Speaker 1: Samsung launches new products, including two new foldable phones. Two
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Speaker 1: appear on your bill? The app that lets you pay
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Speaker 1: is seriously cool. Plus your tech questions answered? What is
Speaker 1: going on? I'm Rich jamiro and this is rich on Tech.
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Speaker 1: can send it to hello at Richontech dot TV. Well,
Speaker 1: if you follow me on social media, you know that
Speaker 1: I am fresh off the plane from Korea. Spent the
Speaker 1: week there in Seoul, South Korea at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked.
Speaker 1: This is where they launched two new foldable smartphones, new
Speaker 1: smart watches, and new do they call them smart tablets?
Speaker 1: Well they're smart so new tablets as well. What a trip?
Speaker 1: International travel is always so much work, but I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever gone on a trip where I don't
Speaker 1: learn something new. It's also such a great way to
Speaker 1: just expose yourself to an entirely different world. We get
Speaker 1: so caught up in the things that happen here in
Speaker 1: America that it is. It gives you so much perspective
Speaker 1: to be in another place. And I will tell you
Speaker 1: one thing I learned is that I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever felt more privileged to be able to talk to you,
Speaker 1: because there are so many things that you can do
Speaker 1: in this world, and to be able to sit here
Speaker 1: and talk technology and to be able to experience this
Speaker 1: stuff and report back to you is really an honor
Speaker 1: that I take very seriously. And I've never been more
Speaker 1: excited because just talking to my tech friends on this trip,
Speaker 1: it's so interesting the stuff that we do, and we're
Speaker 1: all pretty much the same, by the way. I will
Speaker 1: tell you that just talking to other friends that cover
Speaker 1: this stuff, we are all similar. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, we've got some great guests.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Drew blackerd He is the
Speaker 1: vice president of Mobile Product Management at Samsung Electronics America.
Speaker 1: Drew is the guy that's typically on stage announcing these products,
Speaker 1: and so it's quite an honor to be able to
Speaker 1: speak to him. Jimi Rivera of Pocket now HEIMI reviews
Speaker 1: just about every gadget. He does daily tech updates on YouTube,
Speaker 1: and I had the honor of sitting next to him
Speaker 1: on the plane. We didn't plan that, but we said,
Speaker 1: you know what, if we're sitting next to each other,
Speaker 1: we're doing an interview. So you're gonna hear the first
Speaker 1: interview on this radio show from thirty five thousand feet
Speaker 1: up in the air, and Bobo's probably wondering, I wonder
Speaker 1: how that's going to sound. It sounds pretty good. You
Speaker 1: might hear some food being served in that. You know
Speaker 1: that that airline button in the sound that ding in
Speaker 1: the background. And then later in the show, I'm going
Speaker 1: to take you to the Apple Store. Can't all be Samsung.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you to the Apple Store in downtown
Speaker 1: Los Angeles for the Code with Clossy demo day. Met
Speaker 1: up with some amazing students there learning to code and
Speaker 1: they were showing off their apps. And that's a great
Speaker 1: program if you have a teenager in your life. You
Speaker 1: definitely want to learn about that. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: a bit about Soul. So Soul interesting city, old meats new.
Speaker 1: I could not believe how large and sprawling this city was.
Speaker 1: I mean Los Angeles. We've got some pockets of skyscrapers,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe downtown, Century City, a couple other places.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. We went up to this tower. You
Speaker 1: look out three hundred and sixty degrees around you. There
Speaker 1: are just skyscrapers and housing everywhere. It was truly incredible.
Speaker 1: This is a city that is forward thinking when it
Speaker 1: comes to technology, but also rooted in a lot of history.
Speaker 1: And one thing that was interesting there, you know, North
Speaker 1: Korea is very close. I did not go to North Korea.
Speaker 1: I did not try to sneak in, but they do
Speaker 1: these things called DMZ tours, and here in La we
Speaker 1: have TMZ Tours, DMZ Meet TMZ. We stayed in downtown Seoul.
Speaker 1: Samsung very much a big part of that city. So
Speaker 1: Samsung is everything. Samsung, LG, Kia, Hyundai. These are businesses
Speaker 1: that are based in Korea and it is part of
Speaker 1: the daily life there. I mean, LG runs a cell
Speaker 1: phone network. Samsung has apartment buildings, with their name on it. Kia, Hyundai,
Speaker 1: Genesis cars everywhere everywhere and they look really cool. By
Speaker 1: the way, what I see the Genesis It was like
Speaker 1: an EV that was really really cool looking. I think
Speaker 1: it had eighty in the name, but it was really nice.
Speaker 1: I got to look into that one. What else do
Speaker 1: we do? We went to Samsung's headquarters, so they call
Speaker 1: it Digital City. It's so big, there's so many buildings.
Speaker 1: They have a museum on site, so we looked in
Speaker 1: the museum. We got to see the history of Samsung,
Speaker 1: which started out as I believe, a textile company in
Speaker 1: like nineteen thirty nine or something like that, and they
Speaker 1: started doing electronics in the sixties and of course TVs,
Speaker 1: video cameras, computers, air conditioners, I mean, they make it
Speaker 1: all there, so we got to see all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Where we stayed, there was a giant mall underground. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm talking the largest mall in Asia is underground and
Speaker 1: it was incredible. And inside this mall, in the center,
Speaker 1: the centerpiece of it all, which is so ironic, is
Speaker 1: a giant bookstore. And the bookstore is something out of
Speaker 1: Harry Potter. There's just books lined up to the ceiling,
Speaker 1: but it's like, you know, I don't know how many stories,
Speaker 1: three stories, four stories, and there's a giant tree in
Speaker 1: the middle with books on it. So you got to
Speaker 1: check out my Instagram at rich On Tech. I'm going
Speaker 1: to put a highlight of my trip so you can
Speaker 1: see everything that I posted there, because, as a producer,
Speaker 1: Bobo said, it was a lot. It was a lot
Speaker 1: to keep up with. But you know what, it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where I want to remember what I
Speaker 1: did and I want to bring that to.
Speaker 2: You as well.
Speaker 1: This was the first trip that I did not take
Speaker 1: any cash out of an ATM or exchange money. I
Speaker 1: typically bring some sort of money with me in the
Speaker 1: foreign currency just in case I need it, because I
Speaker 1: was stuck in Tokyo one time, and sometimes you need
Speaker 1: to get a train ticket and you may not be
Speaker 1: able to use a debi or credit card. And this
Speaker 1: happened to me once and I was not able to
Speaker 1: take cash out of the ATM in Japan because my
Speaker 1: debit card was not working there and I was stuck.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to say I had to jump
Speaker 1: a turnstyle, but I may be wanted in Tokyo. Let's
Speaker 1: just put it that way, but I had to do
Speaker 1: what I had to do, and I ran right to
Speaker 1: the ATM and got money out because not every ATM
Speaker 1: worked back then with my card. So this was the
Speaker 1: first trip because at Lax, when I left, both ATMs
Speaker 1: and the terminal were not dispensing cash, so I couldn't
Speaker 1: get cash, and it just wasn't a thing. I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to go to the money exchange. I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to take my chances and I
Speaker 1: was able to use my credit I did use a
Speaker 1: credit card there because they didn't charge me a what's
Speaker 1: like a little exchange fee. My debit card charges an
Speaker 1: exchange fee, so I didn't want to pay an extra
Speaker 1: one percent, so I use my credit card. I also
Speaker 1: used tap to pay, which was pretty much everywhere, so
Speaker 1: set up tap to pay on your phone. It's safe,
Speaker 1: it's secure, it's convenient. I don't know if I recommend
Speaker 1: not having any cash. I had some American money on me,
Speaker 1: but it's one of those things where you just never know.
Speaker 1: Now the train, I took a bus to the hotel
Speaker 1: and they did take a credit card, so that that
Speaker 1: worked out. Ah what else, Oh little travel tip on
Speaker 1: your bag, your luggage, your backpack. Put something unique on there.
Speaker 1: So on your travel bag, like my backpack is black.
Speaker 1: Every single backpack in the world is black. So how
Speaker 1: do you know it's mine. Well, I put a little
Speaker 1: pin on there so I can identify that it's mine.
Speaker 1: But also it's not just me that needs to identify it.
Speaker 1: It's you. If you're picking up a bag on a
Speaker 1: baggage carousel, or if there's a whole bunch of backpacks
Speaker 1: by the hotel, you know you left it with the bellman,
Speaker 1: the bell person. You know, you want to be able
Speaker 1: to identify your bag quickly, So put something that is
Speaker 1: unique on there. Put something that's identifiable quickly. And on
Speaker 1: your luggage. Same thing. I've got like a strap, like
Speaker 1: a colorful strap for my luggage, so that I can
Speaker 1: tell that it's my luggage. But more importantly, other people
Speaker 1: can tell it's not their luggage. And believe me, I
Speaker 1: had a friend when we went to another country. He
Speaker 1: picked up someone's bag and he thought it was his,
Speaker 1: and we got to the hotel and he didn't realize
Speaker 1: until then, and it was you know, it took a
Speaker 1: while for him to get his own luggage. It was
Speaker 1: kind of a pain. And I watched at lax as
Speaker 1: people were picking up their luggage. So this girl, she
Speaker 1: was next to me, she goes, oh, I think that's mine.
Speaker 1: And then some guy picked up her luggage and then
Speaker 1: he looked at it, checked the tags and said, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not mine, put it back. Ah what else? Oh?
Speaker 1: This was cool. When I was in Soul, I got
Speaker 1: to see one of those three D billboards in person.
Speaker 1: If you're ever flipping through like YouTube shorts, they always
Speaker 1: have these videos of these three D billboards that looked
Speaker 1: too good to be true. And sure enough there was
Speaker 1: one on the street corner and I saw it. I
Speaker 1: must have stood there for twenty five minutes watching all
Speaker 1: the ads. And the three D ads are not every
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, they only come up every five ten minutes
Speaker 1: or so. But it was really really cool. Oh let's see,
Speaker 1: I did have some traditional food. I am embarrassed to
Speaker 1: say that I did eat at Shakeshack the first night
Speaker 1: I was there. And I know, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm in Korea and where do I eat shake Shack? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bobo did McDonald's. I almost did KFC. And I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: When I talked to everyone the next day. I didn't
Speaker 1: feel so bad because guess word, ninety percent of people
Speaker 1: ate the first night KFC. Now, I know that Korea
Speaker 1: is known for fried chicken, and obviously it's not KFC
Speaker 1: is here, but the dipping sauces are different, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure some stuff is different. Now I will say my
Speaker 1: burger at Shakeshack was identical to the States. So I
Speaker 1: did not get any culture, except for the fact that
Speaker 1: they had a little hand washed machine at the Shakeshack,
Speaker 1: which I thought was pretty cool. Every country is very clean.
Speaker 1: They love cleanliness. You know, they have these little napkins
Speaker 1: that are like wet naps. They have very very clean
Speaker 1: A lot of people wore masks in different countries before covid'
Speaker 1: and that's still a part of the culture in many
Speaker 1: many countries. Oh one more story, my passport got locked
Speaker 1: up on the way back in I'm not kidding. So
Speaker 1: Samsung gave us samples of some of the devices that
Speaker 1: they announced, and so you had to decline them at
Speaker 1: customs to make sure that they knew that these were
Speaker 1: samples and you weren't going to sell them and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, and so, of course, being the honest person
Speaker 1: I am, I said, yes, I have samples of a
Speaker 1: couple cell phones and you know, a tablet. And as
Speaker 1: the woman is like looking at me and like in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, She's like nodding and smiling. She's literally taking
Speaker 1: my passport and locking it up in this lock box.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, what just happened here? She goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: take this to the you got to you gotta clear
Speaker 1: customs at the exit. They got to inspect your bags
Speaker 1: before you can leave. So I was a I was
Speaker 1: a prisoner in my own country for fifteen minutes yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it felt really odd to know that
Speaker 1: I was no longer a free citizen in my own country.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it was an experience that I've never
Speaker 1: felt before. It was a feeling that I've never had before.
Speaker 1: I knew that here I was in America, but yet
Speaker 1: not able to travel freely and not leave the airport
Speaker 1: without fai figuring out this custom stuff. And it was
Speaker 1: easy to figure out. It was funny. The guy who
Speaker 1: was actually in charge of clearing me. He he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're on TV. Oh you review electronics.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 1: Where can I watch you? And he's like, go ahead, anyway,
Speaker 1: and it was all on the up and up. It
Speaker 1: was fine. All right. Coming up, I'm gonna talk more
Speaker 1: about what Samsung announced, new foldables, new tablets, new watches.
Speaker 1: Plus I got to tell you about this sneaky new
Speaker 1: fee that Verizon and AT and T are putting on
Speaker 1: bills if you have an older plan. We've got some
Speaker 1: great guests. But first it is your turn. We've got
Speaker 1: your calls coming up next at triple eight rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. Then give me a call
Speaker 1: if you have a question about technology. My name is
Speaker 1: rich Damiro and you are listening to Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you. I was told this is Black Pink.
Speaker 1: Is that a Korean pop band? Yeah, there you go. Okay,
Speaker 1: they had they had sugar. Okay, I've heard this. They
Speaker 1: had sugar of sugar. They had sugar of BTS. No,
Speaker 1: it's sugar bts at the Samsung event. And the best
Speaker 1: part was, you know, he got paid to be there,
Speaker 1: of course, because he's like, you know, Samsung whatever, like influencer.
Speaker 1: But I'm not kidding. All he had to do was
Speaker 1: just smile for the camera and give a thumbs up.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how much money he made doing that,
Speaker 1: but man, it must be nice. And then they also
Speaker 1: had Sydney Sweeney there. She is best well for me,
Speaker 1: I best know her from White Lotus. She's also on
Speaker 1: some other shows Euphoria. People were telling me, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen that on HBO. All right, let's go to let's
Speaker 1: kick off the show with Sean in Saint Charles, Illinois. Sean,
Speaker 1: you're on with rich Hi. I'm doing great.
Speaker 3: How are you taking my call? Yeah? Outside of my
Speaker 3: my elderly eight and my stage four of loung disease,
Speaker 3: I got times with my computer here that I got
Speaker 3: old twenty thirteen Toshiba. I never upgraded from seven and
Speaker 3: it's too light. Now, I know we're far ahead of
Speaker 3: that scenario now. Uh it still operates, but I have
Speaker 3: conflicting uh anti virus burners on the or maybe, hey.
Speaker 1: Sean, can can you move a little bit? You're you're
Speaker 1: breaking up, Maybe move to a different area because I'm
Speaker 1: getting a lot of broken Uh yeah, Okay, So you've
Speaker 1: got two different anti viruses on there, and what are
Speaker 1: they telling you?
Speaker 3: They keep coming up and telling me that, you know,
Speaker 3: I need to need to upgrade up because everybody's tracking
Speaker 3: me and I'm not protected for any viruses and so on.
Speaker 1: Install, uninstall them, get rid of them. What are the programs.
Speaker 3: AVG and the the asked, Okay, well.
Speaker 1: You don't need to number one, so get rid of both.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I tried. I tried to get
Speaker 3: them to go away, but they keep going back up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well that that goes to show you that you
Speaker 1: know half of these programs and those are two good ones.
Speaker 1: Actually I'm not you know, I don't want to knock them.
Speaker 1: They're good programs, but I would I would uninstall them
Speaker 1: and then pick one the best place to find. Are
Speaker 1: you going to get a new computer? You're going to
Speaker 1: stick with this?
Speaker 3: I'm not, like I said, I'm way behind the technology
Speaker 3: and now it's falling past me. So yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: know I'm going to catch up.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well here's the deal. I mean, look, the main
Speaker 1: thing with this, your system is going to continue working.
Speaker 1: The main thing is you need to be very aware
Speaker 1: of what you're clicking on, the links that you're clicking,
Speaker 1: the things that you're doing, because you're really not going
Speaker 1: to be protected because this is an older system, it's
Speaker 1: really not getting updates anymore. If you go to a
Speaker 1: v dash test dot org, that will give you a
Speaker 1: list of the best Windows antivirus software on lab is
Speaker 1: their top pick, and then a VAST and AVG are
Speaker 1: up there as well. But you have to get the
Speaker 1: free versions of these things. They will try to push
Speaker 1: you to get a paid version. But what I would
Speaker 1: do is uninstall both of these programs. In fact, uninstall
Speaker 1: everything on your computer that you don't need anymore. Because
Speaker 1: this is an older computer, it's probably running pretty slow,
Speaker 1: So uninstall those things and then install just one pick
Speaker 1: one maybe a VAST, put it on there, make sure
Speaker 1: it's the free version, and run that. Hopefully it'll protect you.
Speaker 1: But I would plan for a new computer. Next week.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking to an expert who's going
Speaker 1: to give us the top computer picks both Windows and
Speaker 1: chromebooks for under five hundred bucks and under one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So Sean, I would tune in next week see which
Speaker 1: computers are recommended, and perhaps plan to get one of those.
Speaker 1: But you don't need to replace this immediately, but probably
Speaker 1: a good idea to start thinking about a new computer here,
Speaker 1: but just be aware of what you're clicking, because the
Speaker 1: social engineering links are really what you're most worried about.
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up, we've got Drew Blackird of Samsung.
Speaker 1: Drew is gonna talk to us about the Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: Z Flip five and the Samsung Galaxy Z fold five,
Speaker 1: two new foldable phones from Samsung. Coming up next. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. I'm on location in Seoul,
Speaker 1: South Korea, where Samsung is headquartered. This is where the
Speaker 1: company held its Unpacked event to show off their latest
Speaker 1: foldable smartphones. Samsung brought me here to be a part
Speaker 1: of it all, and during my stay I talked with
Speaker 1: Drew Blackird, who's often on stage at these events. Drew
Speaker 1: is vice president of Product management for Samsung Electronics America.
Speaker 1: All right, so first off, tell me Samsung doing this
Speaker 1: event here in Korea?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, the most obvious answers, We're headquartered here.
Speaker 4: But that's the simple answer. I think a lot of
Speaker 4: the Korean culture and Samsung are really intertwined.
Speaker 1: It's the biggest employers in the country.
Speaker 4: The research and development coming out of Korea is just
Speaker 4: substantial and it's kind of crazy that we haven't done
Speaker 4: one here yet, So I think I'm really excited. I've
Speaker 4: been a Samsung for close to fourteen years. I've probably
Speaker 4: been to Korea forty forty five times, and really the
Speaker 4: culture here is one I think of love for technology,
Speaker 4: there's a love for fashion and new things, and I
Speaker 4: think a lot of that comes together with our foldables.
Speaker 4: So it's really unique time to be able to announceside
Speaker 4: in Korea.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about these faultibles. It's been four years now,
Speaker 1: almost five years with these fuldable phones. What is the
Speaker 1: sort of trend you're seeing with fuldibles?
Speaker 4: Well, this is our fifth generation and we're seeing every
Speaker 4: year more and more consumers are adopting foldibles for the
Speaker 4: first time, and when they do adopt them, that they
Speaker 4: love them and they're staying loyal to the brand, to
Speaker 4: the form factor. So we focus on this year is
Speaker 4: trying to bring even more people into fold rules and
Speaker 4: experiencing for the first time. So a lot of that
Speaker 4: starts with innovating the design, the form factor itself, trying
Speaker 4: to make it slimmer and kind of so that it
Speaker 4: fits in the hand or the pocket of the purse easier.
Speaker 4: So both devices, the Flip and the fold are about
Speaker 4: two millimeters slimmer. Fold is actually ten grams lighter as well.
Speaker 4: So the part of it is just kind of keeping
Speaker 4: the form factor tight and making mainstream and then on
Speaker 4: top of that innovating these fold foldable use cases where
Speaker 4: they are unique things that you can really only do
Speaker 4: with these products. So with Fold, it's opening up, you know,
Speaker 4: a standard sized smartphone to a seven point six inch display.
Speaker 4: Incredible for productivity and entertainment, gaming, multimedia, and for Flip,
Speaker 4: it's it's a product that really you can get more
Speaker 4: smartphone when you want more. It opens up to a
Speaker 4: seven point six inch display, which is the same as
Speaker 4: our S Plus model, and it's.
Speaker 5: Less phone when you want less.
Speaker 4: So that's you know again when you want it in
Speaker 4: an easily pocketable, you know device. But also you have
Speaker 4: this new experience with our Flex window where you can
Speaker 4: actually interact with notifications, respond to messages, valuate opening up.
Speaker 1: This seems like a pretty good design this year. It's incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think one of the things we're most proud
Speaker 4: of is the new Hinge design. We call it our
Speaker 4: zero gap Pinch, but that basically means that it's fully
Speaker 4: flush on the X tier, so there's no gap where
Speaker 4: you know, different things in your pocket might come in
Speaker 4: between you know, the screen or things like that. From
Speaker 4: a form factor perspective, again, it makes it slimmer, so
Speaker 4: it's easier to hold in hand. And on top of that,
Speaker 4: you know, the innovation over time has really evolved, so
Speaker 4: I think, you know, some of the early criticisms around
Speaker 4: foldables had to do with the camera experiences. Now these
Speaker 4: are now no compromised flagship camera experiences.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, the xterior.
Speaker 4: Display on flip has evolved. Their original one if you remember,
Speaker 4: it was just like a window where you can see
Speaker 4: the time basically, and it's now a fully interactive display.
Speaker 4: It's about three times larger than last years. And with that,
Speaker 4: we have a full interface on the flex window that's
Speaker 4: similar to our Galaxy Watch, where you can kind of
Speaker 4: pull down quick settings from the top. You can have
Speaker 4: widget experiences, whether it be like music player or calendar
Speaker 4: or weather to one side, and then on the other
Speaker 4: side of notifications that as I said, you can like
Speaker 4: quickly respond to text messages and engage with friends. And
Speaker 4: then the last one, which is cools from the bottom,
Speaker 4: swipe up and you get Samsung Wallet, so you can
Speaker 4: make mobile payments without even.
Speaker 1: Having you to open the phone. So I'm curious with
Speaker 1: the new hinge does it affect durability anyway? Does it?
Speaker 1: Is it are you taking a step back with durability
Speaker 1: because this is a newer device hinge or is it
Speaker 1: kind of the same design but just tweaked.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a big step forward in terms
Speaker 4: of durability, So I think that's one of the approaches
Speaker 4: behind it. So I think the zero gap hinge will
Speaker 4: do a few things first as it will narrow down
Speaker 4: so there's no gap where nothing from you know, the
Speaker 4: outside can can enter into, you know, the foldable part
Speaker 4: of the phone. The second thing it will do is
Speaker 4: is kind of restructure the internal so within the flexible display,
Speaker 4: there's now kind of a padding layer under that display
Speaker 4: that is for shock absorption. The hinge is called dual
Speaker 4: rail system on the hinge which has multiple touch points
Speaker 4: on the display which reinforces the durability and multiple points
Speaker 4: compared to what it did in the past, and it's
Speaker 4: all fewer parts, so it's actually doing this all with
Speaker 4: fewer moving parts, which makes it more durable. So all
Speaker 4: those things together make the hinge more durable, and the
Speaker 4: devices themselves are more durable as well. So we now
Speaker 4: have griller glass Victis too, which is an upgrade from
Speaker 4: last year's model on the kind of X tier displays.
Speaker 4: It has armor aluminum, it's ip X eight water resistance,
Speaker 4: so a lot of different progress on the durability front. Also,
Speaker 4: we're launching what we call our ze Assurance program to
Speaker 4: help you and put further piece of mind around the
Speaker 4: durability of foldable products. So specifically, they all come with
Speaker 4: an inbox screen protector applied, but you'll get a one
Speaker 4: time free placement if you ever want to get the
Speaker 4: screen protect or replace, Samsung will do that for you.
Speaker 4: And then from a repairs perspective, foldables are still a
Speaker 4: new technology, but we'll also have a one time discounted
Speaker 4: screen repair also if you needed to do anything like that.
Speaker 4: And I would say the only other thing I add
Speaker 4: on there is we have a care plus insurance product
Speaker 4: that's really incredible.
Speaker 1: I noticed the base storage is now doubled on the
Speaker 1: flip so you keep you kind of keep doing that
Speaker 1: almost every year now, So what's what's the deal with
Speaker 1: the storage.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean we see as users behavior evolves, their
Speaker 4: storage needs evolved, So you know, more and more users
Speaker 4: are capturing a lot of video content. Video takes a
Speaker 4: lot more storage than photos do, for example. And on
Speaker 4: top of that, with Samson cameras, they're all EK capable,
Speaker 4: so it's not just HD video, it's four K video,
Speaker 4: it's AK video. These are all large file sizes. So
Speaker 4: we want to make sure that a consumer's experience with
Speaker 4: these products is kind of uncompromised. So if they're going
Speaker 4: to use these high end features, they don't have to
Speaker 4: worry about if they're going to run out of storage.
Speaker 4: And during our pre order even we're doing a large
Speaker 4: storage upgrade on us, so you can pay the price
Speaker 4: of the two fifty six gig and you'll get the
Speaker 4: five to twelve gig a version of it.
Speaker 1: What about sustainability efforts. I always hear during the presentations
Speaker 1: a lot about sustainability. We saw yesterday some of the
Speaker 1: displays about you know, the different recycled materials tell me
Speaker 1: about Samsung's commitment to that.
Speaker 4: Sustainability is a huge part of our corporate mission. And
Speaker 4: so I think there's three key areas with the foldables
Speaker 4: that we've really focused on. The first is just using
Speaker 4: more recycled components. I think last year had about six
Speaker 4: parts that we're using recycled material. I think we're closer
Speaker 4: to fifteen different components of the device using that this year.
Speaker 4: And the second is fully recycled packaging and fully recyclable packaging,
Speaker 4: so it's also you know, kind of.
Speaker 5: Less waste that we go into packaging.
Speaker 4: And then the last area is more from just an
Speaker 4: overall length of ownership perspective that we want to make.
Speaker 4: These are products that can you know, stay in the
Speaker 4: market for a long period of time. So in addition
Speaker 4: to the durability innovations that we've made from a software perspective,
Speaker 4: we are remaining committed to the life cycle THEGE products.
Speaker 4: We have five years of guaranteed security updates as released
Speaker 4: the software, and then four generations of Android OS updates.
Speaker 1: So what is your data telling you about the adoption
Speaker 1: of foldables? Because you continue to push this area, some
Speaker 1: other you know, device makers do as well, and some
Speaker 1: are holding out. So what do you see with your
Speaker 1: data about people actually wanting a foldable?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think last year our president team roannounced
Speaker 4: that we crossed over ten million foldables sold globally, so
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's a big market and getting bigger,
Speaker 4: and we've you know, since obviously passed that number pretty well.
Speaker 4: On top of that, what we see is that people
Speaker 4: within the Samsung family at least are you know, shifting
Speaker 4: over at a nice rate. Users are very interested in
Speaker 4: trying out fold our S series owners are trying out
Speaker 4: flip for the first time, and we find high loyalty
Speaker 4: as well. So when soone tries a foldable, they understand
Speaker 4: the value of those only unfoldable use cases and then they.
Speaker 5: Want the next one.
Speaker 4: Another interesting part is we're seeing people shift to Samsung
Speaker 4: at a higher rate on foldable. So we'll look at
Speaker 4: ownership of different devices and how they're coming to Samsung
Speaker 4: and we see the highest rates or people wanting to
Speaker 4: try foldables. What's exciting about all this technology for you personally?
Speaker 4: The thing this most exciting, I guess is, you know,
Speaker 4: fifth generation foldable technology. In one sense that feels like
Speaker 4: very refine. We're kind of getting to this point where
Speaker 4: we have this this new category that we're growing, but
Speaker 4: in the grand scheme of things, is really just the
Speaker 4: beginning for foldable technology. The way I like to think
Speaker 4: about it is I've four and a half year old
Speaker 4: twins at home, and I know when they're hitting got
Speaker 4: a high school range and college range or even my age.
Speaker 4: Someday they're not going to be using a standard far type.
Speaker 4: You know, it's going to be come out of the
Speaker 4: evolution of form factors that we're starting to see today.
Speaker 4: So to me, this is just the starting point for
Speaker 4: a lot of new innovation that's gonna start with in
Speaker 4: the sportphone space, but even kind of move into other
Speaker 4: categories as well.
Speaker 1: Drew, thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me once again. That was Drew blackerd vice president
Speaker 1: of Product Management for Samsung Electronics America. Much more of
Speaker 1: the show come in your way, plus your calls at
Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. You are
Speaker 1: listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology. Well,
Speaker 1: the other big news of the week Twitter now called X.
Speaker 1: If you have the app on your phone, maybe you
Speaker 1: noticed now the icon changed on my Android. It did
Speaker 1: not change on my iPhone. It says X, but it's
Speaker 1: still the Twitter Twitter bird and people are going at this,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I mean, give me a break. Who cares? Like,
Speaker 1: are you really that invested in the Twitter name where
Speaker 1: you have to sit there and tweet about this? Like,
Speaker 1: I get it, it's a big change, But who cares?
Speaker 1: It's X done? End of story. Does it matter in
Speaker 1: your life whether it's X or Twitter?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: The Twitter bird? Oh what do we call them now?
Speaker 1: Oh h everyone's crying about this change. The only place
Speaker 1: that people are crying is on Twitter. Nobody else cares
Speaker 1: in the world. It does not matter. You don't own
Speaker 1: stock in Twitter, you're not friends with Elon Musk. You
Speaker 1: you don't have a reason to, you know, to mourn
Speaker 1: the loss of Twitter. It was a brand. It's a
Speaker 1: brand name. Brands come and go. It means nothing. So
Speaker 1: either you're on or you're off. I have not changed
Speaker 1: the way I use Twitter since this whole thing started
Speaker 1: with Elon Musk. Think as you might about Elon, whether
Speaker 1: you love them or hate them, it does not matter.
Speaker 1: It's a product. You use it or you don't. Just
Speaker 1: because you're using Twitter does not mean that you are
Speaker 1: an Elon Musk lover fanboy, whatever, fangirl. It just is
Speaker 1: a thing. It's a tool. Is this the Twitter farm?
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna play crickets? Like nobody wants
Speaker 1: to hear what I'm talking about. I'm sorry, I just,
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of these things, like I cover
Speaker 1: technology for a living, and like literally I probably use Twitter,
Speaker 1: not more than anyone. But I've been on there since
Speaker 1: let's see May two thousand and seven. My thoughts about
Speaker 1: Twitter have not changed at all. It's just a product.
Speaker 1: I tweet, you respond. If you're not on there, I
Speaker 1: don't notice. If you're on there, I may notice because
Speaker 1: you might tweet at me. It doesn't change my life,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't change yours. Whether you go to Twitter dot
Speaker 1: com or x dot com or click a logo that
Speaker 1: looks like an X or click a logo that looks
Speaker 1: like a bird, it does not matter. What is it
Speaker 1: matter what a tweet is called. Okay, it's a Z.
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll find out, we'll figure it out. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I know, I just it's just one of these things
Speaker 1: where like it's just gonna take time. I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: they're called exes. Okay, see you X. Whatever you did,
Speaker 1: you tweet you X. It doesn't matter anyway. If you
Speaker 1: want to find me on X, I'm at rich on Tech,
Speaker 1: same exact place I've been for the past twenty three
Speaker 1: minus seven, whatever that is. Let's go to uh Carleen
Speaker 1: in High Desert. Carleen, you're on with Rich?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 7: Rich?
Speaker 1: Are you mourning the loss of Twitter?
Speaker 8: No? Not at all?
Speaker 1: Like, do you even care? Nobody cares about Twitter except
Speaker 1: people that tweet. Nobody cares. Why don't even talk about
Speaker 1: it in the show? No normal person cares? Sorry I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say normal, No typical average person cares. Okay, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 6: I have a Samsung No. Nine and it's about two
Speaker 6: and a half years old, and I'm trying to keep
Speaker 6: it and I want to know if it's being overcharged
Speaker 6: because I do plug it in every night or and
Speaker 6: it does sometimes get hot. I plug it in in
Speaker 6: my truck on Android Auto and listen to books on
Speaker 6: my phone. Sure, and I want to know, am I
Speaker 6: like overcharging my phone? And then when it gets hot,
Speaker 6: am I depleting the battery?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: Okay, so no, So batteries do have a lifespan, and
Speaker 1: for sure, when they get hot, they definitely are affected
Speaker 1: more and that may run down the battery a bit more.
Speaker 1: So I would take you know, I would when you're
Speaker 1: in your car, I would try to keep your phone
Speaker 1: in a place that's cool, like maybe not in the sun, right, No,
Speaker 1: it's not, okay, And so you know, it's one of
Speaker 1: these things where look, you've got to use your phone,
Speaker 1: and so you need to use your phone. You have
Speaker 1: to use it. And you've got a Note nine. So
Speaker 1: it's a couple of years old for sure, but it's
Speaker 1: going to last for a while. Now. There is a
Speaker 1: way I'm trying to check out here. If you download
Speaker 1: the Samsung Members app, trying to see if we've got this.
Speaker 1: Here we go. If you download the Samsung Members app, Okay,
Speaker 1: here you go. This is what you want to do. Okay, Carleen.
Speaker 1: Download an app it's called Samsung Members, and then you
Speaker 1: go at the bottom of the app, it says let's
Speaker 1: see what is it saying? Says support. You tap support
Speaker 1: and then there's a whole bunch of things you can
Speaker 1: do for phone diagnostics. Okay. And so when you look
Speaker 1: at that phone diagnostics, you can select battery status and
Speaker 1: you tap battery status and it will tell you how
Speaker 1: your battery's doing. Now. This is built into the iPhone
Speaker 1: under settings and then battery, So if you want to
Speaker 1: check on your iPhone, you can do that as well,
Speaker 1: but on the Samsung you do have to download this
Speaker 1: separate app. So if you want to see how your
Speaker 1: battery is doing right now, mine says life is good,
Speaker 1: which is I like that. That's a very very positive
Speaker 1: way of thinking life is good. That actually sounds like
Speaker 1: something LG would say. But if your thing, if it
Speaker 1: says anything like, you know, poor or it needs help
Speaker 1: or whatever, then maybe you think about changing something. But
Speaker 1: here's the other good news. I think your battery is
Speaker 1: going to be just fine. I charge my phone every
Speaker 1: single day, charge it every single night, charge it multiple
Speaker 1: times a day, and my iPhone specifically, okay, is at
Speaker 1: now this is actually quite low, to be honest, it
Speaker 1: is at My battery health is at ninety two percent
Speaker 1: of maximum capacity after almost a year. So that's that's
Speaker 1: it's good. But if you think about it, you know,
Speaker 1: if I went four more years with that phone, you know,
Speaker 1: if you tick off let's say ten percent a year
Speaker 1: after four years, my battery would have sixty percent of
Speaker 1: the life lifespan that it did from the factory So
Speaker 1: the other good news, Carlene is that you can replace
Speaker 1: the battery on this Note nine if it gets to
Speaker 1: a place where it's really bad, and so it may
Speaker 1: cost a little bit, but it's an option, and so
Speaker 1: now go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, and I'm wondering because it is a little bit older,
Speaker 6: it doesn't get any more updates because it has Android ten. Okay,
Speaker 6: And how safe is that to do like banking and
Speaker 6: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Well, there's definitely a risk, there's definitely, there's always a risk.
Speaker 1: But quite honestly, I think you're still gonna be okay
Speaker 1: with as long as is Chrome giving you any messages
Speaker 1: like this is not supported or anything. No, okay, So
Speaker 1: as long as you're still not getting a message like that,
Speaker 1: I think you're okay. Are you still getting app updates?
Speaker 6: I haven't had one for a while.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I would check your app updates and make
Speaker 1: sure you're up to date.
Speaker 6: Are you I am up to date?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 8: I did check that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So go to play Store, go to your your profile,
Speaker 1: make sure it says all apps up to date. So
Speaker 1: you want to do that, you're probably I'm without looking up.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if the Note nine is getting any
Speaker 1: sort of you know, major software up dates from Samsung.
Speaker 1: It maybe through that period, so it may be over.
Speaker 1: But what I would do is yeah, but Carlen, the
Speaker 1: main thing is that, you know, how hackers are getting
Speaker 1: a hold of people is really through social engineering. So
Speaker 1: be aware of what you're clicking. Be aware of the
Speaker 1: text that you're responding to. You know, if it says, hey,
Speaker 1: we've got a ups shipment for you, click here and
Speaker 1: confirm your social Security number, don't do that.
Speaker 6: No, I'm pretty good at that point.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, then it sounds like since you're calling in
Speaker 1: and you're aware of this stuff, you're you're ahead of
Speaker 1: a lot of folks. So Carlenh, yeah, I'm up against it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, all right.
Speaker 6: They have those like a charge ye or a charge check,
Speaker 6: those things that you plug into your charger before you
Speaker 6: plug it into your phone.
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with those. I don't think you need that.
Speaker 1: I've never used one of those. I think you'll be okay,
Speaker 1: try the Samsung Members app, check out your battery health,
Speaker 1: and just use your phone and enjoy it. All right,
Speaker 1: more of your calls Triple eight rich one on one
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Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two, four to one zero one. I will
Speaker 1: tell you, listening to this song, there is nothing better
Speaker 1: than getting home from an international trip and being back
Speaker 1: on like us ground, like as much as I love
Speaker 1: other countries, as much as I love traveling. Even though
Speaker 1: my passport was taken away for a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: and locked up in a box. Uh, it just still
Speaker 1: feels good to know. It's like you could breathe a
Speaker 1: sigh of relief, because when you're in a different country,
Speaker 1: you just never know. You never know, I mean you
Speaker 1: never know. Uh. We got lots going on this hour.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Heimi rivera of Pocket. Now my interview
Speaker 1: with Heimi about the new foldable phones from Samsung. We
Speaker 1: recorded this interview at thirty thousand feet up in the air,
Speaker 1: just over Japan, So I think it's a first for
Speaker 1: this show, a in flight interview, and it actually sounds
Speaker 1: pretty good. You'll be surprised. You'll be surprised how good
Speaker 1: it sounds for being recorded in an airplane, and then
Speaker 1: later we'll talk about let's see, Oh, I got an
Speaker 1: app that's really cool that helps you pay your medical
Speaker 1: bills with just taking a picture of them. It's really
Speaker 1: really cool. I used it yesterday. Works very well. I
Speaker 1: also have some products that I've been using that I
Speaker 1: used on my trip, some new headphones from Sony and earbuds,
Speaker 1: i should say, and then a new power adapter, International
Speaker 1: power Adapter. Let me tell you about this because Verizon
Speaker 1: and AT and T not being so nice, they are
Speaker 1: charging a new sneaky fee, so be on the lookout
Speaker 1: on your bill. According to the Verge, customers on Verizon's
Speaker 1: five G Start plan they are affected. So this is
Speaker 1: a rate plan adjustment, an extra three dollars per line,
Speaker 1: and older plans are affected, including that five G Start
Speaker 1: plan which they introduced as Start Unlimited four years ago
Speaker 1: that costs seventy dollars a month for a single line.
Speaker 1: Why do they want to introduce this three dollars a
Speaker 1: month because guess what they want you to change to
Speaker 1: one of their newer plans. And the new plan is
Speaker 1: called Unlimited Welcome. I know, so confusing. This starts at
Speaker 1: sixty dollars a month, which, wow, that sounds a lot cheaper.
Speaker 1: But you don't get mobile hotspot like you did with
Speaker 1: Start Unlimited, so you have to pay an extra ten
Speaker 1: dollars a month for that. So yeah, the price comes
Speaker 1: out to about the same if it's seventy bucks a month.
Speaker 1: But it's just, you know, it's not nice. It's just
Speaker 1: not nice. According to c NET, AT and t's rate
Speaker 1: adjustment will hit customers on the Unlimited Elite plan. You're
Speaker 1: going to be paying an extra two dollars and fifty
Speaker 1: cents a month. This was previously AT and t's top
Speaker 1: tier plan. It costs eighty five dollars a month. This
Speaker 1: is the best part, according to AT and t's website.
Speaker 1: Their levy this fee so that AT and T can
Speaker 1: quote continue to deliver the great wireless service you expect.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it costs them extra two fifty a
Speaker 1: month to deliver the same plan that people have had
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: What do I know? I don't run a cellular company. Now,
Speaker 1: the new Premium Unlimited plan is about the same. You
Speaker 1: get fifty gigs of hotspot data for eighty five dollars
Speaker 1: a month. That's even more than the previous plan that
Speaker 1: only gave you forty. But here's the catch. If you switch,
Speaker 1: you lose your free HBO Max subscription. And so that's
Speaker 1: that's the catch. They want to get people off the
Speaker 1: HBO Max because when they offered these plans with HBO
Speaker 1: Max or now it's called Max Included, it was part
Speaker 1: of AT and T. Now it's not part of AT
Speaker 1: and T. So they have to pay whoever owns it
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers. I don't know who it is now. Were
Speaker 1: people crying about this switch to Max? No, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Nobody cares. Uh. Oh I got hit with
Speaker 1: a new charge this month on my internet. It went
Speaker 1: up by five bucks a mo. So now I'm paying
Speaker 1: eighty five dollars a month for my internet and not
Speaker 1: even no warning, no nothing, not even a courtesy phone call,
Speaker 1: text email, nothing, just goes from eighty bucks a month
Speaker 1: to eighty five. And I have to sit there and
Speaker 1: log in and look at my bill and see why
Speaker 1: it's up. And just said, oh, your price increased five
Speaker 1: bucks a month. Oh, thanks thanks for letting me know.
Speaker 1: Phone lines are open. Triple eight rich one oh one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four to one
Speaker 1: zero one get in now, because all the people that
Speaker 1: wanted a call that got all angry over my Twitter
Speaker 1: rant are now not listening anymore. So you've got a
Speaker 1: free phone line. Kim is probably wondering why nobody's calling.
Speaker 1: It's because everyone's angry at me because I made fun
Speaker 1: of Twitter changing the name. Oh everyone's all upset. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about the Samsung products in a
Speaker 1: little bit more depth here. So two new phones. Samsung
Speaker 1: Galaxy Z Flip five. Now, this is kind of the
Speaker 1: entry level flip phone. It's kind of like a classic,
Speaker 1: like a Motorol eraser. This is the phone. It costs
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars, which I know is expensive, but it's
Speaker 1: basically a Samsung Galaxy S. But it folds in half,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, folds closed. This phone has a new
Speaker 1: larger cover screen, so it's like three times bigger than
Speaker 1: it was on the Z Flip four. So this means
Speaker 1: you can capture pictures easily. There's new widgets. You can
Speaker 1: even watch Netflix YouTube and look at Google Maps on
Speaker 1: the cover screen without having to open the phone. So
Speaker 1: it's nice. And you know, I've got it, and I've
Speaker 1: been playing with it and it's basically just a Samsung
Speaker 1: phone that folds in half. So if you want something
Speaker 1: that's cool, if you want something that's pocketable, it's a
Speaker 1: nice little phone, it really is. And so the cover
Speaker 1: screen being a lot bigger makes it a lot more usable,
Speaker 1: makes it a lot easier to kind of to use
Speaker 1: this phone without opening it. So that's one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And the thing about that is that if you have
Speaker 1: one of these old old flip phones, like the z
Speaker 1: Flip four, they're giving you like almost the entire price
Speaker 1: towards the new phone. You may have to pay one
Speaker 1: hundred or two hundred dollars to upgrade, but you're also
Speaker 1: getting double the storage, which is kind of like the
Speaker 1: price right there. So if you have the fold the
Speaker 1: Flip four, you may want to just look into upgrading
Speaker 1: to the Flip five because the trade in values are
Speaker 1: really really high, so you might want to do that.
Speaker 1: Now when it comes to the Fold five, this is
Speaker 1: a totally different beast. This is really like a you know,
Speaker 1: this is like the professional folding phone. This one folds
Speaker 1: open and closed like a book, and so it's got
Speaker 1: this narrow screen on the outside. They didn't change the
Speaker 1: size of the screens. So you've got a narrow screen
Speaker 1: on the outside, I think it's six point seven inches.
Speaker 1: On the inside it's just over seven inches, so it's
Speaker 1: almost like a tablet when you open this thing up.
Speaker 1: And this is a device that is kind of like
Speaker 1: just the power user's device. So if you want something
Speaker 1: that is like the most foldable, this is it the
Speaker 1: fold five. So what have they done differently on this?
Speaker 1: They created an entirely new hinge. So the hinge will
Speaker 1: open to any single angle you want it to open,
Speaker 1: and it stays really solid and it stays open. It's
Speaker 1: got less parts than before, it's more durable than before,
Speaker 1: but it can stay open at any angle you want.
Speaker 1: So if you want to watch videos on this on
Speaker 1: the plane, if you want to just like right now,
Speaker 1: I've got my show timer going on on the screen.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a really durable, kind of useful device.
Speaker 1: So that's really cool. Let's see what else what else
Speaker 1: is new on there? The processor obviously is new. The
Speaker 1: price stays the same. It's eighteen hundred dollars, so that
Speaker 1: price is really going to keep a lot of people
Speaker 1: from getting this. But again, you know, if you want
Speaker 1: this device, and so what Samsung told me is that
Speaker 1: when it comes to pre orders on these devices, they're
Speaker 1: both available on August eleventh. By the way, pre orders
Speaker 1: are right now, you're gonna get your best deals. If
Speaker 1: you place your pre order, they're gonna get the maximum
Speaker 1: trade in value because they want people, they want a
Speaker 1: good number out of the gate. Samsung, in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks before this thing even launches, wants to say
Speaker 1: we've had the most pre orders ever. We've had the
Speaker 1: most people buy these foldable phones. And how they do
Speaker 1: that They make really good offers in the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. After the first couple of weeks, anything goes,
Speaker 1: you don't know they're gonna you know, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: less for your old phones. So eighteen hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: this device. The fold five comes in Icy blue, Phantom black,
Speaker 1: and cream. And I've been using this device for the
Speaker 1: past couple of days, and I gotta say it's a
Speaker 1: really nice foldable phone. The outside screen is really narrow,
Speaker 1: and so it's definitely not ideal for using the outside
Speaker 1: screen because it's narrow and people that are using a
Speaker 1: smartphone are used to kind of a wider screen. But
Speaker 1: it's also very comfortable. Oh, the big change I should
Speaker 1: have mentioned this is that both of these phones now
Speaker 1: close completely flat. So it used to be there was
Speaker 1: a kind of a gap between them. There is no
Speaker 1: longer a gap between the screens when you close these phones,
Speaker 1: and so it makes it more comfortable, it makes it
Speaker 1: easier to hold. It just feels like more of a
Speaker 1: slick kind of device. And so that is a big,
Speaker 1: big improvement. And if you had one of the older phones,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a reason to do it. So the
Speaker 1: bottom line on these devices. We're going to talk to
Speaker 1: Himien a little bit about what he thinks, but I
Speaker 1: think that if you want to jump on the bandwagon
Speaker 1: and try something new, the flip is an easy way
Speaker 1: to do that. The fold a little bit more involved.
Speaker 1: You really have to kind of want a foldable phone
Speaker 1: to get that device, because it is a major change.
Speaker 1: With that said, I've loved it. Am I ready to
Speaker 1: give up a regular phone for this? I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: But it's one of those things where it's really cool
Speaker 1: and it's a feat of engineering. And so you know,
Speaker 1: like my friend Jimi, when I was talking to him,
Speaker 1: he has specific use cases that he likes You can
Speaker 1: also have a stylus with the Fold five, and so
Speaker 1: the case that they sampled us with is it's got
Speaker 1: a stylus on the back and the stylust is actually longer,
Speaker 1: and so it's really easy to use compared to the
Speaker 1: previous spens that they've had before. And again, it's one device.
Speaker 1: So if you travel a lot and you want a
Speaker 1: cell phone and a tablet in one, this is it.
Speaker 1: The Fold five is really engineered for making you carry
Speaker 1: less things in this world. So if you want to
Speaker 1: be a digital nomad and travel with just a laptop
Speaker 1: and a smartphone, no tablet, no kindle, this will do
Speaker 1: it all. So it's got a lot of functionality in
Speaker 1: a device. The other two things that they launched Galaxy
Speaker 1: tab S nine. This is a premium tablet. The thing
Speaker 1: to know about it, it's a tablet that's completely waterproof,
Speaker 1: which is really cool. It's IP sixty eight, which is
Speaker 1: the highest rating for water resistance and dust resistance. It
Speaker 1: also comes with an spen and it also has a
Speaker 1: new amal ed screen, so the screen is way better
Speaker 1: quality than it was before, even on the baseline. So
Speaker 1: you've got the tab S nine, the S nine plus
Speaker 1: and the S nine Ultra, and these things start at
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars. They go up to twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: You can get a cellular connection in them if you
Speaker 1: want so. I typically don't recommend Android tablets just because
Speaker 1: they're good for entertainment. This is a premium tablet, and
Speaker 1: the s pen on it is really really premium as well.
Speaker 2: All Right.
Speaker 1: The other thing Galaxy Watched six and the Galaxy Watch
Speaker 1: six Classic. The Galaxy Watch has got a new processor
Speaker 1: for the first time in like a couple of years,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna function better, maybe get better battery life.
Speaker 1: They also track your sleep really well. And the thing
Speaker 1: to know is that the Galaxy Watch Classic has the
Speaker 1: rotating bezel that people really like, and so they took
Speaker 1: away this feature on the Samsung Galaxy Watches a while ago,
Speaker 1: and now it's back. People really like that physical rotating bezel,
Speaker 1: and so if you got the Classic that's the one
Speaker 1: that has it, please start at two hundred ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars and then go up to four hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: nine dollars. You're also going to be able to for
Speaker 1: the first time use WhatsApp on these watches. Google calendar
Speaker 1: and Gmail, and so if you want to check your
Speaker 1: Gmail on your wrist and your Google calendar, those will
Speaker 1: be a whare os exclusive? All right, and himI will
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Speaker 10: I was wondering, if you know, I actually have two
Speaker 10: questions if you have time. I wonder if you know
Speaker 10: why when I watch I do the free YouTube on
Speaker 10: my Roku tv, And why is it sometimes the videos
Speaker 10: are backwards? They're like mirror. Do you know what I
Speaker 10: mean that? Like if you see a street sign or something,
Speaker 10: it's it's backwards. Or if you see a gas price
Speaker 10: or the gas station, it's backwards.
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen that on Are you talking pictures
Speaker 1: or video?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 10: Usually it's a video because I'm watching YouTube.
Speaker 1: And is it the entire like is all the writing
Speaker 1: on the screen backwards? Or is it just that just
Speaker 1: what's in the video.
Speaker 10: It's just what's in the video. Well, I wondered if
Speaker 10: maybe somehow, because I've never posted anything to YouTube, I
Speaker 10: don't know if maybe that they're posting it backwards.
Speaker 1: No, I think I think that it's just the way
Speaker 1: it's being recorded is perhaps, you know, backwards, but it's
Speaker 1: typically okay. So there's a couple of things going on.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people put things through a they flip it so
Speaker 1: that they it gets past like copyright stuff. Like sometimes
Speaker 1: if it's like running through copyright, they'll they'll flip it
Speaker 1: so that it's you know, it's just it trips up
Speaker 1: those those checks that could be that could be what
Speaker 1: you're seeing now when it comes to smartphones, when you're
Speaker 1: taking pictures with a selfie camera, a lot of times
Speaker 1: out of the box, those those pictures could be reversed.
Speaker 1: So if you take a photo of you, like a selfie,
Speaker 1: and there's text behind you, sometimes that text will be
Speaker 1: backwards in your picture when you look at it. And
Speaker 1: so there is a setting on both the iPhone and
Speaker 1: Android where on iPhone it's called mirror front Camera, and
Speaker 1: if you have that turned on, that means that it's
Speaker 1: gonna be kind of like a mirror, like it's going
Speaker 1: to be reversed, you're right backwards. And then on Android
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. If you go into the Samsung
Speaker 1: camera settings, it says, yeah, gosh, let's say I gotta
Speaker 1: find it. But oh, safe selfies as previewed. So safe selfies,
Speaker 1: Oh oh here we go, we got it, Jack, You're right.
Speaker 1: Save selfies and selfie videos as they appear in the
Speaker 1: preview without flipping them.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: If they record a selfie on the front facing camera,
Speaker 1: let me try this right now. Okay, So I'm recording
Speaker 1: a selfie and I turn that feature on, and now
Speaker 1: when I play it back, sure enough, it's the text
Speaker 1: is reversed. So there's our mystery. Mystery solved.
Speaker 10: Okay, thank you. If you have time one more question.
Speaker 1: Uh, sure, Well, it depends what the question is you.
Speaker 10: I know it's the Garmin dash cameras. I recently installed
Speaker 10: two of them in my cars and the app that
Speaker 10: Garment supplies, so that's called Garman Drive. That almost never works.
Speaker 10: I've seen YouTube videos and even on there they say
Speaker 10: it works about maybe ten percent of the time. Do
Speaker 10: you have any understanding as to why that is and
Speaker 10: why Garment won't fix it?
Speaker 1: Well, they're probably not putting a lot of effort into it.
Speaker 1: That's probably why.
Speaker 10: They're making the money up front.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, is it Android or iOS?
Speaker 10: It's well, it's I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, what's your phone? Do you have an iPhone or Android?
Speaker 10: I have an Android, but it doesn't matter. I take
Speaker 10: the chip out, the little chip out of the camera,
Speaker 10: plug it into my computer and I can look at
Speaker 10: videos and whatnot, but you're supposed to be able to
Speaker 10: use your phone to see what your dash camera is
Speaker 10: seeing alive, right, And I don't know that it matters
Speaker 10: whether it's uh Android or iPhone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, they've got they've got apps for both,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at the version history and they updated
Speaker 1: it on July twentieth, July tenth, June twenty ninth, May
Speaker 1: twenty fourth, So I would check to see if your
Speaker 1: app is up to date, just to make sure. It
Speaker 1: seems like they are working on it. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I kind of joked, I said,
Speaker 1: they're not putting that much effort, but clearly they are.
Speaker 1: So I think Garment is a very popular brand. A
Speaker 1: lot of people have this. The apps have over a
Speaker 1: million downloads, So I think that for sure you should,
Speaker 1: you know, you should probably make sure it's up to
Speaker 1: date and hopefully that will fix things. All right.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Oh, let me tell you about this app.
Speaker 2: This app.
Speaker 1: I used this last night. Oh, thanks for the question, Jack.
Speaker 1: By the way, So I used this app last night.
Speaker 1: It's called Papaya. I had a couple of medical bills
Speaker 1: to pay, and they're always such a pain to pay
Speaker 1: because you got to find the website, you got to
Speaker 1: log in, you got to sign in, you got to
Speaker 1: find all your info. You literally take a picture of
Speaker 1: the bill with app and you can use your credit card,
Speaker 1: debit card, bank account to pay it. They figure out
Speaker 1: how to pay it. I did a story with this
Speaker 1: company last year. Again. It's called Papaya Pay and you
Speaker 1: take a picture pretty much any bill, but medical bills
Speaker 1: especially and they will pay. And I got my confirmations
Speaker 1: this morning that my bills were paid. I'll put a
Speaker 1: link on the website. Rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up,
Speaker 1: himI Rivera. We'll talk about the new Samsung foldable phones.
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Speaker 5: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: This is where I talk about the tech stuff I.
Speaker 2: Think you should know about.
Speaker 1: And if you can tell, I'm actually on the plane
Speaker 1: back from Seoul, South Korea. Sitting next to me is
Speaker 1: himI Rivera. A pocket now, himI, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: chatting with me.
Speaker 11: We've been trying to have this conversation for how long
Speaker 11: my six months? Now here we are, and now here
Speaker 11: we are, I'm stuck with you for the next ten hours.
Speaker 11: Don't worry, it's not gonna last that long.
Speaker 1: So HEIMI was at the event in uh South Korea
Speaker 1: as well as myself. We were at the Samsung Unpacked
Speaker 1: where they unveiled four new devices, the Fold five, the
Speaker 1: Flip five, a watch, and some tablets. So let's start
Speaker 1: with the Flip of the foldable phones, because you're actually
Speaker 1: a foldable phone user. Oh yeah, So what is your
Speaker 1: overall takeaway from what they announced?
Speaker 2: You know, this is full refinement.
Speaker 11: I mean, we again expect Toyota to come up with
Speaker 11: a new Corolla all the time.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 11: I love the time that we had at the design
Speaker 11: studio where it's like even in phones, we have a
Speaker 11: facelift gear and then it's a big bag. And so
Speaker 11: this is a facelift, but it was a much needed facelift.
Speaker 11: I believe everything that they changed is exactly what I
Speaker 11: complained about the previous foldables, and so for me, that's
Speaker 11: a good enough.
Speaker 2: Upgrade to want them.
Speaker 11: But that's my quick takeaway is if you bought the
Speaker 11: previous ones, obviously, if you find the good trading deal
Speaker 11: which they're amazing on Samsung, or the flip not necessarily
Speaker 11: the fold the fold didn't get as good this year
Speaker 11: as I did last year. I mean, if you could
Speaker 11: do that, why not. If you're getting nine hundred dollars
Speaker 11: off the flip, you get double the storage, which pretty much.
Speaker 2: Pays that back, Like, why not? But I don't know.
Speaker 11: My takeaway is even if a lot of people were like,
Speaker 11: oh my god, this is just an initative update, I'm like,
Speaker 11: it's a good iterative, iterative update. It's at least the
Speaker 11: things that I wanted to change.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I had.
Speaker 11: Like a lot of crackling noise on the Fold four
Speaker 11: over time.
Speaker 2: You don't get any of that now.
Speaker 11: The hinge feels great, the phones feel lighter, which I
Speaker 11: wanted so bad.
Speaker 2: So I'm happy.
Speaker 1: Well, let me let me go through some of the
Speaker 1: things that you mentioned. So the pricing number one Galaxy
Speaker 1: Z Flip five is one thousand dollars phone, and with
Speaker 1: trading deals which are very very aggressive, you could face
Speaker 1: we get that for free. If you have almost any
Speaker 1: device to trade in that's a recent device, then you've
Speaker 1: got the Galaxy Z Fold five and that is an
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred dollars device. No price change there, But the
Speaker 1: biggest difference on both of these devices. On the Flip
Speaker 1: five you got a bigger outside screen, and on the
Speaker 1: Full five they didn't change the screen sizes, but they
Speaker 1: did make that fold completely closed without a gap, Zach,
Speaker 1: and the same thing on the z Flip five. And
Speaker 1: that's an eighteen hundred dollars device now when you compare
Speaker 1: it against other foldables out there. So let's talk specifically
Speaker 1: about well, let's talk about the flip first. Who is
Speaker 1: the Flip four. I think it's more lifestyle phout.
Speaker 11: It's when people when Motorola came out with the Razor,
Speaker 11: it was a bragging phone.
Speaker 5: If you remember, it wasn't the most cutting edge at
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 11: It was actually like a Motoroll of the six hundred
Speaker 11: on a new body, so it didn't have a good camera.
Speaker 2: It was just the flashy, sexy phone. And that's what
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 5: This is sex appeal.
Speaker 11: At its maximon it's somebody that wants to show off.
Speaker 11: But I also like this concept of you know, sometimes
Speaker 11: you just want to really you want a small phone,
Speaker 11: but you want a big screen, and so it solves
Speaker 11: that need of people that want that, and I just
Speaker 11: I find it so light. So it's that like people
Speaker 11: that are looking for the convenience of a large phone
Speaker 11: experience on a small package. That's what it is. But
Speaker 11: now they've improved the app, they've proved the outer screen
Speaker 11: to be larger. The interesting part though, is as opposed
Speaker 11: to Balltarola, they made it more of a selfie thing.
Speaker 11: You know, you still have the widgets. You can't really
Speaker 11: run apps on it.
Speaker 1: The outer screen is more for just basic tasks things
Speaker 1: glancing at notifications, and it's nice to have that in
Speaker 1: a large format, but to run entire apps on there
Speaker 1: you probably don't. Although the ones that you can run
Speaker 1: we tested this yesterday, Netflix, YouTube, Google Maps, and there's
Speaker 1: one more that I can't remember right out. But so
Speaker 1: those three now I get it. Those are good use cases.
Speaker 1: Google Maps, you want to glance your map, see what's
Speaker 1: going on. YouTube, you watch a little video on the
Speaker 1: tiny screen on the outside. Whatever, Netflix, same thing. So
Speaker 1: and maybe more app makers that. I think it depends
Speaker 1: on the app if it's necessary or reasonable to have
Speaker 1: it on that outside screen. But otherwise you get this phone.
Speaker 1: It's just like you said, it's kind of fun. It's different.
Speaker 1: You want something that's different. Now, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: fold because this is an entirely different beast.
Speaker 2: That's my baby. Yeah, so you carry this device.
Speaker 5: I've carried it all year for three years.
Speaker 1: Tell me about your thoughts about the Fulton, because.
Speaker 5: I am an active user.
Speaker 11: If it's like if they grabbed my wish list, then
Speaker 11: they fixed it. Like I don't like the crackling noise
Speaker 11: on the hinge.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 11: I would cringe at it, and now it's gone like
Speaker 11: cringe at the hinge. Yes, that's that's a good put
Speaker 11: right there. I would hate that.
Speaker 2: I want it and not.
Speaker 11: Necessarily tucked in, but I want to be uh, you know,
Speaker 11: I didn't want the case to be this like bulky thing,
Speaker 11: and it's been that way for two years.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: They fixed that. They've made a smaller spen.
Speaker 1: A case that removes the.
Speaker 5: Camera bump uh and adds an s meen in a
Speaker 5: smart way.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: So, just to be clear, the spen sits on the
Speaker 1: case on the outside, on the back.
Speaker 11: And it's an optional part. Yeah, it's still like it
Speaker 11: used to be least year, but it has the advantage
Speaker 11: that now it's a lot more compact. It resembles more
Speaker 11: of the spen on the Galaxys series with the exception
Speaker 11: that it's longer so it's easier to grab.
Speaker 2: I like that. If you want to make a phone.
Speaker 11: This, then there's no way you're going to the camera.
Speaker 11: Technology is all about physics, so the cameras protrude a lot.
Speaker 11: This phone is a wobbling nightmare on a table. And
Speaker 11: because it's so, because it's slimmer than most phones, it
Speaker 11: just wobbles so much more than any other thing that
Speaker 11: I've used. And so it's good that you can get
Speaker 11: the case and solve that problem. And at the same time,
Speaker 11: you know it does the fav does you the favor
Speaker 11: of you the pen if you wanted. Going back to
Speaker 11: your point, I like what they did. I know a
Speaker 11: lot of people are complaining about the screen being not wide.
Speaker 5: Enough in comparison to the competition.
Speaker 11: I tried to move away from Zebolt four for pixel
Speaker 11: fold I'm sorry, I can't believe this is a foldable
Speaker 11: mate by Google. I actually like the outer screen for
Speaker 11: like quick interactions, and if I need a big screen,
Speaker 11: I just open the phone because that's the whole point.
Speaker 5: So I will mostly spend my time opening the phone.
Speaker 11: But if I'm like on the go, have you ever
Speaker 11: tried to juggle at iPhone FOURT FROMAX.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 11: And so it's that thing where you want a big screen,
Speaker 11: but you don't always want a big screen. And I
Speaker 11: like how how that that thinner and narrower profile conforms
Speaker 11: to your pocket so much.
Speaker 2: Better than the pixel fold.
Speaker 11: And so there are things about the pixel fold, like
Speaker 11: if you're if you're, if you want to watch like
Speaker 11: a video on the outer street, and then so much
Speaker 11: more convenient. Yes, if you want to do like the
Speaker 11: flex mode, yes it's convenient. I can get all those things.
Speaker 11: But for some reason I find myself like opening it
Speaker 11: and then flipping it around because Android and landscape is terrible.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing about it is that if
Speaker 1: you are traveling or you're moving around any sort of way,
Speaker 1: this really becomes a phone and a.
Speaker 11: Tablet, right right, And then that's a thing like I
Speaker 11: you know me, like my bag, you just you just
Speaker 11: held my back back.
Speaker 2: I took it down from the overhead compartment.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and if that weighs more than twenty pounds, yeah,
Speaker 11: from the laptop to the cameras to the gear. I
Speaker 11: have the cherry pick what I carry. So I don't
Speaker 11: want to carry a kindle. I don't want to carry
Speaker 11: like for me, my fold is my e reader. It's
Speaker 11: like my workhorse.
Speaker 5: Any takeaways from Korea, I guess my experiences.
Speaker 11: You know, same thing as the largest smartphone manufacturer in
Speaker 11: the world, and I have to admire their humbleness in
Speaker 11: listening to feedback at every session that I was in.
Speaker 1: We're gonna leave it there. I think we have nine
Speaker 1: hours left on the flight, but I only have a
Speaker 1: three hour show, and I think food is getting served.
Speaker 1: himI Rivera.
Speaker 2: How can folks find you?
Speaker 5: Oh, you can find me on Instagram him Riveta there
Speaker 5: or YouTube is on YouTube.
Speaker 11: We're at Pocket now and you've been there for as
Speaker 11: its YouTube started pretty much.
Speaker 5: And then on Twitter him underscore Riveta.
Speaker 2: Which is is it X now? I don't know. I
Speaker 2: think so.
Speaker 5: I think it made the switch while we were rating Caria.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Heimi, you carried entire production studio
Speaker 1: in your backpack to record your daily updates.
Speaker 2: In your hotel rooms wherever you are.
Speaker 5: You travel a lot rooms into studios.
Speaker 1: Been amazing, himI Rivera, Pocket Out, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me on the plane.
Speaker 2: You really had no choice. It's been amazing. You know
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of your work man.
Speaker 5: Such a pleasure.
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Speaker 9: Hi, Rich, thank you.
Speaker 7: What.
Speaker 9: I bought a Sony phone, the new Experia what xp.
Speaker 1: Okay and.
Speaker 9: I finally got it. I thought it was made in Japan.
Speaker 9: It says made in Taiwan. There's no charge table. I
Speaker 9: can't believe it. And there's two little pieces of paper
Speaker 9: And when I went online to find out is this normal?
Speaker 9: And apparently people usually get a lot more paper so
Speaker 9: I was even jipped on the paper. Whatever is going
Speaker 9: on with that, I don't know. But when I talked
Speaker 9: to the guy where I picked it up at Best Bite,
Speaker 9: he said that I should be able to just go
Speaker 9: on the phone and the phone will direct you through it.
Speaker 9: But what about the charge cable? I had no idea.
Speaker 9: There was no table in the box.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean that's I'm not familiar with this particular.
Speaker 1: You know this box, what's in there? But this is
Speaker 1: funny because you know, people do these YouTube videos on boxings,
Speaker 1: and so it tells you what's in the box. Now, historically,
Speaker 1: you know, we've gotten rid of the charging brick like
Speaker 1: that doesn't come in the box. But typically I have
Speaker 1: not seen a phone come without a charging cable. Typically
Speaker 1: it has at least a USB cable. So it doesn't
Speaker 1: have that at all.
Speaker 9: And it's in the paper that I got. I read
Speaker 9: and it said you need to use Sony cable. And
Speaker 9: I'm like, are you kidding? You know why this Sony cable?
Speaker 9: This is nuts?
Speaker 1: That is nuts. You don't need to use a Sony
Speaker 1: cable for sure. I'm trying to see. Usually they have
Speaker 1: kind of like what's in the box on these things,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to find a video about it, and
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't seem to find a video that
Speaker 1: has like what's an unboxing?
Speaker 9: Yeah, on YouTube, and this is this is basically it.
Speaker 1: Oh it is okay. So people have confirmed that that's okay.
Speaker 9: It's with a lot more instructions. I guess I'm not
Speaker 9: really sure if their instructions or things in different language.
Speaker 1: Well most most okay. Now that's you know, look a
Speaker 1: couple things. Where did you buy this phone? That's fine, Oh,
Speaker 1: you bought it best Buy. Okay. So there is a
Speaker 1: full instruction manual online, so you can download that. It's
Speaker 1: available on the website. Now, the reason why they don't
Speaker 1: include it in the box. You know, when we used
Speaker 1: to get boxes of stuff, there's a big old manual,
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of paperwork. These companies have really doubled
Speaker 1: down on sustainability, which means they're trying to make the
Speaker 1: packaging recyclable. They're using less packaging, they're using less materials
Speaker 1: inside the boxes, and so it is a trend that
Speaker 1: we're definitely getting less in the box. But I think
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. In fact, the Sony headphone and
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about in a moment. They actually
Speaker 1: the entire box is recyclable, it's paper, it's minimalistic and
Speaker 1: almost you couldn't believe that these are three hundred dollars
Speaker 1: he earbuds inside this box because it feels fake. It's
Speaker 1: like so minimalistic. So I think I think you have
Speaker 1: a legitimate phone here. I think that it's fine. The cable,
Speaker 1: you don't need to worry about getting a Sony cable.
Speaker 1: Any USBC cable will work. I would recommend just going
Speaker 1: on Amazon getting an Amazon Basics cable, or you can
Speaker 1: go to a company like mana Price and get a
Speaker 1: cable there. I mean, there's many many cables you can get.
Speaker 1: I think they're all going to be fine. A Balkan
Speaker 1: cable will be fine. Just get USB C to USB C.
Speaker 1: And do you have a charger for this phone? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you have a way to charge it? What about
Speaker 1: what was your old.
Speaker 9: Phone I couldn't use. I used to just plug it in. Uh,
Speaker 9: it came with a cable and a little adapter to your.
Speaker 1: To the wall. But does does your old does your
Speaker 1: old charging cable and adapter work with this new phone?
Speaker 1: Did you have USB C before.
Speaker 9: What I don't know. I have to look and see, Okay.
Speaker 1: So so check to see if that connects, uh to
Speaker 1: the you know, to the new phone if you have
Speaker 1: an older Android, you had an Android phone before? Which
Speaker 1: which one do you know?
Speaker 9: Oh, it's a piece of garbage, A Moto G.
Speaker 2: A Moto Okay.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it wasn't updating and I couldn't make it update.
Speaker 9: It was insane.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, the Moto G probably, unless it's a really
Speaker 1: old one, it probably should have USB C on it
Speaker 1: so that that cable should work, you know, if it's
Speaker 1: as it was a really old phone. I mean, Android
Speaker 1: has had USBC for a long time, so I think
Speaker 1: you should be okay with that charger and it should.
Speaker 1: As long as you plug it in and it charges
Speaker 1: your phone, you're good. You don't need a special cable
Speaker 1: for that. As for the manual, you can get that
Speaker 1: online easily. Just google Sony Experia one five one V
Speaker 1: and there is an entire manual on there, and I
Speaker 1: think you're good to go. I mean, I know it's different.
Speaker 1: Sony is not not as prevalent here in the US
Speaker 1: with their smartphones, so you know, a lot of people
Speaker 1: say the cameras are good on these. I haven't personally
Speaker 1: tested this one, but the reality is it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of Sony is not really focused on the US market.
Speaker 1: The US market is dominated by Samsung, it's dominated by Apple,
Speaker 1: and then the Google Pixel is trying and it's doing
Speaker 1: its best. So I think you're fine. I think your
Speaker 1: phone's fine. I don't think it's you know, defective or
Speaker 1: not legitimate, especially if you got it from best Buy. So, Gloria,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling. Appreciate that. Let's go to Kierra. Is
Speaker 1: that Am I saying that right in Indiana?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1: Hi, welcome to the show. I'm doing great.
Speaker 7: Thanks.
Speaker 12: I was just driving and booking channels around and heard
Speaker 12: you on the radio and heard you talking about Samsung.
Speaker 12: So I'm a mobile gamer and I used sam fun
Speaker 12: phone for game. I can't have a stands on S
Speaker 12: twenty one Ultra and not too long ago, I think January,
Speaker 12: at the beginning of the year. I'm looking to upgrade
Speaker 12: it and I found up and looking around. So I
Speaker 12: have the Ultra and I do really good. I'm applying
Speaker 12: with it. I like the SPS and everything. Sure, he
Speaker 12: heaps up a little bit here and there, but it's
Speaker 12: death and I just put a.
Speaker 7: Fan on it.
Speaker 12: So I was looking around and I was going to
Speaker 12: upgrade to the S twenty two, and then I found
Speaker 12: out through watching YouTube videos with S twenty two Ultra
Speaker 12: actually isn't as good a gaming phone as an S
Speaker 12: twenty two plus. For some reason. The S twenty two
Speaker 12: plus gets a better SPS rate and.
Speaker 5: Stuff like that.
Speaker 12: So I was wondering. I was curious from you if
Speaker 12: you had any suggestions on mobile gaming phonies, like because
Speaker 12: I know they came out with the S twenty three.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. The S twenty three Ultra, from
Speaker 1: what I was told, when you know going through that
Speaker 1: whole thing, it has an improved cooling system, and so
Speaker 1: I think that that's probably the most important aspect for gaming,
Speaker 1: because you want to keep your phone cool while you're
Speaker 1: charging it, if you're gaming, while you have it plugged in,
Speaker 1: or you know, if you're gaming, it's it's running that
Speaker 1: phone pretty the most intense it can be run. So
Speaker 1: I personally would probably take a look at the S
Speaker 1: twenty three Ultra just because now the S twenty three
Speaker 1: entire lineup has the better vapor chamber cooling system, but
Speaker 1: they made a big deal about this when we were
Speaker 1: testing out the phone, and so it doesn't and just
Speaker 1: personally using the device, it doesn't get that warm. I
Speaker 1: mean compared to a lot of devices like my iPhone
Speaker 1: the other day it was getting like so warm, you know,
Speaker 1: it gets to that point where you can't see the
Speaker 1: screen anymore because it's so hot. But I haven't really
Speaker 1: seen that happen with the S twenty three Ultra, So
Speaker 1: i'd probably take a look into that and see some
Speaker 1: comparisons about that on YouTube, because I think that the
Speaker 1: new cooling system on the S twenty three Ultra is
Speaker 1: even better than what you're gonna find on the S
Speaker 1: twenty two. And if that's the important part to you, Kierra,
Speaker 1: that's what I would do. So thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you finding me on the radio today. Triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. You're listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking
Speaker 1: technology with you at Triple eight rich one O one
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Speaker 1: zero one. Yes I'm reading the messages, Yes I'm reading
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Speaker 1: read it all on the feedback segment coming up at
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Speaker 1: on Tech. You can also email hello at Richontech dot tv,
Speaker 1: or go to the website rich on Tech dot tv,
Speaker 1: hit contact and send your message that way. A couple
Speaker 1: of things I tested out on my trip to Korea
Speaker 1: a new pair of Sony headphones. These are new, I
Speaker 1: keep calling them headphones. They're really wireless earbuds. They're the
Speaker 1: WF one thousand X fives. Say that ten times fast.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you they're small. They have great
Speaker 1: noise cancellation. I mean these things are tiny, even the
Speaker 1: charging case is tiny. Really good sound quality. I mean
Speaker 1: it's Sony after all. They support high resolution music formats.
Speaker 1: They have a bunch of microphones on them, more than before.
Speaker 1: Plus AI technology to make sure that it's here your
Speaker 1: voice and only your voice when you're on phone calls,
Speaker 1: even when you're in a noisy environment. It actually knows
Speaker 1: when you're talking based on the vibration of the bones
Speaker 1: in your cheek. So it's really, really smart. It's tiny,
Speaker 1: twenty five percent smaller than before, twenty percent lighter than
Speaker 1: previous Sony earbuds. They are comfortable to wear. In fact,
Speaker 1: when I started the interview with himI on the plane,
Speaker 1: I still had my earbuds in. I didn't even realize
Speaker 1: that they were in because I forgot about them. Battery
Speaker 1: lasts forever on these things, up to eight hours on
Speaker 1: a charge. The case provides up to twenty four hours total.
Speaker 1: You plug them in for three minutes, you get sixty
Speaker 1: minutes worth of play. So if you forget to charge
Speaker 1: these and you need to use them, very very easy.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: These are the new Sony wireless earbuds, the WF one
Speaker 1: thousand x five. These would be the equivalent to like
Speaker 1: the Bows noise canceling headphones that go over your ears,
Speaker 1: but like for earbuds.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The coolest feature that I used on these, and I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how amazing this was multi device connection,
Speaker 1: so you can connect these too. I had it connected
Speaker 1: to three three devices. Maybe it just works with two,
Speaker 1: but I kept switching back and forth. And the coolest
Speaker 1: thing was I was editing on my laptop and I
Speaker 1: was listening to music on my phone and there is
Speaker 1: no need to switch. You don't have to say, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to connect, I want to play something on here.
Speaker 1: It just figured it out. When I started playing music
Speaker 1: on my phone, okay, the music came through the earbuds.
Speaker 1: When I started editing on my computer, the editing audio
Speaker 1: came through the earbuds, so they automatically switched with multi
Speaker 1: device connection. It was incredible. It's such a cool feature.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like what Apple does, but you have
Speaker 1: to have all Apple products. This works with any product
Speaker 1: and it's really really good. It also works with voice assistants,
Speaker 1: so you can have it set up to work with
Speaker 1: Google Assistant and Alexa they also have. The ear tips
Speaker 1: are very different. They are not silicone. They're almost like
Speaker 1: a spongy what with this like a foamy, spongy material,
Speaker 1: and it fits very comfortably in your ear. But I
Speaker 1: will tell you these definitely fell out of my ears
Speaker 1: a little or they felt like they were going to
Speaker 1: fall out a little bit more so that could be
Speaker 1: the ear tips. Maybe I have to adjust them. I
Speaker 1: did try a different size, but overall, I'm really really
Speaker 1: liking these. These earbuds from Sony Brand New again WF
Speaker 1: one thousand x five three hundred dollars though, so they
Speaker 1: are very very expensive, and so I will tell you
Speaker 1: that I also like a pair of earbuds from OnePlus
Speaker 1: called the Nord Buds that are forty dollars and they
Speaker 1: are really really good. So I don't know if you
Speaker 1: have to spend three hundred if you're traveling a lot
Speaker 1: and you want something that's really high quality and that
Speaker 1: convenience and the battery, these are really really good. I
Speaker 1: have not looked at what other reviewers are saying about them,
Speaker 1: so I can't tell you what they're saying. But for
Speaker 1: me personally, I think that these are pretty good. The
Speaker 1: only downside I would say is for three hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: i'd want them to feel like they're falling out of
Speaker 1: my ears less. The other thing I tested is this
Speaker 1: one World charger, and this was pretty incredible as well.
Speaker 1: This is a travel adapter, you know, like you get
Speaker 1: one of those power converters, you know, they're usually like
Speaker 1: twenty bucks. Well, the difference with this one is that
Speaker 1: it's got five It can charge five devices at once,
Speaker 1: including a tablet and a laptop at the same time.
Speaker 1: So on the bottom of this one World Adapter It
Speaker 1: has four USB outputs. It's got two USB C and
Speaker 1: two USBA, so you can charge things. The two USB
Speaker 1: c's can charge up to one hundred watts. That means
Speaker 1: it can charge your MacBook, it can charge a tablet,
Speaker 1: it can charge them both at the same time. It
Speaker 1: can charge your iPhone obviously you're Android, and it will
Speaker 1: do it all very very fast. And of course on
Speaker 1: the top there's a standard AC outlet so you can
Speaker 1: plug in anything. But the neat thing about this device
Speaker 1: is that it charges everything all at once. It works
Speaker 1: in over two hundred countries. You know. You slide out
Speaker 1: the little adapters to plug it in, and it was great.
Speaker 1: I have no problems with this device except the price.
Speaker 1: It is expensive again, it's about one hundred dollars. But
Speaker 1: the neat thing is if you get this device, if
Speaker 1: you're traveling a lot, you don't need this if you're
Speaker 1: not traveling the world a lot. But if you're traveling
Speaker 1: a lot and you don't want to carry a bunch
Speaker 1: of different adapters, then this is great because you don't
Speaker 1: need any other power plugs to plug into an adapter.
Speaker 1: So when I was traveling to Italy last year, I
Speaker 1: had you know my twenty twenty five dollars Epica adapter
Speaker 1: whatever it's called from Amazon, and it was great, But
Speaker 1: it doesn't charge the USB fast. I had a couple
Speaker 1: of USB ports, doesn't charge them fast. And you also
Speaker 1: need a separate plug to plug into there because you
Speaker 1: need an adapter to plug in your stuff. And so
Speaker 1: this is all in one, and they make them in
Speaker 1: different models. By the way, I tried the OneWorld one hundred.
Speaker 1: They've got a sixty five and a thirty. That's how
Speaker 1: many watts they output. So with the sixty five you
Speaker 1: could do a MacBook. With the thirty watt you can
Speaker 1: just do an iPad and an iPhone at the fast speeds.
Speaker 1: So again, if you want to see this stuff, I've
Speaker 1: got it linked up on my Instagram, at least for
Speaker 1: the travel adapter. It's at rich on Tech on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Let's go to doc doc is in Montana. Doc You're
Speaker 1: on with rich.
Speaker 8: Hey, how you doing it? Is a great show? Thank
Speaker 8: you every week.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: What can I help you with?
Speaker 8: Okay, let's start out by telling you I have really
Speaker 8: really bad eyesight, and when I get used to doing something,
Speaker 8: I like to keep it the same weight.
Speaker 1: Okay, understandable.
Speaker 8: I've been using Windows seven, but more and more websites
Speaker 8: are telling me that you have to update to ten.
Speaker 8: You can't. You can't update browsers or whatever. So I'm
Speaker 8: afraid of losing everything. I mean, how do you back
Speaker 8: stuff up? Well, you always hear back up the computer,
Speaker 8: but nobody tells you how to do it.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a good question. So the new Gosh, so
Speaker 1: you're on Windows seven. So Windows seven end of life
Speaker 1: was back in twenty twenty. So that's why you're getting
Speaker 1: these messages that say, you know, you could get infected
Speaker 1: with the viruses. The software is not up to date anymore.
Speaker 1: Windows seven, I don't believe that it has the Windows
Speaker 1: backup built in because Windows ten and Windows eleven has
Speaker 1: a simple Windows backup built into it. Let me see
Speaker 1: built in backup now.
Speaker 8: I was in touch with I think they called the
Speaker 8: Disability Helpline or whatever at Microsoft, and they sent me
Speaker 8: some of all a media creation tool, but they told
Speaker 8: me not to not to use it until I backed
Speaker 8: up the computer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, no, that would be okay, okay, So
Speaker 1: there is the backup tool on Windows seven. It's been
Speaker 1: a while so if you have a hard drive, do
Speaker 1: you have an external heart? Can you procure one of these?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 8: Can I put on a flash drive?
Speaker 1: Flash drive is probably not going to hold everything that
Speaker 1: you need, you know, because this is going to back
Speaker 1: up basically your entire computer.
Speaker 8: So I just ordered one that's big enough to do
Speaker 8: the whole computer.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if you got the flash drive for the
Speaker 1: biggest yeah, then that that should be okay. So if
Speaker 1: you go to start control panel, system and security, they've
Speaker 1: got to back up and restore. And so you connect
Speaker 1: your drive, you say, set up back up, and then
Speaker 1: you will put your drive in there and then it
Speaker 1: will run the backup and you can choose what you
Speaker 1: want backed up. By default, it's going to be your documents,
Speaker 1: your music, your pictures, your videos. And then of course
Speaker 1: you can also do a whole system image as well,
Speaker 1: and so that that system image may take up a lot,
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm saying it may not fit on
Speaker 1: that drive.
Speaker 8: So all right, let me let me tell you what
Speaker 8: I'm looking at now. I went to my computer and
Speaker 8: I can see, you know, all the drives. One of
Speaker 8: them is the seed drive. Obviously it's the main drive.
Speaker 8: And then if I quick that I can go to
Speaker 8: use and then if I quick on that I can
Speaker 8: find Oh, my real name is Mark. I can find
Speaker 8: a fold of cold Mark. It has a lot closed
Speaker 8: lot next to it. I don't know what that's there for.
Speaker 1: That might brother. Can you open the folder? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Well then the lock might just mean that it's encrypted,
Speaker 1: So that could be that that case, and.
Speaker 8: It shows you all of THEMS once you open ut
Speaker 8: of you know, I mean.
Speaker 1: Look, you can easily you can easily drag your stuff
Speaker 1: into this flask drive if you want to do it
Speaker 1: that way. I personally would use the built in tool.
Speaker 1: I would use the built in tool because that's going
Speaker 1: to get everything. It's going to find everything. It's going
Speaker 1: to do a system image if you want, which means
Speaker 1: you're going to have a full complete backup of this
Speaker 1: computer and then you'll be able to easily restore this
Speaker 1: if you need to if something goes wrong with the update.
Speaker 1: And that's what you're talking about that content creation tool.
Speaker 1: So again it's start control panel, system and security backup
Speaker 1: and restore and then select set up backup and then
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, you can put that in there
Speaker 1: and set your backup destination and you can back up
Speaker 1: to that flash drive that you were talking about. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you don't need the backup. Hopefully the content creation tool,
Speaker 1: everything migrates just fine. If you want something that's online,
Speaker 1: which might be easier, you can choose one of the
Speaker 1: backup solutions like I drive is a good solution and
Speaker 1: back blaze are both top rated. So perhaps look into
Speaker 1: something like that and you can just install their software
Speaker 1: and they would back up your computer and then you
Speaker 1: can go ahead with your migration to Windows ten or
Speaker 1: whatever you're going to upgrade too, and then if something
Speaker 1: goes wrong, you can then dip into these online backups.
Speaker 1: And the good news about the online backup is that
Speaker 1: it's in the cloud. It's fine. Now. If you're talking
Speaker 1: about a classic backup, we always recommend that you would
Speaker 1: have your computer backed up in at least two places,
Speaker 1: and that would be a physical drive and an online drive.
Speaker 1: And so you might think about a combination of those
Speaker 1: two things, especially if you're going through some sort of
Speaker 1: transition here with your computer where you're upgrading the software.
Speaker 1: You could lose what's on that drive and you want
Speaker 1: it somewhere else, and so having it on a backup
Speaker 1: drive external and in the cloud would probably be the
Speaker 1: best case scenario. But I think you'll be okay with
Speaker 1: just one of these things versus nothing. So again, Windows
Speaker 1: seven backup, and if you have Windows ten or eleven,
Speaker 1: there is a backup tool in there as well. So again,
Speaker 1: go into your account settings and uh it's accounts Windows
Speaker 1: backup and then you can back up all of your
Speaker 1: settings through there. So Windows does have a built in
Speaker 1: backup and I definitely recommend you use it. Okay, great call, Doc,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling from Montana today. Eight to eight Rich
Speaker 1: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. You are listening to Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here and let's go to Joanne. Let's go to Joanne
Speaker 1: in Lakewood, Colorado. Joanne, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 7: Oh hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for calling in.
Speaker 7: You're welcome.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 7: I love your show. I'm learning a lot. Here's my issue.
Speaker 7: When I'm charging my phone, I Phone thirteen pro, both
Speaker 7: chargers I have get hot, and then the app when
Speaker 7: I hold the little White Singing and my phone will
Speaker 7: also get hot. So my concern is twofold an electrical
Speaker 7: fire or will my battery blow up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, I mean, look, it's it's a concern. It
Speaker 1: doesn't happen very often. So I think you're okay, and
Speaker 1: I think it'll be fine. But what type of charge
Speaker 1: or are you using?
Speaker 7: Okay, I have a clever eye, clever, and I have
Speaker 7: a balcan.
Speaker 1: Okay, is are these newer or older? How long have
Speaker 1: they been around?
Speaker 7: I would say within the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I think that you need a new charger, a
Speaker 1: new charging brick. So the part that plugs into the wall,
Speaker 1: do you know what it's rated at? What's the uh
Speaker 1: what's the rating? Like the wattage on it?
Speaker 7: Let me see. I'm looking at one. I can't. I
Speaker 7: can't see it. I No, I can't.
Speaker 1: Okay. So I would get a newer charger because if
Speaker 1: you have an older charger and may be charging your
Speaker 1: phone really slow, and if it's slow, the slower it's charging,
Speaker 1: the more it's going to heat up because it's taking longer.
Speaker 7: Oh excuse me, Rick, what I what I bought was
Speaker 7: those the faster chargers.
Speaker 1: Oh you did?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Okay, So the iPhone you said you had an iPhone
Speaker 1: thirteen Promax. Yeah, okay, so the iPhone thirteen Pro can
Speaker 1: typically charge up to twenty watts. So the old chargers
Speaker 1: that that Apple used to include in the box were
Speaker 1: a five watch charger and so it was a lot slower.
Speaker 1: So I would ensure that your charger can support twenty
Speaker 1: watts because you want a fast charge to make sure
Speaker 1: that you're getting you know, the maximum speed, and that
Speaker 1: you're not taking as long to charge this phone and
Speaker 1: it's not heating up as much. The other thing I
Speaker 1: would look into is what's called a Gan charger ga
Speaker 1: N and this is a new type of material that
Speaker 1: they use inside the charger that actually keeps it cooler.
Speaker 1: And so it's I don't know if it's a composite,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's some sort of new material that
Speaker 1: they're using that it's it's basically gonna stay cooler because
Speaker 1: it's not your standard the old material that they were
Speaker 1: using that would warm up as much. And so if
Speaker 1: you have a GAN charger, they typically suppor or a
Speaker 1: higher speed and a cooler charge. So if you're worried
Speaker 1: about that and your charger is warming up, I would
Speaker 1: definitely look into one of these chargers. So I know
Speaker 1: Belkan makes one. Anchor makes them. There's a Spegan makes them.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of different companies make them, and
Speaker 1: so you can get these different chargers that are ga
Speaker 1: n it's called Have you seen that on your charger?
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I would maybe look into that because I've
Speaker 1: pretty much switched to that type of charger and it's
Speaker 1: a lot cooler, it's a lot faster, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of the new technology. It's been around for i'd say
Speaker 1: two or three years. So I would look for the
Speaker 1: one that I like. If I had to recommend. One
Speaker 1: that's pretty inexpensive is Spegan makes one called the Arcstation
Speaker 1: Pro thirty and it's uh. They're also smaller, by the
Speaker 1: way than the standard chargers we used to get. So
Speaker 1: I know you don't want to spend money on your charger.
Speaker 1: I understand that if you don't want to, I think
Speaker 1: you'll be okay. But if you're saying your phone's warming
Speaker 1: up and your charger's warming up and you're concerned, you
Speaker 1: might want to try a new charger that's with some
Speaker 1: new technology and perhaps that will make things keep a
Speaker 1: little bit cooler. There.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
Speaker 9: I was very helpful.
Speaker 1: All right, Joanne, appreciate it. Thanks for calling in today.
Speaker 7: You're welcome, all right.
Speaker 1: Rich On Tech triple eight rich one oh one eight
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Speaker 1: Coming up, We've got code with Claws. I went to
Speaker 1: a demo day where these students who had never coded
Speaker 1: before showed off the apps that they created, and it
Speaker 1: was really cool. So I'll bring you inside that coming
Speaker 1: up right after the break. Let me just tell you
Speaker 1: about two quick things. Spotify raising prices for the first
Speaker 1: time since they launched, So don't be surprised if your
Speaker 1: Spotify price goes up next month to ten dollars and
Speaker 1: ninety nine cents a month, so the individual plan is
Speaker 1: going up by a dollar. Spotify launch in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight, came to America in about I think twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: and they have not raised prices. It's been nine ninety
Speaker 1: nine a month since then. Premium duo fifteen bucks a month,
Speaker 1: Premium Family seventeen dollars a month, Student price six dollars
Speaker 1: student price, and the other thing to note, Chat GPT
Speaker 1: is now available for Android. The official Chat GPT app
Speaker 1: is now available for Android. Coming up next we'll talk
Speaker 1: Code with Claws triple eight Rich one O one eighty
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Rich on Tech, Rich on Tech, Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here talking technology with you. Recently, I was at
Speaker 1: the Tower Theater Apple Store in downtown Los Angeles for
Speaker 1: a different kind of summer camp. It was demo day
Speaker 1: for a camp called Code with Claws, which is a
Speaker 1: free program for students ages thirteen to eighteen. It was
Speaker 1: started by supermodel and entrepreneur Carly klaus.
Speaker 13: So in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 14: Were founded by Carly klass supermodel, philanthropist and activist, and
Speaker 14: she had this idea through her own personal experience of
Speaker 14: learning how to code herself, that there should be a
Speaker 14: space like this that was offered for young people, and
Speaker 14: so she created COVID Class back in twenty fifteen, and
Speaker 14: here we are eight years later, bigger.
Speaker 13: And better, with again five thousand scholars this.
Speaker 14: Summer and many more to come in the future.
Speaker 1: Oh see. Emo Peoria is CEO of Code with.
Speaker 14: Class and the benefit is really a couple things. One
Speaker 14: is they learn that they can participate in an industry
Speaker 14: that often doesn't look like them, so doesn't have representation
Speaker 14: across race and gender. They learn that they can overcome
Speaker 14: personal challenge and learn to.
Speaker 13: Do a hard thing in just short ten days.
Speaker 14: They also learn, I think, a really great set of
Speaker 14: skills around collaboration because the final project which you're seeing
Speaker 14: here presented at Apple.
Speaker 13: Is a group project.
Speaker 14: So they work on it together in teams of four
Speaker 14: or five, and they learn collaboration and communication and how
Speaker 14: to come to consensus, and how to.
Speaker 13: Think critically and how to make trade offs. And so
Speaker 13: they're really learning a lot of what I will call like.
Speaker 14: Twenty first century leadership skills in the process of also
Speaker 14: learning how to cope.
Speaker 1: This summer, there are more than sixty camps in twenty
Speaker 1: cities teaching skills like machine learning, mobile app development, data science,
Speaker 1: and web development.
Speaker 14: To me is the great benefit long term is that
Speaker 14: they will walk away with community that will serve them
Speaker 14: throughout their careers and through their education process.
Speaker 13: And so that's what we find scholars are really attached
Speaker 13: to is not just the two weeks of learning, but
Speaker 13: the sort of lifelong community that they join.
Speaker 1: Demo day is where the students show off their hard work.
Speaker 15: Honestly, Coder's colos was a wonderful experience. I came in
Speaker 15: with a zero knowledge of Swiss UI, and by the
Speaker 15: end of it, as you just saw, I presented an
Speaker 15: entire mobile application. I think the best part of it
Speaker 15: was the atmosphere. The friends that I made, the instructors
Speaker 15: that I as were amazing, and I was really happy
Speaker 15: that they were able to make this learning experience so
Speaker 15: enjoyable for me despite it being challenging. Because it was challenging,
Speaker 15: there were moments where I kind of like felt like
Speaker 15: giving up because it was really hard, but I pushed
Speaker 15: through with the support of them and eventually made it.
Speaker 1: To hear Alixi Sosa's team created an app called unhoused
Speaker 1: to help bring awareness to a growing issue in their community.
Speaker 15: But there are a lot of programs like this that
Speaker 15: basically tell you you can be anyone and you can
Speaker 15: code like it doesn't matter your identity who you are.
Speaker 15: You can come in and you can create something wonderful
Speaker 15: with programming skills. So I would say to look for
Speaker 15: programs like these because they're there, and to not be
Speaker 15: scared of just trying trying it out, because once you
Speaker 15: get over like that learning curve of this is really hard.
Speaker 13: It's going to be like pretty good.
Speaker 1: From there, Arianna Unoki's group created an app called hands On,
Speaker 1: which aims to get people involved in volunteering.
Speaker 16: It was great, Honestly, going to the class every day
Speaker 16: was a positive experience for me, and I knew everything.
Speaker 13: Like every day that I would be.
Speaker 16: There, it would just be great, positive like energy and
Speaker 16: really uplifting and I felt really.
Speaker 13: Included every single day.
Speaker 16: Oh, I had no idea about coding. I'd not done
Speaker 16: any coding before I joined, so everything was so new
Speaker 16: to me, and it was way harder than I expected.
Speaker 16: But honestly, I learned so much and I'm really glad
Speaker 16: I did it. Honestly, I'm making sure to keep contact
Speaker 16: with everyone that I met. Everyone that I met was
Speaker 16: really amazing and too. I like that I learned about
Speaker 16: coding so that I could use it and for future experiences.
Speaker 16: Possibly I might go into computer science. So it's great
Speaker 16: that I got this, that this opportunity.
Speaker 1: What do you think people should know about coding? This
Speaker 1: seems kind of intimidating, it is.
Speaker 13: I was intimidated, you know.
Speaker 16: I think coding is very like the basics of it
Speaker 16: are very simple, and it's really just having to memorize
Speaker 16: all the different codes. Google was my best friend during this,
Speaker 16: so I googled a lot of things. But once I
Speaker 16: got the hang of it, it was really easy, and
Speaker 16: you know, it's just getting a lots of use get
Speaker 16: used to.
Speaker 1: This is the fifth year Apple has supported the organization
Speaker 1: through their Community Education initiative.
Speaker 17: Yeah, the way that we work is, you know, we
Speaker 17: work in communities all across the country, and so we
Speaker 17: partner with organizations that are nonprofits, community based organizations to
Speaker 17: really again provide them with the resources and the access
Speaker 17: that they need to bring these coding opportunities and to
Speaker 17: learn coding and creativity to their communities. And Code with
Speaker 17: Classy is a great example of an organization that we
Speaker 17: partner with.
Speaker 1: Stacey rb is Director of Community Education Initiatives for Apple,
Speaker 1: and you know, for.
Speaker 17: Code with Classy and Apple, we have a shared goal
Speaker 17: of expanding access and ensuring that aspiring developers and entrepreneurs
Speaker 17: can make their dreams become a reality. We've also have
Speaker 17: seen that an organization like Code with class really can
Speaker 17: create amazing community. They have done an incredible job of
Speaker 17: scaling to reach more than ten thousand learners, creating an
Speaker 17: inspiring learning opportunity and learning community along the way, and
Speaker 17: I have to say it has been such a privilege
Speaker 17: for me to see firsthand, even as recently this week
Speaker 17: here in Austin, to meet some of the scholars, and
Speaker 17: I'm just blown away by the talent and the passion
Speaker 17: and the commitment to be this force for good within
Speaker 17: their community. You know, we see that coding is just
Speaker 17: this universal language, and by learning how to code, understanding
Speaker 17: what AI and mL, machine learning and artificial intelligence, learning
Speaker 17: about those tools really helps these young young women and
Speaker 17: young scholars have the tools that they need in order
Speaker 17: to build a new world and solve real community challenges,
Speaker 17: community challenges that they care about, not necessarily that we're
Speaker 17: telling them or a challenge, but they're identifying what these
Speaker 17: challenges are. And programs like this really build confidence in
Speaker 17: these young coders and give them the skills to empower
Speaker 17: them to change the world for the better. And that
Speaker 17: world can be the global world or right there in
Speaker 17: their local community. There's so much that a young scholar
Speaker 17: at these coding camps can learn in addition to coding,
Speaker 17: that they can use. These are transferable skills to almost
Speaker 17: any of the workforce opportunities out there today, collaboration, creativity,
Speaker 17: problem solving, communication. All of these are skills that they're
Speaker 17: developing as they're going through this camp and learning how
Speaker 17: to code.
Speaker 1: Learning to code is just one aspect of this camp.
Speaker 1: Building a worldwide community of the next generation of leaders
Speaker 1: is the real takeaway.
Speaker 17: Well, we definitely want to the world better than we
Speaker 17: found it here at Apple, and I think all of
Speaker 17: this lends itself to that. I really do think that
Speaker 17: the young scholars, for example, that are attending these coding
Speaker 17: classes and these coding camps, they are going to walk
Speaker 17: out of here with a renewed sense of confidence, having
Speaker 17: learned a lot of additional skills, and be part of
Speaker 17: a community that they can leverage for many years to come.
Speaker 1: Such a great program and such a cool location. If
Speaker 1: you haven't been to the Apple Store Tower Theater in
Speaker 1: downtown Los Angeles, I highly recommend you give it a visit.
Speaker 1: I've covered code with Colossi several times, and although it's
Speaker 1: too late to get into the last camps being held
Speaker 1: this summer, there's always next year. There's no coding experience required,
Speaker 1: and yes it's free. I'll put a link on my
Speaker 1: website to learn more at Richontech dot tv. There you
Speaker 1: can also donate to support the camp. More rich on
Speaker 1: Tech coming your way. Give me a call if you
Speaker 1: have a question about technology at triple eight rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: or one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech,
Speaker 1: rich DeMuro talking technology with you. You can find me
Speaker 1: on social media at rich on Tech. So, if you
Speaker 1: have an Android and you've been jealous of the whole
Speaker 1: air tag situation, things are getting better. This week, Google
Speaker 1: is rolling out it's new safety feature which will tell
Speaker 1: you if unknown trackers are around you, and that includes
Speaker 1: an AirTag. So this used to be a feature that
Speaker 1: was sorely lacking on the Android side of things. But
Speaker 1: the big companies Android, Google and Apple and Samsung, they're
Speaker 1: all working together for a set of standards that all
Speaker 1: the phones will tell tell you, tell the owners when
Speaker 1: one of these bluetooth tracking devices is around. And the
Speaker 1: Bluetooth tracking devices from a variety of companies. So the
Speaker 1: good news is now the Android will tell you that.
Speaker 1: You can also check manually if you go into I
Speaker 1: look for this. It's not available on every phone because
Speaker 1: it's rolling out, but you can scan your surroundings. If
Speaker 1: you're worried that you might have a tracker nearby, you
Speaker 1: can go to Android Settings, then Safety and Emergency, and
Speaker 1: then there will be an option for unknown tracker alerts
Speaker 1: and you can tap scan now. Now, keep in mind
Speaker 1: your phone may not have that feature just yet, because
Speaker 1: this is brand new and it's rolling out, and it's
Speaker 1: probably going to roll out through a software update through
Speaker 1: the Google Play Services, which you can manually update, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of tricky and complicated, so I'm not going
Speaker 1: to tell you how to do it right here, but
Speaker 1: if you Google online, there is a way to update
Speaker 1: your Google Play services. But otherwise I would update your apps,
Speaker 1: make sure the software is updated on your phone. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're wondering when Google or when Android is going
Speaker 1: to have a proper bluetooth tracker, that's coming later this year.
Speaker 1: So there's going to be Bluetooth trackers from a variety
Speaker 1: of companies that use Google's new find My network, just
Speaker 1: like Apple's, and again this will be much much better.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to use an air tag
Speaker 1: with Android, They're not going that far, but these companies
Speaker 1: will have Google Android versions of these tracking devices. So
Speaker 1: Chipolo is one company that I believe is coming out
Speaker 1: with them very soon, Chipolo Chiplo. They make a lot
Speaker 1: of great trackers. But yeah, so by the end of
Speaker 1: the year, all this whole tracking situation will be will
Speaker 1: be pretty good. All right, let's get to the feedback segment.
Speaker 1: We have a voicemail. So if you go to my
Speaker 1: website rich on tech dot TV, in the lower right
Speaker 1: hand corner, you'll notice there's a little there's a little microphone.
Speaker 1: You can hit that microphone and leave me a voicemail.
Speaker 1: And that is exactly what Kathleen did.
Speaker 18: Hey, rich I just wanted to say thank you from
Speaker 18: the bottom of my heart. I am tech illiterate and
Speaker 18: getting that reading app was so simple.
Speaker 1: And it's going to come in handy.
Speaker 18: Thank you for everything you do making life easier.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Kathleen, and thanks for leaving the message. Again,
Speaker 1: if you want to leave a voicemail, you could do
Speaker 1: it on the website rich on tech dot TV. Just
Speaker 1: hit a little microphone icon the lower right hand corner.
Speaker 1: What Kathleen is referring to is a segment I did
Speaker 1: on TV about reading apps. So these are apps that
Speaker 1: can read your articles out loud. So I talked about
Speaker 1: ways to kind of cut through your reading list. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got that list of items you want to read online,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of annoying to get through them all.
Speaker 1: So I talked about a bunch of different ways you
Speaker 1: can do that. I'll put the link on the show notes.
Speaker 1: But I mentioned pocket app, I mentioned the reader mode
Speaker 1: on Safari, and the one that she's specifically referring to,
Speaker 1: I believe is the Android Reading Mode app, which I
Speaker 1: mentioned on this show previously, and it basically takes any
Speaker 1: article on the Android and makes it really easy to read,
Speaker 1: with better fonts, better readability, bigger and it's just really
Speaker 1: really nice. So thanks for that, Kathleen, thanks for leaving
Speaker 1: the message, and I'll put a link to that story
Speaker 1: on the website as well. All right, let's see Marla said,
Speaker 1: I'm really I need advice on what to do with Evernoe.
Speaker 1: I have over six thousand notes and a few thousands
Speaker 1: are recipes that I can access from any device. I've
Speaker 1: used Evernote since it began. I heard your show about
Speaker 1: other note programs I would like to switch, but I
Speaker 1: really need your advice, Marla. I will tell you that
Speaker 1: I have not found a replacement for Evernote that is
Speaker 1: exactly like Evernote. But I will tell you that I
Speaker 1: do know a place that you can keep your recipes
Speaker 1: that would be pretty good. It is an app called
Speaker 1: recipe Keeper. And what's cool about this app is that
Speaker 1: it sinks your recipes across all your different devices. But
Speaker 1: the coolest part is that it parses out the recipe.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you've ever visited a website
Speaker 1: with a recipe on it. The blogger it sounds like
Speaker 1: me at the beginning of the show. They tell you
Speaker 1: all about their life before they get to the recipe. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love the fluffiness of eggs in this pasta. I'm like,
Speaker 1: just give me the recipe. And you know, they don't
Speaker 1: get to the recipe till the final end of the
Speaker 1: page because they want you to scroll down and listen
Speaker 1: and you know, look at the ads and all that
Speaker 1: stuff and then follow them on Instagram whatever. So this
Speaker 1: app called recipe Keeper, which is available for iOS and Android,
Speaker 1: will will actually go through and just find the actual
Speaker 1: recipe and put it into this app and bookmarket for you.
Speaker 1: And it's really really cool. And then it puts into categories.
Speaker 1: It is pretty incredible. I have two recipes saved in here,
Speaker 1: and I should probably save some more. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: think that if you're liking ever Note and it's working
Speaker 1: for you, Marla, just continue to use it. Because I've
Speaker 1: tried every program in the world and they all have
Speaker 1: pros and cons. Ever No is still the best overall
Speaker 1: combination of features. The only thing I really have a
Speaker 1: problem with is that it's very expensive one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty bucks a year, and it's very proprietary. A lot
Speaker 1: of these new apps like Obsidian and Notion and all
Speaker 1: these other apps are in what's the other one I
Speaker 1: was using Joplin. They all keep your notes in a
Speaker 1: format that is much more exportable, and ever No not
Speaker 1: so much. Let's see Mike says iPhone pop up. I
Speaker 1: hope you had a great weekend. I have an iPhone question.
Speaker 1: I have an iPhone, my wife has an iPhone. When
Speaker 1: I play a podcast or music on my iPhone, I
Speaker 1: get the little box on my lock screen. However, the
Speaker 1: box also takes over the lock screen on my wife's phone.
Speaker 1: We're on the same Wi Fi network, but she has
Speaker 1: a different Apple ID. Is this some sort of setting
Speaker 1: and can I shut it off. It only happens when
Speaker 1: we're in the same room. If my wife goes upstairs,
Speaker 1: she gets her lock screen back to normal. Mike, I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure if this is an Apple thing. I
Speaker 1: think it might be a Spotify thing. If you're both
Speaker 1: shit aring a Spotify account, or if you're both using Spotify,
Speaker 1: it allows you to control that Spotify from different devices.
Speaker 1: That could be what's happening. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: that happens with Apple Music, so I need a little
Speaker 1: bit more information about what that is, what that's doing.
Speaker 1: But the fact that you said you're on the same
Speaker 1: Wi Fi network is a big clue because that definitely
Speaker 1: does some apps do take advantage of that and share
Speaker 1: the information among the devices on that network, So I
Speaker 1: probably need a little bit more information about that. The
Speaker 1: different Apple idea is smart because I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people share Apple ideas, especially with their kids' phones,
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you're getting the same text
Speaker 1: messages on all the different devices, which I don't like.
Speaker 1: Let's see Steven says, Hey, Rich, I love the show,
Speaker 1: and I can surprisingly say I like it as much
Speaker 1: as Leo's. You're doing a terrific job. Oh thank you.
Speaker 1: As far as note taking, I agree that Apple Notes
Speaker 1: is perfect, almost perfect. However, I want to recommend crap.
Speaker 1: It's more like an Apple like version of Notion. It's
Speaker 1: very feature rich. It looks great. I've been using Apple
Speaker 1: Notes and it has sketches which I don't understand. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think that's good too. Let's see. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: so many let's see. Okay, let's just get to the
Speaker 1: Twitter feedback because I know you're all waiting for it. Angela.
Speaker 1: You know I went off about Twitter earlier. X Angela says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: listening to you today, and I agree, what's the big deal.
Speaker 1: I've got an iPhone and it's weird for sure. About
Speaker 1: the icon on the screen, Angela. Chris says, thank you
Speaker 1: for the little rant on the Twitter name change. Exactly,
Speaker 1: no big deal. People need to get over it. Love
Speaker 1: what you do. Pete says, your spastic Twitter rant this
Speaker 1: morning reminds me why I miss Leo so much. KFI
Speaker 1: weekends were much more enjoyable with him. Well, looks like
Speaker 1: we lost the listener today. Sorry Pete, but you know
Speaker 1: I mean I got a call spade A spade. Tina says,
Speaker 1: I listened to you every weekend, and you always have
Speaker 1: a demeanor. Today you are very aggressive. Maybe a nap
Speaker 1: would help. FYI, I really like how your show. I
Speaker 1: really like how your show is packed with info compared
Speaker 1: to the the guy you replaced, And James says, some
Speaker 1: of us listen to the show to hear the callers
Speaker 1: in big caps with everyday questions that we may have
Speaker 1: had in the past, or are currently having, or have
Speaker 1: had in the future. But you spend the first twenty
Speaker 1: minutes giving travel info on South Korea and two more
Speaker 1: very long promotional interviews on Samsung. I guess we listeners
Speaker 1: have different expectations of the program. Well, James, it is
Speaker 1: a different program. It is my program. It's called rich
Speaker 1: on Tech, and it is the information that I think
Speaker 1: you should know. So I hope you continue to listen.
Speaker 1: I will continue to do the interviews I think are pertinent,
Speaker 1: the news I think is pertinent, and the callers I
Speaker 1: think are pertinent, including your feedback. Not everyone gives the
Speaker 1: negative feedback too. My name is rich Dedmiel. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for listening. That's gonna do it. Check out the
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Speaker 1: You can find me on social media. I am at
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Speaker 1: so much for listening. I'll talk to you real soon