{"id":10807,"date":"2023-07-19T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/first-generation-iphone-sold-for-190373-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:38:07","slug":"first-generation-iphone-sold-for-190373-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/first-generation-iphone-sold-for-190373-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"First-generation iPhone sold for $190,373 at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed at $499 when it came on to the market in 2007, this cellphone has increased in value by almost 380 times since then<\/p>\n<p>A first-generation iPhone has sold at auction for $190,373, almost 380 times its original price of $499 when the groundbreaking device went for sale in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>LCG Auctions, which hosted Sunday\u2019s sale, said the 4GB iPhone model was 20 times rarer than the 8GB model released at the same time for $599. That\u2019s largely because the 4GB model was discontinued two months after launch given customer preference for the larger memory size.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/19\/first-generation-iphone-sold-auction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1671462d16b5f866d1d880e3e5030cedc11948b3\/0_93_4070_2442\/master\/4070.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=34615816c9e8f7f467d2902262f43ecc\" title=\"First-generation iPhone sold for $190,373 at auction\" \/>Listed at $499 when it came on to the market in 2007, this cellphone has increased in value by almost 380 times since then<br \/>\nA first-generation iPhone has sold at auction for $190,373, almost 380 times its original price of $499 when the groundbreaking device went for sale in 2007.<br \/>\nLCG Auctions, which hosted Sunday\u2019s sale, said the 4GB iPhone model was 20 times rarer than the 8GB model released at the same time for $599. That\u2019s largely because the 4GB model was discontinued two months after launch given customer preference for the larger memory size. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed at $499 when it came on to the market in 2007, this cellphone has increased in value by almost 380 times since then A first-generation iPhone has sold at auction for $190,373, almost 380 times its original price of $499 when the groundbreaking device went for sale in 2007. LCG Auctions, which hosted Sunday\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/first-generation-iphone-sold-for-190373-at-auction\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First-generation iPhone sold for $190,373 at auction<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10808,"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\/10807"}],"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=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}