KACHARAGADLA

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gadget reviewer. As a kid, my favorite reading material, in addition to American comic books and manga, were video game review magazines like GamePro and EGM. When I got to high school and started making my own money, I began spending most of my paychecks on gadgets. I still remember dropping $800 (my entire month's earnings as a teen) on an Archos PMA (portable media player), which was basically a very ancient version of the iPad, way back in 2001. Then in 2003, I got the T-Mobile Sidekick (aka  the Danger Hiptop , rebranded for no particular reason because U.S. phone carriers like to interfere with every product), which was sort of a spiritual ancestor to the Android operating system. Anyway, long story short: I am a gadget geek, and I've been very fortunate to be able to write about gadgets for a living right now. Because I live just an hour away from Shenzhen --  hardware capital of the world  -- I have gotten my