Images from auction house LCG Auctions show that the phone It is still sealed in plastic He is. Thus, the phone is “in exceptional condition,” according to the recommendation.
Holy Grail
According to the auction, it is an “increasingly rare collector’s item” for enthusiasts of the tech giant’s products. The iPhone has even been called the “Holy Grail” of brand collectors since there are so few of them around.
Bids started at $10,000. After 28 attempts, a sale price of over $190,000 was reached. A few weeks ago, the same auction house auctioned the same phone for more than $53,000.
According to the auction house, the seller is someone who was involved with Apple’s design team at the time of its launch in 2007. That year, Steve Jobs, the founder and then CEO of the tech company who died in 2011, introduced the model in San Francisco with the words: “Today, Apple will reinvent the phone.”
2.3 billion units sold
The iPhone was also crowned “Invention of the Year” by Time magazine that year. In the first two days, 270,000 units were sold. Including all successors to the iPhone 1, Apple has sold a total of more than 2.3 billion devices since 2007.
This first 4GB version had a rather short life: a version with 8GB storage soon followed.
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