Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

#1

Post by no_gravity » Wed, May 06, 2015, 12:30 PM UTC

Show HN: Similar Phone Finder
productchart.com

Re: Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

#2

Post by no_gravity » Wed, May 06, 2015, 12:37 PM UTC

This is a new experiment I added to Product Chart today: You type in the name of your phone and Product Chart will calculate the euclidean distance over all parameters to all other phones. And then show the "closest" other phone.

Re: Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

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Post by daddykotex » Wed, May 06, 2015, 1:14 PM UTC

I like the design. It's the first time I land on this website. Good idea.

Where are the price pulled from? I guess they are US prices?

Re: Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

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Post by dannyrosen » Wed, May 06, 2015, 1:15 PM UTC

Very cool. Would be interesting to gain insight into how many ROMs are available for each device, as well as if there's an official Cyanogenmod release.

Re: Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

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Post by k2enemy » Wed, May 06, 2015, 1:16 PM UTC

Pretty cool. It would be nice to be able to restrict the results to only current phones. For example, I will upgrade this summer and wanted to find a phone similar in size and weight to my current phone, but most of the results were for old phones.

Re: Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

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Post by nolok » Wed, May 06, 2015, 1:24 PM UTC

If I type my phone "Galaxy Note 4", I get it compared to the "Galaxy Note4" (missing space), which has different battery/screen/weight specs.

http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/similar_to_4245

Re: Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

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Post by no_gravity » Wed, May 06, 2015, 1:48 PM UTC

daddykotex wrote: post #3

I like the design. It's the first time I land on this website. Good idea. Where are the price pulled from? I guess they are US prices?

Yes, they are synced with amazon.com

Re: Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

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Post by 1123581321 » Wed, May 06, 2015, 1:49 PM UTC

This doesn't do what I want, which is to enter iPhone 4S and find something faster with good battery that has a similar form factor.

Re: Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

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Post by lnlyplnt » Wed, May 06, 2015, 1:50 PM UTC

this would be more useful if it had some subjective measures as well like "build quality" Galaxy s6 comes up as most similar to the droid turbo which seems fairly off base to me. CPU chipset generations would also be helpful to prevent this type of result

Re: Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

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Post by column » Wed, May 06, 2015, 2:00 PM UTC

I would love to be able to filter by platform (e.g. exclude iOS and Windows Phone)