“Gadget buyer Gazelle, which purchases gadgets in return for cash, today said it’s seen an 80 percent increase in BlackBerry trades since last week, up from record highs earlier this month,” Josh Lowensohn reports for CNET.
“Gazelle’s ‘Chief Gadget Officer’ Anthony Scarsella told CNET that this is ‘easily the highest volume of BlackBerry trades ever seen period,'” Lowensohn reports. “That includes a ‘spike’ following this month’s outage. ‘In the grand scheme of BlackBerry [trade-in] growth over the past month, it can be pretty much entirely attributed to the launch of the iPhone 4S,’ Scarsella said.”
Lowensohn reports, “Besides BlackBerry seeing a recent boost, Scarsella says Android trade-ins have seen an increase of 72 percent during the same time period… Gazelle says that the majority of Android trade-ins have been on Sprint’s network, which began carrying the iPhone for the first time this month.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Grafixgibbs” for the heads up.]
LMAO !!!!!!!
This is a Sprint forum link. There are now 74 pages of people complaining about slow speeds with the iPhone 4S.
Sorry: http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/78766?tstart=0
I actually got a Sprint iPhone and noticed the only slow down on 3G is in highly populated areas. I was out in the country using it and I was amazed at how fast it was. I’m thinking there is something with the amount of people using it in a given area.
I call this bull dung.
No one trades in Android for an iPhone with its tiny iPhone screen.
Get real!
Hey – we filed our fingers to work on that screen…
As an Android dev, I think you’re right, they probably trade-in to get rid if the Android UI, not the screen.
I’d expect more Droid trade-ins on AT&T, with the free 3GS, than anywhere else.
Maybe I won’t have to do any more Android work after that… 🙂
A larger screen is just an excuse (disguised as a “feature”) for Android phone makers not being able to miniaturize as expertly as Apple. 🙂
Larger screen = more volume behind it
And I call your phone bull dung.
Speaking of tiny, how’s your battery life?
Get real!
Android rules:
1) Steal
2) Lie
3) Do only evil
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The only reason you like the bigger screen is ’cause the porn pop-ups you get from all the malware make the tits look bigger.
Halloween came early in Waterloo.
Trade in you Betamax now!
Schadenfreude is a dish best served cold.
Larger screen doesn’t mean anything compare screen res iPhone vs. HTC Thunderbolt nothing compares to a retina display period. Fandroids go troll elsewhere.
Larger screen means you can’t access the entire screen with thumbs.
If you have tiny hands like an infant, larger screens are bad.
I would have liked a 4″ screen, better for web surfing and videos-which is what I mostly do on my phone.
You are 100% correct. I was using my iPhone and realized that if the screen was even half-an-inch larger, I would not be able to comfortably reach from corner to corner to corner to corner with my thumb, while holding and using my iPhone with one hand. And my hand size is probably pretty typical.
I often pull out my iPhone from my pocket and use it, with my other hand never touching it. If I had to always use my other hand, it would be a MAJOR inconvenience.
Apple has a very good reason for keeping the current screen size. It’s not only because of screen resolution consistency and avoiding platform fragmentation.
I don’t normally see android sufferers with the bigger screens using the phones with one hand.
It took me a sec to catch the point he was making.
With the iPhone siting in my hand like normal right now, I can comfortably reach anywhere in the screen with either thumb (with either hand holding the iPhone) I can stretch up to touch above the earhole, but that makes the iPhone tilt a bit
How is this not getting any media attention?
“Gadget buyer Gazelle, which purchases gadgets in return for cash, today said it’s seen an 80 percent increase in BlackBerry trades since last week, up from record highs earlier this month,” Josh Lowensohn reports for CNET.”
Great but slightly inaccurate. When you transfer an item in return for cash it is a sale not a trade in.
I don’t know why tech writers are so confused about this. Blog after blog calls these transactions trade ins. They are SALES, regardless of what the seller does with the cash received.
Sprint is experiencing what AT&T went through with iPhone . Unlike the other POS smartphones iPhone users actually is the darn thing . So for the first time, millions of users who just bought one are actually using it on a daily basis. Unlike Android and their clones, their users don’t use data services as much, because it’s a POS!
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