So, I have this problem. A few days ago, my 16g 3G iPhone crapped out. I couldn’t hear my calls, I couldn’t hear my voicemails. No speaker. I called Apple tech support, who told me to restore my phone, which I did promptly, tongue firmly lodged in cheek. Of course, the restore didn’t work. Whatever I was dealing with was a hardware issue.

Another call to Apple got me transferred to AT&T, who told me that although I wasn’t eligible for a new phone for free, I WOULD be eligible for an upgrade to the 3GS at the low low price of $199. Now, $199 is not an amount I was expecting to be spending on ANYTHING, to tell you the truth, and I need video on my phone like I need another hole in my head. But, c’est la vie, off to AT&T I went. A hundred dollars and twenty minutes later, I walked out with a brand new 8g 3G iPhone. Half the storage capacity of my old one.

Now.

I get home and see a facebook post from my old intern Corey, who suggested I try sticking a 1/8″ plug in and out of the headphone jack. “Why not give it a whirl?” I thought. Lo, behold, magic doth be real, because didn’t my old phone up and start working again. It was a mixture of jubilation and decay in my world then, because hooray, the 16g iPhone works but boo, I just spent $100 on another, smaller, iPhone.

Now.

I see an ad on Craigslist offering to buy broken phones. Dude offers me $100 for my 16g. Which, I mean, I’d break even, which would be cool. Then I see ads on Craigslist where people are straight up SELLING their 16g iPhones for like, three hundred bucks. So if I wanted to sell it, I could make a massive profit. Which would be righteous, because I’m broke. On the third hand, though, I’m notoriously lazy and careless, so having a backup iPhone might not be the worst idea ever. Kind of like loss / damage insurance against myself. In that case, I’d just keep the both of them.

Thus:

Internets, I need your free advice. What would YOU do with your two working iPhones?