The first iPhone was sold for more than NIS 130,000 at an auction

The mobile phone that made history was sold for a record amount of 37 thousand dollars at an auction.

"We expected the bids for this item to be enthusiastic and we were not disappointed," said the auction house

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10/20/2022

Thursday, October 20, 2022, 08:00 Updated: 08:25

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The iPhone sold at auction (Photo: LCG Auctions)

Until that moment on January 9, 2007 15 years ago, when the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the classic iPhone (also called iPhone 2G), the cell phone we knew contained physical keys and we actually didn't know what it was like to live with touch screens all around us. In the years Recently, the value of the device that changed the world is only increasing, and at the beginning of the week it was sold at an auction for 39 thousand dollars (about 137 thousand shekels). The device is closed in packaging, with the original labels and without stickers and includes a memory of 8 gigabytes.

"We expected that the bids for the item It will be enthusiastic and we were not disappointed," said LCG founder Mark Montero, adding: "A handful of enthusiastic and sophisticated collectors pushed the price over $10,000 on Sunday afternoon until we reached this record amount on Sunday night.

We congratulate the winners, our dealers and everyone who submitted bids who helped make this one of the busiest auctions in history."

The iPhone sold was advertised under the description "in exceptional condition".

For comparison, at launch in 2007 the device originally sold for $599 - which is $852 in today's inflation-adjusted prices.

Although it's very likely that you don't have an original iPhone wrapped in plastic at home, you can still make a decent amount of money for other retro Apple products - if they're in good physical condition.

iPhones that are more than a decade old, the first iPad and an old Mac computer can be worth several thousand right now.

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