A sealed copy of the first iPhone with 4 GB of memory was sold at auction. While the initial price of the parcel was 17 thousand dollars, within two days the final price increased to 130,027 dollars (about 12 million rubles). reports portal 9to5Mac.
It is stated that this iPhone 2G failed to break last year’s sales record, when three similar devices went for prices ranging from 133 to 190 thousand dollars.
Apple discontinued the first iPhone with 4GB of internal memory shortly after its launch in 2007 in favor of the more popular 8GB model. In this regard, the iPhone 2G with a limited amount of memory is considered rare – such a model is found on the market twenty times less, which makes it a much rarer and more valuable collector’s object.
The iPhone 2G was introduced on January 9, 2007 and went on sale in the United States on June 29 of the same year. Despite the 2G name, this is the first iPhone. The latest firmware for this was iPhone OS 3.1.3. This smartphone was criticized for not supporting 3G communications, which was already implemented in the next model, the iPhone 3G.
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