Although smartphones are the norm these days, the good old push-button mobiles still have their place in the market, and last year, for example, a whopping 396 million of them were sold. An even more surprising finding is the fact that the manufacturer with the highest share of the dumb phone market is the South Korean Samsung. Last year, it ruled both the smartphone market and the push-button phone market.
At the same time, Samsung stopped selling all phones without an operating system in Europe a year and a half ago. However, it is still available in other markets, especially in Asia, and this is where the highest sales come from.
With its 52,3 million units sold, according to Strategy Analytics holds a market share of 13,2%. A bit behind it was good old Nokia, which sold 35,3 million dumb phones and won a market share of 8,9%. A bit behind the company with Finnish roots was the Chinese TCL-Alcatel with 27,9 million units and a 7% market share. But the first three mentioned manufacturers controlled only less than 30% of the market. Other brands took care of the vast majority of sales, which together sold the remaining 280,5 million classic phones.
| Producer | Market share | Number of units sold |
| Samsung | 13,2% | 52,3 |
| Nokia | 8,9% | 35,3 |
| TCL-Alcatel | 7,0% | 27,9 |
| Other | 70,8% | 280,5 |
| total | 100% | 396 |
The analysis shows us that there is still interest in dumb phones without an operating system, although less and less every year. Margins here are minimal for manufacturers, so companies are slowly moving away from them and trying to focus primarily on smartphones, where the biggest profits come from. But, for example, such a Nokia did not do very well in the field of smartphones, which was primarily Microsoft's fault. That is why the once seemingly invincible king, now under the leadership of the Chinese, made up his mind restore your legendary 3310 model,
