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Dirty Dozen Ugliest and Lamest Cell Phones
PC World ^ | 05/03/09 | Daniel Ionescu

Posted on 05/07/2009 10:56:04 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Dirty Dozen Ugliest and Lamest Cell Phones

Ugly only begins to describe what is wrong with these cell phones. Some of them lack such phone basics as keypads and displays.

Daniel Ionescu, PC World

Sunday, May 03, 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Twelve Cell Phones We Love to Hate

Some cell phones really look great, but are impossible to use. Other cell phones have cool features, but are ugly ducklings. Then there are those rare mobile monstrosities that fail at both looks and usability. Some have pricing issues as well.

Now to be fair, many cell phone makers fail when they are too ambitious, adding cutting-edge features way before their time or taking a design risk. Without these noble failures, perhaps no iPhone would ever have been possible.

The phones in our dirty dozen list all suffer from either design flaws or functionality failures, or both. While we hope you never get stuck with one of these stinkers, we also hope these phones have contributed to the greater good of the mobile world by letting handset makers learn from their mistakes.

(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Science
KEYWORDS: cellphone; design; flop

1 posted on 05/07/2009 10:56:04 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: neverdem; ShadowAce

Ping!


2 posted on 05/07/2009 10:56:27 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I hate clamshell phones.


3 posted on 05/07/2009 11:00:38 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

4 posted on 05/07/2009 11:13:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Maybe the cell junkies can help me. I want a cell that’s just a phone, no music, no radio, no net, no other things but a phone. I need keys and screen big enough to see without taking off my driving glasses and putting on my reading glasses or fumbling around with it. It must be AT&T compatable. Right now I’m using an old Nokia bar phone but the keys and screen are still too small.

No I am not a Luddite, I love my sons iPhone. I need the phone for in the car as an emergency phone. Towing and road service, 911 and home is all I’ll call on it. If I have the non-phone junk I’ll only play with it. That I don’t want to do.


5 posted on 05/07/2009 11:16:54 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot (I saw manbearpig and all I got was this lousy tagline.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Cell Phone Radiation Alters Human DNA Expression

I don't have one. I'll only use them in an emergency until the FDA says they are OK for long term use.

6 posted on 05/07/2009 11:17:04 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

Impact of microwave on sub-cellular level could be a concern.


7 posted on 05/07/2009 11:21:52 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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8 posted on 05/07/2009 11:31:18 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: smokingfrog

Thinking of getting my Mother one of those.


9 posted on 05/07/2009 11:46:10 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I think my father checked his blood sugar with several models styled after the The Siemens Xelibri Line, or vice versa.


10 posted on 05/08/2009 3:16:33 AM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Multiple use phones ...the WTG


11 posted on 05/08/2009 3:34:08 AM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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To: this_ol_patriot

I switched from T-Mobile to Net10 and am much happier, coverage is better, and they offer some phones that are pretty much just... just phones!


12 posted on 05/08/2009 3:38:42 AM PDT by djf (Too many churches, and not enough truth...)
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To: this_ol_patriot
I got my daughter a Pantech Breeze because it is just that - a breeze. It does have a camera (most of them do nowadays) but not much else for bells and whistles.
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13 posted on 05/08/2009 6:36:04 AM PDT by Frogtacos (It all went to hell when we started cooking outside and crapping inside.)
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To: Daffynition
I'm pretty much enamored with my shell phone...


14 posted on 05/08/2009 6:41:09 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: TigerLikesRooster


15 posted on 05/08/2009 7:07:18 AM PDT by al_c (Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
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16 posted on 05/08/2009 7:49:00 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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To: Joe 6-pack
I was mindin' my own business ... when outta the blue ...... my cobra pho............


17 posted on 05/08/2009 12:19:15 PM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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To: this_ol_patriot

Jitterbug.....music not included

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6CUchCm_sE


18 posted on 05/08/2009 1:06:45 PM PDT by Kimmers (Be the kind of person when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, Oh crap, she's awake)
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