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The best - N95 (quite ahead of the time, still love it)
Average - Sony Ericsson p910 , nokia 5800
The worst - Nokia communicator (one of the first series, dont remember the name though)
Epic fail - O2 xda IIs ,(unreliable, mediocre , fkd up network)

I am still wondering what went wrong with my judgement when i purchased n900 .. A great device with no reliable future.

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nokia 3230, from hardware to bugs of software

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Nokia N900, by far. :mad:

At least it makes up for it a bit by being a lovely pocketable linux system. :D

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Try this one on for size

http://www.gsmarena.com/bosch_com_607-135.php

I had it for 3 months before i threw it under a passing van. Problem solved.

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Also, im pretty sure the Samsung Omnia was alive, the camera stopped working after 9 months of owning it, and after almost 11 months i looked at a 5800 and said i need that phone, it died that night... so i got my 5800... and then an n900 shortly after.

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so much hate for n900. really the worst phone ya'all ever had? really? its by far my favourite.

N97 the worst for me too. just before i gave it away its latest update made the phone a lot more usable but still not for me.

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The Phone app on the N900 is piece of crap by todays standards. Lets admit it.

The rest of the pocketable personal microcomputer is great. :)

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Oh man, I remember when I had to use my mom's Kyocera Marbl after I lost the SIM for my basic old Samsung (long story...).

It takes 5 seconds to bring up the contacts menu, and another 3 seconds to move between entries.

Plus I had to endure the ridicule of my peers, even though it wasn't even my phone. The N900 definitely stopped their cynicism. ;)

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It's related to what you expect and want from a phone.
I don't really understand what is crap about the phone app.
It's very easy to use apart from calling someone, but that is tricky with most touchphones. the messaging is simply brilliant!

my crappiest phone would be the LG Viewty,

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As a phone my N900 is my worst by a long long long long way. Phone is missing all the functions I have become used to on Symbian for the last 10 years. of course it has 48gb memory and conboy and gpodder which makes it rank far ahead all my previous phones as a device in general. But as a phone only it gets its head kicked in badly.

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Nokia 7600. Utter tosh!!!

I mean... who chooses to make a phone in that shape with that keyboard layout!

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Palm Treo - was given it to use when in Chicago for a contract... the stupid phone kept de-registering itself from the cell network and needed to be rebooted in order to re-register.

I missed lots of calls because of that stupid phone.

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by far the HTC Fuze......it blew, really bad. I couldnt wait to get rid of that abortion.

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LG RENOIRE :mad:

Never BUY LG MOBILE PHONE!

Go for apple nokia or htc the rest is ****. I am wondering Apple. They brought out some little No-feature-Handys but the apple iphone 3G is still costs around 300€. The 3gS Around 400-600€ Thats awesome. You get N900 for around 350€ new with a little bit luck.

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N900, so much anticipation, so little substance.

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lg shine that phone was disgusting!

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N900.

never had a phone with so much potential that never realised it.

Question of expectations really. with every other phone I knew what I was getting into and didn't expect much more.

With the N900, I knew what I was getting into and expected so much more. Hence, it is my crapiest phone ever.

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samsung d500, i was going to rant about all its failings but mehdie nailed most of them earlier in this thread, the spec was brilliant at the time but it failed so bad in practice, 5mp camera seemed great, 2 second lag between click and pic actually being taken coupled with an achingly long exposure ruined every photo i took. sent it back under 14 day cooling off period and went back to my payg nokia

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Sony CMR-111

http://www.cntr.salford.ac.uk/comms/...sonycmr111.jpg

My first mobile.

If i remember correctly I originally bought some sort of Bosch phone that was quite cheap and handily came with 2 batteries - only to discover that the reason there were 2 batteries was that it had a 4 hour battery life and you needed both to get through a working day.

Took it back the next day and bought this Sony, simultaneously the best and worst phone I have ever had, I absolutely loved it, but it had no functionality/practicality and you were always worried the boom mic would break, it never did though and the call quality was great.

It couldn't store numbers but instead came with a calculator type thing that numbers could be stored on and then recalled and transmitted via infra-red to the CMR-111.

Utterly useless but if I could get a 3G one today I would be tempted.

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Woah this looks like the ugliest wireless baby guard I have ever seen!

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two plastic cups connected by a cord assembly

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Motorola RAZR, followed very quickly by the Motorola SLVR.

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moto rokr

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Nokia 9210, such a let down after the 9110. The 9500 was amazing to follow it though. I love my n97 and n900, I'm surprised at such n97 hate. It's one I've missed the most after switching, even 9300 to e90 (I own every single nokia communicator style phone).

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hmmm, been using nokia for ages, but unabashedly i gotta say the n97, the damn thing was laggy as hell, not what i expected from nokia's 'top-end' model, Gawd, it almost even dissuaded me from getting my n900......oh the horror! :p

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easy. Motorola A830. One of the first batch of 3G phones released when Three started up in Australia.

Ugly. Massive. UI was terrible. Didn't always work properly (though could have been 3 network related).

I went in for a job interview at Motorola, and was thinking of bringing in the phone so that I could tell them I wanted to work for them so that *this* would NEVER happen again!
http://www.imobile.com.au/images/cov...A830_angle.jpg

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Samsung Memoir, I returned 3 memoirs and cancelled the service with that line. I was TIRED of being stuck with my N82 for 2 years and lost my mind for a moment to the 8MP hype only to find out that NOBODY makes hardware components like Nokia. The audio recording is junk on Non nokia phones due to cheap microphone/speaker combinations. Memior ruined wedding videos, same goes for the Highlight, Cliq and HD2: All subpar hardware components. Record a video with loud background noise on a non Nokia and you will hear the difference. Even the E63 records better audio during videos than most competitor devices.

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Philips Fizz http://www.gsmarena.com/philips_fizz-143.php

Came free with a new plan I took. Was super thin, but otherwise gargantuan. I returned it the same day and upgraded to Philips Spark.

http://www.gsmarena.com/philips_spark-144.php

Now that thing was good. I finally replaced it after several years of intercontinental travel and faithful service, with in my mind the best simple phone on the planet, the Siemens S35. I still have very fond memories of it.

http://www.gsmarena.com/siemens_s35i-95.php

I then upgraded to the next crappiest phone, the 3G NEC e606, but I actually kept this one since it was the ONLY pocketable choice on 3 Australia when the service was launched. The other alternative was that hideous Motorola thing already mentioned, and it was huge.

http://www.gsmarena.com/nec_e606-481.php

Two good things about that NEC phone were that the video calling actually worked and that was nice, and it was the first widely used phone (in Australia at least) that had a super high quality sample of an old telephone's metallic bell ring tone.

Of course before these, I had numerous analogue phones, including the second generation Motorola brick, a tiny Ericsson and countless company issue Nokia GSM phones, so I have some perspective...


V.

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that was my first phone! It was ugly but it did the job of making calls. I don't even think we knew how to (or even could?) sms back then.

Still wouldn't call it my "crappest" phone ever though.

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Man....No wonder nokia acknowledged that hey have failed with the N97.

Was counting the posts this far and Most number of votes went for the N97. Any guesses for the second place....our faithful N900.

wld certainly agree, as the OP was asking for a 'phone', wld vote for N900 as the worst 'phone' I ever had, but its the best mobile Internet device I ever used

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http://z.about.com/d/cellphones/1/0/...330_series.jpg

non-provised device. had grayscale display. that was about all good I can say about it

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Non of my devices sucked. I love all my past devices SE T230, MOTOROLA ROKR, AN OLD NOKIA WITH A COLOURED SCREEN AND CLASH LIGHT(currently using it for the other network in my country) a SAMSUNG (also not a high tech device just calls and SMS) and my latest NOKIA N900 AKA NICKI

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You should've said..

"None of my devices sucked... because I've always researched my purchase well."

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Well I've only done research for the Rokr and the N900 so I don't get what your point is. Care to explain?

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I must say to all you guys who are posting their 10-15yr old "ringers" as the worst phone you have ever owned... You are very lucky:)

This has to be my worst phone of all time
http://images.intomobile.com/wp-cont...nounced-11.jpg

Apart from it looking link Michael Knights TomTom, it was a well built and sturdy handset, but that was the only good thing about it.

My history with mobile phones were a sony Z5, N-Gage GD&QD and two Windows Mobile handsets (SDA and MDA). So to get a phone early 2007 that was locked to a single app store, where you could not put your own ringtones/MP3s on it, did not come with a calculator out of the box and had to pay £5 for the privalage of having an Alarm Clock was absolutely shocking.

People may mock Apple for their DRM & Brainwashing eco system but they have nothing on what Danger had over their drones on the community site. Those poor sods had been quoting the words "the Next big update with customisable tones will come in the next month" for two and a half years and you would not want to complain about not being able to put your own wallpaper on the screen. That would soon give a barrage of irate replies informing you of the large variety of desktop screens to download from the store. (Actually it was more like choose a screen from any one of your 6 favourite R&B acts for £2 each)

Then there was the weekly trips to T-Mobile...

1st Trip: They told me I had to D'load the Calculator and Alarm Clock. (yes I kicked up enough of a stink to get the clock for free)

2nd Trip: For them to inform me that "We will be getting customisable tones in the next big update". (see above)

3rd Trip: For advice on how to add you own wallpapers? When discussing with the store member that this is not as customisable as I was initially lead to believe, she countered my argument by presenting her own sidekick with a huge leopard print overlay sticker from ebay stuck to it. (Honestly I am not Joking here)

Last Trip: For a refund. They said no but reassured me that these were very popular and that I should keep it. They then went on to add in the TV show The OC, everyone has them and that is why they are great. Obviously she had no idea what Product placement.

I walked straight out of T-Mobile that day and straight into my local Computer Exchange (CEX) store, where they were happy to trade the handset for a second hand N95 and some store credit :)


Oops, sorry for the rant, lol

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i had some kinda nokia that looked like the 7250 but it was black and it could resist water and had a compass and stuff. this wasnt bad, it was actually a good one (throw it against a wall, the wall will break down) and then i thought "its time for a new one". Ok i went to the shop with the thought "well, maybe some smartphone".. then i checked out whats good and what not. after an hour or so, i was at the point "i need some damn good smartphone" and then, 2 days later, i bought the N97 mini... so happy when i had it, turned it on and immediatly wanted to check out all functions. then, i opened the menu and was soooo disappointed, that the animation was so slow and very low on the fps. i sold it 4 days later and bought a new n900 instead. that was the best day in my life. its like you get married with ... well.. with some awesome piece of **** that makes your life. it seems that i have no life and yes, that might be correct. i have nothing to add.

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lol sorry, cause that's an ongoing remark for people who 'make mistake buying phones that don't suit them' in this forum.

You'd be a perfect example of that.

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N900, i got it in December and traded it in in January.

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My crappiest phone was some AT&T Nokia N7* flip phone... it was huge, and sucked.