Despite the worldwide financial crisis, the mobile industry had quite a successful year. Mobile phones are evolving and becoming much more than just something to use for calling and texting. Social networking has boomed, cameras have almost overtaken compacts and applications are the future. Therefore, mobile phone makers adapted and created wonderful, amazing phones that brought them a huge profit.

For instance, Samsung said its Star (S5230) multimedia mobile phone introduced in May is its best selling mobile so far, after the Samsung T-100, Samsung E700, Samsung D500, Samsung J700 and Samsung E250, with sales passing 10 million units within six months of the launch. The manufacturer said that 5 million Star handsets were sold until August, September and October both brought sales of over 2 million units, so the 10 million was reached quite fast. About 5 million Stars were sold in Europe (UK, Italy, the Netherlands and so on), 1.6 million in Latin America, 900,000 in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and 800,000 in China. And we didn’t mention the units that Santa left under the Christmas tree…

Close to the Samsung Star is another beautiful handset, LG Cookie. The phone has sold at a rate of over one million units every month this year and the company has shipped more than 10-million units since its launch in November 2008. The Cookie is LG’s fifth phone to achieve this impressive milestone following the LG Chocolate, LG Shine, LG KP100 and LG KG270. Europeans go crazy for this handset, since more than half of the 5 million units were sold on the continent, with top sales in France, the UK and Italy, two million in Latin America and two million in Asia. The Cookie reached the mark in a mere 13 months, making it the fastest-selling full Touchphone in LG’s history.

Nokia is also in the top with two million Nokia N97 handsets sold globally since its summer launch. Global sales of the N97 have surpassed expectations. It claimed to have gained more sales of the N97 at launch than of its predecessor the N95. Nokia currently has 1.1 billion customers globally using its devices.

Last but not the least, HTC’s Second Android Device, the HTC Magic (or T-Mobile myTouch 3G or Google Ion), has just surpassed 1 million units sold. The Magic was launched in many parts across the world in April and in August in the United States of America, recording a definite success for HTC.
However, if we look back at the entire decade, we find out that even if technology evolved and cell phones are no longer what they used to be, none of the wonderful and well-equipped handsets mentioned above is the no.1 best selling phone. Unbelievably, Nokia 1100, a durable and very simple GSM mobile phone produced by Nokia with a 96 x 65 monochrome screen, beats every Smartphone and touchscreen on the market, with 200 million units sold across the globe.

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