Compared to Android smartphones, iPhones put buyers a bit more on the pricing side. If you really plan to buy a new iPhone, you might have to spend more than Rs. 50,000. Not only this, devices like iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max cost more than Rs. 1,00,000.
What’s more surprising is that someone bought a first-generation iPhone for a whopping $35,000, or a quarter. 28,00,000, which is definitely a lot of money to spend on a smartphone, that was released back in 2007.
Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone in 2007 at a starting price of $499. Someone bought it at auction for $35,414, making it one of the most expensive iPhone purchases ever. The original iPhone buyer paid a lot of money for an iPhone that looked like a dummy phone compared to the modern iPhones.
Sold! Apple iPhone (first generation, boxed)
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It’s not the iPhone, it’s the packaging.
On eBay, one can find many original iPhone specs for around $100 to $300. Depending on the physical condition of the device, one can easily get an original iPhone for just a couple of hundred dollars. So what makes this special? It’s the packaging.
The seller kept the original iPhone retail package intact, including the outer plastic wrap. Due to the limited supply of the boxed iPhone, it brought in a lot of money mainly because of its novelty.
It might not even work.
The auctioned iPhone model number A1203 came with 8GB of internal storage. It is said that it has 12 icons from the first iPhone product. As this is a sealed package and is a 15-year-old smartphone, there is no guarantee that the iPhone will work.
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