WEBVTT - Hands on with Google Pixel Watch, Pixel 7 phones 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.520 Google finally unveils its Pixel smart watch and shows off 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:08.000 new Pixel seven phones. We're going hands on plus your 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:09.400 tech questions answered. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:10.479 What's going on. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.920 I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.200 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.639 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.680 answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.160 at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.960 Do not adjust your dial. This is the way it sounds. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.240 This is the way it's going to be for this show. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.280 Because I am on the road in New York City 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.800 looking at a beautiful. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.040 View of Manhattan. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.560 Well, if I angle my face or my head, I 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.199 should say I can see a beautiful view. Otherwise I 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.559 just look into someone else's building across the way. But 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.760 it's still beautiful. It's still an amazing city. Just walking 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.639 around New York is so much fun to me. Even 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:53.920 though I grew up right across the river and I 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.640 came here many times as a child, it's just there's 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.720 something so like you almost can't imagine and living here, 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:05.320 but yet people do. And it's a really cool place. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.400 It's a very fast paced place to live and there's 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:09.840 just so much going on. I man, I walked to 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.880 dinner last night, walked to dinner both nights, actually almost 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.520 a mile to the restaurant each time, and it's just there's. 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:17.160 Such an energy. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.040 There's just people everywhere, and it's just such a cool place. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.440 I mean, to be able to buy anything you need 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.400 in the world by walking downstairs is such a cool concept. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.880 On that note, both times, well, no, not that, Okay, yeah, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.600 I guess it was both times. So you know, when 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.200 I stay in a hotel, I usually put my stuff 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.199 in the safe and with my wallet. I was walking 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.920 to the restaurant the first night and I had to 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.000 turn around because I was like, oh, forgot my wallet 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.480 and this place was a cash only place, so I 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.040 knew I couldn't do tap to pay or anything like that. 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:49.680 JG. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.680 Mellon, by the way, I heard about it through Bobby 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.080 flay On. I don't know if it was his podcast 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.920 or something. Maybe it was his podcast where he talked 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.120 about it, and it was just such a you know, 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.560 he's like saying, it's my favorite burger place. Then I 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.240 researched it on YouTube and people love it. So old 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.160 school burger joint. You get in there, sit at the bar, 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.519 you get a burger. It's just such a great ambiance. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.560 Cash only, so if you go, they serve the burger 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.840 by the way with just pickles and onions. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.839 And that was enough. It was one of the best 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:21.560 burgers I had. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.440 Maybe it was just the whole ambiance, the whole everything 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.480 adding up together, who knows, but it was. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:27.280 It was excellent. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.079 Then the person I was sitting next to at the 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.760 restaurant recommended I said, you know, he was a food person, 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:34.280 So I said, can you recommend a. 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.440 Place for tomorrow night? 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.400 And he said, sure, this place called Upland, And so 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.440 I know went there last night and I walked there 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.359 and this time I made it to the restaurant and 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.880 next thing, you know, I reached in my pocket for 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.680 something and I said, oh, no, I forgot my wallet 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:51.080 at home. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.520 So long story short. Asked the bartender. I said, hey, 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:54.639 do you accept like tap. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.000 To pay or anything like that, and she said, no, 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.600 no Apple Pay. But well, there is this QR code 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.880 on the receipt that apparently, I guess nobody uses. And 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.840 I said, oh, QR code, I can scan that and 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:05.639 use my phone to pay. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:06.440 I'm pretty sure. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.600 So I almost said, can you ring me up right 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.760 now and just let me do a test. She said, no, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.880 You'll be fine. She's like, it's on there, believe me. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.520 I said, okay, And so we get to the end 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.280 of dinner a little little trepidus, but it was fine, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.800 and I get to the end of dinner, which was awesome, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.200 and I scanned the QR code and it was super 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.160 odd because I was expecting it to be Apple Pay 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.000 or Google Pay, but the three options were Google pay 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.040 for a one point five percent I think it was searcharge, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.160 then it was Venmo for a searcharge, or you can 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.520 manually type in your credit card number, which is ironically 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.240 the least secure way of checking out. But there was 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.480 no Searcharge. So I said, all right, well, I'm not 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.200 going to pay one point five percent more. So I 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.000 typed in my credit card number, which was stored on 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.040 my phone. And it wasn't stored in Apple Pay or 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:54.920 Google Pay, by the way, it was just stored on 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.960 my device itself, in my password manager. So I don't 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.440 recommend that you keep that sort of unencrypted. I guess 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.080 it's a credit card number. If someone gets it, you 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:04.880 just get a new card, but it's still a hassle. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.960 But anyway, it all worked out. And note to self, 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.120 remember your wallet. And note to restaurants, please please please 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.960 start accepting Apple Pay if you go to Europe, if 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.240 you go to Japan, if you go to Asia, anywhere 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:23.760 else in the world except America. For some reason, we 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.680 have been so hesitant to tap to pay for restaurants. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.240 It's everywhere else now you know all the major stores, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.760 but for restaurants, if you go anywhere else in the world, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.560 they bring you sort of the check which is like 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.120 a tablet or an electronic like receipt thing, and you 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.120 just tap your card right on there or you push 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.440 your card in either way. But for some reason in 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.440 America we are so hesitant to this change. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.760 I don't know why. It would have saved me last night. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.560 A lot of hassle, a lot of stress because we 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.120 go with our phones everywhere, but our wallets increasingly, it's 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.599 like that thing that you check for your phone. Typically 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.599 you check for your wallet and keys. I don't care keys. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.240 I barely carry a wallet because I'm all tap and 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.919 it's just basically form my ID at this point, so 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.279 and a little bit of cash. Anyway, that's my story. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:11.080 I'm sticking to it. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.640 It all worked out. But I had two. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.960 Incredible experiences with restaurants here and it was really, really fun. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.159 So all right, let's get to why I'm here. I'm 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.880 here in New York City for the Google Pixel event. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.880 They call it a Made by Google event, and this 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.800 already happened, so I don't know why I'm talking about 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.760 it like I'm here for it already or waiting for it. 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:35.720 But it was yesterday and Google showed off as expected. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.839 It's a highly anticipated smart watch, and then the Google 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.000 Pixel seven phones. So let's start with the smart watch 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.800 because that's kind of the newest, latest, greatest. So this 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.440 has been a long time coming. And the best way 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.200 to describe this smart watch is it looks like a 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.920 real watch. It's very minimalistic. I love the design. Actually 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.240 it's circular. It reminds me a lot of like the 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.120 Samsung Galaxy watches, like the early. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.680 Models, and also the Motorola. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.800 Three sixty I think it was called. They both have 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.480 that round face, very smooth, very polished, looking almost like 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.000 a stone on your wrist. With the you know, they 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.400 have a whole bunch of different bands. The bands are 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.760 you know a little bit tricky to get on and off, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.200 but I think it'll take some getting used to. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.040 But they work. Nice little screen. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.960 It's forty one millimeters case, so it looks really slim 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.040 on your wrist, and I think it's a great looking watch. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:31.440 It's water resistant. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.599 It's got nineteen different watch faces and they're all customizable. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.919 I love some of the watch faces on here. You 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.480 can get really nitty gritty with how you customize them. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.520 And let's not forget this is Google's version of a 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.320 smart watch. So on Apple it has been amazing. It 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.200 has been a great experience, but you're very much limited 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.720 to what Apple wants you to be able to do 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.120 on that smart watch. And we haven't seen a lot 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.599 of pick up for third party apps or you know, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.400 a lot of functionality on those apps. Like most of 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.560 the stuff I do on the Apple Watch is pretty 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:09.880 much Apple related, right, So Siri very basic, I'm you know, 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.000 because it's just not very useful. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:13.840 Let's see what else. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.280 Apple Maps I don't really use except when i'm walking 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.720 getting walking directions because I'm forced to use it, so 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.400 I'll do that. The rest of this stuff is really 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.120 just workouts and even music. You know, you have your 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:30.240 choice of Spotify, which never really downloaded my music properly, 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:31.360 so that was kind of a pain. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:32.840 And then Apple. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.200 Music, of course works flawlessly, so you can go to that, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.960 which is what I ended up doing. So, you know, 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.320 the Apple Watch is fantastic and I still think it 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.040 is the best smart watch out there, with a caveat 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:45.840 being you have to have an iPhone. A lot of 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.560 people have Android phones, and it's been pretty limited to 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.120 either a Fitbit or you know, a Samsung device, and 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.360 Samsung is is very much in the Samsung ecosystem. So 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.200 this watch now gives you access to the number one 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.240 thing that I think is awesome, which is Google Maps. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.920 Number two Google Assistant, which is just fantastic. So those 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.000 two things alone make this a really compelling device to 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.040 me because if you're on Android, you want Google Maps 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.080 and you want Google Assistant, so it's got access to 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.440 those things. It also has all of your notifications. The 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:22.120 Fitbit smarts are fantastic because they literally built Fitbit into 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.360 this watch. Now, fippit is very smart. They've been around 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.640 for a very long time, so the stats you're going 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.240 to get from that are going to be incredible. They 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.640 have a focus on your active heart rate. So the 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.800 minutes that I only care about are the active heart 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.640 rate minutes each day, which is like I try to 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.679 get thirty. But you've also got excellent sleep tracking as 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.840 well on this device, so it's so minimalistic and slim 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.280 that it's easy to wear to bed because you're not 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.800 gonna you know, it just doesn't really make you think 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.480 too much about the fact that you have something on 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.960 your wrist because it's so lightweight, and obviously you can 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.240 do the all the fitness tracking on there as well. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.480 Let's see what else you've got. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.080 Emergency so it can call someone if you feel unsafe. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.760 Fall detection is coming soon. That's kind of a miss 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.160 on Google's part, Like what I mean, they took like 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.080 so many years to make this watch. Why couldn't they 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.319 just do fall detection. I don't know what's the other 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.079 things They've got ECG, so that's similar to the Apple Watch. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.480 You can do your ECG, you've got your sleep score, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.800 you've got your breathing rate, heart rate variability, all kinds 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:26.439 of workouts. 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:27.160 Now here's the thing. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.160 They're going to try to get you to subscribe to 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.800 fitbit Premium on this watch, which I think is six 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.920 six or seven bucks a month, so I don't know 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:36.520 if you're going to need that. They give you six 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.320 months free. I have not tested that just yet. I 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.960 don't like the idea of paying for another thing, but 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.680 I may break down and have to do that, or 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.600 I guess I will break down and just sign up 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.240 for the free trial for six months. 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.280 They also have an LTE version of this watch. So 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:53.400 the regular version. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.599 Which is GPS, is going to be three hundred and 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.240 fifty bucks. The LTE version is going to be four hundred. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.680 If you have Google five, I guess you get the 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.319 watch plan for free, which is kind of cool. Battery 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.640 life they're saying twenty four hours of battery life. And 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.520 here's the other thing that I kind of forgot to 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.720 mention with the fitbit tracking is that this watch is 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:20.960 taking a heart rate measurement every second, whereas according to Google, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.520 most smart watches take that reading every five seconds and 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.200 only every second when you're actively in a workout. So 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.040 they say by taking it every second of every day, 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.319 you're gonna get more accurate trends, more accurate stats. And 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.640 that's pretty incredible that you're getting that. I think that's 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.760 gonna be better for figuring out things like are you 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.600 going on a run or are you going on a walk? 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.080 I mean, five seconds seems like it would be adequate, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.680 But you know, Google's pumping up this one second thing 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.320 twenty four hours of battery life that is to be 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.040 seen if that's with the always on display or just 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.280 with you know, the display that comes on when you. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.280 Flip your wrist up. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.640 Overall, I think they did a fantastic job. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.120 With their first version of this watch. Hopefully it makes 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.120 it to a second version. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.480 We know how Google likes to kill things mid product cycle, 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.720 but hopefully they will make this to a second version. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.160 But I think this first version at this point, just 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.880 seeing what I've seen so far, I have no problems 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:23.400 recommending it for a Google phone companion or an Android 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.000 phone companion. Is it going to be as full featured 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.920 as the Apple Watch? Is this software going to be 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.319 a slick? Is it a little more stuttery? Is a 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:31.120 little slower? 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:32.160 Probably? 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.040 In what I saw yesterday at the event, it seems 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.120 like the software could use a little bit of polish, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.199 but that's typical of pixel devices. For some reason, they 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.440 put them out and then they polish them up over 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.280 the next year and That's one of the good things 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.480 about pixel stuff is that it does get better. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.120 And you know, look on the flip side with the iPhone. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.280 I'm seeing a bunch of little quirks here and there 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.240 with iOS sixteen and the iPhone fourteen. So these things 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.920 aren't perfect. And I think that, you know, as we 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.480 get more and more feature. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.400 Rich, it's that's just the way it is, where we're 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:02.800 seeing more and more little. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.600 Kind of bugs on these things. So that's the Google 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.360 pixel Watch. It'll be available October thirteenth. Okay, I don't 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.400 have my nice clickity clack typing for the first question 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.719 of the podcast, but let's get to it. Nancy says, Hey, Rich, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.320 hope all is well with you question. I recently moved 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.959 to an area that does not have KTLA on their 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.000 cable package. When I first moved here, I was keeping 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.280 up with KTLA on my tcl Roku, but I replaced 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.760 it with a Visio smart cast that is Google based, 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.800 allowing me to download apps from Google Play. But your 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.160 streaming app is not available there. What's a video owner 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:36.800 got to do to get your streaming app and the 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:38.920 morning news again? In other words, why is it not 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.959 available on Google Play? Any chance it might be added. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:43.000 I sure do. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.120 Miss your segments. Thanks for your help and input. Cheers Nancy. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.959 All right, Nancy, good question. So I was not aware 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.319 that Visio smart cast lets you download Google Play apps. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.760 Which is kind of cool. So Google, we. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.000 Are not on Google Play. We have a Ktla plus 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.600 streaming app. It is not available on Google Play. It 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.720 is available on the three major streaming TV platforms, which 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.840 is Apple TV, let's see what's the other one, fireTV, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.480 and Roku as you knew by having the TCL Roku TV. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.240 So this is where things get a little bit tricky 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.120 with all of these different streaming services and platforms and 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:22.240 things like that. So Google Play is big on Android 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.880 on TV. You know, they have Sony TVs that have it. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.200 Clearly the video does it. But you know. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.920 And but the thing is, even though Amazon fireTV is 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:37.240 Android based, they don't use the Google Play store for 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.040 their apps, which I know is super confusing. So just 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.800 because an app is on Android does not mean it's 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.240 on fireTV. Just because it's on fireTV does not mean it's. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:47.880 On Google Play. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.920 So Amazon sort of has their own app store with 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.280 that situation. And then anyway, long story short, you don't 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.319 care about any of that. You just want to know 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.000 how to watch the news. The bottom line answer. The 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:03.000 easiest way is to probably by a fire TV streaming 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.320 stick and pop it in the back of your TV, 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.920 and when you want to watch KTLA, you've got to 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:12.400 put that, you know, switch to that input. I know 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.640 that's a little bit of work, but you know that's 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.040 just kind of the way you have to do it 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.160 to get the stream so super cheap. I mean, the 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.240 fire TV sticks are very inexpensive. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:22.360 Your TV. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.000 It sounds like it's pretty new, So your TV should 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.480 be smart enough. When you press the home button on 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.600 the fire stick, it should switch that input automatically. Just 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.480 put ktlas your first app and boom, you can watch us. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.800 And thank you for saying you miss my segments. You 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.840 can watch them in a variety of ways. I mean, 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.440 you can go to the KTLA website, you can go 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.920 to rich on tech dot tv, or you know, like 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.120 I said, you can download that KTLA plus app. It's 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.160 all free and you can stream all of my segments. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.560 There is a section for my segments on the KTLA 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.280 plus app. So thanks for sticking with us, even through 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.520 the move and even through the different TV. I really 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.840 do like the fact that we've got some dedicated viewers 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.680 like that. And I know, this whole streaming thing is 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.120 very complicated, the fact that we have to go and 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:06.160 I'm not you know. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.720 This, it's just the way it is, like the fact 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:09.120 that I have. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.920 To go to Netflix for one movie and you know, 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.320 Hulu for another show, and then YouTube for something else 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.000 I want to watch. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:17.400 It is. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.760 The streaming world right now is all brand new, and 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:26.080 it is still evolving. It's still kind of figuring out 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:27.920 how it wants to be what it wants to be. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.120 In some ways, just having a cable package back. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.440 In the day was so much easier. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.600 You know, every night when you watch something on TV, 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.080 if it's like a Friday night, you're looking literally I 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.440 am scanning so many different like recommendations and services and 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.600 things to figure out what to watch. I did find 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:45.720 something that I thought was pretty helpful. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:46.880 If you go to. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:52.040 Rotten Tomatoes, Okay, they've got this thirty most popular movies 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.240 right Now guide and it is across all services, whether 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.680 it is streaming, whether it is movie theaters. And I 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.880 thought that this was pretty handy because Rotten Tomatoes is 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.840 pretty much like the Gold standard for like movie ratings, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.560 and you know, so if you go on this list, 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.760 you can see what the ratings are of the different 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.080 movies that are popular, and you. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.200 Just have to do a little quick search. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.720 They will even actually if you click the title, tell 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.520 you if these things are available on streaming. So I 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.560 ended up watching The Monsters, which I had not even 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.040 known there was a new Monsters movie on Netflix. 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.880 Probably better that I didn't know, because it wasn't very good. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.040 Sorry spoiler alert. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.240 I mean, look, it was it was fun, it was kitchy, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.960 it was you know, it was sort of a throwback. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.960 It was an origin story of how Lily and Herman 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.600 Munster met. It was it was fun. I love the 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.920 costumes and the set decorations and the vibe of the 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.000 movie was very fun. But you know, the story was 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.880 just okay, and it was you know, it was kind 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.240 of cheesy and it's not something i'd recommend. But if 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.120 you like the Munsters growing up, yeah, you'll probably be disappointed. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.520 But it's still fun to just be in that world 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.920 of like, I mean, the set direct the set decoration 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:01.680 was just awesome. 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.000 I loved it. So anyway, so. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.960 The Monsters was on there, all these movies were on 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.280 there and you can see what sort of the rating is, 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.240 but also where they're. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.480 Streaming as well. So that's been really helpful for me because. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.439 I don't watch a lot of TV per se, but 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.600 I do like to watch movies, and so it's really 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.080 tricky to find like where all these movies are streaming 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.439 and which ones are, you know, kind of the buzzy ones. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.119 But this list helped. But anyway, thanks for the question. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.480 Let's get to the next topic of the podcast, which 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.200 is the Pixel seven and Pixel seven pro. So again, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:38.879 Pixel to me is represents just if you want a 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:44.680 very solid smartphone that takes amazing pictures, has excellent software 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:46.280 Google Smart's built in. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:47.600 It's really really good. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.800 The problem is I feel like it always leaves something 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.640 to be desired. You're in year out For me personally, 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.160 I will tell you, if you are a average smartphone user, 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.520 the basic pick that they make, like I'm talking the 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.879 Pixel six A, the Pixel seven. These are really really 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.399 fantastic phones for the price. 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.120 There is not a lot of bloatwear on them. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.000 The software is constantly updated. I think Google says you 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.000 get five years of security updates on these phones. I mean, 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.240 this phone could really last you five years, if you 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.160 played your cards right with it, if you took care 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.440 of it and you know, and just did those software updates. Yeah, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.359