The 12 Ugliest Phones of the Mobile Era

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Over the course of the past few years, phones have largely settled on a singular design: thin slates with as few buttons as possible and not much else, and sometimes in colors. Most phones seem to play it safe, sticking to designs that work with a few variations to fit the manufacturer's design language. Sometimes, though, there are a few phones that try something different and end up failing spectacularly. Those are the phones on the shelves in stores that make you wonde...