Mobile Computing News

Mobile phone recycling is something that a lot of people are now looking into in the UK.

With the recession and general negative state of the UK financial market people are feeling less stable in their jobs and are looking to raise a bit of extra cash. In addition Apple continue to push their iPhone 3GS – which requires that you part with your old mobile phone and £300.

For those of you not up to speed on the process of recycling mobile phones for cash, you basically check the price that a mobile phone recycling company is prepared to pay for your mobile and sign up with them. They will send out an envelope within a few days, and you send your phone to them in it; they even pay the postage!

At their end they will test your phone, and assuming its all ok (even if the phone doesn’t work), they’ll send out a cheque….nice.

It is worth noting that there are now a reasonable number of companies who will recycle your mobile phone for cash, however they all offer very different prices for the same phone. Whilst researching this article we used this mobile phone recycling comparison site (www.krtol.com) to compare the difference in prices paid for a range of mobiles.

Mobile Phone Recycling Web Searches
The number of web searches that have been conducted for terms around recycling mobile phones, and old mobile phones have increased dramatically since April 2008, according to Hitwise. So it seems lots of UK consumers are interested in getting some cash in exchange for their old mobiles.