About The Phone Shelf

The Phone Shelf is a small independent site about smartphones sold in the United States. It exists to answer the questions people ask before they spend several hundred dollars on a phone: which models fit a budget, how long each one will keep getting security updates, what the battery and cameras look like on paper, and whether a phone will work on their carrier.

What we do

We compare phones by what can be checked. Every page is built from the manufacturer's published specifications and support policies, prices from the manufacturer's own US store, and the carriers' own device lists. Every page ends with a list of the sources its figures come from, so you can check them yourself.

We write four kinds of pages: overviews of a single phone, shortlists for a budget or a need, comparisons of two or three phones side by side, and guides to the practical side of owning a phone in the US.

What we don't do

• We don't pretend to have tested a phone. Unless a page describes exactly what we did with a device, it is a comparison of published data, and it says so.
• We don't receive free phones or payments from manufacturers, carriers or retailers.
• We don't sell anything. Links to Amazon are plain links with no affiliate tag: we earn nothing if you buy.

Who runs it

The Phone Shelf was founded by Yuriy Andreyev, who edits the site and is responsible for everything it publishes.

Corrections

Specifications get revised, prices change and update policies get extended. If you spot something wrong or out of date, send us a message. When a correction changes a page, the page shows the date it was updated.