10 Epic smartphone fails we'll never forget.

Today we're going to count down some of the most

epic

smartphone

fails

in history, which started out pretty bad but ended in a complete disaster. Number 10 is the Galaxy Fold, for which all hell broke loose when Samsung's revolutionary

smartphone

started failing before it reached consumers there. It was later a teardown by iFixit that showed a lot of design vulnerabilities, such as the gap in the screen bezel and hinges when the phone is folded, which would give room for dirt to get trapped in a problem still older, although it came from reviewers. peeling off what looked like the built-in screen protector, but what was actually part of the screen structure, here's the problem: if a polymer film is not to be removed, then it must be designed so that it cannot be removed from the device. a solid three in ten fail here, saved in part only because it was detected before the product reached consumers.

The Facebook Phone, also known as HTC, was the first phone in the world to use Facebook Home, a heavy software skin on top of Android. It was a mid-range phone built for the masses, both Facebook and HTC thought this could be huge and to their credit, where only Facebook itself wasn't terrible, it was where the Facebook chat heads that you probably used to use now were introduced and You could see all your Facebook notifications on the entire lock screen, but it worked so poorly that within a month of being on sale, AT&T lowered the contract price from $99 to 99 cents, the main reason being that everything was a little disappointing while was. a new look compared to stock Android, many of its features could be downloaded on other Android phones which frankly had better hardware, so this one also got a three out of ten, number eight is virtue, which is a company founded by Nokia for the purpose. of creating super premium phones and by this I don't mean $1000 or even two thousand dollars.

I'm talking about devices that go up to fifty thousand dollars. The idea behind Virtue was to market phones as fashion accessories to separate them. They separated themselves from all these other smartphones that were competing on specs and instead tried to compete on materials and workmanship, they said if people can pay twenty thousand dollars for a watch, then why not on a mobile phone? And to be clear, this in itself was not the problem, I actually think they had it pretty good, the problem arose because, while these guys were making small phones by hand, they were up against companies like Samsung with the ability to produce in mass, so virtue was always behind the curve at that time.

Virtue had released a phone, it was already a year behind on specs and when people spend $50,000 on a phone, having the latest components is a minimum requirement, it wasn't long before the company was seriously in debt and then had to close. so I have to give this a fail rating of 4 out of 10, pretty disastrous result, but at the same time it wasn't a big surprise that the Google project was a really exciting prospect; We're talking about a completely modular phone that people could customize to their needs. needs those on a limited budget could choose the features that were important to them, like maybe a big battery, and enthusiasts could go all out and build the phone of their dreams, plus it would greatly reduce the upgrade cost instead of change a complete phone. literally do good to change the parts you wanted to change and there is also an environmental benefit as fewer devices would be thrown away, so this sounds amazing but there were too many problems with this, the main water comes down to complexity, imagine this.

Google essentially gives people a framework upon which consumers can choose whatever parts they want and that part is fine, but what if different consumers want different sized phones? So Google offers five different sizes of frames and then separately sized versions of each? a single component to go with them, you should also keep in mind that because this framework needs to be future-proofed and at least able to support high-end components, if you were trying to build a cheap phone then chances are that if the body itself would end up costing as much or more than the rest of its components, which is why the Ara project is also getting a 4 out of 10.

It's a pretty big failure, but at the same time it started and ended like a dream. A final product was

never

actually announced. Number six is ​​from Microsoft, which invested around two years and a billion dollars in what ended up becoming Kin. The core concept here was to create a home screen that brought together all the different social networks in one place. The idea. It was decent and to be fair the company was also arriving at a good time, right at the beginning of this social media revolution, but the problem was that it's almost comical how many features were missing, the feeds were only updated once every 15 minutes, the phone had no app store and you couldn't even use any messaging app.

It's kind of ironic for a phone focused on social media that a company like Microsoft made such a misstep and that it cost them so much is a huge failure. in my books, so that's a 5 out of 10, let me tell you something that very rarely works. Companies that have nothing to do with smartphones suddenly jump in and try to build a flagship, the red hydrogen one, is a shining example of this. A company that specializes in Hollywood film cameras started out as an exciting idea with an apparent holographic display and ultra-high-end modular camera system, but it seems Red was so focused on trying to stand out that they forgot why most phones are built as they are, so the hydrogen one ended up being the polar opposite of all of them and not in a good way, they completely skipped the trends of having a vivid OLED screen, something like thin bezels or generally having a pocket phone that was a reasonable size in your hand, add to this that the device was delayed twice due to manufacturing issues and this was a sticky situation, so six out of ten for this number four is the storm Blackberry from 2008 and we're talking about a device here that has been described as the worst smartphone of all time, that's the whole title and part of what makes this such a miserable failure is how much there was going for it , the storm pushed many of the same features of the iPhone as it was.

Facing but with a clickable touchscreen and the company's famously good messaging services and yet the experience on the phone was literally horrible, it used pretty much the same operating system as the previous non-touchscreen BlackBerry , so it wasn't as polished as iOS which was built for this, ironically coming from Blackberry the typing sucked - it was ruined by a combination of lag and only being able to hit one key at a time, so this one gets a 7 out of 10 in my opinion it's definitely a key factor in the downfall of blackberry number three and you might be wondering how on earth you can be worse than the worst smartphone ever, welcome to freedom two five one one company smartphone which brings Bells that went on sale in India for around $4, you got it right, $4 the price of a cup of coffee for many people, as you may have guessed, so this pretty much destroyed the internet for a moment, raking in almost 50 million of pre-registrations in the first week.

I'm pretty sure some kind of record will be set. but how many of those 50 million actually ended up being well delivered according to reports? It looks like between sixty-five thousand and five thousand and then because the CEO was not following his orders, he refused to offer a refund and, more importantly, he threatened to kill one of his customers, then kill him. arrested, but now he is free and is trying to convince the government to subsidize the phone. What it says is that all of India would be better off if everyone had an unlocked phone and therefore the government should be. covering part of the cost so that Indians can still buy it at an affordable price.

Everything is an absolute disaster. I give this one an 8 out of 10. Next up is the iPhone 6 bendgate and if you didn't know, essentially the iPhone 6. and especially the 6 plus just wasn't as bend resistant as it should have been. There was a particular point on the zhan chassis where if pressure was applied, the device would deform in one hand. This was disproportionate as it really only affected people. those who ate had no case and B were quite careless with their device, but on the other hand it almost didn't matter, there was a problem and since everyone likes to make fun of Apple, what started as a post on a forum about Mac rumors. turned into a viral YouTube video and a prank by other brands and then it simply means that it even resulted in a drop in the stock price of apples, so this is easily an 8 out of 10 error, but the reigning champion is still being the Galaxy Note 7 if not I don't know, a series of battery problems made the Note Seven, shall we say, more prone to exploding than it should have been, but that's not even the worst: the phone exploded, which They took it off the market, remanufactured it and then started blowing it up again and although this was a much easier mistake to make than what happened with the Freedom phone, which was practically a fraud.

Samsung has more to lose than ringing bells, so the impact was greater all at once. Something had done two things that no company wants to be caught doing. customer at risk and making the same mistake twice now, actually the two separate batches of Note Seven had different problems, but because they both have the same result, Samsung was not actually seen losing trust, which is very difficult to recover, so "I give this a prestigious 9 out of 10 because it can always get worse. There are a lot of ferns that I managed to include in this video, such as the Amazon Fire phone and the Samsung Galaxy Round, but anyway I really hope that have enjoyed it and I.

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