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Dirty Dozen Ugliest and Lamest Cell Phones

Ugly only begins to describe what is wrong with these cell phones. Some of them lack such phone basics as keypads and displays.

Daniel Ionescu, PC World

Nokia 7380 5 of 13

If you owned the Nokia 7380 and had to send a quick text message to save your life, you’d be dead by now. This handset, which looks like a fancy pencil box, has to go down as one of the most unusable phones ever made. Critics commented that the only thing you could do fast with this phone is answer an incoming call.

Narrow but chunky, the 7380 lacked any sort of physical keypad. One might have thought that this concept was a bit on the nonfunctional side, but, going further, Nokia taunted fashion-savvy buyers with a tiny mirror screen that was completely illegible in strong light or direct sunlight.

Besides the cumbersome text input via the iPod-esque navi-wheel, the 7380 featured only 52MB of storage space (with no expansion slot) -- not even remotely enough to hold a few pictures taken with the handset’s 2-megapixel camera (with flash and video) or many songs for the built-in music player (with FM radio).

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