I almost daren't write this review for fear of exposing how ridiculously foolish I feel for having required iPatch's services, but in spite of my uselessness, I'm massively grateful so I ought to post my thoughts. The other day, as my Mum was up to visit me, we went out for lunch. As our food was arriving I hastily moved my hat and phone aside to accommodate the dishes and stupidly pushed my phone straight on to the hard tiled floor of the café. Oh. My. Gosh. Smashy smashy. The screen was completely cracked. I was devastated. How ridiculously idiotic and careless!
I tried to ignore it as we ate our fantastic food, but it's not something that can be ignored; having spent so long with terrible phones and not once having dropped/lost them it was now that I had ruined my expensive and beautiful iPhone. Gah! So, I looked online for a solution. I'd seen the signage for iPatch before and checked out the prices so the next day voyaged over to the shop to ask about screen replacement.
Being so nervous about my expensive phone I practically grilled the guy about everything, probably making him feel like a crook, but I was desperate to avoid a dodgy job. He obliged completely and showed me a whole box of broken iPhone 4 screens, explaining that was how many he'd fixed in the last few months. The screen is guaranteed for 90 days after the repair, he doesn't send them off for two weeks like other companies (he does them right there and then on the day, in about half an hour) and he repairs with Apple parts, not knock-offs. (Apparently some places offer just screen replacement with the iPhone 4, which they shouldn't since the touch screen and glass are one and the same.)
In the end, after all the chat, I surmised that I'd have to pick someone to do it and I felt pretty comforted by his explanations. I got a little nervous, as my receipt to come and collect it was just a signature on a piece of till roll, but he assured me he wasn't going to disappear and he did not in fact disappear. Of course he didn't. I was being ridiculous. As promised, in half an hour after dropping it in, I came back to collect and everything was grand. The time and date needed resetting (which is standard) but other than that it was as good as new. Don't think I didn't scrutinise it for faults either - the only slight difference I *think* I noticed was that the colour was a mite different, but of course, that could be my paranoid idiot brain. It probably isn't and it definitely works perfectly.
I'm saving the last star for it still being in perfect order in a few weeks, but really, I highly recommend this place. Although the repair totaled £100 I believe that it was for a quality job, performed by someone who is both knowledgeable and capable, with (in my meager knowledge, of course) good quality parts. Fingers crossed nothing goes wrong, but I think I've found a winner here! (Now if only I can stop being a clumsy oaf... ) read more
