Meet the team at TalkAndroid!
We're a team of Android enthusiasts, bloggers, and every day folks just like you. We love Android and we keep a close eye on the Android ecosystem so we can report back to you daily!
Below you can meet our team, including Editor-in-Chief Robert Nazarian and Editor Roy Alugbue. Click on any author's name to see their articles.
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Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive).
From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a DROID DNA, and absolutely loves it.
He has a wonderful wife and a 4 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.
Conceived as Spock’s 4th cousin, Roy has had quite the life. He was born in beautiful San Jose, California, raised in Los Angeles, California and now resides in the greater New York City area. He has always been fascinated and obsessed with technology, especially the continuous advancements of mobile platforms. He was a Blackberry slave since his undergrad days at the University of Southern California until realizing in Feb. 2011, there were greener pastures in the land of Android. His first Android phone was the Motorola Atrix 4G, and he hasn’t looked back. He currently works in corporate media, enjoys following media and technology trends, reading a good book, weightlifting, playing on his XBOX 360 and conversing with total strangers.
Born in India and raised in Tennessee, Aditya is currently a marketing/finance student in the College of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. Aditya started off in the world of smartphones with a first generation iPhone, until he realized what he was doing and quickly switched to Android. He then got an HTC Aria, followed by a Samsung Captivate, and today he is a proud Samsung Galaxy S III owner. Aside from writing for Talk Android, he occasionally writes for the Tennessee Titans blog MusicCityMiracles.com, as is a huge Titans fan. In addition to the Titans, Aditya also loves all Pitt Panthers teams, the Nashville Predators, Memphis Grizzlies, and Pittsburgh Pirates. He also enjoys playing the guitar.
Originally from the East Coast, Ed now makes his home in San Jose, California. His passion for technology started with his first ColecoVision and Atari gaming systems, and has grown stronger through Tandy computers, IBM clones, Palm Pilots, and PocketPCs. Ed's love for Android began with his first HTC Hero, then blossomed with the original Evo 4G, and now the Evo 3D and Motorola Xoom. He graduated from Syracuse University with a B.S. in Communications, and is now a professional User Experience Designer working in Silicon Valley. In his spare time, Ed enjoys video games, jamming on guitar, and spending time with his wife, two cats, and Logitech Revue.
Harrison is a student at the University of Pittsburgh seeking a double major in both economics and marketing. Aside from writing for TalkAndroid, he is the Social Media Editor for The Pitt News, Teens4TS blog founder, and a co-founder of The University of Pittsburgh's Undergraduate Research Journal of Economics. He is somehow a loyal Motorola customer after all the times they have spited him, a proud Droid Bionic owner, and a former OG Droid owner. Harrison is excited for the release of the X-Phone, Android 4.3, and for whatever the future holds for Android.
Jack is an Android and Tech enthusiast that hails from the state of Montana. During those long winter months he is either finishing his degree in EMS management or searching the internet for anything and everything Android. His love of the OS started back with the ERIS and graduated to the original DROID. He continued his experience with both the X and the Incredible 2 and has recently purchased a DROID RAZR. He currently holds a day job managing a small ambulance company where he spends a lot of his day teaching Basic life saving procedures. When he isn’t studying, working or writing for TalkAndroid he is either playing the Kinect or Wii with his fiancée or spending time trying figure out ways to tinker with all things electronic.
Jim is a musician/nerd/burrito enthusiast living north of Boston. In his free time (of which he has none) he plays guitar and tinkers with the absurd amount of Android devices he owns. Born and raised on a farm in the backwoods of Vermont, Jim spent a few years after high school traveling the states, settling temporarily on Massachusetts. His first Android phone was an HTC G1, and he's had countless devices since. He is also really good at convincing people to buy stuff. He currently lives with his girlfriend and writes for Talk Android between selling cell phones, playing in a band and running a record label.
Raised in North Carolina, Jeff Causey is a chief financial officer and licensed CPA in Durham, North Carolina. During the 90's, between the time he spent as the "IT guy" for employers and pursuing his gaming hobbies, he morphed into a decently skilled power user. In the early 2000's he became interested in Linux and started following efforts to develop a Linux based phone operating system. Jeff finally got his hands on an HTC EVO 4G Android phone and hasn't looked back. He has since added a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to his stable of electronic gizmos and gadgets. Unfortunately, his kids have all drunk the Apple Kool-Aid and have i-devices and his wife has a BB. So he is engaged in a constant effort to demonstrate the superiority of his Android based devices. In his free time, Jeff is active in his church, a local MINI Cooper car club, and his daughter's soccer club. Jeff is married, has three kids, and a golden retriever.
Born in Tennessee yet raised in Florida, Sean is an analyst now living back in Tennessee. His love for gadgets and electronics began in the early 90’s when he received a Sony Walkman for Christmas. At the time, he felt the cassette tape playing, Mega-Bass wielding, three-band equalizer piece of electronics was as good as it'll ever get. There was also the original Nintendo which consumed countless hours of his youth, followed by every follow-up version, a Sega Genesis, PlayStations, and Xboxes. He was a little late to the smartphone party however, not being exposed to one until running a jail-broken, 2nd Gen iPhone on T-Mobile’s network. His phone of choice now is the Galaxy Nexus. He spends most of his free time with his wife and two daughters.
Joe was born in New Jersey and spent most of his childhood moving around from state to state. He eventually made his way to Pennsylvania where he met his Portuguese beauty and made her his wife. He now has three great kids and full access to all of the Portuguese food he can eat. Joe's love for mobile technology began when he bought his first Palm Pilot, a Palm M130 and left it on top of his car, driving off, causing it to smash into a thousand pieces. Forced to buy a new device, he quickly discovered that specs were changing so rapidly he was buying a new device every six months just to keep up. Since then, he has constantly felt the need to have the latest and greatest. When the "smartphone" revolution began and integrating cell phones and PDA's was the norm, he quickly jumped to Windows Mobile for several years until the first Android device was launched, the T-Mobile G1. Joe began appreciating all of the free utilities Google provided and sold his soul (his precious data) to Google long before they got into the mobile OS business. So, there was no hesitation at all for him to jump on board and ride the Android train as an early adopter. And boy has it been a blast. Joe now works in the Engineering & Operations dept for a major mobile carrier where he remotely troubleshoots cell sites and loves being an Editor for TalkAndroid.