worst phone you ever used?
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Sadly, no, Im not kidding.
Reliably makes calls- yes, it calls other phones, but with the audio quality more akin to the Thomas the tank engine walkie-talkies I had when I was four, than a mobile phone.
Texts- That is by far the worst thing about the phone. The delay between pressing the button and letter/number appearing on the 8-bit colour screen is honestly about a second. This makes typing texts the most tedious chore, and if you try and do it too fast is just chooses to ignores some imputs. A short text honestly takes about 5-10mins to type. Long texts I don't even bother.
Battery - Lasts at MOST one day, but I put that down to the phone being about 5 years old than the actual design.
Not fun.
Don't you need windows xp though to mod it?
mine was spot on after the big update. did everything it needed too anyway although i admit was nothing special
k750i -> w810i -> n95 -> 5800 -> htc hero -> xperia x10
Worst was the Nokia 5800. I just hated the resistive touch screen and the OS considering there were far better alternatives. The N95 (the same OS pretty much) was ahead of its time and was possibly the best phone I've had. Obviously in a straight fight the hero and x10 are better, but not when you consider the state of technology.
edit: actually I temporarily had the LG Viewty whilst owning the N95 as my main phone, and it was awful.
Worst was the Nokia 5800. I just hated the resistive touch screen and the OS considering there were far better alternatives. The N95 (the same OS pretty much) was ahead of its time and was possibly the best phone I've had. Obviously in a straight fight the hero and x10 are better, but not when you consider the state of technology.
edit: actually I temporarily had the LG Viewty whilst owning the N95 as my main phone, and it was awful.
SHARP GX10
begged my parents for it as a Xmas present. Was totally suckerd in by vodaphone's advertising with Beckham and Michael Schumacher. Terrible phone, Hardly and ringtones, couldn't transfer pictures to phones over 27kb i believe? Bluetooth was locked down so couldn't transfer files. The OS was buggy as hell.
begged my parents for it as a Xmas present. Was totally suckerd in by vodaphone's advertising with Beckham and Michael Schumacher. Terrible phone, Hardly and ringtones, couldn't transfer pictures to phones over 27kb i believe? Bluetooth was locked down so couldn't transfer files. The OS was buggy as hell.
I used to see a girl who had one of the later ones. GX30? I think she won it, I can't remember but she didn't pay for it. I was quite jealous
I used to see a girl who had one of the later ones. GX30? I think she won it, I can't remember but she didn't pay for it. I was quite jealous
I got the GX30 for my birthday when it was released, very impressed with it compared to the Samsung V200 that I had (Matrix phone, rawr!).
Its not a bad phone at all, its camera was quite awesome. Still got it around here somewhere
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Nokia 8800. Battery life was abysmal. Everyone complaining about the Desire's battery life should have experienced this phone. Shipped with 2 batteries as Nokia knew it was ****. At the end of it's use it would start with a full charge and one 2 minute phone call would result in a battery low message! When I bought it I was very much in the phones a phone camp and didn't want anything with fancy extras, but wanted something a bit exclusive. Cost me £600 sim free and then one month later my mate, when his company phone contract came up for renewal, got one for free just to annoy me.
Yep... thankfully I have it on my old Lappy... but I think there is a way to do it in Vista, and if you have 7 pro you can do it on the Virtual XP mode!
I had problems with the nokia N95 
kept crashing out and hanging all the time.
Also after a while the back kept falling off where the tiny clips broke & the speaker went tinny and the metal mesh kept on resinating when people were talking to me
Tried various firmwares etc but wasn't really ever reliable, mainly the app that synced email to groupwise kept crashing out
kept crashing out and hanging all the time.Also after a while the back kept falling off where the tiny clips broke & the speaker went tinny and the metal mesh kept on resinating when people were talking to me
Tried various firmwares etc but wasn't really ever reliable, mainly the app that synced email to groupwise kept crashing out
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my viewty was ******* awful. slow, unresponsive, unsupported rubbish. i gave it away.
I used to work sub contract to Lynx Express, and we had the Virgin media contract, and virtually every time I was asked to pick up a mobile phone is was a knackered RAZR.
They were a complete disaster.