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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Samsung E250: ~30 million
Thanks to huge popularity in emerging markets, not limited to Africa, Samsung sold more than 30 million E250 handsets since it first launched in 2006. It was also extremely popular in Samsung's home country of South Korea, where it sold in the region of 20 million handsets in less than a year. The handset included a VGA camera and FM radio, and the battery lasted for days. One of the main reasons behind its success was that it was extremely cheap, costing only around $150.
Credit: GSM Arena
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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.