Chris Thomas

• A deep love for the outdoors (especially camping and backpacking) inspired him to extensively test a wide range of streamlined mobile tech in search of the most portable and sustainable, leading to days on end spent working full-time from pristine wilderness and relatively remote mountaintops.
• Years of parsing tech marketing jargon made it clear to him that when it's easier for users to cut through the fluff (like Qi2 Ready branding, for instance), consumers as a whole have a stronger voice and can help shape the industry.
• A deep love for the outdoors (especially camping and backpacking) inspired him to extensively test a wide range of streamlined mobile tech in search of the most portable and sustainable, leading to days on end spent working full-time from pristine wilderness and relatively remote mountaintops.

Experience

Chris has spent well over a decade researching and testing a vast range of consumer goods. His past coverage ranges from mechanical pencils to motherboards for EZVid Wiki, web browsers to women in tech for Notebookcheck, and breaking news to data breaches for Android Police. He takes it all pretty seriously (maybe too much so, sometimes) partly because he hates wasting time and money and doesn't want readers to waste theirs, either. After years of being both a consumer and a journalist, Chris has realized that understanding how technology works goes a long way towards getting the most out of it. To that end, he strives to explain potentially complex subjects like software updates, data privacy, and hardware innovations in easy-to-understand ways with meaningful goals. His broad experience, extensive connections, and lifelong fascination with technology continue to support his sharing of general tech knowledge as well as hardware- and software-specific expertise with engaged readers.