14 MEGA Smartphone Fails we’ll never forget.

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to start off pretty badly but ends in absolute disasters, so first up is the Palm phone that looks suspiciously like a baby iPhone 10. They are selling it as a companion phone for minimalists. The idea is that you leave your main phone at home and carry this little thing with you when you're out and about and I like this concept of something that can keep you connected without distracting you, but this is not the main thing, apart from the fact that it is almost invalidated for the existence of a smartwatch, it seems like there's an inherent contradiction here because surely, as a minimalist, the last thing I want is to have to split all my stuff between two different phones, plus it's being targeted as a way to get away from your distractions, but it's still a full Android phone, you can do everything, it's just bad, poor camera, small screen, slow processing and terrible battery life, so I'll give this a two out of ten failure rating, the Consequences are not important, but it is flawed. concept and as a result it has disappeared from the radar in 13th place we have the myth the legend the escobar gold 11 pro a few months ago the escobar company announced that they were going to sell a gold-plated iphone 11 pro for 499 and without delving into the details, no they were, it's a scam, a scam that we debunked within four days of its launch, after which it very quickly disappeared from their website, so three out of ten fail considering the entire launch stopped in its tracks now Going back a few years the LG Optimus 3D is one of those devices where you have to say you know the fair game you tried at first glance, aside from the fact that it was a chunky guy's phone that you may not have even noticed something was was wrong but this was a 3D phone and they really committed to the idea that it had a 3D screen, 3D apps and even dual 3D cameras on the back and this was a fun phone as going around taking 3D photos and even 3D videos was an incredible novelty. these years, but there were too many limitations by the time you got into 3D mode, the resolution of the screen would have to make the 3D work, you would have to look at it from a really specific angle and I guess that's more important than any of it really not There was a lot of 3D content available, this phone was almost banking on 3D becoming the next big thing so it could take advantage of a burgeoning ecosystem of 3D content, and to be fair, if 3D had been removed from this phone, it might as well have been a breakthrough.

It was a hit, but as we quickly discovered from how well the 3D TV revolution went, people didn't really care, so I also give this a 3 out of 10, saved in part because I don't think it was a particularly foolish decision. LG took a risk, coincidentally took a risk on the wrong thing. Well, the next step is not a

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, but it is something that Xiaomi has been doing with its smartphones and I think it is a bit shady, so in many markets like India, the competition is furious, companies keep launching device After device struggling to slightly outperform each other and slightly undercut each other, so with that in mind, Xiaomi decided to start baking ads into their MIUI software design, with the idea that it gives them another source of income so they can price it. to their cheaper devices and to be honest I don't have any problem with the ads, it's how a lot of services run, even how YouTube runs, it's just the fact that Xiaomi didn't tell people.

About that, that's bad, my friend c4e tech made a whole video showing how many of these devices were loaded and it's crazy, literally the full screen ads appeared out of nowhere, there were ads embedded in many of the main pre-installed apps , even on the calendar. and phone cleaner and every time you install a new app sure enough an ad appears and probably the worst part of it all is that there was absolutely no quality control it's like xiaomi just didn't care at all about some of these advertisements. would try to sign you up for fraudulent fake lottery posters and others were just plain vulgar, so Xiaomi faced a lot of backlash after this, with many people simply boycotting the brand entirely and although they have now reduced this a bit, the damage has increased.

It's been done, so four out of ten fail on this one and in fact I'd also like to know what your stance is on including ads in your software if it meant a cheaper phone on the subject of Xiaomi, although a late last year they revealed something. which we can safely say that the world has

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seen the alpha mix of a smartphone with a 360 degree immersive display and I really praise projects like this. Stuff like this keeps things exciting. I'm all for it, it's a shame for this. launch, the only thing Xiaomi couldn't understand was how to execute it, the logistics were all over the place.

In fact, I received an email in December 2019 asking if I wanted to test the phone. I was very grateful. for the opportunity, but that initial practice was delayed so many times that it didn't actually happen until late February 2020. The film was also supposed to go into small-scale production in December, but kept getting delayed and pushed. will return indefinitely and it's not going to come out now, it would be crushed by the Samsung Galaxy Z4 2. The other side of this failure comes more from the fact that this is a completely new type of phone and when a new product is introduced.

In categories like this, your only job is to make it clear to people why they would want you. The phone has some really interesting potential uses and I talk about them in my day-to-day video, which I'll link somewhere here, but Xiaomi didn't pull it off. contact them, they talked about how in theory you could run a bunch of apps on the back of your phone, but that's completely useless when you can just swipe left on the home screen to get the same result . They show this crazy 360 degree battery charging animation. but let's be real, having this whole screen lit up while you're charging is only going to slow down the loading, it's super counterintuitive, so I'm going to give this one a four out of ten bugs because naturally a bug like this, while not disastrous, does hurt the game a bit.

Xiaomi's reputation as a company that delivers, means that the next time they announce to the world that we have something, the crazy people are less likely to get excited about it, okay, the number nine comes from the lovely people at Oneplus in a In a effort to create a cool new feature for their flagship 8 Pro, they integrated something called a color filter camera and it was quite strange that the photos were low resolution with strange inverted colors, but it could do one thing that was something surprising that I could see . Through things, you could pick up a TV remote and see the batteries and the entire circuit board inside it, but the reaction to this feature turns sour pretty quickly when people realize that you can actually see through some clothing, a slight privacy concern, so oneplus is very quickly killed the feature in some regions and updated it in others so you couldn't see through things, but besides disabling the best part , this solution greatly toned down the effects of the already pretty useless color filter camera, so I'm going to give this a 4 out of 10 again, I think OnePlus handled it well, but at the same time it almost gives millions of people X-ray-like vision, it's a nightmare, but speaking of useless cameras, it's time to talk about the 2.-

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pixel macro because of how cool it's become to say, oh, look at our phone, we have a camera Quad setup for the most affordable phones that don't actually fit into high-end lenses that companies in 2020 have often simply resorted to filling their camera setups with pretty useless cameras, depth cameras, monochrome cameras and the worst offender, the 2

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pixel macro and as mkbhd often said, the photos from this macro camera are actually worse than if you just used the main camera and got as close as possible and then cropped, but the worst part of all is that the companies who put these lenses on their phones should know this, so this is almost as bad as grabbing your phone, getting a permanent marker and just drawing a bunch of fake lenses on the back because they know these macro cameras are completely useless, you can You can get great macro cameras, but if you see one with a 2 megapixel resolution, that won't be one of them, so the 5 out of 10 rating

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because of how surprisingly common this is and also how anti-consumer it is.

Well, the general rule with smartphones is that if you have a gimmick on top of an already very well-rounded phone, then great, that can be a very good way to differentiate yourself, but if that gimmick comes at the cost of other crucial features it's probably can't be done and this is pretty much what happened with the Samsung Galaxy Beam Samsung made a phone with a built-in projector and you can see why this is cool, it's like how modern phones can project their screens onto a nearby TV, but with that phone you can do it anywhere and on any surface, but the problem is that having a projector built into your phone is very much a pro feature, it's something that enthusiasts would be willing to pay more for, but no pros You'll want a phone that had to sacrifice all other internal components because of this projector, the beam was specified as a phone that was already two or three years old at the time of release, so it's understandable that no one bought one .

Five out of ten fail, a pretty big miscalculation on the part of A company like Samsung now talks about Samsung, many people think that Samsung was the first to make a phablet with a Galaxy Note, supposedly the first smartphone that was a huge jump in size above the rest, but I would say Dell was ahead of them. The Dell Streak 5 was a 5-inch tablet, which obviously sounds ridiculous. Five inches on a phone today seems micro, but this was 2010 when most phones were closer to 3.5 inches and it was really like the Galaxy S20 Ultra from 2010. The spec sheet was The Monster Dell Street Five was really as exciting as it was amazing and that's what makes its failure even more embarrassing and I would say there are two reasons, one because being so big in 2010 naturally made it a niche product and two because Frankly, Dell tried to be a software company but it's not a company, they created a software skin just for their streak devices to try and take advantage of these massive screens but honestly it made everything complicated and quite ugly, a lot of the icons were small . little things that were hard to click on and didn't even leave any free space to display the time when holding the phone vertically.

Also, it was running Android 1.6 when it came out, which was three major versions of Android behind its time, it's a bit like A new Android phone coming out today with Android 8.0, except it was worse back then because every new version of Android It brought massive changes, since in version 1.6 you did not have access to the Facebook application, you did not have flash support and it was simply crucial. things like multi-touch support weren't available, the streak was the beginning of the end for Dell smartphones which is a huge shame, it would have been great to see what Dell could have done in today's market so again five out of ten fail.

This one is okay, now is where things get really serious, so back in 2013, a Russian company called Yota Devices released something that caught attention: the traditional Yotaphone LCD screen on the front and a paper-like ink screen at the rear. Now in theory this is a success because suddenly all your reading tasks can be done on a screen that's perfect for reading, a bit like a Kindle screen if you've ever used one of those and one that barely uses power, although it is ironic that to fit these two screens they had to greatly reduce the battery capacity to only 1,800 milliamp hours, which contradicts the main purpose of that second screen, but the company insisted that they released a Yotaphone 2 and a yoda phone 3 which fixed a lot of these problems but were too expensive for something that was ultimately a niche benefit but it gets a lot worse for this company because the yota company made an agreement with their supplier that they were going to order a large number of units, which makes sense if you assure your supplier that you are going to order a lot of phones, they would be willing to offer you a better cost per unit, but you will see that the Yota company quickly realized that they were not going to sell so many unitsThey had agreed to place the order, so they quickly tried to do it again, but they ended up being sued for $126 million, so they are now bankrupt.

I give this a 6 out of 10 fail rating and it is now one of the greatest smartphones. The failure of all time has been HTC, they went from being the maker of the first Android phone to now having a 0.05 percent market share and it's been a slow and really sad decline with each successive flagship becoming less and less relevant, but I've already covered this. in a different episode of smartphone fails, what I'm talking about now is htc's attempt to come back because it got to the point where agc was done, the curtains were closed and we finally made our piece with the fact that htc was out of the smartphone. game, but then they released this with a cryptic save the date and the fans they still had went crazy, this is it, they did it.

HTC is back with a mid range phone, they released something called u25g which is basically the spec of the oneplus. Nord, but for about six hundred dollars instead of four hundred dollars, they've also sparked returns in other regions only to then release a bunch of incredibly disappointing phones that look like they're straight out of 2015 and that's pretty much like no Don't get me wrong, I I'd love to see HTC come back, but just because of how far they've fallen behind in terms of software and ability to scale to massive component orders, I don't think they have any chance of catching up and I think they should lead. your attention to other markets, six out of ten fail for me, okay, let's talk about vine for a minute, the smartphone-focused social media platform where people would share these six-second looping videos and the reason why Why I started thinking about this in the last few weeks is because tick tock, which has literally blown up in the last few years, is very similar in many ways and yet tick tock was downloaded over a billion times in 2018.

So , why did I come? failed even though he technically beat tiktok in this super short form video game, well to put it simply he was knocked out of the competition. Social media platforms are brutal. As soon as one platform does something that works for its users, you can guarantee that others are thinking. It was about copying it or actually copying it, so in this case it was the fact that Instagram, which used to be a photo-only app, at this point started offering videos, videos that gave people flexibility to create longer content. than just six seconds and videos that could be used. of instagram filters plus instagram just had a bigger user base so if i'm a creator and i can choose to post something on vine or instagram i'll choose instagram and on top of that snapchat came with its stories which it took over the functionality that vine was initially intended to have this idea of ​​broadcasting snippets of your life to your friends, the final nail in the coffin was that there was no real way for viners to make money and to see if vine really wanted creators on their platform . to put their heart and soul into making the most exciting six seconds of people's lives they need to be compensated that's why brands would pay instagramers for sponsored posts youtubers got advertising revenue, but because of how new and extravagant they was the concept of a six-second video.

At the time, no company felt like paying to sponsor the people who made them so naturally that those creators simply moved to other platforms where they could monetize, so the way I see it See, the success of tick-tock is at least in part because they learned from Vine's failures. Vine was like a half-baked idea that tick-tock has now been executed correctly, but in the process of Vine many people They lost their careers, a lot of people lost a lot of money, so I give it a six out of ten. speaking of motorola, this one needs almost no introduction motorola was iconic motorola made the first broadcast from the moon motorola were so ahead of the game that they practically became synonymous with the word communication and it really seemed like no one could stop them in 2004. they released one of the best selling mobile phones of all time, the razer v3, and just to try and quantify how successful it was, this was a basic phone, not a smartphone, it sold for 450, today's equivalent of just over 600, and sold 130 million units.

As much as the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone 10s, iPhone 10s Max, all together, it was possibly the first device that made phones not only useful but also modern. In 2004 every phone looked like something designed by a geek, practical, tacky, clunky, high-tech looking, but the razer was different, it was this beautiful piece of aluminum and glass design in an era where there were very few caveats to make your phone slim. You look at this and you look at other phones at the moment you can see why this was cool, so how did this giant iPhone take down was as simple as the iPhone changed what people thought was cool and literally inside Within two years of its launch, Motorola's market share had been cut in half and within two more years it was only one-eighth of what it once was.

They have done a lot since then They were bought by Google Then they were sold to Lenovo came out with a foldable phone but since then they haven't even come close to the titanic success they once had. So I give this one an 8 out of 10. Motorola really has been an example of a zero hero, but now they have started making phones again and they seem pretty good, so who knows, maybe they'll move up the ranks again. the path right before failure number one, remember that if your favorite failure is not in this episode, I have three other videos in this series, so I will leave them linked here and also, if you enjoy this video, a subtitle on the channel.

That would be great, first of all, then there's the Huawei ban in the US and this is one of those things that started out as a disaster but slowly got worse and worse over the last decade. Huawei has very quickly become this powerful company that produces mass products. at an incredible pace and with genuinely created smartphones that were at the forefront every year. Huawei was growing so fast that it seemed that Samsung was in trouble and although Huawei has always had a difficult relationship with the United States, its success was so meteoric that it seemed that they were also going to enter that market because in 2017 with the Huawei Mate 10 phones , US carriers finally agreed to start shipping them, but then something happened at the last minute and they suddenly pulled out of Verizon, including Best Buy. that they wouldn't sell Huawei devices because apparently the US government told them not to and this is bad enough being excluded from arguably the most lucrative smartphone market in the world, but then the US government put Huawei on their entity list, which meant that now not only could they not sell in the US, but they could not do business with any US company.

This is not good news to realize it means no Google so as you know Huawei phones now do not come with core. Google services like Google Maps and Gmail, but it also means that the company that makes Huawei's chipsets, Tsmc, can't do business with them and is actually a Taiwanese company, but only because some of its equipment is from the US. The US still counts and let's be very real for a second, if Huawei can't get chips, it has nothing and from then on it was just this rolling snowball that continued to gain momentum, the Wi-Fi alliance, the organization of SD cards that they recalled and apparently 130 companies that had applied for licenses. to work with Huawei, everyone was denied and furthermore, countries left, right and center started blocking Huawei from having anything to do with their 5g infrastructure because, you may know, this is actually one of Huawei's main business that builds network equipment, but since the United States bans countries.

They have literally been reaching into their networks and ripping out Huawei components if no one comes to rescue them. Huawei may only have another year or two to make smartphones. The only potential silver lining is that they can start buying chips from Mediatek or even potentially Qualcomm and now Qualcomm. It is an American company, but recently they made a promise to the US government telling them to please let us work with Huawei because if they do it they will bring more money to the US economy and their justification is also that if Qualcomm may be the core component in Huawei phones so in the eyes of the United States they will be more reliable, but we will see if this goes anywhere, but yes, the Huawei ban has been an absolute tragedy in the eyes of many people, so i give this a 9 out of 10. fail okay if you enjoyed this video a sub would be awesome and check out the other episodes.

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