Screenmaster
The phone's broken
The broken screen is the last thing mobile phone users want, the apple phone screen is damaged and it costs $12,000 for repairs to change the screen, “better buy a new one!” a lot of people spit. Now, as long as the screen is unharmed and someone is pressed lightly, the problem can be solved at a much lower cost. Recently, cell phone screensmen have appeared in chongqing, relying on this technique, and people are even growing millions a year。
Iphone has a minimum of $100
Yesterday, chongqing night reporter found the screenmaster at a mobile phone repair shop in chutung. "an apple screen only costs $100." he said. At the age of 35, master he said that he had been working on mobile phones for more than 10 years, and that such a cheap price could be paid because the screen was not on a new screen but on a new glass for the bad screen, at a lower cost。
Just over a year ago, mobile screens were broken and had to be replaced, resulting in higher maintenance costs. The master made an allowance for the total price of a screen, even for the purchase of old components on the second-hand market, at around $1,000, but now it is only $100 for the iphone4 phone, $300 for the iphone6 phone; $200-300 for the three-star series, and $100-200 for some of the national phones。
According to master greeting, there were two main factors in deciding on the price of changing the screen: the complexity of the process, such as the difficulty of removing some of the apple phones, the difficulty of cleaning the internal glue, and the greater cost of operating them; and the total value of the cell phone, since if the screen fails, the screenman is required to pay the user the corresponding fee, the more expensive the phone, the greater the risk it would take and the higher the price it would be。
There's a risk of failure
"not all screen damage can be covered." according to the master, the cellular screen was multilayered and the screen could only resolve the broken glass in the outermost part of the screen and could not be replaced if the internal liquid crystal panels were damaged。
"the screen has a chance of failure, and the success rate depends on technology." master he said that he and the technicians in the store had been studying the technology since 2014. Last april, when he bought the whole machine from shenzhen for $80,000, many of the repairers in the nearby mobile phone store had seen it, and it seemed to everyone that it was very advanced, but few people dared to try the phone, so they could easily find a bold one, and the first set of screens failed。
Master he said that the machine required a high degree of technical proficiency and that, in the first month, he had taken many screens to practice, with an initial success rate of only 20 per cent, and once the screen had been crushed, they had to compensate others for a new original screen, almost daily. It was not until two or three months before the trades were admitted. The master told the journalists that their success rate had now increased from 20 to 80 per cent, and that even so, the rate of damage was high, so that they had so far made their profits in a way that would have been profitable enough to make up for the loss of crushing the screen through the profit of the mass screen. As to whether the glass used for the screen was original, he indicated that it was unclear, but that there was little difference between the promised screen success and the original screen。
Millions of dollars per year
There is a high risk of this technology. Master ha said that he had suffered a lot from how to make consumers pay. He stated that the business had been going on for more than a year and had been on track since the beginning of the year, with about a thousand screens on hand。
Master he said that, although the price of the screen equipment was now down by almost 75 per cent, no more than 10 mobile phone repair shops were currently able to do the screen. So he can pick up more than 1,000 units a month at a lower rate, and he can get close to 2,000 units of business, each with a profit of between $30 and $50, and a net income of up to $1 million a year。
Chongqing night reporters then visited the market for mobile phones at the stone bridges in the kowloon hills in the central district and found that there were very few blocked shops in the various mobile phone maintenance stores on the lawn, and only three could provide this service, while the owners of the cellular repairs at the stone bridge and cyber city unanimously told the journalists that chongqing should not yet have a shop capable of doing so。
Five steps in the process for up to one hour
How does the glass press on the screen? How does it fail? The chongqing evening reporter noted that the screen was divided into five steps for up to one hour, depending on the cell phone model。
Step 1
Test the screen with a test panel。
Step 2
Cut the glass on the broken screen and clean it。
Step 3
Select the fixed position of the cell phone size-appropriate screen mould to place the glass。
Step 4
When you press the glass in the screen machine, the screen has a whole new glass。
Step 5
Put the screen in a dedicated machine to clear the bubble。
No warranty
It's a small possibility for the original fitting
Is the screen really good? The senior engineer for the maintenance of chongqing telecommunications telephones indicated that if only glass damage occurred on the outer floor of the cell phone screen, it would indeed be possible to repair it by means of a screen, at a cost of $2,300, which is significantly cheaper than the complete replacement of the mobile phone repair points authorized by the mobile phone manufacturer。
However, the vendor that provides the screen service usually ceases to provide any warranty service after the owner has successfully opened the machine on the spot, and is subsequently not responsible for any quality problems, and the mobile phone manufacturer will not acknowledge it if it changes the screen during the warranty period。
Owing to the lack of authorization from the mobile phone manufacturer, the use of original fittings in the compacted repair shop is extremely unlikely, even if the vendor claims to have replaced the original glass. When the glass panels of poor quality are replaced, the perception of use decreases accordingly。
In addition, there are long working hours on the screen, and in order to further reduce costs, there are a number of vendors in chongqing who are using the banner of the screen and replacing the old screens directly on the backstage with low-cost recovered screens, showing no guaranteed effects or quality. Therefore, when consumers decide to perform screen repairs, there is still a need for reflection。
