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I’m embarrassed, but I’ll admit it. Three months ago, I broke 2 phones, and with my head down, I’ll confess—all in one week. Can I say bad luck? Well then, I guess you can say that the folks in the UK really have bad luck. A British study found that 855,000 handsets are “flushed away” every year in the UK, amounting to about £342 million a year. Outrageous, isn’t it? SimplySwitch, the price comparison and switching service, conducted a research and learned that 4.5 million handsets are broken or lost each year.
Some of the familiar scenarios include:
Losing your phone in the public bathroom (810,000 handsets)
Leaving it in a taxi(315,000)
Mislaying it on a bus (225,000)
Bathing it in the washerwith your dirty laundry (116,000)
Strangely—and quite humorously—having your dog chew their way through your mobile (58,500)
Karen Darby of SimplySwitch had much to say about this: “Of the 18 million new handsets bought in the UK every year, roughtly 4.5 million will end up lost or damaged. With handsets now costing up to £400, and people often opting out of the insurance package, there’s more reason that ever to look after your mobile.” The research also shows that a fourth of all mobile owners had lost or damaged a handset in the past year, with men slightly more likely to be struck with carelessness:
28 percent of men confessed to losing/breaking their phone
26 percent of women owned up to this
Karen Darby of SimplySwitch also adds on, “With at least three quarters of the UK population now owning a mobile phone, we really are a nation that loves to talk. Because most people now rely on their mobile to stay in touch, it’s a good idea to keep a copy of your phone numbers on a computer or spare SIM card. That way, if your mobile goes missing, all is not lost. As phones continue to shrink in size, they also become easier to lose, so people need to take extra care.” With this, I’d say, let’s all be on the extra look-out for our phones! After all, these devices—that we cannot bear to live without—cost us a lot of money! Perhaps we should purchase some products that will protect our phones from “wear and tear," and dangle our devices around our neck with a phone lanyard? I’m sure this will save us some money in the long run.
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