Apple IPhone 6s and 6 Are Top-Traded Smartphones in Q3, Says Report

The Apple iPhone X, which began shipping in November, had the highest trade-in value (TIV) of mobile devices in Q3 ($484.87) when Apple released its latest generation of smartphones, Hyla Mobile reported Monday. The iPhone 6s was the top-traded phone, with 29 percent of swapped devices, it said. Following the 6s were the iPhone 6 (28 percent of traded phones), iPhone 7 and 7 Plus (18 and 14 percent) and Samsung Galaxy S7 (11 percent), said Hyla. In trade-in value, the Samsung Galaxy Note9 came in second ($442.60) behind the iPhone X, followed by the iPhone 8 Plus ($382.06), the Galaxy S9+ ($345.41) and the iPhone 8 ($316.65), it said. Average TIV for an iPhone was $146.22 and $61.58 for an Android phone, said the report. Devices among the top four vendors that lost the most trade-in value were the LG V30, Google Pixel 2 XL and 2, all at 14 percent, and the Galaxy S7 Edge and S8 at 13 percent, it said. The average age of used smartphones returned was 2.92 years for iPhones and 2.66 years for all other smartphones, said Hyla. In the quarter, $628 million was returned to customers in trade or buyback programs, it said.