(Ninja M.)
What Pixar needs to do is make a movie called iPhone Story, about what your outmoded past iPhones do when you’re not looking and how they react to the annual, Buzz Lightyear-like newcomers.
Tom’s List provides some notes for a potential script if anyone wants to jump on the project. Here are eight things you can do with those old iPhones after you disconnect them:
* WiFi-only phones.
* Mini spare hard drives.
* A back-up phone in case the new one breaks.
* A music and movie library for your home theater.
* A night stand webcam.
* A handheld game console.
* Your experimental guinea pig.
Multiple iPhone buyers, what do you do with your extras?
9 New Uses For Your Old iPhone [Tom's Guide via Wise Bread]
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Seriously, good ideas…. but one neglects to remember that Ipod Touches/Iphones CANNOT be put into disk mode like standard IPODS
FIRST! FTW!
You’re a tool.
Lol, you Git ‘em, SteveDave!
That is awesome.
Epic gif, thanks Steve!
posting a gif of frst is just as ghey as the poster who was frst
At least three people disagree with you.
“With a simple hardware addition, you can turn your old iPhone, iPod Touch, or even an older iPod Classic into a personal hard drive, while still retaining all of its normal functions. “
im thinking of getting an ipad just to make a universal remote. ohh and a tv guide.
Just try to find a reputable recycling place. One that won’t ship them to China or Nigeria where they are taken apart by hand and expose people to toxins.
Night stand webcam, huh?
I know what you’re making at home.
…honey, is that your iPhones camera on? ….No, no no..That’s my old one; my new one is over — there.
Seriously…night stand web cam? I must be getting old.
Sell them on ebay. Always seems to be a market for the last gen iPhone.
If you’re not going to use it, see how much it’ll fetch on Gazelle.
This is the most logical solution. I old my old original iPhone for like $200 not too long ago.
They’re good devices despite the anti-Apple trolls and there’s still a large market for them used.
I’ve been wanting an iPhone mostly because it has true GPS unlike what the iPod Touch has, and I would like to WarDrive with it, which I can’t really do with my iPod Touch.
That said, the night stand webcam sounds like I good idea. I need a 5th cam…
I’d prefer to sell mine for a few hundred dollars there is still plenty of demand. These phones are far from obsolete, they’re just no longer cutting edge.
The 3 g’s are going for 75 bucks on Craigs list. 3 gs for $150. Jailbroken 3 gs 225.
Few hundred? Ha.
What is the original IPhone worth?
About 45.00 us based on browsing Craigslist.
Well still better than making it a spare hard drive.
I have traded mine in to a local electronics “pawn shop”-like place called C.e.X. and got 270 bucks for the 1st gen (right before the 3GS came out) and 176 for the 3G (after the iPhone 4 came out). Its not so bad when you pay for the new one with the old ones.
jailbreak, unlock, sell on craigslist… or save for use as phone for traveling overseas.
After upgrading to a CDMA Android phone, my old iPhone 3G will be my international travel phone (wifi). I can use Skype for WiFi calls, and perhaps use an international SIM card if I’ll be traveling a while. If only there were a way to download sections of Google Maps (for a whole city) that would interact with the still-functional GPS.
eBay
Use them to bribe your little ones http://thestir.cafemom.com/toddler/102907/a_fork_stuck_in_the
Deactivated cell phones will still dial 911. When I travel I keep a deactivated one in case i need 911 at which point the phone is locked until emergency arrives. I use the other one while waiting for 911 to arrive to make arrangements such as when I totaled my winter wreck in February 08. Everyone please remember to delete everything when your phone is deactivated. A lot of these “recycled” phones contain peoples entire contact list with their phone numbers. Now everyone has a reason not to donate your cell phones.
How nice it is that we live in a society where we can afford to think on such ponderables as what to do with our less-than-five-year-old electronics.
Personally, I wish I could get one of those old cell phones that came with a portable, shoulder strap batteries the size of a car battery. The only problem is that I don’t think you can play “Snake” on them.
I was going to say, the iPhone 1 is hardly obsolete, but several beat me to it…
It’s not the current model, therefore it IS obsolete by definition
Give it to Coren, because he needs new technology.
Give it to me. You can find me on the www
The best thing to do with any iPhone, old or new, is to plop it on the ground in front of a bunch of Apple fanbois and stomp on it. Good for hours of crying, gnashing of teeth, beating of breasts, that sort of thing. Good times!
I recall, now a fair few years ago, when the Xbox 360 first came out, how one dude was first in line. He bought his device, wemt outside to where the line of enthusiastic gamers were wating, and beat it with a bat.
Some of those people waiting in line retaliated in turn, beating up the guy until he had to be taken to the hospital.
And those were just XBOX fanboys…
I just put all the phone and texting apps in their own little window away from all the games and my daughter uses it as an iPod Touch. I also have an iPod touch so both my daughters can play games in the back seat of the car thus preventing fights on long car drives and my new iPhone 4 can be plugged in playing what I want over the radio instead of in the back getting it’s battery drained down.
How bout hang on to it and use it until Steve Jobs pulls his egotistical head out of his everloving backside and actually fixes all the issues with the new phone?
I refuse to trade in my perfectly functioning 3g for a half baked pile of crap, no matter how “Magical” and “Lifechanging” it may be. Heck, I have only had the thing for 18 months or so.
So I wait another 9 months till A) The price drops B) They actually fix all the problems and C) Stop blaming the consumer for their engineering screw ups.
end rant?
The price will drop in 11 months, in the first week of June, 2011, when Steve gets on the podium at the World Wide Developers’ Conference, announces iPhone 5 (or 4G, or whatever they’ll call it) and announces that the iPhone 4 will soldier on with a “new” 8GB version that only comes in black and retails for $99.
Precisely my point. I understand marketing and product cycling, but Apple really pushes the envelope.
And perhaps he will give a tutorial on how to properly hold a phone.
Maybe this will get Chairman Jobs’ nose out of his pompous derriere:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/07/apple-iphone-lawsuit.html
Maybe a year or so later, after all those “I-just-had-to-wait-4-hours-in-line-at-the-Apple-store-and-be-first-to-hand-my-Dear-Leader-another-$300-and-get-raped-in-a-contract-extension” types get their settlement offer of 10% off the bumper, the iPhone 5 will be out, making them head back to the lineup to get another…er…prostate exam, all forgetting this ever happened, and the Dear Leader will rake in another billion or so from them.
Err, forgive that running sentence, folks.
“Me flunk English? That’s unpossible!” –Ralph Wiggum.
Has anyone used:
http://www.cashforiphones.com/
Return to the store for a refund (if under 30 days).
I always thought selling it was the best option since even older models still work, and are worth a couple hundred… But what do I know…
I’ve been hoping to find an iPhone at a reasonable price to make it easier to enter data on one of my jobs, that or a handheld of some sort that has Wi-Fi.
Why not send it in to a place like Gazelle.com.
I looked into selling my old iPhone 3G last month and they were offering $126
sold mine to gazelle.com for $188
obsolete? hey, at least you with the 2G you can make calls when you’re holding it!
I say just keep using it (don’t get the new one) and save yourself some money. And cut down on the toxic e-waste.
Um, my old phones are always sold on eBay and I am stunned at how much I get for them. (Note: Always stash the original box, manuals and other stuff somewhere so you can sell it with everything it came with).
We’ve always just donated old cell phones to the local domestic violence shelter. I’m assuming they’d take an old iPhone. There are also numerous organizations that take old cell phones (for parts or refurbishing and selling them) and donate the proceeds to give calling cards to deployed soldiers and their families.
Can you get an iphone for $25 now? If so then I am wanting one now. Or did the phone carriers outmode it enough to be worthless?
My wife sold her iPhone 1 here: http://www.gazelle.com/
My main phone is one of those “obsolete” first iPhones out there. I got it when my other half upgraded his to the next model, and now that he is thinking again about upgrading to iPhone 4G, I’ll be again on the line for getting his old phone.
That leaves me the older iPhone…
I’m simply going to give it to my sister, or if she won’t be planning to use it, to a friend.
The phone works perfect, and I’m not talking about the old skool phone functions but all iPhone apps too.
Seriously. I’ve spent enough money on mobile phones since 1995. I haven’t bought one in over five years, and even then I had some of his old phones. And I generally hate phones so I rarely use mine for calling. Old iPhone and AT&T prepay keeps me happy (and for games etc I go with wifi).
If your old iPhone works, give it to someone. Not everyone can afford to buy a new one, or if they can afford prefer one. An iPhone is best used as a iPhone will it works.