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An iPhone 1, unopened for 15 years (i.e., "sealed mint in box") sold at auction for US$63,000. I wonder if the seller made an actual profit.
Can you afford an old phone?
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m=since it has not been charged I doubt it is stolen but it would be DOA but then again it would not connect anything anyway.$63k is a lot to spend on a phone that's probably been destroyed by a swollen battery
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I listened to her story it was interesting.
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Good to see you here!$63k is a lot to spend on a phone that's probably been destroyed by a swollen battery
I was going to comment that I bought a Newton MessagePad 2000 with the original battery (in working condition) around 2011, so if a battery that old hadn't blown up, there's a good chance the iPhone's battery is just fine. And then I realized that the original iPhone is older now than the Newton MessagePad 2000 was in 2011$63k is a lot to spend on a phone that's probably been destroyed by a swollen battery
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I was going to comment that I bought a Newton MessagePad 2000 with the original battery (in working condition) around 2011, so if a battery that old hadn't blown up, there's a good chance the iPhone's battery is just fine. And then I realized that the original iPhone is older now than the Newton MessagePad 2000 was in 2011
Well, at least the two original iphones i have sitting in a box haven’t exploded yet. Haven’t tried plugging them in in years, though.
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I had a 110 for a long time, until I passed it to a friend who collects Apple stuff. Unlike the 2000, the 110 used four triple-As (usually NiMH), so that was not a concern. It also had a C2032 to back up the CMOS storage when the batteries were chnged, which was stone dead – but those are pretty easy to come by.
