I had first dropped my iPhone onto the floor in which I was immediatly called up for a meeting. Once back from the meeting I had forgotten about the phone so i sat on my chair and slid to my desk. I had thought I has run over something but wasnt sure if it was just the floor or not so I carried on. It was certainly not just the floor.

After looking for my phone at a later stage I realised that it was on the floor and picked it up to give it the once over, everything seemed to be working fine until I looked at the back of it. The reason it cannot work is because it has become cracked just where the charger goes in so I cannot charge it. Another problem is that I had no way of getting a new one because I didn’t have iPhone insurance.

Because the iPhone has been my companion over the past few months I do not feel that I could have any other phone to do the job. I am going to have to go out and spend a lot of money to get another one. Perhaps because I am on contract they will give me a bit of a discount but I can’t see much sympathy coming from them when I haven’t for any insurance of any kind, even that gadget insurance would have sorted me out.

I am now going to go out and get I-pod insurance as there is no way I am ever taking this kind of risk again. To go out and replace all of the things I have broken over the past few months is impossible.

The iPhone is a phone and I-pod all mixed in together and that is really only the beginning, It also has internet access, Facebook, E-mail, and the now famous App store. The App store can give you anything from football scores to games and Google Earth.

Recently 02’s exclusive two year contract with Apple has run out and Vodaphone as well as Orange have both stepped in to snap up deals with them. Next year these companies are going to be allowed to actually put the phone on sale. However are people going to buy the phone simply because another provider is set to sell the phone, it would seem that would be quite unlikely? Although it is true to say that people will stick to a certain company if the company has been good to them.

There is one other thing that comes to mind when thinking of the iPhone and that is the costs. The cost of the phone itself isn’t cheap and can be even worse if it breaks and you do not have something like Gadget Insurance. The only issue is that insurance is costly. No matter how careful people are, they will drop it at some stage, so what happens next. Personally I have dropped mine about five times and it has managed to survive.

Of course there are insurance policies available for a number of things from camera insurance as well as the obvious iPhone insurance. Insuring your favourite gadget could save you a lot of money in the long run.