If someone is out and about trashing mobile phone designs I can't resist, I just have to read. And in this case justifiably so, because it's plain fun: PC world reviews the 10 ugliest and lamest mobile phones. Of course usability plays a role in some of the reviews, as for example for Nokia's lipstick-like 7380.

If you owned the Nokia 7380 and had to send a quick text message to save your life, you’d be dead by now. This handset, which looks like a fancy pencil box, has to go down as one of the most unusable phones ever made. Critics commented that the only thing you could do fast with this phone is answer an incoming call.

You've got to admit that it takes guts though: removing almost all controls from a phone. About almost as gutsy as placing the controls over the screen so that your hand blocks the screen while operating the phone, as on the B&O Serenata.

[Picture from PC World]