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3 Things You Can Do With Your Old iPhone

by Terrence O'Brien on July 7, 2008 at 10:30 AM

What to Do With Your Old iPhone?
Though just barely a year old, many Apple fanatics will be going out to replace the original iPhone, which they paid five or six hundred dollars for. So what to do with what is essentially very expensive junk? One suggestion is to simply deactivate it and use it as an iPod Touch. The iPhone will still function as a media player and be able to access the Internet via Wi-Fi, even without a wireless contract.

Another option is to wipe the handset clean, jailbreak it, and hand it off to a friend or relative who is persistently broke and suffers from extreme gadget envy. You could also take the same jailbroken iPhone and hock it on eBay, where original unlocked iPhones are fetching premium prices despite the imminent arrival of its 3G offspring.

Those of us who have amassed small museums worth of aging computer equipment and gadgets may just want to keep this one for posterity, and some jerk will likely prop a wobbly table up with one.

What are you going to do with your old iPhone? [Source: TUAW]

What are your going to do with your old iPhone?
Make shift iPod touch of course30 (8.3%)
Why limit your self to one iPhone?7 (1.9%)
Giving it to a friend or relative. After jailbreaking it of course.15 (4.1%)
Selling it on eBay for mad money yo!28 (7.7%)
Just gonna hold on to it, it's a piece of history24 (6.6%)
I'm gonna hit it with a hammer just for fun34 (9.4%)
I don't have an iPhone.133 (36.6%)
And I don't plan on getting one.92 (25.3%)

Tags: apple, att, new uses for old things, NewUsesForOldThings

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