Top 7 Best Selling Phones Of All Time

To this day, a smartphone is considered a necessity in our lives and we simply cannot live without it. Without the presence of phones, we will be left with nothing to do as it plays a crucial role in our daily tasks.

It connects, entertains, manages our business activities, and even performs the basic tasks we do at home each day. Because of this, the communication industry has prospered and taken in huge amounts of profits each year.

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But if we were to look back to 20 years ago, the phone is merely a tool for us to connect with each other in a simple manner. Here we would like to share with you the top 10 best-selling phones of all time.

7. Nokia 3210 (1999)

Despite being simple as it looks, the Nokia 3210 managed to top 7th place with a sale of over 160 million units worldwide. It was launched back on 18th March 1999 and it was considered the hot-selling phone back then.

The phone was designed by Alastair Curtis at Nokia Design Center, in Los Angeles. It was the first phone marketed on a large scale which has an antenna on the inside of the phone after it was introduced on a previous model of Nokia 8810 in 1998.

6. Apple iPhone 5s (2013)

The Apple iPhone 5s was a smartphone introduced by Apple Inc. after the iPhone 5 and it was featured for the first time on September 2013. The size measurement and its features are somewhat comparable to the iPhone 5.

It was the world's first smartphone that included the A7 64-bit chip from Apple. It was the more popular option compared to the iPhone 5 with a sale of over 164 million units.

5. Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus (2015)

The Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are the ninth generation of the iPhone which was released on September 2015. The 6s series has a much similar design compared to the iPhone 6 series which only differs in the hardware and body type.

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In its early launch days, Apple announced that it had sold 13 million units which surpassed the previous goal of the iPhone 6 in 2014. As of now, Apple had sold more than 174 million units worldwide.

4. Nokia 105 (2013), 105 (2015)

The Nokia 105 series was a phone created by Nokia targeted mainly at developing nations where it will be more accessible and cheap. The phone was released on May 2013 with another version in 2015.

Unlike the Apple version, the Nokia 105 offers a longer standby time of 35 days on a full battery. The sale of these two phones reached a whopping 200 million units.

3. Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus (2014)

The third place falls to Apple's best-selling phones of all time, the iPhone 6 and 6 plus which were released on September 2014. Apple managed to sell over 220 million units of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and within only 24 hours of pre-order time, around 4 million orders were received online.

At the Apple stores, more than 10 million units were sold in just 3 days making it the most successful Apple phone ever made.

2. Nokia 1110 (2005)

The Nokia 1110 was released in 2005 with features almost similar to the Nokia 1100 with it being simple to use and having a last-long battery as well at an affordable price.

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With a sale value of over 247 million units, the Nokia 1110 is the second best-selling phone of all time and some of you might have lived to see this phone back in the day.

1. Nokia 1100 (2003)

The best-selling phone of all time falls to the classic Nokia 1100 with a staggering sale of over 250 million units across the globe. It was launched in 2003 and despite many modern phones being released in the market, the Nokia 1100 still remains the favorite of its users.

The Nokia 1100 was designed at Nokia Design Center in California and was patented by Dimitre Mehandjiysky. However, in 2009 the Nokia 110 officially stopped in the making.

Source:

• Wikipedia

• Iluminasi

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