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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: That'd be.

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Speaker 3: Oscar Howl joins us now to talk tech. Good to

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Speaker 3: have you back with us Oscar, Happy New.

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Speaker 2: Year, Happy the year, Tito Francesca is lovely to be back.

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Speaker 3: Excellent. Hey, I was just saying before, you know, tech

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Speaker 3: kind of ebbs and flows a bit when it comes

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Speaker 3: to advancements, doesn't It feels like sometimes we're flooded with

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Speaker 3: great new ideas and then there's sort of nothing terribly

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Speaker 3: innovative that kind of hits the market for a while.

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Speaker 3: So as we head into twenty twenty five, where where's

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Speaker 3: is tech development and innovation stagnated? Or do you think

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Speaker 3: we're on a roll?

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Speaker 2: I think I mean just on a From a personal perspective,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's very hard to get excited about anything

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Speaker 2: hitting the markets recently. You know, I think back to

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Speaker 2: you know, two thousand and one when Steve.

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Speaker 4: Jobs pulled the first iPod out of his pocket and

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Speaker 4: sent the world into a tail spit, or when he

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Speaker 4: unveiled the iPhone in two thousand and seven and combined

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Speaker 4: you know, an iPod, web browser, and a phone all

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Speaker 4: in one.

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Speaker 2: And I've been really struggling to find anything that makes

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Speaker 2: me feel that way.

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Speaker 3: Really isn't all the time Beneth that they're going into AI.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that's what I think I spoke about last time.

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Speaker 2: I had a good old winge about the fact that

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Speaker 2: everything's AI powered now and I'm kind of over it.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it seems that way, and I just don't

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Speaker 2: think it's good enough. I think it's AI should not

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Speaker 2: be an excuse for not coming up with anything cool

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Speaker 2: and innovatives for consumers to get their handle on in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: So no one's actually kind of hinting at some cool

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Speaker 3: U tech to come.

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Speaker 2: Well, not really. I mean I had a lot of

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Speaker 2: hopes depend on the new Nintendo switch, which got announced

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Speaker 2: I think it was yesterday, and I was hoping that

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Speaker 2: with the Nintendo Switch too, they do something funky and

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Speaker 2: exciting and you know, break the mold. But I mean

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Speaker 2: it looks the same as a Nintendo switch and acts

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Speaker 2: the same, and you know, I feel like that translates

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Speaker 2: over the phones, over the computers, and you know, when

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Speaker 2: Christmas rolls around and kids ask the mums and dads

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Speaker 2: take I'd like the new iPhone? Can I have the

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Speaker 2: new iPhone for Christmas. I'm sure there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: parents out there just thinking, looks it looks the same

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Speaker 2: as the last one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you go, no, no, here's mine, and I'll go

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Speaker 3: get a new one.

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Speaker 1: Look there.

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Speaker 3: I suppose I suppose there's kind of a silver lining

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Speaker 3: to the fact that there are no shiny new things

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Speaker 3: for us all to go and spend our money on.

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Speaker 3: Is that you can just keep using the same gaming

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Speaker 3: console you've got, Like, you know, we're not throbbing things

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Speaker 3: out or moving things on because there's something new coming out.

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Speaker 3: I suppose it's it's not a bad thing. We you know,

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Speaker 3: little less rorism. We're holding on to our things and

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Speaker 3: looking after them, well, aren't we.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the Sony Walkman isn't getting shuppered in a

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Speaker 2: cupboard for the next twenty years just because the new

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Speaker 2: Income three came out, So I think it is probably

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Speaker 2: quite good. I mean, I'm still running my computer from

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. As bad as that sounds coming from a

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Speaker 2: tech commentator, you know, I've recently brought a new phone,

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Speaker 2: but it was only out of necessity because the last

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Speaker 2: one decided to die.

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Speaker 3: So yeahs, tell me about the options that you that

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Speaker 3: you dissolve when you're looking at you new phone and

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Speaker 3: what you went for, and y.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean very quick clear, I think phones for

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Speaker 2: s scream reason seemed to be getting really expensive. You know,

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Speaker 2: it was only about five years ago that if you

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Speaker 2: go and buy the top of the line Huawei or

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Speaker 2: Fansung or iPhone and it would cost you about a grand.

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Speaker 2: And now you know, you go out there in things

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Speaker 2: are two sometimes three thousand dollars for what is essentially

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Speaker 2: the same thing as it was the year before. So

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Speaker 2: I went and I settled for I said, for a

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Speaker 2: lovely little mid range phone called wait for it, it's

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Speaker 2: called an Oppo Reno twelve five D Pro, which is

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Speaker 2: surely the longest name in technology at the moment. There

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Speaker 2: was a frantic purchase the day before Christmas because my

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Speaker 2: last one decided not to turn on. And yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: perfectly functional. It's probably a really good opportunity if people

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Speaker 2: want to upgrade their devices to have something that is

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Speaker 2: nice and comfortable and intuitive and isn't going to break

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Speaker 2: the bank.

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Speaker 3: And it's got the contemporary teek on it. I presume

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Speaker 3: it sure does.

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Speaker 2: It's got all the amenities of the modern phone and

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Speaker 2: it's powered by AI, which you can take believe to

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Speaker 2: be honest, but I've been playing around with the camera

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Speaker 2: and it's got some really cool AI functions to edit

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Speaker 2: people out of photos or things out of photos, and

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Speaker 2: it's quite a normal Tico. Yeah pretty please with look

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Speaker 2: so far, I'm sure there'll be an opportunity for me

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Speaker 2: to mention it later on down the track, give an

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Speaker 2: update and how it's running.

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Speaker 3: Brilliant. Thanks Oscar.

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