What are the most reconditioned smartphones and how much do they report?
Buying a reconditioned smartphone is good, reconditioning your old phone is even better. On June 3, 2025, the Recommece company specializing in the second hand has published its top 10 smartphones most taken up. A way to highlight a fairly well known leg for this industry, that of the recovery.
Because, to buy a reconditioned phone, there must be phones to recondition. If the French and the French slowly swap their old smartphone for a little money, Many mobiles are still in our drawers While they could experience a new fate.
What are the most recovered phones?
To encourage the population to participate in the virtuous system of the reconditioned, Recommece therefore released the large figures. According to the company, resell your smartphone today “reports on average € 170“. An important leap compared to 2023 (+10 %) which would be a sign of”The growth dynamic of this market“wants to believe a start -up. It must be said that the sector could be juicy since”The European recovery market in Europe could double by 2029“Note the company.
But what are the smartphones that feed this dynamic exactly? RECOMME, which takes up live smartphones, but which works mainly with resellers, operators and store to feed the market, have drew up a top 10 mobiles that most often arrive on the benches of reconditioners.
In 1st place and not surprising, there is the iPhone 11 in 64 GB followed by the iPhone 12 in the same configuration. Two phones which are incidentally the two most purchased models in reconditioned, “demonstrating the value and interest in models yet marketed several years ago”. Then come the iPhone XR, 11 (128 GB), SE and 8. Only the Galaxy S10 and the Galaxy S20 from Samsung come to break this Apple domination of the top 10.
How much are the stars of the reconditioned?
But for how much are these smartphones on average? In the absence of data communicated by start -up, we have simulated the recovery rate of smartphones listed directly on the REMOMERCE site. Here are the results:
- iPhone 11 (64 GB) : Perfect condition – 77 € / good condition – 59 €
- iPhone 12 (64 GB) : Perfect condition – 118 € / good condition – 90 €
- iPhone XR (64 GB) : Perfect condition – 42 € / good condition – 36 €
- iPhone 11 (128 GB) : Perfect condition – 88 € / good condition – 67 €
- iPhone SE 2020 (64 GB) : Perfect condition – 24 € / good condition – 22 €
- iPhone 8 (64 GB) : Perfect condition – 20 € / good condition – 16 €
- Galaxy S10 (128 GB) : Perfect condition – 47 € / good condition – 39 €
- iPhone X (64 GB) : Perfect condition – 34 € / good condition – 29 €
- iPhone 7 (32 GB) : Perfect condition – 0 € / good condition – 0 € (too old)
- Galaxy S20 (128 GB) : Perfect condition – 76 € / good condition – 58 €
We can see here that no mobile reaches the average of 170 €, but it is not surprising, because this figure is fired from above by the resale of a more recent, but less numerous device in the volume of phones taken up. The price of recovery can also evolve according to traders with operators who sometimes launch special operations To make the phones out of the drawers.
The same phone can also make more or less money depending on its configuration. For example, according to Recommece, the average price of recovery for the iPhone 12 (all capacities combined) is € 160.
Reconditioning is not the only solution
Whether your mobile is eligible for a recovery bonus or not, it is never useless to dispose of it correctly so that it is possibly reused for parts or recycled properly rather than staying to take the dust before arriving in the trash.
And if you have one of the phones listed in this top 10, do not delay in acting too much. If the reconditioned prides itself on making new with old, a device that ages at the bottom of a drawer is only losing value as the passing months go. Who knows, there may be something to pay a restaurant with old phones.
