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"e-Cycle, an official buyback and recycling partner of Verizon Wireless, will be buying back AT&amp;T iPhone units onsite at Macworld Expo 2011.\nMacworld Expo runs from Thursday January 27 through Saturday January 29 in San Francisco. Attendees can visit the e-Cycle booth and trade in their old iPhone units for cash.\nThe Verizon iPhone launch is just around the corner, a fact that is giving many AT&amp;T iPhone owners cause for consideration. e-Cycle is taking advantage of the opportunity to accept in-person buybacks. According to e-Cycle, only 10% of the roughly 130 million phones discarded each year are recycled. Not only do many of these phones still have resale value, passing a phone on to a new owner is a lot better for the environment than tossing the device in a landfill.\nIf you aren't going to be at Macworld, e-Cycle has an online buyback tool for both the iPhone and iPad. Payout depends on the model of phone and its condition. As an example, we were offered $160 for our not quite year-old 32GB iPhone 3GS. Depending on how far along you are in your contract and how much you originally paid for your iPhone, selling the old unit could offset a significant portion of a Verizon iPhone's cost or the AT&amp;T early termination fee (ETF).\ne-Cycle says that it scrubs all devices using \"the industry's most rigorous mobile data security measures,\" and phones traded in at Macworld will be wiped of all user data upon receipt.\n\n\n\n\nWhat do you usually do with your old smartphones? Let us know in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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