Nearly all mobile electronics need batteries to power them and up until recently those batteries have more or less been replaceable by the consumer. It has only been in recent years where manufactures have begun to design mobile devices and laptops with batteries that are not intended to be replaced. It is not that they […]
Every phone sold from BestMobileCanada an extensive 30-point inspection to classify the mobile device as being “certified pre-owned”. The devices are then backed by our 30 days warranty (with the option to extend it for 1 year) to insure that the devices will continue to function as is. In addition to the 30-point test, […]
As unfortunate as it is, most people only discover what a blacklisted phone is once they have become a victim of buying one. A blacklisted phone is essentially a phone that has been reported lost or stolen. The phone may appear to work 100%, except it will not connect to the cell phone network. This […]
Consider purchasing a certified pre-owned phone from a reputable sales dealership – do the green thing. 1.5 billion phones are sold each year, and the total number of phones that have been produced since they were introduced by Motorola and Nokia in the early 90’s is estimated to be over 18 billion (or 2.5 phones for every […]
Recently phone manufactures have started to make devices less and less repairable, in hopes that the end user will “buy a new one” if they break it. To do so, they have added many hurdles when doing a repair, such a LCD displays bonded to glass and paint that chips away when opening a device. […]
Since the release of the iPhone 5S, iPad Mini 3, & iPad Air 2 there has been a major upgrade to the home button and any model that has been released since. This upgrade is a finger print sensor called “Touch id”. Touch ID is not an essential feature to use on the iPhone, in […]
I am out on a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, navigating the streets with my trusty Samsung Note 3 as my guide, making sure that I arrive early to my meeting. Still unfamiliar with the area, I check my map every street corner just in case it somehow changed. It was then that the warning came, it […]
In an internal memo recently distributed to employees, Apple looks to have changed their stance on third party screen repairs, according to MacRumors.com. Previously, Apple has had a firm stance on this subject, stating that any third party screen repairs to the iPhone would void the 1 year warranty on the device. Now sources have confirmed […]
People are often hesitant to repair their phones for various reasons. In this blog we hope to address some of the common issues that people worry about. Without further preamble, the top 5 misconceptions about cell phone repair: 1) “You have to be certified to fix a phone” The truth is third party repair shops don’t […]
I have worked for repair shop in the past and I have seen a lot of water damaged phones. In fact, a lot of these phones were actually marketed as being water resistant. Resistant being the key word, no phone is really guaranteed waterproof. Usually the phones are supposed to work for around 30 minutes in one meter […]