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What we shipped.

The user-visible work behind every Specdex release. Internal refactors, dependency bumps, and build-infrastructure changes don't appear here — only the things you'd notice. Updated the day we ship.

  1. Fix
    Latest

    Wave 6 — fabrication-hunt audit: 5 fakes deleted, 4 mis-named entries fixed, 2 spec lies corrected

    • → Four parallel audit agents scanned every entry in the catalog against the manufacturer's current lineup. Findings, all fixed:
    • → Deleted: Sony BRAVIA 9 (2025) — phantom-year SKU that doesn't ship (real BRAVIA 9 is the 2024 model). Repeated the "4000 nits" claim caught in an earlier round.
    • → Deleted: Sony BRAVIA 9 Mini-LED (2024) variant entry — duplicate of the real BRAVIA 9 with wrong "X1 Ultimate" processor (actual chip is Cognitive Processor XR).
    • → Deleted: Dell UltraSharp U3225QE 6K variant — fabricated 6K SKU. Dell's real U3225QE is 32″ 4K; the 6K variant doesn't exist (the 6K Dell is the U3224KBA, different model).
    • → Deleted: Sony WF-1000XM6 — doesn't ship. Sony's current flagship true-wireless ANC bud is the WF-1000XM5.
    • → Deleted: OnePlus Pad 3 — doesn't exist. OnePlus's current tablet line is Pad 2 / Pad 2 Pro.
    • → Renamed: "Pixel Watch 4 XL" → "Pixel Watch 4 (45mm)". Google ships 41 mm and 45 mm size variants; no XL SKU.
    • → Renamed: "Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 Ultra" → "Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra". Samsung ships two parallel lines; the watches were never combined.
    • → Renamed: "Beats Fit Pro (2nd Gen)" → "Powerbeats Fit". Beats's actual 2025 successor is Powerbeats Fit, not a Fit Pro 2.
    • → Renamed: "Google Pixel Fold 2" → "Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold". Google rebranded the foldable line into the Pixel 9 family.
    • → Corrected: Samsung S95F OLED peak brightness from "4000 nits" to ~2,100 nits (RTINGS measured). Same pattern as the BRAVIA 9 / LG G4 over-claims fixed earlier.
    • → Corrected: Samsung The Premiere 9 refresh rate from "4K @ 120 Hz" to 4K @ 60 Hz (Samsung's official spec). No consumer UST tri-laser projector currently ships native 4K 120 Hz.
    • → Corrected: Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro release date from 2025-07-25 to 2026-03-11 (actual ship date).
    • → Added 301 redirects for all 9 changed slugs so any external backlinks or cached search-engine entries land on the corrected real products.
    • → The other 3 audit agents (compute, peripherals, network/storage) returned all-clear — 172 entries scanned across GPUs, CPUs, motherboards, RAM, PSUs, coolers, cases, cameras, lenses, drones, routers, NAS, SSDs, keyboards, mice, consoles, VR headsets, printers, smart-home with zero fabrications.
  2. Data

    Verified-products ledger expanded to 61 across 13 brands

    • → Verified-product set is now 61 (up from 18 in the prior wave). Each carries a visible "Verified against [Brand]" badge on its review page and a schema.org Review.citation pointing to the manufacturer's own spec page — Apple, Samsung, Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Valve, ASUS, Lenovo, LG, Bose, Logitech, Razer, Wooting, Western Digital, Crucial, Synology, TP-Link, Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, DJI, GoPro, Insta360, OnePlus, Glorious, Pulsar.
    • → Added 5 high-traffic flagship reviews that were missing from the catalog: Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, Pixel 10 (base), Radeon RX 9060 XT, AirPods Max 2.
    • → Caught and corrected more spec fabrications in this wave: Apple M5 entry no longer claims "50 TOPS NPU" (Apple has not published a TOPS figure); DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro sensor corrected from "12 MP" to 40 MP per DJI's spec page; Insta360 X4 single-lens video corrected from "4K 100p" to 4K 60p; Sony BRAVIA 9 peak brightness corrected from "4000 nits" to ~2,800 nits (measured); LG G4 OLED peak corrected from "3000+ nits" to ~2,400; BRAVIA 8 II processor corrected from "X1 Ultimate" to Cognitive Processor XR; Bose QC Ultra codec list corrected to remove LDAC (which it does not support).
    • → Added /verified to the site footer so every page links to the provenance ledger. Sitewide trust signal.
    • → Note: this wave deliberately stops here. Catalog stability for 5–7 days helps Googlebot recrawl the corrected content and verified-source citations. More verifications resume on a slower cadence after that.
  3. Fix

    Corrections — fabricated entries removed, methodology rewritten

    • → Removed GeForce RTX 5090 Super from the catalog. The product was never announced by NVIDIA — it was an editorial extrapolation from the historical "Super refresh" pattern, and that's exactly the kind of thing that doesn't belong on a comparison site. Apologies to anyone we misled.
    • → Removed Galaxy S26 Ultra. Samsung's lineup page lists S26 Ultra as a future-state placeholder; the current shipping flagship is the Galaxy S25 Ultra.
    • → Renamed "iPhone 17 Air" entries to "iPhone Air" to match Apple's actual branding. Specs were also re-checked against apple.com — corrected the chip name (A19 Pro, not A19), display size (6.5″, not 6.6″), and thickness (5.64 mm, not 5.4 mm). Removed RAM and battery-mAh fields where Apple does not publish them.
    • → Re-verified iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 against Apple's official spec pages. Corrected charging wattages (40W adapter / 25W MagSafe — earlier numbers were wrong) and weights (e.g. iPhone 17 Pro Max is 233 g, not 232 g).
    • → Rewrote the methodology page. Earlier copy implied an in-house benchmark lab with Calman, B&K, and Keysight test gear. We don't own that hardware. Specdex is an editorial layer over publicly available specs and reviews; the page now says so plainly.
    • → Added "Manufacturer-sourced where verifiable" and "Editorial · Specdex score" badges on every review page so readers can tell at a glance which fields come from a manufacturer spec sheet vs which are our own assessment.
    • → Cleaned 35 affected rows from the production D1 catalog (variants of the three removed/renamed slugs). Audit of the remaining ~380 products is ongoing — corrections welcome.
  4. Data

    Catalog round 5 + enriched review pages

    • → Added 27 more products across monitors, keyboards, mice, motherboards, RAM, microphones, webcams, projectors, e-readers, NAS, drones and lenses — total catalog now 232 curated products on top of the 47K-row D1 catalog.
    • → New "Specdex verdict" pull-quote at the top of every review — Speakable-tagged so voice assistants read it back as a one-sentence answer.
    • → New "Configurations" + "In the box" cards on review pages.
    • → New "Print / PDF" button on reviews — clean editorial output via the print stylesheet.
  5. Feature

    Programmatic best-of + spec heatmap

    • → /compare/* spec table now diff-highlights the winning side with a heatmap bar showing relative magnitudes (e.g. 12 GB vs 16 GB RAM).
    • → "Hide identical rows" toggle on /compare with persistent preference.
    • → Reading-progress bar on review and guide pages.
    • → Public catalog endpoint at /api/products.json with pagination, brand and category filters.
  6. Feature

    Compare drawer, favorites, recently-viewed

    • → Add to Compare buttons on every product card; floating compare drawer aggregates picks across pages.
    • → New /favorites page backed by LocalStorage (no account, no cloud).
    • → "Recently viewed" strip on /compare and /search empty state.
    • → Cmd/Ctrl+K shortcut focuses the search input from anywhere.
  7. Feature

    AI-friendly content + glossary expansion

    • → Glossary expanded to 55 terms with first-mention auto-linking on review summaries and guide bodies.
    • → HowTo + Speakable + Article schema on /guides/*; SearchResultsPage on /search.
    • → /feed.json (JSON Feed 1.1) alongside RSS, plus per-category /rss/{plural}.xml feeds.
    • → OpenSearch description for browser address-bar search.
  8. Feature

    Search + comparison overhaul

    • → Built CompareSearch component — name + brand search, category-locked second input, full keyboard nav.
    • → /search rebuilt with autocomplete, category filter chips, sort options.
    • → Per-product OG cards now embed the product photo.
    • → Self-hosted Three.js (was on jsdelivr) — 32% wire-size reduction with tree-shaking.
  9. Feature

    Initial launch

    • → Specdex goes live with 171 hand-curated reviews + 47K D1 catalog.
    • → Schema.org Product/Review/Article/FAQ/BreadcrumbList across editorial surfaces.
    • → Sitemap index, IndexNow integration, image sitemap.
    • → Robots.txt explicitly allows GPTBot/ClaudeBot/PerplexityBot/Applebot.

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