Romain Rouillard 9:00 p.m., February 20, 2023

An iPhone dating from 2007 has been sold at auction in the United States for a record sum of more than 63,000 dollars.

The device was still in its original packaging and had been offered to an American beautician who had not been able to use it at the time due to an incompatibility with its operator.

For a sum equivalent to that of 40 iPhone 14 Pro Max, the high-end version of Apple's latest smartphone, an American has acquired a first-generation iPhone.

The device, first marketed in 2007, sold for $63,356 at auction this weekend, as reported by BFMTV based on an article from the iMore.com site. 

Equipped with a very small two-megapixel camera and a screen of only 3.5 inches (compared to 6.7 for the current premium versions), the smartphone was still in its packaging and was never used.

It had been given to a beautician in 2007 as a reward for the new job she had just landed.

100 times the original price of the first iPhone of the name

Unfortunately, due to a compatibility problem with Verizon, her telephone operator at the time, the young woman had not been able to use the telephone, which only worked with the AT&T operator.

He took it well since 16 years later, the object was resold for more than 100 times its original price of 599 dollars.

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The price of these original iPhones, still preserved in their packaging, has skyrocketed in recent years.

One of them had been sold for almost 40,000 dollars last year.

A trend on which this lucky owner of the precious device was quick to surf.

"I was like, 'Oh my God, I think I have the original!' open,'" she told Business Insider.

For this beautician, it is out of the question, however, to finance a trip to the tropics with this money but rather to "support" her business, namely a cosmetic tattoo parlor opened last October. 

Marketed for the first time in 2007, the iPhone appeared at the time as a real revolution at a time when the smartphone market was still embryonic.

And today makes the happiness of the collectors in love with technology.