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Your Phone Loses Value Pretty Fast (Unless It’s an iPhone)

Posted on February 9th, 2012 at 2:11 by John Sinteur in category: Apple, Google -- Write a comment

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At Priceonomics, we firmly believe that resale value is the best objective indicator of product quality. If you wanted to figure out the best cell phone, you could look at all the reviews, test out all the phones, talk to all the experts, but still your assessment will be subjective. Or you could let the market tell you which phones are the highest quality by seeing which ones best retain their value over time.

Priceonomics phone pricing data strongly indicates that Apple phones are a better value than smartphones on other platforms. The market has spoken, and Android and Blackberrys do not age well.

  1. The market is the only reliable (i.e., real) way to determine value. Duh. That’s how we can tell how valuable CEO’s and hedge fund managers are. And cocaine-way more expensive than flour.

  2. Disagree.
    Bought my brand new Nexus S for 230€.
    Now, since Nexus S is a great phone, it is currently out of production and the new Nexus Prime is expensive as hell, there is a thriving market.

    The unlocked Euro version currently sell easily as used for 250€.

  3. I meant galaxy nexus, not prime

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