If you don’t have a mobile phone these days, you’re supposedly a luddite who might as well be sporting a lifetime’s worth of facial hair, a club and a leopardskin loincloth. Even worse is if you do have a mobile phone and its old. By old I mean its more than a year old. So, if you want to keep up in this stupid race you will end up selling a lot of phones on, or leaving them lying in a drawer somewhere.

Well, you have a few options available to you when it comes to getting rid of your ‘old’ gear. For instance, you could trade in your barely one-year-old Nokia 6500 Slide (a phone which on a non-contract, pay as you go tarriff or phone only deal would have cost you over £200, even more if you plucked over the full term of a contract if you went down that route) for the allmighty sum of £45. Bear in mind that this phone, new, is still upwards of £100 despite having its replacement model out.

This shows just how stupid the market is right now. Take the iPhone 3G – a redo of the original iPhone with the features it should have had when it first came out.  You’d probably want to upgrade from the original iPhone if you had one, but for the original 4GB model (non-3G) you could get £70 for a phone which on release cost you a £40/month plan for 18 months. Yes, the contract has value of its own, but is it really enough to end up having a phone worth a meagre £70 once you want to upgrade, just to be ripped off again on another contract?

The worst thing is that besides the leap from a regular phone to an iPhone or Android, there is usually bugger all in the way of new features bar a better digital camera and flashier case. Not exactly the biggest incentive to upgrade is it? Lets just hope the market slows down with this whole economic balls-up, otherwise those suckers spending a fortune on a new phone every 12 months will just be buying their way closer to the edge of being skint, and deservedly so.

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