WEBVTT - Instagram location warning breaks the Internet 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.680 Apple sets a date to unveil the iPhone fourteen. Fitbit 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.279 has a new fall line up, a wordle lives on 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.920 in a new app. Plus your tech questions answered. What's 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.880 going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.240 It's the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.680 I think you should know about. It's also the place 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.159 where I answer the questions you send me. I'm the 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.000 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:45.200 to the show. Hope you are having a fantastic day. Ah, 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:50.040 what a week. What a week? Not necessarily for tech news, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.560 although we did get the iPhone fourteen announcement, not the announcement, 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.400 but the announcement before the announcement, which still gets a 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.600 lot of announcements because people love iPhone news. But there's 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.639 so much going on this week. All right. First off, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.680 let me just talk about this Instagram precise location thing, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.039 because oh my gosh, I have never seen something go 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:18.480 so viral so fast. That is so not true. Hold on, 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.960 let me get a like, what in the world. It's 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.600 just it's amazing to me. I actually I am actually 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:33.760 losing faith in our system of informing people because it 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:38.000 is getting broken. I don't know what to do. I 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.280 don't know what to say. But how does a random 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:46.360 post go viral? And I'm not kidding. I got no 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:55.320 less than you know, several under a dozen messages about 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:01.600 this post. People were just going nuts about it, asking 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.960 me if it's true, asking me what the deal is 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.360 with it. Let me tell you what the post says. Okay, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.160 so the post said, please read. If you have an iPhone, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.359 listen up. After a recent iOS update, people can now 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:19.480 find your exact location from Instagram. For example, if you 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.919 put the location tag of Salt Lake City, it will 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:26.359 show your exact location versus a general location. There are 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.160 allegedly stalkers and criminals using this feature to find people 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.840 and break into homes and cars. Now is this rooted 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.919 in truth? Yes? I think as many half truths are, 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.200 there is a little bit of truth to them which 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.480 makes them believable. So if people went into their Instagram 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.800 location on iPhone, they saw lo and behold, precise location 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.000 was turned on. Does that mean that Instagram is sharing 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:54.760 your precise location? No, it does not. It means that 0:02:54.840 --> 0:03:00.160 when you breezed past the location permissions when you installed Instagram, 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.720 you didn't really notice that there was an option to 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:07.200 toggle precise location versus non precise location on or off. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.799 But here's how Instagram shares your location anyhow. Number One, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.480 they don't really share exact locations on Instagram. They used 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.400 to on Twitter. I'm not even sure they do it 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.600 on Twitter anymore. But I was a big advocate of 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.160 saying do not share your exact location on Twitter. I 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.200 think there's a lot of pros to that, especially when 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.480 there's an event happening and you're trying to tell people 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.120 exactly where it's happening. But on Instagram, you're tagging food, 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.000 you're tagging vacation spots, you're tagging various places. Do people 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.160 need to know exact location GPS coordinates of where you are? No? 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.360 Do they need to know that you're at a restaurant 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.080 that you like. Sure, if you want to tag that restaurant. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.080 The way that it works on Instagram, when you post something, 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.080 it says tag location, and it gives you a choice 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.800 of locations. Now, even if you pick the most basic choice, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.720 let's say Los Angeles, it still does not reveal the 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.440 exact coordinates of where you are in Los Angeles, even 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.360 if you clicked it. If a person viewing your post 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.200 tapped the location, it would show them a generalized Los 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.160 Angeles location, not even in the area you're in, really 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.960 the downtown of the city that you tagged. So that's 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.040 the way Instagram works. Now. Instagram came out on a 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.320 post on Twitter and they said, we've seen the meme 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.400 going around about how Instagram uses quote precise location. To 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.599 be clear, we don't share your location with others similar 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.359 to other social media companies. We use precise location for 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.680 things like location tags and map features. People can manage 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.920 location services via their device settings and tag locations on 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.880 their posts if they want to share that information. And 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.279 even when you're sharing that information, it's not the precise location. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.640 But in general, like I mentioned, there's always some sort 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.000 of lesson to be learned from this, and the lesson 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.080 here is that you need to be careful when you're 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.600 sharing your location. And on the flip side, these companies 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.279 do want access to your precise location because guess what, 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.200 it helps them sell more stuff, It helps them target 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.320 ads towards you. So does Instagram want everyone in the 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.520 world to turn off their precise location? Not really. If 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.000 a lot of people do, sure, they've already been hammered 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.640 by the way by Apple's you know tracking situation where 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.200 they kind of turned off the cross tracking. So these 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.159 companies are all trying to figure out new ways of 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.440 doing business, and by us protecting our privacy, that definitely 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.919 it challenges them a little bit more because they have 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.320 to figure out, Okay, we've got less information about this individual, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.839 how do we still sell them stuff and how do 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.480 we still make a good profit? Are actually have our 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.359 targeting systems still at a very high level that we 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.480 can sell them stuff that we think that they're going 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.440 to buy, and that way advertisers want to sell that. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.760 So anyway, if you want to look into your location 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.119 on whether it's you know, whether it's Instagram or sorry, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.480 whether it's Instagram or iOS or Android or anything that 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.080 you've got on iOS, you can go into settings, you 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:06.440 can go into Privacy Location Services, and you can check 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:11.000 the location settings for any of your apps, and in general, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.040 when you're installing an app for the first time, you 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.680 can say you don't want to give access to your 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.520 precise location. There's a little map that pops up and 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.280 it says, do you want precise or do you not 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.240 want precise? Now, an android's a little clearer because they 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.400 have a choice where you tap and it says you 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.840 know exact location or not exact location, but you can 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.920 check again. You can press and hold down an app 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.440 and then go into the little eye and then tap 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.279 permissions and then tap location and you will see so 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.159 on Instagram on Android, I've got allow only while using 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.960 the app, you can say ask every time, don't allow, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.640 and then use precise location. You can toggle that on 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.640 or off, and so you can rinse and repeat for 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.839 all of your various apps. But to just be able 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.520 to post something, and since you have a lot of 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.280 followers and goes viral, it's really kind of scary the 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.599 information that gets out there so quickly, and there's no 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.520 turning back. Once people hear this, they read the headline 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.080 and that's it that they do no more research. And 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.840 now they think that Instagram is spying on their precise 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.200 location and stalkers can use it to find them. And 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:22.960 again again I'm not downplaying how vigilant we need to 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.600 be about protecting our privacy online. If I had my way, 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.360 you would never share your location. You would never share 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.360 where you are, you would never share a picture of 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.600 your kids, you would never share anything in a public manner, 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.000 but we don't live in that world anymore. That has 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.360 all gone to the wayside, and so just just be 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.560 aware of how you're sharing, what you're sharing, and the 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.080 implications of what you're sharing. And I think that's the 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:53.080 most important thing you could do. All right, let's get 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:57.600 to the first question of the podcast. Randy says, thanks 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.320 for your info and knowledge in advance. I always joint 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.840 benefit from the segments you do on KTLA. Yesterday I 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.200 bought a car for the first time driver in the family. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.440 I'd love to say that I have one hundred percent 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.960 confidence in the fact that all rules will be followed, 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:13.040 but I live in the real world. Oftentimes my daughter's 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.240 iPhone battery in quotes dies explaining why her location on 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.920 the Find My app cannot be found. So there are 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.600 many different GPS tracking devices out there. Most require a 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.880 monthly subscription, some covering the first year with purchase. Have 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.560 you done a segment on these? I'd love to get 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.080 your opinion on which ones offer the best value, features 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.160 and performance. Thanks for your time, best Randy. All Right, So, Randy, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.120 a couple of options here, and yes, I get it. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.760 It's it's a game of cat and mouse when it 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.839 comes to these GPS trackers. The kids are always trying 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.200 to get around it. When I was a kid, I mean, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.440 there was no such thing as tracking. There was no 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.240 such thing as you know, even at the beginning of 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.640 my driving there was There's cell phones were just sort 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.080 of starting, and I did have one, but you know, 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.720 it was like a dollar a minute or something. She 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.600 didn't really use it, and there's no way your parents 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.440 can tap into to the GPS on that phone. So 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.640 we've come a long way where we expect to know 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.720 someone's location, especially of family members twenty four to seven. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.080 It's just kind of how it is. And even our 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.040 close friends. There's a lot of friends that share their 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.120 location with other friends in a real time basis. So 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.360 I understand why you want to keep an eye on 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.560 your daughter in this manner, for safety and for other reasons. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.719 So a couple of ways you can do this. Number One, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.240 the air tag is probably the easiest and the cheapest, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.240 but it's not GPS. It will only get a location 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:34.280 lock when there's some sort of iOS or Apple device nearby. Thankfully, 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.760 there's a lot of iOS and Apple devices nearby, so 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.240 you probably will get a pretty good reading most of 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.480 the time may not be exact, but it'll probably give 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.600 you a pretty good indication of where your daughter is. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.240 So that's the easiest. The cheapest you pop the tracker 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.320 in the car, you kind of forget about it and 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.040 there you go. It's not real time and it may 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.480 not be updated. That's the downside. So if you want 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.679 something that's real time and always updated, I would look 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.840 into something like a dedicated tre and T mobile has 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.959 something called the sync Up. I have not tested these, 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.280 and so I can't tell you how great it is, 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.079 but it it is basically exactly what you're wanting. And 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.600 the beauty of this is that it's plugged into your car. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.160 It's always on, it gets a GPS signal, it's got 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.160 cellular so it's it's a very easy solution that was 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.680 pretty much made with what you want in mind. And 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.720 you know, it also does things like track driving behavior 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.760 and all kinds of other things. It plugs into the 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.239 I don't know what it's called. It's like the OBD 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.079 M port or whatever it is on your car. I 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.760 used to know what this thing was called. But you 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.000 got to plug it into your car, and that's basically 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.720 it it's ten dollars. Let's see how much is it? 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.640 Ten dollars a month for the service, and then you 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.560 have to pay for the actual device. This is called 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.480 sync up Drive and again this from T Mobile. You 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.880 need a subscription from T Mobile, so it's a little 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:58.120 bit of a you know, you got to be a 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.280 customer there, and then you can pay in full. It's 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:05.160 one hundred and eight dollars if you pay for this 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.400 thing in full, or you can do free if you 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.559 add a line. So if you're adding this to your 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.840 T Mobile account, it's actually a free device. You just 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.680 have to pay for the monthly which is ten dollars. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.040 So that's one way to do it. Let's see. The 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.720 other way to do it is I haven't tested this yet, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.640 but I do have it in for testing. And this 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:30.600 is brand new. This is a gadget from log Logie Stemistics, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.760 Loistical Logistomatics, Logistimatics there it is Logistomatics. It's the car 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.160 charger GPS tracker with live audio monitoring. So this tracker 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.400 plugs into your vehicle's charging port. You can hear audio 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.720 from inside the vehicle with a live audio feature and 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.120 it tracks the location and it updates every four hundred 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.800 meters while the vehicle is in motion. So again, this 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.599 is probably not going to work if your car is 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.760 turned off because this plugs into your charging port. So 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.400 many cars the charging port, you know, the cigarette lighter 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.000 as we've called it in the past, that turns off 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.480 when the car turns off. So this will only work 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.439 and get an update when the car is in motion 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.280 and when the car is powered. Seventy bucks I believe 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.920 it's for the device, and then fifteen dollars a month 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.319 for the actual service. But these are all going to 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:24.960 be solutions that you can use. The other thing you 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:30.440 can look into is a geobit tracker geobit jiob it. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.640 We did interview this company. They were recently purchased by 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.679 oh gosh, was it Life three sixty. Yeah, they were 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.880 purchased by Life three sixty, so they've got a big 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.800 company behind them. You can just clip this to your 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.520 car inside the car, and that's going to be a 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.880 real time GPS device as well. So a lot of options. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.360 I think that one of these should work. This has 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.280 a monthly fee as well, but there are so many 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.880 ways to do this. I think that you've got plenty 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.320 of options to help track your daughter and you know, 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.520 have a conversation with her why you want to do this. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.000 I don't really think that parents should be secretly tracking 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.960 their kids, you know. I think that it's it's better 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.400 to have a conversation and explain so that way everyone's 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.680 kind of upfront about this, and it's it's out of love. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:17.680 You want to make sure that if something ever happened, 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.160 you'd be able to find where she is. So there 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.880 you have it, all right, let's talk about the fold. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:29.480 So Amazon Samsung's Flip and Fold are on sale now, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.400 and I've been testing both phones. I tested the Flip, 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.320 which is the smaller of the two, and it's great. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.280 It's a great little phone. It's fun if you want 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.920 to kind of tiptoe into the whole foldable world. It's 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.040 not the most high powered phone out there, but it's fun. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.600 It's different. It's like having a regular phone, except at 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.240 folds in half people will ask, oh, wow, what are 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.080 you doing with that thing? Like what's going on there? 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.720 And you'll have plenty of conversations over the next year. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.280 So can I one recommend it to replace your phone 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.679 that you have if you're in love with it? No, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.000 but if you want to try something new and you 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:03.760 don't mind being on the cutting edge, it is a 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.280 really cool phone. I think that I think that Samsung 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.680 has addressed many of the shortcomings, except for the camera. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.720 I mean, the camera's still not as good as like 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.840 the best cameras out there. But if you just want 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.439 something that's fun and you know, usable on a daily 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.320 basis and it folds up and it's kind of cool, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.480 then there you go. And it's a pretty decent price 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.960 point as well. Now the other phone I've really been 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.240 trying to test by By Really, I've been hesitant in 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.200 years past to even hold this thing for more than 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:30.600 a day or two because I'm like, ah, that's just 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.480 not for me. That's the fold four and that's the 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.400 one that folds in half, so the flip flips up 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.320 and down like an old school flip phone. The fold 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.320 folds in half like a greeting card that you would 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.440 give someone. And this phone has the bigger screen on 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.480 the outside, the giant screen on the inside, and look, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.960 it is a really amazing device. And the more I 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:53.520 use it, the more I actually fell in love with 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.880 it. It's just I struggle because it's it's just a there's 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.840 a lot of things that you give up to get 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.400 that foldable, giant inside screen, and so what you're giving 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.160 up is mainly the outside screen that you have to 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.000 do most of your stuff on when you're just casually 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.640 checking email and Twitter and Instagram and all those things, 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.680 is just really narrow and it's a little bit tricky 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.520 to type on. It's a little bit smaller than we've 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.840 gotten used to with our big screen phones, and you know, 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.920 and then when it comes to taking pictures, the cameras 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.480 are good. They're not the best, but you know, you 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.720 can use the rear cameras to take your selfies, which 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.040 is kind of cool. But also, you're touching a lot 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.600 of screen on this phone all the same time, so 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.160 you're always like kind of messing up the screen by 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.320 going into a menu or an app or something that 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.040 you didn't want to because you're always sort of touching 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.960 a screen no matter how you're holding this thing. So otherwise, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.880 I actually like it. I think I'm gonna take it 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.000 on a flight to kind of see what it feels 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.800 like to actually have like a little cool tablet that's 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.920 your phone. I love the fact that you can fold 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.520 it up. That's kind of fun. I've noticed some quirks, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.480 Like I was listen to Spotify the other day in 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.680 that mode where the phone is sort of flipped a 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.040 folded in half, like a half fold, and so it 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.960 can rest on your desk, and then you can have 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.800 like half the screen facing up. Half the screen is 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.280 resting on your desk. I was listening to Spotify and 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:15.600 then I got a text and it was like a 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.040 whole big thing to like it flipped into like a 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.520 different landscape versus portrait. So there's a lot of like 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:26.000 little things. Multitasking is really cool on it. The battery 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.160 life has been pretty good. I mean it's not the best, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.040 but you know, Samsung's charge up so fast now if 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.880 you have a good charger that it doesn't really matter 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.720 about the battery life, You're gonna get through what you 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.120 need to do. It's just you may have to recharge 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.280 at some point during the day. What else. It's a 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.680 little heavy, it's a little bulky, but I actually like 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.040 the form factor when it's closed because it's really narrow, 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.160 which is kind of nice and refreshing compared to all 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.600 these big phones I test all the time. Let's see, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.720 it's expensive, it's eighteen hundred dollars, so it's not for everyone. Clearly, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.000 Samsung has a lot of promotions out there to bring 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.400 the price down and in line with one thing more 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.200 people want to pay. Maybe you're not going to get 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.200 this one really down unless you have a very new 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.240 phone to trade in. The software is good, it's fast, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.320 the little taskbar at the bottom is really handy, and 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.280 it's it's just a lot. I mean, there's a lot 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.920 going on on this phone. So this is not something 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.560 I can recommend for the average person. This is for 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.360 someone who travels a lot, is maybe not so much 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.480 doing a lot of content creation, but is doing a 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.160 lot of productivity. So I think there's a difference there. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.640 Like I feel like I fall on the content creator 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.560 side more because I'm always recording and editing videos for 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.520 my phone and doing all kinds of like little you know, Canva, 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.720 dot com and all that kind of stuff. Whereas if 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.560 you're like more a business person checking email, sending texts 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.159 and then watching videos on your phone listening to music, 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.280 I think this will be just fine. I use it 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.000 at the gym to do a peloton workout where I 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.879 had the you know, the instructor on the screen. It 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.040 was nice and big and so awesome, So that was 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:03.119 a cool. Another use of it. The also the earbuds 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.760 that Samsung released this year, the Galaxy Buds Too Pro 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.400 or Galaxy Buds pro to, whatever they're called. They are fantastic. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:14.480 I should know what they're called. What are they called? 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.840 Let me let me get the name of what they're called, 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.959 so you don't think, Rich I'm listening to and you're 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:20.800 recommending this stuff and you don't even know what they're called. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:27.520 Galaxy Buds to Pro. They are absolutely fantastic. I really 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.119 really like them. The noise cancelation is amazing, the just 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.400 the rubbery feel of them is really great. The case 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.640 is great, the battery lasts, they sound awesome. I can't 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.359 recommend them highly enough. They're expensive. I think they're two 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.320 twenty nine retail, but of course again you can get 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.280 them for cheaper. But I will say I think this 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:50.920 year twenty twenty two is the year that Samsung really 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:54.480 hit its stride with all of their phones, every single 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.800 one of them. They did a knock it out of 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.520 the park job. Now I think next year, hopefully barring 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.520 any weird changes or things or setbacks that they do, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.280 I think those phones are gonna be near perfect. The 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.679 foldables are getting to the point where they are really 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.800 really compelling, and so I think it's just the work 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.080 they've done in this area is really cool, and the 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.320 ecosystem is getting to the point where if you want Samsung, 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.080 and you want everything Samsung, from the you know, the 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.640 earbuds to the watch to the phone, you are in 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.440 a very good place at this point. So good job 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:30.879 Samsung if you get one of these phones. Let me know, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.159 most people like get them, really love them, and I 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.880 think it's a part that they are adopting something new 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:37.280 and so they're in their mind they're like, all right, 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.160 I'm doing this. I'm gonna try this out the foldable. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:44.120 The foldables, like if the flip had just a little 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.239 bit of a better camera, I think that would be 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.720 something I would consider switching to, because I love the 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.639 convenience factor the fold I love it, love it, love it. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.760 But I just don't think it's for me, unfortunately, Because 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.960 I just really really think this is so cool and 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.760 it's great and I love the cutting edge nature of it, 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.960 I'm just not sure I'm ready to dive in. And 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.440 so we'll see, But I have I will say, I've 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.840 really really been enjoying Samsung software lately. You know, I 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.240 love the pixel but the software is great, but the 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.160 rest of the package is kind of like eh. Whereas 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.800 the Samsung's they've really come up in the world when 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.600 it comes to like they're getting software updates, they're getting 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.199 the features you want. There's so many little features built in. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.520 It just makes you feel like you are in command 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.760 of that phone and you can make it act the 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.120 way you want it to act. So there you have it, 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:42.000 all right, Let's get to another question. Hey, Rich, I 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.400 have a Visio TV that's less than five years old. 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.600 I've always had a problem with the streaming apps. The 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:50.760 playback is very buggy, with video audios starting, stopping erratically, 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.119 and occasionally locking up for thirty seconds or more at 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.640 a time. Some days it works just fine. I've had 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.080 zero luck identifying any cause for the problems. Issues occur 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.600 when it's on Wi Fi as well as wired internet. Wow, 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.919 that's surprising. And even when no one else is in 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.480 the home and the internet using the internet at all. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.439