Speaker 1: Motorola brings back the Razor, Android finally gets its I message.
Speaker 1: Disney Plus is here and your tech questions answered. What's
Speaker 1: going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech,
Speaker 1: the podcast where I talk about the stuff that I
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Speaker 1: Plus it's the place where I answer the questions that
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Speaker 1: Thanks and welcome to the show, especially if you're listening
Speaker 1: for the first time. Maybe it found me through Leo
Speaker 1: Laporte's show. Let me bring on Megan producer.
Speaker 2: Megan, what's up, my.
Speaker 1: Trustee sidekick here for loaded with questions.
Speaker 3: Today, right, Yeah, We've got a lot of good questions,
Speaker 3: lots of good questions I've never seen before.
Speaker 1: They come in fast and furious, that's for sure. And
Speaker 1: it's almost a full time job to just answer all
Speaker 1: these questions, but I do. And you know, if you
Speaker 1: write me, most of the time you will get a response,
Speaker 1: as long as you're not crazy, and maybe if you're
Speaker 1: crazy you might get one sometimes. So you know, I
Speaker 1: was out late last night, yeah, because Megan had to
Speaker 1: do a little extra time this morning to make sure
Speaker 1: our segment was ready for the air at five am,
Speaker 1: but I didn't stay out too late, probably like ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: but still you still have to wake up at like yeah,
Speaker 1: like three.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So but I was at the for a good reason.
Speaker 1: I went to the Motorola launch party for the Razor.
Speaker 1: And so the way it worked is we had Motorola
Speaker 1: in the studio in the morning and then at night.
Speaker 2: You know, like twelve hours later basically.
Speaker 1: I mean they came in at eight am, no, nine am, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the party started at seven pm, so you're talking
Speaker 1: almost eleven hours later.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went, you know, to the party, and the party
Speaker 1: was held in downtown Los Angeles at like you know
Speaker 1: this new like arts district where a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: is seemingly to start there. Now it's like growing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is really cool.
Speaker 1: The place was, I forget, it's called like the Container Yard,
Speaker 1: and it was you walk so when you got into
Speaker 1: this party, you walk in through this design that this
Speaker 1: art designer had made. It was like an installation and
Speaker 1: it was all these refrigerators filled with ice, but like
Speaker 1: sculptures of like old Moto Razor phones and like just
Speaker 1: general Motorola stuff.
Speaker 2: It was really odd.
Speaker 1: It was almost like a haunted house kind of walking through.
Speaker 1: So you get through there scared. It was a little apprehensive.
Speaker 1: We have to wait outline for like outside in line
Speaker 1: for like half an hour, and everyone's like, why do
Speaker 1: they have to wait this part?
Speaker 2: It's not like an open party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was the reason why, because they only
Speaker 1: let like ten or fifteen people in this little area
Speaker 1: at once to like look at these art exhibits.
Speaker 3: They didn't want it to melt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it was in refrigerators. And then you go
Speaker 1: outside and the party was actually outside in the middle
Speaker 1: of this thing. Diplo was there playing tunes.
Speaker 3: Diplow was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I listened to his songs. I don't really know Diplo.
Speaker 3: I know Diplo does a lot of no Diplo.
Speaker 1: But he does a lot of like you know, collaborations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not like his own like you know justin Bieber.
Speaker 2: I knew that song. He does a lot of collaps, he.
Speaker 3: Does clap, but he's also a DJA. He has his
Speaker 3: own It.
Speaker 2: Was great DJ, great DJ.
Speaker 1: But the way they launched this phone is kind of
Speaker 1: ironic because it was all of a sudden Diplo came
Speaker 1: on and they introduced him or whatever, and then there's
Speaker 1: like this whole thing, this garage that opened up to
Speaker 1: all these smoke and mirrors, and that's what they showed
Speaker 1: the phones on, which is kind of ironic for a phone.
Speaker 1: You don't usually want to associate smoke and mirrors with
Speaker 1: your product. But it worked and it was very impressive.
Speaker 1: I will say that the early reaction to this product
Speaker 1: and we went hands on with it, now a lot
Speaker 1: of people have seen it, is that it's very cool.
Speaker 1: They did a great job with the foldable design on
Speaker 1: the screen, unlike some other phones we've seen out there
Speaker 1: that just kind of were almost a proof of concept.
Speaker 2: But let me go through some.
Speaker 1: Of the specs here, so it's a you know, they
Speaker 1: kept kind of the phone the same way as you
Speaker 1: remember back when you had it in like two thousand
Speaker 1: and five or whatever. But now when you open it up,
Speaker 1: the entire thing is a screen that is a foldable screen.
Speaker 1: So it's a six point two inch foldable plastic o
Speaker 1: lead panel. It is running Android nine, which I was
Speaker 1: a little disappointed at because you would want Android ten.
Speaker 1: I think Android just needs to do away with the
Speaker 1: versions and just focus on like if it has the
Speaker 1: current software updates, because realistically, the difference between nine and
Speaker 1: ten for most people is not a big deal, but
Speaker 1: it's still just it's a way for tech reporters to
Speaker 1: just be like, oh, this phone is already outdated.
Speaker 3: Exactly, They're already a year behind.
Speaker 1: Right, But the way that Android works versus iPhone is
Speaker 1: just not the same.
Speaker 2: So let's just.
Speaker 1: Drop the version numbers for Android and just focus on
Speaker 1: does this phone get current software updates?
Speaker 2: Because most of what you can.
Speaker 1: Accomplish on an Android versus iPhone is done through app updates,
Speaker 1: not the main software update.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: That makes sense?
Speaker 2: Like you can add like.
Speaker 1: Any feature you want basically to an Android phone by
Speaker 1: just downloading an app, and it'll change kind of how
Speaker 1: that phone works now certain core features. Maybe you need
Speaker 1: the new operating system anyway. So the design is really cool.
Speaker 1: It's got a fingerprint sensor, which is nice. It's got
Speaker 1: USBC on the bottom. Again, the screen inside is really cool.
Speaker 1: There's also a screen on the outside which is two
Speaker 1: point seven inches, And they said that they made sure
Speaker 1: they worked on this screen a lot so that it's
Speaker 1: not going to fail.
Speaker 2: And nothing can get behind it.
Speaker 1: Like little specks of dust that will take down the
Speaker 1: entire phone. I will say that the open and closed
Speaker 1: mechanism is definitely not as simple as the original.
Speaker 2: So my wife went me to the party last night.
Speaker 1: And by the way, she does a great job with
Speaker 1: like holding things in her hand, like she was a
Speaker 1: little hand model.
Speaker 2: She was like, oh, shoot a quick video of me.
Speaker 3: She wanted to take a video.
Speaker 2: For her dad.
Speaker 1: No, for her dad, she wanted to send him a video.
Speaker 1: And so I watched her do this and like she
Speaker 1: actually did a great job of like showing off the
Speaker 1: phone whatever. She maybe featured in a future segment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so she but she did notice when she picked up
Speaker 1: she said, wow, this is actually very impressive. But she
Speaker 1: did notice that it is a little bit tougher to
Speaker 1: open and close with one hand than the original.
Speaker 2: It's heavier and it's just different.
Speaker 3: That's a great point, good observation. Yeah, I didn't actually
Speaker 3: get told it yesterday.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: Oh and I told her this too. I said, I
Speaker 1: actually mentioned you and Luis. I said, it's funny because
Speaker 1: she didn't touch it either. And I was like, Lynn,
Speaker 1: get in there, like go touch the phone, like pick
Speaker 1: it up, feel it. And I said, so many times
Speaker 1: you go to these tech events where I have my
Speaker 1: producer and my photographer. We're so busy collecting everything and
Speaker 1: getting it.
Speaker 2: We need to touch it. You actually don't touch the product. Yeah.
Speaker 3: My sister asked me about the iPhone when we went
Speaker 3: to the event. She was like, did you hold it?
Speaker 2: And I was like, no, So always remember, like just
Speaker 2: get in there, like just just you know, grab it.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm working. I can't which give me,
Speaker 3: give me twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: But it happens to me too, like sometimes I will forget.
Speaker 1: I will go through my motions of what I want
Speaker 1: to do for air and I'll forget to like actually
Speaker 1: just kind of play for a little bit and just
Speaker 1: see how this thing works.
Speaker 2: So it's one of those things you just have to remember.
Speaker 2: And she was like, oh my gosh, you're right.
Speaker 3: So did she like it?
Speaker 2: She loved it. She thought it was really great.
Speaker 1: She said it's gonna be tough to compete with the iPhone,
Speaker 1: right obviously, but she was very impressed. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the I haven't read any of the reviews, the
Speaker 1: early reviews, but it seems like people are impressed with
Speaker 1: what Motorol has done, and I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: That's cool. It's not a phone for specs. This thing
Speaker 1: has an older processor. It's not as fast as the
Speaker 1: flagship's Snapdragon. It also doesn't have the best camera. It's
Speaker 1: it's just an average camera.
Speaker 2: What else.
Speaker 1: It's exclusive to Verizon. It's going to be fifteen hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: so it's super expensive. The one question she asked, which
Speaker 1: I thought was pretty good, was is it going to
Speaker 1: come in colors? And right now the party line is that.
Speaker 2: It's just black. Whatever color we saw yesterday that black guy.
Speaker 3: I have a feeling that coming.
Speaker 1: But I think they elluded last night that there's going
Speaker 1: to be some fun colors and I think that would
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. Again, and you can close
Speaker 1: the phone to end a call, which is really neat.
Speaker 1: So is this a major win for Motorola. Probably too
Speaker 1: early to tell, but I do think that they did
Speaker 1: a nice job with this. They did their homework. Is
Speaker 1: it the phone for everyone? Probably not. Is it going
Speaker 1: to make people switch from iPhone? Probably not? But is
Speaker 1: it something that when people walk into Verizon and if
Speaker 1: they do some sort of special on it, maybe get
Speaker 1: the price down or I also see it as kind
Speaker 1: of like rich executives that want like a phone that
Speaker 1: fits in there their soup pocket. Like it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more comfortable. It's heavy, but it's it's a nice feel,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's gonna appeal to those types
Speaker 1: of people and anyone who wants to make like a statement,
Speaker 1: like someone who doesn't need the craziest, flashiest phone or
Speaker 1: even an iPhone, This is going to appeal to.
Speaker 3: That's why I already ordered it.
Speaker 1: I know you love your iPhone, so I know you're
Speaker 1: not going to get it. Okay, that's the story with
Speaker 1: the Motorola Razor.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's start the first question of the day from Alexander.
Speaker 3: He asks, I was wondering what are your thoughts? Oh sorry,
Speaker 3: I watched your review on AirPods Pro when they were released,
Speaker 3: and I was wondering, what are your thoughts on them
Speaker 3: now that you've had you've owned them for a few weeks,
Speaker 3: are you still using them or is there something you
Speaker 3: prefer better for Jim slash travel.
Speaker 2: Great question, and I like to follow up what's his
Speaker 2: name again?
Speaker 3: Alexander?
Speaker 1: Alexander, So, here is the thing about the AirPods. They
Speaker 1: are great, but you have to be comfortable with two things.
Speaker 1: And my original review kind of stands. And I've been
Speaker 1: using them for a while, like I've taken them on
Speaker 1: four flights now, I have taken them to the gym
Speaker 1: several times. They actually have fallen out of my ears
Speaker 1: at the gym. The original air pods have never fallen
Speaker 1: out of my ears once.
Speaker 2: Actually that's not true.
Speaker 1: They did once on a treadmill and it almost went
Speaker 1: into the groove and I had to pull it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it actually did go into the groove. These fell out
Speaker 1: of my ears a couple times, especially when you get sweaty,
Speaker 1: they definitely start to want to fall out, and when
Speaker 1: you're kind of bending over doing a stretch something like that,
Speaker 1: like on the treadmill. Not really an issue, but I
Speaker 1: do notice myself pushing them into my ears more so.
Speaker 1: My overall recommendation is go with the regular AirPods unless
Speaker 1: you need the noise canceling and you want to consolidate
Speaker 1: your packing. When I pack for a flight, I take
Speaker 1: a big pair of noise canceling headphones and my AirPods.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of the AirPods pro because it's
Speaker 1: just one thing, but I will say there's a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure in your ears no matter what when you
Speaker 1: have these things in noise canceling mode. That's just the reality.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Apple says they did all this work on them and
Speaker 1: try to to make that not happen, and I feel
Speaker 1: like it is less.
Speaker 2: But it's still there, Okay.
Speaker 1: So it's one of these things that it's And this
Speaker 1: is the tough part about earbuds is that how do
Speaker 1: you really try these things on? I mean, the best
Speaker 1: you can do is buy them and like return them
Speaker 1: if they don't work for you. Yeah, I mean they
Speaker 1: don't let you try them on at the store, Like
Speaker 1: I don't even think Apple lets you do that. So
Speaker 1: you can't see how these things are until you take
Speaker 1: them home. You put them in and you use them
Speaker 1: for a week or two, and you got to see
Speaker 1: what the return pulse he is. Yeah, and it's not
Speaker 1: bad if your return them, because they're just gonna replace
Speaker 1: the little tip on them.
Speaker 3: They should make like dummies that you can put on
Speaker 3: in the store. They're just like lasting.
Speaker 2: They should still like see the field with the little
Speaker 2: tips that pop off, so you.
Speaker 3: Just you don't know, pay two fifty. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: am curious about the return.
Speaker 2: Post expensive thing.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can return them, and you know, I
Speaker 1: mean you can return like a computer to Apple store.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So they might charge your restocking fee.
Speaker 3: I don't know, and they might be like hesitant when
Speaker 3: you try to return them. You know, they're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: you know how to deal with that.
Speaker 1: They like give you a little wink, They're like, did
Speaker 1: you just try this on?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, did you yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But hey, you know, I mean it's at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. I don't think Apple is hurting for cash.
Speaker 1: So I think you'll be okay if you if you
Speaker 1: truly get them and you don't like them. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's they're two hundred and fifty dollars, so return them
Speaker 1: if you don't like them, go with the regular AirPods.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we talk about I message all the time, and
Speaker 1: I message is one of the primary reasons why people
Speaker 1: love the iPhone. It's not the only reason, but it's
Speaker 1: definitely one of those contributing factors. And it's funny because
Speaker 1: our car wash guy here, Manny, you know, I get
Speaker 1: my car washed all the time, and he texted me
Speaker 1: this morning, hey, do you need to wash? And I
Speaker 1: noticed it showed up blue. Yeah, and so I was like, Manny,
Speaker 1: I'm like, did you get the phone? Did you get
Speaker 1: an iPhone? He's like oh, And he explained to me
Speaker 1: that he used to have an iPhone, but then his
Speaker 1: daughter would use his tablet the iPad, and all of
Speaker 1: his I messages would come through. So he turned off
Speaker 1: I Message and he actually got her a tablet, her
Speaker 1: own tablet, and so now.
Speaker 2: He's back to the I message.
Speaker 1: So but it's just one of those conversations that you
Speaker 1: would never normally have except in iPhone world, you know. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this because Google is saying, you know what, carriers,
Speaker 1: we are sick and tired of waiting for you to
Speaker 1: make a solution that is equivalent to I Message for Android,
Speaker 1: and we're just going to do it ourselves. So now
Speaker 1: Google is turning on what's called rcs on their Messages
Speaker 1: app on Android, which means all Android users are now
Speaker 1: getting their version of I Message as of today.
Speaker 2: Wow, which is huge for the Android world. So what
Speaker 2: does this mean.
Speaker 1: This means that you can now send and receive text
Speaker 1: over Wi Fi or mobile data, which is huge. You
Speaker 1: can send and receive high resolution photos and videos, so
Speaker 1: no longer. When you send a video from one Android
Speaker 1: to another, is it going to come up totally pixelated
Speaker 1: and weird and tiny and crazy and useless. And people
Speaker 1: can now see when you've read your messages and when
Speaker 1: you've received your message again, all like I Message huge,
Speaker 1: better group chats. You can name your groups, you can
Speaker 1: add to remove people from groups, and see if people
Speaker 1: have seen the latest messages. So this is all rolling
Speaker 1: out starting today in the United States. If you have
Speaker 1: the Messages app on your Android, which is sometimes pre installed,
Speaker 1: but if you don't, if you have a Samsung I
Speaker 1: don't think it's pre installed. So you go into the
Speaker 1: Google Play and download Android Messages and yes, this is
Speaker 1: a ploy to get you to use Google's messaging app,
Speaker 1: but it's basically their standard SMS app. But now you
Speaker 1: have RCS and if you want, you can go into
Speaker 1: your settings on this app and it says enable chat.
Speaker 1: They call it chat And it's not working on my
Speaker 1: phone just yet, but this is a rollout, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna be by the end of the year.
Speaker 2: Everyone's gonna have it. They can't do everything overnight.
Speaker 3: I wish they chose like a fun name Chat.
Speaker 1: RCS is well it's because that's a standard. So this
Speaker 1: is a standard that all the carriers are supposedly adhering
Speaker 1: to worldwide. Okay, so it's not like I Message, you know,
Speaker 1: they can't call it something fun like Google Message.
Speaker 2: So the other thing to know.
Speaker 1: About this is now it actually makes the divide between
Speaker 1: iPhone and Android even bigger. Yep, because Android to Android
Speaker 1: will be fine, iPhone to iPhone will be fine. Android
Speaker 1: to iPhone is still going to be a mess because
Speaker 1: guess what, the iPhone does not support RCS, nor will
Speaker 1: it anytime soon ever in the history of mankind.
Speaker 2: I don't think they ever will. So it's now full
Speaker 2: on war.
Speaker 1: It's a full on But anyway, if you're on Android
Speaker 1: and you have Android friends, you can finally, like let's
Speaker 1: say you're a couple and you have Android Android, finally
Speaker 1: you get to experience life kind of the way iPhone
Speaker 1: gets to your experience, and which is huge.
Speaker 3: It just always makes me think of BBM and I
Speaker 3: never had a BlackBerry, and I remember all my friends
Speaker 3: could BEBM each other and I was like, I'm not
Speaker 3: part of that party.
Speaker 2: BBM was I message before I message came along? Totally
Speaker 2: all right, Megan, what do you got okay?
Speaker 3: So this next question is from Lisa, and she's very
Speaker 3: unhappy with her Galaxy Note ten. She said she always
Speaker 3: has problems with screen pressure when she's typing. She's had
Speaker 3: to replace it twice under insurance, so she's done. She says,
Speaker 3: I mostly used for word processing, accessing drive, no gaming,
Speaker 3: some videos, very little actual phone calls. I don't like
Speaker 3: Apple phone. So what would be the best replacement for
Speaker 3: my Note eight? In your opinion? How about the Pixel
Speaker 3: four or is there a phone I'm not familiar with.
Speaker 3: I'm with rizin Uh.
Speaker 1: I would recommend the Pixel four XL or she didn't
Speaker 1: mention pictures in there at all?
Speaker 2: Huh uh huh. So if she's not mentioning.
Speaker 1: Photos, because Pixel four XL is great for a couple
Speaker 1: of reasons. It's got fantastic software, it's a great overall phone.
Speaker 1: It has okay battery life, it's not the best, but
Speaker 1: it'll be fine, and it's got a lot of nice
Speaker 1: little features, and it's kind of pure Google. So it's
Speaker 1: just overall a very nice device. If you want some
Speaker 1: think a little bit less expensive, I would check out
Speaker 1: the one plus seventy.
Speaker 2: But I do.
Speaker 1: Believe that phone is exclusive to T Mobile in the stores,
Speaker 1: but I think if you buy it online it can
Speaker 1: be on mock. She said she's on Verison Eisen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think you have to go online to buy
Speaker 1: that phone. And the advantage of the sevent is you're
Speaker 1: still gonna get great software, You're gonna get a battery
Speaker 1: that lasts very long, and the camera is just not
Speaker 1: going to be as good as the Pixel. So if
Speaker 1: but she's gonna save a lot of money. That phone
Speaker 1: I think is five ninety nine versus the Pixel, which
Speaker 1: I think is like seven ninety nine, but the Pixel
Speaker 1: is gonna be discounted over Black Friday.
Speaker 3: What about the Pixel three?
Speaker 2: I would not recommend the Pixel three.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, because it's too old at this point, Like
Speaker 1: pixels don't really have a long I mean they do,
Speaker 1: but they at this point, Like it's what phone does
Speaker 1: she have? She is a Galaxy Note ten, which is
Speaker 1: weird because it seems like she is giving up on
Speaker 1: that and she that's a brand new phone, so it must.
Speaker 3: Be it's confusing. She goes, I'm happy with my Galaxy
Speaker 3: Note ten, and then she all so calls it her
Speaker 3: Note eight later on, So.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's Okay, So I think it's a No. Eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think those are the two phones that
Speaker 1: I would recommend for her. I think that she'll be
Speaker 1: happy with either one of them. I prefer the Pixel
Speaker 1: just for the pictures. But again, she didn't mention pictures
Speaker 1: like some people when they email me, they say pictures
Speaker 1: are most important. Yeah, she didn't say that, So that
Speaker 1: means she's morched in games and all the other little
Speaker 1: things you can do.
Speaker 2: On your phone.
Speaker 1: Pictures are not necessarily, like, you know, if pictures are
Speaker 1: your number one priority, like if I was saying, I
Speaker 1: want what I want out of a phone. I want
Speaker 1: the best pictures, the best video, and the best apps
Speaker 1: and the best video of content creation possibilities. So I
Speaker 1: think those two phones will be great, So look into
Speaker 1: those for sure. You know, Megan, this week was a
Speaker 1: big week.
Speaker 2: You are a Disney fan. Yeah, and there are a
Speaker 2: lot of them out there.
Speaker 3: There are so many.
Speaker 2: Disney Plus you're a fan launched this week. No, I've
Speaker 2: never been a Disney like fanatic.
Speaker 3: Okay, no, never.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate what Disney does. Yeah, I've been to
Speaker 1: the parks, I have seen the movies. Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: not what you would call a I don't have one
Speaker 1: of those like ap things in the back of my car.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, I'm talking.
Speaker 3: About annual pass. Yeah. Yeah, I did not want to
Speaker 3: put that on my car when.
Speaker 2: I have But do you have one? You have one?
Speaker 2: I do feel like.
Speaker 3: From like three years ago, but then they changed the
Speaker 3: past to be like so much more expensive, so I stopped.
Speaker 1: Okay, do they give you that when you Yeah, they do,
Speaker 1: so that's why people have it, Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Disney Plus launched this week in the US, Canada,
Speaker 1: the Netherlands, and it has about five hundred movies, seventy
Speaker 1: five hundred episodes of TV shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel,
Speaker 1: Star Wars, National Geographic, and more. It's got some new stuff,
Speaker 1: but mostly the old catalog, and they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: slowly but surely bring in a lot more new stuff.
Speaker 1: You can watch all of the Simpsons. There is For
Speaker 1: the first time, Star Wars first seven Star Wars movies
Speaker 1: are available in four K Ultra HD for the first
Speaker 1: time that they're all available in this format.
Speaker 2: That's kind of cool. Who framed Roger Rabbit? Toy?
Speaker 1: Story one, two and three are also available in four KHD,
Speaker 1: so it works on pretty much every device. But I've
Speaker 1: been getting a lot of emails about this because there
Speaker 1: are some exceptions.
Speaker 2: The notable one is Visio.
Speaker 1: There is no Visio, there's no Disney Plus app for
Speaker 1: Visio TVs. And also people said, oh, well, no big deal,
Speaker 1: I'll just chrome cast it to my TV because Visio
Speaker 1: TVs have chrome casts built in. It didn't work, and
Speaker 1: the reason why is because the version of chrome cast
Speaker 1: that video is using is not high enough to authenticate
Speaker 1: for what Disney wants. Oh so that's kind of a bummer.
Speaker 1: So there is a workaround. You can use airplay, but
Speaker 1: you have to have an iPhone or an iPad to
Speaker 1: do that. So if you had an Android Plus video
Speaker 1: and you wanted a chrome cast to your TV, wouldn't work.
Speaker 3: About a fire TV stick, Well.
Speaker 1: Okay, so but that's different. That's not built into your TV.
Speaker 1: When people buy a smart TV, they get used to
Speaker 1: kind of using the apps on screen. And this is
Speaker 1: why I never recommend using the smart of your smart
Speaker 1: TV now unless you're on a major platform like Roku,
Speaker 1: right tcls and you're safe most of the time. Sometimes
Speaker 1: there are some distinctions but most of the time you're okay.
Speaker 1: But this is why generally I recommend a third party
Speaker 1: device like an Apple TV or a Fire TV stick
Speaker 1: because or a Roku player, because that way you always
Speaker 1: get the latest and greatest no matter what happens. So
Speaker 1: sometimes these TVs are not as updated as the separate
Speaker 1: streaming devices. So anyway, the other thing to know about
Speaker 1: Disney Plus is you can get it for free if
Speaker 1: you have a Verizon Unlimited plan. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have been emailing me about that.
Speaker 2: It's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: You just go into the Verizon app, you look under
Speaker 1: your entertainment under add ons, and you add it. And
Speaker 1: the trick there, it's not like Verizon's just being kind
Speaker 1: to you and giving this. They are, but the trick
Speaker 1: is that once you're set up there, next year when
Speaker 1: it renews, it will be on your Verizon bill and
Speaker 1: so that's kind of like and Verizon gets recurring subscription.
Speaker 2: They get a cut of that.
Speaker 1: So the more people that they can get on their
Speaker 1: plan that also say, oh, I'm not going to cancel
Speaker 1: Verizon because look at they give me. I get free
Speaker 1: Apple Music, I get free Disney so I'm not going
Speaker 1: to cancel. But after the next year when that starts
Speaker 1: to kick in that six ninety nine, Verizon gets a
Speaker 1: tiny portion.
Speaker 3: And then Apple Music is that.
Speaker 2: That's unlimited forever forever. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, Verizon really has a bunch.
Speaker 1: Of Like well, AT and T does something similar, so
Speaker 1: does TEA Mobile. Team Mobile gives you Netflix. At and
Speaker 1: T has Spotify for free. Depends on your plan. It
Speaker 1: all depends on your plan. Yeah, it's obviously on the
Speaker 1: higher end plans as well. But anyway, my kids have
Speaker 1: been is Disney plus for you. My kids have been
Speaker 1: watching They watched Aladdin the first two nights. I feel
Speaker 1: like for six ninety nine a month, it really pays
Speaker 1: for itself. You rent one movie a month on Apple
Speaker 1: TV and that's five ninety nine. So yeah, six ninety nine,
Speaker 1: you're getting the whole back catalog as long as there's
Speaker 1: enough to keep you interested.
Speaker 2: And I think Disney will.
Speaker 1: I'm worried because they put that whole catalog out there,
Speaker 1: like at the beginning. Oh so it's kind of like
Speaker 1: you get you get kind of like spoiled totally.
Speaker 3: But I'm excited. I feel like your kids now can
Speaker 3: watch like the really classic TV shows of like the
Speaker 3: two thousands that aren't on Disney Channel anymore, like stuff
Speaker 3: like that's a raven, like that was what I grew
Speaker 3: up with, and now like if you don't really I
Speaker 3: sometimes I've seen Disney Channel now and I'm like, the
Speaker 3: shows are just now very advanced. Yeah, so it's cool that,
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, I don't, I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's just different. It's just different.
Speaker 3: But it's it's cool. There's a lot out there, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean you can kind of get spoiled.
Speaker 1: With it, but I think for families it's gonna be
Speaker 1: for six ninety nine a month.
Speaker 2: It's it's such a no brainer.
Speaker 1: I think for adults who are into Star Wars that
Speaker 1: signed up for Mandalorian and then when that's over, they
Speaker 1: may find that they're kind of over it because you know,
Speaker 1: there's only so much there for adults.
Speaker 3: But I'm assuming they're going to keep cranking out new series,
Speaker 3: but it's not really like centered towards you know, an
Speaker 3: adult crowd.
Speaker 1: Well, I think they're trying to do that with the
Speaker 1: Mandalorian and the Star Wars and the Marvel.
Speaker 3: Stuff and the National Geography.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which yawner.
Speaker 3: For me, it's my favorite Channel next.
Speaker 1: I'm sure people love that stuff, so I, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we'll see and people some people might wonder
Speaker 1: if you have cable and you've got Disney Now, which
Speaker 1: is their companion app for a cable subscription, you can
Speaker 1: sign in and using your you know, streaming or cable
Speaker 1: log in. I did look, and it seems like a
Speaker 1: lot of the shows like Vamporina and Puppy Dog Pals
Speaker 1: and all these little shows that are currently on TV,
Speaker 1: seems like the new episodes are going to the Disney
Speaker 1: Now app and then kind of like last season and
Speaker 1: before are going to Disney Plus.
Speaker 3: Got it? So it depends how much you Wantflix exactly.
Speaker 2: Will your kids notice? Who knows? So?
Speaker 1: But the reality is how many of these subscriptions can
Speaker 1: you sustain? I know that I'm going to cancel my
Speaker 1: EIGHTE and T TV now, which is now going up
Speaker 1: to sixty dollars a month.
Speaker 2: It started out as thirty five when I first subscribe.
Speaker 1: Now it's up to sixty and you know, I just
Speaker 1: don't use it, and so that's going away.
Speaker 3: So what will you have?
Speaker 2: Then? You'll all have Netflix?
Speaker 1: Okay, Time Now, which is or prime video from Amazon
Speaker 1: Netflix I'll have Disney Plus. And I am still subscriber
Speaker 1: to YouTube Premium, which is twelve ninety nine a month, huh,
Speaker 1: which also gives me YouTube music, but I may drop
Speaker 1: that as well. I just hate seeing ads on YouTube,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if that's worth twelve ninety nine
Speaker 1: a month though or not, because I don't watch that
Speaker 1: much YouTube.
Speaker 3: I just always when I get those ads, I always click,
Speaker 3: like the like if it's like an age ad, I
Speaker 3: just always click it and then it's done. Oh you
Speaker 3: do yeah, Like I just want to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I feel like they're collecting so much data
Speaker 2: on you. You know what, I make it up? Oh,
Speaker 2: if you make it up, yeah, then.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, between sixteen and seventy five, like whatever, Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: This next question comes from Gina. How do you upload
Speaker 3: Android contacts to a computer for editing?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: It's funny how many people ask about contacts. And my
Speaker 1: recommendation is always to keep your contacts in the cloud,
Speaker 1: whether that's iCloud or you know, Google Cloud. But I've
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of people when they switch phones, they
Speaker 1: realize their contacts are stored on the phone itself, and
Speaker 1: the main thing you want to do is go into
Speaker 1: your contacts on any platform, whether it's Android or iOS,
Speaker 1: and make sure that your contacts are being saved, either
Speaker 1: iCloud or Google. That's what I recommend. And to find
Speaker 1: your contacts that she uploaded on an Android phone, generally
Speaker 1: those go right into Google. So just go to contacts
Speaker 1: dot Google dot com from a desktop computer and you
Speaker 1: should see all of your contacts right there. If you don't,
Speaker 1: they may be stored. If she has a Samsung, did
Speaker 1: she say what kind of phone?
Speaker 3: She just said she is an Android.
Speaker 1: Okay, she might have a Samsung, and in some cases
Speaker 1: they are stored in kind of your Samsung account, so
Speaker 1: you can also sign in there and see if they're
Speaker 1: in there. But either way, I would say on like
Speaker 1: a majority of the Android phones, they're generally stored in
Speaker 1: some sort of cloud storage. You just need to figure
Speaker 1: out which cloud storage they're in.
Speaker 2: Cool and Apple.
Speaker 1: This week in used the elusive sixteen inch MacBook Pro.
Speaker 1: This computer has been rumored and speculated for so long.
Speaker 1: I'm glad they finally got it out there, and it's
Speaker 1: the computer that I want.
Speaker 3: I know you were going to get it.
Speaker 2: I was going to get it.
Speaker 1: I think I didn't remember I was going to get
Speaker 1: a new computer a while back. Yeah, and I was
Speaker 1: just going to settle for the fifteen.
Speaker 3: Now you have a Christmas present from yourself.
Speaker 1: It's going to be tough because I just spent all
Speaker 1: this money on the iPhone, so I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: in a position right now to purchase this, but.
Speaker 2: You never know, maybe, I mean, okay, ever know.
Speaker 1: The spoiler alert is that it starts at twenty four
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and of course I want to get more
Speaker 1: hard drive or more SSD whatever you call them at
Speaker 1: this point, and that's going to make it even more
Speaker 1: expensive because I want at least a terrorbyte.
Speaker 2: This can go up to eight terabytes of storage the
Speaker 2: first time or sorry, I think it's six terribytes. Eight terabytes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: eight terabytes of storage. Wow, that is unheard of for
Speaker 2: a laptop.
Speaker 3: I guess if you're making like movies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need that.
Speaker 3: You need it.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly who this is.
Speaker 1: Apple says it's for developers, photographers, filmmakers, scientists, music producers,
Speaker 1: and anyone who relies on a Mac to create their
Speaker 1: life's best work.
Speaker 2: AKA. What I would say is this the creator's device.
Speaker 1: This is not the device if you're flying to Omaha
Speaker 1: and watching Netflix, that's not what this is for.
Speaker 2: No, No, this is not for checking email iPad. This
Speaker 2: is for creating content, and that's really who this is for. Now.
Speaker 1: The main thing that they've changed on this is the keyboard.
Speaker 1: Everyone complained about the keyboard, including myself. My MacBook keyboard
Speaker 1: MacBook Pro is just terrible. It's there literally.
Speaker 2: When I'm doing my emails. It's so bad that I
Speaker 2: make more mistakes typing than I do.
Speaker 3: Love my MacBook Error keyboard oh so much better. When
Speaker 3: I use it, I'm like, oh, this is your keyboard.
Speaker 1: Is a little bit better because you have a newer
Speaker 1: MacBook Pro. But mine is the one where they didn't
Speaker 1: improve anything. It's like the first generation of this mechanism
Speaker 1: and it was terrible. So now they say it's totally redesigned.
Speaker 1: It's got more travel, which travel means how far the
Speaker 1: keypresses down. Yeah, and old keyboard now had a ton
Speaker 1: of travel that travel.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's got better speaker system, it's got touch bar,
Speaker 1: touch ID and the track pad. It also has longer
Speaker 1: battery life and you can really spec this thing out
Speaker 1: with oh my gosh, eight terabytes of storage, sixty four
Speaker 1: gigs of memory. I mean, you can really make this
Speaker 1: thing awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It also says that the keyboard is quieter, which was
Speaker 1: a huge deal because when I'm in meetings and stuff,
Speaker 1: my keyboard is so loud it's almost borderline.
Speaker 3: Like sound aggressive when you're typing early, I'm just typing.
Speaker 1: Starts at twenty three ninety nine. You can spec it
Speaker 1: all the way up to I think six thousand dollars. Wow,
Speaker 1: you might want to get the Apple Care on that
Speaker 1: one if you do that. Now, that's the good of
Speaker 1: this computer. Here's the bad. It still has a boring,
Speaker 1: terrible webcam seven to twenty people.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, yeah, can.
Speaker 2: You believe that?
Speaker 1: So the iPhone webcam or front facing camera is now
Speaker 1: four K this thing has.
Speaker 2: You're spending all this money, you get a terrible webcam.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1: And it also has last year's WiFi, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: have the new Wi Fi six. It still has the
Speaker 1: old style Wi Fi, which.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like those aren't deal breakers, but it's
Speaker 2: just like, come on, Apple.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay. The next question is from Jason. I have
Speaker 3: Microsoft one Drive and I had some storage that expired.
Speaker 3: Is there a way to add storage without paying a
Speaker 3: monthly subscription for it?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I mean this is I mean, I think it used
Speaker 1: to be back in the day when you got all
Speaker 1: these cloud services, like it was Dropbox and one drive,
Speaker 1: they were giving you storage like it was yeah, not.
Speaker 2: All that, not forever.
Speaker 3: Oh so they three years they would give.
Speaker 1: You storage, and then I think they slowly but surely
Speaker 1: pulled it back and it used to be one drive.
Speaker 1: I believe when it first came out, you got a
Speaker 1: terabyte of storage.
Speaker 3: That's a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was the case.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to mine and see what I have,
Speaker 1: because I was an early sign up for this thing,
Speaker 1: and I remember it was like one of these things
Speaker 1: where you just got a ton of storage.
Speaker 2: So I now have five gigs.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure at one point in my life with
Speaker 1: one Drive, I had a terabyte.
Speaker 2: But that's gone.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Dropbox back in the day, used to
Speaker 1: get I think it was a lot, and used to
Speaker 1: be able to earn by referring friends, and of course
Speaker 1: that's all been pulled back now, so now basically they
Speaker 1: all wanted to get you in there because the more
Speaker 1: stuff that you dump into these online drives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then you're stuck.
Speaker 1: You become attached to it, and then of course the
Speaker 1: storage goes like okay, well your promotional one terabyte has
Speaker 1: run out.
Speaker 2: Now you got to pay us that.
Speaker 3: It's like forty dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so for Google Drive, I paid ten bucks
Speaker 1: a month for a terabyte, which or maybe I've get
Speaker 1: two terabytes at this point, I can't remember. But it's
Speaker 1: it's enough where it's like, okay, it's kind of annoying,
Speaker 1: but it's also what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a hard drive is really cheap compared
Speaker 1: to that. Oh, I have a lot of pictures in
Speaker 1: one drive.
Speaker 3: But a hard drive you can lose.
Speaker 1: Hard drive you can lose. I mean, theoretically you could
Speaker 1: lose cloud, but chances are.
Speaker 3: That's on them though, right, and then it's gone. Then
Speaker 3: it's really gone. Do you back up to the cloud
Speaker 3: and to a hard drive?
Speaker 1: I actually right now know because I don't have my
Speaker 1: NASS set up, so I need to do that. It's
Speaker 1: I have a little bit of sprinkling that's a network
Speaker 1: attached storage. It's basically a hard drive in my house.
Speaker 1: That's a mini server. But ever since I moved my
Speaker 1: office around, I disconnected it and it's all it's all
Speaker 1: complicated because it's I just need to clean up everything,
Speaker 1: like it's just got like fragments of stuff and like
Speaker 1: I need I need a text.
Speaker 3: And when you eventually get a new.
Speaker 1: Computer, yeah, that's when I'm gonna do it, which I know,
Speaker 1: it's really it's one of those things that like you
Speaker 1: just put on the back burner every weekend.
Speaker 3: You do it for like your half birthday.
Speaker 2: Yeah much, I'm celebrating my half birthday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you're you know, well i'd say Christmas, but no,
Speaker 3: that's coming up soon.
Speaker 1: So cool new feature in Google Maps that helps you
Speaker 1: speak where you need to go to someone that is
Speaker 1: in a foreign language. So let's say you're in Japan
Speaker 1: and you want to go to a restaurant. Well, have
Speaker 1: you ever seen the names of some of these restaurants
Speaker 1: and some of the streets in Japan? How would you
Speaker 1: say that to someone?
Speaker 2: And I've been on the corner where I say to
Speaker 2: the person like, oh, this is where I want to go,
Speaker 2: and I point and they look at me like I
Speaker 2: don't know, Like you know, I don't know. They just
Speaker 2: look at me like I'm crazy, right, I'm like, you
Speaker 2: can't read what's on my street? Right here?
Speaker 3: Help me out.
Speaker 2: So here's the new feature.
Speaker 1: Google Maps is kind of merging, not merging, but they're
Speaker 1: they're mixing in a little bit of Google Translate. So
Speaker 1: now your phone will speak out a place's name and
Speaker 1: address in the local language.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is tap the new speaker button,
Speaker 2: which will show up next to the name of a
Speaker 2: place or address, and Google Maps will say it out loud.
Speaker 2: So I can go up to you. If you're in
Speaker 2: Japan and you spoke or let's say.
Speaker 1: France and you spoke French, not English and not English,
Speaker 1: and I would go up to you, even though I
Speaker 1: speak English. I would hold my phone up and I
Speaker 1: would press a little speaker button next to the restaurant
Speaker 1: I want to go to in France and I'd be
Speaker 1: like and it would be like Parley Voo franceis yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: is the restaurant and it's on the.
Speaker 2: You know, the Peach Street and Peach and you'd.
Speaker 1: Be like, oh, yeah, that's right, and you'd speak to
Speaker 1: me yeah, and I'd be like, wait, I don't understand
Speaker 1: what you're saying.
Speaker 2: So, how does that? But you would basically point me
Speaker 2: in the right druck?
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: That's really funny.
Speaker 1: So the speech to text technology automatically detects what language
Speaker 1: your phone is using. So for instance, if you're in
Speaker 1: if your phone is set to English, but you're in Tokyo,
Speaker 1: it knows like, hey, let's read.
Speaker 2: This out in Japanese. Okay, because it's doing that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's rolling out this month on Android and
Speaker 1: iOS in Google Maps, and it will have support for
Speaker 1: fifty languages.
Speaker 2: So I think it's a cool little feature. I think
Speaker 2: it's right.
Speaker 3: It is funny though. I went to a wedding once
Speaker 3: in France and it was like French people and then
Speaker 3: a bunch of American people. It was like split in
Speaker 3: two and the American people. I mean, I was with
Speaker 3: my aunt, so she was French, so I was good.
Speaker 3: But all of these American people who were walking around
Speaker 3: the wedding with their translator things, and all the French
Speaker 3: people were saying to each other like in French, like
Speaker 3: oh the American like kind of making fun of it,
Speaker 3: but you know, hey, like if it helps you like communicate,
Speaker 3: do it if you don't know French, like it'll save you.
Speaker 2: Or if you don't know French, you know nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know nothing. I don't know French, so I
Speaker 3: shouldn't be talking. Okay. So this next question comes from Karen.
Speaker 3: My triplet grandkids are gamers, and Grandpa thinks VR is
Speaker 3: the next step for them. Will this be okay? And
Speaker 3: if so, which one do you suggest for them? One
Speaker 3: of our grandkids has autism. Are there any problems there
Speaker 3: with VR? Have your She also said she has your books, uh,
Speaker 3: which she's not gonna buy anything without checking your so
Speaker 3: she wants your opinion obviously before they buy.
Speaker 2: Did she say how old the grandkids are? No?
Speaker 1: Okay, so ten year old? Okay, because that's that's what
Speaker 1: I thought was interesting about this. Yeah, the VR thing, Like,
Speaker 1: my kid begs me every day to do VR. He's
Speaker 1: eight and from everything I've seen, and you should not
Speaker 1: do VR unless you're thirteen and up.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I don't recommend all these parents that email me
Speaker 1: about VR. I always say, don't do it. So when
Speaker 1: you're under a certain age, your brain is still forming,
Speaker 1: things are still happening, and I just there's a reason
Speaker 1: why these big companies don't recommend VR for kids under thirteen.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that exact reason is, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna kind of stand by that. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if kids necessarily need to be in VR at that
Speaker 1: young age. And you know, I know that kids want
Speaker 1: to do it, and of course it is the cool
Speaker 1: thing and it's very awesome, and you can go to
Speaker 1: places like these VR setups in the mall and stuff,
Speaker 1: and they will allow younger.
Speaker 2: Kids to do it, and it's at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, it's your choice, like Dreamscape, I believe, so
Speaker 2: I think you can be ten and.
Speaker 3: Up for that oh weird that you do have to do.
Speaker 1: I think there's a certain age. I don't quote me
Speaker 1: on that, but there are I believe there are certain
Speaker 1: ages for these things.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure if there's.
Speaker 1: Any physical proof or whatever or like research that they've
Speaker 1: done that says like this is the but I think
Speaker 1: it probably has to do something with the eyes.
Speaker 2: And the brain.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I've never heard this.
Speaker 1: But that's generally my consensus is everything I've seen is thirteen,
Speaker 1: So just wait till they're thirteen. And these kids have
Speaker 1: enough screens in front of their face, so do they
Speaker 1: really need one that's right like at the eye level,
Speaker 1: like burning into their retina's like probably not so just well,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, screen's right.
Speaker 3: There, it's right there.
Speaker 2: It's good, it's kind of so that's that's my recommendation.
Speaker 1: And all these cheap little VR things that you see, yeah,
Speaker 1: these VR things that you see at the mall that
Speaker 1: you put your iPhone in stuff, there's no good iPhone.
Speaker 2: VR by the way, so just don't just don't bother.
Speaker 3: It's a waste when you sick your phone inside of.
Speaker 1: And even on Android they have that, and even on
Speaker 1: Android they've gotten out of that because Apple are sorry,
Speaker 1: Google and Samsung used to make a big deal out
Speaker 1: of their VR headsets when they launched their phones. Last
Speaker 1: two launches, they didn't say a word. So clearly it's
Speaker 1: not right now. It's not a growth place. I think
Speaker 1: I do believe in VR. I think it's amazing and
Speaker 1: I think it's going to change the fabric of our
Speaker 1: world once again, like Facebook did and like Internet did.
Speaker 2: But it's just not there right now.
Speaker 3: It's not the time.
Speaker 1: But I think that companies like Oculus and stuff, they're
Speaker 1: trying to make it better.
Speaker 2: What did I do. I did that hollow.
Speaker 1: I mean it's still almost like made me sick to
Speaker 1: my stomach for hours. Yeah, and so I just it's
Speaker 1: getting there.
Speaker 2: It's not there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I do go out there and try it
Speaker 1: because it's awesome, but it's like Dreamscape is the best
Speaker 1: that I've seen.
Speaker 2: There's one called The Void, which I haven't tried.
Speaker 1: And there's another one they're trying to get me to
Speaker 1: try it at the mall and I haven't tried that
Speaker 1: one either. You know, you have to go with like
Speaker 1: a bunch of people and like it takes like some
Speaker 1: time to set it.
Speaker 2: You can go by yourself, but it's kind of more
Speaker 2: fun to go with a little group. Yeah. All right.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about something that is really cool
Speaker 1: because I talked about this on the Leo Laporte radio show,
Speaker 1: but I just want to talk about it here too
Speaker 1: because I am just obsessed with this. It's an app
Speaker 1: called libby l ibb Y, and I thought this was
Speaker 1: too good to be true. I saw an article in
Speaker 1: nine to five Mac and the writer was talking about
Speaker 1: how Apple Books needs integration with the US Public Library
Speaker 1: just like the Kindle has, and I'm like, wait, what
Speaker 1: so I download this app called Libby, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't have a library card, so I gotta go
Speaker 1: sign up and I gotta get one. Maybe I'll just
Speaker 1: use my kid's library card. Well, it turns out you
Speaker 1: can just pop in your phone number and somehow it
Speaker 1: signed me up for the LA Public Library. And it
Speaker 1: seems like they have these deals with public libraries all
Speaker 1: across the US, So wherever you're listening, you can try
Speaker 1: this out. Download the app, you get a library card
Speaker 1: through the app, and next thing you know, you can
Speaker 1: search for books like you would have the library. But
Speaker 1: the brilliant part is that not only can you read
Speaker 1: these books on the app or listen to their audiobook
Speaker 1: on the app, you can send the book to your Kindle.
Speaker 3: That's so cool.
Speaker 2: Which do you have a Kindle? No? Well, have you
Speaker 2: ever used one?
Speaker 3: You gave me a one, but I gave it to
Speaker 3: my dad. You never have used it, but I can
Speaker 3: try to use.
Speaker 2: It on You should try linking it up.
Speaker 1: I sho We're going to do a story on this
Speaker 1: for Ktle because I was telling my wife last night.
Speaker 1: I was telling her she came over to watch the kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she's an avid reader. And I was like, do
Speaker 1: you know you can get like books for free from
Speaker 1: the library. She's like I know, of course I know that.
Speaker 1: I'm like no, no, for like free to your kindle.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was telling my mom about it too, and I
Speaker 3: was like.
Speaker 2: Her reaction, she was like, wait, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: You have to set it up on my phone and
Speaker 3: I'm like, and.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it's one click once you set up.
Speaker 1: And by the way, this Libby app Usually when you
Speaker 1: think of apps like this, you're like, they're clunky, they're terrible.
Speaker 1: The way this app is set up, it's a really
Speaker 1: cool app. You search in like good terms, it like
Speaker 1: kind of talks to you almost in chat style anyway.
Speaker 1: So the main downside of this is that you don't
Speaker 1: get the book immediately, especially if it's a popular book.
Speaker 1: You have to wait, just like you would at the
Speaker 1: public library for it to be in stock. So even
Speaker 1: though it's digital, they don't just give out unlimited copies.
Speaker 2: So with the.
Speaker 3: Public library, you have to keep going back.
Speaker 1: No, I think nowadays nowadays you just put yourself on
Speaker 1: a wait list and they email you when it's ready.
Speaker 1: So it's the same thing here, except you'll get an
Speaker 1: alert on your phone. So I've put a bunch of
Speaker 1: books on my wait list. So I guess the trick
Speaker 1: here is that you just have to build your catalog
Speaker 1: up of what you want to read, and as they
Speaker 1: come available, get them, put them to your kindle. You
Speaker 1: get them for twenty one days like a normal library loan,
Speaker 1: and then I'm assuming there's some way to renew for
Speaker 1: a certain amount of time. Okay, So again, I just
Speaker 1: bought a lot of books this month for you know,
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars that both books are available on there.
Speaker 1: One was available instantly and I could have saved twelve
Speaker 1: ninety nine. The other one is a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: It's called The Body, which, by the way, fantastic book.
Speaker 2: Oh, I need to read it. If you I.
Speaker 3: Actually available, it's probably.
Speaker 1: It's not available. It's it's probably one of the most
Speaker 1: popular books right now. But I was reading my kids
Speaker 1: and my wife all the highlights because it goes through
Speaker 1: every body part and explains the like how it works
Speaker 1: and what all this stuff and the history of it,
Speaker 1: not the history of the part, but like how doctors
Speaker 1: discovered how things work in the body, And so I
Speaker 1: was reading all the highlights that I've made in this
Speaker 1: book to my kids and my wife and we were
Speaker 1: all just like loving it, so like there's it's just
Speaker 1: such a good book. So anyway, Libby, l Ibby, check
Speaker 1: it out, especially if you have a kindle. Link them
Speaker 1: up and you can thank me later when you're reading
Speaker 1: your first book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm literally trying to find a book that's available.
Speaker 2: Okay, do we have time for one more quick question? Megan?
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is from Zereda.
Speaker 2: Oh no more time we right now? Kidding? All right,
Speaker 2: quick question.
Speaker 3: So, basically, she's looking for a digital frame where she
Speaker 3: can send pictures directly to the frame without using a
Speaker 3: flash drive. I thought you mentioned one on your show,
Speaker 3: but I cannot find this story. I have seen one
Speaker 3: on my feed called Skylight. Not sure if it's the same,
Speaker 3: Please let me know.
Speaker 2: On her feed.
Speaker 1: So she clearly was searching for things, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Facebook is like we got someone. She's
Speaker 1: looking at picture frames. So I don't know anything about Skylight.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of it, but I and this one.
Speaker 2: I'm looking it up right now.
Speaker 1: It's one that it's a touchscreen photos frame that you
Speaker 1: can update by email from anywhere and it looks fine,
Speaker 1: but I think that the one you want is from
Speaker 1: the company I last tried. It's called nicks Play, and
Speaker 1: it used to be there are so many of these frames,
Speaker 1: but now it's kind of like they're a dying breed.
Speaker 2: The thing I like the best.
Speaker 1: If you this, this is a specific ask for something
Speaker 1: that is USB right. She wants a flash drive, but
Speaker 1: the one that I recommend is just get a Google Home.
Speaker 3: No, she said, without using a flash drive. She wants
Speaker 3: to send pictures directly to the frame, without using a
Speaker 3: flash drive, so from like a phone.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, oh gosh, I totally misread this. I
Speaker 1: thought she wanted a flash drive so she can pop
Speaker 1: it in the back of the frame and bypass the cloud.
Speaker 1: So if she just wants a frame, the best one
Speaker 1: out there is from Google. It's called the Google Home.
Speaker 3: Oh there you go.
Speaker 1: Now now it's called the Google Nest Google Nest Hub.
Speaker 2: So that's what I have.
Speaker 3: I actually don't show pictures on it.
Speaker 2: Wait do you yeah?
Speaker 3: I got it from cs Oh.
Speaker 2: You don't show your pictures on it?
Speaker 3: No, it's also this small like the streams. Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna oh my god, you have to set up your
Speaker 3: pictures on it.
Speaker 2: It's the best.
Speaker 1: My sister just got one and she loves it. And
Speaker 1: she actually got the Max, which means we can video chats.
Speaker 1: I actually meant to do that last night with her anyway.
Speaker 1: So get the Google nest Hub. The best part about
Speaker 1: it it's one twenty nine. It's going to be cheaper
Speaker 1: over Black Friday, So just wait until Black Friday to
Speaker 1: purchase this. It'll be on sale everywhere. It's one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine dollars. I expected to be ninety nine
Speaker 1: bucks for the holidays. Wow, ninety nine dollars. You download
Speaker 1: the Google Photos app on your phone and the best
Speaker 1: part is that you can select the photos you want,
Speaker 1: or you can have Google Photos curate the best pictures
Speaker 1: that you take and put them on the frame automatically.
Speaker 2: It's so great. It's my favorite feature.
Speaker 1: When it was my kid's birthday and we had a
Speaker 1: birthday party, I just made a automatic album of Tanner.
Speaker 1: So every picture that showed up on all the screens
Speaker 1: throughout my house were all of my kid through the
Speaker 1: ages and so, and it was super simple to set
Speaker 1: up and Google picks the best.
Speaker 2: They try to pick the best pictures that people are
Speaker 2: smiling in they're well lit.
Speaker 1: Not always perfect, but yeah, you can easily try and
Speaker 1: it's great.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to find the name of the Body book the.
Speaker 2: Body it's called. I think it's called the Body.
Speaker 3: Let me say, okay, I'm just curious.
Speaker 1: Let's see kindle. I'll go to my kindle and see
Speaker 1: what it's called. I think it's just called Body by
Speaker 1: the Body by Body Bill Bryson, cover by Bill Bryson.
Speaker 1: And it's a best selling author of the short history
Speaker 1: of nearly everything.
Speaker 2: It's so great.
Speaker 1: The Body a guide for occupants if you're into like
Speaker 1: you have to be a little bit into science and
Speaker 1: like kind of like doctor stuff.
Speaker 2: Like it's just fascinating to hear nine weeks nine weeks
Speaker 2: to get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but also can I put in different libraries? Are
Speaker 3: you not supposed to do that? Well?
Speaker 1: I think it's all LAPD or LA Public Library. Oh,
Speaker 1: since it's digital, it's not like your local branch. Got
Speaker 1: it all right, that's going to do it for the
Speaker 1: show today. Thanks so much for listening. My book is
Speaker 1: called one hundred and one iPhone Tips and Tricks. It's
Speaker 1: available in paperback and on the kindle through Amazon. I
Speaker 1: just got a whole bunch of these yesterday delivered to
Speaker 1: my house, the latest version. Because I did revise a
Speaker 1: few things. I told you about this, so I surprised me.
Speaker 1: They came a week early. So I've got a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of these. We're gonna do a segment on KTLA
Speaker 1: featuring some of the best features in the new book.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be promoting it in a couple different places.
Speaker 1: But it's great. It's ready for the holiday, super easy
Speaker 1: gift again. It's called one hundred and one iPhone Tips
Speaker 1: and Tricks. You can actually read it for free using
Speaker 1: Kindle Unlimited, so if you sign up for a free
Speaker 1: trial of that, you can read my book one hundred
Speaker 1: percent for free. So if you're thinking about giving it
Speaker 1: for the holidays.
Speaker 2: Read it yourself for free.
Speaker 1: Preview every single page, read the whole thing, and then
Speaker 1: be like, oh, this is good enough to give to
Speaker 1: my family. And give it to someone that you love
Speaker 1: that uses an iPhone, and believe me, they'll thank you
Speaker 1: for it. You can subscribe to our show if you
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Speaker 1: and if you love the show, Please rate and review it.
Speaker 1: That really goes a long way. Producer Megan, where can
Speaker 1: people find you?
Speaker 3: I'm on Twitter at producer.
Speaker 1: Again and she's always tweeting a bunch of good stuff,
Speaker 1: always always tweeting. You can find me at richon tech
Speaker 1: dot tv. I'm on Instagram at rich on tech and
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for today show. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for listening, Have a fantastic day.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you real soon