The worst smart phone ever.
It started innocently enough with me deciding I wanted to use the internet everywhere, and be able to use my own email account at work without being spied on. So, I purchased the HTC Wizard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDA_Vario Windows smart phone -- it was great for the time and had a web browser and email. I was able to go on the internet in the pub!
Then I craved a bigger keyboard and it just so happened that someone at work was selling an HTC Universal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Universal -- this was brilliant and it is still my favourite form factor for a mobile device. It was just big enough to have a decent keyboard and screen (for the time) and with the addition of a double-sized battery I could happily browse the web on it fir hours.
So, when my contract was renewed I decided to go for the successor of my previous phones -- the HTC Athena en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Athena. This turned out to be a mistake. The device wasn't even a phone, really, as it was either speaker-phone or on headset, with no conventional speaker and mic built in. Also, you'd look like a real prat with the huge brick next to your head anyhow. Then there was the keyboard, which attached magnetically to the phone -- it was pretty big and you'd expect something so big and heavy to be good, but it wasn't, it was shitty and hard to type on. The battery life was poor too, and because of the slot-loading battery couldn't be swapped with a larger one. Somehow, also, the touch-screen wasn't as good as previous models. Oh, and the phone felt like it weighed half a kilo and barely fit into the pocket. This truly was the worst "smart" "phone" I've ever used.
I bought an Experia as a second phone the other day only realising after I had played with it a little while that it's a resistive-screened about-to-be-obsolete model. Perhaps I've now moved on to the worst Android phone?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 11:16, 6 replies)

I got meself
a HTC Touch Diamond. I'd had a SE P910 for a few years and loved it, but when my contract came up for renewal, I got a SE P1i, which was total shit and broke down after 2 weeks. O2 sent me another one which lasted 3 weeks. They then decided to replace it with some piece of shit Samsung music phone which I didn't want so I pissed and moaned for a week before they relented and sent me the HTC. It was my first Windows phone and my last. It was fucking rubbish at pretty much everything that it did. When the time came to renew that contract, I got a G1/HTC Dream. I loved it, with the slidey out keyboard and Android, I rooted it and fucked about with it for pretty much all the 2 years that I had it without a hint of a problem. I now have a Samsung Galaxy S2 which is just brilliant. I'd have gone for the HTC Desire but HTC decided to lock the bootloader so you couldn't root the phone and use a custom ROM. Lucky escape, the Galaxy is fantastic.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 16:00, closed)

The Universal was Awesome!
A bit prone to Stylus-falling-outyness, but a decent sized keyboard as you say. I'd love to see what spec Androidy goodness could now fit into a case that size.
( bluemeat has been best of all the animals since, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 16:13, closed)

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that they can't hold a shitness candle to the HTC Snap.
Worst fucking phone I've ever owned.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 20:54, closed)

nexus phones.
They're nothing special, hardware wise, but they're the compatibility benchmark. I have a Nexus S and with a nice rubber jacket the thing has been bombproof. Nice curved screen means less scratches too.
(Ladyfingers is in your wardrobe,, Sat 1 Oct 2011, 3:17, closed)

Haha, your phone is wearing a condom.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sat 1 Oct 2011, 12:24, closed)

It's a phondom.
Yes.
(Ladyfingers is in your wardrobe,, Sun 2 Oct 2011, 1:22, closed)