I’d have to find it first. I mean, it’s probably here somewhere.
Actually bad advice
People are selling them on my local market place. Not sure if any of them sell but they have all sorts of boxes for sale.
What no. What? No.
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…i second this…
NEVER!
You can take my phone boxes, but you’ll never take my game console boxes
…i threw the box out after 12 years, and the next day I had to wrap a new <something> that fit perfectly in that box…
Lesson learned, never throw anything out.
But when the old phone gets its final resting place in the cupboard, I want it to be in the original box.
Essentially giving it proper funeral it deserves
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Give away, repurpose, or resell. This is the right way. I myself only purchase used phones. No need for perfectly usable devices to become electronical waste.
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Heck, by the looks of it, companies are just making the newer models worse and worse without actually adding anything. They’ll have to tear my current phone out of my cold dead hands.
Not entirely true.
Several times aIready I have been glad having kept them when I had to return devices because of warranty stuff.
So it makes sense to keep the boxes for half a year or so.
Real problem is, in reality I still have smartphone boxes dating from 2005 lying around which I am just too damn lazy to sort out… 😒
You don’t have a smartphone box from 2005.
Still severely lacking in features that define a smartphone.
You are somewhat right, I just looked up the phone I was thinking about, it is from 2006.
Which phone? The word “smartphone” has been bandied about since the nineties, but 2007’s iPhone was really the first of the species we now typically refer to as “smartphones.”
Siemens EF81.
Feature-wise roughly comparable to the first IPhone.
Internet/Mail/Office stuff, installable apps, multimedia and camera, gaming.As you already said, smartphones have been around since the late 90s/early 00s, with constantly increasing functionality. Even if people today wouldn’t directly recognize them as such, as the typical formfactor has changed during the late 00s.
No full Internet access, extremely limited selection of applications solely provided by the vendor, keypad input. Cameras and audio playback were already standard on cell phones by then. Definitely wouldn’t call that a smartphone.
No full Internet access, extremely limited selection of applications solely provided by the vendor
That’s not true. Full internet access, also for installed apps and unusual protocols, and any app supporting the right Java features could be installed (I had some OSS ones and even ones out of the competing Nokia store - I think they had a nice calculator app…)
Actually, these points would apply much more to the IPhone 1, as you could only install apps from their store and it had crippled connectivity (vividly remember a friend who had it constantly complaining about the speed because of missing UMTS, among other things).
You are right insofar, as I would not tread it as a smartphone by todays standards.
But neither would l tread the IPhone 1 as one.
And yet both were in 2007.
Standards change… 🤷♂️Like its contemporaries, that phone only had limited support for websites, handling only those that presented XHTML-MP.
The iPhone pretty clearly revolutionized the whole market, with the App Store opening the following year.
My Motorola Razr Maxx V6 from 2006 was better and smarter than the original iphone in just about every way except screen size. It ran Java applications that I downloaded and could do things like copy and paste text from one text message to another (something that the iPhone couldn’t do when it was released). I could surf the web (what there was of it that would display on any phone) and even talk on the phone or listen to mp3s at the same time I surfed. I even had a secondary camera for selfies and video calling (not that I had anyone to call who also had video calling).
The original iphone was revolutionary, but it wasn’t really because of its features, it was actually a pretty mediocre phone for the time, but it broke the strangle hold that mobile networks had on your phone and its features. Plus it also provided a single platform for 3rd parties to supply software allowing everyone to stop chasing not just each and every phone but each and every variation of each phone at each mobile provider.
Ffs, at the time the iPhone was introduced to Motorola had 11 different and unique operating systems that they were supporting and putting on their different phones worldwide.
The things that made the first “smart phone” revolutionary weren’t really in what it could do, it was more about who controlled what it could do.
you don’t need the original box for this, I usually throw it away after a month (the delay for full refund in some shop)
Much easier to send back and no discussions about completeness.
Full refund period over here is 2 weeks, but very customer friendly warranty regulations after that.
But it’s such a nice box. Someone probably worked really hard on it.
When I sell my 5 year old flagship phone I’ll get $30 more easily if I have the box and the stuff that came in it. People see that and subconsciously think “this person has their shit together. buying their used phone isn’t a risk.”
Same goes for other stuff, too. I recently sold a synthesizer for $150 over the market rate because I had the box, manual (even though it was out of date due to firmware updates) and the stickers that came with it.
I like semi up-to-the-minute tech, so keeping things in good shape and giving someone the unboxing experience keeps my costs down at the cost of a little space in my closet.
+1 to this- I was about to comment the same thing before I saw your comment. Phones with packaging definitely sell better.
What about my GBA game boxes? Do I need them?
Legitimately GBA game boxes are much rarer than other game boxes because they were cardboard and not very portable so people more often threw them away.
If you ever sell the games, having the box for a GBA game is a significant bump in value for some games
Those increase their resell value significantly, unlike phone boxes.
You misspelled “just like”
Sold my old electronics at easily a 20% premium because I had all the box and packins. My xbox with the box, materials, and everything (all nicely cleaned) sold for more than I paid for it - inflation being what it is, that was quite nice.
So, this is poor advice.
My work pays for my phone I just need to return it after. I keep the box for that. It is very convenient!
That’s interesting, because the boxes of my work phones are the only ones I throw away immediately.
Why should I care to return the phone to my employer in a fitting box?
I managed the distribution of the phones for a while and while most people did what you do,which was fine, I found the people who sent them back in the case made it easier for us to inventory the phones we got returned as well as store them as backups for the users who have a knack for losing or breaking their phones. We also use the old phones as MFA devices for people who don’t want to have their personal phones attached to work related things. Storing them in the case makes it easier to find them in the room quickly as well.
But maybe that’s just me being extra.
As our phones are all inventivized from the start and have barcodes on the back, this is not necessary where l work.
Also, we don’t have much employee fluctuation, so phones are typically only returned when they are broken or obsolete to get de-inventorized (via barcode again).
I sell my old electronics and I get good used prices compared to others. I think it is partially because I have the original box to sell it in.
I use mine to prop my window open because it’s an old window that doesn’t stay open on its own.
