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>Annual best-selling handsets
Note: The years represent when the phones were released into the market, not the number sold in that particular year. The number sold represents how many units were sold throughout its whole lifetime. The first cell phone was produced by Motorola. Since then there have been produced around 17.37 billion mobile phones.
1992
- Motorola Personal Phone, 8 million sold
1996
- Nokia 1610, 100 million sold
- Motorola StarTAC, 60 million sold
1998
- Nokia 6120, 22 million 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 sold
- 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 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 sold
- 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 worldwide
- 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
- Apple iPhone, 7 million sold
- LG Viewty (KU990), 2 million sold
- HTC Touch, 2 million sold
- Palm Centro, 2 million sold
2008
- Apple iPhone 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, 159 million sold
- Apple iPhone 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
2010
- Apple iPhone 4, 40 million sold
- Samsung Galaxy S, 20 million sold
- Samsung S5620 Monte, 7 million sold
- Nokia N8, 6 million sold
- Motorola Milestone/Droid, 2 million sold
- Samsung Wave (S8500), 2 million sold
2011
- Samsung Galaxy S II, 40 million sold
- Apple iPhone 4s,16.4 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
- Samsung Galaxy S III, 70 million sold
- Xiaomi Mi 2, 10 million sold
2013
- Samsung Galaxy S4 40 million sold
- Nokia â€" all variants: 250 million sold
- Apple iPhone â€" all variants: 150 million sold
2014
- iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone 5s
- Samsung Galaxy S4
- Samsung Galaxy S5
- iPhone 4s
- HTC One M8
- Samsung Galaxy S III
- Samsung Galaxy Note 3
2016
- iPhone 7, 50.8 million sold
- Samsung Galaxy S7, 12 million sold
- Redmi 3s prime
- Lenovo K4 note
Annual sales by manufacturer
1992
- NEC: 2 million sold
- Nokia: 3 million sold
- Motorola: 4 million sold
1993
- Nokia: 5 million sold
1994
- Motorola 12 million sold
- Nokia: 9 million sold
- NEC: 6 million sold
1995
- Nokia: 13 million sold
1996
- Motorola: 60 million sold
- Nokia: 18 million sold
1997
- Motorola: 25.328 million sold
- 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 sold
- Motorola: 32.319 million sold
- 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 sold
- 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 sold
- 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 sold
- 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)
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 sold
- 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 sold
- 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 sold
- Others: 299.1792 million (24.7% market share)
- Total: 1,211.2366 million (100% market share)
2010
- Nokia: 461.3182 million (28.9% market share)
- Samsung: 281.0658 million (17.6% market share)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Apple: 89.2632 million (5.0% market share)
- LG: 86.3709 million (4.9% market share)
- ZTE: 56.8818 million (3.2% market share)
- 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)
- Lenovo Motorola: 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: 320.4 million (22.5% market share)
- Apple: 225.8506 million (15.9% market share)
- Huawei: 104.0947 million (7.3% market share)
- Lenovo: 72.7482 million (5.1% market share)
- Xiaomi: 65.6186 million (4.6% market share)
- Others: 635.3685 million (44.6% market share)
- Total: 1423.9003 million (100% market share)
2016
- Samsung: 306.4466 million (20.5% market share)
- Apple: 216.0640 million (14.4% market share)
- Huawei: 132.8249 million (8.9% market share)
- OPPO: 85.2995 million (5.7% market share)
- BBK Communication Equipment: 72.4086 million (4.8% market share)
- Others: 682.3143 million (45.6% market share)
- Total: 1,495.3580 million (100% market share)
2017
- Samsung:318.3 million (21.6% market share)
- Apple: 215.8 million (14.7% market share)
- Huawei: 153.1 million (10.4% market share)
- OPPO: 111.8 million (7.6% market share)
- Xiaomi: 92.4 million (6.3% market share)
- Others: 577.7 million (39.5% market share)
- Total: 1,472.4 million (100% market share)
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