12 BRUTAL Smartphone Fails they want you to forget.

A rebadged Samsung phone with a sticker on it, sent only to reviewers while customer orders never arrived, so he says steer clear.

A holeless phone concept that solves no real problem and never hit its crowdfunding goal.

A sustainable modular phone idea that made no commercial sense and was only a concept, never a product.

Poor value for only $100 saving, with a plastic build, old chipset and worse camera, though it still sold well.

The first true gaming phone, but Android wasn't ready and there were hardly any games for the physical controls.

Lenovo's misleading teasers promised 45-day battery and 4TB storage that turned out to be for a watch and a hard drive.

The cloud storage system worked well, but it solved a problem a cheap microSD card already fixed.

Discontinued within six weeks with no apps and iPhone pricing, and reportedly selling as few as 500 units.

The Exynos versions of Samsung flagships lag the Snapdragon ones by up to 20% in battery and performance.

Promising and fast, but it launched late with a woeful app selection and no subsidies, then dragged on for years.

Nokia made durable, affordable phones but failed to react when the iPhone shifted the battle to software.

Sony's confusing naming, stale designs, weak photos and poor PR earn it the worst fail score of 9 out of 10.