The market for old cell phones is certainly one of the most prosperous even at the moment, with collectors willing to make false claims and shell out staggering sums to grab the rarest and most prestigious models: among the electronic devices that rightfully climb the appreciation charts there It is without a doubt the first model of iPhone.
The device, the iPhone 2G also known as iPhone EDGE or iPhone Original or Original iPhone, was presented to the world for the first time on January 9, 2007 by Steve Jobs during the opening conference of Macworld which was held in California, and distributed in United States on 29 June 2007. Today, 17 years later, the smartphone has become a collector’s item rare and highly sought after all over the world, which can be understood by analyzing the crazy prices achieved at auctions.
Obviously, as always happens when it comes to collecting, the most valuable pieces are those that have been best preserved and are complete with box, instructions and accessories, but above all those remain in the original packaging, never opened and still present. sealedproving that it is still an immaculate device.
There are many people in the world who jealously collect and preserve old generation cell phones, some of which have reached considerable sums, it is certainly not new in the current market, but in a valuable collection one of the most iconic symbols of the technological turning point cannot be missing by Apple in 2007.
As was said Steve Jobs himself to launch it in 2007, presenting it as a combination of three different devices, namely“iPod with touch screen, cell phone and Internet”. An elementary electronic device, if compared to the level that modern smartphones have reached today, but which then marked a break with the past, thanks to its 3.5-inch touchscreen, 2 megapixel camera and 4 or 8 GB of memory.
Clearly, what determines the value of this first iPhone is primarily its state of conservation. The very rare models still in box and sealed can exceed 190 thousand dollars spent by a collector two years ago: in 2022 in an auction that quickly grew dramatically compared to the starting price of 10 thousand dollars, it was sold for almost 200 thousand dollars. The founder of the auction house LCG Auctions who handled the bidding, Mark Montero, explained that extraordinary success by speaking of an exceptional combination of the piece’s rarity, impeccable condition and obviously the attention generated among wealthy and very demanding collectors.
Without a shadow of a doubt, given that as time passes the number of immaculate specimens drops drastically and therefore the value increases exponentially, a new auction could exceed the crazy amount spent by the winner in 2022.