Motorola produced the first cell phone. Since then there have been produced around 17.37 billion mobile phones.
- The Motorola StarTAC from 1996 was the first phone to be widely popular.The Nokia 3310 from 2000 was one of the most accepted and successful phones and sold 126 million units but
- Nokia 1100 and its 1110 variant have been the best selling phone of all times with over 250 million units sold.
- The Nokia 6100 and 6610 (above) from 2002 were the first colour-screen phones to sell over a million.
- The Nokia 6600 from 2003 was the first camera phone to sell over a million units.
- The Nokia N70 was the first smartphone to sell over a million.
- The Motorola Q from 2005 was the first QWERTY phone to sell over a million.
- The Nokia N95 was the first non-candybar smartphone to sell over a million.
- in 2008, Apple’s iPhone 3G, which sold 25 million units, managed to jointly top the table with a Nokia product.
Below are the different statistics of the best selling phones based on;
- Volumes of sales
- Annual best-selling handsets (1992 – 2015)
- Annual sales by manufacturer (1992 – 2005)
- Annual sales by manufacturer (2006 – 2015)
- Annual sales by manufacturer (Q1 2016– Q3 2016)
Top-selling mobile phones by volume of sales
Manufacturer | Model | Release year | Units sold (millions) |
Nokia | 1100 | 2003 | 250 |
Nokia | 1110 | 2005 | 250 |
Apple | iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus | 2014-16 | 220 |
Nokia | 3210 | 1999 | 150 |
Nokia | 1200 | 2007 | 150 |
Nokia | 6600 | 2003 | 150 |
Nokia | 5230 | 2009 | 150 |
Samsung | E1100 | 2009–12 | 150 |
Nokia | 2600 (2610/2626/2630) | 2004 | 135 |
Motorola | RAZR V3 | 2004 | 130 |
Nokia | 1600 (1650/1661) | 2006 | 130 |
Nokia | 3310 (3330) | 2000 | 126 |
Nokia | 1208 (1209) | 2007 | 100 |
Samsung | Galaxy S4 | 2013 | 80 |
Nokia | 6010 (6020/6030) | 2004 | 75 |
Apple | iPhone 5 | 2012–13 | 70 |
Nokia | 5130 (5220/5310) | 2007 | 65 |
Apple | iPhone 4S | 2011–14 | 60 |
Motorola | StarTAC | 1996 | 60 |
Motorola | C200 | 2003–06 | 60 |
Samsung | Galaxy S III | 2012–13 | 60 |
Apple | iPhone 5S | 2013–16 | 52 |
Nokia | 3100 (3120) | 2003 | 50 |
Nokia | 6230 (6233) | 2004 | 50 |
Apple | iPhone 4 | 2010–13 | 50 |
Samsung | Galaxy S II | 2011–12 | 40 |
Samsung | Galaxy Note II | 2012–13 | 38 |
Apple | iPhone 3GS | 2009–12 | 35 |
Nokia | 6270 (6280) | 2005 | 30 |
Nokia | 5200 (5300) | 2006 | 30 |
Samsung | E250 | 2006 | 30 |
Samsung | Star | 2009–11 | 30 |
Samsung | Galaxy S | 2010–12 | 25 |
Apple | iPhone 5C | 2013–15 | 16 |
HTC | Thunderbolt | 2011–12 | 16 |
Nokia | 6120 | 1998 | 15 |
Siemens | M30 (M35i) | 2000 | 15 |
Nokia | 3510 | 2002 | 15 |
Nokia | 6100 | 2002 | 15 |
Nokia | 6610 | 2002 | 15 |
Siemens | A50 | 2002 | 15 |
Motorola | V220 | 2003 | 15 |
Sony Ericsson | K300 | 2004 | 15 |
Motorola | PEBL U6 | 2005 | 15 |
Motorola | SLVR L6 | 2005 | 15 |
Motorola | SLVR L7 | 2005 | 15 |
Sony Ericsson | J300 | 2005 | 15 |
Sony Ericsson | K750 | 2005 | 15 |
Motorola | KRZR K1 | 2006 | 15 |
Motorola | V195 | 2006 | 15 |
RIM | BlackBerry Pearl | 2006 | 15 |
BenQ-Siemens | S68 | 2006 | 15 |
Sony Ericsson | K310 | 2006 | 15 |
Sony Ericsson | W810 | 2006 | 15 |
Nokia | E71 | 2008 | 15 |
LG | Chocolate | 2009 | 15 |
Samsung | S8300 Tocco Ultra | 2009 | 12 |
Samsung | Galaxy S5 | 2014 | 12 |
LG | Optimus One | 2010 | 10 |
Alcatel | One Touch Mini OT-708 | 2009 | 5 |
Annual best-selling handsets
1992
- Motorola Personal Phone, 8 million sold
- Nokia 101.5 million sold
1996
- Motorola StarTAC, 60 million sold
- Nokia 1610, Unconfirmed volume sold
1997
- Motorola d160, Unconfirmed volume sold
1998
- Nokia 6120, 21 million sold
- Motorola Montreal Unconfirmed volume sold
1999
- Nokia 3210, 150 million sold
2000
- Nokia 3310, 126 million sold
- Nokia 8890, 15 million sold
- Siemens M30/M35i, 15 million sold
2002
- Nokia 6100, 15 million sold
- Nokia 6610, 15 million sold
- Nokia 3510, 15 million sold
- Siemens A50, 15 million sold
- Samsung SGH-T100, 12 million sold
2003
- Nokia 1100, 250 million sold1
- Nokia 3100/3120, 50 million sold
- Nokia 3200/3220, 30 million sold
- Nokia 2100, 20 million sold
- Samsung SGH-E700, 15 million sold
- Nokia N-Gage, 3 million sold
- Nokia 6600, 2 million sold
2004
- Nokia 2600/2610/2626/2630, 135 million sold
- Motorola RAZR V3, 130 million sold
- Nokia 6010/6020/6030, 75 million sold
- Nokia 6230/6233, 50 million sold
- Nokia 3220, 35 million sold
- Nokia 2650, 35 million sold
- Nokia 2300, 15 million sold
- Nokia 3120, 15 million sold
- Nokia 6170, 15 million sold
- Nokia 5140, 15 million sold
- Nokia 7260, 15 million sold
- Sony Ericsson K300, 15 million sold
- Samsung SGH-D500, 12 million sold
2005
- Nokia 1110, 250 million sold1
- Motorola/C139/C200, 60 million sold
- Nokia N70/N72/N73, 45 million sold
- Nokia 6101, 35 million sold
- Nokia 6060, 35 million sold
- Nokia 6270/6280, 30 million sold
- Nokia 6670, 19 million sold
- Motorola V220, 15 million sold
- Motorola V195, 15 million sold
- Sony Ericsson J300, 15 million sold
- Sony Ericsson K750, 15 million sold
- Nokia 6680, 15 million sold
- Nokia 8800, 15 million sold
- Nokia 6111, 15 million sold
- Nokia 2680, 15 million sold
- LG Chocolate, 15 million sold
- Motorola Q, 1 million sold
2006
- Nokia 1600/1650/1661, 130 million sold
- Nokia 6070/6080, 50 million sold
- Nokia 7360/7370/7380, 45 million sold
- Nokia 6300, 35 million sold
- Nokia 2310, 35 million sold
- Nokia 5200/5300, 30 million sold
- BlackBerry Pearl 8100, 15 million sold
- BenQ-Siemens S68, 15 million sold
- Sony Ericsson K310, 15 million sold
- Sony Ericsson W810, 15 million sold
- Sony Ericsson W300, 15 million sold
- Motorola PEBL U6, 15 million sold
- Motorola KRZR K1, 15 million sold
- Motorola SLVR L6, 15 million sold
- Motorola SLVR L7, 15 million sold
- Nokia 6085, 15 million sold
- Nokia 6125, 15 million sold
- Nokia 6131, 15 million sold
- Samsung SGH-D900, 3 million sold
- Nokia 3250, 1 million sold
2007
- Nokia 2600 classic, 15 million sold
- Nokia 2760, 15 million sold
- Nokia 5610, 15 million sold
- Nokia 3110 classic, 15 million sold
- Nokia 6500 Slide, 15 million sold
- Nokia 3500, 15 million sold
- Nokia 6500 classic, 15 million sold
- Samsung SGH-E250, 12 million sold
- LG Shine, 8 million sold
- Nokia N95, 7 million sold
- AppleiPhone, 7 million sold
- LG Viewty (KU990), 2 million sold
- HTC Touch, 2 million sold
- Palm Centro, 2 million sold
2008
- AppleiPhone 3G, 25 million sold
- Nokia 2330 classic, 15 million sold
- Nokia 7210 Supernova, 15 million sold
- Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, 15 million sold
- Nokia 5000, 15 million sold
- Nokia E71, 15 million sold
- Samsung Tocco (SGH-F480), 12 million sold
- Samsung SGH-J700, 12 million sold
- Samsung Tocco TouchWiz (SGH-F480), 5 million sold
- Samsung Soul (SGH-U900), 1 million sold
2009
- Nokia 5230, 150 million sold
- AppleiPhone 3GS, 35 million sold
- Samsung Tocco Ultra (S8300), 12 million sold
- Samsung Star/Tocco Lite (S5230), 10 million sold
- LG Cookie (KP500), 10 million sold
- Alcatel One Touch Mini (OT-708), 5 million sold
- Motorola Ming A1200, 3 million sold
- Nokia N97, 2 million sold
- Motorola Milestone/Droid, 1 million sold
- HTC Magic, 1 million sold
- Nokia 3720 classic, ? sold
- Nokia E52, ? sold
- Nokia 6700 classic, ? sold
2010
- AppleiPhone 4, 40 million sold8
- Samsung Galaxy S, 20 million sold9
- Samsung S5620 Monte, 7 million sold
- Nokia N8, 6 million sold
- Motorola Milestone/Droid, 2 million sold
- Samsung Wave (S8500), 2 million sold
2011
- AppleiPhones – all variants: 140 million sold10
- Samsung Galaxy S II, 40 million sold
- Samsung Galaxy Y, 15 million sold
- HTC Evo 4G, 14 million sold
- Motorola Droid Bionic, 13 million sold
- ZTE Blade, 10 million sold
- Samsung Infuse, 9 million sold
2012
- AppleiPhones – all variants: 110 million sold11
- Samsung Galaxy S III, 50 million sold
- Xiaomi Mi 2, 10 million sold12
2013
- Samsung– all variants: 444 million sold13
- Samsung Galaxy S440 million sold14
- Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini???
- Nokiaall variants: 250 million sold13
- AppleiPhone – all variants: 150 million sold13
2014
Annual sales by manufacturer (1992 – 2005)
1992
1993
- Nokia: 5 million sold
- Motorola: unconfirmed million sold
- NEC: unconfirmed million sold
1994
- Motorola 12 million sold
- Nokia: 9 million sold
- NEC: 6 million sold
1995
- Nokia: 13 million sold
- Motorola unconfirmed million sold
- NEC unconfirmed million sold
1996
- Motorola: 60 million sold17
- Nokia: 18 million sold18
- Ericsson: unconfirmed million sold
- NEC: unconfirmed million sold
- Panasonic: unconfirmed million sold
1997
- Motorola: 25.328 million sold19
- Nokia: 20.593 million sold
- Ericsson: 15.914 million sold
- Panasonic: 8.627 million sold
- Alcatel: 2.631 million sold
- Others: 34.725 million sold
1998
- Nokia: 37.374 million sold20
- Motorola: 32.319 million sold19
- Ericsson: 23.827 million sold
- Panasonic: 13.397 million sold
- Alcatel: 6.967 million sold
- Samsung: 6 million sold
- Others: 48.972 million sold
1999
- Nokia: 76.335 million sold21
- Motorola: 47.817 million sold
- Ericsson: 29.785 million sold
- Samsung: 17.686 million sold
- Panasonic: 15.580 million sold
- Others: 98 million sold
2000
- Nokia: 126.369 million sold22
- Motorola: 60.094 million sold
- Ericsson: 41.467 million sold
- Siemens: 26.989 million sold
- Samsung: 20.639 million sold
- Others: 140 million sold
2001
- Nokia: 139.672 million sold22
- Motorola: 59.092 million sold
- Siemens: 29.753 million sold
- Samsung: 28.234 million sold
- Ericsson: 26.956 million sold
- Others: 115.877 million sold
2002
- Nokia: 151.4218 million (35.8% market share)
- Motorola: 64.6401 million (15.3% market share)
- Samsung: 41.6844 million (9.8% market share)
- Siemens: 34.6180 million (8.2% market share)
- Sony Ericsson: 23.1129 million (5.5% market share)
- Others: 107.9414 million (25.5% market share)
- Total: 423.4185 million (100% market share)
2003
- Nokia: 180.6724 million (34.7% market share)
- Motorola: 75.1771 million (14.5% market share)
- Samsung: 54.4751 million (10.5% market share)
- Siemens: 43.7543 million (8.4% market share)
- Sony Ericsson: 26.6863 million (5.1% market share)
- LG: 26.2137 million (5.0% market share)
- Others: 113.0096 million (21.8% market share)
- Total: 519.9855 million (100% market share)
2004
- Nokia: 207.2313 million (30.7% market share)
- Motorola: 104.1242 million (15.4% market share)
- Samsung: 85.2384 million (12.6% market share)
- Siemens: 48.4558 million (7.2% market share)
- LG: 42.2768 million (6.3% market share)
- Sony Ericsson: 42.0317 million (6.2% market share)
- Others: 144.6437 million (21.6% market share)
- Total: 674.0019 million (100% market share)
2005
- Nokia: 265.6148 million (32.5% market share)
- Motorola: 144.9204 million (17.7% market share)
- Samsung: 103.7536 million (12.7% market share)
- LG: 54.9246 million (6.7% market share)
- Sony Ericsson: 51.7738 million (6.3% market share)
- Siemens: 28.5906 million (3.5% market share)
- Others: 166.9851 million (20.6% market share)
- Total: 816.5629 million (100% market share)
Annual sales by manufacturer (2006 – 2015)
2006
- Nokia: 344.9159 million (34.8% market share)
- Motorola: 209.2509 million (21.1% market share)
- Samsung: 116.4801 million (11.8% market share)
- Sony Ericsson: 73.6416 million (7.4% market share)
- LG: 61.9860 million (6.3% market share)
- Others: 184.5880 million (18.6% market share)
- Total: 990.8625 million (100% market share)
2007
- Nokia: 435.4531 million (37.8% market share)
- Motorola: 164.307 million (14.3% market share)
- Samsung: 154.5407 million (13.4% market share)
- Sony Ericsson: 101.3584 million (8.8% market share)
- LG: 78.5763 million (6.8% market share)
- Apple: 2.3 million sold29
- Others: 218.6043 million (18.9% market share)
- Total: 1,152.8398 million (100% market share)
2008
- Nokia: 472.3150 million (38.6% market share)
- Samsung: 199.1820 million (16.3% market share)
- Motorola: 106.5900 million (8.7% market share)
- LG: 102.5554 million (8.4% market share)
- Sony Ericsson: 93.4145 million (7.6% market share)
- Apple: 12 million sold31
- Others: 248.1890 million (20.4% market share)
- Total: 1,222.2452 million (100% market share)
2009
- Nokia: 440.8816 million (36.4% market share)
- Samsung: 235.7720 million (19.5% market share)
- LG: 122.0553 million (10.1%market share)
- Motorola: 58.4752 million (4.8% market share)
- Sony Ericsson: 54.8734 million (4.5% market share)
- Apple: 24.889 million sold33
- Others: 299.1792 million (24.7% market share)
- Total: 1,211.2366 million (100% market share)
201034
- Nokia: 461.3182 million (28.9% market share)
- Samsung: 281.0658 million (17.6% market share)35
- LG: 114.1546 million (7.1% market share)
- Research in Motion: 47.4516 million (3.0% market share)
- Apple: 46.5983 million (2.9% market share)836
- Sony Ericsson: 41.8192 million (2.6% market share)
- Motorola: 38.5537 million (2.4% market share)
- ZTE: 28.7687 million (1.8% market share)37
- HTC: 24.6884 million (1.5% market share)
- Huawei: 23.8147 million (1.5% market share)
- Others: 488.5693 million (30.6% market share)
- Total: 1,596.8024 million (100% market share)
2011
- Nokia: 422.4783 million (23.8% market share)
- Samsung: 313.9042 million (17.7% market share)39
- Apple: 89.2632 million (5.0% market share)
- LG: 86.3709 million (4.9% market share)
- ZTE: 56.8818 million (3.2% market share)40
- Research in Motion: 51.5419 million (2.9% market share)
- HTC: 43.2669 million (2.4% market share)
- Huawei: 40.6634 million (2.3% market share)
- Motorola: 40.2690 million (2.3% market share)
- Sony Ericsson: 32.5975 million (1.8% market share)
- Others: 597.3269 million (33.7% market share)
- Total: 1,774.5641 million (100% market share)
2012
- Samsung: 384.6312 million (22.0% market share)
- Nokia: 333.9380 million (19.1% market share)
- Apple: 130.1332 million (7.5% market share)
- ZTE: 67.3444 million (3.9% market share)
- LG: 58.0159 million (3.3% market share)
- Huawei Technologies: 47.2883 million (2.7% market share)
- TCL Communication: 37.1766 million (2.1% market share)
- Research in Motion: 34.2103 million (2.0% market share)
- Motorola: 33.9163 million (1.9% market share)
- HTC: 32.1218 million (1.8% market share)
- Others: 587.3996 million (33.6% market share)
- Total: 1,746.1756 million (100% market share)
2013
- Samsung: 444.4442 million (24.6% market share)
- Nokia: 250.7931 million (13.9% market share)
- Apple: 150.7859 million (8.3% market share)
- LG: 69.0245 million (3.8% market share)
- ZTE: 59.8988 million (3.3% market share)
- Huawei: 53.2951 million (2.9% market share)
- TCL Communication: 49.5313 million (2.7% market share)
- Lenovo: 45.2847 million (2.5% market share)
- Sony Mobile Communications: 37.5957 million (2.1% market share)
- Yulong: 32.6014 million (1.8% market share)
- Others: 613.7100 million (34% market share)
- Total: 1,806.9647 million (100% market share)
2014
- Samsung: 392.546 million (20.9% market share)
- Apple: 191.426 million (10.2% market share)
- Microsoft: 185.660 million (9.9% market share)
- LenovoMotorola: 84.029 million (4.5% market share)
- LG: 76.096 million (4% market share)
- Huawei: 70.499 million (3.8% market share)
- TCL Communication: 64.026 million (3.4% market share)
- Xiaomi: 56.529 million (3% market share)
- ZTE: 53.910 million (2.9% market share)
- Sony Mobile: 37.791 million (2% market share)
- Micromax: 37.094 million (2% market share)
- Others: 629.360 million (33.5% market share)
- Total: 1,878.968 million (100% market share)
2015
- Samsung: 320.2197 million (22.5% market share)
- Apple: 225.8506 million (15.9% market share)
- Huawei: 104.0947 million (7.3% market share)
- LenovoMotorola: 72.7482 million (5.1% market share)
- Xiaomi: 65.6186 million (4.6% market share)
- Others: 635.3685 million (44.6% market share)
- Total: 1,423.9003 million (100% market share)
Annual sales by manufacturer (Q1 2016 – Q3 2016)
Q1 2016
- Samsung: 81.1869 million (23.5% market share)
- Apple: 51.6295 million (14.8% market share)
- Huawei: 28.8610 million (8.3% market share)
- Oppo: 16.1126 million (4.6% market share)
- Xiaomi: 15.0480 million (4.3% market share)
- Others: 156.4134 million (44.8% market share)
- Total: 349.2514 million (100% market share)
Q2 2016
- Samsung: 76.7435 million (22.3% market share)
- Apple: 44.3950 million (12.9% market share)
- Huawei: 30.6707 million (8.9% market share)
- Oppo: 18.4896 million (5.4% market share)
- Xiaomi: 15.5307 million (4.5% market share)
- Others: 158.5303 million (46.0% market share)
- Total: 344.3597 million (100% market share)
Q3 2016
- Samsung: 71.7335 million (19.2% market share)
- Apple: 43.0007 million (11.5% market share)
- Huawei: 32.4895 million (8.7% market share)
- Oppo: 24.9366 million (6.7% market share)
- BBK Communication Equipment: 19.8789 million (5.3% market share)
- Others: 181.2533 million (48.6% market share)
- Total: 373.2925 million (100% market share)
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