Nokia sells its 1 billionth mobile phone
September 5th was the day in which the world saw its two billionth mobile phone subscriber. Now Nokia claims it has just sold its one billionth phone to the market, meaning one in every two phones out there are Nokias. This is quite an accomplishment, but some of the figures underlying that success are even more amazing...
Amazing Nokia figures
- The world's best-selling phone, the Nokia 3310 / 3330 sold 126 million units from its launch in 2000 until its "retirement" earlier this year. For comparison, the combined total of all Nokia phones sold between 1991 and 1998 is 100 million.
- If all the Nokia 3310/3330 phones sold were laid end-to-end, the line would stretch from Helsinki, Finland to Santiago, Chile - over 13,500 kilometers.
- In 1991 Nokia sold 800 000 phones. In 2004, it manufactured 207.7 million phones, which equals 6.5 phones per second.
- Nokia consumes 100 billion components on annual level. On average, one phone includes up to 400 components.
