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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Alan Martin

Original 4GB iPhone sells for £145,000 at auction

The original 2007 iPhone has become something of a collector’s item, with a still-sealed model selling for $63,356.40 (~£48,408) back in February. But now another auction has made that big-money sale look like pocket change.

LCG Auctions has facilitated the sale of another factory-sealed, first-generation iPhone, and this one has gone for $190,372.80 (~£145,383) after administrative costs are taken into account. That’s a massive 38,051 per cent markup on the cost of buying one in 2007.

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