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Rare 4GB Original iPhone Expected to Fetch Up to $100K at Auction
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iPhone was the first and „showed the way” how to do it, but 1st Android was not so bad compared to 1st iPhone. They had year more to prepare it.
In fact, first iPhone camera was way worse than first Android IMO I did post about it a while ago on MR forum.
Only Line2 and Text Now apps are working via WiFi so no cellular.
The other week had a customer show up using tap pay on their iPhone 5S from Verizon and was still on their CDMA LTE network.
Some day all these carriers will announce no more LTE support so that will whack all iPhone devices before iPhone 12.
So, you know you could buy an launch-day Apple Vision Pro, keep sealed and don't touch it, wait 20 years, and then try to exchange it for a Ferrari?
The G1 was actually the phone that I traded my iPhone in for, it was not a horrible device but was not pretty by any means. Also didn't have a headphone jack.
Hah, I lost $200 selling my 4GB & upgrading (wow I can fit almost all of Led Zeppelins studio albums on my phone!).
Better bet would have been to just leave it in the package I guess.
Better bet would have been to just leave it in the package I guess.
Likewise, not sure if mine will actually power on anymore. Might give it a try this weekend.
Apple: "Why were we sold out within minutes but only a handful of devices were registered?"
Investors: "HODL! Keep them sealed like action figures and Pokemon cards"
Apple: "Guess it was a dumb idea", cancels product line and shuts down AR/VR division
Meta: "This is our time to shine."
Investors: Stuck with a marvel of technology that somebody else made famous.
I hit it with a half charge every 6 months or so just to keep the battery exercised. It still has the original battery.
I think people forget what a big deal it was at the time.
We were on vacation in San Luis Obispo CA when the OG iPhone came out and stopped in the Apple Store there just to browse. I ended up buying the iPhone on a whim.
Later that day we were eating dinner and a server noticed my iPhone and got all excited and asked to hold it. A little later four of the servers coworkers were all around our table looking at the iPhone and trying it out.
Doesn't matter.....the box will never get opened...let alone the iPhone powered up.....that will kill off the collectable value
I remember camping out haha. I think the last thing I did that for was the original iPad, and then online ordering became a thing.
Good question. Not sure. My understanding is that swelling is generally a consequence of the battery running under 'too hot' conditions for too long, but not sure about these kinds of batteries and leakage.
I have 3 of our original iPhones (not in boxes). Once a year I hook up a 30-pin adapter and boot them up. So far no sign of swelling or leakage.
They could slow the bloat down if they bothered to count those features and only added the useful ones?
I miss those days too, but operating systems today are infinitely more complex and getting more complex by the day with all the different networks, protocols, devices, and services they connect to and integrate with.
I agree it would be nice to slow the bloat, but memory is getting cheap fast and the extra time and cost of slowing the bloat probably isn't worth the effort in Apple's eyes
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This is why the original iPhone is way too valuable! iconic, Ahead of its time!
