The table shows the number of mobile phones sold in millions for a period of six years. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table gives information about the number of mobile phones traded in millions from 2006 to 2012 which are for 5 brands: Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, and Apple.

Overall

, Both Samsung and Apple increased the number of items sold

while

others fell.

To begin

, Samsung had 117 million phones sold,

then

kept rising until it reached 396.5 in 2012 which was the highest at that time.

Next,

Apple had significant growth which was 2.3 in 2007, and it doubled the numbers every year and

then

ended up to 135.8 in 2012. Nokia,

on the other hand

, steadily dropped the numbers in 6 years.

Although

there was slight fluctuation above 400, it

finally

went down to 335 in 2012 which was a 10 difference from the initial figure.

Then

for both Motorola and Ericsson, they started at 210 and 74 respectively

then

experienced a steep decline and ended up at the same number which was 28 in 2012.