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    She left her 2007 iPhone in its box for over a decade. It just sold for $63K

    The iPhone was auctioned off for over 100 times more than its original cost — the latest record-breaking sum for such a sale. An expert explains how old gadgets became "similar to precious metals."
    by Rachel Treisman Feb 21, 2023 3 minutes
    Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs discusses the iPhone during a June 2007 keynote address.

    When Karen Green got a new job in 2007, some of her friends pitched in to buy her a brand-new iPhone.

    And while hundreds of thousands of Americans clamored to get their hands on the first version of the revolutionary (as Apple correctly predicted) smartphone, Green wasn't one of them — in part because she had upgraded her new (non-smart) phone not long before and reportedly didn't want to switch from Verizon to AT&T.

    "I didn't want to get rid of my new [not-smart] phone, and I in 2019 (the same month that Apple unveiled the iPhone 11).

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