06. 01_G, this phone can actually make calls, browse through mobile versions of websites and receive text messages. Powered by iPhone OS 03. They’re currently priced at $300 a pop. As with any great device, there will surely be some prototypes going before it – and the same applies to the iPhone.

You can’t manually type SMS on the handset though. Somebody stumbled upon an early iPhone prototype on eBay, and this model comes complete with a rough beta version of the iPhone OS alongside a second, non-functional unit. It will have YM649xxxxxx for its serial number, where the seller said it hails from a factory in China and was manufactured in week 49 of the year 2006. The former is in good cosmetic condition and comes with a matte plastic screen, quite unlike the glass screen found in production units.