Speaker 1: iPhone fifteen now available. Maybe you're using one right now.
Speaker 1: Plus iOS seventeen brings new features to older models. Amazon
Speaker 1: gives let's just call her call it alex a a
Speaker 1: new voice complete with AI and on Veil's a ton
Speaker 1: of new products, plus the AI feature that can tell
Speaker 1: you the year that old photo was taken. Your tech
Speaker 1: questions answered, and much more. What's going on. I'm Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro and this is Rich on Tech broadcasting live from
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, coast to coast. This is the show where
Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should
Speaker 1: know about, and it's the place where I answer your
Speaker 1: questions about technology. I believe that tech should be interesting, useful,
Speaker 1: and fun. And boy do we get a lot of
Speaker 1: technology this week. Major announcements from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple,
Speaker 1: so many things to talk about this week. Phone lines
Speaker 1: are also open. We'll take some of your calls at
Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot TV hit the contact button. Guests
Speaker 1: this week brought to you by the letter J. I
Speaker 1: just noticed this in my notes. All of our guests
Speaker 1: this week's their first name starts with Jay. Jefferson Graham
Speaker 1: of Photo Walks TV is going to share his thoughts
Speaker 1: on the iPhone fifteen cameras. Jamie simmonof the founder of
Speaker 1: Ring he's now chief doorman at door Dot. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about his new uh, his latest venture. And John Faulkner,
Speaker 1: road test editor at Clean Fleet Report, will discuss the
Speaker 1: car that I've been driving around for the past week,
Speaker 1: the Ford mock E Mustang EV and boys at a
Speaker 1: fun Car. I've been having a lot of fun in
Speaker 1: that car. I love how it makes, uh, the sound
Speaker 1: of a gas car, just that rumble, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's electric. You would never know the difference. All right,
Speaker 1: So this week lots and lots of iPhone Apple news.
Speaker 1: My photographer at KTLA yesterday was saying, Rich, can you
Speaker 1: believe we did a full week of iPhone stories like
Speaker 1: how wild is that? And I said, I know, and
Speaker 1: not one person complaint. I mean, it's just like you
Speaker 1: take for granted when the iPhone comes out, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of coverage. Apple sort of commands the uh.
Speaker 1: They just take all the uh. I don't know, why
Speaker 1: do you say that. It all just the all eyes
Speaker 1: are on them. That's what it is. And so I
Speaker 1: get it. It's a it's a very popular phone. It's
Speaker 1: a very big deal for the new iPhone to come out.
Speaker 1: Some people have been waiting a year for the new phone.
Speaker 1: Some people have been waiting three years. Some people are
Speaker 1: upgrading from the eight No matter what, it's an individual
Speaker 1: thing that if you want the new device and you
Speaker 1: get it, it's very exciting. And it is in general,
Speaker 1: even though the iPhone hasn't substantially changed. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: evolved over time, but I mean when I set it up,
Speaker 1: I was setting up the new device and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is like it's the same iPhone. Like I didn't
Speaker 1: just copy everything over this time. I set it up
Speaker 1: from scratch just to see what the process is like
Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. And it's just interesting. It's
Speaker 1: like a lot has changed but a lot has not
Speaker 1: changed over the year, So we'll talk more about the
Speaker 1: iPhone in iOS seventeen and all that stuff. But Amazon
Speaker 1: this week lots and lots of news. They did an
Speaker 1: event at their new headquarters in Virginia and they gave
Speaker 1: a look at the future of I'm gonna call it
Speaker 1: alex A. I don't want to I don't want to
Speaker 1: trigger your speaker, so let's just call it alex A.
Speaker 1: And they gave a look at the future of alex A, which,
Speaker 1: of course, as you might expect, is going to include
Speaker 1: a healthy dose of generative AI. So if you want
Speaker 1: to try this in your home and you have an
Speaker 1: Echo speaker, it may not work just yet, but this
Speaker 1: is happening very soon. So if you're like me, if
Speaker 1: you're a nerd, you're going to be asking this every
Speaker 1: single day until you get this new feature. But you say,
Speaker 1: alex A, let's chat, and magically you will now get
Speaker 1: to try out this new AI alex A. And so
Speaker 1: what does that mean. It means that it's going to
Speaker 1: be more conversational. It's going to mean that you can
Speaker 1: combine multiple requests into one, so you can say, hey,
Speaker 1: close all the blinds, turn off all the lights and
Speaker 1: start the vacuum. And before it wouldn't understand that. Now
Speaker 1: it will. You can say I'm cold, and it will
Speaker 1: turn up the temperature. And you could create and make
Speaker 1: these routines all by voice. And routines are really fun.
Speaker 1: I actually created a couple of them this morning for
Speaker 1: some of our Halloween lights. I've got this little home
Speaker 1: Depot sent me. You know how during the holiday season,
Speaker 1: like Christmas time, they have those little like houses, like
Speaker 1: people make those little like it's like a little town,
Speaker 1: like a main street, USA, kind of like houses and stuff,
Speaker 1: and they have the little lights inside. They're almost like
Speaker 1: a ceramic house. Well, I guess Home Depot did that
Speaker 1: for Halloween, and so it's like a home depot that's
Speaker 1: all spooky and halloweeny and it's really cute. But you know,
Speaker 1: it has like a little light bulb inside. And I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me put a smart plug on
Speaker 1: this thing, and let's make a routine to have it
Speaker 1: turn on at night and turn off by the morning.
Speaker 1: And so I did that this morning. I guess you'll
Speaker 1: be able to do that very easily by your voice
Speaker 1: very soon. All right, So some of the other things
Speaker 1: that they announced is this new I Gaze feature. So
Speaker 1: this is for customers with mobility or speech disabilities. Now
Speaker 1: you'll be able to use alex A with your eyes
Speaker 1: instead of your voice or touch. So this is going
Speaker 1: to premiere on the fire Max eleven tablet, and I
Speaker 1: guess they'll use the camera in the tablet and you'll
Speaker 1: be able to control things just by looking at the tablet.
Speaker 1: So you'll be able to play music and shows, control
Speaker 1: your smart home, and even communicate with loved ones hands free.
Speaker 1: Now it's going to be not every action you could
Speaker 1: typically perform with the Voice assistant, but a subset of those.
Speaker 1: And so if this works on the Firemax eleven tablet,
Speaker 1: which is probably the most powerful tablet, it could be
Speaker 1: a pretty neat new feature, So that's exciting. There's also
Speaker 1: another feature called call Translation. This when you're using audio
Speaker 1: and video calls, they can be captioned in real time,
Speaker 1: but in different languages. So if you're chatting with someone
Speaker 1: over in France and you want to they speak French
Speaker 1: and you speak English, they can just talk in French
Speaker 1: and you'll see the English translation on the bottom. That's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I think one of the most important new
Speaker 1: features they are introducing is called ALEX, a emergency assist,
Speaker 1: so you can just say ALEX a call for help,
Speaker 1: And if you have an echo speaker in your house,
Speaker 1: if it's a supported speaker, you can get directly connected
Speaker 1: to an emergency response center. Now this is not going
Speaker 1: to call nine will one directly, but it's going to
Speaker 1: call sort of a call center with a dispatch that
Speaker 1: can then relay your information to the right people. So
Speaker 1: whether that's fire, whether that's emergency ambulance, nine one one, police,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. So that's going to cost five ninety
Speaker 1: nine a month or sixty dollars a year. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting because I feel like this is one
Speaker 1: of those features that if you have a loved one
Speaker 1: that lives alone, why would you not get them this?
Speaker 1: And it's kind of weird that they didn't go all
Speaker 1: the way and just make the speakers dial nine one
Speaker 1: one directly because that would be free. But I understand
Speaker 1: there are some limitations. And also this is supposedly better
Speaker 1: because the dispatch officer will be able to get your
Speaker 1: call to the right place, and also they will have
Speaker 1: information about you, so if you have an allergy or
Speaker 1: a medical history that they that will pop up on
Speaker 1: their screen. Plus all of your information will pop up,
Speaker 1: like your address and you know whatever if you have
Speaker 1: a pet at home. So I guess it's a better
Speaker 1: way than just dialing nine one one directly. Some of
Speaker 1: the devices they introduced, the Echo Show eight. This is
Speaker 1: just a new smart display. Then they've got this new
Speaker 1: one called the Echo Hub. This is sort of an
Speaker 1: iPad that you mount on your wall, so it's thin.
Speaker 1: It's got an eight inch screen, it's touchscreen, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a dashboard for your house, so you
Speaker 1: can manage your smart home devices. You can arm your alarm,
Speaker 1: start a routine, check out your security cameras, and when
Speaker 1: it's not in use, it can show your personal photo collection,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. Let's see, And that's something
Speaker 1: that used to cost a lot of money back in
Speaker 1: the day to get sort of the smart home automation
Speaker 1: controller installed in your home. They've got a new version
Speaker 1: of Echo frames. These are their smart glasses which I've tested,
Speaker 1: not the new ones. I tested the last version. I
Speaker 1: fell in love with them. I thought they were great.
Speaker 1: The only thing is they let's see, did I really
Speaker 1: have any problem with them? Not really, I thought they
Speaker 1: were excellent. So these are slimmer, they've got better battery life,
Speaker 1: better speakers, and you can hear them better. But I
Speaker 1: thought these were really cool when I tested them. So
Speaker 1: echo frames haven't really caught on in a big way,
Speaker 1: but I do think that this idea of smart glasses,
Speaker 1: you know, Facebook is doing it, and they're doing it
Speaker 1: so some of the other things I thought were pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Fire TV is getting AI powered search, so now you
Speaker 1: can ask for movies and TV show recommendations, kind of
Speaker 1: like the way you might have used to ask a
Speaker 1: Blockbuster clerk. So you can say, hey, what about some
Speaker 1: movies you know by this actor or this director, or
Speaker 1: you know, I want to watch something for just a
Speaker 1: rainy day, you know, animated movies, whatever. And another cool
Speaker 1: feature is you can take all thanks to AI. Of course,
Speaker 1: you can take one of your photos and say, hey,
Speaker 1: can you change this into sort of a cyberpunk situation
Speaker 1: or can you make this into a watercolor photo? And
Speaker 1: the fire TV will use AI to change your picture
Speaker 1: into you know, cool looking photo that you can have
Speaker 1: on your screen. And that's the other thing that they're
Speaker 1: doing that's really cool. And this is something that I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get a new Fire TV to take
Speaker 1: advantage of. Is the fireTV stick. The top of the
Speaker 1: line stick will now give you this ambient experience, which
Speaker 1: means even when you're not using your TV, it can
Speaker 1: show information on your TV screen, it can show your photos,
Speaker 1: it can show the weather. And that's a feature that
Speaker 1: Samsung kind of pioneered with their Frame TV and then
Speaker 1: Amazon offered it on some of their top of the
Speaker 1: line omni TVs. But now it's coming to any TV
Speaker 1: as long as you can plug in the fireTV stick.
Speaker 1: Let's see what are they calling it. It is the
Speaker 1: It's a Fire TV stick four K Max second generation.
Speaker 1: Say that twenty times fast. But that's like a fifty
Speaker 1: dollars maybe a sixty dollars plugin for your TV. And
Speaker 1: now you can have your artwork and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: I am definitely going to do that. I cannot wait.
Speaker 1: I've wanted that feature on my TV for so long
Speaker 1: and I think that's going to be a great one.
Speaker 1: They also introduced if you have bad WiFi home, the
Speaker 1: Eero Max seven. This is like, oh my gosh, the
Speaker 1: best Wi Fi mesh system you've ever seen. Is supports
Speaker 1: Wi Fi seven ten gigabit Ethernet can download a four
Speaker 1: K movie in ten seconds or a fifty gigabyte video
Speaker 1: game in less than a minute. This will be available
Speaker 1: in a one to two or three pack starting at
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars. So if you really want some maximum
Speaker 1: Wi Fi for your house, that's going to be at
Speaker 1: the Eero Max seven. All right, So that's what Amazon announced.
Speaker 1: Lots and lots of stuff from Amazon, so be on
Speaker 1: the lookout for some of those new products. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'll be on the Amazon Home screen very very soon.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up here on the show, the phone numbers are
Speaker 1: open triple eight rich one one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. You want to
Speaker 1: talk tech, give me a call. Coming up, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about what's new in iOS seventeen. My name
Speaker 1: is rich Damiro and you are listening to rich on tech.
Speaker 1: Come back to rich on Tech. Rech Deemuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one
Speaker 1: on one eight eight eight seven four two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. I'm like, is this thing on? I had
Speaker 1: my volume turned down. Let's go to Gloria in Pacoima, Gloria,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Bye. Rich. I'm having trouble. I have a new Samsung
Speaker 3: Galaxy and I started with Verizon. But the service with
Speaker 3: Verizon is terrible. I thought, after all these years that
Speaker 3: it should be better, but it's not. So I thought, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'll switch over to their alternate service, which is Visible.
Speaker 3: I have been talking to this chat butt and it
Speaker 3: sent me right back to the same problem in the
Speaker 3: first place. I don't think I think that Visible is
Speaker 3: that they're just not doing a good job.
Speaker 1: Well, they're not new, they've been around for a couple
Speaker 1: of years, and it's fully owned by Verizon. So number one,
Speaker 1: I would not recommend going with Visible because if you
Speaker 1: had bad service through Verizon, you're gonna get the same
Speaker 1: exact level of service, if not worse, from Visible because
Speaker 1: it's the same exact network with the added fact of
Speaker 1: Visible has no stores. They have no customer service in
Speaker 1: a meaningful way, and for someone like yourself that's having trouble,
Speaker 1: you may be in this trouble area forever and not
Speaker 1: really get any meaningful help. They are all through chat,
Speaker 1: they are all through online, they are all through the app,
Speaker 1: so you can't really get help if you need it. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Visible is bad. I'm saying, in
Speaker 1: your circumstances, Gloria, it sounds like this is not a
Speaker 1: good fit for you. The network is not the network
Speaker 1: that you want, because, like you said, Verizon's not working
Speaker 1: for you. This is the same exact network that Verizon
Speaker 1: on and you don't have a store to go into.
Speaker 1: You can't go into a Verizon store and get help.
Speaker 1: With Visible. You can't even really get someone on the
Speaker 1: phone as far as I know. With Visible, it's all
Speaker 1: done through chat and email. So, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is this is really a service that's aimed towards millennial
Speaker 1: users that are very very hip and they want to
Speaker 1: do everything sort of like without human interaction, and so
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with it. It's you know, and you
Speaker 1: save a ton of money. I mean, this is twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars a month or thirty five dollars a month,
Speaker 1: so it's it's really a money saving move. But okay,
Speaker 1: it's forty five, got it. So here's what I'd recommend
Speaker 1: for you, Gloria. Have you heard of Mint Mobile?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 3: I had Mint and then T Mobile took over and
Speaker 3: I've had nothing but trouble with T Mobile. Well, took
Speaker 3: over my phone and so on, I'm I switched, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm in a world of trouble because right
Speaker 3: here in the foothills, sure, and I have difficulty getting
Speaker 3: good receptions.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, so here's what I would recommend. If you
Speaker 1: have difficulty getting good reception. Number one, you know, I
Speaker 1: would talk to some neighbors and see what service works
Speaker 1: for them. That's that's what I would do. Because if
Speaker 1: you're in an area where it's tricky, like there are
Speaker 1: portions of the US where only one network is very strong.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that may be AT and T. And here in
Speaker 1: the US we only have three networks to speak of.
Speaker 1: We have AT and T, we have Tea Mobile, and
Speaker 1: we have Verizon. Everything else you hear about is one
Speaker 1: of those networks what they call MVNOs mobile virtual network operators.
Speaker 1: So they just lease the network space from a Verizon,
Speaker 1: from an AT and T, from a Team Mobile, and
Speaker 1: then they resell it and they repackage it with their
Speaker 1: own marketing and their own plans. So what I would
Speaker 1: do is talk to some of your friends in the area.
Speaker 1: Just knock on your neighbor's doors and say, hey, what
Speaker 1: service do you use and does it work in the
Speaker 1: same Maybe it's AT and T. It sounds like it's
Speaker 1: not Verizon. It sounds like it's not T Mobile. Now
Speaker 1: if T Mobile was just issues with sort of like
Speaker 1: customer service and things like that, I think that Mint
Speaker 1: Mobile is a really strong deal for you can get
Speaker 1: unlimited through them for thirty dollars a month, which which
Speaker 1: I really really enjoy. So that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: I would check to see who has the best service
Speaker 1: in your area and go with that. And it sounds
Speaker 1: like if you're having a lot of trouble and you
Speaker 1: need a little bit more help with your service, you
Speaker 1: may want a full service carrier, and that is directly
Speaker 1: dealing with a place that has stores and that would
Speaker 1: be Metro BYPC Metro PCs, that would be Cricket, that
Speaker 1: would be Verizon, that would be AT and T. You
Speaker 1: could even go into Walmart and get one of their plans.
Speaker 1: They have a lot of prepaid plans you can get.
Speaker 1: But it sounds like that may be the route you
Speaker 1: want to go is figure out what works best in
Speaker 1: your area and go with that carrier. And you may
Speaker 1: want to go with one that it could be a
Speaker 1: little bit more expensive, but if you can walk into
Speaker 1: a store and get the help that you need with
Speaker 1: your phone, that may be the best scenario for you, Gloria.
Speaker 1: So I hope you figure it out. Gloria, thanks for
Speaker 1: the call today. Triple eight rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to talk to Jefferson Graham.
Speaker 1: He runs a website called photo Walks TV. He's always
Speaker 1: testing the latest smartphone cameras and he got his hands
Speaker 1: on the iPhone fifteen Promax. We're going to talk to
Speaker 1: Jefferson Graham to see how the pictures look on this
Speaker 1: new iPhone. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology
Speaker 1: and uh, do you have the new iPhone fifteen? Many
Speaker 1: people got it on launch day and putting it through
Speaker 1: its paces, checking out all the new features. So even
Speaker 1: if you don't have a new iPhone, there's iOS seventeen
Speaker 1: and there's a t there's new software for the Apple TVs.
Speaker 1: Let's see, there's new software for the watches. So I
Speaker 1: mean there's a whole bunch of new stuff. If you
Speaker 1: have the iPhone fifteen. So I actually interviewed someone from
Speaker 1: Apple about this, one of the product managers, and he
Speaker 1: was saying and I was very surprised that he said this.
Speaker 1: So a couple takeaways. Number One, you can use any
Speaker 1: USBC cable to charge the phone. The one that comes
Speaker 1: in the box is going to be the standard USBC.
Speaker 1: If you have an iPhone fifteen Pro and you want
Speaker 1: to get faster data transfer speeds, you can get a
Speaker 1: USBC three cable and that will give you really fast
Speaker 1: data transfer that's only on the Promax. And then when
Speaker 1: you want to charge the phone, would you want if
Speaker 1: you want to use a third party charger, you want
Speaker 1: to get the USB c PD that's power delivery. So
Speaker 1: a lot of people are thinking that the iPhone fifteen's
Speaker 1: are going to charge faster because you're USBC. That is
Speaker 1: not the case. It does not look like Apple has
Speaker 1: improved the charging speeds on these phones now that could
Speaker 1: you know. That's one of those things that Apple doesn't
Speaker 1: really give us all the specs. In fact, one of
Speaker 1: the things that the product manager said, he goes, look,
Speaker 1: we don't really want you to care about any of
Speaker 1: the specs on these phones. We just want you to
Speaker 1: have that magical experience of the phone just working. Let's
Speaker 1: bring up Jefferson Graham here. Jefferson is uh with Photo
Speaker 1: Walks TV. Longtime at the USA today. Jefferson, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 6: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: Rich.
Speaker 1: So you got your hands on the iPhone fifteen Promax?
Speaker 1: Which one? Did you? Which one? We're using the Promax right?
Speaker 1: Which color?
Speaker 4: Which?
Speaker 6: I'm a photographer, There's no way I would use the
Speaker 6: other one got I actually did the other one a
Speaker 6: little bit, but it's the prom accident I'm most interested in.
Speaker 6: I don't think in previous years they were as heavy handed.
Speaker 6: Is basically saying this is the one, all the best
Speaker 6: features on the pomp of the lying one, with the
Speaker 6: with the FI, the zoom, you know, and there's a
Speaker 6: few other features in there as well. But I've been
Speaker 6: using it for two and a half days, and you know,
Speaker 6: it's a cliche that every person in the interview is
Speaker 6: a rich It's best him what it is.
Speaker 1: And well, of course it is. It better be they
Speaker 1: better not go back in time and give us a
Speaker 1: worse iPhone in the last year. I hope you're not
Speaker 1: talking on it right now because the connection's not very good.
Speaker 6: I'm talking to you on the fourteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, So of the fifteen would probably sound a
Speaker 1: lot better. All right. So you took it to Venice
Speaker 1: Beach and you tried the ultra wide, the telephoto lenses, uh,
Speaker 1: and the new zoom which is five x. But you
Speaker 1: were kind of sad that you couldn't find the three
Speaker 1: X zoom anymore.
Speaker 6: I don't think I'll be the only one. I mean,
Speaker 6: their marketing materials and the leading they said there's seven
Speaker 6: lenses and there's only three, and then people say, okay, well,
Speaker 6: and they've mentioned three xs being a bunch of the marketing,
Speaker 6: and three x is what anybody who had the Icon
Speaker 6: fourteen Pro Max had, which was a seventy seven millimeter.
Speaker 6: And also it's not there. It's not on the new one.
Speaker 6: It's I think it's on the fifteen Pro, but it's
Speaker 6: not on the fifteen Pro Max.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the only way you can get to with digital zoom,
Speaker 6: which is basically just crop in the image, and that's
Speaker 6: not that's not anything that I want to do. No
Speaker 6: so bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look so on the on the new
Speaker 1: iPhone fifteen Pro Max, they kind of diverge the fifteen
Speaker 1: Pro goes up to three X zoom. The pro max
Speaker 1: goes up to five and so the seven lenses they're
Speaker 1: talking about are all sort of optical zoom ranges. So
Speaker 1: you get a white ultra wide angle at point five,
Speaker 1: then you get one at twenty four millimeters, then you
Speaker 1: get twenty eight millimeters. You can tap it again at
Speaker 1: one point two X. You can tap it again to
Speaker 1: get thirty five millimeters, which is one point five X.
Speaker 1: Then you can tap two X, and then you can
Speaker 1: tap five X. So those are the seven lenses they're
Speaker 1: talking about. I know it's a little odd because you
Speaker 1: look on the back and you say, hold on, there's
Speaker 1: only three lenses. But they're saying that they're cropping in
Speaker 1: because the processor the sensor is so big. Even when
Speaker 1: they crop in at these different kind of predefined ranges,
Speaker 1: the photos are going to look like they were taken
Speaker 1: with that dedicated lens. So what are the pictures any different?
Speaker 1: Are they meaningfully different than the previous model?
Speaker 6: I thought, well, you know, I've only had to do it,
Speaker 6: But the I thought the telephono stuff I got close
Speaker 6: up of the skaters were particularly good. Okay, I mean,
Speaker 6: I'm not photographed. That's gonna go to work for him.
Speaker 6: But I thought they were sharp, and those are hard
Speaker 6: to get somebody skating in front of you really bad.
Speaker 6: They were there and they were good. And I thought
Speaker 6: the low lights stuff was good.
Speaker 1: And the lens flare. I know that they talked about
Speaker 1: the lens flair. I in my limited testing. I you know,
Speaker 1: I aimed it at some lights at our studio at KTLA.
Speaker 1: I still saw a pretty big lens flare.
Speaker 6: Sure so did I. It's less than on the fourteen,
Speaker 6: but it's still there. And the hip the solution they
Speaker 6: always tell me. If you're shooting a sun set and
Speaker 6: you get the lens flare and it bothers, you reposition
Speaker 6: the phone the camera to get that lens flare into
Speaker 6: the sun and the sun will make it.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good idea. Okay, you tried the USB sport.
Speaker 1: Now did you use did you use the cable they
Speaker 1: gave you or did you try one of the speedier
Speaker 1: cables they gave me? Oh, they gave you the speed here,
Speaker 1: so you did get a chance or was it really fast?
Speaker 6: Or what I hit? And this? So right now I'm
Speaker 6: having a hard time calling up image capture and making
Speaker 6: it work. What they did was that what I was
Speaker 6: able to do, which would connect my external sc drive
Speaker 6: to the phone. And I think your listeners should hear
Speaker 6: about what you have to go to do this because
Speaker 6: they don't cont So you take it to terabyte, one terabyte,
Speaker 6: whatever and you plug it into the UFC and that's great.
Speaker 6: Now what Okay, So first of all, you have to
Speaker 6: reformat the hard up before you put it and you
Speaker 6: have that. You do that in utilities, just utilities, and
Speaker 6: you have to format it to x back. I always
Speaker 6: had my drive format it the mac os journals.
Speaker 1: So x fat will work across uh pretty much Windows
Speaker 1: and Mac. It's more universal than the journal.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So once you do that, then you put it back
Speaker 6: into the phone and then you open the files and
Speaker 6: in the file tap under locations you will now see
Speaker 6: the DROST.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 6: Now you want to back up a bunch of photos
Speaker 6: and videos that you took that day on your iPhone,
Speaker 6: You go to the photos app, you select them, then
Speaker 6: you go to the share menu and you call it
Speaker 6: and you click exports unmodified the original. Wow, that was
Speaker 6: a lot of steps, but it worked.
Speaker 1: Okay, it sounds complicated, but I know I know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a look. That's that's kind of a pro thing.
Speaker 1: That's something that pro people will do. I was also
Speaker 1: testing out the feature where you can make an edit
Speaker 1: to one photo and then copy it to a bunch
Speaker 1: of photos, which I thought was kind of cool. But
Speaker 1: you should watch Jefferson's video he made. He made it
Speaker 1: at Venice Beach. Quick turnaround. You got your phone, you
Speaker 1: headed to Venice Beach and you took a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of pictures and videos. And I like to tip about
Speaker 1: the burst mode because that was not turned on on
Speaker 1: my phone. So you can go into settings and the
Speaker 1: camera and turn on burst modes. When you press the
Speaker 1: volume up key, it will take a burst of pictures. Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean your alternative is you could lightly lightly press
Speaker 6: the shutter fly the shutter. For most people when they
Speaker 6: touched the shutter the white button end up clicking record videos.
Speaker 6: It's very hard, but the side buy in buttons fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good to do it. And then of
Speaker 1: course you got the action button too, which you can
Speaker 1: use as a shutter. Jefferson, thanks for joining me today.
Speaker 1: Photo walks dot tv is Jefferson's website. He does a
Speaker 1: lot of great oh photowalkstv dot com. No wonder what, Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I just go to Jefferson Graham dot com. So that's
Speaker 1: that's the other way to get it. So again, tell
Speaker 1: me the website again photos dot com dot com. Okay,
Speaker 1: And you can follow Jefferson on YouTube and see his
Speaker 1: video the UH shot at Venice Beach with the new iPhone.
Speaker 1: So I took out the new iPhone UH yesterday and
Speaker 1: I compared it against the old iPhone iPhone fourteen, and
Speaker 1: you know, there's a little bit of improvement. But then
Speaker 1: I took it out against the Samsung, and I fully
Speaker 1: expected the iPhone to just sort of like blow away
Speaker 1: the Samsung S twenty three Ultro because it's a brand
Speaker 1: new device. The Samsung's been out for you know, eight
Speaker 1: months now, whatever it's been. And so when I got
Speaker 1: home and started comparing the pictures, I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: these are not like it was not just cut and dry,
Speaker 1: like one is better than the other. There are certain
Speaker 1: circumstances where the iPhone performs better, there are certain places
Speaker 1: where the Samsung performs better. But in general, they kind
Speaker 1: of took very similar pictures and in some ways the
Speaker 1: Samsung even looked better in various support in various pictures.
Speaker 1: So I ended up posting all these to my Instagram.
Speaker 1: If you want to check them out, just go to
Speaker 1: at rich on tech. If it disappears by the time
Speaker 1: you see it, it is available as a highlight on
Speaker 1: my profile page. It says iPhone fifteen versus And I'm
Speaker 1: going to continue to update this with all the different
Speaker 1: phones that I can. So I'm going to do like
Speaker 1: the Pixel, I'm going to do some of the other
Speaker 1: phones that I can find to compare it to, because
Speaker 1: I think it really it gives you a little perspective
Speaker 1: that you know, the iPhone is great and people get
Speaker 1: really excited about it, but it's not the end all
Speaker 1: camera out there. Like people love their iPhones, but when
Speaker 1: you look at these other phones, they like the Pixel
Speaker 1: and the Samsung. They do a really nice job too
Speaker 1: in a lot of circumstances. So if you got something
Speaker 1: that you like, you don't need to feel that fomo
Speaker 1: of like, oh, I'm not with the latest iPhone or whatever,
Speaker 1: even eve an older iPhone. According to the product manager
Speaker 1: that I spoke to, he said, basically, if you have
Speaker 1: an iPhone thirteen or fourteen, you don't necessarily need to upgrade.
Speaker 1: He said. If you're on an older phone like the
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven or twelve, that's when you'll start to see
Speaker 1: some of the improvements with the camera quality. Now, by
Speaker 1: the way, I had people respond with their thoughts about
Speaker 1: the comparison of the different types of photos, and I
Speaker 1: got tons of responses, and so I went through the
Speaker 1: painstaking process. There's no easy way of doing this. I
Speaker 1: copied and pasted all of their responses into one giant document.
Speaker 1: Then I fed that into AI and I had AI
Speaker 1: analyze what people said and to see the trends, and
Speaker 1: so I posted that on my Instagram and it was
Speaker 1: quite interesting what people said. Overall. I'll just give you
Speaker 1: the main takeaway that it said, because I thought this
Speaker 1: was pretty interesting. It said, if I can find it here,
Speaker 1: I'm going live to my Instagram right here. I know,
Speaker 1: very compelling to search through my own Instagram while I'm
Speaker 1: on the radio here, But let me see what I said. Okay, uh,
Speaker 1: it's said in summary, the consensus seems to be that
Speaker 1: this Samsung camera produces superior image quality and performance compared
Speaker 1: to the iPhone, even amongst iPhone users and fans. Oh
Speaker 1: there we go. Uh, some iPhone loyalists still prefer the
Speaker 1: iPhone despite admitting Samsung's technical superiority. So what it comes
Speaker 1: down to really again, and this is something I've noticed
Speaker 1: over the years, is that people just have a loyalty.
Speaker 1: They like what brand they have. All right, Triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. You have a question, you have
Speaker 1: a comment about technology, give me a call. This is
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one.
Speaker 1: Later in the show, we're going to talk about Oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to the founder of Ring and
Speaker 1: he's going to talk about his latest venture. Plus, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about some of the Microsoft announcements, some
Speaker 1: of the Google announcements, and a cool photo tool that
Speaker 1: can take an old picture and using AI tell you
Speaker 1: what you're that picture was taken. Kind of fun. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Daniel and receive that. Daniel, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 7: Hey, Rich, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I live an apartment building. It's pretty sketch
Speaker 7: and I've been meaning to place a doorbell cam. Sure,
Speaker 7: but we're not allowed a drilling to the walls or
Speaker 7: the doors.
Speaker 8: Some people do it and they have been getting their
Speaker 8: units stolen.
Speaker 4: So I have kind of two questions.
Speaker 8: One is, do you know any way to actually secure
Speaker 8: the camera without having to drill into the door. And
Speaker 8: I really don't want to pay in another subscription for
Speaker 8: like a wind.
Speaker 6: Door bill or anything.
Speaker 8: Yeah, something that can record locally, any idea?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think, I mean on your first thing
Speaker 1: with the uh, you know, the the doorbell being taken,
Speaker 1: there's not much you can do if you're if you're
Speaker 1: not able to drill into the wall. I mean, no
Speaker 1: matter what however you place it, it's going to be,
Speaker 1: you know, removable.
Speaker 8: Now I've seen so it kind of looks like a
Speaker 8: metal case that of patches onto the traditional width of
Speaker 8: the door.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, Yeah, I mean there might be
Speaker 1: an accessory on Amazon, and I'm sure there is like
Speaker 1: that that actually probably sounds like the best way to
Speaker 1: do it is some sort of like almost like a strap,
Speaker 1: like a metal strap that somehow connects and then you
Speaker 1: connect the device to that. You could probably get something
Speaker 1: like that, I would, Yeah, that's something that you could
Speaker 1: probably get. But the the video doorbell that i'd recommend
Speaker 1: because you want something that you don't want to pay
Speaker 1: for the subscription. I think probably the best brand is Blink.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of them?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: So Blink is kind of Amazon on sub brand for
Speaker 1: their you know kind of like it's kind of like
Speaker 1: Ring but it's a little different. So the deal with
Speaker 1: Blink is that they're claim to fame is that a
Speaker 1: couple of batteries in this thing last like two years.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know how they do it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to replace the batteries very very often.
Speaker 1: And I actually interviewed the you know, the guy founded
Speaker 1: Blink or whatever, and I was like, how do you
Speaker 1: doing this? And that's like there, That's why Amazon paid
Speaker 1: so much to acquire this company because it's like their
Speaker 1: magic sauce is the fact that they've somehow figured out
Speaker 1: how to like sip a triple a or double a
Speaker 1: battery over two years versus like you know, for me
Speaker 1: with my video doorbell and replacing the battery like every
Speaker 1: three months at this point. So I think that's the
Speaker 1: one to go with. It's sixty bucks. But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: So it doesn't have local storage. You have to get
Speaker 1: this little module. It's called a sink module, and so
Speaker 1: this blinks. Now here's I think this is on the
Speaker 1: pro side of what you're talking about earlier with your
Speaker 1: you know, this thing getting stolen. So this little so
Speaker 1: you have the doorbell, you put that on your door, right,
Speaker 1: however you want to attach it with that accessory or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then you get this sink module that sits in
Speaker 1: your home and that connects to your WiFi, and that
Speaker 1: sink module kind of powers this device and also stores
Speaker 1: the SD card or a flash drive, so that the
Speaker 1: video goes from the doorbell to this sink drive, right,
Speaker 1: and so it's off it's off site. It's off of
Speaker 1: the doorbell, which means if someone actually stole this doorbell,
Speaker 1: you'd have a little video of them. Not that you're
Speaker 1: really that. You know, police aren't going to go after
Speaker 1: someone that stole a doorbell, I don't think, but I mean,
Speaker 1: but you'll at least have a little video that you can,
Speaker 1: you know, print out and put on your front door
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, give me this back. But I
Speaker 1: think that's the way to go. So in that sink module,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I got to look up the price
Speaker 1: on that but you know, it's probably another fifty sixty bucks,
Speaker 1: but you're looking at maybe one d one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars including a little accessory for the door, and
Speaker 1: that way you won't have to pay subscription fee, but
Speaker 1: you will have local storage of your videos in your
Speaker 1: house as well, and of course you can access them
Speaker 1: through your phone and all that good stuff. But I
Speaker 1: think that's the way to go. If you go Ring,
Speaker 1: if you go Whys, I believe is all wired. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they have a wireless one. There's another
Speaker 1: brand called Kangaroo, but I believe that they. I don't
Speaker 1: believe that that's a solution that you need. I think
Speaker 1: that they don't have the local storage that you want,
Speaker 1: but I think that's the way to do it. Check
Speaker 1: out the Blink camera. Check out a way to install it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look up some ways now I'm curious. I
Speaker 1: know that Ring has like a peephole cam for exactly
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, so that you can install it
Speaker 1: without drilling or making any holes in your door. You
Speaker 1: just use the existing people that's on your door, and
Speaker 1: you can just replace that with the camera, and then
Speaker 1: when you move out of the apartment, you can just
Speaker 1: put the peopole back. But you know, I was I've
Speaker 1: lived in apartments for many years, and I was always
Speaker 1: so like hesitant to drill into the walls because of
Speaker 1: these big fees and stuff like that. And honestly, if
Speaker 1: you've ever painted a wall, it's really not that big
Speaker 1: of a deal. You seal it up, you paint over it.
Speaker 1: It's like, a hole is not the end of the
Speaker 1: world in a wall. And if it makes it more
Speaker 1: secure to install this thing, maybe just go for it
Speaker 1: and deal with the repercussions later. That's what I would do,
Speaker 1: because that's what I decided to do. I like my
Speaker 1: old apartment. I was like so careful about every single
Speaker 1: like I was using like those command strips for everything.
Speaker 1: And then when I got into my house, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm drilling everything into the wall, and you know who cares?
Speaker 1: And now I just you know, I did that in
Speaker 1: one room and I have so many holes in the wall.
Speaker 1: I finally painted over all of it, but you know,
Speaker 1: you little spackle, little little sandpaper, and it's all good
Speaker 1: to go. Let's see what else. Oh, I want to
Speaker 1: tell you about one feature that I thought was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: On the new TV OS. So this is on the
Speaker 1: new Apple TV. If you have an Apple TV four K.
Speaker 1: For the first time ever, you can use FaceTime on
Speaker 1: your TV. So Apple TV will let you FaceTime. I
Speaker 1: don't know why this wasn't available years ago, but the
Speaker 1: trick is you can't just use any old webcam. You
Speaker 1: have to use like an iPhone to be your webcam.
Speaker 1: So of course, you know, Apple loves to like, you know,
Speaker 1: do all that kind of stuff. The other thing that's
Speaker 1: kind of cool is you can now locate your remote control.
Speaker 1: So if you have a newer remote and a newer
Speaker 1: Apple TV, you can use your phone to find your
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Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Stephen in San Diego. You have
Speaker 1: a suggestion, Stephen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ty, how you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great? What's up?
Speaker 9: So this is a you had a couple of callers ago,
Speaker 9: Gloria when I was listening itself so bad for I
Speaker 9: had a same similar situations where I have T Mobile
Speaker 9: and a lot of the time like I'm in foothills
Speaker 9: and you have zero service, but they offer you a
Speaker 9: device for free that you've connected to your Wi Fi
Speaker 9: and has a little wired transponder that you put on
Speaker 9: the wall and it's for satellite.
Speaker 6: And then boom, you have perfect helf service.
Speaker 9: In your home and you can turn Wi Fi off
Speaker 9: on your phone and have full bars LTE five everything
Speaker 9: that you made.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good, good idea. These were popular back
Speaker 1: in the day. I feel like I'm surprised if they
Speaker 1: still do these. I'm trying to think of what the
Speaker 1: term is that they and what you would do is, yeah,
Speaker 1: you would plug it into your home Internet and then
Speaker 1: it would put out basically would replicate the cellular signal
Speaker 1: in your home, and that's how it would work. You know,
Speaker 1: a booster, I guess they're called, but those have really
Speaker 1: gone out of favor, largely because so many people have
Speaker 1: now what's called Wi Fi calling on their phone. So
Speaker 1: I was going to suggest that to Gloria earlier, to
Speaker 1: turn make sure she has Wi Fi calling on, which
Speaker 1: you can turn on on Android or iOS by going
Speaker 1: into your cellular settings. But the thing about Wi Fi calling,
Speaker 1: that only works when you're at your home. So if
Speaker 1: you're in sort of like the foothills, or you're in
Speaker 1: an area that doesn't have strong signal to begin with,
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi calling is not really going to help.
Speaker 1: Or these boosters aren't going to help because they're really
Speaker 1: just for your house. And so with the booster, it's great,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, it's largely replaced by the Wi
Speaker 1: Fi calling. So it's a great suggestion, Stephen, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, but it doesn't get to the bigger
Speaker 1: issue of you need a signal that works in your area,
Speaker 1: and so I was trying to come up with some
Speaker 1: ways of figuring that out. I think asking friends and
Speaker 1: family that are in the area is the best way. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, where I work, there are certain carriers that
Speaker 1: work really well and certain that don't. And the way
Speaker 1: I've figured that out over the years is well, I've
Speaker 1: had test phones that I can test them on, but
Speaker 1: I've also just asked people like, hey, is your service
Speaker 1: work well here? And who do you have? And people
Speaker 1: they love to share that information. But a couple of
Speaker 1: other places you can look. There's a website called open Signal.
Speaker 1: They have an app that you can kind of it's
Speaker 1: a crowdsourced coverage map, and so basically, if you install
Speaker 1: this app on your phone, you you can kind of
Speaker 1: submit some of your tests of your network to the app,
Speaker 1: and then they use that and share it with other people.
Speaker 1: And so you can also go on the app and
Speaker 1: see who has the best data in your area. Now,
Speaker 1: I was just doing a little search to see if
Speaker 1: there's anything similar online, and there's one called coverage map
Speaker 1: dot com. I've never heard of this one, but they
Speaker 1: seem to have coverage maps for all the different carriers.
Speaker 1: You can pop in your zip code and see what
Speaker 1: Verizon looks like, what AT and T looks like, and
Speaker 1: what T Mobile looks like. It's all color coded and
Speaker 1: you can then narrow down by five g LTE and
Speaker 1: you can also click best and see which carrier has
Speaker 1: the best coverage in your area, and then if you
Speaker 1: click it'll give you all the information about that carrier speed.
Speaker 1: So again that's coverage map dot com. The other one
Speaker 1: I mentioned is called open signal dot com. So thanks Steven,
Speaker 1: great question, great comment, and there's so many. Look, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, signals have
Speaker 1: gotten really good in most places, Like people have a
Speaker 1: pretty good cellular signal, and people don't mind dealing with
Speaker 1: a bad signal for a little bit, and then they'll
Speaker 1: kind of reconnect. They'll say, hey, let me you know,
Speaker 1: I've got a bad signal, let me call you back.
Speaker 1: So it's not like the old days where we used
Speaker 1: to just deal with like really bad signals for like
Speaker 1: entire conversations. Now, if you have a bad signal, you say,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me call you back when I
Speaker 1: get to a better signal. And most of the time
Speaker 1: that's only maybe one hundred feet or a mile away,
Speaker 1: or you know, depending on where you are. You just
Speaker 1: have to get to a better place, or you switch
Speaker 1: carriers all together and you just find the one that's
Speaker 1: best for your house. I always say to people, find
Speaker 1: the carrier that works best at your house, where you
Speaker 1: work and where you live, and that covers like ninety
Speaker 1: percent of the time that you spend. For instance, my
Speaker 1: dad just switched carriers recently because he was so tired
Speaker 1: of his carrier not working where he would spend his weekends.
Speaker 1: And so he finally said, hey, which carrier works up here?
Speaker 1: And he got it and now it works great. Triple
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Speaker 1: Google Bard this week. If you're familiar with Google Bard,
Speaker 1: we've talked about it on this show. Google Bard is
Speaker 1: Google's answer to chat GPT. It's free, go to bard
Speaker 1: dot Google dot com to access it, and this week
Speaker 1: it got a new feature. And the big difference between
Speaker 1: Google Bard and chat GBT is that Google Bard has
Speaker 1: access to the real time Internet. Chat GBT does not.
Speaker 1: Everything that you're searching on there is back from like
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. So it's still great and it still
Speaker 1: does a lot of stuff. But Bard, you can ask
Speaker 1: it like what was the score of the game last
Speaker 1: night and it can tell you. So Google Bard got
Speaker 1: a new feature this week where it can now integrate
Speaker 1: with Google apps including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps
Speaker 1: and YouTube. So now you can ask it to search
Speaker 1: your Gmail. And I know it sounds kind of scary
Speaker 1: because we also think about these AI services as sharing
Speaker 1: what we talk to them about with other people, and
Speaker 1: so you're like, wait a second if I put my
Speaker 1: Gmail on here, are there people going to see my Gmail?
Speaker 1: And Google says no, anything that you're doing that requires
Speaker 1: your own data like Gmail or Drive, they're not going
Speaker 1: to share with other people. But this allows you to
Speaker 1: get sort of personalized information. So you can say, hey,
Speaker 1: can you tell me Bart what's the main things I
Speaker 1: need to know about my kids' school this week? Or
Speaker 1: I asked it to analyze all of the conversations between
Speaker 1: me and my wife over the years, and I said,
Speaker 1: can you tell me some of the main takeaways? And
Speaker 1: it's it like analyzed our entire relationship. I thought that
Speaker 1: was pretty wild. So this is a new feature that
Speaker 1: is free. You can enable it the first time you
Speaker 1: go to bard dot Google dot com, and the idea
Speaker 1: is just to give people a reason to access this.
Speaker 1: It's odd that Google was so far advanced with their AI,
Speaker 1: but they sort of fell behind because chat GBT came
Speaker 1: out of the gate so strong and everyone was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: chat GBT is where it's at. And so Google's like,
Speaker 1: hold on, We've been doing AI forever, and so they
Speaker 1: really had to kind of get into a position of
Speaker 1: let's show people what we can do with our AI.
Speaker 1: So now they have it in so many of their
Speaker 1: different products, not just Bard. You can also do AI
Speaker 1: search on Google. You can enable that, you can do
Speaker 1: AI in your Gmail, you can have it help you
Speaker 1: write your email, AI and docs and Drive, you can
Speaker 1: have it help you come up with slideshows and all
Speaker 1: that kinds of stuff. So again there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different things you can do with Google with AI. It's
Speaker 1: just people just they kind of identify AI as chat GBT,
Speaker 1: but there's many of them out there. You've got Bing AI,
Speaker 1: You've got Claude, which is one of my favorites by Anthropic,
Speaker 1: and of course you've got Google Bard, So lots of
Speaker 1: options for AI. I'm finding it to be very useful
Speaker 1: in my life to summarize things and to also kind
Speaker 1: of analyze a large amount of data. And Bing is
Speaker 1: good just like Bard for sort of real time search
Speaker 1: results that all so include AI check it out Google
Speaker 1: bard Bar dot Google dot com. All right, give me
Speaker 1: call Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight
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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
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Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, Jamie simmonof the founder of Ring Yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy who basically put a video doorball on many
Speaker 1: doors across America. He's got a new gig. He's now
Speaker 1: chief doorman at door dot com. So we're gonna explain
Speaker 1: what that means. He's gonna tell us all about his
Speaker 1: new venture. Plus, this is why I love this show.
Speaker 1: I love this show because of you. It is not
Speaker 1: a one way street. This is a two way street.
Speaker 1: And I love the immediate feedback I get from you
Speaker 1: as the listeners. Uh So, Kelly just wrote in and
Speaker 1: she on Amazon sent me a link to an anti
Speaker 1: theft doorbell doormount for Blink video doorbell. No drill does
Speaker 1: not block the doorbell sensor, and it's basically a little
Speaker 1: kind of a strap of metal that it looks like
Speaker 1: it kind of screws onto your door like with a
Speaker 1: just a you know, kind of like a vice gript
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and so you mount it. It goes
Speaker 1: around the back of the door and around the side
Speaker 1: of the door, and then the front has like the
Speaker 1: plate that you put the blink video doorbell on. So
Speaker 1: there you go. Twenty one to ninety nine. That's for
Speaker 1: our caller earlier, Daniel and Rosita was asking for a
Speaker 1: way to mount his video doorbell without drilling into the door.
Speaker 1: So thanks for sending that along, Kelly. I'll put it
Speaker 1: in the show notes at richontech dot TV. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Joe in Glen Dora. Joe, You're on with rich Oh.
Speaker 4: Hi you Rich.
Speaker 10: I have an old Wolverine media player that has a
Speaker 10: little screen to view videos and pictures, and I've got
Speaker 10: a whole bunch of picktures that I put on there
Speaker 10: a long time ago, because it has slots for SD
Speaker 10: cards and things to put stuff on there. Sure, and
Speaker 10: now I'd like to take stuff off and get it
Speaker 10: to my computer and I connect the USB drive or
Speaker 10: the USB cable that comes with it to the computer
Speaker 10: and it's supposed to automatically work with McIntosh and Windows.
Speaker 4: But yet it's.
Speaker 10: Really so old that it has drivers for Windows ninety
Speaker 10: eight and it doesn't say anything about Windows ten. It
Speaker 10: says it's supposed to automatically work with Windows XP and
Speaker 10: it's the old it's an MVP nine thousand series media player.
Speaker 1: Wow, and so you've got and this is called a Wolverine.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of this thing.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, they've got a line out now. They've
Speaker 10: upgraded it now where it's even attached to a DVD
Speaker 10: player and you can it's got a bigger screen and everything.
Speaker 1: Now, okay, I'm looking at this Wolverine data MVP nine
Speaker 1: thousand with built in seven to one memory card reader
Speaker 1: and writer. So that's the one you've got. And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to see do they have a picture of the connection.
Speaker 1: So you connect it to your computer and via USB
Speaker 1: and nothing happens.
Speaker 10: Yes, that's that's true. Actually, what's weird though, is if
Speaker 10: I run a particular disc utility that does see it,
Speaker 10: and it says there's no media on it at all,
Speaker 10: it's not partitioned or anything. And yet it's supposed to
Speaker 10: automatically mount with Windows and Mac and I use Linux,
Speaker 10: and it says it's supposed to work with Linux also,
Speaker 10: and you know, the disc utility programs seem to see
Speaker 10: it as a drive, but yet it doesn't mount on
Speaker 10: the desktop for me to copy files off it.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, well, so you've tried connecting this to which computers?
Speaker 10: Well, I've tried a Linux machine, a Windows machine, a
Speaker 10: Macintosh and.
Speaker 1: None of them see it, right wow? Okay, so they
Speaker 1: see and some of them see the device, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't see any of the data on there.
Speaker 10: Yes, there's utility programs on Windows and Linux that both
Speaker 10: see that the Wolverine is attached as a hard drive.
Speaker 10: But yet you know, all I can do is format
Speaker 10: it or partition it. I can't copy files off of
Speaker 10: But when I go to file manager for Windows ten,
Speaker 10: it doesn't see it, and the McIntosh desktop does not
Speaker 10: mount it.
Speaker 1: That's frustrating. What now, this is kind of random, But
Speaker 1: have you tried maybe plugging it into like a smartphone,
Speaker 1: like an Android smartphone and seeing if that sees it?
Speaker 4: You mean via USB?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they have a file you know, a
Speaker 1: file viewer on Android and on iOS. Now, I mean
Speaker 1: it might you know, you might be able to see
Speaker 1: on those just out of curiosity, like I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to get through all the different things that might be
Speaker 1: able to identify this. My guess is that it's formatted
Speaker 1: in a way that these things are just not reading
Speaker 1: it because it's so old. Now I'm looking up this company.
Speaker 1: They're based in Irvine, they're still around. Have you gotten
Speaker 1: in touch with them about why you can't see this stuff?
Speaker 10: I've gone to their site and they don't really have
Speaker 10: any way to you know, ask them any questions or anything.
Speaker 10: And I'm going to in fact, that's my next step,
Speaker 10: is to go to their site again to see if
Speaker 10: there's some way that I can contact them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that is my next step.
Speaker 1: And they've got an email address. They've got an email
Speaker 1: address and a phone number. I don't know about the
Speaker 1: pone number. They're probably not going to be tech support
Speaker 1: over the phone, but you might be able to email
Speaker 1: them and just tell them that you have this older
Speaker 1: model and see why it's not, you know, being shown.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's the way it's formatted. Now. The other
Speaker 1: thing I would ask is this does have an SD
Speaker 1: card slot, right or a media card slot?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Can you go? And everything's on the internal on this device?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: So is there any way to copy from the internal
Speaker 1: drive to a memory card through the device.
Speaker 10: I've tried that and I put in an old two
Speaker 10: gigabyte Fat thirty two s D card and it says
Speaker 10: reading card and then it says failed to innit. And
Speaker 10: it's supposed to mount on the hard you know, the
Speaker 10: hard drive.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe maybe you format that drive that little card.
Speaker 1: Maybe you format that. It's saying that this according to
Speaker 1: the facts on their website. They're saying, you know, it
Speaker 1: has to be format as FAT thirty two or ntfs,
Speaker 1: which are two different, you know formats. Obviously x fat
Speaker 1: is the newest one that's not really supported according to
Speaker 1: this fact, but that might be the way to do it.
Speaker 1: So format the drive is FAT or FAT thirty two.
Speaker 1: I know it's an older format, but pop that in
Speaker 1: and see. And also you might be able to see
Speaker 1: if the Wolverine itself can actually format the SD card
Speaker 1: and then you might be able to copy stuff over.
Speaker 1: The other thing is if you can connect this to
Speaker 1: a TV screen, you might be able to connect it
Speaker 1: to a computer and just record this stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But that's not the best solution. It sounds like you
Speaker 1: got to get in touch with this company and see
Speaker 1: if they have any updates to the software, if there's
Speaker 1: a trick to getting this to display and to mount
Speaker 1: on your computer, because you've tried a lot of different things,
Speaker 1: none of them seem to be working. I've got the
Speaker 1: same issue at home. I've got this old device that
Speaker 1: I have a whole bunch of pictures on that I've
Speaker 1: been meeting to get them off for many, many years now,
Speaker 1: and I just don't because I know it doesn't connect
Speaker 1: to my computer, it doesn't mount, and it's frustrating because
Speaker 1: you know the stuff is on there that you want,
Speaker 1: but you can't get to it. So again, this is
Speaker 1: a good reason to back up stuff when you can,
Speaker 1: because formats change, connections change, but we don't we continue going,
Speaker 1: all right, Coming up, we're gonna talk to Jamie Simmonoff,
Speaker 1: founder of Ring and now chief doorman at door dot com.
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Speaker 1: time there. Well, you know our next guest as the
Speaker 1: founder of Ring, he is the person that put a
Speaker 1: doorbell or video doorbell on many many doors across the
Speaker 1: United States, and uh pretty much came up with that
Speaker 1: entire genre of the video doorbell. Jamie Simmonoff is now
Speaker 1: chief doorman at door dot com. Jamie, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me Rich, good to be with you again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's been I mean, you and I met.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it must have been. I mean I
Speaker 1: remember so Ring started out. You first called it what
Speaker 1: like Doorbaugh.
Speaker 11: I think it was called it was it was, Yeah,
Speaker 11: it was not a great name, but I started out
Speaker 11: with Doorbot.
Speaker 2: I improved from there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think you improved in a pretty good way.
Speaker 1: We we did the story back in the day for
Speaker 1: KTLA when you did the video doorbell, when it first
Speaker 1: came out, you pretty much came up with that idea, right,
Speaker 1: was there something on the market that was similar before
Speaker 1: you came out with that or No.
Speaker 11: The funny thing is, I actually I did come up
Speaker 11: with the idea, But I looked for something, Like I
Speaker 11: was actually looking for one. I couldn't find one, so
Speaker 11: I just built it for myself. But I to your point,
Speaker 11: like I actually thought one would exist. I had an iPhone,
Speaker 11: I couldn't hear the doorbell, and I felt like, I
Speaker 11: just will buy a video doorbell that's Wi Fi connected.
Speaker 11: It didn't exist, so I just kind of built one,
Speaker 11: and then that became a thing.
Speaker 1: Did you ever imagine it would become as big of
Speaker 1: a force that it did? I mean, did you have
Speaker 1: an idea when you kind of like started along the
Speaker 1: path in that thing, like developing it?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. You know, I think anyone's hopeful that something.
Speaker 11: I would say, even in my wildest dreams, I could
Speaker 11: have hoped for it to get to where it did,
Speaker 11: which is you know, Ring is now, as far as
Speaker 11: I can tell, the largest home security company in the world.
Speaker 1: Wow, And it does, and of course you know many
Speaker 1: more products. Now you have left Ring and you are
Speaker 1: now chief doorman at door dot com. Can you tell
Speaker 1: me about this?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 1: What does what does that mean exactly that you're the
Speaker 1: chief doorman?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, I you know I do, like I always had
Speaker 2: my email on every box at ring.
Speaker 11: I like to be sort of with the customer and
Speaker 11: customer centric and so the chief Doorman is also like
Speaker 11: aligning myself, you know, with the customers. What door dot
Speaker 11: com does is we have we started with locks for
Speaker 11: apartment buildings and doing the software around that, so that
Speaker 11: was called Latch, and then the rebranding to door dot
Speaker 11: com is expanding the vision into other things and services
Speaker 11: other than.
Speaker 1: Just like.
Speaker 2: Maids and dog walkers and things like that.
Speaker 11: And sort of having an app that the access control
Speaker 11: and the services together.
Speaker 1: So explain what that means. What's the vision for this.
Speaker 11: So the vision is that you're living in an apartment
Speaker 11: and you want to book a maid or a dog
Speaker 11: walker and you can book, schedule, pay through the app
Speaker 11: as well as the access control like the lock. If
Speaker 11: someone wants to come to your house, come to your apartment,
Speaker 11: that that will let them in automatically at that time.
Speaker 11: Even with the best electronic locks, today people are basically
Speaker 11: copying and pasting codes or going into another app to
Speaker 11: give them access, and I think that services and lock
Speaker 11: need to be put together. We launched our first service,
Speaker 11: which is actually a driver's app called James, which which
Speaker 11: sort of does that we were already working on that
Speaker 11: before we combined with Lads, so that's why we did
Speaker 11: that one. But we were always building the technologies that
Speaker 11: we could combine all of this together into sort of
Speaker 11: services and locks.
Speaker 1: And so James the James App. As I understand it,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, so let's say you take an uber
Speaker 1: and you like love the driver, but you never see
Speaker 1: that person ever again because of the way the platform works.
Speaker 1: But with this you can kind of pick your favorites
Speaker 1: and continue to use them over and over.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 11: And the real benefit to the drive we call these
Speaker 11: drivers the honest day's worker. The benefit to them is
Speaker 11: that they get to keep most of the economics of
Speaker 11: the ride. So we charge a five percent service fee
Speaker 11: to the rider, but the driver gets to keep one
Speaker 11: hundred percent of what they want to charge for the ride.
Speaker 2: So kind of for everybody, you get quality and trust, they.
Speaker 11: Get more of the economics, and they're able to be
Speaker 11: sort of a true independent worker through the James App.
Speaker 2: And we believe that that is a great thing.
Speaker 11: For the honest day's worker what people would call, you know,
Speaker 11: the gig worker independent contractors.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting because the quality part, let's say, you know,
Speaker 1: because you are sort of your own boss in that aspect,
Speaker 1: you and you want these repeat customers, you're actually going
Speaker 1: to perform a higher level of service because you know,
Speaker 1: you want to earn that trust in that relationship versus
Speaker 1: and look, Uber is very popular, but sometimes you don't
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get. And the drivers could be
Speaker 1: kind of all over the place sometimes because they know
Speaker 1: that they'll never see you again. You know, they can
Speaker 1: have a hundred rides that are just kind of not
Speaker 1: very good, but they still did their hundred rides and
Speaker 1: they made some money. But what are you going to
Speaker 1: do at the end of the day if you had
Speaker 1: a bad ride? I mean, give the person a bad
Speaker 1: rating and move on, right, And.
Speaker 2: I think what we're seeing is that again.
Speaker 11: I think one of my favorite sayings right now is
Speaker 11: show me an incentive and I'll show you the outcome.
Speaker 11: And the incentive on all of these different platforms is
Speaker 11: to basically do the minimum amount to be on the
Speaker 11: platform and be successful.
Speaker 2: But it's not to do the maximum. And with James
Speaker 2: it aligns you the other way, which is you get.
Speaker 11: All the economics and so that you can also invest
Speaker 11: in delivering the best service, which means people will book
Speaker 11: you more. So it's like this, it's this nice flywheel
Speaker 11: effect that happened when you do that, because on these
Speaker 11: other platforms, I will get, you know, a service worker,
Speaker 11: a driver that is great at the whatever level you picked,
Speaker 11: and then on the same level, same day, you get
Speaker 11: someone who's not great, and so you're paying the same amount.
Speaker 2: Both those people are next to each other in the
Speaker 2: same thing.
Speaker 11: And so I think allowing the person that really wants
Speaker 11: to again I call it the honest day's worker, allowing
Speaker 11: that person that wants to focus and hair is about
Speaker 11: the experience that they're delivering, giving them the ability to
Speaker 11: truly make the economics of it.
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of what's behind all the the stuff
Speaker 2: that we're doing.
Speaker 1: And it makes a lot of sense. Where is that
Speaker 1: available right now?
Speaker 11: So James is in the app store. It's you can
Speaker 11: search James Rider and that will give you the app.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're going.
Speaker 11: More towards like drivers telling riders about it. So if
Speaker 11: you if you download it, if you do have a
Speaker 11: favorite driver, you can certainly download it and then just
Speaker 11: contact your favorite driver and say, hey, do you want
Speaker 11: to use this. It's certainly much easier. A lot of
Speaker 11: people are doing this today, but they're texting. So a
Speaker 11: driver will give you their number and then you have
Speaker 11: to text them. Certainly not efficient for the rider or
Speaker 11: the driver to do that.
Speaker 1: M interesting, all right, So back to door dot com.
Speaker 1: So this service it sounds like it's more. Is it
Speaker 1: more B to B because you're installing it on apartment
Speaker 1: buildings or is this going to also be for people's homes.
Speaker 11: So everything we're doing right now is B to B.
Speaker 11: So James is targeting the driver. Again, they have a
Speaker 11: there's like a consumer side obviously, but that's really what
Speaker 11: we look at is that we are providing technology to
Speaker 11: superpower our honest day's worker to deliver the best experience
Speaker 11: of their customer. Same thing with our locks in an
Speaker 11: apartment building, you know, the honest day's worker, that person
Speaker 11: that's building that building, that's that's you know, from three
Speaker 11: units to three thousand units. We are superpowering them with
Speaker 11: this you know automated uh, you know, Bluetooth enabled lock
Speaker 11: that allows people to have the best experience there and
Speaker 11: allows them to manage the building better and then layering
Speaker 11: the services above that.
Speaker 1: All right, so you know you're you are like the
Speaker 1: eternal entrepreneur. You have been in this world now, you know,
Speaker 1: doing these entrepreneurial things for you know what, at least
Speaker 1: a decade, fifteen years now. So what's your advice? Since
Speaker 1: I graduate college, since you graduated college. Okay, so you're
Speaker 1: doing stuff before even the ring, So what's your advice?
Speaker 1: You know, someone's out there, they have an idea. I
Speaker 1: mean it takes a lot. We've all watched Shark Tank.
Speaker 1: You are on Shark Tank obviously, but like, what does
Speaker 1: it take to really get something from idea to reality
Speaker 1: in this world?
Speaker 2: I think, you know, realistically, it takes a lot of luck.
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't want to look.
Speaker 11: I wouldn't want to You know, everyone gives advice of
Speaker 11: all these different things, but in the end, like there's
Speaker 11: a lot of luck.
Speaker 2: Timing is luck. People you run into all that, so
Speaker 2: there is luck to it.
Speaker 11: I would say, doing something that you're passionate about and
Speaker 11: that is going to in some way improve the world.
Speaker 11: If you're able to do something with passion and that
Speaker 11: has a benefit to the world, I feel like you
Speaker 11: know that's it actually, and you work hard. Those sort
Speaker 11: of three pieces seem to lead to successful outcomes for.
Speaker 2: People, and then obviously you have to go do it.
Speaker 11: A lot of people talk about business, they talk about
Speaker 11: what they want to do, they talk about ideas.
Speaker 2: You know, at the end of the day, you have
Speaker 2: to execute.
Speaker 1: Ah. I love that. Good advice. And uh, we'll be
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing more about what door dot com
Speaker 1: does and also the James app sounds really interesting. Jamie Simonov,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thanks Rich good to good to talk to you again.
Speaker 1: All right. Uh oh, such a such so many fond
Speaker 1: memories of meeting up with Jamie in Santa Monica when
Speaker 1: he was running ring. I remember like the first time
Speaker 1: that he was showing me. I mean it was just
Speaker 1: like a kid in a candy store showing me like
Speaker 1: the whole like lab where they tested these video doorbells.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had like this. They would literally like
Speaker 1: melt them because they knew they were going to be
Speaker 1: like in the sun all day, so they'd have like
Speaker 1: this box where they put them in there and just
Speaker 1: like see how hot they can get it before this
Speaker 1: thing like stopped working, and it was just like it
Speaker 1: was so cool. And then he'd had like people around him.
Speaker 1: It was a small operation when I first met him,
Speaker 1: but he'd have people around him be like James, you know, Jamie,
Speaker 1: maybe you shouldn't show Rich that right now. You know
Speaker 1: he is a reporter, like he was just showing me
Speaker 1: like everything, so really really neat to see. And of
Speaker 1: course Shark Tank. You can still see the clip of
Speaker 1: that online on YouTube to see exactly what happened with
Speaker 1: Ring and Shark Tank there. But and the first one
Speaker 1: we you know, this was the thing about the first
Speaker 1: ring doorbell that we tested. You know, you have to
Speaker 1: remember Wi Fi was not the strongest back then we're talking,
Speaker 1: you know, at least ten years ago at this point.
Speaker 1: So people had their one little WiFi router that their
Speaker 1: cable company gave them, and a lot of times that
Speaker 1: signal did not reach to the front door. So people
Speaker 1: would install these doorbells, these video doorbells, and it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be that great of an experience because the Wi Fi
Speaker 1: hadn't caught up to sort of the technology that they invented.
Speaker 1: And it took a while, and of course you know
Speaker 1: that Ring ended up you know saying company as Eero,
Speaker 1: which is Amazon, and so it all kind of came
Speaker 1: together and it was just fascinating to watch that as
Speaker 1: a tech observer. So very cool stuff. Jamie Simmonoff you
Speaker 1: can find him at door dot com. You have a question,
Speaker 1: give me a call. It's triple eight rich one O
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Speaker 1: that I am very I spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: on Instagram posting a lot of stuff and I posted
Speaker 1: something pretty interesting yesterday on iOS seventeen. There is now
Speaker 1: a mental health questionnaire. So this is a new feature
Speaker 1: in iOS seventeen, part of mental well being. So not
Speaker 1: only can you log your state of mind during the day,
Speaker 1: but also your daily mood. This is something you can
Speaker 1: do on your iPhone now, so you can log your emotions,
Speaker 1: you can log your moods, and I think that this
Speaker 1: is really really valuable to gain insights onto how you
Speaker 1: might be feeling and what's contributing to what is making
Speaker 1: you feel that way. So, for instance, you can log
Speaker 1: that you're happy and they'll say why are you happy,
Speaker 1: and you can you know, has like different options. You
Speaker 1: could say it's because of work or family or kids
Speaker 1: or whatever. And on the flip side, if you log
Speaker 1: that you're not feeling so great, you can explain why too.
Speaker 1: Now this all goes into your private database on your iPhone,
Speaker 1: but you can see the trends over time, so you
Speaker 1: can see if you're getting into a mood when you, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe go to work every day. You can understand why
Speaker 1: that's happening because you're going to work and maybe you
Speaker 1: need to figure out why your work is causing you
Speaker 1: to feel that way, or maybe family gatherings or friends
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. But the other interesting thing they
Speaker 1: have is a depression and anxiety assessment. So this is
Speaker 1: the same assessment that's often used in clinics. You can
Speaker 1: now do this right from your iPhone. It's inside the
Speaker 1: health app. You open up the Health app, you tap brows,
Speaker 1: then you tap mental well Being and it's the mental
Speaker 1: Mental Health questionnaire and it will ask you sixteen questions
Speaker 1: about how you're feeling, whether you feel nervous, anxious, or
Speaker 1: on edge in the past couple of weeks you have
Speaker 1: trouble relaxing all these different questions and then it will
Speaker 1: give you an assessment at the end and tell you
Speaker 1: basically your level of anxiety risk and depression risk. And again,
Speaker 1: this is all inside the health app on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: and these are some big, big things and this is
Speaker 1: not something to be taken lightly. So if you do
Speaker 1: need help in that aspect, obviously we seek a trained professional.
Speaker 1: This is more for kind of understanding your own feelings
Speaker 1: and emotions throughout the day. So that's new in iOS seventeen.
Speaker 1: And if you want the link to that, you can
Speaker 1: go to my Instagram at rich on Tech. My wife
Speaker 1: obviously is a counselor and she is big into mental
Speaker 1: health and awareness and I feel like it's getting better
Speaker 1: in America, but we're still just at the beginning of that.
Speaker 1: So I'm doing my best to spread the word about
Speaker 1: all this stuff. All right, let's go to Greg in
Speaker 1: Des Moines. Greg, you're on with rich Welcome to the show. Greg. You' there. Nope, okay,
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Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 5: Rich.
Speaker 13: I have a problem with facetimed group called that It's
Speaker 13: happened to me twice to my family, and I'm sorry,
Speaker 13: I'm old. I don't even know how to do a
Speaker 13: FaceTime group call, and of course they don't think that
Speaker 13: I did it. I was three feet away from my
Speaker 13: phone and I received a phone call, I thought, and
Speaker 13: it was almost all of my family, and they said
Speaker 13: I made.
Speaker 12: The phone call.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, And of course.
Speaker 5: They thought that it was an emergency.
Speaker 1: Oh no, one time.
Speaker 13: Once Now it happened again.
Speaker 12: The other time. I was on the.
Speaker 5: Phone speaking to someone and all of a sudden, I go, oh,
Speaker 5: let me call you back.
Speaker 13: I have a call for my grandson. And again it
Speaker 13: was a whole group of the family and a couple
Speaker 13: of friends.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I think I know what's happening. I think,
Speaker 1: well there is Okay, so this is happening when you're
Speaker 1: on the phone.
Speaker 13: It happened one time when I was not on the phone.
Speaker 3: And it happened one time when I was on the phone.
Speaker 1: Okay. So there is a group FaceTime feature that is
Speaker 1: on the iPhone, relatively new as of a couple of
Speaker 1: years where you can have up to I think thirty
Speaker 1: two people in the call. And so a couple of
Speaker 1: ways you can start this is obviously from the FaceTime app,
Speaker 1: and that would take some time to open up the
Speaker 1: app and set up the call. But one of the
Speaker 1: other ways you can do this is through the Messages app.
Speaker 1: And so no, no, I know, but I'm saying, this
Speaker 1: is how it's happening to you, and I think this
Speaker 1: is this is my theory on what's happening. So I
Speaker 1: feel like when you're on your phone, this is just
Speaker 1: a theory. By the way, I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is the exact way, but I feel like when you're
Speaker 1: on your phone, there is a FaceTime video button in
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner, and that FaceTime video button
Speaker 1: could be pressed by your ear when your phone is
Speaker 1: up to your face, and I think that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: And so when you have a bunch of people in
Speaker 1: that group text, your ear is hitting that button and
Speaker 1: it's starting, it's initiating that call. So that's one theory.
Speaker 1: Another way you can start these calls is when you're
Speaker 1: in a text. If you tap the people up at
Speaker 1: the top, there's like a little kind of like an
Speaker 1: info area where it says you can call them, you
Speaker 1: can video chat them, you can mail them. So that
Speaker 1: could be another way that that is getting activated, and
Speaker 1: that's up at the top. So those are the two
Speaker 1: ways I think it's being initiated. If you don't want
Speaker 1: to use FaceTime and you don't want this to happen,
Speaker 1: you know, you can also set the autolock on your
Speaker 1: phone to be to be less of a time, so
Speaker 1: a lock quicker. You could also turn off FaceTime completely
Speaker 1: if you want, and you can turn off FaceTime by
Speaker 1: going into settings and then FaceTime and you can turn
Speaker 1: it off now. Of course that's going to make it
Speaker 1: so that you can't use FaceTime until you turn it
Speaker 1: back on. But that's one way. I don't know of
Speaker 1: a way that FaceTime is initiating. There could be a
Speaker 1: serie command that that's starting the FaceTime call. I don't
Speaker 1: know if there is one. Let's see. Yeah, you could
Speaker 1: say something like make a FaceTime call to Siri, and
Speaker 1: so that could be happening. She could be misunderstanding you.
Speaker 1: So there's a bunch of different things. If if you
Speaker 1: don't want that to happen, you can keep your phone
Speaker 1: in the face down position and that will stop any
Speaker 1: Siri listening. So if you have an iPhone and you've
Speaker 1: ever had this thing where Siri will chime in when
Speaker 1: you say something because it thinks it hurd the term Siri.
Speaker 1: And by the way, with the new iPhone iOS seventeen,
Speaker 1: you no longer have to say hey Siri, it's just
Speaker 1: Siri and she'll respond. So if you don't want that
Speaker 1: to happen, you can put your phone face down. But
Speaker 1: I think Linda, those are some of the ways that
Speaker 1: you can try. I'm just trying to next time it happens,
Speaker 1: just be aware of like what's happening on your phone screen,
Speaker 1: and that way you can keep that from happening. Again.
Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro 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. Coming up
Speaker 1: this hour, We're going to talk about the Ford Mustang
Speaker 1: mock E. This is the electric car I've been testing recently,
Speaker 1: and uh wow, it's a fun one. I know it's
Speaker 1: been out since like twenty twenty, and I didn't drive
Speaker 1: it until the last two weeks, if you can believe that.
Speaker 1: And I've been wanting to get into this thing, and
Speaker 1: I gotta say I I'm a fan. By the way,
Speaker 1: the song you just heard, we were listening to it
Speaker 1: in the car yesterday and my nine year old just
Speaker 1: starts singing the words. We're like, how do you know
Speaker 1: this song? He's like, oh, hear on the radio. I
Speaker 1: mean he just belted out all the words. It's a
Speaker 1: good song. It's very soothing and relaxing. Also, coming to
Speaker 1: this hour, I'll talk about the price increase. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: it's a Amazon's doing something kind of fishy, so we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that. Microsoft has some new devices. Plus there
Speaker 1: is a free photo tool that can estimate the dates
Speaker 1: of your historical photos using AI. Vladimir writes in on
Speaker 1: my website. Rich on tech dot TV, Hey, Rich, would
Speaker 1: you talk about why Apple changed the notification sounds on
Speaker 1: iOS seventeen. My brain was already wired to the notification
Speaker 1: sounds on Instagram, and now they're defaulted to a much
Speaker 1: lower notification default that's so low, oh, it doesn't even work.
Speaker 1: And Apple doesn't allow the user to set different notification
Speaker 1: sounds for different apps, so it's a dead end for me.
Speaker 1: It's a huge minus point for iOS seventeen. Thanks for
Speaker 1: all your hard work, Vlad. Yes, getting a lot of
Speaker 1: emails about this, and after like the third or fourth message,
Speaker 1: I always kind of like, I'm like, all right, let
Speaker 1: me see what there is to this, because you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you're ahead of me, Like I always have my
Speaker 1: phone on silence, so I never hear the notifications. But
Speaker 1: sure enough, after I got all these messages about it,
Speaker 1: I said, let me see what's going on, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't change the default notifications for a majority of
Speaker 1: the apps in iOS seventeen. And the default notification sound
Speaker 1: is now this weird, really low sound that doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense. So I have a feeling this I actually
Speaker 1: mark my words. Let's say it right now. End of September,
Speaker 1: Apple will come out with an update that will change
Speaker 1: the way notification sounds work in iOS seventeen because this
Speaker 1: system that they changed to is just not good. The
Speaker 1: fact that you can't just go ahead and change notifications.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that I could not change the default notification.
Speaker 1: And if you go it's it's app by app, which
Speaker 1: is really weird. So like some apps have like the
Speaker 1: notification sounds in their app settings, and then some are
Speaker 1: in the system settings, and some of you can't change
Speaker 1: at all. And the new system settings for the notifications
Speaker 1: are really really low. So I have a feeling Apple
Speaker 1: will change that. So just hang in tight there, of
Speaker 1: lad keep up with the software updates. And this was
Speaker 1: a miss by Apple. The change to the sounds. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: but people, you know, they kind of know their iPhone
Speaker 1: sounds and they don't really want those messed with, whether
Speaker 1: you want to change them or not. You know, that
Speaker 1: should be up to the user, not up to Apple
Speaker 1: changing it for everyone. They should at least leave it
Speaker 1: the same, and then if you want, you can opt
Speaker 1: into the new changes. Let's go to uh oh, Greg
Speaker 1: is back? Greg and des moines. You're on with Rich?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Can you hear me?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Here you go. What's up?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we're on Mudeheacidently I'm the buying guy that
Speaker 4: called you Germany. Oh Hi, how you doing? I got
Speaker 4: my d flip tree walking. Now the question I have
Speaker 4: I don't upload and I had to have some my
Speaker 4: download for me because I don't know Lord Place doing
Speaker 4: all that bounty stuff. Sure should I My phone is December.
Speaker 4: I mean I'm trying to talk fast like you.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I know I do talk fast. I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta learn. I gotta learn to talk slower.
Speaker 4: February, my phone will be two years old and it
Speaker 4: will be paid off. Okay, okay. Should I wait? This
Speaker 4: phone's working good?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 4: Should I wait for a year or two and get
Speaker 4: a better gallarity? Or should I go to an iPhone?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how you walk the iPhone. Excuse me,
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how you walk? You know iPhones. I
Speaker 4: thought it out in nineteen eighty one, eighty two when
Speaker 4: they had the bullet phone that came out. Oh wow,
Speaker 4: the little flip phone and you got that. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: in my you know mine, I'm passed. Doan me?
Speaker 1: Wow? Okay, Well, I mean so should you'd have to
Speaker 1: learn some new things when it comes to the iPhone.
Speaker 1: So your first question, should you keep the Flip three?
Speaker 1: This is the Samsung. You said you have the Flip three?
Speaker 4: Yes, okay.
Speaker 1: So I mean what I would do is I think
Speaker 1: that the Flip five is a sizeable upgrade from the three,
Speaker 1: mainly to do with the outside screen. And I believe
Speaker 1: we talked about do we talk about this a little bit.
Speaker 1: The screen was bigger, that it would be more valuable
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you did outside, Yeah you did it.
Speaker 1: We did, so I would say, I mean, you still
Speaker 1: have a couple of months before this is paid off.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if you got a trade in value
Speaker 1: for it, you might you know, do the math and
Speaker 1: see it might be a couple of hundred bucks to
Speaker 1: get the new upgrade. I I think if the phone
Speaker 1: is working for you and there's not a main feature
Speaker 1: that you're you're wanting out of this phone, then maybe
Speaker 1: just stick with what you got.
Speaker 4: It's already take pictures and I call y'all. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: I uh, this a Pandora.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it's set up like that. Sounds
Speaker 1: like it's set up the way you want it to work.
Speaker 1: And so the fact is to have to go to
Speaker 1: a new phone and to change it all and to
Speaker 1: set it all up is you know, just I hear
Speaker 1: the stress in your voice, just by the idea of
Speaker 1: having to do all that.
Speaker 4: I don't know how they didn't have a computer when
Speaker 4: I went to do you know, I'm showing me too.
Speaker 1: So well, now now the kids just skip the computers.
Speaker 1: They go right to the phone. They don't even they
Speaker 1: don't even use a computer anymore. It's just all about
Speaker 1: the phone. So it's it's kind of come full circle,
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 4: But now my phone a computer. I mean he did
Speaker 4: a phone computer, Well.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's yeah, it's I'd say it's a
Speaker 1: pocket computer. So I think, yeah, I mean, these these
Speaker 1: things can do. Let's put it this way. You said
Speaker 1: you're seventy one when the computers came out first in
Speaker 1: your lifetime, the phone that you have is more powerful
Speaker 1: than those computers that first came out. So these phones,
Speaker 1: these phones that we have are very very powerful. How
Speaker 1: are you with the accessibility features on the Samsung side?
Speaker 1: Are they working for you?
Speaker 4: When I, let's say I call you call somebody, I
Speaker 4: just say, well, calldy body, because you're in my time.
Speaker 4: Pat okay, you know, it's not like that.
Speaker 1: So it works. So it's not like you're needing a
Speaker 1: feature that the iPhone offers. Now, the iPhone does have
Speaker 1: some good accessibility features for folks with low vision or
Speaker 1: you know, uh dexterity issues, things like that, so it does.
Speaker 1: They do have a fair amount of accessibility features built
Speaker 1: into the iPhone. But it's all up to you. Do
Speaker 1: you really want to learn something new? If if you
Speaker 1: feel like that's a challenge and you want to do it,
Speaker 1: then that's great. Otherwise I think you stick.
Speaker 4: Not all. It'd be nice if I can learn that,
Speaker 4: but wow.
Speaker 1: Well yeah it might, it might take a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I think I think you're good with what you
Speaker 1: got right now. I think pay off the phone, enjoy
Speaker 1: the paid off phone for a bit, as long as
Speaker 1: it's not you know, frustrating you in any way or
Speaker 1: not doing something that you want it to do. But
Speaker 1: the only benefit I will say of Apple is, you know,
Speaker 1: if you do end up going with the iPhone, is
Speaker 1: that their stores really do have some great like sort
Speaker 1: of lessons that you could go to in person. If
Speaker 1: that's something that you're able to do, you could go
Speaker 1: to the Apple store in person and learn and and
Speaker 1: kind of understand the different features. So they have a
Speaker 1: lot of these classes at the Apple Store. I think
Speaker 1: they call it like Today at Apple or something like that.
Speaker 1: So great question, Greg, thanks for I'm honored to be
Speaker 1: on your speed dial. Thank you so much. But I
Speaker 1: say stick with what you got unless there's a reason
Speaker 1: why you need to switch to the new phone, but
Speaker 1: appreciate the call today, Greg in des moin thank you
Speaker 1: before we go to break here Amazon Amazon is you know,
Speaker 1: Prime Video has been ad free for many years and
Speaker 1: it's been a perk of your Prime membership. Well guess what,
Speaker 1: Starting next year, twenty twenty four, Amazon is going to
Speaker 1: put ads in your movies and TV shows that you're
Speaker 1: watching on Amazon Prime Video. So yeah, if you have
Speaker 1: a show that you watch that's ad free, that is
Speaker 1: going to end. And if you want to continue having
Speaker 1: an ad free experience, you can pay an additional two
Speaker 1: dollars and ninety nine cents a month. Now, if you've
Speaker 1: been following this show since we started in January, you
Speaker 1: know that we have talked about pretty much every major
Speaker 1: streaming service has raised prices. And this is a real
Speaker 1: head scratcher because this is a supposed to be included
Speaker 1: in your Amazon Prime membership as a perk that you
Speaker 1: pay fifteen dollars a month or one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: nine dollars a year for an Amazon Prime membership. Now
Speaker 1: they're saying, oh, you can continue this nice system that
Speaker 1: you have, but you're gonna have to pay an extra
Speaker 1: three dollars a month. That is not something Prime members
Speaker 1: want to hear. Now, Amazon knows that Prime members are
Speaker 1: not just gonna go ahead and cancel their membership when
Speaker 1: they hear this, and a lot of them are just
Speaker 1: gonna put up with the Prime Video ads. But let's
Speaker 1: be quite honest here. Maybe you found a show that
Speaker 1: you love on Prime Video or a movie. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: some things that I've found and I'm like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: cool that that's on there. But it's not like Prime
Speaker 1: Video is a prime destination for you know, like a
Speaker 1: Netflix or a Max or anything, or a you know,
Speaker 1: Hulu whatever. This is kind of like you give it
Speaker 1: a fair shake because it's included in your Amazon membership,
Speaker 1: and you're like, all right, if I find one good
Speaker 1: thing to watch in there, sure it's included. But three
Speaker 1: dollars a month for something that is like already on
Speaker 1: the fringe of like, it's not that great. Amazon, You're
Speaker 1: putting us in a really tough position here. Now, they
Speaker 1: do say the base Prime membership price is not going
Speaker 1: to increase in twenty twenty four, So they're kind of
Speaker 1: throwing people a bone there saying, look, you're not going
Speaker 1: to pay any more for this, But it's one of
Speaker 1: these things where you can no longer sell Prime Video
Speaker 1: as being a part or a perk of my Prime
Speaker 1: membership when you are now putting ads in this just
Speaker 1: like any other place on the Internet where you find
Speaker 1: stuff with ads, this is no longer a premium perk.
Speaker 1: This is now just an everyday kind of thing. So
Speaker 1: that's happening starting in twenty twenty four. If you want
Speaker 1: ad free, you got to pay an extra three dollars
Speaker 1: a month. Not fun, all right? Uh, you want to
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Speaker 1: calls coming up right here on rich On Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Uber eats is going to
Speaker 1: accept snap payments in twenty twenty four. They work with
Speaker 1: the government to do this. This, they say, is going
Speaker 1: to improve access to fresh groceries for people that may
Speaker 1: not be able to get to the store. Seniors, you know,
Speaker 1: anyone who is on these government benefits that you know,
Speaker 1: wants to kind of join the rest of the world
Speaker 1: and getting stuff delivered the way that so many of
Speaker 1: us are, so snap EBT payments twenty twenty four for Uber.
Speaker 1: They're also looking to accept healthcare payments like flex spending
Speaker 1: cards starting in twenty twenty four as well. So if
Speaker 1: you order something like, you know, over the counter medication,
Speaker 1: anything that's covered by that, you can use your Flex
Speaker 1: spending card kind of the way Amazon does it. If
Speaker 1: you don't know that, yes you can. You can put
Speaker 1: your Flex Spending card in Amazon and they will let
Speaker 1: you use it for approved items. I also like, what
Speaker 1: is it Target and I think CVS they mark your
Speaker 1: receipt if you buy something that's covered under Flex spending,
Speaker 1: and they'll put at the bottom. So if you do
Speaker 1: have access to a flex spending account, look at the
Speaker 1: bottom of your receipt. You can submit your receipt your
Speaker 1: Flex spending. They'll reimburse you for that. So it's I
Speaker 1: don't know why every retailer doesn't do that, but it's
Speaker 1: really handy. And then later on they're also launching an
Speaker 1: AI assistant, so you can of course everyone's launching AI
Speaker 1: with everything, but Uber eats is going to have AI
Speaker 1: so you can ask them for you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what you'd ask, Hey, what's the best flavor of cupcake?
Speaker 1: I don't know. And then they're also adding a sales
Speaker 1: aisle so you can find the promos and deals in
Speaker 1: one place. I mean, it's the irony of sales and
Speaker 1: deals on Uber eats because it is probably the most
Speaker 1: expensive way to eat. But I get it. This is
Speaker 1: kind of what we do in our world. We get
Speaker 1: things delivered, but it is a very very expensive way,
Speaker 1: and I'm not knocking it, believe me. My wife and
Speaker 1: I the other night we had like two hours to
Speaker 1: our cells, so we're like, do we go out for
Speaker 1: dinner or do we just like have something delivered? And
Speaker 1: we just you know, it's like it's expensive to get
Speaker 1: the stuff delivered, but it's actually cheaper than going to
Speaker 1: eat out because you know, less of a tip. I
Speaker 1: guess less, you know, I don't know, just less stuff
Speaker 1: you have paid for. Let's go to Vanessa. Vanessa in
Speaker 1: Great Falls. You're on with Rich Great Call Great I
Speaker 1: should say Great Falls, Montana.
Speaker 14: Yes, I years and years ago.
Speaker 5: My first computer ever bought was a gateway.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, I love gateways the cows.
Speaker 14: And ye that started my oldest son on his pet career.
Speaker 14: And now I see that they've someone is making gateways again.
Speaker 14: And I recently bought two and one tablets laptops for
Speaker 14: my grandchildren that are three and five.
Speaker 5: They can get started. Sure, what is the best way
Speaker 5: to set that up? So they only have access to
Speaker 5: the educational programs that we're putting on there for them.
Speaker 1: So this is a this is a Microsoft tablet or
Speaker 1: is it a computer? Microsoft?
Speaker 5: It's it's a two and one. You can fold the
Speaker 5: keyboard all the way back. It's almost like the surface
Speaker 5: go and you can fold the keyboard back and use
Speaker 5: it as a tablet or use the keyboard as a computer.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I've got this set up for my kids,
Speaker 1: and I believe so on iOS you've got what's called
Speaker 1: screen time. On Android, you've got what's called family Link.
Speaker 1: And with Microsoft, I believe it is called family Safety.
Speaker 1: And so you can set these up as you know,
Speaker 1: you can set them up as a parent or a
Speaker 1: grandparent to just allow them to do the things that
Speaker 1: you want these kids to do on there. So in
Speaker 1: most cases, and it's been a bit since I set
Speaker 1: these up for my kids, but I believe that you
Speaker 1: put in kind of like the age of your child
Speaker 1: that's accessing it, and it will we'll kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: it'll set some defaults like here's the stuff will allow,
Speaker 1: here's the stuff we won't allow. But then you can
Speaker 1: also go further and you could say, let's say they
Speaker 1: like a certain website like PBS kids or something. You
Speaker 1: can allow that specifically on the list of websites. But
Speaker 1: it also gives you a rundown of what they search
Speaker 1: online if you choose to allow that, or you can
Speaker 1: of course block searches. You can limit the time that
Speaker 1: they spend on these different apps and things, and of
Speaker 1: course just make it so they can't install anything new.
Speaker 1: But that's really what it starts with, is this Microsoft
Speaker 1: Family Safety is getting that installed, setting it up. You
Speaker 1: may have to create an account for the child, but
Speaker 1: once you get that on there, you know you're in
Speaker 1: control now for the most part, because sometimes it can
Speaker 1: be a little tricky. It can be a little frustrating
Speaker 1: because once you set this up, there may be something
Speaker 1: the child wants to do on there where they can't
Speaker 1: easily do it because it has all these restrictions in place,
Speaker 1: but no matter what, if you are setting up. I
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of parents that sort of give
Speaker 1: up on this stuff because it can be a little
Speaker 1: complicated to get set up, and so they say, you
Speaker 1: know what, never mind, I'll just hand them the tablet
Speaker 1: or the phone or their laptop. But please do not
Speaker 1: do that, because there is just too much that they
Speaker 1: can happen upon if you don't have these things locked down.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying they're even looking for stuff, but
Speaker 1: it's a matter of things can be presented to them,
Speaker 1: or they may search for something and it may just
Speaker 1: bring up something that you don't want them to see
Speaker 1: or they shouldn't be seeing at their age. So Family
Speaker 1: Safety is Microsoft's version, and I think that's the place
Speaker 1: to start with this. Now, by the way, Vanessa, there
Speaker 1: are other means of doing this. You can use a
Speaker 1: third party app like Bark. You can use something like
Speaker 1: a secure app, like a family Safety app like that,
Speaker 1: and that's another way of doing it. I have two levels.
Speaker 1: I've got at the network level in my home and
Speaker 1: also on the individual devices. But the fact that you're
Speaker 1: calling me and getting these things set up and wanting
Speaker 1: to set them up in this way is a good thing.
Speaker 1: So two thumbs up to you, Vanessa. But check it
Speaker 1: out Microsoft Family Safety. Get them set up Gateway two thousand.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that was the original name. But the
Speaker 1: spotted boxes the cow boxes. Ugh, that was one of
Speaker 1: my first computers ever. You are listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're talking Mustang mock e ev. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking tech.
Speaker 1: If you have any Apple devices, you might have updated
Speaker 1: your software this week with the iOS seventeen and the
Speaker 1: tvOS that was talking about, but there's also the new
Speaker 1: Watch OS ten. So if you have an Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: I believe four and up, it's got new software available.
Speaker 1: It's got this new They actually changed one of the
Speaker 1: buttons functionality, which I know a lot of people are
Speaker 1: going to be surprised at. When you press that side button,
Speaker 1: it no longer brings up your recent apps. It now
Speaker 1: brings up your control center. And there's a reason for
Speaker 1: that because now when you swipe up from the bottom,
Speaker 1: which used to bring up the control center, that brings
Speaker 1: up something called the smart stack. This is kind of
Speaker 1: like a stack of widgets that contain information. You can
Speaker 1: customize that by swiping up and then pressing down. It
Speaker 1: took me a minute to figure that out, but that's
Speaker 1: how you can customize what is seen on those widgets,
Speaker 1: like the weather and things like that, your calendar. There's
Speaker 1: also five new watch faces. Snoopy is now a watch face,
Speaker 1: so if you like Snoopy, you can switch to a
Speaker 1: Snoopy watch face, Palette, Solar, Analog, Nike Globe, which is
Speaker 1: kind of cool. It counts down the seconds on the screen.
Speaker 1: And then if you have an Apple Watch Ultra, you
Speaker 1: can use this new Modular Ultra, which is the one
Speaker 1: that I'm using, and it is just like the most
Speaker 1: information I've ever had on an Apple Watch screen. I've
Speaker 1: got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight little
Speaker 1: widgets of information. I've got the weather, I've got my
Speaker 1: activity rings, I've got a place to take memos. I've
Speaker 1: got the time, I've got the date, I've got a
Speaker 1: well being check in, I've got the sunset, I've got
Speaker 1: the UV rays, and i've got the seconds counting down. So,
Speaker 1: needless to say, my wrist is the most stressful thing
Speaker 1: you could ever imagine because there's just so much going
Speaker 1: on it's like a little mission control right here. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that's only if you have the Apple Watch Ultra. Let's
Speaker 1: go to.
Speaker 4: This.
Speaker 1: John Faulkner is no stranger to the show here. He's
Speaker 1: been on several times. He is with a Clean Fleet Report,
Speaker 1: and recently he wrote a review of the Mustang mach E.
Speaker 1: This is Ford's EV. He drove one ninety six miles
Speaker 1: across four states. And this is also the car that
Speaker 1: I've been driving for the past week and a half. John,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Oh, I gotta bring John up here. John,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. There we are. Well, you think
Speaker 1: it's my first time doing this, it is not. I
Speaker 1: swear so you have been driving. You drove the Mustang Machi.
Speaker 1: I gotta say this thing came out in like twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I never got a chance to drive it until now.
Speaker 1: I gotta say. It's right up there with one of
Speaker 1: my favorite evs, the Tesla. What do you make of
Speaker 1: this car?
Speaker 15: It was the fourth time that I reviewed the Maki,
Speaker 15: and I've never been disappointed in any way with the vehicle.
Speaker 12: It is.
Speaker 15: It's just it's a pleasure to drive. It's not all
Speaker 15: the power you need and a lot of room inside
Speaker 15: and I think it looks great.
Speaker 1: What kind of range were you getting on this car?
Speaker 15: I was the one that I drove to Moab from
Speaker 15: southern California was the extended batteries and it and it
Speaker 15: had right around three hundred miles of range. And since
Speaker 15: I didn't know the vehicle, the temperature was warm. I
Speaker 15: was doing almost all freeway driving. That means that your
Speaker 15: efficiency is going to be lower than if you were
Speaker 15: in town using regenerative braking and recharging the battery. So
Speaker 15: we never let it go past about thirty a battery remaining,
Speaker 15: and so we we timed out all of our stops
Speaker 15: based on using the forward Pass app and blew Oval
Speaker 15: charging network, and so we were able to just it
Speaker 15: just it was absolutely seamless.
Speaker 12: It was so simple to do this.
Speaker 1: So that's an interesting note that I wasn't really aware of.
Speaker 1: So when you drive in town with an EV, you're
Speaker 1: getting more mileage or more like efficiency than driving on
Speaker 1: the freeway or highway.
Speaker 12: Well, every time.
Speaker 15: That you slow, the motors then regenerate kinetic energy back
Speaker 15: into the battery. So yes, you are you're putting you're
Speaker 15: putting it back into the battery. Electricity, and so it's
Speaker 15: a yeah, it's a good it's called one pedal driving,
Speaker 15: and it's it's have you been.
Speaker 12: Doing that this week?
Speaker 1: Not as much. I don't actually saw that in the options.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have that turned on. So you're
Speaker 1: saying you just kind of instead of using the brake,
Speaker 1: you let the car slow down.
Speaker 12: That is correct.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that takes a little getting used. I've got
Speaker 1: to say this car really has surprised me in so
Speaker 1: many ways. Like number one, I feel like, I mean,
Speaker 1: the screen in the middle is this big giant screen.
Speaker 1: Everything looks good on there, like car plate, it's got
Speaker 1: wireless car plate. It's got this great panoramic sunroof that
Speaker 1: doesn't open, but it's still a nice big glass roof.
Speaker 1: The styling on the car is excellent. The blue Cruise.
Speaker 1: Did you have a chance to try that the autopilot
Speaker 1: kind of situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Out of our seventy and ninety six miles we drove.
Speaker 15: My wife went with me on the trip. I would
Speaker 15: say that we drove seventy five percent Hansbury and took
Speaker 15: a little bit getting used to. Now I've driven other
Speaker 15: manufacturers as well as Forward on the Lightning pickup also
Speaker 15: using their system, so I'm familiar with it. But it
Speaker 15: was really it was really a pleasure to drive so
Speaker 15: many miles and not having to be holding on the
Speaker 15: steering wheel and you have to build eat your relax
Speaker 15: when when you're driving like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that takes a big paradigm shift because
Speaker 1: we're so used to you know, obviously you're supposed to
Speaker 1: always have your hands on the wheel. I was surprised
Speaker 1: that it says hands free, like it tells you when
Speaker 1: it's ready to take over, and so you do not
Speaker 1: Like now there is sort of a camera system there
Speaker 1: that that wants you to look at the road ahead right, Well,
Speaker 1: it'll warn you if you're not.
Speaker 12: Yes, what will.
Speaker 15: Happen is that if you're if you take your eyes
Speaker 15: off of the road for any like a short amount
Speaker 15: of time, it will it will let you know that
Speaker 15: the hands free.
Speaker 12: System is gone. It turned off.
Speaker 15: But the things you put your eyes back on, it
Speaker 15: pops back on again.
Speaker 12: Now there are.
Speaker 15: Other manufacturers don't have that exact system, but I found
Speaker 15: that once I once I got in the habit of
Speaker 15: making sure that I was always looking forward, then I
Speaker 15: was fine.
Speaker 12: Now I could look over my wife.
Speaker 15: You know, for a second or two and say something
Speaker 15: to her then then look back out the windshield and
Speaker 15: that that was all good.
Speaker 12: So, but it's like what they don't want is someone.
Speaker 15: Driving along end and looking down and you know, doing
Speaker 15: text or or reading a book or doing something that
Speaker 15: they shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 12: They want you to keep your eyes on the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah. All the shenanigans we see on the news of people,
Speaker 1: you know, they I've heard of people. I actually saw
Speaker 1: one time someone on on Twitter, like was boasting that
Speaker 1: they put something on their wheel, like they some sort
Speaker 1: of like attachment that would that would trick the Tesla
Speaker 1: autopilot system so that they didn't have to keep their
Speaker 1: hands on the wheels. Like, I don't really think you
Speaker 1: should be, uh saying that you did that, because that's
Speaker 1: not something you should really do. Okay, So you went
Speaker 1: across these four different states. Now, tell me about all
Speaker 1: these manufacturers are switching over to the Tesla superchargers. What
Speaker 1: effect do you think that's going to have on this,
Speaker 1: you know, on just the EV landscape in general. And
Speaker 1: is Forward one of those manufacturers.
Speaker 15: They are one of those manufacturers, and that's going to
Speaker 15: be coming.
Speaker 12: They're going to have the adapter and.
Speaker 15: Right around the end of this year and then they're
Speaker 15: going to go strictly to the to the Tesla charging
Speaker 15: protocol starting in twenty twenty five. What my opinion on
Speaker 15: that is that every place that we charge looks back
Speaker 15: up a little bit.
Speaker 12: I only used the.
Speaker 15: Electrify America charging network on this trip.
Speaker 12: It just made it easier for me. And they are
Speaker 12: part of the with.
Speaker 15: Ford where all you do is you pull up, you
Speaker 15: put in the charger, it recognizes the vehicle, it charges,
Speaker 15: You're done, no payment, no pen, no nothing, You're just done.
Speaker 12: It's a wonderful system. But I stayed with EA on that.
Speaker 15: But every single place that we stopped there were.
Speaker 12: Maybe at the most a dozen EA.
Speaker 15: Chargers, and there was a there was twenty or twenty
Speaker 15: five or more Tesla chargers. So what it's going to
Speaker 15: do is it's going to open up the possibility of
Speaker 15: being able to find more chargers. And the Tesla chargers
Speaker 15: have a far better reliability record than do wortri By America,
Speaker 15: Charge Point, EVgo and all the other brands.
Speaker 1: So do you think we're at the point where evs
Speaker 1: can do road trips now that are non teslas or
Speaker 1: do you think it's sort of it's still hit or miss.
Speaker 15: Well, you put on the number one issue, and that
Speaker 15: is that in the states that has that have that
Speaker 15: believe that electric electric vehicles as the future of propulsion
Speaker 15: in this country, they are aggressively building out public charging systems.
Speaker 15: California has the most robust in the country. There are
Speaker 15: states in this country that the and again for the
Speaker 15: political reasons, they're not doing it.
Speaker 12: So therefore.
Speaker 15: The trip that I took is made possible by the
Speaker 15: fact that there was a lot of electrifying America chargers
Speaker 15: and because in the states that I drove through, California, Arizona, Nevada,
Speaker 15: and Utah, those four states they believe in electricity propelling vehicles.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: And finally, is this up there with your favorite evs
Speaker 1: Oh by far. Yes, it's a fun car and it
Speaker 1: feels like the best way I can describe it is
Speaker 1: it feels like a gas car. It makes the propulsion sounds.
Speaker 1: It is like I think, I think Ford nailed it,
Speaker 1: and this is pretty much their first EV.
Speaker 12: Right it is, and they they actually right mail was
Speaker 12: a really good word on this.
Speaker 15: And it's again built in America, so it's qualified for
Speaker 15: all of the IRA Fedral tax rebate programs. And it's
Speaker 15: and it's when you go buy your Ford dealer, you
Speaker 15: can actually see inventory. You don't have to go in
Speaker 15: and wait for one to be delivered. So down where
Speaker 15: I live, we have four dealers nearby, and you can
Speaker 15: see that there's several sitting there that are available to purchase,
Speaker 15: which is which is really good for consumers.
Speaker 1: John Faulkner of Cleanfleet Report dot com check them out.
Speaker 1: He does a lot of reviews on these things. What
Speaker 1: do you test driving next?
Speaker 15: Well, I just got out of a Maserati Grkale Modena.
Speaker 12: Which is a mile hybrid. And I just got out of.
Speaker 15: The range Row or Sport PHV plug in hybrid.
Speaker 12: What a wonderful vehicle.
Speaker 15: Fifty one miles on pure electricity on this vehicle. Man,
Speaker 15: it's we are rich. We're getting so close that gasoline.
Speaker 15: You know, it's still going to be sold. If you
Speaker 15: got a fifty five Chevy, you're always going to get
Speaker 15: gas for it. But we're really getting to that tipping point.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And when I filled up my I have an
Speaker 1: EV but I filled up my wife's car yesterday. Oh
Speaker 1: those gas in California are no joke right now, so
Speaker 1: I'm sure anytime the prices go up we see more
Speaker 1: interest in these evs. John Faulkner of Cleanfleetreport dot com,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me. Appreciate it and go
Speaker 1: check it out the Machy. I gotta say, I'm very
Speaker 1: very impressed. All right, coming up here, we are gonna
Speaker 1: do the feedback segment. We're gonna talk about some of
Speaker 1: the emails you sent me throughout the week, some of
Speaker 1: the feedback on the show, all that fun stuff right
Speaker 1: here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Microsoft
Speaker 1: this week announced a bunch of new things at an
Speaker 1: event in New York City. Microsoft had kind of a
Speaker 1: weird thing happen there. The guy who's been in charge
Speaker 1: of their surface devices for a long time, panos Pine,
Speaker 1: he just kind of up and left. He's like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm out, and there's you know, people are
Speaker 1: like speculating why he would do this right before a
Speaker 1: big event, and of course, you know, the rumors came
Speaker 1: out that maybe they were cutting some budget in his
Speaker 1: department and he just didn't like the direction. And so
Speaker 1: now the rumor is he's going to Amazon. We had
Speaker 1: the chance to interview him. I'm not kidding. This was like, gosh,
Speaker 1: when the Surface first launched, he came to KTLA to
Speaker 1: bring a Surface and this was a Now we take
Speaker 1: for granted this whole idea of a touchscreen kind of
Speaker 1: laptop tablet hybrid, but back when he brought it to us,
Speaker 1: it was something we had never seen before and it
Speaker 1: was just like so different with a little, you know,
Speaker 1: angular kind of stand you can pull out from the
Speaker 1: back and only had like one angle back then. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he did a good thing at Microsoft, and it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see what he does at Amazon if that's true. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I know that's inside baseball, but I just thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting. But Microsoft announced a copilot. Their AI assistant
Speaker 1: is now going to be making its way into Windows
Speaker 1: Office and Edge. And this is going to bring all
Speaker 1: kinds of AI experiences to Windows eleven, Microsoft three sixty five,
Speaker 1: and bing An Edge. So there's gonna be a Windows
Speaker 1: eleven update on September twenty sixth, and that's gonna bring
Speaker 1: over one hundred and fifty new features, including that copilot.
Speaker 1: So if you see an update, you like the idea
Speaker 1: of AI on your computer, then go ahead and get
Speaker 1: that update. On September twenty sixth, they also announced three
Speaker 1: new surface devices, a surface Laptop Studio two, a Laptop
Speaker 1: Go three, which a lot of people are saying looks
Speaker 1: pretty awesome, kind of like the their version of the
Speaker 1: MacBook Air, and then the Surface Hub three so or
Speaker 1: maybe it's the MacBook just Pro. Who knows. I haven't
Speaker 1: got hands on with these things yet, but hopefully I
Speaker 1: will soon. So a lot of info from Microsoft. If
Speaker 1: you're looking for a way to charge your iPhone, your
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, and your air pods, check out the high
Speaker 1: Rise three Deluxe had a chance to check this thing out,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty cool because it's the first time that
Speaker 1: you can mag safe charge your iphe but change the
Speaker 1: angle that it's charging at. So this includes the adapter
Speaker 1: and it can let you charge all three of these things. Also,
Speaker 1: you might be looking for a stand because iOS seventeen
Speaker 1: introduces this new standby mode that lets you see information
Speaker 1: on your iPhone screen when it's not in use and
Speaker 1: it's charging on its side. That's one hundred and fifty bucks,
Speaker 1: but it is a cool device. Twelve South, high Rise
Speaker 1: three Deluxe and then finally, my Heritage Photo Data. If
Speaker 1: you have an old picture, you can pop it into
Speaker 1: this AI and it will use clues in the picture
Speaker 1: to try to figure out when that picture was taken,
Speaker 1: anywhere from eighteen sixty to nineteen ninety with accuracy within
Speaker 1: five years. It'll look for people, events, and things in
Speaker 1: the pictures to try to figure out what date that
Speaker 1: picture was taken. This could be a good thing for
Speaker 1: like maybe an old picture of Grandma or grandpa, old
Speaker 1: black and white photo you have around the house. It
Speaker 1: also works with color pictures as well, but kind of neat.
Speaker 1: So again it's called my Heritage Photo Data. I have
Speaker 1: not tried that out personally, but I'd like to. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get to some of your feedback here. Let's see
Speaker 1: Bob and San Diego says, I heard your segment on
Speaker 1: KFI today about Bard. I decided to search myself. It
Speaker 1: shows a lot of good information, but also says I
Speaker 1: died last year. There's also some am I laughing? I'm sorry, Bob.
Speaker 1: There's also a second listing that says I volunteer at
Speaker 1: Elboa Park, but then says I also volunteer at to
Speaker 1: other places. I never have I called Google Customer Service
Speaker 1: and I'm on hold with them, and the person I
Speaker 1: spoke to doesn't have a clue what bard is. He's
Speaker 1: trying to transfer me, but it's totally confused. Bob, be careful.
Speaker 1: You don't have Google on customer service. They don't have
Speaker 1: a phone number like that. So I think you googled
Speaker 1: Google Customer Service and some random phone number that's trying
Speaker 1: to scam you. You are on the phone with them,
Speaker 1: so please be careful. But yes, what you're talking about
Speaker 1: is called hallucinations. These things literally make up stuff. Adrian says,
Speaker 1: I have passwords saved on Google Chrome and I've lost them.
Speaker 1: How can I get him back? Oh? Wait, I went
Speaker 1: to delete my search history and I had the option
Speaker 1: to delete save passwords checked as well. Ooh, be careful.
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize you could do that save delete
Speaker 1: all your passwords when you delete your search history, So
Speaker 1: be careful. The place to check to see if you
Speaker 1: have passwords stored on Google is passwords dot Google dot com. Oh.
Speaker 1: If you got them all, I guess it's a good
Speaker 1: chance to start over with some fresh new passwords. Paul
Speaker 1: says you recommended voicemap a few weeks ago. We were
Speaker 1: visiting a large US city and gave it a try.
Speaker 1: We loved it. Thanks for the recommendation. Yeah, voicemap lets
Speaker 1: you do audio tours in different cities. Let's see through Instagram.
Speaker 1: I don't have the person's name, but they said I
Speaker 1: was listening to you last Saturday and heard you struggling
Speaker 1: how to describe the new Apple watch band. FYI, there
Speaker 1: are two parts of Velcrow, the hooks and the loops.
Speaker 1: The fuzzy parts are the loops. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Oh my gosh, so much. Debbie says,
Speaker 1: I got a new iPhone fourteen. I installed a lens protector,
Speaker 1: thinking it was a thing to do, but the glass shatter.
Speaker 1: Now I can't get it off. If I checked YouTube,
Speaker 1: it says to soften with the hairdryer, but that hasn't helped.
Speaker 1: I don't want to scratch up my new phone. Help
Speaker 1: me Rich, Thank you, Debbie. Debbie, I do not recommend
Speaker 1: lens protectors on phones. I recommend a screen protector and
Speaker 1: a case, but lens protectors I think are unnecessary. Apple
Speaker 1: and other phone companies spend a lot of money on
Speaker 1: the optics. Why are you gonna put like a little
Speaker 1: plastic or glass protector between you and like millions of
Speaker 1: dollars of R and D. So just take your chances
Speaker 1: with the lenses. They do shatter from time to time,
Speaker 1: but I think just take care of your phone, have
Speaker 1: a good case, and you should be okay, all right,
Speaker 1: if you can believe it, that's going to do it.
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