Repair Village Blog

Here at Repair Village we are always on the lookout for amazing deals for gadgets and technology!

Not only do we compare the prices of local repair shops but we also try and get you the best deals from around the UK!

Sky TV have really been stepping up there game recently with the release of the new Sky Q 
box they also have intentions to allow people who in the past have been unable to get sky due to lack of dish space.

So that’s about 2 million people in the UK, I know right what’s the issue? How could you not have space for a dish? Well it turns out that there are people, mostly in inner-city locations who for whatever reason just don’t have the "Line of site" to be able to connect with the master satellite in the sky!

Sky are currently trialing a system that allows users to get sky TV through their broadband connection, personally I believe this works very well! not just for those without dish access but also for many people who just don’t want a dish on the front of their house. 

This has only been made possible through high speed broadband,  we feel there are still many who will not be able to benefit from it due to speed restrictions (Rural areas). That being said each year our connection speeds seem to be getting faster.

This has been brought on by the ever increasing competition SKY are faced with, you know the guys! the main streaming services. Once Sky reigned supreme with very little competition. If this means new features we say bring it on.

Check out the new SKY Q by clicking the image below, there are some great new features, and this deal allows you to get it from as little as £22 per month! Amazing…

Thanks for reading until next time …

To sell or not to sell ...that is the question, so your phone is broken, and the repair is going to cost too much to fix, or you have a new contract, your old phone is lonely in a draw, in your kitchen all by its self!

If any of these best describes you, then there are ways to get some extra cash for your devices while doing your bit to help the environment!

Selling your phone to a mobile phone recycling company has never been easier. In most cases, you get the cash very quickly, the whole process is hassle free.

We did the hard work so you don't have to, after looking around and reading all the information out there, we have concluded that 02 recycle offer a great deal. Not only is this a big trusted brand, but they offer great rates and handle the phone in an environmentally friendly way.

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The first smartphone I owned was an iPhone and I instantly fell in love.  It was a match made in heaven.  I remember as if it was yesterday… my iPhone 4 with rounded app icons, easy to use interface speedy operating system and seamless access to all my favourite apps and websites … Ahhh.

Fast forward six years and now the smartphone market is FULL of high tech, high processor and… high prices!  Apple, it seems is no longer content with world domination, but now they have their sights on trying to change our habits to conform to their style and way of life!  Sorry apple, that’s the last straw for me thanks.

I mean, I love the Apple Company and their products are amazing even if they are overpriced, although I have now switched to android, I still feel that the IOS software is capable of running much quicker.  The only difference now is that my Samsung s6 has a quad core processor, yeah ok IPhone can run quicker with less, but does it actually matter anymore?  Not with this kind of power!

So what led me down this path?  It was a build-up of different things really.  The fact that the IOS system allows for minimal customization played a small part, the idea that Apple had plans to change their headphone phone port size to be different from the rest of the world was another, but the nail in the coffin for me… was error 53.

For those of you unfamiliar with error 53, this was the software update that apple put in place for a brief period that caused an awful amount of pain for a lot of people.  Basically, this software update rendered any iPhone 5s and above useless if their home button had been replaced by anyone other than Apple.

Ok, so I understand the reasoning for this, they say it was a security issue but I mean how insecure could it make it?  Not insecure enough for apple to keep it in place after the public went mental over it, which begs the question were there other motives?

I have been repairing my own mobile phones for as long as I can remember and just the thought of not being able to do that was enough for me to say ok Apple… I am done here.  I no longer require your services thank you for a great six years… I bid you good day!  Don’t get me wrong, this was an amicable split I have no hard feelings toward you, I just feel our time is over and our relationship has run its course.  We are different people now, you want your things and I want mine, which by the way is having control over the things that I buy with my own money, thank you very much.

So I told my friend, I said “Hey, had enough mate, getting an android for the first time” (He is Mr walking advert for Apple by the way, Apple watch, IPhone… the lot!)  He said, “What?  No!  No way man, why?”  So I began to explain my frustrations with IPhones and the whole, I want more control over my phone.

At that point, I was still on the fence and wasn’t sure which way to go.  But he helped me with that in just a few sentences when he said, “So yeah, OK, maybe you can customise it a little… Apart from that name me one thing you can do on android, you cannot do on IOS?”  I said, “Yeah… exactly!”

Ok, back in the day it was worth the extra cash having an IPhone, but the speed and capabilities of the high end smartphones these days don’t differ that much… but the price still does.

And so I ran off into the night with my shiny new Samsung Galaxy S6 never to look back at my IPhone 6S.

P.S I still have an IPad!