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I'd always assumed that iPhones would have a high resale value too, but I find that they are surprisingly cheap. You can pick up iPhone 4S phones for £50 [0].
by icc97 10y ago
I'd always assumed that iPhones would have a high resale value too, but I find that they are surprisingly cheap. You can pick up iPhone 4S phones for £50 [0].
Then compare iPhone 5S (£120) [1] vs Samsung Galaxy S5 (£130 - 140) [2].
I really don't understand why. Perhaps there's just more people that want to buy second hand android phones.
[0]: http://second-handphones.com/all-handsets.html?manufacturer=29&model=359 http://second-handphones.com/all-handsets.html?manufacturer=...
[1]: http://second-handphones.com/all-handsets.html?manufacturer=29&model=362 http://second-handphones.com/all-handsets.html?manufacturer=...
[2]: http://second-handphones.com/all-handsets.html?manufacturer=3&model=420 http://second-handphones.com/all-handsets.html?manufacturer=...
- dymk 10y agoWhy would you expect a 6 year old phone (the 4S) to have any sort of resale value? That's incredibly old in phone years. The Galaxy S5 was released half a year after the iPhone 5S, which might explain the price difference.
- throwanem 10y agoYeah, I still have my old 4S. I don't use it because it's unusably slow, and I wouldn't pay £50 (or the equivalent in real money) for one today. Pity. My SE feels cheap and light by comparison, and its materials don't hold up nearly as well. I don't like that, but given the strictly limited lifespan that smartphones seem to have, I suppose it's really quite apropos.
- prodmerc 10y agoThey used to - today, I think only MacBooks retain that famous resale-ability. Probably because the iPhones are specced just enough to last a couple of years, whereas Android phones are over-specced as hell, even the Galaxy S4 had 4 cores and 2GB of RAM, which is still more than useable today...