According to Appleinsider , in mid-March, the original 4GB iPhone was put up for auction at the online website LCG Auctions (USA).
It is an original iPhone in excellent condition, in its original box with the protective plastic seal completely intact. 7/8 corners of the box are sharp, no fading, no dents on the edges.
LCG expected this "vintage" iPhone to bring in more than $100,000, and it did more than expected, with the final sale price being $130,027.20.
The main reason for the high price of this iPhone is its rarity. Apple discontinued the 4GB model on September 5, 2007, just over two months after its release.
However, this is the original iPhone that sold for less than two identical models that were previously auctioned. In July 2023, the same iPhone sold for more than $190,000. According to collectors, the first generation iPhone with 4GB is 20 times rarer than the 8GB version. "It's not surprising that it set a new record. But it's still surprising that it went over $190,000," said the founder of LCG Auctions.
Then, in October 2023, the same iPhone model was sold for $133,435.
According to LCG Auctions, the iPhone is one of the most important and popular inventions of our time, first introduced by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007 and released in June of the same year.
The original iPhone, also known as the iPhone 2G, was notable for its 3.5-inch (320 x 480 pixel) capacitive touchscreen. “It was a joyous but stressful moment,” Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPhone, told the Wall Street Journal in 2022. “What would happen when it went out into the world ?”
The first generation iPhone was just a mediocre smartphone compared to today's smartphones. It had no 3G connection and the camera only had a single lens with a resolution of 2 MP, but this product had a strange attraction. What is special is that it quickly became Apple's most successful product, forever changing the smartphone industry.
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