Poll of the Day > What is the worst cell phone you've ever used?

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have you used any really bad ones? like ones that were not designed well?

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I feel like it was the galaxy s4 for me. While it had tons of features and some I still miss to this day it's battery life nose dived and its cellular antenna started going bad would get hot. Perhaps it didn't have the hardware to keep up with its capabilities at the time. Maybe it was just my luck but it was one of the most frustrating experiences at the end of its life.

Moto X pure: Really liked it, had some great features and a little different style and charm. Screen eventually went shot.

Galaxy S8+. So far this feels like its been the most reliable. It still feels just as responsive and functional as when I got it with no sign of slowing down.

Thats all the experience I have with smartphones lol.

dedbus posted...

I feel like it was the galaxy s4 for me. While it had tons of features and some I still miss to this day it's battery life nose dived and its cellular antenna started going bad would get hot. Perhaps it didn't have the hardware to keep up with its capabilities at the time. Maybe it was just my luck but it was one of the most frustrating experiences at the end of its life.

Moto X pure: Really liked it, had some great features and a little different style and charm. Screen eventually went shot.

Galaxy S8+. So far this feels like its been the most reliable. It still feels just as responsive and functional as when I got it with no sign of slowing down.

Thats all the experience I have with smartphones lol.

when was the moto x? i have the moto g6

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iPhone. Android on ZenFone isnt much better to be fair.

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None that were terrible. Up until early 2018 I was still using various cheap flip phones. Since then I've only had the LG Stylo 3 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy A20 (the budget model).

My favorite phone was my Nokia from like 2004 or 2005. It had Snake and every phone needs Snake.

Plus it had this function where you could hold down the star button a second or two and it would turn on a little flashlight at the top. Was great for reading on the bus in high school, or finding your keys. Kinda forward-thinking of them since all phones have a flashlight function built in now

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It was the 2015 iteration of the moto x line.

i had two separate galaxy S4s that broke for different reasons (one just stopped being able to send or receive calls, the others camera stopped working)

been living that iPhone life ever since, no problems

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all my phones have been pretty good actually, never really had any issues even before smartphones

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I guess probably my first one, which was a 1998-era Samsung flip phone with an antenna I could pull out. No camera and texts were limited to 120 characters, which was pretty limiting. That one died in 2011 (rubber bit around the microphone degraded and clogged it up so I couldn't be heard in phone calls, which made it pretty useless), and I replaced it with another Samsung flip phone that had a camera and could send longer texts, which was nice. That one had a hinge crack and wear out after 8 years and I just replaced it this summer with an LG G7 One. No complaints yet.

Of course, that first one was really only the worst because the technology has improved since then, so I'm not sure that's the fairest comparison.

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LG G4 ( the one with the curved screen ). Got bootloop issue just after a year and was unusable after that. Battery sucked and would do lots of random annoying things. Terrible phone.

Second worst was my Galaxy S4. Just overall build quality was very poor and that phone did not last long even in a case.

Best phone is my current phone Galaxy S10+ , so far no issues.

Moto X Play that I used in 2016 to 2018 had a battery that just did whatever the fuck it wanted to do. Frequently would die at 60%. Other times it would live right to 1%. It was also comically large.

In 2011 to 2013, I had a Sony Xperia Play, the PlayStation phone. It was a total god tier phone, but eventually just straight up died.

I have some low end Samsung Galaxy model now that isn't too great, but gets the job done. It suffers from screen burn in. Don't know how that's even possible yet my old plasma TV has never even had that problem.

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All the ones i've ever had were fine. My current phone is the only smart phone i've had though. A droid, dunno the model.

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I had a Motorola Razr, Motorola Motoblur, T-Mobile myTouch 4G, Samsung Galaxy S4/S5/S7, and I currently own a Samsung Galaxy Note 9. My S5 is the only phone that ended up having problems after a few years. The screen would occasionally flash on and off quickly, and it would take up to 25-30 seconds to get it off sleep mode. The battery life eventually went to crap too. Everything else was/is solid and I liked them a lot.

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faramir77 posted...

Moto X Play that I used in 2016 to 2018 had a battery that just did whatever the fuck it wanted to do. Frequently would die at 60%. Other times it would live right to 1%. It was also comically large.

In 2011 to 2013, I had a Sony Xperia Play, the PlayStation phone. It was a total god tier phone, but eventually just straight up died.

I have some low end Samsung Galaxy model now that isn't too great, but gets the job done. It suffers from screen burn in. Don't know how that's even possible yet my old plasma TV has never even had that problem.

Ya all my samsung phones have received screen burn in and the whites going to a pinkish color. Having the screen brightness set to 70% or higher speeds up this issue. On my S10+ I keep the brightness to around 40% most of the time.. hate the screen burn, looks like total ass.

LG Chocolate in like 2006

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Flip phones? No. Those worked. They didn't do much, but they were totally usable. The first versions of Android in 2011 were unusable.

I would actually be lucky if I could get to the calling app without it crashing. I think I had an emergency at one point and couldn't even get it to work. It hard crashed once an hour minimum. No idea how Android even survived this phrase. I don't think IPhones were even bad back then.

I still have shards of glass in my phone after I cracked the screen. Objectively the worst phone I've ever used. Those pieces of shit went for $500, too.

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lumia 520. the phone was good (as expected from nokia) but OS and microsoft's support was shit.

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I think it's a bit of a tie between the acer liquid and the samsung Galaxy note 4, even though I liked both.

the acer liquid had support issues.
I didn't get updates because I was sent the Belgian model.
I got a few updates after changing the region(manually install a dutch official rom, then let automatic updates do their thing), but right before the big update that made it really unique they cut support for the regular model(the E model with slightly more ram did get the update, no other difference)
I installed a slightly tweaked acer liquid e rom(just to remove the model check) and it ran without issue.
the acer liquid e rom showed exactly how custom UI's should work, it had a switch in the settings that switched it from completely stock UI to one that had a bottom status bar with pop-up notification bubbles and toggles(this was on android 2.1 or 2.2)

my galaxy note 4 worked great, and I had no issues for a year.
but after a year it fried itself.
I had it repaired under warranty, but almost exactly 1 year later(just after warranty expired) it fried itself again the exact same way.
there was a design flaw in the motherboard that caused it to slowly self-destruct after a year of heavy use.
when it wasn't self-destructing it worked fine(although they should've used harder metal for the edge of the phone, it was really soft)

Never really had a bad cellphone, but I did have one absolutely horrible PDA ages ago. It was a Toshiba e805, one of the first PDAs with a VGA screen and built-in WiFi. But it was extremely unstable and would hard reset itself every few weeks, deleting everything. I sent it in for repair several times and it took Toshiba several months each time to return it. I finally just sold it on eBay for almost nothing (it was about $600 new, about $850 in today's dollars) and ordered a Dell Axim X51v, which was one of the best non-phone PDAs I'd ever had.

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Flip phone (don't remember the make) from the early-mid 2000, and my first phone. Not that it was designed poorly, it just fell far short in functionality compared to smartphones.

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Every iPhone. Terribly made crapple products.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Every iPhone. Terribly made crapple products.

If theyre so bad as you say they dare, why would you use one? Like, did you buy it not knowing it was bad or bought it even though you knew it was bad?

or are you just trolling because applesuxtrolololo

Galaxy Discover probably

It was a cheap phone after my previous phone broke just to make due in the mean time.

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WastelandCowboy posted...

If theyre so bad as you say they dare, why would you use one? Like, did you buy it not knowing it was bad or bought it even though you knew it was bad?

or are you just trolling because applesuxtrolololo

No, just from using other people's phones.

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My Galaxy Sky is kind of odd and it doesnt want to play Pokmon Go anymore (keeps saying the GPS cant find location or something.) Never really had any other phone problems except with plan prices.

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