The worst Christmas gadgets for the last 25 years

Posted by Gareth Beavis on Sun 20 Dec 2009

Like finding a lump of coal in your stocking

Now we've seen the the must-have Christmas gadget gifts we couldn't wait to rip through the delicately assembled wrapping paper to get to. But every now and then some of the tech placed under the tree can leave a sour taste that lasts until June the following year.

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Take the T-Mobile G1 smartphone which landed just in time for last year's big Christmas shopping rush. We expected big things from the 'Google phone' and while we loved the open OS inside it, outside of that, it was not so desirable.

So, looking back at the greatest festive tech failures from the last 25 years, launch the gallery for the worst Christmas presents from the last 25 years

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By Sachman

28|12|2009 00:52

I remember some exec buying a brace of the Motorola behemoth. Unfortunately he didn't really get the concept. If anyone called him, he would answer with, "in transit," & then hang up!

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By speculatrix

26|12|2009 23:59

the zune captured much microsoft stupidity: a new DRM system that was incompatible with their previous schemes, crap colour scheme, failure to even catch up with the alternative, and half-baked ideas aving wifi so you could share ("squirting") music over wifi to others but not actually allowing you to upload music to it over wifi. never sold outside of USA, and noone cared.

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By speculatrix

26|12|2009 23:56

the nokia 770 had a touch screen, a groundbreaking hi-res display of 800x480, it had wifi (b/g) and bluetooth.
it's only downsides were a lack of ram and a too-slow CPU to do more advanced things (which the n800 rectified).

but this is T3, so why let the facts get in the way of a good slagging off?

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