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2005 mobile phone sales

High-end phones, such as those with 3G capabilities and music or video players proved even more popular than last year with 55 million of the devices sold in 2005. This was a 165% increase on the previous 12 months.

The high-end phones are the most profitable for the makers, but they still make up a fairly small part of the overall market. More than 825 million phones were sold in 2005, high-end phones represented less than 7% of this figure.

Of the total number of phones sold, Nokia made 32% of them, or 265 million. They were followed by Motorola with 146 million, and then Samsung, LG and Sony Ericson.

The order is the same as last year, though Sony Ericsson closed the gap on LG from 1.6 million to just 100,000.

The fastest growing market was Latin America, which saw sales grow 34% to 105 million phones sold.

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