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Consider for a moment how much of your life is actually stored o electronic gadgets? Think about this for a few moments. Telephone numbers and contact details on your mobile phone, email messages and addresses on your laptop and all your most recent family pictures on your digital camera.

You may also use a PDA (personal digital assistant) in which case you’re likely to have centralized all of your important personal and business contacts. Consider for a moment what would be the impact on your life of losing the data stored on these gadgets?

If we just consider your mobile telephone there is a high probability that, sooner or later, your phone will become damaged, lost or stolen. Last year over 200,000 mobile telephones were put through a wash cycle in washing machines, over 600,000 were dropped into toilets and around 55,000 were left in the back seat of taxis. When was the last time you backed up your sim card data. At the very least you should consider some cheap mobile phone insurance. While this can’t compensate for not having your data backed up at least you can get a new device without any fuss or expense.

Cameras, like mobile phones, are small, lightweight and portable making them easy to carry but also easy to lose. Cameras are particularly susceptible to damage. They can be bumped around inside luggage, dropped and have heavy item placed on top of them. Like mobile phones there is no way that camera insurance can compensate for the loss of images stored on the camera, but it is an affordable way to get yourself a replacement if your camera is damaged or lost.

For me my laptop computer is absoluted vital to both my work and my personal life. Most damage or loss relating to laptops occurs outside the home and since around 17% of laptop owners routinely take their laptops with them when travelling this makes them very vulnerable. When was the last time that you backed up your important data from your laptop to some form of secure storage? Losing my laptop would be a disaster for me as this is where I store all of my contact details, emails and images.

As for other gadgets, some laptop insurance can’t ensure that your laptop will not be stolen or damaged but it can make it less financially painful to get a replacement.

I strongly recommend that you back up your vital data from all of the electronic devices where you currently have it stored. Then make sure you get yourself some affordable gadget insurance as this will at least enable you to get replacements quickly.

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