If you ended up missing the last auction for an original sealed iPhone (which ended up being sold for no less than $63,000), know that there is already another smartphone quite similar for sale on the internet.
Available at the auction house RR Auctionthe model in question is an 8GB iPhone (A1203), manufactured in 2007 — the year the device was launched. As you can see in the photo below, the image of the smartphone in the box still does not show the iTunes icon, which confirms the age of the device.
According to the description of the auction, the owner of the iPhone received another model from Apple itself for being an employee of the company shortly after having bought his at the time of launch. Instead of returning or selling the first iPhone, he decided to keep the device and make it a kind of backup device – which was never used, of course.
At the time of this writing, the iPhone appears on the RR Auction website for US$5.363. The prediction of the auction house is that the model will be sold for something around US$20 milalthough it is not unlikely that it will also fetch around US$60,000.
Apple I signed by Steve Wozniak
Another item available at RR Auction is an extremely rare fully functional Apple I, signed by the co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak. The computer features a number of accessories from the 1970s and is estimated at an impressive US$500 mil.
The Apple I is owned by Data Domain, one of the first resellers in Apple’s history. The store is also credited with being the first to use the term “personal computer” to refer to this type of device.
This computer is one of the 200 Apple Is manufactured by Maçã in 1976, being one of the few in this condition. RR Auction itself classified the model as “exceptional and historic”.
Both the original iPhone and the Apple I are part of a collection titled “Steve Jobs and the Apple Computer Revolution”. In addition to these two, it also has items such as an Apple Lisa, an Apple IIe, a Macintosh prototype, a letter written and signed by Steve Jobs and more.
RR Auction will accept new proposals until the March 16th.
via 9to5Mac