Second hand smart phones

[wenshidi]

Any suggestions on where I can buy a decent used smart phone?
I was thinking of getting a cheap Huawei Y9 after somebody else had traded theirs up for a P20.
Any recommendations on where I should be looking?
My thanks in advance.

[JohnD]

One argument against buying a used smartphone - the battery is probably well into the latter part of it's useful life.

Soon you may need a new battery, not easy to find and when you do probably not 'original', plus you need to get it installed.

[hhinner]

You can buy a Y9 (3/32 GB) on Huawei's official store on Lazada for a much reduced 4,690 baht. How cheap do you want?

[wenshidi]

How cheap do you want?

For second hand, how cheap can I get ?

[Dannie Boy]

How cheap do you want?

For second hand, how cheap can I get ?

Always remember the golden rule - “you get what you pay for”, so buy cheap and you could be throwing your money away!!


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[hhinner]

In Hua Hin you will find some 2nd hand phones on 3rd floor of Market Village. Possibly Bluport as well. Also a few shops on the road parallel to railway (Phrabokklao) between Soi 70 (Chomsin) and the night market street, Soi 72(Dechanuchit).

[Homer]

One argument against buying a used smartphone - the battery is probably well into the latter part of it's useful life.

Soon you may need a new battery, not easy to find and when you do probably not 'original', plus you need to get it installed.

One argument for buying a used smartphone is it may have a user replaceable battery. I can still find batteries online for my backup smartphone, a 2013 Samsung S4 Mini.

[Nereus]

Why buy a secondhand phone? I have one of these, and it is way "smarter" than me! 2,000 Baht brand new with replaceable battery.

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/nokia ... 15094856:s

[buksida]

Another consideration is the software vendors, especially Apple, and more recently Google, purposely slow the device down to make you upgrade. This has nothing to do with the original hardware. So a used phone, trying to drag all the latest updates down, will behave like an old dog.

[Homer]

Another consideration is the software vendors, especially Apple, and more recently Google, purposely slow the device down to make you upgrade. This has nothing to do with the original hardware. So a used phone, trying to drag all the latest updates down, will behave like an old dog.

Subjective experience of computer response speed is often wrong. When splash screens first became popular, users tested said the program loaded faster. Actually, it loaded slower.

From Jan 2018:

For starters, several major companies, like Samsung and Motorola, declared that they simply don't do it. But there's a more reliable way to check, and that's by going to the same set of data that exposed the iPhone issue: Checking the benchmark scores of older Android phones to see if there are enough of them getting results that are significantly worse than the well-documented scores of a brand-new phone.

Primate Labs, the company that created Geekbench, did exactly that.

"We focused on Samsung simply because they are the largest handset provider on Android, and we viewed this as a litmus test," explains John Poole, founder of Primate Labs and author of the original study that provided hard evidence of the iPhone slow-down problem. "We haven't seen any evidence of this widespread performance-limiting problem that has affected the Apple iPhones. It seems to be that this is a problem that is very unique to Apple."

https://mashable.com/2018/01/04/apple-s ... Sx7hX5Ymq4

[wenshidi]

Why buy a secondhand phone?

Is it not just about the money. For me there are other important reasons. For a long while I was unfortunate to live in the shadow of big phone assembly factories like Foxconn, and their environmental impact is horrendous. Perhaps even more importantly, I was also not far away from cities like Guiyu, where the world's e-waste ends up for disassembly. Here soils and water tables are saturated with heavy metals and dioxins, so that children end up with lead poisoning and miscarriages sky rocket. Cancer levels are through the roof.

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/30/worl ... index.html

These days I always try to choose refurbed or second-hand electronics wherever possible. It might be much in the big picture, but every little bit helps.

So thanks for the heads up for the second hand dealers, I will be sure to check them out.

[buksida]

Subjective experience of computer response speed is often wrong.

I dont think I am the only person on the planet who has experienced a phone slowing down in operation over time as it keeps trying to "update".

[Big Boy]

[Homer]

Subjective experience of computer response speed is often wrong.

I dont think I am the only person on the planet who has experienced a phone slowing down in operation over time as it keeps trying to "update".

Your experience is subjective. Try this. Back up your phone. Reset it to the same state it was in when put in a box at the factory. Run a few benchmarks. Update to latest version of Android. Rerun the benchmarks. Update all your apps. Rerun the benchmarks. The results will not be subjective.