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People can either sell their used cell phones to iBuyPhones.com for cash, or recycle their qualifying phones. In conjunction with a partnership with American Forests, they will plant a tree for every recycled phone received.
AmericanTowns.com
and Cell
Phones For Soldiers are welcoming visitors to their websites to find cell phone drop off locations. During this holiday season many US soldiers based overseas plan to call their families back
home and your cell phone donation can help buy them pre-paid calling cards.
Cell Phones For Soldiers is a non-profit organization that recycles used cell phones for cash and uses proceeds to buy pre-paid calling cards for US troops deployed away from home.
"Through our extensive reach into every town in the US, AmericanTowns can help anyone who is interested to donate a cell phone or create a Cell Phones For Soldiers collection point in their community. Cell Phones For Soldiers is making an important difference in the lives of our overseas troops and AmericanTowns is pleased to be a part of this important effort.
Currently you can get also get shipping labels from Cell Phones for Soldiers.
The auction will now be expanded with offerings from ReCellular's industry partners, including wireless carriers and original equipment manufacturers, which could add another 250,000 additional handsets per month.
As the wireless industry celebrates the upcoming 25th anniversary
of the first commercial cell phone call (October 13, 1983), this in-depth online
study of more than 2,000 teenagers around the nation sheds new light on how
today's teens feel about wireless products and services, how they are using
them today and most importantly, how they would like to use them in the future.
A growing wireless segment, teens view their cell phones as more than just an
accessory.
Highlights of the study include:
- Teens consider cell phones an indication of status
- 4 out 5 teens use a cell phone.
- 80% say cell phones provide a sense of security.
- Many prefer texting over talking.
- They would also like their phones to be water and shock proof.
ReCellular, cell-phone recycling
firm, announced today that Investor
Growth Capital is investing $15 million in a Series A Preferred Stock
financing. The investment adds a growing clean-tech company to
ReCellular's revenues have increased an average of 25 percent for the past
eight years. Today, the company is the leading collector, recycler and
refurbisher of cell phones in the world. In 2008, the company is on track to process
more than 6 million phones - equal to the combined population of
With an estimated 3.3 billion cell-phone users worldwide, and 130 million
phones retired in the U.S. every year, there isan opportunity for significant growth in the
global cell-phone reuse and recycling market.
"We processed almost 5,000 phones in our first year of business," says
Newman. "Today, we get an average of 24,000 phones - enough to fill seven mail
trucks - every day, five days a week. With the support and resources of
Consumer Cellular has innovative cell phone recycling program that has already kept 10,000 cell phones out of landfills and raised more than $8,000 for Portland, Ore.-based Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation.
As reported by CTIA, an estimated 150 million cell phones are retired in the U.S. every year but less than 10 percent of idled phones are recycled. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) reports that 75 percent of Americans are unaware of cell-phone recycling options.
With every mobile phone sold, Consumer Cellular includes a postage-paid envelope so customers can recycle their old cell phone, regardless of if the phone still works. Consumer Cellular’s award-winning recycling partner, ReCellular, refurbishes and resells the usable cell phones, making wireless communication more accessible to more people. Phones that no longer function are recycled according to strict environmental standards and the salvaged materials are used to make other products.
Three out of every four people added that they don't even
think about recycling their devices and nearly half were unaware that it is
even possible to do so.
The survey was based on interviews with 6,500 people in 13
countries including
BlackBerry’s and iPhones are the major contenders in the smartphone market and ChangeWave Research is trying to figure out why they are liked and disliked. ChangeWave looked at the features users love and
hate about their iPhones and BlackBerrys as part of their March 2008
survey of 864 smartphone owners.iPhone users loved the Web/iPod functionality of the phone while BlackBerry users loved their push email. iPhone users hated EDGE speeds and BlackBerry users disliked their Internet browsing.
The Apple iPhone
By far the most lauded feature of the iPhone among owners is its seamless integration of a Phone, iPod and Internet browser (36%). One respondent puts it, “The feature I use most is the iPod, but it’s the integrated whole that makes it so much fun to use. “
Another respondent adds, “I love the iPhone. It is revolutionary. I love being able to jump on the Internet, send email, get maps, weather forecasts, instant message, and make phone calls.”
The second most popular feature is the iPhone’s touch screen interface, followed by its ease of use.
This holiday season, many consumers rang in the holidays with new wireless phones,. Rather than throwing old phones into a drawer or into the trash, Verizon Wireless reminds consumers to donate their no-longer-used wireless phones to the company’s HopeLinephone recycling program to support victims of domestic violence.
HopeLine collects no-longer-used wireless phones, batteries and accessories in any condition, from any wireless service provider, at the company’s Communications Stores across the country. Phones that can be refurbished are sold for reuse and those without value are disposed of in an environmentally sound way. Proceeds from the HopeLine program are used to provide wireless phones and cash grants to local shelters and other non-profit organizations that focus on domestic violence prevention and awareness.

