No electronic device is immune from the passage of time. Here we are talking not only about its useful life, but also about its economic value. If we take the mobile phone as an example, it is clear that Its value at launch will not be the same as its value eight or ten months later. This is something that becomes clear when we look at the second-hand market, despite phones that have only been on the market for a few months.

Obviously, not all phones lose value at the same rate. High-end ones like Galaxy S24, they resist this devaluation much better. In fact, as Sell Cell points out (via Forbes ), it looks like the phones flagship Products from Samsung retain their value for longer.

Samsung phones lose less value than other Android phones

It looks like we said Samsung is causing its phones to take longer to lose value. When we crunch the numbers, the Sell Cell study shows that the Galaxy S22 series lost an average of 66.7% of its value in the 12 months after launch. However, the Galaxy S23 series performed better over the same period: it lost an average of 61% of its value.

These data also reveal very promising figures about the new Galaxy S24. These, which have been on the market for six months, lost 50.4 percent of their value. this represents an improvement compared to S23 and S22 for the same period (54.1% and 54.4% respectively).

This study doesn’t bode well for AppleThe queen of keeping the price of her devices as high as possible. Specifically, the iPhone 14 lost 47.7% of its value in the 12 months after its launch; this figure was a slight increase compared to the iPhone 13 (which also lost 46.2% of its value).

The figures for both companies are still a long way off, but they are slowly equalizing. Time will tell how the depreciation of the next Galaxy S25 will behave, unless something strange happens to the devices They should arrive in stores next January.

via | Sell ​​Cell

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