Sell your Xperia 10 III for cash

Three things set it: storage, carrier status and wear. An unlocked 256GB with no marks at all is $46. The same phone with wear you can feel but no cracks is $22. Anything cracked, repaired or not working is $7. Run your exact combination through the quote tool at the top of the page.

Two checks, and the first one is the good one. Go somewhere dark, push brightness to maximum, and put a completely black image on the screen full size. Sony's OLED panel switches those pixels off, so the screen vanishes and you genuinely cannot see where it ends and the black bezel begins. A replacement panel leaks light and shows you a faint gray rectangle floating in the dark. That difference is obvious once you have seen it and impossible to argue with.

Second, feel the join. Run a fingernail slowly around all four edges where the glass meets the frame. Sony's glass is set flush and the nail should slide over the seam without noticing it. A replaced panel usually sits a fraction proud, catches the nail on one edge, or shows a thin line of dried adhesive pushed out at a corner. A slight bend in the glass at one corner is the same story.

A phone with a replaced display grades Faulty. Worth knowing before you quote it, especially if you bought it second hand and were never told.

It does. A display that did not come from Sony grades the phone Faulty even when the touch is flawless and the colors look right. There is no version of this where a working replacement is graded as a normal phone, so please do not hope it slips through. We check the panel by hand on every one that arrives. Quote it as Faulty, and the price you see is the price you get paid, with no awkward email from us afterward.

Pull down the notification shade and look at the network icon. A 5G badge means the 10 III, because the 10 II is 4G only and that is the cleanest difference between them. Failing that, the 10 III is shorter and chunkier, 154 mm against 157, and heavier, 169 g against 151. Same 6.0 inch screen on both. If it turns out to be the older one, our sell your Xperia 10 II page carries its own prices.

Yes. Both faces of this phone are Gorilla Glass 6, so a crack or a chip on the front or the back puts it in Faulty, which is $6 for a 128GB and $7 for a 256GB unlocked. Do not have it repaired first. A repair costs more than the difference it would make, and a repaired screen grades Faulty anyway, so you would be paying to end up in the same row.

By a lot on this model, roughly double at every grade. An unlocked 256GB with light wear you cannot feel pays $31, and the same phone tied to a network pays $16. Unlocked means another network's SIM works in it, not where you bought it. If the phone is paid off, ask your carrier to release it before you quote, because that phone call is worth more than anything else on this page.

The 256GB, at every grade, and the gap widens as condition improves: about a dollar at the bottom and five at the top. Settings, then Storage, tells you which you have, and it is worth checking rather than guessing because the two are identical from the outside. A microSD card in the tray does not count. We pay on the storage built into the phone.

Yes, it is OLED. Burn-in shows up as a permanent shadow of something you left on screen for months, usually the status bar or the navigation buttons. Look for it with brightness high on a plain mid gray picture, which shows faint ghosting better than white does. If a shape is there, it will not clear, and burn-in grades the phone Faulty.

Not on its own. Android phones we buy have no battery percentage rule, no health screen to look up, and no figure that feeds into the quote. If you have sold an iPhone before, that rule does not come with you. The battery only matters if the phone has stopped working because of it, for example switching off with charge left showing, or refusing to run unless the cable is in. That is a functionality failure and it grades Faulty.

Not for cash. A dead phone cannot be tested and your data cannot be cleared from it, and we do not put a number on something we could not check. Free recycling is what we can offer. It travels on our label, gets a Department of Defense wipe on anything we can reach, and is disposed of properly. Want it back instead? Also free.

Not while there is a balance on it. A phone still sitting on an installment plan or a lease is under a financial obligation, and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. It is not a judgment about you, it is that the phone is not fully yours to sell yet. Clear the balance, confirm with the carrier that it is yours outright, then come back and quote it normally.

No to both, and only one of them is fixable. A Google account lock is the phone demanding the last owner's sign-in after a factory reset. Nobody gets past that, so the phone is unsellable at every grade until the account comes off. Do that before you erase it, in Settings, Passwords and accounts.

Blacklisted, reported lost or stolen, or blocked by a network is the other one, and there is nothing to be done from our end. Being carrier locked is not the same thing at all. We buy carrier locked phones, they simply pay less, and the prices for those are in the quote tool.

Settings, System, About phone shows it. XQ-BT52 is the international Xperia 10 III and it is the one most people in the US are holding. SO-52B, SOG04 and A102SO are the versions sold by Japanese carriers, which turn up here as imports. Every one of them is an Xperia 10 III and quotes on this page. What changes your number is storage, carrier status and grade, not the model code.

Just the phone. Nothing is required in the box, so keep the charger, the cable, the case and the packaging. Slide the SIM tray out by hand and take any memory card with you, because our wipe covers the phone's own storage and not a card. To erase it, remove your Google account in Settings, Passwords and accounts, then go to Settings, System, Reset options, Erase all data. Doing the account first is what stops the phone locking on arrival, and our erase your device page shows every screen. We wipe it again ourselves to Department of Defense standards when it lands.

Four ways, your pick. A gift card is emailed and comes out around 3 percent above the cash number thanks to brand bonuses. PayPal arrives instantly and PayPal deducts 2.99 percent. A bank transfer takes 2 to 4 days, a mailed check 3 to 5. Payment leaves us the same day your Xperia 10 III clears inspection. One rule sits above your choice: a sealed, never activated phone is paid by PayPal only.