Mobile News Desk – There is a lot of craze for Apple’s iPhones. People will do anything to buy it. When it comes to smartphones, the name of the iPhone comes first. Apple launched its first iPhone in 2007. Now the sealed first generation iPhone has been sold at auction for $ 54,904 (about Rs 45 lakh). As MacRumors reports, it originally cost $599 when it was first introduced in 2007, so that’s a surcharge of over $54,000.
Apple’s ex-employee auction
A former Apple employee who bought the original iPhone when it was released has put it up for sale at RR Auction. An ‘undiscovered’ Apple-1 computer was also sold by RR Auction for an undisclosed sum, along with other Apple products and memorabilia that fetched high prices. The report states that an iPhone signed by Apple CEO Tim Cook was found in the US. 11, $12,500 was spent on a Steve Jobs-annotated technical manual and a Steve Jobs business card was sold for $6,188.
iPhone 1 sold for 52 lakhs
Last month, it was reported that the first-generation iPhone was sold at auction for a record-breaking price of $63,356 (roughly Rs. 52,00,000), which was the highest ever sale for the original 2007 iPhone. Meanwhile, in August last year, a first-generation 2007 iPhone in a sealed box was sold at an auction in the US for $35,000 (roughly Rs. 28 lakhs).