According to the statistics of the "2021 Smartphone Market Tracking Report", the Samsung Galaxy A12 topped the list of the top 10 best-selling mobile phones last year. For the full year, sales in 2021 reached 51.8 million units.
Samsung Galaxy A12 (Image from the Internet)
The iPhones 12, 13 and 11, which occupied the second to fourth places, sold 41.7 million, 34.9 million units and 33.6 million units, respectively. These iPhones are regular models in their series and are priced lower than the corresponding Pro and Pro Max models.
Apple's iPhone 13, released this year, is the second-lowest-priced model in the series, just above the iPhone 13 mini. The lowest-priced version of the model has 128GB of storage and costs $829, which is comparable to last year's iPhone 12 64GB version. But because of the larger storage space, the overall average selling price of the iPhone 13 is higher than its counterpart last year. Despite the increase in price, shipments of the iPhone 13 still reached 34.9 million units, more than 10 million units higher than the 23.3 million units of the iPhone 12 last year.
Top 10 smartphone best-selling rankings (image from the Internet)
Occupying no. 5 on the list is Xiaomi's Redmi 9A. Xiaomi's Redmi 9A sales reached 26.8 million units. The average selling price of the model is about $78, which is only about 1/10 of the price of Apple's iPhone models, which ranks high in shipments.
The ranking of 6 to 9 is still occupied by Apple, with shipments exceeding 20 million units. Apple's total shipments last year were 234.5 million units. Although the average selling price of the Pro model is much higher than $1,000, shipments still exceed 20 million units. Apple's total shipments of phones last year were 234.5 million units, 39 percent of which were models that sold for an average price of more than $1,000. This ratio is the highest in Apple's history.
The last of the top 10 is Samsung's Galaxy A02. Shipments last year were 18.3 million units. This is the second cheapest model in the top 10, the first is Xiaomi's Redmi 9A.