Speaker 1: Hands on with Samsung's latest foldable phones TCL strays from
Speaker 1: Roku but not too far. My favorite Google search term revealed,
Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered?
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 1: Imridge Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast
Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I think you
Speaker 1: should know about.
Speaker 2: It's also the place where I answer the questions you
Speaker 2: send me.
Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, Hollywood, California,
Speaker 1: to be specific, and.
Speaker 2: Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
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Speaker 2: What else this week?
Speaker 1: Twitter change the font and the look and the feel,
Speaker 1: and so I'll talk more about that later in the show.
Speaker 1: But and we got some Samsung stuff that's happening. All
Speaker 1: the new foldables actually have the the Z. Hold on,
Speaker 1: let me get the full name, the Samsung Galaxy Z
Speaker 1: Flip three five G. I mean, who doesn't have that
Speaker 1: on their Christmas list?
Speaker 2: I've got this in my hand.
Speaker 1: And they sent the Flip five G and the Fold
Speaker 1: five G, and out of the two, the Flip five
Speaker 1: G is definitely the more the device that I would
Speaker 1: rather I would see myself getting right, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if either of these devices are for me, but I
Speaker 1: do like the idea of this, this Z flip, So
Speaker 1: I'll talk more about that. Actually, let's just get into it.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the first story of the week. Samsung
Speaker 1: had their unpacked event. This was a virtual event like
Speaker 1: they've been doing like it seems like things are gonna
Speaker 1: be done for a while now, or I guess for
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. But they had their So it's funny
Speaker 1: because I was reading on Twitter, someone said, hey, do
Speaker 1: you remember the last in person event was Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: Unpacked in San Francisco in twenty twenty. And I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember because I went to two events that month,
Speaker 1: and one was the Toy Fair and one was the
Speaker 1: Samsung event, and they were right after each other. They
Speaker 1: were both in February of twenty twenty, and this was
Speaker 1: right before sort of things got locked down, and I
Speaker 1: remember thinking for the Toy Fair, like, oh, should I go.
Speaker 1: It's New York City, you know, who knows what's going on.
Speaker 1: They were sort of the epicenter at the time, along
Speaker 1: with Seattle, and I said, you know what, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to go, and I went and it was fine.
Speaker 1: But then the Samsung thing, I can't remember if it
Speaker 1: was before or after, but it was the same thing.
Speaker 1: It was like, we know, there's this thing out there,
Speaker 1: but you know, just be careful and you know whatever.
Speaker 1: And at this point we were still all touching phones
Speaker 1: and you know, in this big auditorium together. But that
Speaker 1: was the last one of those two were the last
Speaker 1: in person event that I went to, and both of
Speaker 1: those shows, I mean, the Samsung event and that was
Speaker 1: for the launch of the twenty But anyway, everything's been
Speaker 1: virtual since then. So let's talk about the devices that
Speaker 1: Samsung unveiled, the Galaxy Z fold three and the Z
Speaker 1: Flip three.
Speaker 2: The fold three is.
Speaker 1: Basically remember the phone that had the problem with the
Speaker 1: hinge where it was like messing up. There was getting
Speaker 1: you know, dust and debris behind it, it was breaking the screen.
Speaker 1: People were peeling off the screen protectors. So this was
Speaker 1: Samsung's first foldable device. It's got that big screen inside,
Speaker 1: like a seven point six inch screen, and then it's
Speaker 1: got the exterior screen, which is a lot bigger these
Speaker 1: days than it was when it first launched. Also, the
Speaker 1: device overall is just thinner. It's you know a little
Speaker 1: more sleek. It's a little bit more lightweight, but it's
Speaker 1: still a very heavy gadget, and it's still a very
Speaker 1: big gadget. So you know, I love just showing this
Speaker 1: stuff to like my family when I get home, Like,
Speaker 1: like I said, my mom's in town, and my wife
Speaker 1: and my kids, and you know, I just let them
Speaker 1: kind of touch this stuff and see what the reaction is.
Speaker 1: And you know they're all like, ooh, that that's big phone.
Speaker 1: That's a heavy phone. But then with this little Z
Speaker 1: Flip three, which looks like a standard Samsung Galaxy that
Speaker 1: literally just folds in half. That's the more interesting device
Speaker 1: because people they like the form factor because it reminds
Speaker 1: them of the days of the Motorola Razor. Ironically, Motorola
Speaker 1: came out with the foldable Razor a couple like two
Speaker 1: or three years ago, and I don't know how many
Speaker 1: years ago. It was definitely back before coronavirus because it
Speaker 1: was in person. I remember going to the event, the
Speaker 1: launch event in Los Angeles, and so it's funny that
Speaker 1: Sam Motorola themselves were not able to bring back the
Speaker 1: razor flip even though it had a foldable device. But
Speaker 1: Samsung kind of took that idea and ran with it,
Speaker 1: and their Flip three is actually really really compelling, and
Speaker 1: it's a phone that I think I'm not quite ready
Speaker 1: to recommend just yet, but it's definitely one of those
Speaker 1: devices that is like it's the future.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like, foldable phones are a thing, and when people
Speaker 1: see this thing, they're like, Okay, that's pretty cool. If
Speaker 1: it's in my pocket, it's small, it's easy I find.
Speaker 2: Well, let me just go through these a little bit more. Okay.
Speaker 1: So the fold is that, you know, they improve the hinge.
Speaker 1: The big news is that they made both of these
Speaker 1: devices water resistant, which I think is a pretty big deal.
Speaker 2: This is not an underwater camera.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna take it, you know, in the ocean,
Speaker 1: but if it gets wet, a little splash, whatever, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2: It's ipx eight.
Speaker 1: Samsung hid the selfie camera on the fold, which is
Speaker 1: kind of hokey because you can definitely see it. It's
Speaker 1: actually kind of weird. It's also only for megapixels, so
Speaker 1: it's not a very good camera. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the thing about Samsung. They always take a couple of
Speaker 1: steps forward, and then there's always something about their device
Speaker 1: that's like a couple steps back. Like when you think
Speaker 1: about the Samsung Galaxy S twenty Ultra. When that launched,
Speaker 1: it had a hundred times zoom. Oh my gosh, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: But the step back it took is that a zoom
Speaker 1: wasn't even very good at a hundred times, so you
Speaker 1: didn't even need it.
Speaker 2: But the actual.
Speaker 1: Regular camera had so much fringing around the images because
Speaker 1: it had such a small depth of field, or a
Speaker 1: shallow depth of field. I should say that it was
Speaker 1: almost unusable, and it's still almost unusable to this day.
Speaker 1: And I've noticed with Samsung devices they still have this
Speaker 1: problem where they're just not as crisp around the edges
Speaker 1: of things like text, especially as the other phones that
Speaker 1: I test specifically, like the Pixel and the iPhone, and
Speaker 1: so I guess it's just a deal with their lenses.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure, but I definitely even notice it
Speaker 1: on these new devices, Like I took a couple of
Speaker 1: pictures and like gosh one plus has the same problem.
Speaker 2: It seems.
Speaker 1: I think it's just these bigger lenses they're using that
Speaker 1: just seem to you know, they take great pictures when
Speaker 1: you're a you know, big picture, like a wide angle
Speaker 1: or like a you know, just a scene, but when
Speaker 1: you get really close up on something, you have to
Speaker 1: be a certain distance away for that item.
Speaker 2: To be in Let's see what else.
Speaker 1: The Fold three now supports a stylist, which is really cool.
Speaker 2: You can write on the screen.
Speaker 1: Samsung did not send me a stylist to test, so
Speaker 1: I can't really say how well that works, although I
Speaker 1: can say that I know use my finger on it.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because Samsung had to take two digitizers
Speaker 1: and place them next to each other because there's that
Speaker 1: crease in the middle. And they made an algorithm that
Speaker 1: lets the screens or the digitizers figure out when you're
Speaker 1: over that little area that doesn't have any digitizer in it.
Speaker 1: So they it and it works just fine. If you
Speaker 1: run your finger across the whole length of the phone,
Speaker 1: the line looks perfect.
Speaker 2: So they did a good job with that. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the Fold three is two hundred dollars cheaper
Speaker 1: than last year. It starts at eighteen hundred dollars, and
Speaker 1: again this is for really early adopters. I see the
Speaker 1: idea behind this, and I think that for some people
Speaker 1: that literally only want to carry around a phone, they
Speaker 1: don't want a tablet, and they don't want a computer,
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred dollars is actually not a bad price for
Speaker 1: all three of these things in one.
Speaker 2: Personally, I have a tablet. I like to use it.
Speaker 1: Maybe I would use this, I don't know, Maybe I
Speaker 1: should try using this for a little bit. But you know,
Speaker 1: I also really like my computer as well. So I
Speaker 1: think you can go computer and fold, which means you
Speaker 1: have the fold, you have a regular phone, and you
Speaker 1: have a tablet.
Speaker 2: And you have a computer.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anyway, so especially if you're traveling, like on
Speaker 1: the plane, like this would be really cool because you
Speaker 1: can watch movies on it. You can get a lot
Speaker 1: of work done on it. I just it's just a
Speaker 1: little bulky for me, and maybe it's gonna take some
Speaker 1: more kind of like using it to really get.
Speaker 2: Used to that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the z Flip three. So
Speaker 1: this is the more pocketable of the two. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it's reminiscent of the Razor. Let's see, Samsung made a
Speaker 1: bigger screen on the outside. The last one was pretty
Speaker 1: much unusable. This one is much more usable, and you
Speaker 1: can do things like check your notifications. You can take
Speaker 1: pictures with the with the cameras on the outside, and
Speaker 1: it flips and it's you know, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a The thing that I've realized in using this
Speaker 1: the past day or so is that it's like just
Speaker 1: a little a couple of extra steps with this phone
Speaker 1: because you're flipping it open, and it takes a little
Speaker 1: bit of like thinking and thought process to flip it open.
Speaker 1: I don't really think it's very easy to open with
Speaker 1: one hand like the razor.
Speaker 2: Wise back in the day.
Speaker 1: This is much much meteor of a device, so there's
Speaker 1: like a lot going on. It's heavy, it's top heavy.
Speaker 1: Well I wouldn't say it's heavy, but it's definitely top
Speaker 1: heavy when you open it up, so you have to
Speaker 1: be cognizant of that so you don't let it fall over.
Speaker 1: The design is perfect, I mean, I think they did
Speaker 1: a really nice job. I think that the goal of
Speaker 1: this design would be that these phones would eventually fold
Speaker 1: on top of each other in a flat way. Right now,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a gap between them. And
Speaker 1: if you notice, I haven't really talked much about the
Speaker 1: cameras on these things because Samsung did not make a
Speaker 1: big deal out of the cameras. The cameras are not
Speaker 1: very they're just okay. They're not the best in class
Speaker 1: cameras that Samsung has to offer, So they don't really
Speaker 1: make a big deal out of the cameras because they're
Speaker 1: just they're fine, I mean, and I'm impressed.
Speaker 2: With the picture quality. It looks good.
Speaker 1: I took a bunch of pictures on the little the
Speaker 1: Little Flip yesterday and it looks nice. Or over the
Speaker 1: past couple of days, summer it's hit or miss. You know,
Speaker 1: some some are better than others. But I think the
Speaker 1: iPhone overall, iPhone twelve is still a better, better device
Speaker 1: for pictures, and probably the S twenty one Ultra. They
Speaker 1: also announce new Galaxy smart watches that you know, there's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff with these smart watches that
Speaker 1: they have brighter displays than are designs, longer battery life,
Speaker 1: They have a new sensor to measure body composition. Spotify
Speaker 1: offline is coming to them. Samsung will track sleep better
Speaker 1: than before, takes a measurement every minute, They track snoring,
Speaker 1: they do body I said, they do body composition. They're
Speaker 1: also gonna wear They're also gonna run Google's wear os,
Speaker 1: which is interesting.
Speaker 2: They're doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's wear OUs by Samsung, so it's the same thing
Speaker 1: they skin the Android for their phones and now they're
Speaker 1: skin wear os for the watches. But overall, I think
Speaker 1: that these where Galaxy smart watches finally seem to be
Speaker 1: a worthy opponent to the iPhone. It just seems like
Speaker 1: the Android side of things is really really picking up
Speaker 1: with that. And finally, Galaxy Buds too, are their new earbuds.
Speaker 1: These are one hundred and fifty dollars and they're smaller,
Speaker 1: they're lighter. I love the design, they sound good, their
Speaker 1: you know, price is pretty good for these things. And
Speaker 1: the only problem I found is that they just did
Speaker 1: not stain my ears no matter what. I took them
Speaker 1: on a run, and they just it was one of
Speaker 1: those things where when you're running and the you have
Speaker 1: that sensation of the earbuds like almost falling out of
Speaker 1: your ears the whole time. That's really annoying. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what they felt like. So I actually had to
Speaker 1: go home and replace them with my AirPods, which the
Speaker 1: air POD's kind of like, I feel like they magnetically
Speaker 1: adhere to my ears, you know, like sometimes I'll get
Speaker 1: that sensation of them falling out, but it takes a
Speaker 1: really long time, whereas with these Galaxy buds too, I
Speaker 1: just kept popping them back in, and because they're touch sensitive,
Speaker 1: every time you press them to put them back in,
Speaker 1: you're pausing your music. Yes you can turn that feature off,
Speaker 1: but it's one of these things where it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want my earbuds to be a big hassle.
Speaker 1: I want them to be simple. I don't want to
Speaker 1: really think about them very much. I want to concentrate
Speaker 1: on what I'm doing and not keeping these things in
Speaker 1: my ears.
Speaker 2: So for those reasons.
Speaker 1: I don't really like the buds too, but you know,
Speaker 1: your results may vary. I think the challenge here is,
Speaker 1: you know you have to buy these things without putting
Speaker 1: them in your ears. I guess you can return them
Speaker 1: if they don't work. But that's kind of a quick
Speaker 1: roundup of the Samsung event exciting stuff. I think these
Speaker 1: foldables are just continuing to progress. I'm not in a
Speaker 1: place to recommend them just yet, but would I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have a problem with people getting the Flip or the
Speaker 1: fold I think they're both in a place where they're
Speaker 1: very good phones. Just know that you are getting kind
Speaker 1: of an early technology that's not all there yet. But yes,
Speaker 1: there are some really cool aspects to this stuff. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the first question. JV says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: We're looking to upgrade from a fifty five inch television
Speaker 1: to a seventy five inch and was wondering what would
Speaker 1: you make the best model would you recommend? We've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of qleds, O LEDs, Mini LEDs uhds. We
Speaker 1: put our first fifty five inch TV thirteen years ago.
Speaker 1: A lot has changed. It has two forty refresh, which
Speaker 1: we especially like when watching car races. It can connect
Speaker 1: to Wi Fi. It was about twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of eighty inch models coming out.
Speaker 1: Your input is always appreciated. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2: JV. All right, JV.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, look, the bottom line is it sounds
Speaker 1: like you are someone who really likes a nice TV,
Speaker 1: a big screen TV. You want a seventy five inch.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a couple of sets I always recommend.
Speaker 2: So number one.
Speaker 1: If you're thinking about all these different display technologies, I
Speaker 1: mean you definitely want to get a four K obviously.
Speaker 1: I mean that's like, you know, standard Now. When it
Speaker 1: comes to q LED versus O l ED, I mean,
Speaker 1: O LED is obviously going.
Speaker 2: To be a better overall picture quality.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the color, QLED is going to
Speaker 1: be better than your standard LED, which you know at
Speaker 1: this at this size, you're definitely gonna want that. Ql
Speaker 1: ED is mostly a Samsung thing, but the Mini LED
Speaker 1: is coming up in the world because it the way
Speaker 1: Mini LED works is that the brightness comes from many
Speaker 1: more places behind the TV, which means you can light
Speaker 1: a scene better than before. So let's just say a
Speaker 1: little tiny speck in the screen is a moon and
Speaker 1: the rest is black. That moon would be really bright
Speaker 1: and the rest of the screen could be really a
Speaker 1: deep black because the mini LEDs are just lighting up
Speaker 1: the tiny portion behind the moon, whereas with a stand
Speaker 1: under LED set, it's you know, lighting up basically the
Speaker 1: whole set behind it or in different zones, and so
Speaker 1: you know, the black might look a little bit more
Speaker 1: washed out in the rest of the scene. So that's
Speaker 1: a very simplified explanation as I understand it. So many
Speaker 1: LEDs are definitely coming up in the world as something
Speaker 1: that you probably want to get with your set. With
Speaker 1: that said, I think that you know, if you want
Speaker 1: the best TV, I think Sony is still going to
Speaker 1: give you like the best quality overall. I think if
Speaker 1: you want an O LEED, you got to go with
Speaker 1: an LG. I think they're really the best. When it
Speaker 1: comes to the oleads, I believe it's the c X
Speaker 1: is it. Let's see here, yeah, cx O lead and
Speaker 1: then let's see what else. And I don't even know
Speaker 1: if they make the CX in a seventy five inch
Speaker 1: though let's see, oh they do they make it in
Speaker 1: seventy seven, and that's going to be three thousand bucks,
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's a little bit that you.
Speaker 1: Probably might be able to find that cheaper somewhere.
Speaker 2: That's on LG's website.
Speaker 1: The other TV I really like is the TCL six series,
Speaker 1: and I think that those are a fantastic set. They
Speaker 1: do make them in seventy five. The only thing I
Speaker 1: don't know is the let's see here, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, they make it in an eight K, now,
Speaker 1: so I mean, yeah, if you really want to get fancy,
Speaker 1: you can go with the eight K.
Speaker 2: Who I mean, what are you gonna watch on eight K?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Uh, let's see do they have it
Speaker 2: says variable refresh rate? It doesn't.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see what the specs are for this thing
Speaker 1: for the uh so I know you said you like that, okay, uh, okay,
Speaker 1: refresh rate from forty eight to one twenty, So I
Speaker 1: mean you're not gonna get that too forty But honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of TVs have that, to
Speaker 1: be honest. So I mean, anyway, so I think that
Speaker 1: the LG is the best or Sony is the best. Overall,
Speaker 1: I think LG is the best for O LEDs. I
Speaker 1: think that TCL is going to be the best for your.
Speaker 2: Bang for your buck.
Speaker 1: And then Samsung, I mean they make great QLED sets,
Speaker 1: so I mean Samsung is always there and there's always
Speaker 1: a promotion on those, so I think that that's a
Speaker 1: good way to go as well.
Speaker 2: But good luck.
Speaker 1: I myself am looking to upgrade to a TV, a
Speaker 1: new TV as well. So actually I'll just go into
Speaker 1: the next story because this is the TV that I'll
Speaker 1: probably be purchasing. So TCL I just talked about them,
Speaker 1: you know that they make those. They kind of made
Speaker 1: their name here in the US.
Speaker 2: With the Roku TVs.
Speaker 1: So TCL big brand from China, but they really have
Speaker 1: probably one of the top selling TVs that I've seen
Speaker 1: most recommended by everyone. I mean this TCL five series
Speaker 1: and specifically the sixth series. I mean, so many people
Speaker 1: just love this TV because it's a great TV. It
Speaker 1: offers a lot of features, and the price is always right,
Speaker 1: and it also has Roku built in, and so they
Speaker 1: sort of made their name on selling these TVs here
Speaker 1: in the US. And they've been very successful at it
Speaker 1: and now which is kind of a surprise to me,
Speaker 1: but I love it. They are now working.
Speaker 2: With Google to make basically a Google TV version of
Speaker 2: the same thing.
Speaker 1: So it's like the same sets, the five series and
Speaker 1: six series, but it is going to have Google TV
Speaker 1: software instead of the Roku software. Now they're not getting
Speaker 1: rid of the Roku software. You basically get to choose.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Personally nothing against Roku, but I would choose Google because
Speaker 1: of a couple of reasons. Number one, I love the
Speaker 1: Google software. It's basically if you had one of those
Speaker 1: Google with Chrome Cast TVs or Chrome Cast.
Speaker 2: With Google TV, whatever they call it.
Speaker 1: If you have one of those, that's basically what it is,
Speaker 1: and so you get this great personalized home screen that
Speaker 1: what I love about Google TV is that it takes
Speaker 1: the recommendations from across everything and puts it all on
Speaker 1: your home screen. And so what you see when you
Speaker 1: log onto your TV, I say log on when you
Speaker 1: turn on your TV is a home screen filled with
Speaker 1: all the content that A you might like and B
Speaker 1: is streaming on your services for the most part, and
Speaker 1: if they're not streaming, it'll tell you right below. It
Speaker 1: how much it costs to watch that show, whereas with
Speaker 1: Apple TV and some of these other things, it's like
Speaker 1: it's a I call it peck and shoot.
Speaker 2: What is it? It's like a hunt. You know, you
Speaker 2: gotta peck.
Speaker 1: I forget what the term is, but it's like you're
Speaker 1: pecking all around to like see things. You gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta go into like this app and see what's on.
Speaker 1: You got to go into that app and see what's on.
Speaker 1: You gotta, you know, go into this and see what's
Speaker 1: going on there and how much does it cost and
Speaker 1: then do a comparison on Apple TV. So with this
Speaker 1: you kind of get all the information front and center,
Speaker 1: and that's what I really like about it. Now, the
Speaker 1: controversial part about this TV is that it does have
Speaker 1: a microphone built in so that you can say hey
Speaker 1: G and do all of your smart home commands and
Speaker 1: also just say hey G, resume what I'm watching on
Speaker 1: Netflix or whatever, or hey G play you know, I
Speaker 1: don't even know any of these new TV shows, but
Speaker 1: play it on, you know, on my TV or whatever.
Speaker 1: You just say play. You can do music, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you want. It's got Google assistance, so that's really cool.
Speaker 1: The other feature that I really really like is the
Speaker 1: ambient mode, which basically uses your Google Photos as your
Speaker 1: screensaver on this TV. Now it says when no one
Speaker 1: is watching TV, ambient mode. So I'm curious. I've kno
Speaker 1: gone hands on with this thing. I'm curious if you
Speaker 1: can set that ambient mode to basically be on twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven, because that's what I would like. I
Speaker 1: would like my TV to be showing my Google Photos
Speaker 1: all the time unless I'm actually on my TV. So
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's like a timeout you can set
Speaker 1: that would basically just leave your TV on all day
Speaker 1: with your pictures because I love it. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: Google Photos is just so smart, it's so great. I'm
Speaker 1: a little biased because I pay fifty dollars a month
Speaker 1: to use it, but you know, so I'm all in
Speaker 1: and I just love how it surfaces great photos from
Speaker 1: my library, and I just love the idea of this
Speaker 1: TV turns into like a giant picture frame. And yes,
Speaker 1: you can do the same thing with Apple. You can
Speaker 1: do the same thing with your rote well maybe not Roku,
Speaker 1: but you can do the same thing with your Fire TV.
Speaker 1: And you can do the same thing with a Chrome cast,
Speaker 1: but that generally involves either a timeout or it generally
Speaker 1: involves a switching of an input. Like for me, I've
Speaker 1: got my Chrome cast on my TV, but I'm using
Speaker 1: Apple TV primarily, So anytime I want to see my
Speaker 1: pictures as a screen saver, I have to switch to
Speaker 1: Google TV and then it times out after like I
Speaker 1: don't know, half an hour, and that's it.
Speaker 2: My picture my TV goes to sleep.
Speaker 1: So anyway, TCL five series, they have them in fifty inch,
Speaker 1: fifty five, sixty five, and seventy five. The sixth series
Speaker 1: is in fifty five, sixty five, and seventy five coming soon.
Speaker 1: I've got my eye on either the sixty five or
Speaker 1: the seventy five. The sixth series and the sixth series
Speaker 1: is thirteen hundred bucks at best Buy, And so that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good deal for the fifty sixty five inch TV.
Speaker 1: The seventy five is not available. Oh let's see, do
Speaker 1: they have a price yet? Oh wow, Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: have a price yet for that one. But that is
Speaker 1: going to be an exclusive at best Buy at least
Speaker 1: for launch. All right, let's get to the next question. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I watch you all the time on Katla, I'm hoping
Speaker 1: you respond. I looked online and then thought to myself, seriously,
Speaker 1: the only opinion I would trust is rich I.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm a Samsung user and I haven't till Friday to
Speaker 1: migrate all my pictures since they're closing their cloud. They
Speaker 1: are suggesting one drive, but I've read the reviews and
Speaker 1: I'm really iffy about sending all my pictures and videos.
Speaker 1: There is there a service you would recommend? Or should
Speaker 1: I just go with one drive and take my chances?
Speaker 1: Or do I just move my stuff to SD cards
Speaker 1: and store them that way. I'm not too tech savvy, therefore,
Speaker 1: I am lost. Please help? Thank you, Christina. Well, Christina, yes,
Speaker 1: you are referring to the big warning that has been
Speaker 1: on all Samsung devices for so long. Now move to
Speaker 1: one drive. Move to one drive. Let me see, I've
Speaker 1: got this Sam song right here. Let's see what the
Speaker 1: exact messages.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I go to my pictures and it says start
Speaker 1: syncing with one drive. Keep your pictures and videos safe
Speaker 1: and available on all your devices by automatically adding them
Speaker 1: to the cloud. I click get started, and I got
Speaker 1: to sign in, and there's my roadblock. But so what
Speaker 1: do I recommend. I mean, yes, you can easily go
Speaker 1: with one drive and that's gonna be just fine. But
Speaker 1: I think there's better solutions out there, because you know,
Speaker 1: there's one drive is fine, but it's primarily like a Microsoft.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 1: It's gotten better at the photo situation, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it was built primarily four photos. Yes, you can
Speaker 1: store them there, but I think and it'll be fine
Speaker 1: if you want it the easiest way that's integrated with Samsung,
Speaker 1: then go with the go with the one drive. I
Speaker 1: mean that's you don't have to do anything extra except
Speaker 1: just sign in and sign up and you'll be fine.
Speaker 1: The storage for the one drive right now is five gigabytes,
Speaker 1: so and then you can at plans that start at
Speaker 1: two dollars a month, So one hundred gigs is two
Speaker 1: dollars a month. Five gigs is free, and you can
Speaker 1: pay seventy dollars for the year to get a terabyte,
Speaker 1: which you may not need just yet. The other option,
Speaker 1: obviously is Google Photos that gives you fifteen gigabytes. That's
Speaker 1: what I would recommend because I just think Google Photos,
Speaker 1: the organization of Google Photos is what I think is
Speaker 1: the benefit of it over anything else. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you just want to back up your pictures, there's a
Speaker 1: million ways to do that.
Speaker 2: But I think if you.
Speaker 1: Want your pictures organized and searchable and just the AI
Speaker 1: that they have is just so ahead of everyone else,
Speaker 1: I think that that's the way to go. The other option,
Speaker 1: if you want, you can try something if you just
Speaker 1: want pure backup that's really inexpensive and unlimited. You can
Speaker 1: do Eyedrive Photos and that's that's ten bucks for the
Speaker 1: entire year, and that will back up all the photos
Speaker 1: and videos on your device in full resolution for ten
Speaker 1: dollars a year. You or me correctly, it's that's it.
Speaker 1: It's one time, one time fee of ten bucks a year,
Speaker 1: so you can store as many as you want. And
Speaker 1: we did a story with them, I Drive Photos. It's
Speaker 1: called and it seems legit. Uh, you can do that.
Speaker 1: There's no real like, there's no real AI or searching.
Speaker 1: I mean they may add features as you go along,
Speaker 1: but it's basically just a way to quickly back up
Speaker 1: your pictures, you know. The other option is that you
Speaker 1: can use Amazon if you you know, don't have too
Speaker 1: many pictures or if you don't have too many videos,
Speaker 1: I should say Amazon Photos will let you back up unlimited,
Speaker 1: but it's you have to be a prime member of Amazon,
Speaker 1: which a lot of people are. And they also do
Speaker 1: not include more than five gigabytes of video, and so
Speaker 1: if you take a lot of videos and you go
Speaker 1: over that limit, you're gonna have to pay and it's
Speaker 1: like sixty bucks a year whatever they're you know they
Speaker 1: So I think I think overall the best is something
Speaker 1: like Google Photos because you get a lot of features
Speaker 1: for that, even if you have to start.
Speaker 2: Paying over the fifteen gigs.
Speaker 1: But the SD card thing, A lot of people like that,
Speaker 1: but I think it's way too silly when we live
Speaker 1: in a world of cloud storage, Like why why have
Speaker 1: to remember to plug something into your phone every you know,
Speaker 1: every so often to back it up. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: you can save a lot of money doing that, but
Speaker 1: you also need to back up that drive as well.
Speaker 1: So for all those reasons, I think that Google Photos
Speaker 1: is probably your best. And I would say maybe something
Speaker 1: like the Amazon definitely look into that if you don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of videos, and the Eyedrive if you
Speaker 1: just want something that's really simple that'll back up your
Speaker 1: stuff but not really have to think about a lot.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk Apple. The new iPhones kind of
Speaker 1: sound like a snoozer. This is Mark German from Bloomberg Technology.
Speaker 1: This is the guy with the inside scoop on all
Speaker 1: things Apple all the time. He's got a good source
Speaker 1: inside Apple. But people are telling him that the new
Speaker 1: handsets are kind of not that exciting. We didn't expect
Speaker 1: exciting handsets. This is a an off year.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Apple is usually on a every other year cadence with
Speaker 1: their with their major upgrades.
Speaker 2: And so this time around, video is gonna.
Speaker 1: Have portrait mode, you know, it blurs the background. It's
Speaker 1: gonna have a new pro res mode which lets professional
Speaker 1: video takers kind of affect the video more so later
Speaker 1: after the fact once they shoot it, which eh, I
Speaker 1: don't need that.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else? What else? What else?
Speaker 1: Same sizes five point four, six point one, six point one,
Speaker 1: six point seven. That's kind of boring too, same thing.
Speaker 1: They're using, the same exact outside. They're just gonna change
Speaker 1: things inside a little bit faster, a fifteen chip, smaller notch,
Speaker 1: new refresh rate, so it's gonna be faster refresh rate,
Speaker 1: which I know a lot of the techies like but
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna do the same thing that I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of these phone manufacturers do, where it's
Speaker 1: a variable refresh rate, where it just kind of kicks
Speaker 1: in when it thinks it needs to.
Speaker 2: Launch.
Speaker 1: Is going to be virtual, and phones might be delayed
Speaker 1: to October again this year like they were last year.
Speaker 1: But all these things, I mean, I think that the
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve and twelve pro are pretty much the perfect
Speaker 1: phones at this point. And the iPhone whatever that's going
Speaker 1: to be called thirteen or twelve S is there's no
Speaker 1: way it's the fourteen. That's just there's no way they're
Speaker 1: doing that. I'm not gonna skip thirteen, but I would.
Speaker 1: I could see them doing twelve s and then fourteen.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the deal is with the thirteen
Speaker 1: number around the world. Maybe it's not as U I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe people don't care. Maybe the superstition thing
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter with phone numbers. But maybe they'll go
Speaker 1: twenty like Samsung did. But that's kind of what's happening
Speaker 1: with the iPhones. I don't think it's that exciting, but
Speaker 1: you know it's there. It's gonna happen and I don't
Speaker 1: really see the big need to upgrade. I think for
Speaker 1: most people the fact that the the older phones will
Speaker 1: go down in price will be better.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Apple could do the tricky thing that they've done in
Speaker 1: the past, where they stop selling the iPhone twelve lineup
Speaker 1: and they just make you choose between eleven and this
Speaker 1: new model. I hope they don't do that, and I
Speaker 1: don't expect them to do that because the twelve is
Speaker 1: such a good phone that I and it's the first
Speaker 1: phone that has five G I don't think they would
Speaker 1: make people step down to the eleven if they want
Speaker 1: to save some money on the previous model. Next question,
Speaker 1: mister Demiro, I have this pop up that keeps coming
Speaker 1: up whenever I'm on any of my apps on Android.
Speaker 2: It must be a bug.
Speaker 1: Do you know any good programs in the app store
Speaker 1: that will help me get rid of this pop up ad?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Luise. Yeah, Luis, you definitely have an app
Speaker 1: on your phone that is serving up this ad. It's
Speaker 1: called malware, and you downloaded or somehow something got downloaded
Speaker 1: to your phone that is serving.
Speaker 2: Up this advertisement.
Speaker 1: And because you're telling me it happens on any ad,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's coming from one specific.
Speaker 2: You know it's not happening in one specific app.
Speaker 1: So what I would recommend you need to do is
Speaker 1: go through your phone. Go through There's a couple of
Speaker 1: things you want to do. First off, you want to
Speaker 1: swipe up or just go into your you know your
Speaker 1: what do they call that with all the all the
Speaker 1: apps in the bottom. You're not your home screen, your
Speaker 1: app library, I know those Apple calls it?
Speaker 2: What do they call it? On Android?
Speaker 1: Anyway, you want to swipe to see all of your apps. Okay,
Speaker 1: So however you do that, whether you have to click
Speaker 1: a button or just swipe up, or however you see
Speaker 1: all of your apps. Go through there and look through
Speaker 1: every single app, and if you don't like an app
Speaker 1: you don't recognize it, press a hold on it until
Speaker 1: you get something that says uninstalled.
Speaker 2: Or if you're on Samsung, you'll see a little eye.
Speaker 1: Click that eye and then you can look for uninstalled.
Speaker 1: And so that's what you want to do with all
Speaker 1: those apps. So right now I'm looking at this Samsung.
Speaker 1: It's got one, it's got Samsung apps. It's got calendar, camera, clock, contacts, Facebook,
Speaker 1: Galaxy Store, game Launcher, Internet, Samsung Free tips, and YouTube music.
Speaker 1: There's nothing really on there that would be serving up
Speaker 1: rogue ads. So if you see stuff like games, like
Speaker 1: you know, I would even go so far as to
Speaker 1: one by one. If you have a bunch of games
Speaker 1: that you play on your phone, and you know you would,
Speaker 1: I would put them in a list of order of
Speaker 1: what I really want to play to the least I play,
Speaker 1: and start picking them off at the end. So the
Speaker 1: ones you least play, uninstall, restart your phone, and then
Speaker 1: see if those ads keep coming up. Now, if once
Speaker 1: you go through all of those things and the ads
Speaker 1: still come up, then you want to go into Google Play,
Speaker 1: go into your tap your little icon for your name,
Speaker 1: and then look at your list of apps, and then
Speaker 1: uninstall any app there that you don't recognize if there's
Speaker 1: more there. And then finally you want to go into
Speaker 1: your settings, settings and then apps. And so let's see
Speaker 1: where are the apps on this phone on Samsung. It
Speaker 1: is under I don't see, oh there it is. It's
Speaker 1: under apps.
Speaker 2: Duh.
Speaker 1: So it's under apps. And then you can see all
Speaker 1: of your apps, and there's a way to sort them
Speaker 1: by name, size, last used, and last updated. So if
Speaker 1: you go through all those apps, and same thing. You
Speaker 1: see a lot more apps that are not listed on
Speaker 1: your main screen, and so you can go through there,
Speaker 1: tap an app and you can just say for the
Speaker 1: apps that are installed, this phone doesn't really have any
Speaker 1: extra apps. Okay, YouTube music, it'll say uninstalled at the end,
Speaker 1: so at the bottom. So I would go through and
Speaker 1: do that for all of your apps and restart your phone,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully those ads stop.
Speaker 2: Now. If that does not work, you got to do
Speaker 2: the nuclear option, which is to format your entire phone.
Speaker 1: So back up your phone, use Google one to back
Speaker 1: it up, and then basically or Samsung, whatever your phone is,
Speaker 1: you know, back it up, make sure you've got everything
Speaker 1: backed up, and then you can go in to.
Speaker 2: Let's see is it general management? General management on Android?
Speaker 1: Just look for the reset you want to do reset
Speaker 1: and it's factory data reset, and you want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you get everything cleared off that phone, and
Speaker 1: then that is that is the final option, and once
Speaker 1: you do that, you will be able to hopefully surf
Speaker 1: the web and do whatever you're doing without these ads
Speaker 1: popping up. Because it is definitely some sort of malware
Speaker 1: that is triggering these ads and believe me. On Android,
Speaker 1: it's it's very possible that that thing kind of happens
Speaker 1: on iOS doesn't really happen as often. It mostly happens
Speaker 1: when you're surfing the web because there could be you know,
Speaker 1: ads that are serving up pop ups and things like that.
Speaker 1: But generally on the iPhone, unless it's jailbroken, you can't
Speaker 1: really ads like there. There's not an app that can
Speaker 1: sit there and serve up things when you're in other apps.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't work that way. Everything is sort of sandboxed.
Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of what's happening. Hopefully you get
Speaker 1: that figured out and let me know if you do.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: This was a segment I did on KTLA about Google searches,
Speaker 1: which was pretty popular. You know, you take for granted
Speaker 1: that you might know how to search Google. We've all
Speaker 1: been doing it for so long now, probably like what
Speaker 1: twenty three years. Oh my gosh, Google started in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So I talked about some of these ways that you
Speaker 1: can Actually when Google started in nineteen ninety eight, you
Speaker 1: probably weren't using it as much because we still had
Speaker 1: these other search engines. Let me see if you remember
Speaker 1: some of these let me let me bring this up. Okay,
Speaker 1: Alta Vista. Do you remember that one? Do you remember Excite?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I used to think Alta Vista all
Speaker 1: these hot bot do you remember that one? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: do you remember info Seek? Do you remember Lycos? How
Speaker 1: about Desia? How about Yahoo?
Speaker 2: I mean we know that one.
Speaker 1: Amazon. Remember they used to have a search engine. I
Speaker 1: think it was called Amazon nine or something, or a
Speaker 1: nine open directory, and then E groups. I don't remember those,
Speaker 1: but I mean I used to think that, like you know,
Speaker 1: so probably when Google first came out, we were still
Speaker 1: using some of these alternatives.
Speaker 2: Yahoo I never really used. It wasn't very good.
Speaker 1: Excite. I'm trying to remember if it was Excite or
Speaker 1: Alta Vista that I liked. One of them was better,
Speaker 1: but I can't remember at this point.
Speaker 2: But those.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking that Google kind of took off even
Speaker 1: though it started in nineteen ninety eight, probably didn't take
Speaker 1: off until a little bit later, because you know, it
Speaker 1: took a while for people to switch and say, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, you can't get better than Yahoo. Who can
Speaker 1: make a better search engine? Well, sure enough, Google pretty
Speaker 1: much did because they put everyone else out of business.
Speaker 1: So how to search Google to find things that are
Speaker 1: you know, more relevant, to find things faster, to really look.
Speaker 1: Google is really good at search and it's very fast,
Speaker 1: and you really don't have to know how to do
Speaker 1: this stuff. But if you really are looking to narrow
Speaker 1: down things and really looking for specifics, then some of
Speaker 1: these things will work. So Number one, the minus sign
Speaker 1: like a hyphen. So if you type in a search
Speaker 1: term and then another search term and the minus sign,
Speaker 1: you know Google will will not include any results with
Speaker 1: that term. So let's say you put pizza minus pepperoni
Speaker 1: or pizza toppings minus pepperoni.
Speaker 2: It will give you a bunch of pizza toppings that are.
Speaker 1: Not pepperoni, right, because Pepperoni's probably gonna come up first ninety.
Speaker 2: Nine percent of the time. Quotes.
Speaker 1: This is one that you probably know about. If you
Speaker 1: put something in quotes, it's gonna find that exact phrase.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for something really specific, like a
Speaker 1: part number or an old gadget that you had and
Speaker 1: you want to see just that exact thing, put it
Speaker 1: in in quotes. If you want to see results from
Speaker 1: a specific website, you can say a search term and
Speaker 1: then you type in site colon the website. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: if you want to see all the times that I've
Speaker 1: mentioned Samsung on ktla, you can just type in Samsung
Speaker 1: site colon ktla dot com and it will only bring
Speaker 1: up my posts that I've made on ktla dot com
Speaker 1: that are about Samsung. And that's a good one. Now,
Speaker 1: let me just give you a quick tip for searching anything.
Speaker 1: If you're ever looking for something that I mentioned, you
Speaker 1: don't even really have to do that what I do
Speaker 1: whenever someone's like, rich, what was that TCL phone you
Speaker 1: mentioned two years ago? And I'm like, let me see.
Speaker 1: Was it the TCL ten series?
Speaker 2: Let me let me see?
Speaker 1: So I type in TCL whatever the keyword is KTLA DeMuro,
Speaker 1: So TCL KTLA DeMuro and you might want to put
Speaker 1: TCL phone. But the first thing that comes up TCL
Speaker 1: makers to TV maker. Tcl's two hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: smartphone is actually great. So again, it's just a very
Speaker 1: easy way to find anything that I've mentioned.
Speaker 2: Now, this one's really good, especially for the kiddos.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for let's say, coloring sheets or like
Speaker 1: math work sheets. I don't know if you've ever tried
Speaker 1: to search these things, but if you do, it's a nightmare.
Speaker 1: Ninety nine point nine percent of the time when you
Speaker 1: search for something like, you know, multiplication times tables PDF,
Speaker 1: you will get a whole bunch of random stuff. And
Speaker 1: you know, it might be like you know a lot
Speaker 1: of images that you click, and you go into these
Speaker 1: images and you click, and it's a never ending circle
Speaker 1: of nothingness. It'll bring you to Pinterest, it'll bring you
Speaker 1: to these websites they are trying to sell you stuff.
Speaker 1: So what I find is that if you say file
Speaker 1: type PDF at the end of your search, then you
Speaker 1: will get exactly what you're looking for. And so let's
Speaker 1: try that same thing again, multiplication tape times tables, and
Speaker 1: I'll put file type PDF.
Speaker 2: Now, Oh my gosh, so much better.
Speaker 1: If you look at all the results, there's a little
Speaker 1: PDF indicator and every single one of these results are
Speaker 1: an actual downloadable PDF. That is just fantastic. So in
Speaker 1: my book, that's a huge win. It's just so much better.
Speaker 1: Look at I found exactly what I was looking for.
Speaker 1: This would have taken me so much longer to find
Speaker 1: when if I was doing it the other way. Actually,
Speaker 1: in fact, I'm gonna download this for my kids and
Speaker 1: they need to. It's funny they don't really, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think they still do, like the memorization for math
Speaker 1: for the one to one hundred, but it's they do
Speaker 1: things a lot differently. I know, if you're a parent,
Speaker 1: this is this is old news. But the way they
Speaker 1: do math these days is very different than when I learned.
Speaker 1: So my kids are always like, yeah, Dad, you're you're
Speaker 1: teaching me the wrong way. So I know, but I
Speaker 1: still try to force it upon them. I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is the way it was done.
Speaker 2: Okay. Uh. My favorite search term in the world.
Speaker 1: And I got to give a hat tip to my
Speaker 1: brother Justin for this one because I used this in
Speaker 1: the past, but I didn't use it as much as
Speaker 1: when he kind of sent me something about it and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, you're right, that is the
Speaker 1: best search term. So he really got me to use
Speaker 1: it more often than I did naturally. But now I
Speaker 1: use it pretty much on a daily basis. And you're
Speaker 1: ready for this. It is the best, uh, And I'm
Speaker 1: sharing quite possibly what is the most key knowledge you
Speaker 1: need to know about searching Google?
Speaker 2: And are you ready?
Speaker 1: I wish I had my drum roll, but it is
Speaker 1: the term versus. So if you are searching for just
Speaker 1: about anything, Let's say you see an ad on Instagram
Speaker 1: for all birds. Those are the sneakers that I like.
Speaker 1: Go into Google and you're like, oh, I wonder what
Speaker 1: people buy besides all birds. So type in instead of
Speaker 1: waiting for, you know, an ad to pop up, which
Speaker 1: is something similar. Just type in all birds versus vs
Speaker 1: and then just wait, press the space bar and just
Speaker 1: wait and let autocomplete do its magic, and autocomplete will
Speaker 1: show you all birds versus Rothi's all birds versus Adams,
Speaker 1: all birds versus VESI, all birds versus ultra boost And
Speaker 1: so I don't know if that last one or sneakers,
Speaker 1: but that is a such a.
Speaker 2: Great, great, great search.
Speaker 1: So let's say you're thinking of going to Paso Robols
Speaker 1: and you're like, well, where else do people go? Paso
Speaker 1: rob l e s versus Oh versus Napa versus San
Speaker 1: Luis Obispo. Or is it San Luis Obispo versus Sonoma
Speaker 1: versus Santa Barbara? So I mean, these are It's just
Speaker 1: it works with anything. Let's say you got a meal kit.
Speaker 1: You're thinking, I'm getting a little tired of my blue
Speaker 1: apron and you say, what else is out there? Blue
Speaker 1: apron versus? Don't You don't even have to search. You
Speaker 1: just type blue apron versus and then here it comes,
Speaker 1: Hello chef, all right, sorry, yeah, hello fresh, Hello chef, Green, chef, sunbasket,
Speaker 1: every plate, dinnerly gobble. It is such a great search.
Speaker 2: It is so useful.
Speaker 1: And if you search rich DeMuro versus, uh, it actually
Speaker 1: comes up as Rich DeMuro versus Dug DeMuro. And this
Speaker 1: is a guy who reviews cars for a living, much
Speaker 1: more prominent than I am. But he is a big,
Speaker 1: big car guy, and a lot of people ask me
Speaker 1: if we're related, and I don't think we are. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the versus search, definitely try it. The other couple searches
Speaker 1: are reverse search. So if you go to images dot
Speaker 1: Google dot com and you grab drag a picture in there,
Speaker 1: Google will find similar images on the web. This is
Speaker 1: handy if you're researching just about anything, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just a great search. One example I can give
Speaker 1: is if you're dating, and not that I am, but
Speaker 1: if you you know, find someone's profile picture, you can
Speaker 1: drag it in there and you can see some of
Speaker 1: the other places their.
Speaker 2: Profile picture might be.
Speaker 1: You can narrow down results by time, So once you
Speaker 1: make a search, there's a little drop box, so you
Speaker 1: can hit the tools drop box and then you'll see
Speaker 1: a selector for time. That's handy if you're trying to
Speaker 1: find something that was just posted recently and you want
Speaker 1: to exclude other stuff. This one's interesting if you want
Speaker 1: to find stuff that was just posted to social media.
Speaker 1: So let's say you want to look at the beyond chicken,
Speaker 1: beyond chicken, beyond orange chicken, right, and you want to
Speaker 1: see what people are saying about it on Instagram. Just
Speaker 1: type beyond orange chicken at Instagram and now most of
Speaker 1: the results this one's not perfect, but most of the
Speaker 1: results will be from Instagram or Facebook. You can do
Speaker 1: at Facebook, you can do at Twitter.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: So it's just an easy way to kind of restrict
Speaker 1: the results just to social media, which is also really cool.
Speaker 1: Let's see anything else that's about it. So I thought
Speaker 1: those were search tips were great. I presented them on KTLA.
Speaker 1: That story did really well, so that was a fun
Speaker 1: one to share. I love doing segments like that. Oh
Speaker 1: we got no phone calls.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Ken says a comment on your Ring Doorbell segment. By
Speaker 1: the time I Ring Doorbell used to connect, I would
Speaker 1: miss seeing the delivery truck, the delivery person at my
Speaker 1: front door, and the picture of the delivered package. By
Speaker 1: the time I ring connected, all I saw was an
Speaker 1: image of the porch poacher driving away and a stolen Corolla.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, this's actually happened to you.
Speaker 1: I think I found the solution for slow connections that
Speaker 1: you might want to share with your fellow oh my
Speaker 1: fellow listeners. Okay, Ring has a companion app I downloaded
Speaker 1: from the app Store called rapid Ring, which made a
Speaker 1: significant connection difference in the connection time. Just thought you
Speaker 1: might like to know. Oh, okay, So I looked up
Speaker 1: this rapid Ring app and I was like, I can't
Speaker 1: really recommend a third party app that connects to your
Speaker 1: ring because that's like a privacy night mare.
Speaker 2: But when I looked up this rapid.
Speaker 1: Ring app, sneaky, sneaky Ring. So this rapid Ring app
Speaker 1: is a light version of the Ring app and it
Speaker 1: enables a live view faster, So that's interesting. It's a
Speaker 1: companion app to the original Ring app that allows for
Speaker 1: a faster response to notifications. Or to enable a live
Speaker 1: view faster. You can use the Ring app and the
Speaker 1: rapid Ring app in conjunction and don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about interference. Just use the same email and password that
Speaker 1: you use for your regular Ring app. Huh, so do
Speaker 1: you need the regular Ring app? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: need to see. I'm gonna trick this out because here's
Speaker 1: the thing. So it's available for iOS and Android and
Speaker 1: it's basically a light version. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've seen the Ring app lately, but it's gotten.
Speaker 2: A little bit bloated.
Speaker 1: They've built sort of the Neighbors functionality into their they
Speaker 1: built you know these companies, they once they have something
Speaker 1: that's successful, they try to build a million and one
Speaker 1: features into it. Because you know, Ring tried to get
Speaker 1: you to download the neighbors app that didn't really work.
Speaker 1: Neighbors is sort of their version of Nextdoor that didn't
Speaker 1: really work.
Speaker 2: So what do they do?
Speaker 1: They say, Oh, actually, we're just going to build it
Speaker 1: into the main app. And this happens all the time
Speaker 1: with mobile apps. Once they have a hit, it's like
Speaker 1: we've got the initial download, now let's just build one
Speaker 1: thousand and one features into this app because people will
Speaker 1: come here and they'll use it well uh uh ah,
Speaker 1: And most of the time people just still use the
Speaker 1: core functionality and it takes them a while to discover
Speaker 1: anything outside that core functionality. In Ring's case, I guess
Speaker 1: they realize that all this extra functionality sometimes detracts from
Speaker 1: the things that people want to use the most, which
Speaker 1: is just answering the dang doorbell.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You just want to see when someone rings your bell,
Speaker 1: and you want that live view immediately. You don't want
Speaker 1: to wait an hour to sift through a thousand feature
Speaker 1: to kind of see what's going on.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna check this out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna download it and see if I can use
Speaker 1: it by itself because I only really use the Ring
Speaker 1: app for the live view and also to see my
Speaker 1: I guess to see all the Ring cameras I have.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it doesn't work with all the
Speaker 1: different Ring cameras. Like I love the Ring cameras on
Speaker 1: my Ring app. They're all on the same page, and
Speaker 1: so I think that that's like I love just opening
Speaker 1: up my dashboard. Well, let's see what else is on
Speaker 1: this app. Okay, So you've got neighbors you've got devices,
Speaker 1: you've got history, you've got settings, you've got control center,
Speaker 1: what's new, neighbors deals.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so.
Speaker 1: Many different things, lights, history, chimes, locks, water valve, thermostat delivery,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so many things when all you really
Speaker 1: want to see is your cameras.
Speaker 2: So thank you. That's a great tip. Great tip.
Speaker 1: Can so if you're trying to get a faster connection
Speaker 1: to your ring video doorbell, check out the rapid Ring app.
Speaker 1: It is official, it's available for iOS and Android, and
Speaker 1: there you have it, all right. I mentioned this earlier
Speaker 1: in the show. Twitter has got a little bit of
Speaker 1: a redesign. There is definitely something different. This is according
Speaker 1: to a cnet article. But if you've been using Twitter,
Speaker 1: you noticed things have changed just a little bit. The
Speaker 1: number one thing I noticed was the font. It's a
Speaker 1: brand new font and it's kind of kind of strange.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's very classy looking, and the specific name
Speaker 1: for the font is called.
Speaker 2: Chirp.
Speaker 1: They designed their own font. In the past, according to
Speaker 1: cn AT, the company has used sf pro, Roboto, and Helvetica.
Speaker 1: New Twitter also said all Western language text aligns to
Speaker 1: the left, a change that should make it easier to
Speaker 1: read as you're scrolling through. Now I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out did Twitter not align to the left when like
Speaker 1: what I always thought Twitter was aligned to the left?
Speaker 2: Am I missing something? But I've got the chain. It
Speaker 2: looks fine.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think that the uh
Speaker 1: the I don't know. It just looks it looks a
Speaker 1: little bit different. It looks a little bit different. I mean,
Speaker 1: the font is definitely a change, and I can't say
Speaker 1: whether I like it or not. Seen that had a
Speaker 1: headline that apparently some people are getting headaches from it,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. The site colors are also now
Speaker 1: higher contrast and less blue, so I noticed that photos
Speaker 1: and videos stand out more. There's also fewer great backgrounds
Speaker 1: and divider lines, so there's increased space that makes things
Speaker 1: easier to read. Also, one thing I did notice, when
Speaker 1: you go to follow someone, it used to be in blue,
Speaker 1: like big blue bold when you look at someone's profile
Speaker 1: whether you're following them, and that's gone. Now it's just
Speaker 1: kind of let me find a person that I'm not following. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now when you're not following them, it's in black,
Speaker 1: and then when you follow them it's just clear, which
Speaker 1: is kind of weird. I don't like that, but those
Speaker 1: are the changes. If you notice them, great, If you didn't,
Speaker 1: you'll definitely notice them now that I mentioned them. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's one of these things everyone's always up in arms about,
Speaker 1: you know, changes to anything, but as soon as they
Speaker 1: happen after a couple months, you just kind of forget
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: All. Right.
Speaker 1: Let's see, Hey, Rich, I just bought a brand new
Speaker 1: TV that was on sale this is Bob for a
Speaker 1: ridiculous price at best Buy, and I want to know
Speaker 1: what your thoughts are on purchasing the five year extended
Speaker 1: warranty for two hundred and fifty dollars. Do you think
Speaker 1: it's worth it? Samsung Class eight eight H series O
Speaker 1: LED four k UHD Smart Android TV XBR fifty five
Speaker 1: A eight h at best Buy. Got it yesterday for
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: A Bob, Bob, Bob.
Speaker 1: What do I think about extended warranties? I think they
Speaker 1: make a lot of money for best Buy, They make
Speaker 1: a lot of money for Apple, they make a lot
Speaker 1: of money for Samsung. They make a lot of money
Speaker 1: for everyone. Now, when it comes to your phone, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Gonna judge you.
Speaker 1: If you want to buy an extended warranty, that's just fine.
Speaker 2: I get it. It's expensive, it's a lot of extra money.
Speaker 1: I would I personally would rather see you take that
Speaker 1: fifteen or thirty or whatever amount they're charging you every
Speaker 1: month and put it into a savings account and you'll
Speaker 1: be surprised. By the time you drop your phone, you'll
Speaker 1: have a couple hundred bucks in there, and you can
Speaker 1: get it fixed by just paying for the repair outright.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there's no there's no deductible because
Speaker 1: you know you don't have to pay for that. You're
Speaker 1: just paying for the whole thing. But you have that money.
Speaker 1: So that's the way I like to do things.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: With a TV, I'll be honest. I mean, let's be
Speaker 1: let's face it. We put our TV on the wall.
Speaker 1: It sits there. We don't move it. It's not being
Speaker 1: shuffled around. It's not going in and out of our pocket.
Speaker 1: It's not moving around. These TVs are built like tanks.
Speaker 1: The two TVs in my house, one's about seven years old,
Speaker 1: one's about eight years old. So I mean, they're just
Speaker 1: they don't really break. Now, yes, I can say all
Speaker 1: this and Bob, you might not purchase the warranty and
Speaker 1: you might have your TV crap out in the next
Speaker 1: two years. But now, if it's in the year, it's
Speaker 1: going to be covered under a standard warranty. If you
Speaker 1: buy a TV at Costco, I think they extend that
Speaker 1: to two years. At Best Buy they don't do that.
Speaker 2: But the reality is.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty dollars on top of a thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars device is nearly a twenty percent surcharge. So
Speaker 1: if you think about it, if Best Buy handed you
Speaker 1: a coupon for twenty percent on top of this TV,
Speaker 1: would you use it?
Speaker 2: I think not.
Speaker 1: Now yes, you could say, rich, well, I'm getting five
Speaker 1: years of worry free time.
Speaker 2: Well number one. The first year is included, so it's
Speaker 2: really only four years.
Speaker 1: Number two. You know there might be a deductible. I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure how Best Buys warranties work, but anytime
Speaker 1: that I've used you know, when I bought my house,
Speaker 1: you know they had this thing you had to get
Speaker 1: this like home warranty, and oh my gosh, when you
Speaker 1: had to get in a clients repaired under the home
Speaker 1: warranty number one, it was.
Speaker 2: Like an eighty dollars deductible. Number two, they sent the.
Speaker 1: Guy who could care less about repairing your stuff because
Speaker 1: he was doing a thousand of these in a day,
Speaker 1: and so you know he'd do the little flap in
Speaker 1: the toilet eighty bucks please, and it took forever to
Speaker 1: get an appointment. So I kind of like the free
Speaker 1: market here. If you know, if your TV breaks, you
Speaker 1: can bring it into a store, you can bring it
Speaker 1: into best Buy, geek Squad and the repair might be
Speaker 1: less than two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2: Dollars if you ever need this.
Speaker 1: And by the time you buy these extended warranties and
Speaker 1: all the little gadgets that you purchased a Sono speaker here,
Speaker 1: Bluetooth speaker there, your iPhone, you're whatever, you get pair
Speaker 1: of headphones. They try to sell you on everything. You
Speaker 1: buy it best Buy, they try to sell you on
Speaker 1: this extended warranty. And you're at the checkout and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: this bag of twizzlers you bought, would you like to
Speaker 1: insure it for a year for one dollar and twenty
Speaker 1: five cents.
Speaker 2: You're like, no, I just.
Speaker 1: Bought a bag of twizzlers for three dollars. Why would
Speaker 1: I pay two dollars to insure it? Now, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: They don't actually offer it to you one of the twizzlers,
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean. You buy a coffee
Speaker 1: maker for one hundred bucks, They're like, hey, do you
Speaker 1: want to protect this thing for five years? For twelve
Speaker 1: fifty sounds like a great idea. You're like, oh, twelve
Speaker 1: to fifty, big deal. That's no big deal. It's twelve
Speaker 1: dollars and fifty cents. But think about it. That is
Speaker 1: twelve point five percent surcharge on top of that device.
Speaker 1: And when push comes to shove, if you ever need
Speaker 1: to fix that coffee maker, send it back in.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a hassle.
Speaker 1: You probably have to pay some sort of deductible and
Speaker 1: you're dealing with a company that does not care about you.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking best Buy. I'm talking about the warranty company.
Speaker 1: It's just a nightmare. You're on their terms. Whereas you
Speaker 1: can sit there in a year and a half and say, ugh,
Speaker 1: I bought this coffee maker a year and a half ago.
Speaker 1: Do I really want to send it out to Iowa
Speaker 1: for repair? Do I really want to bring it into
Speaker 1: best Buy? I don't know, maybe they just swap it
Speaker 1: out a Best Buy. And you know, I'm totally wrong
Speaker 1: about this, but I just feel like these extended warranties
Speaker 1: have gotten so crazy, and I think that the only
Speaker 1: one I'm not gonna recommend it, but the only one
Speaker 1: I would recommend is if you're gonna get one. I
Speaker 1: think that the cell phone is permissible because it's in
Speaker 1: your pocket, it's all the time. Maybe a laptop if
Speaker 1: it makes you feel better. But a TV, come on,
Speaker 1: it just sits there and it does its job, and
Speaker 1: it basically does its job for a very long time.
Speaker 1: So for that reason, Bob, the long answer to your
Speaker 1: question is no, I would.
Speaker 2: Not do that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's just get to a couple
Speaker 1: things before the show is over. Norton is Norton LifeLock
Speaker 1: is buying a VAST. So wow, there goes the recommendation
Speaker 1: that I used to make all the time. I used
Speaker 1: to recommend a VAST and AVG as free software to.
Speaker 2: Protect your computer. That's going away.
Speaker 1: I guess, well, I don't know if it's going away,
Speaker 1: but now Norton LifeLock owns it, and Norton their business
Speaker 1: is selling subscriptions to these to these software that that
Speaker 1: protects your computer. So I thought a VAST and AVG
Speaker 1: were a nice alternative. But now Norton LifeLock is purchasing
Speaker 1: in a deal worth more than eight billion dollars, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. They didn't really elaborate
Speaker 1: on what they're going to do with the free software
Speaker 1: that a VAST and AVG offers, but I just figured
Speaker 1: i'd let you know because that could change. If you
Speaker 1: got one of these displays, one of these Nest hubs,
Speaker 1: you can now see air quality information on the ambient screen.
Speaker 1: So it's going to show the air quality index on
Speaker 1: the clock widget for the clock and weather widget for
Speaker 1: US users, or you can also ask hey G, what's
Speaker 1: the air quality near me. You can also get alerts
Speaker 1: when the air quality drops to unhealthy levels. In Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: this is a major problem. Air quality is often horrendous,
Speaker 1: especially if you want a run out side or do
Speaker 1: anything that requires breathing in a lot of air outside,
Speaker 1: which is pretty much living. So I think this is
Speaker 1: a smart thing to have this on your smart display
Speaker 1: because here, for me, there's two things I look at
Speaker 1: on my Google Nest every day when I want to
Speaker 1: take a run, well, only one thing, I guess there
Speaker 1: is two things. I look at the time, and I
Speaker 1: look at the weather. And if the weather is like
Speaker 1: hitting ninety five to one hundred, I'm out. Anything under
Speaker 1: ninety five I'll pretty much still run. But now I
Speaker 1: think the air quality is a smart thing to include
Speaker 1: because it's on a scale of zero to five hundred,
Speaker 1: and then higher values mean the worst air. And there's
Speaker 1: colors good, moderate, unhealthy for sensitive groups, unhealthy, very unhealthy,
Speaker 1: and hazardous. Especially with all of the wildfires we've been
Speaker 1: having around here, the air quality has been pretty pretty bad.
Speaker 1: So good for you Nest for putting this on there,
Speaker 1: and Google it will be rolling out over the coming weeks.
Speaker 1: Google loves to roll things out over weeks for a time.
Speaker 1: It's so it takes. When you're waiting for something, it
Speaker 1: seems like you forget about it before it finally makes
Speaker 1: it to your device. All right, finally, let's do one
Speaker 1: last question before we go here. Nancy Rights, Hey, rich
Speaker 1: I love to watch you on KTLA. What is the
Speaker 1: easiest way to port text from a Motorola Z three
Speaker 1: to a new phone which will also.
Speaker 2: Be an Android?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy. Two recommendations. The first is Google One.
Speaker 1: They recently added text messages. It's a freeway to back up.
Speaker 1: You just install Google one the app on your phone.
Speaker 1: It will suck up all the text messages from your
Speaker 1: old phone and bring them to your new phone. The
Speaker 1: other one I like is called SMS Backup and Restore.
Speaker 1: This will do the same thing, except it's even easier.
Speaker 1: You can export to variety of places, whether that is
Speaker 1: a drop box, whether that is Google Drive, whether that's
Speaker 1: an SD card, whether that's an email to yourself. But
Speaker 1: you can simply simply back up and restore these text
Speaker 1: messages from one phone to another. It is dropped dead simple.
Speaker 1: And I paid the five bucks to get the plus.
Speaker 1: I don't really know what that gives you, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you think that this is worthwhile, maybe go for
Speaker 1: the five bucks. And I think maybe that gives you
Speaker 1: automatic backups at a regular time, so if you want
Speaker 1: to continue your backups regularly, you can do that. Well,
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