How many mobile phones are sold every year?

During 2006 the industry sold about 950 million mobile phones. More phones sold last year than the total installed base of personal computers in use. Out of the 950 phones sold last year, two in three had built-in cameras, 30% had MP3 players. Four out of five had colour screens. All 950 million could access the web (at least via WAP), and all 950 million could send and receive SMS text messages. Over two in three were high speed (at least GPRS/EDGE/CDMA2000 1xRTT); while one in five phones sold last year was a 3G phone.

Furthermore it is interesting to note that the mobile phone industry sold 1.3 billion new phones last year (2007), up from 1 Billion the year before (2006), which is a huge increase.

Source: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/01/putting_27_bill.html

Go back to Next_generation_mobile_devices_2015