Save Money by Repairing your Mobile Device

We are living in difficult economic times and many of us have limited resources. We can all benefit by cutting down on unnecessary expenses. Our cell phones, iPods and iPads are subject to many mishaps, from cracked screens to water damage. Replacing these expensive devices when they break is no longer cost-effective and it’s time for us to realize this and to stop wasting our hard-earned money! Repairing your mobile device is now fast, easy and reliable.

Hawaii cell phone repair experts can fix your phone at an affordable price and give you a 1-year warranty on the repair. They keep many parts in stock and can often make the repair while you wait.

iPads have large screens that are prone to breakage. Hawaii iPad repair services can have your tablet looking and functioning just like the day it came out of the box for a fraction of the cost of a new one and often for less than your insurance deductible. 

 

We carry our iPods and cell phones with us everywhere and drop them in toilets, sinks and swimming pools. We sit on them, step on them and back our cars over them. Hawaii iPod repair professionals have seen it all before and are equipped to handle the most challenging repairs. Some cellphone/electronic repair centers will charge you nothing for the attempt if they can’t fix your device – even with water/liquid damage.

So, stop wasting money on new replacements of your expensive mobile devices. When you have a mishap, check out Hawaii cell phone, iPad or iPod repair services.

Part 1 - (Cell phone repair Hawaii) 

Part 2 - (Tipsfor Finding Third party Services for Your IPod and Ipad)

Part 3-  (Save Money by Repairing your Mobile Device)

Part 4 -  To be continued....

From Telephone to Smartphone: A long way in a short time! Part 3 – Bridging the Oceans

Cell Phone Repair Hawaii: a historical perspective from

the professionals at MobileREMEDIES®

 

Morse Code Heard Across the Sea

Early experimentation with radio signals (initially known as “wireless telegraphy”) began with Heinrich Hertz in the late 1880’s about 10 years after Bell’s telephone.  Guglielmo Marconi, while he did not invent the process, was committed to the commercialization of telegraph signals that could be sent through the air without wires using “Hertzian waves”.  By 1896, he was able to transmit a telegraphic signal over a distance of about 2 miles and by 1901, all the way across the Atlantic Ocean from Cornwall, England to St. John’s, Newfoundland using a complex antenna array. (Though some people question whether the three “dits” heard on that first attempt and interpreted as forming the letter “S” in Morse code weren’t bits of random noise from the intense background static!)  The first 2-way transmission would not take place, however, until 1906. In any case, voice transmission did not play a part in the original concept of wireless telegraphy and Marconi himself was initially uninterested.  Others, however, notably Reginald Fessenden a Canadian inventor born in Quebec, saw the potential in the early 1900’s as the telephone gained popularity, and created “radiotelephony”.  [Historically, the telegraph, telephone, radio and, to a lesser extent, television in the late 1920’s, would develop on parallel paths for the first few decades, occasionally crossing over into each other’s domains. This was almost certainly because their analog signals had different characteristics.  The “Digital Age” would change all that, transforming their unique signals into different patterns of the same 0’s and 1’s. (See: Part 5 – From Cell Phones to Smartphones: The Internet!)]

Voices Heard Around the World – But…

While long-range radio voice transmissions between the United States and Europe were sporadically exchanged as early as 1906, thefirst commercial transatlantic telephone callusing the existing wire-dependent system combined with radiotelephony was not made until January of 1926 between New York and London. Nine years later, in April of 1935, the president and vice-president of AT&T spoke to each other in two separate offices 50 feet apart in New York City, routing the call around the entire Earth over a distance of 23,000 miles, bridging the oceans with the radiotelephone! By the beginning of the Second World War, transatlantic telephone conversations were commonplace in certain circles but there were more than a few problems associated with long distance radiotelephony.

The signals had to bounce off the ionosphere in order to reach around the curvature of the Earth and were distorted by atmospheric conditions. “Magnetic storms”, now known as sunspots, could sometimes disrupt service for several days. Voices often faded in and out and the early system could only handle one call at a time and about 2,000 calls per year. Calls were allotted three minutes and cost $75 in 1927, equivalent to about $1000 or $330 per minute in today’s currency! Another obvious problem was that anyone could listen in on the conversations if they had the right equipment, a business, military, and governmental nightmare. Though system capacities and reliability improved slowly, “classic” short wave radiotelephony could only fulfill the needs of an elite few as a long-distance medium. It would continue to flourish however, for some time in aviation and ship-to-shore applications. In spite of its inherent limitations, the transoceanic radiotelephone was an important stepping-stone in inter-continental communications.

Back to Cables but With Some New Twists

These problems proved to be too serious to ignore and transatlantic radiotelephony would be largely replaced by undersea wires in the late 1950’s when the first transatlantic telephone cable (TAT-1)became functional (100 years after the first transatlantic telegraph cable!). It incorporated the newly invented vacuum tubes as signal amplifiers and underwater “relay stations” in special 8-foot cable segments placed every 37 nautical miles. TAT-1 used copper wires and was actually two cables laid about 20 miles apart with one to handle the east-west direction and the other for west-east signals. The system could handle 36 simultaneous telephone calls and the cost was approximately $3 per minute in 1956 (the equivalent of about $25 today). The system carried 588 calls on its very first day of service, about twice as many as were made in the previous week on the AT&T transatlantic radiotelephone system. Sound quality and connection reliability improved dramatically and prices came down even further as more sophisticated cables were added with larger and larger capacities. International long distance calling gradually became more accessible to the general public and call volumes increased rapidly. These cables continued to use copper wires up throughTAT-7 (1978), but the capacity had climbed from 36 to 10,500 channels.

In 1970, scientists at Dow Corning created a tiny flexible ultra-pure optical glass fiber covered with a reflective coating that could transmit light over long distances by bouncing the beam off the internal walls of the fiber without the use of electrical current.  It doesn’t sound like much, but when combined with analog/digital conversion technologies and increasingly powerful lasers and computer processors, it would become one of the most significant inventions of the 20^th Century! (See also: Part 5 – From Cell Phones to Smartphones: The Internet!) The first fiber optic transatlantic telephone cable (TAT-8) laid in 1988, could handle 40,000 simultaneous calls! [This was still primitive by today’s standards. Now that all data is transmitted digitally in the same form, cable capacities are no longer measured in channels but in “bandwidth”  or "bit rate" (number of data “bits” per second) and are no longer dedicated to a single medium. Old rivals such as telegraph,telephone, radio and television can now all ride together as data bits on the same light beams! This year’s newest fiber optic cable (Emerald Express) using the best fiber quality and laser technology available is projected to have a bandwidth of 40 Terabits/second, the equivalent of more than 700 million simultaneous phone calls with a transatlantic delay of less than 60 milliseconds!]

The oceans no longer represented a barrier to the telephone and a whisper could be heard around the world!

TO BE CONTINUED…           (Part 1 –The Beginnings)

                                           (Part 2 - The Golden Age of Telephones)

                                           (Part 3 – Bridging the Oceans)

                                           (Part 4 - The Road to Cellular Technology)

                                           (Part 5 – From Cell Phones to Smartphones: The Internet!)