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.

This

bar chart depicts how many mobile phones were sold worldwide

from

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the top five

brands

in three different years.

Overall

, it can be seen that even though people bought all

brands

of mobiles over the given time with different percentages, most of them preferred buying

Samsung

and

Nokia

.

According to

what is shown, in 2009, the

sales

of

Nokia

were the highest, at about 440

million

which

were

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was

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roughly twice the

sales

of

Samsung

in the same year.

However

, in 2011, the sold

units

of

Samsung

increased,

they

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but they

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were still lower than the

sales

of

Nokia

by about 200

million

. But, in 2013, it was the opposite

to

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the beginning, as the

sales

of

Samsung

became about 430

million

which

were

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was

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approximately the double

sales

of

Nokia

. Regarding the other

brands

of phones, Apple represented the

least

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lowest

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figure for selling, at about 4

million

units

, in 2009 compared to the others.

Although

the number of LG sold

units

decreased gradually every year, the

sales

of ZTE were nearly similar, at about 7

million

units

.

To sum up

, we could say that the

sales

of

Samsung

and

Nokia

showed the greatest figures in comparison to all other

brands

.