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Unopened Original iPhone Sells for $35,000 at Auction
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Unopened Original iPhone Sells for $35,000 at Auction
Monday August 29, 2022 9:01 am PDT by Sami Fathi
A sealed original iPhone made from an early production run has sold for $35,000 in a recent auction.
The listing doesn't offer any clues on the condition of the actual iPhone inside the box, but given it's still sealed, it should be in brand-new condition.
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Top Rated Comments
11 hours ago at 09:05 am
The iPhone 14 Pro is going to be dirt cheap in comparison. Everyone can stop complaining about that price
11 hours ago at 09:41 am
I bought an iPhone 2G off Ebay a couple months ago for about $100 and downgraded it to iPhone OS 1.0. At one point I thought I had bricked it. But after playing with it for a few days, the novelty wore off. But its nice to have the first one and see how far we have come. It still accesses Google just fine. Apple should bring back cover flow. For some reason, I couldn't get it to sync with my PowerBook G4, but it works just fine with an old Dell laptop running Windows XP:
11 hours ago at 09:11 am
And… inside… is a lead brick. The original purchaser swapped out the phone and sealed up the box for resale nearly 2 decades later.
Prove me wrong ?
Prove me wrong ?
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