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New iPhone 3G s Touted as God in a Gadget
The iPhone 3G s is the latest from Apple, but is it a stupid smart phone?
It’s the newest in smart phones, and it’s bound to sell better than its predecessor, the iPhone 3G. This one is hyped with the letter “s” which stands for speed, twice as fast. But it looks almost identical to a ‘regular’ iPhone 3G and does twice as fast mean much when it comes to these gadgets? Has...
CPR Offers Repair Service While You Wait
At its many convenient locations, CPR will often repair your cell phone or electronic device while you wait.
CPR’s trained technicians hail from the four corners of the world. As children, they dreamt of nothing else except repairing cell phones and a myriad of electronic devices. Bobby’s tale is typical. When Bobby BestRepairGuyEver was six years old, he found his first cell phone on the...
The Sale: CPR Offers Refurbished and Unlocked Phones
CPR has in stock a surprising variety of so-called “recycled cell phones.” Besides taking advantage of some excellent deals, it’s the environmentally-conscious way to go.
CPR announces “The Sale.” Cell phones that some might refer to as “used,” or “pre-owned,” others might call “refurbished.” CPR’s trained technicians are experts...
The Greatest Race: BlackBerry vs. iPhone
Now that BlackBerry has finally overtaken the iPhone in total sales, the race is on.
It doesn’t cost as much. It’s available in so many places that it’s said to be ubiquitous. But like runners-up everywhere, according to First Quarter 2009 sales statistics, the iPhone is now in second place. How do you like those apples, Apple? Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Curve is officially...
Recycle Your Cell Phones to Go Green
Instead of trashing your treasured cell phone, recycle it.
The landfills are filling. It was bound to happen eventually. In a disposable society, it’s become second nature to just throw things out.
What gets thrown out more and more often are electronic machines like computers, personal digital assistants, and increasingly, cell phones. With billions of cell phones accumulating in trash bins,...
Doctors Already Responding to Obama’s Call to Make Offices Paperless
Physicians seek to take advantage of $17.2 billion in stimulus money while switching to digital record-keeping.
Peter Naismith called his physician in his Akron office thirty-seven times during a five-day span to retrieve his medical records. “I needed them to get an MRI,” the 53-year-old Naismith asserts. “The receptionist kept putting me off because my doctor still has paper files,”...
CPR Franchise Opportunities Beckon Entrepreneurs
For a minimum start-up of $75K, you can own a brand new concept supercharged with massive consumer demand.
In the days of the not-so-wild Midwest, when Chicago was first becoming a metro full of cell phones in need of a fix, once upon a time when the companies who made them still had maintenance plans but didn’t always honor them, a little business that could and would, was born, not in a manger,...
CPR Franchise Opportunities Still There for the Taking
CPR, the largest cell phone repair business in the nation, with 20+ locations, offers a stellar investment bargain for canny entrepreneurs.
CPR began when the cell phone repair industry was in its infancy, back when it was almost impossible to find an Indy place to repair an ailing cell phone. Dissatisfaction with cell phone manufacturers had yet to crest, or even surge, and if you couldn’t cajole...
Who Does Batteries?
It’s rare as a chicken’s foot in a potpie to find a cell phone repair shop that repairs batteries in electronic devices.
The machine was tiny enough. The “pod” preceded by some no-longer-mass-marketed universally popular letter contained an LCD screen that would be large enough for an ant’s eye view if only it opened its compound peepers really wide. But inside the LCD...
Few Cell Phone Repair Businesses Offer Franchising Opportunities
It’s estimated that over half the people in the world own cell phones, and yet franchising opportunities are relatively rare.
Thirty years ago, a cell phone was something out of Jules Verne. Portable telephones were the newest thing. It was considered amazing when you could carry the entire phone with you to a different room, but if you dared bring it out of doors, weaker signals had a tendency...
