{"id":10771,"date":"2023-07-17T17:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/first-generation-apple-iphone-sells-at-auction-in-us-for-190000\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:37:37","slug":"first-generation-apple-iphone-sells-at-auction-in-us-for-190000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/first-generation-apple-iphone-sells-at-auction-in-us-for-190000\/","title":{"rendered":"First-generation Apple iPhone sells at auction in US for $190,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Device launched by Steve Jobs in 2007 with promise to \u2018reinvent the phone\u2019 sells for 300 times original price<\/p>\n<p>A 2007-era Apple iPhone has been sold for $190,372.80 (\u00a3145,416) at an auction \u2013 300 times more than its original sale price.<\/p>\n<p>The 4GB model went on sale in 2007 for $599 but has soared in value. The auction was run by the US company LCG Auctions, which described the iPhone as a \u201cpopular high-end collectible,\u201d which was \u201cexceedingly rare\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/17\/first-generation-apple-iphone-sells-auction-in-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5d1906e32977e7cd61d8a13a15895839390d06da\/0_89_1373_824\/master\/1373.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=adbabb5878c82a44ed62308569860058\" title=\"First-generation Apple iPhone sells at auction in US for $190,000\" \/>Device launched by Steve Jobs in 2007 with promise to \u2018reinvent the phone\u2019 sells for 300 times original price<br \/>\nA 2007-era Apple iPhone has been sold for $190,372.80 (\u00a3145,416) at an auction \u2013 300 times more than its original sale price.<br \/>\nThe 4GB model went on sale in 2007 for $599 but has soared in value. The auction was run by the US company LCG Auctions, which described the iPhone as a \u201cpopular high-end collectible,\u201d which was \u201cexceedingly rare\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Device launched by Steve Jobs in 2007 with promise to \u2018reinvent the phone\u2019 sells for 300 times original price A 2007-era Apple iPhone has been sold for $190,372.80 (\u00a3145,416) at an auction \u2013 300 times more than its original sale price. The 4GB model went on sale in 2007 for $599 but has soared in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/first-generation-apple-iphone-sells-at-auction-in-us-for-190000\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First-generation Apple iPhone sells at auction in US for $190,000<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10771"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}