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In the year An unlocked first-generation iPhone from 2007 is hitting the auction block on Thursday – with an estimated price of $50,000.

Originally priced at $599, Apple’s early iPhone offered adopters a 3.5-inch screen, a 2-megapixel camera, plus 4GB and 8GB storage options, Internet capability, and iTunes. It had no app store, ran on the 2G network and was exclusive to the AT&T network.

Cosmetic tattoo artist Karen Green was given the 8GB version and never broke the seal, as she appeared on the daytime TV show “Doctor and the Diva” in 2019. An appraiser at the show valued the phone at $5,000.

Since then, another unopened first-generation iPhone like Green has fetched more than $39,000 on LCG Auctions, which closed in October. LCG Auctions is listing Green’s phone, with bidding opening at $2,500.

Green and LCG Auctions did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.

The iPhone has changed the way billions of people around the world communicate, make payments, do their jobs, take pictures, and even get up in the morning. It killed dozens of industries (cameras, MP3 players, cell phones) and gave life to many more.

In the year Speaking at Apple’s annual Macworld Expo in 2007, then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, “Today we’re making history together. Jobs called the new smartphone a “revolutionary mobile” that replaced the iPod, the telephone, and what he called an “internet communicator.”

“It’s bad out there today,” Mobile Web Browser Jobs said. “Bringing real web browsing to the phone is a real revolution.”

Apple fans have until February 19 to bid on the tech artifact.

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