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In our last article we told you all about how LCD screens work . In that piece, we talked a little about the history of LCDs and how important they’ve been to the rise of personal mobile electronics like smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Today we’re going to talk about another crucial component of this technological revolution: the touchscreen. The first touchscreens were designed in the 1960s, but the technology was expensive and imprecise. It wasn’t until the 1990s that there were serious attempts to bring touchscreen technology into the consumer world. IBM was the first company to attempt to bring the technology to mobile phones, with the Simon in 1993, while Sega made an aborted attempt to incorporate touchscreen technology into mobile gaming. It wasn’t until the early 2000s, with the introduction of PDAs and early smartphones, that touchscreens began to see use in mobile electronics. Pretty much all modern touchscreens fall into two basic categories: resistive touchscreen...

Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screens have played a major role in the rise of personal digital technology. The first LCDs were used in calculators and digital watches in the 1970s, and the technology began to make its way into televisions and computer displays in the 1980s. During the early 2000s, the technology made its way into smartphones and PDAs. In 2007, the same year Apple introduced the first iPhone, LCDs surpassed CRT (cathode ray tube) displays in both sales and picture quality. Every LCD consists of 6 basic parts. At the back of the display is a backlight (though in some devices like calculators and digital watches, it’s just a reflective surface). In most displays - including the one on your phone or tablet - the backlight consists of an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs). In front of the backlight is a polarized film (like you’d find in a pair of polarized sunglasses). This film only allows the light waves that are oriented vertically to pass through. Next is a layer o...

At Phone Medics Plus, we’re always here for you to repair your devices when they break, but we also want to help you keep your devices safe so that they don’t break. That’s why we offer a full range of protective products for your cell phone or tablet. That includes a wide selection of phone and tablet cases , tempered glass screen protectors, and now, we’re excited to announce that we’ve added a brand new product to that lineup: Qmadix Invisible First Defense liquid glass screen protectors. Traditional screen protectors are great at keeping your phone safe from scratches and cracks, some even do an okay job of keeping away fingerprints, but they can also be bulky, difficult to apply, and have an unsightly edge that can spoil the aesthetics of your phone, especially if you have a curved screen. Qmadix Liquid glass screen protectors offer a comparable level of scratch protection with no bulky layer or ugly borders, and without the difficulty of making sure you’ve got everything lin...

At Phone Medics Plus, we’re here for you when your phone gets damaged, but we also want to help you protect your phone from damage. That’s why we sell a variety of cases to help you keep your phone safe. Certain things in life are inevitable. The old joke goes that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, but the truth is, there are a few more things that you can’t really escape. One of them is a damaged phone. If you own a cell phone, then sooner or later it’s going to get dropped, wet, or dirty. Maybe it slips out of your hand as you're opening your car door, maybe it gets dropped in the sand on your day at the beach, or maybe a careless elbow and a knocked-over glass splashes it with water. One way or another, the odds are good that sooner or later your phone is going to experience some rough times. The best thing you can do to prepare yourself for that fateful day is to have your phone in a good case. But what, you may ask, makes for a good case? That’s an exc...

At Phone Medics Plus, we’re not just committed to providing the best possible repair service for your phone or PC. We also want to make sure you have the tools to get the most out of your experience with your device, and to make sure that even when something does go wrong, you can get back on your feet as quickly as possible. That’s why we’ve spent our last two blog posts talking about the best ways to backup your data. In our first post, we talked about the best backup solutions for your iPhone , then we talked about how to backup the data on your PC . In today’s post, we’re going to finish up by talking about the best ways to backup the data on your Android device. As with PCs and iPhones, there are two basic ways to backup your Android device: on-site and off-site. On-site backups are saved to your own computer, while off-site backups are saved to the cloud. There are a wide variety of applications out there that will help you create both kinds of backups. Manufacture...

At Phone Medics Plus, we know how much your phone, tablet, and PC mean to you. When something goes wrong with your device, it can leave you feeling pretty helpless. When you lose valuable data - family photos, important documents, contacts, and more - it can be devastating. That’s why we want to make sure you have the tools to keep your data safe, so that even if something goes wrong with your device, your valuable files won’t be lost. With that in mind, we’re publishing a series of blog posts about the best ways to backup your data. In our last post we told you about some of the best backup solutions for your PC. Today we’re going to tell you the best ways to backup your iPhone or iPad. There are quite a few backup options out there for your iOS device, but the first ones you should look at are the ones that Apple provides: iTunes and iCloud. With iTunes it’s fairly easy to backup your iPhone or iPad. When you connect your iPhone or iPad to your computer, iTunes will give you...

At Phone Medics Plus, we aren’t just committed to fixing your phone or PC when something goes wrong, we also want to give you the tools to keep your devices running well, and to help you minimize the inconvenience when something does go wrong. That’s why we’re going to spend our next few blog posts talking to you about how to keep your data backed up. Today we’ll cover backing up the data on your computer. In our next couple of posts, we’ll discuss backup options for the data on your iOS and Android device. Data Loss: Not If, But When The unfortunate reality of life in the electronic age is that it isn’t a question of if you’re going to suffer a data loss on your PC or mobile phone, it’s when. Data loss happens to all of us sooner or later - a hard drive fails, important files accidentally get deleted, a laptop gets misplaced or stolen or damaged, and suddenly all the family photos, important documents, and other data on your device are gone. If you don’t have backups, the l...