page_title: List of best-selling mobile phones
section_title: Annual best-selling handsets
hierarchical_section_title: List of best-selling mobile phones / Annual best-selling handsets
caption_attribution_description: English: A en:Motorola StarTAC (en:GSM model), produced in 1997. From my own collection. Taken by ProhibitOnions, 2007.
context_page_description: This is a list of best-selling mobile phones. 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 73 phones on the list, Nokia sold the most models, with 24. In 2019, over 1.5 billion mobile phones were sold, with Samsung dominating yearly sales at over 296 million units sold, taking up 19.2% market share. Combined, all mobile phones have shipped over 19 billion units worldwide between 1994 and 2018.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: The Motorola StarTAC from 1996 was the first phone to be widely popular
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