Phone Insurance Gave Me A Smile On Holiday
After landing at Malaga Airport after a very smooth flight with easy jet. I reached in to my pocket and removed my mobile phone, as the seatbelt light had just gone out I decided to switch it on and change the time to the new time zone which was one hour in front of UK time. Just as I switched it on the captain announced over the intercom that mobile phones had to remain switched off until you were inside the terminal building, this was to comply with Spanish legislation. Now as I am a conforming kind of chap I quickly depressed the on and off button to power down the phone.
This on/off button has caused me a problem a few times lately, when the power button is pressed, nothing happens, now I knew any second now my mobile phone was going to start beeping, alerting me to any new text messages that had been sent in the last few hours whilst the phone was off during the flight. I decided rather than suffer the embarrassment of being caught with my phone on I would quickly pull off the rear cover and remove the battery!
Getting my finger nails under the corner of the battery I gave it a quick tug and the phone jumped out of my grip – after hitting the hard corner of the outer seat row that I was sitting on! Well at least the battery was out and the phone was now off, the battery was lying in the middle of the isle, just one row in front of me. I picked up the phone and the battery and started to place them together again. That was when I realised the LCD screen on my N95 was cracked! Now at this point I would normally have shouted a few words that I would not want my children to hear, but today that was not the case!
This was the start of my holiday and there was no way a mobile phone was going to put the dampers on the start of it! The fact was, I was actually grinning to myself about the hard luck of my N95, you see just three days before travelling, at the same time as purchasing some Travel Insurance I decided to purchase some Nokia Mobile Phone Insurance !
For as long as I have owned a mobile phone, insurance was never considered by me. But after being advised by my network provider that the replacement value was around £400 for this phone and being aware I was off on my holidays for a couple of weeks of Sun, Sand, Sea and plenty of sangria I bit my lip and purchased some Mobile Insurance. I am so glad that my mobile phone was covered -just £6.00 a month and it’s saved me nearly £400 straight away!
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