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I 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

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Would be great to also have radio capabilities (ie 3g,4g, lte, etc.) as a filter.

Looks awesome!

Some 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.

Removable battery would be another good filtering option.

Physical keyboard. I only buy phones with physical keyboards. ...Hm, I haven't bought a phone in a while.

It 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.

Both of you should look at the Neo900:

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).

Another suggestion: OS upgrades. The best feature of the google branded or owned android lines is that the get unencumbered OS upgrades.

My 2013 Moto X still hasn't gotten the Lollipop upgrade so idk if thats true... On second read I guess you didn't say "timely" upgrades

Lame! No, I definitely thought the Moto series was one of the "good ones" getting timely updates, so I'm bummed to hear that. Is the Nexus series literally the only one that wins points in this category?

Apparently! I was extremely disappointed, got this "unlocked international" phone but it's an AT&T version that has a locked bootloader, I was incredibly blown because I can't even mess around with the internals. I think the Nexus models and the newest Moto phones are the only ones with L so far. Grr...

One 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)

Thanks! 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.

Would you be willing to share how money this kind of site generates? I always fancied making one myself but the competition seems hard.

Sure! Shoot me an email or meet me at #startups. I love discussing technology and entrepreneurship with like-minded people.

Nice 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.

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