TOBuying online, even smartphones, is now a consolidated habit among Italians: this is demonstrated by a study conducted by Kantar and commissioned by Swappie, which highlights how 72% of respondents would consider purchasing the device online. However, when it comes to refurbished smartphones, those who buy them may ask themselves a few questions about the device they will receive.
Is the smartphone then used? Will the battery be as good as new? Who guarantees that it will be delivered in the promised condition? Doubts and questions of this kind have led to the birth of false myths related to refurbished smartphones that Swappiean online reference point for the purchase and sale of refurbished smartphones, has tried to debunk in the gallery below.
First smartphone for children? Refurbished is better
Summer is one of the best times to buy the first smartphone for your children. Not just how gift for promotion or for the first holiday together with friends, but also because in the summer, parents have more opportunities to carefully supervise the use of smartphones and thus educate their children to use it correctly and safely.
But what are the elements parents should consider when they are faced with the choice of buying the smartphone for their children?
Price, size, resistance
Price: the first smartphone shouldn’t be the most expensive model on the market since the phone it can be easily damaged during use especially by the little ones. The price should therefore be low.
Dimensions: the phone should fit in your child’s hand or trouser pocket. Because kids have small hands, smaller phones are easier to use and handle and less prone to falls or other dynamics that can damage it.
Resistence: not always as young people take the right care of their personal effects and this also applies to smartphones. It is always better to include a screen protector in glass and / or enclosures.
Safety and sustainability
Safety: agree with your children the basic rules for use. By setting, for example, usage limits during the day, for what activity and for how long.
Sustainability: considering the green aspect is increasingly important. The manufacturing process of a new smartphone has a considerable environmental impact. The extraction of rare minerals and the production process in fact cause the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Buying a refurbished model as the first smartphone for your children means not only contribute positively to limiting the impact on climate change but it can be one of the first ways to start educating them in an eco-sustainable approach to consumption.
Refurbished smartphones certainly meet all these needs. In addition to having quite small dimensions, especially the older ones, they are durable and have a definitely more advantageous price than a new one. Not only that, on Swappie, for example, parents can also choose to buy it through Scalapay, a payment method that allows you to buy by paying in three convenient equal installments with monthly expiration and without additional costs.
The ideal smartphone? A mix of performances …
The ideal smartphone, according to the new research that Motorola has conducted on a sample of 1,027 Italians between the ages of 15 and 40, must have some fundamental characteristics: a long-lasting battery (61.5%), good internal memory (53.8%) and a great camera (51.3%) capable of capturing holiday moments with photos and videos.
Quality photos are believed to be more important than videos (42.4%) and selfies (32.7%) and men more than women appreciate the photographic yield of a smartphone (51.3% vs. 43.6%).
Gen Z focuses more on memory and fast chargingbut also appreciates the quality of video recording, especially among the very young (41.5%).
Since the smartphone is the ultimate holiday companionfor 54.6% of the sample (almost 9 million individuals) it must also be comfortable and slimso that you can easily carry it always with you.
… And design
Apart from the functional aspects, in fact, over 25% of the sample believes that design is one of the two most important features for their smartphone (with a focus on subtlety for 21%).
In the context of the reflection on the aesthetic aspect it also emerges the choice of the ideal smartphone color and a certain propensity to color options that go beyond the usual black or gray. Among the less standard colors green is the most popularfollowed by pink and purple, the latter preferred mostly by the female champion.
Currently most popular colors – the classic black (42.9%), blue (18.9%), white (9.7%), gray – do not coincide with those declared as favorites in the event of a new purchase: in fact, black moves to fourth place in the ranking of colors considered to be the most beautiful, elegant and fashionable, while white reaches seventh place.
The smartphone does not go on vacation
During the holidays, the smartphone is confirmed as a fundamental tool not only for organize the activities of the holidaybut yesespecially to communicate, produce content to share and manage one’s social relations.
On summer days, 13 million young people use it every day to send text messages and 9 million to send voice mainly on Whatsapp, an app widespread in all age groups (95%)followed by Instagram (71.1%) with a preference for the female share (74.4% vs 67.6%) Facebook (55.7%) and Telegram (40.5%).
The information runs on social networks
Even during the summer through the phone keeps you informed and you can read news and insights. To do this, the sample mainly consults Instagram (60.6%). In second place, for the Millennials there is Facebook (54.9%) which confirms its popularity towards a more adult audience, while Gen Z also rely on online magazines (28.7%).
Changing the point of view, men show themselves more fond of traditional media and therefore the sites of the main newspapers and news agencies, while women more on social networks.
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