Top 25 Worst Smartphones Ever Made

[@91Tech]

Make sure you join the Discord! - discord.gg/CWvGgGUZ2P [WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW!] The timestamps are vague to avoid spoilers, but click READ MORE for specific times for each ranking. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1:38 - 25. Nokia N-Gage (2003) 3:34 - 24. ZTE Open (2013) 5:34 - 23. Asus Garminfone (2010) 7:18 - 22. Motorola Backflip & Flipout (2010) 9:32 - 21. LG G5 (2016) 11:54 - 20. Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (2011) 13:29 - 19. Samsung Continuum (2010) 15:25 - 18. Freedom Phone (2021) 16:48 - 17. HTC 7 Surround (2010) 17:59 - 16. Samsung Galaxy Fold 1 (2019) 19:07 - 15. iPhone 5C (2013) 21:59 - 14. HTC Thunderbolt (2011) 22:51 - 13. Samsung Galaxy Beam (2012) 24:28 - Intermission & Dishonorable Mentions 26:05 - 12. HP Veer (2011) 27:26 - 11. Kyocera Echo (2011) 28:21 - 10. Nokia Lumia 900 (2012) 32:07 - 9. HTC ChaCha (2011) 33:58 - 8. BlackBerry Z10 (2013) 36:10 - 7. HTC Evo 3D (2011) 37:38 - 6. RED Hydrogen One (2018) 40:27 - 5. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (2016) 42:23 - 4. HTC First / Facebook Phone (2013) 45:39 - 3. BlackBerry Storm (2008) 48:59 - 2. Microsoft Kin ONE & TWO (2010) 53:25 - 1. Amazon Fire Phone (2014)

[@Pearloryx]

It’s crazy that 3/4 of these are from late 2000s and early 2010s. I was 5-10 years old at these years.

[@gabrielcastaneda9700]

My 9 year old bro got the 8 gb green iPhone 5c to replace his iPod touch 4 it worked for him

[@darthraider450]

No OnePlus 9 or any Huawei phones after the P30 Pro and Mate 20 Pro?

[@Raderade1-pt3om]

No Samsung Wave Bada OS phones? Decent hardware but worst third party software support

[@retro_gsm]

I already sold my Nokia Lumia 900 😅

[@staarrmann]

Honestly, it may sound ridiculous, but we need more bad phones. Sure, these aged like milk, but I miss the time where phones didn't have an specific mold and it was like a wild west of experimentation

[@RedstonerPE]

I kinda agree. I remember back in the day getting excited every month with new and known companies with wild experimentation. Phones now adays only give me a reaction of "oh, okay"

[@HonkeyKongLive]

Without the willingness to fail we'll never see any big jumps forward.

[@ireneobas4792]

Failing will cost them a lot of money and no one wants to lose money

[@ramlin35]

PREACH!

[@RedstonerPE]

@@ireneobas4792 I understand that, but constantly trying and failing is a great thing too. That's how we got to where smartphones are today is that brands kept trying and failing over features and redefining what makes a smartphone.

[@Alias_Anybody]

To be fair, the iPhone 5C 8GB probably tormented more people than most others on this list. Apple users deleting their 50 pictures in the 8/16 days was always a spectacle to behold if you had 32GB SD cards.

[@buri.bii3]

I had an 8GB iPhone 5C when I was a secondary school student and the lack of internal storage was awful. I often had to back up media onto iCloud because the software and pre-installed alone took up 3 to 4GB of space. As for the data, I was on a plan with 500MB of mobile data p/mo (as this was the only phone/plan my mom could afford for me). Needless to say, the Internet would be used up within 2 to 3 days LOL. 😂 In a way, I do miss that phone as it came with me during my last year of secondary school to college. Then in 2016, I upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S6 with 2GB of mobile data and 32GB of storage which was a lot better. Essentially, the 5C was an iPhone 5 in plastic and it could've been marketed a bit better.

[@PhilipMarcYT]

Couldn't they transfer it to a PC than delete it entirely? Much as I dislike Apple's restrict devices, they do allow that.

[@morgantrias3103]

​@@PhilipMarcYTtrying to get photos of an apple device was a nightmare. Esp when no one had a mac. People asked me to do it for them a lot and often the answer was just "no I can't you should have bought a less restrictive phone or a shittier computer to sync it with"

[@ProgressOnly]

My wife had a 5c when I had a lg v10. Sure it bricked two years later but I also had an included 512gb SD card and was given a free 2nd battery and charging dock

[@UnrealOG137]

Remember when apple released the iPhone 6s with 16gb of ram in 2015? This phone had a 12mp, 4k camera, but only 16gb of base storage.

[@yeahman70]

My Mom got a Fire Phone at launch. She thought it would be great since she already used Fire tablets and those were all good, so it wouldve been safe to assume a phone made by them would also be great, but that obviously wasn't the case. It was her first real smart phone though, and she liked it quite a bit. The main issue was the limited apps, with many apps not being available on the phone, but the phone ended up lasting until 2018 when the battery died. When we brought it in to replace it the people at the store didn't even know what it was, thats how bad this phone was.

[@Äpple-pie-5k]

LOL

[@ravioli0239]

I always (and still do) wanted one of these, partially for the novelty. It was running around behind all of Amazon's stuff so you could install the Google play store if you tried hard enough

[@tommythetoe]

I had 2 of those. You basically got 1 for free with a year subscription to prime towards the end. They made great gifts for inlaws 😅

[@James-si4je]

I got the Fire phone during the fire sale. It was well worth $200 plus free Prime for the hardware, especially after installing a custom ROM. Unfortunately it was stuck on Android 4.4, but kept using it until the battery couldn't hold a charge.

[@Äpple-pie-5k]

@@James-si4je The ALL NEW AMAZON XYZ! Best gift ever for in-laws. LMFAO!

[@NipplesOfDestiny]

I miss my Windows phone it felt like I was living in the future

[@JasonJrake]

There are some android apps that give you a windows phone “metro” interface. You can even make the second and third screens respectively the App drawer and Contact list, just like on Windows Phones. The version I use on my old android devices is called “SquareHome.”

[@paulhumphreys2902]

Me too genuinely prefered the interface to android or ios I know I'm crazy

[@JasonJrake]

@@paulhumphreys2902 the android App Store has some windows Phone style launchers. I’d share the name of the one I use but it gets the comment deleted.

[@brskeen]

I’d bet that just about anybody who tried Windows phone liked it, but not enough did. The spotty support by app developers doomed it.

[@KristianWontroba]

Same. 😢

[@acid3129]

My dad owned 3 Ngages from new in the UK so I had 3 of the 800 sold . One for me and my brother and one for him . I know it was bad but playing 3 player coop socom when on a camping trip in the middle of the Scottish wilderness at 2 in the morning in a tent while it snowed like mad outside was one of the craziest but most enjoyable experiences in my life . Later found out my dad was worried about the weather and wr where actually stranded in the middle of a very bad storm and he was playing with us to keep us distracted

[@vikramrajiyer]

That's a great story, thanks for posting

[@IantheKid125]

I wanted the G5 so bad as a teen. I thought it looked like a magazine that you could load into the phone

[@atomictransfusion]

lmao

[@Chris.Batchelor]

My friend had the LG G5, and I remember one day I took his battery out and put the chin back in, and he was so confused why it wasn’t booting lol

[@sundaramchaudhary]

I had a G5 but its battery got swollen after 1.5 years and due to this screen got pushed out of the frame of the phone. But beside that a good phone

[@mica7191]

I had like 13 phones in my 27 years...

[@VaporSprite]

In drooled over the Moto Z series and its *actually good* implementation of modules. They even put some genuine effort into the modules themselves and they snapped on and off easily. I want a modern version of this! Apple could have gone all-in with MagSafe on iPhones, but they seem bored with it already...

[@Philosophey]

Basically, this is a list of phones that tried something different and failed to meet expectations. This does not mean that they are the worst phones. Most of these let you do things other phones could do at the time. For example, when HTC Chacha was released, BlackBerry was still going strong with their Bold and Curve lineups. Evo 3D had better specs than Sensation, which was the main flagship of HTC etc.

[@MatPocobo42]

Agreed. I had the Evo 3D and it was absolutely a blast.

[@surgemeister01]

​@@MatPocobo42evo 3d ruled. I thought "this is the way", figured all the manufacturers would jump on it. Called that one wrong.

[@Matanumi]

Note how most of them are from 2010-2011 the innovative era if figuring out the smart phone

[@antaed27]

Lumia 920 was the pinnacle of smartphone design. We went downhill from there with the glass sandwich paradigm

[@JohnCompton1]

The Lumina was a glass AND plastic sandwich...

[@antaed27]

@@JohnCompton1 Not just plastic but a high quality, very durable and scratch resistant polycarbonate, the kind used for motorcycle helmets and bulletproof glass. The color was integral, not applied on top. And it was unibody, not sandwich. In other words, it was very strong, looked great and didn't need a case.

[@gregoryhess5300]

I remember being a kid in the early 2000's and looking through all the phones online and in stores and seeing all the cool phones with cool features and designs. The N-Gage was especially one that stood out to me. Too bad Nokia's execution didn't work out in the end.

[@itxofficial8281]

@@gregoryhess5300 So glad I got to use it from 2004 to 2007 as my daily driver! People can say what they want about this phone, for me it was all I could ever wish for as a kid and to this day, it's still one of my top 3 favorite phones I've ever had! The taco form factor was quite unique, playing games was fun and the music player/recorder was a well-received leftover from the previous (and also quite uniqe) Nokia 5510.

[@kirra4584]

I begged my mom for the htc thunderbolt when I was younger. She didn’t even have the money to buy it but for my happiness, she made the decision to buy it for me. I owe her so much. ❤

[@EBone12355]

That’s a wonderful memory.

[@dsimpson530]

I owned the TB. I also had sling box at the time. In Hawaii during 2012 I was watching NFL games on the beach (using Verizon 4G LTE at the time) and people walked up stunned that I was watching NFL games on my phone over cellular.

[@bcabrera971]

Go hug her and make sure you tell her how much that meant to you. And how sorry that phone was lol

[@robertschnobert9090]

My dad didn't have any money to buy me a phone, but he bought me one with the money he doesn't have because he LOVES me so much 🌈

[@precisionxt]

HTC had heart, you have to give them that. The EVO 3D was gimicky but the m7/m8 were amazing. Not to mention they make all their legacy devices easily unlockable, even to this day so they are still fun to collect and play around with and fairly trivial to load LineageOS if you’re wanting a supported, non-bloated operating system. I feel just making them easily unlockable is a great step towards sustainability and keeps alot of these units out of the landfill.

[@Fisustin]

Evo 3D had a gimmick, but this did not have any significant hindrance in regular day to day usage as it had a regular (for the time) battery life when you used it in 2D mode, so didn't have problems daily driving it for 2-3 years. And those few times I decided to binge on 3D movies acquired from the high seas while sitting on a plane, changing the battery was very convenient as the batteries were easily removable and replaceable. Maybe the most annoying single thing I had personally was the 3D pictures were saved in a strange format, so if you wanted to export and save them as jpg / side by side format you needed some special app to do that.

[@jayb2705]

The HTC One M7 is one of the greatest phones ever made. It changed the market, a high class all metal body phone that transformed smartphones from expensive toys to something fashionable. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, I just had to buy one even though I'd never spent anything close to that on a phone before. I don't think the list is a critique on specific phone makers, because Samsung and Apple are on there. HTC were pioneers ahead of their time, it's a shame they have almost vanished from the mobile phone scene.

[@gabeulrickson2496]

The regular EVO was awesome the 3D one kinda sucked but the HTC phones further from the EVO gave a lot of the feature rich Android experience that OneUI and TouchWiz brought to the table... the customization of the HTC phones was top notch alongside Galaxy

[@planetphatness]

My only gripe with the Evo 3D were the nav buttons were obnoxiously bright. Especially using at night. I loved that phone, it was a solid device and fun to use.

[@J-M-F-8]

I've owned a few to many of these. The Storm was issued to me by the company I worked for at the time, that was actual torture. I loved the Lumia 1520, it's a shame the OS was so limited.

[@עידוכסלו]

The OS was not limited. The app marketplace was not as packed

[@Rektlaundry]

I loved my windows phone. The app store was just terrible

[@J-M-F-8]

@@עידוכסלו Yeah basically what I meant, poorly worded. Fantastic camera, screen and overall experience though.

[@Prince_Sidon]

Windows Phone OS was in no way limited; the app selection was; and that caused its death.

[@orangeyellow-me1pz]

Please don't blame the OS. That platform was ignored and it was a punching bag for companies like Google.

[@Dixon_Cider407]

HTC Thunderbolt slander will NOT be tolerated 😂😂 I loved that phone, just hated the terrible battery

[@bobthesalesclerk]

I ended up getting the Droid Charge around this time and hated it. Having 4g was mind blowing at the time but the custom ROM support was almost non existent.

[@tdkoc]

A manager of mine had this phone, and he had such terrible issues with it that he unlocked it and tried to install CyanogenMod, with very mixed results and no tangible benefits. I think he never recovered from that and never saw him since. 🤷‍♂️

[@dsgamecube]

Yeah, I just used an extended battery on mine. I wish we still had that ability.

[@Techfanatic73]

I bought it and connected to the very first area of LTE in salt lake. The battery would drain right in front of go your eyes....Lol.

[@thefergyfilms]

The Galaxy Beam blew my mind. Yes, it looks like a bad device, but the idea of an ultra light projector in that form factor is awesome. I wonder if with modern tech this would one day be revisited. & to this day it still mesmerizes me when I see the design of Windows phone OS and its branding/ marketing. So ahead of its time/ timeless, looks completely modern even still. Such a shame that they couldn't get better app support for it.

[@robertschnobert9090]

The Windows phone didn't get a lot of apps, because they fucked over developers 🌈

[@Devo_gx]

I wish the BlackBerry Z10 and the new OS had actually succeeded. It was far better than the older BB7 OS and if it weren't for app support the Z10 would actually have been a good device.

[@StuHolland]

Totally agree it was a great phone, just arrived too late. Android and iOS had already taken the market.

[@silvon4r]

Plus you could sideload some android apps

[@Vekstar]

Limited to 2.3 originally before the 10.3 update ge you 4.4 Actually due to lisceing issues from Google prevented allot od alternative phone Os from using the android framevork beyond version 4.4.2 because samething about a poworm by android logo or something. Regardless the abe also killed any potential that Ubuntu, Tizen, Firefox OS, and Sailfish. I think it got better sater on. But by the​ time that policy changed. The damage has been done. @silvon4r

[@wilkgr]

Overall I agree, and I kinda wish the same for Windows Phone and b2g. Having that iOS/Android duopoly nowadays just kinda sucks.

[@michaelwalsh3474]

I remember using a BlackBerry Z10 for work and being impressed by it but at the time, my personal phone was still a Motorola Razer.

[@itxofficial8281]

Thanks for including the N-Gage, my 2nd favorite phone of all time (1st being the Nokia 5510). It was my daily driver from 2004 to 2007, and boy did I love it! The sideways form factor was something I was already used to, because of my previous phone being the Nokia 5510 - a music phone with a qwerty keypad. Despite the lack of a full-blown keyboard and me having to adapt to numeric keys all over again, everything else on this phone felt like it came straight from the year 3000. I spent hours downloading cracked games on some dubious websites, then sideloading it on my N-Gage just to have a full-on gaming console at my fingertips. Converting movies into the legendary .3gp file format, just to watch them on the tiny screen. Listening to my favourite albums on the go, while playing SonicN. Then finally having to pause the music and the game, because someone was calling me and I had to hold the device like a taco while talking to them... FOND MEMORIES!!! 😍🥰

[@Brainfly-]

I really wish the 5C would've pushed phone companies to release more fun colours, because that was the *only* reason that phone sold and honestly... I was tempted. I'm so tired of black, white, sometimes gold and then one or two colours that are so desaturated they might as well be white or grey in most lighting conditions.

[@staringcorgi6475]

But the problem with colorful phones is that they don’t associate with high quality and cutting edge technology.l There’s a reason why apple’s cutting edge products are colorless

[@Brainfly-]

@@staringcorgi6475 Which is a dumb association to make. Colours don't say anything about performance.

[@staringcorgi6475]

@@Brainfly- colours make a phone look cheap and a toy

[@Brainfly-]

@@staringcorgi6475 what a boring way to look at things

[@Maximus20778]

​@@Brainfly-he's right tho

[@JamesR624]

I still love the flip out honestly. It has the satisfying keyboard mechanism of the Sidekick from the 2000's, mixed with the compact "front display" feel of the current Samsung Galaxy Flip or Motorola Razr from the 2020's.

[@fredrickbambino]

Almost all the terrible phones of the past had one thing in common... Underpowered hardware.

[@aquaponieee]

All phones of the phones of the past had low-energy hardware, because they needed to have multi-day battery life on 800-1500MaH batteries. Today noone cares about software optimization so 12 hour battery life on 5000MaH batteries is fine. And not all terrible phones had underpowered hardware. The more premium it is, the harder the failure hits. Nearly all the phones in this list had very powerful hardware for their time.

[@fredrickbambino]

@@aquaponieee Then why the laggy experience and terrible battery life in some of them?

[@aquaponieee]

@@fredrickbambinoterrible software optimization i guess

[@sabni8668]

The N-Gage was legendary. Sure it’s not practical, but it’s like comparing a Ferrari to a Ford Focus because the door opening isn’t as wide… Read the kind of buyers for each

[@TheSH1N1GAM1]

Don’t cost as much as a used civic anymore. Used car prices are more ridiculous than phone prices.

[@stellviahohenheim]

Nobody asked dude

[@MrGeocidal]

Yeah, back when I was young I used to buy used cars for dirt cheap and drive them into the ground. Can't do that anymore because used cars have gotten so expensive

[@ToMentionAChannel]

@@stellviahohenheimbut apparently you cared enough to comment.

[@MaddJakd]

Tbf, them top model flagships are getting pretty crazy

[@Demonslayer20111]

​@@stellviahohenheimthe fact that it is stated in the video that they are more expensive than a used civic begs to differ

[@scoother86]

35:23 "Basic apps like KZbin weren't on the device." :shows clip with KZbin installed on device:

[@MezRahman777]

Usage of persona 5 soundtrack is goated 🫡

[@Matanumi]

Or sonic 3

[@eddie9591]

48:54 I owned both Storm models and they were my first touchscreen phones. The Storm 1 had a "mod" where you could open up the device and improve the bounce back of the screen by sticking a piece of paper under the screen. I ended up getting "upgraded" by Verizon to the Storm 2 when my friend dropped it and shattered the screen. The texting was way better on it with the 4 corner buttons. To this day I still press on my screen like I was using a Storm.

[@laurencet7032]

What's quite funny about palm/hp/WebOS, was that their lead software designer was a certain Matias Duarte. Now VP of design at google.

[@orangeyellow-me1pz]

Yeah, that's why WebOS was good.

[@IVoozdI]

I had an HTC ChaCha, and that's why I never bought an Android phone again. The phone was well-made, and the keyboard was good. However, the software and the memory were terrible. The lack of memory meant that you couldn't install anything on the phone, including the Facebook app, which, after the update, bricked the phone, had bugs, and so on. I thought all the Android phones were like that.

[@keithbrown7685]

Ah but now you know they weren't. Not everything was a terd. : )

[@MatPocobo42]

The Evo 3D was fantastic and very capable as a daily use smartphone. The 3D gimmick seems pointless looking back, but at the time it was innovative and made the phone stand out.

[@jayvansickle7607]

Amazon: “let’s make a phone…. Now what are we known for??? 3D graphics!!!!” Lackey in the background: “…eink display….OH!…. Nevermind.”

[@fondy44]

Just retired my Fold 3. Think I got a little over a year before the screen protector started separating from the crease and became a gross dust collector. About the only time I used it unfolded was with a BT keyboard and mouse, mostly because that inner screen felt so fragile and cheap. Most people don't like the narrow cover screen but I didn't mind it. Keep that shape, drop the price and replace the inner screen gimmick with a huge battery and I'd probably buy one.

[@DGTelevsionNetwork]

One absolutely massive problem that nearly every single Windows Phone had was that they lacked a front facing camera. I don't understand why nobody mentions this. Selfies, especially in the 2010s were and even to this day were a huge cultural phenomenon.

[@paulharrison8379]

All of my windows 8 and windows 10 phones from the Lumia 530 onwards had a front facing selfie camera.

[@DGTelevsionNetwork]

@@paulharrison8379 I bet it was less than 8mp. Front facing cameras on those phone were an exception especially early on.

[@kindofanmol]

WHAT!?!?

[@resucutie]

"dedicated facebook button" positivo adding a netflix button on their computers as well as a bunch of BS that no brazilian asked:

[@gluttonousmaximus9048]

5:10 Do note that the ZTE was only given to developers to test the waters of Firefox OS, so it doesn't really count as something that actually poisoned the phone market.

[@luiz3r0]

0:11 The golden age of smartphones ended in 2019, we now live in a dystopian era

[@Vtec_Just_Kicked_In_Yo]

Now that I think about it, I’ve had an LG G3, (the motherboard died and had a stroke) an iPhone 5S, (still works, just smashed the screen while putting on a screen protector.) iPhone 7. (PLEASE DONT BY PREOWNED PHONES UNLESS THE BATTERY IS NEW!) (had it from 2019-2021) Great phone, (battery life was at 70%💀) a Samsung s7. (My first phone that could “work” had “one gb of data” or I was terrified to use it, I’m not sure. (2016-2019) (I didn’t have KZbin 💀 I had like some weird Chinese KZbin or some crap.) and an iPhone 11. (2021-) Great phone, just domt have it rn because of stupid family. What happened to phones. 😞 I currently have a TCL flip pro. (2023-) Wild.

[@charleighcopley]

I would have thought about 2015 or so was when it ended. Sure the shrunken bezels of 2017 are a standout, but really by then they all pretty much standardized.

[@AntonandSinan]

BlackBerry Z10 was an excellent phone I got from a media preview for selling it to a random BlackBerry fan before the launch date for 1000€. Added that money to upgrading to a new Mac 😂

[@bomcabedal]

To me, personally, the phone that sets itself on fire and gets me hauled off the plane and banned from ever flying again deserves to be called out as the worst of them all. I'd gladly be frustrated over my Amazon Fire phone (which didn't erupt in flames, by the way) by comparison.

[@EliLeoplurodaun]

This is scratching two wave lengths of my autism brain with niche cell phones AND persona background music. I am probably gonna watch this 500 times. Thank you, you’re beautiful and I hope you have a good day

[@dzxtricks]

21:50 My friend said "android phones always needs cleaning and cache clearing to avoid storage issue" and he believes that so much he said that to everyone he met. A while later, my group which 5 has "new" iphone maxes, 3 of them failed to take group photo of us because it's out of storage 😭. Imagine what 8GB will do to any human being (even for that time)

[@cjsites]

Well done video. You’re good at the longer form content.

[@dsimpson530]

Many forget that Minecraft mobile was exclusive to the Xperia Play before it released to Android and iOS. Notch debuted Minecraft Pocket at e3 2011.

[@ramlin35]

LG G5 😊hastened the demise of a once powerful and respected mobile phone brand. The LGG3 was one of the best Android phones I ever owned.

[@paultasker7788]

Shame as it was actually pretty decent. Reliable, good camera, nice AOD and the modular design meant you could easily swap out batteries. I had the DAC module and it meant it was impressive for audio quality but that same module made the phone too long. Looked a bit odd and the battery life was poor so you needed those spares. G6 was a nice replacement for it though. Premium build on that. But at the time it was competing with galaxy S8.

[@Demonslayer20111]

Which is a shame. The v35 was one my all time favorite phones, and the v60 was the last flagship that cared about audio fidelity with it built in dac and headphone jack. I really do miss being able to drive high impedance headphones with my phone and not carry around dongles and an external DAC

[@paultasker7788]

@@Demonslayer20111 v35 was lovely (sadly not sold in UK) and my v30 is still working now handed down to niece to use as a camera. Still takes good photos.

[@onizuka4534]

I had HTC EVO 3D back in 2011-2012 and it WASN'T a terrible phone at all. It had cool specs, decent camera and awesome (the best by far at the time) HTC SENSE launcher. 3D was purely optional so you could use it or not, battery life compared to Galaxy S2 or HTC Sensation was +- similar. Definitely a wrong choice for the list.

[@Tigermoto]

HTC Sense launcher is still better than any other. I still miss the clock and weather.

[@RyanLove06]

I'm personally biased toward the HTC Thunderbolt. My apartment had gotten hit by lightning and fried my HTC Incredible. So I got the Thunderbolt to replace it. It was right around the time of release, so LTE was a whole new box of frogs and quite the revalation. I sideloaded the Netflix app and watched so much content on that little thing. I rooted/ROM'd it which brought a ton of cool tweaks and helped to optimize the battery some. I was also shooketh at your inclusion of the Blackberry Z10 (you hadn't gotten to the Storm yet, so I thought the inclusion of the Z10 without the Storm was outrageous), but you remedied that later on haha. Awesome video!

[@djdrastic1]

Your apt got hit by lightning and then you bought a phone called the Thunderbolt ? Brave decision.

[@coolsnake1134]

I also loved my HTC thunderbolt, it and the Verizon 4G LTE network at the time was a massive upgrade over the iPhone 4 CDMA that I had before it. One of the first things I did was also root it and install CyanogenMod because the old HTC Sense UI was absolutely horrible and that was back when you used to be able to use root mods to get hotspot functionality without paying The Carrier for that option it was also back in the time when Verizon Android phone bootloaders weren't all locked down

[@shirakawanaoya]

That amazon fire phone was sold for 80 bucks after being discontinued and since it had a good screen and processor for the time everyone hacked it. My mom had one for years and it worked wonderfully! xD

[@hulkpanda4378]

Being someone that sold cellphones from 2007-2015 the nostalgia in this video hits hard.

[@stellviahohenheim]

How many people did you scam?

[@ToMentionAChannel]

@@stellviahohenheim How many hours do you spent being miserable?

[@glaubhafieber]

Thanks for not using one of those crappy AI text to speech engines 🙏

[@edgexl8327]

I had a Fire phone when Amazon was selling them for 99 cents. The 3D maps were actually pretty cool but it only worked for a few cities.

[@SharkOtaku3933]

1:01 persona music detected

[@imjustsomeguy]

The Kin Two M was my first phone. Ended up being a non smartphone but I was OK with that because I was in middle school, I had a jailbroken iPod Touch, and my mom didn’t want to pay for a data plan. I think the phone was like $30 itself plus a basic non-data line. At the Verizon store, the worker wanted us not to get this phone and then encouraged us to get a real smartphone. I didn’t care. I used my phone for calling, taking photos and videos, and offline music and videos. I loved the built in Zune. My iPod Touch had no storage for offline music and videos because it was full of apps. Also, the iPod Touch camera was garbage

[@IVoozdI]

A phone that gets you banned on a bus (not to mention a plane) and a phone that can seriously injure you or potentially kill you should be No1. The producer : Nah, make it No5.

[@dakzibbon6589]

What's funniest was, that during the announcement of that phone, Samsung themself called Note 7 "The hottest premiere of the year"

[@doeboy857]

As gimmicky as some of these phones were, I miss this era when phone companies would dare to push the boundaries, there’s barely any true innovation anymore

[@applefanatic414]

I really appreciated the quick Fire phone shoutout in Deadpool and Wolverine. I was the only nerd in the theater that laughed

[@davidromero2704]

Wait, there was a reference there? Can you jog my memory?

[@rruhland]

I recall one of the main issues with the N-Gage as a gaming console was the convoluted way to get access to insert games.

[@עידוכסלו]

I came to this video quite angry when I understood you included Lumia 9xx and iPhone 5c into the list. But after watching it and seeing you specifically mentioned the Lumia 900 (and not the AMAZING 920 that I have besides me) and the 8gb iPhone 5c, you’re absolutely right and you have a good points. Good understanding of the field, well done. Just don’t trash Lumia 920 or other amazing Nokia flagships (N9, 800, 925, 930, 1020, 1520) and we’re fine 😅

[@Jerrycourtney]

My girlfriend won Note 7 at a conference we were at. We took a pit stop coming home from Dallas, she really had to use the restroom so she left her purse & clutch in the car. It did its thing and scared this poor old lady to the point I thought she was going to have a heart attack. Apart from some burns in her bag and on my car seat, everything was OK.

[@zackphy]

My wife's grandfather was someone who kept buying those expensive 3d tvs. He always had to have the best of the best stuff with every single feature available, despite never actually using them. He always got the ones that took the simple glasses, meaning you could get plenty of them for replacements and multiple viewers at a higher initial tv cost. He even got a 3d Blu-ray surround sound system. His last one actually converted anything into 3d. I think we only ever used the 3d like 3-4 times and never got a single 3d Blu-ray. That surround sound system had a major flaw as well, it had real tube amps that would heat up and activate the touchscreen buttons, making it shut off on it's own after a few minutes. Samsung "repaired" and replaced it multiple times until the warranty ran out and I eventually had to just disable the touch panel completely to make it useable lol.

[@jupiter452]

Bro I had a LG from id say 2017 that cost 100 bucks or less at the time. Gave it to a buddy and he's still using it to this day with no battery issues or charging issues.😂 Granted it's on a old ass version of android but still that's 7 years on a 100 dollar phone. Very impressive LG. They make reliable products in general and the cameras were always at least half decent even on budget devices.

[@nfugitt89]

It's sad how many people confuse "quirky but ultimately bad ideas" with "innovation."

[@ScarRstudio]

I worked at phone store in 2011-2014. Good times

[@clementcardonnel3219]

Ah! A trip down memory lane… Years laughing behind my favorite tech website hearing about these bad phones 😄 This lineup would make one amazing museum.

[@YoshiKartt]

Bro, wake up! 91 Tech just posted a video!

[@jimgamelife]

Outstanding work ! The level of this video is equal to a documantery ! Very informative, excellent presentation and very enjoyable naration ! You nailed it ! New subscriber :)

[@fondy44]

iPhone 3G deserves honorable mention. Not so much for the phone but for the horrible decision to lock it to AT&T. Verizon MiFi to the rescue. 🤣

[@oneshotguy6372]

Sir,It good at time.

[@toonpik7]

48:07 The original DS from 2004 had Wi-Fi for online multiplayer lmao

[@Fisustin]

Regarding the Evo 3D, as someone who used to day-to-day drive it for 2-3 years, it generally wasn't that bad especially since the 3D effect was only enabled if you were: A) Watching 3D movies or videos. I hear some rumours that you could find them on the high seas, or rip them from a proper DVD. (this was my main use case for the 3D display, and being able to have the 3D effect of watching Avatar but on a phone while on a plane was mind blowing for me at the time) B) Playing one of multiple games, including Spider Man and few others which it came with, I think there were also others being sold, but I don't think I bought any at the time C) Watching anything you recorded with it. Generally though didn't have much problem with the battery life myself except during long flights, but for these the fact that it had replaceable batteries like most phones of it's time came in handy, as you could rather easily swap the battery. Biggest annoyances at least for me personally were figuring out how to convert the recorded 3D pictures to a more usable format. (There was btw a similar phone coming from LG at the same time, the LG Optimus 3D which is why there were some more games already developed to take advantage of the kind of a display at the time)

[@jjg1818]

Nice vid man, I like listening to these kind of videos while I’m busy

[@scott8919]

Immediately subbed. Love videos like this

[@videogamemix7046]

I owned the Evo 3D, I personally loved it.

[@MatPocobo42]

I was literally about say the same thing then I saw your comment. Several owners of the phone at the time including myself were raving about it.

[@kirillvoloshin2065]

firefox phones had a cool idea, but since then I have finished school and university, later became a frontend developer. oh well, firefox browser core lacks even subpixel rendering by default (position animations are janky) and this bug is 12 years old (they are not doing anything with it). I can only imagine how bad the execution of web-based animated interfaces would be then

[@FlurrioO]

Shoutout to the Nextbit Robin

[@tdkoc]

Probably worth an honorable mention…very plastically phone, vaporware cloud storage, and delayed updates. Yeah, buyers remorse at hour 2.

[@duruyoungcr]

I loved using the Blackberry Z10. It was nice. The navigation takes a while to get used to, but it was a unique OS that I wished survived.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

I don't think these are the 25 worst phones. I just think they're 25 phones with noteworthy gimmicks. But I like phones with gimmicks. For instance, I love the LG v60 and the LG Wing and the surface Duo

[@SiamHossain7]

Yeah this video seemed like a big "only boring ass phones with no standout features are good and any phone that tries anything new is bad" and this is exactly why the industry is dying right now. How dare phones be fun?!

[@gabeulrickson2496]

I always wanted the ASUS tablet phone when it came out... The phone that had a tablet with it that you slid the phone into. Expanded battery life big screen, etc.

[@MiguelEDC]

The jokes sprinkled through out the video are priceless 😅😂😂

[@stevelitchfield]

Wow. That hour went quickly! Nice research.

[@TheOfficialMateoPlays]

Weirdly, most of the worst phones were also the most innovative ones.

[@reviewgirl-disnaynetflix-ws2oe]

It’s weird that Amazon’s phones have failed because their children’s tablets are so successful

[@gabeulrickson2496]

It was VERY POORLY executed

[@Canleaf08]

Not so far fetched… I worked at Amazon for a while in the fulfilment centre and the sweepers running around with THESE bulky roughed cases on their fire tablets looked …. not that strange until I saw the first frame on another tablet in public, which an infant was using. Since then my mental image changed. And more and more tablets showed up like this in the hands of children. To one point, that a sweeper came up to me with their fire tablet and scanned in the bin code and I almost laughed.

[@GreenMountain565]

The golden age of crazy, try everything phones from 2009-2014 was great in retrospect . These 5 or so years we will never see again with the pure variety of options. It was a fun time. Switching between BlackBerry to windows to android then Apple again was great. It’s now a monopoly with just the two operating systems and basically the same flagship phone now re-released every year.

[@brenthaymon280]

Now all smartphones look the same. No variety or style.

[@maxp2305]

21:46 I'm an outspoken Apple hater. Always have been, probably always will be. However, the iPhone 5c was un-killable. Those took a beating like no other iPhone before or since. I knew someone who got hit by a car and broke their femur and in the pocket of the pants on the same leg sat an iPhone 5c completely unscathed

[@leebeeskee]

It's a shame you have hatred in you. Did an Apple device burn down your home? Did Tim Cook kill your dog? Or are you hating due to treating inanimate pocket computers like a religion?

[@TunedByJ]

HTC Thunderbolt was one of my favorite smartphones, but yeah it really had it's shortcoming for sure! Battery life was atrocious but it was fast and the huge screen was nice too. Imperfect for sure!

[@pikachuspickle1673]

Change your title, these smartphones actually paved the way for today's technology...lot of these were actual inspirations for features you find today in your phone

[@WhiteMexHD]

He said “some are innovative and some are interesting to look at” and he also said it is his opinion

[@Äpple-pie-5k]

Yeah and while 2 or maybe 3 features were thought by the fact people can come up with the same ideas, this hardly is a big enough reason to change the whole title into pretending these pieces of s--t were anything but 💩

[@rostomzerrougui]

When i saw the first phone he started with (the nokia n-gage) i thought the same thing as you. So i striked the dislike thumb. I used the n-gage for more than a year and i know exactly what that phone is capable of. And for additional info. I bought a symbian phone in 2024 because that OS marked a lot of good things in my memory❤

[@zackphy]

Ehh, me and my wife had the Galaxy Fold 3 and while really cool at first, over time little things kept adding up to make them not worth using as a daily driver. The biggest issue was how the hinge was assembled with little gears that year they could break loose and ruin the inside screen from underneath. This happened to both of ours within a few months, starting with a small green line in the crease, then touch not working in that spot and eventually spreading to the entire screen stopping completely. That issue has been fixed in newer models but the other big thing that caused us to switch hasn't been. Our biggest gripe was the outside screen was too small(thin) to type on comfortably while the inside one was too large, so it resulted in you not wanting to type on either one. Video had the same issue because the outside was obviously too little but the inside was bad for watching videos as well despite being one of it's main selling points. Because of it's unique square aspect ratio when watching anything wide-screen it would squish it down with black bars so large on the top and bottom that the picture ended up being smaller than most modern smartphone screens, completely invalidating having a screen that large in the first place. That includes KZbin, Netflix really any long form content with only Shorts and TikToks looking decent. And if you did full-screen it would cut over half the image off of each side. Things like Twitter and Instagram looked decent though but that wasn't enough to justify it. And a lot of large companies still haven't made apps to accompany the aspect ratio, namely Amazon which means it squished it down to match a normal smartphones aspect ratio looking ridiculous and small. It also got annoying having to open it every time you wanted to do something more than checking the time or reading a text from the outside. The Pixel Fold is better in that aspect as it folds down the other way meaning it's outside screen is shorter and wider than the Galaxy, MUCH better for typing and viewing things so I thought about switching to it, but the phone itself wasn't nearly as nice and feature packed as a Galaxy so instead I just went back to a normal phone with the 24 Ultra and I can't see myself ever going back to a folding one.

[@gabe6959]

Yall remember when amazon used to sell those BLU phones (with ads)?? 😂😂😂

[@gabeulrickson2496]

Omg YES! my grandpa tried to pawn a Blu phone the ad model off on me, I told him no I'd rather not have a phone but he was liking his Amazon Fire tablets that he got for the CHEAP CHEAP and used FOR YEARRRRSS til they finally quit and he still uses them

[@egnatius79]

"Zoomer holding a ridiculously-sized microphone" whether it's tiny or ginormous, should be its own video genre

[@Cpoint.200]

Imo, lumia is not one of the "worst" smartphone. it was just unsuccessful beacuse of their limited market ike blackbery. BB and lumia wasnt worst just bad decision for their time.

[@kirbycobain1845]

Not sure if others had this issue, but storage wasn't even my biggest problem with the iPhone 5c. I had it replaced twice because the battery life suddenly shortened to about 2-3 hours of casual use, it became practically unusable

[@jamesbarnes3870]

U make really good videos bro. Keep doing what u do. More Android tho...Lol

[@drakeb6168]

as the HTC Evo 3D was my first phone being on my own plan. I loved that phone. Since I worked 10hrs a day it did what I needed it to do and lasted 2 days for me on a charge. That said I was not a heavy user at all.

[@5688gamble]

One step closer to the demise of X, good riddance

[@AnRKader]

This is like the last place I expected to find persona music but I’m so for it

[@scottcohen1776]

That microphone is ridiculously huge and distracting.

[@Stepantc]

Take your meds bro

[@daun7710]

I had the HTC Evo 3D and I had a Sony 3D tv and a 3D blu ray player. It was cool for like 5 minutes.

[@guillermonavarro-ej4he]

that soundtrack slaps though

[@sergesolid3747]

There’s a game was released to support this awesome ost.

[@ILOVEBACONBOY2018]

I had a lot of those phones, fun times honestly being able to be a part of the cool old failed fads.

[@kirillvoloshin2065]

I was in school during these years and boy oh boy how many memories this video brought. The transition from people having motorola z530i, sony ericsson k850i, w595, nokia 3310 successors, siemens phones to smartphones was a time to be alive. I remember htc tytn with stylus, first samsungs (resistive touchscreens), amazing s3 and borderline unusable laggy s3 mini, s5 bootlooping, excellent s7 (by the way daily-drive s10+ to this day), windows phones up to 1020, sony xperia aqua, z3, first htcs (card games and air hockey duels on a tiny screen), htc one x, mid range htc one xl (and 1gb becoming not enough memory to run facebook messenger), excellent htc m7, nexus phones up to 6, iPhone 4, 8gb iPhone struggles, this exact 3d lg, lgs up to 5, bought v30+ myself (even though the salesman warned me this model is largely defective, but it was on sale and I did not have much money or trust to buy from no-name brands) and it was as bad as everyone was speaking about lg (Эл Джи не берут даже бомжи).

[@SPARTAN_Cayde-26]

As a Windows Phone lover, it's such a shame that WP failed/was abandoned.

[@SeralyneYT]

>HTC Can't deny that HTC Sense has aged like fine wine though. It's definitely aged, but it still looks damn good to this day

[@JoJoSkrotnes]

Not me watching this on me Lg G5 😂😂😂

[@MrGeocidal]

I think it's very appropriate that music from a Sega game plays while he talks about corporate infighting.

[@SDG.12]

You're conflating a time of transition that inevitably leads to experimentation with "bad". You're biased by hindsight and not putting those phones in the context of the time period. That's why you have so many phones from that 2011 transition. Many ppl were still not using a keypad less smartphone in 2010-2011. Or even 2012. It was still essentially the 2000s carried over at the time.

[@kindofanmol]

This was an absolute rollercoaster of nostalgia. Thank you so much!