The advancements in technology within the last decade has been great, no doubt about it. 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 happens when a part inside breaks? In some cases, the costs to repair the gadgets can be more than you initially paid for them. The majority of the time when they go wrong, it’s down to the manufacturer for not making it well 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 3 red rings. Now to any Xbox 360 owner the three red rings would be like handing your wallet over to a criminal. 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. 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 bought for up to 5 of any gadgets and it will set you back only 20 pound a month. Although this seems a lot it is cheaper than having to go out and pay for repairs to your products. 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. 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.
Also, if you are only looking to insure one item and not 5, no matter what type of gadget it is, you can simply pay for Xbox 360 Insurance seperately. Unfortunately, a great deal of home emergency insurance policies don’t cover any damage or theft to your gadgets.