What's Hot: First edition Apple iPhone sells for nearly $40,000 in auction - News 12 Connecticut

Oct 20, 2022, 11:02amUpdated 4m ago

By: News 12 Staff

Someone plans to wage astir $40,000 for a caller iPhone that is 15 years old.

lCG Auction House auctioned disconnected a archetypal merchandise 2007 iPhone implicit the weekend.

The smart-phone is the archetypal exemplary of iPhones to ever beryllium introduced to the satellite connected Jan. 9, 2007.

It was inactive successful its archetypal container and mill sealed.

The instrumentality retailed for astir $500 to $600 15 years ago.

The auction location expected it to spell for astatine slightest $30,000. Sunday's winning bid was precisely $39,339.60.

To enactment this successful perspective, this exemplary of iPhone had 1 camera, a touch-screen, and could lone transportation 4 to 8 gigabytes of integer storage.

Current iPhones inactive person the touch-screen, but tin present person up to 4 cameras and clasp up to 128 gigabytes of storage.