Between Nokia, Samsung, and HTC, we've certainly got no shortage of candidates for our list of the worst Android phones ever made.
  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    19•1 month ago

    Not all phones listed are equally bad though. Nokia Pureview suffered from bad camera quality but I can live with that. What probably is unlivable is exceptionally short battery life, like on the HTC one. Still, an interesting opinion piece, if nothing else.

    • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧MEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      I had both HTC One’s and while the camera on both of them especially the m7 was dire purple durple shite, the battery life was never an issue for me and was when I first started seeing 6hr+ SOT constantly.

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          3•1 month ago

          Yes, I was referring to HTC Thunderbolt from the article. My current phone itself has relatively low battery life and it annoys me. One would have needed to charge the Thunderbolt phone probably twice a day

    • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
      3•1 month ago

      Yes but that whole line of a few years also suffered many breaking bugs from HMD like media sound being completely borked in an update and crackling and unusable for literally months before they fixed it. WhatsApp voice messages were hell for 4-5 months.

      Or the USB port being so low quality that there were rampant replacements needed after as little as 6 months (my own 7.1 needed 5 replacement USB ports in the 2 years I used it. Never had that from a phone before or after)

      Or the short battery life after an update second to only the HTC 10’s rapid battery drain bug.

      The 2018-2019 HMD years were really rough for software as far as phone usability, plus the bad USB-C part number they continued using during that time.

      Otherwise they were decent looking, decent performing, cheaper phones with bad cameras.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 month ago

      This is really poor of the Nokia as well, though

      It also didn’t help that the phone’s in-display fingerprint sensor was bad. In fact, it was reported that the scanner could be spoofed with chewing gum.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 month ago

    I thought that Cyrcle phone sounded interesting but it appears to have never actually released. They also just used the normal Android UI so all kinds of stuff gets cut off in the corners of the display. So dumb.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 month ago

      2 headphone jacks, SD card expansion, USB-C, a micro USB port and removable battery.

      Sounds overkill but sounds great to me.

      i really don’t know how they would make other apps work with this though.

      Interesting to see if this design is better for one handed operations though.