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List of best-selling mobile phones

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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. 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 as of 2015.

1994 Nokia 2110 (and variants), 20 million sold

1996

Motorola StarTAC, 60 million sold

1999 Nokia 3210, 160 million sold

2000

Nokia 3310, 126 million sold Nokia 8890, 15 million sold

2002

Nokia 6100, 15 million sold Nokia 6610, 15 million sold Nokia 3510, 15 million sold Samsung SGH-T100, 12 million sold

2003

Nokia 1100, 250 million sold Nokia 6600, 150 million sold Motorola C200, 60 million sold Nokia 3100/3120, 50 million sold Samsung SGH-E700, 10 million sold Nokia N-Gage, 3 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 6230/6233/6234, 47 million sold Nokia 2650, 35 million sold Sony Ericsson K300/K310, 15 million sold Samsung SGH-D500, 12 million sold

2005

Nokia 1110, 250 million sold Nokia 1600/1650/1661, 130 million sold Motorola C139, 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 Motorola V220, 15 million sold Motorola V195, 15 million sold Sony Ericsson K750, 15 million sold Nokia 8800, 15 million sold Nokia 6111, 15 million sold Nokia 2680, 15 million sold Motorola Q, 1 million sold

2006 Nokia 6070/6080, 50 million sold Nokia 7360/7370/7380, 45 million sold Nokia 6300, 50 million sold Nokia 2310, 35 million sold Nokia 5200/5300, 30 million sold Samsung SGH-E250, 30 million sold LG Chocolate KG800, 21 million sold BlackBerry Pearl 8100, 15 million sold BenQ-Siemens S68/S88, 15 million sold Sony Ericsson W800/W810, 15 million sold Sony Ericsson W300, 15 million sold Samsung SGH-D900, 3 million sold Nokia 3250, 1 million sold

2007

Nokia 1200, 150 million sold Nokia 1208 (1209), 100 million sold Nokia 2600 classic, 15 million sold Nokia 3110 classic, 15 million sold Nokia 6500 slide, 15 million sold Nokia N95, 10 million sold Apple iPhone, 6 million sold LG Viewty (KU990), 5 million sold HTC Touch, 2 million sold Palm Centro, 2 million sold

2008 LG KP100, 30 million sold 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 5610 XpressMusic, 15 million sold Nokia E71, 15 million sold Samsung Tocco (SGH-F480), 12 million sold Samsung SGH-J700, 12 million sold LG Shine, 10 million sold Samsung Tocco TouchWiz (SGH-F480), 5 million sold Samsung Soul (SGH-U900), 1 million sold

2009

Nokia 5230 (5233), 150 million sold Apple iPhone 3GS, 35 million sold LG Cookie (KP500), 13 million sold Samsung Tocco Ultra (S8300), 12 million sold Samsung Star/Tocco Lite (S5230), 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

Nokia 1280, 100 million sold Apple iPhone 4, 50 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 Apple iPhone 4S, 60 million sold Samsung Galaxy S II, 40 million sold Samsung Galaxy Y, 15 million sold HTC Evo 4G, 14 million sold Motorola Droid Bionic, 13 million sold Samsung Galaxy Note, 10 million sold ZTE Blade, 10 million sold Samsung Infuse, 9 million sold

2012 Samsung Galaxy S III and Galaxy S III Mini, 70 million sold Apple iPhone 5, 70 million sold Samsung Galaxy Note II, 30 million sold Xiaomi Mi 2, 10 million sold

2013 Nokia 105 (2013) and Nokia 105 (2015), 200 million sold Samsung Galaxy S4, 80 million sold Apple iPhone 5S, 52 million sold Samsung Galaxy Note 3, 10 million sold LG G2, 3 million sold

2014 Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, 222.4 million sold LG G3, 10 million sold Samsung Galaxy Note 4, 4.5 million sold

2015 Apple iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, 174.5 million sold Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, 45 million sold Huawei Mate 9, 15.8 million sold

2016 Apple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, 78.3 million sold Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, 55 million sold Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus, 24.2 million sold Oppo F1 Plus, 7 million sold LeEco Le 1s, 3 million sold Google Pixel and Pixel XL, 2.1 million sold

2017 Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, 86.3 million sold Apple iPhone X, 63 million sold Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, 41 million sold Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro, 17 million sold Samsung Galaxy Note 8, 10 million sold

2018 Apple iPhone XR, 77.4 million sold Apple iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, 48 million sold Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, 35.4 million sold Huawei P20, P20 Pro and P20 Lite, 32 million sold Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro, 17 million sold Samsung Galaxy J2 Core, 15.2 million sold Samsung Galaxy Note 9, 9.6 million sold Samsung Galaxy J4+, 6.4 million sold Samsung Galaxy J6+, 4.9 million sold

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