Cyber Nut HQ

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  • I left GSMArena: Three years later, I launched Cyber Nut HQ

    I left GSMArena: Three years later, I launched Cyber Nut HQ

    Waddup? My name is @EnriqueVTee and I am the creator of Cyber Nut HQ.

    In 2015, I started a job that would forever change my life. I was hired as an editor at GSMArena, one of the most highly regarded websites known to the smartphone world.

    During my time there, I got to meet other creators and YouTube hosts that I admired for years prior. People who’s articles I once read, videos I once watched would become my fellow peers. I was thrown into the same world as they were when they reported on the things that I was so eager to read and learn about: Mobile tech.

    What is GSMArena?

    This website is a crucial tool for smartphone bloggers, influencers, and reviewers for how easy it is to pick any smartphone from any brand and find a fully detailed spec sheet showing the phone’s features, hardware, screen size, battery capacity – all those details that are important for reporting on them.

    GSMArena’s homepage (November 25 2025)

    During my time there, I met fellow reporters, YouTubers, content creators, and PR reps who’ve only had lovely things to say about the website I represented. GSMArena is one of the OGs when it comes to smartphone blogs (they’ve been around since 2000).

    The website keeps a vast, neatly organized (and frequently updated) database of both new and rumored smartphones along with their full list of specifications.

    What did you do there?

    For GSMArena, I wrote articles, I produced YouTube videos, I covered phone launches and traveled to attend them. I was in direct contact with smartphone brands and their PR teams.

    It was my job to take what the marketing was saying, test the devices out, and relay that back to the readers to answer whether the company was delivering on the promises it made on the keynote stage.

    My heahshot taken at GSMArena HQ (2018)

    I sharpened my writing skills and learned how to refine stories, learned how to edit and “trim the fat”, and made many YouTube videos for GSMArena over the years, which drastically helped me to improve my speaking presence and pronunciation.

    With video, came lighting, audio, and video editing. I pretty much learned on the job how to use a video editor to produce a professional video. These skills required grit and patience to hone, but the folks I worked with and friends I made around the world made it worthwhile.

    So now you might be asking yourself…

    What happened?

    Well… Burnout.

    Once COVID happened, I was still working, but there was no in-person travel. In-person phone demos became zoom meetings, work from home remained at home, and as the years went on, I felt more and more burnout.

    Here's an image snapped at the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event in 2017 for the announcement of the Galaxy Note8. The image shows a keynote stage, shrouded in blue light, except for a single white light on the speaker. behind the speaker is a giant display showing a yellow S-Pen with the words "The new super powerful Note".
    Samsung Galaxy Note8 keynote event (2018)

    I was growing tired of covering new tech releases that didn’t show much new. The constant writing of articles of incremental updates and minor rumors over years turned into boredom and excitement faded.

    The venue where MWC is held in Barcelona, Spain (2023)

    After 7 years working at GSMArena, I finally felt that I needed a break. It wasn’t until February 2023 that I attended Mobile World Congress for the first time. MWC is a mobile tech conference that takes place every year in Barcelona and China.

    It was during this event that I realized I did everything I could with GSMArena, and shortly after that 36-hour whirlwind of a trip across the Atlantic Ocean, I resigned from my position at GSMArena and went back to working a 9 to 5 job at the family business.

    For about a year and a half, I didn’t look at any smartphone news, I completely stopped caring about it. I didn’t follow up on new smartphone launches, I didn’t care for any VR headsets or half-baked wearable tech, and new stuff that was coming out. I even bought myself an iPhone (which is apparently common among burned out smartphone journalists) because I felt like I was kind of done with Android phones too for a while.

    So what, Cyber Nut came after?

    It has been almost three years since I stopped covering tech, and around this time, it’s been 10 years since I was originally hired at GSMArena.

    Now, I feel like enough time has passed, and I can finally see how I am going to make my way back into this little tech space where my fellow creators (great friends of time) are still around.

    An episode of the podcast-style show I did with Joshua Vergara (AKA. JV Tech Tea)

    I first launched Cyber Nut HQ as a podcast-style show where I would discuss different things in tech. I wasn’t sure what I was doing or where the direction would go – I was experimenting. There was plenty of trial and error and failed projects.

    I first started this podcast idea back in 2020 and it was so much work doing everything myself. I immediately burned myself out after producing a single episode. It’s apparently really difficult to build an audience solely from a podcast.

    Since then, I dabbled into green screen video, livestreaming on Twitch, creating short-form content, really unsure of where it was going.Now, I feel like I’ve finally figured out the direction that Cyber Nut HQ needs to go.

    What can we expect from Cyber Nut now?

    Here’s what you can expect from the website and YouTube channel.

    • Long-form video essays on YouTube surrounding topics like:
      • Revisiting major tech events that happened while I was a journalist – told from my POV
      • Going back to tech launches that failed and what went wrong
      • Personality-driven coverage of only new tech that interests me
      • New and retro tech videos with context and story-driven videos that invoke emotion and passion (for the love of tech)
    • Accompanying articles that will complement the long-form videos mentioned above
    • Access to a Discord server where people can hang out, chat about similar topics, give suggestions, and get alerts for when I go live on Twitch.
    • Deep dive, video essay style videos that focus on story-telling along with first-hand testimonials from fellow creators who were part of the industry during their happening.

    I admit this is still a work in progress. I am still going to figure out how to fit running this site, YouTube channel, and socials alongside my full time job and going to the gym four times a week.

    Now that you’ve gotten to know me and where I’ve come from, I hope that you will stick around Cyber Nut HQ for stories told from my point of view through my tech lens.

  • Introduction – What is Cyber Nut HQ?

    Introduction – What is Cyber Nut HQ?

    Cyber Nut HQ was born from an idea that so many things happen on the internet. it’s the reason so much of this tech was possible. Tech became portals to the internet, and these portals became faster, smaller, sleeker, more powerful, and they’re everywhere now. So basically, yeah, we’re living in the Matrix.

    Sometimes its not about the destination but its about the journey, and you can kind of say the same thing about tech and the internet. The information is the same, but the way you get it is always different. Its these experiences that I nerd out about.

    Cyber Nut HQ has a nostalgic vibe to the early days of the internet and this is completely intentional. I figured why not stand out by vibing as if it was the early days of the internet: when everything was new, technology was cool, and it wasn’t so dreadful.

    I hope you enjoy Cyber Nut HQ. I aim to be my authentic self in my content and the things that I release and I hope that I can bring a smile to people’s faces while doing it.