There will always be something new in the technology industry. New gadgets, cool mobile phones and smart phones and innovative applications; some of them are greatly expected to match its users’ expectation. Some managed to do it successfully while some failed miserably along the way. Here we have a list of some tech things of the year that did not go as expected.
iPhone 5
Perhaps the most anticipated gadgets of 2011 simply choose not to exist in this year. All the rumours and speculations about how good and advanced the new iPhone 5 will be were all gone down the drain as Apple has chosen not to introduce it this year. Instead, the new iPhone 4S was launched and even though it received critics such as ‘an old gadget with old specifications’, it is still favourable among the Apple fans.
HTC Thunderbolt
Being said as the best and fastest HTC smartphone during its launch, it failed in a really bad way. It did have a blazing data speed thanks to its network provider, Verizon, but it is also the fastest HTC smartphone in battery drainage (and it still is).
Research in Motion
The company behind BlackBerry will need to forget about 2011 fast and move to the next year. Everything seems to fail for RIM this year. The BlackBerry Playbook failed to meet its user’s expectations, the new Blackberry 10 OS has a problem with its trademark, and the long awaited new and revolutionary OS from Blackberry is still being put on hold. RIM also experienced its longest network blackout in the company’s history, but it is nothing compared to the next company after this one.
PSN
The PlayStation Network (PSN) by Sony had its worst network outage in history too. The outage lasted more than a month and the company had to face the wrath of its users, particularly PlayStation 3 users who cannot play their games online. Sony tried to do a campaign to attract their customers back to use the PSN, but the damage had already been done.
webOS
webOS is a really anticipated operating system by HP. However, after the TouchPad’s failure to meet the critic’s expectation and the bad sales, HP killed the webOS even before it had the chance to improve. However, it is expected that the webOS will have a second life thanks to its massive potential in the future applications and devices.