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How To Recycle My iPhone or iPad With Confidence

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The three most common question about recycling are:

  1. Is it safe to recycle my iPhone or iPad with Cells for Cells?
  2. Who is your charitable partner?
  3. What do I do with my iPhone or iPad to make it safe to recycle?

The short answers:

  1. Yes, it is safe to recycle your device with Cells for Cells.  Just like most recyclers, we are only interested in the value of the parts of the device.  (Remember that your iCloud lock makes it 100% impossible for ANY recycler to see any data, photos, emails, etc. on your device
  2. Our charitable partner is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society whom we support nationwide.  We’ve raised more than $40,000 for families battling cancer solely by recycling old and broken cell phones.
  3. It is easy to make your iPhone or iPad safe to recycle.  Follow the guide below and you will be able to recycle your iPhone or iPad (or any device) with confidence.

The longer answers:

 

How To Recycle Your iPhone or iPad With Confidence

Many of you want to do more than just recycle your old iPhone or iPads or old cells phones.  You are intelligent enough to realize that recycling with the big carriers doesn’t do much more than keep your electronic waste out of the landfill (and put money in THEIR pocket).

But you want to do more than just recycle because you hate cancer.

 

 

Cancer took my grandfather’s life.

This is me, my brother, and my grandfather.

I miss him.  I miss my grandfather.

I still can remember the way he would pat my hand when we would sit together and play cards – simply spending time together.

 

I started Cells for Cells to HELP families battling cancer.

I chose to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as the beneficiary of Cells for Cells because they have a fund that helps families pay for medical and other expenses.  Yes, research and research dollars are important; but helping a family pay for the medicine or get reimbursed for travel expenses is what Cells for Cells wants to help with.

Our family didn’t know about any resources, aid, help, or ANYTHING while my grandfather found out he had cancer and then died 3 short months later.

Cells for Cells supports the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society nationwide.  Learn more about the LLS Financial Support at https://www.lls.org/support/financial-support.

 

Now, what do I do with my iPhone or iPad to make it safe to recycle?

 

Cell Phone Security: All Of Your Data Are Belong To Us Part 1

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Why Does It Feel Like My Cell Phone Makes My Data Vulnerable

Yes, losing data is a real thing.  In all likelihood, it will probably not happen to you or your company via your cell phone.  But why does it feel like your personal or company’s cell phones are so vulnerable?  Maybe your data is not that vulnerable to loss.  Maybe the media latches on to one-off stories like these of the gal who took an iPad and this other more famous gal Odd Facebook iPad Thiefwho took pictures of herself on an iPad and the pics were automatically synced to the original owners iPhone.  (By the way, both were caught).

Maybe we don’t fully understand how we actually lose our data.

When most people, including me, hear the phrase “data loss” they think of their name, social security number, credit card numbers.  That gets my attention pretty quickly, too, because I do not want my bank account hacked or credit cards used; I do not want the hassles associated with calling all of my banks and credit cards to get replacements.  I do not want to become a victim of identity theft either.  And, some people may even respond to the idea of “losing your data” with fairly strong emotions.  I know a couple that cuts the address label off of every single piece of mail they receive in order to “prevent identity left.”

Well, let’s take the time to understand a few ideas about data and data loss first:

What Data Loss Is

  • unauthorized access to your bank and credit card accounts
  • unauthorized access private company emails, pictures, files, documents
  • unauthorized access anything covered by a NDA (non disclosure agreement)
  • your social security number
  • your medical history
  • proprietary software, recipes, ideas, inventions, client purchasing data, any data, etc…

What Data Loss Is Not   Continue Reading

Samsung S4: Should New Mobile Phones Come with Bloatware

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Samsung Galaxy S2I find it amazing that Samsung is already launching the S4.  The Galaxy S4 is better than ever…and newer…and shinier…and sleeker…and will be preloaded with bloat ware. (Remember when the world hated buying desktop computers because they came preloaded with so much bloat that your PC would be sluggish out of the box!)

I understand the model from a manufacturer’s point of view…you give a small sample or a trial and you may garner a new customer.  And I understand that pre-placing apps on a device fulfills some vendor agreements and so forth.  Buy why isn’t there a choice, even if I could pay extra, to have an total clean device out of the box? Continue Reading