He spent $40,000 on a first generation iPhone to showcase it in a video

The madness for the Original iPhones unopened is still valid and has more and more followers. These highly sought-after collectors’ devices usually fetch exorbitant prices at various auctions, like the recent one that exceeded $60,000. but for the youtuber Marquis Brownleeknown as MKBHD, it seems that nothing is impossible when it comes to generating content.

With nearly 17 million followers on Google’s video platform, MKBHD didn’t hesitate to shell out $40,000 in an auction to keep an original iPhone and thus record his most recent video, which has 1.3 million views to date.

One concern with this type of sealed, unopened iPhone is that it’s all a hoax. Recall that the first generation of the mobile phone developed by Apple was released on the market in 2007 and 6 million units were sold, so it is very difficult to find an original one.

In fact, as MKBHD recounts in his video, many youtubers who wanted to buy the first Apple smartphone with its original seal found themselves used and even reconditioned to resell them for thousands of dollars. However, Marques Brownlee’s looked sealed and unused.

Another piece of information accounting for the originality of this device was in the serial code that has never been activated, at least according to official documents. Even the stickers have been placed with care, just like Apple does.

Once the box is opened, The iPhone took several hours to charge: the battery had never been used in 16 years.

But, furthermore, iPhone has the original version of iOS then known as iPhone OS 1.0. There haven’t been many iPhones left with that version since iPhone OS 2.0 was introduced in the App Store, and the vast majority of original iPhones available are in a more current version.

What was the first iPhone like?

From its infancy and secretive under the codename Purple, the first generation iPhone was envisioned to be one of Apple’s iconic products.

It was a collaborative venture between Steve Jobs and design guru Jony Ive. It was destined to be a great success, which could only turn into a nightmare for those who had to create it.

Thus, the secret behind this innovative product has led very few workers to learn about the project, which was developed in a hidden Apple laboratory.

According to Andy Grignon, one of the key engineers developing the iPhone, they were given “an impossible delivery date and an impossible mission” and then told that “the whole company depended on them”.

The original iPhone or iPhone 2G was launched on June 29, 2007. At the time, it only had a 3.50-inch 320 x 480 screen, with a 412 MHz processor, 128 MB of RAM, and a 2 megapixel rear camera.