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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
To: neverdem; ShadowAce
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:56:27 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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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.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
05/07/2009 11:13:24 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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.
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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.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
05/07/2009 11:17:04 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: neverdem
Impact of microwave on sub-cellular level could be a concern.
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posted on
05/07/2009 11:21:52 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
To: this_ol_patriot
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posted on
05/07/2009 11:31:18 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
To: smokingfrog
Thinking of getting my Mother one of those.
To: TigerLikesRooster
I think my father checked his blood sugar with several models styled after the The Siemens Xelibri Line, or vice versa.
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posted on
05/08/2009 3:16:33 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Multiple use phones ...the WTG
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posted on
05/08/2009 3:34:08 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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!
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posted on
05/08/2009 3:38:42 AM PDT
by
djf
(Too many churches, and not enough truth...)
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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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.)
To: Daffynition
I'm pretty much enamored with my shell phone...
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posted on
05/08/2009 6:41:09 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
05/08/2009 7:07:18 AM PDT
by
al_c
(Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
To: al_c
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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.)
To: Joe 6-pack
I was mindin' my own business ... when outta the blue ...... my cobra pho............
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posted on
05/08/2009 12:19:15 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
To: this_ol_patriot
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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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