One of the key issues that many ignore when buying a mobile phone is the ability to resell it. For this reason, it is not enough useful to know which smartphones are and of which brand they lose their value the fastest after a year. Each year, the evolution of the market causes some smartphones to depreciate more than others . How are things after the end of 2020?
Mobile phone sales website BankMyCell has tracked 310 device resale values over the past few months to find that in the last two years Android range caps have depreciated twice as much as iPhones . Over time the gap tightens more, because after four years, iPhones lose an average of 66.43% of their initial repurchase value, compared to Android, which is left 81.11% for the way.
The iPhone, the mobile that depreciates the least
As the years go by, the phones that are going to lose the least value are the iPhone. Apple products are the “most expensive” to be found in second-hand stores and even last year’s models have not dropped much in price either at Amazon or at the main telephony distributors.
The report cites last year’s top-of-the-line Apple and Samsung as an example. Nine months after the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, the buyback price was -64.71% of its original value. By comparison, in the same nine-month period since launch, the iPhone 11 Pro Max had lost 32.22% of its original value.
However, not all Apple models perform the same as the 2020 iPhone SE lost an average of 38.32% of its resale price in eight months. Even so, Apple is still the mobile brand that loses the least value over time .
If you have an HTC, bad news
Taking the average, mid-range Android phones , below 400 euros, lose half of their exchange value in just one year. The mobile owners of Samsung, Motorola, LG, HTC and Google see their devices depreciate 52.61% in the first year, 73.61% in the second year, 85.15% in the third year and 94.90% in the fourth year .
The worst-performing brand, hopefully: HTC .
The manufacturer has lost a large market share in the last decade and right now the firm’s smartphones lose 53.08% on average between January and December 2020. The HTC U11 Life is the smartphone that loses the most value, with a 81.82% depreciation.
With these data, it is observed that the phones that depreciate the least over time , following Apple’s iPhones, are LG and Nokia terminals, followed by Samsung, Google Pixels, Sony Xperia and Motorola phones. . Curiously, Blackberries continue to appear in a list where we miss Chinese brands such as Huawei, OPPO or Xiaomi. Things that these studies are carried out by American companies.
Source>BankMyCell