Tech Talk is a series highlighting a member of the Gophermods Family. We presented each of our technicians, managers and employees with 10 questions. These are their answers. Today our guest is Nick Persinger: Marketing and Social Media Coordinator

1. Where are you From? 

I am from Hudson, Wisconsin, just across the Saint Croix!

2. What do you do at Gophermods? 

I am a technician at Gophermods, and work in the company’s marketing as well.

3. What is your favorite phone to repair and why? 

My favorite phone to repair is probably the iPhone 6. It is compact, durable, manufactured to be repaired and straight-forward. Not to mention they come in by the dozens, so you get used to them over time.

4. What is the biggest repair challenge you’ve faced?

My biggest repair challenge I’ve done must’ve probably been an iPhone 4. As silly as it may seem, it’s gotta be the most frustrating of them all for me.

5. What motivated you to be a part of Gophermods? 

Before coming to Gophermods, I had never actually held a job by a company not owned by myself. To take the big step into working for someone else would mean to find a good fit. No other job I looked at seemed as family-spirited, supportive, ever-expanding, and opportunity-driven than Gophermods.

6. What is your favorite piece of technology that you own?

I love my Apple Newton eMate 300. Before iPhone, Apple manufactured the Newton line of PDAs in the 1990s. Mine still works like a charm, even after the warranty ended in late 1998.

7. What is your current phone? 

I currently own an iPhone 6S for personal use and an iPhone 5S for business.

8. What do you like about your phone? 

I like how connected my iPhone 6S is to the software(iOS 10), and how everything “just works”. I don’t need to make any changes to my ecosystem for it to just function with everything else in my life. I also enjoy the benefits of compatibility with my MacBook Pro.

9. After repairing a wide variety of phones, is there one you would consider switching form your current one for?

I have been extremely impressed with the iPhone SE, the LG G5 and the Google Pixel, not just from a cost standpoint, but also from a reliability and design standpoint.

10. What is the most bizarre or unusual repair you’ve ever encountered? 

I would have to say that the most unusual repair I’ve done was a screen replacement on my old LG Cosmos Touch. it was so not worth the $50 to repair a feature phone, especially for the pain that the display assembly and slide-out keyboard gave me. But to the thirteen-year-old me, that phone was my baby, and I’d do anything to revive it and my precious SMSing abilities.