Evan ha deciso di rimuovere il velo di mistero che avvolgeva il suo account rivelandosi al mondo intero su Android Police. In poco tempo è riuscito ad avere un successo spropositato anche grazie alla fedeltà dei suoi rumors, spesso precisi e verificati. Su qualsiasi sito Android possiamo trovare facilmente decine di articoli su alcune sue informazioni, invece basta cercarlo su Google per avere oltre 900.000 risultati.
Quali sono alcune delle sue opere più recenti? Possiamo partire con l’ultima immagine che dovrebbe ritrarre la versione AT&T del Motorola Moto X, oppure una nuova foto per l’LG Optimus G2, un render del prossimo phablet HTC e come non dimenticare la prima immagine non ufficiale del One, mostrato per la prima volta in quel design successivamente confermato.
Ovviamente la carriera di @evleaks con ben oltre 30.000 followers non è sembra stata questa. In precedenza Evan ha lavorato per Engadget, dal 2005-2008, raggiungendo il rango di Senior Editor. Che ci crediate o no, Evan a un certo punto è stato responsabile per la formazione di Joshua Topolsky e Nilay Patel, rispettivamente redattore capo e direttore di redazione di The Verge.
Dopo alcuni anni, dal 2010-2012, ha iniziato a lavorare presso Pocketnow.com come Managing Editor, dove divenne famoso per i suoi vari e costanti rumors di alta qualità su telefoni HTC. Dopo aver lasciato PN, ha iniziato la carriera cinguettante di @evleaks.
Seppur non di immediato successo, dopo alcuni mesi @evleaks è diventato famoso in tutto il mondo per i suoi rumors e certamente la sua identità non era un mistero per tutti, infatti molti portali US, compreso Android Police conoscevano l’Evan dietro tutto ciò ma l’hanno appoggiato nel mantenere il mistero.
Di seguito un piccolo estratto dell’intervista:
“AP: There’s been a lot of talk about the times you’ve been wrong, and there’s no question that’s happened in the past. What’s the one “leak” you wish you could take back?
EB: That’s pretty clear. I had gotten imagery that was almost surely just placeholder artwork of the Samsung Galaxy S4 — sourced from retailer Expansys, those peaches — but I thought that even those mockups might speak to features or design aspects of the real handset. I tweeted out the pics at the height of Galaxy fever, captioned with nothing but trailing ellipses (…), and mistakenly assumed that the message would be clear. Once I saw them being reported as @evleaks-endorsed renders, I pulled down the tweets, but of course that just gave the situation even more of an appearance of impropriety.
AP: What do you think was your best “leak,” and why?
EB: Strictly speaking, my best leak was probably a near-complete rundown of the new specs and features that consumers could expect from the upcoming Windows Phone 8, up until that point only known by its codename, Apollo. The story was based on a video of WP product manager and Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore, and intended for partners at Nokia. But my favorite exclusive wasn’t strictly a leak at all: it was the tracking down and publication of a photo taken with the then-unreleased iPhone 4S (at the time referred to as the iPhone 5). The picture had a great backstory, as it was a plate of sushi captured by an Apple engineer eating in the cafeteria at 1 Infinite Loop (according to the geotagged EXIF data)
AP: Can you think of a leak you thought was trivial at the time, but turned out to be massive once it was publicized?
EB: I didn’t predict quite how positively people would react to an in-the-wild shot of what will very likely turn out to be the LG G2 (successor to the Optimus G). It’s a sexy-looking handset, to be sure, but its nearly bezel-less frame and possible status as a Nexus reference design really seemed to excite people in a way that I haven’t see a leak do in awhile.
AP: What phone are you using? I already know the answer to this one, but I’m sure people are curious.
EB: This is just downright embarrassing. As you can probably surmise, no one really sends me review units anymore, so I’m still saddled with a self-purchased Samsung Galaxy Nexus whose multiple screen cracks break my heart a little bit more before each usage.
AP: Whose new products (even the ones we may not yet know about) have you the most excited this year – anything you can tease?
EB: Gonna have to go with the G2 — again — along with HTC’s probable phablet, some big hardware from Nokia (EOS and phablet(s)), and hopefully even something really premium from BlackBerry. Sony Mobile is putting out exciting handsets these days too, as are a ton of formerly budget OEMs like Huawei, ZTE, and OPPO. Seems like everyone is bringing their A-game nowadays, which is great for phone enthusiasts.”