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List of best-selling mobile phones
This is a list of best-selling mobile phones. The best-selling mobile devices are the bar phone Nokia 1100 and Nokia 1110, released in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Both models have sold over 250 million units. The best-selling touchscreen phones are the Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, both released in 2014. Together, they have sold over 222 million units. The best selling flip phone is the Motorola RAZR V3, released in 2004. It sold over 130 million units. The best-selling slider phone is the Samsung E250, released in 2006. It has sold over 30 million units. Of the 115 phones on the list, Samsung sold the most models, with 37. Nokia has 27 models, including four of the top 10. Apple has 16 entries on the list, including the six best selling touchscreen phones, which comprise the remainder of the top 10. Combined, all mobile phones have shipped 26,309,115,000 units worldwide between 1992 and 2020, and 28,900,614,000 units between 1992 and 2022.
Top-selling mobile phones
Annually best-sold 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 had been produced around 17.37 billion mobile phones.
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Annual sales by manufacturer
note: this table is created from the data listed below. from 2015 onward the figures reflect only sales of smartphones (as opposed to feature phones)
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Note that previous years have listed sales of mobile phones including non smartphones (so called feature phones) while from 2015 and on the statistics only show smartphone sales.
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Apple sold the most phones for the first time, while Samsung lost the top position for the first time since 2012.
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