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Independent buyer's guide for wearables and phones: buy now or wait, compatibility, prices. Sourced.
Remote server: your requests and data go to idevice.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http idevice-buyer-s-guide https://idevice.com/api/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
should_i_buy — For one product: buy now, wait, skip or check fit first, optionally for a shopper who already owns a device or uses iPhone or Android, with check_deal — Whether a price offered for one product is a good deal: GOOD DEAL, NOT A GOOD DEAL or NOT ENOUGH DATA, by the same written rules as should_ipick_between — For two or three products, which one the written buy-or-wait rules put ahead, or that neither is ahead, optionally for a shopper who owns a find_best_device — A short ranked list of on-sale products in one category for a shopper: optionally the phone platform they use, a budget, and up to three priwhats_coming — For one product: its stage, the release window with who stated it (the company, a company event, pre-release reports, or iDevice's own estimget_product_news — Latest iDevice news about one product, each story with the sources it rests on. Newest first: the title, the date, the story page on idevicelist_products — Every product iDevice covers, with its lifecycle (reported, announced, preorder, shipping, previous) and how many well-sourced reports it haget_product — Lifecycle, official or estimated price, key dates, availability (on sale or not, release date and its basis, where to buy), report count andget_product_facts — Official price (only when it was officially announced or is sold officially; otherwise labelled as an estimate), announcement and availabilicompare_products — Side-by-side specs for 2 or 3 products, from the same engine as idevice.com/compare. Each cell carries Confirmed/Reported/Our read and its sget_compatibility — Whether a product works with a given phone or device, from its Guide's Works with tab: iPhone, Android, apps, other devices and standards. Eget_reports — Every well-sourced pre-release report for one product, each with its status (Right, Partly right, Wrong, Never settled, Not comparable, Not search_reports — Find well-sourced pre-release reports by keyword across every covered product, e.g. 'battery', 'display', 'price'. Each result carries its sget_in_the_box — What ships in the box for one product, per model or configuration, as the official product page states it: each item, its quantity, whether get_release_history — Every generation of a product's line with its announcement and release dates, sources and launch price, plus the gaps between releases: meanget_reviews — What other outlets scored one product: the Review Consensus (a normalized average, shown only from two scored reviews by two different publiget_price_history — Dated prices for one product: today's verified price for this exact model (price_verified; when it is not verified the price is null and priget_detailed_facts — Every individual fact for one product, grouped by topic: water and durability, temperature, battery and charging, display, camera, audio, coget_release_calendar — Products not yet on sale, in date order: a release date, an announcement event, or a window shown as written (for example Fall 2026), each wfind_products — What is on sale in one category (glasses, rings, watches, earbuds, phones, headsets, fitness trackers), optionally at or under a price or frget_guide_summary — The buying summary of one product's Guide: its one-line summary and bottom line, the at-a-glance facts, price and dates, where it sits in itget_report_card — A roll-up of one product's pre-release reports by how they turned out (Right, Partly right, Wrong, Never settled, Not comparable, Not checkeget_ownership_facts — What owning one product involves, each fact with its source page and date: the official return window, who pays return shipping and any restget_best_for — What a product is best for, from its Guide's Best For: up to three uses, each with a one-line reason and how it is known (the official page,get_variants_and_offers — The configurations of one product with their launch prices, to answer '$399 for which one?': storage, size, colour and material, each with iget_company_profile — A company as iDevice's public directory lists it: its name, homepage and a short description, the categories iDevice covers for it, and eachget_guide_extras — Three parts of the Guide: section 'timeline' gives a product's Timeline tab events, oldest first, with their sources, plus the official lifeis_good_price — For one product: today's verified retailer price with the day it was read, compared with iDevice's own daily price record of this exact moderelease_odds — For one product not yet released: the expected release window, how it is known (announced by the company, a reported window, an iDevice estisource_track_record — For one reporter or outlet, by name: its pre-release reports graded against what the company later announced (Right, Partly right, Wrong), hwhats_moved — The week's changes in iDevice's records: retailer price moves of at least 7% that held on at least two days (store, was and now, percent, thNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.