Blackberry phones have been recorded as the highest amongst the most traded in phones for cash.
From all the mobile phones that were sent for recycling, Blackberry was ranked as the number one. Among £2.65 million mobile phones which were recycled in the month of January, Blackberry phones accounted for the maximum number. With an average of £104 that was offered for each handset, Apple 3GS also topped the list.
Other phones turned in for recycling included HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Wildfire. Blackberry suffered an unfavourable reputation last year and this could potentially be a reason why they constituted the majority of recycled phones early this year. Looks like many contracts must have got over and consumers decided to recycle their Blackberrys and even earn some cash to use it for buying a new phone. Apple 4S too is gaining tremendous interest as a nice phone to have in the year 2012.
The study regarding cell phone recycling also showed that Blackberrys were up 28% of all the smart phone sales. The figure, though worthwhile, is still very low considering the number of Blackberrys turned in for recycling. The last month itself has seen some 40,000 mobile phone getting recycled per recycler. This figure of mobile phone recycling is astounding and what is even more surprising is that most of the phones sent in have either little or no damage, and are in a good shape. The owner just wanted to upgrade and these old phones are being resold for £150.
Tags: Blackberry, Mobile Phones, Recycling
