Meet our expert, Jason Liu
I once fried an entire board trying to hack together a charging circuit. The smoke smelled like regret, but I couldn’t stop grinning. That curiosity is how I ended up in mobile hardware engineering — soldering circuits, testing antennas, pushing devices until they begged for mercy.
Phones are more than screens. They’re antennas squeezed into metal, batteries dancing on the edge of safety, chips designed to juggle heat and speed. I’ve seen brilliant ideas cut down by fragile casings and cheap cables.
On Choice Reviews, I rant, ramble, and sometimes gush. I’ll tell you when a charging cord is designed to fail in six months. I’ll cheer when a midrange phone outperforms a flagship under stress. My reviews don’t sound polished because they aren’t — they’re field notes from a tinkerer who can’t stop poking at the guts of these devices.
Phones are intimate. They live in our beds, our pockets, our hands. That intimacy deserves honesty, not hype. That’s why I write the way I do.
