List of best-selling mobile phones

The Nokia 1100 (shown here) and 1110 are the world's best-selling handsets[1]

With over 4 decades on the market, mobile phones have become the most used electronic device in the world.[2] Below is a list of best-selling mobile phones, released between 1992 and 2017. The best-selling mobile devices are the Nokia 1100 and 1110, two bar phones released in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Both 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 220 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 40 phones on the list, Nokia sold the most models, with 15. In 2017, over 1.5 billion mobile phones were sold, with Samsung dominating yearly sales at over 321.2 million units sold, taking up 20.9% market share.

Top-selling mobile phones

Manufacturer Model Form factor Year Graph (million units)
Nokia 1100 Bar 2003 250[1][3] 250
 
Nokia 1110 Bar 2005 250[1][3] 250
 
Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Touchscreen 2014 220[3] 220
 
Nokia 3210 Bar 1999 160[3] 160
 
Nokia 1200 Bar 2007 150[3] 150
 
Nokia 6600 Bar 2003 150[3] 150
 
Nokia 5230 Touchscreen 2009 150[3] 150
 
Samsung E1100 Bar 2009–12 150[3] 150
 
Nokia 2600 (2610/2626/2630) Bar 2004 135[3] 135
 
Motorola RAZR V3 Flip phone 2004 130[3] 130
 
Nokia 1600 (1650/1661) Bar 2006 130[3] 130
 
Nokia 3310 (3330) Bar 2000 126[3][4] 126
 
Nokia 1208 (1209) Bar 2007 100[3] 100
 
Samsung Galaxy S4 Touchscreen 2013 80[3] 80
 
Nokia 6010 (6020/6030) Bar 2004 75[3] 75
 
Apple iPhone 5 Touchscreen 2012–13 70[3] 70
 
Nokia 5130 (5220/5310) Bar 2007-09 65[3] 65
 
Apple iPhone 4S Touchscreen 2011–14 60[3][5] 60
 
Motorola StarTAC Flip phone 1996 60[3][6] 60
 
Motorola C200 Bar 2003–06 60[6] 60
 
Samsung Galaxy S III Touchscreen 2012–13 60[3] 60
 
Motorola C139 Bar 2005 60[5] 60
 
Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge Touchscreen 2016 55[7] 55
 
Nokia 6230 (6233) Bar 2004 50[6] 50
 
Apple iPhone 4 Touchscreen 2010–13 50[5] 50
 
Nokia 3100 (3120) Bar 2003 50[6] 50
 
Samsung Galaxy S II Touchscreen 2011–12 40[6] 40
 
Apple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Touchscreen 2016 38.9[8] 38.9
 
Apple iPhone 3GS Touchscreen 2009–12 35[6] 35
 
Nokia 2650 Flip phone 2004 35[6] 35
 
Samsung Galaxy Note II Touchscreen 2012–13 30[9] 30
 
Samsung E250 Slider 2006 30[5] 30
 
Samsung Galaxy S Touchscreen 2010–12 25[10] 25
 
Samsung Galaxy S8 Touchscreen 2017 20[11] 20
 
HTC Thunderbolt Touchscreen 2011–12 16[5] 16
 
Sony Ericsson K300 Bar 2004 15[5] 15
 
Sony Ericsson K750 Bar 2005 15[5] 15
 
Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Pearl Bar 2006 15[5] 15
 
Motorola Droid Bionic Touchscreen 2011 13[5] 13
 
Samsung Galaxy S5 Touchscreen 2014 12[12] 12
 

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.

The Motorola StarTAC from 1996 was the first phone to be widely popular
The Nokia 3310 from 2000 sold 126 million units

1992

  • Motorola Personal Phone, 8 million sold

1996


1998

1999

2000

2002

The Nokia 6100 and 6610 (above) from 2002 were the first colour-screen phones to sell over a million

2003

The Nokia 6600 from 2003 was the first camera phone to sell over a million units

2004

2005

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

2006

2007

The Nokia N95 was the first non-candybar smartphone to sell over a million

2008

Apple's iPhone 3G, which sold 25 million units, managed to jointly top the table with a Nokia product

2009

The Samsung Star/Tocco Lite (S5230) sold 10 million units

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2016

Annual sales by manufacturer

1992

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[21]
  • Nokia: 18 million sold[22]

1997

[23]

  • 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

[24]

  • Nokia: 37.374 million sold
  • Motorola: 32.319 million sold[23]
  • 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

[25]

  • 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

[26]

  • 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[26]
  • Motorola: 59.097 million sold
  • Siemens: 29.753 million sold
  • Samsung: 28.234 million sold
  • Ericsson: 26.956 million sold
  • Others: 115.877 million sold

2002

[27]

  • 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

[28]

  • 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

[29]

  • 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

[30]

  • 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

[31]

  • 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

[32]

  • 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[33]
  • Others: 218.6043 million (18.9% market share)
  • Total: 1,152.8398 million (100% market share)

2008

[34]

  • 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[35]
  • Others: 248.1890 million (20.4% market share)
  • Total: 1,222.2452 million (100% market share)

2009

[36]

  • 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[37]
  • Others: 299.1792 million (24.7% market share)
  • Total: 1,211.2366 million (100% market share)

2010

[38]

  • Nokia: 461.3182 million (28.9% market share)
  • Samsung: 281.0658 million (17.6% market share)[39]
  • 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)[13][40]
  • 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)[41]
  • 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

[42]

  • Nokia: 422.4783 million (23.8% market share)
  • Samsung: 313.9042 million (17.7% market share)[43]
  • Apple: 89.2632 million (5.0% market share)
  • LG: 86.3709 million (4.9% market share)
  • ZTE: 56.8818 million (3.2% market share)[44]
  • 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

[45]

  • 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

[17]

2013 in mobile phones
  • 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

[46]

  • 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

[47]

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: 1423.9003 million (100% market share)

2016

[48]

  • 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

[49]

  • Samsung: 321.2633 million (20.9% market share)
  • Apple: 214.9244 million (14% market share)
  • Huawei: 150.5343 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 (100% market share)

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