Finding the Way to Replace a Motherboard on a Smart Phone

Once you take the step up to the major leagues and begin using an iPhone, you'll realize that there are major and minor repair issues. An example of a minor repair would be replacing a dying battery. iPhone motherboard replacement, on the other hand, is a rather complicated maneuver, and one which will cost you a bit of cash. If you love your phone and would rather go for the repair route, it can be done. If not, you'll have to decide if you are better off selling it for parts or 'as is.'

The good news is that being faced with an iPhone motherboard replacement is by no means the end of the line for you and your phone. You will be able to get something out of the phone (money) even if you cannot go through with the replacement on your own. It will take a skilled technician to handle the job, plus you will have to pay for the part itself (upwards of $200, typically). Still, it will end up being less expensive than buying a new phone altogether. It's at least worth exploring how you would replace it.

You have to find the proper motherboard online. You'll see items available from the different auction houses, but you should only trust a seller with a lot of undeniably positive transactions. Even though buyers hold all manner of control over sellers these days, you can still tell an irresponsible seller from a quality one by reading through the feedback which has been left. Beyond that, you can look for the companies that sell iPhone motherboard replacement parts and accessories only. It may surprise you, but there is enough business in this small niche for a company to thrive these days.

How long will you have to wait and what will you do in the meantime? Unless you are a\ smart phone dealer yourself, you can be left in a lurch while you wait for the iPhone motherboard replacement to take place. These days, checking in from your work phone and email is not enough. All of those texts and missed calls can start to pile up in just twenty-four hours, as you've probably noticed if you have ever misplaced your phone for a similar time period. You need to have something backing you up in case this goes down. It makes a good case for keeping an old cell phone around just in case.

If this scenario doesn't work for you, you'll need to get a temporary phone that you can use while the iPhone motherboard replacement is taking place. Some of the companies that repair phones can provide you with a phone to borrow while the deal goes down. You will breathe a sigh of relief as soon as the phone falls into your hands. You might have to deal with a slightly different game plan, as the phone is not customized to your specs, but it will be far better than any alternative.

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Dealing With Smart Phone Repairs From Motherboards to LCD Issues

You won't be feeling great about things when you need a new motherboard for a smart phone. In fact, this point is where many smart phone users decide the time has come to an end for their devices. Should that be the case? Absolutely not: You should never consider ditching an iPhone just because you need a motherboard. You can get items like an iPhone 3g 8gb motherboard online and get back to your life quickly. Here are some ideas on dealing with smart phone repairs quickly and effectively.

Know what you are getting: Just because the ad says you are buying an iPhone 3g 8gb motherboard doesn't mean you are going to get what you need. Some products need to be adjusted. For example, a motherboard will likely need to be unlocked and jailbroken before it can be used by someone. If you do not have this service taken care of, you will be in for a rude awakening later. You can't use a motherboard in this state, so you will need to pay someone an extra fee to take care of it. Make sure it's prepared for you before you get set back in the repair process.

Watch the LCD screens on the market: There are some scams out there, saying things like an LCD screen or iPhone 3g 8gb motherboard can be fixed inexpensively and with little technical expertise. Anyone who says that about a motherboard repair has truly gone off the deep end, as this repair is very difficult. The same might be said for the LCD. Some items which claim to be the only item necessary for screen replacement are actually only part of what you need. People who fall into the trap of buying these partial solutions end up spending more money in the long run.

Consider what you will do when the phone is getting fixed: If you don't have a backup iPhone 3g 8gb motherboard on hand when you need it, you are going to be looking at a significant amount of time before you are back up online. What will you do in the meantime? If you know where you can find a phone to use temporarily, you won't be left out in the cold when such a sad time comes. You can just pick up the loaner phone you need and move on without missing a beat.

Have your tech repair crew and 'go to' website set: You don't want to waste time when you need to pull off a repair, whether it is something simple like a battery or something more complicated, like an iPhone 3g 8gb motherboard repair. For this reason, you need to have your tech repair crew ready to work on your phone. Know your technicians. Also, know where you can find the parts when they don't have them in stock. iPhones for which the warranty has lapsed will have to be watched over much more carefully. Know where to find the parts and who will repair the device.

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Smart Media Communications; Part 2 - Understanding The Media Markets And The Media

If you are thinking about initiating a public relations/media communications effort it makes sense to understand the media markets to help formulate a communications strategy. In this article we will discuss the major media markets and practical considerations associated with a low budget communications plan.

THE TOP-30 MEDIA MARKETS

As mentioned in (Part 1) of this series, there are 30 major cities in America known as the TOP-30 media markets. They are called major media markets because the population levels exceed over one million people across a wide demographic audience and they are:

Atlanta, GA

Milwaukee, WI

Baltimore, MD

Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN Boston, MA

New Orleans, LA Chicago, IL

New York, NY Cincinnati, OH

Philadelphia, PA Cleveland, OH

Phoenix, AZ Columbus, OH

Pittsburgh, PA Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

Portland, OR Denver, CO

Sacramento, CA

Detroit, MI

St. Louis, MO Houston/Galveston, TX

San Diego, CA Indianapolis, IN

San Francisco, CA Kansas City, NE

Seattle/Tacoma, WA Los Angeles, CA

Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL Miami, FL

Washington, DC

These media markets represent the biggest bang for the buck if you get booked for newspaper, radio or TV interviews because of the sheer volume of readers and radio and TV audiences. Each of these cities have at least one anchor newspaper organization located in them (The Boston Globe, The Columbus Dispatch and the Chicago Tribune, etc), for example, and even smaller newspapers can reap a substantial amount of response from a simple mention of your project. Do not underestimate any media in these cities or the surrounding areas within a 100-mile radius. If you are looking for big time coverage and major public awareness, these cities are they place to focus your time and resources.

SMALL CITIES

Smaller cities, those that do not appear in the list above, can still generate significant results in areas with populations ranging from about 250,000-750,000 people. While not considered a major media market, coverage by TV, radio and newspapers concurrently can create quite an impact on public awareness. Again, these cities should not be overlooked in the communications planning.

SMALL TOWNS

Small towns include population centers from about 25,000-100,000 people and many times only have a local newspaper organization, some local magazines and a few local radio stations. TV broadcasts are often received from neighboring cities and through cable.

TALKING TO THE MEDIA

Every city, no matter how small or how large, has a natural order within the media; Newspapers organizations are headed up by editors and specialty column writers and the electronic media (radio and TV) all have producers and hosts. When dealing with newspaper organizations you want to target your calls to the appropriate reporters covering your story idea. For example, if you were trying to promote a book on cars, then you would want to talk to the reporter covering the auto motive section, if your story deals with real estate, the real estate reporter, and so forth. In the electronic media (radio or TV), you can either do research at the library, or order a Bacon's media directory or call the target stations directly with your story idea. Many times the receptionist can guide you to the appropriate producers of the shows most inclined to cover your story idea. A key is to make friends with the receptionist, who is your eyes and ears into the organization. One way to establish a dialog with the receptionist is to simply ask "can you help me" and then briefly describe your story idea and ask to speak to the best producer according to the receptionists opinion. The receptionists know who's who in these organizations and can save you a TON of time.

THINGS TO CONSIDER

1. If a newspaper has never interviewed you, relax, it's a breeze. Radio and TV is different though. Many times these are live and you will be exposing your self to a considerable audience. If the media event takes live calls this can be especially nerve racking if you have no experience. In order to be professional, you must know your topic. You must be an expert in your field. When you are on live radio or TV and they plan on taking live calls, it is comparable to sitting in the middle of a packed super bowl football field and having to answer questions from anybody in the bleachers and everybody will hear your answers. Not to much of a problem if you REALLY know your topic. If you don't know an answer to a caller's question, be honest and say you don't know--tell them to leave their name and number with the station and you will call back with an answer. It provides a professional way to maintain your dignity.

2. For this reason, it makes sense to target your first phase of communications towards smaller towns and focus on small newspapers and small radio stations. This way, you will gain experience in smaller venues and, if you make a mistake, you will not destroy your credibility in a large media market.

3. Concentrate your efforts into one city at a time unless you think you can handle a national PR rollout. I suggest focusing your efforts and money into a city because you want to "spin" the media all at the same time. I mean, you want all your media events to happen in a concentrated manner so that newspapers, radio stations and maybe TV cover you all within a week or so. This way you get in and get out of a city and analyze what happened, both good and bad including results.

Getting media coverage is most often a matter of being honest with everybody you deal with. You will need a professional release (the next lesson in this series) to get people's attention but beyond that, being friendly and honest is the key to success with media. As long as your topic is informative, controversial or sensational, getting media coverage is relatively easy to do. Stay tuned to these articles, they will be updated daily over the next five (5) days.

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Smart Media Communications; Part 5 - Understanding Media Politics And Your PR Plan

Now that we have generally discussed how to get newspaper, radio and TV publicity in (parts 1-4) of this mini series, we will conclude this series with a little insight into managing a public relations media communications roll out plan. This article is based on several years of personal experience.

When thinking about communicating with the public people tend to think of a "national rollout" and hitting the big time with the media, appearing on national TV networks and newspapers and radio stations across the U.S. While this is possible, it's not probable if you are not a major newsmaker.

There is a saying in the media "if it bleeds, it leads" and what it means is that the more horrific and gruesome an event, the more likely it is to be covered. So if you are not a politician or a crazed axe murderer, you will be up against stiff competition to get national TV coverage. It seems that something more important than your cause will either arise (like a tsunami) or exist (like politics) that stand in your way for publicity.

What a lot of people don't understand is the politics of national media. Major businesses (like IBM, Microsoft, etc) have dollar power, as do big publishers (like John Wiley & sons, Prentice Hall, etc) and large advertising groups and PR/media communications firms. These companies spend a TON of money wining and dining the "powers that be" in the national media like TV executives, producers and hosts. I can't prove what I am about to say but you should accept it anyway: There is payola money to the big media in the form of "trips, tickets, gifts and, I am sure cash under the table that is used to build relationships with people in the media. These money gifts help establish relationships and create inside channels for publicity. Imagine for a moment that you have a great story idea for national TV. Who do you think is going to get booked for a gig, you or a major advertising/public relations firm who has a client needing the same air time? Consider that this particular firm drops $100,000.00 a year on wining and dining the players in the media... If you said them and not you, you are right.

For this reason most people should concentrate on reasonable and achievable media communications goals and target very specific geographical areas composed of the TOP-30 media markets (still political but not as much) and better yet, smaller cities with population centers ranging from 100,000 to 500,000 people. A good way to identify these markets is by using a road atlas. Using an atlas will help you put into perspective where, why and how you will be communicating with the media. It will show populations and distance in case you have to travel.

My thoughts on publicity is that if you cannot get covered in smaller markets well, you will never get covered in the big ones well. Let me rephrase that: If you can't get the little things done first, you will never get the bigger things done (.)

One way to look at the national media is to break the U.S. into 4 geographical sectors and then break these down into 4 geographical sectors and continue to do so and look at the media within these smaller target zones. Another good strategy is to treat where you live as the core of an onion and draw larger and larger concentric circles around where you live, expanding each circle out by say 50 or 100 miles at a time. These are the media you want to start with in your public relations campaign. Why? Well, first it is a reasonable distance to drive for in-studio radio-gigs and TV events if you get that kind of coverage. Secondly, publicity has a tendency to build on itself and as you get newspaper stories and radio experience, these materials can be used to increase your credibility with bigger media. It's a building block approach, the more press you get, the more press you get if you use your media coverage wisely. Thirdly, it will be easier to manage small concentrated areas at a time rather than a major national wire press release distribution, which are basically impossible to track and follow up on. There are companies in the market like Luce's Clipping service that will scan media and clip and send your articles to you. These services aren't cheap but they can help you build your media kit content.

Whatever level of publicity you are seeking, you want good information management systems to track where you are sending press releases, follow up names, addresses, phone numbers, dates, etc. When you consider all the activities of creating the releases, the media kits, sending them out, following up, booking the gigs, performing the gigs and thanking the media for the gig, if you are not well managed, you will lose a lot of time and miss opportunities.

This concludes the mini series on Smart Media Communications, you can view the entire series by clicking view Hart's articles below. I hope you have found the series useful.

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Elizabeth Smart Hired as ABC News Contributor

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 and was held by a Salt Lake City street preacher for nine months in 2002 and 2003, has joined ABC News as a paid contributor.

An ABC spokeswoman said Thursday that she will “help our viewers better understand missing person stories from someone with the perspective to know what a family experiences when a loved one goes missing.”

ABC said that its staffers had been in talks with Ms. Smart about the position for “quite some time,” and that she could appear on the network in the coming weeks.

The surprising hire was first reported Wednesday night by The Daily Beast, which asked, “Other than fame — as the victim of a horrifying crime — what exactly are her qualifications?”

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Not All Businessmen Are Smart, You Know

By James Kwak

Stephen Carter, a professor at the Yale Law School and an accomplished novelist, wrote a Bloomberg column based on a conversation with a medium-sized business owner he met on a plane. The gist of the column is that the businessman isn’t hiring more workers because he’s worried about the regulations changing on him. From this, Carter draws a general lesson about business and government:

“For medium-sized firms like his, however, there is little wiggle room to absorb the costs of regulatory change. Because he possesses neither lobbyists nor clout, he says, Washington doesn’t care whether he hires more workers or closes up shop. . . .

“Recessions have complex causes, but, as the man on the aisle reminded me, we do nothing to make things better when the companies on which we rely see Washington as adversary rather than partner.”

Jim Henley (hat tip Brad DeLong) has already pointed out the silliest thing about this column: anyone who has a growing business and isn’t hiring more people, and isn’t hiring them because he’s not sure about future regulatory changes, is making a mistake (or perhaps is in a very unusual business that is heavily exposed to some very particular and very concrete regulatory risk).

Since Henley concludes, “The article reminds me of the criticism that intellectuals tend to lack real-world business experience,” and since I am also going to be a law professor, I’ll point out that I worked at McKinsey for three years and later co-founded a software company where I worked for seven years. It’s not a terribly long business career, but it’s longer than that of most academics and pundits. And at no point in any context did the concept of regulatory risk ever arise as a significant factor. When real businesses think about whether or not to enter new markets, build new factories, hire more people, etc., their overriding question is: will people buy enough of the stuff I’m selling? That is question number one, two, and three, and everything else is relegated to the “other factors” at the end. (And for real businesses today, the biggest “regulatory risk” is that the government will fail to solve the health care problem, since growing health care costs are the biggest cost that businesses don’t have control over.)

I have two additional points to make. The first is that Mr. Business Owner’s complaint is really a futile complaint about the fact that the world changes. He doesn’t hire workers because the regulations can change. He can’t decide what to invest in because Washington created “a climate of uncertainty.” More tellingly, he can’t plan to sell his company because “he doesn’t even know from one year to the next what the capital gains rate is going to be.” Do you know what you call a political system where regulations and tax rates can change? I was going to say, “democracy,” but really it’s any political system. The closest thing you can have to long-term certainty is a country with a dictator who is powerful, secure, and mentally stable. In a democracy, when a new party takes power, policy can change. Most of us think that’s a good thing. Calling the government an adversary because of a fundamental principle of democratic government seems, well, a bit un-American.

Oh, and that capital gains tax rate? It was 28 percent from the Tax Reform Act of 1986 until 1997; then it was 20 percent until the second Bush tax cut of 2003; and it’s been 15 percent since. It might go back up to 20 percent if the Bush tax cuts expire in 2012. If that’s too much uncertainty for him to deal with, then he needs to get into another line of work.

Second, its a mistake to ascribe too much importance to what a real businessman says. Objectively speaking, regulatory uncertainty has never been a particularly important business consideration, and it is not unusually high now. (Quick, name five regulations proposed by the Obama administration that will significantly increase the cost of labor.*) Yet I am sure that there are many businesspeople just like Carter’s seatmate, who are failing to hire and are blaming their decision on regulatory uncertainty.

Why? Because they watch Fox News, too. If you watch enough people telling you that the Obama administration is raising the cost of doing business, you start to believe it, just like if you watch enough people telling you that Obama was not born in the United States, you start to believe that, or if you watch enough people telling you that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, you start to believe that. And once you believe that the Obama administration is raising the cost of doing business, and you believe that this is creating a lot of uncertainty, you slow down your hiring. But in that case, the uncertainty wasn’t created by Washington; it was created by Fox News.

The counter-argument is: that couldn’t happen, because Mr. Business Owner is putting his money where his mouth is; since he’s making business decisions, he must be acting rationally, ergo there must be regulatory uncertainty.

Does this argument even need a response? As Larry Summers once said, “There are idiots. Look around.” People make stupid decisions all the time when making decisions that affect the bottom line, and companies are no different. Because of competition, successful businessmen might make slightly fewer stupid decisions than other businessmen, but it’s only a few. There are so many factors that go into building a successful business, many of them uncontrollable, that there’s no reason to assume that someone who has done moderately well is any better at judging the impact of government policy on future profitability than you are. (Secret for all those other law professors out there: there are smart businesspeople, and there are dumb ones, just like in every other occupation.)

I’m not doubting that Mr. Business Owner really believes that regulatory uncertainty makes it too risky to hire more people. But his saying so doesn’t make it so. Well, one might say, the fact that he believes it is the problem, and so the government needs to do a better job convincing business that it’s on their side. But I’m not buying that either. The problem is that the conservative media have been trumpeting the talking point that the anti-business Obama administration is creating regulatory uncertainty, and they’ve been doing it so loudly and for so long that lots of people actually believe it. And if businesspeople aren’t hiring because of that belief, then it’s the conservative media — and people who repeat their talking points — that are to blame.**

* One area where firms might legitimately be worried about new regulation is in consumer financial services, since there there is a whole new regulatory agency to worry about. But while those regulations may affect what services may be offered and at what price, they are unlikely to affect labor costs, which are what Mr. Business Owner was worried about.

** After writing this last paragraph I realized that Will Wilkinson (hat tip Kevin Drum) beat me to it.

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