Do you know: That is the best-selling telephone of all time

It’s no secret that Samsung and Apple now dominate the smartphone market, however if you wish to discuss in regards to the best-selling telephone of all time, you must go all the best way again to the pre-smartphone period. It was a time when Snake II was the largest cell sport round, and digital camera telephones have been nonetheless comparatively novel.

The most effective-selling telephone of all time is the Nokia 1100, and regardless of transport greater than 250 million items because it was launched in 2003, most of you might have in all probability by no means had one.

Though costly luxurious smartphones get the lion’s share of protection within the cell world, price range telephones are what most individuals are utilizing. Certainly, even the most cost effective of recent smartphones can meet the essential wants of the plenty, with strong efficiency and an honest function set for a number of hundred bucks.

Nokia understood this when it launched the Nokia 1100 in August of 2003. The sturdy little candybar-style telephone was designed for rising markets like Russia, India, and China. It’s not fairly as sturdy because the legendary Nokia 3310, however it has extra mud safety and grips on the facet for humid environments.

In Nokia’s personal phrases in its official press launch, the purpose was to “supply first-time customers dependable performance, simplicity and worth for cash.”

What was a primary telephone in 2003?

The Nokia 1100 was an uninspiring design when it first got here out, however it nonetheless nailed the fundamentals for many customers. What sorts of options have been folks in search of? Nicely, right here’s a fast checklist of what the Nokia 1100 needed to supply:

• 96×65 monochromatic show
• Dustproof design
• Voice and textual content messaging with a 50-message capability
• Storage for as much as 50 contacts
• 36 pre-installed monophonic ringtones and the flexibility to compose seven unique ringtones
• Replaceable battery with 400h of standby time
• Constructed-in flashlight, alarm clock, stopwatch, and calculator
• Snake II and House Affect+ video games

The telephone remained well-liked all through its 2003-2009 run. It made the information in early 2009 after a batch of Nokia 1100 telephones may very well be hacked to ship textual content messages from any quantity, opening the gates for every kind of cyber fraud. Criminals paid upwards of $30,000 for the flawed units, and it could have been the ultimate nail within the coffin for the ultra-popular telephone.

Whereas the Nokia 1100 tops the checklist, there are many different telephones that broke the 200 million mark. Second place is taken by the Nokia 1110, which is a really comparable mannequin that was launched in 2005. It’s only a hair under its predecessor, with gross sales approaching 250 million.

If you wish to speak about smartphones, the best-selling units are the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, with a mixed complete of greater than 220 million gross sales. These telephones introduced in a brand new period of “massive” screens and actually cemented Apple’s place in 2014. Remnants of the iPhone 6’s design can nonetheless be seen in all price range iPhone SE fashions at the moment.

Of the highest 10, Nokia takes up 4 slots, whereas Apple iPhones take the remaining six. Regardless of being the largest smartphone producer from 2010-2023, the one Samsung system to interrupt the highest 20 is the 2009 Samsung E1100 with 150 million gross sales. The traditional clamshell Motorola RAZR V3 additionally breaks the highest 20 with 130 million gross sales.

The remainder of the highest 20 is nothing however Nokia and Apple. Granted, the entire Nokia telephones on the checklist are greater than a decade previous, relationship to earlier than Microsoft’s disastrous acquisition of Nokia’s cell division in 2013. Certain, you’ll be able to nonetheless purchase Nokia branded telephones from HMD, however the period of Finnish candybar magic has come and gone.