In today’s world a mobile phone is pretty much an essential piece of kit. Just as you wouldn’t have survived the Middle Ages without a trusty sword at your side, you wouldn’t do too well in the digital age without a mobile phone. Most of us are aware of this attachment and find ourselves becoming fidgety the minute we can’t find our phone – has someone tried to contact us? Do we look rude for not answering? What if we’re going to be late? How will we know what’s going on at work? Contact our other half? With iPhones and Blackberries this is exacerbated as we find ourselves without a permanent internet connection and object push (the ability to be alerted when a new e-mail comes through). iPhones even give us GPS meaning that we’ve become dependent on them to find our way around cities and find restaurants or pubs in the area… Simply put they are crucial. For this reason we need to have arrangements in place for if we damage them, so that it won’t be as much of a shock to the system. So what do you do if your phone gets damaged? Well first of all you should try and remove the SIM card. For those not in the know, the SIM card is actually what contains your phone number and mobile account – and it’s not specific to your phone. What this means is that hopefully you’ll be able to use the SIM card on another person’s phone and that means you won’t have to beg for other people’s minutes. If you have an old phone in a drawer somewhere at home then you can use that while your main phone is damaged.

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