Top 25 Worst Smartphones Ever Made

For every great smartphone, be it a Samsung Galaxy S7 or iPhone 5, there are endless numbers of terrible devices to go along with them. Today, we go through the top 25 WORST smartphones ever made!

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro & Context
1:38 - 25th to 21st
11:54 - 20th to 16th
19:07 - 15th to 13th
24:28 - Intermission
26:05 - 13th to 10th
32:07 - 9th to 6th
40:27 - 5th to 4th
45:39 - 3rd to 2nd
53:25 - The Worst Smartphone Ever
59:56 - Conclusion

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[WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW!]
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1:38 - 25. Nokia N-Gage (2003)
3:34 - 24. ZTE Open (2013)
5:34 - 23. Asus Garminfone (2010)
7:18 - 22. Motorola Backflip & Flipout (2010)
9:32 - 21. LG G5 (2016)
11:54 - 20. Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (2011)
13:29 - 19. Samsung Continuum (2010)
15:25 - 18. Freedom Phone (2021)
16:48 - 17. HTC 7 Surround (2010)
17:59 - 16. Samsung Galaxy Fold 1 (2019)
19:07 - 15. iPhone 5C (2013)
21:59 - 14. HTC Thunderbolt (2011)
22:51 - 13. Samsung Galaxy Beam (2012)
24:28 - Intermission & Dishonorable Mentions
26:05 - 12. HP Veer (2011)
27:26 - 11. Kyocera Echo (2011)
28:21 - 10. Nokia Lumia 900 (2012)
32:07 - 9. HTC ChaCha (2011)
33:58 - 8. BlackBerry Z10 (2013)
36:10 - 7. HTC Evo 3D (2011)
37:38 - 6. RED Hydrogen One (2018)
40:27 - 5. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (2016)
42:23 - 4. HTC First / Facebook Phone (2013)
45:39 - 3. BlackBerry Storm (2008)
48:59 - 2. Microsoft Kin ONE & TWO (2010)
53:25 - 1. Amazon Fire Phone (2014)

[staarrmann]

Honestly, it may sound ridiculous, but we need more bad phones. Sure, these aged like milk, but I miss the time where phones didn't have an specific mold and it was like a wild west of experimentation

[NipplesOfDestiny]

I miss my Windows phone it felt like I was living in the future

[Alias_Anybody]

To be fair, the iPhone 5C 8GB probably tormented more people than most others on this list. Apple users deleting their 50 pictures in the 8/16 days was always a spectacle to behold if you had 32GB SD cards.

[IantheKid]

I wanted the G5 so bad as a teen. I thought it looked like a magazine that you could load into the phone

[yeahman]

My Mom got a Fire Phone at launch. She thought it would be great since she already used Fire tablets and those were all good, so it wouldve been safe to assume a phone made by them would also be great, but that obviously wasn't the case. It was her first real smart phone though, and she liked it quite a bit. The main issue was the limited apps, with many apps not being available on the phone, but the phone ended up lasting until 2018 when the battery died. When we brought it in to replace it the people at the store didn't even know what it was, thats how bad this phone was.

[antaed]

Lumia 920 was the pinnacle of smartphone design. We went downhill from there with the glass sandwich paradigm

[kirra]

I begged my mom for the htc thunderbolt when I was younger. She didn’t even have the money to buy it but for my happiness, she made the decision to buy it for me. I owe her so much. ❤

[gregoryhess]

I remember being a kid in the early 2000's and looking through all the phones online and in stores and seeing all the cool phones with cool features and designs. The N-Gage was especially one that stood out to me. Too bad Nokia's execution didn't work out in the end.

[Philosophey]

Basically, this is a list of phones that tried something different and failed to meet expectations. This does not mean that they are the worst phones. Most of these let you do things other phones could do at the time. For example, when HTC Chacha was released, BlackBerry was still going strong with their Bold and Curve lineups. Evo 3D had better specs than Sensation, which was the main flagship of HTC etc.

[J-M-F-]

I've owned a few to many of these. The Storm was issued to me by the company I worked for at the time, that was actual torture. I loved the Lumia 1520, it's a shame the OS was so limited.

[Dixon_Cider]

HTC Thunderbolt slander will NOT be tolerated 😂😂 I loved that phone, just hated the terrible battery

[IVoozdI]

A phone that gets you banned on a bus (not to mention a plane) and a phone that can seriously injure you or potentially kill you should be No1. The producer : Nah, make it No5.

[thefergyfilms]

The Galaxy Beam blew my mind. Yes, it looks like a bad device, but the idea of an ultra light projector in that form factor is awesome. I wonder if with modern tech this would one day be revisited.

& to this day it still mesmerizes me when I see the design of Windows phone OS and its branding/ marketing. So ahead of its time/ timeless, looks completely modern even still. Such a shame that they couldn't get better app support for it.

[acid]

My dad owned 3 Ngages from new in the UK so I had 3 of the 800 sold . One for me and my brother and one for him . I know it was bad but playing 3 player coop socom when on a camping trip in the middle of the Scottish wilderness at 2 in the morning in a tent while it snowed like mad outside was one of the craziest but most enjoyable experiences in my life . Later found out my dad was worried about the weather and wr where actually stranded in the middle of a very bad storm and he was playing with us to keep us distracted

[gluttonousmaximus]

5:10 Do note that the ZTE was only given to developers to test the waters of Firefox OS, so it doesn't really count as something that actually poisoned the phone market.

[precisionxt]

HTC had heart, you have to give them that. The EVO 3D was gimicky but the m7/m8 were amazing. Not to mention they make all their legacy devices easily unlockable, even to this day so they are still fun to collect and play around with and fairly trivial to load LineageOS if you’re wanting a supported, non-bloated operating system. I feel just making them easily unlockable is a great step towards sustainability and keeps alot of these units out of the landfill.

[Devo_gx]

I wish the BlackBerry Z10 and the new OS had actually succeeded. It was far better than the older BB7 OS and if it weren't for app support the Z10 would actually have been a good device.

[MezRahman]

Usage of persona 5 soundtrack is goated 🫡

[AntonandSinan]

BlackBerry Z10 was an excellent phone I got from a media preview for selling it to a random BlackBerry fan before the launch date for 1000€. Added that money to upgrading to a new Mac 😂