Where to Sell Your Old iPhone 4 for the Most Money (Updated) [Dealzmodo]

By Mario Aguilar Oct 14, 2011 3:20 PM 37,699 107

Now that the iPhone 4S is out, I'm disgusted by the mere sight of my stone-aged iPhone 4. Ugh. But it's not worthless: If you took good care of your iPhone it could fetch some bills on the secondary market.

People like buying other people's iPhones because they don't have to lock themselves into those lengthy obligatory contracts to get a good deal. So even though you've totally had it with your iPhone 4—someone out there is dying to get their mitts on yours. Here's a breakdown on you could get for a 16GB iPhone 4 today.

How much: $300(ish)
How to do it: You've got two options on the world's largest auction block: Either offer to sell it now for $300 or try your luck at auctions which mostly close in the high-$200 range. Some close above $300 if the iPhones are already jailbroken or come with additional swag. This is definitely the best option if you're willing to expend the effort to deal with a buyer.

How much: $85-$221
How to do it: If you hate interacting with other people, sites that allow you to cash in your device are super-convenient and offer pretty good deals. Just send in your phone and the companies credit you after inspecting it. Before selling you're going to want to check all of the sites. Prices fluctuate so you want to see who has the best price for whatever condition your phone is in.

When we checked it out eBay's InstantSale had the best offer—$221—for an iPhone in good condition. NextWorth and Gazelle were both offering $200 for a flawless phone. And if you've got a clunker that won't even turn on, you can still get $85 from Gazelle.

How much: $150-???
How to do it: Getting past the anarchic mess of scammers and spammers on Craigslist is all about patience. Looking at the listings on your local Craigslist site, you'll see everything bargain-bin broken iPhones to naive newbies who are trying to sell phones in "excellent condition" for $450. It'll take you a while to suss out what the best price is—and what's worth waiting around for. I listed mine for $400 and still haven't heard anything back. But you like to play the waiting game, there's probably some extra dollars to be made from people who like dealing face-to-face.

Wow you guys are really really good at making money. No wonder you can afford an iPhone every time a new one comes out! We loved your ideas as well as hearing about how you got a much much better deal when you sold your iPhone than we did. This update is dedicated to your ingenuity.

How much: $262 Trade/Credit (current)
How to do it
Go to Amazon's trade-in store where they're offering cold hard Amazon gift cards for your outmoded iPhone 4. You can buy anything with Amazon cash. It's practically its own currency.

How much: $200 trade
How to do it
Can't wait? If you're by your local RadioShack and you haven't upgraded to the iPhone 4S, consider Radio Shack's Trade and Save program—they'll give you $200 trade for your iPhone 4.

How much: $189
How to do it
BuyMyTronics functions much like InstantSale, NextWorth, and Gazelle. Worth a look if you're going the instant sale route.

Side note: I had no idea there were so many enterprises scattered about the internet devoted only to the function of buying your unwanted gadgets for cash. Holy smokes! I can't personally vouch for any of them, and I'd feel wrong endorsing any single one—let's just say they have awesome names like "SellMeYourDarnPhone.com" "UnloadYouGearForCash.org." Many of them promise good prices, and I'm sure there's many dealz to be had.

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An iPad App Where You Can Poke a Virtual Cat to Make It Mad (Or Pet It to Make It Happy) [Video]

By Casey Chan Oct 11, 2011 4:40 PM 9,000 22

Kitty! is an iPad app that shows off a highly detailed, 3D virtual cat that you can play with. It's not like a Tamaguchi pet though—you don't raise it—but it's pretty interactive and reacts to your touch.

I don't want a pet right now, it's inconvenient to my irresponsible lifestyle. I'm sure others are like me! Or they're allergic. Or they're something. There are reasons. So Kitty! fills in that soft spot, albeit virtually, by letting me imagine what it'd be like to have a cat. If you pet it, it meows happily. If you play with it, it'll be gleeful. If you poke and prod it though, the cat will get ANGRY. So I've been poking and prodding it ever since I downloaded it.

The app is $5. Which is ass expensive for a single serving type all like this but hey, no cat allergies! The app will be updated in the future to make it react more. [iTunes via Laughing Squid]

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A Woody Trailer with a Full Bar Is Travelling the Country for Charity? Where Is It?! [Design]

By Jack Loftus Oct 8, 2011 5:00 PM 75,057 14 Commissioned by the fine chaps at Moore & Giles Leather, this "Great American Woody" is a traveling bar on wheels. It was built by the master craftsman Brad Ford, and proceeds from its journey of publicity go toward DIFFA.

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Where Were You When Google Was Born 13 Years Ago Today? [Google]

Anyone notice the party that is going on at Google's website today? In case you forgot, September 27th is the date Google chose for their birthday.

It's an arbitrary date selected in 2005 to celebrate Google's September milestones. Google first registered Google.com on September 15, 1997 and the company was incorporated on September 7, 1998. Instead of either one of those two dates, Google selected the 27th because they're Google and they can.

It's hard to believe the search engine is now officially entering the troubled teens. I remember when Google first launched. I was enjoying a fast university internet connection and using both Alta Vista and Yahoo as my main search engines. With Google's minimal interface and lightning fast search results, I was a convert from day one. [Google.com]

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NASA's Not Sure Where in the World This Satellite Will Crash [Space]

The 20-year-old UARS satellite has dropped out of orbit—as old satellites are wont to do—and is reentering the atmosphere. Too bad NASA can't pinpoint where—or when—exactly it will land. Could be the middle of the Pacific, could be the middle of Paris—it's a surprise!

If you have to leave your house on or around September 24th, remember to keep one eye on the skies. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is currently hurtling in at 5 meters per second and is expected to land somewhere between the 57th latitudes—that's 57 degrees north and 57 degrees south of the equator—which only covers...most of the world's populated areas. Shit.

Luckily, most of the satellite is expected to break apart and burn up before it touches terra firma. Unluckily, the UARS still has only a 1 in 3,200 chance of striking a populated area—NASA's normal safety protocols limit that probability to 1 in 10,000. Apparently you are more likely to be killed via falling satellite than you are by a bear wearing a ballerina outfit. [BBC]

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Here's Where the Word Luddite Really Comes From [History]

Dude, you don't use Instagram? What are you, some kind of Luddite? Believe it or not, Luddites aren't just people who cross their arms at, lag behind of, or turn up their nose at tech. Originally, they smashed it apart.

The Luddites were violent radicals. Only instead of attacking people, as is the case with most violent radicals, their enemy was the machine. The Luddites, named after the mythical English folk hero Ned "King" Ludd, were terrified of what Industrial Revolution tech meant for their lives. For many of them, it meant the destruction of their lives—the loss of their vocations. Sound familiar?

Like those autoworkers who saw robotic arms replacing their craft, countless English men and women who worked in the cotton trade—refining it for sale—saw mill technology usurping their labor. The jobs they did, machines could do faster and cheaper. And that's exactly what the machines did. So the laborers decided to destroy these machines.

Using hammers and arson, Luddite armies of furious laborers destroyed the machines that encroached on their vocation—causing a staggering £100,000 worth of damage between 1811 and 1812. They left factories in ruin, and earned a reputation as heroes of the working class—an "unprecedented" "character of daring and ferocity," wrote the Annual Register in 1812.

The British Empire, which saw a rise in wealth unprecedented in the whole of human history through the use of industrial machinery, naturally, wasn't going to take this. They dispatched the military against Luddite groups, quashing, arresting, imprisoning, and executing them. Laws were passed to make the destruction of equipment a grave crime. Force was used until workers were too scared to resist the progress of history and technology.

It's a struggle that's still felt in this country and every country across the world—and a problem all of us grapple with. What hands did once, gears replaced. What gears did once, robotic arms replace. What paper did once, screens do now. Though we all enjoy modern life too much to ever smash it apart or burn down the local Best Buy, the struggle of the Luddite remains, at least in abstract. So next time you're called one because you don't want to upgrade your smartphone, tell your friend to kindly shut up and read a history book. Whether it's a Kindle or a paperback is your problem.

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Lenovo U400: Where Have I Seen This Laptop Before? [Lenovo]

Let's call a spade a spade: the Lenovo U400 looks a lot like the MacBook Pro. But that's not bad, because it's a fantastic design. And don't mistake it for a cheap knockoff either, because it stands up on its own.

The U400 has an all-metal body that's 0.8 inches thick, a 14-inch display, an Intel Core i7 processor that runs at 2.9 Ghz (Core i5 and Core i3 options are also available), discrete AMD Radeon 5400M graphics, up to 8GB RAM and your choice of a 1TB HDD or 256GB SSD. The U400 will also boot in 17 seconds and has a battery that lasts 7 hours.

Additionally there's the U300, which has all the same specs as the U400, except that the screen is 13.3-inches and the battery only lasts 6 hours. The U400 will be available in November for $900, while the U300 is still TBD. [Lenovo]

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