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iPhone 5 or earlier Bought the Original 1st Gen iPhone on eBay

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ThatiPhoneKid

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I just bought the ORIGINAL iPhone 2g on eBay, it was an auction and I won it for just £42, it’s in very good condition with a few light scratches on the back and the screen has no scratches, does this sound like a good deal?

I’m so happy!!

Received it today, here are images

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ThatiPhoneKid said:
I just bought the ORIGINAL iPhone 2g on eBay, it was an auction and I won it for just £42, it’s in very good condition with a few light scratches on the back and the screen has no scratches, does this sound like a good deal?

I’m so happy!!
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Sounds like you did fairly well. Does it actually power on and function? How is the battery life?
 
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About a year ago, these were being listed on ebay for close to $1000 US dollars. I don't think I ever saw any evidence of one having actually been sold at that price though. I did have one at the time and sold it on ebay for (as I recall) about $300.
 
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Still have a couple somewhere.

I remember typing on glass for the first time, Multitouch capacitive display, iPod, safari, and visual voicemail. It was like using a device from the future.
 
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Still have a couple somewhere.

I remember typing on glass for the first time, Multitouch capacitive display, iPod, safari, and visual voicemail. It was like using a device from the future.
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From the future supporting only 2G or "EDGE". Absolutely useless at the time when the rest of the industry had been adopting 3G for a few years. The iPhone wasn't a viable device for data until they released the second gen 3G model and even then it didn't support copy, paste & MMS messaging (a thing at the time) for over 12 months.
 
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Steve121178 said:
From the future supporting only 2G or "EDGE". Absolutely useless at the time when the rest of the industry had been adopting 3G for a few years. The iPhone wasn't a viable device for data until they released the second gen 3G model and even then it didn't support copy, paste & MMS messaging (a thing at the time) for over 12 months.
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Yes the future and i gave my reasons why.

The original iPhone also had WiFi.

I did more with the the iPhone on edge and a full safari browser + mail client, then I could at the time with my 3g capable n80 Symbian smartphone, or my 3g capable razr or even my 3.5g Razer Max. I even had all of the communicator series phones. It wasn’t about 3g or 2g at the time, it was the apps on the iPhone and the Ux that made it a viable device.

Most of the time I was using my Nokia 8800 sirocco or a vertu signature when I got the original iPhone.

Also owned a couple of Nokia’s internet tablet devices, it had a stylus, it was terrible even if it did connect to 3g it wasn’t very useful, especially operas browser.
 
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Yes the future and i gave my reasons why.

The original iPhone also had WiFi.

I did more with the the iPhone on edge and a full safari browser + mail client, then I could at the time with my 3g capable n80 Symbian smartphone, or my 3g capable razr or even my 3.5g Razer Max. I even had all of the communicator series phones. It wasn’t about 3g or 2g at the time, it was the apps on the iPhone and the Ux that made it a viable device.

Most of the time I was using my Nokia 8800 sirocco or a vertu signature when I got the original iPhone.

Also owned a couple of Nokia’s internet tablet devices, it had a stylus, it was terrible even if it did connect to 3g it wasn’t very useful, especially operas browser.
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2G was just about passable with very basic data uses when in major cities like London. 2G for anywhere else in 2005-2011 was literally hopeless & unusable as networks had invested heavily in 3G infrastructure.

We are so lucky with the widespread 4G coverage with have nowadays. Mind you, we pay an awful lot of money for our contracts, so the coverage ought to be bloody good.
 
FFR said:
Yes the future and i gave my reasons why.

The original iPhone also had WiFi.

I did more with the the iPhone on edge and a full safari browser + mail client, then I could at the time with my 3g capable n80 Symbian smartphone, or my 3g capable razr or even my 3.5g Razer Max. I even had all of the communicator series phones. It wasn’t about 3g or 2g at the time, it was the apps on the iPhone and the Ux that made it a viable device.

Most of the time I was using my Nokia 8800 sirocco or a vertu signature when I got the original iPhone.

Also owned a couple of Nokia’s internet tablet devices, it had a stylus, it was terrible even if it did connect to 3g it wasn’t very useful, especially operas browser.
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Please tell me your joking and that you didn’t really buy a Vertu.
 
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