New record for an iPhone. This time, a 2007 model, Apple’s first, fetched $63,356 at auction this weekend (actually $52,797 plus 20% commission).
8 GB of memory, a 2-megapixel camera and a 3.5-inch screen… the first iPhone was a true revolution launched by Steve Jobs. Still wrapped, the object regularly breaks auction records, the last of which sold for nearly $40,000 last October.
For the record, the smartphone in question belonged to a beautician who had received it as a gift in 2007, congratulating her on her new job. But a loyal customer of the Verizon operator – the iPhone only worked with the AT&T operator – he had left it aside.
Obviously a good idea, though surely he could have kept it in a blister pack for a few more years to increase his profits.
That’s still 100 times the original price of $599.
Source: BFM TV
