Corrections & Updates Log
Every publication makes mistakes. Dates get wrong, specs get misquoted, a software version number gets copied incorrectly from a press release, the size of the camera sensor changes between announcement and retail, and the review never gets updated. These things happen at every publication, including this one.
What separates decent journalism from the alternative is not a perfect record; nobody has one, but what happens after the error does. Some publications correct mistakes silently, swap out the wrong paragraph without any notice, and hope nobody caught it the first time. We think that approach is dishonest. If you read something wrong on AndroidBeep, you deserve to know when we found out and what the correct information is.
This page is where we keep that record.
How corrections work here
When someone reports or discovers a factual error, an editor reviews it within two business days. If the error is confirmed, we do three things: correct the article, add a correction notice to the article itself with a date and a plain-language explanation of what changed, and log it on this page.
We do not quietly correct errors and move on. We do not remove correction notices after a few weeks to clean up the page. We do not issue word correction notices in ways that obscure what was actually wrong. If we said a phone had 8GB of RAM and it has 12GB, the correction says that directly, not something vague like “This article has been updated to reflect current information.”
We keep articles with errors and do not repost them without corrections. The original article, with the correction notice attached, stays up.
What counts as a correction
A correction addresses factual inaccuracies or unverifiable claims in our published content.
This covers things like wrong specifications, incorrect prices, misattributed quotes, inaccurate descriptions of how a feature works, wrong dates for releases or announcements, and claims that were based on sources we later discovered were unreliable.
A correction is not the same as an update, and we track them separately. Updates happen when something we published was accurate at the time but the underlying facts have since changed. A review reflects the phone’s original price when it launched, but we will update the review if the manufacturer later changes the price. We will update a buying guide that recommends a phone we no longer support to reflect the current recommendation. The updates section lower on this page logs these changes, not the corrections section, because the original article was correct.
The distinction matters. A correction means we made a mistake. An update means the world has changed. We treat them differently because readers deserve to know which is which.
Reporting an error
If you find something on AndroidBeep that you believe is factually wrong, email editor@androidbeep.com with the article URL and a description of the specific problem. Include any sources you’re relying on, such as manufacturer spec sheets, official press releases, peer-reviewed studies, and primary documentation. We review every correction request.
We respond to every email. If we investigate and disagree with the reported error, we’ll explain why. If we investigate and determine that the correction request is itself based on inaccurate information, we’ll explain that too.
One thing we ask: if you’re disputing an opinion or a review verdict rather than a factual claim, that’s a different conversation. We’re happy to hear disagreements, but they go through the contact form rather than the corrections process. Saying a phone’s camera is worse than we rated it is not a factual error in the same sense that reporting the wrong megapixel count is. We distinguish between those because the corrections process is specifically for the latter.
How corrections appear in articles
Every corrected article carries a notice formatted like this:
Correction, [date]: [Plain-language description of what was wrong and what the correct information is.]
The notice appears at the top of the article, before the body text, so it’s the first thing a reader sees — not something buried at the bottom below 2,000 words that most people won’t reach. We do not use language designed to minimize what happened. If a number were wrong, the correction would say the number was wrong and give the right one.
On AI-assisted writing and factual accuracy
A named human writer writes and edits every article on AndroidBeep. We use AI tools for grammar assistance and research support, the same way a writer might use a search engine or a style guide. No article is generated by AI and published without human drafting, review, and editorial judgment.
That said, AI-assisted research can introduce errors. A tool might summarize a spec sheet incorrectly or pull a figure from a similar but different device. We treat AI-sourced information the same way we treat any secondary source: it gets checked against primary documentation before it goes into an article. When it isn’t checked and an error slips through, we correct it like any other mistake.
What we will never do
We will not alter quotes after publication without noting the change. If a quote is corrected — because we misheard it, mistyped it, or received a transcription error — the correction notice will say so and give the accurate version.
We will not remove an article because a manufacturer or PR contact asks us to. If a review is factually wrong, we correct it. If a company dislikes the conclusion, that is not a factual error. Published work stays published.
We will disclose any affiliate links before adding them to older articles. Any article that includes affiliate links says so at the top.
Corrections log
Corrections are listed in reverse chronological order. Each entry links to the affected article.
No corrections have been logged yet. This log will be updated as corrections are made.
Updates log
Updates are changes made to articles because the underlying facts changed after publication, not because the original article was wrong. Typical updates include price changes, availability updates, new software versions that change how a device performs, and buying guide revisions.
No updates have been logged yet. This log will be updated as articles are revised.
A note on historical content
As the site builds an archive, older articles will inevitably age. A review of a phone from two years ago will have a price that no longer applies, software that has changed significantly, and a competitive context that has shifted. We handle these situations in one of two ways depending on the article type.
For evergreen buying guides, we update the article and note the last-reviewed date prominently at the top. For original reviews, we leave the review intact as it was written and add a brief notice at the top noting that the article reflects the device as it was at launch, along with a link to any relevant follow-up coverage.
We do not retroactively rewrite old reviews to reflect how a device aged. A review is a record of what a device was like at a specific point. That record is still useful even when it’s no longer current, and changing it to match what we think now would make it dishonest as a historical document.
Last updated
This page was last updated on the date shown in the footer. The corrections and updates logs are continuously maintained and reflect all changes made since the site launched.
If you have a correction to report, the email address is editor@androidbeep.com. We read every message.