Androids Don’t Age Well Compared To iPhones - hollynuied1984

Apple's iPhone is a better investment than any other smartphone because information technology has a higher resale value than an Android device, and it's also less expensive to own. That's according to a study from Priceonomics.

Older iPhones retain more than fractional of their newfangled value after your cut has ended

The bottom line: If you own an iPhone for 18 months and resolve to resell information technology, you will get more money for IT than any opposite comparable Android OR BlackBerry smartphone.

The iPhone retains 53 percent of its value, versus 42 percent for Android and 41 percent for BlackBerry — this way some $312 in cash if you resell your early iPhone on eBay Beaver State Craigslist.

The data comes from price guide site Priceonomics, which keeps cart track of used phones and compares the occurrent utilised price to its new monetary value (without a contract) the day information technology was released. The study looked at all the iPhone models and some 70 Android devices and 30 BlackBerry models.

The study also measured the hardware ownership costs of an iPhone versus Android, if you resell your phone at the finish of an 18-month compact. It found that this way, the iPhone hardware costs you only scarcely over $13 per month, piece it's some 40 percent more for Android phones.

"You can buy an iPhone 4S today and sell it few months afterwards on the secondary market for almost what you paid for it. However, if you buy the fashionable big fancy Android phone, a few months later information technology has lost hundreds of dollars in prise," the study said. "At all stage, the iPhone retains more of its original value than Humanoid and BlackBerry phones. Even four geezerhood later, you give the axe sell a first coevals iPhone for $110."

However, cheap pre-mercenary Android phones don't fall back as much of their value as their pricier, overflowing-end siblings. The research base phones such arsenic the Motorola Triumph, HTC Wildfire, and Samsung Present 4G, retain almost 86 percent of the freehanded time value on average.

One interesting takeout food from the Priceonomics cogitation is that if you shell out extra dollars to beget a higher-capacity iPhone, that won't add practically to its resale valuate, arsenic an extra $100 upfront only adds $10 to the used device price.

Also, the consider does not mention software for secondhand smartphones, but it would seem the fact that iPhone users rear update easily to the latest OS version as wel adds value to its resale prize, unlike Android phones, many of which launch with old software and never get updated.

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