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 makecomparisons where relevant.

Contained in the illustration is information pertaining to mobile phone

sales

by five technology organizations between 2006 and 2012. From an observational perspective, it can be seen that Samsung and Apple witnessed upward trends

while

Nokia

, Ericsson and Motorola experienced downward trends.

Additionally

,

Nokia

dominated the market for the majority of

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. Looking at the chart in

further

detail, Samsung stood at 117

million

sales

in 2006 before increasing rapidly to 320

million

in 2011. In 2012, Samsung knocked down the

Nokia

monopoly with 396.5

million

sales

.

Similarly

, Apple began in 2007 with only 2.3

million

sales

which was the lowest

sales

of all but climbed continuously to 135.8

million

unit

sales

in 2012. Turning to the remaining companies,

Nokia

sold the most mobile phones of all with 345 units in 2006 and saw a fluctuation

between

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in the next 4 years.

However

, it managed to get the

sales

to 422

million

but dropped by almost 100

million

sales

in 2012. The same pattern can be observed in Ericsson and Motorola, they started at 74

million

and 210

million

sales

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respectively. During the following 6 years, both manufacturers'

sales

decreased dramatically to the same point at 28

million

sales

.