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May 12

Mobile Phone Market Favouring Samsung and Apple

Believe it or not, it looks like there is some kind of race going on the mobile phone market. To compete for the top rank position amongst mobile phone manufacturers in the UK, Apple and Samsung are battling it out. According to the results of a recent survey, around 50% of the share in the market belongs to Apple and Samsung. To be precise, the two share 53.3% of the market share.

So what makes this Samsung vs Apple battle more interesting? Well, it is about cell phone recycling. When Apple launched the Apple 4S recently, it created waves in the industry and phones started getting recycled at plants in the UK. Amongst the phones getting recycled, there were many used Apple iPhones as well as other brands such as Nokia and Blackberry. Samsung was not high when it came to the list of cell phones getting recycled. Despite that, we still know that its market share is quite high as we can see the number of Samsung phones possessed by the UK residents. This change will lead to more Samsungs getting recycled in one or two years.

While talking about the Samsung phones, there is yet another thought. There is something about Samsung – whether its technology or probably the type of users it has that one does not feel a compelling need to upgrade their Samsung phones constantly. Only when it becomes totally dead, does the owner switch to a newer phone.

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May 12

iPhones Still an Excellent Mobile Phone Recycling Choice

Apple’s iPhone 4S’s first-quarter sales figures have helped the company improve dramatically over its performance for the same period last year. The latest figures show that the Apple iPhone sales were a total worth of £7.2 billion in the first quarter of this year. The company managed to pull off a great performance of 35 million mobile phone sales between the time-period of January to March. Their excellent performance was also contributed by the great reception received for the new iPad in the market. All these statistics prove that it will be yet another strong year for Apple and another strong year for the mobile phone recycling as well.
The companies involved in mobile phone recycling announced that the older versions of iPhones are hot selling items in the mobile phone recycling marketplace. Not only are the first and second versions of iPhone getting increasingly turned in for recycling, many iPhone 4 models are also being brought in for mobile phone recycling. This is excellent news for people who cannot afford the latest iPhones. Such people can benefit from the working second-hand iPhone 4 models which have passed through the quality assurance tests at the mobile phone recycling company. Recycling such iPhones not only gives a good revenue generation medium to the mobile phone recycling companies, it also gives many consumers the chance to use a phone that they are always wanted to have.

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Apr 12

Recycling cell phones for Profit

If you are among those who possess more than one cell phone at home, you are probably the kind of person who doesn’t want to get rid of the old handsets as they have pictures or music on them, which you do not want to lose. This could be one of the reasons why two or three old mobile phones are gathering dust in your cupboard.  Does this sound familiar?  Do not worry; we have a quick solution to this problem and you can even make money from it!

The first step you need to take is to approach any local cell phone store and request them to transfer the entire data from the old phone to the new one.  Such a thing will work if you possess an older model, however you could also use memory cards for your handset, USB cords and many other options available to download pictures directly to the laptop or computer.  Once all the information is downloaded to the computer, you can dump all data by resetting the old mobile phone.  Do ensure that none of the data remains stored on the old phone.

You are all set to recycle your old mobile phones now and may earn some cash too.  Who wouldn’t mind getting a small reward from the existing dust bunny collectors?  The amount received after recycling old phones will however vary, depending upon the phone’s model and its working condition.  One can earn as high as £200!

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Apr 12

Using cell phone recycling to assist earthquake victims

Did you hear about the bunch of students in Japan who have jumped on to the entrepreneurship wagon and are using cell phone recycling to rebuild their school and restoring it from the damage done during the earthquake last year.  In case you wish to know how they are going about it, well, they are simply going around collecting any old mobile phones people may have.  They are even retrieving some from recycling centres as well as landfills and are taking them to recycling places which will pay them for recycling the old handsets.

Initiatives such as these really make one wonder about the endless possibilities of working for your country or assisting any charity of your choice.  Any old phones you may have which are lying around idle or unused, can actually be used for someone in need.  Simply go online and search for an online cell phone recycling website which can get you good money for your old mobile.  Then as soon as your old phone gets turned in, the company automatically sends you the money your phone is worth and does the rest of the work.

Once you receive the cheque, pass it on to the person, charity or even the country that you think is most in need.  You too can launch your own campaign like the one in Japan – ask others for their unused old cell phones, turn them in to cell phone recycling centres, receive the funds and hand it over to the charity you support.  Someone somewhere will really bless you for this!

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Apr 12

iPad and Mobile Phone Recycling Gaining Rapid Popularity

A large number of consumers have started appreciating the benefits of mobile phone recycling and the marketplace is right now buzzing with competitive spirit between different recyclers. What comes as excellent news for the mobile phone recycling market is that a large number of people are now actively looking for places that can offer them easy cash for turning in their old mobile phones.

Perhaps, it is just the need for some extra cash regardless of its source. On the other hand, it could also be because of increasing awareness about the environmental as well as monetary benefits of mobile phone recycling. After all, all such old mobile phones consist of precious materials such as nickel, palladium and gold which can be utilised for production of new devices rather than allowing the lithium contained in batteries to contaminate our water supplies. Whatever may be the actual reason of increasing popularity of mobile phone recycling, it is a great thing for all of us.

To tell you the truth, recycling is not just limited to mobile phones alone. Any type of mobile device like an old iPad can also be recycled. Many recycling companies prefer having such old devices as they can be easily resold in the market to someone who is willing to buy a second-hand product. Furthermore, recycling also helps in reclaiming various important elements contained in iPhones and iPads which can be used again for production of fresh electronic products.

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