Infographic: Mobile Phone Sales in the Last Decade
Posted Mar 26, 2011
The gang at VisionMobile put together this pretty infographic showing mobile phone sales by handset manufacturer over the last ten years. The graphic is organized to show the top five sellers for each year. Nokia crushes the competition every year, with (wow) over 3 billion handsets over the last decade. Meanwhile, the chart shows Motorola evaporating, while two new faces (RIM/BlackBerry and Apple/iPhone) crack the top-five list for the first time in 2010.
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