On Earth Day, Apple Highlights Smartphone Disassembly Robot
For Earth Day, Apple promoted its smartphone disassembly robot, “the most efficient way to reclaim more of the valuable materials stored in iPhone.” The robot can take apart 200 iPhone devices hourly, “so that Apple can recover materials that traditional…
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recyclers can’t,” said the company Friday. Trade-ins top out at $315 for phones, $1,000 for computers, $285 for tablets and $175 for smartwatches. A calculator on Apple.com gave a value of $245 for our iPhone 7. The 8 and X values weren’t prepopulated. The latest generation Samsung device listed was the 128 GB S6 edge plus, valued at $150.