3. Amazon Fire Phone
The Fire Phone was introduced at a price of $199 with a contract, as other phones were sold at the time. However, that was a departure from the low-cost loss-leaders that the fire tablets were up until then, which meant Amazon had directed their phone to a different buyer not motivated by a low price, but premium features. Also, the Fire OS was not integrated with Google services, forcing users onto the Amazon App store. This offered far fewer apps than the competition and was among the many reasons the phone failed, according to Time.
The Fire Phone proved that attempting to force users into a new experience while charging a premium for it takes what could be a good device and makes it worse.
4. Blackberry Storm
The Blackberry Storm, the first touch screen Blackberry. We originally announced the coming Storm in 2008. This means Blackberry had less than two years to develop the hardware and write the software to transition its OS from a keyboard-based design to all touch. To an outside observer, this looks like a fairly short development window and when the product arrived in stores, it showed. When Engadget first reviewed the phone, many flaws became instantly clear. The biggest seems to be that the touch screen was inaccurate, insensitive, and unrefined. Additionally, the software lagged in development compared to the iPhone and the general experience was subpar.