Gadget Gator, Clarksville

Cracked smartphone screens may look like only the glass is broken, but the damage often extends to what's underneath the glass, the phone's LCD screen. Even if the LCD is fine at first, it's easy for a technician to damage it when mending the cracked glass above it because the repair requires them to carefully pick off tiny glass shards from the LCD. So phone-repair shops quote a large range of prices for their screen-repair service, depending on if they damage the LCD or not. Gadget Gator, on the other hand, simply replaces both at the same time and quotes one set price.

Its crews also resuscitate phones after the gadgets have been dropped in water, replacing the battery and inspecting the phone under a microscope for corrosion. And they replace missing buttons and malfunctioning speakers.