Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Phone Insurance’

Remove The Worry

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The very idea of having your iPhone insured is to take away the pain of: (a) having to spend more time than necessary without your phone, and (b) spend more money than you wish to obtain it's replacement. The speed with which you are supplied with a replacement for your stolen or damaged iPhone varies between insurance companies, but you should be back up and running inside 3 days.

If your anything like me, you will probably find that your totally dependant upon your iPhone. No longer are many phones simply devices that you use to speak to someone and send text messages. No, the iPhone is so much more, and as such it will almost certainly become a very valuable piece of equipment which you will find yourself using every day to organise your life.

The great advantage of having your iPhone insured is that you will be covered for both theft (mobile phone theft is the fastest growing crime in the UK) and damage to the phone. Even if you are travelling abroad you are still covered.

Some people don't bother with insurance for their mobile phones, making the assumption that they are covered by their household contents policy. However, its best to check this properly first, because many of these policies will only pay out a fixed amount for certain gadgets. There is nearly always an excess to pay (which could be as much as the phone is worth) and the process will certainly tale much longer than a specialised company.

It could be that you are a very careful person. You would never let your expensive iPhone out of your sight, and you would certainly never treat it harshly or cause it to become damaged in any way.
On the other hand, you may be the total opposite. Always dropping it or even being the serial victim of mobile phone theft.

Mobile phone insurance is perfect for both of the above types of phone owner because it gives you tremendous peace of mind.

Simply knowing that your phone is fully insured and you will have a replacement in a few days will prevent you from making (sometimes) instant dangerous decisions.

Have you a mobile phone? It would be a fairly safe guess that you always have because, it's a fact we almost all have a phone. If you are one of the more wealthy folk who possesses a spanking new expensive phone then you really must think about mobile phone insurance.

It's not very expensive, and when you take into account the cost of being charged for a new phone, it's quite a good buy. Regardless if your phone is subject to a mobile contract and the company replaces it, they will nevertheless bill you the full price for the replacement mobile.

A break-in at your house will undoubtedly mean most valuable items including your mobile phone will be speedily put into a sack as the burglars search for anything nice. You will as likely as not find your family contents insurance will not cover, or at least will not completely cover the amount of being without your phone.

Don't forget there is also the additional disappointment of losing all the data such as your address book when your phone is damaged, stolen or bites the dust. Now certainly, mobile phone insurance is helpless to avert that from happening, but there are facilities to back-up the information and restore onto a different unit should the worst thing happen.

There is additionally permanently the fear of an accident and damaging your phone.

A fun recollection of mine involved a builder acquaintance who was eternally moaning of breaking his phones, for they would regularly fall out of his pocket whilst he was climbing a ladder. A fork lift once drove over his jacket with the phone in the pocket, and the bricklayers even cemented it into a wall (that one was cold-blooded). Then, along came the lavishly rubber coated Nokia which was reckoned "unbreakable". We were in a pub when he showed it to me, explaining how he could drop it from the top of the ladder and it would still function correctly. To demonstrate, he dropped it from a couple of feet onto the ground. You guessed it. It never worked again.

Mobile Phone Insurance gives you immense peace of mind. I don't suggest you can be blasé about your phone as indeed any of your personal effects purely seeing that they are insured, but if you are one of those persons I spoke of earlier with an expensive phone you will save yourself an awful lot of money if anything bad indeed does take place.