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The highest amount ever: who sold an iPhone for 63 thousand dollars and why? - Walla! technology

2023-02-21T10:57:06.689Z


Karen Green received an iPhone 16 years ago - and since then it has remained on the shelf in her home, sealed in its packaging. This week she got $63,000 for it at an auction


The first iPhone was sold for $63,000 (Photo: LCG Auctions)

Do you have an old iPhone at home?

It may be worth a lot of money: in recent years, the value of the device that changed the world, the first iPhone (2G), continues to rise, and earlier this week a unique model was sold for $63,000 at an auction in the US - the highest amount ever for an original iPhone. Karen Green, the owner of the device, told Insider in an interview that she received the iPhone as a gift from her friends in 2007.



But there was only one problem: Green already had three phone lines with Verizon, and iPhone owners at that time could only connect to the AT&T network. Instead of paying high disconnection fees And to risk losing her phone number, Green left the phone on the shelf for years, sealed in its packaging - something that in retrospect paid off especially for her.

Over the years, Green has considered selling the phone several times, and in 2019 she participated in the TV show "Doctor & the Diva", where experts value collectibles.

The iPhone in question was given a value of only about 5,000 dollars.



Last October another big sale was announced - a first generation iPhone closed in packaging was sold for almost 40 thousand dollars.

At that time, Green began operating her own business, a cosmetic tattoo studio called Tattician located in New Jersey.

The bids started at $2,500, but in the end, as mentioned, she got $63,000 for it.



The original iPhone included 4 or 8 gigabytes of storage, a TFT touch screen, a 2 megapixel camera and a web browser.

"The iconic box featured a life-size image of the iPhone with 12 icons on the screen. It quickly became Apple's most successful product, forever changed the smartphone industry, and was named Time Magazine's Invention of the Year in 2007," reads a statement from LCG Auctions.

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