The first generation iPhone appreciates faster than a house! It is now worth more than 2 million

According to MarketWatch, Jobs released the first iPhone on January 9, 2007. Ten years later, some people still keep this phone, some out of sentimentality, while others want to make money from it.

Jobs said he would reinvent the mobile phone, despite skepticism from rivals and fierce competition from BlackBerry, but he succeeded in creating a multi-billion dollar hit.

"An iPod, a cell phone, and an Internet communicator," Jobs said at the 2007 MacWorld conference. "These are not three separate devices. These are one device. We want to create a radically different product that is far smarter than any other mobile device in the past and incredibly easy to use."

Ten years is a long time for smartphone technology. The first iPhone was a huge upgrade over the flip phones of the time, which could send text messages, email and browse the Internet, but not do much else. But the first iPhone was not perfect either. It had a short battery life, an immature camera, no Siri, and many games didn't work. But some people still didn't want to give it up.

“I still have my original iPhone in great working condition,” said Brant DeBow, senior vice president of BiTE interactive. “It will always have a special place in my heart because it’s the phone that launched our company.”

DeBow is not the only one who has a fondness for the original iPhone. Sarah Jacobs, assistant visual features editor at a foreign technology website, was reluctant to recycle her original iPhone and was still using it a few years ago. "Even though I recycled other iPhones I owned, some of the memories of the original iPhone kept me holding on to it, as if it would be very valuable one day."

Indeed, at least some collectors hope so. On eBay, unopened 2007 iPhones are priced between $3,500 and $300,000 (about 24,000-2.08 million RMB). However, used first-generation iPhones are not worth the price, with some being offered for as little as 75 cents. Morgan MacArthur, chief technology officer of price comparison company Flipsy, said there is no demand for such first-generation iPhones in the market.

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