WEBVTT - If you use a VPN on iOS, make sure to do this first 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.240 Walmart adds a new perk to its membership program. One 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.720 of the best deals in wireless is gone. If you 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.759 use a VPN on iOS, you probably want to do 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.760 this first. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.599 I'm Rich dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.160 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.440 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:36.360 answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.720 at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope you are 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:44.160 having a fantastic day, week, month, year. Can you believe 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.720 that we are more than six months into the year. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.760 I don't know why I said that. I just looked 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.040 at the data as I said that, I'm. 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.640 Like, wait a second, We're like, we're more like eight 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.120 months into the year, almost nine months into the year. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:00:59.440 But here's the deal I was. 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.360 I keep thinking about the fact that we are in 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.839 this gentle slide into the holidays, and I don't wanna 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.119 I don't want to get you like, you know, freaked 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:07.440 out or. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:08.000 Anything like that. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:12.479 But the reality is, in my world, we just had 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.039 the Samsung release. Now we've got Apple, then we have 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.480 Google and you know, so all these things sort of 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.160 happened throughout the holiday season, and it's it's really like 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.160 a little gentle slide into the holiday shopping season, and 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.120 then you have Thanksgiving and then you have just a 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.240 couple of weeks of shopping until the holidays, and then 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.480 you've got cees. So my entire like rest of the 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.680 year is all sort of figured out. And in my mind, 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.880 I'm like, I'm already there. I'm like, it's twenty twenty three. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.440 So I don't wanna I don't want to alarm you. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.080 You do not have to feel that way. You do 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.240 not have to think that way. I'm just saying for me, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.680 you know, a lot of what I do is planning. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.440 You know, it's planning to have coverage of the various 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.920 gadgets and things that are coming out, and you know, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.320 it's it's a lot in the next. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.960 Couple of months. One of the gadgets I've been playing with. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:03.400 Are the Samsung Galaxy let me get this name right, 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:08.360 Galaxy Buds to Pro. And these are the follow up 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:13.000 to the Galaxy Buds Pro and these are the best 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.120 earbuds that Samsung has ever made. Oh the music was 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.760 still playing, there we go, That's what I wanted to do. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.280 So I don't say that lightly. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.160 Now, I will tell you I've done several workouts with 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:26.240 these EarPods. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.160 Are these earbuds? 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.160 I should say, I'm mixing air pods and earbuds and 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:32.919 my own number one. 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:38.200 The case is awesome. It's this nice rubbery, grippy case. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.120 My only downside of the case is that there is 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.919 no pairing button on it and I really have grown 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.720 to dislike that. And i'll tell you why. There's a 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.440 pair of Samsung earbuds that I disabled the touch controls 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.120 because I didn't want them on the earbuds, and next thing, 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:56.440 you know, I put them in the case and I 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.000 had to pair them with a new phone. And the 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.280 way that you do that is there's like a button 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.040 that you press or I'm sorry, not a button, but 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.760 you press and hold the two earbuds like the touch 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.160 area on them for a couple of seconds to get 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.359 it into pairing mode. Well, guess what, since I had 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.520 disabled the earbuds, you know, touch areas, that didn't work, 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.280 and so it was kind of a pain. I had 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.200 to find a Samsung phone, install the app on it. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.200 Make sure that you know there, it was just a 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.320 whole thing. So anyway, I like the pairing button because 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:24.000 it's just simple. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:24.720 It's easy. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.520 There's no directions necessary. You want to pair these with 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.400 a new device, you just press the button. I'm not 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.200 sure how you pair these the two phones that I've 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.000 paired them with. Both times, i'd kind of opened the 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.560 lid and next thing you know, they showed up in 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.760 the pairing So maybe they automatically pair. I'm not sure. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.880 But the actual case is awesome. You open it up 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.840 and the earbuds themselves same grippiness, so it's like kind 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.080 of the same exact material that the case is in. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.120 But on the earbuds they're nice and grippy, they're the 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.840 perfect size, they fit into your ear really well, and 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.280 for the most part, they do not fall out. Now, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.680 there is a little creepage where you know, I was 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.960 on the treadmill and it you know, you're running really hard, 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:02.680 there might be a little bit of that sensation where 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.120 it's kind of falling out and then you push it 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.360 back into your ear. And what I don't like about 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.480 the touch, and this is why I disabled it on 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.360 the previous pair, is that I don't like the fact 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.160 of feeling like I can't push the earbuds back into 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.800 my ear without pressing the touch area. So just looking 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.360 through some of the materials that Samsung sent by, let's 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.360 see does I have a listening time on these things. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:30.640 So it's fifteen percent smaller than the Buds Pro. It's 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.840 got twenty four bit high fi sound. That's only if 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.160 you're using it with a Samsung device that supports that. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.200 It's got three sixty audio. The noise cancelation on these 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.640 earbuds is absolutely fantastic. I was using them in a 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.039 gym with very loud music and I'm not kidding. You 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.960 put these things in and immediately everything fades away. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:52.960 I'm very, very impressed. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.920 And it doesn't have that feeling where your ears are 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.159 super sealed up, which. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.080 I'm not really a fan of. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.560 So I like the fact that somehow they got the 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:05.960 ambient noise reduction or they sorry the noise cancelation to 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.680 be really good even without feeling. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.480 Like my ears are clogged up with cotton. So that's 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:11.040 really cool. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.400 There's a way that you can find these if they're lost, 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.440 even if they're out of their case. So it's got 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.160 this feature called smart Things Fined, and you can basically 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.599 find these as long as the battery is alive. I'm 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.080 not sure how they're doing that. I don't think the 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.040 little buds have GPS in them, so I guess maybe 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.720 they're pinging other Bluetooth devices, other Samsung devices. They come 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.840 in graphite white and Boora purple. It's interesting that they 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.000 don't say how long the battery is rated for. But honestly, 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.320 I think the batteries on these wireless earbuds have gotten 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.840 so good that I don't put any thought into it. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.719 I mean, I just charge them, you know, once in 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.080 a while, if you think about it, you plug them in. Otherwise, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.120 the buds, you know, they last pretty long. Then the 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.880 case recharges them. But I've got to say, so far, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:01.000 I'm very impressed with these, this Galaxy buds too. Pro So, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.840 if you're in a situation where you are making a 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:09.120 purchasing decision, I think that you will be uh, you'll 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.040 be very very impressed with the quality of these. Now, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.599 the price tag on these two hundred and twenty nine dollars, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.640 which you know, that's expensive, that's that's very expensive. But 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.880 the thing about these is that you basically shouldn't be 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.320 buying them unless they are on some sort of deal 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.600 and so I'm just looking like just when you go 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.919 to the website for Samsung, immediately it's like, are you 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.839 a first responder? Are you a you know, a teacher. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.920 So there's a lot of ways to get deals on 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.440 these things. I'm sure there are special codes out there. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.520 You can also get kind of a credit. I mean, 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.719 let's see recycle. Look at this, save up to seventy 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:52.280 five dollars recycle or trade in an audio device. So 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.360 that's that's pretty interesting. You could save seventy five dollars. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.680 Sort off the bat and is the case why I 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.720 did not test this though? I did not test to. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:05.360 See if the case supports wireless charging. And I'm oh, 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.440 my gosh, I feel like I should know this. It 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.600 says you can get a wireless charger with it, so 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.960 I assume that the case would support wireless charging. So 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.280 should do a little bit more homework on that. But anyway, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.920 Galaxy Buds too pro I give them two thumbs up 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.680 in my book. I'm very very impressed with what Samsung 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.240 did there. All right, let's get to the first question 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:33.080 of the show. Let's see no name on this one, 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.440 but rich I will be traveling to Ireland and the 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.240 UK in about a month. According to my carrier, T Mobile, 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.360 I have unlimited international data, which would include using my 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.920 phone as GPS. I don't plan on making any calls, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.119 so the higher cost per minute does not come into play. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.960 Could you explain the advantage, if any, of getting an 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.080 e SIM for my iPhone. I've never used an international SIM, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.880 so I'm not real clear on how they operate if 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.640 you choose to do so, could you recommend a company? 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.800 Thank you, your segments always contain us full information. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:03.560 Yes, so here's the deal. 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.000 Since I just went to Italy and used my first eSIM, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.200 it was a very very smooth process. And let me 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.560 explain what you get over T Mobile now, I think 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.800 this really comes down to what do you need? 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:17.760 So if T Mobile, if. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.960 Your plan and T Mobile has a bunch, you know, 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.480 depending on the plan you're on, you get something different. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:24.920 So I don't know if you're on an old plan, 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.680 if you're on a new plan, but find out exactly 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.480 what you get with your plan. But I'm gonna give 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.880 you the generics of sort of what's included, what's not included. So, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.600 like you mentioned, let me just give the example of 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:36.600 what they give you right now. 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:37.720 So right now. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.240 If you're on a Magenta Max plan, you get five 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.280 gigs of high speed data in two hundred and fifteen countries. 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.240 If you're on the Magenta plan, you get five gigs 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.319 of high speed in eleven European countries. And the data 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.560 they say is two times faster than before. So I 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.560 don't know what the speed is exactly. Let's see if 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.839 they say it on here see full terms, Uh five 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.480 speed that okay? It so it's high speed data, which 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.920 I assume is just like no limit. But then after 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.079 that it's unlimited up to two hundred and fifty six 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.760 kilobits per second, which is super duper slow. Now it 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.439 is two times faster than before, which was one twenty eight, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.360 which was basically worthless except for like checking your email. 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.000 But two fifty six you might be able to do 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.679 some stuff with that. I personally would never want that 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.559 limitation because I just couldn't imagine being in a different 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.319 country and trying to do anything on two fifty six 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:36.480 K versus you know, anything other than maybe maybe Google maps, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.280 maybe a quick Google search. I'm not even sure those 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.880 would work. I mean, that's really for like push email, 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.160 like that's it. So you know, If you're gonna use 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.320 more than five gigs of high speed data, then I 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:48.520 would consider an e SIM. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.600 If you're not, then just stick to what you got. Now. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.800 The other thing you could do, and you probably should 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.760 do this, is just go ahead and use your five 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.040 gigs of high speed data. See how far that gets you, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.480 and don't limit yourself. Because these e sims are so cheap, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.760 it's not even a big deal to worry about how 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:05.960 much you're going to spend on one. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.160 So use your five gigs of data. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.400 I'm assuming that T Mobile at the end of that 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.400 five gigs is going to text you and say, up, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.800 you are at your five gig limit. Now you have 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.280 unlimited basic data for two fifty six. And at that 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.559 moment I would go on an app called. 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.640 Er low Ai r Alo Ai r Alo. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.800 And I would go ahead and buy a simpack or 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.200 an e SIM for Ireland. And Ireland is going to 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:34.200 cost you. Let's see, five gigs for thirty days is 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.040 thirteen dollars. If you want to go big time, you 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.480 can go ten gigs for thirty days, which is twenty 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.080 two dollars. And you buy that right from your phone, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.680 right from your iPhone, you activate it right from your phone. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.600 You do need a connection to do that, but once 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.959 you do that, it's phenomenal and you're gonna have high 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.160 speed data for that entire ten gigs twenty two dollars for. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:54.880 That for that data. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.280 I think it's well worth it. But again, use what's 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.600 included first. Now you said the other thing is that 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.439 you do not need texting. 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:04.480 You do not need calling. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.800 So texting is included on T mobiles plan, which I 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.040 think is also really cool. But if you want to 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.080 call anyone, that's where you're gonna get hit with a 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.960 twenty five cent per minute charge. And the texting situation 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.080 is a little weird with the eSIM because texting is included, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.920 but only I message right, Like, you're not going to 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.720 get a phone number, so there's gonna be no text messaging, 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.559 you know, historic text messaging. And there's also gonna be 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.520 no phone calls with the SIM. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:31.600 So what I did was. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.120 I just flipped my phone into airplane mode. For those 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.480 two things, I turned off. What I do I turned 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.000 off Oh. I think once you have an eSIM you 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.840 have the ability to turn off your other SIM. So 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.680 I just turned off my other SIM completely, And like 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.360 I said, use the five gigs first, then then go 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.720 into purchasing the eSIM. But fun times ahead. That's exciting 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.400 to be going over to Europe. I mean, I know 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.960 so much on the news is about the luggage and 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.320 all that stuff, but once you're there, it's such a 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.880 fantastic experience. You are going to have such a great time. 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.360 All right, let's talk about what do we want to 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:08.000 talk about? First? 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:12.319 Android thirteen. So Android thirteen was sort of a dropped 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.160 on everyone as a surprise. And I know that iPhone 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.320 commands all of the attention in the world, but there 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.200 are a lot of people that run Android. But here's 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.440 the thing. Android updates are not as big of a 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.520 thing as they are for iOS. And the reason being 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.800 is that iOS launches entirely new features that are core 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.960 to the phone, which Android does too, but not in 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.160 the same way like Android. If you want a new feature, 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.199 you just go on the app Store and you download 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.880 an app that ninety nine percent of the time will 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.200 solve or give you the feature you need. But some 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:46.800 of the features do have to be baked into the 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.719 operating system, and so we get new operating systems, they 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.440 take a lot longer to kind of percolate through the 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.480 lineup of phones, like I have a Pixel six Pro 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.640 sitting here and it still hasn't gotten the Android thirteen update. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.200 And that is one of like that's like a dev phone, 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.600 Like that's a phone that developers would use to sort 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.440 of test their software. Now, if you're doing that, you 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.280 probably download the BEATA. But still my point is the 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.320 way Apple does it is they released the software and 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.360 everyone gets it pretty much at the same time, which 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:15.400 is I guess, good and bad. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:16.840 So let me go over some of the features. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.280 I have not played with Android thirteen just yet, because, 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.400 like I said, I did not get it on my phone, 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.200 and once you get it on the Pixel you can't 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.600 go back to twelve. So I figured, you know what, 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.800 I'm not going to force the issue because maybe they're, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.960 you know, working out some little random bugs and things 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.720 and that's why they're not setting out to that many 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.280 phones right at once. But okay, so a couple things. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.840 Google did a list of what they do thirteen. Let 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.240 me guess, oh, had I guess thirteen things that they 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.800 like about Android thirteen. I'm not going to go over 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:44.960 all of them, but I think some of them are 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.199 pretty cool. So number one you can assign a specific 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:49.960 language to an individual app. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.000 That is really really cool. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.959 And this what I love about Google's mission and Android 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.600 is that they sort of like to bring the entire 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.800 world together. So if you want one of your apps 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.679 to be in you know, I don't know if it's 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.520 a supported language, but Chinese, and you want another app 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.520 to be in English, you can say, Hey, every time 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.400 I open up we Chat, I want the whole app 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.240 to be in Chinese. And every time I open up 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.400 you know, Facebook Messenger, I want the entire app to 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.839 be in Italian. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.280 Or Facebook whatever. That's a really cool feature. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.200 There's a media player that's updated. It looks and feels 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.000 based on the music or podcast you're listening to. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:28.040 Let's see. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.880 Android thirteen allows you to customize your bedtime mode with 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:35.440 wallpaper dimming and dark theme that sort of happened with iOS. 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.520 These screen options help you help your eyes adjust to 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:39.960 the dark when you're about to go to bed and 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.560 go back to sleep. If you wake up and check 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:42.840 your phone in the middle of the night. That is 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.880 very true because I often do that with my iPhone 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.160 and Android thirteen, you can select only the specific photos 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.120 and videos that apps get access to. Again another I'm 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.360 not going to compare everything to iOS, but yeah, these are. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:54.320 It's kind of like. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.520 iOS and Android are getting aligned in a lot. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.120 Of different ways with some of these features. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.360 But you can say, like if you down load a 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.120 app that you're kind of thinking is a little sketchy, 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.440 like one of those like profile maker apps or something, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.360 and you say, I just want to give it access 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:07.800 to one of my pictures because I'm not sure what 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.600 servers these pictures are going to. You can now do that. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.160 This is interesting. The clipboard. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.640 If you copy sensitive data to it, like an email. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.120 Address, a phone number, or log in credentials, Android automatically 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.360 clears it after a certain period of time, So that's 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.120 pretty smart. The apps you download now have to get 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.000 your permission to send notifications, rather than being allowed to 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.320 send notifications by default. That's a huge change, something that 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:36.120 Apple had years and years ago. Spatial audio is now supported. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.080 You can stream your messaging apps directly to a Chromebooks. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.480 You can send and receive messages from your laptop. I'm 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.400 not sure how useful that is. I'm also just not 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.120 really understanding why Google is so hesitant to come out 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.360 with an easier way to use messages on a like 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.880 a you know, a Mac computer. I guess you have, 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.880 you know, the web app, but why can't they just 0:15:58.880 --> 0:15:59.160 come out? 0:15:59.200 --> 0:15:59.560 I don't know. 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.680 It's fine. I guess I just want like a real app. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.520 But I guess the web apps are fine, you know what. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.000 I use web apps for Google Photos. I use a 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.880 web app for Outlook, and they're just fine. I mean 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.480 they're they're really you can't really tell them apart from 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.160 the actual app. Most of the time, you can copy 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.440 content like a URL, picture, text, or video from your 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.240 Android phone and paste it on your tablet. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.200 So kind of this. There's this little app called is 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:26.040 it called clipped. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.640 It's made by OnePlus actually, and it's a great little 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.760 app Clipped c l i PT is it still around, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.600 And it's a great little app that lets you copy 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.960 and paste from Android to any computer, whether it's an 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.960 iOS or sorry, whether it's Android or a Mac or 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.560 Android or Windows. So that's c l I p T. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.840 It's a really cool little app and it uses your 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.600 own Google Drive, so I feel like it's pretty safe. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.720 Let's see what else do we have that's it? Okay, 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.920 So that's the only thing I thought was pretty interesting. Again, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.680 I haven't played with it. I feel like this is 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.240 one of those incremental updates, but I will. I will 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.960 check it out in more detail. Android thirteen is rolling 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.160 out to rolling out the worst Words to a Nerd, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.240 rolling out to Pixels today, and then later this year, 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:17.639 Android thirteen will roll out to Samsung, Galaxy Asus, Nokia, 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:23.240 Motorola one Plus, Oppo, real Me, Sharp, Sony, Shoomi, and more. 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.640 The sad part is in the US, the only Android 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:31.560 phones that matter are Samsung and Pixel in one plus. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:32.280 That's it. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.320 And Motorola is like, I don't even know if that's 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.520 a blip on the radar, but that's it. I mean, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.600 all these brands that you that people like look to 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.960 in other countries. It's just Android is huge in other places. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.760 I've talked about this. In the US, it just it's 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.600 it's just not as popular as I as Apple. Although 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.680 I will say when you leave the Los Angeles area, 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:56.000 I immediately see an uptick in a lot of the 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.880 non Apple phones like the Android devices. So that's kind 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:08.640 of interesting. Let's get to the next question, Paul says, Rich, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.480 do you remember monocle on yelp? 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:12.840 We need something like that again. 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.399 Thank you, Paul, Paul, of course, I remember the monocle 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.040 mode on Yelp. This was one of those features that 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:23.320 was way before its time, way before kind of like 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.000 the whole augmented reality thing took off. And what monocle 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.840 was is you would open up Yelp, you'd go into 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.239 the settings and there was a feature called Monocle and 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.760 you would tap it and then hold your phone up 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.639 and you can look through your phone's camera at the 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.240 viewfinder and see like the real world, like a street 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.040 in front of you, and the Yelp reviews would be 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.280 overlaid on the businesses down the street, so you can say, OK, 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.359 is there a good coffee place around here? Let me 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.960 look up coffee, and then overlay and oh, it's that way. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.720 It's funny because I just thought about this the other day. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:55.320 Where was I. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.359 I was in Sacramento, and I was like, I didn't 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.480