WEBVTT - Galaxy S26 Ultra hands-on, VPNs explained & why algorithms are replacing shared culture (163, February 28, 2026) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.560 What's going on. I'm Rich DeMuro and this is Rich 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.320 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.400 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.799 also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.840 I believe that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.080 All right, let's do it. Let's open up those phone 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:22.479 lines at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.160 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.760 Give me a call. If you have a question about technology, 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.960 email is also open. Just go to the website Richontech 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.800 dot TV. All right, we've got some great guests this week. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:44.879 We've got Lexi Savidi's formerly of cnet. She was at 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.400 the Samsung event with me. She is gonna help break 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.600 down everything Samsung, what she thinks of the latest phones 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.520 and all that good stuff. And uh later, we've got 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.560 Kim Cavallo from the Global Day of Unplugging. Are you 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.200 ready to give up your phone for twenty four hours? 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.480 Could you do it? I did this a couple of 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:08.440 years ago and it was tough. That's happening this weekend? Well, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.800 I guess next weekend, I should say so. Kim will 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.240 talk all about that and how you can help reset 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.840 your relationship with tech. Well, I just got back from 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:23.160 San Francisco, where Samsung held their annual Unpacked event. First 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.360 time I've been to San Francisco like city proper in 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.240 a while, and honestly, I was very surprised. The city 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.800 is much cleaner than it has been in recent years, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.440 much more energetic, people are out. I walked the entire 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.080 city day and night. The only thing I noticed lots 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.679 of empty storefronts. So that stuff is going to take 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.480 a while to come back. And that's not just a 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.000 sign of San Francisco, it's a sign of just our 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.480 times in general. You know, all these stores that we 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.800 used to go to are just not a thing anymore. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.880 You know, we go to Amazon and we purchase stuff. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.840 So I think that's gonna be a little bit of 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.360 a long runway for them to get all those stores 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.800 filled again. But I will tell you, San Francisco is 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.400 still such a fun city. Every time I go there, 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.720 I just realized, like it's such a foody city. It's 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.520 got so much history, it's got so much personality, and 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.280 I love this now, the old and the new. So 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.240 you've got cable cars, which I still think are incredible. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:15.840 The fact that you know, one hundred years later, those 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.640 are still on the San Francisco streets, but now the 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.240 streets are filled with these Waimo robotaxis. So you've got 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.640 old meats new, and I think that's very uniquely San Francisco. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.520 So of course that's all the perfect backdrop for a 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.240 major tech launch, and that was the Samsung Galaxy S 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.560 twenty six event. Samsung did bring me there, but of course, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:38.880 you know, they have no bearing on what I say 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.320 or what I do, no editorial control of what I 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.760 say here, but they did show me the phones early, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:45.840 and of course I got hands on. I have it 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.320 right here. Where is it? Here? It is? I can't 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.600 see it, of course unless you're watching on the streaming show. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.320 But this is the Samsung Galaxy S twenty six Ultra 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.360 and the cobalt violet color. So I guess that's kind 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.480 of like a purple dark purply color. And I'm gonna 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.919 focus mostly what I say on the Ultra because that's 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.160 where all of that's where all of Samsung's biggest innovations are. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.440 So first impression, if you look at the phone, you're 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.720 gonna say, Okay, that looks like last year's model. Sure, 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.280 it's familiar, but it is slimmer, and it's also easier 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.880 to hold. They definitely rounded the edges and the sides 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.200 a little bit, so I think it feels much better 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.519 in the hand. They also moved from titanium back to aluminum, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.800 so that makes the phone lighter, makes this frame stronger, 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.400 and apparently because it's aluminum, you can get the colors 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.480 to be richer, so it does have like a kind 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.600 of a richer color than in year's past as well, 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.080 so the physical form of the phone is great. Other 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.200 colors include sky blue, white, black, and then they've got 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.600 some online exclusives. Then of course we move on to 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.560 the processor and performance. So this has got a Snapdragon 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.480 chip inside. Qualcomm is just killing it with their chips 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.320 right now. They got them in phones, they've got them 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.720 in computers, and they're fast, and they're optimized for battery 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.880 life and speed and of course AI, and that's where 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.560 you saw the biggest performance gains on this phone, all 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.880 about AI. They also made the vapor chamber bigger. Now 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:09.800 I know that's such a nerdy thing to say about 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.760 a phone, but a vapor chamber is basically a cooling 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.360 chamber inside the phone. The bigger it is, the more 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.760 it can keep it cool under heavy use. Now it 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.080 is going to charge faster, So we've got now sixty 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.880 watts of wired charging on this so you're gonna go 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.520 from about zero seventy five percent battery in thirty minutes. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.480 Then they also improved the wireless charging, so now you're 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.040 gonna you're on par with the iPhone twenty five watts 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.360 of wireless charging. So that's gonna be nice and fast. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.880 But for some reason, Samsung still has not built magnets 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.800 into these phones, and I don't understand, but they did 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.760 put them in this year's official cases. So these phones 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.839 are ch too ready, I know, another nerdy thing to say. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.960 That just means that when you put one of these 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.920 chargers that's a CH two charger on this phone, you're 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.920 gonna get the fastest and most efficient wireless charging. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:56.800 Now. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.520 I always thought the Samsung phones charged fast to begin with. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.680 Now they're even faster, and I have zero problem charging 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.160 these phones, keeping them charged even after a long day 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:10.680 of use. Now, the camera lots of improvements in how 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.520 much light these lenses capture, so the camera setup is 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.200 pretty much the same. Still that two hundred megapixel lens. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:21.159 But the main camera now captures almost fifty percent more light, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.279 the telephoto camera about thirty seven percent more light. What 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.080 does that mean. It means that your pictures at night 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.400 and in low light are going to look better. And 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.080 I will tell you I walked around San Francisco at night. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.840 I took a whole bunch of nighttime pictures and I 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.559 am super impressed. The pictures take very fast, they look great. 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.840 The processing. I mean, it's just I am super super impressed. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.599 And also they're using AI now a lot more. I 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:53.280 know AIAIAI to reduce noise in the lenses per lens 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.000 for better low light video. And I've got some low 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.200 light video I took and that looked amazing. The selfie 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.920 camera this is they've replaced their hardware image sensor processing 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.600 with AI. So they've literally gotten rid of a piece 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.360 of hardware that would process the selfie pictures. And they're saying, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.400 oh yeah, a I can handle that now. So that's incredible, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.159 and they're probably gonna end up doing that with the 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.760 other cameras as well. The other lenses, wider field of 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.680 view for the selfies, you can fit more people in 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.520 the lens or in the picture, I should say, lots 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.280 of AI tools. You can edit photos very easily. A 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.279 lot of this stuff is built on Google Gemini, so 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.720 it's very familiar. More ways to create stickers and little 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.640 shareable images, kind of what Apple did with Image Playground. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.160 Document scanning. Oh my gosh, this got such a great upgrade. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.160 If you love taking pictures of documents and scanning them 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.839 with your phone, this is so much better. Like I 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.800 love how good the document scanning is. And now you 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.599 can combine them into PDFs instantly, right from the camera. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.320 So this is great for receipts and anything else. They're 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.640 going to organize all your screenshots into categories. So I 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.760 took a screen shot the other day. This was so cool. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.360 Took a screenshot of a website and next thing, you know, 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.120 when I went to that screen shot and maybe this 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.039 was on the old phone but I just didn't never 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:09.920 notice it, but it had like a link. I said, Oh, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.240 do you want to go to the original page that 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:12.800 you took this from. I said, oh, my gosh, that's 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.840 so smart. So that's neat. Oh audio eraser. If you 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.200 ever have trouble hearing things when you're watching videos online, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.400 now the audio eraser with one toggle can boost the 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:29.400 voice and reduce background noise. That's incredible. Works inside YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.200 and Netflix. They also do this thing called agentic AI, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.280 which they made a big deal of, where you can 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.520 basically ask your phone to call you an uber or 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.840 order you dinner, and AI in the background, no joke, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.000 will do all this stuff for you and then bring 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.280 you to that final screen and you say, Okay, I've 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.040 not been able to test that because I couldn't get 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.640 it to work, but I think it's launching. When these 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.800 phones work, it can screen calls now like the iPhone 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.400 can to ask unknown callers, Hey, why are you calling? 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.800 And then we have the number one biggest feature, the 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.920 new feature the privacy display. So this is basically a 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.000 privacy screen without needing to add a screen protector, so 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.040 if someone's looking at your phone from the side, they 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.200 can't see your screen. And so what they did was 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.360 they built two types of pixels into this phone, wide 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.440 angle pixels and narrow pixels. Wide pixels are on every phone. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.600 The narrow pixels light up when you're using this privacy feature, 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.800 so you can leave it on all the time just 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.080 for specific apps, just for notifications. I was on the 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.320 airplane and I opened up my banking app and I 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.040 was like, ooh, I don't want this person seeing next 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.760 door to me sitting next to me. And I said, oh, yeah, 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.600 it's got the privacy screen. Now. The only trade off 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:39.440 is that the screen kind of looks a little washed 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.000 out when that's active. So it's not something that I 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:43.600 want to use all the time, but it's pretty cool 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.960 to have all right. Pricing, so the price of the 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.480 base models did go up by one hundred dollars this year, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.439 nine hundred dollars starting eleven hundred dollars for the Plus, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.920 but you do get double the memory. The Ultra price 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.520 is the same thirteen hundred dollars. But here's the rub. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.360 If you get the base model, it's two hundred and 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.400 fifty six gigabytes of storage with twelve gigs of RAM. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.160 But if you bump up to five hundred and twelve 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.400 gigs of storage, you get sixteen gigabytes of RAM. I 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.720 think that's the sweet spot. So bottom line, I've just 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.120 had this thing for a couple of days, but I 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.520 will tell you I think it's the best Samsung phone 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.800 I've used so far historically I've preferred the pixel software 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.800 and the cameras, but now I feel like Samsung's gotten 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.920 to the point where the software is so good and 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.920 it's more powerful. I think it's probably the most capable 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.720 all around Android phone right now, and I'll talk about 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.200 it more throughout the show. If you want to see 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.840 my review or my pictures, you can go to the 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:42.040 website rich on Tech dot TV. All right, coming up, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:43.679 we're going to take some of your calls at eight 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.400 eight eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.400 seven four to two four one zero one. Plus i'll 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.800 tell you which password manager is raising prices. That's all 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.679 coming up right here when rich on Tech continues right 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:07.200 after this eight eight eight rich one oh one eight 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.920 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:15.079 Let's go to Susan in north Ridge. Susan, what's up. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.680 I have a family member who got an iPhone seventeen Pro. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:26.520 She currently has a twenty eighteen vintage Samsung J seven vintage. Yeah, well, 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.360 if you knew how how much we we tried to 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.079 get her files from one phone to the other, which, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.000 from what I understand from online, is a challenge the 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.720 Apple iPhone store. They didn't even have the cable the 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:45.800 micro USB to USB c to transfer the files over. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.120 And when I went to Best Buy, who came through 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.160 for me for the cable, I went back to the 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.200 Apple store. They couldn't get the files transferred over using 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.959 the move to iOS because the files would not come 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.320 up on the phone. So they said I'd have to 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.480 my family member would have to figure it out, and 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.120 so I got tasked with trying to figure out how 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:13.480 to do this. The phone she has says you need 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.160 to use Android file transfer, which doesn't work on moving 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:18.359 it from one phone. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:18.480 To the other. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.400 That never worked to begin with that program, I mean never, 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.600 that's the worst. They should just erase that from the internet. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:24.880 It was. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.480 It's horrible, but okay, keep going. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.880 Yeah, I figured that out and so then but the 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.960 new software that they will use doesn't work with the 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.360 old phone. So, to make a long story short, since 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.640 none of the you know it moved to iows didn't 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.880 work either, is there an app or apps that I 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.920 should consider to try and get the she only has 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.280 photos and contacts and text messages on her phone. Is 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.440 there a way like an app that I can use 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.920 or buy to get these files moved over to her 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.280 new phone. And if not, is there a way that 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.880 I can I have an old MacBook Pro. It's High Sierra, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.400 it's really really old. But is there another way that 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:13.719 I can get her contact, text messages and photos transferred 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.000 to her new iPhone Pro. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.559 Well, here's the deal. If she's using an Android, all 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.520 that stuff is in the cloud. Why is it? Why 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:21.560 haven't you checked the cloud? 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.320 I'm not sure that she ever used the cloud. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:25.880 Everything is. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.240 But also on the phone, she got a notification that 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.640 the cloud's getting shut down today February twenty eighth, or 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.160 there's some sort of message she got. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.839 No, that sounds like a scam. They're not shutting down 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.400 the cloud. I'm not that. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.640 But it's just the phone. There's gonna be something about 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.520 it's not going to back up to the cloud anymore. 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.000 Okay, Well, I mean, look, there there's lots of ways 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.520 to do this. Why didn't the move to iOS app work? 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.679 That's what I want to know. That's the thing I'm 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.040 curious about, because that is I mean, this is Wi Fi, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.040 so I mean, there should be no reason why it 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:57.560 wouldn't have worked. Who tried to do this? 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.839 People at the iPhone store, and they had three different 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:00.640 peace people try it. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.760 Okay, Well, then you know here's the deal. If three 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.200 different people at the iPhone store couldn't figure this out 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.640 in person, it's going to be really tough for me 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.440 to figure out what's going on here, not in person. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.640 So to me, what I would do personally is just 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.760 set up the new phone. You're looking at pictures. Pictures 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.160 are very easy to transfer, so I mean you could 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.480 just use any cloud service you can use. I would 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.520 download drop Box to the old phone, upload all the 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.360 pictures to Dropbox, and then transfer them over that way. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.600 You can use an app called Blip which you can 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.280 install in the old phone and the new phone. You 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.920 can send stuff that way wirelessly. I mean, there's just 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.240 so many ways to do this that it's tough. Like 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.320 the official way, since that's not working, it's tough for 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.319 me to give alternatives because you're telling me the cloud's 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.440 not working, the contacts aren't working. I mean, all these 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.640 things should be in the cloud. The three things you 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.880 told me. Text messages are tricky. I will tell you 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.640 that because you can export them, no problem, but there's 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.760 not a way I know of to import them to 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.840 the iPhone. I'm also wondering why we need all this 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.760 stuff on the new phone. I get the contacts, and 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.840 I think that's probably the main thing that I would 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.800 get on there. But if you get the contacts, if 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.840 you go to OK, here's the thing. There's something that 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.840 doesn't add up here. The phone is a Samsung. Samsung 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.600 phones are linked to a Google account. So if you 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.920 go to your Samsung phone and you go to your 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.440 Google account there, make sure it's signed in. Your contacts 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.920 are going to automatically upload. And you can check this 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.560 out by going to Contacts dot Google dot com from 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:35.000 a computer and you can see the list of contacts 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.480 there when you sign in. That's number one. You can 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.640 go to photos dot Google dot com from a computer 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.600 and confirm that all the photos are uploaded to the cloud, 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:48.040 and that's Google Photos. If not install the Google Photos 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.480 app on there, let them upload to the Google Photos 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.400 app and then you can install that app on the 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.480 iPhone and transfer them or just you'll have access to them. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.760 That way. You can also do a Google takeout of 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.040 the photos. Once they're into Google Photos, you can do 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.520 Google takeout. You can export them that way and import 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.280 them directly to iCloud if you want. Now the text 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.200 messages are a little tricky. So there is a program 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:16.640 called SMS Backup and Restore, and if you install that 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.040 on the Android, you can at least create a backup 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.960 copy of the messages. I don't know if you'd be 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.920 able to import those to the iPhone. There's not a 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.320 way that I know how to do that without a 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.480 third party program, which would be something like amazing. The 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.960 other thing, because it is a Samsung, you can just 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:37.440 export everything from this phone to a flash drive. So 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:41.720 if you go into your settings and I got to 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.080 find where this is, Oh my gosh, of course. Okay, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.640 we go into settings and we go into I think, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.040 is it advanced features. Let's see here. I know it's 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:55.320 on here somewhere. I'm gonna type in backup okay, backup 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.600 data transfer. Here we go. So if you go to 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:03.080 accounts and back up up okay, and once you're in there, 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.680 you can actually export everything to a flash drive. It 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:12.760 says transfer data for device setup or external storage transfer, 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.120 so you can do either of those things. But there 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.200 are there are just so many ways of doing this. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.000 I'm just I'm concerned that nothing that you told me 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.480 is working, so it's tough for me to tell you 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.120 to try all these things, because if the basic app 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.840 that Apple's giving you, which has moved to iOS, is 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.760 not working from Google Play, I can't be guaranteed that 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.200 all the rest is of this is going to work. Susan, 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.080 thanks for the call today, appreciate it. Eighty to eight 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.560 rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to two 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:47.280 four one zero one. You know I talk about password 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.840 managers a lot. Well, if you use one password, your 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.640 price is going up. One password is increasing the price 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:59.800 of its annual subscription plans on effect on March twenty seventh, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.480 twenty six applying at your next renewal date. So if 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.720 your new renewal date is before that, you'll be okay, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.080 you'll get another year. But if it's after that, it's 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.720 going up. So the individual plan goes from about thirty 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.560 six dollars a year to forty eight dollars a year. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.760 Family plan goes from about sixty to seventy two, so 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.840 it's about a dollar more per month depending on the 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:26.639 plan you're on. Now here's the deal. This isn't a 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.840 reason to jump ship. If you're using one password, you 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.280 like one password, A dollar a month extra is not 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.840 going to kill you. So stick with it. It's easy. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.919 With that said, if you're not using all the features 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.280 of a paid password manager. So one Password is actually 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.120 a fan favorite. People love this. I have not personally 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:49.159 used it, but people really do love one Password. So 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.800 if you're not using all the features though for a 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.439 paid plan, then you know you should consider switching to 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.879 maybe a cheaper or free password manager. I personally like 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.600 Warden because they have a great free version. But let's see, 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:07.639 so individual, you're getting about three dollars a month, generate passwords, 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.680 auto save share items securely with anyone, use on your devices, 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.879 get alerts for week passwords. So you know you're getting 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.120 some features for that three dollars a month, and they've 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.400 got a whole list of okay, all the different things 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.879 that you can do there. Anyway, just be aware that 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.399 when you see that email, it's probably real. Just be 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.560 of course, on the lookout for the fact that because 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.600 they're raising prices, you might see some scam emails that 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.680 try to get you to log in or change things 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.680 or whatever. Just be aware of that. So one Password 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:42.359 raising prices effective March twenty seventh. Let's go to the 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:47.880 phone lines line too. Vincent in Lynnwood California. Vincent, you're 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.880 on with Rich Hell Rich. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:50.280 Hi. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:55.280 I saw your news letter this morning. Oh great mine, 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:00.919 and you did a wonderful well fall out review of 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:02.679 the Samsung. 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:03.680 Thank you. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:09.160 Now I don't hear to talk about another smartphone now. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:17.440 I'm currently own a uh California issued uh uh Android 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:24.119 okay for Ford g And this week I happen to 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:32.000 see online that the state is now also offering an 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:41.520 iPhone eleven to those who are yeah, use things like CalFresh. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.360 Or yeah, yeah, we don't. Yes, it's like a lifeline 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.720 plan kind of thing. Yeah, I've done a story. It's 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.359 it's it's like a lifeline plan. It's like a free 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.680 phone line. I think it's uh, you know, it's through 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.320 a government program. So yeah, so you So now they're 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:59.080 offering you an iPhone eleven versus this dumpy Android phone. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.920 Yeah yeah, they call them government phones. Yeah yeah, and 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:10.640 I'm guessing the iPhone eleven is like the yeah iOS 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:12.280 equivalent of a four G. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.719 Oh it's even better. I mean, I if you're asking 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:17.800 if you should get this, I would one hundred percent, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.600 one thousand percent yesterday get this new phone. Are they 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:22.440 gonna charge you anything? 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.159 Which still have many the resources I could you know 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:29.200 use today. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.680 Well, here's the deal. I will tell you the iPhone 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:36.719 eleven is on the lowest of the so iOS twenty 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.880 six is the newest operating system on iPhone and iPhone 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.520 eleven is the last phone that it works with that's 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.359 compatible with SO next year or I guess the end 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.200 of this year when iOS twenty seven comes out. Uh, 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:56.159 the typically the oldest phone falls off the list, so 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.399 it would not be eligible for the update. But here's 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:02.119 the thing, Apple, still it's out security updates for a while, 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.520 even if they don't update the operating system. So at 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.040 bottom line, Vincent, even if you got this phone number one, 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:09.919 you're going to be happier from the first second you 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.600 have this phone. It's going to be faster, the screen 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:17.359 is going to be better. It does support five G. Actually, 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.119 hold on, let me just make sure it supports five G. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.160 I think it does. Oh, it does not support five G. Wow, 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.280 I stand corrected. It's still four G. Five G is 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.440 iPhone twelve or newer? But it doesn't matter. Look, the 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:33.000 device itself is going to be so much better than 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.000 this Android device that they give you, because I've seen 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:38.439 the Android devices that they give out and they're just 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.240 not very good. So the fact that they're offering an iPhone, 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.000 even though it's older, it's going to be a world 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.560 of difference, the camera, just everything. So I would say, 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.760 get this tomorrow. What's the process for getting it? You 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:52.520 just ask for it? 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:58.120 Oh, you have to go online and just yeah check 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:00.720 it out, and I sink they I no, I don't 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.919 looked at it yet, So I don't know whether you 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:09.000 can have a uh an Android and an i've phone 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.040 yeah simultaneously. 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:13.679 No, I would just replace the Android with this, so 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:16.640 and I would just replace it with this. You're gonna 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:20.040 have access to better apps, it's gonna be faster, just 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:21.720 everything is going to be better. So I don't I 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.160 don't think there's even a question about this. I'd say 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:26.760 go for it, Vincent, You're gonna you're gonna really enjoy 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:30.560 this phone. By the way, an iPhone eleven unlocked is 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.879 about one hundred and forty three dollars used, so you 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:40.240 know it's it's still iPhones just really keep their value 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.200 for a long time, so that whatever Android phone they've 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:47.280 given you for this free government cell phone plan, they're 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.320 just not very good. They're very basic. The screens are 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.359 not very good, the power, you know, the processor is 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:57.359 not very good. Even you'll notice even the reception on 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.440 the iPhone is going to be better than this Android 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:01.840 phone you have. And I'm not knocking Android. I'm just 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:05.040 saying specifically, the cheap androids that they give out for 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:09.240 these government you know, these government subsidized phone plans are 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:11.639 just not very good. And that's, you know, it's just 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:13.359 the way it is. They're not giving you the highest 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:15.800 end phones. They're not even a name brand. It's like 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:17.800 a brand you haven't even heard of. I know the brand, 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:20.320 I've seen them, but they're not like, they're not very common. 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:22.359 It's not a Samsung, it's not a Pixel. If they 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.919 would just give people a Pixel ten a or a 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:29.640 Pixel nine a, that'd be incredible. But they don't. They 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:32.800 give you not a very good phone. Anyway, Vincent, go 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:35.040 for it, Enjoy. I think you're gonna like it a lot. 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:38.960 Michelle wrote in on the website, Hey, Rich, I got 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:43.240 an email about my LGTV account saying I can't log 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:45.720 in with Amazon anymore and need to use my lg 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:48.800 account instead. It looks like a phishing email to me. 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:52.840 Is it legit Michelle, taking a look at this email. 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:55.600 It is legit, and here's what they're saying. Basically, when 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.960 you first signed into this TV, instead of creating an 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:02.119 LG account, or in addition to the LG account, you 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:05.000 signed in with Amazon, kind of like when you're browsing 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.680 the web. It says, hey, sign in with Facebook, sign 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.560 in with Google, sign in with Apple. You signed in 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:13.320 with Amazon, which is not as common, but it's there, 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:16.400 and so it's not a phishing email. They're just basically 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:19.000 telling you you need to sign in with your LG 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:23.080 email and password from now on. So it doesn't affect 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:25.760 any of your subscriptions, your Prime Video, any of that 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:28.480 stuff has nothing to do with that. All they're saying 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:30.919 is that they're not using that Amazon login anymore. This 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:33.480 happens a lot when companies just decide they don't want 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:36.520 to have that log in support it anymore. So all 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:38.359 you need to know is that you'll either need to 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:41.520 create an LG account or you already have one, and 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:42.959 so that's the way you're going to log in on 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:48.359 this TV from now on. Good question, DeBie writes in Hey, Rich, 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:51.480 years ago, a coworker went to CS and came back 0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:55.080 saying banking apps were easier to hack and we shouldn't 0:24:55.160 --> 0:24:57.520 use them. That was about ten years ago. Because of that, 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:00.240 I never added my credit card bank to my phone. 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:04.040 Has that changed, Debbie? If I told you how many 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:06.800 credit cards I added to my phone in the past week. 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:13.320 I've used online accounts and banking for years, if not 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:17.960 probably since day one since it was available knock on wood, 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:21.639 I've had no problems. The main thing is, obviously you 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:26.760 have to use good hygiene, strong unique passwords for all 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:31.639 of these accounts, two factor authentication, and the banks go 0:25:31.720 --> 0:25:35.719 as far as using new and unique ways to authorize you. So, 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:38.560 for instance, I was setting up this Samsung phone and 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:42.080 I was logging into my Chase app, and I'm not kidding. 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:45.359 I had my username, my password, and a two factor 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:48.200 authentication code. And then guess what I've never seen this before. 0:25:48.520 --> 0:25:50.359 Is said, now take your credit card out of your 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:53.040 wallet and tap it to the back of this phone 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:55.680 to authorize the use of this app on this phone. 0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:59.040 I said, what, I would have never thought about. That 0:25:59.880 --> 0:26:02.119 a wild thing. And I also saw Amazon did the 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:04.439 same thing. My mom was trying to buy something and 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:06.200 it said, hey, you haven't logged in on this phone 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:09.080 before tap your credit card to authorize your account and 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:12.080 to make this payment. What now that I don't think 0:26:12.119 --> 0:26:14.679 the iPhone does that, but on Android it does. So 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:17.600 banks use a lot of security, and adding your credit 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:20.440 card or your debit card to your phone, I would 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:25.280 actually argue is more secure than actually using your credit 0:26:25.280 --> 0:26:29.320 card or debit card in person when possible. Always tap 0:26:29.400 --> 0:26:33.680 to pay, always, always, always, always. Now, if you insert 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:37.560 your card with the chip, that is just as secure 0:26:37.600 --> 0:26:40.359 as tap to pay. They're both the same. But I 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.800 would argue that tap to pay is actually more secure 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:46.280 because you first have to authorize your phone by unlocking 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:48.320 it with your fingerprint or your face or your pin 0:26:48.760 --> 0:26:51.840 to authorize that transaction, whereas anyone could pop your card 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:54.439 into a slot if they find it and make a 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:58.040 payment or make a purchase. Good question, Debbie, Thanks for 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:01.679 the email, the website, rich on tech dot TV, the 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:04.600 phone line eight eight eight rich one oh one eight 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:07.200 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one 0:27:07.200 --> 0:27:10.560 coming up. Oh, we got a lot to tell you. 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:14.240 Volvo is recalling a bunch of their electric SUVs, and 0:27:14.280 --> 0:27:18.760 we've got a new weather app from some notable creators. 0:27:18.800 --> 0:27:20.720 And I'll tell you what it does. It does rainbow 0:27:20.720 --> 0:27:23.920 alerts and sunset notifications. I'll explain coming up right here. 0:27:24.119 --> 0:27:33.960 I'm Rich on tech. Dave writes in from Colorado, listening 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:36.920 on six thirty AM. Hey, Rich, I'm worried about dying 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:39.560 alone in my home and no one knowing. Oh wow, 0:27:39.560 --> 0:27:42.679 we're just getting right into it on this this section 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:45.000 of the show. I've been trying to find some kind 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:47.800 of tech solution, kind of like the mortality sensor they 0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:51.119 use in wolf tracking callers that alert someone if the 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.359 animal dies. So far, I've had no luck. Do you 0:27:53.400 --> 0:27:58.639 know of anything like that? Wow, that's an interesting question, Dave. 0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:01.760 Not really something I've thought about. But actually that's not true. 0:28:01.800 --> 0:28:03.160 I think about it all the time because I run 0:28:03.240 --> 0:28:05.720 a lot, and I just always think about and I've 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:07.960 talked about this on the show. I know, but like 0:28:08.119 --> 0:28:10.240 me just laying in a ditch, like how long would 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:11.880 it take for someone to find me and figure out 0:28:11.880 --> 0:28:14.400 who I am and alert my next of kin. That's 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:17.880 why when I run, I typically put like an ID 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:21.600 in my pocket or like it's so sad. This is 0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:24.679 the stuff I think about. But I usually, especially if 0:28:24.680 --> 0:28:27.119 I'm in like a foreign country, I will put like 0:28:27.160 --> 0:28:29.960 an ID in my wallet. And you know, the iPhone 0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:32.560 also has like that emergency thing if you you know, 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:34.719 if you're there and someone knows how to access that, 0:28:35.600 --> 0:28:39.760 you should fill that out the medical ID, and so 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:42.840 does Android, and so does Samsung. But I run with 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:45.240 just my watch, so that would not work in my case. 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:51.680 So here's my best solution. The Google Pixel Watch has 0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:55.480 a feature called loss of pulse detection, so if your 0:28:55.480 --> 0:28:58.640 heart stops, it will call nine one one for you. 0:28:59.280 --> 0:29:02.200 So that's not exactly a wildlife tracking caller, but that's 0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:05.920 probably the closest. Now, on the other flip side, they've 0:29:05.960 --> 0:29:09.120 got the fall detection on the Apple Watch, So I 0:29:09.160 --> 0:29:12.720 would imagine if you drop dead and you fell, your 0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:17.160 Apple Watch would recognize that and call nine one one. 0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:19.480 But at the end of the day, you know, we've 0:29:19.520 --> 0:29:22.560 all watched the TV shows. It's going to be a 0:29:22.600 --> 0:29:26.480 couple of days before someone realizes you're probably you're not 0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:29.280 going to show up to church or to work, or 0:29:29.320 --> 0:29:32.480 to some sort of event that you are scheduled to 0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:35.760 be at, and someone's gonna be like, where's Dave. Come 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:37.680 to think of it, I haven't heard from him in 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:40.040 a while. Let's go to his house and see what's 0:29:40.080 --> 0:29:45.080 going on. I hope that doesn't happen. But anyway, those 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:49.200 are the solutions that I can think of. Maybe, you 0:29:49.240 --> 0:29:52.400 know when it's tricky when you live alone. I mean, 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:54.880 there's this whole thing in the US where, you know, 0:29:55.320 --> 0:29:59.880 I've heard all these studies that you want someone you 0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:02.200 you want someone to live on their own for as 0:30:02.240 --> 0:30:04.560 long as possible because it makes them live longer. Right, 0:30:04.880 --> 0:30:07.760 But if you are never leaving the house, I think 0:30:07.800 --> 0:30:11.640 that's probably not good. Right, Like, if you're living by 0:30:11.680 --> 0:30:14.000 yourself and no one comes to visit you, and you 0:30:14.000 --> 0:30:16.400 don't leave the house, you don't do anything. I think 0:30:16.440 --> 0:30:20.760 that's a fast lane to your detriment. But if you're 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:22.959 going out with friends and doing things and people are 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:25.520 coming over, that's fine. But you know, you heard, you 0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:27.120 hear these stories of people as soon as they go 0:30:27.120 --> 0:30:28.920 to like assisted living or something like that, it's like 0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:32.280 it's the end is near. I'm not an expert in 0:30:32.280 --> 0:30:35.880 this stuff. I'm just telling you stuff i've heard. Let's 0:30:35.920 --> 0:30:38.520 go to Lee in Los Angeles. Hopefully Lee, you can 0:30:38.560 --> 0:30:40.240 brighten us up. Lee. What's up? 0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:41.600 I don't know. 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:44.560 It's like ninety degrees out here near Pomona, California. 0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:47.440 So if that's bright, oh. 0:30:46.880 --> 0:30:51.000 Well that's hot. We're having like summer weather in Los Angeles. 0:30:52.160 --> 0:30:54.840 But apparently my friends on the East coast, my family 0:30:54.880 --> 0:30:56.760 have told me that it's actually pretty warm there after 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:59.080 they got a cold spell. So anyway, what can I 0:30:59.080 --> 0:31:00.280 help you with, Lee? 0:31:00.480 --> 0:31:02.800 All my relatives are in Jersey and they can go 0:31:02.920 --> 0:31:05.440 through the snowstorm, so it's it's kind of bad out 0:31:05.440 --> 0:31:08.280 there anyway. First of all, thanks for your tech direcord 0:31:08.320 --> 0:31:10.440 for playing that kind of Crows song. I love that 0:31:10.720 --> 0:31:11.040 me too. 0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:14.840 Have you watched the documentary yet on an HBO Max? 0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:16.480 Not yet? 0:31:17.080 --> 0:31:17.440 Was it good? 0:31:17.720 --> 0:31:20.080 Uh? It wasn't good, but it was okay. I mean 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:21.800 I watched on a plane. It was about an hour, 0:31:22.120 --> 0:31:24.040 and I enjoyed. What I enjoyed the most is that 0:31:24.080 --> 0:31:27.480 they interspersed the music the whole time. I also didn't 0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:32.640 realize that Adam Durretz dated two of the Friends characters, 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:38.480 or I guess cast members Courtney Cox and then Jennifer Aniston, 0:31:39.360 --> 0:31:43.960 Like what who gets to do that? Anyway, go ahead, Lee. 0:31:45.800 --> 0:31:47.720 Well it's funny you brought up that dog caror thing 0:31:47.760 --> 0:31:49.840 for the old guys. I'm an old guy remember men 0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:50.280 in black. 0:31:50.400 --> 0:31:52.680 Hey, old guys, I'm on. 0:31:52.800 --> 0:31:57.200 A California Lifeline. I've had, I guess for eight years now. 0:31:57.680 --> 0:31:59.400 They give you a free phone if you're on food 0:31:59.440 --> 0:32:02.760 stachers up like that, and what happens I would safely 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:08.680 currently that's one of the proscribed companies that Lifeline deals with. 0:32:09.120 --> 0:32:11.440 And what happens after about a year, your phone stops 0:32:11.480 --> 0:32:13.520 working and then you have to call the company and 0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:16.640 say why, and they tell you, wait a minute, you've 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:19.520 ben switch to a different company. This has happened three 0:32:19.600 --> 0:32:22.200 times to me in the last two years, and it's 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:26.560 starting to get really, really annoying. Contacted. This is basically fraud. 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:30.160 I've called the coupany Lifeline people to do investigation. They 0:32:30.240 --> 0:32:32.840 ever get back to me, and all these guys that 0:32:33.000 --> 0:32:35.480 hand out the phones in front of the usually there 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:40.760 they get once of people and if you don't qualify 0:32:40.840 --> 0:32:43.600 for one, they go, I've seen this happen. Hold on, 0:32:43.880 --> 0:32:45.880 wait a minute, and then they get in their little 0:32:45.920 --> 0:32:48.280 files and they find somebody that they gave one to 0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:50.440 and said, Okay, we got you covered. We're going to 0:32:50.520 --> 0:32:54.120 do this, and their phone starts working and mine's dead. 0:32:54.280 --> 0:32:58.440 What can we do to stop the fraud in that system. 0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:01.240 Well, here's the problem. I mean, you're talking about a 0:33:01.240 --> 0:33:03.080 lot of things going on here, and I think what 0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:07.040 happens is is the companies that hand out these phone 0:33:07.040 --> 0:33:09.520 you know, it's a government program, and then you've got 0:33:09.560 --> 0:33:12.840 the companies that actually distribute the phones, and I think 0:33:12.920 --> 0:33:15.920 they get paid and they get a commission based on 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:18.600 how many of these phones they can get into people's hands. 0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:21.320 So the problem is once they get them into people's hands, 0:33:21.320 --> 0:33:24.160 guess what, they wipe their hands clean, they collect their 0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:27.360 little commission and they don't care. And so that's the 0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:29.800 big problem I think with this program. And so what 0:33:29.840 --> 0:33:31.920 can we do to solve that? I mean, do you 0:33:32.000 --> 0:33:34.640 want the government to actually do it all from start 0:33:34.680 --> 0:33:36.640 to finish and you only deal with them, then the 0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:39.239 program would cost even more. And this is you know, 0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:41.680 you got a lot going on here. It's not cut 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:44.080 and dry, Lea. But I'm glad you brought some of 0:33:44.080 --> 0:33:46.400 that to the forefront so people can hear what's going 0:33:46.440 --> 0:33:49.640 on there. But at least the program's working out for you. 0:33:49.920 --> 0:33:52.880 That's that's the good news. Thanks for the call today, 0:33:52.920 --> 0:33:55.280 eight to eight Rich one oh one eighty eight seven 0:33:55.360 --> 0:34:02.440 four to two four one zero one. Coming up this hour, 0:34:02.920 --> 0:34:05.520 we're gonna talk more about the Samsung event. I'm gonna 0:34:05.600 --> 0:34:10.520 discuss with tech journalist Lexi Savid's. She's gonna talk about 0:34:10.600 --> 0:34:12.720 what she thinks of the phone and we'll compare notes. 0:34:13.440 --> 0:34:16.600 And then later next hour we've got Kim Cavallo from 0:34:16.640 --> 0:34:20.360 the Global Day of Unplugging. You know, it was in 0:34:20.400 --> 0:34:24.480 San Francisco this week and they've got those Weimo cars everywhere, 0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:28.080 like everywhere is a WAIM like. I don't think I 0:34:28.120 --> 0:34:31.520 saw a regular taxi ubers sure, but I will tell 0:34:31.520 --> 0:34:34.200 you I had a thought about this. Remember when you 0:34:34.239 --> 0:34:37.400 get to a town and you jump in a taxi, 0:34:37.920 --> 0:34:39.600 what's the first thing you do when you get in 0:34:39.600 --> 0:34:43.839 that taxi? You would ask the person, Hey, what's cool 0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:46.000 around here? What's a good restaurant, what's a good place? 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:47.799 Where do people hang out? What do people do here? 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:51.200 When you're in an autonomous car, there is no soul, 0:34:52.480 --> 0:34:56.000 no more soul, not to the car, not to the city. 0:34:56.520 --> 0:35:01.279 It is literally just a transactional agree between you and 0:35:01.320 --> 0:35:03.560 that car to get you to where you're going, and 0:35:03.600 --> 0:35:06.680 it navigates those streets, but it doesn't know what's opened, 0:35:07.200 --> 0:35:09.719 what's closed in a couple of recent years, doesn't know 0:35:09.760 --> 0:35:11.319 the hot spots. I mean, I guess it does because 0:35:11.320 --> 0:35:14.799 it drops people off there. That's just big data. But 0:35:15.040 --> 0:35:17.600 it just it made me realize that we are slowly 0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:22.120 eroding kind of the heart and soul of humanity with 0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:24.759 all this technology that's automated that I love, by the way, 0:35:25.440 --> 0:35:28.759 but it's like it's just slowly but surely changing the 0:35:28.760 --> 0:35:34.600 fabric of how we interact as humans. Autonomous cars, that's 0:35:35.160 --> 0:35:36.799 just the tip of the iceberg. What about the fact 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:40.000 that every single person you know is on a different track, 0:35:40.120 --> 0:35:44.520 every single person. You're watching one show, they're watching another show. 0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:47.360 You're listening to one thing, they're listening to other. Remember 0:35:47.480 --> 0:35:51.400 back in the day, everyone everyone was tuned into the 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:54.719 same thing on the TV, on the radio. It was 0:35:54.760 --> 0:35:57.240 all the same. We would talk about it the next 0:35:57.239 --> 0:36:00.680 morning at work or at school. What happened last night? 0:36:00.719 --> 0:36:03.800 I mean, obviously Who Shot Jr? Is probably the most 0:36:03.840 --> 0:36:08.040 prominent example of that, But for everything American Idol in 0:36:08.080 --> 0:36:11.600 recent years, all who won last Night? You know, award shows, 0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:13.800 that kind of stuff is the only stuff we have nowadays. 0:36:14.000 --> 0:36:17.279 Anything that's live, whether it's an award show or it 0:36:17.400 --> 0:36:22.399 is sports. That's basically it. Everything else. You talk to someone, Hey, 0:36:22.400 --> 0:36:24.839 what are you watching, The last five movies they watch 0:36:24.880 --> 0:36:27.360 are completely different than the last five movies you watched. 0:36:27.360 --> 0:36:29.719 Where when I grew up, a movie open on a 0:36:29.719 --> 0:36:33.040 weekend and you either saw it or you didn't, and 0:36:33.080 --> 0:36:35.319 that was it, and you talked about it, and that 0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:38.759 went for everything, every single thing that was interesting in 0:36:38.800 --> 0:36:41.759 the world. We all did it and experienced it at 0:36:41.760 --> 0:36:45.759 the same time. Now it's anyone's guess, and it's an algorithm, 0:36:45.840 --> 0:36:48.560 by the way, that's directing ninety nine percent of what 0:36:48.600 --> 0:36:52.439 people are seeing, what they're feeling, what they're thinking. It's 0:36:52.520 --> 0:36:56.480 all driven by technology. Now, you know, I love technology, 0:36:57.080 --> 0:36:59.839 but this really makes me sad, the fact that there 0:36:59.880 --> 0:37:05.319 is almost zero shared experience in our world today. That's 0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:08.319 why I think that in person, being with someone, being 0:37:08.360 --> 0:37:11.080 at dinner with someone, being at lunch with someone, being 0:37:11.120 --> 0:37:14.520 out with someone, that's really the only way that we 0:37:14.640 --> 0:37:17.480 can connect anymore with other people. Because you go to 0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:19.160 work and it's like, oh, I haven't seen that show. Sorry, 0:37:19.200 --> 0:37:21.759 I don't talk to me about it. Please. You know, you 0:37:21.800 --> 0:37:24.800 can comment online, you can feel like you're part of something, 0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:28.360 but are you really now in some ways, it's amazing. 0:37:28.800 --> 0:37:32.560 You know, you have a certain you know, disease or 0:37:32.560 --> 0:37:36.279 a certain ailment, or you know, something afflicting you, and 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:38.000 you can go online and find people that have the 0:37:38.040 --> 0:37:40.319 same exact thing and discuss it with them, or even 0:37:40.360 --> 0:37:43.200 you know, problem with your technology whatever. That's amazing. I 0:37:43.200 --> 0:37:47.360 think that's incredible. The connecting ability of technology is great. 0:37:47.840 --> 0:37:49.520 But have you ever seen, you know, someone that you 0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:52.000 you follow, one of your friends that you follow on Instagram, 0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:53.680 You see what they're up to, but then you talk 0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:56.080 to them for like five minutes in real life and 0:37:56.120 --> 0:37:58.960 you really get caught up with them. That to me 0:37:59.120 --> 0:38:03.440 is interesting. Anyway. I don't know why I brought that 0:38:03.520 --> 0:38:05.160 all up. It's just you know, when I go running, 0:38:05.200 --> 0:38:09.680 I think of these things. Let's see what else new 0:38:09.719 --> 0:38:13.680 app this week. It's called acme Weather. I know, funny name. 0:38:13.760 --> 0:38:17.239 It's like reminds me the old cartoons, cartoon characters Actmewather 0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:22.080 is from the creators of Dark Sky. This was a 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:26.040 fan favorite app that was available on I believe iPhone 0:38:26.040 --> 0:38:28.680 and Android back in the day, and then Apple bought 0:38:28.680 --> 0:38:32.560 them in twenty twenty immediately shut them down and just 0:38:32.680 --> 0:38:36.399 integrated their technology into the Apple Weather app. People went 0:38:36.520 --> 0:38:38.759 nuts when this happened, as you know people do, and 0:38:38.760 --> 0:38:41.560 then they forget. But their main thing that they invented 0:38:41.600 --> 0:38:43.239 with dark Sky was you know how you get those 0:38:43.280 --> 0:38:46.440 notifications on your iPhone that says it's gonna rain in 0:38:46.480 --> 0:38:48.440 your area in one minute and you look outside and 0:38:48.600 --> 0:38:50.520 actually didn't, and then sometimes it does and you're like, 0:38:50.520 --> 0:38:53.240 oh wow, that actually worked. That was their claim to fame. 0:38:53.719 --> 0:38:58.600 So now this new app, Actme Weather. There's a couple 0:38:58.600 --> 0:39:01.719 of unique things about it. Number one, they say, look, 0:39:01.800 --> 0:39:07.080 forecasts are not perfect, so we actually show multiple alternate 0:39:07.320 --> 0:39:09.720 forecast lines, so you can kind of see like, instead 0:39:09.719 --> 0:39:11.520 of just one trend of oh the weather's gonna be 0:39:11.520 --> 0:39:15.640 like this, now you can see various takes on what 0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:18.839 the weather might be. So that's number one. And then 0:39:18.840 --> 0:39:22.360 they do all kinds of crowdsourcing of what the weather 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:25.160 is by you locally, so you can get hyper local alerts. 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:29.120 There's of course doing the minute by minute precipitation notifications. 0:39:29.120 --> 0:39:32.520 They're bringing that back severe weather warnings. But here's the 0:39:32.520 --> 0:39:36.400 fun stuff. Rainbow alerts. When there's a rainbow in your neighborhood, 0:39:36.440 --> 0:39:44.480 you can run outside and ghost check it out Adams laughing, Oh, 0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:47.520 come on, who doesn't see a rainbow and immediately takes 0:39:47.560 --> 0:39:49.879 out their phone. They're like, oh my gosh. And I'd 0:39:49.880 --> 0:39:51.399 be lying if I said I didn't try to find 0:39:51.400 --> 0:39:53.280 the end of it, not for the pot of gold, 0:39:53.280 --> 0:39:55.520 but just to see where it ends. How come we 0:39:55.560 --> 0:39:58.560 can ever see that? And then sunset notifications, so if 0:39:58.600 --> 0:40:01.480 there's an amazing sunset, you can get a notification for 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:05.719 that as well. Let's see, it's only iPhone right now. 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:09.200 Android version is planned, and here's the deal. It's not free, 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:11.960 twenty five dollars a year, two week free trials, so 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:14.040 try it out. I downloaded it. It's cool. I mean, 0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:16.279 I don't know if it'll replace my I don't know 0:40:16.280 --> 0:40:18.120 if I'm willing to pay twenty five dollars right now 0:40:18.120 --> 0:40:21.680 for a weather app, but yeah, I mean they're doing 0:40:21.680 --> 0:40:24.319 some cool stuff. By the way, I was in this 0:40:24.360 --> 0:40:26.440 is the thing. I was telling Adam this. Adam's in 0:40:26.480 --> 0:40:28.279 for Bobo today doing the board, and I was telling 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:29.759 him saying, you know, half the fun of going to 0:40:29.840 --> 0:40:32.800 all these events, these tech events are actually just chatting 0:40:32.840 --> 0:40:36.640 with other tech people. And so there's this one tech 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:39.120 person I know and She's always posting these great pictures 0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:42.840 on her Instagram and they're like these old school looking pictures, 0:40:42.920 --> 0:40:45.920 you know, like these they look like a retro camera, right, 0:40:45.920 --> 0:40:47.799 but it's a digital picture. And so I saw her 0:40:47.840 --> 0:40:50.319 and I'm like, hey, tell me what the app you 0:40:50.440 --> 0:40:53.880 use to take these amazing pictures. And she's like, what pictures. 0:40:53.880 --> 0:40:57.120 I'm like, you know, all your pictures on Instagram they 0:40:57.160 --> 0:40:59.680 have this great look to them, and she's like, oh, 0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:03.360 the best staff for that is called Dispo Dispo Dispo 0:41:03.440 --> 0:41:05.920 dot Fun. And again I tell you this, I think 0:41:05.920 --> 0:41:08.000 because I remember because this this app is like twenty 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:10.360 five twenty dollars a year, but I will say I 0:41:10.360 --> 0:41:12.160 took like two pictures with it, and you have it's 0:41:12.160 --> 0:41:13.680 one of these apps that you have to wait to 0:41:13.719 --> 0:41:16.759 get your pictures. They don't They don't show your pictures immediately. 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:19.560 Maybe if you pay the twenty dollars you can. We 0:41:19.640 --> 0:41:21.320 have to wait like twenty four hours or something for 0:41:21.360 --> 0:41:23.640 them to quote unquote develop. But I will tell you 0:41:23.760 --> 0:41:25.800 I took two pictures with this app, and I was like, Okay, 0:41:26.200 --> 0:41:28.160 they do look pretty good. And I've tried so many 0:41:28.200 --> 0:41:31.000 of these little retro picture apps, but that one is 0:41:31.360 --> 0:41:33.200 really good, So Dispo dot fun if you want to 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:37.200 check it out again. iPhone only. You know all these developers, 0:41:37.239 --> 0:41:40.239 they develop iPhone first and then I mean Dispo. I 0:41:40.239 --> 0:41:42.160 feel like it's been out for a while, and then 0:41:42.200 --> 0:41:45.200 they forget about androids somehow. There's a lot of Android 0:41:45.280 --> 0:41:48.600 users out there that want fun stuff like this. And 0:41:48.719 --> 0:41:54.360 Volvo is recalling forty thousand electric SUVs due to a 0:41:54.480 --> 0:41:58.560 battery fire risk the EX thirty. Have I test driven 0:41:58.600 --> 0:42:02.399 this EX thirty? Let's see I've driven some of these. 0:42:04.640 --> 0:42:07.880 Let's see Doug DeMuro has. Everyone always asks if me 0:42:07.920 --> 0:42:10.319 and Doug DeMuro, the car reviewer are related. We are not, 0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:13.120 but we have spoken about it. We've said a hair 0:42:13.120 --> 0:42:18.840 Are we related? Okay? EX thirty recall effects twenty twenty 0:42:18.840 --> 0:42:21.920 four through twenty twenty six model year Volvo EX thirty 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:25.720 specifically the single motor extended range and the twin motor 0:42:25.760 --> 0:42:29.719 performance battery modules supplied by a joint venture linked to 0:42:29.760 --> 0:42:32.799 Volvo's parent company, Jili. Is it Geely or Gilie? I 0:42:32.840 --> 0:42:38.040 forget cells could short circuit or overheat. No widespread incidents, 0:42:38.320 --> 0:42:41.640 but they're proactively doing this because the batteries could be 0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:45.359 a fire hazard. Until repairs are completed. Here's the important part. 0:42:45.719 --> 0:42:48.640 Owners are being told to limit charging to seventy percent. 0:42:49.160 --> 0:42:51.880 Oh and just avoid parking or charging your vehicle in 0:42:51.880 --> 0:42:54.480 your buildings or enclosed spaces. Oh, that's easy to do. 0:42:54.840 --> 0:42:56.719 Just don't park your car near anyone else because your 0:42:56.719 --> 0:43:02.120 car might blow up. Oh okay, cool. Permanent fix involves replacing 0:43:02.120 --> 0:43:07.200 affected battery modules free of charge. Analysts estimate the recall 0:43:07.239 --> 0:43:14.680 could cost Volvo two hundred million dollars. Two hundred million dollars. Crazy. 0:43:15.960 --> 0:43:17.719 So you bought one of these cars. You thought you're 0:43:17.719 --> 0:43:19.960 doing something cool, and now you can't park your car 0:43:20.040 --> 0:43:24.920 near anyone because it might just burst into flames. But 0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:28.840 these things are relatively safe in general, the evs. I 0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:31.160 you know, you know, I talked about my car accident. 0:43:31.440 --> 0:43:33.200 I didn't even think about this until later, but you know, 0:43:33.239 --> 0:43:35.879 it was a pretty bad accident, and my car did 0:43:35.920 --> 0:43:39.080 not light on fire. It felt safe. But there are like, 0:43:39.160 --> 0:43:41.080 you know, if you look at like these electric cars, 0:43:41.120 --> 0:43:44.160 there's like directions on them because you can't cut them 0:43:44.160 --> 0:43:47.400 open with the jaws of life because they're electrified. So 0:43:47.440 --> 0:43:50.200 you gotta be like, I guess these emergency people are 0:43:50.239 --> 0:43:52.600 trained and like where they can actually cut these things open. 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:54.680 You do not want to cut in the wrong place. 0:43:55.000 --> 0:43:56.959 But I guess gas cars. I mean they're filled with gas. 0:43:57.040 --> 0:43:59.960 So what's you know? It's all dangerous. We surround ourselves 0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:02.759 some danger as humans, and we live to talk about it. 0:44:03.120 --> 0:44:05.560 Eighty eight Rich one O one eighty eight seven four 0:44:05.560 --> 0:44:07.239 to two four one zero one. We'll get to the 0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:17.160 calls coming up right after this. Craig has been patiently 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:20.960 waiting in Iowa. Craig, you're on with Rich. How you're going, man, 0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:23.120 I'm doing well. Welcome back to the show. 0:44:24.280 --> 0:44:24.520 Yeah. 0:44:24.600 --> 0:44:27.759 I just went blind about three months ago. I used 0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:31.160 to call you about my new I I sixteen. 0:44:31.400 --> 0:44:34.480 Oh, sorry to hear that, but. 0:44:33.719 --> 0:44:35.920 Yeah, I got glad phone, my fell and finally went 0:44:35.960 --> 0:44:37.120 out my only eye. 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:39.719 Oh yeah, okay, Sorry. 0:44:39.480 --> 0:44:40.600 What I want to ask you? 0:44:41.360 --> 0:44:45.120 I had to out you ask somebody to delete my 0:44:45.760 --> 0:44:50.520 dot ification, delete my incoming outgoing, delete my test maggine. 0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:52.440 Any way I could. 0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:55.640 Do that on a phone by boy, I use my phone. 0:44:55.320 --> 0:44:59.719 My voice, okay, sure, it can't be the clean You're 0:44:59.760 --> 0:45:00.719 talking an iPhone. 0:45:02.120 --> 0:45:04.399 Yeah, I have an I sixteen, you know, okay? 0:45:04.480 --> 0:45:04.680 Yeah? 0:45:04.760 --> 0:45:07.160 Yeah, Well I remember you you switched I believe right. 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:10.120 You got it to the Ice sixteen. 0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:11.239 Okay, okay, a year and. 0:45:11.239 --> 0:45:11.839 A half ago. 0:45:12.040 --> 0:45:13.600 So the good news is, and how you like in 0:45:13.680 --> 0:45:14.759 that phone overall? 0:45:15.880 --> 0:45:18.840 I if I want to download that, I had to 0:45:18.960 --> 0:45:22.360 have some I do. It can't degree and all that. 0:45:23.400 --> 0:45:27.560 If I call you or anybody or play KFI. 0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:33.000 Uh they on KF I oh by you. 0:45:33.000 --> 0:45:35.799 Know, yeah, it'll it'll do a lot of those things. 0:45:36.600 --> 0:45:39.920 Yeah by my voice. Yep. Well here's the deal. And 0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:41.759 you may have to have someone help you kind of 0:45:41.760 --> 0:45:43.759 toggle these things on. But the good news about the 0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:46.040 iPhone is that it's got a lot a lot of 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:50.480 great accessibility uh features. Apple has put a ton of 0:45:50.560 --> 0:45:54.279 thought into accessibility. And once I talk about this, I'm 0:45:54.280 --> 0:45:56.480 sure there are people that that will call that will say, hey, Rich, 0:45:56.520 --> 0:45:59.480 there's this feature. There's that feature. But built into the 0:45:59.480 --> 0:46:04.440 iPhone under accessibility, they've got a section dedicated to vision 0:46:05.719 --> 0:46:08.600 for people, you know, with any sort of vision issues. 0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:10.920 So there's a couple of features there that might be 0:46:11.040 --> 0:46:15.760 important for you. Number one is voiceover, and voiceover will 0:46:15.800 --> 0:46:19.080 speak items on the screen, so you can tap once 0:46:19.160 --> 0:46:22.759 to select an item, double tap to activate the select item. 0:46:23.360 --> 0:46:26.400 And that's number one. So if you look at this, 0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:30.040 I mean, there's just so many I don't even understand 0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:32.239 all the settings in here because there's so many. But 0:46:32.360 --> 0:46:36.440 what I would do, Craig, is I probably get I know, 0:46:36.480 --> 0:46:39.880 there's a good institute, like you know, maybe like a 0:46:41.239 --> 0:46:43.960 institute for the blind or something in your area that 0:46:44.000 --> 0:46:46.680 can maybe give you some guidance on how to set 0:46:46.680 --> 0:46:48.600 these things up and sit there with you and get 0:46:48.600 --> 0:46:51.160 them set up. But that's probably what I would do, 0:46:51.280 --> 0:46:54.120 because you've got to figure out what you need exactly. 0:46:54.160 --> 0:46:57.440 But I think voiceover is probably a good place to start. 0:46:57.840 --> 0:47:00.279 Siri is also going to be your friend because SERI 0:47:00.440 --> 0:47:02.960 can do a lot of things on the phone and 0:47:03.000 --> 0:47:05.479 perform a lot of functionality like you've already figured out. 0:47:06.800 --> 0:47:09.640 And then you've got let's see here, read and speak, 0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:12.520 so you've got an accessibility reader that can read things. 0:47:13.600 --> 0:47:16.600 Speak screens you can swipe down. This might be a 0:47:16.600 --> 0:47:19.399 good one. There's speak screen, so you can swipe down 0:47:19.400 --> 0:47:21.120 with two fingers from the top of the screen to 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:23.640 hear the content of the screen. So that's a good one. 0:47:24.600 --> 0:47:27.840 Speak selection. A speak button will appear when you select 0:47:27.840 --> 0:47:31.000 text Let's see she got that, And then you've got 0:47:31.040 --> 0:47:34.880 audio descriptions when available, automatically play audio descriptions, so I 0:47:34.880 --> 0:47:38.720 guess that will do something there. But there's a lot 0:47:38.840 --> 0:47:41.680 of these a lot of these features in here. There's 0:47:41.680 --> 0:47:44.640 just so many. But I would look into that that's 0:47:44.640 --> 0:47:46.680 going to help you. I don't know. Let's see if 0:47:46.680 --> 0:47:52.480 we go to voiceover on iPhone, so it's a voiceover 0:47:52.560 --> 0:47:56.760 is a gesture based screen reader that enables navigation without 0:47:56.800 --> 0:48:01.719 seeing the screen by providing audible descriptions. So the good 0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:03.680 news is there's a bunch of there's a way to 0:48:03.760 --> 0:48:07.000 like help you practice doing this, and you can even 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:10.319 ask serious. You can say turn on voiceover and it 0:48:10.360 --> 0:48:12.480 will it will turn that on for you, Craig. So 0:48:12.520 --> 0:48:14.160 that's actually interesting. So you don't have to go in 0:48:14.200 --> 0:48:16.640 there and figure out where this is. You can just 0:48:16.680 --> 0:48:19.440 ask Siria to turn it on. And then once you 0:48:19.440 --> 0:48:21.960 have it turned on, there is a tutorial in there 0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:26.480 as well. So the thing is you have to you're 0:48:26.480 --> 0:48:28.399 probably going to need some instruction to kind of get 0:48:28.400 --> 0:48:30.480 the you know, get the hang of all these things 0:48:30.520 --> 0:48:33.520 because it's not pure just like voice. But we're getting 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:37.239 closer to that. And I think that the AI is 0:48:37.320 --> 0:48:39.839 really I know, AI AI AI. But I think AI 0:48:40.000 --> 0:48:44.239 is probably going to be a huge benefit to the 0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:47.200 accessibility community because we're finally going to be able to 0:48:48.160 --> 0:48:52.560 interact with our gadgets in a natural language way. And 0:48:52.600 --> 0:48:55.400 we're getting close to that, you know, Gemini and this that. 0:48:55.480 --> 0:48:58.759 But but so far Siri is not necessarily there. And 0:48:58.800 --> 0:49:01.520 we've heard the trials and relations of Apple trying to 0:49:01.800 --> 0:49:04.879 make Siri better with AI. It has not worked just yet. 0:49:05.360 --> 0:49:08.000 But I would say by the end of this year, 0:49:08.400 --> 0:49:12.279 when Siri gets her smart upgrade to you know, to 0:49:12.680 --> 0:49:16.800 be more AI, it's going to be a huge benefit 0:49:16.880 --> 0:49:20.720 to people because you'll be able to say, like, hey, Siri, whoops, 0:49:20.760 --> 0:49:23.000 I just said it. You know, do this, do that, 0:49:23.280 --> 0:49:25.520 check this app. It's a lot of the stuff that 0:49:25.520 --> 0:49:29.160 you can do on AI apps like Chat, GBT and 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:32.080 with Gemini, but it's just not there on the phone 0:49:32.120 --> 0:49:34.640 just yet. Now Gemini on the Android side of things, 0:49:34.640 --> 0:49:37.320 it's it's gotten a lot better. And like I mentioned earlier, 0:49:37.360 --> 0:49:41.680 with Samsung specifically and also Pixel, they're doing this agentic 0:49:41.760 --> 0:49:46.319 AI and that means you literally tell AI what you 0:49:46.360 --> 0:49:49.160 want to do and it will do it. And so 0:49:49.280 --> 0:49:52.560 on Samsung, what they what they said and what they're 0:49:52.600 --> 0:49:56.799 introducing is you can say, hey, Google, call me an Uber, 0:49:57.360 --> 0:49:59.879 and the AI is smart enough to figure out where 0:49:59.920 --> 0:50:03.000 you are Noepe and now it's telling me I can't 0:50:03.040 --> 0:50:05.279 book rides directly. Yeah. Like I said, I haven't been 0:50:05.280 --> 0:50:06.600 able to figure out how to use it yet, but 0:50:06.600 --> 0:50:09.919 it's coming out in the next couple weeks. But you'll say, 0:50:10.120 --> 0:50:11.799 get me a Nuber to the airport and it will 0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:14.640 literally open up. You'll you can watch your screen and 0:50:14.760 --> 0:50:18.319 AI takes over. It opens up the Uber app, It 0:50:18.560 --> 0:50:21.200 selects the IT types in the name of where you 0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:23.400 are and where you want to go, and then it 0:50:23.440 --> 0:50:25.480 brings you to the final page and it gives you 0:50:25.480 --> 0:50:27.719 an alert and says, hey, go ahead, make sure this 0:50:27.840 --> 0:50:30.279 is okay. And I guess you could say, you know, 0:50:31.800 --> 0:50:33.520 just do it, and then you can do the same 0:50:33.520 --> 0:50:37.640 thing with ordering food. All these things pretty amazing. Eighty 0:50:37.719 --> 0:50:39.840 eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four to 0:50:39.840 --> 0:50:41.759 two four one zero one. Coming up, we'll talk more 0:50:41.760 --> 0:50:49.360 about the Samsung event right after this. Welcome back to 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:51.600 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:50:51.680 --> 0:50:55.960 talking technology. I've been talking a lot about the Samsung event, 0:50:56.920 --> 0:50:59.520 and I've been playing with the phone since, uh, think 0:50:59.560 --> 0:51:02.040 about I don't know about it, maybe maybe three four 0:51:02.120 --> 0:51:05.520 days now, and so far I'm impressed. It's tough to 0:51:05.560 --> 0:51:07.440 tell from the outside because it kind of looks very 0:51:07.480 --> 0:51:10.600 similar to last year's model, but it definitely feels smaller 0:51:10.600 --> 0:51:15.080 in the hand, more manageable, and thinner. Of course, all 0:51:15.120 --> 0:51:16.920 that's canceled out when you put on a case, so, 0:51:17.239 --> 0:51:20.279 you know whatever. But here to talk about it is 0:51:20.719 --> 0:51:24.319 Lexi Savids, formerly of Seen It, now on your own 0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:26.760 doing your own YouTube channel. Welcome to the show. 0:51:27.440 --> 0:51:29.480 Thanks for having me Rich, It's great to be here. 0:51:29.880 --> 0:51:31.360 How is it being your own boss? 0:51:32.600 --> 0:51:33.480 It's a lot of fun. 0:51:33.600 --> 0:51:35.359 I got to say, you know, I get to put 0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:37.759 on multiple hats and get to talk to myself in 0:51:37.840 --> 0:51:39.320 sterne voices to say. 0:51:39.080 --> 0:51:40.839 Why haven't you met your deadline? 0:51:41.840 --> 0:51:44.759 It's fun, it's a great it's a nice change. 0:51:45.280 --> 0:51:48.200 And we were up in San Francisco, so just general impression. 0:51:48.239 --> 0:51:50.319 I mean, it's you know, Samsung brings a lot of 0:51:50.320 --> 0:51:53.200 people into their events and basically it's like a who's 0:51:53.239 --> 0:51:55.880 who of you know, from around the world of tech people, 0:51:56.920 --> 0:51:58.879 and so it's always to me. I was talking about 0:51:58.880 --> 0:52:00.480 this on the show earlier it's always fun to like 0:52:00.560 --> 0:52:03.239 kind of just talk with other people that are doing 0:52:03.239 --> 0:52:05.040 what you're doing, you know, because a lot of times 0:52:05.080 --> 0:52:07.439 we're doing what we're doing on our own. So would 0:52:07.480 --> 0:52:09.200 you like, do you enjoy that aspect of it? 0:52:10.160 --> 0:52:11.960 I love it because, you know, as you say, the 0:52:11.960 --> 0:52:15.360 camaraderie is very nice to be in a room with 0:52:15.360 --> 0:52:18.160 people who are you know, like minded tech enthusiasts. 0:52:18.200 --> 0:52:20.000 I love doing it. But also a lot of us. 0:52:20.000 --> 0:52:23.720 Are doing this either independently or you know, working remotely 0:52:23.719 --> 0:52:26.759 if you're working for a larger corporation, and so this 0:52:26.840 --> 0:52:29.040 is a chance to actually just get to see people 0:52:29.560 --> 0:52:32.279 and get to meet actual fans of the device as well. 0:52:32.320 --> 0:52:34.680 So it's not just tech journalists and media, it's also 0:52:34.800 --> 0:52:39.279 like really hardcore enthusiasts of the brand that sometimes the 0:52:39.280 --> 0:52:42.160 brand in this case Samsung invites out and you get 0:52:42.160 --> 0:52:44.080 to talk to people about, you know, the matter, the 0:52:44.120 --> 0:52:46.080 things that actually really matter to a lot of users 0:52:46.120 --> 0:52:48.680 that maybe you and I might not necessarily pick up 0:52:48.680 --> 0:52:49.480 on immediately. 0:52:49.520 --> 0:52:52.400 It's just so nice to have these different perspectives. 0:52:51.920 --> 0:52:54.239 And it always just makes me think a lot more 0:52:54.280 --> 0:52:55.799 about these devices too. 0:52:56.320 --> 0:53:00.239 Yeah, and also the world wide implications, you know, or 0:53:00.320 --> 0:53:03.239 so US centric, and you know, the city that we 0:53:03.280 --> 0:53:05.160 live in, the place that we live in. But when 0:53:05.200 --> 0:53:07.239 you think about the whole world, you know, there's so 0:53:07.360 --> 0:53:09.839 many people out there, and so many people use these 0:53:09.840 --> 0:53:12.839 devices for different reasons and in different regions, and you know, 0:53:12.960 --> 0:53:14.920 these companies have to appeal to all of that. So 0:53:14.960 --> 0:53:17.239 that's always interesting to me as well. So what do 0:53:17.280 --> 0:53:19.160 you think of the the S twenty six Ultra. You've 0:53:19.160 --> 0:53:20.400 been using it for a couple of days, Like me, 0:53:20.520 --> 0:53:21.880 what's your initial impression? 0:53:23.000 --> 0:53:25.720 The same as you. I am impressed with this device. 0:53:25.760 --> 0:53:28.360 So I was using the S twenty five Ultra pretty 0:53:28.440 --> 0:53:31.000 much the entire entirety of last year is kind of 0:53:31.040 --> 0:53:34.520 alternating obviously between all of the review bus the review 0:53:34.560 --> 0:53:37.760 devices that I use. But this phone is does definitely 0:53:37.800 --> 0:53:40.799 feel different, And it's interesting that you say that, yes, 0:53:40.920 --> 0:53:43.920 it's not that much thinner and lighter on paper in 0:53:44.000 --> 0:53:46.920 terms of the spex. You know, it's only four grams 0:53:47.160 --> 0:53:49.600 lighter than the S twenty five Ultra when you look 0:53:49.640 --> 0:53:53.640 at the spex, but that four grams makes a huge 0:53:53.680 --> 0:53:56.840 difference because of the material. Because we've moved from titanium 0:53:56.880 --> 0:53:59.759 on the S twenty five Ultra to the aluminum or 0:54:00.040 --> 0:54:02.560 the minimum as I say, on the S twenty six Ultra, 0:54:03.080 --> 0:54:05.839 and it just does feel a lot lighter in the hand. 0:54:05.880 --> 0:54:08.640 It sounds ridiculous when you say it's four grams on paper, 0:54:08.719 --> 0:54:11.080 but it really does make a difference to me. But 0:54:11.360 --> 0:54:13.640 as you say, the case can kind of negate that 0:54:13.719 --> 0:54:16.640 it depends. Samsung gave at least one of my review 0:54:16.719 --> 0:54:20.640 units came with the thinnest Samsung case with magnets. I 0:54:20.640 --> 0:54:22.160 don't know if you've got the same one, but if 0:54:22.160 --> 0:54:25.319 you're not using a first party case, that thickness can 0:54:25.480 --> 0:54:27.439 start to add up pretty quickly when you have those 0:54:27.480 --> 0:54:28.480 extra cases on there. 0:54:28.719 --> 0:54:31.239 Yeah, I was sent a bunch of cases to try out, 0:54:31.280 --> 0:54:32.799 and so I put them all on when I first 0:54:32.800 --> 0:54:36.719 got them. And honestly, my favorite case is this case 0:54:36.800 --> 0:54:41.040 to Fi case, and it's it's the thickest case, but 0:54:41.120 --> 0:54:44.000 I love it because it's super rubbery and grippy, and 0:54:44.080 --> 0:54:46.440 so for me, it's all about a case has to 0:54:46.480 --> 0:54:49.359 add a lot of grip because these phones are so 0:54:49.400 --> 0:54:51.360 slippery when you use them without and I you know, 0:54:51.400 --> 0:54:53.000 I like to throw my phone around. I use it 0:54:53.040 --> 0:54:54.439 all the time, and you know, put in my back 0:54:54.480 --> 0:54:58.000 pocket whatever. But this casey is the thickest of all 0:54:58.040 --> 0:55:00.360 of them that I put on, but I really love it. 0:55:00.400 --> 0:55:02.960 And it's funny because it's the exact same case that 0:55:03.000 --> 0:55:06.719 I have on my iPhone as well. So now I 0:55:06.719 --> 0:55:08.279 should tell you what it's called, but I can't remember. 0:55:08.360 --> 0:55:10.560 It's like the case to FI. I think it's clear 0:55:10.719 --> 0:55:12.759 or something, but it's I'll link it up on the 0:55:12.760 --> 0:55:15.400 show notes. But what I love about it, Lexi is 0:55:15.400 --> 0:55:17.200 that it has and you can see this because we're 0:55:17.239 --> 0:55:20.320 video chatting, It's got this little stand built into the 0:55:20.960 --> 0:55:23.279 camera ring. So I love that because you can just 0:55:23.320 --> 0:55:25.480 prop up your phone. What do you think of the 0:55:25.480 --> 0:55:27.600 privacy screen? What do you make of that? 0:55:28.719 --> 0:55:31.760 Well, this is a big new feature and I really 0:55:31.800 --> 0:55:34.880 think that this is something that is hopefully going to 0:55:34.920 --> 0:55:37.480 be seen on a lot more phones going forward. You know, 0:55:37.600 --> 0:55:39.839 Samsung said that they were working on this technology for 0:55:39.920 --> 0:55:42.319 five years, and it was originally supposed to be in 0:55:42.360 --> 0:55:45.080 the S twenty five Ultra, but it just I guess 0:55:45.080 --> 0:55:47.879 it took that long to kind of get this implementation right. 0:55:48.280 --> 0:55:52.360 I think it's such an interesting technology because for so 0:55:52.440 --> 0:55:55.840 many years we've been looking at phones and talking about 0:55:56.040 --> 0:55:58.640 how great it is to have wide viewing angles, so 0:55:58.680 --> 0:56:00.680 you can see it from all sorts of different angles 0:56:00.719 --> 0:56:03.560 from the sides, maximum peak brightness and things like that. 0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:06.000 And now we're kind of going in the opposite direction 0:56:06.080 --> 0:56:08.399 in terms of privacy. We don't want to be able 0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:11.200 to see things from the side and so on, at 0:56:11.280 --> 0:56:14.400 least other people. So the privacy display is actually turning 0:56:14.480 --> 0:56:18.600 off individual pixels depending on what you, as the user choose. 0:56:18.800 --> 0:56:20.960 So there's kind of two types of pixels. Are the 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:23.239 ones that are sort of facing forward that you can see, 0:56:23.239 --> 0:56:25.080 and then there's a wide angle pixels. So when you 0:56:25.120 --> 0:56:28.440 turn on the privacy display, it's these wide angle pixels 0:56:28.680 --> 0:56:31.120 that are actually turned off. And there's a couple of 0:56:31.120 --> 0:56:33.520 different levels as well. You can do it either on 0:56:33.560 --> 0:56:37.440 a peru basis. You can block kind of individual parts 0:56:37.480 --> 0:56:40.280 of the screen such as password input. You can block 0:56:40.800 --> 0:56:43.920 different apps so just like specifically a banking up, or 0:56:43.920 --> 0:56:46.600 you can kind of go the maximum privacy display mode, 0:56:46.800 --> 0:56:50.000 which is a really extra layer, I guess you would say, 0:56:50.280 --> 0:56:52.400 and it makes the screen look a little bit different 0:56:52.400 --> 0:56:54.080 as a result, but so. 0:56:54.040 --> 0:56:56.600 Far that's the thing. It's like that, so this is 0:56:56.600 --> 0:56:58.880 not something that I want on all the time because 0:56:58.920 --> 0:57:02.719 it's definitely the screen. It definitely looks different. You know, 0:57:02.800 --> 0:57:04.600 it's tough to explain what it looks like, but it's 0:57:04.640 --> 0:57:06.800 almost like washed out a little bit, but it's still 0:57:06.880 --> 0:57:09.640 you can see it head on. But especially when you 0:57:09.680 --> 0:57:12.040 have that maximum on, which gives you the maximum protection 0:57:12.120 --> 0:57:15.520 from the sides, it's a very different looking screen. And 0:57:15.560 --> 0:57:17.480 it's funny because I was like taking a selfie the 0:57:17.520 --> 0:57:20.120 other day with the protection on and it was like 0:57:20.160 --> 0:57:22.000 I was trying to I couldn't see the screen from 0:57:22.000 --> 0:57:23.920 like this side. I was like cracking up. I was like, oh, yeah, 0:57:23.960 --> 0:57:25.680 that makes it a little bit tougher. 0:57:26.880 --> 0:57:29.160 Yeah, it does. It's kind of funny, I kind of 0:57:29.160 --> 0:57:29.400 call it. 0:57:29.440 --> 0:57:31.280 When you have the maximum brightness on it, it kind of 0:57:31.960 --> 0:57:36.400 basically washes out all of the colors. It really emphasizes 0:57:36.720 --> 0:57:38.720 the grays and kind of turns off the blacks completely. 0:57:38.720 --> 0:57:40.200 It kind of crushes the blacks all together. 0:57:40.400 --> 0:57:43.400 So you just have this kind of effect that really 0:57:43.440 --> 0:57:46.480 does look reminiscent of if you have like an actual 0:57:46.520 --> 0:57:48.320 physical privacy screen. 0:57:48.080 --> 0:57:51.200 Display on there. So it's really going to depend on 0:57:51.200 --> 0:57:51.720 the application. 0:57:51.760 --> 0:57:53.840 You're not going to have this maximum mode on all 0:57:53.880 --> 0:57:56.720 the time, at least I don't I'm definitely playing around 0:57:56.760 --> 0:57:58.720 with kind of working out if I'm going to set 0:57:58.760 --> 0:58:01.960 it to have, like, say, for example, a routine so 0:58:02.000 --> 0:58:04.560 when I get when I leave the house, for example, 0:58:04.640 --> 0:58:06.440 I can turn it on so I only have the 0:58:06.520 --> 0:58:10.360 privacy display on outside, like if I'm commuting and things 0:58:10.400 --> 0:58:13.080 like that, and then turning it off completely when I'm 0:58:13.080 --> 0:58:15.919 at home, because I'm not that worried about people looking 0:58:15.920 --> 0:58:17.720 over my shoulder and seeing what's on my screen when 0:58:17.760 --> 0:58:19.720 I'm on my pouch, for example. 0:58:20.000 --> 0:58:22.440 I've always been suspect of people that have the privacy 0:58:22.480 --> 0:58:26.960 film protector anyway. I mean just in general, let's be honest, Now, 0:58:27.360 --> 0:58:29.520 I get it, there's a million reasons why people would 0:58:29.520 --> 0:58:31.480 want that on there, and I'm kind of kidding, but 0:58:32.160 --> 0:58:34.120 I've never had one on because of the fact that 0:58:34.200 --> 0:58:36.880 when you look through it, it does change the way 0:58:36.920 --> 0:58:39.760 your screen looks in general, and you know, it's for me, 0:58:39.920 --> 0:58:43.920 like a Samsung, a Samsung screen, an iPhone screen, I mean, 0:58:43.960 --> 0:58:46.880 they have gotten so nice in recent years. I mean 0:58:46.880 --> 0:58:50.200 they are just beautiful screens. So my concern is that 0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:51.840 this screen was kind of taking a little bit of 0:58:51.840 --> 0:58:55.720 a step back because of this new technology. But I 0:58:55.760 --> 0:58:57.920 think in general, like, just looking at it without it on, 0:58:58.240 --> 0:59:00.960 it's fine, and it's funny every time notification comes in 0:59:01.000 --> 0:59:03.640 because I have mindset to just black out the notifications, 0:59:04.080 --> 0:59:06.280 and it's it's kind of cool because I look at 0:59:06.280 --> 0:59:08.200 the notification from the side and I can't see it. 0:59:08.240 --> 0:59:12.480 I'm like, Oh, that's the privacy screen. What's your early 0:59:12.520 --> 0:59:14.320 advice to folks. I mean, I feel like this is 0:59:14.320 --> 0:59:16.040 the best phone that Samsung has made in a couple 0:59:16.040 --> 0:59:17.080 of years. What do you think? 0:59:18.640 --> 0:59:22.520 I think the privacy display is truly an innovation, and 0:59:22.720 --> 0:59:24.960 it's something that actually makes me excited again about talking 0:59:25.000 --> 0:59:26.960 about phones, because I think a lot of the excitement 0:59:27.000 --> 0:59:29.560 in innovation has come in the foldable realm, and obviously, 0:59:29.880 --> 0:59:32.200 as you know, Samsung has really been kind of doing 0:59:32.240 --> 0:59:34.640 a lot there with the Fold seven and obviously the 0:59:34.720 --> 0:59:38.479 Trifol that came out in the US earlier in the year, 0:59:38.960 --> 0:59:43.040 but obviously wildly expensive, like near mortals like you and 0:59:43.080 --> 0:59:45.440 I like not really going to be able to afford that. 0:59:46.160 --> 0:59:49.040 At least my bank ballance says, no trifle for you, Lexi. 0:59:49.640 --> 0:59:52.200 So it's nice to sort of see something genuinely different 0:59:52.840 --> 0:59:56.240 on I guess the candy bar or the slab style phone. 0:59:56.520 --> 0:59:59.680 Whether or not people really kind of latch onto it 0:59:59.720 --> 1:00:03.080 is another thing because I think, as you were saying about, yes, 1:00:03.120 --> 1:00:06.320 you can definitely tell the difference when that privacy display 1:00:06.360 --> 1:00:08.720 is on, but I think unless you're looking at it 1:00:08.760 --> 1:00:12.840 directly against a previous phone or another device that maybe 1:00:12.840 --> 1:00:15.120 a friend has, you probably are not going to really 1:00:15.120 --> 1:00:17.360 tell the difference. But you know, you and I, I guess 1:00:17.400 --> 1:00:19.640 we kind of like do a little bit of pixel peeping, 1:00:19.720 --> 1:00:21.760 a little bit at least I do. I put phone 1:00:21.800 --> 1:00:25.000 side by side and I'm constantly comparing them back and forth. 1:00:25.440 --> 1:00:27.200 As you can see. I mean we're on video chat. 1:00:27.240 --> 1:00:29.160 As you said, I'm holding up the two phones here 1:00:29.200 --> 1:00:31.240 and I'm looking at them side by side, and with 1:00:31.320 --> 1:00:33.960 the privacy display off on the S twenty six Ultra 1:00:34.400 --> 1:00:37.920 and obviously no privacy display on the S twenty five Ultra, 1:00:38.320 --> 1:00:41.800 I can notice a difference in the off axis viewing angles, 1:00:42.240 --> 1:00:44.600 and also a little bit in terms of just like 1:00:44.640 --> 1:00:47.960 that anti reflective coding as well. So there are going 1:00:48.000 --> 1:00:51.600 to be those subtle nuances. And again I'm just interested 1:00:51.600 --> 1:00:54.800 to see if this really resonates with people who aren't 1:00:54.960 --> 1:00:57.760 tech journalists, people who aren't covering this day to day 1:00:58.080 --> 1:01:00.320 to see if it's something that is actually some thing 1:01:00.400 --> 1:01:03.440 that you know you would upgrade for specifically this feature, 1:01:03.520 --> 1:01:05.800 or it's just because you are due to upgrade to 1:01:05.840 --> 1:01:07.320 a new train anyway. 1:01:07.200 --> 1:01:09.400 Yeah, that's gonna be interesting. And I feel like I 1:01:09.440 --> 1:01:12.120 feel like ninety nine percent of people that I speak to, 1:01:12.160 --> 1:01:15.320 and I talk to a lot of consumers, the upgrade 1:01:15.360 --> 1:01:18.600 cycle now is why tell me why I need a 1:01:18.640 --> 1:01:20.320 new phone. It's not like the old days where every 1:01:20.320 --> 1:01:22.480 time you got a new phone you got something amazing 1:01:22.560 --> 1:01:24.360 like this. You know, you got touch ID, you got 1:01:24.360 --> 1:01:27.160 face ID, you got Retina display, you got all you 1:01:27.160 --> 1:01:30.120 know USBC, there was five G. There were so many 1:01:30.200 --> 1:01:32.680 like new features that came along in the past ten years. 1:01:32.960 --> 1:01:35.479 Every time you got a new phone, you got entrade 1:01:35.480 --> 1:01:38.640 of those features. Nowadays, people are like, Okay, my phone 1:01:38.680 --> 1:01:41.520 does everything I need it to do. You tell me, 1:01:41.600 --> 1:01:44.160 you convince me why I need a new one. You can't, 1:01:44.480 --> 1:01:46.880 and so I will just upgrade when when my phone 1:01:46.920 --> 1:01:50.080 dies or when the screen breaks or whatever happens. So 1:01:50.120 --> 1:01:52.320 it's a very different world at this point until we 1:01:52.360 --> 1:01:54.880 get that holographic display that pops up out of your 1:01:54.880 --> 1:01:58.120 phone like Star Wars style. We're gonna leave it there, Lexi. 1:01:58.600 --> 1:02:00.520 How do people find you online? How do they follow 1:02:00.560 --> 1:02:01.240 your channel? 1:02:02.440 --> 1:02:05.240 I'd love for you to follow me on YouTube. You 1:02:05.280 --> 1:02:08.720 can subscribe at Lexi savds is my channel name. I'm 1:02:08.720 --> 1:02:12.040 also on Instagram and we'd love to love to see there. 1:02:12.080 --> 1:02:14.680 I make down to Earth tech videos for the real world. 1:02:14.760 --> 1:02:18.680 All right, Lexi savides s a vv I d ees 1:02:18.920 --> 1:02:22.720 finder on YouTube and subscribe. Lexi, thanks so much for 1:02:22.760 --> 1:02:23.360 coming on the show. 1:02:24.240 --> 1:02:25.800 Thanks again, Rich, it was a pleasure. 1:02:26.080 --> 1:02:27.760 All right. Coming up, we'll go back to the phone 1:02:27.800 --> 1:02:30.880 lines eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven 1:02:31.000 --> 1:02:34.080 four to two four one zero one, and I'll tell 1:02:34.080 --> 1:02:37.880 you the new features that YouTube Premium Light is getting. 1:02:37.920 --> 1:02:40.200 Got two new features that make it a little bit 1:02:40.200 --> 1:02:42.680 more useful. That's coming up right here on rich on Tech. 1:02:48.200 --> 1:02:56.400 Let's go to Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Hello, Rich, Hey Jerry, 1:02:56.480 --> 1:02:57.200 welcome to the show. 1:02:57.680 --> 1:02:59.720 Thank you. I'm going to go through a PSA for 1:02:59.760 --> 1:03:04.040 your listener. Now, are you aware of the new next 1:03:04.080 --> 1:03:05.240 gen TV coming out? 1:03:05.520 --> 1:03:09.360 I am, Well, I've seen the boosts and the. 1:03:10.280 --> 1:03:13.840 Okay, well I've been there's a guy on uh on 1:03:13.920 --> 1:03:16.919 YouTube lawn dot TV. He tells you all about it, 1:03:17.000 --> 1:03:21.640 how they how they want to encryptos the signal in 1:03:21.760 --> 1:03:24.919 order to charge you for watching over the air TV 1:03:25.080 --> 1:03:29.720 with your antenna. 1:03:29.760 --> 1:03:31.680 I mean I've heard talk of it, but nobody's done 1:03:31.680 --> 1:03:32.240 that yet. 1:03:32.720 --> 1:03:37.000 Well that's because they can't. Uh they went to TV 1:03:37.040 --> 1:03:40.040 plugged into the internet too, so it's an authorized received 1:03:40.160 --> 1:03:40.640 the signal. 1:03:40.960 --> 1:03:43.920 Right, well, yes, I mean, I mean this is. 1:03:44.440 --> 1:03:47.120 But but the TV is coming out of the next 1:03:47.160 --> 1:03:50.440 general the A at SC three point oh as they are. 1:03:51.480 --> 1:03:54.040 It seems there's a big boone doggle where the broadcasters 1:03:54.040 --> 1:03:55.760 want to make more money. They're going to put more 1:03:55.880 --> 1:03:59.080 channels on the air, but they're going on the crypto 1:03:59.160 --> 1:04:04.520 huddons in order to charge you money. Wow this yeah, 1:04:05.200 --> 1:04:11.440 hell lawn dot TV on YouTube and uh, the the 1:04:11.520 --> 1:04:13.600 seconds and the last one they put up there will 1:04:13.600 --> 1:04:16.200 give you more in depth about it. I think it's 1:04:16.240 --> 1:04:20.080 really a ripoff. And the FCC is allowing the people, 1:04:20.440 --> 1:04:23.440 the broadcasters that make up their own regulations about this. 1:04:24.000 --> 1:04:27.440 Well, look, I mean number one, I mean we are 1:04:27.440 --> 1:04:29.920 in a changing time, that's number one. And we understand 1:04:29.920 --> 1:04:33.440 that now now broadcast TV, broadcast radio, you know, these 1:04:33.440 --> 1:04:36.120 are amazing things and they're they're a public service number one, 1:04:37.200 --> 1:04:41.400 and so they are a public license. But the thing is, 1:04:41.600 --> 1:04:45.120 you know, these broadcasters, they they want. They're competing now 1:04:45.640 --> 1:04:49.680 with streaming and that is no easy feat. I don't 1:04:49.680 --> 1:04:52.360 know if you've looked at Netflix lately, or YouTube or 1:04:53.000 --> 1:04:56.800 Instagram or TikTok, it's just and you just mentioned a 1:04:56.840 --> 1:05:00.720 YouTube channel. I mean, so the content is just there, 1:05:01.320 --> 1:05:04.440 tons of it, unlimited, and this is what these broadcasters 1:05:04.480 --> 1:05:07.840 are now competing with. So I think what what ATSC 1:05:07.880 --> 1:05:10.800 and what you call next gen TV? That is their 1:05:10.840 --> 1:05:16.720 way of better competing with digital streaming services. And the 1:05:16.800 --> 1:05:20.000 reason why is because this gives them a lot of 1:05:20.040 --> 1:05:24.000 the same tools that the streamers have. So as I 1:05:24.080 --> 1:05:27.200 understand it, you can send out that signal, it's the 1:05:27.240 --> 1:05:30.160 same signal that you typically would send out, but it 1:05:30.200 --> 1:05:34.439 is much more identifiable. They can tell how many people 1:05:34.480 --> 1:05:37.840 are watching it, they can get data back, they can 1:05:37.880 --> 1:05:39.640 offer data. I mean, there's a whole bunch of stuff 1:05:39.640 --> 1:05:42.280 that they can do with this thing, and what you said, 1:05:42.320 --> 1:05:44.840 a lot of it is things that have been talked about, 1:05:45.480 --> 1:05:48.000 nothing has been I mean, yes, you can. You can 1:05:48.040 --> 1:05:50.120 go on to the website. By the way, if you 1:05:50.160 --> 1:05:55.640 want to try this next watchnextgentv dot com and kind 1:05:55.680 --> 1:05:59.160 of see which channels are available in your area. It'll 1:05:59.200 --> 1:06:02.440 tell you. But here's the thing. Not a lot of 1:06:02.480 --> 1:06:06.800 people have the technology to decode these channels. It might 1:06:06.800 --> 1:06:09.240 be built into your TV, it may not be. Most 1:06:09.240 --> 1:06:12.880 people are using many people are using now some sort 1:06:12.880 --> 1:06:17.120 of streaming service to get their TV channels, and unless 1:06:17.120 --> 1:06:20.240 you're using an antenna, you would not really tap into this. 1:06:20.320 --> 1:06:21.840 So you have to figure out if you're using an 1:06:21.880 --> 1:06:24.760 antenna number one, number two, if your TV can decode 1:06:24.760 --> 1:06:27.680 these signals, or you may need a third party box. 1:06:27.760 --> 1:06:30.600 Remember when we went from the analog TV signals to 1:06:30.640 --> 1:06:33.360 the digital signals. Everyone needed that in between little box 1:06:33.400 --> 1:06:36.880 that were given away for free for a while to 1:06:36.960 --> 1:06:41.080 change an analog TV to accept digital channels. But some 1:06:41.120 --> 1:06:43.480 of the features of next gen TV, what does it offer? 1:06:44.040 --> 1:06:47.320 Better picture quality? Supports up to four K resolution and HDR, 1:06:47.440 --> 1:06:51.600 so that means better picture quality. Obviously improves sounds, so 1:06:52.200 --> 1:06:55.240 better audio. That makes dialogue easier to hear, which of 1:06:55.240 --> 1:07:00.720 course people want more consistent volume between the TV programming commercials. 1:07:02.360 --> 1:07:06.160 Let's see what else. Interactive features so on screen things 1:07:06.200 --> 1:07:09.680 like stats, polls, like your your news channel could say, hey, 1:07:09.760 --> 1:07:11.320 vote in our poll right now, and they'll show you 1:07:11.400 --> 1:07:14.160 the live results right on TV. I guess they've been 1:07:14.160 --> 1:07:15.400 able to do that, but you'd be able to do 1:07:15.440 --> 1:07:18.920 it with your remote right, not a third party device. 1:07:19.480 --> 1:07:24.920 Bonus content personalized program guides the Internet connection that you 1:07:24.960 --> 1:07:27.120 were talking about, So you can get all this with 1:07:27.200 --> 1:07:29.760 just an antenna, but if you connect to the internet, 1:07:29.840 --> 1:07:34.880 you can get more content, more features. It's still free. 1:07:35.160 --> 1:07:39.480 They're still saying no subscriptions uses that regular antenna. But again, 1:07:39.560 --> 1:07:41.800 like you were talking, the ideas that they could offer 1:07:42.000 --> 1:07:45.480 more and yes, some of those channels might be a 1:07:45.600 --> 1:07:49.040 paid you know, a premium plus service or something like that. 1:07:49.840 --> 1:07:52.120 But again, all this stuff has just been talked about. 1:07:52.200 --> 1:07:54.200 A lot of these things, a lot of the stuff 1:07:54.200 --> 1:07:56.040 that you see right now. If you actually tune into 1:07:56.040 --> 1:07:59.040 one of these channels, they're just doing kind of the basics. 1:07:59.280 --> 1:08:01.480 You know, they've got the channel there, they've got the 1:08:01.560 --> 1:08:04.320 channel broadcasting. They're adding a couple other things. Cause I 1:08:04.360 --> 1:08:07.360 don't think that many people are taking advantage of this 1:08:07.560 --> 1:08:13.000 just yet. But if you go to that watchnextgentv dot com, 1:08:13.080 --> 1:08:15.960 you can check to see in your area if these 1:08:16.040 --> 1:08:18.880 channels are which channels over the air have this next 1:08:18.920 --> 1:08:21.040 gen technology? And it looks like a lot of a 1:08:21.040 --> 1:08:24.400 lot of markets already are adopting it. Eighty eight Rich 1:08:24.479 --> 1:08:26.680 one on one eighty eight seven four to two for 1:08:27.080 --> 1:08:30.080 one zero one more Rich on Tech coming your way 1:08:30.160 --> 1:08:38.040 right after this. All right, let's go to uh Devin 1:08:38.280 --> 1:08:41.320 in u so Cal has a question about the new 1:08:41.360 --> 1:08:43.080 Samsung you're on with Rich. 1:08:43.200 --> 1:08:47.240 Hey, thank you for picking on my phone, Rich, longtime listener, 1:08:47.280 --> 1:08:48.040 first time. 1:08:47.840 --> 1:08:49.599 College Well, welcome, thank you. 1:08:50.479 --> 1:08:51.599 How are you doing today? 1:08:51.760 --> 1:08:54.680 I'm doing fantastic, no complaints? 1:08:55.320 --> 1:08:58.200 All right. Well, I've been wrapping an iPhone fifteen pro 1:08:58.360 --> 1:09:01.800 Macs and I've been hearing the privacy thing about this 1:09:01.920 --> 1:09:07.479 Samsung from your show. And my question is why can't 1:09:07.479 --> 1:09:10.400 they make a screen protector that does the same thing? 1:09:11.160 --> 1:09:15.120 Good question, That is a great question. And uh here okay, 1:09:15.200 --> 1:09:17.680 So it goes back to the way that they designed 1:09:17.800 --> 1:09:21.960 this new screen. So what you know, we mentioned they 1:09:22.000 --> 1:09:24.880 have two types of pixels now, so a typical screen 1:09:24.960 --> 1:09:28.439 has what's called wide pixels. Right, the light shines in 1:09:28.560 --> 1:09:32.000 all directions, front sides, you know, you can see it 1:09:32.000 --> 1:09:35.759 from every angle. The new innovation is that they built 1:09:35.840 --> 1:09:39.679 two types of pixels into this phone screen, wide pixels, 1:09:39.720 --> 1:09:42.480 which are your regular ones, and then the narrow pixels. 1:09:43.200 --> 1:09:48.040 So when they're activating that privacy feature, they're only turning 1:09:48.080 --> 1:09:51.720 on those narrow pixels, and that way you can have 1:09:52.080 --> 1:09:55.000 the whole screen Matt. Let's just say the screen was white, right, like, 1:09:55.040 --> 1:09:57.679 the whole screen was white, but right in the middle 1:09:57.960 --> 1:10:00.880 there was a box like a window. That box could 1:10:00.880 --> 1:10:04.160 be blacked out from the sides because they're only lighting 1:10:04.240 --> 1:10:06.719 up that part of the screen with the narrow pixels, 1:10:07.080 --> 1:10:09.439 so you could see it head on, but people on 1:10:09.479 --> 1:10:12.000 the sides you can't. And so for that reason, when 1:10:12.040 --> 1:10:14.520 you look at a screen protector that does the privacy, 1:10:15.040 --> 1:10:20.240 the film is basically is kind of blocking light from 1:10:20.280 --> 1:10:22.840 the sides, and so head on you can see it, 1:10:22.880 --> 1:10:24.600 but from the sides you can't. There's no way to 1:10:24.760 --> 1:10:28.040 change that or effect that, or to individually light up 1:10:28.080 --> 1:10:30.800 pixels on that screen to do just the top of 1:10:30.840 --> 1:10:33.120 the screen, just the bottom of the screen, just when 1:10:33.120 --> 1:10:37.400 you activate certain apps. So that is the big difference here, 1:10:37.400 --> 1:10:40.640 and that's the innovation is that Samsung came up with 1:10:40.720 --> 1:10:43.320 not just a filter on the screen, they came up 1:10:43.360 --> 1:10:45.439 with a way to light up just parts of the 1:10:45.439 --> 1:10:50.440 screen with those narrow pixels. That effectively makes them invisible 1:10:50.479 --> 1:10:53.599 from the sides. And so that is a fantastic question. 1:10:54.000 --> 1:10:56.479 But that is the innovation. And again we were kind 1:10:56.520 --> 1:10:59.439 of discussing does that innovation change the look of the 1:10:59.479 --> 1:11:01.720 screen at all. Well, you know, if you're looking at 1:11:01.720 --> 1:11:04.080 the screen by itself, I don't really see a big difference. 1:11:04.160 --> 1:11:05.800 I have to now look at it side by side 1:11:05.840 --> 1:11:08.080 with the S twenty five to see. But you can 1:11:08.240 --> 1:11:10.640 definitely tell the difference when you toggle this feature on. 1:11:11.160 --> 1:11:13.479 And it is a cool feature, and I you know, 1:11:13.520 --> 1:11:16.959 it's one of those things I think consumers will decide 1:11:17.840 --> 1:11:20.600 is this something they want or not. And if I 1:11:20.600 --> 1:11:22.479 look at my phone screen right now head on, I 1:11:22.479 --> 1:11:26.120 could see everything. If I turn it up or to 1:11:26.200 --> 1:11:29.519 the side, it looks completely blacked out. So again, those 1:11:29.640 --> 1:11:32.880 those narrow pixels are activated on my entire screen right now. 1:11:33.080 --> 1:11:35.880 You can have them turn on for just notifications, just 1:11:35.880 --> 1:11:40.439 when you open up a certain app. It's really quite interesting. 1:11:40.880 --> 1:11:44.000 Thanks for the call, Devin, appreciate it. Let's go to 1:11:44.800 --> 1:11:49.360 let's see here, let's go to William in Santa Clarita. William, 1:11:49.479 --> 1:11:50.479 you're on with Rich. 1:11:51.200 --> 1:11:52.679 Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call. 1:11:52.960 --> 1:11:54.439 Yeah, well, I have a question. 1:11:54.560 --> 1:11:58.800 I've got both my iPhone and I've got a Mac 1:11:58.840 --> 1:12:03.840 computer as well. I'm looking at either a VPN or 1:12:04.200 --> 1:12:07.960 something on there because my phone, I get so many 1:12:08.000 --> 1:12:10.879 spam calls. I'm tired of that, and then my computer, 1:12:10.960 --> 1:12:13.360 I just want to protect that. I've noticed there's several 1:12:13.400 --> 1:12:16.439 different companies out there, like web Root I think it is, 1:12:17.120 --> 1:12:21.400 and Nord VPN and they all do similar things. But 1:12:21.520 --> 1:12:25.720 I'm wondering, what is there any company you recommend or 1:12:25.840 --> 1:12:27.680 any product you recommend? 1:12:28.120 --> 1:12:30.960 Well, I can I can tell you this. So there 1:12:30.960 --> 1:12:35.160 are a couple. There's the one I use, and there's 1:12:35.280 --> 1:12:36.720 you know, there's a lot of other ones. But I 1:12:36.720 --> 1:12:38.960 think you could. I can tell you what to look for, right, 1:12:39.040 --> 1:12:42.240 I think that's probably the most important part here, And 1:12:42.360 --> 1:12:44.479 uh hold on, let me. I'm bringing up my article 1:12:44.560 --> 1:12:48.639 what to look for in a good VPN. I did 1:12:48.640 --> 1:12:52.800 a story on this for KTLA, And you know the 1:12:52.880 --> 1:12:56.240 main thing is that I think number one, you want 1:12:56.240 --> 1:12:58.840 this to work on all your devices. So now you 1:12:58.880 --> 1:13:01.200 mentioned the spam call and stuff like that, A VPN 1:13:01.280 --> 1:13:02.960 is not really going to cut down on that. So 1:13:03.000 --> 1:13:05.519 to me, what I like the VPN for is a 1:13:05.520 --> 1:13:08.479 couple of things Number one if you want. So the 1:13:08.520 --> 1:13:11.040 other day I was shopping for luggage and I was 1:13:11.040 --> 1:13:15.080 not using the VPN, and literally every single ad on 1:13:15.120 --> 1:13:17.960 my phone, any website I went to, any social media, 1:13:18.320 --> 1:13:21.880 it all turned to luggage ads. Now that's fine because 1:13:21.880 --> 1:13:23.400 I was looking for luggage, and of course that's what 1:13:23.400 --> 1:13:25.000 they want to do. They want to market me luggage 1:13:25.000 --> 1:13:27.599 they know I'm buying. So if you want, a VPN 1:13:27.680 --> 1:13:30.719 could help you kind of avoid some of that because 1:13:30.760 --> 1:13:33.240 it anonymizes some of your searches. Now, it doesn't make 1:13:33.240 --> 1:13:36.400 you anonymous. And there's a lot of debate over, you know, 1:13:36.439 --> 1:13:38.800 how these things work and whether you can you know, 1:13:38.880 --> 1:13:40.519 you can't just sit there and like think that you're 1:13:40.520 --> 1:13:42.240 going to be invisible on the web because you're using 1:13:42.320 --> 1:13:45.519 VPN and people use them for various reasons. But it 1:13:45.560 --> 1:13:49.479 does confuse the computers because you may be connecting in 1:13:49.520 --> 1:13:52.880 a different area from a different type of connection. And 1:13:52.960 --> 1:13:56.240 so you know, on my computer, I've got where I 1:13:56.360 --> 1:13:59.240 connect to a VPN. I don't use it all the time, 1:13:59.280 --> 1:14:01.400 but I will use it sometimes if I'm trying to 1:14:01.439 --> 1:14:06.120 do something special or whatever, or on my phone. I 1:14:06.240 --> 1:14:08.120 do use it a lot for and the number one 1:14:08.160 --> 1:14:10.000 reason I use on my phone is because it blocks 1:14:10.040 --> 1:14:13.759 all the ads across my phone and it also blocks threats. 1:14:14.439 --> 1:14:18.280 So the one I'm using is nord and it has 1:14:18.320 --> 1:14:21.680 this thing called threat protection, and so I love it 1:14:21.720 --> 1:14:25.320 because when I activate that, everything across my phone, not 1:14:25.360 --> 1:14:29.240 only the ads are eliminated, but also any dangerous websites 1:14:29.280 --> 1:14:32.080 that you might visit. They're kind of their VPN is 1:14:32.080 --> 1:14:34.719 looking at that and saying, Okay, this is a malicious website. 1:14:34.720 --> 1:14:37.439 Don't allow him to go there. And so that's really 1:14:37.439 --> 1:14:41.479 good too. So that's you know, those are the main reasons. 1:14:41.479 --> 1:14:42.920 The other reason I love it is because when you 1:14:42.960 --> 1:14:45.760 travel to a different country, you can just connect to 1:14:45.800 --> 1:14:49.120 a server back home in the US and your entire 1:14:49.240 --> 1:14:52.320 phone and computer will work the way they work in 1:14:52.360 --> 1:14:55.400 the US. I'm not sure if you've traveled internationally, but 1:14:55.400 --> 1:14:58.439 when you travel internationally, your phone and your computer all 1:14:58.479 --> 1:15:01.160 of a sudden take on, you know, whatever country you're in. 1:15:01.479 --> 1:15:04.000 So if you're in Mexico, Mexico City, I was in, 1:15:04.040 --> 1:15:05.880 and all of a sudden, my computer's showing all, you know, 1:15:06.360 --> 1:15:08.840 results from the web that are different, and you know, 1:15:08.960 --> 1:15:11.920 different language whatever. So if you connect to a VPN, 1:15:11.960 --> 1:15:14.120 you avoid all that and you just it just says, 1:15:14.120 --> 1:15:16.040 oh Rich is connecting from the US, so let's just 1:15:16.080 --> 1:15:19.840 show him everything from the US. So what to look 1:15:19.880 --> 1:15:22.880 for in a VPN. Number one, I think that it 1:15:22.920 --> 1:15:25.200 should work on all of your different devices, So make 1:15:25.200 --> 1:15:28.040 sure that it works on your phone, make sure it 1:15:28.120 --> 1:15:31.679 works on your computer, make sure it works on your tablet, 1:15:32.880 --> 1:15:36.200 and that's number one. Number two, you want to look 1:15:36.240 --> 1:15:40.800 for audit results, independent audit results. So people use these 1:15:40.840 --> 1:15:43.320 to make their connections more private, and so you want 1:15:43.360 --> 1:15:47.120 to make sure that VPNs are auditing their connections to 1:15:47.200 --> 1:15:51.360 make sure that they are private, and so that's really important. 1:15:52.320 --> 1:15:54.920 VPNs can also slow down your connection, so you want 1:15:54.920 --> 1:15:58.160 to look for one that supports the WireGuard protocol, which 1:15:58.200 --> 1:16:01.720 is faster than the open VPN proto call. Look for 1:16:01.760 --> 1:16:04.840 one that has lots of servers, no bandwidth caps. And 1:16:04.920 --> 1:16:09.640 so what are the experts recommend. Molevad is one that 1:16:09.760 --> 1:16:12.720 a lot of experts like because if you in LA, 1:16:12.800 --> 1:16:15.680 they've got ads all over the US or ads all 1:16:15.720 --> 1:16:19.000 over LA from molevad m U L l V A 1:16:19.160 --> 1:16:23.519 D and they're very straightforward with their pricing. They explain 1:16:23.600 --> 1:16:25.760 everything and if you want to see like why they 1:16:25.800 --> 1:16:27.559 think they're the best, you can read all about it 1:16:27.560 --> 1:16:29.840 on their website. And they basically do a really good 1:16:29.920 --> 1:16:32.200 job of like saying, hey, this is why we think 1:16:32.200 --> 1:16:34.599 we're the best. And they don't fool around the pricing 1:16:34.640 --> 1:16:37.160 at all. So it's basically like some people don't like 1:16:37.200 --> 1:16:39.360 that because you can't buy like three years in advance. 1:16:39.439 --> 1:16:41.519 It's just you know, you can just buy. It's like 1:16:41.560 --> 1:16:44.760 five bucks a month, basically, all right, I guess, yeah, 1:16:44.840 --> 1:16:48.479 let's see. The other one is surf Shark. Surf Sharks 1:16:48.520 --> 1:16:52.840 another one that people like and they always rank really high. 1:16:52.960 --> 1:16:56.360 And then the one I mentioned, nord VPN. I really like. Disclaimer, 1:16:56.800 --> 1:16:59.760 some of these have sponsored my newsletter, so just FYI, 1:17:00.120 --> 1:17:02.439 but I don't let things sponsor unless I really enjoy 1:17:02.520 --> 1:17:04.880 them and use them and try them out first, so 1:17:05.040 --> 1:17:07.920 just be aware. When I tried nord VPN, I really 1:17:08.040 --> 1:17:10.519 really did like what they do. But again, there are 1:17:10.520 --> 1:17:13.519 many out there. I think that these a lot of 1:17:13.560 --> 1:17:17.120 these VPNs are selling a promise that you know, hey, 1:17:17.120 --> 1:17:19.439 this is going to change everything about your Internet. I 1:17:19.479 --> 1:17:21.639 don't know, if you want to always serve for the VPN. 1:17:21.720 --> 1:17:23.320 I mean, some people do, I guess if they really 1:17:23.360 --> 1:17:26.240 want to protect their privacy, But there are some downsides, 1:17:26.280 --> 1:17:29.639 and especially when you visit websites, they may not always 1:17:29.720 --> 1:17:33.519 be localized for you because your VPN may be connecting 1:17:33.560 --> 1:17:35.599 to a server in a different area, and so these 1:17:35.600 --> 1:17:38.760 websites get confused. And then also they may see a 1:17:38.800 --> 1:17:43.479 lot of traffic coming to that server from that VPN, 1:17:43.560 --> 1:17:46.040 and so they question if you're a human. And so 1:17:46.120 --> 1:17:48.000 when you're using a VPN, you're going to see a 1:17:48.040 --> 1:17:52.240 lot of these things, these captures that are like, hey, 1:17:52.280 --> 1:17:54.720 confirm your human or hey, we've seen a lot of 1:17:55.160 --> 1:17:58.080 unusual activity from your IP address, so we just want to, 1:17:58.400 --> 1:18:00.240 you know, make sure that you are human or make 1:18:00.240 --> 1:18:02.479 sure you're real. And so if you get those and 1:18:02.520 --> 1:18:06.439 you encounter those, that's because you're on a VPN. But overall, 1:18:06.479 --> 1:18:08.559 I will tell you I've been using it more and 1:18:08.640 --> 1:18:11.760 more because I kind of like the protection. I kind 1:18:11.800 --> 1:18:13.960 of like the way it blocks ads. I kind of 1:18:14.000 --> 1:18:16.240 like the way it anonymizes or makes it a little 1:18:16.240 --> 1:18:18.639 bit more confusing to marketers as to who I am. 1:18:19.120 --> 1:18:20.559 And so I think that's why we're seeing a lot 1:18:20.600 --> 1:18:23.360 more people use them. They started out back in the day. 1:18:23.400 --> 1:18:25.759 People just wanted to watch their sports in different places, 1:18:26.400 --> 1:18:28.799 or they're you know, programming on Netflix from a different 1:18:28.800 --> 1:18:31.080 country or something. But so much of this stuff has 1:18:31.080 --> 1:18:33.439 gotten a lot easier. You don't necessarily need that anymore. 1:18:34.000 --> 1:18:35.559 But believe me, there are a lot of people that 1:18:35.680 --> 1:18:39.080 love using a VPN. William, great question. I will link 1:18:39.160 --> 1:18:41.600 up some of those VPNs on the website. Rich on 1:18:42.000 --> 1:18:46.799 tech dot TV. Okay, we got to go to break 1:18:47.600 --> 1:18:50.280 eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four 1:18:50.320 --> 1:18:53.519 to two four one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell 1:18:53.520 --> 1:18:56.559 you about the new Instagram alerts if teens need help, 1:18:57.439 --> 1:19:00.040 YouTube Premium Light, I'll tell you what they added, and 1:19:00.320 --> 1:19:02.800 this new app that alerts you if someone nearby is 1:19:02.840 --> 1:19:05.160 wearing smart glasses. That's all coming up right here. I'm 1:19:05.240 --> 1:19:13.640 rich on Tech. I got to tell you I was 1:19:13.680 --> 1:19:16.559 hanging out and I've said this now three times during 1:19:16.600 --> 1:19:18.960 the show, but like half the fun of going to 1:19:19.040 --> 1:19:22.120 these tech events is really talking with the other people 1:19:22.120 --> 1:19:25.559 there and exchanging ideas and knowledge and all this stuff. 1:19:25.600 --> 1:19:29.160 That's all, you know, kind of not the main attraction. 1:19:29.320 --> 1:19:31.680 It's just what happens when you're there, And so you 1:19:31.760 --> 1:19:34.679 pick people's brains about stuff because there's lots of smart 1:19:34.720 --> 1:19:38.400 creators and people at these events, and so I'm always 1:19:38.439 --> 1:19:40.080 asking them like, how do you do this? What do 1:19:40.080 --> 1:19:43.040 you use for this? But one of the things I 1:19:43.160 --> 1:19:46.280 was talking about with someone is Gemini, and they were 1:19:46.320 --> 1:19:49.240 showing me how they coded an app on Gemini to 1:19:49.280 --> 1:19:52.400 help them compare photos for their camera tests and things 1:19:52.439 --> 1:19:54.680 like this, and I said, wait, what, I know my 1:19:54.800 --> 1:19:58.080 son and I have been coding apps on Gemini, but 1:19:58.120 --> 1:20:01.960 I didn't really think about all the implications. And so 1:20:02.280 --> 1:20:06.680 I've been trying to create this shortcut to do a 1:20:06.680 --> 1:20:10.559 couple things with pictures forever on the on the Mac computer, 1:20:10.600 --> 1:20:12.040 and I could not figure out how to do it. 1:20:12.040 --> 1:20:13.320 It just would not do it. All I want to 1:20:13.360 --> 1:20:15.400 do is a couple things. When you take pictures on 1:20:15.439 --> 1:20:17.720 an iPhone, they come out as ZIP files when you 1:20:17.800 --> 1:20:20.640 download them from Google Photos, and so I want to 1:20:20.760 --> 1:20:24.240 I wanted to take that, extract the picture and then 1:20:24.479 --> 1:20:27.840 optimize it, you know, kind of make it smaller, compress it, 1:20:28.160 --> 1:20:31.640 make it four x three, strip the metadata, add a 1:20:31.640 --> 1:20:35.120 water mark, and also change the file name. That's a 1:20:35.200 --> 1:20:37.160 lot of things to do, right, and you're sitting there 1:20:37.160 --> 1:20:39.840 in shortcuts, trying to figure out the flow of all 1:20:39.880 --> 1:20:42.919 that stuff. I could never get it to work. I 1:20:42.960 --> 1:20:46.439 put one line of exactly what I wanted to do 1:20:46.520 --> 1:20:48.599 into Gemini and I said, can you create this app 1:20:48.640 --> 1:20:52.280 for me? It did it in seconds. Now I have 1:20:52.400 --> 1:20:57.679 the rich On Tech Optimizer for photos. Unbelievable. You drag 1:20:57.720 --> 1:21:01.040 a photo or a ZIP file in there. It extracts 1:21:01.040 --> 1:21:03.960 the picture, It crops it to four x three, It 1:21:04.120 --> 1:21:07.040 scans it using AI to come up with keywords that 1:21:07.080 --> 1:21:10.240 are relevant in the file name, which is good for SEO, 1:21:10.800 --> 1:21:13.040 and then it strips the metadata, the exit data and 1:21:13.080 --> 1:21:14.960 the GPS, and then it puts a rich On Tech 1:21:15.000 --> 1:21:16.799 watermark on it. So if you look at my newsletter 1:21:16.840 --> 1:21:20.400 today rich On Tech dot TV, you'll see all the 1:21:20.439 --> 1:21:24.360 pictures in there are now formatted because of this AI tool, 1:21:24.479 --> 1:21:28.439 this app that I coded in seconds. And then as 1:21:28.479 --> 1:21:31.519 I go along, if there's something I wanted different, you 1:21:31.600 --> 1:21:34.840 just chat with the AI and tell it to change it. So, 1:21:35.000 --> 1:21:37.760 if you have not played with this, I get it. 1:21:37.840 --> 1:21:41.280 This is not a tech novice thing, per se. You 1:21:41.320 --> 1:21:44.639 need a little bit of tech. I guess not really, 1:21:44.760 --> 1:21:47.280 because I'm not a coder and I made an app 1:21:47.880 --> 1:21:49.840 literally made the best app I've ever used in my 1:21:49.880 --> 1:21:52.360 life right now, and it does exactly what I want 1:21:53.240 --> 1:21:55.080 and you can run it all from Gemini. By the way, 1:21:55.439 --> 1:21:58.840 so this feature is called Canvas. So when you go 1:21:58.880 --> 1:22:01.200 to Gemini, if you want to try making your own 1:22:01.240 --> 1:22:04.599 little app, just go to tools and tap canvas and 1:22:04.640 --> 1:22:07.160 that will give you. I mean, it says what, let's 1:22:07.160 --> 1:22:10.519 write or build together. I'm not kidding when I tell 1:22:10.560 --> 1:22:14.479 you I've been in technology and working with technology for 1:22:15.200 --> 1:22:18.760 you know, a couple decades now. This is unbelievable. The 1:22:18.760 --> 1:22:21.080 fact that I can sit here and create my own 1:22:21.160 --> 1:22:23.479 app that does exactly what I want it to do 1:22:24.040 --> 1:22:26.280 is just something that in the history of mankind has 1:22:26.400 --> 1:22:30.559 never been available before. It's mind boggling. And by the way, 1:22:30.640 --> 1:22:33.240 it's free. So if you've been thinking about something that 1:22:33.280 --> 1:22:37.840 you want to do on your computer, code it, try it. 1:22:38.280 --> 1:22:42.200 Make it. You got something you do every day? You always, 1:22:42.439 --> 1:22:44.240 you know, form out a picture this way, you always 1:22:44.240 --> 1:22:47.200 do something, whatever it is, music, whatever it is, try it. 1:22:47.880 --> 1:22:50.400 I cannot believe how good this is. And I talked 1:22:50.439 --> 1:22:52.240 about this a couple of weeks ago. The timer I 1:22:52.360 --> 1:22:56.280 use for this show now my kid made My kid 1:22:56.320 --> 1:23:00.000 is fourteen. He coded a showtimer that takes into account 1:23:00.120 --> 1:23:04.040 all the breaks, all the commercial time when we have 1:23:04.120 --> 1:23:07.479 to stop what we call hard stops, soft stop, what 1:23:07.560 --> 1:23:10.240 is it heartbreak? Soft break? You know some breaks on 1:23:10.280 --> 1:23:11.920 this show, I can go a little bit longer and 1:23:12.520 --> 1:23:14.360 we can still go to break. Some I have to 1:23:14.439 --> 1:23:17.240 hit at exact certain time. Somehow he got them to 1:23:17.280 --> 1:23:20.600 time out perfectly on this thing. My point is this 1:23:20.720 --> 1:23:22.559 stuff that you can do on AI. And I understand 1:23:22.560 --> 1:23:25.360 some people are oh, oh my gosh, but the actual 1:23:25.439 --> 1:23:30.280 benefits to people that we're finding are really incredible. So 1:23:31.360 --> 1:23:34.360 that's just one example. Anyway, if you've been trying to 1:23:34.400 --> 1:23:36.240 do something, or you know you want to create a 1:23:36.240 --> 1:23:38.400 little app. I've got like a couple app ideas that 1:23:38.400 --> 1:23:41.599 we created. We made like little prototypes of them. It's 1:23:41.640 --> 1:23:45.720 just unbelievable what you can do. That's Gemini Gemini dot 1:23:45.760 --> 1:23:48.920 Google dot com. And look at the canvas feature and 1:23:49.040 --> 1:23:52.000 just code your app. See what you can do. Speaking 1:23:52.000 --> 1:23:54.920 of apps, there's a new app called Nearby Glasses. This 1:23:54.960 --> 1:23:59.040 is an Android app that basically can tell you if 1:23:59.040 --> 1:24:02.840 someone nearby is wearing smart glasses like the Meta ray 1:24:02.880 --> 1:24:06.000 bands or the Snap Spectacles. The app works by scanning 1:24:06.080 --> 1:24:09.919 Bluetooth low energy signals. These are little tiny radio beacons. 1:24:09.960 --> 1:24:12.439 These smart glasses broadcasts so they can connect to apps 1:24:12.439 --> 1:24:16.320 and phones. It'll tell you, hey, someone nearby is wearing 1:24:16.320 --> 1:24:20.200 these glasses. The developer says. The goal is awareness, calling 1:24:20.280 --> 1:24:23.559 the app a small pushback against the growing always on 1:24:23.720 --> 1:24:29.880 surveillance from wearable cameras. Kind of interesting. I can see 1:24:29.880 --> 1:24:31.519 this being useful if you're in a job where you 1:24:31.600 --> 1:24:32.839 might not want to be recorded. 1:24:33.280 --> 1:24:33.479 You know. 1:24:34.080 --> 1:24:35.400 I don't know what kind of job that is, but 1:24:35.479 --> 1:24:38.599 you know there's jobs like that. YouTube Premium just got 1:24:38.600 --> 1:24:43.280 two new features Premium Light I should say background playback 1:24:43.360 --> 1:24:46.120 and offline downloads. So if you're paying eight bucks a month, 1:24:46.560 --> 1:24:49.200 you now get these two features that were previously locked 1:24:49.200 --> 1:24:51.880 behind the full premium plan, which costs much more each month, 1:24:51.880 --> 1:24:55.240 I think thirteen dollars a month, fourteen dollars, so this 1:24:55.280 --> 1:24:57.720 is eight dollars a month. Premium Light basically takes a 1:24:57.720 --> 1:25:01.120 lot of ads off of YouTube. It does not take 1:25:01.200 --> 1:25:03.439 ads off of two places that I watch the most, 1:25:03.479 --> 1:25:07.639 which is shorts and music videos, so you still see 1:25:07.640 --> 1:25:09.400 ads there, which you might as well. At that point 1:25:09.439 --> 1:25:12.360 just pay for the fourteen dollars a month, but Premium 1:25:12.439 --> 1:25:17.000 Light two new features. All right, coming up, we are 1:25:17.000 --> 1:25:20.120 going to talk about the day of on Global Day 1:25:20.120 --> 1:25:23.360 of on Plugging, could you give up your phone for 1:25:23.479 --> 1:25:32.800 twenty four hours we'll discuss coming up next now on 1:25:32.840 --> 1:25:36.240 the show. Kim Cavallo from the Global Day of on Plugging, 1:25:36.400 --> 1:25:41.599 happening March sixth through seventh. Kim, welcome to the show. 1:25:42.400 --> 1:25:43.800 Thank you, Thank you so much. 1:25:43.960 --> 1:25:44.160 Rich. 1:25:45.000 --> 1:25:48.519 I just have to say I admire and appreciate so 1:25:48.640 --> 1:25:53.760 much your show and your community because everyone's looking to 1:25:53.840 --> 1:25:57.360 you to you tell them about technology, and you cover 1:25:57.479 --> 1:26:01.960 all the angles from the healthy aspect to maybe some 1:26:02.040 --> 1:26:03.639 of the things for us to look out for. 1:26:03.840 --> 1:26:05.599 So I always appreciate you. 1:26:05.560 --> 1:26:07.360 So thank you well, thank you. And you know I 1:26:07.880 --> 1:26:10.840 am a tech enthusiast for sure, but I also see 1:26:10.880 --> 1:26:12.800 the downsides of all of this stuff. And that's you know, 1:26:12.920 --> 1:26:16.599 try to give people a you know, a rounded kind 1:26:16.640 --> 1:26:18.360 of look at all this stuff, you know, a well 1:26:18.439 --> 1:26:21.160 rounded look, because you know, we love this stuff, we 1:26:21.200 --> 1:26:23.519 all use it, but we also know that like I mean, 1:26:23.560 --> 1:26:25.680 I see adults, so many adults that are just so 1:26:25.840 --> 1:26:28.920 addicted to their phones. It's like, put down the phone 1:26:29.040 --> 1:26:32.719 for one second, please absolutely, And that's what you're saying 1:26:32.760 --> 1:26:35.840 to do. So explain what the Global Day of Unplugging 1:26:35.960 --> 1:26:36.559 is all about? 1:26:37.000 --> 1:26:39.280 Okay, all right, well, the globally of I'm plugging. It's 1:26:39.280 --> 1:26:42.880 an intentional call to action for people to not only 1:26:42.920 --> 1:26:47.479 reflect on their relationship with technology, but to gather together 1:26:47.640 --> 1:26:51.439 with other people to with their intentions of experiencing life 1:26:51.800 --> 1:26:53.880 beyond our screens, which is you know what you've just 1:26:53.880 --> 1:26:56.200 been talking about. It's always the first weekend of March. 1:26:56.400 --> 1:26:59.240 It's been that way for seventeen years. And as you said, 1:26:59.240 --> 1:27:04.000 this year, the official campaign launches at sundown on March sixth, 1:27:04.000 --> 1:27:05.600 and at last twenty four hours. 1:27:06.000 --> 1:27:09.000 Okay, so how do you participate? Like, what do you 1:27:09.080 --> 1:27:11.000 have to do? Is this like an official thing or 1:27:11.040 --> 1:27:13.080 is it just a personal thing or is it a mix? 1:27:13.880 --> 1:27:15.000 It's really a mix. 1:27:15.080 --> 1:27:17.880 I mean obviously, you know, the thought of shutting down 1:27:17.920 --> 1:27:20.599 devices for twenty four hours can be a total turnoff, 1:27:21.760 --> 1:27:23.680 especially right now. You know, so many of us are 1:27:23.720 --> 1:27:26.080 gripped by the news of what's happening around the world. 1:27:26.200 --> 1:27:29.880 I mean, you know, especially even today, and you know, 1:27:30.000 --> 1:27:31.679 we don't want to turn off our TVs or stop 1:27:31.720 --> 1:27:35.720 scrolling because we're so scared, and we understand that at 1:27:35.720 --> 1:27:38.439 Global Day of Unplugging. You know, some parts of the world, 1:27:38.439 --> 1:27:40.479 for many people, the smartphone and the Wi Fi are 1:27:40.520 --> 1:27:43.880 literally a lifeline, so you know, and I'm gonna admit 1:27:43.920 --> 1:27:47.120 something here on live Radio. I find it impossible to 1:27:47.240 --> 1:27:50.040 unplug unless my phone is out of sight. I have 1:27:50.120 --> 1:27:53.480 this horrible habit of picking it up to use the calculator, 1:27:53.560 --> 1:27:56.120 and then an hour later, I'm watching episode three about 1:27:56.120 --> 1:28:00.160 some celebrity breakup on TikTok, so I need global of 1:28:00.160 --> 1:28:00.599 them plugging. 1:28:00.840 --> 1:28:02.839 Well, you're not the only one, you, I mean everyone. 1:28:02.920 --> 1:28:06.080 This is and this is why notifications are so important 1:28:06.200 --> 1:28:09.439 to these these apps, because they get you in, they 1:28:09.479 --> 1:28:12.479 get you on your phone. Yes, and I actually have 1:28:12.520 --> 1:28:16.679 a term for this notification abuse because let's just let's 1:28:16.800 --> 1:28:20.360 for instance, DoorDash right, you want you want to leave 1:28:20.439 --> 1:28:23.559 notifications on DoorDash on because you want to know when 1:28:23.560 --> 1:28:27.439 your pizza gets delivered. But they abuse that privilege because 1:28:27.439 --> 1:28:30.400 they'll send you stuff all day long, every day. Hey, rich, 1:28:31.120 --> 1:28:33.320 these cookies are looking pretty good today. Why don't you 1:28:33.400 --> 1:28:35.920 order one? It's like I don't need that, that's like it, 1:28:36.000 --> 1:28:37.920 you know, And so a lot of apps do that. 1:28:37.960 --> 1:28:40.439 They abuse their privileges on our phone and they get 1:28:40.520 --> 1:28:42.439 us to look at it, and then we go down 1:28:42.479 --> 1:28:44.160 that rabbit hole of looking at other stuff. 1:28:44.640 --> 1:28:46.719 Yeah yeah, and really what Global Day of them plugging? 1:28:46.800 --> 1:28:48.599 I mean, it's for me and thousands of people around 1:28:48.640 --> 1:28:51.080 the world. You know, it's a communal moment. It's a 1:28:51.120 --> 1:28:53.400 time that everyone could observe in some way. You can 1:28:53.560 --> 1:28:55.880 plug for one hour, fifteen minutes, you could do the 1:28:55.880 --> 1:28:58.920 full twenty four hours. You can ditch all your devices 1:28:59.120 --> 1:29:01.080 or swear off social media for the day. I mean, 1:29:01.080 --> 1:29:03.679 it's we have two hundred plus ideas on our website 1:29:03.680 --> 1:29:05.960 to support the conversation, and we think of it like 1:29:06.040 --> 1:29:08.439 Earth Day. You know, on Earth Day we celebrate and 1:29:08.479 --> 1:29:11.320 protect the environment. On Global Day of Unplugging, it's our 1:29:11.400 --> 1:29:14.880 chance to remind each other that the real thing, the 1:29:14.920 --> 1:29:18.280 person in front of you, those connections are worth preserving. 1:29:18.840 --> 1:29:20.960 Okay, So that makes a lot of sense. So it's 1:29:21.040 --> 1:29:23.880 really a way of it's not necessarily saying, Okay, you 1:29:23.960 --> 1:29:26.400 have to take twenty four hours off your device, but hey, 1:29:26.520 --> 1:29:29.599 take this time to reflect on your relationship with your 1:29:29.640 --> 1:29:32.800 technology and how it's affecting you and what it's doing 1:29:32.800 --> 1:29:35.840 to your life and also just take that time to figure. 1:29:35.479 --> 1:29:36.840 That out exactly. 1:29:36.960 --> 1:29:39.599 Okay, that's interesting. I like that aspect because I don't 1:29:39.640 --> 1:29:41.320 think we think about this all the time, like how 1:29:41.320 --> 1:29:45.200 these things affect us. So what about research? I know, 1:29:45.240 --> 1:29:47.639 I was just talking about this, these alerts for the parents, 1:29:47.680 --> 1:29:50.479 you know, the parents from Instagram. What does research tell 1:29:50.560 --> 1:29:55.360 us about loneliness and connection when it comes to technology. 1:29:56.400 --> 1:29:59.599 So we do know that there's a strong correlation between 1:29:59.640 --> 1:30:03.600 high scho screen time rates, particularly social media, and increased. 1:30:03.200 --> 1:30:04.240 Feelings of loneliness. 1:30:04.280 --> 1:30:07.240 So if you exceed four plus hours a day scrolling 1:30:07.280 --> 1:30:09.439 on social media, I mean, this might seem obvious to 1:30:09.479 --> 1:30:12.680 some people, but it's strongly linked to increased loneliness and 1:30:12.760 --> 1:30:16.240 reduced well being for all ages. I'm really excited because 1:30:16.240 --> 1:30:19.000 after seventeen years, our team and partners are interested in 1:30:19.080 --> 1:30:22.040 learning more about the impact of unplug gatherings on a 1:30:22.080 --> 1:30:26.479 sense of belongingness. So this year, some participants who attend 1:30:26.520 --> 1:30:29.719 gatherings and connection with Global Data Plugging will be invited 1:30:29.760 --> 1:30:33.599 to complete a brief research and formed survey shortly after 1:30:33.600 --> 1:30:35.600 their event, and then we're going to follow up with 1:30:35.640 --> 1:30:40.080 a survey several months later. It's led by doctor Tracy 1:30:40.120 --> 1:30:43.640 Dennis Tawari from New York, the author of Future Tents, 1:30:43.840 --> 1:30:46.120 a book about anxiety. She's also a director of an 1:30:46.160 --> 1:30:50.160 emotion regulation Lab at the City University of New York. 1:30:50.840 --> 1:30:55.120 She's joined by Jamie Caruth, who's a licensed marriage and 1:30:55.120 --> 1:30:59.320 family therapist and also a data analyst. 1:30:59.400 --> 1:31:01.280 And so we're really excited. 1:31:00.920 --> 1:31:03.479 About this new research project and can't wait to explore 1:31:03.520 --> 1:31:07.680 what the data story is telling us about unplugged gatherings. 1:31:07.960 --> 1:31:09.320 So we'll report back to you at the end of 1:31:09.360 --> 1:31:10.160 the summer about that. 1:31:10.280 --> 1:31:13.479 Oh wow, that's as you'll collect data on how people feel, 1:31:14.080 --> 1:31:16.759 what their thoughts are, and all this stuff from people 1:31:16.760 --> 1:31:19.360 that are participating in this event. We're talking to Kim 1:31:19.400 --> 1:31:23.640 Cavallo of the Global Day of Unplugging Global Day of 1:31:23.720 --> 1:31:27.719 Unplugging dot org. They've got a whole bunch of unplugging ideas, 1:31:27.760 --> 1:31:32.960 she said, about two hundred plus. Let's see here, create 1:31:32.960 --> 1:31:38.840 a boredom box. Okay, upcycling, cardboard cars, living history day. 1:31:39.120 --> 1:31:41.080 Oh my gosh, this reminds me of my kid. Last night. 1:31:41.200 --> 1:31:43.800 He was I said enough time on the iPad and 1:31:43.800 --> 1:31:46.400 he said, okay, I'm off my screen. Now I get 1:31:46.439 --> 1:31:48.880 to do. What I really like to do is be creative. 1:31:49.320 --> 1:31:51.600 And he just went out and he started like doing. 1:31:51.760 --> 1:31:55.479 It's so funny because you know, left to their own devices, literally, 1:31:55.640 --> 1:31:59.599 kids will just be glued to the screen forever indefinitely, right, Yes, 1:32:00.120 --> 1:32:02.920 but if you let them be kids and play, like 1:32:02.960 --> 1:32:05.479 I tell my kids, you know, go look under rocks, 1:32:05.520 --> 1:32:07.479 like look for worms, like just go outside like touched 1:32:07.600 --> 1:32:11.200 r whatever. Yes, it really like they want to do that. 1:32:11.200 --> 1:32:14.599 That's that's also built into their system. It's just who 1:32:14.600 --> 1:32:17.160 doesn't want that screen that just has all the world's 1:32:17.160 --> 1:32:21.040 information and flashiness and games at all times. I mean 1:32:21.080 --> 1:32:22.840 everyone wants that exactly. 1:32:22.920 --> 1:32:23.000 No. 1:32:23.200 --> 1:32:28.360 Definitely, mobile technology especially it's disrupted childhood, the natural way 1:32:28.400 --> 1:32:30.800 that we you know, learn and grow when we're young. 1:32:32.280 --> 1:32:36.200 How do you gauge success of this global day of unplugging? 1:32:37.320 --> 1:32:40.759 So, you know, we we it's hard for us actually, 1:32:41.360 --> 1:32:44.840 you know, because we have a gathering form on our website, 1:32:44.880 --> 1:32:47.760 so we hope that people fill that out and tell 1:32:47.800 --> 1:32:48.320 us what their. 1:32:48.200 --> 1:32:50.160 Plans might be. And your plans might be. 1:32:50.240 --> 1:32:52.759 I'm going to go out to dinner with one person, 1:32:53.040 --> 1:32:56.680 or I'm going to plan something for my workplace or 1:32:56.920 --> 1:32:58.600 my entire school district. 1:32:59.160 --> 1:33:00.400 So there's a rain it. 1:33:00.600 --> 1:33:03.200 So we asked people to fill that out on our 1:33:03.200 --> 1:33:06.880 website and then at the end of March we put 1:33:06.920 --> 1:33:09.880 all that on the website as in forms of a 1:33:09.920 --> 1:33:12.800 pin so that we can see the impact of that. 1:33:13.360 --> 1:33:16.519 But to be honest, we also get you know, Google 1:33:16.560 --> 1:33:19.960 alert hits in the middle of the year that says 1:33:20.000 --> 1:33:23.719 that some incredible company had this great way of celebrating 1:33:23.760 --> 1:33:25.760 Global Day of Unplugging. They never reached out to us, 1:33:25.800 --> 1:33:28.040 they never filled out a form, and we didn't know 1:33:28.080 --> 1:33:31.639 what happened with it. So yeah, we really do want 1:33:31.720 --> 1:33:34.040 people to reach out to us and let us know 1:33:34.080 --> 1:33:34.679 what they're doing. 1:33:35.680 --> 1:33:39.320 All right, Kim Cavallo of a Global Day of Unplugging. 1:33:39.920 --> 1:33:41.800 I did it. I did the whole twenty four hour 1:33:41.880 --> 1:33:45.000 thing a couple of years ago. It was tough. I imagine 1:33:44.920 --> 1:33:46.800 it'd be even tougher this time around. But I think 1:33:46.840 --> 1:33:49.200 that we're seeing a definite since I've talked to you 1:33:49.240 --> 1:33:51.879 for a couple of years about this, a definite movement 1:33:52.400 --> 1:33:56.280 towards people understanding their relationship with tech is not always 1:33:56.320 --> 1:33:59.800 the healthiest, and I'm seeing more people try to disconnect, 1:34:00.040 --> 1:34:02.400 try to use retro things, try to stay. You know 1:34:02.520 --> 1:34:05.840 books this that versus the digital equivalent. So I think 1:34:05.880 --> 1:34:07.840 you're getting some you're gaining some ground here. 1:34:08.320 --> 1:34:08.639 Yeah. 1:34:08.720 --> 1:34:10.800 Yeah, You've been so supportive over the years, and I'm 1:34:10.800 --> 1:34:13.519 glad you've seen that growth and we appreciate it and 1:34:13.600 --> 1:34:14.360 are so grateful. 1:34:14.880 --> 1:34:17.000 All right, thanks for joining me today Global Day of 1:34:17.080 --> 1:34:20.160 Unplugging dot Org. Check it out, make your plans for 1:34:20.640 --> 1:34:24.920 March sixth and seventh, connect with friends, do something just 1:34:24.960 --> 1:34:27.240 to ditch that screen for a little bit. Kim, thanks 1:34:27.280 --> 1:34:28.040 for joining me today. 1:34:28.360 --> 1:34:30.080 Thank you so much. Rich I have a great day. 1:34:30.120 --> 1:34:32.360 All right. Coming up, we are going to open up 1:34:32.400 --> 1:34:34.719 the feedbag. Where is it? Oh, we've got a lot 1:34:35.240 --> 1:34:39.040 here it is? Can you hear that? Lots in the 1:34:39.080 --> 1:34:43.280 feedbag today? These are your emails, your comments, your questions 1:34:43.280 --> 1:34:44.960 you send me throughout the week. We will get through 1:34:45.000 --> 1:34:47.240 as many as we can. Coming up right here on 1:34:47.400 --> 1:34:56.360 Rich on tech text Now, we've talked about this company. 1:34:56.360 --> 1:35:01.200 They offer basically free texting and calling through an app. Well, 1:35:01.200 --> 1:35:04.760 now they've launched eSIMs, so you can now install this 1:35:04.880 --> 1:35:09.960 on your phone instantly. So text Now can basically give 1:35:10.000 --> 1:35:14.200 you their phone line. Is they have a free essential 1:35:14.280 --> 1:35:16.160 data plan. So in the past you know, you could 1:35:16.200 --> 1:35:18.799 download their app and you can get free calling, free texting. 1:35:19.200 --> 1:35:21.320 But they also had this thing called Free Essential Data 1:35:21.600 --> 1:35:23.439 where you had to get a SIM card. Right, you 1:35:23.439 --> 1:35:25.720 have to pay them a couple bucks to mail you 1:35:25.760 --> 1:35:27.760 a SIM card, and then when you put that in 1:35:27.840 --> 1:35:30.800 your phone, you can get free calling, free texting, and 1:35:30.880 --> 1:35:35.800 free data for apps like ride shares, maps, banking. But 1:35:36.000 --> 1:35:38.880 here's the deal. Now, you can just go to their website, 1:35:39.240 --> 1:35:42.360 scan the QR code, get an eSIM on your phone instantly, 1:35:42.720 --> 1:35:45.160 and basically have a free phone line, free texting, plus 1:35:45.200 --> 1:35:48.880 limited data access and if you want more data, you 1:35:48.920 --> 1:35:51.800 can buy it three dollars for a day, nine dollars 1:35:51.880 --> 1:35:55.040 for a week, thirty six dollars per monthly unlimited. So 1:35:55.160 --> 1:35:58.280 again this is for people who are always on, always 1:35:58.320 --> 1:36:01.000 on Wi Fi, but want a little cellular backup for 1:36:01.040 --> 1:36:03.840 their you know, their most essential apps, or they just 1:36:03.840 --> 1:36:06.000 want to buy data. So it's not for everyone, but 1:36:06.120 --> 1:36:08.080 if you're looking for something like that, or you need 1:36:08.120 --> 1:36:12.000 something like that, text now check it out. Really interesting 1:36:12.040 --> 1:36:16.080 what they're doing there. And then this is silly. Spotify 1:36:16.160 --> 1:36:20.720 teamed up with Liquid Death to create an eternal playlist 1:36:20.840 --> 1:36:24.479 earn a cremation Earn with a built in Bluetooth speaker, 1:36:24.920 --> 1:36:27.960 so your music can keep playing after you're gone. Four 1:36:28.080 --> 1:36:30.400 hundred ninety five dollars, only making one hundred and fifty 1:36:30.400 --> 1:36:32.840 of them. This is clearly a stunt, but they have 1:36:32.880 --> 1:36:36.960 a playlist eternal playlist generator where you answer questions about 1:36:37.000 --> 1:36:40.519 your eternal vibe, and that's what plays on this thing. 1:36:40.640 --> 1:36:45.120 So I do love my liquid Death drinks, but come on, 1:36:45.200 --> 1:36:48.320 that's kind of silly. All right, Time for the feedback. 1:36:48.680 --> 1:36:51.719 That's your feedback plus the mail bag. These are the emails, 1:36:51.720 --> 1:36:54.120 the comments, and the questions I get from you. If 1:36:54.120 --> 1:36:55.920 you want to submit yours, go to Rich on tech 1:36:56.040 --> 1:36:59.960 dot tv and hit contact. All right, First up, Candice, 1:37:00.000 --> 1:37:02.799 He says, Hey, Rich, after your interview with cybersecurity expert 1:37:02.840 --> 1:37:06.720 JP Castianos about voice cloning scams, I'm pretty sure that's 1:37:06.760 --> 1:37:09.280 what happened to my friend's family. They're just regular people, 1:37:09.320 --> 1:37:12.559 not high profile at all. My friend's dad got a 1:37:12.560 --> 1:37:15.200 call from someone who sounded exactly like her son, Luke. 1:37:15.680 --> 1:37:18.120 The caller said he'd been in a car accident in Miami. 1:37:18.160 --> 1:37:20.439 The woman he hit was pregnant. He needed twelve thousand 1:37:20.439 --> 1:37:23.559 dollars for bond my friend had warned her parents about 1:37:23.560 --> 1:37:25.759 scams like this, but before they hung up, the fake 1:37:25.880 --> 1:37:29.320 Luke gave them a number for a so called attorney 1:37:29.400 --> 1:37:32.479 in Dade County. Her dad actually called it, thankfully. The 1:37:32.560 --> 1:37:35.080 dad felt something was off and called my friend and Luke. 1:37:35.479 --> 1:37:38.080 While they were all on speaker, the scammers called her 1:37:38.120 --> 1:37:40.920 mom's phone again. I could hear him clear as day. 1:37:40.960 --> 1:37:44.040 He sounded exactly like Luke. That's when my friend said, 1:37:44.080 --> 1:37:47.000 that's not Luke. He's standing right here. The scammers immediately 1:37:47.080 --> 1:37:50.920 hung up. It was terrifying. Yes, voice cloning scams. That's 1:37:50.920 --> 1:37:53.759 why I have these very very guests on my show, 1:37:54.200 --> 1:37:56.479 so you learn about all this stuff that's happening out 1:37:56.479 --> 1:37:59.320 there and these voice cloning scams. You might hear it 1:37:59.320 --> 1:38:01.120 and say, oh, come on, that doesn't really happen. Oh 1:38:01.160 --> 1:38:02.880 sure does. Look at that. We just got an email 1:38:02.880 --> 1:38:08.080 about it, Mike and Oneana New York says, I just 1:38:08.160 --> 1:38:11.040 wanted to say thanks to your latest newsletter. I'm an 1:38:11.040 --> 1:38:14.080 assistive technology specialist at a university, and on my way 1:38:14.120 --> 1:38:16.479 to work, I was actually thinking about what voice to 1:38:16.520 --> 1:38:19.160 text apps might help our students. I open up your newsletter. 1:38:19.200 --> 1:38:22.280 There's all section on it perfect timing. I've already installed 1:38:22.280 --> 1:38:24.160 Typeless and I'm testing to see if it's a good 1:38:24.160 --> 1:38:27.679 fit for our campus. Keep the newsletters coming well, thank you, Mike. 1:38:28.840 --> 1:38:31.240 Gary says, I bundled my AT and T cell service 1:38:31.280 --> 1:38:33.360 to save some money, and the rep insisted on giving 1:38:33.360 --> 1:38:35.960 me a quote free Samsung S twenty five. I told 1:38:35.960 --> 1:38:37.960 her I didn't need it. The next morning, I got 1:38:38.000 --> 1:38:40.240 an email saying I'd be charged seven hundred ninety nine 1:38:40.240 --> 1:38:43.680 dollars in twenty three dot twenty three monthly installments. I 1:38:43.760 --> 1:38:45.920 spent over two hours on the phone trying to cancel it, 1:38:45.920 --> 1:38:46.920 and now I have to bring it back to the 1:38:46.960 --> 1:38:49.479 store to return it. I don't like that part. Maybe 1:38:49.520 --> 1:38:52.280 you can warn people about this on your show. So yes, 1:38:52.320 --> 1:38:54.400 the way these free phones work is that you get 1:38:54.400 --> 1:38:57.080 that charge for seven hundred ninety nine dollars, they credit 1:38:57.120 --> 1:39:00.439 you back over three years. Basically, they want you to 1:39:00.439 --> 1:39:03.280 have a phone line active on that device, and you 1:39:03.360 --> 1:39:05.559 got to keep that phone active for those three years 1:39:05.560 --> 1:39:09.759 to get that free phone. So yeah, free not always 1:39:10.360 --> 1:39:14.360 very free. Nick says when people when I hear people 1:39:14.400 --> 1:39:17.080 say AI can't do this or that, like have consciousness, 1:39:17.160 --> 1:39:19.479 I think we just need to define our terms more carefully. 1:39:19.520 --> 1:39:21.400 Every time we say machines will never be able to 1:39:21.400 --> 1:39:24.760 do something, history proves us wrong. If we avoid metaphysical 1:39:24.840 --> 1:39:27.760 or theological ideas like having a soul, I suspect AI 1:39:27.880 --> 1:39:31.639 will eventually meet most definitions we come up with. Even 1:39:31.680 --> 1:39:35.120 Google now labels some results as thinking before an AI 1:39:35.240 --> 1:39:37.640 overview appears. I'm sure the wording went through plenty of 1:39:37.720 --> 1:39:41.160 legal review. AI already has issues and they'll likely grow. 1:39:41.280 --> 1:39:46.120 I'm just not sure our thinking is keeping pace. Ooh deep, 1:39:46.439 --> 1:39:46.800 thank you. 1:39:46.880 --> 1:39:47.120 Nick. 1:39:48.080 --> 1:39:50.599 Mirian says, one of my AirPods stopped charging. I figured 1:39:50.640 --> 1:39:52.960 it might be dying and started thinking about replacing it. 1:39:53.040 --> 1:39:55.479 You told me to grab a Q tip and gently 1:39:55.520 --> 1:39:57.720 clean the metal contacts on the AirPod and inside the 1:39:57.760 --> 1:39:59.960 charging case. Well I tried that and guess what it worked. 1:40:00.439 --> 1:40:01.759 It's charging normally again. 1:40:02.360 --> 1:40:02.679 Yay. 1:40:02.960 --> 1:40:08.479 I saved you a bunch of money. Darren. You know 1:40:08.560 --> 1:40:11.360 what Darren was commenting about the air tags. We had 1:40:11.360 --> 1:40:13.600 a caller last week that said he put him on 1:40:13.640 --> 1:40:15.840 his daughter, but he can't they just show that she's 1:40:15.880 --> 1:40:18.479 at home. Darren says, if he has air tags that 1:40:18.560 --> 1:40:21.320 say they're home, they probably are. Also if his daughter's 1:40:21.360 --> 1:40:23.800 keychain has an air tag registered to him. He she 1:40:23.800 --> 1:40:26.760 would constantly be getting alerts that she's being tracked. My 1:40:26.840 --> 1:40:28.640 guess is she removed the air tag and it's just 1:40:28.640 --> 1:40:32.320 sitting at home. David. I heard you talk about Chrome 1:40:32.360 --> 1:40:34.800 os flex on the show and tried to install it 1:40:34.840 --> 1:40:37.680 on my Dell Latitude with sixteen gigs of RAM and 1:40:37.680 --> 1:40:40.439 an I seven. There's nothing this thing can't do. I 1:40:40.520 --> 1:40:43.919 even installed my full featured money Dance personal finance absence 1:40:43.960 --> 1:40:47.479 it supports Linux. 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