where exactly is PHONEHUT?
Question · by lowkey_on_capitol · Member since Jul 2026 · 2 posts · 7w7 weeks ago
Mobile phone repair shop in San Jose, CA
4.6 · 419 reviewsOpens today at 10 AMOpens today at 10 AM
PhoneHut Phone Repair Store offers fast and affordable phone repair on Capitol Ave, San Jose. We provide same-day screen repair, battery replacement, charging port repair, camera repair, water damage repair, and software fixes, with many repairs completed in 15 minutes. We also offer tablet repair, device diagnostics, phone accessories, and mobile recharge services. Walk-ins welcome. Quality service and customer satisfaction guaranteed.
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What PHONEHUT offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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Qing Shu Malatang is next door for Asian food. Mehak Of India is next door for Indian food. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is a 1 minute walk for chicken.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Oct 31, 2026.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
What reviews, press and directories say about PHONEHUT.
4.6from 419 reviews on Google
While PhoneHut excels in quick repairs and affordability, inconsistent service and communication issues have left some customers dissatisfied. Customers describe PhoneHut as a place where quick and efficient repairs are the norm, particularly praising technician Om for his expertise in diagnosing and fixing issues like charging ports and water damage. However, some experiences reveal frustrations with communication and inconsistent service, leading to mixed feelings about reliability.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
39 San Jose avg
Signal and how much it countsPHONEHUT
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
PHONEHUT, as AI sees it. Blue signals help PHONEHUT, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about PHONEHUT. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Mobile phone repair shops in San Jose, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.
Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
PHONEHUT is a mobile phone repair shop in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 22 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Mobile phone repair shop |
| Address | 311 N Capitol Ave M, San Jose, CA 95133, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 10 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (408) 899-9521 |
| Rating | 4.6 across 419 reviews on Google |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 311 N Capitol Ave M, San Jose, CA 95133, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | PhoneHut Phone Repair Store offers fast and affordable phone repair on Capitol Ave, San Jose. We provide same-day screen repair, battery replacement, charging port repair, camera repair, water damage repair, and software fixes, with many repairs completed in 15 minutes. We also offer tablet repair, device diagnostics, phone accessories, and mobile recharge services. Walk-ins welcome. Quality service and customer satisfaction guaranteed. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | PHONEHUT - Cell Phone Repair Sanjose | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 899-9521 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Battery replacement | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Camera repair | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Charging port repair | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Device diagnostics | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Mobile recharge services | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Phone accessories | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Screen repair | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Software fixes | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Tablet repair | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Water damage repair | AI guess | |
| Links | https://www.facebook.com/phonehutsanjose | Confirmed | Business website | |
| Links | https://www.instagram.com/phone_hut_sj | Confirmed | Business website | |
| Links | Website | https://gophonehut.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
Address: 311 N Capitol Ave M, San Jose, CA 95133, USA. Phone: (408) 899-9521. Hours: Mon to Sun 10 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "PhoneHut Phone Repair Store offers fast and affordable phone repair on Capitol Ave, San Jose. We provide same-day screen repair, battery replacement, charging port repair, camera repair, water damage repair, and software fixes, with many repairs completed in 15 minutes. We also offer tablet repair, device diagnostics, phone accessories, and mobile recharge services. Walk-ins welcome. Quality service and customer satisfaction guaranteed."
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Qing Shu Malatang | Asian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Mehak Of India | Indian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen | Chicken restaurant | 1 min walk |
| McKee | Light rail station | 3 min walk |
| Mckee | Light rail station | 3 min walk |
| Capitol & McKee Stn | Bus stop | 3 min walk |
4.6 average across 419 reviews: Google 419. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)
While PhoneHut excels in quick repairs and affordability, inconsistent service and communication issues have left some customers dissatisfied. (AI guess, from 419 reviews.)
We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity about PHONEHUT. These are the answers that don’t match this page.
ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 31, 2026. ChatGPT and Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026.
| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
|---|---|---|
| Phone | Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026: (408) 889-9521 | (408) 899-9521 |
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose mobile phone repair shops run 22 to 68. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. PHONEHUT scores 22, below the San Jose average of 39. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | PHONEHUT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 37 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 90 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | ||
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 0 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about a mobile phone repair shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHONEHUT | LocalBusiness | #business | https://gophonehut.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city | City PHONEHUT is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the mobile phone repair shops in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# PHONEHUT, San Jose CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/phonehut-cell-phone-repair-sanjose-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/phonehut-cell-phone-repair-sanjose-san-jose-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short PHONEHUT is a mobile phone repair shop in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 22 of 100, which is poor. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Mobile phone repair shop | | Address | 311 N Capitol Ave M, San Jose, CA 95133, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sun 10 AM to 8 PM | | Phone | (408) 899-9521 | | Rating | 4.6 across 419 reviews on Google | | Updated | September 14, 2026 | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 311 N Capitol Ave M, San Jose, CA 95133, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | PhoneHut Phone Repair Store offers fast and affordable phone repair on Capitol Ave, San Jose. We provide same-day screen repair, battery replacement, charging port repair, camera repair, water damage repair, and software fixes, with many repairs completed in 15 minutes. We also offer tablet repair, device diagnostics, phone accessories, and mobile recharge services. Walk-ins welcome. Quality service and customer satisfaction guaranteed. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | PHONEHUT - Cell Phone Repair Sanjose | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (408) 899-9521 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Battery replacement | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Camera repair | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Charging port repair | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Device diagnostics | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Mobile recharge services | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Phone accessories | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Screen repair | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Software fixes | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Tablet repair | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Water damage repair | AI guess | | | Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/phonehutsanjose | Confirmed | Business website | | Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/phone_hut_sj | Confirmed | Business website | | Links | Website | https://gophonehut.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices Add your services so AI can say what you offer ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting PHONEHUT Address: 311 N Capitol Ave M, San Jose, CA 95133, USA. Phone: (408) 899-9521. Hours: Mon to Sun 10 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "PhoneHut Phone Repair Store offers fast and affordable phone repair on Capitol Ave, San Jose. We provide same-day screen repair, battery replacement, charging port repair, camera repair, water damage repair, and software fixes, with many repairs completed in 15 minutes. We also offer tablet repair, device diagnostics, phone accessories, and mobile recharge services. Walk-ins welcome. Quality service and customer satisfaction guaranteed." ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Qing Shu Malatang | Asian restaurant | 1 min walk | | Mehak Of India | Indian restaurant | 1 min walk | | Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen | Chicken restaurant | 1 min walk | | McKee | Light rail station | 3 min walk | | Mckee | Light rail station | 3 min walk | | Capitol & McKee Stn | Bus stop | 3 min walk | ## Reputation 4.6 average across 419 reviews: Google 419. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.) While PhoneHut excels in quick repairs and affordability, inconsistent service and communication issues have left some customers dissatisfied. (AI guess, from 419 reviews.) ### What people like - Affordable pricing for repairs - Efficient service for water-damaged devices ### What people do not like - Long waits for parts and repairs - Poor communication about repair status - Inconsistent quality of repairs ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### where exactly is PHONEHUT? ### bad experiences at PHONEHUT, anyone? ### Why do people rate PHONEHUT? ### prices round here, anyone got a number ### paying in instalments, is that possible here ### people keep recommending this shop, what for? ### what has this shop posted recently, I am not on Instagram ### PHONEHUT or uBreakiFix? ### cheaper than PHONEHUT in San Jose without it being sketchy? ### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves ### is there a rewards thing at PHONEHUT ### best mobile phone repair shop in San Jose ### does this shop ever have cancellations ### opening hours at PHONEHUT in San Jose, what are they these days? ### Calling PHONEHUT, or is there a better way? ### Coffee near PHONEHUT on Capitol? ## What AI gets wrong about PHONEHUT We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity about PHONEHUT. These are the answers that don’t match this page. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 31, 2026. ChatGPT and Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026. | Fact | What AI says | What this page says | | --- | --- | --- | | Phone | Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026: (408) 889-9521 | (408) 899-9521 | ## The AI Score: 22 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose mobile phone repair shops run 22 to 68. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. PHONEHUT scores 22, below the San Jose average of 39. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | PHONEHUT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 37 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 90 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 0 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about a mobile phone repair shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to PHONEHUT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | PHONEHUT | LocalBusiness | #business | https://gophonehut.com/ | Subject of this page | | San Jose, California | City | #city | | City PHONEHUT is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the mobile phone repair shops in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best mobile phone repair shops in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/mobile-phone-repair-shop - Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view - /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ59AqJ6bNj4ARKNGAQSgfstI (accessed Sep 14, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 31, 2026; ChatGPT and Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] gophonehut.com, https://gophonehut.com/ (accessed Oct 31, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Mobile phone repair shops in San Jose, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>PHONEHUT, San Jose CA: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.</p>
<p>Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>PHONEHUT is a mobile phone repair shop in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 22 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Type</td><td>Mobile phone repair shop</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>311 N Capitol Ave M, San Jose, CA 95133, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 10 AM to 8 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(408) 899-9521</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.6 across 419 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 14, 2026</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>311 N Capitol Ave M, San Jose, CA 95133, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>PhoneHut Phone Repair Store offers fast and affordable phone repair on Capitol Ave, San Jose. We provide same-day screen repair, battery replacement, charging port repair, camera repair, water damage repair, and software fixes, with many repairs completed in 15 minutes. We also offer tablet repair, device diagnostics, phone accessories, and mobile recharge services. Walk-ins welcome. Quality service and customer satisfaction guaranteed.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>PHONEHUT - Cell Phone Repair Sanjose</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(408) 899-9521</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Battery replacement</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Camera repair</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Charging port repair</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Device diagnostics</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Mobile recharge services</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Phone accessories</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Screen repair</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Software fixes</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Tablet repair</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Water damage repair</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://www.facebook.com/phonehutsanjose</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Instagram</td><td>https://www.instagram.com/phone_hut_sj</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://gophonehut.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<h4>Known for</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
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<section id="ai-visiting-phonehut">
<h3>Visiting PHONEHUT</h3>
<p>Address: 311 N Capitol Ave M, San Jose, CA 95133, USA. Phone: (408) 899-9521. Hours: Mon to Sun 10 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "PhoneHut Phone Repair Store offers fast and affordable phone repair on Capitol Ave, San Jose. We provide same-day screen repair, battery replacement, charging port repair, camera repair, water damage repair, and software fixes, with many repairs completed in 15 minutes. We also offer tablet repair, device diagnostics, phone accessories, and mobile recharge services. Walk-ins welcome. Quality service and customer satisfaction guaranteed."</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Qing Shu Malatang</td><td>Asian restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mehak Of India</td><td>Indian restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen</td><td>Chicken restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>McKee</td><td>Light rail station</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mckee</td><td>Light rail station</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Capitol & McKee Stn</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.6 average across 419 reviews: Google 419. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)</p>
<p>While PhoneHut excels in quick repairs and affordability, inconsistent service and communication issues have left some customers dissatisfied. (AI guess, from 419 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Affordable pricing for repairs</li>
<li>Efficient service for water-damaged devices</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Long waits for parts and repairs</li>
<li>Poor communication about repair status</li>
<li>Inconsistent quality of repairs</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>where exactly is PHONEHUT?</h4>
<h4>bad experiences at PHONEHUT, anyone?</h4>
<h4>Why do people rate PHONEHUT?</h4>
<h4>prices round here, anyone got a number</h4>
<h4>paying in instalments, is that possible here</h4>
<h4>people keep recommending this shop, what for?</h4>
<h4>what has this shop posted recently, I am not on Instagram</h4>
<h4>PHONEHUT or uBreakiFix?</h4>
<h4>cheaper than PHONEHUT in San Jose without it being sketchy?</h4>
<h4>anyone tell me what a first visit here involves</h4>
<h4>is there a rewards thing at PHONEHUT</h4>
<h4>best mobile phone repair shop in San Jose</h4>
<h4>does this shop ever have cancellations</h4>
<h4>opening hours at PHONEHUT in San Jose, what are they these days?</h4>
<h4>Calling PHONEHUT, or is there a better way?</h4>
<h4>Coffee near PHONEHUT on Capitol?</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-what-ai-gets-wrong">
<h3>What AI gets wrong about PHONEHUT</h3>
<p>We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity about PHONEHUT. These are the answers that don’t match this page.</p>
<p>ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 31, 2026. ChatGPT and Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">What AI says</th><th scope="col">What this page says</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026: (408) 889-9521</td><td>(408) 899-9521</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 22 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose mobile phone repair shops run 22 to 68. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. PHONEHUT scores 22, below the San Jose average of 39. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">PHONEHUT</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>0</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>37</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>0</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>90</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>53</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td></td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about a mobile phone repair shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to PHONEHUT</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>PHONEHUT</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://gophonehut.com/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>San Jose, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City PHONEHUT is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
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<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the mobile phone repair shops in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best mobile phone repair shops in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/mobile-phone-repair-shop</li>
<li>Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
<li>/santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
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<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ59AqJ6bNj4ARKNGAQSgfstI (accessed Sep 14, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 31, 2026; ChatGPT and Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[3] gophonehut.com, https://gophonehut.com/ (accessed Oct 31, 2026)</li>
</ul>
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</html>This is the evidence for every fact on this page, across Locals, Services, Team, Visit, Reputation and Updates. Each reference names the fact, the source, what kind of source it is, and the date it was checked, with a link and an archived copy so anyone can verify it. Visitor references are dated firsthand accounts. AI guesses record what an AI engine said on that date, not what is true.