The 4GB original edition iPhone is expected to get a winning bid in the range of $50,000 to $100,000
This unopened 4GB OG iPhone could get a bid as high as $100,000 in an auction that ends this month
The third original generation iPhone being auctioned while still in the original sealed box has 16GB of storage which means that it was produced in 2008 before the iPhone 3G was released. We know this because, in early February 2008, Apple released the 16GB iPhone for $499. There is one bid on this phone for $2,500. Lastly, there is another 8GB OG iPhone in its original sealed box up for bids. This unit is from Europe and is locked to carrier O2 (not that anyone is going to open the box and use the phone). So far, there have been no bids on this unit.
How to tell whether your 8GB OG iPhone is a 2007 or 2008 model
Here is an interesting tidbit that you might want to know. You can tell the original 8GB OG iPhone release from the 2008 version by counting the number of icons on the home screen. The 2007 8GB iPhone had 12 icons while the 2008 variant came with a 13th icon for iTunes.
As cool and cutting-edge as the original iPhone was, it did not offer 3G connectivity and instead relied on AT&T’s EDGE in the U.S. which was somewhere in between 2G and 3G. Users in the states saw a huge drop off in the quality of YouTube videos on EDGE and on Wi-Fi. And if you were using the browser, you could miss a phone call when one came in. The OG iPhone also did not offer video recording and did not feature stereo Bluetooth.
