Hull's local tech help, repairs and plain advice
A cheap refurb can be a genuinely good deal, but a £40 handset with no receipt and a mystery warranty is often a false economy. Use this plain-speaking Hull buyer's checklist before you hand over cash.
Half the advice floating around about phone batteries is decades out of date, and a chunk of it is actively doing damage. Here are seven everyday charging habits worth dropping this year, plus the point at which a £60 battery swap is a smarter move than a £900 upgrade.
A failing laptop, a phone that dies by lunchtime, a tablet nobody can charge — every Hull household faces the same question eventually. Here is the plain-English framework we use to work out whether a device is worth saving, based on real repair costs, warranty fine print and what your data is actually worth.