phonescoop.com
Just Wondering...
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/ »
...it tells you how many phones are currently in the database. (540 at the moment.)
As for news and forums, you can get a rough estimate from the item ID numbers in the URLs (they started at 1). So, for example, the most recent news item at the moment is:
https://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=1115 »
...so there are over 1100 news items we've posted since we started. And from the URL this forum message from today:
https://www.phonescoop.com/news/discuss.php?fm=m&ff= ... »
...you can see that we're getting close to our 200,000th forum message. (The forum message ID numbers are unique across all forums site-wide.)