12 BRUTAL Smartphone Fails they want you to forget.

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I'd still be using windows phone if it had apps tbh, but there was one thing I'll never forgive it for... The BING button 😡😩

Arun in 2020: Serious, low pitch
Arun in 2022: more comedic, high pitch
But great quality of explanation never changed

the phonebloks thing could be a actually cool idea, like you buy a "starter kit" with the base specs for cheap, and overtime upgrade it. that would also mean that you wouldn't have to buy a new phone ever, just put more storage and a better processor, and you'd be able to tweak it to your perfection
sure it'll be a chonkster, but a powerfull chonkster

I love this series. Going back to take another look at devices and their development in time is really fascinating. Even more when you grow up at these times, witnessing pagers became popular and all of a sudden there were the first cellphones and internet became a thing for private households. There was so much going on. Also big companies had to find their spot within that new market. Some saw the possibilities and skyrocketed, others failed to make a step and are only history by today. Imho Microsoft & Nokia were representatives of the last group (on the smartphone sector) and their fortune was related to each other. As you said, it was a pain watching Nokia going down. One of my most favourite cellphone from the early era of smartphones still is the Nokia N97 (Symbian OS). Unfortunately the pain didn't stop there. To me the climax was when they realized their strategy wasn't working and Microsoft bought Nokias mobile branch- denying Nokia to build devices on their own again for several years.

I had 2 windows phones from 2016 to 2019 ( my sister had one too) they worked great and they were very affordable, but the app problem was only getting worse even after the windows 10 update which took the phone to an extra level to be honest. One small example of the app issues is that the Facebook messenger didn't allow calls (audio or video), after the update there was an unclickable call button that kept disappearing. After 2019 I completely lost faith in it all together and bought myself a Nokia 2.2
The Windows phone that I had was Microsoft Lumia 535 which was the first phone produced after the Nokia buyout.

I remember getting excited when I first read about the modular smartphone.
I'm still waiting for it to become a thing. Unfortunately, it'd only apply to a handful of people, because people would much rather just buy hardware off the shelf, than picking each and every component individually. Also, it'd be highly reparable, which Apple and Samsung, the two giants, would definitely not want to be succed. Like, why would you let ANYTHING people can repair themselves to succeed when your products are designed to only be repaired in certified stores.

Sony is naming their phones just like how i name my files on photoshop

I actually loved my windows phone and the way it synced with my laptop. Not having IG when everyone else did was super annoying. I loved how sleek and customizable it was. I also loved my color screen Nokia from 2003. That battery lasted forever! This video is so nostalgic.

Microsoft's Windows Phone was a version of Windows, scaled down to a smartphone. To me, as a Windows developer, that was the appeal of the phone. Write an application, using Windows tools, and you'd get the app running on multiple formats without rewrite or translating to another language. It never lived up to that potential, which seems to be a common thread in the history of Microsoft.

My mum held on to Nokia for wayyyy too long in the age of smartphones. She liked that Nokia was consistent in the way one phone to the next had the same layout. It was user friendly. I tried over & over to explain she would get that with an iPhone, while Nokia smartphones had no ease of use or intuitive design she was hoping for. She had at least two of them before being convinced to give up & let Nokia die 😅

To point out a feature he forgot to mention was remote play on the experia. Now available on all Android devices but it was limited to Sony devices previously(officially)

The absolutely stupid thing about Sony's phones is that the Alpha (or Exmor) Team would not want to work with the smartphone division because they felt like it was pointless putting great photo systems on a smartphone (until recently with the Xperia 1 and 1 mkII). Reminds me of how the Sony Entertainment and Sony Electronics Teams are very distinct and rarely cross-over.

I really liked Windows Phone for the most part - It was fast and reliable. My Lumia 635 had only 512Mb of RAM but you couldn't tell because of how good Windows Phone's memory management was. That said - I absolutely agree with all your points.

He's right the naming for the Xperia phones is god awful, but the phones themselves are pretty damn great, fantastic camera especially when using the exclusive pro apps, very customizable gaming settings, and the audio coming out of these phones is amazing with that decompression setting and dual front facing speakers, not to mention they still have that headphone jack. Sony's whole marketing and PR team needs to get their shit together tho, cuz these phones feel like a gem that's constantly being buried in dog diarrhea with these fucking names.

With the modular phones you can also cut back on some of the thickness of the phone because you don't necessarily need to cover the entire thing to make it secure as a phone just the sections that will be exposed and maybe have a holder for your additional modules.

Spot on with your comments on OnePlus at 18:50 Excellent company to deal with directly. They answer the phone at Customer Service and do what they have to in order to make you happy. The OnePlus 8 is my latest acquisition, obtained at a jaw dropping discount as it is "last year's model" T Mobile refused to activate it as it was not sold by them. ONE+ fixed me up with an unlocked version and took back the locked version - at no cost to me. (I dropped tmobile for this reason alone) PS : expect 2 to 3 hours on hold for tmobile but 3 to 3 minutes on hold for ONE+.

Lew: Apple doesn’t send me their products
Arun:Sony doesn’t send me their products
Mkbhd: Escobar is after me

I used windows Phone for 2 years or more ,to be honest the user experience was pretty great,felt premium and unique. my friend had a lower version of my phone which had only 512 MB ram still didn't felt any lag almost all the heavy games of that time runs smoothly the optimization for that Operating system is Top-notch . my only issue was Apps if they took care of that back then probably they would be competing with Apple now

Loved seeing the ol’ Oukitel K10000, I absolutely loved that phone, it was cheap, had a low to mid range performance, extremely well built, and in my case, actually lasted 7-11 days depending on usage.
And that design.. it was not a boring old slab with a screen, I got stopped a few times by random passers by who saw me using it, just because it looked different.
Yes it had it’s downsides, it was cheap, had low to mid range performance, speaker was tinny, headphone output wasn’t much better unless you got an app to modify the output. (although once I got that, it was as near as the best cheap smartphone I could have asked for)
Pity their newer models didn’t reflect the vision of it.

I actually think the 5C is cute. I mean, we make a lot of premium materials, but then most of us put plastic and silicone cases on them. Touch ID was new at the time and plenty of people were fine without. I would say the camera being worse is the biggest issue. It should have been a larger discount, at least $150, and they should have made a better camera.

Kind of funny, I'm pretty much settled on buying the Xperia 1 III (The only thing keeping me from buying it would be some abysmal surprise on launch). If the rumors are close to reality I think it's the perfect phone. No holes or notches in a good 4k display. I like the design and hope they don't change it to much. Really interesting camera and video apps.
I don't think the recent naming is too bad if they keep it constistent for a while from here on out. The newer ones (Xperia 1 and 5 series) look sleek and modern. Don't mess with a good design if you don't have a good reason for it.
The only thing I think they could do better is colors. For my taste they are to muted. At least one or two more intense colors would be nice to have (One Plus does a way better job there).
I do agree that the bad marketing is a fail, and that the naming of the older phones is confusing, but giving the company the highest fail factor is a bit unfair. Some of the other fails were way more severe in my opinion.

I have to say, I had the Kin and absolutely loved it. It wasn't a comparison to a smartphone for me, but am upgrade from t9, and it was fantastic. The sliding click to close it and hang up a call was so satisfying

I love how this guy doesn't clickbait, He just gets straight to the point and gives you the content you came for.
We need more people like him.

Been watching you for a few years now and I must say, amazingly phenomenal work bro❤ love every little bit of your videos and how much effort you put in to make your content seem effortless . So thank you for that
I do also want to say that a lot of the reasons you use as to rate a company and it’s fails, is that “they weren’t ready for so and so yet”, and I agree with that in literally every video you say it. But then I thought about it, and I believe it because it’s the one reason you can use in almost every fail video that will always make sense😂 even if that isn’t the reason you use, if you’d have chosen that same reason then it will have still made sense😂 so yeah, just thought I’d share my thoughts even tho you probably won’t ever take notice or read a comment from someone like me but nonetheless, thank you for the level of content you’ve given us ❤

I owned a NextBit. As a straight mid-range phone, if you disabled the cloud stuff, it was okay. And it looked cool too.
But even at the time, with Googles storage of photos, the Cloud idea seemed pointless.

Windows phone os was great, the lack of apps was really what killed it. The os on it's own was amazing

You're probably the only tech reviewer where I watch the whole video... Well done!

THE WORD PLAY ON NOKIA.... “how do you go from a Finnish company to a finished company”

For sony:
They also had problems with build quality and reliability. I had to send in my Z3 3 times for repairs in one year because there alwas was something that broke down on this thing.
Also the hardware configuration was a bit questionable. 16GB for a flagship phone in 2014 was a bit lacking, even tho it had expandable storage. The camera was actually quite good but with some drawbacks. No manual focus and constant overheating while recording videos

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant effort Arun! Couldn’t tell where these 19 odd minutes went. I really, really appreciate the time, research and dedication you put into your videos. This series of yours is one of the most interesting. Love it 😍

I miss my windows phone a lot. I loved the user interface and styling of the devices. There was a lot to love but they did come out too late, and the app situation was abysmal

My first smartphone was a Windows phone. Loved the OS, hated the lack of apps. No Snapchat for a 13 year old was a killer

I know, this video is two years old, but freeing up space by removing apps is something that Apple does, too. My previous phone only had 16 GB, so the ceilung was hit quite regularly. I think, this feature works well.

Nokia didn't underestimate the iPhone. They actually tried to release the N97 back in the day which was a successful (in sales) failure by itself due to the low amount of storage it had and by the fact it ran Symbian. In 2009 they did their actual first attempt at creating a smartphone platform running on Linux based on an OS they had for their "internet tablets" named Maemo 5, which they released with the N900. While they were still releasing Symbian phones like the N8 they spun off Maemo to create MeeGo, an OS in collaboration with Intel which was targeted at netbooks, smartphones and embedded devices. And in 2011 they released the N9 on MeeGo and the Nokia Lumia 800. In Nokia's words, the N9 was "The first and last MeeGo smartphone". MeeGo was spun off into Sailfish OS which is still developed by the most of team actually. The rest is history.

That Xperia skit at the end was great. It made my day!
If I recall correctly, my last Nokia before getting my first smartphone was Nokia 6020 which I think I was using at least around 2006 or 2007. I don't remember when exactly I finally left it to dust and got a smartphone but I believe my first smartphone may have been Samsung Galaxy Ace that got released in 2011 so it's possible I was using that old Nokia phone until then. I personally don't like switching to a new phone every year or even every second year because if the phone still works and apps are running then I don't see a problem. I believe my current phone, which I bought in fall 2021, is probably my third or fourth smartphone.

"A Finnish company to a finished company"
You have achieved comedy

I think the modular phone concept is very appealing. I remember Google tried to make a phone like that but abandoned the idea.

For #3 I remember my dad was sent one of those phones for work. He enjoyed it because he doesn’t do things like Instagram and stuff but a bit afterward Microsoft had to take the phone off him because of how much it failed

As an electrical engineer, the phoneblocks sound like a nightmare to wire up. Every single peg in that board would need power and data as well as the possibility of having a camera, microphone, or random widget plugged in. Basically it would need 50+ usb-C ports on the back, and the first time you dropped it the blocks would go flying.

Another thing that would make the modular phones better too is sending information magnetically or have something to magnetically hold the modules in place and have some sort of electric signal sent through some center thing that kind of like with smart watches how they check your pulse with too little metal diodes.

Loved my Nextbit Robin. Early adopter of USB C, the apps-to-cloud thing wasn't a problem at all, people loved how it looked. The kicker was the ease of fix - a screen change was less than 10 mins work

As someone who enjoys building my own PC, and upgrading parts over time, I love the Phoneblocks concept. Just like pre built PCs, the issue with pre built phones is there is always a feature you don't use that you're paying for, or some parts are cheapened but your still charged a premium (in Australia at least...we get stripped out versions of overseas products, at the same or higher price). Plus to upgrade parts over time, such as keep a good CPU, but upgrade the GPU. It was a good consumer focussed concept.

11:30 The most embarassing and awful part is that they ditched the Exynos in their own country for S20. So they know damn well that its very inferior, you just dont matter to them if you are not in the US or SK. And I think that is very awful of them to do, and since there are a lot of goodwill towards them in my country it hurts even more for me

I had a Sony phone once. I don’t remember which one, but it’s not hugely important. It started out pretty good, but then there was a recommended software update which utterly ruined it. Suddenly, instead of being smooth and slick, it was like navigating the QE2 through treacle. It would run out of storage in a heartbeat. Its battery life went from almost two days to less than 14 hours. And when making phone calls, the temperature went up to ear melting heights in about 30 seconds. Sony recognised the problem and issued some workarounds for the performance (basically turning stuff off) and storage (details on how to “remove” the bloatware), but their fix was simple: Buy the new phone. No chance! I’ve never had a Sony since.

The Kin TwoM was actually a great phone for Verizon since it counted as a basic phone and didn't require their more expensive smartphone plan and was decently close to a basic iphone minus any additional apps haha.

As someone who used Lumias back in the day, #3 still stings to this day. Windows Phones had so much potential, only to be buried by Microsoft.

I actually had the Xperia S, which would go to 55 degrees within minutes while charging and then turn off. I was in touch with Sony extensively regarding this, but according to their support it was working as intended. Over heating was apparently expected and it was simply turn off. Horrible, I never had any other brand do this and it was for the both the first and the last Xperia in my collection.

“people still bought it obviously, it’s an iPhone.”
- Modern thinking.

OG Xperia Play user here, it was a cool phone as it was where Mojang launched their first portable version of Minecraft on, eventually opening it up to the rest of Android after a while . What REALLY killed the Play was that Sony was going to update it to Android ICS(4.0) but literally at the last second pulled the plug leaving the thing to die on Gingerbread(2.3.3). And to put the nail on the coffin I had the AT&T model which had no way to unlock the boot loader unlike other variants.

I never saw an issue with the Sony naming, With the Sony phones I've owned in the past, after 3-4 years of owning a certain model, the new models would be out already. The only phone models I passed on were the curved backed phones. After my XZP finally burned out internally after about over 4 yrs, I finally got me the X1 ii.

I remember when Microsoft mae an announcement that they were working on a way for you to "upgrade" your android phones to the Windows Phone OS. I always wondered what vecame of that.
Also, with Nokia, part of theur problem is that when they started to go into tye smartphone market, a lot of their phones were on the Windows Phone OS, whuch definitely didn't help them.

i've got to say when it comes to nokia i used to love them, right up to the 9210/ n95 era then i switched to an iphone 1 then a samsung s5, once samsung decided that a battery was no longer a consumable i switched to blackview as their phones had a nice light android and great battery life (replaceable too) once they too went to non replaceable batteries i ended up back with nokia (running android 7), i'm currently using the same phone updated to android 10 and its still getting updates so that alone is a huge plus compared to the forced obsolescence of most android phones, i'll certainly be buying another nokia once this one dies so maybe for their support alone they deserve a comeback.

Exynos may suck now, but, I stayed with the Galaxy Note 4 through 4 phone changes due to its specs. The issue being that the US got the snapdragon which had a faulty emmc that didn't have proper heat sync and were prone to premature failure as a result... Whereas the Exynos version didn't have that issue so, in that case at least, maybe it was a good thing that particular chip was less on performance. I know Samsung lost a class action regarding the Note 4, what I don't know is if it was the chip itself that resulted in the improper heat sync or if the rest of the hardware was to blame. All I know is that phone ran super hot, like 120° F/48.8° C. After rooting it I was able to lower the heat since I could manage which apps were on the phone and which ones weren't, but even then, using it for emulation, even N64 Was unpleasant. I recall someone making a walkthrough guide for how to prevent the emmc failure. First thing was to keep the phone active and not let it go to sleep mode, so, downloading an app was required, second was taking the phone apart and shoving some cardboard underneath the emmc to serve as a heat sync. It was crazy.

plot twist: nokia didn't die, they switch to producing armor for the military

Nokia's big fail was the OS. There were no apps, it was terrible in terms of freezing and it just did not feel intuitive. Their hardware was always great. My N97 is probably my fav of all my phones, it was a mini laptop. It just wouldn't work with even excel properly, spreadsheets would open wih half functionality, and editing them was a nightmare.
After Microsoft bought them, I had a Lumia 930, superb phone, beautiful camera quality and the OS was great. It even had that Nokia solid feel, I managed to drop it on a tiled kitchen floor, and it pu a crack in the tile, just a little nick on the frame. Unfortunately it was while Microsoft were trying to turn PCs in to laptops and Win 8 was terrible, as was Win 8 Mob.
None of the connectivity worked, and often apps were so basic, excel was the same as it had been on Symbian. I still have my 930, and use it now and again as a camera --- my oneplus and my sony both mess up purples and oranges. It runs Win 10 Mobile -- it still feels like it was released a year or two ago !!
None of the modern phones kept up with the camera quality like Nokia did, which is why I switched to a 1+ 3T. Then I tried a Xperia E5. Still the 3T camera was only about as good as the Lumia and the Xperia ... well, yeah lol

I had three Sony phones over the last few years and I really liked them, so I sticked to that brand. But when the THIRD phone died bc of sudden battery/charging issues, I gave up and switched to Samsung. I still have a very bad paranoia of charging my phone with any other charger than the one my phone came with, because I lost two of the three xperia phones by using the charger from a friend. Like I said, I think Sony makes good phones, but this ain't it, chief.

Some of the Apple 5Cs had a fatal flaw. The phones would brick, meaning out of nowhere they'd stop being able to charge due to how the charging port was constructed. Sometimes people would have to get new phones, for instance if they didn't have Apple warranty, because fixing it at the time was generally akin to buying a phone.

I used the Xperia Z and was a lot excited about it and the device really didn't disappoint. I used it for full 3 years when my father accidentally stepped on it and crushed it to oblivion. I went to check what they had in stores and was shocked to see the newest model not very different from Z and ended up with a motorola...sony fucked up big time

I had a Windows Phone. As far as their "connect with all your windows stuff" idea went... it was excellent. I could start something on my PC, grab my phone if I had to go and finish it on my way to wherever I was going. But yeah, the lack of apps... the times I wanted to download something.... "this is not available for your device" messages were agrevating. Switched to android basically within a year.
the only reason the Nokia 3310 had a protective case was to protect your floor from damage in case you dropped your phone

"You can't release a phone with the same design every year"
*Apple has left the chat*

For the modular phone to work there would have to be several different compatible components from different manufacturers like in the desktop computers. They then had to be all standard size to fit the phone. There is a reason why the modularity has worked mainly on desktop computers that have no size issues.

Who knew Arun would be so sarcastic now and making better videos. Well I guess as time went on he became the boss of tech videos than in 2019

the Xperia z1 compact was actually my first ever smartphone and I have to say, I loved it a lot. that was the time when phones seriously tried to top each other with being waterproof and the sony had caps over all of the openings

As kind of an iPhone hater myself that actually had the iPhone 5c and for plastic and glass that sucker held up pretty well. I dropped it a good handful of times and no cracks. To me it was actually pretty durable and well functioning phone. But I guess I understand your point of how it's not really apples image. But as much as I hate to admit it it was actually pretty good phone in my opinion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the failure of the windows phone honestly makes me kinda sad... the os and the hardware were so pretty and exciting, I was genuinely really excited for it. my best friend at the time actually got one as a gift from her mum, and the app issue was seriously *horrendous*. our friend group literally had to change the chatting app we used because her selection was so bad, and the lack of youtube support meant any time she wanted to watch a video with us, she just texted it to us and we would just watch it on one of ours 🤦‍♂️. it was a genuinely really cool phone, but microsoft SERIOUSLY needed to prioritise their app store... both internally by developing better relationships with companies like youtube, but also just making their os and app store more accessible to indie developers!!! like there was nothing but big tech companies in there... I swear to god if you just scrolled through my friend's phone and looked at all the apps she had downloaded, you would literally assume she was some kinda super serious corporate business man... we were literally 13 year old kpop stans and weaboos🙃

“Went from a finnish company to an finished company”🤣🤣🤣 I think this is the first time I’ve audibly laughed at a smartphone video

When I was in middle school, my childhood best friend had a windows phone. I was in awe of it bc my first phone at the time was some piece of shit called the Blu and I probably would've gotten a virus on it before too long if it didn't break after like a month. The bit on windows phones got me nostalgic, I haven't seen one since then.

In all honesty, I was selling cell phones at the time and Apple phones were great but I wanted more variety in the market. So when the manufacturers for many of these phones came and promoted these phones as a great alternative to an iPhone, I was on board and promoted these to customers. Also, in honesty that honeymoon time period for all of these devices lasted a very short period of time until it was obvious how horrible most of them were.

WP was my favorite OS back in the days, even with the lack of apps, it's kind of sad developers weren't willing to also program for them, that is essentially how and why it died, had a good time with my 900, 925 and 930 tho while it lasted.

I think what actually kills the Lumias are the fact that Microsoft played hardballs with us devs..😂

Arun: you can't just release an identical-looking phone every year.
Apple: you think I care

When Sony doesn't send you phones so you make a video series of fails and declare Sony as the winner. Well played Arun 😂

This guy makes one of the few UAclipsrs who makes videos 20min long but not boring thanks

about Nokia: the problem wasn't necessarily that they didn't have the technology to release smatphones, they did their research; however, since they were really big in the market they had massive contracts with firms tying them to their old models, and they couldn't act fast enough to go after iphone

I am really sad that Sony didn't keep their act together in the smartphone world. I replaced my beloved iPhone 4s with a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, to join the Android echo system. I loved the Xperia. Future models simply did not appeal to me for upgrading. Yes, the Sony camera sensor technology what/is second to none, yet they never developed the image processing technology that their camera sensor customers did. Like you said, if Sony focused on the camera software they would have developed a niche in the smartphone industry that no competitor could rival, but they simply blew it 😢

At last Xperia's naming scheme makes sense to me. It works exactly as the naming in the cameras. Canon's, that it is; not Sony's own...

The green iPhone 5C is my favorite smartphone I ever owned, I freaking lolved that thing, used it up to 2016 and only replaced it cause it fell on asphalt without a case and shattered the screen. I loved the size, the finish and the look. Now I own an iPhone 13 mini which I also love and will probably be on a list like this soon. It's a shame people don't dig compact phones.

i love how arun is stepping up the game in humour!

I feel like Sony used mark 2 and mark 3 because they’re naming the phones more like cameras, such as A7 III or A7S III and the same thing apples to Canon such as 1dx mark 3 and also for the canon r series, the lower the number the better and later the camera came out so that’s probably also a little confusing for people who are looking for their first camera

I had the 5C, it was ok but it had a lot less processing power compared to other phones

Ah, Nokia...
I'm an old-fashioned person so I've been using good old "dumb" phones even after smartphones became fairly common (not as widespreads as they are now, but still common). All my phones were Nokias - I loved the brand. When the time came to finally upgrade to a smartphone, I really wanted to stick with Nokia but couldn't because they were exclusively Windows phones. That made me sad. Huge missed opportunity.

I love Sony and still laughed through the last 2 minutes.

An upgradeable phone is a good idea, but it has to be done in the inside, not the outside.
Like with desktop computers, you could buy an OEM prebuilt, and then upgrade its RAM, CPU, storage and so on... by buying new internal parts or using old ones from other phones that broke.
The only thing stopping us from that, is that each part has (intentionally) a different shape -- even if it does not *need* to have it like that.

"You can't release a phone with the same design every year"
Apple : Why NOt?

As an user of xperia phones for a quite a long time, I can trully say that their phones are getting worse. You have mentioned about Xperia XZ which I still use but not so often:
As the first Xperia phone with USB type C port, it has quite big problem with charging and connecting to my PC. I had to change my USB port 4 times since 2018 because "It's just not working wery well. Many people came to us with the same problem"
Another problem is the snapdragon CPU. It works perfectly fine for the first 3-4 years since it's ben manufactured (2015) but after that time it starts to lag, overheat and randomly reset/shut down. After factory reset it didn't get better. Phone temperature can reach over 67 Celsius degrees.

When your current daily driver is a Sony phone 😰 (Xperia Ace imported from Japan, if you're curious)
All joking aside, while it does serve me pretty well, it IS my first Sony phone, and had I known their reputation, I probably would have not gotten it and opted for something less stagnant. BUT this is the hole I dug myself, so I might as well make it home 😛
(Edit: The Ace is a compact version of the 1 (the... first 1), released only in Japan.)

Sony naming a device:
_slams head on keyboard_
*Perfection.*

Apple does the same thing sending apps to the cloud. I think it is great most of the time. Occasionally I have gotten stuck when I am out but in general it is helpful.

Yeah the problem with cloud storage is that it had this tendancy to back up everything. I have onedrive on my pc (not my choice, it came with the pc) and I had to switch it off, because it kept automatically backing up my games and then telling me my free storage has run out. Now it keeps sending reminders telling me everything is stored locally and I'm gonna lose it, but I can't even use it to back up important files bcs it wants me to buy more storage.

Nokia: "From a Finnish company to a finished company" 😂😂

Have used all three oses. Loved the Windows a lot. so smooth and just different. If only microsoft hadn't messed up the apps system. No gmail, youtube, gmaps on a phone? Well, That's hard to buy for customers especially in 2013.

Yup I experienced the Exynos thing firsthand with the A50. Wound up doing something I shouldn't have done if I wanted to get it repaired or replaced. No don't chill or freeze your phones when the chip or battery starts overheating, mail it in or bring it in (if you live near a store) instead. I lied by omission after doing it and caused lots of trouble for both sides invoved (Mom [on my behalf] and Samsung [the party taking care of the support ticket]).
I'm heading back after dealing with lackluster Motorola phones. One signal working shouldn't be dependent on the other being off (Mobile Data and WiFi). Also, the charge ports on these things and the fact that no repair shop wants or intends to repair it. Yup budget Motorolas.

Number 6 is kind of funny, since they are removing external storage in newer phone models.

The XPERIA Acro S is a good model. Back then a water-resistant phone was a hit.
I was a fan of SONY phones for a while back. I'm so sad that it cannot compete anymore.

I actually had an apple 5c. A friend dropped it onto her shoe and it shattered. We got it fixed and we still have that phone, but the screen is completely unresponsive and someone (probably me) set an alarm at some point but since the screen is unresponsive we can’t turn it off, so we have to wait for it to die

Definitely a Netflix quality clip at the end😂😂

One thing that reviewers don't talk a lot is how robust are the Smart phones. To me, more important than having a bunch of cameras, I would rather have a phone that has a higher IP rating.

The fall of Sony was hard to bear. Used to be a fierce Sony loyalist (Sony Ericsson in the past), three first phones were from them (10 years of total use) but when the time came for the Xperia L, there was no suitable replacement. Sad.

us crazy how much the channel has evolved over the years to the point that this just doesnt feel like a proper whosetheboss video because theres not as many dynamic shots and stuff. its interesting to see.