Unopened iPhone From 2007 Sells for $39,000 at Auction - Gizmodo

An unopened, factory-sealed iPhone from 2007, the archetypal twelvemonth the Apple smartphone was available, has sold for $39,339.60, according to LCG Auctions. The 8GB exemplary primitively sold for $599, oregon astir $860 adjusted for inflation.

The bidding truly got heated successful the last day, arsenic is often the lawsuit with online auctions. The apical bid was conscionable $10,446 going into Sunday, but a flurry of last-minute enactment saw the terms ascent considerably earlier the online auction’s close.

How did they cognize it was ne'er opened? Apparently the mill seal connected the integrative has the “correct seam details and tightness.” Seriously, that’s however LCG Auctions describes it.

This mill sealed, first-release illustration is successful exceptional condition. Virtually flawless on the aboveground and edges, the mill seal is cleanable with close seam details and tightness. Labels connected the reverse are correctly pristine beneath the seal. All archetypal - nary aftermarket stickers oregon UPC labels connected this one. Brand new, ne'er activated.

What’s the quality betwixt an iPhone from 2007 and the benignant you tin acquisition successful 2022? For starters, determination was nary AppStore, truthful you were stuck with the apps that primitively came with the phone, including YouTube, Safari, and Weather.

New iPhones besides person considerably much space, with the smallest magnitude of retention existent astatine 32GB and maxing retired astatine 1TB. The archetypal iPhone came successful 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB models.

And portion the archetypal iPhone did travel with Maps, determination was nary GPS tracking, truthful the lone mode to find your way was to benignant successful some your existent code on with the destination address—something this humble writer remembers doing connected a travel to Detroit with his archetypal iPhone.

There was nary Siri, either, truthful you had to really look astatine the directions successful the app without depending connected a virtual adjunct giving you turn-by-turn directions. Can you adjacent imagine? It’s a wonderment radical ever recovered their destinations.