How AllMobileSpecs lists phone specifications

AllMobileSpecs is a reference site. We do not sell phones, take orders, run a marketplace, or earn a commission when you buy something. Each public phone page combines a specification table with an original overview written for this site. This page explains how those are put together, because a reference is only useful if you know what its conventions mean.

One layout for every brand

We group hardware the same way on every model: network, launch, body, display, platform, memory, camera, sound, comms, battery, and features. Every phone gets the same eleven groups in the same order, whether it is a $200 mid-ranger or a $1,300 foldable.

This is a deliberate constraint and it costs us something. Manufacturers each have a preferred way of presenting their phones, usually one that flatters whatever they did best that year. Apple leads with silicon and ecosystem; Xiaomi leads with charging wattage; Motorola leads with the folding mechanism. If we reproduced each manufacturer's framing we would be reproducing their marketing, and comparing two phones would mean mentally translating between two layouts.

The fixed layout means you can open a Pixel page and an iPhone page in two tabs and read straight down. The battery row is in the same place. The charging row is under it. If a phone has no telephoto camera, the camera row simply does not list one, and the absence is visible in the same position every time.

What we do not copy

We do not scrape other specification websites. Copying another publisher's table or review would violate their copyright, and it would also fail the basic test that a page should contain something you cannot get elsewhere.

There is a real distinction here worth stating plainly. Manufacturer-stated facts — screen size, battery capacity in mAh, chipset name, announced storage tiers — are facts, and facts are not owned by whoever published them first. We re-enter them in our own format. The sentences around those facts, the judgements about what they mean in practice, and the decisions about which trade-offs to flag are ours, written for this site.

Blank fields are deliberate

If we do not have a verified figure for a field, we leave it blank. We do not estimate, we do not carry a number over from a similar model, and we do not fill a gap with a manufacturer's marketing phrase.

A blank field is more honest than a guess, and it is more useful too. If our charging row says nothing, you know to go and check rather than trusting a number we invented. The Apple pages are the clearest example: Apple does not publish a headline wired charging wattage the way Android manufacturers do, so our iPhone charging rows describe the wireless figures Apple does publish and stay vague about the wired one. We would rather look incomplete than be confidently wrong.

Prices are indicative, not offers

Prices are stored in US dollars and can be converted into other currencies using the menu in the header. Both halves of that need caveats.

The USD figure is a launch-era reference price. It exists so you can see that one phone launched at roughly $1,300 and another at roughly $800. It is not a live price, not a price we have checked today, and not an offer. Street prices on Android flagships in particular fall substantially within a few months of release, and carrier trade-in arrangements distort them further.

The conversion is arithmetic on a rate stored in our database, maintained by hand. It is not a live foreign-exchange feed, and it does not include local taxes, import duties, or regional pricing decisions — manufacturers routinely price the same phone very differently between countries for reasons that have nothing to do with exchange rates. Treat the converted figure as an order-of-magnitude orientation.

About the images

Product photos on early pages may be illustrative rather than official product photography. They are there to help you recognise a device, and each page says so directly beneath the gallery. We are not trying to impersonate a manufacturer's store, and we are replacing illustrative images with better ones as the catalog matures.

What we are not

We do not run our own laboratory. We have not drop-tested a foldable, measured a screen's peak brightness, or timed a charge from empty with our own equipment. When we say a phone charges at 100 W, we are reporting a manufacturer's advertised peak under their conditions, not a result we measured.

We also do not have access to unreleased products, we are not affiliated with any manufacturer on this site, and no brand pays for placement or a favourable write-up. Where we recommend against a phone — and we do — that is our own judgement about who the phone suits.

How pages change over time

Specification pages are not static. Manufacturers add storage tiers, regional variants appear, and occasionally an announced figure turns out to differ from the shipping product. When we update a page we change the figure rather than annotating the history, because a specification table cluttered with revision notes is harder to read than one that is simply correct today.

The exception is our explainer pages, which carry a different standard. Those are arguments rather than data, and where we have changed our view we would rather say so.

Why there are no scores

We do not give phones a rating out of ten. A single score compresses a set of trade-offs into one number and hides the only thing that matters, which is which trade-offs suit you. A phone that is wrong for one reader is the obvious choice for another, and no score expresses that.

Instead every phone page has a 'who it is for' section that states plainly who should consider it and who should look elsewhere. That is a more useful output than a number, and it is harder to game.

If you find an error on a page, the contact form is the fastest way to reach us. Corrections to factual specifications are the kind of message we most want to receive.