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With 1.5B sold each year, 5B seems unrealistic https://www.zippia.com/advice/us-smartphone-industry-statistics/#:~:text=General%20U.S.%20Smartphone%20Industry%

• robocat 4y ago
  From googling: “The worldwide mobile phone market 1,655.7 million units shipped in 2021”, “Global smartphone market 1.39 billion units in 2021”, “In 2021, the number of mobile devices operating worldwide stood at almost 15 billion”. I couldn’t find feature-phone production numbers split out - but poorer people won’t replace phones unless they have to so smart-phone waste is more likely to be relevant.