Everyone’s had a bad experience with a tech product. Maybe you bought a cheap smartphone and it stopped working weeks later, or even worse – you bought an expensive flagship phone that defected on you, or otherwise failed to meet your expectations.
Well, you’re not alone. We’ve all had our share of disappointment with certain phones over the years. Below are some of the worst smartphones each of us has ever used, along with what made them disappointing to us.
Share your own story! Let us know in the comment section which smartphone is the worst you’ve ever used and why.
Well, the headset’s two buttons worked for about a single day before defecting, the smartphone began overheating during 4K and even 1080p camera recordings, plus it never got the promised software update to Android 7 that I was really excited for. About the time I started noticing the phone’s many problems, I realized Alcatel didn’t even have proper tech support channels I could reach out to.
Maybe Nokia improved the software via updates later but at the time I couldn’t wait to switch back to my daily driver. There’s a reason the successor to the Nokia 9 is yet to be released, there is plenty of work to be done for Nokia to make things right.”
We all love something new and different, but such experiments with smartphones have almost always lead to disappointments: the cool-looking LG Wing is a phone that is just too big and bulky to be comfortable, experiment for the sake of experimenting; the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 is a futuristic new design with many advantages, but also way too heavy and impractical for most users; and back in the day, other phone experiments like modular phones (remember that?), phones with 3D screens, super thick and heavy devices, incredibly tiny phones, phones in the shape of a pencil, and all other sorts of weird ideas have just left people disappointed.
So my worst experience recently has not been with one particular smartphone, but with a general trend: experiments made just for the sake of releasing something a bit different than others, not fully tested or thought out.”
The camera was so slow it was painful. It only offered 16GB of built-in storage, so I was constantly trying to free up space. This all got worse with updates, not that there were many of those. Nowadays Sony’s known for fast updates, but back then it would take 7-8 months for new versions to roll out.
Oh, and remember the water & dust resistance I mentioned? Yeah, that came to an end after about 6 months when the rubber seals started to peel off the flaps. Eventually, I pulled the flaps off entirely because they wouldn’t stay closed.
I held onto the phone for two years. Towards the end, I hated it so much that I swore I’d never buy a Sony phone again. In conclusion, I should have bought the HTC One (M8).”
But the hardware part of the product was flawed in many ways. The front of the phone slowly accumulated scratches from being put in and pulled out of the dock. The dock lost charge too quickly. The charging port didn’t work well with third-party cables. Dust was getting inside the phone through the headphone jack which eventually crippled the camera. After some time, the plastic back of the phone which was glued to the frame with double-sided tape came off. Despite all this, I managed to sell the PadFone online to a guy who seemed like an Asus fan. Fun times!”
Source: Phonearena
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