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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with the top five worst phones ever so last week I did the top five worst laptops and a lot of you really liked that video and wanted me to do more so today I'm going to go over some of the waters phones that have ever been made coming in at number five is the blackberry storm from 2008 now this was a very different time the iPhone had only been out for about a year or so and a lot of the other manufacturers were slowly starting to catch up so for starters the screen was based on an older type of technology called resistive it also used a brand new thing called sure press in theory it sounds pretty good when you touch the screen it actually goes inside the phone just a little bit which gives you it's feeling that you're actually touching something in real life unfortunately it mostly felt like you were breaking the screen on the phone and in general it just did not work at all on top of that the BlackBerry OS was really not designed for a touchscreen and the fact that I lacked a feature is simple as Wi-Fi made the storm not only a failure but at least in my opinion one of the major reasons why rim is in such trouble today and number four we have the Motorola ROKR e1 from 2005 now this one has a very interesting backstory it was a Motorola collaboration with Apple and in fact if you wanted to you could almost call this the very first iPhone sort of back in September of 2005 Steve Jobs walked out on stage at the annual Apple event and announced this rocker phone well I'm sure it was great to ditch your iPod and play all your awesome iTunes music on your phone unfortunately had some major problems for one it was limited to 100 songs regardless of how much storage space you actually had on the phone couple that with the fact that it was basically a normal Motorola phone with a slightly iPod like interface and sales didn't not do too well leading Apple Motorola to break up and Apple went on to make some other phones that were slightly better coming in at number three is the Kyocera echo from 2011 now this was from the start a very very weird phone basically the idea was hey one screen is good on a phone so why not have two so that's what they did so there was a normal 3.5 inch display up front but with a hinge you could pull it out and instead of finding a keyboard you would find another 3.5 inch display now it wasn't all bad once you put the screens together it was actually like having a 4.7 inch tablet in your pocket unfortunately the app support was absolutely non-existent thanks to the fact that it was running a pretty much standard build of Android 2.2 when you put the not too useful second screen away which you were left with a very thick and bulky phone that had the screen offset to the left side which made it look very weird when you didn't have that second display out on top of that battery life was terrible in fact just to explain how bad the battery life was they included two batteries in the box when you bought it not a good sign coming in at number two is the Nokia ngage from 2003 basically what this was was a normal Nokia phone mixed with something like a Game Boy Advance to create a phone that you could carry around all day but also play some games on sound familiar unfortunately there were quite a few problems with the N Gage and yes I have one don't don't judge me so for starters Nokia announced that in the first two weeks of being on sale they shipped over 400,000 that sounds pretty good right except when someone actually looked into it they had shipped 400,000 but as far as how many people actually bought them only 5,000 were sold in the United States and about 800 in the United Kingdom oops amazingly enough because of this not a whole lot of games ever actually showed up so instead of being able to download them you actually had to buy the physical cards which looks basically like SD cards now the big problem was was that when you actually wanted to change games you had to shut the phone off pull the back panel off take the battery out and then slide the card in behind the battery as if all of this wasn't bad enough the engage was actually not a very good phone either as to actually be able to hear what the other person was saying and make a proper call you kind of need to hold it up to your ear like this which quickly gave it the nickname the taco phone so defi sad to say the taco phone didn't last too long on the market coming in at number one is the Microsoft Kin now this was supposed to be a big deal for Microsoft as they spent over 1 billion dollars developing the pair of phones however after I record 48 days on sale they were discontinued yeah you heard me right after 48 days and spending 1 billion dollars Microsoft goes yeah nevermind so has this massive meltdown happen well these really were not meant to be smartphones instead they were meant to be more for texting and that kind of thing as they really liked a lot of things like a calendar app being able to I am and even an app store pretty much what you got was what you got even with all these problems you were expected to pay for it like a smartphone so Verizon required a data plan and with the pricing being 50 to 100 dollars on a two-year contract you could get a much more capable smartphone for that same money so all this combined made the Canali one the worst phones ever but also one of the hugest flops in all of phones pretty much period anyway I'm curious to know what's the worst phone that you guys have ever used definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below if you guys are interested in more feel free to check out the last week's episode where I went over the top 5 worst laptops of all time if you guys enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe anyway guys I will catch you next time