The question I always get asked is ”how did you learn to repair mobile phones?” It all started as a 15 year old boy at school. I hated school, but I loved basketball and sports. Basketball kept me there, as a point guard, I was always top scorer, I loved it, however, I also loved mobile phones, just as the big boys were kicking off, Nec against Motorola, the transportable class 4 was a carphone in a suitcase. I had one, but then upgraded myself to a Nec 9a, but everyone wanted the 9800x. The 9a and the 8500x were £4000 in those days, but the 9800x was £7200. I had to have one and that point is where it all started, it got me expelled from school, with no qualifications. So, phones were the way forward, these phones were £4000 minimum, there were only two networks, Vodafone and Cellnet, and these companies were paying agents like me air time commission of £850 per device connected, plus whatever I sold the phone for, sometimes, £3500 a unit, easy money, and that is how I started in the world of mobile phones. I have seen the big companies like Motorola lose everything overnight to the likes of Nokia, with their flagship Nokia 101, the first mobile phone to plug a lead direct into the phone, not a base, then the 3210, a solid phone, but the 3310 with the face plate swap made Nokia millions, only to lose it overnight to the world of Blackberry. This transformed the smartphone, Nokia tried to keep up with their devices, but it was no good. But Blackberry were to have a nasty surprise, as Samsung and Apple came along and at that point, you made a choice and stuck with it, Apple or Samsung. I chose Apple, got the first 2g Apple mobile phone, then consecutively, had them all up the chain right through to the 12 Pro. I kept well informed with the mobile phone technology and repaired devices that the big boys deemed irreparable. I have an attitude of ‘repair over replace’, that way not sending our old or non-working tech to landfill, however Apple would disagree with me repairing their devices, “sub standard parts, blah blah blah”. Samsung, Huawei, Sony, Google, Nokia, I can buy genuine parts to fix their devices. Apple will not sell to me, in fact Apple make it even harder by telling you, the loyal customer, that it will cost you a lot of money to repair your device, in order for you to purchase another. And that is where I come in, to repair your “irreparable device” for next to no money at all using high quality, if not original, parts. I take pride in everything I do and aim to repair your device as though it has just left the factory. This is standard for me. This is standard for me. I work from home but still have a fully (messy) kitted out workshop. The difference in what I do for a job, is that I love what I do, it’s not just a job because I’m good at it, it’s because I get a buzz from making the impossible happen, and if I can’t make it happen, I’m gutted. And that is my story of how I repair tablets and mobile phones. - Roy