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Great! One thing, and I don't know how you'd necessarily resolve this, but specifications aren't the be-all and end-all of buying a gadget: a lot of it is taking the time to read reviews on build quality, issues like drivers and overheating, etc. It'd be great to see a way of incorporating that - even initially something as simple as adding Amazon ratings to each item.


It's true, that besides specs one usually will wants to take into account opinions. At the moment, the site is more about giving you an overview of what is available then to help you with the final decision. Because that is what I feel is missing on the market. There already are a lot of review and rating sites out there.

If I come up with an interesting idea for ratings or opinions, I will add it to the site.


I think narrowing down based on the specs you want is great. Then you can go more in depth when you have a sample of which ones you want.


This. I suspect that far fewer people buy phones/laptops/gadgets based purely on specs and price, which is all that's on display here. For pure commodities this makes total sense (the SSD and flash drives charts are awesome), but consumer gadgets are much harder to differentiate in such a rigidly quantifiable way.




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