Most Popular Cell Phone Brands Ever 1977 – 2020

Most Popular Cell Phone Brands Ever 1977 – 2020

Best Selling Cell Phone Brands 1978 – 2020

I remade this video because it didn’t have enough info and I wanted to research the start of the cell phone era.

Cell phone technology was introduced to the US in 1976 by OKI Electric, a Japanese company. They were in a race with Motorola to finalize and unveil the technology. Although they won the race, Motorola managed to set up the first test markets in Chicago and Washington DC. These are the brands that produced cell phones from the beginning until now. Researching all this information took me days. It entailed going through old industry data and company financial reports, hopefully you’ll enjoy it.

1G networks could handle 100k callers vs 20 callers on radiotelephone networks.

One of the First portable cellphones was the Mobira Senator (Nokia) which weighed 22 lb.

Japanese and European cellphones dominated the 80s because of higher quality while American phones had 5x the defects.

1984
Motorola DynaTAC
First handheld1,800 units sold at $3,995

1985
Technophone Excell (Nokia) 1st Pocketable Cellphone

1986
Mitsubishi Roamer
1st Side-Mounted Battery

1987
OKI CDL 350XC
1st OKI Handheld Phone

1988
Samsung SH-100
First Samsung Handheld Phone

1989
Motorola MicroTAC
1st Flip-Phone Design

1990
Motorola MicroTAC
White Version Released

1992
Nokia 1011
1st Handheld 2G Phone (GSM)

1994
Nokia 2110
Introduced Nokia’s Iconic Ringtone

1996
Motorola StarTAC
60 million units sold

1997
Siemens S10
1st Color LCD Screen

1998
Samsung SGH-500
Response to Motorola StarTAC

1999
Nokia 3210
160 million units sold

2000
Nokia 3310
126 million units sold
2001
Japan launches 1st 3G network with NEC phones

2002
Blackberry 5820
1st Blackberry phone

2003
Nokia 1100
250 million units sold

2004
Motorola RAZR
130 million units sold

2005
Nokia 1110
250 million units sold

2006
Nokia N95
1st Modern Smartphone7 million units sold

2007
1st iPhone
6 million units sold

2008
HTC G1
1st Android1.6 million units sold

2009
Nokia 5230
Symbian OS150 million units sold

2010
HTC Evo 4G
1st 4G phone

2011
Samsung Galaxy S II
40 million units sold

2013
Samsung Galaxy S4
80 million units sold

2014
iPhone 6/6+
222 million units sold

2015
Nokia 105
200 million units sold

2016
Samsung Galaxy S7
55 million units sold

2017
iPhone X
63 million units sold

2019
Samsung Galaxy S10 5G
1st 5G Phone
What was your first cell phone ever?

50 Comments

  1. Captain Gizmo on September 16, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    My first phone was the Motorola 120c, I pimped it out with a clear body, extending antenna and a flashing LED battery. What was your first?



  2. ZDITZ on September 16, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    Fun fact : even in 2021, can’t beat the simple design of Nokia🏆



  3. NGB ` on September 16, 2021 at 11:27 pm

    Motorola e398



  4. Babu Babu on September 16, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    Nokia 1100 is my first mobile❤️
    Nokia 8 sirocco is my courant mobile 🔥



  5. Radu-Cristian Toma on September 16, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    Didnt expect that huge difference between apple and the top 2 brands lmao. Long live samsung and nokia 😎



  6. Shamshad Alam on September 16, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    I first use Nokia 7380 slide



  7. DIGITALGODS on September 16, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    motorola razr so swag



  8. ZDITZ on September 16, 2021 at 11:32 pm

    Now this is called War



  9. Krishna Raghav on September 16, 2021 at 11:32 pm

    Nokia



  10. Cody Lucus on September 16, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    They didn’t include how KYOCERA made the first phone with a camera



  11. Daniel Vargas on September 16, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    Motorola Nokia and Siemens best



  12. XTR GAMING ERA on September 16, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    Nokia ❤️



  13. Dmitry Tarasov on September 16, 2021 at 11:35 pm

    The first one was Phillips Xenium 9@98



  14. Shah Fardin Alam on September 16, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    What happened to novatel tho? It kinda stopped in 1994 :/



  15. Krisp on September 16, 2021 at 11:39 pm

    Im not even mad nokia chan



  16. Guwanaka Insara on September 16, 2021 at 11:40 pm

    HTC desire 816 was my first cell phone



  17. DINOREX on September 16, 2021 at 11:40 pm

    Oppo is the best



  18. miekel Lämërs on September 16, 2021 at 11:41 pm

    Dont know what my first Phone was but it was a flip Phone. I think i got it somewhere around 2009



  19. Chris Descoteaux on September 16, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    Your video is wrong the worlds first 5g phone is the moto z 3 by Motorola it just wasn’t advertised very well I only know because I had one a full year before the s10 5g came out.



  20. Masud Bin Arif on September 16, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    iPhone



  21. Balika Magare on September 16, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    Nokia 3210 is best



  22. Lorens Uy on September 16, 2021 at 11:44 pm

    My first phone was a Nokia



  23. Shawty #StanEvil on September 16, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    Mitsubishi???????



  24. haha blahblah on September 16, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    Apple has sold much less phones than nokia or samsung yet is the richest company of all time.. tells you something doesnt it?



  25. Liv Em on September 16, 2021 at 11:46 pm

    My first cell was a Motorola Razer! It was lavender 😍 I miss it 😭



  26. sean daly on September 16, 2021 at 11:47 pm

    I thought Samsung were in the lead but nevermind then



  27. Piotr Swatko on September 16, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    My first phone was Sagem MY3022



  28. Pushp Raj on September 16, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    My first phone was Nokia X2-01. I still have it… working condition!



  29. Be Quite on September 16, 2021 at 11:52 pm

    33 10 is the best haha



  30. Craig Tempest on September 16, 2021 at 11:53 pm

    I thought apple would completely dominate in the end, my eyes fooled me and I’m proud of nokia even more now



  31. Baris Coskun [Student] on September 16, 2021 at 11:58 pm

    Mitsubishi made phones?



  32. ZipJ on September 16, 2021 at 11:58 pm

    Wait what? I thought iPhone would be nr 1 easily lol. Everyone here has one



  33. Koffash on September 16, 2021 at 11:58 pm

    My first phone was a Samsung A1, and my current phone is a Samsung A21S.



  34. LCunrivalled on September 16, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    very nice. Would love to see update to present



  35. Rylan Pedroza on September 17, 2021 at 12:04 am

    My first phone was the Galaxy S 3 Imao



  36. Mayank Jalwanshi on September 17, 2021 at 12:04 am

    Nokia is legendary phone📱



  37. Sudhir Kumar Sharma on September 17, 2021 at 12:07 am

    Nokia my first mobile phone 📱



  38. gerison on September 17, 2021 at 12:07 am

    I am surprised that nor Sony nor Sony Ericsson didn’t climb up high enough 🤔 or they were under Ericsson?



  39. Billi Michaud on September 17, 2021 at 12:08 am

    iPhone 5 se



  40. Candel Gaming on September 17, 2021 at 12:08 am

    Now 2021 Is Xiaomi Time Check This is on 1st Place according to Sells After June 2021🔥



  41. ViolinistJeff on September 17, 2021 at 12:09 am

    Didn´t Nokia totally collapse after its failure with the Lumia series?



  42. Danilo Tomchuk on September 17, 2021 at 12:11 am

    I guess Huawei included Honor division as well, because now they are separated



  43. Corné Nieuwenhuize on September 17, 2021 at 12:12 am

    My first phone i think was a Sony xperia 5



  44. Demented Offroad on September 17, 2021 at 12:12 am

    My first phone was a Nokia 3310



  45. lite gaming on September 17, 2021 at 12:13 am

    बकवास nmbr one पर Samsung h



  46. Andrew Mills on September 17, 2021 at 12:14 am

    I’m surprised the razor didn’t have a bigger impact I feel like everyone had one



  47. shqiprim sadiki on September 17, 2021 at 12:16 am

    Siemens m35



  48. Lone Potato • on September 17, 2021 at 12:17 am

    My first phone was a Nokia 3210~ I lost it at a restaurant around 2008 ;-; I used Sony Ericsson after that around 2010-2011, then on 2015 I got a Huawei smartphone, changed to Xiaomi on 2018 and owned 3 of them.



  49. Toiness Boss on September 17, 2021 at 12:17 am

    Legends say people are still trying to figure out how to break a Nokia phone



  50. Anisus Htr on September 17, 2021 at 12:21 am

    2015 : Nokia 105 😱😱😱 … no one beats Nokia , they will make a basic phone successful in the era of smartphones 💪🙏💪🙏 ..