Similar Phone Finder
Consumer and social
phone comparison
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Similar Phone Finder
The values that go into the formula are normalized, but not weighted.
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How HN took it
2 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.28.
Execution: 0 for, 6 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea and clean design
From 2 comments
Good idea. However, I was expecting that a Xperia Z1 Compact would be compared with an Xperia Z3 Compact, or at least between similar phones. It is twice the price and twice the…
odabaxok on HNI 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?
daddykotex on HN
Useful for finding phones by specs
From 2 comments
Cool app!, any chance you could share the dataset?.
mxmpawn on HNPretty 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…
k2enemy on HN
Objections
Unweighted normalization treats all specs equally
From 2 comments
Your euclidean distance formula is kind of wrong (at least on the site). The units of each term are incompatible so cannot be added together directly, they all should be…
leni536 on HNThe values that go into the formula are normalized, but not weighted. So a similar screen size is "worth" as much as a similar weight. If you find examples, where weighted…
no_gravity on HN
Name matching is poor, e.g. HTC M8 and M9 alternatives
From 2 comments
The name recognition could work better. For "HTC M8" it said it had no results. For "M8" it asked me "which M8?", but had only one option. Also - really? The alternative to HTC…
gambiting on HNIf I type my phone "Galaxy Note 4", I get it compared to the "Galaxy Note4" (missing space), which has different battery/screen/weight specs.…
nolok on HN
Results include old phones and odd matches like Galaxy S6 to Droid Turbo
From 2 comments
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…
k2enemy on HNthis 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.…
lnlyplnt on HN
Spec comparison misses overall quality
From 2 comments
Comparing specs doesn't give the whole picture though - http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/similar_to_4714 I assure you, the Lumia 925 is more high end than the Moto G.
manojlds on HNthis 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.…
lnlyplnt on HN
Requests
Filter by price, OS and platform
From 2 comments
This looks good. What I was expecting though was a low price phone which match the specs on my phone. I know those phones are out there, but I would like to sort by price (so…
vbcr on HNI would love to be able to filter by platform (e.g. exclude iOS and Windows Phone)
column on HN
Restrict results to current phones
From 1 comment
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…
k2enemy on HN
Add physical dimensions and subjective measures
From 2 comments
What about the physical dimensions of the devices?
NDizzle on HNthis 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.…
lnlyplnt on HN
Share the dataset
From 1 comment
Cool app!, any chance you could share the dataset?.
mxmpawn on HN
Questions
Where do the prices come from?
From 1 comment
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?
daddykotex on HN