World's First USB-C iPhone sold for $86,000

 

In October, Ken Pillonel, a robotics engineering student, uploaded a video showing how he created the very first iPhone with a USB-C port. A month later, Pillonel has sold the modified iPhone X on eBay for over $86,000.

The auction started out at $1, but as the ten-day auction progressed, that number quickly soared from the thousands to hundreds of thousands. At one point on the final day of bidding, someone placed a bid of around $100,000 before retracting it. The winning bid came in as a sum of $86,001, beating the previous highest bidder by a dollar just minutes before the auction ended.

Although the modified iPhone can support USB-C charging and data transfers when connected, Pillonel forewarned anyone who won the bid that they should not use the world's first USB-C iPhone as their primary smartphone. To ensure you do not risk breaking the device, Pillonel also warned the buyer not to update or open the phone up and take it apart.