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Originally Posted by WhiteBlazer01
Damn, I guess when it rains, it pours :P
Only reason I got the Titan, is because I had my Apache mounted to a bracket I made on my motorcycle. The bracket was great - its a clamp for an air conditioner vent on a car, with a button release. Anyways, went on the carpool on ramp interchange, and the phone fell out of the bracket, down on the ground, I ran it over (at 80+mph), shot it out at my friend on his bike (nearly hitting him), and pulled over to walk the entire overpass with no luck (I use my phone for business, and I could have kept the memory card, and maybe somehow recover all my info).
Anyways, I didn't have insurance either, but I do now on my Titan.  |
See, you NEED insurance to pull that kind of stunt.
Those vent mounts are crap... I had one in my car, and even inside there, more than once my phone fell out and kissed the floor. I would never even THINK of using that on my bike. Only time I ever pulled something like that was when I wanted to use my GPS (using a BT puck, didn't have built in GPS back then) to test my speedometer's accuracy (cheap chinese bike), so I mounted my PPC using a rubber boxwave case that has a loop for straps on the back, and tied it to my rear view mirror. Never trust those quick-release dash mounts that rely on pressure (squeezing the phone tight enough to hold it in). Even if it squeezed hard enough to never let the phone fall, you're probably damaging the body with all that pressure (sliding mechanism isn't made to withstand that).
And for the record, I just bought a co-worker of mine a mogul on ebay for $250 in PERFECT condition. Previous owner had it for about a week and decided to jump ship to an easier phone. You gotta look for these people, they don't know how much a phone is worth and start it at an usually low Buy It Now price (I found similiar deals for the last 3 or 4 phone purchases, one of which was a 1/10 of the going price). If you've got a keen eye, you can replace a phone for far below the amount spent on insurance + deductible (keep a phone until contract is out = 24 months. 24 months x $7 insurance + tax = approx $188. $50 deductible to replace a phone for user damage + $188 = $238. Right now you can get one for $250, but by then it will probably only be worth ~$200. Insurance companies wouldn't offer this if it weren't a lucrative business for them!).