Hosts

Mobile Nations brings together the heads of state of Android, BlackBerry, iOS, webOS, and Windows Phone, joined but some of the best and brightest analysts and commenters in the industry. Oh, and these people:

Kevin Michaluk of CrackBerry.com
Kevin Michaluk

Kevin is founder and fearless leader of the CrackBerry.com nation, the #1 site for BlackBerry users and abusers, and host of the CrackBerry.com podcast. Needless to say, he loves RIM’s BlackBerrys — and the BlackBerry Playbook — a lot. He also runs the Mobile Nations network for Smartphone Experts.


Derek Kessler of PreCentral.net
Derek Kessler

Derek leads the webOS nation for… webOSnation.com, and hosts the PalmCast, the flagship HP webOS podcast. Derek has been a Palm user since 2000, and a member of the TreoCentral and later PreCentral and webOS Nation forums for several years. In addition, Derek works in the Ohio Army National Guard.


Phil Nickinson of Android Central
Phil Nickinson

Phil leads the Android Central nation, and hosts the best damn Android show on the ‘net, namely the Android Central podcast. Phil spent more than 11 years as a at a daily newspaper in Florida before taking the reins of Android Central. Now he reviews more phones and tablets by breakfast than most journalists do in a lifetime.


Daniel Rubino of WPCentral
Daniel Rubino

Dan leads the WPCentral nation of Windows Phone, and hosts the WPCentral podcast. Previously known only as the mysterious Malatesta, he came out of hiding when WMExperts became WPCentral and Windows Mobile 6.5 became Windows Phone 7. That might not have been a coincidence.


Rene Ritchie from iMore.com
Rene Ritchie

Rene runs iMore.com, home to everything iPhone, iPod, and iPad, and Apple. He hosts the iMore show, and co-hosts Debug, Iterate, Ad hoc, and ZEN and TECH, and is a regular co-host on TWiT’s MacBreak Weekly.


Georgia of ZENandTECH.tv
Georgia

Georgia is host of ZENandTECH. A therapist by trade and a geek by nature, she bridges the gap between technology and humanity. And plays video games. A lot.


Jay Bennett

Consultant by day and Windows Phone Developer by night, Jay is the man behind the official WPCentral app. In co-hosting the WPCentral podcast, he provides a thoroughly British balance to proceedings


Seth Clifford
Seth Clifford

Seth is co-host of Iterate. He’s also Chief Information Officer at Nickelfish, an interactive agency specializing in building iOS, Android, BlackBerry and web platforms, and enjoys ice cream, whiskey, surfing, and UI/UX design, generally not all at the same time.


Alex Dobie

Alex is co-host of the Android Central podcast and cooks up steaming bowls of European news on a daily basis. Fuelled by caffeine, a love of tech and a mortal fear of natural light, Alex operates the AC European news desk from a dungeon somewhere in Manchester, England.


Marc Edwards of Bjango
Marc Edwards

Marc is co-host of Iterate. He’s also Director and Lead Designer at Bjango, which has ranked #2 on the App Store paid app chart, been the iPhone App Of The Week, and been featured Apple’s advertising, including the back cover of Time Magazine.


Guy English of Kicking Bear
Guy English

Guy is co-host of Debug and Ad hoc. He’s also co-founder of the Çingleton Symposium, writes at Kicking Bear, and one half of Aged & Distilled, which makes the OS X app, Napkin.


Geoff Gluckman of Muscle Balance and Function Development
Geoff Gluckman

Geoff is host of Superfunctional, the founder of Muscle Balance and Function Development®, and one of the pioneers of postural alignment therapy. He’s also a writer and author of Deadly Exchange.


Jerry Hildenbrand of Android Central
Jerry Hildenbrand

Jerry is a Linux guru, co-host of the Android Central podcast, and can root a phone faster than most people can launch an app. He’s living semi-retired and happy in a tiny town in the Blue Ridge mountains with his lovely wife, Terry. He’s a longstanding member of the Free Software Foundation and a staunch supporter of Linux in the classroom.


Craig Johnston of CrackBerry.com
Craig Johnston

Craig co-hosts the CrackBerry.com podcast and Mobile Nations Enterprise. His day job is designing and architecting large mobile infrastructures running BES, ActiveSync, Good, etc. Craig has also written many “how-to” books on BlackBerry and Android phones.


Mickey Papillon, the Cell Phone Junkie
Mickey Papillon

Mickey is the god father of cell phone podcasting. In addition to co-hosting the Android Central podcast, Mickey hosts the long-running The Cell Phone Junkie show and TCPJ Unlocked.


Chris Parsons (B1aze) of CrackBerry.com and Android Central
Chris Parsons

Chris (Bla1ze) is a co-host of the CrackBerry.com podcast. Fluent in all mobile languages, you can find him on CrackBerry.com or at Android Central . If you find Chris wondering around your neighborhood, point him towards the nearest electrical outlet and toss him a can of Full Throttle. Then tell him to get back to work.


Rafael Rivera
Rafael Rivera

Rafael co-hosts the WPCentral podcast. He’s also a Windows software hacker, author, and blogger extraordinaire.


Adam Zeis of CrackBerry.com
Adam Zeis

Adam co-hosts the CrackBerry.com podcast and loves being able to share his love of BlackBerry every day. Adam can generally be found scouring the interwebs for the latest BlackBerry news as well as overseeing the CrackBerry forums.


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