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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.

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.
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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
time
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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
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words sales, nokia, million with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "trends" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • sales volume
  • consistent increase/decrease
  • sales spike
  • remarkable drop
  • steady growth
  • fluctuation in sales
  • technological advancements
  • market competition
  • economic changes
  • sales performance
  • sales figures
  • overall trend
  • anomalies
  • external factors
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