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I made a tool to help you pick a phone plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Plus: Apple’s new headphones, quick iPhone app settings, and an adorable Windows music player<\/h3>\n\n\n
Jared Newman<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>March 17, 2026<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey there! I’m Jared Newman, a longtime tech journalist, and you’re reading the free edition of Advisorator, my weekly tech advice newsletter.<\/em> Did someone share this newsletter with you? Sign up<\/a> to get it every Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the Advisorator website, my guide to picking a phone plan<\/a> just got its biggest update ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than five years now, I’ve maintained a huge chart comparing every unlimited data plan from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Now, I’m using that data to power an interactive wireless plan picker:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just choose your number of lines and how much data you want, and you’ll get a list of wireless plans that match. You can even compare special pricing for seniors, military\/vets, teachers, and first responders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, I’ve set up a separate tool for figuring out how much credit you’ll get toward a new phone when trading in your old one. The carriers don’t make this information easy to find, but I spent hours digging it up and building an easy way to view trade-in values across different carriers and plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both resources, along with the underlying datasets I used to make them, are available exclusively for Advisorator’s paying members<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get help picking a phone plan \u2192<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I built it<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Full disclosure: I relied entirely on Anthropic’s Claude<\/a> to supply the interactivity. I didn’t touch any of the underlying HTML or JavaScript myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, the process of building these tools required a great degree of human care:<\/p>\n\n\n\n