Need an upgrade on your smartphone? T-mobile is giving you $100 for an old smartphone when you upgrade to a 4G device. Details on the T-mobile promotion after the jump.
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Starting today and lasting through May 8, T-Mobile customers can swap out their old phones (even if they’re from a different carrier), and get a guaranteed trade-in value that ranges from $50 to $200.
The credit can then go toward purchasing a new T-Mobile 4G phone, such as the Samsung Galaxy S II, the HTC Radar 4G, or the HTC One S.
T-Mobile is calling it Magenta Deal Days, and promises $200 back for any iPhone, and at least $100 for any device running Android, BlackBerry, Windows, or even Symbian 9.0+.
If your used handset is valued more than the promotion (like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which chugged out a value of $200) you will receive the higher value. All the deal requires is that the phone you’re trading away actually work.
To see how much your old phone is worth, check out T-Mobile’s calculator here. Keep in mind that the generated value is how much you would have gotten before the promotion. An iPhone 3G, for example, would have been $60.
I entered in some devices’ names just to see what the resale value was. Although I wasn’t surprised that a used Nexus will still get you back a decent amount of dough, it’s a little disheartening, but completely expected, to see that Cricket’s ZTE Chorus will fetch you only 7 bucks on the market. That’s barely enough to cover a Filet-O-Fish meal at McDonald’s.
