The biggest smartphone fails of 2020 (Update: Video!)
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on December 29, 2020. It has been updated to include the related video above.
The smartphone world endured a rollercoaster of a year, as the transition to 5G collided with the COVID-19 pandemic. The former meant that we got 5G phones across almost all price segments, as well as some major price hikes at the top-end. Meanwhile, the pandemic hurt business in a big way in the first half of the year, as lockdowns resulted in offline retail collapsing.
Yet, even without these two factors, we still saw several major smartphone fails that are really hard to justify. From Microsoft to OnePlus and beyond, here are the more notable smartphone fails in 2020.