It is the youtubeur DongleBookPro who has the chance to own this oh so precious and important artifact in the history of Apple.
This Wednesday, the iPhone celebrated its fifteenth birthday. A special day, since six months after the presentation of the first smartphone headed to Macworld by Steve Jobs, the iPhone 2G landed on the shelves of Apple Stores and official retailers. The face of wireless communication will never be the same again, because the iPhone is not only the best-selling smartphone of all time, but it is also the one that has innovated the most in the first generations. .
But if the iPhone 2G is found today on the web for a few tens of euros, the prototypes that were used in its development are much rarer. Considered the Holy Grail in Apple’s ecosystem, iPhone 2G prototypes are not very numerous and only a lucky few can boast of owning one.
This is particularly the case of the youtuber DongleBookPro who agreed to lend it to a colleague, Luke Miani, the time of a video. Several models are presented in the video, and they finally seem very close to the final rendering of the iPhone 2G.
They also have a factory sticker on the back shell showing some of the technical characteristics. iOS is obviously not installed on these two machines, it is rather a beta software similar to the interface of an iPod Classic.
But what makes these prototypes so unique is their value. Each of them costs the trifle of 500,000 dollars, or nearly half a million euros. Suffice to say that it is practically impossible for you to own one, whether because of its rarity or its relatively high price…
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