A lot of cheaper phones were not worth fixing, but “if you’ve spent $2000 on a phone, then it’s definitely worth getting it done”. Eighty per cent of the repairs were for broken screens, and there were also a lot of clogged up charging ports. WARWICK SMITH/STUFF The easiest phones to repair in general are Samsungs, says Smart Phone Repairs owner Paul Gwynne. “Being in people’s pockets they get full of lint and that kind of stuff, and people out on jobs get all kinds of rubbish stuck in the charging ports. It’s not often they need to be replaced,” Gwynne said.