The old mobile phones lying unused in your drawer could be worth far more than expected, according to new research. Insurance firm Protect Your Bubble compared the average eBay selling price of dozens of popular retro phones and found a clear winner when it comes to the most profitable.
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X leads the way with an average sale price of £1,776.01. One of the first available commercial mobile phones, the model was first released in 1984 and the highly-collectable phone was sold a total of 12 times in the year from May 2021-May 2022 on eBay.
The second most profitable phone over the same period was the HTC Touch Diamond2 or ‘HTC Topaz’, of which only one was sold for £542.90. That was a whopping £528.94 more than its predecessor the HTC Touch Diamond, which was sold for just £13.42.
