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Show HN: An interactive comparison chart of the 300 most popular smartphones
- no_gravity 12y agoI did this type of product comparison chart for Laptops, Solid State Drives, Flash Drives and MP3 Players in the past. Dubbed them "Tourist map of Laptops" etc. The tourist thing caused some confusion, so I simply went with "comparison chart" this time. If you have suggestions for more features, let me know. Also if you have suggestions which product category to chart next. Either here on HN or on my blog: http://www.gibney.de/the_smartphone_comparison_chart http://www.gibney.de/the_smartphone_comparison_chart
- cpswan 12y agoNice work. It makes it far too easy to see that there's still no sensible alternative to my S4 mini Duos. I'm on the lookout for a replacement for my Lenovo X230, which I got specifically because it can take 16GB RAM and has a <13" screen. It would be very helpful if the RAM slider for laptops was max RAM that they can take rather than min RAM from factory.
- matttah 12y agoWould be great to also have radio capabilities (ie 3g,4g, lte, etc.) as a filter. Looks awesome!
- aw3c2 12y agoWould you be willing to share how money this kind of site generates? I always fancied making one myself but the competition seems hard.
- no_gravity 12y agoSure! Shoot me an email or meet me at #startups. I love discussing technology and entrepreneurship with like-minded people.
- swimfar 12y agoSome filter suggestions: camera resolution, year released, battery life, and OS (and version). I don't know where you're getting the info from, but these could all be pulled from gsmarena.
- userbinator 12y agoRemovable battery would be another good filtering option.
- daveloyall 12y agoPhysical keyboard. I only buy phones with physical keyboards. ...Hm, I haven't bought a phone in a while.
- malexw 12y agoIt seems like there are a lot fewer of us keyboard zealots these days. I've been hoping to see an update to my now 4-year-old HTC Desire Z. Physical keyboard, removable storage, and swappable SD cards are great - I really don't want to give any of those up. I resigned myself to getting a new Nexus device since so few apps are coming out for Android 2.3 anymore, but then they came out with that 6" monster... I really have no idea what phone to upgrade to. Nobody makes a phone I want anymore.
- uaygsfdbzf 12y agoBoth of you should look at the Neo900: http://neo900.org/ http://neo900.org/ It is an N900 chassis (inc keyboard) with a GTA04 motherboard plus some cool anti-spying features to isolate the LTE modem (which of course runs a proprietary OS).
- sanderjd 12y agoAnother suggestion: OS upgrades. The best feature of the google branded or owned android lines is that the get unencumbered OS upgrades.
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- Smudge 12y agoOne thing I noticed -- the Nexus 6 actually comes in either 32GB or 64GB, but when I search based on memory/storage or on price, only the 32GB shows up. This is probably happening for other models with multiple variations. (Also, I think the price you've listed for it is just wrong -- likely due to limited supply on Amazon)
- no_gravity 12y agoThanks! I aim to have all versions of a phone. I added the Nexus 6 with 64GB now. Prices come directly via the Amazon API and are refreshed daily.
- bauer 12y agoReally neat tool. I would like more granularity in the screen size selector. Perhaps in half inch increments? +1 for radio capabilities.
- hmottestad 12y agoTurn up the storage to 128 GB and come to the realisation that android users are expected to use memory cards if they want to store all their videos/photos/music.
- kej 12y agoThat's if their phone has an SD card, of course. Lots of Android devices assume you'll use some kind of cloud storage for anything you can't fit in the phone's internal memory.
- daigoba66 12y agoTurn it up to just 32 GB, and it is just as stark.
- aw3c2 12y agoNo, sadly you are supposed to upload all your (private) media to cloud services so others can benefit from them as well.
- SyncTheory13 12y agoThe OnePlus One is $349 for the 64 GB model right now. $299 for 16 GB. I was just on their website regretting my Moto X (2014) purchase. Edit: I should mention that I love my Moto X, especially with Android L - But the OnePlus One comes with Cyanogen, +1 GB of RAM, double the storage, much bigger battery, probably a better back camera, seemingly better screen/microphones, definitely better front camera... For almost $100 less. Ouch.
- dice 12y agoNo Nexus 6?
- no_gravity 12y agoAdded it!
- jgpeak 12y agoNope your still missing the 64GB Variation.. You only show apple and oneplus at 64GB memory..
- no_gravity 12y agoI added the Nexus 6 with 64 GB 5 minutes before your message. Either you tried before, or it's a cache issue. Try reloading real hard!
- viggity 12y agoLooks nice. Might I recommend that you look into adding easing to your animations. It looks like you're using simple linear interpolation to move the points from place to place. If you use cubic easing they'll accelerate then decelerate, it looks a lot more natural that way. Linear interpolation looks robotic. See this for more details: http://api.jqueryui.com/easings/ http://api.jqueryui.com/easings/ (specifically easeInOutCubic) Other than that, very cool. Where do you get your data from?
- mholt 12y agoWow, this is really cool. But I wish we'd stop saying "memory" when we mean "storage" ... seeing "Memory" and "RAM" next to each other is a bit confusing, since they're the same thing.
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- gknoy 12y agoWould you consider adding one's selection filters to the navigation hash, so that I can reload the page (or follow a link and come back) without having to re-do all of my filtering selections?
- no_gravity 12y agoDefinitely. Im a bit undecided yet, if its better to do it in the querystring or in in the hash and if its better to use the parameters like ?min_ram=4&min_resolution=100&max_weight=6... or have save-button and make querystrings/hashes like ?preset=384 Decisions, decisions....
- toupeira 12y agoQuery strings should be more reliable, hashes can be lost for example when using an URL shortener. Also URLs should generally be kept to under ~2000 characters, so depending on how many filters you have you might want to take the preset approach.
- aselzer 12y agoSomething seems wrong with the price of the Nexus 6. It doesn't cost $1150. It is at 600€ on Amazon.de, which is about 740 USD. This seems like someone is trying to resell the phone at profit while supply is low. The phone is justifiably getting bad reviews at this price, but Google and Motorola would probably not like this. Why is this possible on Amazon?
- pinky07 12y agoSame for Nexus 5, it's 432$ (345€) on Google (belgium) but it's $650 in the graph.
- no_gravity 12y agoI keep the prices in sync with Amazon. If the phone is not available from Amazon directly - as is the case for the Nexus 5 - I resort to the list price. I could resort to the lowest price from the Amazon marketplace but I have to check first if that makes sense in all cases.
- Zak 12y agoWhere is the list price of a 32gb Nexus 5 $649? The price on Google Play is listed at $399, and has been since the phone was launched over a year ago.
- digerata 12y agoThis is such a great way to contrasting my younger self with my older self. My younger self want's to adjust all those sliders. My older self adjusted the screen DPI to 300 DPI, (where I can't see the pixels) and moved the weight slider from lighter to heavier until a phone showed up. And all that showed was the iPhone. I could care less about RAM, Sims, SD cards, memory, etc now. These aren't indicative of the experience. My younger self would have loved hunting down the right fit phone from the Android market. My older self? Nah. I'll go take some photos of my kids instead.
- Qiasfah 12y agoCan you add the 2014 Moto X? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_X_%282nd_generation%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_X_%282nd_generation%29
- no_gravity 12y agoI think it's in there. Do you mean this one? http://things.gnod.com/smartphones/4155 http://things.gnod.com/smartphones/4155
- Qiasfah 12y agoThat's the lower cost Moto G, not the 2014 Moto X
- no_gravity 12y agoSorry, added it now! http://things.gnod.com/smartphones/4836 http://things.gnod.com/smartphones/4836
- bjf 12y agoDoes the motorola RAZR V3 really cost $300? Also, it certainly isn't a smartphone. Other than that I really like this chart.
- sliverstorm 12y agoSome kind of age metric is often useful in a selector. For example, when was the phone first available on Amazon. Or what OS does it run. In a fast-moving market like phones, age is a dealbreaker. You might find just the right size, memory, price... but come to find out it is stuck at Android 2.3.
- andysinclair 12y agoWell done, this is very cool! Where do you get your data from? I would like to use the data in a different type of visualization.
- MichaelGG 12y agoBattery - that's the killer feature. I got the Huawei Mate 2, which is a cheap plastic build with a near-useless ROM (tons of anti-features), no upgrades (well now they claim Lollipop sometime next year), no open source for Cyanogen. But the 4AH battery cannot be beat. I never worry about charging. If I'm tired when I go to bed, I just let my phone fall wherever. The only time it discharged was when I didn't charge it two nights in a row. That kind of freedom of not constantly dealing with power, it's pretty great. Meanwhile, every other phone manufacturer focuses on getting through the day without charging, as if that's some amazing piece of usability. It also shows how easy it is to make a fantastic phone. Put some parts together, and ship it. Huawei would have a top-class phone if they hadn't run their crap version of Android. And offer a separate model if you want a non-junk camera.
- Qantourisc 12y agoMy old non-smart-phones lasted at least a week. I miss those days.
- stevekemp 12y agoI missed them so much I sold my Android phone and went back to an old-school nokia. These days I charge my phone once a week, or less, and I miss features far less than I expected to.
- chinpokomon 12y agoIt would be interesting to be able to chart the results with different axis constraints. Maybe graphing a processor index vs. price. It could be useful for scaling if you could set the search filters from the chart, so maybe you could "zoom" into a cluster and then pivot to other constraints. edit: I suggested customisable axes, but I was on mobile at the time and didn't see that capability. Still, there may still be something to adjusting the scaling to zoom, so I'll leave this comment here and suggest that on mobile the feature should be more discoverable.
- oneeyedpigeon 12y agoI was just about to suggest customisable axes as a killer feature ... then went and discovered them myself :) This is a fantastic interface.
- vtlynch 12y agoHi! I was wondering is this a custom built solution? We could use this exact framework for internal reference for our products.
- no_gravity 12y agoYes, it's custom built. Started it March this year. This is the latest iteration. If you like, tell me more about your usecase via email or irc.
- yitchelle 12y agoIt has a great visual look, but I got really confuse when I start to adjust the filters on the left hand side. The phones icons started to jump to different spots on graph that does not seem to change. Let me give you an example, as I changed the filter of the RAM from 1GB to 2GB, the icon Samsung Galaxy S5 G900F 4G LTE 16GB jumped over the icon for Samsung Galaxy S5 G900FD DUOS 4G LTE even though their specs exactly the same. When I saw that, I concluded that their screen sizes changed due to memory configuration as the x-axis of the graph is screen size. Yeah, I know it is a bad conclusion, but that what the graph says.
- touristtam 12y agocool demo, but lacking xiaomi ?
- uberneo 12y agoit looks really cool . do you mind shedding more light on what all stuff you are using .. frontend and backend ..
- no_gravity 12y agoSure. On the backend it's all custom code on top of a Linux, Apache, Mysql, Php stack. Frontend is all custom code with some light usage of jquery.