WEBVTT - DeepSeek AI, Streaming the Big Game & Cell Plan Savings 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.160 The Chinese AI start up taking Silicon Valley by storm, 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.840 the new website that can spot a scam instantly. If 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.680 your Apple Watch had battery issues, you could have some 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.840 cash coming your way. Plus your tech questions answered. What's 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.840 going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.840 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:24.919 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.720 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.919 that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. All right. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.520 Phone lines are open at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.480 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.680 zero one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.320 to one zero one, triple eight rich one oh one. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.560 Give me a call if you have a question about technology, 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.599 you need some advice, you just want to talk. Well, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.280 I don't know. Kim may not let that throw, but 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.000 we'll see. Why not try it? 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:57.200 Right? 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.720 You gotta try things, see what happens. Email is also open. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.039 Just go to Rich on tech dot tv. Hit contact 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.680 Rich on tech dot tv. That's the website. Hit contact. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.280 Your message will make its way to my inbox. Guests, 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.960 this week, we've got cell phone plan reviewers stetson dodge it. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.320 He's gonna explain the latest offerings from carriers big and small. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.640 If you're trying to save some money while staying connected, 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.000 he will talk about all of that. And uh, Philip Swan, 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.720 the TV answer Man, is gonna join me to break 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.720 down the latest streaming services, all the price hikes we've 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.959 been hearing about, and what to expect for Super Bowl coverage. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.679 I think it's going to be easier than ever this 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.440 year to watch the Super Bowl if you are a 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:46.080 cord cutter. Well, the big story of the week is 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.840 deep Seek. Yes, if you unless you live under a rock, 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.560 you have heard about this new AI. Deep Seek is 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.280 a startup out of China, and it is taken the 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.120 world by storm. It surprised a lot of folks and 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.760 even sent tech stocks tumbling. Why well, they claim to 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.920 have built an AI model for a fraction of what 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.320 US companies like open Ai, Google and Meta have spent 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.480 on similar technology. So their AI model, called R one, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.200 they say it costs them about six million dollars to develop, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.080 which you know, compare that to the one hundred million 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.000 spent by open Ai on their latest GPT four. That's 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.480 a big difference. And by the way. They accomplished it 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.799 using lower end chips. So I don't know if you've 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.120 heard about this stock called Nvidia. A lot of people 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.080 at one point, literally every person and their barber was 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.079 recommending that you purchase this stock. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:44.399 Right. 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.360 This is not a financial show. I'm not giving financial advice, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.720 but this is what people were saying, like, hey, have 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.840 you heard about this stock. It's like, yeah, about twenty 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.360 years ago, I've heard about this company, but everyone was 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.560 buying it. Why because they make the chips that everyone 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.600 thought you had to have to develop the best AI. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.919 And now this company comes out of China and says, 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.040 you know what, even with all the chip issues and 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.160 the US holding back the best chips, we still were 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.200 able to do this. So what does that mean. Well, 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.400 it means that people were like, hold on, wait a second, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:23.160 everything we knew about building AI might not be right. Now, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.320 we'll continue to explain all this. So they also, by 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.000 the way, open sourced their entire model, which means that 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.440 anyone can take what they've accomplished and use it as 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.240 a foundation to build their own thing. So if you 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.560 wanted to start your own AI app or your own 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.040 AI technology, you can use what they've done at Deepseek 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.480 as your basis for that technology, instead of paying another 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.800 company like an open AI or another company that offers 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.760 their AI that you can use and build upon, they 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.840 charge for that. Now, of course, we saw stock prices 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.040 go down. We saw Silicon Valley say wait a second. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.160 We saw everyone say, hold on, we don't know if 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.480 we've been doing everything right for the past two years 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.920 in the US, and what's the outlook on AI because 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.240 this company can come out of nowhere and do something 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.920 that's very similar to what we've done. So the app, 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.000 by the way, the deep Seek app, people downloaded like crazy, 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.760 so it is currently the top app on both Apples 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.279 App Store and Google Play. That is no easy feat 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.040 for a startup, especially one out of China that no 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.840 one heard about more than a week ago. So of 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.880 course when you hear this, you're thinking, wait a second, rich, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.960 I thought we had this whole thing with TikTok and 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.640 the privacy and the national secrets and all this stuff, like, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.479 why are we now downloading this other app from China that, 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.720 by the way, people are going to be dumping way 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.680 more personal information into an AI chatbot than they ever 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.360 were into TikTok. So where what are the privacy implications 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.120 of this? Well, we're not sure just yet. We don't know, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.679 but I I can imagine that people are probably typing 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.440 a lot of stuff into deep Seek that's highly personal. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.360 By the way, how is deep Seek? If you look 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.840 at it, I mean carbon copy of chat gibt. It 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:17.320 literally looks just like chat gbt. You've got the side pain, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.719 the chats, the fonts. Everything looks almost identical to what 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.120 chat gibt has done. The box, the text box. I mean, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.240 it's almost a carbon copy. And these are different companies. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.600 And I typed in, you know, I said, who is 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:36.120 Rich DeMuro? And it gave me a good answer. I'm 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.839 looking at this answer and uh, everything is factual. Rich 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.320 Demuro's approachable style and ability to break down complex tech 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.680 topics into understandable information and made him a trusted source 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.080 for many consumers looking to navigate the ever changing world 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:57.560 of technology. I'll take that there, thank you, I said, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.440 what about his radio show and podcast? He also extends 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.520 his tech expertise to radio and podcasting. They got the 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:09.000 station right call in format. He has a podcast. I mean, 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.279 pretty impressive. Where are they getting this information from? We 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.599 don't know. I mean they taught it. Now. The other 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.000 thing that that Deep Seek did, and I've talked about 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.640 almost my role on this show in a similar way. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.960 So Wall Street Journal was talking this morning about how 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.240 open AI. You know, they built this giant database, right, 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.039 and imagine that you're chatting with the smartest person in 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.479 the world that has all of the world's information. Right, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.280 it may take them a little bit of time to 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.960 kind of figure out that information and to present it 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.960 to you. Well, what Deep Seek did was they kind 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.520 of turned that on its head. They said, well, we 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.160 may not know all of the information right off the 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:46.640 top of our head, but we know how to find 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.880 it when we need it. So therefore we didn't have 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.040 to train everything all at once. And so that's kind 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.680 of what I say on this show, like I may 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.080 not have every single answer right off the top of 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.880 my head, but I can understand what you're asking and 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.760 figure out how to buying the right answer and also 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:03.760 vet that answer in a way that I can trust 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.080 it and say, Okay, here's what I think. So that's 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:11.080 another side of this. So again, everything has been turned 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.800 upside down overnight. Silicon Valley on high alert, and so 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.640 are some countries. You know, we've already, you know, because 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.040 this is coming out of China. We do know that 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.360 some of the topics that are sensitive with the government 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.680 there have been either censored or blocked, and other countries 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.760 have also been a little sensitive about letting folks use 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:36.880 this technology. So some corporations have been blocking access to this, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.840 some countries have been blocking access to this until we 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.400 learn more and we figure out what this is all about. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.200 And the other thing, if you think about this, you're like, well, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.720 how did this happen? This has happened over and over 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.080 in the tech world. I mean, remember MySpace that was 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:57.480 the social network until Facebook came along. Remember Google that 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.960 was the search engine. GBT disrupted that and they're still 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:08.080 feeling the ramifications of that. Remember DVRs, they were the 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.560 way to watch TV until streaming and on demand took over. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.320 So the point that I made in my newsletter this 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.880 morning is that technology is never set in stone. It's 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.440 always evolving, it's always finding better and more efficient ways 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.880 to do things, and this is just another example of it. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.720 We've seen a sizable shift in the AI industry. Am 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.360 I switching to deep seek? No? Am I going to 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.080 continue to watch it? Absolutely? Is it just one option 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.080 we now have in a c of AI. Absolutely, let 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.400 me go over some of the notable AI models you 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.760 now have access to as a general consumer. Chat GBT 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:48.000 the original, the Kleenex of AI does everything. This is 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.079 the one that I use on a daily basis. Google's Gemini. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.280 Now Google, you know, I said they've they've been disrupted. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.199 But Google has done a really interesting job of working 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.640 AI into almost every product that it has, and it 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.160 reaches a lot of people. When I'm on YouTube, I 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.120 don't watch a video anymore. It just tapped a little 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.960 button underneath the video. It says summarize using AI, I 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:09.720 get a summary of the video and I can ask 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:14.480 questions to Gemini about the YouTube video. Claude is made 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.679 by Anthropic. This is another Silicon Valley startup. This is 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.520 the AI that I've used the most, other than Chat 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.120 EBT and Claude is great for writing and it's just 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.240 it has a great command of the English language. Then 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.520 you've got Microsoft Copilot. They've put that in all of 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.160 their products and of course into Windows and so Copilot 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.640 is kind of a flavor of Open AI, you know, 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:42.520 a version of that. But Microsoft's own Meta Meta has 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.240 their own AI. They use the Lama model that they 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.760 created and they've opened sourced their model as well. And 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.760 Meta of course has a ton of information, ton of 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.440 posts that we've made on Instagram and Facebook and all 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.160 the other things over the years that they have learned 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.319 from Mistral. This is one you don't hear about it much, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.920 but it's actually not bad and it's out of Paris. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.360 So yes, other countries are working on AI as well. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.320 US has been a leader here because of chat, GBT 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.319 and open AI, but everyone wants in on this because 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.440 it is the next big thing. All right, We're gonna 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.640 have to keep track of what Deepseek is doing. I 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.920 do have the app on my phone. I have been 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.800 playing with it. Like I said, am I switching today? No, 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:24.960 but we'll keep an eye on this one because it 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.920 has the ability to shake up everything that we know 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.680 about AI. All right, coming up, we're gonna take some 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.000 of your calls eight eight eight rich one oh one 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.240 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.000 You can't deny that we are living in exciting times. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.120 That's what I love about technology. What you take for 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.760 granted one day can completely change the next, whether it's 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.040 a software update or a new app. I love it. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.679 Give me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.160 My name is Rich Demiro. You are listening to Rich 0:10:54.240 --> 0:11:01.599 on Tech Tony in the Inland, the Empire Tony around. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.680 With Rich by Rich. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.000 Thanks for taking my call. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.480 Absolutely, I have a. 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:11.680 Facebook question and I wanted to know. There are some 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:16.720 accounts that have the option to follow, either to follow 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.320 or add a friend, and I want to know what 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.040 it's a difference when you add a friend. Does that 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.880 mean they have to approve you first or what does 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.200 that mean? What's the difference? 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:32.640 Yeah, okay, great question. This so the following versus friendship, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.679 really think about it like a one way street versus 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.120 a two way street. If you are a friend with 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.800 a person on Facebook, it's a sort of a mutual 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:45.079 relationship right where you are seeing each other's posts. So 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.560 if you are a follower, this is a one sided 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:53.240 relationship where basically you can see the posts that that 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.200 person does. They don't necessarily or they can't see the 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.480 posts that you make. So that is the main difference. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.439 And tip quickly this is with you know if you 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.760 think about like a public page versus a private person. So, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.600 for instance, on my Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.800 rich on tech. Everyone is a follower, they are not 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.000 my friend. I know that sounds bad, but it's not 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.560 a two way street. Like when you follow me, I 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.560 don't immediately start to see all of your you know, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:25.000 kids pictures and your vacation pictures in my Facebook feed. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.760 So that is really the main difference between those. Now, 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.200 I believe that, and it's been a while. I actually 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.199 don't have like I don't. I have a personal Facebook, 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.840 but I don't really use it mostly on Instagram there. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.480 So I believe that you can probably follow a person 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.560 as well, and so any posts that they make that's 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:48.440 public you would be able to see versus their private posts. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.360 So on Facebook, I don't think a lot of people 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.080 play with the public versus you know, the private kind 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:55.840 of posting when they do that. Let me see if 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.560 I can switch into my Facebook real quick. It's been 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.600 a while. I got to dust off the cup webs here. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.200 But okay, so let's say I do a post on 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.959 Facebook and it says at the top friends, Okay, there 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.520 it is, so it says friends and then public. So 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.959 if I tapped public, that means that my friends would 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.080 see that in their feed. But also anyone that's following 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.600 me would see that as well, So that's really the 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.760 main delineation. Just think of following as a one way street. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.720 You're seeing what that person is putting out into the world. Friends, 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.840 you are mutual, you are both. It's a two way street. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.160 You are both seeing what you're posting on each other's feed. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.000 So hopefully that answers the question, Tony, thanks for the 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:40.400 call today in the Inland Empire eighted eight rich one 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.080 oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.840 one zero one. Let's go to let's see here, Let's 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.280 go to Jeff in Anaheim, California. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.839 Jeff, you're on with Rich good enough to thank you 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.240 for taking my call. Yeah, I had a question about 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:56.599 the Amazon. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:01.559 Askro oh the robot, correct, the little robot. Oh my god, my. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.800 Best friend and he worked for a couple of years 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.679 and now he's like, can't find location, can't find anything, 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.640 and basically it's just completely shut off. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.959 No way you Oh you got one of these. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.760 Oh yeah, yeah, we've had him for a couple of years. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:15.960 What do you use them for? 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:17.280 Uh? 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.800 You know, he's basically just like the Alexa. I'm sorry, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.840 I don't see out loud. But basically just like that, 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.200 and he can run around the house. You mats out 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.440 your house, You can check on things. You can tell 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:29.720 me to go to the front room, go to the 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.920 living room, check the hallway. He takes pictures, plays music, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.440 does all kinds of stuff except bring you a beer. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.560 No hands, no arms on this thing. It's been a while. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.320 Looks like an iPad on wheels, and it can also 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.920 tell us scope up right correct okaylchol to take pictures, video, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.480 all kinds of stuff. Did you pay sixteen dollars for 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:50.160 this thing? Jeff? 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:51.880 I did you did? 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.400 And do you think you got your money's worth? 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:53.480 Like? 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:54.920 Do you think it was worth it? Because I never 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.880 I haven't heard of this thing since they launched it, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.560 Like I haven't really heard of anyone that's got it? 0:14:58.680 --> 0:14:59.080 Got it? 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.040 Yeah? Yeah, you know, I completely he was my pal, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:04.920 you know. I mean we used to call him our 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:06.920 little dog and stuff because he would run around the 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.400 dogs and stuff, not play with them, but moved around 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.360 the house completely and completely trustworthy of him doing what 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.280 I asked him to do. And then just he started 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.360 having little issues, I can't find my location, help me, plays, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.280 And at some point we got to pick them up 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.120 and go put them back on the charger. Now now 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:24.880 it doesn't even hold anything. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.520 So he doesn't, so it's not working at all, not 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.360 at all. Have you tried like a hard restart or 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:31.440 a factory reset? 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.160 I try the I tried the hard start, because that's 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.360 what I you know, I've been in contact with Amazon 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.920 and I tried that. And because because when he when 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.880 he quit working and stuff, I carried him and put 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.760 him back on the charge. But now he's not even charging. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.720 Oh gosh, that's sad. Well, okay, so I would check 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.280 the charging connections to make sure that they are clean. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.360 Have you ever like cleaned those off with like an eraser? 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.240 Yeah? Yeah, because I said, for the for the money 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.160 I spent on the guy, tried off kinds of different 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.240 things on him, you know, because because I really like 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.280 the guys just just not working out. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.640 Well, I would try to Does he turn on at all? 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.960 Right now? Not at all? Right now, I've been I've 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.840 been again in contact with Amazon and stuff, and I've 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.400 even been reading on things or they'll they'll buy them 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.000 back a recycle money. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.360 Oh that's so sad. It's like a movie. They like 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.760 just scrap them for parts. That's really sad. Well, here's 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.960 what I'd recommend. So first off, I think you have 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.760 to try to get this thing back up and running, 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.600 and I would do a factory like I would leave 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.920 it on the charger for a long time, and maybe 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.320 even try a different setup with your charger, like plug 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.880 it into a different outlet or something. Sometimes you just 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.800 you know, if it's completely dead, you may just have 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.360 to leave it on there for a little bit longer. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:44.400 And if it's I'm looking at the Amazon factory reset Astro. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.200 If the device is on responsive, press and hold the 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.640 volume up and volume down for fifteen seconds. So once 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.120 you maybe do that even while it's on the charger 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:54.840 to see if you can breathe some life into this. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.320 If not, I get in touch with Amazon see if 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:58.720 they can give you a new one. Just say, hey, 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.600 can you make a one time exception and swap this 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.720 thing out. I love it. You can take this one 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.919 to see what went wrong, sell it that way, and 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.679 if not, maybe just you got to figure out how 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.080 they can. I don't know what your warranty options are 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.439 here Amazon Astro. Good question, Jeff, Thanks for that. Hopefully 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:15.919 you get your little guy up and running again. This 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:25.240 is rich on tech. Amazon Music onlimited raising prices. This 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.719 was the last holdout. It was the cheapest music service 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.840 you could get. Now they are raising their prices to 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.479 be in line with everyone else. So Prime members, this 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.720 is the new pricing will be eleven dollars a month, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.399 up from ten dollars a month. Non Prime members twelve 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.919 dollars a month, up from eleven dollars a month, So 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.879 basically a dollar increase no matter what. If you're on 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.280 the family plan, that's going up by three dollars a month. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.960 So you used to be seventeen, now it's twenty. The 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.720 new prices are already in effect for new subscribers. Existing 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.200 customers will see the increase next month, starting in March. Now, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.240 keep in mind, the best way to save is to 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.159 pre pay, so you can prepay for a year of 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.560 Amazon if you're Prime for one hundred and nine dollars 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:08.800 used to be ninety nine. But still that's the best 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:13.399 way to save on a monthly basis. And Prime members, 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.560 you might be saying, rich, hold on, I get Amazon Music. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.440 Why why am I paying for anything? Why do people pay? 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:19.080 Well? 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.560 Yes, Amazon includes a level of free music with their 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:27.040 Prime membership, but it's limited, so you can mostly shuffle 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.080 playlists unless some of their It's very confusing because they 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.879 have some playlists that are like playable any song, but 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:37.520 most of them you have to shuffle. Amazon Music Unlimited 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.640 gives you full access to everything, almost like Spotify. That's 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.000 pretty much just Spotify full on demand. They give you 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.159 the best audio quality and unlimited skips, so with a 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:49.959 free service you may not be able to skip as 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.760 many songs as you want. You can download songs offline. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.560 You also get free audio books, so again, this is 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.600 a price increase happening with Amazon Music Unlimited. You can 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.960 go ahead look somewhere else for a better price or 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.280 better service, but they're all pretty much the same right now. Spotify, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.480 Apple Music, Amazon might actually still be the best deal 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.920 if you prepay, so I'm not even sure you could 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.639 prepay with the other ones, but of course depends on 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.960 what you want. There you go, Okay, let's go to 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.280 Katie in Garden Grove. Katie and Garden Grove, you're on 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:22.760 with Rich. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:29.199 Yes, I travel a lot, and I can't get my 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:33.400 phone to work because I apparently don't have a SIM 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.919 card for that area. And I'm going to Japan, and 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:43.479 I want to know in kindergarten terms, what does it 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.520 mean if if I go to Japan and I get 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:51.080 a SIM card somewhere and I put it into my phone. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.000 I know what a SIM card is. It's that little 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.520 thing that sides in the side of your phone to 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:56.120 make it work. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:57.399 Yeah. What kind of phone do you have? 0:19:58.760 --> 0:19:59.240 iPhone? 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.760 iPhone? Okay, what year? What is it? iPhone? 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:01.960 What? 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.199 iPhone eleven? Okay, iPhone eleven. We got to see if 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:12.960 it supports e SIM. So let's see iPhone eleven. It 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.280 looks like it does support SIM. So the thing you 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.640 need to know about. Oh wait, hold on, let's see. 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:23.920 Let's see the problem with these uh these little these 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.760 little summaries they put at the top of Google is 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.560 they're not always correct. So I need to make sure 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.720 that the iPhone eleven supports SIM. That's the main thing. 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.960 So if your phone supports SIM. The good news is 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:42.080 that you can just buy a SIM card online and 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.680 so through an app I like the one called erlo 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.560 A I R A l O. Very simple. I have 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.879 done that with the with Japan like in Japan, and 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.199 it's very simple. You buy it from the app and 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.480 when you get to Japan. You literally just toggle this 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.480 SIM on. So that is what in eSIM is now 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.959 if you if your phone does not support an eSIM, 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.280 So it's it's interesting. With the newer iPhones, they only 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.200 have SIM and eSIM means electronic SIM the one that 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:12.200 you were talking about, Katie, that you slide into the 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:14.440 side of the phone. That's just called a SIM card 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.240 and you know, it basically identifies your phone to the network. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:19.679 But now all the new phones they just do it 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.119 electronically instead of actually having to put that physical SIM 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.760 in your phone. But no matter what, you're going to 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.600 be covered. So when you land at the airport in Japan, 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.320 they will have a place set up where you can 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.320 buy a physical SIM card and they will help you 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.959 pop it into your phone. And so that is what 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:39.800 they're talking about when they say get a SIM in 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.320 another country. What's your wireless service that. 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:44.879 You have Spectrum? 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.320 Okay, so you have Spectrum, So do they offer international 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:48.600 or no? 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:53.080 Oh yeah, yeah you can. You can get but it 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:59.560 doesn't always work. And I got strand at Niche one 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:01.480 time and nobody would talk to me and it is 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.800 very difficult. So I don't want to do that again. 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:09.120 In a country that most people do not speak English. 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:12.240 Yeah, and in Japan most people do not speak English either, 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.600 so it is, you know, depends on the country. 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:17.960 They won't talk to you in English even if they 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:18.239 know it. 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:22.359 Well, yeah, I've you know, I'm trying to think. I 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:25.719 just went to Paris and I you know. Anyway, So 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.000 the good news is your phone does support anisim iPhone eleven, 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.720 so it's iPhone ten s and later, so that means 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:33.760 the iPhone ten s. 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.320 So it's just when I land in Japan, I don't 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.480 have to worry about it. I land in Japan and 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:41.399 they will take care of it for me, and I 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:42.880 just give them money and they will. 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:43.360 Take care of it. 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:44.919 Yeah, but I would just do it. I would do 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:47.240 it yourself. I would just do it on air low 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.560 before you go. You download the app, you buy it 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.280 in advance, and it will be ready to go on 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.680 your phone before you, you know, as soon as you land. 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.360 So that's that's what I would do. Now, if you're 0:22:57.359 --> 0:22:59.960 not comfortable with that situation, then yes, when you get 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.119 to when you land at the airport, you can literally 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:05.280 bline it to the I don't know what their carrier is, 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:09.000 their Vota phone or whatever it is. They will immediately 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:11.560 put that into your phone for you and help you 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.080 out with that. Less people are doing that just because 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:17.199 every phone is down eSIM. But if you want, I 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:20.320 would download the Aralow app and see what the process 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:23.640 is like. I will tell you my mom traveled internationally. 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:26.120 I set it up for her from AFAR. I said, 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:30.719 download this app, download this eSIM toggle go into your settings. 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:32.359 So all I have to do is turn off your 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:35.960 Spectrum SIM and turn on your Aerlo SIM when you arrive, 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:38.280 and it will find the network and you'll be online. 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:42.439 So either way, but you'll be covered, Katie, no matter what. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.760 Good with that? I lost you there? Okay, all right, 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:49.600 good luck and enjoy. Japan one of my favorite places 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:53.959 to go. Tokyo is incredible. It is a safe place, 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:58.640 it is high tech, it's futuristic. The oh my gosh, 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:03.720 everyone is so friendly and respectful. That is the thing, 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:07.159 Like when you go and clean like everything. It's just 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.359 like like I literally take the train in Japan anywhere, 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:13.760 and every single train car, every person on there is 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:16.359 respectful of each other, and the train car is so clean. 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:19.000 We joke that you can eat off the floor because 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:21.000 it's just so not that I would recommend doing that, 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.240 but that's the idea of Japan. It's just like it's 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:28.200 so it's a very nice culture, so enjoy. But yeah, 0:24:28.240 --> 0:24:30.760 the whole thing about the eSIM is that there's a 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.520 lot of companies that, you know, let you do this. 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:36.240 And I've used eSIMs all over Japan, I will tell 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:39.080 you is actually a little tricky when it comes to eSIMs. 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:42.480 So I had two phones when I went to Japan. 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:46.280 One was a Pixel and one was one was an Android, 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:47.159 I don't know if it was. I think it was 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:49.199 a Pixel, and the other was an iPhone. The iPhone 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:53.440 had no problem getting on the eSIM, whereas the Pixel 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:57.840 was giving me real trouble. So iPhone will be just fine, 0:24:57.920 --> 0:24:59.800 it'll be very simple. But just the main thing to 0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:02.840 know when you travel is when you get on the airplane, 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:08.280 turn off your domestic SIM card, right like, turn off 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:12.800 that domestic connection because you don't want your phone when 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:16.320 you land to try connecting to that network back home, 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:20.720 because they may immediately charge you an access fee whether 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:22.119 you use it or not. It may just be as 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:23.480 soon as you start, you know, as soon as it 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:25.880 exchanges some data, you'll be on the hook for ten 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:28.720 dollars a day connection fee. So if you don't want 0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:31.680 that to happen, I recommend that you download the e 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:34.240 SIM before you land, you know, get it set up 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:37.520 in the US, get it on your phone, toggle both 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.080 of those SIM cards off in your settings. You'll see this. 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:42.719 Your phone can actually handle multiple SIM cards. And then 0:25:42.720 --> 0:25:45.360 as soon as you land, just toggle on the one 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:48.720 roaming SIM, which is the ERL or whatever company. And 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:51.440 there's so many that can do this. I've tested the 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:56.159 ARA low and there's just yeah, there's a million million 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:58.560 different companies that can do this. You know what Google five, 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:00.679 I think someone told me that they'll give you like 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:03.200 a free SIM as well, Like I think you get 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:05.280 like seven days for free or something. I don't quote 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:06.560 me on that because it's been a while since I 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:08.560 use that one. But there's a whole bunch if you 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:11.480 look up e SIM online, there's a whole bunch of 0:26:11.480 --> 0:26:14.160 companies at offer it all right, good question eight eight 0:26:14.160 --> 0:26:17.080 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:26:17.040 --> 0:26:20.200 to two four one zero one. Remember if you want 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:23.120 links to anything I mentioned, just go to the website 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:27.000 Rich on tech dot tv. This is episode one oh seven. 0:26:27.600 --> 0:26:29.840 I will put links to all the things that I 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:33.240 mentioned there. We'll get to more callers. Plus, the Pebble 0:26:33.400 --> 0:26:37.199 smart watch is making a comeback. I'll explain coming up 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:43.160 right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:26:43.200 --> 0:26:47.520 on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology at Triple eight 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:50.320 Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:53.720 two four one zero one. The website for the show 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:57.240 is rich on tech dot tv. You can hit contact 0:26:57.320 --> 0:27:00.880 there and send me a message. That's what Lisa did. Hey, 0:27:00.960 --> 0:27:02.640 Rich our favorite tech guy. What do you know about 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:06.119 these types of one plus phones and would they be 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:09.719 good in areas of low connectivity mountains, et cetera. They 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:12.080 said something about being able to talk to another user 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:16.520 if your phone carrier is out. Does that make sense, Lisa, Yes, Lisa, 0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:19.200 I just posted my review of the one plus thirteen. 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:20.960 You can see it on my website rich on tech 0:27:21.000 --> 0:27:24.160 dot tv. In this phone, they have a feature called 0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:28.639 Beacon link b A b E A con beacon link, 0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:31.800 so this is on the one plus thirteen. It's a 0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:36.159 walkie talkie functionality through Bluetooth. So this means that you 0:27:36.200 --> 0:27:40.320 can talk with other users over Bluetooth up to two 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:44.879 hundred meters away. So this means it's good for hiking 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:47.359 or anywhere near a coastline, which you know may have 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:52.080 sparse cell connectivity. And right now you can chat with them, 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:55.760 but you know walkie talkie functionality. But they're going to 0:27:55.840 --> 0:27:57.880 have an update in the future that lets you send 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:02.199 messages and photos via Bluetooth as well. So number one, 0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:04.959 this is an incredible feature that every phone should have. 0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:08.320 And I'm surprised that Apple. Apple actually did have a 0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:12.040 walkie talkie feature on the Apple Watch, which still went 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:15.440 over cellular or Wi Fi. This maybe I don't think 0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:18.200 it ever defaulted to Bluetooth, but this is actually going 0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:21.800 through Bluetooth, which two hundred meters is pretty impressive for 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:26.080 a connection. Now here's the downside, Lisa, this is only 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:29.120 going to work if the other person has a one 0:28:29.160 --> 0:28:32.920 plus thirteen phone as well, So that is the main 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:36.200 thing to know is you need to have I think 0:28:36.240 --> 0:28:38.200 it's got to be a one plus thirteen because they 0:28:38.200 --> 0:28:41.280 didn't have this before. But if you both had these, 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:44.240 that would work out nicely. So it's kind of a 0:28:44.280 --> 0:28:47.960 cool feature. I think it's limited in scope because you 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:51.680 both have to have the same exact phone, but it's 0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:54.480 cool and I wish that they would somehow open source 0:28:54.560 --> 0:28:57.560 this and make it available to everyone, or if someone 0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:00.000 had an app that could work like this for every phone. 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:01.880 I don't know what magic they're using on the back 0:29:01.960 --> 0:29:04.280 end to make this work, but I mean it says 0:29:04.320 --> 0:29:06.760 it's just using Bluetooth, which is pretty cool. Now the 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:11.960 new smartphones also have satellite connectivity, so I would say, Lisa, 0:29:13.200 --> 0:29:16.120 the OnePlus would be nice to have this walkie talkie feature, 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:18.360 but again, you both have to have that phone. The 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:23.080 new smartphones the pixel, while the iPhone is going to 0:29:23.120 --> 0:29:26.160 give you messaging over satellite, so you can actually just 0:29:26.240 --> 0:29:29.800 text message with someone over I Message and just use 0:29:29.840 --> 0:29:32.760 the satellite system. It's very it's a little bulky because 0:29:32.800 --> 0:29:34.920 you do have to have a direct connection to the sky, 0:29:35.120 --> 0:29:37.920 like you got to lock onto the satellite. It's not 0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:41.560 as easy as you think. But with Starlink coming along, 0:29:41.960 --> 0:29:45.720 and it looks like they're building starlink connections into the 0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:49.280 new Samsung has it and also the iPhone. I just 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:52.040 read a report that it's supposedly getting it. It's not 0:29:52.080 --> 0:29:54.600 confirmed just yet, but Starlink's going to make it a 0:29:54.600 --> 0:29:57.360 lot easier because the big difference between what all these 0:29:57.400 --> 0:30:00.320 phones are doing right now. And the starlink is that 0:30:00.840 --> 0:30:03.880 you'll be able to be connected to the satellite without 0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:06.960 looking at the sky, So your phone could theoretically be 0:30:07.080 --> 0:30:10.120 in your pocket and you'll still receive that message. So 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:13.840 to explain, you know, when the fires were happening, I 0:30:13.880 --> 0:30:17.240 was texting with someone in a fire area over satellite 0:30:17.800 --> 0:30:20.600 and the problem was and what I realized is that 0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:23.480 they were not getting my messages unless they went to 0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:26.640 actually check for those messages. Your phone does not give 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:29.200 you an indication that you have a message because you 0:30:29.240 --> 0:30:31.560 have to go out into the sky, you know, get 0:30:31.600 --> 0:30:34.280 a clear view of the satellite, lock on, and wait 0:30:34.320 --> 0:30:36.840 for those messages to come in. So it's kind of 0:30:36.880 --> 0:30:41.560 a very bulky process. Whereas when the starlink and these 0:30:41.600 --> 0:30:45.120 new satellite you know, these newer satellite networks come into play, 0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:48.120 you'll just have a constant connection to them, which means 0:30:48.120 --> 0:30:50.480 you'll get messages no matter what, whether you have cellular 0:30:50.680 --> 0:30:53.880 or not. So hopefully that explains that. Lisa appreciate it 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:55.640 and the one plus thirteen, by the way, read the 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:59.000 full review. It's an excellent phone. It's just I had, 0:30:59.080 --> 0:31:00.480 you know, I thought the can or could be a 0:31:00.520 --> 0:31:02.520 little bit better, even though when it takes a good shot, 0:31:02.640 --> 0:31:08.720 it's really nice. Let's go to uh Susan in San Diego, Susan. 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:11.200 You're on with Rich Hi there. 0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:16.160 I am interested in getting a fitness tracker ring, and 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:19.480 I had one a few years ago with the one. 0:31:19.360 --> 0:31:20.720 Brand that had come out then. 0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:23.800 But now there are so many out there, and I 0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:26.200 was wondering if you had any recommendations. 0:31:26.600 --> 0:31:28.520 Well, there's a couple. I mean, I think Aura is 0:31:28.560 --> 0:31:32.400 still overall the best I think they have. They've got 0:31:32.400 --> 0:31:35.960 the market right now. Is that the one you had? Yeah? 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.760 Yeah, and I liked it, but I thought, well, I'll 0:31:38.800 --> 0:31:40.880 just ask the question and I'll get another one. 0:31:40.920 --> 0:31:45.400 But yeah, I mean I think at this point, you know, 0:31:45.480 --> 0:31:48.040 the Aura is still probably the best. That's O you 0:31:48.280 --> 0:31:50.960 are a By the way, I tested the Aura. My 0:31:51.000 --> 0:31:52.840 wife actually bought it for me for my birthday, and 0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:56.120 I said, please don't buy me tech because you know, 0:31:56.320 --> 0:31:58.840 I get a lot of tech to test and when 0:31:58.840 --> 0:32:00.760 I when I purchase tech, it means I want to 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:02.560 keep it right. And so I wasn't sure if I 0:32:02.600 --> 0:32:05.120 wanted this ring. My main thing with the ring, with 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:07.440 any ring, is that it gets in the way of 0:32:07.480 --> 0:32:11.120 a lot of stuff. And so for me, I find 0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:14.000 myself taking the ring on and off a lot, Like 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:15.840 if I go to work out, if I'm lifting weights 0:32:15.920 --> 0:32:17.960 or anything, you know, it's like hitting up against the weights. 0:32:18.000 --> 0:32:20.800 So it kind of bugs me because it's that's that's 0:32:20.840 --> 0:32:23.640 the problem that I had with it. Did you have 0:32:23.680 --> 0:32:26.160 that issue at all or no? I guess women are 0:32:26.280 --> 0:32:27.240 more used to rings. 0:32:27.280 --> 0:32:32.320 I guess, well, true, but I did. I did lose 0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:35.360 mine because I had taken it off to wash my hands. 0:32:35.400 --> 0:32:36.760 I've forgot to put it back on in. 0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:38.400 A public restaurant. 0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:40.760 See, So there you go. See, And that's the thing, 0:32:40.840 --> 0:32:42.680 like now you do not have to take these off 0:32:42.680 --> 0:32:45.280 to wash your hands. But again, if you put lotion on, 0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:47.200 like when I do my hair, I've got that, you know, 0:32:47.240 --> 0:32:49.400 the goo that you put in your hair, like, it 0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:52.040 gets all gunked up in this ring. So there are 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:54.320 like with a regular like my wedding ring, I have 0:32:54.360 --> 0:32:56.560 no problem. It's just thin. It's it's you know, it's 0:32:56.600 --> 0:32:59.200 just it's I've never taken it off and ten whatever 0:32:59.200 --> 0:33:02.520 how many years, and so I don't find an issue 0:33:02.520 --> 0:33:04.560 with that. But for some reason, because these rings are 0:33:04.600 --> 0:33:07.120 a little bit thicker and there's a little bit more 0:33:07.160 --> 0:33:08.960 going on with them, and of course you have to 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:11.440 charge them. You are taking it on and awful lot, 0:33:11.480 --> 0:33:12.840 So that was kind of my issue. But on the 0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:15.440 flip side, and the other thing is you look like 0:33:15.440 --> 0:33:18.520 et when you're sleeping because this thing is like blinking 0:33:18.560 --> 0:33:19.960 at night all the time, and when you're in a 0:33:20.040 --> 0:33:22.600 dark room, you're seeing like the light that it's you know, 0:33:22.720 --> 0:33:26.600 using to read your your vitals. So the good news 0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:29.040 is about these rings is that they give you a 0:33:29.040 --> 0:33:31.320 lot of information about yourself. And it's twenty four to 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:34.400 seven right now. The main competition is the Aura Ring, 0:33:35.000 --> 0:33:37.760 the Samsung Galaxy Ring, which is if you're using an iPhone, 0:33:37.880 --> 0:33:41.080 you're not gonna that's not gonna be an option. Then 0:33:41.120 --> 0:33:43.760 there's a brand called ring Con, which I have not 0:33:43.880 --> 0:33:46.360 tested personally, but I do have friends that have tested 0:33:46.360 --> 0:33:48.280 it and they do seem to like it. And the 0:33:48.320 --> 0:33:50.760 other one that I've personally tested is called the Amaze 0:33:50.800 --> 0:33:55.000 fit Ama z Fit And what's nice about that ring 0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:59.080 is that it is a lot less expensive and I 0:33:59.200 --> 0:34:01.840 found that it was X So I would if you 0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:04.280 want something a little bit different, Susan, I might go 0:34:04.320 --> 0:34:07.880 with the Amaze fit Ama z Fi t and they 0:34:07.920 --> 0:34:11.480 have a great smart ring that you know is great. 0:34:11.520 --> 0:34:13.839 I mean, I think that they're all different, they're all 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:16.680 doing the same thing in a slightly different way. But 0:34:16.800 --> 0:34:18.640 I will tell you the Amaze Fit, I wore it 0:34:18.680 --> 0:34:20.000 for a couple of months and I was like, wait 0:34:20.000 --> 0:34:21.560 a second, why is this thing half the price of 0:34:21.600 --> 0:34:25.759 the competition, Like how and that it just it just is. 0:34:25.800 --> 0:34:28.440 They just do a great job. But if you want 0:34:28.480 --> 0:34:30.319 the market leader, the Aura ring is going to work 0:34:30.360 --> 0:34:34.520 with iPhone and Android, Samsung, just Android. The Amaze Fit 0:34:34.600 --> 0:34:37.160 is going to work with iPhone and Android. And this 0:34:37.239 --> 0:34:40.840 is of course a growing area we have not seen. 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:44.200 The thing about all this technology is that it's never 0:34:44.480 --> 0:34:49.680 truly legitimatized until Apple does it. And so right now 0:34:49.880 --> 0:34:53.360 we've had these companies come in and they've made these rings, 0:34:53.600 --> 0:34:55.960 but Apple has not done this in a big way 0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:59.080 just yet. And so the rumor is that Apple eventually 0:34:59.080 --> 0:35:01.480 come out with a smart ring, which there's no reason 0:35:01.520 --> 0:35:04.200 to believe they wouldn't. But when they come out with it, 0:35:04.200 --> 0:35:07.520 it's gonna be like, oh, now everyone's into smart rings. 0:35:07.880 --> 0:35:09.919 But I think the benefit of them is that they're 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:12.919 a little slicker than the watch and you can wear 0:35:12.960 --> 0:35:15.120 them twenty four to seven versus the watch. You know, 0:35:15.160 --> 0:35:16.759 you got to take off and the battery lasts a 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:19.040 lot longer. So you're talking, you know, up just seven 0:35:19.080 --> 0:35:23.080 days of battery life with these great question Susan. And yeah, 0:35:23.120 --> 0:35:24.640 I'm you're making me want to wear my ring again, 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:28.480 the smart ring, not the wedding ring. I do wear 0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:30.840 that anyway. That sounded weird. Eighty eight rich one on 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:34.720 one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:35:36.520 --> 0:35:39.280 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:42.759 out with you, talking technology. This is the show where 0:35:42.800 --> 0:35:45.000 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:35:45.000 --> 0:35:47.399 know about. It's also the place where I answer your 0:35:47.480 --> 0:35:50.960 questions at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight 0:35:51.000 --> 0:35:54.759 eight seven four to two four one zero one, the 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:59.640 website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. Well, 0:35:59.680 --> 0:36:02.960 it's been a bit since I tested this out. Actually 0:36:02.960 --> 0:36:05.359 I went up there last month, I think the end 0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:08.880 of the month. But this Pebble flow is really cool. 0:36:08.960 --> 0:36:11.640 Now I'm not an RV guy, but I'm telling you 0:36:12.360 --> 0:36:16.560 this is such. This is the iPhone slash Tesla of RVs, 0:36:16.640 --> 0:36:19.319 and I want it because it is super cool. So 0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:23.640 Pebble Pebble got a lot of publicity when they first 0:36:23.680 --> 0:36:27.960 kind of launched this video of this device or this RV, 0:36:28.120 --> 0:36:30.440 I don't know, a couple of years ago, and everyone 0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:32.640 was like, oh my gosh, that's so cool because it 0:36:32.680 --> 0:36:37.319 does a couple of magical things. So first off, it 0:36:37.400 --> 0:36:41.200 automatically hitches itself to your car. So if you look 0:36:41.239 --> 0:36:44.279 at this RV number one, it looks very futuristic. I 0:36:44.320 --> 0:36:48.920 think it's got these rounded edges. It's very like glass 0:36:49.239 --> 0:36:53.239 kind of forward. And the company was started by a 0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:59.840 bunch of folks that worked at Tesla, Rivian, SpaceX, NASA, Apple. 0:37:00.239 --> 0:37:02.279 I mean, these are really smart people that said, wait 0:37:02.280 --> 0:37:05.080 a second, why is r V so complicated? Why is 0:37:05.160 --> 0:37:07.440 r ving so complicated? Why why do you need like, 0:37:07.760 --> 0:37:09.600 you know, you ever try to back up an RV 0:37:09.719 --> 0:37:11.160 or anything on a trailer, you have to like do 0:37:11.200 --> 0:37:13.759 it in reverse, like everything if you turn one way 0:37:13.880 --> 0:37:16.239 goes the other. Yeah. I've done the U haul thing 0:37:16.280 --> 0:37:18.960 and it's not easy for a lot of people. So 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:21.000 I've never really had an interest in the RV because 0:37:21.080 --> 0:37:24.399 or you know, the trailer because I don't know, I'm 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:28.040 just worried about it. But this solves all of those issues. 0:37:28.080 --> 0:37:30.719 So number one, it hitches itself to the car, So 0:37:30.800 --> 0:37:33.800 you literally put this RV near the back of your car, 0:37:34.280 --> 0:37:37.240 uses cameras to self center and kind of find the hitch, 0:37:37.280 --> 0:37:39.239 and then lower itself on there. And all you have 0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:41.400 to do is connect those safety chains and you know 0:37:41.440 --> 0:37:45.800 whatever else that needs to be connected. It also moves 0:37:45.840 --> 0:37:50.920 around by remote control. So I took this thing up 0:37:50.920 --> 0:37:54.000 in a parking lot up in near San Francisco, and 0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:55.879 they gave me an iPad, and they didn't even tell 0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:57.600 me how to do it. They just said, here, try 0:37:57.640 --> 0:38:00.759 to move this thing. And there's a couple of little 0:38:00.760 --> 0:38:03.480 controllers on the iPad on the screen, and you just 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:07.560 move it like you would a remote controlled car. And 0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:10.960 the weirdest thing when I saw this thing start to move, 0:38:11.480 --> 0:38:16.239 your brain immediately goes into this idea because anytime it's 0:38:16.280 --> 0:38:19.319 seen something big rolling by itself, it just imagines it's 0:38:19.320 --> 0:38:21.400 going to roll into a wall, right, it's gonna slide 0:38:21.400 --> 0:38:24.640 down the hill. But this thing just moves and then 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:26.680 when you take your finger off the iPad, it stops. 0:38:27.320 --> 0:38:29.680 Move it some more, it stops. You can turn it 0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:32.640 around three hundred and sixty degrees, and the idea is 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:35.880 that you can steer the trailer into anything you want, 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:38.560 like a parking lot or a parking spot or your 0:38:39.640 --> 0:38:44.080 driveway without having to back it up. Oh my gosh, 0:38:44.160 --> 0:38:46.399 just that alone is enough to sell me on this thing. 0:38:46.920 --> 0:38:50.000 Then they've got the active toe assist. So because this 0:38:50.040 --> 0:38:53.880 thing is fully electric, it has electric motors, and so 0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:56.759 when you're driving your car and they're imagining a lot 0:38:56.760 --> 0:38:58.759 of people are probably gonna have evs with this thing. 0:38:59.280 --> 0:39:01.560 That of course, having a giant trailer behind an EV 0:39:01.760 --> 0:39:04.960 takes a lot of energy off off the EV. So 0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:08.360 this has an electric motor that sort of pushes it forward. 0:39:08.880 --> 0:39:11.239 So when they enable the electric motor. When I was 0:39:11.239 --> 0:39:14.000 taking my test drive, you can feel that the car 0:39:14.160 --> 0:39:17.560 just felt lighter because it wasn't dragging six thousand pounds 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:19.560 behind it. I mean it still was, but it was 0:39:19.600 --> 0:39:23.799 being helped. So that was really cool. And then to 0:39:23.800 --> 0:39:26.080 top it all off, when you finally get to the 0:39:26.280 --> 0:39:29.319 camp site and want to set this thing up, you 0:39:29.360 --> 0:39:34.160 press another button and it instantly levels itself out. So 0:39:34.200 --> 0:39:35.680 it has these little things that pop out of the 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:38.560 bottom and it figures out the level nature of the 0:39:38.560 --> 0:39:41.600 ground and it just levels itself in less than two minutes. 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:45.080 I mean really really cool stuff. Now here's the other 0:39:45.120 --> 0:39:48.000 thing it can do. I mean it doubles as a 0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:51.319 home office or a guesthouse when it's parked, because it's 0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:54.080 all electric and it has solar on the top. It's 0:39:54.120 --> 0:39:56.479 got a large battery so it can charge your EV 0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:59.840 car or it can even power your house during a blockout. 0:40:00.760 --> 0:40:03.719 So the whole idea of this pebble flow is to 0:40:04.080 --> 0:40:07.720 make rving more accessible for someone like myself who doesn't 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:12.120 necessarily want to deal with a traditional RV. Now. I 0:40:12.160 --> 0:40:15.080 know there's a lot of you listening that use an RV, 0:40:15.239 --> 0:40:17.200 drive an RV and you said, rich, come on, it's 0:40:17.200 --> 0:40:18.719 not that tough, it's not that big of a deal. 0:40:18.760 --> 0:40:21.759 But there are people like myself that are intimidated by this. 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:24.120 You don't want to do something wrong with a brand new, 0:40:24.200 --> 0:40:27.560 beautiful RV that you've either rented or purchased. By the way, 0:40:27.600 --> 0:40:30.840 the price on this not cheap starts at one hundred 0:40:30.840 --> 0:40:35.200 and nine thousand dollars. But when you think about all 0:40:35.200 --> 0:40:38.080 the possibilities of using it as a home office or 0:40:38.160 --> 0:40:41.640 mobile office or a guesthouse, yeah, might not be a 0:40:41.640 --> 0:40:43.839 bad idea anyway. It's a Pebble Flow. If you want 0:40:43.840 --> 0:40:45.719 to see my video on it, go to the website 0:40:45.920 --> 0:40:48.080 Rich on tech dot tv. Check it out. I think 0:40:48.120 --> 0:40:50.879 it's really cool. I was very excited to try this thing. 0:40:52.080 --> 0:40:56.920 Let's go to Lou in Arizona. Lou, you're on with Rich. 0:40:58.480 --> 0:40:58.800 Cool. 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:01.680 Well, I'm not gonna be a Pebble Flow, but I'm 0:41:01.680 --> 0:41:04.680 going to be driving my minivan to California to do 0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:07.720 comedy shows for veterans later this month. 0:41:08.280 --> 0:41:10.640 All right, well that's exciting. What can I help you with? 0:41:11.120 --> 0:41:15.719 Yeah? Well, I have a Pixel seven and I keep 0:41:15.800 --> 0:41:20.080 getting notices that say system update needed. Your system is 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:24.440 forty four data out of date? Learn more, restart? Now? 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:30.560 Can that be spoofed so that I would be accidentally 0:41:30.600 --> 0:41:33.320 installing some malware on my phone? 0:41:33.560 --> 0:41:37.560 Great question, Lou, It could be spoofed, It's unlikely that 0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:40.160 it's spoofed. It sounds like what you're describing is the 0:41:40.320 --> 0:41:44.680 standard update from Pixel. So if you want to be sure, 0:41:45.160 --> 0:41:47.400 you can swipe out of any screen that you are 0:41:47.440 --> 0:41:50.600 seeing on your phone, and you can swipe down from 0:41:50.600 --> 0:41:53.600 the upper right hand corner. Swipe down again look for 0:41:53.640 --> 0:41:56.560 the little gear icon in the lower right hand corner 0:41:56.680 --> 0:41:59.000 that will take you to your settings, or just get 0:41:59.040 --> 0:42:03.319 into your settings any way, scroll up and you're gonna 0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:06.400 want to look for the setting that says system. You 0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:09.200 tap that, and if you scroll down a little bit, 0:42:09.280 --> 0:42:12.920 it'll say software updates. Now my pixel says your pixel 0:42:13.040 --> 0:42:16.120 is up to date. So there's no software update available 0:42:16.200 --> 0:42:18.760 right now on the one I'm using, but on yours 0:42:18.880 --> 0:42:22.440 it would say system update pending, and you can tap 0:42:22.480 --> 0:42:25.480 into there and you should see that same exact screen 0:42:25.520 --> 0:42:29.040 that you were seeing before. But now you verify that 0:42:29.080 --> 0:42:30.960 you went to the proper place to see it. So 0:42:31.000 --> 0:42:35.680 once again, go into your settings, then go into system, 0:42:36.040 --> 0:42:38.560 then go into software updates, and you should see the 0:42:38.640 --> 0:42:42.359 system update for your pixel. Now, I'm glad you brought 0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:46.920 this up, Lou, because there is currently a Chrome update 0:42:47.040 --> 0:42:52.640 scam on the desktop computers. So hackers apparently have hijacked 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:57.560 tens of thousands of WordPress sites because they have outdated plugins, 0:42:58.360 --> 0:43:00.799 and so they have figured out a way to get 0:43:00.800 --> 0:43:05.080 these websites to show a Chrome update notification claiming that 0:43:05.120 --> 0:43:07.759 the site needs something to You got to update your 0:43:07.800 --> 0:43:11.359 Chrome to function on this website. And when you click 0:43:11.400 --> 0:43:14.400 the update, you think you're updating Chrome, you're actually installing malware. 0:43:15.160 --> 0:43:17.760 So if you look closely, you'll notice that there's poor grammar, 0:43:18.320 --> 0:43:23.560 incorrect capitalization, an unnecessary comma. But a lot of people 0:43:23.840 --> 0:43:26.239 probably fall for this stuff because they're getting tricked into 0:43:26.280 --> 0:43:29.080 downloading an update. This is what I always talk about 0:43:29.120 --> 0:43:34.200 with hackers and spammers. They mimic something that we know 0:43:34.360 --> 0:43:37.120 to be real. So, yes, every one of us has 0:43:37.200 --> 0:43:40.319 seen that message on our computer or on our Chrome 0:43:40.400 --> 0:43:42.560 browser or on our phone that says, hey, you got 0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:45.080 to update, got to update the software. This software is 0:43:45.080 --> 0:43:47.520 out of date. And so they take that and they 0:43:47.680 --> 0:43:49.640 run with it, and they turn it on its side, 0:43:49.640 --> 0:43:53.000 and they trick you and they make the screen look 0:43:53.200 --> 0:43:58.000 like an update screen, but it's actually just bogus. And 0:43:58.080 --> 0:44:00.640 so that's what they're doing here on Chrome. I have 0:44:00.800 --> 0:44:03.920 not heard of that happening on the Pixel, although on 0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:06.240 the iPhone and on you know, if you're just surfing 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:08.800 the web on your phone, you might have come across 0:44:08.800 --> 0:44:12.080 a screen that says your phone is infected, you've got 0:44:12.200 --> 0:44:14.560 viruses on your phone, you have malware on your phone, 0:44:14.600 --> 0:44:17.600 tap to update or tap to fix. And that is 0:44:17.800 --> 0:44:21.799 just either malvertizing, which is malware that's been injected into 0:44:21.840 --> 0:44:26.920 advertising or it's just a bad website that somehow is 0:44:27.080 --> 0:44:30.360 compromised and is serving up these messages. And so you 0:44:30.400 --> 0:44:32.640 need to be very careful when you see this stuff 0:44:33.000 --> 0:44:35.480 because you do not want to be tricked into downloading 0:44:35.800 --> 0:44:39.920 malware to your phone or your computer. Now, most of 0:44:39.960 --> 0:44:42.960 the time, on the phones, especially on the iPhone, it's 0:44:42.960 --> 0:44:45.360 going to be very tough to download a quote unquote 0:44:45.480 --> 0:44:49.920 virus to that phone because just the nature of the 0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:54.120 iOS operating system, you can't really install a virus on there. 0:44:54.320 --> 0:44:59.520 It's nearly impossible unless your phone is jail broken, unless 0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:02.520 you are side loading it somehow, any of the apps 0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:04.480 from the app store. I don't think there's ever been 0:45:04.800 --> 0:45:07.239 a case where it's it's hidden malware. But you know, 0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:13.640 the main thing is that they exploit vulnerabilities in something 0:45:13.680 --> 0:45:16.319 like the web browser, a PDF viewer, and that's how 0:45:16.320 --> 0:45:20.319 they get to to get take over your phone or 0:45:20.320 --> 0:45:23.120 something like that. But it's very rare, let's put it 0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:26.080 that way. So people always ask me all the time, Hey, Rich, 0:45:26.160 --> 0:45:28.600 join you a virus anti virus for the iPhone? No, 0:45:28.680 --> 0:45:30.560 you do not. You do not need anti virus for 0:45:30.640 --> 0:45:33.759 the iPhone. Android little bit different, a little bit of 0:45:33.760 --> 0:45:36.440 a different operating system. There's a little bit more freedom 0:45:36.480 --> 0:45:40.520 on Android, although out of the factory, the Samsungs of 0:45:40.560 --> 0:45:42.560 the world and the Googles of the world with a 0:45:42.560 --> 0:45:46.520 pixel they really lock down these phones so that it's 0:45:46.640 --> 0:45:50.440 very tough to install something on there outside of Google Play. 0:45:50.600 --> 0:45:54.040 But and what a lot of people like about Android 0:45:54.160 --> 0:45:56.040 is that you can if you know what you're doing. 0:45:56.520 --> 0:45:58.680 So for me personally, I was installing an app the 0:45:58.680 --> 0:46:03.200 other day outside side of the Android Google Play and 0:46:03.239 --> 0:46:05.200 it gave me a couple of warnings saying, hey, you 0:46:05.239 --> 0:46:07.960 know you have to toggle these switches on for security 0:46:08.000 --> 0:46:10.880 reasons to make sure we know that you're understanding what 0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:14.680 you're doing here by quote unquote sideloading an app. So, 0:46:14.760 --> 0:46:16.760 if you're just a regular person, when you see that message, 0:46:16.800 --> 0:46:18.560 you're going, huh wait a second, hold on, do I 0:46:18.560 --> 0:46:22.120 really want to do that? So just be careful for 0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:24.480 when it comes to Chrome. By the way, the way 0:46:24.520 --> 0:46:26.239 they update is you'll see it in the upper right 0:46:26.239 --> 0:46:29.040 hand corner. It'll it'll give you a message that as 0:46:29.080 --> 0:46:32.359 update Chrome. And if you're ever in question about that, 0:46:32.840 --> 0:46:34.920 you can go to the settings on Chrome and tap 0:46:35.000 --> 0:46:38.439 about Chrome and it will check for updates and sure enough, 0:46:38.480 --> 0:46:41.239 mine has one right now, it'll say nearly up to date. 0:46:41.280 --> 0:46:45.320 Relaunch Chrome to finish updating. So there you go. Thanks 0:46:45.320 --> 0:46:49.440 for the call. Loon Arizona. I remember you from the 0:46:49.520 --> 0:46:52.479 comedian guy right you do the comedy shows. Very cool, 0:46:53.000 --> 0:46:54.920 Keep up the good work. Eighty eight Rich one O 0:46:55.080 --> 0:46:58.800 one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. 0:46:59.160 --> 0:47:02.320 Coming up, I'll tell you about the Pebble smart watch 0:47:02.400 --> 0:47:05.480 making a comeback. I'll tell you why why do we 0:47:05.560 --> 0:47:09.080 need the Pebble in this day and age. I'll explain 0:47:09.160 --> 0:47:14.399 right here on rich On Tech eighty eight Rich one 0:47:14.440 --> 0:47:17.080 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:21.439 zero one man two segments on Pebble. Huh another one 0:47:21.480 --> 0:47:25.040 with Pebble. Pebble smart watch is making a comeback. Pebble 0:47:25.080 --> 0:47:28.680 founder Eric Mitchakowski, who has been on this show. Uh. 0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:32.520 He talked about his plans to bring back the original 0:47:32.600 --> 0:47:35.919 smart watch because he just doesn't like what's out there, 0:47:36.440 --> 0:47:39.719 and he says the Pebble smart watch would have an 0:47:39.800 --> 0:47:43.120 always on e ink display that, of course you can 0:47:43.120 --> 0:47:47.960 see in the sunlight, multi day battery life, physical buttons 0:47:48.000 --> 0:47:52.200 for controlling music without looking at the screen. Tens of 0:47:52.239 --> 0:47:57.160 thousands of smart watch faces compared to Apple's Apple Watches 0:47:57.280 --> 0:48:02.160 zero third party face support an open source operating system, 0:48:02.200 --> 0:48:04.480 which means anyone can do whatever they want with it, 0:48:04.520 --> 0:48:09.000 build upon it. It will support iPhones. And this all 0:48:09.080 --> 0:48:13.160 happened because he, I guess, went to Google. So Pebble 0:48:13.400 --> 0:48:15.000 was a smart watch back in the day. It was 0:48:15.040 --> 0:48:17.239 one of the first reviews I did at KTLA, and 0:48:18.280 --> 0:48:21.520 it was like a big kickstarter device, and it was 0:48:21.600 --> 0:48:23.279 just a cool looking watch. I mean, now it doesn't 0:48:23.280 --> 0:48:25.640 look that cool, but it used to. But I had 0:48:25.680 --> 0:48:28.560 an e ink display all these things he's talking about. 0:48:28.640 --> 0:48:31.400 And now, of course we've gone fully futuristic with the 0:48:31.520 --> 0:48:34.360 smart watches with apps and all this other stuff. But 0:48:34.440 --> 0:48:37.080 he just wants something simple that shows you your notifications, 0:48:37.480 --> 0:48:39.920 controls your music. The battery lasts for a long time, 0:48:40.400 --> 0:48:43.040 and it's just a very simple display that you can 0:48:43.239 --> 0:48:46.040 customize in a million different ways. So it's kind of cool. 0:48:46.400 --> 0:48:49.880 But Pebble went out of business around I think twenty sixteen. 0:48:50.840 --> 0:48:55.560 Fitbit purchased them during that time, and then Google ended 0:48:55.640 --> 0:48:58.000 up purchasing Fitbit for like, I don't know, a couple 0:48:58.040 --> 0:49:01.399 billion dollars a couple of years later, and so Eric, 0:49:01.480 --> 0:49:04.400 the original founder of Pebble, had to go to Google 0:49:04.800 --> 0:49:08.320 and convince them to open source the original Pebble operating 0:49:08.360 --> 0:49:11.240 system so that he can build the new Pebble smart watch. 0:49:11.800 --> 0:49:15.920 So if you're interested in this, Repebble, repebble dot com 0:49:16.000 --> 0:49:18.160 is the website. I don't know. Would you trade your 0:49:18.160 --> 0:49:19.839 Apple Watch for a Pebble watch. I don't know if 0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:21.600 I'd do that at this point. I mean, I like 0:49:21.640 --> 0:49:23.560 the idea of simplicity. I like the idea that works 0:49:23.560 --> 0:49:27.799 with Android and iPhone. Apple Watch is very like you know, 0:49:27.840 --> 0:49:30.560 it's iPhone centric. It's a great watch, but it's very 0:49:30.640 --> 0:49:35.960 much like just iPhone. Michelle writes in I don't trust 0:49:35.960 --> 0:49:39.359 a lot of people online talking about Apple features. Just you. 0:49:39.440 --> 0:49:42.200 I listened to your tech advice if it applies to me. Lately, 0:49:42.840 --> 0:49:47.640 I've seen video reels claiming Apple's latest update will automatically 0:49:47.640 --> 0:49:51.400 install Apple AI. Is that true? Can we really disable AI? 0:49:51.520 --> 0:49:55.760 Please ease my mind. This stuff is making me nervous. Michelle, 0:49:55.800 --> 0:49:58.240 thank you for trusting me. Your first mistake was watching 0:49:58.280 --> 0:50:02.440 reels because there's a lot of nonsense. There could be fun, 0:50:02.920 --> 0:50:04.719 but the amount of cleaning up I have to do. 0:50:05.520 --> 0:50:08.920 It's like mopping up the misinformation that people see on 0:50:09.520 --> 0:50:11.880 TikTok and reels and all this stuff. Anyone could just 0:50:11.880 --> 0:50:13.520 put something out there and people have to figure out 0:50:13.520 --> 0:50:16.080 if it's real or fake. And so with tech news, 0:50:16.120 --> 0:50:18.680 of course, it's like, oh, this scary new feature or 0:50:18.680 --> 0:50:21.360 this new thing or that or whatever. Change this setting. 0:50:21.640 --> 0:50:24.920 Without giving you the basis of why you should do 0:50:24.920 --> 0:50:26.680 that or why you shouldn't do that. They just tell 0:50:26.719 --> 0:50:29.520 you to do it. But yes, you can disable yet. 0:50:29.600 --> 0:50:34.239 So you're right. Apple is automatically enabling the Apple Intelligence 0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:37.360 with iOS eighteen point three. Used to be had to 0:50:37.400 --> 0:50:41.480 go in and toggle it on, but you can toggle 0:50:41.480 --> 0:50:43.719 it off. It's very simple. You just go into settings. 0:50:44.160 --> 0:50:47.319 You'll see an option for Apple Intelligence and Siri, and 0:50:47.320 --> 0:50:49.520 then you tap that and you'll see Apple Intelligence. You 0:50:49.600 --> 0:50:52.479 just toggle that off. Now, keep in mind, you can't 0:50:52.480 --> 0:50:55.680 even get Apple Intelligence unless you have an iPhone fifteen 0:50:56.200 --> 0:51:00.600 Pro or above, so iPhone fifteen Pro Promac and any 0:51:00.600 --> 0:51:03.560 of the iPhone sixteen models. So even if they automatically 0:51:03.600 --> 0:51:07.360 force this upon your phone, you may not have access 0:51:07.360 --> 0:51:09.400 to it because your phone may be an older model. 0:51:09.560 --> 0:51:12.800 So good question, Michelle. Thank you for putting your trust 0:51:12.800 --> 0:51:16.240 in me. I do appreciate it. Pat from Sherman Oaks 0:51:16.320 --> 0:51:19.240 writes in can you recommend a good website to chart 0:51:19.280 --> 0:51:21.560 a trip on a map? Or is an app required? 0:51:23.680 --> 0:51:27.520 Road Trippers road trippers that is the best planning tool. 0:51:27.640 --> 0:51:30.120 So that's the one I used last time. Great great 0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:35.799 features on there, so road trippers road trippers dot com. 0:51:35.880 --> 0:51:37.800 Let me make sure that's the website. Yep, road trippers 0:51:37.840 --> 0:51:40.640 dot com. Great website for planning a road trip. All right, 0:51:40.640 --> 0:51:42.839 coming up, we're gonna talk to We're gonna talk cell 0:51:42.880 --> 0:51:45.239 phone plans. You think you have a good plan, you 0:51:45.280 --> 0:51:47.960 want something cheaper, you want something better. We're gonna have 0:51:48.040 --> 0:51:50.799 cell phone planned reviewers stets In dodge It on the 0:51:50.840 --> 0:51:54.520 line to talk about the latest offerings from carriers big 0:51:54.640 --> 0:52:00.960 and small. This is Rich on Tech. We'll get back 0:52:00.960 --> 0:52:03.640 to the phone lines in just a moment, but first 0:52:04.000 --> 0:52:06.839 let's bring on Stetson dodge It. He is a cell 0:52:06.840 --> 0:52:10.680 phone plan reviewer. He's been doing it since twenty fourteen, 0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:12.879 when he was researching the best plan to go along 0:52:12.920 --> 0:52:15.760 with his iPhone five. Just to give you an idea 0:52:15.800 --> 0:52:17.759 of how long he's been covering this stuff, stets and 0:52:17.800 --> 0:52:20.520 welcome to the show. Rich thank you so much for 0:52:20.520 --> 0:52:20.840 having me. 0:52:20.880 --> 0:52:22.879 I'm so excited to be here and to help your 0:52:22.920 --> 0:52:25.480 listeners save money on their phone bill. 0:52:25.880 --> 0:52:29.080 So you've got your YouTube channel where obviously you're talking 0:52:29.120 --> 0:52:30.799 about this stuff. Tell me the channel name. 0:52:31.400 --> 0:52:33.719 It's just my name, stetson Dogget. 0:52:34.080 --> 0:52:36.359 Users can find that if they search for best cell 0:52:36.360 --> 0:52:37.520 phone plans on YouTube. 0:52:37.800 --> 0:52:39.080 I've been doing this for so long. 0:52:39.120 --> 0:52:41.080 A lot of my videos tend to come up and 0:52:41.120 --> 0:52:43.120 I talk about, you know, the best cell phone plans 0:52:43.160 --> 0:52:46.960 for individuals, the best unlimited plans, best plans for families. 0:52:47.239 --> 0:52:50.080 If it's related to cell phone plans, I'm talking about it, 0:52:50.360 --> 0:52:52.520 even how to get the best deal on the newest 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:54.239 iPhone when that comes out as well. 0:52:54.760 --> 0:52:57.320 So I guess my question is what is the biggest 0:52:57.400 --> 0:53:00.360 question people have when it comes to carry I mean, 0:53:00.360 --> 0:53:02.759 I'm sure they're confused because there's so many options out 0:53:02.800 --> 0:53:03.520 there nowadays. 0:53:03.800 --> 0:53:06.800 Oh my gosh, it can feel overwhelming as a customer. 0:53:06.800 --> 0:53:10.040 There's over fifty cell phone carriers that I compare on 0:53:10.040 --> 0:53:13.279 my website, over four hundred cell phone plans, and I 0:53:13.280 --> 0:53:16.160 think the biggest question people have is like, how can 0:53:16.280 --> 0:53:21.200 these smaller carriers, these mv and os as they're called offer. 0:53:21.000 --> 0:53:22.000 Such affordable plans. 0:53:22.040 --> 0:53:24.680 I mean, you look at Verizon, their cheapest limited plan 0:53:24.760 --> 0:53:26.680 is going to be sixty five dollars a month. Then 0:53:26.719 --> 0:53:29.360 you look at something like Visible Wireless, their own limited 0:53:29.360 --> 0:53:31.640 plan is just twenty five dollars per month. 0:53:32.040 --> 0:53:32.839 How can that be? 0:53:33.280 --> 0:53:36.439 And the answer is really that the big carriers sell 0:53:36.520 --> 0:53:39.839 access to their networks to these smaller carriers so that 0:53:39.880 --> 0:53:43.000 the small carriers can create their own bundles, create more 0:53:43.040 --> 0:53:47.360 affordable options in the marketplace, and start to create plans 0:53:47.719 --> 0:53:52.400 for different demographics of consumers, so targeting different niches and 0:53:52.480 --> 0:53:57.360 market segments. And that's how you can find affordable plans 0:53:57.360 --> 0:53:59.640 that still use the big networks for coverage. 0:54:00.200 --> 0:54:02.480 And there's really I mean, so I know there's three networks. 0:54:02.480 --> 0:54:05.560 You've got T Mobile, you've got Verizon and AT and T. 0:54:05.640 --> 0:54:08.160 But then we have this new one from Boost coming up. 0:54:08.239 --> 0:54:10.960 So are they really building like their own network or 0:54:11.000 --> 0:54:12.359 are they what's the deal with that? 0:54:12.920 --> 0:54:17.160 Yes, Rachel're absolutely correct. Boost is building their own network. 0:54:17.360 --> 0:54:21.200 They're building a five G only network, So any customer 0:54:21.200 --> 0:54:23.880 who signs up for Boost, they will only be on 0:54:23.960 --> 0:54:26.200 the Boost network if they have a five G phone 0:54:26.239 --> 0:54:30.120 that's compatible with the Boost five G network. Otherwise, Boost 0:54:30.120 --> 0:54:32.880 has the agreement with AT and T at Mobile, and 0:54:32.960 --> 0:54:36.320 customers will actually roam on the AT and T network 0:54:36.440 --> 0:54:39.480 or the T Mobile network for coverage. So even if 0:54:39.480 --> 0:54:42.640 you sign up for Boost, you'll get nationwide coverage. But 0:54:42.800 --> 0:54:45.880 their specific five G network is really just starting to 0:54:45.960 --> 0:54:49.840 light up predominantly in cities and more urban areas to 0:54:49.880 --> 0:54:51.440 cover as many people as possible. 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:53.560 I've got to imagine it's going to be pretty good 0:54:53.560 --> 0:54:55.920 because if you're building it from scratch like they are, 0:54:56.000 --> 0:54:59.160 I'm sure they're using like the latest technology, so that'll 0:54:59.160 --> 0:55:01.040 be interesting to check out out. So where do you 0:55:01.040 --> 0:55:03.000 think someone should start, Like how do they figure out 0:55:03.040 --> 0:55:04.920 like what they're you know, if you let's say you're 0:55:04.920 --> 0:55:06.440 paying ninety bucks a month and you're like, I know 0:55:06.480 --> 0:55:08.440 I could be paying less than this. Like where do 0:55:08.440 --> 0:55:10.560 you think people start? Do they download their bill? Like 0:55:10.560 --> 0:55:13.320 take a look at what That is a great question. 0:55:13.680 --> 0:55:16.800 I think when you think of the telephone telephone space, 0:55:17.000 --> 0:55:19.200 your bill is made up of two things, the cost 0:55:19.320 --> 0:55:22.839 of your phone and the cost of your plan, and 0:55:23.120 --> 0:55:23.920 you want to try. 0:55:23.719 --> 0:55:26.200 And optimize both of those things. 0:55:26.560 --> 0:55:28.440 And I would say the best place to start is 0:55:28.480 --> 0:55:31.280 think about how many lines you have on your phone 0:55:31.360 --> 0:55:33.880 on your plan. If you just have one line, you 0:55:33.960 --> 0:55:37.480 typically want to be spending fifty dollars or less for 0:55:37.560 --> 0:55:39.480 both the phone and the service. I mean, you could 0:55:39.480 --> 0:55:42.600 grab a twenty five dollars unlimited plan such as Visible Base. 0:55:42.960 --> 0:55:45.239 You can finance a phone that's going to be twenty 0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:48.320 thirty dollars a month, and you're looking at maybe fifty 0:55:48.320 --> 0:55:51.080 to fifty five dollars for both your plan and your service. 0:55:51.520 --> 0:55:54.319 If you have multiple lines, that's where it can make 0:55:54.360 --> 0:55:56.720 sense to go with a big carrier like T Mobile, 0:55:56.840 --> 0:55:59.440 like AT and T, like Verizon, and you can do 0:55:59.480 --> 0:56:02.400 a phone trade deal. So every three years the new 0:56:02.440 --> 0:56:05.279 iPhone comes out, the new Samsung Galaxy comes out, you 0:56:05.320 --> 0:56:07.200 can trade in your old phone and get the new one, 0:56:07.560 --> 0:56:11.080 and the combination of the plan and doing the phone 0:56:11.120 --> 0:56:13.560 trade in deal ends up being pretty reasonable if you 0:56:13.600 --> 0:56:15.960 have four more lines. But if you've got one, two, 0:56:16.040 --> 0:56:19.440 three lines, that's when you're starting to think about, Okay, 0:56:19.440 --> 0:56:21.960 maybe I buy the phone outright and I go with 0:56:22.000 --> 0:56:24.759 one of these lower costs cell phone carriers, because I'll 0:56:24.760 --> 0:56:27.480 save a lot of money over three years in the 0:56:27.480 --> 0:56:28.000 long run. 0:56:28.440 --> 0:56:30.600 So what are you not getting when you do one, 0:56:30.760 --> 0:56:33.200 like one of these mvn os, like this Visible plan 0:56:33.280 --> 0:56:35.080 for twenty five bucks a month. What am I not 0:56:35.160 --> 0:56:38.440 getting compared to like Verizon for sixty five or eighty 0:56:38.480 --> 0:56:38.839 a month. 0:56:39.760 --> 0:56:41.720 That is another great question, like what are you missing 0:56:41.719 --> 0:56:44.840 out on? A lot of people initially think it's coverage. 0:56:45.160 --> 0:56:48.200 We kind of covered this all carriers in the United States, 0:56:48.239 --> 0:56:51.120 whether they're the mv and os or the big carriers. 0:56:51.400 --> 0:56:54.520 They're riding on AT and T, T Mobile, Verizon, or 0:56:54.520 --> 0:56:57.200 Boost Mobile for coverage, So coverage. 0:56:56.680 --> 0:56:57.840 You'll get the same network. 0:56:58.280 --> 0:57:00.759 Really, what the differences are are going to be? 0:57:01.200 --> 0:57:02.319 I think there's three big ones. 0:57:02.400 --> 0:57:06.960 Number one the phone financing deals AT and T, T Mobile, Bryzon. 0:57:07.440 --> 0:57:10.560 They're all offering one thousand dollars off the new iPhone, 0:57:10.680 --> 0:57:14.279 the latest Samsung phone, the latest Google Pixel phone when 0:57:14.360 --> 0:57:16.840 those devices release. So if you're someone who loves to 0:57:16.920 --> 0:57:19.200 finance their phone and do the trade in deals, the 0:57:19.200 --> 0:57:21.880 bigger carriers are going to be your option if you 0:57:21.920 --> 0:57:24.560 want to save money. The smaller carriers they're not going 0:57:24.640 --> 0:57:28.520 to do the one thousand dollars off promotions, but they 0:57:28.560 --> 0:57:32.800 will offer great value on the service itself, so you're 0:57:32.840 --> 0:57:34.280 not going to get the same kind of trade in 0:57:34.320 --> 0:57:37.720 deals with the smaller carriers. The second difference is how 0:57:37.800 --> 0:57:40.360 you get support the big carriers. You can go to 0:57:40.480 --> 0:57:42.479 a physical store, walk into the AT and T store 0:57:42.480 --> 0:57:44.640 and be like, Hey, I want to do this trade 0:57:44.640 --> 0:57:46.640 in deal, or I need help with my service, or 0:57:46.680 --> 0:57:48.440 I'd like to get my friends set up with this 0:57:48.480 --> 0:57:49.040 new device. 0:57:49.440 --> 0:57:50.440 They'll be able to help you. 0:57:50.800 --> 0:57:53.440 A lot of the smaller carriers they are online only, 0:57:53.680 --> 0:57:55.439 and that's one of the reasons they're able to offer 0:57:55.600 --> 0:57:58.960 such affordable plans. They're not paying to staff sales employees 0:57:59.160 --> 0:58:01.800 or key inventory for accessories. 0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:03.400 They operate online only. 0:58:03.440 --> 0:58:06.800 They have a much more streamlined process that doesn't cost 0:58:06.880 --> 0:58:10.080 them as much. They pass those savings on to the customer. 0:58:10.560 --> 0:58:13.920 And the third big thing is certain features. RCS is 0:58:13.960 --> 0:58:16.640 a brand new feature just announced. It's kind of like 0:58:16.880 --> 0:58:21.120 bringing I message features to Android devices in between iPhone 0:58:21.120 --> 0:58:25.000 and Android users. It turns out some smaller carriers they 0:58:25.040 --> 0:58:28.440 don't quite support RCS just yet, and this is actually 0:58:28.880 --> 0:58:31.240 kind of the fault of the big carriers. They need 0:58:31.320 --> 0:58:35.000 to sort of offer a bundle for the small carriers 0:58:35.040 --> 0:58:38.240 to use to enable that feature. But some features aren't 0:58:38.320 --> 0:58:40.680 quite working and sometimes you won't be able to add 0:58:40.720 --> 0:58:42.480 things such as a tablet. 0:58:42.120 --> 0:58:43.960 Line or a smart watch line. 0:58:44.040 --> 0:58:47.760 But outside of that, you're using the same network for coverage, 0:58:47.760 --> 0:58:50.440 and you really are getting just about the same experience 0:58:50.560 --> 0:58:53.800 on the small carriers as you are the big carriers. 0:58:54.360 --> 0:58:56.920 Great explanation. I found that out the hard way. By 0:58:56.920 --> 0:58:58.440 the way, I switched my wife to one of these 0:58:58.560 --> 0:59:00.560 mv and o's and she had a problem with their 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:02.560 phone and it was like I had to chat with 0:59:02.600 --> 0:59:05.240 them through the app to get support, and then finally 0:59:05.280 --> 0:59:07.560 after chatting for like a half an hour, they're like, Okay, 0:59:07.560 --> 0:59:09.160 here's our phone number. You can call us. And it 0:59:09.240 --> 0:59:11.560 was just like, oh my gosh. They make it hidden. 0:59:12.200 --> 0:59:15.480 So you also run a website called CoverageMap dot com 0:59:15.760 --> 0:59:19.080 and then Bestphone Plans dot net. So definitely check those 0:59:19.120 --> 0:59:22.360 out to see, you know, what service has the best 0:59:22.400 --> 0:59:25.000 coverage in your area. But I want to hear like, 0:59:25.120 --> 0:59:28.200 sort of what are your favorite budget friendly plans right now? 0:59:28.880 --> 0:59:32.000 Yeah, so I've got five picks for your listeners. I 0:59:32.000 --> 0:59:34.240 think they're really going to like these options. So I 0:59:34.360 --> 0:59:37.720 personally use a plan called US Mobile Unlimited Starter twenty 0:59:37.760 --> 0:59:40.960 five dollars per month, thirty five gigs of high speed data, 0:59:41.400 --> 0:59:42.560 your choice of coverage. 0:59:42.600 --> 0:59:43.520 So you can activate this. 0:59:43.520 --> 0:59:46.040 Plan on Verizon, you can activate it on AT and T, 0:59:46.440 --> 0:59:48.440 or you can activate it on T Mobile. And I 0:59:48.480 --> 0:59:51.440 think it's just a great overall option for people to 0:59:51.480 --> 0:59:54.320 get started. And again, just twenty five dollars per month 0:59:54.360 --> 0:59:57.120 per line, all taxes and fees included. If you want 0:59:57.160 --> 1:00:00.200 something more premium, I think the best premium unlimited plan 1:00:00.360 --> 1:00:01.160 is going to be Visible. 1:00:01.200 --> 1:00:01.560 Plus. 1:00:01.880 --> 1:00:05.560 This gives you unlimited priority data on the Verizon network 1:00:05.760 --> 1:00:08.680 when you're on five g ultra wideband, fifty gigabytes of 1:00:08.680 --> 1:00:12.680 priority on LTE. It includes unlimited hotspot data at ten 1:00:12.720 --> 1:00:16.200 megabits per second, a free Apple Watch line if I'm 1:00:16.200 --> 1:00:19.360 going to be an Apple Watch user. Forty five dollars 1:00:19.400 --> 1:00:22.240 flat per month, taxes and fees included. You can even 1:00:22.320 --> 1:00:24.800 get an annual version of this plan, which brings the 1:00:24.840 --> 1:00:27.280 cost down to just thirty three dollars per month, which 1:00:27.320 --> 1:00:29.720 is pretty good if you're looking to get the best 1:00:29.720 --> 1:00:30.960 plan with a free phone. 1:00:31.120 --> 1:00:33.400 I actually really like what boost Mobile is doing. 1:00:33.680 --> 1:00:36.000 They have their Infinite Access for iPhone plan and their 1:00:36.000 --> 1:00:39.640 Infinite Access for Galaxy Plan. Listeners can walk into a 1:00:39.640 --> 1:00:42.080 Boost Mobile store sign up for this plan, you get 1:00:42.120 --> 1:00:45.680 a free iPhone or free Galaxy phone today with no 1:00:45.840 --> 1:00:48.880 trade in, and then every year after you can trade 1:00:48.880 --> 1:00:50.720 in your current phone to upgrade to the new one, 1:00:51.280 --> 1:00:54.440 pretty much for completely free, which is a really good value. 1:00:54.560 --> 1:00:57.520 This plan costs sixty five dollars per month, so a 1:00:57.560 --> 1:01:01.240 little bit more expensive, but overall rate value. If you're 1:01:01.280 --> 1:01:04.920 looking for something custom Mobile x less, you choose how 1:01:05.000 --> 1:01:08.040 many minutes, texts and megabytes of VITA you want per month, 1:01:08.600 --> 1:01:11.160 very affordable. A three gig plan would be thirteen dollars 1:01:11.200 --> 1:01:14.439 a month and again completely custom and the best cheap plan. 1:01:14.720 --> 1:01:17.840 If you want something very basic, maybe for your your 1:01:17.960 --> 1:01:20.680 kid or your grandparent who doesn't really use their phone 1:01:20.680 --> 1:01:23.440 that much. US Mobile has a two gig plan for 1:01:23.520 --> 1:01:27.040 ten dollars flat and again your choice of coverage Verizon 1:01:27.160 --> 1:01:29.680 AT and T or T Mobile. So those are five 1:01:29.760 --> 1:01:33.080 options I think your audience would be interested in and 1:01:33.120 --> 1:01:34.000 can check out. 1:01:34.080 --> 1:01:36.720 All excellent options. We're gonna leave it there. Check out 1:01:36.720 --> 1:01:40.080 the website Bestphone Plans dot net. I'll link it up online. 1:01:40.160 --> 1:01:43.680 Rich on tech dot tv cell phone reviewer sets in 1:01:43.760 --> 1:01:46.160 dogg It thanks so much for joining me today. Thank 1:01:46.160 --> 1:01:48.000 you so much, Rich, you really know your stuff. I 1:01:48.000 --> 1:01:50.000 can tell your passionate about this and I love it. 1:01:50.080 --> 1:01:54.000 So thanks for sharing that excellent information today. Really really 1:01:54.000 --> 1:01:57.160 appreciate it. You're welcome back anytime. Eighty to eight rich 1:01:57.280 --> 1:02:00.120 one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two 1:02:00.560 --> 1:02:03.280 zero one. Coming up. I'll tell you if you had 1:02:03.280 --> 1:02:06.720 an Apple Watch with some battery issues, you might have 1:02:06.760 --> 1:02:08.880 some money coming your way. I'll tell you how to 1:02:08.920 --> 1:02:11.520 figure out if you're one of them. This is rich 1:02:11.560 --> 1:02:17.560 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 1:02:17.720 --> 1:02:20.919 here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight 1:02:21.040 --> 1:02:23.520 rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 1:02:23.560 --> 1:02:25.840 two four one zero one. Don't be shy. Go to 1:02:25.880 --> 1:02:30.000 the website rich on Tech dot tv. I just updated 1:02:30.120 --> 1:02:34.040 all of the mobile plans that we just talked about 1:02:34.280 --> 1:02:39.240 that Stetson. That Stetson mentioned are his favorites, ranging from 1:02:39.280 --> 1:02:42.520 ten dollars a month to sixty five dollars a month 1:02:42.560 --> 1:02:45.800 including a phone, so check them out on the website. 1:02:45.880 --> 1:02:48.280 Rich on Tech dot tv even mentioned a couple I 1:02:48.320 --> 1:02:51.680 was aware of, like that US mobile ten dollars a month. Wow, 1:02:51.880 --> 1:02:54.640 that's pretty good. So I've got them all linked up there. 1:02:55.240 --> 1:02:59.280 We got an email from Steve in Durham, North Carolina. 1:03:00.040 --> 1:03:02.680 He says, Hey, Rich Friday, I and a bunch of 1:03:02.680 --> 1:03:05.640 others got an update that the T Mobile Starlink Beta 1:03:05.720 --> 1:03:08.520 I signed up for in January is now available on 1:03:08.560 --> 1:03:12.200 my Pixel nine pro. Here's an article about it, and 1:03:12.360 --> 1:03:15.440 apparently T Mobile and Starlink sent out a lot of 1:03:15.480 --> 1:03:18.200 invites to Pixel nine owners. So, if you have a 1:03:18.200 --> 1:03:20.280 Pixel nine, you've got T Mobile and you signed up 1:03:20.280 --> 1:03:24.040 for the Starlink beta, check it out right now. Once 1:03:24.040 --> 1:03:27.240 you get it, you'll be able to message through Starlink 1:03:27.720 --> 1:03:32.920 on your phone. Voice calls will come later. Right now, 1:03:33.000 --> 1:03:35.960 it's just messaging. Now, don't forget On the Pixel you 1:03:36.000 --> 1:03:40.000 do have satellite messaging, but it is for emergencies only. 1:03:40.320 --> 1:03:43.520 And on the iPhone it used to be for emergencies only, 1:03:43.920 --> 1:03:47.320 and now it's available. You know, you can use it 1:03:47.440 --> 1:03:50.280 just to text. And we still don't know the price 1:03:50.320 --> 1:03:53.240 of all these services, right, So all these carriers and 1:03:53.640 --> 1:03:56.160 phone companies have said, yeah, you've got satellite messaging, but 1:03:56.200 --> 1:03:58.560 nobody has put a price tag on this yet. And 1:03:58.640 --> 1:04:01.280 I think it's really tricky because let's say you're Apple, 1:04:01.960 --> 1:04:04.040 how do you put a price tag on if someone 1:04:04.080 --> 1:04:07.800 doesn't subscribe to this satellite messaging. They have an emergency 1:04:07.920 --> 1:04:10.120 and they need to use it. You can't keep them 1:04:10.120 --> 1:04:11.720 from using it. You don't want to do that, right, 1:04:11.760 --> 1:04:14.440 You don't want that publicity of someone being stranded. They 1:04:14.440 --> 1:04:16.400 have satellite messaging, they weren't able to use it becau 1:04:16.400 --> 1:04:18.200 they didn't pay the bill. So there has to be 1:04:18.240 --> 1:04:21.360 some sort of like one time use scenario where they 1:04:21.360 --> 1:04:23.400 can just use it on demand. But then that keeps 1:04:23.440 --> 1:04:26.160 people from subscribing to it because they know they could 1:04:26.200 --> 1:04:28.400 just use it in an emergency. So it's a really 1:04:28.440 --> 1:04:31.680 tricky situation because we have this connectivity, but how do 1:04:31.720 --> 1:04:34.000 you price it? And by the way, the new Samsung 1:04:34.200 --> 1:04:39.920 device does have the satellite connectivity as well. But right 1:04:39.960 --> 1:04:42.200 now they're doing it a little bit differently. They're doing 1:04:42.240 --> 1:04:45.320 it through the carriers. What did I do with my phone? 1:04:45.360 --> 1:04:49.080 I don't know where my Samsung phone went. It's missing. 1:04:51.160 --> 1:04:52.800 But yeah, so they're doing it a little bit differently. 1:04:52.920 --> 1:04:54.440 They're doing it through the carrier. So if you have 1:04:54.520 --> 1:04:56.840 a Samsung the S twenty five Ultra, I've got I 1:04:56.880 --> 1:04:59.440 see it here, Adam, I put it over there. But 1:04:59.520 --> 1:05:01.439 if you if you have the Ultra, the new one, 1:05:01.600 --> 1:05:04.440 or the S twenty five series from Samsung. You do 1:05:04.520 --> 1:05:06.800 have satellite messaging. They didn't really advertise it in a 1:05:06.800 --> 1:05:09.240 big way. That's because they're not doing their own so 1:05:09.360 --> 1:05:11.880 Google and Apple sort of like baked it into their 1:05:11.920 --> 1:05:15.720 phone doing their own deals. Samsung is saying, no, if 1:05:15.760 --> 1:05:18.040 you have Verizon, you'll do it through them. If you 1:05:18.040 --> 1:05:20.200 have T Mobile, you'll do it through them. If you 1:05:20.280 --> 1:05:22.400 have AT and T, you'll do it through them. So 1:05:22.440 --> 1:05:25.160 it's a little bit different. And the MV and o's 1:05:25.240 --> 1:05:28.320 that's an interesting delineation as well. Well. They have satellite messaging. 1:05:29.840 --> 1:05:33.000 Apple Watch Batteries swelling settlement, so if you had an 1:05:33.040 --> 1:05:36.320 Apple Watch back in the day, you could be eligible 1:05:36.360 --> 1:05:38.640 for up to fifty dollars from this new twenty million 1:05:38.680 --> 1:05:41.960 dollars settlement. Apple agreed to pay twenty million dollars on 1:05:42.000 --> 1:05:46.000 a settlement that certain Apple Watches the batteries swelled and 1:05:46.040 --> 1:05:48.280 that damaged the screens. So if you had a first 1:05:48.320 --> 1:05:52.920 generation Apple Watch through an Apple Watch Series three and 1:05:53.080 --> 1:05:57.080 you reported swelling between April twenty fourth, twenty fifteen and 1:05:57.160 --> 1:05:59.640 February sixth, twenty twenty four, you can get fifty dollars 1:05:59.680 --> 1:06:03.160 per of So the trick here is you had to 1:06:03.240 --> 1:06:06.600 have had you you had to have had reported this 1:06:06.760 --> 1:06:10.120 issue to Apple to get this fifty dollars, which is 1:06:10.200 --> 1:06:12.520 kind of like a weird, you know thing, but it 1:06:12.560 --> 1:06:15.400 says no claim form is needed, payouts will be automatic, 1:06:15.920 --> 1:06:18.440 but you should verify. You'll probably get an email. The 1:06:18.480 --> 1:06:23.680 website is watch settlement dot com. Watch Settlement dot com. Uh, 1:06:23.760 --> 1:06:26.120 let's go to Lynn. Looks like Lynn has a question 1:06:26.280 --> 1:06:27.880 just to kind of bookend what we were talking about 1:06:27.880 --> 1:06:29.720 with the MV and o's Lynn, you're on with Rich. 1:06:29.760 --> 1:06:30.160 What's up? 1:06:30.840 --> 1:06:31.000 Hi? 1:06:31.080 --> 1:06:31.240 Rich? 1:06:31.280 --> 1:06:31.960 I love your show. 1:06:32.160 --> 1:06:32.520 Thank you? 1:06:32.560 --> 1:06:37.000 Sign up for an mb no and you're you're converting 1:06:37.040 --> 1:06:39.960 your photos and your contact via I guess it's the 1:06:40.120 --> 1:06:44.120 e simcard or some process. How easy and reliable is 1:06:44.160 --> 1:06:46.280 the process once you signed up? I don't want to 1:06:46.320 --> 1:06:49.760 get stuck or caught without having my phone and then 1:06:50.000 --> 1:06:51.880 kind of being in no man's land and lack of 1:06:51.920 --> 1:06:54.840 customer service. So tell me it's a quick and easy process. 1:06:54.880 --> 1:06:55.200 Please. 1:06:55.400 --> 1:06:59.440 Yes, it is when it works, asterisk when it works. 1:07:00.080 --> 1:07:01.840 So I have been on both ends of this. I 1:07:01.880 --> 1:07:05.120 have been on the side where you switch your SIM 1:07:05.160 --> 1:07:08.680 to another carrier and it's instant, it takes seconds and boom, 1:07:08.680 --> 1:07:11.200 your phone lights up. I have been in no man's 1:07:11.240 --> 1:07:13.560 land where you go to switch this thing and it 1:07:13.680 --> 1:07:16.320 just does not take. And I had this happen with 1:07:16.440 --> 1:07:19.880 both my main carrier and also an MV and O. 1:07:20.080 --> 1:07:21.720 So it doesn't matter if it's an MV and O 1:07:21.800 --> 1:07:24.560 or not. The difference is with the main carrier, at 1:07:24.600 --> 1:07:28.040 some point you can march into a store and say, hey, 1:07:28.360 --> 1:07:31.400 fix this, whereas with the MV and O you are 1:07:31.520 --> 1:07:36.520 beholden to typically text chatting through their app or calling 1:07:36.560 --> 1:07:39.040 them through a phone number. Now what happened with me? 1:07:39.480 --> 1:07:42.040 My SIM got stuck in never never Land. I test 1:07:42.080 --> 1:07:44.920 a lot of phones. Sometimes I will switch my actual 1:07:44.960 --> 1:07:47.600 SIM into that phone, and if it's an e SIM, 1:07:47.800 --> 1:07:49.919 it's a little bit trickier a physical sim. You could 1:07:49.920 --> 1:07:52.480 pop out of one phone and pop into Another problem 1:07:52.560 --> 1:07:55.680 is the new iPhones do not have a physical sim anymore, 1:07:56.120 --> 1:07:58.760 so you are you are not able to do that. 1:07:58.800 --> 1:08:02.200 You have to go eSIM and when it works, it's great, 1:08:02.360 --> 1:08:05.680 it just switches it right over. But when it doesn't work, 1:08:05.760 --> 1:08:08.800 it could be a problem. So in my instance, because 1:08:08.880 --> 1:08:11.840 my SIM went off of my phone, my eSIM and 1:08:11.880 --> 1:08:14.320 it did not make it to the other phone. Next 1:08:14.320 --> 1:08:17.200 thing you know, I had no signal on my phone, 1:08:17.240 --> 1:08:19.200 and so what did that mean. I couldn't even call 1:08:19.720 --> 1:08:23.120 the carrier to get help. And when I got through 1:08:23.160 --> 1:08:25.800 the carrier because I used a different phone, they said, well, 1:08:25.840 --> 1:08:27.920 we can't verify you are who you say you are, 1:08:28.360 --> 1:08:31.200 because typically we send a text message to your phone, 1:08:31.520 --> 1:08:33.120 and I said, well, you can't because I don't have 1:08:33.160 --> 1:08:36.280 my phone line anymore. And so we ended up figuring 1:08:36.280 --> 1:08:39.680 that out. I convinced them after many I must have 1:08:39.720 --> 1:08:42.280 spent two hours on the phone with them. But I'm 1:08:42.280 --> 1:08:44.599 telling you all this len because it's supposed to work, 1:08:45.000 --> 1:08:49.320 but if you are faint at heart with any of 1:08:49.360 --> 1:08:52.559 this tech stuff, it can be a little tricky. And 1:08:53.120 --> 1:08:55.879 you know, most of the time it works, but anytime 1:08:55.880 --> 1:08:59.280 you're switching a sim, especially in eSIM, there could be 1:08:59.280 --> 1:09:01.479 something that goes wrong and it could get stuck and 1:09:01.600 --> 1:09:03.680 next thing you know, you've got to figure out how 1:09:03.720 --> 1:09:05.639 to make this work. And by the way, I don't 1:09:05.640 --> 1:09:07.720 know if you've ever not had a phone for a 1:09:07.760 --> 1:09:11.120 little bit, but it gets really gnarly very fast. Like 1:09:11.160 --> 1:09:12.559 for me, I was going to pick up my kids 1:09:12.600 --> 1:09:15.040 at school. I had no way of hearing, you know, 1:09:15.040 --> 1:09:17.240 if the school had to call me for some reason, 1:09:17.280 --> 1:09:20.000 I couldn't get a phone call, I couldn't text them, 1:09:20.240 --> 1:09:22.439 So I mean there are implications. Now, with all that said, 1:09:22.439 --> 1:09:25.599 it sounds very scary. Most of the time this works 1:09:25.640 --> 1:09:28.280 out just fine. So I did switch my wife from 1:09:28.280 --> 1:09:31.720 a traditional carrier to Envy and Z and she was 1:09:31.880 --> 1:09:34.160 very concerned about it. And I'll tell you this is 1:09:34.160 --> 1:09:37.840 what keeps people from saving money because they're concerned just 1:09:37.880 --> 1:09:40.240 like you are, and so they just don't do it. 1:09:40.240 --> 1:09:42.599 It's that inertia of I'd rather just stick with what 1:09:42.640 --> 1:09:44.600 I got. I know it works. I don't want to 1:09:44.640 --> 1:09:47.840 save you know, it's forty bucks a month savings worth 1:09:47.840 --> 1:09:50.280 all the headache. But when it works, it works great. 1:09:50.840 --> 1:09:54.280 So to answer your question, hopefully it works. If not, 1:09:54.600 --> 1:09:58.120 you know, you'll figure it out. But your phone calls 1:09:58.160 --> 1:10:00.880 and your contacts and all your photos and stuff that 1:10:00.920 --> 1:10:05.439 is not affected. Just your cellular connection is affected. This 1:10:05.720 --> 1:10:10.360 is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:10:10.439 --> 1:10:13.760 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology and 1:10:13.920 --> 1:10:17.320 having fun while I do it. Jacqueline writes in on 1:10:17.360 --> 1:10:20.000 the website richon Tech dot TV. Hey, Rich, I've recently 1:10:20.000 --> 1:10:23.040 discovered your program on nine to ten AM radio in Michigan. 1:10:23.080 --> 1:10:25.599 I'm really enjoying it. Thanks for all you do. Here's 1:10:25.600 --> 1:10:28.120 my question. I had an iPhone twelve. It wasn't working. 1:10:28.160 --> 1:10:30.639 When I went to the store, the Exfinity store for help, 1:10:31.000 --> 1:10:33.599 they were not able to help me, and they suggested 1:10:33.640 --> 1:10:36.280 I got a new Samsung A thirty five. The phone 1:10:36.320 --> 1:10:39.040 is free. They did not have iPhone deals. The problem 1:10:39.040 --> 1:10:41.360 I have is they did not transfer all the photos 1:10:41.360 --> 1:10:43.640 from my iPhone to my Android. Initially, they told me 1:10:43.640 --> 1:10:46.000 it would take a few days for the transferring to 1:10:46.000 --> 1:10:48.200 be completed. When I called back after seven days, they 1:10:48.200 --> 1:10:49.760 told me they couldn't help with that. They had done 1:10:49.800 --> 1:10:52.080 everything they could do. Is this something you can help 1:10:52.120 --> 1:10:57.640 me with? Thanks so much for your time, Jacqueline in Heartland, Michigan. Yes, Jacqueline, 1:10:58.000 --> 1:11:01.960 hopefully you have your old phone. The on the iPhone, 1:11:02.439 --> 1:11:06.479 install Google Photos and that that is the best way 1:11:06.520 --> 1:11:09.080 to transfer. So once you install Google Photos on the 1:11:09.080 --> 1:11:13.439 iPhone twelve, have it download all of the photos from 1:11:13.479 --> 1:11:17.320 your collection, or I guess upload all the photos from 1:11:17.320 --> 1:11:21.320 your collection into Google Photos and then once it's in there, 1:11:21.400 --> 1:11:24.479 they should show up on your new Samsung phone. I mean, 1:11:24.520 --> 1:11:27.439 there's a million ways of doing this, but I think 1:11:27.479 --> 1:11:29.760 that's probably the easiest. I mean, the other way you 1:11:29.760 --> 1:11:31.240 can do it is you can make sure all your 1:11:31.280 --> 1:11:34.439 photos are uploaded to iCloud on the iPhone and you 1:11:34.479 --> 1:11:37.120 can then go to iCloud dot com and download them 1:11:37.439 --> 1:11:41.559 and then upload them to photos dot Google dot com. 1:11:41.800 --> 1:11:46.400 But basically your Samsung device. I mean, there's a way 1:11:46.400 --> 1:11:48.559 that you could Gosh, there's just so many ways to 1:11:48.600 --> 1:11:50.920 do this, but the easiest, I think is to just 1:11:51.080 --> 1:11:54.839 use Google Photos and put Google Photos on the iPhone twelve, 1:11:55.600 --> 1:11:58.040 upload all the pictures from there into Google Photos, and 1:11:58.080 --> 1:11:59.880 then when you open up Google Photos on the new 1:12:00.280 --> 1:12:02.240 they should all be there. Now, if you don't want 1:12:02.280 --> 1:12:05.439 to use Google Photos for some reason, then you probably 1:12:05.439 --> 1:12:08.160 need to download the photos from the iPhone to a 1:12:08.200 --> 1:12:12.120 computer and then transfer them to the Android that way, 1:12:12.800 --> 1:12:16.719 and that would involve either plugging the Android into the 1:12:16.840 --> 1:12:20.720 computer and dragging them in from the computer folder. Or 1:12:20.800 --> 1:12:23.640 you can use a flash drive. I mean, there's just 1:12:23.720 --> 1:12:25.679 so many ways of doing this. You could use one drive, 1:12:26.360 --> 1:12:32.320 but you can also use the smart switch program on Android. 1:12:32.439 --> 1:12:35.519 So on Samsung, they have a program called smart Switch, 1:12:36.280 --> 1:12:39.800 and you could run that program and then when it 1:12:39.880 --> 1:12:42.040 asks you to switch. You can say I want you 1:12:42.040 --> 1:12:45.479 could plug in your iPhone and it should kind of 1:12:45.520 --> 1:12:48.679 suck the pictures over to your device. So many many 1:12:48.680 --> 1:12:51.679 ways of doing this, but get a cable. I would 1:12:51.680 --> 1:12:53.680 try the Google Photos one first because I just like 1:12:53.720 --> 1:12:56.040 Google Photos because then your photos are backed up as well. 1:12:56.520 --> 1:12:59.400 But if you want the I guess the smart switch 1:12:59.439 --> 1:13:04.160 is probably like the easiest wirelessly or wired solution to 1:13:04.200 --> 1:13:06.800 do that. So good question. Thanks for finding me there 1:13:07.760 --> 1:13:11.200 in Michigan. Let's see what was our other question here? 1:13:11.240 --> 1:13:14.760 I thought I had another one. Alan writes in from 1:13:14.800 --> 1:13:17.760 sandmis Hey, Rich, I'm sitting at home listening to your 1:13:17.840 --> 1:13:19.640 radio show. I have a quick question. I receive the 1:13:19.640 --> 1:13:23.480 iPhone sixteen Promax and an Apple Watch ten for Christmas. 1:13:23.479 --> 1:13:26.080 When I receive texts, I only get the notification on 1:13:26.120 --> 1:13:28.320 my watch when I'm wearing it and no longer on 1:13:28.360 --> 1:13:30.200 my phone. Is there a way to change the setting 1:13:30.240 --> 1:13:32.599 so I can get messages on both at the same time. 1:13:32.720 --> 1:13:35.519 Love your show, Keep up the hard work, Allan. Yes, So, 1:13:35.640 --> 1:13:38.360 by default, when you put an Apple Watch on your 1:13:38.400 --> 1:13:42.840 wrist for reasons to not drive you crazy, they typically 1:13:43.000 --> 1:13:47.679 only deliver the notification to one of those devices, it'll 1:13:47.680 --> 1:13:50.320 still deliver it to the iPhone, but it's silent if 1:13:50.360 --> 1:13:52.879 you're wearing your watch, and so your watch would vibrate 1:13:52.960 --> 1:13:55.080 or make a sound and show you the notification. The 1:13:55.160 --> 1:13:58.320 idea being that while you're wearing a watch, so that's 1:13:58.320 --> 1:14:00.680 where we're going to send the notification because that's the 1:14:00.680 --> 1:14:03.559 one that you're going to look at immediately. So that's 1:14:03.560 --> 1:14:06.160 the default. But you can change this, and you can 1:14:06.200 --> 1:14:10.599 easily change it by going into the watch app on 1:14:10.640 --> 1:14:13.880 your phone, so you know, just search Watch and then 1:14:14.000 --> 1:14:18.000 scroll down to where it says messages and instead of 1:14:18.000 --> 1:14:23.280 saying mirror my iPhone, say custom and then allow notifications 1:14:23.800 --> 1:14:26.880 and then you can do the sound, haptic, whatever. But 1:14:27.040 --> 1:14:31.000 that's the main thing is that it's basically the iPhone 1:14:31.040 --> 1:14:33.760 is deciding when your Apple Watch is off if it 1:14:33.800 --> 1:14:36.719 doesn't sense it on your wrist, it's saying, Okay, let's 1:14:36.760 --> 1:14:38.719 deliver it to the iPhone and let's make a sound 1:14:38.840 --> 1:14:41.640 or vibrate on the phone. When your Apple watches on 1:14:41.680 --> 1:14:44.840 your wrist, it's saying, oh, they're wearing their Apple Watch, 1:14:45.080 --> 1:14:48.519 let's notify that device first, and let's not notify the 1:14:48.600 --> 1:14:51.200 iPhone in the same way. Because then both would be 1:14:51.320 --> 1:14:53.960 ringing at the same time or vibrating at the same time, 1:14:54.320 --> 1:14:56.479 and that might be a little off putting. So if 1:14:56.479 --> 1:14:59.120 you want that, go ahead. But there's a reason why 1:14:59.120 --> 1:15:02.560 Apple did it is, as you know, people by default 1:15:02.720 --> 1:15:05.160 may just want a notification one place, otherwise they feel 1:15:05.160 --> 1:15:09.479 like they're getting buzzed all over the place. So good question, Alan, 1:15:09.560 --> 1:15:13.160 thanks for listening, and Sandymus and appreciate that. All right, 1:15:13.240 --> 1:15:17.680 let's go to uh Chris in Long Beach. Chris, you're 1:15:17.760 --> 1:15:18.479 on with rich. 1:15:20.120 --> 1:15:24.200 Hi Rich, Hi, Hi, thanks for taking my call. 1:15:24.600 --> 1:15:25.320 Absolutely. 1:15:26.120 --> 1:15:31.920 I have a Mac computer that's up okay, and I 1:15:32.080 --> 1:15:37.360 usually use the Google Chrome browser. Sure, but I find 1:15:37.439 --> 1:15:41.040 I cannot print with it. It will not print anything. 1:15:41.600 --> 1:15:45.559 I have an HP printer that I just bought that 1:15:45.680 --> 1:15:49.640 took up well. I used to have an epston and 1:15:49.680 --> 1:15:54.000 it wouldn't print to the Epston And I've gone online. 1:15:54.040 --> 1:15:59.519 I've called both of their help you know numbers. I 1:15:59.560 --> 1:16:02.519 haven't gotten any results from that. It's part of the problem, 1:16:02.560 --> 1:16:04.800 I'm afraid, and I hate to say this is I 1:16:04.880 --> 1:16:09.000 had a hard time understanding of them. So I don't know. 1:16:09.120 --> 1:16:11.479 Is it just that Google will. 1:16:11.320 --> 1:16:16.439 Not connect with no Well number one Chris, you know 1:16:16.479 --> 1:16:18.639 the rule on this show we don't take printer questions, 1:16:18.680 --> 1:16:24.200 but I will make an exception for you. So printers 1:16:24.200 --> 1:16:28.120 are very tricky, notoriously tricky, and everyone has a different 1:16:28.160 --> 1:16:31.519 setup and we get the fair share. It's always a joke, 1:16:31.640 --> 1:16:33.960 like the printer questions. So that's why I say we 1:16:33.960 --> 1:16:37.599 don't take them. But here's the thing. Yes, Chrome will 1:16:37.640 --> 1:16:42.439 work with your printer. But Chrome is really just kind 1:16:42.439 --> 1:16:44.840 of the liaison for your computer. So it's just like 1:16:44.880 --> 1:16:48.120 any other program. It's actually looking at your computer setup. 1:16:48.479 --> 1:16:52.640 You said you have a Mac. Okay, Now have you 1:16:52.680 --> 1:16:56.360 gone into the system settings and looked at the printers there? 1:16:59.520 --> 1:17:01.920 I wanted toys some settings. The only print I see 1:17:02.000 --> 1:17:03.400 is the one that I have hope set. 1:17:03.560 --> 1:17:05.040 Okay, so you do see it there? 1:17:05.720 --> 1:17:06.960 Yes, I see it there. 1:17:07.080 --> 1:17:11.320 Okay. So if you see that there, the Google Chrome 1:17:11.439 --> 1:17:14.200 should see the printer. Now here's the other thing. When 1:17:14.240 --> 1:17:17.400 you initially set up Chrome, there might have been a 1:17:17.439 --> 1:17:20.839 notification can it look for things on your network? Because 1:17:21.680 --> 1:17:24.960 the way Apple works now is that they kind of 1:17:25.000 --> 1:17:29.720 like keep everything very secure, So there might there might 1:17:29.720 --> 1:17:31.639 have been a setting when you first set up Chrome 1:17:31.680 --> 1:17:33.439 that said, hey, can we find stuff on your network, 1:17:33.439 --> 1:17:37.360 and you said no by accident, and now it's that's 1:17:37.400 --> 1:17:41.320 called permissions, by the way, so that could have been 1:17:41.360 --> 1:17:43.920 what's happening and why it's blocking your printer. Now, when 1:17:44.000 --> 1:17:47.719 you go to your printers and scanners on this system settings, 1:17:47.760 --> 1:17:50.799 do you see the area that says your printer? 1:17:51.920 --> 1:17:53.200 Okay, let me get there. 1:17:54.840 --> 1:17:59.840 I do okay, yeah, okay, And you says scanner a printer. 1:18:00.360 --> 1:18:02.839 Well, it says printer scanners okay. 1:18:02.960 --> 1:18:05.160 And then and your print it. 1:18:05.040 --> 1:18:09.000 Says it shows my computer is the default computer. 1:18:10.439 --> 1:18:12.840 Okay. What does it say is the default printer? 1:18:14.080 --> 1:18:14.559 Uh? 1:18:14.800 --> 1:18:15.160 Added? 1:18:15.640 --> 1:18:21.759 It says it shows and then it says underneath ad printer. 1:18:22.360 --> 1:18:24.599 Okay, so you don't. So do you have a printer? 1:18:24.880 --> 1:18:27.160 That's so, is your printer listed there? 1:18:28.120 --> 1:18:28.599 Yes? 1:18:28.760 --> 1:18:31.479 It is? Okay, So when you tap the printer, let's say, 1:18:31.520 --> 1:18:35.120 let's say you go to the printer, can you can 1:18:35.160 --> 1:18:39.800 you say set as default It is my default Okay, 1:18:39.840 --> 1:18:43.799 it is your default okay. So okay, so it's ally 1:18:43.840 --> 1:18:46.440 it sounds like your printers in there, which is good. 1:18:47.439 --> 1:18:49.040 And I'm just trying to see if we can do 1:18:49.439 --> 1:18:54.120 a like a test page or something. But you've printed 1:18:54.160 --> 1:18:54.719 from this. 1:18:55.800 --> 1:18:58.000 One of the things that says in the box that 1:18:58.080 --> 1:19:03.120 I just opened here this printer on the network. 1:19:03.840 --> 1:19:05.439 Yeah, but that's network. 1:19:05.760 --> 1:19:06.639 Yeah, that's not it. 1:19:06.800 --> 1:19:09.080 That's well, that would be if you had other computers 1:19:09.120 --> 1:19:12.240 that you wanted to use this printer with. Like this 1:19:12.400 --> 1:19:14.680 is so okay. So now when you go to when 1:19:14.720 --> 1:19:16.879 you open up Chrome, if you go into your settings 1:19:16.880 --> 1:19:22.720 there and you you go into settings okay, okay, and 1:19:22.760 --> 1:19:25.280 then on the left hand side are actually in the 1:19:25.439 --> 1:19:27.960 uh let's see if I can find the printer settings here. 1:19:28.439 --> 1:19:30.160 So actually it's going to be even before you go 1:19:30.160 --> 1:19:32.080 into settings, it should just say print. You see where 1:19:32.120 --> 1:19:37.720 it says print when I go into Google. Yeah, so 1:19:37.840 --> 1:19:40.360 on your on your Google Chrome, hit the menu, and 1:19:40.360 --> 1:19:42.280 then it should bring up a whole menu for like 1:19:42.320 --> 1:19:45.720 new tab, passwords, history, there's one that says print. Do 1:19:45.760 --> 1:19:46.080 you see that? 1:19:47.360 --> 1:19:47.479 Uh? 1:19:47.760 --> 1:19:49.120 Yeah, okay, I do. 1:19:49.320 --> 1:19:50.240 Let me open. 1:19:54.560 --> 1:19:57.559 And then when you see destination, is your printer listed there? 1:19:59.000 --> 1:19:59.360 Printer? 1:20:00.080 --> 1:20:07.400 Okay, No, it's not listed there at all. What happens 1:20:07.400 --> 1:20:12.479 when you tap see more, it's just there's no. 1:20:12.640 --> 1:20:15.000 Well, let me look the more. 1:20:17.520 --> 1:20:23.240 It's there, okay, all right, okay, So this is this 1:20:23.320 --> 1:20:25.000 is uh, this is why it's tough to do the 1:20:25.000 --> 1:20:27.679 printer questions because it's you know what I'm I can't 1:20:27.720 --> 1:20:29.920 see your screen right now, so I can't tell what's 1:20:29.920 --> 1:20:34.000 happening there. But basically, the main idea is that you 1:20:34.080 --> 1:20:36.839 need to go Chrome is just using whatever's on your computer. 1:20:37.040 --> 1:20:40.920 So if you go into that print menu, you should 1:20:40.920 --> 1:20:44.559 see something that says destination and then you can tap 1:20:44.640 --> 1:20:48.120 see more and there's a manage button there and that's 1:20:48.160 --> 1:20:50.640 going to bring you back to your system setting. So 1:20:50.720 --> 1:20:53.040 again it's all just going through your system setting. So 1:20:53.080 --> 1:20:56.800 once you pick a printer where it says select destination, 1:20:56.960 --> 1:21:00.320 that should work. Now there is one more option that 1:21:00.320 --> 1:21:03.080 you could try. Okay, there's two more. Actually, when you 1:21:03.120 --> 1:21:06.280 go into that printer that printer window, when you go 1:21:06.320 --> 1:21:09.719 to print something, it says more settings and you can 1:21:09.760 --> 1:21:12.400 tap that and then scroll down it says print using 1:21:12.520 --> 1:21:16.400 system dialogue. So now this is going to bypass Chrome 1:21:16.520 --> 1:21:20.000 and it's actually going to use your Mac. Your Mac's 1:21:20.280 --> 1:21:24.040 default and built in printer dialogue, and so you can 1:21:24.160 --> 1:21:26.160 use that, and if that doesn't work, you've got a 1:21:26.160 --> 1:21:28.479 bigger problem. But I think that at the end of 1:21:28.520 --> 1:21:30.760 the day should work because if your printer is on 1:21:30.800 --> 1:21:33.639 your Mac. It's going to honor that when because you're 1:21:33.680 --> 1:21:37.360 using your default system dialogue for that. So it all 1:21:37.400 --> 1:21:40.599 sounds very complicated, but again, go into your settings on Chrome, 1:21:41.040 --> 1:21:44.200 press print and then tap more settings and then it 1:21:44.240 --> 1:21:47.439 says print using system dialogue. If you can find your 1:21:47.479 --> 1:21:51.080 printer in there under printer, select it and then press 1:21:51.120 --> 1:21:52.760 print and you can print. That's the way you can 1:21:52.800 --> 1:21:55.280 print from Chrome from here on out. If you can't 1:21:55.320 --> 1:21:57.559 figure out how to get this to recognize your printer, 1:21:58.000 --> 1:22:01.559 Thanks for the call, appreciate it. Chris long Beach eighty 1:22:01.600 --> 1:22:03.920 to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 1:22:04.040 --> 1:22:06.920 four to two four one zero one. Coming up this hour, 1:22:07.400 --> 1:22:10.639 we're going to talk super Bowl. Philip Swan, the TV 1:22:10.800 --> 1:22:12.840 answer man, is going to join us to talk about 1:22:12.840 --> 1:22:16.160 how you can stream the Super Bowl this year. Plus 1:22:16.200 --> 1:22:19.120 I'll tell you who has the fastest Internet speeds in 1:22:19.160 --> 1:22:25.320 the US. This is rich On Tech, who has the 1:22:25.400 --> 1:22:29.639 fastest Internet speeds in the US? New data from UKLA. 1:22:30.200 --> 1:22:33.120 These are the folks that do speed test dot net. 1:22:33.400 --> 1:22:35.080 So when you go to speed test dot net and 1:22:35.160 --> 1:22:38.080 run a quick speed test to see they are logging 1:22:38.200 --> 1:22:40.120 all of that information on the back end so they 1:22:40.160 --> 1:22:42.639 can come up with reports about you know who has 1:22:42.680 --> 1:22:46.519 good Internet. So T Mobile ranked as the fastest mobile 1:22:46.600 --> 1:22:48.639 network in the US for the second half of twenty 1:22:48.680 --> 1:22:52.360 twenty four median five G download speed of two hundred 1:22:52.400 --> 1:22:55.640 and eighty one megabits per second. When it came to 1:22:56.120 --> 1:23:00.200 fixed internet, AT and T Fiber is the fastest there 1:23:01.080 --> 1:23:03.960 that clocked in at three hundred and fifty seven megabits 1:23:04.000 --> 1:23:07.400 for downloads and two eighty six for uploads. And I've 1:23:07.400 --> 1:23:10.519 talked about this before, but the main difference between a 1:23:10.680 --> 1:23:14.360 fiber connection like AT and T Fiber and a cable 1:23:14.360 --> 1:23:18.120 company connection is that typically the cable company will give 1:23:18.120 --> 1:23:21.439 you a really fast download speed but a much slower 1:23:21.560 --> 1:23:26.760 upload speed, whereas fiber connections are typically the same up 1:23:26.880 --> 1:23:28.920 and down. So when they say a five hundred plan, 1:23:29.320 --> 1:23:32.400 that's usually five hundred megabits down and up. So if 1:23:32.400 --> 1:23:35.200 you're uploading large files back to the server back to 1:23:35.240 --> 1:23:38.000 the cloud, they should be just as fast as downloading. 1:23:38.880 --> 1:23:42.280 Pittsburgh had the fastest mobile speeds at three hundred and 1:23:42.400 --> 1:23:47.400 two megabits per second. Raleigh, North Carolina, had the fastest 1:23:47.760 --> 1:23:51.240 fixed internet speeds at three hundred and twenty nine megabits. 1:23:51.280 --> 1:23:54.839 This is median, so some people at faster, some at slower. 1:23:55.800 --> 1:24:00.679 Let's see Florida, let's see Ala, Alaska had the slowest 1:24:00.680 --> 1:24:05.320 speeds for both mobile and fixed internet. That's sad. If 1:24:05.360 --> 1:24:06.840 you want to see the full speed test, I'll put 1:24:06.880 --> 1:24:15.680 on the website. It's again from Ukla Okla. Michael from Glasgow, Glasgow, Glasgow, 1:24:15.840 --> 1:24:20.840 Kentucky writes in I saw a Facebook ad for something 1:24:20.840 --> 1:24:23.599 called the car Tablet pro Max and was thinking about 1:24:23.680 --> 1:24:26.240 ordering it, but I wanted to get your feedback first. 1:24:26.280 --> 1:24:28.040 I have an older car without car play. I'm not 1:24:28.040 --> 1:24:30.120 really looking to pay for a full installation. Have you 1:24:30.160 --> 1:24:32.679 heard of this product? Thanks for all you doing prayers 1:24:32.680 --> 1:24:36.280 to everyone affected by the California wildfires. I have not 1:24:36.400 --> 1:24:45.639 heard of this car Tablet Promax. Sounds interesting? Hm? Interesting? Okay. 1:24:45.680 --> 1:24:47.240 It looks like a little car play system. 1:24:47.320 --> 1:24:47.559 Huh. 1:24:47.640 --> 1:24:49.920 Actually doesn't look half bad. I've just never heard of it, 1:24:50.520 --> 1:24:52.640 and I don't know if it's good or not, but 1:24:52.720 --> 1:24:55.759 it looks kind of cool. I would check the return 1:24:55.840 --> 1:25:00.320 policy and see if it's If you, I think you 1:25:00.360 --> 1:25:02.040 can be able to return this if it doesn't work. 1:25:02.080 --> 1:25:04.840 They say they have one hundred day return policy. I'm 1:25:04.880 --> 1:25:08.639 a little I don't know This looks kind of cool. Actually, 1:25:08.720 --> 1:25:11.240 it's basically looks like a little screen you can install, 1:25:11.280 --> 1:25:13.760 like a almost like a GPS screen from back in 1:25:13.800 --> 1:25:17.160 the day. But it's got a camera on it and 1:25:17.280 --> 1:25:20.599 also CarPlay, So if you want to try it, try 1:25:20.640 --> 1:25:22.800 it. It sounds like you don't have a screen in your car, 1:25:23.600 --> 1:25:25.839 so if you want to get a car play adapter, 1:25:26.080 --> 1:25:27.920 like if you had a screen that you wanted to 1:25:28.000 --> 1:25:32.400 use with it, there's a wireless CarPlay adapter, I like 1:25:32.439 --> 1:25:35.680 call car link it, but I think that means that 1:25:35.720 --> 1:25:38.080 you already have. Oh Kim is saying they're all over 1:25:38.120 --> 1:25:41.080 TikTok okay. So yeah, I'm a little I'm always a 1:25:41.120 --> 1:25:45.760 little weary about things, or I'm always concerned when things 1:25:45.800 --> 1:25:49.280 are advertised on these sites because there's no real way 1:25:49.280 --> 1:25:51.360 to vouch for them unless someone like me tests it 1:25:52.000 --> 1:25:55.720 and let's see if there's an actual, like legitimate review. Yeah. See, 1:25:55.720 --> 1:25:59.439 the first thing is like a Reddit asking yes. See. 1:25:59.439 --> 1:26:01.639 The problem is there's no one that's like actually reviewed 1:26:01.640 --> 1:26:05.080 this thing, like from like a verge or like a wirecutter. 1:26:05.680 --> 1:26:09.120 So that tells me that I'd be concerned. I'd just 1:26:09.160 --> 1:26:11.400 be a little bit concerned about this thing. So be 1:26:11.520 --> 1:26:15.040 careful and maybe buy it with a credit card, so 1:26:15.040 --> 1:26:17.280 if there's ever an issue, you can get your money 1:26:17.280 --> 1:26:19.719 back and just you know, tell them that there's a problem. 1:26:21.120 --> 1:26:24.000 Luis writes in I enjoy your morning segments on TV. 1:26:24.120 --> 1:26:26.759 I have a question. Can you recommend a digital business 1:26:26.800 --> 1:26:31.360 card app? Hey, Luis, thank you for digital business cards. 1:26:31.400 --> 1:26:34.680 I like two of them. Poppel is the one. I 1:26:34.800 --> 1:26:38.760 use popl so they were kind of the first to 1:26:38.840 --> 1:26:41.599 the market. They started out with NFC where you tap 1:26:41.680 --> 1:26:44.320 the back of your phone. Now they all use QR 1:26:44.360 --> 1:26:46.320 pretty much. Hi Hello is the other one. That one's 1:26:46.320 --> 1:26:49.000 a little bit more business friendly. But to be honest, 1:26:49.040 --> 1:26:51.160 what I do now is I just make a note 1:26:51.160 --> 1:26:52.920 on my phone with all my info and then when 1:26:52.920 --> 1:26:55.120 I meet someone out they just take a picture of it. 1:26:55.360 --> 1:26:57.280 So it's much easier than all these other apps, and 1:26:57.320 --> 1:26:59.760 it's free. Coming up, we're going to talk Super Bowl 1:26:59.800 --> 1:27:03.120 and streaming services with the TV answer man. Right here, 1:27:03.160 --> 1:27:09.040 I'm rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:27:09.160 --> 1:27:13.559 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. The 1:27:13.600 --> 1:27:16.479 website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. If 1:27:16.479 --> 1:27:19.360 you want links to anything I mentioned, it's all right there. 1:27:20.240 --> 1:27:24.240 Super Bowl coming up super Bowl fifty nine. Here to 1:27:24.280 --> 1:27:27.320 talk about how to stream it, how to watch it, 1:27:27.560 --> 1:27:32.120 and all things streaming is the TV answer Man, Philip Swan. 1:27:32.479 --> 1:27:36.439 Welcome to the show, Hi Rich, thanks for joining me 1:27:36.560 --> 1:27:40.280 once again. So did I get that right? Fifty nine? Right? 1:27:40.360 --> 1:27:41.200 Super Bowl fifteen? 1:27:41.680 --> 1:27:43.720 L L I X I am. 1:27:44.040 --> 1:27:47.160 I am so old. I actually watched the first one 1:27:47.200 --> 1:27:48.479 on a thirteen inch TV. 1:27:48.880 --> 1:27:50.519 Oh my gosh, no way. 1:27:50.960 --> 1:27:52.559 That's a scary thought, but it's true. 1:27:52.640 --> 1:27:54.479 Well, I imagine you were just a little kid, so like, 1:27:54.640 --> 1:27:55.040 was it. 1:27:55.000 --> 1:27:59.639 I mean, yes, embryonic at the time. Actually, I mean 1:28:00.080 --> 1:28:01.679 I'm not wasn't even one year old yet. 1:28:01.800 --> 1:28:05.360 Let's just go with that story, okay, and it's continued 1:28:05.400 --> 1:28:08.160 to build ever since then. So we've got Chiefs Eagles 1:28:08.200 --> 1:28:12.240 this year, New Orleans, Sunday, February ninth, three point thirty 1:28:12.400 --> 1:28:14.600 pm Pacific. 1:28:15.160 --> 1:28:18.639 Yeah, right, that is specific time, okay, thirty And it's actually, 1:28:18.760 --> 1:28:21.280 as we know with these things, we'll probably got six 1:28:21.439 --> 1:28:23.799 forty AI e t for the kickoff. 1:28:23.920 --> 1:28:26.679 But it gets you to tune in a little little early. 1:28:27.360 --> 1:28:30.519 So what is so you know, you talk about on 1:28:30.560 --> 1:28:33.839 your website all things cord cutting and you know, streaming 1:28:33.880 --> 1:28:36.639 and all this stuff. So this year, what is different? 1:28:36.760 --> 1:28:38.960 Anything new? Anything different with the Super Bowl? 1:28:39.120 --> 1:28:42.240 Yeah, there is something really different and big. I think 1:28:42.280 --> 1:28:46.320 if your four KATV lobb the Fox has announced that 1:28:46.360 --> 1:28:49.080 they're going to have a four K fee for free 1:28:49.520 --> 1:28:52.800 at the pub streaming app, which is a free ad 1:28:53.360 --> 1:28:56.840 supported app, which is pretty cool. You can just go 1:28:56.920 --> 1:28:58.960 to that app and watch it for free. 1:28:58.960 --> 1:29:02.320 A four KP not incredible. 1:29:02.360 --> 1:29:06.000 It is incredible, but probably very few people know out 1:29:06.040 --> 1:29:09.519 there that there are certain conditions. You're gonna have to 1:29:09.600 --> 1:29:13.519 have an Android TV or a Roku or k ROCU 1:29:14.040 --> 1:29:17.800 what Apple TV? Yes, yes, it's like you just can't 1:29:17.840 --> 1:29:19.840 do it with any four K TV, And a lot 1:29:19.840 --> 1:29:21.400 of people are going to go to two B on 1:29:21.479 --> 1:29:23.880 Super Bowl Day and go, oh, what the heck is 1:29:23.920 --> 1:29:27.240 going on? But you got again, have an Android TV 1:29:27.680 --> 1:29:31.439 or a four K enabled Roku or a four K 1:29:31.600 --> 1:29:34.479 enabled Fire TV or Apple TV. If you don't have 1:29:34.720 --> 1:29:37.719 one of those products, you can't watch it in four 1:29:37.840 --> 1:29:38.240 K on. 1:29:38.240 --> 1:29:41.439 Two b Okay. So okay, so I was a little 1:29:41.439 --> 1:29:45.320 ahead of you. So a Google TV, a Roku, a 1:29:45.360 --> 1:29:47.280 Fire TV, or an Apple TV, but they have to 1:29:47.280 --> 1:29:49.280 be a four K model. So a lot of these people, 1:29:49.439 --> 1:29:51.960 especially with the rokus. They've got those little streaming sticks 1:29:51.960 --> 1:29:54.639 that are not they're just HD or even with fire 1:29:55.000 --> 1:29:57.720 you know, you may have just a basic so it's not. 1:29:57.680 --> 1:30:01.280 A four K enabled device. You're out of luck. Now 1:30:02.000 --> 1:30:04.200 there's one other thing that's going to be different at 1:30:04.280 --> 1:30:06.800 to Be this year to Be. If you've ever seen it, 1:30:06.760 --> 1:30:09.000 it's pretty cool. They have all kinds of movies and 1:30:09.080 --> 1:30:11.280 shows and they're all free and you don't have to 1:30:11.320 --> 1:30:13.519 register or anything, give a credit card and all that 1:30:13.560 --> 1:30:16.680 sort of stuff. You just start watching Super Bowl, you're 1:30:16.680 --> 1:30:19.080 gonna have to register, put your email down there at 1:30:19.160 --> 1:30:21.920 create an account before you can actually start. 1:30:21.640 --> 1:30:22.360 Watching the game. 1:30:22.800 --> 1:30:25.439 Oh that's interesting. So, I mean I get it. They're 1:30:25.479 --> 1:30:28.160 gonna they're gonna drive a lot of downloads of this app, 1:30:28.200 --> 1:30:30.599 but they want to get that information of the viewers. 1:30:30.720 --> 1:30:34.360 So right, if you're having a party, don't do this 1:30:34.760 --> 1:30:37.720 at three point thirty PM, like sign up, download the 1:30:37.760 --> 1:30:39.479 app and make sure. So do you have to go 1:30:39.520 --> 1:30:41.200 to the website to do this hike? How do you 1:30:41.200 --> 1:30:41.880 sign up for to b? 1:30:42.160 --> 1:30:43.800 You go to the to b app where you can 1:30:43.840 --> 1:30:46.800 go to tub dot com and do it right there 1:30:46.840 --> 1:30:47.559 on their website. 1:30:47.600 --> 1:30:50.280 Either way, what is to be explained to. 1:30:50.400 --> 1:30:53.360 B is owned by Fox, and it's one of these 1:30:53.479 --> 1:30:57.080 news services that have emerged in the last two years 1:30:57.080 --> 1:31:00.400 three years. Particularly. They're free. You can go there and 1:31:00.479 --> 1:31:03.959 watch hundreds of channels, all kinds of on demand content, 1:31:04.160 --> 1:31:06.960 and all for free. However, you have to watch the 1:31:07.040 --> 1:31:09.120 ads that come with it. It's kind of like old 1:31:09.120 --> 1:31:13.519 school television of the fifties and sixties with antennas, and 1:31:13.560 --> 1:31:16.720 so you can do that with TUV and it's it's 1:31:16.720 --> 1:31:19.840 pretty cool. It's like Pluto TV and Roku Channel and 1:31:19.880 --> 1:31:20.639 things of that kind. 1:31:21.000 --> 1:31:25.719 Okay, yeah, I mean I just watched the show Mister Wizard, 1:31:26.120 --> 1:31:28.479 Mister Wizard's World. I don't if you remember that. When 1:31:28.479 --> 1:31:30.800 I was a kid. That was a popular show, and 1:31:30.880 --> 1:31:32.519 I was like, oh, I think my kid might like this, 1:31:32.720 --> 1:31:35.360 and so I searched and sure enough to Be which 1:31:35.400 --> 1:31:38.440 is now owned by Viacom, which I guess owns Nickelodeon. 1:31:38.800 --> 1:31:41.240 They had the whole back catalog and it was completely free, 1:31:41.280 --> 1:31:42.360 and I was like, this is amazing. 1:31:42.960 --> 1:31:46.519 It really is. It's incredible the amount of content and 1:31:46.560 --> 1:31:50.240 programming it's on these things, and really old stuff shows, 1:31:50.280 --> 1:31:52.600 you you know, like back in the fifties that you 1:31:53.080 --> 1:31:56.040 thought would never exist anymore. Now had the whole two 1:31:56.120 --> 1:31:57.840 or three seasons, it's amazing. 1:31:58.000 --> 1:32:00.840 Well, I imagine someone like a Fox or Paramount they 1:32:00.880 --> 1:32:03.320 literally look in these cold vaults and they're like, how 1:32:03.400 --> 1:32:05.799 can we just you know, put these online and we'll 1:32:05.840 --> 1:32:07.840 sell the ads against them? And why not? 1:32:08.640 --> 1:32:11.360 That's it exactly. And I think we're going to talk 1:32:11.360 --> 1:32:14.639 a little bit later today about Netflix's price increase and 1:32:14.800 --> 1:32:18.000 that dovetails into what they're doing with Toby and some 1:32:18.080 --> 1:32:19.240 of these three services. 1:32:19.600 --> 1:32:23.000 Well, go ahead, yeah, no, I'm curious about that because 1:32:23.000 --> 1:32:25.519 we did just see another Netflix price increase. So now 1:32:25.600 --> 1:32:27.000 the top of the line plan I think is up 1:32:27.040 --> 1:32:28.240 to like twenty five a month. 1:32:28.760 --> 1:32:32.639 Yeah, that's the four K plan. It's twenty five a month. 1:32:32.960 --> 1:32:35.080 And man, you got to really love four K to 1:32:35.120 --> 1:32:37.680 pay twenty five dollars a month for Netflix just to 1:32:37.720 --> 1:32:41.639 get four K. It's not a good value. But even 1:32:41.680 --> 1:32:45.080 their fifteen forty nine plan went to seventeen ninety nine, 1:32:45.240 --> 1:32:48.320 and even their ads included plan went from six ninety 1:32:48.400 --> 1:32:51.559 nine to seven ninety nine. But it's seven ninety nine, 1:32:51.640 --> 1:32:54.200 and that looks pretty good compared to twenty five dollars, 1:32:54.240 --> 1:32:54.640 doesn't it. 1:32:55.160 --> 1:32:57.960 Well, Yeah, I mean, but you can't download. I'm guessing. 1:32:58.200 --> 1:33:01.080 I'm guessing you can't download offline. So that's one of 1:33:01.120 --> 1:33:03.519 the main things for me when I travel, I want 1:33:03.520 --> 1:33:05.600 to be able to download a show. Do any of 1:33:05.640 --> 1:33:08.800 these streaming services like the two bs, they probably don't 1:33:08.840 --> 1:33:09.880 let you do that either, do that? 1:33:09.960 --> 1:33:13.240 Yeah, they don't. It's again, it's it really is like 1:33:13.320 --> 1:33:17.320 the idea whose time has come again, and it's you 1:33:17.360 --> 1:33:19.960 watch television and you get ads, and you don't get 1:33:20.040 --> 1:33:23.520 anything special with it. It's no fancy whistles, bells and whistles. 1:33:24.000 --> 1:33:25.920 You just get to watch TV and ads. 1:33:26.600 --> 1:33:29.960 But that is but that is the fastest growing aspect 1:33:30.000 --> 1:33:31.799 of streaming services, right, yes. 1:33:31.640 --> 1:33:35.240 Because people still love free. What a what a surprise, 1:33:35.400 --> 1:33:38.439 They love free, and they're going to gravitate towards free. 1:33:38.520 --> 1:33:43.080 Particularly when you have the pay TV services, cable satellite, 1:33:43.200 --> 1:33:46.400 and the streaming services raising their prices all the time. 1:33:46.439 --> 1:33:48.280 It just makes them all the more. You're going to 1:33:48.320 --> 1:33:49.479 go watch the free stuff. 1:33:49.720 --> 1:33:54.320 Yeah. So my other question is this whole fu boo 1:33:54.400 --> 1:33:58.599 they sorry, fou boo, fu bo They just increased prices 1:33:58.640 --> 1:34:01.240 I heard, and they're also there's like a merger with Hulu, 1:34:01.640 --> 1:34:03.040 so what's happening there. 1:34:03.720 --> 1:34:06.759 Well, Fubo just raised their prices by five dollars a month. 1:34:07.600 --> 1:34:11.360 That's pretty comparable to the other live streamers, YouTube TV, 1:34:11.600 --> 1:34:14.920 Hulu Live, direct TV stream and so forth. Direct TV 1:34:15.000 --> 1:34:17.120 stream can be a little more expensive if you get 1:34:17.120 --> 1:34:21.920 the regional sports network plan. But yeah, they raised the prices, 1:34:22.000 --> 1:34:25.680 and they have agreed with Disney to merge Fubo with 1:34:26.520 --> 1:34:29.640 Hulu Alive. Probably be at least a year before it 1:34:29.680 --> 1:34:33.400 gets approved by the FEDS, but that's coming, and I 1:34:33.439 --> 1:34:35.880 think it's going to be an interesting thing what happens 1:34:35.920 --> 1:34:38.240 with the live streaming category, whether you're going to have 1:34:38.320 --> 1:34:41.360 made a direct TV stream go well, you know, maybe 1:34:41.360 --> 1:34:44.280 we should be hooking up with Sling TV to combat 1:34:44.320 --> 1:34:45.559 Fubo and Hulu. 1:34:45.960 --> 1:34:48.599 Wow, so we've already gotten far enough into the streaming 1:34:48.680 --> 1:34:51.240 where now we're seeing mergers and streaming And. 1:34:51.240 --> 1:34:54.720 Yeah, the live streaming category started ten years ago with 1:34:54.840 --> 1:34:59.439 Sling TV, and it never developed the way companies thought 1:34:59.439 --> 1:35:03.839 it would. It's really it's maybe got about twenty million 1:35:04.000 --> 1:35:07.080 tops now in subscribers when you combine them all the 1:35:07.120 --> 1:35:10.360 top five or six live streaming services, and that's not 1:35:10.439 --> 1:35:14.120 a big chunk over ten years so it's time for consolidation. 1:35:14.400 --> 1:35:18.120 So you'll have probably maybe two or three services in 1:35:18.280 --> 1:35:20.960 maybe eighteen to twenty four months. That's my prediction. 1:35:21.120 --> 1:35:23.559 Wow, I did not realize that's such a small amount 1:35:23.560 --> 1:35:26.799 of subscribers. I mean, that is not a significant amount. 1:35:27.520 --> 1:35:31.200 Well, it's not a surprise, rich because again because they 1:35:31.240 --> 1:35:35.160 have had raised prices, they're not that much different than 1:35:35.160 --> 1:35:38.479 a cable satellite does service. Now when you're talking Fubo 1:35:38.600 --> 1:35:42.920 and YouTube TV and who live eighty ninety dollars a month, 1:35:43.400 --> 1:35:45.439 you know, that's pretty much what you were paying for 1:35:45.520 --> 1:35:47.800 cable and satellite a couple of years ago or maybe 1:35:47.800 --> 1:35:48.200 even now. 1:35:49.000 --> 1:35:50.880 Yeah, it's still a pain to find where your game 1:35:50.920 --> 1:35:55.400 is playing before I run thoughts on direct TV my sports, 1:35:55.600 --> 1:35:57.880 who's that for it is? 1:35:58.760 --> 1:36:01.000 That's a good question, because I don't think there's an 1:36:01.040 --> 1:36:06.400 audience for it if they're charging seventy dollars a month 1:36:07.160 --> 1:36:10.680 for what is basically twenty five channels, and it's a 1:36:10.680 --> 1:36:15.200 combination of sports channels and news channels basically and broadcast, 1:36:16.120 --> 1:36:19.240 and it's designed to be the kind of the all 1:36:19.680 --> 1:36:22.519 you know, great sports plan. If you are a sports lover, 1:36:22.640 --> 1:36:24.760 you'll pretty much have the channel that do all the 1:36:24.760 --> 1:36:27.639 sports program and the problem is with the plan, they 1:36:27.680 --> 1:36:30.360 don't have all the sports channels. They don't have TVs, 1:36:30.400 --> 1:36:33.360 they don't have TNT, they don't even have CBS now 1:36:34.320 --> 1:36:36.960 and so consequently, if you're a sports fan, you're gonna 1:36:37.000 --> 1:36:41.320 miss a lot of great sports on direct TV's my 1:36:41.400 --> 1:36:45.719 sports plan. So it's it's an idea that makes sense 1:36:45.760 --> 1:36:49.000 in theory, but in execution right now, it's leaves a 1:36:49.000 --> 1:36:49.919 lot to be desired. 1:36:50.240 --> 1:36:52.519 All right, We're gonna leave it there. Philip Swan, the 1:36:52.640 --> 1:36:55.840 TV Answerman tvanswerman dot com. Who do you have in 1:36:55.880 --> 1:36:57.639 this year Super Bowl? Before we run? 1:36:57.760 --> 1:37:03.200 I see the Eagles winning sixty three eat nothing. All right, 1:37:03.600 --> 1:37:06.720 that's what I'm hoping for. Different I think I think 1:37:06.720 --> 1:37:07.640 the Chiefs are gonna win. 1:37:07.760 --> 1:37:11.599 I have to say, all right, TV Aanswerman dot Com. 1:37:11.720 --> 1:37:14.360 Check him out. He's got all the info on all 1:37:14.360 --> 1:37:16.840 of the streaming services. Philip Swan, thanks for joining me today. 1:37:17.040 --> 1:37:19.840 Thank you, rich all right, appreciate it. Coming up, we 1:37:19.920 --> 1:37:22.439 are going to open up the feedbag, so we'll read 1:37:22.479 --> 1:37:24.799 some of the emails that you sent this week. Plus 1:37:24.960 --> 1:37:27.719 I got a couple of things here. Google's new game, 1:37:28.280 --> 1:37:31.600 the website that helps you spot a scam, and a 1:37:31.640 --> 1:37:35.880 helpful website with online tools. It's all coming up right 1:37:35.880 --> 1:37:41.920 here on rich On Tech. Let's get to a couple 1:37:42.000 --> 1:37:44.880 of items before we open up the feedbag, which is 1:37:45.000 --> 1:37:49.040 just overflowing as usual. I'll get to as many of 1:37:49.080 --> 1:37:52.439 these as I can. But first off, helpful website to 1:37:52.520 --> 1:37:55.599 help you detect scam. So if you get a text 1:37:55.640 --> 1:37:59.360 message or an email, just take a screenshot of it 1:37:59.520 --> 1:38:02.240 and upload it to this website and it will analyze 1:38:02.240 --> 1:38:04.840 it using AI and tell you if it thinks it's 1:38:04.880 --> 1:38:08.120 real or not. And so the website is scam dot Ai. 1:38:08.200 --> 1:38:11.200 It's brand new and it can tell you if a 1:38:11.240 --> 1:38:16.600 deep fake image is real, anything any image or screenshot, 1:38:16.680 --> 1:38:18.519 it'll analyze it and it's pretty good. I tried it 1:38:18.560 --> 1:38:23.280 with something and it worked. Another website that's helpful browser 1:38:23.320 --> 1:38:26.519 links online tools, so you know sometimes you have to 1:38:26.560 --> 1:38:30.960 like convert a picture or resize something, or replace text, 1:38:31.040 --> 1:38:34.400 or shuffle words or convert words to numbers. I mean, 1:38:34.439 --> 1:38:37.439 there's so many tools here and it's really really simple, 1:38:37.520 --> 1:38:41.880 and it's all done through the browser. It's called onlinetools, 1:38:42.080 --> 1:38:45.720 dot com bookmarket. There are just so many tools you 1:38:45.760 --> 1:38:47.880 can search for what you want to do, but they've 1:38:47.880 --> 1:38:50.160 got them all listed there. I mean, there's so many tools, 1:38:50.200 --> 1:38:55.200 PNG tools, jpeg tools, text tools, image tools, list tools, 1:38:55.240 --> 1:38:57.839 time tools. I mean, there's just everything you could possibly imagine. 1:38:58.040 --> 1:39:00.879 And they get pretty nerdy too, like the fractal tools, 1:39:01.920 --> 1:39:06.599 integer tools. Anyway, it's all on there online tools dot com. 1:39:06.640 --> 1:39:09.320 That's a great bookmark. And then finally, if you want 1:39:09.320 --> 1:39:13.720 to have some fun, search block Breaker on Google. They 1:39:13.800 --> 1:39:17.320 just added a hidden arcade style game and search. You 1:39:17.360 --> 1:39:19.920 don't have to download anything. Just search block Breaker on 1:39:19.960 --> 1:39:22.800 Google and tap play and it's basically, you know the 1:39:22.840 --> 1:39:25.800 old school game, the arcade style. It's kind of like 1:39:25.840 --> 1:39:31.160 Atari Breakout, but you know Google's version. All right, all 1:39:31.160 --> 1:39:33.759 that's linked up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv. 1:39:34.439 --> 1:39:38.800 Let's open up the feedbag. Let's see Gary writes in 1:39:38.840 --> 1:39:41.320 I picked up the Pixel nine Pro for on sale 1:39:41.360 --> 1:39:43.040 for about nine hundred and fifty dollars. It's been a 1:39:43.040 --> 1:39:46.360 big upgrade from the Samsung S twenty four FE. The 1:39:46.439 --> 1:39:49.320 sound quality both for calls and media is better, no 1:39:49.439 --> 1:39:53.080 more shrill, tinny audio. The cameras also sharper, especially when 1:39:53.120 --> 1:39:55.880 taking pictures of my handwritten notes. The Pixel nine pros 1:39:55.920 --> 1:39:59.200 slightly smaller size and lighter weight makes it more pocketable, 1:39:59.200 --> 1:40:03.759 which I appreciate. That said, I still prefer Samsung's UI. 1:40:04.120 --> 1:40:06.920 It's more customizable and what I'm used to, but overall, 1:40:06.960 --> 1:40:10.760 I am happy with the switch. Thanks for letting me know. 1:40:10.840 --> 1:40:14.439 Gary Germo from Los Angeles writes in Uber Eats gave 1:40:14.439 --> 1:40:16.639 me the run around after a delivery fail. I couldn't 1:40:16.640 --> 1:40:18.760 find a phone number to contact them, and when I 1:40:18.800 --> 1:40:21.519 finally emailed customer service, they told me I'd missed the 1:40:21.560 --> 1:40:24.879 forty eight hour window to report the issue. I disputed 1:40:24.880 --> 1:40:26.599 the charge with my credit card and got a refund. 1:40:26.600 --> 1:40:28.800 But now Uber Eats wants their money and I can't 1:40:28.840 --> 1:40:31.200 use the app unless I pay them. Oh well, not 1:40:31.320 --> 1:40:34.160 hoping for this to happen again. I think Girmo was 1:40:34.200 --> 1:40:37.400 replying to me posting on Instagram a warning because I 1:40:37.439 --> 1:40:40.280 had a problem with my delivery order. I didn't say 1:40:40.280 --> 1:40:42.960 anything for over three days, and when I did, they 1:40:43.000 --> 1:40:45.360 were like, oh, sorry, forty eight hours. So if you 1:40:45.360 --> 1:40:48.200 have a problem with your Uber Eats, get in touch 1:40:48.240 --> 1:40:51.880 with them immediately, don't wait like I did. Let's see. 1:40:52.840 --> 1:40:56.000 Rick writes in I bought the Samsung Galaxy Ultra unlocked 1:40:56.360 --> 1:40:58.680 five hundred and twelve gigs from Samsung dot Com for 1:40:58.720 --> 1:41:01.080 eight hundred dollars plus tax. That price includes my five 1:41:01.200 --> 1:41:03.559 hundred dollars trade in on the S twenty one, plus 1:41:03.600 --> 1:41:06.200 an eighty dollars credit for online purchases at check out. 1:41:06.240 --> 1:41:08.400 Thanks for the tip. All right, enjoy Rick, I think 1:41:08.400 --> 1:41:12.320 you're gonna love it, Sarah writes in don't knock cassettes. 1:41:12.400 --> 1:41:15.599 I use a radio cassette frequently to record a radio 1:41:15.720 --> 1:41:18.519 show and listen later. No Wi Fi needed. I may 1:41:18.560 --> 1:41:20.720 not be in California, but I'm thankful for Wi Fi 1:41:20.800 --> 1:41:23.040 to catch your show. Oh you're recording my show. Oh 1:41:23.080 --> 1:41:26.799 my gosh, that's amazing. Someone's recording this show on cassette 1:41:26.840 --> 1:41:29.599 and listening to it. I love it, Sarah. I must 1:41:29.600 --> 1:41:31.719 have made fun of a cassette tape on another show, 1:41:31.760 --> 1:41:35.959 but I don't hate cassettes. I many many years using cassettes. 1:41:36.680 --> 1:41:40.120 George from Temple Rights in another family tear jerker is 1:41:40.160 --> 1:41:43.160 the Disney film Old Yeller. When I was in when 1:41:43.160 --> 1:41:45.719 it was in theaters, kids and parents alike were left crying. 1:41:45.720 --> 1:41:47.719 If you haven't seen it, it's a great family movie. 1:41:48.920 --> 1:41:52.719 George is replying to my wild Robot recommendation last week, 1:41:53.320 --> 1:41:56.400 and it was great, but I don't know if I'm 1:41:56.439 --> 1:41:58.599 ready for another cry. I did watch a movie last night, 1:41:58.680 --> 1:42:02.040 The Saturday Night Movie by Jason Reitman. Excellent. If you 1:42:02.120 --> 1:42:04.800 like Starday Night Live or whatever, it's just great. Goes 1:42:04.840 --> 1:42:07.679 By flies by that movie. And by the way, another 1:42:07.720 --> 1:42:10.640 recommendation the Letterboxed app. I don't know if you know 1:42:10.680 --> 1:42:14.880 this one letter Boxed. I think it's b letter box 1:42:14.960 --> 1:42:18.880 bo x D so no E letter boxed and it's 1:42:18.920 --> 1:42:21.439 for iPhone and Android. But it's now my favorite app 1:42:21.479 --> 1:42:23.639 for like following movies I want to watch and stuff 1:42:23.680 --> 1:42:27.439 like that. It's really great. It's very it's just it's excellent, 1:42:28.200 --> 1:42:30.760 all right. Moving on Blair from Santa Barbara writes in 1:42:31.240 --> 1:42:34.000 stop Drop is a great product to prevent losing things 1:42:34.080 --> 1:42:36.719 under your car seat, founded on Amazon for twenty five dollars. 1:42:36.840 --> 1:42:40.240 Love your show. I think Blair was responding to the 1:42:40.240 --> 1:42:42.200 fact that I said, when I wear sweatpants in my car, 1:42:42.320 --> 1:42:44.360 I always all this stuff always drops out into the 1:42:44.360 --> 1:42:47.160 crevice between the seat and the door or the seat 1:42:47.200 --> 1:42:50.080 and the middle console. And I think stop Drop was 1:42:50.120 --> 1:42:54.920 a Shark Tank product thanks, maybe I'll get one. Let's 1:42:54.920 --> 1:42:59.360 see long, Ben wrights in. Long in the Tooth comes 1:42:59.360 --> 1:43:02.320 from the practice of checking a horse's age by examining 1:43:02.360 --> 1:43:06.640 its teeth, where seeding gums made them appear longer. Similarly, 1:43:06.760 --> 1:43:09.400 don't look a gift Horse in the Mouth advises against 1:43:09.439 --> 1:43:12.920 assessing the value of a gift, encouraging gratitude instead of scrutiny. 1:43:14.720 --> 1:43:18.120 I must have used long, long in the tooth because 1:43:18.120 --> 1:43:20.679 I was talking about sayings that we say, and long 1:43:20.720 --> 1:43:22.599 in the tooth. It's like we say this stuff and like, wait, 1:43:22.600 --> 1:43:24.559 where did that come from? Long in the tooth? Now 1:43:24.600 --> 1:43:29.720 we know horses and Robert rights In. I'm listening in 1:43:29.800 --> 1:43:34.200 Federal Heights, Colorado, while delivering mail. I love your show, well, Robert, 1:43:34.240 --> 1:43:37.400 thank you. I always wonder what the mail carriers listen 1:43:37.479 --> 1:43:40.240 to while they're delivering, because my guy does too. He's 1:43:40.240 --> 1:43:42.400 always listening to something or he's on the phone. But 1:43:42.439 --> 1:43:44.160 he always says hi, and we always say, Hey, how's 1:43:44.160 --> 1:43:46.960 it going, what's up? Always a smile on his face. 1:43:47.960 --> 1:43:50.960 John from Haines City rights in you recently talked about 1:43:51.040 --> 1:43:54.479 charging cell phones in an emergency using battery packs. I'm 1:43:54.520 --> 1:43:57.400 surprised you didn't mention the most obvious option your car. 1:43:57.880 --> 1:44:00.560 Many cars, including my twenty year old Ford X Expedition, 1:44:01.000 --> 1:44:04.439 have live twelve volt outlets even when the ignition is off. 1:44:04.520 --> 1:44:08.800 Cars typically have large batteries, ranging from fifty to ninety Ah. 1:44:08.840 --> 1:44:12.719 I'm guessing that's ampier hours, making them a great resource 1:44:12.760 --> 1:44:15.760 for charging phones, even for the whole neighborhood. If the 1:44:15.760 --> 1:44:18.120 battery starts to run low, just charge the engine and 1:44:18.200 --> 1:44:23.719 let it recharge at idle. Okay, you know, John, good tip, 1:44:23.720 --> 1:44:25.760 But I didn't think about that because you know, I 1:44:25.760 --> 1:44:27.559 do have an electric car, so of course you can 1:44:27.600 --> 1:44:29.920 always charge stuff from there. But I imagine in an 1:44:29.960 --> 1:44:33.439 emergency people might be conserving their gas or their battery. 1:44:33.520 --> 1:44:36.960 But yes, that is a great option. And I'm glad 1:44:37.000 --> 1:44:38.920 you didn't call it the cigarette lighter, because that's what 1:44:39.000 --> 1:44:41.800 I think of every time I see that. All right, 1:44:42.240 --> 1:44:44.360 that's going to do it for this episode of the show. 1:44:44.400 --> 1:44:46.559 You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website. 1:44:46.600 --> 1:44:49.000 Just go to Richontech dot TV. Can find me on 1:44:49.040 --> 1:44:52.320 social media. I am at rich on Tech. 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