Unused iPhones in the US total more than $13 billion

About half of all mobile phone owners choose to keep their older devices, tossing them in a drawer or handing them down instead of selling them for extra cash, says the “Mobile Mountain Study,” which was conducted by research group OnePoll, for resale site SellCell. These unused mobile phones are worth $46 billion, with leftover iPhones accounting for about one-third or $13.4 billion of that total.

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