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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 1110, released in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Both models have sold over 250 million units. The best-selling touchscreen phones are the 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.

Top-selling mobile phones
==Annually best-sold handsets==
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 . 1994Nokia 2110 (and variants), 20 million sold 2010 sold 6 million units. • Nokia 1280, 100 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 2011Apple iPhone 4S, 60 million sold • Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, 35.4 million sold • Apple iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro MaxSamsung Galaxy A13iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 miniiPhone SE (3rd generation)Samsung Galaxy A03 2023iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro MaxiPhone 13iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro MaxSamsung Galaxy A14 5GSamsung Galaxy A04eSamsung Galaxy A14 4G LTE 2024iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro MaxSamsung Galaxy A15 5GSamsung Galaxy A15 4G LTEiPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro MaxSamsung Galaxy S24 UltraiPhone 14Samsung Galaxy A05 2025iPhone 17 Pro MaxiPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro MaxiPhone 16eSamsung Galaxy A16 5GSamsung Galaxy A16 4G LTESamsung Galaxy A06Samsung Galaxy A36Samsung Galaxy A56 ==Annual sales by manufacturer==
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) 1992Motorola: 4 million sold • Nokia: 3 million sold • NEC: 2 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 • Total: 107.818 million sold 1998 • Nokia: 76.335 million sold • Motorola: 47.818 million sold • Ericsson: 29.785 million sold • Samsung: 17.687 million sold • Panasonic: 15.581 million sold • Others: 96.376 million sold • Total: 283.581 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: 137.173 million sold • Total: 412.731 million sold 2001 • Nokia: 139.672 million sold • 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 2003Nokia: 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 2004Nokia: 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 2005Nokia: 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 2006Nokia: 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 2007Nokia: 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 2008Nokia: 472,315,000 (38.6% market share) • Samsung: 199,182,000 (16.3% market share) • Motorola: 106,590,000 (8.7% market share) • LG: 102,555,400 (8.4% market share) • Sony Ericsson: 93,414,500 (7.6% market share) • Apple: 12,000,000 sold • Others: 248,189,000 (20.4% market share) • Total: 1,222,245,200 2009Nokia: 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 2010Nokia: 461.3182 million (28.9% market share) • Samsung: 281.0658 million (17.6% 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 2011Nokia: 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 2012Samsung: 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) • Sony Mobile: 29.2 million • Others: 587.3996 million (33.6% market share) • Total: 1,746.1756 million 2013Samsung: 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 2014Samsung: 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 2015 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. • 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: 1,423.9003 million 2016Samsung: 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 excl. oppo: 72.4086 million (4.8% market share) • Others: 682.3143 million (45.6% market share) • Total: 1,495.3580 million 2017Samsung: 321.2633 million (20.9% market share) • Apple: 214.9244 million (14% market share) • Huawei: 150.534.3 million (9.8% market share) • Oppo: 112.124 million (7.3% market share) • vivo: 99.6848 million (6.5% market share) • Others: 638.0047 million (41.5% market share) • Total: 1,536.5355 million 2018Samsung: 295.0437 million (19% market share) • Apple: 209.0484 million (13.4% market share) • Huawei: 202.9014 million (13% market share) • Xiaomi: 122.3870 million (7.9% market share) • Oppo: 118.837.5 million (7.6% market share) • Others: 607.0490 million (39% market share) • Total: 1,555,267.0 2019 Samsung: 296.194 million (19.2% market share) • Huawei: 240.6155 million (15.6% market share) • Apple: 193.4751 million (10.5% market share) • Xiaomi: 126.0492 million (8.2% market share) • OPPO: 118.6932 million (7.7% market share) • Others: 565.630 million (36.7% market share) • Total: 1,540.657 million 2020 Samsung: 253 million (18.8% market share) • Apple: 199.8 million (14.8% market share) • Huawei: 182.6 million (13.5% market share) • Xiaomi: 145.8 million (10.8% market share) • Oppo: 111.8 million (8.3% market share) • Others: 454.8 million (33.7% market share) • Total: 1,347.9 million 2021 Samsung: 272 million (21% market share) • Apple: 237 million (16% market share) • Xiaomi: 190 million (14% market share) • OPPO: 143 million (11% market share) • Vivo: 131 million (10% market share) • Others: 413 million (28% market share) • Total: 1.391 billion 2022 Samsung: 260.9 million (21.6% market share) • Apple: 226.4 million (18.8% market share) • Xiaomi: 153.1 million (12.7% market share) • Oppo: 103.3 million (8.6% market share) • Vivo: 99.0 million (8.2% market share) • Others: 362.7 million (30.1% market share) • Total: 1.2005 billion 2023 Apple sold the most phones for the first time, while Samsung lost the top position for the first time since 2012. • Apple: 234.6 million (20.1% market share) • Samsung: 226.6 million (19.4% market share) • Xiaomi: 145.9 million (12.5% market share) • Oppo: 103.1 million (8.8% market share) • Transsion: 94.9 million (8.1% market share) • Others: 361.8 million (31.0% market share) • Total: 1.1669 billion 2024 Smartphone shipments grew 6.4% globally compared to the previous year, with Apple once again holding the top position for the second year in a row. • Apple: 232.1 million (18.7% market share) • Samsung: 223.4 million (18% market share) • Xiaomi: 168.5 million (13.6% market share) • Transsion: 106.9 million (8.6% market share) • Oppo: 104.8 million (8.5% market share) • Others: 402.9 million (32.5% market share) • Total: 1,238.8 million 2025 Apple: 247.8 million (19.7% market share) • Samsung: 241.2 million (19.1% market share) • Xiaomi: 165.3 million (13.1% market share) • Vivo: 103.9 million (8.2% market share) • Oppo: 102.0 million (8.1% market share) • Others: 400 million (31.7% market share) • Total: 1,260.3 million ==See also==
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