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An unopened first-generation iPhone from 2007 is hitting the public sale block Thursday – with an estimated worth of $50,000.

Originally on sale for $599, the first iPhone supplied early Apple adopters a 3.5-inch display screen with a 2-megapixel digital camera, plus 4 GB and eight GB storage choices, web capabilities and iTunes. It had no app retailer, ran on a 2G community and was unique to AT&T’s community.

Cosmetic tattoo artist Karen Green was gifted the 8 GB model and by no means broke the seal, in keeping with her look on daytime tv program “The Doctor & The Diva” in 2019. An appraiser on the present valued the telephone at $5,000 at the moment.

Since then, one other unopened first-generation iPhone like Green’s auctioned off for over $39,000 in a list by LCG Auctions that closed in October. LCG Auctions can also be itemizing Green’s telephone, with bidding opening at $2,500.

Green and LCG Auctions didn’t instantly reply to Mahaz News’s request for remark.

The iPhone modified the best way billions of individuals around the globe talk, make funds, do their jobs, take pictures and even how they get up within the morning. It killed dozens of industries (camcorders, MP3 gamers, flip telephones) and gave life to many extra.

Speaking at Apple’s annual Macworld expo in 2007, then-Apple boss Steve Jobs opened his presentation with: “We’re going to make some history together today.” Jobs known as the brand new smartphone a “revolutionary mobile phone” that can function an iPod, telephone and what he known as an “Internet communicator.”

“It’s bad out there today,” mentioned Jobs of cellular Web browsers. “It’s a real revolution to bring real Web browsing to a phone.”

Apple fanatics can have till February 19 to bid on the tech relic.