Mobile Phone Backup
Mobile Business Magazine, leading business publication in the UK's mobile phone sector, reported on 30th November 2006 that a mobile phone is stolen every 12 seconds in the UK.
This was previously estimated at 1.3 million phones being stolen in 2006. No wonder that the BBC reported that half of all street crime in London and 40% in the West Midlands involves the theft of a mobile phone!
A quarter of mobile phone thefts occur when people are using their phones in public or they have the phone on full view. 90% of robberies are carried out by males, usually in groups, and thefts can involve violence or the threat of violence.
And you don't just have to worry about having your phone stolen: even more phones are lost rather than stolen each year - a staggering 1.6 million at the last count!
We hope that it doesn't happen to you, but if you had your phone stolen - or you lost it somewhere - tomorrow, would you have a backup for your mobile phone's address book?
Yet you could backup a wide range of mobile phone models online FREE of charge with ZYB's excellent programme! So don't delay, do it now, there's no reason not to.
You also get instant online access to your mobile's contacts and calendar with ZYB. Sign up free and store, manage and even share your mobile's content online with friends online in minutes. You don't need any cables or downloads.
It's easy, it's free, and you'll never lose your contact details again!
Or you can buy a SIM phone book saver, which will backup up to 256 phone address records in moments for just £7.95 each plus £1.65 P&P.
Water water everywhere
Mobile phone theft isn't the only problem experienced by owners of mobile phones: the smaller and lighter they get, the easier it appears to lose them!
Water damage is a common problem. Just look at these amazing figures for 2006: 600,000 were dropped in the toilet, 400,000 were dropped in drinks, and 200,000 ended up in washing machines!
Yet some low cost mobile phone insurances do not cover for loss or water damage. This has resulted in some people fraudulently stating their phone was stolen in order to claim on their insurance: in a recent police survey, for example, 13% of people who had claimed admitted during an amnesty, that their claims had been bogus.
So a key feature of any mobile phone insurance is cover for loss and water damage, as well as theft. And our mobile phone insurance is now available from just 8p a day! Why pay up to £1000 to replace your phone or PDA?!
Robust phones
Most mobile phones are pretty robust, but they weren't designed to be dropped on pavements, roads, or the floor, and many do not survive this "test"! After the physical shock to the phone comes the shock to the wallet, when you find out that the mobile phone - which came "free" or at quite low cost - was heavily subsidised by the network operator, and a replacement is going to cost you a lot of cash.
Unless of course, you have taken out mobile phone insurance! And remember that the insurance doesn't replace your phone book! Your mobile phone contacts remain lost unless you have backed up your mobile phone with ZYB!
