20 of the world's top selling phones
Summary: Samsung and Apple phones may today rule the roost at the top of the smartphone market share today, but the most popular phones and smartphones were in fact sold almost a decade ago. Here are some of the top selling mobile phones since the the start of the new millennium.
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The best selling cell phone since 2000 is...?
The golden age of feature phones is all but over, but their presence on the post-millennium market helped rake in more revenues than most best-selling smartphones of today. The reality is that while Apple can sell 47 million iPhones in a quarter and Samsung can sell 20 million Galaxy smartphones, just ten years ago the figures were just as high but were limited to just one phone model.
One relic of the feature phone past was able to sell more than 200 million of just one phone model since its launch. Today, not one single iPhone model was able to even come close to that figure.
Here's a run down of the most popular cell phones and smartphones in the post-2000 market.
Figures are approximate. (Data sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, PDF)
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Razr
You have to admit, around the same time Motorola released the Razr
Haha so true...
My favourite from the list was probably the k750i - that phone would not die! I used it on and off until 2011; every time my new phone got stolen / broken it came back out. Every time I traveled to some of those places you don't want to take expensive tech it came. That was it's downfall; eventually stolen from my bag on an overnight train from Xi'an.
I'm with you the koto lest phone I ever owned was the V3
Other than that the list is a bit of a joke; several models such as the v3 have generations and spec changes grouped together, but not iPhones. Maybe combine 3g and 3GS, 4 and 4s?
Slightly more official list here
Still is.