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Posted by: tiffany8525

Ok guys and gals what is the worst PHONE you ever had..and why

mine the hp ipaq 6515..it was great as far as being a pocket pc went but as a phone... it sucked.horrible clarity and more dropped calls than missed calls..I could be standing there looking at full bars then the voice mail would just beep and the missed call icon would light up. i thought it was the service but when i met other ipaq users they said the same thing. they sent me 2 more phone replacements(all ipaqs) new battery and a new battery cover(who knows what that was about) All free.I was not the only person having those problems. I got a 8525 now everything is all better.same carrier.

Posted by: Wireless Buddy

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Originally Posted by tiffany8525

Ok guys and gals what is the worst PHONE you ever had..and why

mine the hp ipaq 6515..it was great as far as being a pocket pc went but as a phone... it sucked.horrible clarity and more dropped calls than missed calls..I could be standing there looking at full bars then the voice mail would just beep and the missed call icon would light up. i thought it was the service but when i met other ipaq users they said the same thing. they sent me 2 more phone replacements(all ipaqs) new battery and a new battery cover(who knows what that was about) All free.I was not the only person having those problems. I got a 8525 now everything is all better.same carrier.

I had a Kyocera 2235 for a little bit. Worst!

Posted by: i0wnj00

And the winner for worst phone I have used....

Motorola MPx 200.
Horrible battery life, horrible RF, and the Windows UI was chunky.

Posted by: quint101

My worst phone I've ever had was the LG L1150. That thing lasted all but a few months. The phone would blank out whenever it wanted to. RF was only so-so. The thing croaked after a couple of months.

Even my "Po"-kia 3100 I had before that and the Siemens A56i (after) outdid that piece of crap in RF and functionality.

The Samsung A460 wasn't much better although reception was better. At least it took longer to die than the LG L1150

Posted by: Air King

Worst phone I ever used was a Samsung A460 I got as a loaner. You could tell it was put together by people who just didn't give a crap. Worst phone I actually owned was an Audiovox 8910, major defects in the firmware and shabby workmanship all around. Still had fun with it, though.

Posted by: markgamber

Mitac 8390. A way expensive Windows smartphone from possibly the worst company to ever make a phone. It could have been a decent phone but it's hardware and software were so buggy that within 9 months I simply threw it in the trash. System files weren't signed by Mitac so entire subsections wouldn't work correctly. The camera app would freeze the entire phone, MSN Messenger was obsolete on a brand new phone and wouldn't connect, the number buttons would repeat without having to hold them, making dialing a challenge on the best of days. The joystick would either stick and not work correctly or it wouldn't work at all in one or more directions. The paint chipped if you looked at it funny, a couple of important apps were only in Chinese and, worst of all, Mitac made it. They had no support department and once they had your $450, they disappeared. Their super slow site promised an upgrade that never materialized. I've had worse phones, but they didn't promise much so they weren't much of a let down and didn't cost anywhere near the $450 of this dog.To this day, if I ever meet the president of Mitac, he'll need oral surgery immediately after the meeting.

Posted by: Kevbodian

i think its fair to say that Motorola will win this thread.

Posted by: ichy_underpants

mine'd have to be the razr v3m. bought it in august of '06. August 16th to be exact. I had lost my other phone (LG VX5200) at the bottom of the lake. Bought it at retail, 369.99. By September, the Speakerphone function had quit working. In about November, the buttons started to peel off. December 26th, I took it to the Verizon store, and it failed the "red dot test". I didn't ever get it wet. Still trying to figure that out. So, filed insurance claim with Assurion. Got phone next day, and the LCD screen didn't work. took back to verizon store, because this one was under warranty. They gave me a new one, and April 9th, it got frozen in ##debug mode. but I didn't push ##debug. and i couldn't get it out. So I took it BACK to the verizon store, told them what was going on, and i think I got the new guy, he barely spoke english and he said he didn't know what to do. I asked if he could give me a new phone. He didn't, for whatever reason. I told him to shove it somewhere, and walked out without my old phone and without a new phone. Looked on Ebay for about 4weeks, and finally got a black LG Chocolate. My temper got the best of that phone, and I got mad and threw it at my car 2 weeks or so after I got it. It broke it in half, didn't do anything to my car. there was a spring and a brown band thing holding the phone together. my mom filed the insurance claim, not knowing that you had to get the same colored phone that you sent in. They just asked her what color she wanted. she ordered me a pink chocolate, and sent in my black one. i hope they don't pay attention to details like that. I got my pink chocolate two days ago, and so far, it's still in one piece.

Posted by: Kevbodian

This' quite a story. Its a chronology of events in the life of the average motorola phone user.

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Originally Posted by ichy_underpants

mine'd have to be the razr v3m. bought it in august of '06. August 16th to be exact. I had lost my other phone (LG VX5200) at the bottom of the lake. Bought it at retail, 369.99. By September, the Speakerphone function had quit working. In about November, the buttons started to peel off. December 26th, I took it to the Verizon store, and it failed the "red dot test". I didn't ever get it wet. Still trying to figure that out. So, filed insurance claim with Assurion. Got phone next day, and the LCD screen didn't work. took back to verizon store, because this one was under warranty. They gave me a new one, and April 9th, it got frozen in ##debug mode. but I didn't push ##debug. and i couldn't get it out. So I took it BACK to the verizon store, told them what was going on, and i think I got the new guy, he barely spoke english and he said he didn't know what to do. I asked if he could give me a new phone. He didn't, for whatever reason. I told him to shove it somewhere, and walked out without my old phone and without a new phone. Looked on Ebay for about 4weeks, and finally got a black LG Chocolate. My temper got the best of that phone, and I got mad and threw it at my car 2 weeks or so after I got it. It broke it in half, didn't do anything to my car. there was a spring and a brown band thing holding the phone together. my mom filed the insurance claim, not knowing that you had to get the same colored phone that you sent in. They just asked her what color she wanted. she ordered me a pink chocolate, and sent in my black one. i hope they don't pay attention to details like that. I got my pink chocolate two days ago, and so far, it's still in one piece.

Posted by: braindead5400

For me, it was probably one of the Amoi's I had or the Innostream A11. Both of those phones were horrible all the way around.

I've never had a "bad" mainstream phone however (like from a larger brand), I tend to research my phones before I buy them so I've never run into problems

Posted by: Ian Brantford

I picked up a Motorola L2 to use up my FidoDollars, and to have a backup phone with 850MHz. I was most interested in any "thin" phones for review. The ringer/speakerphone failed after 2 months. It's been sitting on a shelf ever since. I really must take it in for repair/replacement before the warrantree runs out.

I also had a Seimens C56 that lasted for just a few months before the keyboard started flaking out. At least it served its purpose, as my first phone with 850MHz, to carry me over until I got a Nokia 6230b.

Posted by: Kevbodian

yeah i just used up my fido dollars on a nokia 6061. i use this phone now when i am between phones. I gotta say it is pretty bad! even with 850, it sucks. i gotta say, though, that the worst is motorola. THE MOTOROLA C333. WOW!

Posted by: Ian Brantford

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Originally Posted by Kevbodian

yeah i just used up my fido dollars on a nokia 6061. i use this phone now when i am between phones. I gotta say it is pretty bad! even with 850, it sucks. i gotta say, though, that the worst is motorola. THE MOTOROLA C333. WOW!

Can you say precisely HOW it sucks? You mention 850 -- so is it reception? I have a friend with a surplus 6061, but I'll skip it if it's got bad reception.

Posted by: bcooper0125

My first phone ever was a Nokia 5185 on Qwest, that my mom had bought be for Christmas. I loved that phone, played Snake on it for hours (give me a break, I was 14 with nothing to do, there was no texting back then lol).

Second phone was a 3285 on Verizon, which I hated with a passion. The thing would freeze, and shut off randomly all the time. It magically flew out my window on the highway one day when it dropped a call to a friend who was at the hospital with another friend.

Third phone was a Motorola T720 on Verizon. Let me say that this phone lasted a month. Froze, restarted, no battery life, slow response. I swore I'd never get another Moto.

Fourth phone was an LG VX6000. That lasted two years.
Fifth phone was an LG VX8100. Lasted a year. Dropped it in the pool.
Sixth phone was a Motorola RAZR V3M, and last phone on Verizon. I loved it. Great clarity, but slow and clunky OS...not a fan of the big red's lockdown tactics.

I bought another RAZR (v3xx) on Cingular/AT&T and love it.

I'll probably stick with Moto. So my worst experience, would be Nokia. Mainly because it lost a few important calls for me

Posted by: Kevbodian

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Originally Posted by Ian Brantford

Can you say precisely HOW it sucks? You mention 850 -- so is it reception? I have a friend with a surplus 6061, but I'll skip it if it's got bad reception.

1. reception is poor... even with 850. my 903sh and samsung 707sc get better reception than the 6061. both the 903 and 707 are fairly higher end than the 6061, but the 6061 should never be more than a backup.

2. now this might be a nokia thing, but everytime you press the SMS button to write a new message, for some reason all the text from the last message you sent is still there. you have to manually clear it every time you write a message (even for a reply).

3. ancient UI.

4. the biggest pisser ever (for me). when holding the phone, the hang up and call buttons are kind of pushable from the side because they overlap the side instead of being on the front only. so when I would be in a call, the slightest little side push of my hand would disconnect my call! you gotta kinda hold the phone to understand this.

on the good side:

its fairly aesthetically pleasing on the outside and hella easy to unlock.

Posted by: Ian Brantford

Interesting. Thanks for the 6061 info. Regarding the SMS text, I have only seen that happen on other Nokia modelsbwhen composing a new message -- never for a reply.

Posted by: CormasterMPX220

I'm rough with phones I admit and have bad experiences with many, in fact the nokia phones are the only ones that I really have been satisfied with 100%. But if I had to say the worst one was my Siemens CT56 (think that was the number). Horrible phone, the key guard would not stay on and the call quality sucked.

Posted by: Stadsport

I guess I'd have to say my LG Chocolate (VX8500). I've only had three phones: the first a Nokia 1100. It was simple and cheap, but it treated me well and got better reception than most of my friend's $300 phones. This was on Tracfone and my mom decided to add me to her Verizon plan, so I got a Chocolate. I liked it for a while and had some good times, but the touch sensitive keys got on my nerve. They're fine for music controls but it's so annoying when you open the phone and it opens up a menu or something right away. What's worse is the wires connecting them are hair-thin and tend to break after a few months, so my first Chocolate liked to randomly call people. I got it replaced under warranty, then sold it on eBay after I bought my u740.

Posted by: Alakar

The Motorola v360. I went through 4 phones in 16 months. They worked great when I got them, then after 4 months it was like the receiver would suddenly just start crapping out. Signal fading in and out in places where I had full signal strength a day earlier. Swap my sim to my Sagem or Nokia, and full signal strength. Swapped the phone out for a new one, wait 4 months, same thing. It was really disappointing because other then that, it was a great phone.

Posted by: DaWg1

I stopped buying Motorola phones after the T720: blew out the installed car kit (smelled something burning in the car), bad UI, bad reception, replaced once because the battery was overheating

Posted by: bachviet

Moto T720c was the worst phone I ever used.

Posted by: donovan1983

LG MM535. Actually it was a great phone, I really liked it. But went through 3 of them in just a few months between one just dying, one not being able to send picture messages, and the replacement got sold since I got tired of dealing with Sprint. Sprint's proprietary picture mail system and their other customisations wreaked havoc on what was otherwise a very nice phone.

The Nokia 6800 is second in line for worst phones. Also went through 3, with 2 dying within a month and the third got sold a few months later. I also really liked that phone and I regret selling it.

Posted by: fung_pi

moto v300 ... if i closed the phone hard it would shut off on its own, and it constantly rebooted itself randomly

Posted by: Tex Arcana

It's a tossup between the Motorola V551/Bluetooth headset combo, and a pair of Ericsson's from 1998-1999.

I don't remember the model numbers of the Ericssons, but one was a near-brick-sized unit, and the other had a flip cover but was basically a bar-type phone. Both had fairly poor reception, and would NEVER maintain the settings you put into them--I would silence them, and within an hour they would reset, and then of course ring at the most inopportune times. And they could never figure out why it happened. So, in 2000, we upgraded to a pair of Nokias, and were happy 'til we went with the V551s, which are crap.

Posted by: Scorpio04

My Pantech G35 or whatever it was, the one with 3D sound. I mean first it was so damn tiny, then picture messaging wouldn't work. It would often randomly start croaking like a frog or alien or something. But when the battery refused to last even a day, I said to hell with it. I don't even remember what I did with it. I will never buy another non-mainstream phone.

Posted by: walkguru

siemens worst phone, ever.

Posted by: CSOKICF043

The LG 1010 was called the Miracle Phone in R$hack. Because if it worked, it was a miracle.

Posted by: bachviet

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Originally Posted by fung_pi

moto v300 ... if i closed the phone hard it would shut off on its own, and it constantly rebooted itself randomly

I actually have good luck with those Moto V300. My mother-in-law's V300 still works well after more than 2 years of service.

Posted by: Santorin

My worst phone was a Motorola T720. It just sucked.

Posted by: davistld01

My worst was the LG CU500...which some people loved. I thought it was the most overhyped POS I have ever had...

Funny that RIM is one of only three manufacturers that have a 0% vote. I think most people that have had...or currently have BlackBerrys are pretty happy with them.

Posted by: -Paradigm-

Posted by: gosc21

Moto W315. Battery wouldnt last a day, then one day it decides to go haywire on me. Couldn't send text messages and it would power cycle whenever i would lose a signal.

Posted by: Kabuk1

PPC-6700. Hands-down worst phone I ever had. WM5 was a nightmare, I spent more time resetting & debugging the thing than actually USING it for it's intended purposes. SLOW. Locked up constantly, I missed an entire day's worth of calls b/c it locked up for no reason in my purse & I didn't realize it. Crappy battery life. No MMS. Flimsy slide. Sub-par keyboard, I can type w/o looking on my Treo, I could barely type on this thing WHILE looking. The list could go on. But I'll shutup now

Posted by: GeminiIII

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Originally Posted by braindead5400

I've never had a "bad" mainstream phone however (like from a larger brand), I tend to research my phones before I buy them so I've never run into problems

same for me (at least in the last 7 years anyway). that's why i tend to stick with moto and samsung.
the worst phone i have ever had was some old sony candybar that dad lent me for a few weeks. it was even worse than modern day sony ericssons, windows mobiles, and LGs for freezing and being temperamental.

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WM5 was a nightmare, I spent more time resetting & debugging the thing than actually USING it for it's intended purposes. SLOW. Locked up constantly

why do i keep on hearing these stories about windows mobile

. you're not the only one to have to endure the nightmare that is WM, by any stretch of the imagination

Posted by: ReceptionIsAll

The LG Chocolate, heats when you use it, low battery life, and poor reception.

Posted by: enine

LG Vx5200. Second battery in 16 months is bad already. "official" car charger doesn't properly charge. USB post stopped working. Cheap plastic is all scratched up. Keys stick, worse reception than any previous phone. Windows only drivers for synching.

Posted by: xspainx69

I think this is the first time in my entire life of existance that I have ever heard so many people vote against Motorola's lmao hahaha Motorola tends to have the highest reputation as a good phone.

Posted by: rcyredsx

I voted for a Kyocera K10 Royale (on VM USA) that I had for 2 days...would not receive calls, settings wouldn't take or hold in OS, downloaded ringtones wouldn't save to the phone...

My vote almost went to the pink Miami Ink RAZR I bought my wife last Christmas, except it actually worked pretty well for 4 months, until it decided to start shutting itself off or rebooting itself for no reason...

Posted by: WebologyChicago

My WORST Phone ever, Honestly was the Samsung A400 on Sprint PCS. It was such a bad phone, I was let out of contract back in the day when carriers simply DID NOT care, and the technology was so new that the goverment wasn't trying to step in to do lemon laws. I had 8 phones in under 1 year. I finally demanded let me out of contract, and I won't contact my credit card company do do a charge back on 11 months of service that have not been recieved or usable. Funniest part is I went back to them many years later.

My second worst phones are ANYTHING on the Verizon network..

LG 8300's 1 of them exploded (battery) in the box under the christmas tree (just signed up december 2006.

Went to Razr's of the 2, One of them had no problems at all, 1 dropped call in 6 months, but data was useless as it would never work correctly, but that user didn't care, I on the other hand DID care about data, had 4 razr's, 3 Nokia 6315's, and then finally the V3Maxx.

From that I also had another line which started with a black choclate, then had 3 green ones, all within the course of 15 days. Free upgrade to an EnV was done, after 6 of those they suggested the 9400. After the 9400 started to have problems, I e-Mail bombed every e-mail address I could find at Verizon & Verizon wireless (as advised on consumerist)

I finally recieved a boat load of phone calls from various executives who were more than willing to let me out of contract after I attacked their marketing compain and pointed out that it was cheaper to pay for a full page ad in the Chicago tribune than it was to pay for 5 lines worth of ETFs.

They didn't like hearing that, they asked what the full page ad would say, I said "18 phones, 3 months, 250 dropped calls per phone, data errors, consistant text problems. What does Verizon suggest? A new phone, AGAIN... It's the REASON TO SWITCH TO SPRINT network!" And pointed out to them that I had already contacted Sprint's corporate office, they would give me a couple free months of service if I ran that ad to offset my costs. (Which was a total bluff, but at that point they figured out I had really thought things out because of 700 employees getting e-mails from me in one big bomb, they weren't sure what else I had up my sleve or how long I had been planning that well written e-mail out)

Posted by: legendz411

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Originally Posted by Webology

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You are a hero!

This isn't MY worst phone as I have had only one, (V551 this thing is golden) but this is my mom's story.

She hopped on the Razr train back when they came out and went through 9 phones in 3weeks before they replaced her OLD phone. Everything from recievers going out to reception problems, power cycling, txt, you name it.

It was excruciating for her.

It has come full circle, however and she is now on the V3XX and loves it.

Posted by: WebologyChicago

My current phone line up is this. V3xx on Cingular (After having razrs on every other carrier and hating them, I love this phone), i880 on Nextel (Don't ask, Half the time I don't use it, and forget it exists) and a Treo 755P (The phone I came back to Sprint for!)

I now have the last 6 months of service from Verizon being returned to me so I'm not out any money as well as selling all the phones that I'm left with on craigs list to fund the treo! LOL

Posted by: Doctor Whom

A Treo 300. When the non-removable battery failed, I had to go to four Sprint stores before I could get a replacement phone. Also, the finish chipped off pretty quickly.

Posted by: Torpdude

Motorola V220. Always seemed to be out of coverage area where other phones worked. Also tons of dropped calls.

Posted by: Malkav

the Motorola v500 what a bugged phone 5 of them in a month batt dies, screen died messages i couldnt open, no button response what a bugged phone....dropped by orange shortly after...went to the sony ericsson t610 after....

Posted by: GeminiIII

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Originally Posted by Malkav

the Motorola v500 what a bugged phone 5 of them in a month batt dies, screen died messages i couldnt open, no button response what a bugged phone....dropped by orange shortly after...went to the sony ericsson t610 after....

strange. when did they drop it? i still have mine in full working order from 4 years ago on orange. it was still offered on the orange website on PAYG as recent as last year.
the t610 was everyone's nightmare. it was painfully slow, lacking features, had awful reception, and was forever crashing.

Posted by: derX

As a GSM user, I'd say LG sucks a plenty.

I've used one ultra-entry phone (its model number escapes me--it was that crappy). The reception was a gamble at best and the features--well, let's say a champion of all-I-need-is-a-phone-that-can-make-and-receive-calls would've been content. I then gave them another chance with the LG a7110, the slider one (probably screw this model # up too). It had a swivel camera with flash and was out the same time as TMOBILE Samsung D410. I oogled over the Samsung but Cingular's closest thing to it was this hunk of junk. The camera might as well have been painted on because this thing sucked! The reception was crap and the features were lacking for a phone in its price range.

I know the GSM LG experience is different than the CDMA one, seeing how LG actually (feigns to appear as if it) cares about the latter.

Posted by: hotshot19

Nokia 3100

Horrible reception, battery life, keypad, voice quality, the list goes on and on and on.

Posted by: Ian Brantford

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Originally Posted by hotshot19

Nokia 3100

Horrible reception, battery life, keypad, voice quality, the list goes on and on and on.

Huh? I know that it had a funky keypad, but reception, battery life and voice quality are all very good on my family's couple of 3120's which are virtually identical. It sounds like yours might have been damaged.

Posted by: dogenia

Worst mistake of my life. Frequent resets, frequent problems, bricked two months after purchase @ $700 US and has not been working since.

SE sorry but you lost a customer.

Posted by: PCFASCIST

no sms through sprint. It had an awful battery life, mostly because there was no lock so if the screen was bumped it would be turned on. Almost impossible to talk on, I felt like I was always having a public conversation with whomever (because for the most part it only had a speaker phone). The reception was awful as well.

Posted by: ~~Tito~~

The nokia that could change faceplate's easily from The Original AT&T. It was clear and had a paper color thing in it. It got sooooo dirty just with putting it in my pocket (Dirt somehow got in side the phone and the screen and the charger port and the microphone). Can someone give me a model number so I can add it to my list?

Posted by: ~~Tito~~

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Originally Posted by dogenia

Worst mistake of my life. Frequent resets, frequent problems, bricked two months after purchase @ $700 US and has not been working since.

SE sorry but you lost a customer.

I think they had a F.W upgrade for that phone to fix similar problems or you just got one of the crappily made ones from the production line (can happen).

Posted by: hotshot19

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Originally Posted by Ian Brantford

the 3120 was the corrected version...I went through 4 3100's before I got a 3120.

Posted by: WebologyChicago

Tito, The phone you want to mention is the Nokia 3200. Had FM Radio, Camera, and the changable printer papers. I remember upgrading from that to the 6230 because the form factor was very close to being the same, and the 6230 gave me bluetooth.

Posted by: ~~Tito~~

Thanks! It also had a flash light I think the one I had had blue tooth and it was what I described.

Posted by: a0k 5carface

chocolate....

Posted by: NEMESIS_2007

The Motorola V101
Biggest piece of garbage ever

Posted by: ~~Tito~~

Lol, the text message one?
Also the 1g Iphone, it will get better when apple gives it updates and gives it support for: games ,mms and video capturing.

Posted by: NEMESIS_2007

yeah, i believe that i bought the V101 because it was one of the first qwerty keyboards available, and the hype about icq back then was very big, which the V101 supported. This "brick" either needed an earpiece or an adaptor to hold to your ear. The quality of the reception was horrendous.

Posted by: brucejr

Motorola MPX 200, crash, after crash, after crash!! Also had a horrible hiss in the ear piece when I took a call. And before I forget there was the random drop call.

Posted by: GeminiIII

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Originally Posted by brucejr

Motorola MPX 200, crash, after crash, after crash!! Also had a horrible hiss in the ear piece when I took a call. And before I forget there was the random drop call.

that's quite common for WM.

Posted by: miller7796

I had five LG VX8300's before Verizon let me cancel my contract, they figured there was just a problem with my account that nobody could find.

Posted by: jagermon

v180 & V220 off of cingular. the service in my neighborhood is bad enough.

Posted by: Kopeke

LG VX6100. horrible reception and tons and tons of drops calls. verizon didnt believe me, and forced me threw 5 or 6 FRUS until they gave me a 5200. the first 5200 froze at the startupscreen after 2 days, and the second one stopped vibrating and the camera no longer worked. they then upgraded me to a v325 and it is still active on one of my lines today

Posted by: peryus88

Any cell phone that is Siemens.

Posted by: NUDAY8

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Originally Posted by Kopeke

LG VX6100. horrible reception and tons and tons of drops calls. verizon didnt believe me, and forced me threw 5 or 6 FRUS until they gave me a 5200. the first 5200 froze at the startupscreen after 2 days, and the second one stopped vibrating and the camera no longer worked. they then upgraded me to a v325 and it is still active on one of my lines today

really? wow. the 6100 was one of the best phones i've owned. I guess some batches of phones can work better than others, maybe. lol

the worst phone ive ever used was an lg vx-3100... i had it for a few days as a loaner and it brought out the worst in me, haha it was so terrible.

Posted by: rstroud

LG VX-4400. This phone was the reason I left Verizon. The first one had numerous software issues and had horrible reception. The replacement wasn't any better and had TONS of dropped calls and couldn't hold a signal to save its life. Plus those little plug things at the top always fell out and LG wanted to charge me $5 to ship the darn things. It was clearly a design defect.

Posted by: DigitalAxis

Well, it's only the third phone I've had (but the only one I've had for more than two weeks)...

The Sony Ericsson Z500a.
* Very fat. This didn't really bother me much at first, because I was afraid I might lose it.
* Slow. When someone calls, I open the phone, and the 'accept call?' screen is still on the screen for about a second. Early on, I was hitting the speakerphone button (the next thing the relevant button does) all the time.
* VERY slow. I can dial numbers faster than it can handle, anyway. It's ridiculously worse (1 key per second, or it forgets numbers) when inputting reservation numbers and things, but I can believe that'd be the network instead.
* Battery life was NEVER ten hours of talk time/8 days of standby. Shortly after I got it, I actually tested the standby and I think I got five days. As for talk time, well, I've never had a chance to test that but the most I've gotten is something like three.
* Changeable faceplates were cool, but now they come off far too easily.

Posted by: ron808

motorola. slvr.

flat out garbage. the lowest of the low in the league of SEs and Nokias.

OS is too slow, often hangs and crashes, reboots by itself.

I don't have any plans of owning an LG, Samsung, Kyocera or whatnot.

Posted by: Hank Hill

hated the 6315

Posted by: DVS_WiNdz

Looking back now, I would say my samsung S700.. the volume on the phone is ridiculously low.. I could barely hear the speaker while I'm walking down the street.

Posted by: cmcintosh

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Originally Posted by tiffany8525

Ok guys and gals what is the worst PHONE you ever had..and why

Isn't there something missing here? I mean, the worst phone i've ever owned i currently own: the casio g'zone type-v. of course, it isn't casio's fault. i've got a japanese g'zone, and i can tell you that (excluding signal strength, which i know nothing about for the phone) before verizon got their trisomic hands on it, the g'zone was an absolutely amazing phone.

so perhaps the question should be: which company is responsible for your worst phone? then some of us could be honest withough blighting honest and undeserving companies. [now, yes, there is the 'and why' bit, but the poll is the most powerful (due to placement at the top of the thread) means by which to let people know which companies to avoid, and the 'why's are all lost out here in the middle of nowhere]

Posted by: mobillfonphreak

Samsung SCH-a790 world phone. The phone was a brick, disabled features, horrific ringtones, and questionable reception, and on and on and on.

This phone killed Samsung for me. Won't buy another Sammy again.

Posted by: A2r0n

My last phone was the SE w600i or something...that stupid turn to access the keys. It would constantly come open and start playing music. Very annoying.

My phone before was the v551. It was alright, just the user interface with ugly and they still haven't changed the fonts, etc.

Posted by: rattlerviper

A Kyocera K323...Terrible screen and the camera was worse. It also had to be replaced under warranty 3 times before I just gave up and bought a new phone.

Posted by: htjouster

These come from the early 2000s with Cingular. It seems that there were an unusually large number of horrible phones for Cingy during that time. These make the worst razr out today look like a champ...

Worst Battery -- Moto c331g; some genius decided to design this thing with a built-in, tiny watch battery. The battery was small, so even when new the battery life was bad. Then, because it was built-in, when it started to go bad it could not be replaced. Good times.

Worst Reception -- SE t306; the signal would bounce from medium reception to no signal while standing in place in a spot where most other phones got a full signal. Bonus for having a cumbersome camera attachment (remember those?) that took unrecognizable pictures.

Worst Build Quality -- Ericsson (pre-Sony) R300z; the antenna on this thing would break off if breathed on too hard. Additionally, the wires used to connect the battery to the phone instead of making direct contact would short out causing the battery to stop charging.

Worst Overall -- Moto t720; if you can think of a problem a phone can have, this one had it. Screen dying, keyboard dying, stopping charging, mysterious phantom key presses, antenna falling out, display mysteriously deciding to flip upside down for half of the screen, bad battery life, and bad reception are just some of the problems I saw with this phone. What makes it worse is that unlike the other phones mentioned, it was billed as a top of the line phone when it first came out as opposed to an entry-level unit.

Posted by: TheRupp

I'm not gonna lie, my 8801 is up there. It's quite problematic, terrible battery life and bad reception (for a Nokia). I've had 2 of them exchanged out now, and 3 is on its way.

Posted by: colin!

Audiovox 8910. No features, VERY quiet ringer, i can have it on high during work and nobody notices, even i miss it, if it weren't for the vibrate+ring, and WORST battery life. I mean, worse than ANY Samsung I've ever owned. Hands down.

Posted by: briwnt6

worst phone ever for me was the moto v265 had them on 3 lines reception was terrible no signal in the middle of town the charging jack was terrible went through 4 different chargers the little prongs alway broke off phone would always reboot itself
battery life was terrible went through 4 batteries in 2 years phone was not constructed well at all after a couple of months their was so much dust behind the screen you could'nt see it the number 4 quit working and alltel tech took it apart and put a small piece of plastic behind it gave it back and said it was fixed

Posted by: darkninja

Never owned these phones but dealing with them on a regular basis was bad enough. The LG VX4500 and VX3300 were both crappy phones for RF. Motorola v260, v265, and v276 were the most problematic phone i've had to deal with. Constant problems with static in the earpiece, microphones going out, just crappy build quality. I did own the v265 for a very short time.

Other than that i've owned plenty of SE's that i've been very happy with (t637, k510a, w810i, w880i, w610i) tons of motorola's that may not have been the best on menu speed but never had a problem with RF (V3, V3i, L6, V3xx) and the same goes for nokia's on RF (6030, 7280).

Posted by: simrn

to me the worst ever phone was moto v265; i was really complicated; n i could never get its unlocking

Posted by: LIVEFRMNYC

The MPX 200 was the worst ever IMO. Not stable at all & drained batteries like crazy.

Posted by: GeminiIII

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Originally Posted by LIVEFRMNYC

The MPX 200 was the worst ever IMO. Not stable at all & drained batteries like crazy.

that's because it was a WM phone. it's very common with them.

Posted by: LIVEFRMNYC

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Originally Posted by GeminiIII

that's because it was a WM phone. it's very common with them.

Not true at all. My SDA/SP5 and Ipaq 6945 have good battery life and is pretty stable.

Maybe WM completly sucked pre WM5. I think my MPX was 02 or 03.

Posted by: GeminiIII

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Originally Posted by LIVEFRMNYC

Not true at all. My SDA/SP5 and Ipaq 6945 have good battery life and is pretty stable.

Maybe WM completly sucked pre WM5. I think my MPX was 02 or 03.

hmmm that behaviour still seems to happen with people who have WM6.

Posted by: LIVEFRMNYC

Has to be the phone itself.

Posted by: GeminiIII

the problems you experienced with the MPX were almost entirely down to the WM OS.
when an OS is grossly inefficient, the battery will drain faster than it should do because it has to work that much harder (compare the speeds of linux, symbian, and WM devices with similar processor speeds to see for yourself). as for the instability, no comment is required.

Posted by: LIVEFRMNYC

Trust me I had many phones. Windows Mobile phones today hold just as good of a charge as any other phone. The MPX was just flawed, even compared to other WM phones at that time.

Posted by: bluecaj

First post! I am old enough to have had one of the first large gray bricks as a cell phone. Not the best.

That being said, I've had nokia, lg, samsung and motorola phones.

My favorite oddly was the moto v3 series mostly because I could hack it and make it as loud as I needed to. Haven't had any problems with those, even worked after a kid dropped one in the toilet.

Samsung 427's served us well travelling from soccer game to soccer game.

Right now have a sync a707, love the features but it drops alot of calls.

And I like phones that feel like they have buttons, just old fashioned I guess.

Next phone ?...........

Posted by: Dogmann

Hi all,

Having owned mobile devices for well over 20 years now without hesitation i can say the worst with out a shadow of a doubt was the SE M600 even after 2 firmware upgrades i couldn't believe how SE had the cheek to release such a totally not fit for purpose device. In fact this is what turned me into a S60 user and will take a miracle for me to go back to SE before which nearly all my device's had been Ericsson or SE.

Marc

Posted by: xiv

Easy question.

That would be the Motorola Razr V3.

Can't believe how much I paid for it. I was too taken with it being too thin (for its time)

Extremely slow UI, call quality is terrible. And the worst keypad I have ever used - I actually have to keep glancing at the screen when texting.

Posted by: Robert Gift

Our first portable cell phone was a Motorola V-120 C. (Previous phone was Motorola 3 watt Attache phone.)
Verizon gave us an extra antenna with it - that should have told me something.
What a horrible incompetent design. Can't believe they were so stupid.

Posted by: xj911

I've never had any luck with LG phones...at least the GSM versions.

Posted by: dsouder

Kyocera 2135, enough said

Posted by: Elfreshcuh

nokia 5165

Posted by: zhusain

The worst phone that I had was LG TG800 AKA Chocolate . The reception is so poor and the OS is the worst ever. The most annoying thing about the phone is that it takes a long time to start up. Once the phone is booted it takes an additional 30 to 60 seconds before you can make a call!

In addition my provider has locked the soft keys (FIDO) so that you can inadvertently access the internet racking up data charges

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This has to be the worst phone I ever had, I feel embarrassed at having decided to get it. At least I did not have to pay for it!!

Posted by: Air King

Sanyo 2300...I used it for a few months before wising up and buying a Razr. Now I use it for work and good goddlemighty is it bad. Drops calls within seconds of making them, sound quality such that every person I talk to sounds like they're yelling into a toilet, and it makes an awful video-game noise every time I change a setting. The only plus is the speakerphone...when the other party isn't telling me I'm cutting out.

As a snarky aside, I can't be the only one who's noticed how foul sanyos look.
It's like Sanyo tells their designers "make it so ugly your eyes bleed and then back it off a bit." I know they're reliable and all but still.

Posted by: arcsvibe

My worse phone ever was the Samsung SCH-N150. It was such a POS! Poor battery, poor volume controls and the microphone became loose 2 months after I purchased it. Telus refused to send me a new phone even though I had spoken to a dozen dealers that all confirmed the microphone issue was a common problem with this phone!

It was bye bye Telus and I will never buy another Samsung again!

Posted by: dluke001

For me, it was the Palm 700w (Verizon). I went through four in six months. As a PDA it was nice, though the memory crippled it somewhat (32MB total). As a phone, well... I could see when someone would call, but none of the keys worked to answer it. A soft reset would fix it for a little while. I'd also get random data failures. This happened for every refurb device they'd send me. I finally got them to switch me to the XV6700 after giving up on the 6800 ever showing up, and I haven't looked back.

Posted by: Helicon Twist

Hands-down: Motorola V551. Needed warranty replacement monthly for six months: crosstalk, dropped calls, white screen of death, Bluetooth hardware that randomly declared itself non-existent, to name a few. This would have continued, until I eBay'ed that lat warranty replcement and bought something else. Not to mention that Satan-spawned UI.

Moto RAZR V3 is a close 2nd. After less than a year, it decided it didn't want to turn off the display backlights any more, in spite of settings, resets, etc. Then half of the external display turned black and stayed that way. And the UI still sucked.

A distant 3rd: Sony Ericsson S710a. Stupid form factor, molasses-like UI, worthlessly slow camera, Bluetooth that turned itself off (by design). After 6 months, the earpiece quit. This is the phone that also showed me the frustrating uselessness of SE's USA warranty service.

Posted by: jlees

Worst phone ever, is the BlackBerry 8703e from sprint. My company has alot deployed. Everyone is experiencing these problems and more. The call quality is terrible, reception is terrible, speakerphone is almost as low as earpiece volume, shuts off/restarts itself randomly all day long. It goes into roaming in a metro area and stays that way blocking incoming/outgoing calls without a manual restart. Qwerty keys are teeny tiny.

Posted by: zaydq

My Motorola Razr v3c was a load of dissapointment and unrest with the poor earpiece and microphone quality...i literally chucked mine out the window during a call because the person kept asking me why i was humming in the phone. I also hated the LG Chocolate, mine lasted from march 07-june 07...thats 3 months seeing as i got the phone on the 28th of march...the touch pad died and the screen followed suit.

Posted by: brad15

Motorola RIZR Z6 and v3t hands down.

Signal on the phones were terrible unless you were already in a call, then it worked OK.. Very slow UI, Music player hardly ever worked right, Refused to open very large pics on the memory card that even my four year old v710 would open.

Oh and a majority of LG phones i've owned. I love their design but the RF just sucks when compared to others.

Posted by: sdm300

Motorola RAZR. First one stopped working within about 2 months. The replacement (as well as the first) had weak and scratchy audio, in areas that my previous Nokia had no problems with. After about 6 months, the screen started getting these permanent white flecks in it. After about a year, would not charge the battery - even the new one I bought. And often, it would wait 4 or more hours before indicating that a voice mail had arrived.

Posted by: haulin-rv

I bought a LG kids phone (Migo) from Verizon what a pos. You would think the ring tones would be loud since its for a kid, but they are so quite that if its 5 feet away or in a pocket or a backpack the kids never hear it. The reception was fair at best also!!

Posted by: luniz7

ive had 3 phones that were crap...but the worst i would have to say was my LG Chocolate...the thing froze all the time, the touch buttons never worked when you wanted them to, it called people back on its own, just a overall piece of **** designed phone

the 2nd phone was the V3m razr...a pos as well

the 3rd was a sanyo m1 by sprint, it was great for about 7 months then the battery life was non-existent, got a new battery and still non-existent

i voted LG because the chocolate was the worst phone ever! although LG's are still my favorite...

Posted by: Malkav

As i have already posted my worst phone (the motorola v500) i want to post about the second worst phone i ever owned, the nec 616 (clamshell from '3UK') hideous battery life, (8 hours if you where lucky, a day and a half with the huge extended battery fitted!) it was in the second consumer release of 3g handsets from said network!

To use bluetooth you had to usb it to a pc and run bluetooth via a cdrom through the phone, the gps just didnt work even usingthe 'simple' set up process, and the ui was so slow and awful, to tell the phone you wanted to send a text message was about 6 buttons before you actually got to write the message, oh and no phone book help so you had to type in the number in the 'to send' field!

What an awful handset, yet i will always look upon it with fondness it was my first ever '3g' handset i had ever owned! Thankfully the first year contract went very quickly and i upgraded to the far superior motorola a1000, that was a great handset!

Posted by: Love.

Nokia 6265i.. it was terrible. It was so slow you would want to kill yourself. It was replaced 6 times before I just bought a RAZR which was AWESOME until the UI crapped out(telus' fault) and then I bought an LG Chocolate, which had to have the flex cable replaced and ended up being replaced. had a terrible TELUS ui, but was a good phone. but then the real terror came up.

The Motorola Q. I type too quickly for it and it misses words, letters and numbers when dialing. Took a month to replace after it started hanging at the Dialing... screen. Data rates on TELUS are ridiculous. Now it says 1X instead of EV, so my EVDO dropped out. I'm switching to bell on the HTC touch.

Posted by: Irish Rose

The LG VX-10 was the worst phone that I ever had on Verizon's network. That phone couldn't keep a signal at all, and my calls were always dropping.

Posted by: TakeN0Prisoners

Motorola V180, went through two before I finally got a V3xx. The v180 was such a piece of crap. Slow, buggy, and very easy to break was the reasons I detested that phone.

Posted by: WhatIsYourCell

The juke, sold it after a week. How do you text on a keyboard that small?!?

Posted by: TheGodMachine

HOW can you not include PALM!

Posted by: brad15

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Originally Posted by TheGodMachine

HOW can you not include PALM!

my 755p was not bad, although the RF could have used some improvement

Posted by: nategorga

Mine was a Nokia 1100. I know some will disagree with me, but I just didn't like it. It was durable, but it just didn't have enough features.

Posted by: Kabuk1

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Originally Posted by TheGodMachine

HOW can you not include PALM!

Because Palm RULES.

Hehe...

My worst phone was probably a toss-up between the PPC6700 I had 2 years ago & the LG ax257 or whatever I just traded in for my razr. The 6700 was a slow, buggy, lockup-happy POS that I returned after 3 weeks, and the LG was just a basic kiddie phone with no features that started crapping out on me after 4 days.

Some phones make me think- do they not TEST these things before putting them on the market? I cannot believe they'd put something out that performs as badly as some devices do.

Posted by: Baldilocks

I have been pretty happy with just about every phone I have had.

I can honestly say that the best phones, as far as build quality and RF performance have always been Motorola with SE coming in a very close second. (Many problems lately with SE build quality though.)

Posted by: mbdfahrer

My first post and its a rant.

Moto V300 and Razr V3. Both had fussy charging issues, reversed buttons (softkey functions are usually the reverse of other phones, V300's send and end buttons reversed), slow UI. Reception wasn't very good. Why have a clamshell phone if the side buttons will still turn on the camera or change your profiles when least convenient?

Got a SE S710a and never looked back.

Posted by: brad15

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Originally Posted by mbdfahrer

My first post and its a rant.

Moto V300 and Razr V3. Both had fussy charging issues, reversed buttons (softkey functions are usually the reverse of other phones, V300's send and end buttons reversed), slow UI. Reception wasn't very good. Why have a clamshell phone if the side buttons will still turn on the camera or change your profiles when least convenient?

Got a SE S710a and never looked back.

When the v300 was released, Moto was still reversing the Send/End buttons on their phones, but later decided to change them around to the "normal" way (the way every other phone maker was doing it), so that they would seem uniform in this sense, and probably hoping that more people would try them out.

The v3m didnt realy have any charging issues though AFAIK, i know the v300 did just because of the old school moto charging port. When i had a moto back in those days, i made sure i had a charging cradle and extra battery just because i knew the phone would outlast the port. I would just charge a second battery and swap them out when needed.

Posted by: mbdfahrer

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Originally Posted by brad15

It didn't happen often on the V3, but there were some nights that it kept doing the charge sound all night.

Also, the annoying missed call reminders (which I turned off) and the low battery warning (which can't be turned off without silencing the phone), and profile switching when the phone is plugged in to charge, no idea how to disable that.

Posted by: AndrewGS

I mistakingly voted Audiovox because I've had some bad Audiovox phones, but I had forgotten about the worst phone ever, the Nokia 6185 with Sprint PCS. The phone constantly froze, signal was crap, battery life was half of what was stated and it was expensive. It was a cool chameleon green color, but that was really the only positive. After about a month I traded for something more reliable. I also breifly had a Nokia 5180 on GTE but I got rid of it as well. Nokia didn't do CDMA very well.

Posted by: Baldilocks

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Originally Posted by AndrewGS

Nokia didn't do CDMA very well.

That's because 90% of Nokia CDMA handsets were actually rebranded Pantech devices.

Posted by: brad15

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Originally Posted by Baldilocks

That's because 90% of Nokia CDMA handsets were actually rebranded Pantech devices.

Actually, there were only a few that were re branded Pantech devices, The re branded ones were the 6315, 6215, and the 6305.

You can tell what ones were re branded because they stuck out like a sore thumb compared to how nokia would normally look.

The problem with most of Nokia's older CDMA chipsets is that they made their own and for some reason they did not perform too well, i remember having my old 5180i, that thing was garbage as far as RF went but i loved the thing so i put up with it, the newer nokia phones like the 6256 and 6236 were excellent in the RF department since they had started using a chipset made by Texas Instruments instead.

Posted by: kevandermeer

Moto C333 on Rogers...

Enough said

Posted by: MountainBikerMark

Ive only ever had 1 phone from Verizon that didnt get at least 1 refurb, replacement, and/or worked on before the whole fru came as an option. it was the Samsung a930. best phone Ive ever had.
worst was as far as reception, LG6100.
build quality, LG 8600.
needing the most replacements due to burning up, LG 330( 9 in 1 year)LGv111(4 in 1 year) LG 8600( 4 in 8 months)LG4400 (3 in 1 year but the 4th one was a tank thats still working today) LG 8300 ( 1 in 1 year).
as far as needing a replacement soonest, LG8600( less than 12 hours first one fried)LG 6100( 3 in first week) Startac( 2 in first week)
worst os, Panasonic 8600
worst battery life ,Startac w/extended battery was horrible like analog horrible
slowest startup, LG6100( like one of my kids vm phones it was so slow), LGv111
most overrated LG8600 by far. most underrated LG510 by far
I dont count any of my non digital phones because they made calls and nothing more and the battery life could be measured in minutes not hours and standby time in hours, not days

Posted by: gosc21

LG 8600. Went through 4 phones in 6 months due to battery problems.

Posted by: James9527

yeah i just used up my fido dollars on a nokia 6061. i use this phone now when i am between phones. I gotta say it is pretty bad! even with 850, it sucks. i gotta say, though, that the worst is motorola. THE MOTOROLA C333.

Posted by: Mr. Bond

I can't believe that Motorola is that far ahead. Motorola is by far my favorite cell phone manufacturer; every phone I have had has been flawless.

Posted by: AndrewGS

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Originally Posted by Opacity

I can't believe that Motorola is that far ahead. Motorola is by far my favorite cell phone manufacturer; every phone I have had has been flawless.

Motorola made some real crap for a few years during the big digital phone boom. I had a T720 that was junk... actually, it ended up being 3 T720s by the time I got one that worked pretty well.

I'm a MOTOMAN now though.

Posted by: fr4c

Razr V3...

Posted by: jham_lindow

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Originally Posted by fr4c

Razr V3...

TOTALLY WITH YOU THERE!!!

Posted by: Rodville

The worst phone I can think of is the Touchpoint 1100 from SprintPCS. To say the phone felt cheap was an understatement. The plastic creaked and felt like if you squeezed to hard you would crush it. The battery lasted less than a day on standby. The only reson I even used it was they sent it to me. I called them and asked why they seny me a phone and they had no record of ever sending it. Was on the phone with reps for two weeks to see if I was going to get charged for it and they finally decided that I could keep it.

Posted by: Wojteko

The worst phone I ever used was a Vtech A700 on Fido.

It felt more like a toy then a real phone heh
I guess that explains how the antenna and a piece of the top completely broke apart when the phone was in my pocket.

Best phone I've had is an old school Ericsson T39

Posted by: The unL33T

Audiovox 8100. Everything was so unintuitive and the interface seemed far less polished than the Nokia I had from Fido before it. The battery hasn't worked properly since 6 months since I got it (although I'm still on the original).

I've gone back to the 8100 because I put my LG5450 through the wash a few months ago and didn't want to buy a replacement since my contract is expiring soon and I had this phone laying around.

Posted by: Smoochy

I won (or lost, depending on how you look at it) a free Motorola a few years ago from T-Mo. It was absolute rubbish. But it was free so I didn't feel bad when I broke it.

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Motorola Razr V3
Looks: 10
Features: 3
Performance: 4
Service: 0

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Posted by: Hawkguy 1

for the new Sidekick Slide. I never had it, but I sold 15 of them after the reissue when they said they were fixed. Every stinking one of them came back. When you slid them shut it wiped out everything in the phone memory. Utter crap.

Posted by: AlphaTeam

First one has to be the Motorola MPX200. Man the phone was big and unwieldy. I don't mind big, but it sucked in every possible way. Poor reception, crappy battery, crappy OS. Luckily the MPX220 was nice.

It's really tempting to say I hate the iPhone, but it's Apple's first try and I don't want to die yet.

Posted by: cmorty

My personal worst.... Moto 120, poorly made, dropped calls in the middle of any conversation, and the screen burned-out after a weeks ownership!!!!

This was when I had AT&T as my provider, when I was first stationed in the Norfolk,VA.

Ironically..... I got the Moto 120C as a back-up phone, when I first switched to Verizon from Sprint. By far one of the best durable phones that I've had. Even when parts would break off it, it would still work without a hitch!
Then again....it could of been the provider (VZW) that made the difference.

Posted by: drpills

I have had this motto for many years: Friends don't let friends buy Motorola.

Bob.

Posted by: cmorty

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Originally Posted by drpills

I have had this motto for many years: Friends don't let friends buy Motorola.

Bob.

Nope.... I don't think I ever will.
I have a couple of friends that have Motos.... and all have nothing but problems and rants, no praises.

Posted by: youcell.ca

the lg chocolate is the worst phone ever, it breaks down so many times.
i also find siemens have the worst phones to . they are ugly and they hard to unlock. i had one with fido back in the days.

from: youcell.ca

Posted by: homi mike

My moto E6 ROKR (sold in asia) is the worst I have had so far........my 1st moto phone and my last...

Functionality...it does everything I needed, not bad...but the reliablity sucks.......The bluetooth decidde to quit working one day, so I sent it back to have it warrantied....got the phone back....bluetooth works fine, 3 days later, I have extremely weak receptions in a place where I usually get the best reception (business district) and it will drop my calls like no tomorrow. Fine, I send it back to Hong Kong again (where I purchased it, I live in USA), and the phone decided to work under the GSM900/1800, but not the US 1900....so I had it sold, and dug up my Nokia 6010 spare phone, which is one of the best phone if you don't need anything but great receptions and long batt. life

Posted by: branchc

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Originally Posted by A2r0n

My last phone was the SE w600i or something...that stupid turn to access the keys. It would constantly come open and start playing music. Very annoying.

Weird how someones worst is another's best. I loved my W600. Solid, fast OS, tons of features, and probably the fastest non 3G phone for data I've owned. I did hate the swivel though.

Worst phone T720. People bought it because it was silver and pretty looking and it was such a piece of garbage.

Posted by: JPIndustrie

iPhone. Worst phone.

Posted by: Geezy

moto razr - why did I fall for the hype (three times)
lg chocolate - I used for a week than did a DOA... man that phones garbage

Posted by: vzw_tech

I'd have to say back a few years with tmobile, I had the razr.

I know all the fixes now, but back then it'd always freeze due to texting, the software is just generally crappy.

Lasted me probably 2-3 months through that then I got the blackberry pearl..

then i switched to vzw =)

But yeah, the only phone I'd give a decent review is the Q. But at times that's shaky as well.

Just don't buy them.. It'll only hurt you.

Posted by: Silent Witness

Moto V600. Pretty clamshell but not worth the wait n price i paid for it in May '04. Would light up randomly and crack because of a design flaw. I didnt like the RAZR V3 that much either. Hated Moto's UI. Only phones I ever truly liked was my Sanyo 5500 and my current one- N82. Both packed great features, durable build quality, and good UI. Thats why I rarely go for 'looks' anymore. I might as well marry a beauty queen with the heart of Jezebel.

Posted by: Silent Witness

Motorola looks to be kings of making crap phones. The two Korean companies take 2nd and 3rd. Notice the top three make great designs only they lack reliability or good UI. Nokia and SE did ok if u consider the sales. Neither two make the best designs, but they have a rabid fanbase. Perhaps some of the votes for them is pointed toward Symbian. Sanyo did good too. Its not all about design, folks. Reliability is what matters at the end. Could save lives if they were moreso.

Posted by: bandgeek24

mine is motorola e816 because I only had it for just over a month when verizon banned it.

Posted by: GeminiIII

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Originally Posted by Silent Witness

Motorola looks to be kings of making crap phones. The two Korean companies take 2nd and 3rd. Notice the top three make great designs only they lack reliability or good UI. Nokia and SE did ok if u consider the sales. Neither two make the best designs, but they have a rabid fanbase. Perhaps some of the votes for them is pointed toward Symbian. Sanyo did good too. Its not all about design, folks. Reliability is what matters at the end. Could save lives if they were moreso.

not necessarily. it depends how common each of the brands are in america and canada. the figures in the poll are pretty meaningless by themselves. it just so happens that motorola are by far the number 1 manufacturer on the american continent(where most of the readership is for Hofo), so you're bound to have motorola having a higher percentage by far than all the rest.

the kings of making crappy and unreliable phones seems to be SE and LG. both of them are pretty well known for it.

Posted by: Silent Witness

Thats true. Alot of votes tend to go toward not liking RAZR and Chocolate. One model should not represent the entire cart and HoFo represents a small segment. I hear SE generally crap out after a year.

Posted by: wolfy2020

My worst phone was the T-Mobile Wing. It was slow as hell, big, very expensive, and worst of all NOT durable at all.

Next phone I get im going off the suggestions from this article I read about how to test the durability of a phone before you buy. It has some good tips...

http://hubpages.com/_durability/hub...-That-Will-Last

Posted by: timmah333

This damn q9m. It's horrible....the keypad sucks, when I talk it sounds like garble, can't pick up more than 3 bars.. ever.. anywhere...not to mention no one can hear me when speakerphone is on..but the speakerphone is loud.

The Q was great, however.. I would have loved to have it still, but mine crapped out on me and Verizon was out of stock, and they would have to send me the "newer, better version" of the Q (q9m.) Lying bastards.

Posted by: collinhead

I had a Kyocera KX5 (slider remix)... or rather, I had 6 of them. I had to get it replaced almost once a month. I had it for probably 8 months. And one of the replacements was within a week of getting a new one. Fortunately cricket replaced it on warranty, but it was still a huge pain in the butt. The features were okay, when they worked.

The most annoying featureless phone i ever had was a siemens something or other crap phone from t-mobile. but i expected it to be, since it was free.

Posted by: a2kt1c

Motorola MPx200 is the most ****tiest phone Ive ever had. Battery life wouldn't make it past 6 hours (Not sure if it had a defective battery though, but still the worst phone Ive had) LOL

Posted by: GeminiIII

Quote:

Battery life wouldn't make it past 6 hours (Not sure if it had a defective battery though, but still the worst phone Ive had)

it's a windows mobile phone. it's only to be expected.

Posted by: tamoghno

the worst phone i bought was SE T100 , yes one of the first SE models , followed by SE W550i . i swear i'll NEVER NEVER buy SE again.

but the worst phone i've seen are LGs , ****** UI , ****** product life above all stupid "features" !

Posted by: makubex.

I hated the Toshiba 810t and iphone.

Posted by: mark viii

wow why is rim (blackberry) so low!!! never mind i read it wrong

Posted by: uli2000

A tie between my treo 180 and Blackberry 6290. Luckily, its been a few years now since a bad phone.

Posted by: nfl46

HTC TILT - I'd NEVER get this phone again!
Motorola RazR! SO many problems!

Posted by: nakoda

LG 5450, only phone I've ever seen a company release a press note 2 years after the phone was discontinued admitting to having faulty hardware and software causing the phone to be substandard.

Kyocera 7135 palmOne, ****ing horrible phone.

any motorola with the 2-prong charger.

Posted by: rcyredsx

I want to amend my original post on page 2 and nominate my (soon to be ditched) Sidekick 3.

Really poor build quality compared to my previous SK2's; consistently random call and data drops only curable with a reset (at least 1x a day); extremely poor battery life (8 hours standby if I'm lucky)... I love the Danger OS, just not the devices that its been implemented in. Maybe that'll change since MS is in charge now but I doubt it highly.

Posted by: CeluGeek

The crappiest GSM phone I've had this far (and by a huge margin) is a SonyEricsson Z250a that I got yesterday. I don't think SE phones are crappy. In fact I have a W300i that has been really nice and SE makes the smartest dumb phones: (built-in call filtering and phone password that won't nag you unless the SIM card is changed), but the Z250a is the biggest POS out there. It freezes at the minor provocation, and reception is the worst out there.

If it weren't for the fact that it only cost me $40 bucks on prepaid and I can stick the SIM card into a better phone, I'd had returned it today. But it's not worth the trip back.

Posted by: NickS_

Worst phone would be my LG C2000. Had it for about a month. Second worst would be my Sony Ericsson W580i. Fell apart in ~a month as well. Cheap pile.

My favorite phone ever, was my Sony Ericsson Z520a. I'd still use one too, I loved it. 2nd favorite would be a close tie between my W810i or my BlackJack.

Posted by: bb9275

Moto V3m (Sprint) by far...less than 12 hours on a fully charged standard battery

(and I left it home that day), slow, data didn't work half the time... My Sanyo SCP-4500(?) still has a fully charged battery and I haven't used it for 4 years!

Posted by: WorldFamousSam

In terms of:

Styling: Audiovox 9500 HANDS DOWN
Reception: Sidekick 3
Build Quality: LG VX7000 (that wiggly flip)

Posted by: susieq4263

A Motorola V551 - it would randomly shut off right in the middle of a call -

Posted by: SPRINT GUY

I Had A Had A Htc Mogul It Was So Bad. It Locked Up All The Time. Battery Life Was Soooooo Poor..

Posted by: EPVQ30

i voted moto b4 i saw the results.
however, i can't belive nokia is ranking 7.

Posted by: MotaStylez4oo

Palm Treo 650 - for verizon ... Audiovox XV6700 close second.
Slow UI, really slow camera.
Using bluetooth caused innumerable soft resets.

I will say that it withstood repeated pelts towards the wall. This probably perpetuated the problems to some extent, oh well. The 700p I got as a result of my troubles was much better.

Posted by: goushe

Quote:

Originally Posted by NickS_

Worst phone would be my LG C2000. Had it for about a month. Second worst would be my Sony Ericsson W580i. Fell apart in ~a month as well. Cheap pile.

My favorite phone ever, was my Sony Ericsson Z520a. I'd still use one too, I loved it. 2nd favorite would be a close tie between my W810i or my BlackJack.

Really? the 580i Was bad? I was gonna get one. It felt kinda cheap LOL. My personal worst is... the Super Slice!!!!!!! (utstarcom pcs-1450) for some reason when I text, it will actually TRY to make the network busy, I swear, so my entire message is lost. I have a hethen phone LOL. Oh yeah... and let's not forget that I can't type apostrophes, my phone goes emo and freezes

Surprised Audiovox is so low on the list...

Posted by: ipodlover77

Sidekick 3.
Reception blew.
Interface was VERY simple.
Big.
Features blew.

A crappy phone in general.

Posted by: Roguephoto

Motorola C332 on Rogers.

Could barely hear anyone I was talking to. Never heard the thing ring because it was too quiet. Standby time was like 8 to 12 hours. Man, it's been 4 years and I still hate that phone.

Posted by: tsechler414

had to be my bb 7105. for some reason i had the absolute worst reception with that phone, which kinda boggled my mind since blackberry's are usually well known for there great reception. i am actually now a proud user of my second pearl. kind of ironic how i went from the worst reception ive ever got with the 7105 to the best reception ive ever got with my 8100. another thing that drove me up a wall for some reason i hated the scroll wheel on the side instead of what bb's have now with the trackball.

Posted by: EPVQ30

my first ge analog bag phone

Posted by: PhoenixEnigma

Worst phone I've ever owned myself was an Audiovox 89xx - I can't remember the exact model. Worst feature was that there was a button on the side that activated the camera, which constantly ran down the battery. The key lock was supposed to disable this, but there was a firmware bug where holding a key down until the backlight went off overrode the keylock. I usually figured it out just as the battery died, and got disturbingly hot in the process.

Worst phone I've had to deal with has been the LG150. Probably 1/3 of the ones I sell end up getting returned and sold again as refurb or re-certified. Half of those crap out too. Everything from crappy battery covers to freezing screens to calls dropping to screens dying to not charging . . . just a nightmare. Even the dummy phones for them feel cheap and crappy.

Posted by: tszefr

Oh no Audiovox 8500 was worst of worse. I have an 89xx on Page Plus and it is usable. The 8500 cost a mint (something like $150), the 5-way keypad was impossible, and the volume was tied to ringer so if you could hear it ring, the earpiece would blast your ear.

Runner-up no-keepers: Moto L2 (cannot remember why), N2366 for inaudible ringer, N2610 for non-usable screen when sunlight is present, N6126 for inadequate volume. V3m I cannot stand but keep because it's hacked to do what few VZW phones do: Java. Let's not forget the i425 for the stupidest faceplate design ever and the i415 for ugliest modern brick.

Favorite still W810i. Previous favorites: N6360 and 800 mHz only CDMA StarTac. Wife actually accepted and uses the N6061 and she is picky!

Posted by: wildrocker1884

Quote:

Originally Posted by i0wnj00

And the winner for worst phone I have used....

Motorola MPx 200.
Horrible battery life, horrible RF, and the Windows UI was chunky.

i was just about to say that phone the MPX 200. lol i still have it on me till this day. maybe i should use it as a paper weight

Posted by: mark0341

for me it was the LG 5450

Posted by: dragonlord

Worst phone I ever had: Siemens SL45i.
Even if it had an mp3 player and very good headphones (still use them for my mp3 player

) the phone sucked. Battery life to short even without using the player. The IR sometimes just turned the phone off when receiving a file and the keyboard had to be fixed every 2 months if you wanted to make calls with it not just receive.

Posted by: Pirat3

Kyocera SE44. Tiny buttons. Slow response. Crap.

Posted by: codymac7

LG mm535 it always glitched out and screen would turn all white and weird stuff...sprint had to replace the phone 4 different times thank god i had the insurance

Posted by: MotaStylez4oo

Quote:

Originally Posted by EPVQ30

my first ge analog bag phone

I hated the one I had to climb the telephone pole to use. Like they did on Green Acres.

Posted by: Adi23

The worst phones I have ever owned are the Nokia 8210 and Sony Ericsson W900i.

The W900i had the WSOD problem THREE times.

The Nokia 8210 I bought for a significant amount of money when it first came out only to have a screen fade problem a few months after purchasing it.

Posted by: EPVQ30

the bag phone for me.
that thing was the worst.

Posted by: Barciur

Oh God.. lol Siemens A40 would me mine.

Posted by: psycho_maniac

go motorola i really dont like them at all anymore. i mean the first phone i had i replaced about 6 times till they gave me a Lg i loved that phoen so much...got a 2nd lg and loved that phone the ax8600 that broke and i got the razr2 because of the bigger screen....well im pretty sure i wont get another motorola again. its a really good phone and all but some stuff i dont like that im used to Lg lg has simple menus motorola has menus for dummies it seems. also i LOVE T9 and i never want to use Itap again. it doesnt remember my words or emotions so i saved them as quick texts. also i like how you can customize every ring tone i also dont like "ring styles" my phone is great but i just like Lgs better because of the way they operate

Posted by: clown2theleft

Had the Nokia N75. God, what a POS. Went through 4 of them in 8 months. Screens died. Refused to charge/power up. Hinge cracked... finally got rid of the thing via early upgrade--and GOOD RIDDANCE!

Best,

--The Clown to the Left.

Posted by: netslave

HTC 8525. got two of them still. anyone want a phone?

bought for 450$, sent back orig in a month. got a refurb two days later. lasted two months. got another refurb, lasted two more months. all issues that that model had. white screen all the time, ribbon cable bad, **** wm software that didnt work with jack, etc etc. att refused to get me into another phone, told me to keep last bad phone sent another and told me they couldn't do anything for me.

this is why i love/hate att. ill never sign another contract with the fawks but ive got to have them. ill pay more for unlocked now and lessons learned.

Posted by: sax65

LG VX8300, for some reason I have had bad luck with this phone, I picked it after reading reviews and reading it was one of the best phones of 2006 and it did what I wanted so I picked it up and after 2 or 3 months the camera started to not work. So I took it in to Verizon, they replaced it. This one lasted another 6 months and then started powering down by itself and the camera was also bad, So I took this one in and got it replaced and the next one started powering down by itself and the screen keep getting all weird when I went into the menu's. So I went back and got another one and the service guy told me that if this next one broke I would be given a different phone, most likely the VX8350. Well sure enough this one was messing up too, it would take anywhere between 2-5 mins to get a text out, and half the time it would ask me to retry sending it. So I took this one last month and they wouldn't give me a different phone and told me if they did it would void my NE2 upgrade later this year, and yet again replaced the damn thing and this one is giving me problems with texting, so i just ordered a Samsung U740, and hopefully I wont have to many problems within the coming months.

Posted by: uncman

The Samsung T329 Stripe on T-Mobile. I bought one to replace another crap phone, the Nokia 2610. The darned phone had a number 7 button that didn't work properly. It made texting a nightmare. I also knew that Samsungs didn't have the best signal strength, but this one was pitiful. It was the first phone of like 10 that actually lost coverage at my house. And when I tried to return it within the 14 day return period (i didn't have a reciept), the guy acted like he couldn't take it back! When I returned the Nokia for the Samsung the week before, they pulled up the reciept on their computer lickety-split because they wanted me to pay for the phone that costed twice as much! Now that I didn't want a new one, they act like they can't do anything about it!! Time to break out the old Razr while I plan to switch to AT&T.

Posted by: simple3

Ericsson T28 World: 1st off phone would 'randomly' freeze when trying to place a call. I say random, because there was no rhyme or reason to it, but it was not occasional and probably froze 45-50% of the times. Warrantied out several times through PacBell Wireless at the time... Secondly the spring was WAY too strong and the flip would open in my pocket after the little button was pushed in by my keys or whatever.. Causing the phone to pocket dial... Was not socially akward because it would usually just freeze the phone.. (see first problem) However when I would take it out to make a call it would almost always be frozen and it would take 30-45 seconds to pull the battery and restart it.

Posted by: altNz

Based strickly on manufacturer experience it has to be the original Moto RAZR. I wasn't all that interested in the phone when I first saw it. But it kind of grew on me as it resembled a Japanese phone, to me at least. So I was one of the 1st people to purchase one at the astonishing price of $600, had high expectations because of the price. Well the 1st phone didn't last a month when I started having OS problems where the phone would crash, restart, etc. OS problems were supposedly a common problem for the 1st batch of phones. So a call to Cingular gave me a replacement phone, well after a week one of the side buttons broke off creating a real razor: I kid you not you could cut things with the broken button. So another call to Cingular in hopes of a replacement was shot down for cosmetic damage?!?!? So I ended up having to make a call to Moto who stated they would honour a manufacturer's defect. Well that turned into user caused damage?!?! As well as a new install of the OS, even though there was nothing wrong with it. Well the new OS ended up locking my phone as I purchased the phone premerger meaning World Phones were unlocked through Cingular, but now they were locked because of the AT&T Wireless merger. Well I had to take care of one thing at a time, so ended up paying $30 to get the button fixed. Now a call back to Cingular in hopes of getting the phone unlocked. Well turns out they can't unlock it, because as far as they can tell the phone is unlocked to begin with so no unlock code?!?! So Cingular tells me to call Moto, well a call to Moto turns into we don't unlock phones it's your carrier who's in charge of the unlock codes. Great, so being total pissed off at this point I decided to write a nice letter to the CEO. Ended up getting a personal letter from the VP of Customer Relations who finally was able to unlock the phone after a phone call. You can probably imagine why my friends and I refuse to purchase a Moto again. Not that it matters anymore as Moto's phone division is on life support. But it's beyond me why Moto an American Company makes their phones outside the States while Nokia a Finish Company can make phones in the States and more importantly why Moto doesn't have better Quality Control.

Posted by: ke4qpf

All I have to say is Motorola i730... I shouldn't have to say any more.

Posted by: brad15

Quote:

Originally Posted by ke4qpf

All I have to say is Motorola i730... I shouldn't have to say any more.

my i730A was awful, but i had one made later, and the signal and battery life was improved on it a lot.

Posted by: AGEranger

Moto e815 was worst for me, I got it when it was relatively new and between my four and my sons three returns (all of which had charging issues) I was never so glad to get rid of any phone.