Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “EPIC Smartphone FAILS that people will never forget.”.
Today we are counting down some of the most epic smartphone, fails of all time, starting off pretty bad and ending up in complete disaster. First up the Galaxy Beam, Samsung repackaged e, pretty successful Galaxy S Advance into a slightly chunkier, but still pocketable device, and it had a built-in projector, which was pretty good, so great achievement right. The problem was that, whilst the projector was pretty well received, every other aspect of this phone was completely laughable in 2012, when it was released. If we had a 480 by 800 display Android 2.3 Gingerbread in a time when everyone else was using 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and a paltry 5 megapixel camera and a 1 gigahertz dual-core processor Samsung’s stopped selling the phone barely months after it was originally launched.
And apart from a surprise re-release in 2014, we basically never heard of Samsung Beam again, so, even though it had a giant bulb inside, perhaps not such a bright idea. In 2008 we had the blackberry storm and for this company it was a huge, huge move. This was their first long overdue move into touchscreen smartphone displays it was such a huge departure from the trackpad oriented devices they were used to making and therefore posed a bit of a risk. As a result of this blackberry decided, they were going to pull out all the stops. They tried to cram innovation into this smartphone.
They made a clickable screen, something similar to what we see with 3d touch. The purpose of this was to try and recreate the feel of their traditional physical keypads on the display itself. Given how different the input methods were for this phone, it was clear the software had to be completely overhauled. This is, unfortunately, where the mistake started to crawl.
In the hype surrounding the phone, pretty much dropped off a cliff when it turned out the user. Interface was slow, unresponsive and unintuitive. You could only access the QWERTY keyboard when the phone was in landscape mode and the real nail in the coffin here. The thing which caused almost imminent death off the blackberry storm was that I had no Wi-Fi. I mean how does the company expect to compete with a device as smart as the iPhone 3G, when their smart phone can barely access? The Internet number three was the Amazon fire firm when people had their first glimpse of this device safe to say, the tech community was jumping up and excitement when a company with as much scale and scope as Amazon decides to move into this market. They have a lot of capacity to create something completely new and, to a large extent, that’s exactly what they did. The phone had not one, not two, not three, but four cameras on its front in each corner. The idea was these were going to track the users face and offer something called dynamic perspective: the ability to peek around buildings in Google Maps to offer a 3d dynamism to live wallpapers and, in some very specific usage case scenarios.
It truly was something that no other phone could do. Unfortunately, the motion itself was shuddery and unresponsive and the number of applications it actually properly worked with. You could count on your two hands: the fact that this 3d dynamism was also causing users motion sickness, who didn’t help. The matter may be even more controversial than this was the Firefly feature initially tooted, to make your camera smarter, to be able to take photos of real-world objects and to immediately click them and buy them online, which sounds great, but it turns out.
People didn’t like the idea that the only place you could buy these products online was on Amazon’s own website. Customers saw as a bit of a cheap move just another trick that was in a poll to try and get more products at our doorsteps. So it really wasn’t perceived very well. Amazingly, it got a lot worse.
The fire OS that was running on this phone was not only limiting in terms of feature set. You couldn’t use the full version of Android, but also battery life and performance suffered and because the firm was released exclusively on AT .