100,000 Phones Flushed Every Year

Electronic Arts recently triggered a tsunami of tasteless jokes by announcing that seven percent of people who played mobile games did so whilst sitting on the toilet. Meanwhile, another survey has revealed the equally unimpressive facts behind the ways in which mobile phones come to their untimely end. The findings are particularly important in a world where contracts are becoming longer, and devices are becoming more expensive to replace.

The main hit to human dignity comes from the fact that one hundred thousand cell phones are knocked off our Toilet Seats and into the U-bend. These premature phone deaths account for some eight per cent of insurance claims in the UK alone. In total, one million people make a claim on their mobile phone insurance every year. And though the toilet-water is the most humiliating way to damage your £500 purchase, h2o has plenty of other nasty inroads into your device. This doesn't even need to be a case of falling into the sea: being in the bathroom's atmosphere can expose your device to water vapour. And, purchasing an extra thick Shower Curtain won't support your cause either.

Deciding whether to have insurance or not on your phone is one of the toughest parts of contract signing these days. With the added expense in mind, it's often appealing to hope that the warranty will cover any damage you unwittingly cause. But when you take a phone in for warranty repair at a phone shop, you will find that the sales assistant checks the phone over thoroughly. If your device has so much as a speck of dampness of a hint of a knock, you'll have to fight for your right to send it away. Once it's away though, there's still no guarantee that it won't be returned to the shop with photographic evidence of small internal chips or water marks.

Physical damage cover is particularly important for mobile phone users now that we're all walking around with massive displays. Drop an iPhone in just the right way, and it'll crack like a room full of illuminated bathroom mirrors. Whilst the superstitious would rather break a phone than get all those years of badluck, when they get the repair bill, they may think overwise.