Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Maskot]

Late 2009 27" iMac

[BigRedOK]

Xbox360. The only fun I had on it was when I was playing with friends. On it's own, it sucks. 

 

Or my HTC EVO 4G. It sucked so bad. It was amazing for a few weeks. Literally 3 weeks into having it, it started to give me problems. It was all downhill from there. Bad build quality too... 

[omaroma11]

alienware m14x ik

[ericlee30]

I bought a phone that was supposed to be unlocked......but it was locked. AAAAAAAAA

Have you ever thought about unlocking it your self? JW

[jbr]

Penis pump

[TechTheWorld]

Have you ever thought about unlocking it your self? JW

Yes. Its only about 20$. But I am trying to contact the seller and see whats going on since I dont have 20$. But since I am 16 I still have to work through my parents. I think it would be faster to communicate to the seller by a homing pigeon with one wing. 

[felixbearpig]

beats studios and the original ipad, 

 

ipad was great tech but completely useless imo

[TheSLSAMG]

Samsung Chromebook, Razer Blackwidow Tournament, Mophie Juice Pack Helium for iPhone 5, and the Corsair Raptor M3.

 

I've taken the Tournament off because while it has many issues, it has Cherry MX Blues,

[Emperor_Piehead]

I got the HTC inspire 4g. They look alike hopefully its not crap.

I've had that phone for 3 years it's a trooper. I've dropped it a lot like yesterday it went from a textbook to concrete and was fine, but the case probably helped a lot.

[GaZinggEr]

rechargeable batteries

[YeroJero]

At this moment, I think I'm gonna have to say Leap Motion considering I pre-ordered this nearly 2 years before release. The trailer looked compelling.

[dalekphalm]

My first LCD HDTV. It was a 26" 720p TV (Yet for some damn reason, 720p TV's are 1366x768 instead of 1200x720). The reason it was a huge disappointment is because the viewing angles on it were SO BAD! Especially vertical. If you were slightly below the 0 degree plane of the TV (even only a few degrees, like less than 10), it immediately starts turning black. If you're sitting on the floor, you couldn't see the image at all.

 

This was a big deal because it was my first experience with a flat screen HDTV, and I was in a college dorm room, so space was limited, and optimal viewing angles were not always possible.

 

I've since gone through 3 more TV's (a 720p 32" LCD no-name brand, a 1080p 32" Sharp LCD which I still use as a secondary monitor for my gaming PC, and finally my current TV: A beautiful 1080p 50" LG 50PA6500 Plasma).

[CoolBeans]

A laptop.

[laxer]

Can't say I've been very disappointed with any technology I've bought...

 

I never buy things before hand and am a bet of a review hoarder...

 

I do however preorder games which are kind of technology...

 

Games that fall in this category:

Rage

Diablo III

Duke Nukem

[JamesIsBatman]

A console

[TechTheWorld]

I've had that phone for 3 years it's a trooper. I've dropped it a lot like yesterday it went from a textbook to concrete and was fine, but the case probably helped a lot.

Ye I like it so far and I do plan on getting a case.

[CoolBeans]

A laptop

[Langdon]

HTC Wildfire S phone. Complete waste of money, should've gotten the Nexus.

Also my HP DV7 laptop, overheats like crazy because of the  horrible heatsink design and how hard it is to clean it out (I have to take it apart completely to clean it). Also super loud.

[Emperor_Piehead]

Ye I like it so far and I do plan on getting a case.

http://www.amazon.com/Glove-Mirage-Cover-Inspire-Etched/dp/B004N78G7K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376533958&sr=8-1&keywords=body+glove+htc+inspire

 

This is the one I have it's like a hybrid between a hard case and a soft case. 

[allthatremains94]

A Pantech Lazer, my god that thing was horrendous. The battery would randomly die, the phone would turn off if someone called me and switched towers either during or before the call, text messages wouldn't send sometimes, and the speaker was never loud enough during calls, so I literally had to cover my other ear so that I could hear the other person, even when on the empty highway. When I got my S3, I was astounded by how loud the speaker was during calls; I went from hearing whispers to Zeus yelling in my ear.

[Whiskers]

Also my HP DV7 laptop, overheats like crazy because of the  horrible heatsink design and how hard it is to clean it out (I have to take it apart completely to clean it). Also super loud.

 

Similar for me, but I got an HP DV2000 series notebook many years ago.

 

Short story is, they bundled together a powerful GPU which generates a lot of heat with a CPU which generates a lot of heat, stacked them on top of one another and gave them a single aluminium heatsink to share. Last recorded temperature the GPU run at before it literally burnt out was 136. And that's not in Fahrenheit.

 

In the end almost every damn thing in the laptop failed. HDD, one of the RAM sticks, GPU, Wi-Fi chip, charging unit, battery and touch-panel controls.

 

Needless to say the experience has put me off Hewlett Packard for a very long time. :(

[criso8]

xbox 360. only good thing that came out of that was red dead

[Ruostunut kokis]

Aiptek AHD AF1 camcorder. 1080p recordings look like a slideshow.

[Cad6500]

I didn't buy it, but was given as a gift, guess that counts... XBox 360, after about a month, it RROD'd then after about 4 years, we took it to get fixed, then less than a month later, it did it again, then we took it to get fixed again, same thing happened, to the point where I decided I would fix it, it worked, then a different problem arose... ended up getting the hdd to put in my system XD Still had fun though and I miss it (only because of Halo)

[Lil Chillbil]

prolly my sony handycam that is supposed to shoot in HD 1080p for only $250

 

 

where as my canon 480p camera shoots much better footage and sound