Technology within the last decade has grown increasingly to become amazing. With new recent breakthroughs in the form of the new iPhone being able to recognise voice recognition to the new announcement that Microsofts Project Natal for the Xbox 360 is set to have full body motion sensing capabilities with no wires and nothing plugged into you in any way at all.
However, what do you do when something go wrong? In some cases, the costs to repair the gadgets can be more than you initially paid for them. A lot of the time it is their fault for not making the product as good as it should have been to begin with. Although the Xbox 360 has been proven to be the best console in this latest console generation, it does have one problem with it. The red rings. Any Xbox 360 owner will know that once you have the three red rings, you might aswell just hand over your bank details to Microsoft. Unless you are still within your warranty you are looking at paying at least 50 to have to send it off to be repaired for a problem that should not have been there in the first place.
This never used to happen with consoles such as N64 and PS1 but now we are not only seeing failures from the 360 point of view but more and more PS3s and Nintendo Wiis are being sent off for repair. The reason for the rise in repairs could be down to the large amount of games that are being released recently so more people are playing their consoles, or it could simply be that the manufacturers are just churning out the consoles to make money and not fix problems.
There is a solution to this and it comes from gadget insurance. This can be bought for up to 5 of any gadgets and it will set you back only 20 pound a month. It may seem a high price to pay, but it works out alot cheaper than having to pay for gadget repairs. This is mainly due to the fact that if for instance you were to drop your iPhone it would cost you around 100 to repair. So if you look at it from that perspective 20 a month for insuring five gadgets is a better deal than having to pay 100 for something that you could drop again and again. Also, when it comes to repairing gaming consoles such as the Nintendo Wii, they can charge you up to 180 pounds for the repair, making it cheaper to buy a new console.
Of course if it is just the one product you want to insure, even if it’s not a gaming console, you can simply pay for iPod insurance for cheaper. Unfortunately, a large number of home emergency insurance policies don’t cover any damage or theft to your gadgets.