When you think of collector's items and valuable treasures that fetch a small fortune at auction, smartphones don't normally come to mind. Antique furniture, first-edition comics or baseball cards, signed memorabilia, these are the sorts of things we normally associate with fetching hugely inflated prices when the gavel eventually drops.
It turns out that priceless antiques don't have to be particularly, well, antique. As a recent auction in America has just demonstrated, tech from just over 15 years ago could land you a small fortune if it's in the right condition. A first edition, unopened 4GB iPhone sold for a whopping $190,372.80 (around £145,000), a colossal sum for what many still consider to be a contemporary piece of technology.
