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"Street repair services for cell phones are a big industry in India. Technicians there get a diploma from a 'Mobile Repairing Institute.' News.com reports.
"Jan Chipchase leads a team at Finnish cell phone giant Nokia that's trying to lower the cost of phones for emerging markets, an effort that's part market development and part recycling.
The group of 15 has scanned bazaars and street shops in places as diverse as Ghana, Brazil, Iran, India, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, China, and Mongolia to learn how end users relate to their products--and they discovered surprises that could impact consumer electronics makers within the next 15 years.
Their main finding: there's no limit to how cell phones can be modified and how their life spans can be extended.
And breathing new life into phones usually doesn't take a complex set of tools. In most cases, handsets can be reborn with the help of just a screwdriver and a toothbrush sprayed with alcohol to clean the contact heads.
"The informal repair culture...makes mobile phones something more affordable to price-sensitive customers, increasing the lifetime of products while lowering the environmental-impact risks," he said, adding that with new phones appearing constantly, street mechanics very quickly learn how to work with new models."
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2008/04/019803.htm
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Posted: 2008-04-19 23:42:23
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Damn... My secret's out!
My mobile repairing tools stretch basically to just that mentioned here - a couple of screwdrivers and a toothbrush... and my handy can of WD-40!
You'd be surprised how many 'faulty' phones just needed taking apart, given a good clean and/or a quick spray with contact cleaner/WD 40 and away they go again!
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Posted: 2008-04-20 19:10:42
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does wd-40 not kill them? cos its a liquid :S
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Posted: 2008-04-20 19:45:28
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its like lighter fluid..evaporates very quickly...
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Posted: 2008-04-21 02:25:43
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Either one can belive it or not, these guys are good and we have a few here. Nothing is beyond repairs to them. their knowledge since they dont use machienes increse day by day.
Remember all the thinking they have to do as compared to reffering to stored documents
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Posted: 2008-04-24 10:57:49
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