Now that we have been working through several mobile phones, my group and I have established a manner of working with them. Using an application on our Mac devices, we can place iPhones into recovery mode which allows us to factory reset them and get them shipped out to our service partners. This really speeds up the whole process, as we have many phones to work through, but not a lot of time to do so. Even though service trips are still not going on, we still have local service partners in which we can actually give these phones to and they can be used with them. We have worked with the Saint Johns elder care home, but only giving them PCs, not phones. I really do wonder how many services do need phones as they are quite cheap in Singapore and many second hand retailers do stock them.

In terms of group work we have worked tirelessly to get as many phones out of the door as we can. We have been working with iPhones mostly as they are the easiest to reset, putting them in recovery mode is fairly easy and specially with the Mac OS application that we have. As a bonus iPhones are not carrier locked which means that we will not have any issue distributing them around to different countries. This does mean that services in other countries can install services such as WhatsApp, Viber, and telegram to use for their communication needs. While this is still an ongoing project, I do hope to get much run over the door as soon as we can. It’s extremely fun, and I don’t doubt that we will still be working as efficiently as we can.