The chart below shows global sales of the top five mobile phone brands between 2009 and 2013. Write a report for a university, lecturer describing the information shown below. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The bar chart illustrates the number of phones sold by five different mobile phone brands worldwide over the period of 4 years from 2009 to 2013.

Overall

, it is noticeable that the major sales came from Samsung and

Nokia

and there were two opposing trends for 5 brands. Samsung, Apple and ZTE were in accending status

while

Nokia

and LG were in descending tendency. A deep analysis of the bar chart provided reveals that from the growing group, the highest sales belonged to Samsung which sold around 240

million

mobile phones in 2009, and

then

it continued

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its

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upward to reach a high of 450

million

phones in 2013. Apple had the same trend when started at about 20 and level up to 150

million

units

in the same period . ZTE figures showed that there was a slight and stable development when almost sales were around 50 to 60

million

units

over the period of 4 years. It is clear from the chart that,

Nokia

and LG have the same downward movement in revenue.

Nokia

got the earnings of 440

million

units

in 2009 and significantly dropped to 250

million

units

in 2013,

whereas

, LG figures were 120 and 80

million

units

in the same order.