This OG iPhone is selling for crazy money at auction right now - iMore

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The archetypal iPhone changed the satellite of smartphones, but buying 1 marque caller contiguous is going to outgo you a tiny fortune. Is it worthy it? You beryllium the judge.

Right present a sealed, archetypal procreation iPhone is disposable via auction with conscionable a mates of days near earlier it's clip to telephone an extremity to bidding. How precocious volition the terms beryllium by then? Nobody knows. Be we bash cognize that it's already insanely high.

So overmuch money

The archetypal iPhone was archetypal announced backmost successful 2007 with then-CEO Steve Jobs liable for the large on-stage unveiling. At the clip the handset sold for conscionable $499 if you wanted the 4GB mentation oregon $599 if you wanted to treble the storage.

Right now, you tin get your hands connected an 8GB archetypal iPhone for upwards of $10,446. That's the terms that the action is sitting astatine at the clip of writing, and it's lone going to spell up from here.

The auction page, reported connected by 9to5Mac, says that this iPhone is mill sealed and is simply a first-release example, adding "virtually flawless on the aboveground and edges, the mill seal is cleanable with close seam details and tightness."

"Collectors and investors would beryllium hard-pressed to find a superior example," the auction notes, and that's the key. While this iPhone can't vie with the caller iPhone 14 successful astir immoderate way, it's undoubtedly the best iPhone if you privation a portion of history.

And you person the heavy pockets to wage for it, of course. If you do, you tin travel on with the auction close present and possibly dainty yourself to an archetypal iPhone — 8GB, nary little — earlier the auction ends connected Sunday. Then each you request to bash is determine whether you really unfastened the thing.

Oliver Haslam has written astir Apple and the wider exertion concern for much than a decennary with bylines connected How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and galore more. He has besides been published successful people for Macworld, including screen stories. At iMore, Oliver is progressive successful regular quality sum and, not being abbreviated of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts successful much detail, too.

Having grown up utilizing PCs and spending acold excessively overmuch wealth connected graphics paper and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since past he's seen the maturation of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and caller merchandise categories travel and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and beauteous overmuch thing that has a artillery oregon plugs into a wall. Oliver besides covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a peculiar focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and inactive struggles to comprehend the information helium tin play console prime titles connected his pouch computer.

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