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 comparison where relevant.

The table provides information on the amount of portable mobiles sold by five major technology companies from 2006 to 2012, with each number representing a million sold.

Ericsson

and

Motorola

showed a clear downward trend, even when the former started with an optimistic one.

While

Ericsson

started with 74 in 2006 and increased to 102 in 2007, the rest of its

sales

gradually dropped, from 95 in 2008 to 28 in 2012.

Motorola

started with 210 in 2006 without any notable change outside of a sharp fall. By 2012,

Motorola

and

Ericsson

were tied for the least amount of

sales

with 28 million.

On the other hand

, Samsung and

Apple

rose with every opportunity. Despite

Apple

's lack of

sales

in 2006 and its rough start with 2.3 in 2007,

Apple

skyrocketed to 135.8 in 2012. Samsung was not facing the same problems, it had 117 in 2006 and consistently rose to 396.5 in 2012.

Lastly

,

Nokia

had the strongest start with 345 in 2006. It had a generally fluctuated trend,

Nokia

reached its highest point of 475 in 2008 before it fell to 442 in 2009. It increased again to 463 in 2010, and the graph ended with a dive for

Nokia

to 335 in 2012. In summary, throughout the

six year

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period,

sales

from

Ericsson

and

Motorola

fell dramatically

while

ones from

Apple

and Samsung rose exponentially.

Nokia

was the odd one out with how its

sales

fluctuated yet generally dropped.