In recent years, the mobile phone has transformed from a tool that only some people with specific needs had, to a technological utility that anyone has and uses daily. With this boom comes competition, and with it, a wide range of options and prices to choose from for our smartphone. To address this, we bring you a list of the worst mobile phone brands.
How to choose which mobile to buy?
There are many factors to consider when buying a mobile, such as its utility, ease of use, interface, and even, although not the most famous, the impact the mobile has on your health due to the radiation some products emit.
The final decision is always yours, but here we bring you the 10 worst cell phone brands you should avoid buying at all costs.
10. BlackBerry
Although they had their time, BlackBerrys are practically disappeared from the phone landscape today. Their problem was the lack of adaptation to new technologies and their stubbornness with their original model, the small screen, and the lower keyboard that was the brand's characteristic symbol. Although their target was companies and multinationals, Apple took that market sector from them with the iPhone.
9. Huawei
The most controversial mobile on this list, because although its price-quality ratio is the best on the market, its terminals tend to have many software issues, as well as a very overloaded aesthetic. However, the main reason we don't like Huawei is political, due to the brand's relationship with the Chinese communist government, a shareholder of the company and a promoter of the brand globally.
8. Nokia
Nokia's case is very similar to BlackBerry's. Nokia's mobile joins with Microsoft's operating system, Windows Phone, to use it as an operating system. The system's problem was the constant failures it has, in addition to the low compatibility of many applications that were not launched from the start on the mobile. Although they did nothing wrong, mobiles with Windows Phone did not succeed and will not.
7. HTC
HTC is not on this list for being a bad brand, but simply because it has not evolved correctly with the technological market, because although HTC's options in the mobile market are correct, the competition's options offer the same for a better price and with much better differentiating factors.
6. Ericsson
Ericsson mobiles are almost no longer present in the market, after the separation they suffered with Sony, the Japanese company that saved them from bankruptcy in the 2000s. Ericsson mobiles have become outdated, and although they use the Android operating system, they do not exploit even half of the possibilities it offers them.
5. Lenovo
Lenovo brand mobiles have a functionality problem mainly. Although the brand's specifications are not bad or negative at all, and their price is very good, the mobiles tend to hang very frequently, as well as their low amounts of memory, without the possibility of including extra memory, cause recurring software problems.
4. Zopo
Zopo is a small part of what it was in 2012, the year of the smartphone boom, where many brands started creating their own terminals to compete in the mobile market, and often the product's quality is not even considered, only its price. Zopo is one of the cheapest terminals on the market, but with such poor compatibility with European software that the brand is close to bankruptcy.
3. Alcatel
Their main problem is internal memory, with terminals with only 8GB of memory, half of which is occupied by the phone's operating system itself. The menus feel slow, and although the screens of their latest terminals launched on the market are over six inches, their resolution is not what is expected of them, and although you can watch videos on a large screen, it is not HD and doesn't have the full range of available colors.
2. Motorola
Motorola mobiles are generally good, just not enough for the range they promise. The latest generation of Motorola mobiles wants to compete with Samsung Galaxy and iPhone, but falls behind in performance and specifications. The camera doesn't reach the level of the mobiles mentioned above, and some system resources consume a high number of megabytes. If you are going to spend 800 euros on a mobile, you have better options.
1. Kyocera
Kyocera mobiles are not on this list for being of poor quality, but simply because they are bad for health. Kyocera promises a resistant mobile, for the military or construction world, that you know will never break, no matter how much you hit it. The mobile is also water-resistant, and its plastic cover gives it the resistance the brand boasts about, along with a good operating system.
In terms of SAR, the specific absorption rate, Kyocera is the worst on the list in terms of radiation emitted, which although not specifically connected, an excess of radiation can even cause cancer. All experts recommend that when it comes to mobiles of the brand, it is better not to buy or use them.