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Gadget Insurance for Electronics

Technology these days to amazing, no question about it. With new recent breakthroughs in the form of the new iPhone being able to recognize 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? Sometimes when you have to send your gadgets off for repair, it can cost more to repair it than it did to buy it initially. For many of the cases, it’s down to the way the product has been made and that’s how the problem has occurred. Although the Xbox 360 is a powerful console in which critics have named so far the best console of the new generation it does fail in one major thing. The three red rings. To any Xbox 360 owners, seeing the red rings is horrible because you basically have to hand over your wallet. If your Xbox warranty is still in place, you won’t have to pay for the repair, however, if it is, you generally have to pay around 50 to repair a problem that should never have been there.

It always used to be a rare occurrence if your N64 or Playstation 1 broke, however, we are still seeing the flow of broken Xbox’s, but we are also seeing Playstation 3’s and Nitendo Wii’s being sent away to be fixed. It could be down to more people are playing games due to the huge amount being released within the last few months, or, it could be down to the manufacturers not fixing the problems and just selling more machines.

There is a solution to this and it comes from gadget insurance. This can be purchased to cover up to five of any gadgets you can think of for just under 20 a month. The price may seem slightly high, but if you consider having to pay for just one gadget to be repaired each month, you would end up paying more. The primary reason is because the cost to repair gadgets, if you dropped your iPhone, you would get given a 100 pound repair bill. So if you consider the maths, insuring 5 gadgets for 20 pounds a month isn’t too much to pay to avoid paying 100 pound every time you drop your phone. As well as this when it comes to fixing consoles such as the Nintendo Wii it is actually cheaper to buy a new console than top fix it which again is going to cost you a whopping 180.

You are not required to insure 5 items if you don’t want to, you can simply pay for Xbox 360 Insurance separately. Unfortunately, many companies that offer home emergency insurance policies don’t cover your gadgets like iPods and gaming consoles.

Tags: iPhone, iPod, Nintendo Wii, Playstation, XBox 360