Got an unsolicited call from them trying to sell me "handsets" when I have phone after phone…read morealready and quickly hung up on me once they discovered I didn't want their 2 year contracts. Keep me out of your database forever!

Okay, I'm not really the kind of person who really finds mobile phone shops and all the gadgetry…read morevery exciting, but the service in this particular branch of Carphone Warehouse was amazing. On returning from much worldly travel, I had no phone to speak of and was desperate for contact with the outside world to be able to arrange meeting with people I hadn't seen for years. Every phone shop I went into turned me away from signing up on contract, because I didn't have any bank cards (although I did have a passport, bank statements, driver's license etc etc). Annoyed and stressed, I walked into this branch of Carphone Warehouse and walked out again 15 minutes later with an amazing new phone and a wonderful contract that all my friends are amazed is so cheap. So thank you Carphone Warehouse. You rock.

Being quite an inquisitive, I cam across this place in Uni and it was great for picking up really…read morecheap second hand games instead of renting them at the now closed Choices or Blockbuster. The store is a basic pawn shop for people to sell there unwanted items. There's loads of random stuff here and most of the prices are really cheap but you get what you pay for and I wouldn't count on a warranty. I wouldn't recommend it as even the second hand stuff here is sometimes overpriced to what you could pay elsewhere, but if your bored there no reason not to have a quick look.

Ah yes the pawnbrokers. I've already ranted about these recession businesses when reviewing 'Deals'…read moreif you're interested, so I'll stick to the subject here. You can't exactly miss Cash Generator as it is bright, gaudy and in your face. There is a lot of choice here and has a massive amount of electrical items for sale. I have to admit that as a fiend for electrical gadgets and the like I find myself looking in through the window with interest most weeks. The main problem I have with places like this is that they just aren't that cheap. Secondhand Televisions without a guarantee just aren't worth that much and I wouldn't be prepared to part with my hard earned cash if I didn't know I could get it back if something went wrong. For me, this is an ideas shop. You have a look, you get some ideas on something you want as a present and then you look how much it might be to buy it new, from a proper shop.

I really love the look of A & G Mobile Communications. It's got the appearance of a 1950's American…read morestore come diner about it, which is somehow completely wrong for the kind of shop that it is, but somehow completely right at the same time... how messed up is that?!?! The shop window shows a profusion of products, one of which can be seen replicated all the way down City Road. It's an LED sign that reads Pizza, but I'm sure can be altered to say Kebab at the drop of a hat! The Pizza sign makes me smile, and I wonder if anybody has mistakenly entered their shop to buy a take out, and come out with their mobile phone unlocked instead? This shop is deceptively large, despite the smallish shop front, and is rammed to the rafters with gadgetry of all type and description. These guys can do anything! There's a few guys working here, but I only know the names of AIi and Gupta. Collectively I think that they could fix any dysfunctioning phone, no matter the make. But the only thing I'm really interested in these days is how much they would charge to fix the screen on a 3GS iPhone. They reckon that they can do it for £50, even if the LCD screen is leaking. I'm inclined to believe them, although I do wonder if they would be using Apple approved components...? (I recently paid £80 to get my 3GS fixed, and that was with a second user screen. I shopped around for over a month, and this is the cheapest price I could find by some margin... in the meantime, my phone was held together with cling film. That's class for you eh?).

The costumer service was not only very bad, they are rude individuals... They ripped me off! I…read morepayed for a iPhone 6 to be fixed and they charged me for something called a memory ic, which was £50 i waited two days to get it back, I was in a rush as I parked outside as it's very badly placed to park near this shop...I took the phone, it work for just one day, THEN stoped working completely. Then I took it back, they charged me again £45 pounds, said there was something else wronged and I had to pay again upfront. I've been calling them for up to Two weeks and they Now say the part hasn't come from China, then I went back to the shop to see what was happening as the guy I spoke with was not clear on the phone, and they said they couldn't find it. Now there saying I picked it up, or I didnt ever take it there... All my info was on there and the phone was worth at least £200 so I lost all together £295 to these people. BE WARNED DO NOT TAKE YOUR Phone to these guys.... It's not only the most expensive shop on City Road, that's why I thought it was the best but these people are liars and they Stole my phone.

Accessory World shares the same retail outlet space as Student Services, in a prime location where…read moreAlbany Road meets City Road. Occupying a corner unit provides them with two large shop windows, which face the traffic from different directions. This is particularly advantageous at this point, as the traffic lights that serve the junction are always immensely busy, thus providing Accessory World with unmatched visibility. There are a couple of other mobile phone services shops in the immediate area that offer very similar facilities and supply a commensurate range of accessories, but none enjoy the same level as exposure that Accessory World has managed to glean for itself. One of the mobile shops is actually just across the road, but the Adam and Eve Hair and Beauty Salon has managed to claim the corner unit at this side of the street, and so the mobile shop only looks out onto Albany Road. Accessory World offer a full suite of services including; mobile unlocking, mobile accessories for all makes of phone, mobile phone, iPod, PC and laptop repair. They also carry some accessories for laptops and PC's.

COMPLETE SCAM ARTIST. Sean said replacement screen was £50, Which I Paid. However When collecting…read morehe said it cost £90 due to him needing to replace something inside which he made up ( I later checked online) He held my phone hostage and forced me to pay extra £40, because "the work was already done" Furthermore, he said it was original apple screen. IT IS NOT It is a fake, I know this because it broke within days and i took it to apple who confirmed. DONT USE SEAN HE IS A LIAR AND SCAM ARTIST. ps you can even notice the fake reviews below

I'm glad I don't inhabit Sim Tech World, and instead lead a rustic existence, but I have had reason…read moreof late to thank my lucky stars that shops like Sim Tech World exist. Like so many before me, I managed to drop my iPhone several times before the screen ultimately smashed. It was of course, only a matter of time before this was inevitably going to happen... but did I think to take out insurance to protect myself in this eventuality? Well, yes I did... But whether I got round to actually doing it is an entirely different matter! So, with the exorbitant cost of getting Apple to fix it for me, I began a quest that lasted well over a month to find a indie mobile phone shop like Sim Tech World that would do it cheaper. It ultimately cost a staggering £80.00 to get the screen replaced, but I had, in the meantime, damaged the LCD screen, making the job more expensive, (well, it was actually my neighbours cat jumping directly onto the broken screen in an attempt to catch a moth that put paid to the LCD screen in reality...) I didn't end up using Sim Tech World, but it certainly made me aware of their existence. They are seemingly a tight little business, that specialises in mobiles and home computing, including PC and Apple laptops, games consoles etc, as well as digital cameras; essentially all of your portable electronics that you can bring into the shop for attention, (thy don't do home visits). They also call themselves an 'entertainment exchange', which, as the name suggests, means that they sell second user kit as well.

Small independent electronic engineers like Sim Tek World thrive on the repair of electronic…read moreequipment that inevitably happens. There expertise can help fix mobile phone faults, problems with ipods, ipads, apple products, xbox 360s, playstations, PC's and laptops. A very useful technical fix is there mobile phone unlocking service. The Sim Tek people aim to fix the phone while you wait rather than the 28 day service most high street stores offer. If you're in a pinch and need something fixed quickly without the extra cost of sending it away to be looked at Sim Tek offer the best service around. The shop itself is very small and over cluttered, which is to be expected of a electronic repair shop the outside advertises all the different services they perform and that leaves little room to let light in, so it's a bit dingy inside.

Avoid going to Canton Mobile Zone…read more I wanted to repair my iPhone 4 screen and found details of their services online. I called them in the morning to tell them I'd be dropping it off around 1pm that day so I could go during my lunch break . During the call the member of staff couldn't wait for me to stop talking and interrupted me with "yeah yeah yeah ok". There was no 'thanks for calling" either. Really rude. I jumped on a bus to travel from one side of the city to the other and paid almost £4. When I got there the store was closed so I wasted my time and money. I will not be making a return visit that's for sure.