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the pace of new phones coming to the market is relentless to keep up sometimes carriers and manufacturers let through a few duds in this episode we're going to count down the top five phones to avoid selected by CNET senior editor Jessica dull Court phone so bad they make the Microsoft Kin seem like a good idea starting off at number five the Sony Xperia ion on AT&T Sony isn't known for making inexpensive products so that $99 price tag is a hint that not all is as it seems the OS is stale the processor just limps along and somehow Sony found a way to make a 12 megapixel camera take just bland photos next up at number four the Samsung bright side as in look on the bright side at least this phone was cheap Reisen should actually be paying you to take this monster off their hands the interface looks like it was designed on a Commodore 64 feature phones like this are dying breed and that's something to be thankful for at number three the pantex Swift on AT&T the $69 messaging phone is the perfect gift for a teenager if you hate them it's heavy doesn't even run Android and the camera on the back doesn't even have a flash I mean it's not like teenagers are known for taking pictures with their phone all the time also charging eight dollars for a game of Tetris that's criminal coming in at number two the pantech hotshot on Verizon pew the combination of slow processor and cheap touchscreen make this thing so bad and navigation and typing that you kind of have to laugh unless you bought one in which case you're probably enrolling in anger management classes now before we get to the worst phone of the bunch let's remind ourselves what good phones look like here's seeing its current list of the best five phones for the summer of 2012 you can always check out phones dot cnet.com for the latest recommendations and reviews a two-year contract is a long time to suffer with a bad phone so let us help finally our number one phone to avoid in 2012 is the VTE score em on metro pcs the name is so full of wind unfortunately the phone is not it's full of bloatware trapped under a really bad screen and the call quality was so bad it really hurt there you go now you know what phones to avoid a special thanks to Jessica dual-core for putting this whole list together for more top fives like this including our top 5 Android smartphones and top 5 smartphones under $50 head over to top-5 cnn.com I'm Donald Bell thanks for watching