WEBVTT - New App Takes Unique Approach to Blocking Robocalls 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.840 Apple TV gets a big update. Uber takes two of 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:09.799 my ideas to heart. There's a new action cam that's 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.520 perfect for vlogging. Plus your questions, what's going on? I'm 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.320 Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.000 I talk about this stuff I think you should know 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.280 about in the tech world. Plus I answer your tech questions. 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:23.880 Joining me as always is producer Megan. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:25.360 Hello, how are you. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.080 I am fantastic. Just got back from New York and 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:30.960 I was there for the big launch of this phone 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:32.680 that we're gonna talk about in just a moment. But 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.400 I will tell you one thing. I will never fly 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:40.360 Basic Economy again. Never, because here's the thing. I knew 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.559 it was bad, but I never knew just how bad. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.519 And I know it sounds braddy to do this, but 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:45.960 you know, when you fly a lot, you want to 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.000 like have things kind of easy, but Basic Economy basically 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:53.000 strips away all of your rights as a human being. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.400 So you literally number one, your boarding pass is a 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.960 totally different color. It's like bright fluorescent. I think it 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.760 was orange. Like do not Like you're letting this person 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.320 on the plane, but they can't bring a bag, they 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:04.840 don't get to check on their they don't get to 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.319 like select their seat. I was surprised they gave me 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:12.400 pretzels if you water or yeah, they did, which was surprising. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:17.399 I thought I was like gonna be excluded from all that. Yeah. Yeah, 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.800 So anyway, I survived, but I will say there was 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.560 no leg room and when the person in front of 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.760 me reclined their seat, I literally thought it was gonna 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.120 crush my I thought my knee, my knee was broken 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.400 because it was that bad. Oh wow, But it was 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.440 all worth it. No, it's okay, it's all It was 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.120 all worth it because guess what, Megan, I got to 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.120 go to the launch of the one plus seven Pro. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.360 This is a new smartphone that I've been using for 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:40.959 the past couple of weeks, and I will tell you 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.280 it is the new Android phone to beat. Now you 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.000 hear me say that a lot, because you know, we 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.200 had the Samsung, we have the Pixel, but this is 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.160 a it's kind of a quasi flagship because it's not 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.600 as like it's just a fantastic phone. Let me go 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.360 over some of the specs on this thing. So number one, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.600 it's got a giant display. It's got a six point 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.480 six have an inch display with a ninety megahurtz refresh rate. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.040 Now I don't even know what that means, ninety hertz 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.240 refresh rate, but it looks really good. So apparently most 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.240 phones are sixty, this one's ninety. It also has HDR 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.840 ten and ten plus, which means that everything looks really 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.520 good on the screen. Now, personally, they really talked up 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.560 this screen, but I don't think it looks better than 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.079 the Samsung, which is odd. Like, I still the screen 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.680 is great, but I still think the Samsung screen looks better. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.200 I think this is a better phone. Bottom line, if 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.200 you are, if you're thinking of getting a Samsung device, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.160 look at the one plus seven Pro because it's better. 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.800 It's got a great great in the hands. It's a 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.359 big device, but it feels great in the hand. It's 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.799 got a nice fast processor. It's got up to twelve 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.560 gigs of memory like RAM, which means it's really fast, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.280 like most phones have like two to four to six 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.680 maybe Okay, so this is a lot more wow. And 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.760 then it also has three cameras. It's got a forty 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.280 eight megapixel camera. It's got a wide angle. It's got 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:57.919 three on the back, so it's got a wide angle. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.400 It's got a telephoto which is three times zoom, which 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:01.600 I've been having a lot of puhne with because you 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.640 can kind of zoom in really close on things. And 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.720 then it has an ultra wide. The ultra wide is 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.680 kind of like the worst of the three. It's it's 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.320 kind of it doesn't look that good, but it still 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.360 is nice to have. It's really fun to have. Actually. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.240 It also has great haptic feedback, so when you're actually 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.359 pressing on the screen, you feel like the vibration like 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.640 an iPhone. Not as good as iPhone because no phone is, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.800 but it's still pretty darn good feature. Yeah, the iPhone 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.640 does that the best. Like the iPhone really does have 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.239 the best haptic which is basically that's a fancy word 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.160 for like how it kind of vibrates when you touch 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.160 the screen or when you do something like if you're 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.320 scrolling through a list or something like, you know, you 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:38.119 just feel that tactile kind of movement. Yeah, that feedback response. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.520 This thing also charges really fast, Like I don't even 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.240 have a charger next to my bed anymore, because I 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.880 just charge in the morning when I, you know, get up, 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.480 and then I charge like before I go out again 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.160 in the afternoon. Or in my car for a little bit. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.640 It's that fast for charging. Let's see. So the cameras 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.080 are good, but they're not like amazing, Like it's not like, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.560 oh my god, it's not pixel quality camera or even 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.400 iPhone i'd say, but it's still pretty darn good. Like 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.920 I've been very happy with this device. And for the price, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.320 that's the best part. It starts at six sixty nine, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.320 which most flagship phones start at like one thousand dollars. Yeah, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.520 So my advice at this point, if you're thinking of 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.240 going Samsung or anything else and you've got like, you know, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.840 seven hundred eight hundred dollars to spare, like if that's 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.559 how much your budget is, definitely check out this phone. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.479 If you are trying to spend a lot less, like 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.359 let's say four hundred three hundred, go with the Pixel 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:26.960 three A. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:27.160 Right. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.960 So those are my top two. And if your iPhone, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.839 just stick with iPhone. I mean, I'm not trying to 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.159 switch you for iPhone because I know, believe me, if 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.000 you're in that ecosystem, you'll love the iPhone. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.120 But didn't you meet someone that is going to make 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:39.400 the switch? That was there? 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.880 She said she was in our story. We met this 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.880 woman who said she was so impressed with the phone 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.080 she was gonna make the switch. I don't know who knows, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.640 but who knows? The people say stuff on camera and 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.200 then you know, you never know if they really mean it. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.160 All right, Megan, do you have something for me? Yes? 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:56.719 Can we can? 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:56.800 We? 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:02.760 Oh the sound? Okay, let me see here. There we go, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.520 Producer Megan with our first question. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.600 Okay, So our first question is from Christina h. And 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:14.039 it's in regards to buying a home computer. She says, Hey, rich, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.440 my name is Christina, and I'm looking for a home 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.480 computer for my house and I would like to know 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.480 what your best input on a cheap one for me is. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.039 Can you please help me? Thanks? 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.680 Best computer for your So I have two recommendations here, Christina. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.120 Number one is if you're looking for Mac, I love 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.599 the iMac. I think that's the best kind of home computer. 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.200 It's a desktop. You get a lot for your money. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.560 My only advice if you're doing that, do not get 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.200 the one that sells for eleven hundred dollars, the cheapest one. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.840 It's like one ninety nine. Don't get that one. That 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.440 one's really bad. But the next one up that sells 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.920 for twelve ninety nine. Get that one, and that will 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.080 be fantastic. It's got a bigger hard drive, it's got 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.040 a better processor. Everything's better about it. But see a 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.680 lot of these companies, these tech companies play pricing games 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.680 with people, especially Apple, because what they do is you 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.840 see that eleven hundred dollars model and you're like, oh cool, 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.159 I don't want to spend more than that, Like that's perfect. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.440 But what they're not telling you is like for an 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.520 extra one hundred, two hundred dollars, you can get a 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.000 way better system. And so to me, the way I 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.240 think of it is it's like running a race. It's 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.000 like if someone asked you to run five miles, you'd 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.560 be like, all right, fine, I can do that. But 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.719 if someone's like, okay, can you run seven, You're like, no, no, 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.279 that's crazy. Well that's only two more miles than you 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.360 are going to run, right, So that's the way I 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.720 think about when you're spending money on these gadgets, Like 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.520 if you're going to go the eight hundred dollars for 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.320 a phone, spend the extra nine hundred to get the 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.839 better memory, which is like usually triple the amount. So 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.560 my other advice Christina is to go to Costco and 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.680 usually Costco has two all in one desktops that are 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.640 basically from some company, usually HP or something like that, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.880 that are a fantastic value. They're usually around five hundred dollars, 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.040 but if you bought them anywhere else, they'd be a 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.440 lot more expensive. So that's my advice is to look 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.360 at the iMac or look at Costco, and I think 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.000 you'll find something you like there. So yeah, that's that's 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.280 a very common question. I get Apple TV, by the way, 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.000 this week got a big update, and it's not really 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.040 just Apple TV. It's the Apple TV app. And I 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.840 know it's very confusing because it's okay, let me rephrase that, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.240 it's Apple's TV app. So I don't know why they 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.680 came up with this naming convention, but it's really confusing 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.800 and not very good. But the TV app is the 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.000 app you have on your iPhone that says TV, right, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:27.800 it's like the one have you ever used it? Probably not, 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.840 no one has. So it's also on your iPad, and 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.000 it's also on your Apple TV if you have one, 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.200 So if you have any of those three devices, Basically 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:39.800 what they did this week is they came out with 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.640 a major refresh to this TV app that now brings 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.760 in a whole bunch of content from all the places 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.960 you subscribe to. So it used to do that, but 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.200 now they're doing it in a bigger way because now 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:56.520 you can actually subscribe to things like HBO, Stars, Showtime, Smithsonian, Epics, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.480 Taste Made, and more right through that app. So let's 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.520 say you open up the TV app, you see an 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.640 HBO show you want to watch. You can subscribe to 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.520 it right through Apple, so you don't have to like 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.800 put in your credit card or anything separate. You can 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.520 do it right through Apple, and you can also cancel 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.720 through Apple. Now, the benefit of this is that when 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.440 you go on the TV app, it shows you recommendations 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.320 based on kind of your viewing history and preferences. So theoretically, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.040 what Apple's trying to do here is they're trying to 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.360 build an ecosystem where you only have to go to 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.080 one app to get all your stuff right right now, 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.160 what do you do you bop around between Hulu and 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.679 Netflix and all these different you know, cable company apps, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.160 you know, like a Bravo app or an ESPN app. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.000 Apple's ideas to have everything in one place so that 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.360 you can just literally go on that screen see everything 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.800 that's available to you for the money you're paying. Is 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.480 it working No, because Netflix is not on board, Hulu 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.800 is not on board, and in the future they will 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.120 have CBS All Access and MTV hits. I mean, he 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.360 doesn't want to watch stuff from MTV hits, like, come on, 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.360 what are we in like the nineties here? So that's 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.520 the big update. It is cool. I like what they've 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.439 done because you can start watching a show on your 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.400 TV and finish it on your iPad and it kind 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:04.600 of like synks, which is kind of cool. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:05.120 I like that. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.480 Plus they have offline, so if you have HBO you 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:08.959 want to watch Game of Thrones on the plane, you 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.600 can finally do that if you're a subscriber through Apple. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:12.920 I don't know if I want to watch Game of 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:13.760 Thrones anymore. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.760 No, Oh, you're done. I don't watch it, so I 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.319 don't know, but you're you're over it. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.120 No, it's just got really sad this past week. But 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:21.239 that's another conversation. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.440 Well, I don't know anything about it, but I know people. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.880 It's over anyway, right, isn't there like one EPISO? So 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.120 it doesn't matter. It's a moot point. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:28.560 Yeah. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.440 The other thing that you can do if you have 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.280 a Samsung TV, you now have this app on your 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.880 TV as well. So if you have a twenty eighteen 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.600 or twenty nineteen Samsung TV definitely connected to Wi Fi, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.760 get the latest software update and you now have the 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.480 Apple TV app on your TV, which is kind of 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.160 cool because you can access all your iTunes stuff and 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.600 and also get some of these cool features inside your 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:54.559 Samsung TV. It is coming to Visio LG and uh, 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:59.240 let's see Sony. Never mind, it's only coming. That's confusing, 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:00.840 you know what. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:01.520 Certain TVs. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.680 Yeah, it's really confusing. But the bottom line here is 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.320 that Apple is trying to be everywhere. Remember Apple was 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.199 this company that everything was siloed. They're just starting to 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.400 break out of that. Apple Music works on the iPhone, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.720 it also works on Android. Now they're getting this app 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:20.719 on various platforms. So Apple is expanding their horizons, right, all. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:21.520 Right, it's exciting. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:26.040 You know what that means. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:27.320 You know what that means. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:32.839 Okay, So our next question comes from Scott s and 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.480 it's regarding a cell phone problem. I have a couple 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:41.080 of apps I downloaded last year that have advertisements. I 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.760 put my phone in my shirt pocket to go from 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.280 car to house and then laid it on the desk, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.479 only to find this horrible change in the way everything 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.680 looked on my phone. While paper photos you can't tell 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.679 what the photo is a picture of all abstract. I've 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.680 spent hours trying to get it back to the original setting. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.680 I'm afraid to delete some things, most things can. I 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.720 push the link that says return to original defaults. I 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.520 don't know what I did, but the phone wallpapers it 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.920 offers are horrible. What do I do to take me 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:14.800 back to the original? 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.600 Look? No wallpaper, I think? And his phone? This is important? 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.880 Is an LG stylo? 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:28.640 Three thinks Scott interesting? Okay? So I think what's happening 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.319 here is It sounds like he basically everything got screwed 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.720 up on his home screen, right like on his phone. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.240 So I think, what happens? He has an Android, So 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.840 I think the reality is that the basically the launcher 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.160 got all messed up. And it's funny because when I 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.120 set up my mom's Android phone, one of her big 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:50.040 complaints was that when you would like kind of mishold 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.440 the phone, everything we get screwed up. This does not 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.480 happen on the iPhone, it really doesn't, but it happens 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.280 on androids all the time. So the screen, the ability 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.200 to kind of like move things around another screen to 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.160 get it into that kind of like mode is a 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:05.880 lot easier. If you hold your finger on the screen 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.720 for like two seconds, it just goes into that mode. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.959 And then then of course if your hand is brushing 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.360 up against it, it's like all messed up. So that's 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.280 what happened to him, and I think what he needs 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.520 to do, and this is what I different my mom. 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.480 You download a new launcher, and so there's two that 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.320 support what's called a locked desktop. And so once you 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.640 set up your desktop, you go in, you lock it 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.840 and nothing can move around, you can't move your icons around. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.640 If you need to, you can unlock it, but it's 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.640 a much more manual process to unlock it, so you 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.480 can't accidentally do it. So the two that support it 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.360 are Nova Launcher and Apex Launcher Scott. So those are 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.520 the two that I'd recommend. You will have to pay 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.920 to get these features. It's usually like three four bucks, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.400 big deal. And the cool thing about this too, once 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.280 you set this up, you can save your settings, and 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.600 if you get a new phone, you just reimport your 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.120 settings from Nova or Apex and all your icons and 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.240 everything will be there the way it was. So it's 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.160 kind of like what iPhone has had, but this is 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.240 a feature that's not really built into the eye phone 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.040 in the same way, so you can add that to 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.200 your device. So that's my advice is again, just go 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.200 with Apex or Nova, And those are two great launchers 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.080 in general. So I really like both those launchers, and 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.599 I use now that I'm using the one plus, I 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.480 don't really need a launcher because I really like theirs, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.760 But generally I'm a Nova launcher guy. I think my 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.280 mom was using Apex with hers, but once I locked 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.280 her desktop, she doesn't have to worry about the things 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.800 messing up anymore because they kind of stay in place. 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:27.760 So got it. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.920 Okay, cool. So let me tell you about this thing. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.200 We did a story on this at KTLA. It's called 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.160 eb and this got a lot of reaction because this 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.000 was a device that people were very excited about. It 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.880 clearly fills a void in a lot of people's lives, 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.679 and that is the confusion of our photo collections. We 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.160 have all these photos we're taking We have them on 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.040 old phones, we have them on new phones, and we 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.000 don't know what to do with them, right because you 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.200 put them in iCloud, you're like, well are they really there? Like, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.320 how do I know what's going on with iCloud? You 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.720 put them in Google Photos, what happens Google goes out 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.560 of business, which I don't think they will be, but 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.560 you never know. And so the reality is a good 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.920 backup plan always has your pictures and at least two places. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.080 Number one a physical copy somewhere. Number two a backup 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.400 in a cloud that's off site, right, and number three 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.160 might be the picture that's on your device. But sometimes 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.960 I can get deleted or whatever. So ebe is a 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.200 kind of a hard drive that's connected to Wi Fi 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.640 in your house. So it's this little device. It's kind 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.520 of like a little box with a hard drive inside, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.520 and once you connected your WiFi and set it up 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.960 on your phone, it ingests all the pictures from your phone, 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.440 It takes those in and backs them up to this drive. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.280 But then it goes a step further. It can connect 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.920 to all of your social media services and all of 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.560 your cloud services. So if you have Google Photos or 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.880 one drive or dropbox. It will go in and grab 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.120 all those pictures and save them as well. The one 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.880 thing it does not do it does not DeDuplicate these pictures. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.280 So if you have a bunch of copies and you 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.880 upload a picture to Facebook, it will save both. But 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.240 at the end of the day, it's not so bad, right, 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.600 you'd rather have more than less, right, So to me, 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.920 I personally want to build like the perfect photo collection, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.320 where like there aren't duplicates in a perfect world. Yeah, 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.760 but I also have like seventeen hard drives laying around 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.760 my house with old backups of my photo collection that 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.120 I don't want to throw out in case there's a 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.280 picture on there that I missed, Right, So I think 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.760 it's better to have them all. This stores five hundred 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.120 thousand pictures or two hundred hours of video, or a 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.200 combination of both. But it's just the idea is it's simple, 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.160 it's easy, it's safe, it's in your home. And some 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.520 people said, well wait a second, number one, it's one 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.400 hundred and seventy nine dollars. They're like, that's too expensive. Well, 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.720 you know what you pay for eCloud. You pay Look, 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.680 if you lose one picture of your kid at birth, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.200 Like I went through this scare where I thought I 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.520 lost all the pictures of my kid, Parker at birth 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:50.800 and I was freaking out. And I think that that's worth, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.960 you know, one hundred and seventy nine dollars. Yeah, So anyway, 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.280 you can find the full review at rich on tech 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.880 dot TV. We're gonna try something new. Okay, We're gonna 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.800 try to take a We're gonna try to take a call. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.680 You ready, We're gonna see if this happens works live 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.600 on the podcast five six two. You're on with Rich. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:11.240 You're Rich. 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.640 Hi, You're on with Rich and Meghan. How you doing? 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:14.680 What's who am I talking with? 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:17.640 I'm Linda Ryerson? 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:19.720 Hi, Linda, Hey, Linda? 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.040 Yeah, yeah, how are you? 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.320 We are fantastic. You know why we're fantastic because our 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.040 setup is actually working today. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.720 Yes, I know you got the wires up. I can 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:33.640 get raining there. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:39.760 Uh not in the studio thankfully, but outside outside it 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.720 is uh, it is probably raining, but we're in like 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.400 a vault here. So now, Linda, you referenced the wires. 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.040 So were you watching us struggle with setting up the podcast? 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:48.600 Yes? 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.200 Was it fun? Did you have like your popcorn out? 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.280 But my phone's coming in. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.680 Clear, perfect, We love it all right, So what can 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:57.480 we help you with today? 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.960 Well, I don't know. I'm sometimes my phone, doesn't, you know, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.359 like it breaks up, you know, like when you're talking 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.400 with somebody, you know, it breaks up. And I don't 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.399 know if maybe is it the connection or is it 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:17.200 my phone? What can I graduate from a cheap Android? 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.040 What would I'm an older person and I had a 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.680 flip phone for twenty years and I graduated to, you know, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:30.080 a smartphone or Android, and now I want to upgrade, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.840 but I don't know what would be the best phone 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:33.760 to look at? 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.000 Okay, what do you have right now? And what service 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:36.399 are you on? 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:37.000 Evan? 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:44.439 I'm I'm on the Android and with what carrier? Virgin Mobile? 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.560 Okay, so two things. Number one, Virgin Mobile does limit 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.680 the phones available to you, so you have to basically 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.520 get a phone through them if you want your phone 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.359 to work properly. A lot of the unlocked phones I 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.760 talk about don't necessarily work on Virgin Mobile network, which 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.639 is really Sprint, which is CDMA, so they use a 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.919 very they're they're a little bit different than say an 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.040