An unique 2007 iPhone with simply 4GB of storage, nonetheless in its field and cellophane wrapping, has wrapped up its 14-day public sale and offered to the very best bidder for a whopping $190,372.80. The bidding started at $10,000 and LCG Auctions had estimated that it could fetch between $50,000 and $100,000—half of what the public sale ended up at.
Final October an unopened unique iPhone with 8GB of storage offered for a (nonetheless respectable) $39,339.60, and some months earlier than that one other offered for $35,414. Nonetheless, whereas Apple reportedly offered round six million iPhones in 2007, models of their unique packaging are comparatively uncommon. Even rarer are models like this one specced with 4GB of storage. At launch, the system was accessible with both 4GB or 8GB however the decrease configuration was discontinued after just a few months in favor of a bigger 16GB version.
Whoever gained the public sale can be clever to maintain the system in its wrapping, as a result of it is going to be effectively nigh unusable as an precise smartphone. Apart from the paltry 4GB storage (in comparison with a minimal of 128GB for the iPhone 14) and a 3.5-inch display (in comparison with 6.1 inches on the iPhone 14 and 6.7 inches on the iPhone 14 Plus), the unique iPhone can’t even run iOS 4 and has no technique to set up third-party apps. And naturally, as quickly because it’s opened it can lose a lot of its $190,000 worth.
The particular person promoting the ‌‌iPhone‌‌ says they had been a member of the iPhone’s unique engineering crew, in line with LCG Auctions.
