Join the discussion: What's the worst phone you've ever owned?

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JCflyingscotsman
JCflyingscotsman
Arena Apprentice
• 1y ago

Lumia 950. I loved Windows Phone right up to that point, but by then, Microsoft had bought Nokia and clearly had no idea what to do with the acquisition, and then they totally screwed the pooch and released Windows 10 Mobile, arguably the worst mobile OS ever released.


By the time the Lumia 950 arrived, it was clear Microsoft had given up on mobile, and that was evident by the way they announced the 950...Panos casually pulled it out of his back pocket, like "oh yeah, by the way, we made this thing..."


Can't believe I was so determined to stick with Windows Phone that I bought the 950. It was trash...


With one exception... Continuum. That was awesome

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Mariyan Slavov
Mariyan Slavov
Phonearena team
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• 1y ago
↵pimpin83z said:

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Why is he comparing a phone from 2016 (that had overheating issues) with one that's 7 years newer (and doesn't have overheating issues)? Maybe you need to work on your reading comprehension.

As a matter of fact, my ex-girlfriend bought me a Galaxy A5 (2016) a long time ago, and I was blown away by the quality. It was absolutely flagship-grade in terms of looks and feel. Mine wasn't overheating but was terribly painfully slow...

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Mariyan Slavov
Mariyan Slavov
Phonearena team
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• 1y ago
↵vwite2 said:

For me it has to be the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, obviously I got a lemon with defective hardware so not all were like this but the display was extremely green, especially on the edges and with low brightness, like radiactive or hulk green, kinda like this: https://androidcommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Huawei-Finland-Huawei-Mate-20-Pro-3.jpg


Maybe related to the green screen but I had touchscreen responsiveness issues, auto brightness didn't work properly either.


Then under display fingerprint scanner worked probably 1 out of 10 times. The new "3D Face Unlock" which was supposed to be at the level of FaceID worked maybe 1 out of 5 times and when it did unlock it it took a good amount of time like 5 seconds or so.


Speakers were weird, NFC wasn't working properly, Bluetoth was randomly disconnecting from everything, software was bad and very glitchy in general, a lot of apps were killed in the background and didn't operate properly or they stopped sending notifications.


Only phone I've ever returned within the vendor return window.

My Mate 20 Pro is still going strong after all those years. You definitely got a bad seed there... Which is a shame because the phone was pretty rad at the time.

I have to agree about the speakers being weird; it wasn't a hardware issue; Huawei decided to vent the loudspeaker through the USB port (to improve water resistance rating, according to the company), and it sounded terrible.

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Mariyan Slavov
Mariyan Slavov
Phonearena team
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• 1y ago
↵Brewski said:

Razr Phone 2


I bought that phone because it was the first Phone with 120hz refresh rate, and it was the second attempt Razr made so it was supposed to be a really good gaming phone with good performance. Before I start complaining, I will say it had the best speakers on any phone I have ever owned, (but that doesn't justify everything else that was wrong with it).


It took me about 2 weeks to get the phone set up to where I could use it. I had to factory reset about 4 times in that 2 weeks before I could actually get it up and running. It would completely freeze about once a week, and I would have to reboot it. In the last month I owned it, I had to reboot about 2-4 times a day. Chrome would usually cause it to do that, and I use Chrome a lot. There were so many little bugs I had never seen before and when I Googled them there were no results. It fried a charger and I was scared to continue using that cable any more. The LCD, combined with 120hz refresh made the battery drain faster than I have ever seen. It was uncomfortable to hold since it was a square box with all right angles, it would always cut into my hand, even with a case. I bought that phone in March as it had been out for a few months and was steeply discounted in price, that should have been my first clue. I sold it by Oct and moved on to the best phone I ever had, the OP 7 Pro. So it was a huge contrast in experience once I finally got off that phone. I sold that crap it to a friend of a friend that I didn't like very well.

I second the comment about the speakers, still the best in any mobile to date...

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Exikias
Exikias
Arena Apprentice
• 1y ago

Lg kp500 cookie


Microsoft lumia 640 lte! Although this one had a decent camera but nothing else!

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Martin Filipov
Martin Filipov
Phonearena team
• 1y ago
↵MariyanSlavov said:

As a matter of fact, my ex-girlfriend bought me a Galaxy A5 (2016) a long time ago, and I was blown away by the quality. It was absolutely flagship-grade in terms of looks and feel. Mine wasn't overheating but was terribly painfully slow...

Yep! it looked and felt like a flagship but performed poorly. Not too different from Samsung's mid-range phones today. Time to give them flagship-grade processors!

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Smg-Uk
Smg-Uk
Arena Apprentice
• 1y ago

Mi 10T Lite my only Xiaomi phone, Chinese Rubbish

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Mariyan Slavov
Mariyan Slavov
Phonearena team
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• 1y ago
↵MartinPA said:

Yep! it looked and felt like a flagship but performed poorly. Not too different from Samsung's mid-range phones today. Time to give them flagship-grade processors!

Yeah, they have flagship prices already, so... what the hell :D

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Elleruth
Elleruth
Arena Apprentice
• 1y agoedited

the worst phone I have owned have overheating issues and I'm still holding on to it ?

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tokuzumi
tokuzumi
Arena Master
• 1y ago

Pixel 6a

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