Speaker 1: Apple unveils new iPhones, a new Apple Watch, and new iPads.
Speaker 1: Kindle gets a fresh new look. Google answers my storage prayers,
Speaker 1: plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich
Speaker 1: Dumiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where
Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should
Speaker 1: know about. It's also the place where I answer the
Speaker 1: questions you sent me once again. My name is Rich Dmuro,
Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, coming
Speaker 1: to you today from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Why am I in Chattanooga, Tennessee?
Speaker 1: Will I am here to see Volkswagen's electric car plant.
Speaker 1: So they are making their new ID four electric car
Speaker 1: here in the US in Chatta Nuga, Tennessee. So h yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm here for like twenty four hours to check this
Speaker 1: thing out. So I'm very excited. I took a run
Speaker 1: this morning in this fine little town and it is beautiful.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of living in Louisiana. So I used
Speaker 1: to live in Shreveport, Louisiana for a couple of years
Speaker 1: as a reporter, and it's it's so interesting because when
Speaker 1: I lived in a small city, I did not respect
Speaker 1: this small city lifestyle. So I grew up just outside
Speaker 1: New York City. So even though I lived in a
Speaker 1: suburban area, it was very much you know, an urban
Speaker 1: area because it was just a community for New York City, right,
Speaker 1: people commuted in from my city to the city. In
Speaker 1: the city we call New York City the city. And
Speaker 1: then I moved to Los Angeles for college. Then I
Speaker 1: moved to Louisiana, well, Washington State, Louisiana, back to New
Speaker 1: York and then back to LA. So a lot of
Speaker 1: my time has been I guess most of my time
Speaker 1: at this point has been spent in big cities. But
Speaker 1: I did spend you know, four years in small cities,
Speaker 1: and I didn't I didn't like them back then because
Speaker 1: I was young and I wanted to you know, go
Speaker 1: out and do stuff and you know, hang out. And
Speaker 1: now that I'm older and have a family, that stuff
Speaker 1: is not as important. Like I want a nice family place,
Speaker 1: and LA is fine, but it's definitely, you know, not
Speaker 1: the easiest place in the world to raise a family
Speaker 1: and also to live. I mean, you know, small smaller
Speaker 1: cities like this are just so much more geared towards
Speaker 1: you know, working and raising a family. So anyway, beautiful place.
Speaker 1: This run this morning totally reminded me of living in Louisiana,
Speaker 1: fresh clean air. I ran across the river and then
Speaker 1: I ran back on this like pedestrian bridge they have here,
Speaker 1: which apparently the driver from last night told me that
Speaker 1: this that's the longest pedestrian bridge in the US. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I have to fact check that, but it
Speaker 1: was great, and so here I am. I actually if
Speaker 1: this if you're sitting there thinking rich the podcast actually
Speaker 1: sounds pretty good, it's because I actually lugged all of
Speaker 1: my podcasting equipment with me this time, so I made
Speaker 1: sure that I wanted it to sound really nice, and
Speaker 1: I wanted all of my bells and whistles literally bells
Speaker 1: and whistles, to make this podcast sound as good as possible.
Speaker 1: All Right, So here's the deal. I've got a couple things.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something that I did personally, little
Speaker 1: personal news that's exciting. I'll get to that a bit
Speaker 1: later in the show. But this show is primarily going
Speaker 1: to be focused on Apple's announcements. So if you don't
Speaker 1: like Apple, if you're not an Apple fan, or you
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about iPhones and iPads and all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. It's probably not the podcast for you,
Speaker 1: so go ahead, see you later. Pick it up the
Speaker 1: next episode. Because Apple announced a lot they were small
Speaker 1: changes to some of their devices. But when it's Apple,
Speaker 1: they kind of suck all the air out of the
Speaker 1: room in the tech world, and you know, they command
Speaker 1: the respect that they get. I mean, a lot of
Speaker 1: people in the US have these phones, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give it the respect it deserves. I'm gonna go over
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I've got a couple of other things,
Speaker 1: and I'll still take questions from you, but this will
Speaker 1: primarily be about the Apple event. So let's get started
Speaker 1: with the with the first news. We got news about
Speaker 1: the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, and Apple Fitness.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the iPhone thirteen and the iPhone thirteen Mini.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal. A lot of the changes with
Speaker 1: the devices with the iPhone specifically, are you know this
Speaker 1: might be an S model right in iPhone twelve S
Speaker 1: and they do call it the iPhone thirteen. But and
Speaker 1: some of the improvements, especially on the iPhone thirteen Pro
Speaker 1: and Promax are definitely big improvements to the cameras but
Speaker 1: in the battery life. But the rest of these improvements
Speaker 1: are pretty minor, so I'm going to go through kind
Speaker 1: of the biggest things that I noticed. So iPhone thirteen
Speaker 1: and thirteen Mini same size as before, six point one
Speaker 1: inch screen and a five point four inch screen. The
Speaker 1: cool thing is what they did with both of these
Speaker 1: phones now, the dual phones, they're basically the same, so
Speaker 1: you only have to choose the size you want, so
Speaker 1: you either want to go with Mini or regular, or
Speaker 1: regular and Max. So the cameras are pretty much identical
Speaker 1: now across the board, which I like. They made the
Speaker 1: true depth camera sensor a little bit smaller, so the
Speaker 1: face ID area at the top, I mean, it's still
Speaker 1: a pretty big notch. It doesn't bother me. I don't
Speaker 1: really know why people are so bothered by that. Battery
Speaker 1: life improvement pretty big on the iPhone thirteen and thirteen Mini.
Speaker 1: It's got this new A fifteen bionic, so the battery
Speaker 1: is up to two and a half hours more on
Speaker 1: the iPhone twelve than the iPhone twelve, and the iPhone
Speaker 1: thirteen Mini you get up to an hour and a
Speaker 1: half more than iPhone twelve Mini. So that's a pretty
Speaker 1: big improvement, especially because these phones last year took a
Speaker 1: pretty major hit, so I feel like maybe we're just
Speaker 1: getting back to old battery life on the iPhone, but
Speaker 1: Apple still says this is some of the best battery
Speaker 1: life we've seen now on the iPhone thirteen and Mini.
Speaker 1: The wide camera is the one that's improved, so just
Speaker 1: one of the lenses, and the wide is kind of
Speaker 1: your everyday camera, so that's the most important, and that
Speaker 1: has the biggest sensor ever, so forty seven percent more
Speaker 1: light it captures, which is really good. So when you're
Speaker 1: taking your everyday pictures, that's the lens that you use
Speaker 1: the most. It's gonna be a lot better. Now I
Speaker 1: haven't tested these, so I can't say that for certain,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what they're saying. The other thing
Speaker 1: they did is they brought this censorshift technology, which means
Speaker 1: it stabilizes the sensor instead of the lens, which you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of it gets a little in the weeds there,
Speaker 1: but the reality is your shots, even if you have
Speaker 1: a shaky hand, should be more steady, and that means
Speaker 1: that they'll be more in focus, and that means, especially
Speaker 1: in low light photography, things will be more in focus.
Speaker 1: They've got this new cinematic mode across all the phones
Speaker 1: that kind of brings portrait mode to video. So if
Speaker 1: you're thinking that, you know, you like these portrait mode photos,
Speaker 1: now you can do that with your videos. Now. I
Speaker 1: think this is kind of cool, but I don't think
Speaker 1: it's feature that I have to rush out and upgrade
Speaker 1: my phone for. If you think about smartphone video, it
Speaker 1: kind of just you want everything to be in focus.
Speaker 1: That was always the goal. Right now it's gonna be
Speaker 1: where you can kind of have the background blurry and
Speaker 1: the subject is in focus, but if you move the
Speaker 1: camera to someone else in the background, it will now
Speaker 1: focus on them and the foreground will be blurry. So
Speaker 1: it kind of gives you that look that you see
Speaker 1: in movies versus just a flat, kind of clear look.
Speaker 1: Across the board, the A fifteen processor, they're not saying
Speaker 1: that it's a lot faster, but I guess it does
Speaker 1: certain things faster, like the graphics. But that's about it
Speaker 1: all right. So the colors for the iPhone thirteen and
Speaker 1: thirteen many pink, blue, midnight, starlight, and red, and they
Speaker 1: also did double the entry level storage, so it's one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight gigs that gets a ding. I
Speaker 1: have this video on YouTube from a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago called Apple Math, and I kind of went through
Speaker 1: the reality of what Apple has been doing with customers.
Speaker 1: They've been playing games with them with iPhone storage for many,
Speaker 1: many years. For many years, the entry level storage was
Speaker 1: not half of the middle storage. It was like almost
Speaker 1: a quarter. So it used to be like sixty four,
Speaker 1: then two fifty six, then five twelve, which is not right.
Speaker 1: So if you do the math, you're actually paying way
Speaker 1: more for the entry level phone. Now it's the right way,
Speaker 1: So it's one twenty eight, two fifty six, five twelve
Speaker 1: On the thirteen and thirteen Mini. These phones start at
Speaker 1: six ninety nine for the Mini, seven ninety nine for
Speaker 1: the thirteen and they will be available on pre orders Friday,
Speaker 1: September seventeenth, and then the phones will be in stores
Speaker 1: on the twenty fourth of September. So that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: So do you upgrade if you have the iPhone twelve,
Speaker 1: I don't think you need the upgrade to the thirteen
Speaker 1: or thirteen Mini. When it comes to the iPhone thirteen
Speaker 1: Pro and Pro Max, that's where it gets a little
Speaker 1: more interesting. That's where we're seeing a bit more improvement.
Speaker 1: But if you're on one of those upgrade plans anyway,
Speaker 1: of course, it's always nice to get the new phone,
Speaker 1: especially for the new battery life. But we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the iPhone th thirteen and thirteen pro after this first question.
Speaker 1: All right, first question from Dan. Hey Rich, I need
Speaker 1: to join a Zoom conference as a participant for the
Speaker 1: first time ever. I will be using my computer, a PC,
Speaker 1: and I'm concerned about security. So if I have any
Speaker 1: if I have Chrome or Edge, can I join the
Speaker 1: conference and not need to open a Zoom account or
Speaker 1: download any software on my computer? And if that's possible,
Speaker 1: then can I be sure nothing will be downloaded by
Speaker 1: Zoom without me knowing it. I would hope they don't
Speaker 1: get my IP address or any other information. There have
Speaker 1: been so many stories about Zoom and security. Thank you, Dan.
Speaker 1: All right, Dan, So couple things here. Number One, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're going to get your IP address. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty standard for any website that you visit, unless
Speaker 1: you're using a VPN. Number Two, I don't know what
Speaker 1: kind of Zoom you're doing, but I mean, is it
Speaker 1: really that secretive what you're talking about or what you're doing.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a free service on the public Internet.
Speaker 1: So there's only so much, so many precautions you can take. Now.
Speaker 1: Number one, you don't need to download Zoom to run
Speaker 1: a Zoom to run a zoom like to be a
Speaker 1: participant on Zoom. Now. The thing is they use what
Speaker 1: do they call this, They call this dark dark patterns?
Speaker 1: Is that what they call it? Where Zoom tries to
Speaker 1: convince you you have to download software to join. So
Speaker 1: when you click that Zoom link immediately it will say, oh,
Speaker 1: we just put the installer on your computer. Make sure
Speaker 1: you press run to join your meeting. And if you
Speaker 1: don't do anything, you wait a little bit. Now it'll say, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: they didn't fall for our tricks, so hold on. Oh
Speaker 1: let's give them a link now on their web page.
Speaker 1: So they refresh the web page and then it says, oh,
Speaker 1: do you want to join from browser? And then you
Speaker 1: can join from your browser. But they really hide that
Speaker 1: and they make it, you know, they force you to
Speaker 1: or they try to force you to download the software
Speaker 1: and make you think that's the only way to join.
Speaker 1: That is not the case. WebEx does the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's all these video conference apps because they want the
Speaker 1: software on your computer because then you'll probably use it again.
Speaker 1: And it's just easier. I mean, I get it. It's
Speaker 1: just easier to join from the software. They get a
Speaker 1: better experience. But you can join from just your browser,
Speaker 1: but you have to kind of just wait and wait
Speaker 1: for that link to come up that says join from
Speaker 1: your browser, and you will see it. You might have
Speaker 1: to scroll down to the bottom of your screen to
Speaker 1: see it, but will it will show up eventually. Just
Speaker 1: don't run the software that they download your computer automatically.
Speaker 1: Now with that said, can you join a zoom without
Speaker 1: logging in? I do believe you can, because typically you
Speaker 1: just have to give a person a link which includes
Speaker 1: the user kind of like the one time user and password.
Speaker 1: But it depends how this zoom is set up. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you will have to log in. I believe. I don't
Speaker 1: know because I kind of forget. I do know that
Speaker 1: I log into WebEx without signing up for a WebEx account,
Speaker 1: so I think Zoom lets you do the same thing.
Speaker 1: So that's that. Now. The other thing, the IP address
Speaker 1: um or other information. I mean, they're gonna get your
Speaker 1: IP unless you use a VPN if you want, just
Speaker 1: use a VPN and log in that way. But that's
Speaker 1: about it. Zoom insecurity Zoom is it's not. I don't
Speaker 1: believe it's end to end encrypted by default, but you
Speaker 1: could enable that in the settings. But it is encrypted
Speaker 1: in transit, so whatever you're saying, no one else can
Speaker 1: see theoretically, but I will tell you if you're putting
Speaker 1: personal information out there on the Zoom call, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: always a chance that someone could could sniff that information out.
Speaker 1: But I do believe it's encrypted so that it should
Speaker 1: be fine. And if the if the Zoom itself is
Speaker 1: password protected, you should be okay. But in general, look,
Speaker 1: if you're using a public service that is free, there's
Speaker 1: only so much expectation of privacy that you can have
Speaker 1: when you use that. So just keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: And I think the big thing is just to join
Speaker 1: it without signing up, and to join it without downloading
Speaker 1: the software, and you should be fine. So good question there.
Speaker 1: All right, Now, let's talk about the iPhone thirteen Pro
Speaker 1: and Pro Max. These are the iPhones that got a
Speaker 1: much bigger leap than the standard iPhone, and the reason
Speaker 1: they do this is because Apple kind of like the
Speaker 1: way Samsung does it. They do kind of an ultra model.
Speaker 1: This would be their Ultra and they put all of
Speaker 1: their newest technologies in the Pro models and then they
Speaker 1: trickle them down to the regular models later on. Now
Speaker 1: with the Max this year, I like what they did
Speaker 1: and thank you Apple for doing this. They made the
Speaker 1: iPhone Pro and Promax the thirteen models the same. They
Speaker 1: are identical except for the screen size, so you no
Speaker 1: longer have to choose. Last year you had to choose
Speaker 1: the Promax had slightly better specs in certain aspects. This
Speaker 1: time they're the same. So all you need to do
Speaker 1: is say do I want that big screen or do
Speaker 1: I want the standard size screen? And so last year
Speaker 1: I went with the standard size. This year I may
Speaker 1: be tempted to go with the Pro Max just to
Speaker 1: get a bigger screen. I was watching Stuff, a little
Speaker 1: movie yesterday on the airplane No Sudden Move on HBO Max,
Speaker 1: which by the way, was pretty good. I didn't watch
Speaker 1: all of it, so don't tell me anything. No spoilers here.
Speaker 1: But I was watching my tiny iPhone because I love
Speaker 1: packing really lean, especially for a trip like this that's
Speaker 1: less than twenty four hours, and so I was watching
Speaker 1: on my little tiny iPhone screen. It was just horrible,
Speaker 1: like so small I could barely see what was going
Speaker 1: on on the screen anyway. Aside, so what's new on
Speaker 1: the iPhone thirteen pro models. They've got a new what
Speaker 1: they call super Retina XDR display with promotion. I mean,
Speaker 1: all that means is that it's a really good screen
Speaker 1: that's brighter than before, and it has an adaptive refresh
Speaker 1: rate up to one hundred and twenty hurts, which means
Speaker 1: that when you're scrolling through things especially like Twitter, social media,
Speaker 1: watching videos, and playing games, the refresh rate should be better,
Speaker 1: so it will be buttery smooth versus a little I
Speaker 1: noticed yesterday on my iPhone. Of course, now they announced
Speaker 1: it that it's a little bit choppy when you scroll.
Speaker 1: Not a deal breaker, it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 1: But most videos in the US at least are thirty
Speaker 1: frames per second, maybe sixty, and so you probably never
Speaker 1: noticed on videos. But when it comes to gaming and scrolling,
Speaker 1: that's when the adaptive refresh rate will come in handy.
Speaker 1: Let's see, so the camera's got improvements in a big way.
Speaker 1: All the sensors and lenses for all three of the
Speaker 1: rear cameras are new, and so you've got much better
Speaker 1: low light performance up to two times two and a
Speaker 1: half time, two point two times when compared to iPhone
Speaker 1: twelve Pro and one point five when compared to iPhone
Speaker 1: twelve Pro Max. You see what they did there, So
Speaker 1: now they're revealing that the Pro Max was a little
Speaker 1: bit better. You also have that sensor shift optical image
Speaker 1: stabilization on both models. And let's see what else. The
Speaker 1: Ultra wide Excuse me, the Ultra wide camera features a
Speaker 1: much wider one point eight aperture and autofocus. So this
Speaker 1: is we're talking the ultra wide lens. That's the one
Speaker 1: that you can take in a lot more wide frame
Speaker 1: on your photography. So ninety two percent improvement for low light,
Speaker 1: which means if you took an ultra wide, So a
Speaker 1: lot of times if I'm out and about at night,
Speaker 1: I want to take a cool cityscape photo and I
Speaker 1: go ultra wide. Immediately on the iPhone twelve Pro, you
Speaker 1: notice that the whole screen went dark because it just
Speaker 1: didn't take in very much light on that Ultra Wide.
Speaker 1: Now it's going to take in almost one hundred percent
Speaker 1: more so that's really really cool. So that means that
Speaker 1: your ultrawide photos are going to be a lot better.
Speaker 1: They also have auto focus on the Ultra Wide, which
Speaker 1: is really cool, and that unlocks macro photography. Using the
Speaker 1: Ultra whites, you can take macro pictures from a distance
Speaker 1: of two centimeters, which is really close up. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: not a huge macro photography guy, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. I'll use it once in a while,
Speaker 1: take some pictures of the flowers or whatever. Bugs. There's
Speaker 1: also a new seventy seven millimeter telephoto lens. So the
Speaker 1: telephoto lens now lets you do three times optical zoom.
Speaker 1: It used to be two or two and a half.
Speaker 1: Now it's three, and so that's nice. Now if you
Speaker 1: look at Samsung, they're doing like I think, ten times
Speaker 1: and obviously up to one hundred times on the Ultra.
Speaker 1: I think the Ultra there, I can't remember. Don't quote me,
Speaker 1: but I think it was thirty times optical. But maybe
Speaker 1: it was ten times. I can't remember at this point,
Speaker 1: it's been too long. But so the fact that iPhone
Speaker 1: is pretty far behind in the optical zoom, you know,
Speaker 1: but they're getting there three times is a good thing.
Speaker 1: So you know, the more you can get with zoom optical,
Speaker 1: the better. And quite frankly, when you zoom in, even
Speaker 1: with the you know, the software assistance, it still looks
Speaker 1: pretty good. On the iPhone, let's see, night Mode is
Speaker 1: now available on all three cameras on the Pro models,
Speaker 1: including the Telephoto. That's the first first time ever. So
Speaker 1: when you take nightmode on all those cameras, it will work,
Speaker 1: and it will capture more light and make your photos
Speaker 1: look better. They've got this new thing called photographic Styles,
Speaker 1: which I'll probably never use, but if you're a pro
Speaker 1: photographer maybe you would. They've got pro res Video which
Speaker 1: is coming later, and that's going to be a better
Speaker 1: format if you're like a pro videographer. But again, if
Speaker 1: you notice I keep saying the words pro, this new
Speaker 1: Promax and Pro are really aimed at the person who
Speaker 1: is very much interested in really really the best photos
Speaker 1: and videos you can get, which aka is not the
Speaker 1: average consumer. So when someone asks me rich do I
Speaker 1: need to upgrade? I mean the iPhone, even the iPhone
Speaker 1: like from a couple of years ago, cakes really good
Speaker 1: pictures in everyday light when you get in those challenging
Speaker 1: lighting situations when you're in a darkly lit bar or
Speaker 1: restaurant or action with your kids, that's when these newer
Speaker 1: phones will shine. So if you feel like your phone
Speaker 1: is lagging those areas, that's where these would be a
Speaker 1: good upgrade. Battery life definitely improved to the iPhone thirteen
Speaker 1: Pro is gonna get you one and a half hours
Speaker 1: longer than iPhone twelve Pro, up to two and a
Speaker 1: half hours longer than the Pro Max on the twelve.
Speaker 1: So if you have an iPhone twelve Pro like I do,
Speaker 1: battery life has been a very sore issue. So I'll
Speaker 1: take an hour and a half longer for sure, I'll
Speaker 1: take two and a half hours longer, which would be
Speaker 1: even longer. I mean, that's that's really good. That means
Speaker 1: less charging for me, all right. Availability iPhone thirteen Pro
Speaker 1: and Pro Max available in graphite, gold, silver, and Sierra Blue,
Speaker 1: which would be my choice that Sierra blue one twenty
Speaker 1: eight again two fifty six five twelve, and a new
Speaker 1: one terabyte storage option. Now, this one terabyte storage is
Speaker 1: great if you're shooting a lot of video, like for
Speaker 1: me personally, I'll be shooting my entire story on the
Speaker 1: iPhone here in Chattanooga, and so I would need a
Speaker 1: lot of storage, but I bumped it down to ten
Speaker 1: EP because we don't air in in four K anyway.
Speaker 1: So it's fine to just do ten ADP because I
Speaker 1: don't need all that extra storage gobbling up my phone.
Speaker 1: So the one terabyte do you really need it? Know,
Speaker 1: some people get it because they just want it. And
Speaker 1: if you're a pro videographer, fine nine ninety nine for
Speaker 1: the Pro, ten ninety nine for the Promax in one
Speaker 1: twenty eight. I would not recommend getting the one twenty eight.
Speaker 1: If you're going pro, you probably want to go two
Speaker 1: fifty six minimum because one twenty eight is just going
Speaker 1: to be way way too little storage. That's it. I
Speaker 1: think that's it for the for the iPhone thirteen pro
Speaker 1: in Promax. So am I impressed? I mean, obviously Apple
Speaker 1: does a nice job of improving these phones. This is
Speaker 1: what I call an S improvement. We didn't get a
Speaker 1: major new feature like mag safe or Touch ID or
Speaker 1: face ID or Apple Pay on these phones, but they
Speaker 1: are really nice improvements, especially if you're interested in the
Speaker 1: best video and audio. Are sorry, best video and pictures
Speaker 1: you can get on a smartphone. And if you're on
Speaker 1: one of these upgrade plans. It's great. I think ninety
Speaker 1: nine point nine percent of people will be perfectly happy
Speaker 1: with the iPhone twelve standard model Mini if they want
Speaker 1: just a little tinier phone, and the Max if they
Speaker 1: want or Pro rather if they want the best videos
Speaker 1: and pictures, and Max if you want the best videos
Speaker 1: and pictures with a big screen. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to a question, and we'll go to an audio question
Speaker 1: this time.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rich, my name is Andrew. I'm just wondering, you
Speaker 2: get all those texts for contests and you get a
Speaker 2: free gift card or something. How legitimate are those? I
Speaker 2: always delate those. Are they very legitimate or are they
Speaker 2: just scams and fishing trying to get your information?
Speaker 1: That's my question, Andrew, great question, and this is my
Speaker 1: answer in one sound. Click on the links that you
Speaker 1: get through texts. Let me say that again, do not
Speaker 1: click on the links that you get through texts. In fact,
Speaker 1: this is the way that hackers have been known to
Speaker 1: take over iPhones. I don't think that the texts you're
Speaker 1: talking about is that's what's going on here, but that
Speaker 1: has been the infiltration method in the past. If hackers
Speaker 1: figured out a way into the iPhone. It's through I message,
Speaker 1: and what they do is they send malicious code. The
Speaker 1: best code that they can send is code that doesn't
Speaker 1: even need to be tapped. That's These are taps that
Speaker 1: are like zero click exploits, which means you don't even
Speaker 1: have to click the whatever they send in the attachment
Speaker 1: for it to infiltrate your phone. And that's really bad.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the patch that we saw with
Speaker 1: iOS fourteen point eight. That's the one that you saw recently.
Speaker 1: If you haven't updated your phone, definitely update it. Because
Speaker 1: the ways that hackers were able to get into these
Speaker 1: phones was through I message and also through web pages
Speaker 1: that had malicious code in them, and you really didn't
Speaker 1: have to do much. In fact, I believe that all
Speaker 1: they had to do was send the message to your
Speaker 1: phone and that was it. Whatever the phone did to
Speaker 1: like process the message would be enough for them to
Speaker 1: gain access to your phone. Now, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: happening here with these spam texts that you're talking about.
Speaker 1: They are just mostly annoying, But what the endgame is
Speaker 1: with these spam texts is that they are trying to
Speaker 1: get your personal information which you know, if you click
Speaker 1: the links, it tells them that you have an active
Speaker 1: phone number, and it also if you follow the links,
Speaker 1: it will you know, they'll just either try to get
Speaker 1: your personal information, your personal data, or they will try
Speaker 1: to say that you won something like I and I
Speaker 1: do this stuff for you and I you know, I'd
Speaker 1: click these links just to see what the deal is.
Speaker 1: And the last one I clicked was it led me
Speaker 1: to a website where I won a free pair of
Speaker 1: I think they called them air phones, which looked strikingly
Speaker 1: similar to air pods. And all I had to do
Speaker 1: as the winner of the hour was to pay nine
Speaker 1: to ninety nine for shipping for these air pods. So
Speaker 1: do not fall for those kind of tricks. Don't even
Speaker 1: reply stop. Now there are legitimate texts that you can
Speaker 1: get to your phone and a lot of companies now
Speaker 1: you do use text to get in touch with you.
Speaker 1: But if it's a legitimate company, it will respond to
Speaker 1: the word stop. So if you get a text from
Speaker 1: a company like you know, I don't know, let's say
Speaker 1: you sign up. You sign up for Wendy's Text Alerts.
Speaker 1: You want to get some coupons in your in your
Speaker 1: text and you know, once you sign up for these things,
Speaker 1: they really take advantage. Once they get a hot number,
Speaker 1: they're like, all right, we're gonna we're gonna text you,
Speaker 1: and you'll get a text every day from Wendy's about
Speaker 1: you know, trying the spicy chicken nugs or trying the
Speaker 1: new baconate or sandwich or whatever. And so they'll they'll
Speaker 1: text you over and over and you know, until you say,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, I'm really craving Wendy's. But at some point,
Speaker 1: if you get sick of those texts, you can just
Speaker 1: text the word stop back and they will respect that
Speaker 1: and they will stop texting you. That's a legitimate company
Speaker 1: sending legitimate texts that you signed up for. If these
Speaker 1: are not legitimate texts, if they are just scammers, you
Speaker 1: do not want to respond at all. You can block
Speaker 1: the number, but it doesn't really matter because they generate
Speaker 1: random numbers anyway when they text you. But you can
Speaker 1: just go ahead and delete that message. Do not respond,
Speaker 1: do not reply, and definitely don't click the link in
Speaker 1: that message. Andrew, great question, and thanks for texting in
Speaker 1: or sorry calling leaving a voicemail I think you used.
Speaker 1: There's two ways you can leave a voicemail. If you
Speaker 1: want to email me, you can just email record it
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Speaker 1: right hand corner and you can send mic a message
Speaker 1: that way. All right, next story is iOS fifteen. I
Speaker 1: just talked about iOS fourteen point eight, but I talked
Speaker 1: about all the new iPhones. If you're sitting there listening
Speaker 1: and saying, rich you didn't really convince me. I don't
Speaker 1: think I need a new iPhone. I think my iPhone
Speaker 1: is going to be just fine. So in that case,
Speaker 1: you will get a fresh new iPhone when you install
Speaker 1: iOS fifteen, or at least it'll feel like a fresh
Speaker 1: new iPhone. iOS fifteen is releasing on September twentieth. Now
Speaker 1: this is this is so typical Apple. And you know,
Speaker 1: I love Apple, but I also hate Apple in certain
Speaker 1: ways because they do things that are just There's always
Speaker 1: this idea of it's not I don't want to say
Speaker 1: lying biomission, but it's kind of the idea of leaving
Speaker 1: out information and then people have to seek out that information.
Speaker 1: And as a journalist, I feel like this often happens
Speaker 1: to me when I go and talk to someone about something,
Speaker 1: whether it's a new car, whether it's a new gadget,
Speaker 1: whether it's a new whatever. The person the representative never
Speaker 1: sits there and tells me what the gadget doesn't do.
Speaker 1: They only tell me what it does, and so it
Speaker 1: is then my job to sit there and figure out Okay,
Speaker 1: well they mentioned that it does this, but hold on,
Speaker 1: did you drop support for this? And I have to
Speaker 1: do a little slew thing to figure out this stuff.
Speaker 1: And so Apple, I'm not saying that they were omitting information,
Speaker 1: but let's be honest. For the millions upon millions of
Speaker 1: people that have an iPhone out there, what are they
Speaker 1: most excited about right now? Is it the new iPhone
Speaker 1: or is it the upgrade to iOS fifteen. And yes,
Speaker 1: there's always a couple of people out there that don't
Speaker 1: want to upgrade, and that's fine. You should be doing
Speaker 1: security updates. And in the future, Apple I believe, is
Speaker 1: going to be separating out security updates from iOS updates
Speaker 1: so that you can stick with an older version of iOS,
Speaker 1: but you can still be nice and safe and secure
Speaker 1: from hackers by installing the software updates. So that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. But with that said, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people would have been interested to know that iOS
Speaker 1: fifteen is launching on Monday, September twentieth, but Apple conveniently
Speaker 1: left that out of their big old announcement. And so
Speaker 1: why did they leave it out? Well, because why do
Speaker 1: they want to advertise the fact that your old iPhone
Speaker 1: is going to get a new lease on life in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. It's gonna feel fresh. And then
Speaker 1: if you get iOS fifteen installed, why do you need
Speaker 1: to upgrade to a new iPhone? Because, by the way,
Speaker 1: you're going to get some of the same features that
Speaker 1: are coming to the new iPhones in the in the
Speaker 1: current iPhones that you have, and by the way, this
Speaker 1: works all the way back to the iPhone six S
Speaker 1: and success plus. So if your iPhone is running iOS
Speaker 1: fourteen right now as we speak, it will be able
Speaker 1: to run iOS fifteen on September twentieth. Now do you
Speaker 1: need to run out and install iOS fifteen on the
Speaker 1: first day? I don't know. If you're nerd like me,
Speaker 1: of course you want to. I mean I can't wait
Speaker 1: to get that on my phone because it feels like
Speaker 1: an new phone. And yeah, probably slows down your phone
Speaker 1: just a little bit. Remember people talk about that, the
Speaker 1: idea that Apple slows down the old devices, and then
Speaker 1: it came out that yeah, they kind of did because
Speaker 1: of battery issues. But now they're much more open about that,
Speaker 1: much more honest. You can look in your battery settings
Speaker 1: and see if it's being if it's if your battery
Speaker 1: is wearing out to the point where your phone is
Speaker 1: being throttled. But anyway, iOS fifteen coming out on September twentieth.
Speaker 1: It'll work on all the iPhones, and a couple of
Speaker 1: the features won't be available at launch, at least according
Speaker 1: to nine to five, Mac share play will not be there.
Speaker 1: But one of the big features that will be is
Speaker 1: called Focus. And I'm hoping that this will help me
Speaker 1: separate my work and my personal life a little bit better.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you follow me on social media
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech, you know my personal life and
Speaker 1: my work life are very much intertwined. And I'll get
Speaker 1: more to that in just a moment with my personal
Speaker 1: announcement after the next question. But I will tell you
Speaker 1: it's tough to keep the personal from the public. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just I am who I am. I cover this
Speaker 1: stuff for a living, but I also live the life.
Speaker 1: I mean, I live the life of wanting to check
Speaker 1: out these gadgets and play with these gadgets and figure
Speaker 1: out what works with gadgets and what doesn't work with gadgets.
Speaker 1: And so I'm very open with you. I'm open with
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, I'm going to be struggling
Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks to decide do I
Speaker 1: want to stick with the iPhone or do I want
Speaker 1: to switch my personal device to the Pixel six Pixel
Speaker 1: six Pro, I should say, And that's going to be
Speaker 1: a big decision because I've gotten so used to iPhone
Speaker 1: and the iPhone lifestyle with my Apple Watch and air
Speaker 1: tags and all this good stuff. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of ready for something new, and just like
Speaker 1: I don't actually, I don't think that's like a lot
Speaker 1: of people. I don't think a lot of people are
Speaker 1: thinking about switching because they're they're in their their lane.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're Apple, they're very good at getting
Speaker 1: you to stick with Apple, especially because of I message. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be beholden to a platform because
Speaker 1: Apple basically took my phone number and linked it up
Speaker 1: to this I Message account that yes, it's so nice
Speaker 1: and it's so great and it works so perfectly and
Speaker 1: friends love it. But I don't need to be identified
Speaker 1: by an I message blue bubble. That's just not Sorry,
Speaker 1: like I will give up I message and when people
Speaker 1: text me and it comes up green, oh sorry, I
Speaker 1: mean you deal with it. And yeah, if you want
Speaker 1: to take me off your group texts and all this
Speaker 1: good stuff, you don't want to send me pictures and videos, fine,
Speaker 1: then you know, find me on telegram. That's that's all
Speaker 1: I have to say there. All right, what else is new?
Speaker 1: And iOS fifteen? Weather application is going to be new
Speaker 1: Ooho new weather application, new design for Safari, but Focus
Speaker 1: is the big thing. This is again kind of a
Speaker 1: smaller update, but there will be some new things in
Speaker 1: iOS fifteen. All right, let's get to another question. Richard says, Hello,
Speaker 1: rich I have a question about to do list apps
Speaker 1: for iPhones. I have used three by five cards to
Speaker 1: write my to do list seems like forever, but I'm
Speaker 1: looking for a better system to organize tasks for a
Speaker 1: work week. Any suggestions. Thank you, Richard. Well, Richard, the
Speaker 1: system that you are describing is what I use, and
Speaker 1: so I use three I use a combination of two things.
Speaker 1: I use three by five cards, and then I use
Speaker 1: a task list like a to do list. And believe me, Richard,
Speaker 1: I have tried everything under the sun. So one of
Speaker 1: my favorites used to be called wonder list. I've tried
Speaker 1: Google tasks, I've tried Microsoft tasks or is it Microsoft
Speaker 1: to do Microsoft to do. I've tried all the different
Speaker 1: ways that you can keep track of your tasks. I've
Speaker 1: tried apples, built in reminders, and here here's what's worked
Speaker 1: for me. And I do two things now. I do
Speaker 1: a combination of physical because I decided that I can't
Speaker 1: give up the three by five index cards at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. It is the best way. It's
Speaker 1: just I like to see. And what I use the
Speaker 1: index cards for is to plan out my stories. I
Speaker 1: do a story for KTLA and our affiliated stations on Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
Speaker 1: and I have decided that the best way of keeping
Speaker 1: track of my stories is to write them out on
Speaker 1: it used to be index cards. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what I use now. And put them up on a
Speaker 1: a what do you call a bulletin board with pins,
Speaker 1: And that is the best way because what happens is,
Speaker 1: let's say I've got next week stories all planned out.
Speaker 1: I know, Monday, I'm doing a crime story on a
Speaker 1: crime app On Wednesday I'm doing the Ford Maverick, and
Speaker 1: then on Friday, I've got something else planned. And so
Speaker 1: I know, let's say on Monday something comes up and
Speaker 1: I've got to push Wednesday story to something else. I
Speaker 1: got to push that to Friday. Well, it's easy for
Speaker 1: me to just move the index cards around and with
Speaker 1: the push, you pull it out, you move it, and
Speaker 1: now Wednesday story becomes Friday story. I write a new
Speaker 1: card for Wednesday and everyone is happy. Now I have
Speaker 1: graduated those index cards to post it notes on a whiteboard,
Speaker 1: and I discovered that through the pandemic, and it's just
Speaker 1: much easier. It's just like a post It's just like
Speaker 1: a card that you stick into the wall, but it's
Speaker 1: a post it note and so it just sticks. I
Speaker 1: put it on the wall, same principle, and that's how
Speaker 1: I cover that. When it comes to my to do list,
Speaker 1: the best to do list that I have found you
Speaker 1: ready is Microsoft to Do List. And the reason I
Speaker 1: like it is because a it is platform agnostic, which
Speaker 1: means if I'm on my Android phone it works. If
Speaker 1: I'm on my iPhone, it works, if I'm if I'm
Speaker 1: on Windows, it works, if I'm on Mac it works,
Speaker 1: and they've got apps across all those platforms. The other
Speaker 1: thing I like about it is that you get this
Speaker 1: thing called my Day, which is a fresh task list
Speaker 1: for every day. And so if you're like me and
Speaker 1: you put a lot of tasks on your list that
Speaker 1: are sort of longer term and not just something you
Speaker 1: want to accomplish on that day, it gets a little
Speaker 1: cluttered with your typical task lists because you're looking at
Speaker 1: stuff every day that's the same. But with this every day,
Speaker 1: you get a fresh canvas, and so you can add
Speaker 1: tasks just to that day and check them off just
Speaker 1: for that day. But if you don't do them on
Speaker 1: that day, guess what they go to your big list
Speaker 1: of all of your tasks. And so I love that aspect.
Speaker 1: I also love the fact that you can share this
Speaker 1: easily with someone. So you can share the task list
Speaker 1: with someone, all they have to do is sign up
Speaker 1: and you can share that list with them and they
Speaker 1: can be on board and so that really helps. Now
Speaker 1: you asked for a three x five index card system,
Speaker 1: and so I think what's closest to that if you
Speaker 1: want to truly go just digital, I think what you
Speaker 1: would like is called Trello t R E l l O,
Speaker 1: and that is the most similar you can get to
Speaker 1: sort of the physical card system, because the way that
Speaker 1: you set it up, it looks like a board of cards,
Speaker 1: and you can rearrange them, you can move them. You
Speaker 1: can actually set up your Monday, Wednesday, Friday stories like
Speaker 1: I do, and you can put them in you know,
Speaker 1: you can put your cards underneath and you can shuffle
Speaker 1: them around and it works really well. And then you
Speaker 1: can make you know, even more board. So if you
Speaker 1: want to have three columns for Monday, Wednesday, Friday and
Speaker 1: you want a fourth column for your task list, you
Speaker 1: can do that. So Trello is probably the best. They
Speaker 1: do have a free plan and it works really well.
Speaker 1: I personally don't use it because it just it's just
Speaker 1: a little bit. I like the system I've settled on,
Speaker 1: which is a combination of the post it notes and
Speaker 1: Microsoft to do works for me. Oh yeah, One more
Speaker 1: thing I like about Microsoft to do that not all
Speaker 1: of the to do lists offer, is you can drag
Speaker 1: and drop in your tasks an attachment like a file,
Speaker 1: and so that's really easy. Like on Apple Reminders, I
Speaker 1: can't find a way to attach a file. Maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: maybe they've added that functionality, but I really like the
Speaker 1: fact that I can just add a file to my reminder.
Speaker 1: So if I take a screenshot, or if I have
Speaker 1: a PDF of a bill I need to pay or whatever,
Speaker 1: I can just toss it in there and when I
Speaker 1: get to it on my to do list, I don't
Speaker 1: have to go phishing for that information. It's right in
Speaker 1: the in the task itself. So great question, Richard, Thank
Speaker 1: you for asking. And let's talk about the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: and then I'll get to my personal info. I put
Speaker 1: the personal info deep into the podcast so that way
Speaker 1: you have to be a true listener to really get it,
Speaker 1: because you know, if you're just listening and you kind
Speaker 1: of tune now after five minutes and you say, eh,
Speaker 1: what another yawner from rich then you don't get to
Speaker 1: share in my personal news. All right, Apple Watch, you
Speaker 1: have a method to my madness. Apple Watch series seven,
Speaker 1: So what can I say about the Apple Watch series seven? Well,
Speaker 1: number one, all the rumors were wrong. It did not
Speaker 1: get flatter and look like an iPhone and all that.
Speaker 1: They didn't change anything. They just made it. They made
Speaker 1: the screen go a little bit more edge to end.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what they did. And so twenty percent
Speaker 1: more screen area and thinner borders, so you know, the
Speaker 1: screen just goes much more. So the screen looks bigger,
Speaker 1: even though they didn't really increase the amount of screen
Speaker 1: real estate. I mean they did a little bit. They
Speaker 1: made thinner borders, right, so it does look like it
Speaker 1: goes a little bit more to the edges. Big whoop.
Speaker 1: I mean, is this a reason to upgrade?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Do they improve the battery life? No, battery life is
Speaker 1: still the same. So the battery life is still eighteen hours,
Speaker 1: which means you still need to charge it every single
Speaker 1: day of your life. If you do anything with exercise,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to charge it even sooner than every day. Sometimes, Nah,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I take about a five mile run
Speaker 1: and it actually does still last through the end of
Speaker 1: the day, although sometimes it will charge it before the
Speaker 1: end of the night. Whatever he got to charge the
Speaker 1: thing every day. They did improve battery charging time, though,
Speaker 1: so does charge thirty three percent faster through a new
Speaker 1: charging architecture and magnetic fast charger USBC cable. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that means you need a new one to
Speaker 1: get that. I think it does. That's what it sounds like.
Speaker 1: Let's see what's the other improvement. They made the screen stronger,
Speaker 1: so it's got this new fifty percent thicker front crystal.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you I talked about how my
Speaker 1: Apple Watch Series six scratched easily. We'll see they didn't
Speaker 1: say anything about scratching, but they said crack resistant. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think this thing scratches very easily. I think
Speaker 1: it scratches if it's if it's rubbed up against a
Speaker 1: certain type of material and it's kind of like your teeth.
Speaker 1: You know, they're pretty strong, but if you're if you're
Speaker 1: chomping on ice, which is made of crystals, and those
Speaker 1: crystals the architecture of them just erecs havoc with the
Speaker 1: architecture of whatever it's up against. There are certain things
Speaker 1: that are just a stronger architecture, geometry. This is like
Speaker 1: and look at this is actually what Apple says. Look
Speaker 1: what they say, redesigned front crystal with a stronger and
Speaker 1: more robust geometry. So I'm not a math expert, I'm
Speaker 1: not a geometry major, but I just know that certain
Speaker 1: shapes are are more are harder than other shapes. And
Speaker 1: you can think about this when you look at supports.
Speaker 1: If you have one beam like that looks like a toothpick,
Speaker 1: and if you ever built one of these like toothpick
Speaker 1: things in your life for like, you know, a project,
Speaker 1: you know that like a toothpick just standing upright, if
Speaker 1: you crush it is gonna crush pretty easily. But if
Speaker 1: you make that toothpick into more of a of a triangle,
Speaker 1: it's gonna support more of the weight, I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I remember. So this is That's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about here. So fifty percent thicker whatever
Speaker 1: crystal that's supposedly more crack resistant. Also, for the first time,
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch seven is IPX six dust resistant. Now
Speaker 1: I have brought my Apple Watch to the beach and
Speaker 1: the desert, not so much the desert. I mean, I
Speaker 1: live in a desert in Los Angeles, but it's not
Speaker 1: like there's like, you know, dust storms swirling around like
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. I was driving to Texas one time,
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding. We got caught in a real
Speaker 1: life dust storm and I've never ever seen anything like
Speaker 1: it ever again in my life. I think it was
Speaker 1: called Peko's Texas, and it was unbelievable. I remember we
Speaker 1: got to our hotel. We could barely see anything in
Speaker 1: front of you, and we get to our hotel and
Speaker 1: it's just like dust swarming everywhere. And I remember we
Speaker 1: ordered a pizza. We had to go out and get
Speaker 1: the pizza, and it was just like I never had
Speaker 1: experienced anything like it. So yeah, I guess dust could
Speaker 1: get in this thing. I've never had problems with sand
Speaker 1: at the beach ever with the Apple Watch Series six
Speaker 1: and earlier. But now it is more dust resistant, so
Speaker 1: it'll be more durable. It's still swim resistant, which is
Speaker 1: really good. Now they added some updates with WATCHSOS eight,
Speaker 1: and some of those updates include a keyboard, a quirdy
Speaker 1: keyboard on it, so you now get a you know,
Speaker 1: a real keyboard that's built in. You can either swipe
Speaker 1: or you can tap the keys on it. So that's cool.
Speaker 1: Let's see there's let's see what else, a new mindfulness app.
Speaker 1: There's sleep, respiratory rate tracking, tai chi, and pilates workout types.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else, what else? What else? Watch OS
Speaker 1: eight now has new improvements if you ride a bike.
Speaker 1: So I did not know this, but fall detection apparently
Speaker 1: did not work really well if you're on a bike
Speaker 1: or really working out, and I guess the algorithms have
Speaker 1: been tweaked, so now know if you fall off a bike,
Speaker 1: which is really really important. So now it also automatically
Speaker 1: knows when you start a bike workout. And so again
Speaker 1: these are some of those things will come to other
Speaker 1: watches because it's in Watch OS eight, so some of
Speaker 1: those things, those improvements will work. Five brand new aluminum
Speaker 1: case colors, including Midnight, Starlight green, and a new blue
Speaker 1: and product red. When does the Apple Watch Series seven
Speaker 1: come out We don't know. Available later this fall. So
Speaker 1: remember the rumors about the the shipping the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: seven would not be available at launch. Well, they said
Speaker 1: it was going to be available in limited quantities. Well
Speaker 1: turns out it's yeah, that was right. Actually, Apple Watch
Speaker 1: Series seven same price three ninety nine, Apple Watch se
Speaker 1: two seventy nine, Apple Watch Series three at one ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Don't go Series three. Please, don't go Series three. That's
Speaker 1: way too old. Series three launched a bunch of years ago,
Speaker 1: and gosh, let's see how old that is at this point.
Speaker 1: If you have one, it's fine, but I would not
Speaker 1: purchase a new one. I don't think that that's that's
Speaker 1: a smart thing to do at this point. Let's see,
Speaker 1: where where's my Wikipedia? Let's see Apple Watch serious three Wikipedia. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see. It was first available April twenty fourth, twenty fifteen, No.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty seventeen, three years ago. So I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not too old as far as Apple products go, and
Speaker 1: it's nice that it still works. But I would definitely
Speaker 1: go se minimum and then I go Series seven if
Speaker 1: you can. And I would personally go with Cellular if
Speaker 1: you can, because I think cellular is the watch. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you ever, well, I run a lot outside by
Speaker 1: myself and without my phone, and so for me, Cellular
Speaker 1: is the feature of the Apple Watch. And if I
Speaker 1: ever do switch to the Pixel, I'm gonna activate my
Speaker 1: Apple Watch with Cellular on the family plan, which is
Speaker 1: gonna be a little wonky. I'm gonna use the family setup,
Speaker 1: which is not ideal because it won't be perfect. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's a whole nother story. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: another question and then I'll do my personal info. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's do another recording. Here we go another voice memo here.
Speaker 3: Hello, which they say is Josey. I have a simple
Speaker 3: question for you. Have you heard about a cloud switch
Speaker 3: service called telebox t E R A B or X
Speaker 3: tearbox If you have want you, I want to hear
Speaker 3: your input about it. If you haven't, well that's okay.
Speaker 3: Things all right.
Speaker 1: So I had to look up terror Box and I
Speaker 1: had not heard of this. But from what I see,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of talk about whether it's
Speaker 1: legit or not. And here's what I can tell. So
Speaker 1: what terror Box is if you go to the website,
Speaker 1: it's very simple. It's literally just a terror box used
Speaker 1: to be called do box. It provides you with a
Speaker 1: terabyte of storage and it's free. So but that's it.
Speaker 1: There's no like, there's no information, there's no This is
Speaker 1: what it concerns me about this is that there's no
Speaker 1: about this website on the website, which is odd. So
Speaker 1: I would definitely not use this as my primary storage
Speaker 1: in fact, I would not even trust the you know,
Speaker 1: the encryption, Like if you're just sharing like random, like
Speaker 1: if you just need a terabyte of storage space to
Speaker 1: store random stuff that's not very personal, that's just easy,
Speaker 1: and you don't really care about the privacy, then I
Speaker 1: think this would work. But I would I would not
Speaker 1: guarantee or expect this to be around in a year
Speaker 1: or two, like you just don't know. And that's I'm
Speaker 1: only saying that because there's nothing about it on the
Speaker 1: website like usually it would say about there'd be a
Speaker 1: Twitter link or a LinkedIn, or a Facebook or an Instagram.
Speaker 1: There's none of that stuff. But it looks like a
Speaker 1: nice website. You can log in with Google log in,
Speaker 1: create an account. There's an Android client and iPhone client.
Speaker 1: And if you go to the iPhone client, let's see
Speaker 1: what the ratings are. There's only nine hundred and twelve ratings.
Speaker 1: It says it's owned by FlexTech, and so if you
Speaker 1: look at the developer website, let's see, yeah, brings you
Speaker 1: back to Terrorbox now. I was able to find a
Speaker 1: press release. It says Terrorbox surpasses ten million global downloads.
Speaker 1: This was on September fourteenth, twenty twenty one comes out
Speaker 1: of sunny Veil, says terror Box, a cloud based storage
Speaker 1: subscription provider, announced ten million downloads. While many competitors offer
Speaker 1: free cloud most don't exceed five gigabytes without a paid subscription,
Speaker 1: Terrorbox gives users one terabyte a free cloud storage space,
Speaker 1: which is approximately two hundred and fifty six thousand and
Speaker 1: four megabyte photos. Terrorbox automatically sinks files across devices and
Speaker 1: local storage. Oh that's interesting, so you can ability, you
Speaker 1: can upload files up to four gigs in size or
Speaker 1: twenty gigs with paid easily share files online previews. Compatibility
Speaker 1: with iOS, Android, and desktop computers, and it also sorts
Speaker 1: into categories like flowers, food, and home. Available in iOS
Speaker 1: and Android. TERBYX for Windows will be available on September sixteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Oh that's interesting. Okay, that's like very soon.
Speaker 1: Tear Box is a okay, and it actually has a contact,
Speaker 1: a PR contact in the US, So I mean, look,
Speaker 1: and I've actually gotten emails from these people, so like
Speaker 1: the other let's see have I gotten from this agency?
Speaker 1: Have I gotten anything? Yeah? I have so oh wow,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Okay, it's a legit agency because I've worked
Speaker 1: with them on other things, so t E R A box. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems legit, but again I would be cautious. I
Speaker 1: would just be cautiously optimistic. Use this for like a
Speaker 1: way to store stuff. You've got a terabyte in the cloud,
Speaker 1: but just don't bank too much on it. And apparently
Speaker 1: the company that it's owned by. I looked up a
Speaker 1: little bit more and it apparently it's owned by a
Speaker 1: Japanese division of a China company. So I don't know
Speaker 1: take that at I just you know, we just don't know.
Speaker 1: There's just not too much that I just wish it
Speaker 1: had more information about who like owns this, but it
Speaker 1: just doesn't. And you would think, okay, now I got
Speaker 1: to another page that tells me a little bit more
Speaker 1: about it. But again, okay, so if I go to
Speaker 1: membership pages, normal user gets one terabyte and then a
Speaker 1: premium user. Okay, so it tells you, oh, okay, this
Speaker 1: is interesting. You don't get high speed downloads, and you
Speaker 1: don't get automatic video back up. You can only say
Speaker 1: five hundred files, playback resolution is seven to twenty, maximum
Speaker 1: file size four gigs, and it's not ad free. Okay,
Speaker 1: So there are some limitations to the free but again,
Speaker 1: you can upgrade to premium for gosh, see I don't
Speaker 1: I hate when they don't say how much pricing is
Speaker 1: on their page anyway, So this is again terror Box
Speaker 1: is something that you only want to do if you
Speaker 1: are in need of some storage. There are other places
Speaker 1: out there where you can get storage, maybe not a
Speaker 1: terabyte for free, but you know, you can always exhaust
Speaker 1: your other options like dropbox and one edrive and Google Drive.
Speaker 1: But again they're all kind of clamping down on that
Speaker 1: free storage. All right, let's get to my news. So
Speaker 1: I've talked about this in the podcast before, but you know,
Speaker 1: this podcast is called Rich on Tech. It's a lot
Speaker 1: about me and my world, and I try to make
Speaker 1: it as personal as possible because I'm a real person.
Speaker 1: I'm a human being that covers technology in Los Angeles. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm on TV, so that makes me like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this guy's on TV. And you know, it's so interesting
Speaker 1: that when you're on TV people think you're different than
Speaker 1: you know, people that are not on TV. And I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm just a regular person that happens to be on TV.
Speaker 1: So yes, you see me on there, anyone can see me,
Speaker 1: anyone can know who I am. But the reality is
Speaker 1: I'm just a regular person and I'm going through everything
Speaker 1: in life just like you are. And whether that's family,
Speaker 1: whether that's kids, whether that's problems, whether that's good things,
Speaker 1: whether that's highs, whether that's lows, it's all there. My
Speaker 1: life is no different than yours except for the fact
Speaker 1: that I have to get up really early and be
Speaker 1: on TV, and that's basically it. I have a job
Speaker 1: just like everyone else. Some days are better than others.
Speaker 1: So anyway, the reason why I tell you all that
Speaker 1: is because some people try to, you know, hide their
Speaker 1: personal life. I feel like I can't because my life
Speaker 1: is so intertwined with what I do, whether I'm sharing
Speaker 1: pictures of my kids, whether I'm sharing where I am going, whatever.
Speaker 1: So with all that said, I'm not you know, this
Speaker 1: is not like a big life change. Well it kind
Speaker 1: of is. But the reason I tell you this is
Speaker 1: because I wouldn't typically tell you about the type of
Speaker 1: car I drive, because there's no reason to unless it
Speaker 1: was pertinent to what I cover. And now I feel
Speaker 1: like it is because this week I purchased a Tesla
Speaker 1: and I'm very excited about that fact, because it's been
Speaker 1: a long time coming. If you've listened to this podcast
Speaker 1: in the past, you've known that I've or you know
Speaker 1: that I've talked about the fact that my next car
Speaker 1: will probably be a Tesla. And so it came to
Speaker 1: a point where I felt like I wanted a new car.
Speaker 1: I was ready, and I bought a Tesla. I bought
Speaker 1: it on September first. I got it a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago. How did I get it so fast? Well,
Speaker 1: there's a little secret on the Tesla website called existing inventory.
Speaker 1: And if you go on that website and you look
Speaker 1: at the existing inventory, Tesla releases a couple of cars
Speaker 1: looks like every day that are already made. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's wrong with these cars. Like I'm not
Speaker 1: what's wrong, but like, how do they have these cars?
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. Is it someone that says I'll
Speaker 1: never mind, I don't want it. They build these cars
Speaker 1: and then they're just ready or do they just build
Speaker 1: a couple extras. I don't know. But I got my
Speaker 1: car in two weeks versus months. And the reason I
Speaker 1: tell you this is because I will probably be talking
Speaker 1: about the Tesla more and more and I will say,
Speaker 1: I'm already obsessed. I love it. It has changed my world.
Speaker 1: I'm learning all about it. I'm watching multiple YouTube videos
Speaker 1: about all the different features. I'm getting used to the
Speaker 1: idea of charging at work, you know, wherever I go.
Speaker 1: I haven't done the home charger yet. But again, it's
Speaker 1: this is a new experience in my life, and it
Speaker 1: feels like when I first got the iPhone. That's really
Speaker 1: what it feels like, because I'm exploring this new way
Speaker 1: of doing things that is just so different and it's
Speaker 1: really amazing. And I feel like I'm driving like something
Speaker 1: that Elon Musk personally like gave me. It's so weird
Speaker 1: because I feel like his imprints are on this car
Speaker 1: with the humor that's built into it. But anyway, so
Speaker 1: I tell you this because I will be talking about
Speaker 1: it in future episodes. I am now on a very
Speaker 1: different path in life, the EV path, which is really
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's something new and in America we
Speaker 1: are so gas centric that it is it is really
Speaker 1: a leap of faith to go down this road of
Speaker 1: EV and so I'm there. It's exciting. I will tell
Speaker 1: you also that I sold my old car through Shift,
Speaker 1: so that was an experience in itself. I you know,
Speaker 1: with these new you know, I used to sell my
Speaker 1: car with Carmacks when I've purchased cars in the past,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was amazing. The fact that you
Speaker 1: can just go somewhere and they purchase your car from
Speaker 1: you and give you money for it is on the spot.
Speaker 1: It is amazing. And then when Carvana came along, I said,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, now I can sell it to Carvana.
Speaker 1: They come to you, Oh my gosh. And then I
Speaker 1: saw Shift and I basically compared the pricing from Shift,
Speaker 1: Carvana and Carmacks. Carmacks could not give me a quote
Speaker 1: on my phone. Carvana was a couple thousand less than
Speaker 1: Shift and Shift. The big difference is that when Carvana
Speaker 1: takes your car, according to my friend, the money is
Speaker 1: in your account immediately. With Shift, it does go through
Speaker 1: a kind of a little more of a holding period
Speaker 1: where they do come to your house, they do the evaluation,
Speaker 1: but there is a final inspection off site that does
Speaker 1: take a little bit longer to get your money. So
Speaker 1: I was very nervous in handing my car over along
Speaker 1: with my pink slip. I think that is that what
Speaker 1: they call it the title whatever, you know, the slip
Speaker 1: for the title and not having the money. But every
Speaker 1: person I talked to from Shift assured me that I
Speaker 1: would get my money, and I did after only twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. They sent me an email saying, your car
Speaker 1: passed the final inspection. Your money is on its way,
Speaker 1: but it could take three to four days to get it.
Speaker 1: So I can't say with certainty that the Shift process
Speaker 1: worked out. It's Shift dot com Shift, by the way.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. But I can't say with certainty
Speaker 1: that it worked out. But it seems to have worked out,
Speaker 1: and I seem to have gotten more than Carvana. So
Speaker 1: the way I understand it is that Carvana gives you
Speaker 1: a little bit more than Carmak, and then Shift, it seems,
Speaker 1: is paying people a little bit more than CarMax. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's probably because they probably do less advertising on TV,
Speaker 1: they have maybe a little bit less overhead, and they're
Speaker 1: probably just less known, so they need more cars to
Speaker 1: do the same thing as Carbona. So I think it's
Speaker 1: an amazing world we live in today, the fact that
Speaker 1: we have this already. I will tell you that range
Speaker 1: anxiety is real. Every trip that I go on. I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting there thinking, Oh my gosh, do I have
Speaker 1: enough mileage to get there? How am I going to
Speaker 1: charge once they get there? Am I gonna be able
Speaker 1: to get back home? How am I going to charge
Speaker 1: at home? Because I don't have a charger yet. But
Speaker 1: it's a new world, and I've got to say, I
Speaker 1: have not been this excited about something in the tech
Speaker 1: world for many, many years, and so I am very
Speaker 1: excited about that. And oh my gosh, we're already fifty
Speaker 1: five minutes into the show. I haven't even gotten to
Speaker 1: the rest. I have so much more to talk about.
Speaker 1: I've just been very long winded, so I'll just keep
Speaker 1: going a little bit. Let's talk about the iPad Mini
Speaker 1: iPad MANI. This got some of the biggest improvements. What
Speaker 1: do you need to know about the iPad MANI. It
Speaker 1: is totally brand new. It's got this big eight point
Speaker 1: three inch screen, comes in pink, starlight, purple, and gray.
Speaker 1: It's got touch ID at the top on the fingerprint
Speaker 1: sensor I guess, on the power button. It now supports
Speaker 1: the second generation Apple pencil. It's got the new A
Speaker 1: fifteen bionics, so a really fast chip that is in
Speaker 1: the new iPhones. It's got the center stage, so the
Speaker 1: cameras are improved. Center stage means that the camera will
Speaker 1: follow you when you're doing a video chat. It's got
Speaker 1: USB C, it's got five G optional cellular, and I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I think this is something that I am
Speaker 1: going to purchase because I love the idea that I
Speaker 1: can take this on trips. I know, I try to
Speaker 1: pack light, but I still like the idea of a
Speaker 1: little iPad, and especially if I'm gonna be using the pixel,
Speaker 1: I'll still want the iOS for you know, researching and
Speaker 1: just in general, and so this is kind of a
Speaker 1: nice way of having that iOS experience. Maybe I don't
Speaker 1: need it if I just do the new iPhone, but
Speaker 1: this would be six hundred and forty nine dollars with cellular,
Speaker 1: four ninety nine without cellular. And the annoying thing here
Speaker 1: is that Apple raised the price by one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: on this thing. It used to be three ninety nine
Speaker 1: and now it's four ninety nine, and that is a
Speaker 1: I just hate the fact that in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: You know, I get it, they improved a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: but why do we have to have a price increase.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. So yeah, all right, let's should
Speaker 1: we do another question? Let's do another question? Uh, Dixon
Speaker 1: writes in Oh, this isn't a question, it's actually a complaint. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I took your advice and bought one of these earbuds.
Speaker 1: It arrived a couple days ago, since I live in Irvine.
Speaker 1: First glance, the packaging was professional and I pleasing. I
Speaker 1: immediately tested the sound quality compared to my Bose earbuds
Speaker 1: that I've been using for years. I'm sorry to inform
Speaker 1: you with big disappointment of the bad quality of the sound,
Speaker 1: not even close to my bows and clarity and sound.
Speaker 1: I reached out, Oh, these are one plus buds. I
Speaker 1: reached out to one plus online to return the item.
Speaker 1: As of today, five business days have gone by, still
Speaker 1: waiting for the return label. I emailed them twice. The
Speaker 1: response was wait twenty four to forty eight hours. I'm
Speaker 1: still waiting. Their customer service is super slow. Just to
Speaker 1: let you know my thoughts. I know you get paid
Speaker 1: by sponsoring products on air, but this one is a
Speaker 1: big disappointment compared to Bo's users. Best regards, Dixon. All right, Dixon,
Speaker 1: Number one, I do not get paid to sponsor products
Speaker 1: on air, So I don't get paid to sponsor pretty
Speaker 1: much anything. Now, I will tell you there's a couple
Speaker 1: of things that I do have happened to me, and
Speaker 1: I will always let you know. Number One, I've said
Speaker 1: this before. My paycheck comes from KTLA, So that is
Speaker 1: how I make my money. I do not make money
Speaker 1: by sponsored content almost ever. Now. In the past, yes,
Speaker 1: I have done I think two sponsored Instagram posts when
Speaker 1: I was allowed to do that under my previous company.
Speaker 1: They allowed, I asked for permission, they let me do it.
Speaker 1: I did it. That's that's the only thing. But if
Speaker 1: you see me post about anything on my social media,
Speaker 1: it is something that I just find interesting. It's something
Speaker 1: I'm doing a story on. That's it. That there's no
Speaker 1: money changing hands, and if there ever is, if there's
Speaker 1: ever a situation where that happens, I will let you
Speaker 1: know and I will be very clear about it. But
Speaker 1: that does not happen because it's not really allowed to
Speaker 1: happen under my current agreement unless I make other agreements
Speaker 1: with my company, and so I don't get paid by
Speaker 1: sponsoring products. That's just not something that I do in
Speaker 1: the future. That may change. It could change, but that's
Speaker 1: not currently how I operate, so that doesn't happen. That's
Speaker 1: I reviewed the one plus buds because I genuinely love them,
Speaker 1: and these are the one plus buds Pro that you're
Speaker 1: talking about. I fell in love at these. I think
Speaker 1: they are the I still think that they are some
Speaker 1: of the best Android earbuds you can get for one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars, which I think is a fantastic price.
Speaker 1: Now you're talking about Bo's. I did not compare these
Speaker 1: in my report to BOS. I just said that I
Speaker 1: thought they were the best alternative to the air pods
Speaker 1: for Android users. I am not an audio file I
Speaker 1: am not a sound guy. I just come from a
Speaker 1: personal experience of I've tested a lot of headphones out there,
Speaker 1: or a lot ofhone earbuds. Some sound better than others,
Speaker 1: some are better than others. But the reality is I
Speaker 1: was very impressed with these. I thought they were amazing,
Speaker 1: and I recommended them to everyone and anyone who was
Speaker 1: willing to listen. Now, you are totally you are one
Speaker 1: hundred percent entitled to your opinion, and that is what
Speaker 1: makes the world go round. So if you found that
Speaker 1: these don't compare to your bows. Go back to your bows.
Speaker 1: I would have helped you. If OnePlus does not get
Speaker 1: back to you in a timely manner, yes, I will
Speaker 1: jump in and help you get satisfaction on this return.
Speaker 1: I will not leave you hanging because, yes, this is
Speaker 1: something I recommended you bought them didn't work out. I
Speaker 1: think OnePlus is just smaller than Apple. They're not as nimble,
Speaker 1: and they're not as like you know, they're not as
Speaker 1: well positioned for returns like a big company like Samsung
Speaker 1: or Apple. So yeah, it might take a little bit
Speaker 1: longer for them to get you your money and your return,
Speaker 1: But I do think it will happen. If it doesn't,
Speaker 1: please get in touch with me, and I know you will,
Speaker 1: but that in that aspect, I will help you. So
Speaker 1: thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it. It's what makes
Speaker 1: the world go round. Not everyone shares the same opinion,
Speaker 1: and so it's you know, it's totally within your reason
Speaker 1: to email me something like this. All right, let's just
Speaker 1: get through some of these other announcements before the show ends. Here,
Speaker 1: Apple's standard iPad, the three hundred and twenty nine dollars iPad,
Speaker 1: which I still think is the best iPad out there
Speaker 1: for the average person. What did it get new? It
Speaker 1: got a new chip A thirteen bionics so it's more powerful.
Speaker 1: It got a new front facing cam and with that
Speaker 1: center stage feature I was talking about, And that's about it.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty much all you need to know. The
Speaker 1: standard iPad at three twenty nine is still I think
Speaker 1: the best iPad for the average person, especially if you
Speaker 1: have kids. People email me all the time saying rich
Speaker 1: which I perhap should I get from my kids? The
Speaker 1: Mini I would recommend, but it's too expensive at four
Speaker 1: ninety nine's that's like really a lot three twenty nine.
Speaker 1: This typically goes on sale for cheaper, so I would
Speaker 1: say go for that Apple Fitness plus a couple things
Speaker 1: to note there. They built new guided meditation into the
Speaker 1: app and also pilates into the app, and that's going
Speaker 1: to launch on September twenty seventh. Then later this fall
Speaker 1: they're going to launch this new thing called group workouts,
Speaker 1: where you can invite up to thirty two friends to
Speaker 1: work out at the same time, kind of like a
Speaker 1: group FaceTime, but with workouts. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: another question. Then I'll round up two more news stories
Speaker 1: and then we'll go all right. Fred Wrights, Hey Rich,
Speaker 1: how are you? I have a Samsung S ten Android
Speaker 1: at and T is the provider my issue. I can't
Speaker 1: find a way to stop the camera from identifying the
Speaker 1: location the picture was taking. I already turned off the
Speaker 1: location stamp and the camera settings menu and the main settings.
Speaker 1: I deny GPS access to the camera. The interesting part
Speaker 1: is that the location stamp is not on every picture.
Speaker 1: It's very random. Sometimes it shows up on every second
Speaker 1: or third picture. Other times maybe on the ninth or
Speaker 1: eighth picture. All the firmware and software on the picture,
Speaker 1: on the camera, on the are updated. Any ideas on
Speaker 1: how to stop the camera from accessing location? Thanks for
Speaker 1: your help, Fred, Fred here is what I think is happening.
Speaker 1: Because you're on Samsung, I was gonna recommend that you
Speaker 1: turn off the There's a thing called location tags. If
Speaker 1: you go into your camera, open it up, open up settings,
Speaker 1: and there's something called location tags. You can toggle that off.
Speaker 1: Once you toggle that off, you can confirm that location
Speaker 1: is no longer being attached to a picture. How can
Speaker 1: you confirm that by opening Samsung's gallery app? I have
Speaker 1: a feeling I know what's going on here. I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that you're looking at these pictures in Google Photos.
Speaker 1: And I'll explain what's going on in a second. But
Speaker 1: in the gallery app, the only way to confirm that.
Speaker 1: There's two ways. In the Gallery app, open up a
Speaker 1: picture and with all these settings turned off. You said
Speaker 1: you turn off GPS on the camera, you deny GPS
Speaker 1: in the permissions. That's a great start. That's basically the
Speaker 1: way to deny GPS what they call EXIF data to
Speaker 1: being written, to being written on these photos. To confirm it,
Speaker 1: open up these Samsung Gallery app, it is called Gallery.
Speaker 1: Open it up, open up a picture, and if you
Speaker 1: look at the details of that picture, you have to
Speaker 1: use a little menu. Look at details. There should be
Speaker 1: no location attached to those pictures. There's no way your
Speaker 1: phone is still attaching location because you've turned it off
Speaker 1: and you've disabled it. What I think is happening is
Speaker 1: I think you're looking at these pictures in Google Photos.
Speaker 1: And what Google Photos does is, because Google is so smart,
Speaker 1: it is not just looking at the GPS tags on
Speaker 1: those pictures. It's also looking at something called location history,
Speaker 1: which is an aggregate of your location every time you
Speaker 1: open up any sort of Google app on your phone.
Speaker 1: It kind of figures out where you are. It takes
Speaker 1: that into consideration. It says, oh, okay, Riches in Chattanooga,
Speaker 1: he took a picture at nine am. Although it doesn't
Speaker 1: have GPS, we know he's there. We're going to say
Speaker 1: estimated location Chattanooga, Tennessee. Now, so I want you to
Speaker 1: open up these pictures in Google Photos and see if
Speaker 1: it says estimated location when you look at the location.
Speaker 1: If it does, I think I've solved your problem. The
Speaker 1: location is not actually being attached to this picture physically.
Speaker 1: It is being estimated by Google. And what that means
Speaker 1: is that only you can see where that picture was
Speaker 1: theoretically taken, because Google is only showing you that data.
Speaker 1: The other tool you can use is called Jeffries x
Speaker 1: IF Viewer, and if you google Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer,
Speaker 1: you can click that and you can upload the picture
Speaker 1: there and it will show you the EXIF data. And
Speaker 1: this is a good way to see if EXIF data
Speaker 1: is being attached to the picture. If it is, you'll
Speaker 1: see GPS coordinates. If it's not, you will not. So
Speaker 1: great question there. Let me just get through two more
Speaker 1: stories before this show is over all. Right, So Kindle
Speaker 1: getting an update for the first time in a long time,
Speaker 1: and if you've already seen it, maybe you have. But
Speaker 1: Kindle software update is rolling out as we speak. The
Speaker 1: new software update gives you more direct access to home
Speaker 1: library in their current book, as well as easy access
Speaker 1: to commonly used settings. So that is the main feature.
Speaker 1: Now when you swipe down from the top, you can
Speaker 1: get access to kind of the things that you need,
Speaker 1: which is, let's see the airplane mode, Bluetooth sync settings
Speaker 1: and brightness and so this is an easy way to
Speaker 1: do just that, which is really nice. Also, then you
Speaker 1: can get your access to her font and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: My wife and I always crack up because she looks
Speaker 1: at my font that I use on my Kindle and
Speaker 1: it's super small. But I do adjust the lighting every
Speaker 1: so often, like I find that the automatic adjustment of
Speaker 1: the back light isn't the best. Maybe it's better with
Speaker 1: a new update. So if you want the new update,
Speaker 1: you can go into your settings and go to software
Speaker 1: update in the Kindle. Otherwise you can just wait for
Speaker 1: it to hit your Kindle. It's going to be hitting
Speaker 1: it for a while. The feature that I do like that.
Speaker 1: I think I've been talking I've already talked about on
Speaker 1: the Kindle is the fact that you can now display
Speaker 1: the book you're reading on your cover when your Kindle
Speaker 1: is is not in use. And that's only if you
Speaker 1: have the ad free version of the Kindle, which I
Speaker 1: don't think most people have. Okay, Earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: I mentioned that Google has Google has answered my Google
Speaker 1: Cloud storage dreams and they came up with a middle
Speaker 1: ground tier. So it used to be you had to
Speaker 1: choose between two terabytes, which I used to pay ten
Speaker 1: dollars for and ten terabytes, which I had to upgrade
Speaker 1: to and pay fifty dollars for a month for my
Speaker 1: Google Photos. Now they have a new five terabyte storage
Speaker 1: plan which is twenty five dollars a month, which just
Speaker 1: saved me. Get this, twenty five dollars a month, so
Speaker 1: that is amazing. Thank you Google for doing that. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go into detail on what I
Speaker 1: still need to do with this situation, but I am
Speaker 1: currently saving twenty five dollars a month on my plan,
Speaker 1: which is really great. You can actually pay the whole
Speaker 1: year in advance for two hundred and fifty dollars, So
Speaker 1: two fifty divided by twelve actually brings your monthly payment
Speaker 1: down to twenty dollars and eighty three cents a month,
Speaker 1: which is even four dollars less a month than when
Speaker 1: I'm currently paying. So I will eventually do that. I
Speaker 1: just didn't, you know, I bought the car, so I
Speaker 1: didn't really feel like spending another two hundred fifty dollars
Speaker 1: when I saw this. So I will eventually do that
Speaker 1: very soon. And thank you Google for doing that. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. That is going to do it
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