We asked users how old their current phone is, and a surprising 31% are using a phone older than three years. Read on to know more! A lot of you are using really old phones, and we are equal parts ...

This video showcases the restoration of a vintage telephone magneto generator, a hand-cranked electrical generator that produces alternating current. Historically significant in early telegraphy and ...

Your old phone, after all, has a lot of parts that are still useful—a camera, a screen, and a decent processor. There’s no reason you can’t find some use for it.

We'll show you how to recycle everything from an old phone to a washing machine. ... Staples can recycle accessories, adapters, cables, computers, cordless and mobile phones, digital cameras, ...

While military-grade solutions exist, which can take up to two hours to wipe a phone, we use two or three-pass data wiping technology, which is sufficient for 99.99 per cent of cases," says Manocha.

Or a simple repair might give it another year of life, as John Vallandingham learned. The Florence, KY man almost bought a new phone when his old one couldn't be charged anymore. "It wouldn't charge.