Speaker 1: Samsung's latest foldable phone is luxury all the way. My
Speaker 1: thoughts on the new Nomad wireless charging pad, which is
Speaker 1: pretty unique. A handy chrome extension to help you handle
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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech. This
Speaker 1: is the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff
Speaker 1: that I think you should know about, and it's also
Speaker 1: the place where I answer the questions that you send me.
Speaker 1: In case you don't know, my name is Rich Dmiro,
Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the podcast. If you're listening for the first time,
Speaker 1: thank you for finding me. If you're listening for the
Speaker 1: one hundredth time, thank you for putting up with me.
Speaker 1: I get a lot of emails from people about the
Speaker 1: podcast now, which is pretty cool because when I first
Speaker 1: started this, it was kind of like a little side project,
Speaker 1: and now you know it is produced out of KTLA
Speaker 1: or part of KTLA, but it's kept the same kind
Speaker 1: of I don't know, like it just feels like it
Speaker 1: nothing's changed, and that's what I like about it. I
Speaker 1: was on vacation over the weekend. I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: older now that I talk to you, because it was
Speaker 1: my birthday, you know, recently, and so that was fun.
Speaker 1: We went down to San Diego to this place called
Speaker 1: Paradise Point, which my friend has been talking about this
Speaker 1: place forever, and I never went. And finally, you know,
Speaker 1: because you can't really go in many places right now,
Speaker 1: San Diego seemed great, had great weather, great sun. Paradise
Speaker 1: Point was there. My friend, my other friend told me
Speaker 1: about it. He said, dude, we just went. We loved it,
Speaker 1: So okay, that's where we went. We had a great time.
Speaker 1: This resort reminds me of a place that sort of
Speaker 1: transports you to a family place back in the day's.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of Hawaii. It felt like Hawaii. It
Speaker 1: was just really fun. The water was beautiful. We had
Speaker 1: a nice beach front kind of view. It was just great.
Speaker 1: And we stayed there for a couple nights and just
Speaker 1: had such a nice time. And I just every morning
Speaker 1: tried to just go out on the beach and just
Speaker 1: kind of sit there for a couple minutes and kind
Speaker 1: of reflect, because I'm trying to do that more often
Speaker 1: these days, and It's not that easy all the time.
Speaker 1: But anyway, let's get into the podcast. Let's get into
Speaker 1: the first story of the week, which is the Samsung
Speaker 1: Galaxy Z Fold two five G. This is the latest
Speaker 1: smartphone that I've been playing with. It's also one of
Speaker 1: the most expensive smartphones I think I've ever tested, certainly
Speaker 1: ever sent to me as a review unit. So what
Speaker 1: is unique about this device? You might remember this was
Speaker 1: the device that Samsung had a little trouble with back
Speaker 1: in the day when it first launched. They sent it
Speaker 1: to a bunch of reviewers and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: those reviewers had problems with the screen, and specifically, Samsung
Speaker 1: figured out that there was some debris getting in behind
Speaker 1: this and that was causing it to fail. And so
Speaker 1: they went back to the drawing board. They came up
Speaker 1: with some sort of little way to protect the back
Speaker 1: of the or I guess the opening near the hinge,
Speaker 1: and that fixed it for the most part. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how many of these phones they sold the first
Speaker 1: time around. But now this is the new version, and
Speaker 1: this new version is kind of revamped in some really
Speaker 1: nice ways. Number One, the front screen is way bigger,
Speaker 1: way more useful. Six point two inch screen on the front,
Speaker 1: and the phone is kind of thin, so it's a
Speaker 1: really thin phone, but it's thick because it's almost imagined
Speaker 1: two phones stacked on top of each other with a hinge.
Speaker 1: Then you've got this giant seven point six inch screen
Speaker 1: when you open the thing up, and that's a foldable
Speaker 1: ultra glass or ultra thin glass screen. Used to be plastic.
Speaker 1: Now it's glass, and that's a miracle in engineering in itself.
Speaker 1: It's got one hundred and twenty hrtz adaptable refresh rate.
Speaker 1: It's got great sound. The hinge is now called the
Speaker 1: Hideaway hinge, which means it's smaller than before. And it
Speaker 1: also has sweeper technology, which they first introduced on their
Speaker 1: other flip phone, which is the Galaxy Z Flip. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of like it looks like a little kind
Speaker 1: of sweeper brush, like a little broom inside the hinge
Speaker 1: that theoretically just kind of brushes out any debris that
Speaker 1: gets in there, and so that should take care of that.
Speaker 1: It's also fully close, you don't really see it. Cool
Speaker 1: things about this phone is that it's really luxurious. It's
Speaker 1: kind of cool to have both a smartphone and a
Speaker 1: tablet in your pocket at all times. You've got a
Speaker 1: cool new feature. Where the old one only opened up
Speaker 1: to one you can only open it up and that
Speaker 1: was it, so it was either closed or opened. There
Speaker 1: was no degrees of open, so you couldn't kind of
Speaker 1: make the phone into its own little self standing tripod,
Speaker 1: like put it in an L shape and just sit
Speaker 1: it there and watch a show. Well now you can
Speaker 1: do that. They call flex mode, So now you can
Speaker 1: just bend the screen at any angle you want, in
Speaker 1: a half fold, a quarterfold, and open fold, and you
Speaker 1: can watch stuff. And you can also record videos hands free.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of neat. But the camera is is good.
Speaker 1: I mean it, you know, I haven't. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: a full review on this device because it's not something
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are gonna purchase. To me,
Speaker 1: I'm sort of just taking a look at it, understanding
Speaker 1: what it's all about, so that I can talk about
Speaker 1: it in the future before it goes back to Samsung.
Speaker 1: So this is not a review. I think that if
Speaker 1: I'm reviewing this device, I'm not sure I would recommend
Speaker 1: someone purchasing this device unless you have money to burn,
Speaker 1: because it's sort of a it's still almost in beta.
Speaker 1: This is the second version. It's really expensive. It's two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. But again, I think they did a really
Speaker 1: nice job and I love seeing this, and I actually
Speaker 1: think that I will buy a foldable phone in the
Speaker 1: future when it gets to a point where I feel
Speaker 1: like it's a little bit more manageable, a little thinner,
Speaker 1: and just kind of more what I need. But so far,
Speaker 1: I mean, I could think of a lot of reasons
Speaker 1: why this is cool, and I am tempted. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, I am tempted because it's so unique that
Speaker 1: nobody else has anything like it, and how cool is
Speaker 1: it as a tech person to have something that nobody
Speaker 1: else has. I kind of like doing that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Two colors, Mystic Bronze, Mystic Black, two fifty six gigs
Speaker 1: of storage, twelve gigabytes of RAM and that's your only
Speaker 1: option there. And the phone, again, like I said, is
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars. If you go on Samsung's website to
Speaker 1: buy it, they're really really trying to get you to
Speaker 1: trade in another device to bring that price down. And
Speaker 1: one other thing to know is that because the screen
Speaker 1: is still pretty fragile, I think or I guess. Two
Speaker 1: other things to know. Number one, it's not dust or
Speaker 1: water resistant. They make that very clear. And you also
Speaker 1: get a one time device protection against accidental display damage
Speaker 1: within one year. So if you mess up the screen
Speaker 1: within one year, send it back to Samsung, they will
Speaker 1: send you a either a new one with a new screen,
Speaker 1: or refurbish it or whatever they do. So there you
Speaker 1: have it. Samsung Galaxy z Fold two pretty cool goes
Speaker 1: on sale September eighteenth. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: first question. Let's see here. Hmmm, let's see. Jesse from Glendora, Cali.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Let's yeah. Jesse from Glendora, California, wanted your
Speaker 1: thoughts about the Western Digital my cloud duo hard drive
Speaker 1: backup system. I still perform backups on Google and iCloud.
Speaker 1: I wanted something local at my house and not to
Speaker 1: keep everything stored on my iMac. It fills up quickly.
Speaker 1: I'm a little scared to have everything in the cloud,
Speaker 1: photos and music. Your thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Speaker 1: Jesse from Glendora, you get a because this is a
Speaker 1: fantastic idea. We should not have everything just in the cloud,
Speaker 1: and you should have your things in a couple of
Speaker 1: different places, some were physical in your home and then
Speaker 1: somewhere in the cloud. And if you have them in
Speaker 1: those two places, the good news is if one of
Speaker 1: them fails, you've got him in the other place. So
Speaker 1: I think the Western Digital MyCloud duo is great. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure you need the MYC Cloud duo because
Speaker 1: the Cloud duo is I think that's the one that
Speaker 1: has software that backs it up to the cloud. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it just plugs directly into your WiFi router so that
Speaker 1: way it's kind of like your own little cloud exactly.
Speaker 1: So that's perfect. I love it. I think that that's
Speaker 1: a fantastic idea. You should definitely do that. It's expensive.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that you need that big of a
Speaker 1: solution unless you have a lot of stuff, Jesse with
Speaker 1: your photos and videos I think are your photos and music.
Speaker 1: I think what you can do is depending on the
Speaker 1: kind of Oh you have an iMac. I think with
Speaker 1: an iMac, what you should do is just buy a
Speaker 1: two or four gigabyte hard drive and just plug it
Speaker 1: into your iMac and just plug it in, turn on
Speaker 1: time capsule, and just plug it in every once in
Speaker 1: a while every week, every month and boom, just let
Speaker 1: it back up everything on your iMac. Now that's given
Speaker 1: that all of your photos are on your iMac, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if they are or not. And your music,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is. But no matter what you do,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you a cheaper solution because just
Speaker 1: a standard USB hard drive, it's gonna be a lot cheaper.
Speaker 1: So I would say, just plug that in, let Time
Speaker 1: Capsule do its thing. Do that every couple of weeks
Speaker 1: or every week, whatever, however often you need. You think
Speaker 1: you need to do that, But I think that's a
Speaker 1: cheaper solution that would totally work for you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but if you can, if you're ready to spring for
Speaker 1: the my cloud duo, sure, I mean I love having
Speaker 1: a network drive. It's great. I don't have mine hooked
Speaker 1: up right now because I've gotten sow into the cloud
Speaker 1: and I actually get a because I've gotten really bad
Speaker 1: about backing up my stuff in a second place. I
Speaker 1: know it's on my drive, it's on my phone. I
Speaker 1: also have a whole bunch of assorted hard drives around
Speaker 1: my house with all kinds of backups on them that
Speaker 1: one day, one of these days, I will go through
Speaker 1: and finally back up and organize everything on those drives.
Speaker 1: I don't want to delete anything because I don't know
Speaker 1: if I've got the pictures in Google Photos, and I
Speaker 1: just want to go off on one little tangent here
Speaker 1: and this. I love, love, love Google Photos, but there
Speaker 1: is one feature I just cannot stand about it anymore,
Speaker 1: and that is there is no way to sync my
Speaker 1: Google Photos collection with a backup drive. And yes, I
Speaker 1: know you can do Google take out and download the
Speaker 1: entire photo collection, but that is so unreasonable. All I want,
Speaker 1: here's what I want. Google, Please just make a deal
Speaker 1: with a hard drive manufacturer and make that deal so
Speaker 1: that when I plug this drive into my computer or
Speaker 1: just connect it to my WiFi, it is constantly downloading
Speaker 1: and syncing my Google Photos library to that drive. That's
Speaker 1: all I want. I don't think Google's going away anytime soon.
Speaker 1: I don't think their system is gonna crash. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I just want a nice local backup
Speaker 1: of my photos in my home, just because it just
Speaker 1: makes me feel better. I mean, if something ever happened
Speaker 1: to me, you think someone else is gonna figure out
Speaker 1: how to download all my pictures? From good Google. One
Speaker 1: of my family members. No, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: get that dark. But the reality is it would just
Speaker 1: be nice to have a local copy. And I think
Speaker 1: that other platforms do offer that, some of the other
Speaker 1: photo saving platforms, but I like Google Photos and they
Speaker 1: used to have it and it's gone away, and I
Speaker 1: just wish you would bring it back, Google, because it
Speaker 1: would just be nice. I know you're trying to make
Speaker 1: things simple, and also I think you're trying to make
Speaker 1: them complicated because when someone wants to download their stuff,
Speaker 1: think about it. If you have it on a drive
Speaker 1: at your house at all times, how much easier is
Speaker 1: it to just bring that somewhere else and you move
Speaker 1: your business elsewhere. Let's move on to a new wireless
Speaker 1: charging pad. This is from Nomad and it's called the
Speaker 1: base Station Pro. I went up to Nomad and Santa Barbara.
Speaker 1: I hope I didn't talk about this before on the podcast,
Speaker 1: but I talked to the folks at Nomad who they
Speaker 1: make really cool kind of I don't know, artisanal almost
Speaker 1: products for iPhone and smartphones in general. My phone is
Speaker 1: a big one. But they make cases, they make charging cables,
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. But this new one is called
Speaker 1: the base Station Pro and it is a wireless charging pad. Now, rich,
Speaker 1: what's so new about a wireless charging pad. Well, let
Speaker 1: me tell you. The neat thing about this wireless charging
Speaker 1: pad is that it is positionless, which means you can
Speaker 1: put three devices on here anywhere you want. Now, I
Speaker 1: have a three device charger from Mophi, and you have
Speaker 1: to place them exactly right. You've got to put stuff
Speaker 1: on what's called a sweet spot. And if you don't,
Speaker 1: your phone doesn't charge. And I've woken up many a
Speaker 1: morning's where my phone has not charged overnight because it
Speaker 1: either moved or stopped charging for some reason, or I
Speaker 1: hit the nightstand whatever. So this you really don't have
Speaker 1: that problem, and it works. It works great. There are
Speaker 1: some caveats. I'll tell you about those, but let me
Speaker 1: tell you how they did it. So instead of one
Speaker 1: coil that charges your phone, they have eighteen coils underneath,
Speaker 1: along with little software called free Power that detects where
Speaker 1: you place your device and then it directs the power
Speaker 1: to that device. Pretty cool, huh. I thought it was
Speaker 1: pretty neat. Now I will tell you this, I think
Speaker 1: hang on. I just took a sip of my tea,
Speaker 1: my Green tea. I think that the free power actually
Speaker 1: works better with Apple products than any other products. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's an Android thing or some
Speaker 1: weird stuff, but I just feel like when you put
Speaker 1: your iPhone on there, it works. Now, I will say
Speaker 1: with the Galaxy Z Fold two that's been working really
Speaker 1: well as well. And there are three little there are
Speaker 1: three little status lights on this thing too, which is
Speaker 1: really cool. That will let you know if it's charging,
Speaker 1: like if the power is going to the three little gadgets,
Speaker 1: which is also kind of cool. And I found that
Speaker 1: the Pixel did not work at all. The Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: Note twenty Ultra did not work. It just it does
Speaker 1: this really weird thing. Maybe I have a bad review unit,
Speaker 1: but it does this really weird thing where it just
Speaker 1: goes crazy. It's like selecting on screen. It's really strange.
Speaker 1: It looks I got to get a video of it
Speaker 1: and post it to Twitter because it's very strange. And
Speaker 1: I asked no Mad about this and they said yes,
Speaker 1: there are some issues. Officially, older Samsung devices S nine
Speaker 1: and blow and all Pixel devices don't work. They're working
Speaker 1: on a firmware slash software update. And also, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there is one more thing that does not work, the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. So when you really think about it, this
Speaker 1: is for someone who has, you know, maybe two iPhones,
Speaker 1: a work phone and a personal phone, plus a pair
Speaker 1: of AirPods. It will work with the Samsung Buds and
Speaker 1: other wireless It does work with things that are on
Speaker 1: the Cheese standard, but it's not officially on the Cheese standard.
Speaker 1: There must be something they did weird about it that
Speaker 1: they can't officially say it's chea so I don't know.
Speaker 1: But if you have Apple stuff, it works great. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: if you could get into a store, like if they
Speaker 1: had one of these in an Apple store, that would
Speaker 1: be ideal because then you can test your your products
Speaker 1: on it and see if it works. But it's really cool.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and thirty dollar, I know, very expensive, but
Speaker 1: the neat thing is really it feels like what the
Speaker 1: future will bring with wireless charging, where you just throw
Speaker 1: your device on there and you don't have to think
Speaker 1: about how you placed it and it just sort of charges,
Speaker 1: which is really neat all right, Angela writes in we
Speaker 1: all watch you and love your suggestions with little heart.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. We were hoping you could offer a
Speaker 1: solution to our problem. We have paper thin walls and
Speaker 1: don't have a PA system and need some soft music
Speaker 1: to play in our exam rooms. But I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure what device we could use for this function. Suggestions
Speaker 1: are appreciated. Thank you so much the staff at Family
Speaker 1: Member Veterinary. Is it veterinary veterinary veterinary hospital, Veterinary, I
Speaker 1: don't know veterinary. You know it's a hospital for dogs
Speaker 1: and cats, animals, Angela. I think your best solution is
Speaker 1: something that is so simple it might have evaded you.
Speaker 1: I think a Google Nest Mini would be perfect in
Speaker 1: every room, And now I think, yeah, so here's what
Speaker 1: I would do. I would do a Google Nest Mini.
Speaker 1: You can get those for I think they're like forty bucks.
Speaker 1: Put them in every room. You can group them up
Speaker 1: on the Google Home mapp and you can play music
Speaker 1: to all of the rooms at the same time and boom,
Speaker 1: now you have music in every room. You can also
Speaker 1: use it as a PA system, so if you want
Speaker 1: to like send messages throughout the whole office, you can broadcast.
Speaker 1: I think the the syntax let's see broadcast Google Home.
Speaker 1: So I think what you say is you can use
Speaker 1: a little mic on your on your thing, or let's
Speaker 1: see broadcasts from one speaker to others. You just say okay,
Speaker 1: it doesn't tell you how to do it. Come on
Speaker 1: what you need? Oh, here you go, You say h
Speaker 1: Google broadcast there you go. You can also use the
Speaker 1: commands shout tell everyone announce instead of broadcast. You can
Speaker 1: say eah, Google, tell everyone one doctor needed in room seven.
Speaker 1: Doctor needed in room seven. So you can do that.
Speaker 1: And now the other thing is your guests will also
Speaker 1: be able to say h Google. So what I would
Speaker 1: do is probably turn off the microphone functionality. So there's
Speaker 1: a little toggle on there to turn off the microphone
Speaker 1: and then you can just have your music playing. And yes,
Speaker 1: some of your smarter, more savvy guests might toggle the
Speaker 1: microphone switch and mess with it, but I think that's
Speaker 1: probably a small portion of people. The other thing I'd
Speaker 1: recommend is they've got these great Google mounts on Amazon.
Speaker 1: So if you look on Amazon Google Nest Mini mount,
Speaker 1: you go on there and they've got so many great
Speaker 1: mounts and you can just plug it into a plug
Speaker 1: on the wall and it kind of keeps all the
Speaker 1: chords great. I mean, you can really I think This
Speaker 1: is such a simple solution. You're talking you know, a
Speaker 1: couple bucks for the mount and you know forty bucks
Speaker 1: for the minis. You can get them a two pack,
Speaker 1: three pack or whatever you can find them on sale.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna do it just fine. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to another tech topic of the week,
Speaker 1: and this is Facebook. Remember I was just talking about
Speaker 1: photos and videos. This perfectly talk. This kind of goes
Speaker 1: to what I'm talking about. And Facebook is now expanding
Speaker 1: what's called their Data Portability Tool, and now you can
Speaker 1: send your photos and videos to Dropbox and also another
Speaker 1: service called Koofer Koofr, which is something in Europe. We
Speaker 1: don't I guess we don't really have it here in
Speaker 1: the US. Maybe we do, we just don't really use it.
Speaker 1: But so this is pretty simple. If you've got photos
Speaker 1: on Facebook, remember there was a time when you were
Speaker 1: uploading a ton of photos to Facebook, or even maybe
Speaker 1: you even use that Facebook sink feature they used to
Speaker 1: have back in the day, which I don't know why
Speaker 1: they got rid of that, but people used to be
Speaker 1: able to sync all the photos from your camera roll
Speaker 1: and your phone to Facebook. They got rid of that.
Speaker 1: But maybe you still have a bunch of photos lingering
Speaker 1: in Facebook. Maybe you've been using it for fifteen years
Speaker 1: now or whatever. However many years Facebook has been around,
Speaker 1: and you've got a bunch of photos in there, and
Speaker 1: you want to store them somewhere else. Well, now you
Speaker 1: can do a direct transfer right from Facebook to Dropbox.
Speaker 1: And also Google Photos is supported, and so all you
Speaker 1: do is you go on your Facebook, you log in
Speaker 1: to your other account. It'll like connect the two accounts,
Speaker 1: you know, your drop Box or your Google Photos, and
Speaker 1: it will start moving your pictures over. Now it's not
Speaker 1: going to transfer them, it's going to copy them, so
Speaker 1: they will still be on Facebook. And now you have
Speaker 1: a copy of your pictures on Dropbox. And let's say
Speaker 1: you want to get rid of Facebook. Boom, you can
Speaker 1: get rid of Facebook. So that's pretty easy. So there
Speaker 1: you go. That's kind of like that's it. There's not
Speaker 1: much more to know about that. Everything is encrypted as
Speaker 1: it moves between services. Facebook is quick to point out.
Speaker 1: So it's just good. I love this is fantastic, and
Speaker 1: in fact, I wish that Google would do something like
Speaker 1: this for other services. And I think that that's the
Speaker 1: goal of these services, to make it easy to move
Speaker 1: things back and forth, especially as we are moving towards
Speaker 1: the cloud, folks, so everything is going to the cloud,
Speaker 1: and so when you have things in the cloud, what
Speaker 1: happens Everyone wants it's easy to get your stuff into
Speaker 1: the cloud. But if it becomes a thing where it's
Speaker 1: really tough to get your stuff out of the cloud,
Speaker 1: that is what scares me. Because it used to be
Speaker 1: back in the day, all the services would sink so
Speaker 1: easily to some sort of you know, network attached storage
Speaker 1: or whatever, and then all of a sudden they started
Speaker 1: backing out of those things, and it gets tougher and
Speaker 1: tougher to get your stuff out of these services. And yes, again,
Speaker 1: I know you can do Google takeout, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: Microsoft has the equivalent and all these other services. I
Speaker 1: know Facebook even has that equivalent where you can download
Speaker 1: your entire Facebook. But it's kind of a pain. And
Speaker 1: these files are giant, especially the longer that you've been
Speaker 1: with these services. So who's gonna sit there and download
Speaker 1: terabytes or you know, gigabytes and gigabytes of data. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. Let's hear from Bill. Bill says, I
Speaker 1: just upgraded my internet speed to one hundred megabits per second.
Speaker 1: I have a Netgear Nighthawk AC nineteen hundred router. I
Speaker 1: wonder if you heard about that on wirecutter, because that's
Speaker 1: I think the one they recommend, which works perfectly for
Speaker 1: our three story home. Wow, that's surprising. I noticed my
Speaker 1: speed is only about forty five megabits per second download
Speaker 1: when connected to two point four gigaherts and one hundred
Speaker 1: and two at five gigaherts. I've tried different channels and
Speaker 1: currently found Channel three as the best out of the
Speaker 1: eleven channels. I wanted to know if this is normal
Speaker 1: for two point four gigaherts to have such a slower speed.
Speaker 1: It's not really a problem because most of the streaming
Speaker 1: devices are on five gigaherts. Anyway, any ideas, I don't
Speaker 1: want to call Netgear because they charge for support. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Am I missing something? No? So Number one
Speaker 1: when it comes to Wi Fi, if you're generally speaking,
Speaker 1: you are not gonna get the speed that you get
Speaker 1: coming into your house at the hub across all your
Speaker 1: devices from the Wi Fi network. It's just a matter
Speaker 1: of there's interference. There's a lot going on. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of devices it's just generally going to be for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, it's about half. If you can
Speaker 1: get it more than half, that's fantastic. So if you're
Speaker 1: getting two hundred, I used to get two hundred across
Speaker 1: all my devices, I don't quite get that anymore. I
Speaker 1: upgraded to a gigabyte or gigabit, and I don't quite
Speaker 1: get it across all my devices. I'm still working on
Speaker 1: getting it to there because it has to do with
Speaker 1: all the routers and the way they talk to each other.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, if you're getting one hundred at
Speaker 1: five gigaherts, that's great. And I know you. You seem
Speaker 1: like a technical guy because you've done all these tests.
Speaker 1: You found much channel is the best. You've figured out
Speaker 1: the two point four versus five. So most of today's
Speaker 1: Wi Fi networks put out two signals. One that's two
Speaker 1: point four gigaherts, which goes further but it's not as fast.
Speaker 1: And then you have five gigaherts, which doesn't go far,
Speaker 1: but it creates it carries data at a I guess
Speaker 1: a higher through put if you want to say it
Speaker 1: that way. So you figured that out on your own.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a problem. I think you're fine.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that the router is getting stuff to all
Speaker 1: corners of your home for a three story house, so
Speaker 1: I think you're winning there. And yeah, the two point
Speaker 1: four giga hurts thing at forty five, it's still going
Speaker 1: to be fine. And like you said, most of your
Speaker 1: streaming stuff, most of the new stuff is on five
Speaker 1: giga hurts. Anyway, two point four was kind of the standard,
Speaker 1: that is the older standard that everything uses, and some
Speaker 1: inexpensive devices used, like if they're trying to save money
Speaker 1: by not doing a dual band, but most of the
Speaker 1: new devices do five. So if you're getting one hundred
Speaker 1: and two on five, I think you're okay. I think
Speaker 1: eventually you may want to look into a mesh network,
Speaker 1: but I don't think you need it right now if
Speaker 1: your Nighthawk is working for you. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about GDPR. Do you know what that is? That is
Speaker 1: the the thing over in Europe, the oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what's it called? What does GDPR stand for? I remember
Speaker 1: when I first did this, I remembered what it meant.
Speaker 1: But it's called General Data Protection Regulation. And what this
Speaker 1: is is the really intense privacy laws that they have
Speaker 1: over in Europe. And so when you had this happen,
Speaker 1: every website in the world had to adapt, they had
Speaker 1: to adapt their privacy policy. And in fact, I think
Speaker 1: part of this was that you you have the right
Speaker 1: to be erased from the systems, and you also have
Speaker 1: a right to the data in the systems. And if
Speaker 1: you live in the EU, you can write an email
Speaker 1: or a letter to any company that does business in
Speaker 1: the EU, like Yahoo or Google, and say, hey, I
Speaker 1: want to see all the data that you've collected on me,
Speaker 1: and they have to send it to you, which, as
Speaker 1: you can imagine, that's probably a big pain for these companies,
Speaker 1: but you know, that's the cost of doing business, I guess.
Speaker 1: And these regulations and it's really meant to protect people's privacy.
Speaker 1: I'm not commenting on whether it goes too far or
Speaker 1: whether it's annoying. But you know, the one thing that
Speaker 1: we have seen because of this is everywhere in the world,
Speaker 1: every website that you go to, there is a little
Speaker 1: pop up that you've seen that says, what do you
Speaker 1: like to accept cookies? Would you like to have your privacy?
Speaker 1: Would you want to opt out of the privacy policy
Speaker 1: or opt in or whatever. There's so many little things
Speaker 1: that they ask every single website. It is pretty annoying.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that. Now. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that we have access to privacy controls and all this
Speaker 1: good stuff, but it's a little bit much. And ninety
Speaker 1: nine percent of the time I feel like I say
Speaker 1: yes to these things or whatever. I just clicked the box.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I'm saying yes or no
Speaker 1: or somewhere in between. And next time I go to
Speaker 1: that website, I feel like it's there again. And I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm always clicking in every website. By the
Speaker 1: time you get to a website, number one, you gotta
Speaker 1: click the GDPR, then you got to click the newsletter,
Speaker 1: Then you got to click about you know, if you're
Speaker 1: using an ad blocker, they they you know, talk about that,
Speaker 1: which I get, you know. Then they talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: do you want to allow pop ups or notifications or
Speaker 1: what it's like, can we track your location? There's so
Speaker 1: many things. All I want to do is read the article.
Speaker 1: I just want to see what you said about this.
Speaker 1: But I'm sitting there, like navigating this website. And so anyway,
Speaker 1: I say all of this because there is a tracker,
Speaker 1: a chrome extension. I just discovered that so far, I
Speaker 1: think is really cool and I hope it's legit. But
Speaker 1: it's called consent omatic, And according to the information here,
Speaker 1: the consent to omatic was built and maintained by workers
Speaker 1: at a university in Denmark. And these privacy researchers got
Speaker 1: tired of seeing how companies violate the EUS General Data
Speaker 1: Protection Regulation. Because organizations that enforce the GDPR do not
Speaker 1: have enough resources, we built this add on to help
Speaker 1: them out. They looked at six hundred and eighty different
Speaker 1: pop ups and combine their data processing purposes into five
Speaker 1: categories that you can toggle on or off. Sometimes their
Speaker 1: categories don't match perfectly, but we will choose the one
Speaker 1: that provides the most privacy preserving option. So here's what's
Speaker 1: so great. Here is what's so great. So now they
Speaker 1: say that these pop up cookie pop ups are designed
Speaker 1: to be confusing. Oh okay, good, that's true. They want
Speaker 1: to make you agree to be tracked. So this add
Speaker 1: on automatically answers those consent pop ups for you, so
Speaker 1: you can't be manipulated. You set your preference preferences once
Speaker 1: and you let the technology do the rest. And so far.
Speaker 1: I went to a couple websites with this Chrome extension
Speaker 1: installed and it worked. I saw a little check mark
Speaker 1: pop up on the Chrome extension when it kind of
Speaker 1: went through the little box that popped up. I think
Speaker 1: this is so cool. It's called the consent omatic. I
Speaker 1: will link it in the show notes, so you make
Speaker 1: sure you get the right one and you're not getting
Speaker 1: some scammy one. The only thing is I've gotten really
Speaker 1: cautious about installing Chrome extensions, especially the ones that say
Speaker 1: we can read and write data on all of the
Speaker 1: websites that you visit. And some of these things like
Speaker 1: a Honey extension or a Wiki buy, they need that
Speaker 1: because that's how they see what website you're on. And
Speaker 1: I've toggled that feature off, and like you know, you
Speaker 1: can enable it every time you want manually, but it
Speaker 1: is a pain, and so you don't want, Like I
Speaker 1: find this, it's easier to let them read it, right,
Speaker 1: but you have to imagine you are giving them a
Speaker 1: lot of data, and this is one of them. So
Speaker 1: this says this can read and change site data on
Speaker 1: all sites. So every website that you go to, this
Speaker 1: little concent omatic is getting a record of that, as
Speaker 1: I understand, so you have to weigh your options. Do
Speaker 1: you want your privacy or do you want your annoyances gone?
Speaker 1: And what I like about this little consent omatic is
Speaker 1: that you have options, so you can go in and
Speaker 1: your choice is they give one two three, one, two
Speaker 1: three four. There's about five six categories information and storage
Speaker 1: access and I have that off preferences and functionality off,
Speaker 1: performance and analytics off, content selection, delivery and reporting off,
Speaker 1: ad selection, off other purposes off. How great is that
Speaker 1: all tracking is rejected by default, which is something I
Speaker 1: don't think I would have done if I was doing
Speaker 1: this manually. So I think this is a major two
Speaker 1: thumbs up for not only the convenience, but also the
Speaker 1: fact that it is blocking a lot of these trackers
Speaker 1: that by default, a lot of us are just saying yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: go away, go away, go away, and we don't really
Speaker 1: know what we're doing. So kudos to them, and I
Speaker 1: will again put that link in the show notes. All right,
Speaker 1: next question comes from Karen. Hey, Rich, you helped me before,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate your wisdom. I have the same Samsung
Speaker 1: four phone. Soon I hope it will be replaced by
Speaker 1: a seven for my brother. But I'm struggling a little.
Speaker 1: Number one. The phone will not hold a charge to
Speaker 1: take a few pictures Google's something. Oh my god, it
Speaker 1: shuts off. The short time frame is amazing. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's just because the phone is old? Could it
Speaker 1: be the charger or would a new battery help until
Speaker 1: I get the next hand me down. I've also lost
Speaker 1: the microphone feature for texting. It just disappeared. I've checked
Speaker 1: YouTube videos, followed the path little microphone should appear. It
Speaker 1: never does. Is it lost forever? Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: your time, Thank you, Karen. All right, let's break this down.
Speaker 1: Samsung four. Wow, number one, kudos to you for having
Speaker 1: a Samsung S four. That phone was released in Let's
Speaker 1: see what date that was. That was twenty thirteen, seven
Speaker 1: years ago. Whoa, that is a long time. I think
Speaker 1: most people are keeping their phones for about an average
Speaker 1: of two to three years at this point. So you're
Speaker 1: going seven's. That's amazing, So good for you. Number one.
Speaker 1: The battery I think that, yes, the battery is probably fried.
Speaker 1: Batteries have a certain lifespan what's called cycles. They only
Speaker 1: get so many cycles, no matter how good you are
Speaker 1: charging them, they do not last forever. So that's the
Speaker 1: main thing. That battery is fried. Now the good news
Speaker 1: is this is I believe a removable battery because it's
Speaker 1: such an old phone that this was back in the
Speaker 1: day when you could remove batteries. So I would go
Speaker 1: on Amazon and see if you can buy a new battery,
Speaker 1: see if you can replace that battery, and that would
Speaker 1: be my first choice. If you're getting the S seven
Speaker 1: from your brother, I would convince your brother to give
Speaker 1: you that sooner than later and save the money on
Speaker 1: the battery because it's still an old phone and the
Speaker 1: seven is going to be a lot better for you.
Speaker 1: Number two, the microphone for texting, I think that you
Speaker 1: just it either got toggled off somehow or a software
Speaker 1: update turned it off because of privacy reasons, and all
Speaker 1: you need to do is turn it back on. So
Speaker 1: I would go into your settings and let's see. Usually
Speaker 1: it's under language and input. Let's see so settings General Management,
Speaker 1: Language and input, and it should say physical keyboard or
Speaker 1: no on screen keyboard, and then there should be Google
Speaker 1: Voice typing, Samsung Voice input, and your keyboards. And I
Speaker 1: would just go in and make sure that your voice
Speaker 1: is on for the keyboard that you have selected, So
Speaker 1: I like to use gboard depending on the keyboard you're using.
Speaker 1: Just going there and check all those settings under on
Speaker 1: screen keyboard and you should find it and it should
Speaker 1: be there. So I don't think that that's gone forever
Speaker 1: unless they somehow got rid of it. If you like
Speaker 1: cool new apps like I do, here's another one. It's
Speaker 1: called here here h E A R H E R E.
Speaker 1: And what's cool about this is it is kind of
Speaker 1: like an audio tour guide app for the places you go.
Speaker 1: And what's unique about it is that it's just a
Speaker 1: little snippets. So I just think this is such a
Speaker 1: good idea because when I'm traveling, I am the kind
Speaker 1: of person that likes to know what is going on
Speaker 1: around me and what's the significance of that mountain or
Speaker 1: that old you know, mission, or that church or that
Speaker 1: giant rock, whatever it is, and you know, you can
Speaker 1: go on. I don't know if there must be apps
Speaker 1: that do that. I'm sure there are, But this is
Speaker 1: cool because it's audio and it's an app out of
Speaker 1: Santa Barbara. It's backed by Kevin Costner, the actor and
Speaker 1: also one of the guys who founded the North Face,
Speaker 1: which is like the outdoor Powall Company, or maybe they
Speaker 1: do more than that, but they professionally edit and narrate
Speaker 1: these little audio vignettes, and so it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a little history book or a you know, visitor's guide,
Speaker 1: but it's on your phone, and so it's also GPS tagged,
Speaker 1: which means you can drive like I recently drove to
Speaker 1: know Zion, Utah, and you can just fire up your
Speaker 1: phone on the app and when you're in a little
Speaker 1: small town and see if there's anything of note around
Speaker 1: you and learn about it, which is really neat. Now.
Speaker 1: To be fair, it doesn't work in Zion right now
Speaker 1: because right now it supports the West Coast, which is California, Oregon,
Speaker 1: and Washington. There's fifteen hundred stories. They hope to have
Speaker 1: about ten thousand of them by next summer. And it's
Speaker 1: only on iOS right now, and they hope to have
Speaker 1: it on Android soon. But it's neat. I looked it
Speaker 1: up for the stories around me. It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: It's professionally produced, and I think it's a nice alternative
Speaker 1: to the tour guide. Now there's some audio tour guide apps,
Speaker 1: or there used to be there was one that I
Speaker 1: used up in San Francisco called Detour and it was
Speaker 1: started by I think it was the guy who did
Speaker 1: groupon and it was really cool. My wife and I
Speaker 1: took the tour. It was fun, and they do like
Speaker 1: audio and they play little you know, it's like it's
Speaker 1: kind of like an audio tour of wherever you're going. Now,
Speaker 1: this one was very involved, you know, cross the street,
Speaker 1: look at this stand there. It was great and it
Speaker 1: didn't last because it went away. This one also is
Speaker 1: they do charge you, so it's five stories for free,
Speaker 1: and then it's like fifty bucks for the year, which
Speaker 1: you know is a little high. But they were doing
Speaker 1: a twenty five dollars deal. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: still available. They're also doing seven dollars for the week.
Speaker 1: So I think that look, if you're going on a trip,
Speaker 1: a road trip, you're spending a lot of money. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you're seven dollars for this app for access for the
Speaker 1: week to learn about a couple of things on your way.
Speaker 1: It's not that bad if you think about it that way.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to figure you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: stop for fast food, that's gonna be a couple bucks,
Speaker 1: So seven dollars for kind of like a tour is
Speaker 1: really not bad. And again it's not a tour. It's
Speaker 1: just a little audio snippets, so you can come and
Speaker 1: go as you please, do as many as you want,
Speaker 1: as little as you want. And I think this is
Speaker 1: a great idea and I hope that it lasts. I
Speaker 1: hope they expand it like they say they want to.
Speaker 1: And I think that it's one of those things that
Speaker 1: if you're traveling, I love just getting Even if I
Speaker 1: travel to a place and I learn one thing about
Speaker 1: that place and it sticks with me, I love it
Speaker 1: and I feel like my job is done and I
Speaker 1: feel like it's been beneficial to me to travel. And
Speaker 1: right now we're all doing road trips because you don't
Speaker 1: really want to fly places, so or we're not doing
Speaker 1: a lot of big trips places, so this is perfect.
Speaker 1: If you live on the West coast, check it out
Speaker 1: here here h e ar h e r E. Try it.
Speaker 1: It's free for the first five stories and I'll just
Speaker 1: continue to follow that and see the GPS tagging, I
Speaker 1: think is the really smart part about that app. I
Speaker 1: also did a one of the tours in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I was there and I just downloaded some random MP
Speaker 1: three and this was this was way back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I just walked around that city doing a tour.
Speaker 1: So I think also, if you're in a city and
Speaker 1: you can find an audio tour and download it and
Speaker 1: take it, it's great. I mean, why not. I mean
Speaker 1: you could do a real tour that's even better. But
Speaker 1: you know, if you're DIY, that works too. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see what do we want to talk about next, Donnetta,
Speaker 1: says mister Demiro. I need some advice. I recently read
Speaker 1: an article about not purchasing a MacBook Pro because eventually
Speaker 1: Apple will not support them. I have one that I
Speaker 1: purchased a couple of months ago. My question is should
Speaker 1: I keep it or should I sell it? Thank you,
Speaker 1: don Netta, Uh no, you should definitely keep the MacBook
Speaker 1: Pro that you purchased. Apple is going to support them
Speaker 1: for a long long time. Yes, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: confusion because they're switching. They're not even I mean, eventually
Speaker 1: they're switching to their own processors, and it's not going
Speaker 1: to be Intel. I guess I think they're switching to
Speaker 1: their own like fully, but right now it's going to
Speaker 1: be a slow, slow march to their own what they
Speaker 1: call their own silicon or their own silicon silicon, and
Speaker 1: so they are going to use their own processors inside
Speaker 1: their devices. And that's gonna happen. And yes, it's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: I think they said by the end of was It
Speaker 1: twenty twenty twenty one. But don't worry about it. Your
Speaker 1: your computer is going to be just fine. So let
Speaker 1: me look up macOS Catalina, which is the newest operating system,
Speaker 1: and let's see which Mac computers it supports. Usually if
Speaker 1: you scroll all the way down, it will say which
Speaker 1: ones they support. Okay, all right, let's let's take a
Speaker 1: look see if your Mac can run mac OS Catalina
Speaker 1: MacBook twenty fifteen and later MacBook Air twenty twelve and
Speaker 1: later MacBook Pro twenty twelve and later MacBook Mini twenty
Speaker 1: twelve and later iMac twenty twelve and later i'mc Pro
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and later mac Pro twenty thirteen. You're talking
Speaker 1: this operating system that Apple just came out with, and
Speaker 1: you know, in the past year supports computers from eight
Speaker 1: years ago. You have a brand new MacBook Pro. You
Speaker 1: are going to be just fine. When you say eventually
Speaker 1: Apple will not support them, you're talking eight to nine years.
Speaker 1: Because I now the new what's the new one? What's
Speaker 1: it called mac Os? Is it big, sir? Mac Os?
Speaker 1: Big sir, so big sir. Let's see what that one supports.
Speaker 1: That's the one that's coming out next, and that's coming
Speaker 1: out any any day. Now, really, let's see what that supports.
Speaker 1: That supports. Okay, so we lost about a year. It
Speaker 1: looks like so MacBook Air twenty thirteen, MacBook twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: MacBook Pro twenty thirteen. So they dropped the twenty twelves.
Speaker 1: So again you're talking. Let's say, if we go from
Speaker 1: today seven years, I think you are going to be
Speaker 1: just fine. Doneta enjoy the MacBook Pro. Don't worry about
Speaker 1: these articles you read online. No big deal. Okay, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, we're already out of time. I can't believe
Speaker 1: this show goes so fast. Let me talk about a
Speaker 1: feature in Google that I just love. I've been using
Speaker 1: it all summer to plan my trips, especially road trips,
Speaker 1: and apparently Google updated it. And I kind of knew
Speaker 1: when I looked at it that it looked a little different,
Speaker 1: but they had a blog post about it, and this
Speaker 1: is the feature called saved tab. All right, I guess
Speaker 1: it's the saved tab. So if you go on to
Speaker 1: Google and there's a couple of ways that you can
Speaker 1: access this, but the easiest way is to go and
Speaker 1: open Google Maps, and if you look at the bottom,
Speaker 1: there is Explore, commute, and then something called saved And
Speaker 1: this is a whole bunch of lists. And so the
Speaker 1: default lists are favorites, want to go, start places and labeled.
Speaker 1: But the cool thing is they have done a couple
Speaker 1: of things to improve this. I love making lists, Like
Speaker 1: for instance, when I went to Zion, I made a
Speaker 1: Zion list and when I was cruising through, you know,
Speaker 1: different recommendations you have to It's it's a little weird
Speaker 1: because the easiest way to do it is to check.
Speaker 1: Like let's say you want to go to a restaurant,
Speaker 1: right you find out about a restaurant, search for that restaurant,
Speaker 1: then in Google Maps, and once you search for that
Speaker 1: restaurant in Google Maps, bring it up big. There should
Speaker 1: be directions call and then something called save. You tap
Speaker 1: save and then you can save it to one of
Speaker 1: your lists. And what they've done with these lists is
Speaker 1: they've made them really easy to find number one, and
Speaker 1: then when you tap it to find it later, they
Speaker 1: are showing you stuff based on how you know how
Speaker 1: close you are to those things. So in Zion, what
Speaker 1: I did is I just went to my list and
Speaker 1: I saw what was closest. You can also see your
Speaker 1: list on a map, so everything that you want to
Speaker 1: do in that area is plotted out and you can
Speaker 1: see kind of how far things are from each other.
Speaker 1: It's really cool and I used to use Yelp for this,
Speaker 1: which Yelp has a similar feature you can save collections,
Speaker 1: but I just felt like this was easier and more
Speaker 1: universal because it just seemed like it was a better
Speaker 1: solution because you can save all kinds of stuff in
Speaker 1: these lists. You can save recipes, whatever. Now the other
Speaker 1: cool thing, and I think some people might think this
Speaker 1: is scary, is that if you have location history turned on,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people do, you can see all
Speaker 1: the places that you've been to in your past. And
Speaker 1: I've talked about this before, but they've made it a
Speaker 1: little bit easier to find now. So if you go
Speaker 1: into saved, then at the bottom you'll see timeline. You
Speaker 1: can say, let's go and you can now see all
Speaker 1: the places that you've been organized by category shopping, food
Speaker 1: and drinks, hotels, attractions, airports. So if I want to
Speaker 1: see all the airports that I've been to carrying a
Speaker 1: phone in the world, I can see them, and they're
Speaker 1: all sorted by how far they are. Well, they're not
Speaker 1: sorted by how far they are from me, because San
Speaker 1: Francisco is coming up. They're actually sorted by it looks
Speaker 1: like time. But you can go to food and drink.
Speaker 1: So maybe you went to this little little coffee house
Speaker 1: in Tokyo and you can't remember the name because it
Speaker 1: was written in Japanese. And now you can just go
Speaker 1: on here and go to Tokyo because it's also done by cities.
Speaker 1: Tap let's see. So let's go to let's see, where
Speaker 1: was I Carlsbad a year ago? I went to the
Speaker 1: well that was Lego Land. Okay, that wasn't very good.
Speaker 1: But oh, Shanghai. Here's Shanghai. So I went to well,
Speaker 1: I can't read the name of it, but it was
Speaker 1: a shopping mall, and it's just you know, maybe I
Speaker 1: couldn't remember the name of that shopping mall, but now
Speaker 1: I can see it so I think this is a
Speaker 1: really cool underutilized feature. Yes, is it that Google is
Speaker 1: keeping track of everywhere you go? Yes, we get it.
Speaker 1: It's creepy. Oh guess what. It's the world we live in.
Speaker 1: And to me, it's really useful. And as long as
Speaker 1: you know that it's happening and you're not surprised by it,
Speaker 1: and nobody else has access to this information, why not.
Speaker 1: It's just to me. It's to me there is a
Speaker 1: I love privacy, but there is a fine line between
Speaker 1: privacy and usefulness, And to me, I love the idea
Speaker 1: that I can have a list of everywhere I've ever
Speaker 1: went in the world without having to keep that list,
Speaker 1: and in seconds I can look at my phone and
Speaker 1: see all the different places I've went. So check it out.
Speaker 1: It's called saved. There's other ways to access it through
Speaker 1: the Google app and various things. But that's that's, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just one of the things that I think
Speaker 1: is cool. All right, we'll get one more question before
Speaker 1: the show ends. Lydia says, mister DeMuro. A lot of
Speaker 1: people calling me mister DeMuro. Am I really that formal,
Speaker 1: mister DeMuro? Mister DeMuro, I just called me rich, Rich
Speaker 1: on tech. I apologize. I do not have Facebook nor Instagram.
Speaker 1: I have a question. Do you know why Verizon is
Speaker 1: discontinuing ring back tones as of October thirty first? Is
Speaker 1: there any apps that you know that will provide ring
Speaker 1: back tones? Please advise? Thank you? Ringback tones, Wow, I
Speaker 1: haven't heard of those in a long time. All I
Speaker 1: know is that when you search ringback tones, they are discontinued.
Speaker 1: Effective let's see October thirty first, twenty twenty and effective
Speaker 1: August twenty sixth, customers will no longer be able to
Speaker 1: subscribe or purchase ringback tones. That's it doesn't give a reason,
Speaker 1: but I'm guessing if I had to guess the reason,
Speaker 1: it's because people stopped using them. They were costly, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if any other Let's see, it looks
Speaker 1: like does AT and T. My AT and T might
Speaker 1: still offer them, but I I don't know. It's still
Speaker 1: on their website, but it could be an old page.
Speaker 1: Let's see if T mobile has some T Mobile has
Speaker 1: caller tunes. It looks like that two thousand and four
Speaker 1: rileys are old. I don't know if they have it anymore,
Speaker 1: so I think you are out of lock. I should
Speaker 1: I should get that thing all right? Well, that is uh,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this week's show. Can you
Speaker 1: believe it? I say that every week. I can't believe.
Speaker 1: It goes very fast. Let's see what do I say
Speaker 1: at this point. That's gonna do it for this episode
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