“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.]