One of the original I Phones that sold for $600 in 2007 sold at an auction last Sunday for $190,000. It’s never been used and still in the box. Even the clear shrink wrap over the box is still intact. It’s the rarest of the I Phones, the 4 gig version. They only sold them for a few months because everybody was buying the 8 gig version.
What’d the original I-phone run on, -4G service? I mean, compare that old phone to today’s phones. It’s like putting a horse cart up against a Ferrari. That was when people bought phones to talk and text, not to take pictures. It only had a 2 megapixel camera. The newest has a 14 megapixel camera and 256 gig of memory. I don’t think many people used them for music either. I-pods were still popular then.
I think back to my college days when I had a mostly plastic wall phone that had a glowing, blue neon tube around the outside and I remember thinking that was the coolest most advanced phone in the world. And if you added a message recorder to it with mini cassettes, people thought you were pretty well off.