In 2007 the first iPhone was introduced
The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone market
First generation is a valuable collector’s item
The first iPhone came onto the market 15 years ago
For the first time ever, Steve Jobs announced the Apple smartphone on January 9, 2007 at the Macworld trade show in San Francisco, as “futurezone” reports. This Apple device would be the first to combine the functions of a phone, an iPod and a computer. “And we call it iPhone,” Jobs said at the time. This is how a success story that continues to this day began. The first iPhone was 11.4 cm by 6.1 cm and had four gigabytes of storage space. The first Apple smartphone was available for a whopping 499 US dollars.
How the iPhone changed the smartphone market
While some competitors, such as the then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, smiled at the touchscreen function, others, such as Google, recognized the potential behind it. The touchscreen for smartphones thus prevailed. But photography was also revolutionized with the first Apple smartphone. Because the first iPhone had a two-megapixel camera. Since smartphone photography overtook the previous one, camera sales have declined significantly. In addition, the number of photographs taken by people has been increasing every year since then. With the iPhone, however, Apple not only revolutionized the smartphone market. After the enormous success, the US company became one of the most important tech giants in the world. In January 2022, Apple was temporarily worth a total of three trillion US dollars.
The classics are still worth that much today
The first generations of Apple smartphones are real classics today and are still worth a lot today. The first generation in particular is now a popular collector’s item, as “CHIP” explains. A device in good condition can still be traded on the eBay platform for 200 to 300 euros. If the iPhone is in perfect condition and includes all of the original accessories including the box, the price can well exceed the 600 euro mark. However, the successor to the first generation, the iPhone 3G, is a lot less popular among collectors than its predecessor. These are traded on the market for only around 30 euros. The situation with the iPhone 4 is similar. Despite the stylish and, for the first time, new look of the third generation, this also has no particular collector’s value. The iPhone 4 is currently also being traded for around 30 euros. The last classic device listed by “CHIP” is the fourth generation iPhone 5, which was released in 2012. This is also currently not of particularly high value for collectors. However, it is not foreseeable how this will change over the years.
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