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we're so lucky to live in a time where there are so many outstanding cell phones to choose from that said there are so many choices out there it's easy for carriers to pad their catalogue with a few duds on Donnell Bell and this top five were counting down the latest crop of smartphones that you should avoid the phones are ranked from bad to worse by sina associate editor lin lah starting off at number five with a rating of two and a half stars the very cool quantum my guess is that we deducted half a star for spelling cool with a k' and then proceeded to shave off more points for its slow processor low res screen and sad sad picture quality on the upside the phone is 4G compatible and affordably priced at around $220 you can do better at number four also rated at two and a half stars the LG g3 s my guess is the S stands for now keep in mind that the flagship LG g3 the one without the S is on our list of the CNET's best smartphones so you'd be forgiven for thinking that this smaller version would be equally great but you'd be wrong processor is weak the resolution is sad and the on-board storage is and I quote pitiful so don't be fooled coming in at number three on our list of increasingly crappy phones the ZTE grand X sometimes companies use the letter X to give their product name a little edge and mystery but in this case I think ZTE just couldn't be bothered to give this turtle real name the whole thing is straight out of 2012 running jelly bean on a dual-core processor on the outside it's only 150 dollars off contract but you get what you pay for in it number two with a 2 star rating to match the posh Orion Pro X 500 the name alone is enough to give me an aneurysm it sounds like a nuclear warhead designed by the worst spice girl and then there's the phone bad screen bad camera quality bad call quality and old version of Android the upshot is that it's a dual SIM phone it only costs $100 but think of all the things you could buy for $100 that don't say posture not and that brings us to our number one phone to avoid as of January 2015 the rating of one and a half stars the huawei ascend Y 550 if you truly hate yourself this is the perfect phone to help sustain your feelings of unworthiness the four and a half inch screen keeps your expectations low with an impressively poor 854 by 480 resolution the specs are dated and the design is ugly on the upside the photos taken on this don't look half bad but you'd never know it on that horrendous screen that they used so there you go five phones that aren't worth your money for more information you can read Lin's full posts on CNET titled don't buy these phones have more top 5 for me you've got top 5 cnet.com i'm donald bell thanks for watching