Phones You Loathe: Your Least Favorite Cell Phones

[Jerry Raia]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6454_7-6271099-1.html?tag=txt' target='_blank'>http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6454_7-6271099-1.html?tag=txt</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Last week, we compiled a list of the top cell phones, as chosen by CNET readers. But we realize that for every one of your likes, your dislikes run just as deep. Each of these handsets received a user rating of less than 6.0 from more than 175 readers, so the feelings among you weren't isolated. The worst of the bunch was the beleaguered Siemens CF62T. Almost 200 of you ranked it as mediocre, so if you're in the market for a basic T-Mobile phone, try the Nokia 6010 instead."</i><br /><br />Well here we go. We want to hear about your least favorite phone, whether Smartphone or not, that you have actually owned. The list in the article included the V600. I did own one. I would say that phone fell into second place on my list. The MPx220 wins my first place trophy for the worst phone I have ever owned. Not because so much was wrong with it (and there was lots wrong), but because it should have been a great phone. So much potential totally wasted. Anyway let's here your stories.

[Mike Temporale]

Worse phone ever, eh? Hrm.... That Tanager was pretty bad - but that was more just because it was slow. The SE T200 I had sucked something awful, as did the Nokia 2100 I had. Over all, I think I would have to give it to the Nokia.

Man, have phones ever come a long way - thankfully. ;)

[Kris Kumar]

Compal Red-E Developer Kit Smartphone (http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=compal+red-e+ar-11) takes the least favourite spot for me. The first Smartphone I owned, lousy reception, hang, freeze, poor battery life..you name the feature and it was bad. The only thing good about it - when it worked it gave me a pretty good idea about the future of Windows Mobile.

BTW: I still own it.

[edgar]

Oh this is easy. My corp provided Moto 60i.

Nasty little analog thing with a pencil of antenna poking you in the side. Lousy software, no battery, small phonebook, cruddy reception. In other words - a Motorola!

-Edgar

[xultar]

v600 - just plain sad hunk-o-junk
Sx56 - slowest dog on the planet. Makes you want to pluck your eyes out.

[randalllewis]

Let's see, in no particular order:

LG 1200 (Combined with bad Verizon service, the phone simply stopped working altogether. My wife and I both had them and both of us went through three apiece during our year of hell with Verizon.)

Nokia 3650 (I really liked the large screen and at first thought that stupid round dialpad would be OK. It wasn't.)

MpX 220 (It has all been said by others.)

[leslietroyer]

For me it had to be the audiovox thera. If you didn't have the earpiece in (which was uncomfortable) everone in a 12 block radius could listen in on the call. It was big, had horrible battery life....... Kinda soured me on the PDA/phone

Les

[f540xs]

The Sony Ericsson T608
http://www.bluetoothnews.com/industrynews/sprint_t608.jpg

This phone (the only CDMA phone SE ever made) was the absolute worst. It locked up constantly and had so much lag that when typing text messages in T9, it would display letters I typed 4 letters ago. Also there weren't many shortcut keys on it and you could only search for a contacts by the first letter of their name. To do anything required 3+ joystick clicks.

I hated this phone! It eventually died and I switched to Cingular and got the Audiovox SMT5600.

[Jerry Raia]

I hated this phone! It eventually died and I switched to Cingular and got the Audiovox SMT5600.

That is quite a switch! :)

[Curly_in_FL]

I have had well over a dozen cell phones ranging from old AMPS bag phones to my new Cingular 2125.

By far the worst phone I ever had was the v600! My original bag phone didn't have any features and was analog, but I still liked it better. I was thrilled with the v600 for about the first 2-3 months because I was learning about the cool features (the screen was snazzy, bluetooth, GRPS, ringtone &amp; program downloads, replacable antenna, and extended battery).

Well, then reality set in; horrible reception, lock ups while on calls requiring shutdown, can only search contacts by first letter of name, horrible hinge opening sensitivity, short battery life, extremely SSSSLLLLLOOOOOWWWW menu navigation and button response, only one number per contact entry, and finally expensive at the time!

This was my third Motorola phone (bag phone, StarTAC previously), but it has been enough to turn me against Moto. The previous 2 Motorolas did not satisfy me, but this one has been absolutely horrible. My parents have v400 phones which exhibit many of the same good and bad traits and can't wait to upgrade.

So for me, it's 'Goodbye Moto!'

[Jerry Raia]

I also owned a couple StarTacs, both of which fell apart at the hinge eventually.

[eliteramen]

Verizon's first color phone:
The Motorola T-720! Who's with me?

When my family bought four phones years back, they got more than they bargained for: lockups, frequently dropped calls, terrible earpiece volume, and call quality so heinous that my gf at the time broke up with me!

This has caused me to turn tail and run from Verizon and/or 2-year contracts. Funny thing is, the old Nokia I had with VZW was rock solid. What gives? As a previous poster put so succinctly: GOODBYEMOTO!