{"id":224738,"date":"2023-04-23T07:51:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T11:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=284841"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:25:57","slug":"cost-iphone-price-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/cost-iphone-price-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone&#8217;s Inaugural Price Tag: How Much Did It Cost in 2007?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To say that <strong>Apple&#8217;s first iPhone<\/strong> laid the foundations of the modern smartphone is not bold or far-fetched: it<strong> is the reality<\/strong>. It was not the first touchscreen cell phone, nor was it the first with a camera or Internet browser, but it did know how to combine all these features to make a perfect mix that is now used as the basis. <strong>How much did it cost to launch all this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have pulled out of Softonic&#8217;s newspaper archive to remember other times, to go back to the year 2007. To be exact, on June 29 of that year the<strong> first generation iPhone<\/strong> was marketed, a phone that came with a <strong>3.5-inch LCD screen,<\/strong> with a resolution of 480\u00d7320 pixels and a single central button. Added to this was a <strong>127 MB RAM<\/strong>, a 412 MHz Samsung ARM 1176 processor, a PowerVR MBX Lite graphics processor and a 2-megapixel camera (1600\u00d71200), all weighing only 135 grams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite all these specifications, its price was high in that market and for that time: <strong>$499<\/strong> for its <strong>4 GB <\/strong>capacity version, while the <strong>8 GB<\/strong> model went up to <strong>$599<\/strong>. Now this price seems quite commonplace, but we were not used to paying this for a cell phone in 2007. Moreover, the value began to standardize and go up and up with each new generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed-Youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Jobs introduces iPhone in 2007\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MnrJzXM7a6o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A collector&#8217;s item<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple sold <strong>6.1 million iPhone<\/strong>s during the year or so it was on the market. That was a high figure for a product that wasn&#8217;t exactly cheap. However, despite such a high number of sales, finding an iPhone these days is neither easy nor cheap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second hand they are usually found at prices very similar to the initial price, especially if they are well cared for. However, the big jump comes with <strong>models that are sealed or almost intact<\/strong>. Here, the value goes to four figures, although they have even been <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/news\/88966\/unopened-apple-iphone-from-2007-sold-for-65-times-its-original-price\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sold for five digits<\/a><\/strong> if the iPhone was perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have one at home, take good care of it. You have a treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first iPhone model was a real revolution for Apple. 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