NWIDA is pleased to announce that we’ve joined with ERN (the Electronics Resource Network) to offer a special discounted NWIDA membership! ERN members can save 20% on any 3,6 or 12 month NWIDA membership – and take advantage of the huge savings our member get every day! Like ERN says: Many times, especially with industry legislation, one Read more…
NWIDA is headed to GRE 5.0! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#76) but if you want to reserve a time slot, please do so on our show calendar below! Oh, and when you sign up for the show, use code NWIDAFREE for a FREE show ticket! NWIDA NWIDA members, contact us today if you need Read more…
Thanks to E-Scrap News for covering our session at e-Summit. (Link to story) Author Colin Staub did a nice job summarizing our session, as we explored new ways for mobile repair shops to add income. If you missed the session in Austin, check out this summary. NWIDA Announcing IMEI Reports – Generate a comprehensive device report Read more…
Yesterday, we were invited to moderate a panel at Mobile Repair Dayheld inside the e-Summit conference. I was joined by Shay Kripilani of Injured Gadgets, Eric Houdek of PLP and Chad Johansson , a CPR franchisee. We discussed the challenges of a local wireless repair shop, Apple and Samsung issues and how repair shops can generate more Read more…
As part of Apple’s new iOS 18, it appears that they are beta testing a feature called “Activation Lock.” The feature, as previously described by Apple, links your Apple Account not only to your iPhone, but also to components such as the battery, cameras and display based on their individual serial numbers. The goal is to put Read more…
Apple is launching a new feature aimed at simplifying iPhone repairs for users. With the iOS 18 update, arriving on September 16, Apple is introducing a feature called “Repair Assistant,” as reported by MacRumors. This tool will identify and authenticate genuine iPhone parts, whether new or used, ensuring they work as intended. Previously, replacing iPhone components without Read more…
Our friends at iFixIt (link below) tell us that “Apple just announced that they’re caving on a key parts pairing problem: They’ve promised to stop artificially hamstringing the performance of third-party parts. Mostly.” For the past eight years, iPhones with third-party or secondhand batteries couldn’t display battery health metrics. Similarly, replacing a broken screen with a used or Read more…
Our friends at Repair.org tell us that Governor Polis of Colorado has officially signed the state’s third Right to Repair bill into law, setting a new standard for consumer and independent business repair rights. This marks another major step for Colorado towards comprehensive repair freedoms, following significant wins for powered wheelchairs in 2022 and farm equipment in Read more…
iFixit has announced they are ending their collaboration with Samsung. The program was launched 2 years ago, and according to the post on their website (link at end), they have not been able to deliver on the promise of “building an incredible, repair-friendly ecosystem.” Apparently, Samsung was not on-board with making repair more accessible: As we tried Read more…
with a h/t to friend of NWIDA – Kyle Wiens of iFixit and Repair.org, today we find out that Apple is planning to extend support for (select) iPhones to outside the Apple internal repair process. On Apple’s website (link below) it goes into a bit more details and Kyle has summarized: Beginning with select iPhone models this Read more…
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