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 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.

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.

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.



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
 * Nokia 2100, 20 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, 50 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, 47 million sold
 * Nokia 2310, 35 million sold
 * Nokia 5200/5300, 30 million sold
 * Samsung SGH-E250, 30 million sold
 * LG Chocolate VX8500, 21 million sold
 * BlackBerry Pearl 8100, 15 million sold
 * BenQ-Siemens S68, 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, 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

 * Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, 45 million sold
 * Huawei Mate 9, 15.8 million sold
 * Apple iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, 13 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

2019

 * Apple iPhone 11, 102 million sold
 * Apple iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max, 47.5 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+ and Galaxy S10e, 37 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A10, 30.3 million sold
 * Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro, 30 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A50, 24.2 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A51, 23.2 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A20, 23.1 million sold
 * Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 and Redmi Note 7 Pro, 20 million sold
 * Huawei P30 and P30 Pro, 20 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A01, 16.9 million sold
 * Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro, 12 million sold
 * Redmi 6A, 10 million sold
 * Oppo A5, 9.7 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A30, 9.2 million sold
 * Redmi 8A, 7.3 million sold
 * Redmi 8, 6.8 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A10s, 3.9 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A30s, 3.4 million sold

2020

 * Apple iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, 100 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+ and Galaxy S20 Ultra, 28 million sold
 * Apple iPhone SE (2nd generation), 24.2 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A21s, 19.4 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A11, 15.3 million sold
 * Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro, 15 million sold

2021

 * Apple iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max
 * Apple iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max
 * Apple iPhone 11
 * Samsung Galaxy A12
 * Xiaomi Redmi 9A
 * Apple iPhone SE (2nd generation)
 * Xiaomi Redmi 9

===2022 ===
 * iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max
 * iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro series, 26 million sold
 * Samsung Galaxy A13
 * iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
 * iPhone SE (3rd generation)
 * Samsung Galaxy A03

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)

1992

 * Motorola: 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: 37.374 million sold
 * Motorola: 32.319 million sold
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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
 * Others: 218.6043 million (18.9% market share)
 * Total: 1,152.8398 million

2008

 * 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
 * Others: 248,189,000 (20.4% market share)
 * Total: 1,222,245,200

2009

 * 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
 * Others: 299.1792 million (24.7% market share)
 * Total: 1,211.2366 million

2010

 * Nokia: 461.3182 million (28.9% market share)
 * Samsung: 281.0658 million (17.6% market share)
 * 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)
 * 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

2011

 * Nokia: 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

2012

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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
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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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