can unwrap this before the real-deal and we can tell him "we thought you wanted something more compact..." 

You will definitely make his day.
Especially, since the small one is working !

Here is another perspective of the size.

The perfect birthday gag! (gotta have fun right?)

[coppice]

These people at the Shenzhen market are clearly addicted to mobile phones. They look like dead people walking .

Not only in markets. Literally everywhere in China.

Not only in China. Literally everywhere that isn't so desperately poor that millions lack a smart phone.

[tooki]

These people at the Shenzhen market are clearly addicted to mobile phones. They look like dead people walking .

Not only in markets. Literally everywhere in China.

Not only in China. Literally everywhere that isn't so desperately poor that millions lack a smart phone.

2 years ago, we went to a family reunion in Guatemala (where my dad is from, and indeed where I was born), and in preparing for the trip, my mom was warning us to hide our phones and so on. I reminded her that even in developing nations, everyone (not just the rich) has a smartphone, but she didn’t reeeealllly believe me — until we got there and she realized that I was right, and everyone had a smartphone of some description! I think people often forget that in developing nations, smartphones are often the only internet access someone has, and that mobile networks reach areas that would never get landline phone service (never mind landline internet).

It’s incredible to me that 20 years ago, you couldn’t get 100Mbps service at anything approaching an affordable price, nor mobile internet access at 1Mbps at any price — and now we have 100Mbps mobile internet for, frankly, peanuts. That’s just amazing. (Equally so that 10 years ago, the mobile networks were still struggling like hell to cope with the sudden explosion of smartphones. The networks really stepped up to the plate with both technology and fast rollouts.)

[DG41WV]

[Bud]

There are an unbelievable amount of "repair" shops inside the mall.

Looks absolute garbage. Do they urinate and defecate on the walls and their desks and never clean the floor 

[NiHaoMike]

There are an unbelievable amount of "repair" shops inside the mall.

Looks absolute garbage. Do they urinate and defecate on the walls and their desks and never clean the floor 

I think you're confusing China and India with respect to lack of toilets. On that note, several years back, on The Amp Hour, one of the guests commented that at Foxconn, the bathrooms just had "holes in the floor". (No idea if that's still true.)

[HighVoltage]

Many companies outside of the big cities like Shanghai have only "holes in the floor".
That's their toilets.
One has to get used to that, when visiting from Germany.
But sometimes their "hole in the floor" is really clean like this one from a company visit.

[Howardlong]

Many companies outside of the big cities like Shanghai have only "holes in the floor".
That's their toilets.
One has to get used to that, when visiting from Germany.
But sometimes their "hole in the floor" is really clean like this one from a company visit.

It’s the same in many Japanese factories. I learned a life lesson 30 years ago when I first worked there, remove your wallet from your back pocket before squatting. I think I’ll leave it there.

[amyk]

I was there a few years ago. Good to see nothing much seems to have changed and it's still busy as ever.

There are an unbelievable amount of "repair" shops inside the mall.

Looks absolute garbage. Do they urinate and defecate on the walls and their desks and never clean the floor 

These are actual working shops, not Apple-style sterile fashion show stores.

It’s incredible to me that 20 years ago, you couldn’t get 100Mbps service at anything approaching an affordable price, nor mobile internet access at 1Mbps at any price — and now we have 100Mbps mobile internet for, frankly, peanuts. That’s just amazing. (Equally so that 10 years ago, the mobile networks were still struggling like hell to cope with the sudden explosion of smartphones. The networks really stepped up to the plate with both technology and fast rollouts.)

...and 20 years ago, something the size of that tiny $10 phone above would've been considered extremely high-end technology and cost closer to $1000.

[bitseeker]

Nice mini-tour of the market(s). Reminds me of the ones I visited in Singapore, but at a much different scale. Same look-and-feel, though.