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Tiny Phone Repair Booths

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Lovefone's Repair Shops are Inside Iconic London Phone Booths

— August 22, 2016 — Tech
Lovefone is a British iPhone repair company with a new project that uses an ironic space for their shops.

Most people are familiar with the iconic, bright red phone booths that have been one of the signatures of London for nearly 100 years. However, now that payphones have become almost obsolete with the rise of the mobile phone, these phone booths are languishing. Rather than letting that space go to waste, Lovefone is renting out the old phone booths and using them as iPhone repair shops.

The project is called Lovefonebox, and it is currently being rolled out across London. According to Lovefone, the booths are "the world's tiniest repair shops." Currently, Lovefone has shops in Greenwich and Knightsbridge. Within the next 18 months, the company plans on opening 35 phone booth shops across London.
Trend Themes
1. Mobile Phone Repairs - Lovefone's use of iconic phone booths for iPhone repair shops showcases the trend of convenient and unique repair services.
2. Adaptive Space Utilization - Lovefone's repurposing of obsolete phone booths for repair shops highlights the trend of finding new uses for underutilized spaces.
3. Localized Repair Services - Lovefone's plan to open 35 phone booth repair shops across London taps into the trend of providing localized and accessible repair services.
Industry Implications
1. Smartphone Repair - Lovefone's iPhone repair shops in phone booths offer a disruptive innovation opportunity for the smartphone repair industry.
2. Retail - The repurposing of phone booths as repair shops presents a disruptive innovation opportunity for the retail industry to creatively utilize space.
3. Urban Design - Lovefone's use of iconic phone booths showcases a disruptive innovation opportunity for the urban design industry to rethink the use of public spaces.
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