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MSRP

It'd be great to add a column for price comparison (if any can find sources for manufacturers suggested retail prices. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.159.70.109 (talk) 15:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why no Nokia E90 on hardware and OS comparison?

Why no Nokia E90 on hardware and OS comparison? It was there previously. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.207.47.60 (talk) 19:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done.—IncidentFlux ^{[ TalkBack | Contributions ]} 10:49, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

IPHONE Processor=

If you do google for IPhone processor, most sites claim 620Mhz processor. The Wikipedia article has it 400~ ... The source linked by Wikipedia doesn't say anything about the processor. Anyone has a definitive source? 65.26.88.58 (talk)

iphone has two processors - one for the phone/modem, and one for the osx/screen. This article really needs to be cleaned up though. ARM develops the core but does no manufacturing. The iphones are all made with broadcom chips. Almost all the other chips listed are ARM licenced cores too, and alot of research needs to be done to make this article at all useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.169.146 (talk) 00:22, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blackberry Storm

This phone isn't in the 2nd list of connections/networks. Notable because it doesn't have wi-fi which can be a dealbreaker for some.74.94.45.113 (talk) 18:07, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Battery Life?

What about battery life? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:08, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a great idea. Don't know who's prepared to do the research necessary to fill in all those empty cells that will result in a table with an added field for battery life, though. Susurrus (talk) 09:13, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is not under the Network and Connectivity?

Nokia 5800XM is on the hardware and OS comparison tables but not on the Network and Connectivity. Can someone add the device on the table. Killerserv ^Talk

Green color (best in column)

Who decided that the PowerVR SGX GPU was the best? That a 3.5" 960x640 screen is better than a 4" 800x480? And above all, that the iPhone 4 is the best smartphone out there? First a lot of information is missing (many new smartphones aren't included, some of which include a 8MP camera, a faster CPU, and a faster GPU), and second, this is really arbitrary and unreferenced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.203.94.222 (talk) 20:51, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Because not only does it have more pixels, it's even sharper!, duh.

And in both dimensions! Your other article concerns should be addressed, though. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 21:07, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is still your opinion, it does not belong to an encyclopedia. You could get a 1 inch 961x641 display and say the same thing : it has more pixels and it would be "sharper". Such a display would be a lot less usefull than a 4" 800x480. If you made a column only about resolution, and an other one about display size, I would understand. But the column is about the display. There are many factors to consider (resolution, size, brightness, contrast, etc.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.203.94.222 (talk) 16:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest to omit the green colored rectangles. Leave them all the same colors. For example, it is highly debatable whether a faster CPU is better because using more energy. I heard that there are smartphone that have their battery empty at 3 pm ! Andries (talk) 20:59, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I think that this article has no future because there are too many smartphones: there is no article comparisons of cars and there should be no one because there are too many and too diverse over a too long period of time. I understand that this article just survived AFD, so let us at least organize it e.g. per launch year. I can add nearly all List_of_Symbian_devices. Andries (talk) 20:59, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing "just" about six keeps to three deletes. Susurrus (talk) 05:21, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Organizing by ram

So, wikipedia has this neat little button above each column in these comparisons (looks like an hour glass) that allows organizing by what you're interested in looking at. If you choose ram, the top one is 700+ ram, then the next ones are in the 60's, then 512, 300+ and so on. This is because 6 follows 7, not because 60 is closer to 700 than 500 is. My solution to this is to write 064 MB meaning 64 MB, so the organizing button actually works. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.187.99.79 (talk) 16:37, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Which is why Wikipedia has the {{nts}} and {{ntsh}} templates — to make numerical values sortable. I've just added them to the table for the clock speed (MHz), RAM and storage (MiB), size (cc), weight (g), display (diagonal pixels), and camera (megapickels). I had to reformat some entries e.g to always have the clock speed at the start. It took a while and I hope I didn't miss any. --Imroy (talk) 21:04, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good work. Seems to function fine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.187.99.79 (talk) 04:25, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nexus One and S names

Should the Nexus' be under Google or under their manufacturer's, HTC and Samsung? What do you think? Esebi95 (talk) 07:35, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

modern blackberries?

Like all the blackberries mentioned are from like 2006.

Can we have something from 2011? Like the torch and stuff with 3G and stuff?72.174.31.77 (talk) 11:08, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's a more generic problem of what to include and not include, when to update and what to remove. I can't really guess the current concensus. But yeah it's a free wiki. If you miss something, just go ahead and add it. --Yamavu (talk) 09:56, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Should this phone be added? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobthbee (talk • contribs) 13:51, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket

The Skyrocket version of the Galaxy S II Android Smartphone has a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, and should be listed separate of the Galaxy S II as such. 71.87.114.59 (talk) 23:50, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

add release date to tables

What about adding a release date to tables so we can sort out the latest phones to quickly compare spec between brands. 121.222.26.2 (talk) 06:37, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Add screen height and width and explicitly indicate diagonal measurements

(Note: This section is essentially identical to one I added on Talk:iPhone.)

Historically, TV screen size was a single number reflecting the diameter of the round cathode ray tube. (Try a Google image search for: old round tv.) The actual diagonal screen size of the rectangular view was a bit smaller, but still meaningful, because all screens had the same aspect ratio of 4:3.

With the coming of wide-screen TVs, manufacturers continued to use a diagonal measurement -- because it impressed buyers. A 16:9 TV with the same screen area as a 4:3 TV had a greater diagonal size, so it seemed bigger to the casual buyer. And in many cases, manufacturers of LCD screens specified a diagonal measurement that was quite a bit bigger than the actual diagonal screen size, even though this makes no sense for LCD screens, again counting on buyers to not notice the discrepancy.

Manufacturers of computer monitors also liked the diagonal measurement for the same reasons. Go from a 4:3 screen to a 16:10 screen to a 16:9 screen, and for the same screen area, the diagonal measurement keeps getting bigger and buyers continue to get more impressed.

Something similar is now happening with smartphones, as screens get more elongated.

Let's provide more useful facts. While a diagonal screen measurement should still be included, more important than that are screen height, screen width, and screen area. These should be included.

The diagonal measurement should be clearly indicated as such.

Rahul (talk) 22:36, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Page is getting unwieldy

This page is getting unwieldy. I suggest we add chapter markers for each production year. Comments? Norrk (talk) 16:30, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. Or may be even split the article per year e.g. Comparison of 2011 smartphones, Comparison of 2012 smartphones. I think a new smartphone is released every week nowadays. Andries (talk) 22:10, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've organised the page by Year of Release. Makes the page a little more usable. JonEastham (talk) 11:30, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great work! Unfortunately, the page is still very wide, which makes it difficult to use on smaller screens. I suggest we use less columns and move the data around. Here's my suggestion, getting it down from 14 to 8: Model, Display, Size and Weight, Storage, Camera, OS, CPU, Other (Add UI to OS, move Keyboard to Other if not soft keyboard, move GPU to Display or Other, move Charger type to Other, move RAM to CPU, reordered things for ordinary users.) Comments? Norrk (talk) 22:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the Charger Column and also moved UI and GPU (before 2008/2009 respectively) into Other to compact it a bit. JonEastham (talk) 13:21, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Network and connectivity table

Is kind of disorganized. The columns are in a random order, (alphabetically?) so for instance, the GPS reciever column is between two different data radio encoding techniques... Likewise, more phones have an FM radio than DVB-H, yet the former has a note and the later has a column. Is there an easy way to edit that table as a spreadsheet instead of hand doing it? 66.193.45.162 (talk) 02:18, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Should the page be removed??/

Should this page be removed as with the current rate of smartphone production it seems this is akin to keeping a comparison of every desktop computer ever made. Perhaps a page comparing Smartphone platforms is a better choice? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.61.159.44 (talk) 14:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we could split it up by era and trim it down to the major smartphone models. Sort of like how we handle consoles for the history of video games. -- Gordon Ecker, WikiSloth (talk) 12:06, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep in mind this is a smartphone comparison page. While the page is unwieldy, rearranging it would be against the purpose this page tries to serve. We could limit what smartphones are on this list to flagship devices, or only to major players in the industry, but I don't think these solutions would change much, or be wise. Something like the history of video games page goes into too much detail to also provide an accurate comparison between the separate devices. MonsieurPoulet (talk) 21:18, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

BQ aquaris-e-4-5 and other Linux Smartphones

The table seems to totally ignore Ubuntu based models ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.127.209.195 (talk) 21:50, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Consistent Table Headers: Missing "Removable Storage"

2013 and older tables don't have a column for "Removable Storage" unlike the more recent tables. Some devices have an awkward note on microSD, but most seem to leave the lack of additional storage as implied absent even if the model definitely has a microSD card slot (e.g. the 2011 Motorola Droid RAZR and Bionic). 2602:306:BCF4:E180:B16B:4FE:E8BF:3D0A (talk) 21:30, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Headings different, on purpose or inconsistent?

Why are the headings of 2015, 2014, 2013 different? Is it done on purpose or is it by mistake? Why is there an Other category? Most of them list connectivity options, might be better to rename it?

Maybe the headings need reorganizing? Some ideas: listing the most important aspects first and/or listing related aspects (SOC, CPU, GPU, RAM) after each other?

2015 Model - SoC - CPU - GPU - Storage capacity - Removable storage - RAM - OS - UI - Size - Weight - Battery - Display - Camera

'missing': Keyboard, Other

2014 Model - CPU - Storage capacity - Removable storage - RAM - OS - UI - Size - Weight - Battery - Display - Keyboard - Camera - Other - GPU

'missing': SOC

2013 Model - CPU - Storage capacity - RAM - OS - UI - Size - Weight - Display - Keyboard - Camera - Other - GPU

'missing': SOC, Battery, Removable storage

My preference would be: Model - <OS related> <storage> <external characteristics> <SOC and misc. hardware>

Model <OS - UI> <Storage/Removable storage> <Size - Display - Camera - Weight ><SOC - CPU - GPU - RAM - Connectivity - Battery>

Reasoning behind this: Biggest contributor to the user experience is the OS (Android, iOS, Windows or misc.) with may devices having multiple versions with different storage capacity (eg. Iphone 6 16GB 64GB 128GB), then the external characteristics and then the internal aspects. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VictordeHollander (talk • contribs) 13:39, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nexus 5X RAM type

As Nexus 5X uses Snapdragon 808 SoC with LPPDR3, I believe the article must be edited to reflect that. It erroneously lists LPDDR4. ^[1] ^[2] Nikchosh (talk) 23:42, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Can we just merge some things?

I was wondering can we just merge the same properties for the sake of simplicity? eg: iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X all have the same processors (A11 Bionic) so we should just merge them? Itsquietuptown (talk) 14:18, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-smartphones on page

The LG Prada and Motorola Rokr E1 are not smartphones, and stand out badly on a "Comparison of smartphones" page. I nominate them as candidates for deletion. Lun Esex (talk) 09:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Both have been deleted Syntaxlord (talk) 01:01, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

replaceable/removable battery

It would be great, if the list would mention, whether the batteries are removable, which is at least for me a crucial buy criterion (I am stuck with a Samsung Galaxy S5 since years). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paneologist (talk • contribs) 19:17, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well...It seems that many smartphones nowadays can't remove the battery ? -30000lightyears (talk) 13:31, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's what makes this categorization interesting. - Paneologist (talk) 16:06, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

iPhone 12 series needs correction

Hi guys, the iPhone 12 series on the table is not right, it's too complicated for me to fix it, can anyone help please? Westmother (talk) 02:39, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qualcomm_Snapdragon_devices#Snapdragon_808

[2] ttp://www.devicespecifications.com/en/model/d23f3709

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