Among the thousand’s of gadgets released this year many were successful
to impress the consumers with their awesome performance, uniqueness and
affordable price tag. However some among them failed due to either of
the reason or improper implementation, here are those top 10 products.
1. Nokia N9
Nokia launched the N9 as a successor to Nokia N8 with expectation of great sales figure. However the game
turned, the best looking phone was bottlenecked due to its poor
hardware and mild software support. Along with this, Nokia N9 was
launched in handful countries with heavy price tag.
2. Apple Thunderbolt Display
People who cannot afford iMac
but still love the bling of it, Apple Thunderbolt Display is for them.
Even though using most fastest Input/Output ever, this display is
useless. The main reason behind its failure is its price tag as the
27inch model is priced at $999.00 USD where you can get a whole of MacBook Air or a 40inch HDTV at the same price.
3. Motorola Xoom
Motorola Xoom was the first Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet released back
this year. Being the first Honeycomb tablet the user-interface was
completely raw, even the performance was not up to expectations. Such a
tablet was heavily priced in the early days this reduced its demands and
later on it was not even considered.
4. LG Optimus 3D
As the name states LG Optimus 3D is a 3D capable smartphone made to
deliver glasses free 3D on a portable device. Though LG made it with
decent hardware it was sluggish and poor laggy interface. 3D which was
not necessary on portable device was made as the prime factor of the
phone. The dimensions were big that made this phone fat and older
version of Android withdrawn its demand.
5. HP Touch Pad
While the tablet wars were HOT, HP entered into the war by launching TouchPad featuring WebOS.
HP Palm devices with WebOS was huge success which made HP to develop
this operating on big screen. In early days TouchPad reached expected
sales figure but later after that the sales figure went down and HP
couldn’t meet the expected sales figure because of low application count
and its inability to meet iPad’s performance at same price, this forced
HP to stop HP TouchPad.
6. Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
Also known as PlayStation phone, Xperia Play was a big mistake from Sony
Ericsson. Having PlayStation capabilities this phone was suitable for
kids (those who like PSP gaming) for other classes this phone was
useless. This made the sales figure go down and also parents though the
price of the phone is too high to spend for kids. Xperia Play was then
ignored by masses.
7. Blackberry Playbook
Blackberry is known for its devices designed for Business purpose,
however Blackberry Playbook failed to impress even the business class.
Initially Playbook lacked many features like email and calendar also
this QNX based operating system had very few third party applications.
This made the sales figure go down categorising Playbook among the
failed products of 2011.
8. iPod Nano 7G
Last year Apple refreshed its iPod Nano
family where the Nano’s got complete redesign into a micro design. This
highly priced iPod Nano got low sales figure as many people instead
decided to go with iPod Touch. And this year Apple launched 7th generation iPod Nano which got nothing other than big UI and additional clock designs.
9. Google TV
With Logitech, Google launched Google TV a smart TV to perform many web based work
from your living room. This innovative idea of Google seriously failed
due to improper implementation. Google TV was not worth for its price as
many features were still raw and undeveloped, this brought the sales
figure down which made Google to stop making Google TV devices.
10. Flip Video Camera
Flip video camera mainly got popular due to its capability of high-definition video
recording and direct output on HDTV. Later smartphones got the same
capabilities which were even better than Flip cameras, this replaced the
Flip Video cameras with smartphones and they were turned down.
Article courtesy from: http://www.thegeeksclub.com
