12 BRUTAL Smartphone Fails they want you to forget.

okay 12 the

smartphone

crashes it's starting out bad but ending terribly let's do this so if you haven't heard yet that the Escobar company made a small phone and some claims were made that Apple was scamming people the samson was about to end and that Escobar was the solution, as it turned out that the company basically took a Samsung phone, put an Escobar sticker on it, and sent it only two reviewers in my first video about this. I basically said I would have to wait to see if other people's orders were delivered sooner. I might even think about recommending this and those orders were not delivered so stay away.

I give this one a failure rating of 2 out of 10. Number 11 is the Meizu 0. You may remember this one was doing the rounds last year. marketed as the world's first carry-free

smartphone

, meaning no USB C port, no buttons, no speaker and definitely no headphone jack as a concept. I can see the appeal of getting a fully integrated phone and because all the buttons are virtual you can use it. any guidance, but hey, for starters, I think the portlets sound a lot better than the whole thing and the whole thing isn't even technically true. The phone still had four microphones, but this was not the problem you think about when buying a small phone.

You probably have a list of priorities in your head and you

want

to have a great camera for photos, a great screen for watching videos and a great battery that will last all day. I don't think I've ever thought in my life that you know. What I hate are the buttons, the phone doesn't solve a problem people really have and while keeping us, it's definitely the direction phones will start to head in becoming homeless, in itself it's not a point sales, as a result the phone didn't reach its crowdfunding goal and simply disappeared, so 2 out of 10

fails

again for this one.

Now the name of the telephone blocks may not ring a bell, but the image probably does. There's a guy named Dave Hawkins. He made a video on YouTube while talking about how small phones are. he wasn't built to last, but also how he came up with a solution: a modular phone where he could customize his phone with the features he cared about and replace individual parts if

they

break instead of replacing the entire phone and see when he needs it. . or you

want

an update you can just update the bits you want to update again, not all of this sounds like a dream and people clearly thought that the videos have like 20 million views right now but somehow it quietly disappeared due to a problem important that generates the concept.

From a sustainability point of view, I have a feeling that you could greatly reduce the amount of waste if, instead of throwing away the fern when you're done, you could simply replace part of it, but it doesn't make sense from a profit perspective if the own blocks are own. I mean it was just one person,

they

don't have the ability to build the fern themselves and if you think about companies like Samsung and Huawei, they don't want to be within a mile radius of this idea because it would kill their entire business model. existing and as much as I think modular phones are great, it's plagued by some pretty fundamental problems, like the fact that for an average user it's better to let a company decide what's important to you and just buy a pre-built phone.

Instead of sitting there trying to pick out parts that you think are going to be better and for this whole idea of ​​a modular phone to work, each component has to be made and put in its own case separately so that people can cut them up and change them, but this makes that everything is thicker and much, much more expensive Failure rating 2 out of 10 saved in part because again, this was an idea, not a physical product that was made and then failed. A lot of these products went wrong, they tend to be Android phones because we are more experimental, but that doesn't mean Apple doesn't make mistakes too, so you know how nowadays you can get a high-end iPhone 11 Pro for $999 or a significantly more affordable iPhone 11 for 300 less and most importantly, what you lose is just the quality of the screen, considering it's a $300 saving you actually get a pretty comparable experience, but this wasn't always the case .

Remember the first time Apple tried to make an affordable iPhone along with the 5, they experimented with a phone called the 5c and it was a terrible value in comparison, but you only saved $100 to start with and for that they gave you a plastic build, you got a one year old chipset, a much worse camera system and no touch ID, people still bought it obviously it's an iPhone but I don't think it's done any good for Apple's brand image and if they made a move like that in today's smartphone market I think it would be slaughtered, so this is a three out of ten flop, the phone still sold well but it was a pain for Apple's brand reputation and that's pretty much it for them, right?

You may remember a phone call: Inside, this was truly the first gaming smartphone, that's huge, but being the first comes at a cost and in this case it was the fact that Android as an operating system just wasn't ready. for a gaming company and since there was nothing like the its ridiculous thickness. and the only benefit for you is that you can play a couple of emulators, a couple of cheap Android games and some PlayStation 1 classics that Sony had ported, but it's not great, but this one gets a three out of ten error now if it is for a phone that itself is pretty

forget

table, but I remember it clearly because it's one of the worst cases of misleading smartphone marketing to the point where they basically lied, so it's 2018 and Lenovo has been losing relevance for a while at this stage, but they were about to launch their next-generation Z5 smartphone, so I guess internally they were thinking about how to engage people with our brand.

Well, they came up with a bunch of trailers that are just ridiculous to try to get people to talk about them sooner. After the reveal of a phone we got this image and in 2018 it was very exciting, they started making fun of a 45 day battery life and four terabytes of storage, people were losing their minds and because of all this I tuned in to the broadcast live and Otherwise I wouldn't have done this, so maybe they played me too, but within ten minutes I was laughing out loud, so we got the teaser image if you duplicate it and flip it.

This is the phone they should have delivered. This is what we actually got. The image refers to a phone that ended up being something completely different that didn't come out until 5 months later, but what about the four terabytes of storage? Turns out they were just for a hard drive they were releasing alongside the z5 and 45. The -day battery life was for a watch and they didn't even live up to that, it definitely lost the company a lot of respect in the community technological. I remember the top comments on the videos at the time were just bullshit not cool so four out of ten fail here no there's a reasonable chance you've heard of a company called next bit which isn't really a small phone company, but a smartphone technology company, so, for example, they created a service called a button where you could start something on one, let's say stop editing. a photo or play a game and then I could put it down, pick up a different device and pick up where I left off, so you can probably imagine that when a company with this kind of mobile technology specialty announces a revolutionary cloud-based smartphone called the Next bit Robin, that's pretty hype-worthy, especially when they promise virtually unlimited storage.

Robin had 32 gigs of internal storage, which was pretty normal at the time, but the twist was that as your space starts to run out, your stuff will automatically back up to the 100 gigs of free cloud storage you got with the telephone and credit, this system simply worked quite well. The main concern for a small business trying big things like this is usually that the execution will be poor, but that wasn't the case - for example, your photos would be backed up to the cloud in their full original quality, but your business It would also keep lower quality versions locally so it wouldn't look like you just lost files, but the only strange thing was that the phone would also send your apps to the cloud and what that really means is that they would become grayed out icons that could only be used once. time you reinstalled them and unless you manually set your apps so they don't disappear, the phone would do this automatically so you can You might find yourself in situations where you open your phone about to enter an app and realize that it's already it's not there.

It's a bit like there are times when you're a kid and you go to your room and your parents. They cleaned everything and obviously had the right intention, but suddenly you don't know where all your stuff is. This was an annoying inconvenience, but it wasn't the crux of the matter. Look at the next thing Robin was trying to figure out. a problem that didn't really exist thanks to the existence of a microSD card, instead of paying $400 for a phone that wasn't very good but could store a lot of stuff, you could just buy a really good phone and then spend $20 to get it. a 64 gigabyte external card that would have been enough for most people, so again, 4 out of 10 failed on a pretty major miscalculation, but hey, number 5, we're getting into some pretty serious territory here, let me Set the stage, it's 2010.

Apple's iPhones have just flattened the Nokia and Blackberry, but now it was Microsoft's turn to fight back and their answer to all this was the Kin smartphones, which they described as a revolution, the phones were coming presented in a capsule, the slogan was this changes things and all the ads basically said that. It could help you connect with people better than anything else. What makes this pretty funny is that these phones were discontinued six weeks after being announced, six weeks and 42 days. It really makes you wonder how they did this, even the terrible smartphones they use today.

They lasted about a year before they were finally cancelled. Six weeks in, these similar phones were so bad that after trying and failing to sell them as small phones, Microsoft Henry released them a few months later as feature phones, but how can a phone from a company as big as Microsoft that has invested so much resources in this monumental failure that I can summarize in six words there are no applications with the price of an iPhone. I have no idea in what parallel universe Microsoft was putting this together, but there's no way an average user was going to choose what they produced instead of an iPhone 3GS, some reports say that as few as five hundred devices were sold, that is, and not I use this word lightly, abysmal, so six out of ten fail right now, you might be pretty familiar with the controversy surrounding Samsung's Exynos these past few months, basically Samsung makes two versions of the Most of their flagship phones and the Exynos version of the last few years have lagged behind the Snapdragon version, but this year was the first time I used both. side by side and years ended up all over Reddit and because of this video and a couple of other posts, people had made a petition that started by demanding that Samsung scrap their inferior X NOS chips in the future.

I was surprised that it is at almost 50,000 signatures, if 50,000 doesn't sound like that. a lot, but you have to remember that the type of people who will sign this is not to generalize, but they will most likely be tech people within their own circles, their own families and friends, the person everyone asks which phone to buy when they want to buy one, so I think the real influence of those 50,000 people is many times that, as things stand now, Samsung has two options: either they step up their game massively for the next X in the US or They scrap the Exynos. versioncompletely because if they get it wrong again, people are ready and waiting to tear them apart, so six out of ten for this one doesn't sound as bad as what happened to the Microsoft skin, but you have to remember that Samsung has a lot more skin in it game, they have more to lose in the smartphone market than Microsoft and also if they don't handle the situation well it might be bad to talk about Microsoft, although I would say that Ken was not actually their biggest failure in 2017 Microsoft announced that their Windows Phone operating system was officially dead, but honestly, Windows Phone died a long time ago.

However, what really makes this image a failure is that when it came out, Windows Phone was so promising that it got an aesthetic radically different from anything else. At the time, it felt faster and lighter than many of the bloated Android phones we had, not to mention that the Windows brand has enormous power when it comes to operating systems. This really could have been the third great player we've ever had. searched in this ios/android battle, but if you've ever used a Windows Phone you'll know there was a problem with the app. Windows Phone had a pitiful selection of apps to choose from and if you don't I mean you're missing out.

In a couple of hidden gems for the first three years Instagram didn't even exist and due to a disagreement with Google, YouTube support pretty much fell off a cliff and I'm literally scratching the surface here but there's also the fact that Microsoft came in late. They came to a time when Apple had built a really solid reputation for simply offering the best smartphone experience and Google offered very good smartphone experiences, but with lots of options, you could get a cheap Android phone, you could get a Android phone with a large screen, etc. but being late, Windows Phone had to bring something equivalent to the table;

Otherwise, you're left with a group of niche pioneers who are willing to take a chance on something new. What I think they should have done to be honest is subsidize Windows phones like there's no way you can just release a new OS and expect it to outperform the OSS that's already been around for three years, but you could have been cheaper and that would have been enough as things are, they did not do this and the Windows Phone operating system. It was dead within two years, but Microsoft spent the next five years whipping a dead horse and it was painful to watch, so 7 out of 10 for this one was just as bad, although Nokia in 2007 if anyone had a phone, there was a 50% of possibilities.

It was a Nokia, how do you go from that to dying? How do you go from Titan to small, from big business to not getting deals from a finished company to a finished company? Actually, unfortunately, it's simple back in the old days, when phones could be anything, some of them flipped, some of them slid, there were all kinds of screen types and sizes. The point is that people used to choose their phone based almost exclusively on its hardware, maybe they liked the color or the keys felt good in this battle. was exceptional, its phones were affordable, they were customizable, and they had the kind of durability that people are still talking about 20 years later, but one of Nokia's concerns was that by the time the iPhone was announced in 2007, the battle It went from being a hardware issue to being a software issue. these other things the way the phone looks how well you can customize it the fact that you could probably drop one of these and break the floor instead these faded in importance replaced by simply having access to the best apps and that It wasn't all yet.

They even did something wrong, they just didn't act, they kept releasing their trusty old phones for a few years and their market share just evaporated, which is why seven out of ten failed here. With disastrous consequences, but it is somewhat saved by the fact that it's not actually because Nokia did it. Anything particularly stupid is just that they severely underestimated the iPhone and the impact it would have, right before it hit number one. I must inform you that I have two more episodes of this series, so the last time I did one of these, I got a lot of comments like Oh you forgot the Galaxy Note 7, no it's in one of the others, check them out after this, okay let's talk about Sony, they now sell a tenth of the phones they did in 2014 and even though it's technically less. a failure than Nokia the decisions that Sony has made are much more confusing just bad decisions coupled with bad ideas really strange it's like a really unpleasant desert and I don't normally vent about smartphone companies but Sony deserves this one so for start the naming system, the way Sony names their smartphones is almost criminal, just listen to some of these previous names of Sony flagships, they went from Xperia x10 to xperia s to Xperia t2 Xperia Z, so it already sounds like he's picking random letters from the alphabet but it gets a lot worse then they go to Z 1 Z 2 Z 3 Zed 3 plus they said 5 and just when it looks like they've figured out what they're doing don't be silly it's X Zed now It's almost like Sony is playing some kind of weird game with its customers like they'll never guess what we'll call the next one, but hey, they go out for a moment and if you thought they'd stop there, you should know better.

Xperia one. With the next phone they went back to simply calling it Xperia. You might think, so how can it get worse than this? And I admit, I think even if I had tried I couldn't have done what Sony just did. fact, they call their next smartphone Sony expiration is twelve, not really, it's more. like a 1 + a 2 at the end, so with 3, well, it seems a bit expensive, what if I buy the previous one? Oh no, there isn't one, there's just one, but I name a side part of the reason Sony phones just came to prominence is that they found something that worked on the Xperia Z, this was their 2013 flagship, when in They're actually doing pretty well and instead of innovating and improving it, they basically released an almost identical looking phone for the next four.

You can't do that for years in a market where bezels shrink every year and some things bend screens into the corners. In 2017, Sony seemed incredibly dated, not to mention that people were simply bored. If I had an cameras, Sony phones generally had good camera hardware, but they didn't take the best photos or videos but not by a long shot, and when you consider that Sony is one of the few smartphone manufacturers that also makes cinema-quality cameras and that Sony B actually builds the camera sensors inside almost all phones, it's ridiculous if anyone should have the best smartphone camera system. it's Sony and that's all they needed to do if Sony had earned a reputation for having the best camera systems in a phone that single-handedly occupies one of the biggest niches out there right now, people who actually care about photos, but to be honest, this Sony The problem extends beyond the phones themselves, even the company's PR strategy just isn't very good and, for example, the Xperia 1 last year, the phone It was announced in May 2019, when did I receive the phone?

In November, 6 months later, I had to go ask them and then they said ok, call, I'll lend it to you for a week, but then return it. I'm not saying they have an obligation to send me a phone number. I appreciate someone doing it, I really appreciate it, but if this company wants the mainstream. attractive, they have to adapt to this new era of media and compare it to one, plus we will ship phones two weeks before launch, they will give me their guide explaining all the new features and let me keep the phones. As long as you need them to test, this is a world apart.

If you've ever wondered why I don't cover as many LG and Sony phones, this is a big part of the reason I sometimes try to buy them myself, but even then I often get them a month after some reviewers on the US do it, so it's hard to really justify making a full video about it at the time, so yeah, I give Sony prestigious 9 out of 10 awards because yeah, even though other companies have had greater monetary losses. I don't think any company I can think of has had a more consistent error in judgment. If you enjoyed this video, a subscription to the channel would be awesome.

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