Given the familiarity of this iPhone look-alike, our confidence nears cockiness as we take a play from our iPhone 7 Plus guides, heat an iOpener and select our lucky opening pick.

After a minute of heat and a minute of prying, we lift open the phone from the top, expecting to expose its inner workings to the world.

But alas, a screwed-down bracket on the display cable halts our progress. Time to dust off our driver and dive a little deeper.