What's the worst piece of tech you've ever bought?

[Tekkaraiden]

Coldheat soldering iron.

 

[EClyde]

Any of a number of wall AC units...loud and break too soon

 

[trparky]

Galaxy Nexus. Anyone who knows anything about that device will know that the cellular radio in it was absolute garbage. It would drop calls and wouldn't hold onto a data connection at all. It was by far the worst device I've ever owned.

I noticed other people in this thread talking about how the iPhone 4 was bad, let's just say that the Galaxy Nexus made the iPhone 4 look perfect in comparison; yes, the Galaxy Nexus was THAT bad!

Second worst piece of garbage I bought was a Crucial SSD. I returned in within the Amazon return policy.

 

[pmcardle]

Everything with an Apple logo for listening to music - crappy tintie sound from iPods to iPhones. Anything that plays WMA files sound so much better.

 

[ShadowDeath]

HTC Thunderbolt

 

[trparky]

Obviously you've not hooked up a good pair of headphones to an iPhone. I have a pair of Sony MDR-XB500 headphones and when I connect them to my iPhone 6 Plus you can really hear the punch of the drums.

 

[Zenodroid]

Iphone 4
This thing couldnt make a single phone call without interuption....next thing I hear
Steve jobs was teaching the world how to hold a cell phone
Asus Fonepad 7 ME372CG
Worked ok for a couple months....but then I found out about that shitty battery asus had installed in it
Used to take 26 hours to charge that 3900 mah battery via a 2amp adapter

the new iphone has the same problem

 

[Zenodroid]

Obviously you've not hooked up a good pair of headphones to an iPhone. I have a pair of Sony MDR-XB500 headphones and when I connect them to my iPhone 6 Plus you can really hear the punch of the drums.

https://www.marshallheadphones.com/mh_us_en/london-phone try this one instead and you will get even better sound quality in your headphones

 

[Jerimy AG]

HTC Vivid, hot phone, got OS issues that were never get rid by HTC or AT&T.

ECS A790GXM-AD3 didn't last me a month, poor support from ECS, most unstable card ever brought

 

[mrtraver]

HTC Vivid, hot phone, got OS issues that were never get rid by HTC or AT&T.

ECS A790GXM-AD3 didn't last me a month, poor support from ECS, most unstable card ever brought

That just reminded me of an ECS AM3 motherboard that has given me fits since day one. When I shop for any computer components, I filter out ECS.

 

[enemys]

Nexus 4. Maybe it was a hit when it came out 3 years ago, but current software makes it a stupid, unreliable annoying piece of plastic. I've had so many different issues with it (on multiple different software versions), that I just can't wait to get a replacement. Still a month or two before I get one, though.

 

[Axle Grease]

Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra (Gainward Golden Sample): I was told this was an enthusiasts graphics card. They lied.

The FX5xxx series was a pretty ho-hum series, but the FX5900 ultra was still the fastest card around before the FX5950 arrived later in the year. I bought an MSI FX5900 Ultra VTD-256 (AGP) mid 2003. If being marketed as an enthusiast card was a lie then the upshot to what you're saying is that there were NO enthusiast cards prior to 2004.

 

[LNCPapa]

Philips CD-I 220 ... I still have the thing packed up in my garage and I think it still works as much as it ever did.

Atari Jaguar and Atari Jaguar CD. Both pieces of crap that merge together into a bigger pile of crap.

 

[tonylukac]

I have to say the macbook pro. The problem was that I had a dirty dsl line, and it doesn't checksum updates like windows does, so ten things went wrong after the updates. Didn't figure this out till years afterward. Firefox didn't scroll, the single mouse (no right click) didn't work-whatever the fancy feature of it was, and eight other things were wrong, and it was at mercedes benz prices. Frys took it back for a full refund, no restocking fee even. I just thought it was a lemon. I shouldn't say this, but this didn't seem to do it, but upon returning the next thing to fry's, an internet over power line adapter for my brother to share my internet when he lived in this building in another apartment, which didn't work because he was on a different phase of power line, steve jobs died. This may prove it was a lemon. What a story for halloween.

 

[gpaccia]

Samsung first generation chromebook... totally crap. I wasn't even able to download photos from an usb stick and open them properly.

 

[robb213]

must have been a monday phone you had, bc I had no problems with it what so ever even lastet 2 days on battery

Wish I was in your shoes, because before the 4.0.1 update I loved the phone. Everyone I knew with the phone too, including the MAXX, all had worse problems than me however. Problems were so wide-spread that I was able to follow the problems and updates regularly via a few sites that monitored it.

Second worst piece of garbage I bought was a Crucial SSD. I returned in within the Amazon return policy.

What was wrong with it? Recommended them to some people, like the MX100 and whatever the previous models were, and haven't seen/heard any problems concerning it.

 

[p51d007]

Iomega zip drive.

Would have to agree on this one. The Zip drives were bad.

I still have a box of zip disks around. LOL, I should find a zip drive somewhere and see what's on them, if anything after sitting for over a dozen years untouched.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Second worst piece of garbage I bought was a Crucial SSD. I returned in within the Amazon return policy.

What was wrong with it? Recommended them to some people, like the MX100 and whatever the previous models were, and haven't seen/heard any problems concerning it.

Yeah, I thought that was odd as well.

I still have a box of zip disks around. LOL, I should find a zip drive somewhere.

You may need to use an old machine. Last I heard people were having trouble finding drivers for the last few operating systems.

 

[p51d007]

I used to be a 911 operator, back in the late 80's to early 2000's, and in the early 90's, the sheriff's office I.T. guy had a 2x scsi CD burner and he'd let me use it on the weekends. I remember it ran on win 3.1, and once you clicked burn, YOU DIDN'T TOUCH ANYTHING, including the mouse, or it would hang and crash.
Darn thing was about the size of a 33 1/3 LP record disk album.

 

[dividebyzero]

The FX5xxx series was a pretty ho-hum series, but the FX5900 ultra was still the fastest card around before the FX5950 arrived later in the year. I bought an MSI FX5900 Ultra VTD-256 (AGP) mid 2003. If being marketed as an enthusiast card was a lie then the upshot to what you're saying is that there were NO enthusiast cards prior to 2004.

The Gainward FX 5900 Ultra Golden Sample I was referring to is the FX 5900 128MB marketed as an Ultra but is in fact a standard 5900 (at an Ultra price). It should be quite apparent when you see the box (as opposed to a catalogue listing) it is not an Ultra - at least not a FX 5900 Ultra

At the time my AMD system housed a (cheaper) ATI branded 9800 Pro, which was faster - and the video capture/editing actually worked.

 

[penn919]

Ouya.

I have one. I like it personally. It's got some decent indie games and it's an excellent Kodi client.

 

[bexwhitt]

Iomega zip drive.

zip discs work twice then fail

 

[Uncle Al]

Iomega zip drive.

Yeah, that one was a total piece of trash, but I got my money's worth using it for a door stop .....

 

[Septic AD]

XBOX360 because it was built like ****, and the DVD-ROM was a total piece of crap...

I agree, I went through 3 replacement boxes in like 6 years and had that DVD mechanism repaird at least 2 or 3 times. I think the XBone is better in quality of build.

 

[TitoBXNY]

Techspot friends, without a doubt, the absolute worst and I mean worst piece of crap I ever bought was the Killer NIC M1 Gaming Network Card . Talk about a three-card Monte street hustle. I see that some people chose the zip drive, at least my zip drive was useful.