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.
This article needs to be updated . The reason given is: No reliable sales data for iPhones released from 2020 onwards. (August 2024 )
The Nokia 1110 (shown here) and 1110 are the best-selling handsets.[1] [2]
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are the best-selling smartphones.[3] [2]
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.
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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 as of 2015 [ update] .[83]
The Motorola StarTAC from 1996 was the first phone to be widely popular.
The Nokia 3310 from 2000 sold 126 million units.
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. Nokia 1100
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.
Nokia 1110 , 250 million sold[1] [4] [6]
Nokia 1600 /1650 /1661 , 130 million sold[1] [4] [6] [5]
Motorola C139 , 60 million sold[30]
Nokia N70 /N72 /N73 , 45 million sold[30] [5]
Nokia 6101 , 35 million sold
Nokia 6060 , 35 million sold
Nokia 6270 /6280 , 30 million sold
Motorola V220 , 15 million sold
Motorola V195 , 15 million sold
Sony Ericsson K750 , 15 million sold[30]
Nokia 8800 , 15 million sold
Nokia 6111 , 15 million sold
Nokia 2680 , 15 million sold
Motorola Q , 1 million sold
2006
The Nokia N72 was the first smartphone to sell over a million.
Nokia 6070 /6080 , 50 million sold
Nokia 7360 /7370 /7380 , 45 million sold
Nokia 6300 , 47 million sold[5] [84]
Nokia 2310 , 35 million sold
Nokia 5200 /5300 , 30 million sold[5]
Samsung SGH-E250 , 30 million sold[30]
LG Chocolate VX8500 , 21 million sold[43] [44] [45] [46]
BlackBerry Pearl 8100 , 15 million sold[30]
BenQ-Siemens S68 , 15 million sold
Sony Ericsson W800 /W810 , 15 million sold[51]
Sony Ericsson W300 , 15 million sold
Samsung SGH-D900 , 3 million sold
Nokia 3250 , 1 million sold
2007
The Nokia N95 was the first non-candybar smartphone to sell over a million.
Nokia 1200 , 150 million sold[1] [4] [6]
Nokia 1208 (1209), 100 million sold[1] [4] [6]
Nokia 2600 classic , 15 million sold
Nokia 3110 classic , 15 million sold
Nokia 6500 slide , 15 million sold
Nokia N95 , 10 million sold[58]
Apple iPhone , 6 million sold[74]
LG Viewty (KU990) , 5 million sold[75]
HTC Touch , 2 million sold
Palm Centro , 2 million sold[82]
2008
LG KP100 , 30 million sold[37]
Apple iPhone 3G , 25 million sold
Nokia 2330 classic , 15 million sold
Nokia 7210 Supernova , 15 million sold
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic , 15 million sold[5]
Nokia 5610 XpressMusic , 15 million sold[5]
Nokia E71 , 15 million sold[5]
Samsung Tocco (SGH-F480) , 12 million sold
Samsung SGH-J700 , 12 million sold
LG Shine , 10 million sold[59]
Samsung Tocco TouchWiz (SGH-F480) , 5 million sold
Samsung Soul (SGH-U900) , 1 million sold
2009
The Samsung Star/Tocco Lite (S5230) sold 10 million units.
Nokia 5230 , 150 million sold[1] [4] [6]
Apple iPhone 3GS , 35 million sold[6]
LG Cookie (KP500) , 13 million sold[52] [53]
Samsung Tocco Ultra (S8300) , 12 million sold
Samsung Star/Tocco Lite (S5230) , 10 million sold[60]
Alcatel One Touch Mini (OT-708) , 5 million sold
Motorola Ming A1200 , 3 million sold
Nokia N97 , 2 million sold[5]
Motorola Milestone/Droid , 1 million sold
HTC Magic , 1 million sold[85] [86]
2018
Apple iPhone XR , 77.4 million sold[19] [20]
Apple iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max , 48 million sold[88]
Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ , 35.4 million sold[88]
Huawei P20, P20 Pro and P20 Lite , 32 million sold[36] [88]
Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro , 17 million sold[49]
Samsung Galaxy J2 Core , 15.2 million sold[19]
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 , 9.6 million sold[68]
Samsung Galaxy J4+ , 6.4 million sold[73]
Samsung Galaxy J6+ , 4.9 million sold[73]
2019
Apple iPhone 11 , 102 million sold[19] [42]
Apple iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max , 47.5 million sold[19] [20]
Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+ and Galaxy S10e , 37 million sold[35]
Samsung Galaxy A10 , 30.3 million sold[19]
Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro , 30 million sold[39]
Samsung Galaxy A50 , 24.2 million sold[19]
Samsung Galaxy A51 , 23.2 million sold[42]
Samsung Galaxy A20 , 23.1 million sold[19]
Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 and Redmi Note 7 Pro , 20 million sold[48]
Huawei P30 and P30 Pro , 20 million sold[49]
Samsung Galaxy A01 , 16.9 million sold[42]
Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro , 12 million sold[54]
Redmi 6A , 10 million sold[69]
Oppo A5 , 9.7 million sold[69]
Samsung Galaxy A30 , 9.2 million sold[69]
Redmi 8A, 7.3 million sold[20]
Redmi 8 , 6.8 million sold[20]
Samsung Galaxy A10s , 3.9 million sold[73]
Samsung Galaxy A30s , 3.4 million sold[73]
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Manufacturer
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015*
2016*
2017*
2018*
2019*
2020*
Alcatel
2,631,000
6,967,000
Apple
2,300,000
12,000,000
24,889,000
46,598,300
89,263,200
130,133,200
150,785,900
191,426,000
225,850,600
216,064,000
214,924,400
219,048,400
219,475,100
199,800,000
BBK
72,408,600
Ericsson
15,914,000
23,827,000
29,785,000
41,467,000
26,956,000
HTC
24,688,400
43,266,900
32,121,800
Huawei
23,814,700
40,663,400
47,288,300
53,295,100
70,499,000
104,094,700
132,824,900
150,534,300
202,901,400
240,615,500
182,600,000
Lenovo
45,284,700
72,748,200
Lenovo/Motorola
84,029,000
LG
26,213,700
42,276,800
54,924,600
61,986,000
78,576,300
102,555,400
122,055,300
114,154,600
86,370,900
58,015,900
69,024,500
76,096,000
55,900,000
40,800,000
29,200,000
Micromax
37,094,000
Microsoft
185,660,000
Motorola
4,000,000
12,000,000
60,000,000
25,328,000
32,319,000
47,818,000
60,094,000
59,097,000
64,640,000
75,177,000
104,124,000
144,920,000
209,251,000
164,307,000
106,590,000
58,475,200
38,553,700
40,269,000
33,916,300
NEC
2,000,000
6,000,000
Nokia
3,000,000
5,000,000
9,000,000
13,000,000
18,000,000
20,593,000
37,374,000
76,335,000
126,369,000
139,672,000
151,422,000
180,672,000
207,231,000
265,615,000
344,916,000
435,453,000
472,315,000
440,881,600
461,318,200
422,478,300
333,938,000
250,793,100
Oppo
85,299,500
112,124,000
118,837,500
118,693,200
111,800,000
Others
248,189,000
299,179,200
488,569,300
597,326,900
587,399,300
613,710,000
629,360,000
635,368,500
682,314,300
582,104,700
566,249,000
536,430,000
454,800,000
Panasonic
8,627,000
13,397,000
15,581,000
RIM
12,000,000
23,000,000
34,000,000
47,451,600
51,541,900
34,210,300
18,000,000
8,000,000
4,000,000
2,000,000
Samsung
4,686,000
17,687,000
20,639,000
28,234,000
41,684,000
54,475,000
85,238,000
103,754,000
116,480,000
154,541,000
199,182,000
235,772,000
281,065,800
313,904,200
384,631,200
444,444,200
392,546,000
320,400,000
306,446,600
321,263,300
295,043,700
296,194,000
253,000,000
Siemens
26,989,000
29,753,000
34,618,000
43,754,000
48,456,000
28,591,000
Sony
37,595,700
37,791,000
Sony Ericsson
93,414,500
54,873,400
41,819,200
32,597,500
TCL
37,176,600
49,531,300
64,026,000
Vivo
99,684,800
Xiaomi
56,529,000
65,618,600
122,387,000
126,049,200
145,800,000
Yulong
32,601,400
ZTE
28,768,700
56,881,800
67,344,400
59,898,800
53,910,000
Total
107,818,000
162,856,000
283,581,000
412,731,000
399,583,000
423,418,500
519,985,500
674,001,900
816,562,900
990,862,500
1,152,839,800
1,222,245,200
1,211,236,600
1,596,802,400
1,774,564,100
1,746,175,600
1,806,964,700
1,878,968,000
1,423,900,300
1,495,358,000
1,536,535,500
1,555,267,000
1,540,657,000
1,347,900,000
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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)
1994
Motorola 12 million sold
Nokia: 9 million sold
NEC: 6 million sold
1996
Motorola: 60 million sold[92]
Nokia: 18 million sold[93]
1997
[94]
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
[95] [94]
Nokia: 37.374 million sold
Motorola: 32.319 million sold[94]
Ericsson: 23.827 million sold
Panasonic: 13.397 million sold
Alcatel : 6.967 million sold
Samsung : 4.686 million sold
Others: 44.286 million sold
Total: 162.856 million sold
1999
[96]
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
[97]
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[97]
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
Total: 399.583 million sold
2002
[98]
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
2003
[99]
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
2004
[100]
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
2005
[101]
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
2006
[102]
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
2007
[103]
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[104]
Others: 218.6043 million (18.9% market share)
Total: 1,152.8398 million
2008
[105]
Nokia : 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[106]
Others: 248,189,000 (20.4% market share)
Total: 1,222,245,200
2009
[107]
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[108]
Others: 299.1792 million (24.7% market share)
Total: 1,211.2366 million
2010
[109]
Nokia : 461.3182 million (28.9% market share)
Samsung : 281.0658 million (17.6% market share)[109]
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)[110]
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)[111]
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
2011
[112]
Nokia : 422.4783 million (23.8% market share)
Samsung : 313.9042 million (17.7% market share)[113]
Apple : 89.2632 million (5.0% market share)
LG : 86.3709 million (4.9% market share)
ZTE : 56.8818 million (3.2% market share)[114]
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
2012
[115]
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)
Sony Mobile : 29.2 million
Others: 587.3996 million (33.6% market share)
Total: 1,746.1756 million
2013
[116]
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
2014
[117]
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
2015
[118]
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
2016
[119]
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 excl. oppo: 72.4086 million (4.8% market share)
Others: 682.3143 million (45.6% market share)
Total: 1,495.3580 million
2017
[120]
Samsung : 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
2018
[121]
Samsung : 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
[122]
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
[123]
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
[124]
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
[125]
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.[126]
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