Tips How to Buy Used / Second Cell Phone (Part 1)

    Maybe you want to have cell phone with cheaper price with complete feature but you have limited budget. One of the alternatives is by buying second or used cell phone. You have to be careful buying used cellular since there’s possibility when you just bought it for few days, the cell phone couldn’t be used already. Here are soe tips to buy used or second cell phone.

1. Cell Phone with Warranty and never got any service. Benefit of warranty is when you got problem, you can use the warranty to repair it. If the cell phone doesn’t have any warranty, you have to pay attention whether the mobile once got repair service or not. You can open the back cover, then pay attention whether any official seal from cell phone factory, and make sure that the seal isn’t broken.

2. Physical condition. Pay attention to the case used, is it still original or replaced once. Check also keypad, navigation, trackpad or trackball button, do they run normally. Pay attention to the screen. Is the color produced overcast and also check whether any red spot on mobile screen or not. If there’s a red spot, it means there is dead pixel. Avoid to buy a cellular with dead pixel.

3. Mobile Features. Before buying used cell phone , it would be better for you to check all feature existed in the cell phone such as camera , speaker , vibration , call feature , Bluetooth, WiFi , etc. Make sure the used cellular you will buy has no problem in its speaker and mic. You can try it by doing call and listen to the music. Make sure also that there’s no Hang (stuck) when the cell phone used or even cell phone has tendency to do restart, you should avoid to buy cell phone like this. Check also whether its signal up and down or not.