Some people in this world don't want the latest and greatest cell phone. They want a piece of gadget history and are willing to pay almost anything to get it.

Just this week, the first iPhone, released in 2007, sold for more than $190,000. as reported by CBS News, the unopened 4GB model sold for nearly 400 times its original price of $499 after 28 bids at the LCG auction. iPhone was priced at over $63,000.

For those who don't remember, the original iPhone had a 3.5-inch display and a 2MP camera, a far cry from the 6.7-inch screen and 48MP shooter of the current iPhone 14 Pro Max.

You might be surprised to learn that this is not the most expensive gadget ever sold at auction. Here are five of the most expensive gadgets sold to date. And three of the five have the Apple logo on them.

The most recent crazy money auction just happened this week, when a still-sealed first-generation iPhone broke the previous record, making the previous $63,356.40 bid look relatively sane.

Why did this iPhone sell for such a high price? It is partly due to the administrative costs (the actual selling price is $158,644) and partly due to the worse model. Yes, "worse": the 4GB stinker version was discontinued after only 68 days, making it more of a collector's item than the 8GB version that sold for $100 more in 2007.

The original iPhone was immensely influential, but if you wanted to unbox it today and destroy its resale value, it would fall a little short; not only would the 4GB of storage quickly fill up with 2MP photos, but 2G internet would no longer be available in the US. Enough for me to move to android...

No, this is not a typo and I am not trolling for comments. Nintendo's PlayStation almost came to fruition when the two Japanese giants jointly developed a prototype with this CD drive in the early 90s.

In the end, it never materialized, and Sony decided to make its own CD-based game console with the PlayStation. Nintendo finally made that leap in 2001 with the GameCube, which ...... It was not very successful (although Super Monkey Ball remains one of the best launch games of all time).

Anyway, this is one of the few prototypes in existence, and it sold at auction in March 2020 for $380,000, no doubt making the subsequent closure of COVID a bit more fun for the lucky bidder.

According to Steve Wozniak, only 175 Apple-1 computers were produced.

This particular unit was purchased by the Henry Ford Museum and is the most expensive ever made. Nevertheless, they took it out of the box and gave it a slide show.

$905,000 is undoubtedly a lot of money, but if the museum wants to feel any better about its profligate spending habits, it can point to the fact that a single Apple-1 motherboard had sold for $374,500 two years earlier.

A Mac Pro will cost more if you take all the attractive upgrades Apple offers on its own site, but this auction shows that it could always be worse.

While the regular Mac Pro has been criticized for its design, often compared to a Death Star trash can, this one-of-a-kind shiny red Mac Pro for (Product) RED Charity looks like someone sanded down a giant Coca-Cola can.977 It may not be worth $977,000, though.

But, well, it was all for a good cause. At the same 2013 charity auction, someone paid $461,000 for 18K solid rose gold EarPods.

To put this in perspective, the latest Leica 0 series auction saw a 100-year-old camera sell for over $15 million.

Only 22 were produced in 1923 as a test before the Leica A appeared in 1925. And each time one was offered for sale, the price went up.

If you want to see how the previous bargain $2.4 million Leica auction happened, it was all captured on camera. Not an ancient Leica, but one of the most advanced video cameras of the 21st century.