Damaged iPhone and no insurance, advice?

Squarepants

Right,

After shall we say 'a tipple' on Sat night I am no longer in possession of my iPhone 4, pieces of it maybe but it will never walk again that's for sure.

I'm with Orange and as said I don't have insurance on it. I think I've got around 10 months left on the contract but I may be out there by a few months either way. What's my next move? I'm fairly happy to get a cheap PAYG sim and phone in the short term but how do I go about getting another iPhone, if that's even possible in the near future (without having to spend a few hundred quid of course) I'd like to be able to keep my existing number going forward..

I'm pretty nieve on what to do here

As an aside - I don't think I should be drinking anymore..

ste_t

Claim on your contents insurance?

crazy88

Get an Android phone.

Squarepants

Could have been an option. I'm aware however of the "you can't claim if you were drunk and threw it against a wall" clause.

We call it the idiots clause in work (I work in insurance)

The term 'Idiot' doesn't do me justice in this case..

More than happy to go Android - it's the getting one in a cost effective way that I'm needing advice on..

thekickingmule

Learn from your mistake and get insurance?

Anyway, didn't you say you dropped it whilst crossing the road and a car ran over it?

cat_with_no_tail

If you were drunk and threw a phone against a wall, I'd suggest using payphones from now on.
Or failing that, buy another phone and just make sure your carer keeps hold of it for you on your release days.

njee20

What's actually wrong with it? eBay is full of spares and there's videos all over YouTube about fixing them. They're not particularly complex. The 4 is a bit worse because everything is attached to the screen, whilst in all the previous ones everything's been attached to the back cover, but even so.

Raymondavalon

crazy88 wrote:

Get an Android phone.

You always get one....


Dingbat

Squarepants

Mule and Cat - Couldn't agree more

learn from my mistake - hopefully

get a carer because I've been an idiot - a strong possibility..

njee - a fix is out of the question.

VWsurfbum

http://www.dealextreme.com/c/android-ph ... =relevance

Squarepants

Cheers VW I'll have a look when I get home.

VWsurfbum

no worries, i just hope your not in a rush?

njee20

njee - a fix is out of the question.

So what have you done? Assuming it was from an impact, as opposed to being dropped in a bath there can't be all that much. Screen, housing, cover and digitiser are all easy to replace. I.e the exterior parts of the phone.

Squarepants

Not particularly in a rush, wierdly (and this is putting a positive spin on a rather bad situation) it's 'nice' not to be tied to the thing, i haven't read how anyone needs to go to the gym tonight or what they had for lunch on FB all day, and i don't miss that..

Still a crap situation if I'm honest though, I couldn't care less about the phone but as has already been pointed out - I'm a twunt..

EDIT: njee - trust me it's in a billion pieces..

sheepsteeth

are you trying to get us to tell you that you should start an insurance policy for your iphone and then in a couple of days, phone and make a claim for an iphone?

if not i dont see the point of the thread and i also think you should live with the way you have behaved and go without a gucci phone for the remainder of your contract. or buy a new one.

cooldad

iPhones are for webbos.

The Northern Monkey

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOKIA-3310-MO ... 490wt_1345

Just need a charger

concorde

Ring up, get insurance on it. Wait a day or two, ring up and report it lost. Simples.

Squarepants

Yep thanks for that sheeps.

Yes I messed up, yes I was stupid.

Why would I be angling for advice on Insurance fraud

All sorted, got the advice from Orange; new phone on the way

EDIT: Concorde, I is too honest see butt!

Squarepants

The Northern Monkey wrote:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOKIA-3310-MOBILE-PHONE-UNLOCKED-GRADE-B-SIMPLE-BASIC-TOUGH-EASY-USE-CHEAP-/230699453395?pt=UK_Mobile_Phones&hash=item35b6c24bd3#ht_2490wt_1345

Just need a charger

I'll see your 3310 and raise you a



and I've still got about 4 3310 chargers I believe, and the actual phone in a kitchen drawer

tlw1

Squarepants wrote:

The Northern Monkey wrote:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOKIA-3310-MOBILE-PHONE-UNLOCKED-GRADE-B-SIMPLE-BASIC-TOUGH-EASY-USE-CHEAP-/230699453395?pt=UK_Mobile_Phones&hash=item35b6c24bd3#ht_2490wt_1345

Just need a charger

I'll see your 3310 and raise you a



and I've still got about 4 3310 chargers I believe, and the actual phone in a kitchen drawer

in how many bits?

Squarepants

ironically just the one, it appears my dislike for phones is limited to the very expensive

VWsurfbum

I had one of them, loved it, it came free with my bank account??? it was on vodaphone and it was regular that my bills began with a 2 and had two figures after it :shock:

So did orange give you a new one?

projectsome

lol should have claimed on the warranty, unless it was water damage!

roddixon

cooldad wrote:

iPhones are for webbos.

This. Be glad you are rid of it

Squarepants

I loved my 7110, yea I too remember the days of huge bills because I went over my allotted texts etc.. Those weren't the days..

8210 as well was it, the tiny one that didn't have an arial..

Right well, £180 has got me out of my current contract (7 months) and I've ...... signed up for another contract with a 4GS :roll:

I know there's a lot of hate for Apple (myself included) but my rationale was 'better the devil I know' I have a large itunes account and to be fair in spite of the controlling nature of Apple I do get on with it..

Costly error on my part but one I hope to never repeat. Not sure I could have got away with a warranty claim!

It'll be here in 2 to 4 days..