Mobile phones have come to increase considerably in price over time. When it is time to purchase a new mobile phone, it is now common for it to be purchased in connection with a subscription so that you can pay off the phone over, for example, two or three years.
Mobile phones from manufacturers such as Samsung and Apple cost between SEK 15,000 and 22,000. But it hasn’t always been that way. A couple of decades ago, phones were significantly cheaper.
But in step with the progress of technology in society, the technology in the mobiles also came to change, develop and refine. From having been small and neat devices, the phone has now become a high-tech screen without buttons and with functions that facilitate most things in one’s life. It is not unusual to take care of the most important matters, such as paying bills, looking for a job or communicating with loved ones, on the mobile phone.
Smartphones are sold for tens of thousands of kroner on Tradera
When mobile phones have become more and more expensive, it is not uncommon for many to turn to the second-hand market.
News24 has previously written about several trinkets of a newer nature that were sold for tens of thousands of kroner on Tradera in 2023.
One of them was the iPhone 13 mini, which last year was sold for a breathtaking 23,000 kroner.
Another newer model that was sold for a juicy amount is the Iphone 15 Pro Max, which was taken home after a bidding that ended at SEK 21,200.
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Classic mobiles are sold for thousands
But new mobiles are not the only ones that attract buyers. On the auction site Tradera, they have noticed a real upswing in the old classic push-button telephones, which have started to be sold more and more.
Some of the mobiles are Ericsson R310S and Nokia N92. The former was sold in 2023 after bidding for over SEK 6,000 and the Nokia N92 for SEK 10,000.
In an earlier interview with Nyheter24 has Tradera’s communications manager, Sofia Hagelintold what she believes is the reason why more and more rarities have started to be sold in an age where modern smart phones rule.
– I think that in the future these older button phones will mainly be bought for nostalgia reasons and it will become a new collector’s item. Just like the craze for the 1980s Walkman, vintage gameboys and cassette tape players, there is a retro charm in many of the older push-button phones that many people like and are willing to pay for, she told Nyheter24 about the boom in sales of old push-button phones.
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Among old classics, Nokia is a well-known player. During a period a couple of decades ago, the Finnish company was the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones. In 2011, however, came the shock news that they would cooperate with the former enemy Microsoft and implement their operating system in the mobiles. It resulted in the Lumia phones Lumia 710 and Lumia 800.
Nokia Lumia 710 with Windows system. Photo: Kathy WillensNokia Lumia 800 with Windows system. Photo: Julie Jacobson
But the launch of the new smart phones came too late, Nokia was already on the way down and in the early 2010s it lost market share when brands like Apple and Samsung thundered in and conquered the customers.
But despite the market loss, the Nokia brand has become synonymous with classic mobile phones that many look back on for nostalgic reasons.
And in addition to the Nokia N92 that was sold for SEK 10,000 on Tradera last year, there is another mobile phone from Nokia whose bidding on the buying and selling site was rigged.
The phone in question is the Nokia 8800 Gold, which was launched in 2008. It was then part of Nokia’s most luxurious series called the 8800 Arte and was built for the Swedish 2G network, or GSM as it was also called.
After a bidding process, one owner managed to get a whopping SEK 3,150 for his phone.
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Nokia 8800 gold. Photo: Trade