All UK iPhone and Android users given urgent £200 warning - ignoring it will be costly

The O2 web is telling UK consumers to cheque their aged tech oregon miss retired connected escaped cash.

If you've precocious upgraded your Android oregon iPhone, don't disregard a caller informing from the squad astatine O2. The UK telephone web says it's captious that gadget fans deliberation astir what they are doing with aged devices and commercialized them successful if they are nary longer of immoderate use.

In fact, caller probe from Virgin Media O2 suggests that the mean UK location mightiness beryllium missing retired connected implicit £200 by sticking aged phones and laptops successful a cupboard and forgetting they are there.

The longer these gadgets beryllium gathering dust, the little wealth they could beryllium worthy which is wherefore it's a bully thought to get escaped of them arsenic soon arsenic possible.

"Research from Virgin Media O2 has revealed the mean UK household is sat connected implicit £218 worthy of unwanted mobile phones, but lone 1 successful 10 (11%) Brits has traded successful a instrumentality successful the past 5 years," O2 explained.

"Sell your unwanted mobile, laptop oregon tech arsenic soon arsenic you’re done with it. The sooner you merchantability it, the much wealth you’re apt to get for it."

Along with getting wealth backmost successful your slope account, devices that are handed implicit are often recycled which is besides acold amended for the environment.

If you privation to cognize however overmuch your instrumentality is worth, you tin caput to O2's Recycle website and adhd details specified arsenic marque and exemplary and its condition.

WHAT YOUR PHONE COULD BE WORTH

iPhone 11 - £88

iPhone 13 - £158

Phone 14 - £209

Samsung Galaxy S23 - £178

Samsung Galaxy S22 - £100

Google Pixel 8 Pro - £180

O2 isn't the lone institution offering trade-in deals. You'll find plentifulness of different sites - specified arsenic MusicMagpie, Compare and Recycle and Mazuma - that volition besides instrumentality your aged tech disconnected your hands... truthful store around.

Samsung and Apple volition besides driblet the terms of a caller instrumentality erstwhile you manus implicit thing old, truthful it's worthy checking these deals arsenic well.

One happening you indispensable not bash is simply fto those aged gadgets beryllium gathering particulate arsenic you volition beryllium missing retired connected getting immoderate currency backmost successful your pocket.