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Speaker 2: We got some great guests this week.
Speaker 1: Joanna Stern from the Wall Street Journal will join to
Speaker 1: share her thoughts on trying on the Apple Vision Pro
Speaker 1: Ray Wong, tech reviewer at Inverse dot com, will give
Speaker 1: his impressions of the new AI features on the Samsung
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty four lineup. And I know you're thinking
Speaker 1: football Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 2: Coming up.
Speaker 1: TV reviewer Caleb Dennison. We'll share his top TV picks
Speaker 1: and explain all that terminology you're seeing when you go
Speaker 1: to Costco or best Buy or online for TVs micro
Speaker 1: l D l E ed uhd LCD. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: so many things to explain. He is fantastic friend of
Speaker 1: the show, been on many times. He will tell us
Speaker 1: what we need to know. Well, this was a big
Speaker 1: week in tech. I only say that a couple of
Speaker 1: times a year, but this is one of them. We
Speaker 1: had two major things happening this week. Number one, Vision Pro.
Speaker 1: Apple's Vision Pro this is their ar VR headset, went
Speaker 1: on sale for pre order thirty five hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: this thing, and yes people ordered it, and yes people
Speaker 1: will be amazed when they get this thing on their head.
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to try it on this week.
Speaker 1: I will talk about my experience in addition to exchanging
Speaker 1: notes with Joanna later on in the show.
Speaker 2: But the thing that you wanted me to talk about.
Speaker 1: First, According to my Instagram is the big Samsung event
Speaker 1: also happened this week.
Speaker 2: So I was, okay, I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: I really think Apple was trying to steal the spotlight
Speaker 1: from Samsung this week.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you how.
Speaker 1: So during CS if you listen to last week's show,
Speaker 1: you might remember they put out a press release right
Speaker 1: before CS opened saying hey, we've got the Vision Pro
Speaker 1: and here's when it's gonna come out. And everyone went
Speaker 1: nuts over that because we were waiting for that date
Speaker 1: and time. Well, this week they did two interesting things.
Speaker 1: They set up schedules or appointments with a lot of
Speaker 1: people in the media world, a lot of journalists conveniently
Speaker 1: either right before the Samsung event or right during the
Speaker 1: Samsung event. So for me, for instance, my appointment was
Speaker 1: first thing on a Tuesday morning when I had to
Speaker 1: fly up to Samsung in San Jose for the event
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon. And at first I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is bad timing. Then I was like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: interesting timing Apple. So they did that, and you know,
Speaker 1: so you had a couple of little things. Then during
Speaker 1: the Samsung event, what do they do? They put out
Speaker 1: a press release that there's a brand new Apple store
Speaker 1: no other than in South Korea during the Samsung event.
Speaker 1: Did I say Apple event during the Samsung event? I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, Apple, I love you, but you're just I mean,
Speaker 1: and look, I am all about out the hustle, I'm
Speaker 1: all about the game.
Speaker 2: I'm all about you know, back and forth. You know.
Speaker 1: This week it was announced that Apple overtook Samsung for
Speaker 1: the first time in like a decade as the world's
Speaker 1: largest smartphone maker. I have the the numbers here. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Apple shipped two hundred and thirty four
Speaker 1: point six million units. Samsung shipped two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six point six million units, dropping to the number two
Speaker 1: position with a thirteen point six percent decline. Now you
Speaker 1: can imagine that these two companies. Apple was celebrating and
Speaker 1: Samsung they were not very happy, especially on the week
Speaker 1: of their own event happening here in the US.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you about that event. It was up
Speaker 2: in San Jose.
Speaker 1: And I love going to these events, not only because
Speaker 1: you know, you get to kind of meet with everyone
Speaker 1: that you see online and all the tech people that
Speaker 1: you know, but also you get to go hands on
Speaker 1: you get to feel like how this company does stuff.
Speaker 1: So they took over the SAP Center. Don't call it SAP,
Speaker 1: that's not it's SAP. They took over the SAP Center
Speaker 1: in San Jose. They took over the hotels and all
Speaker 1: the meeting rooms in San Jose, and they actually brought
Speaker 1: me up there. So thank you Samsung, and we had
Speaker 1: a great week. I was up there for three days.
Speaker 1: I didn't really understand why I had to be up there.
Speaker 1: But they not only do the event, but they do
Speaker 1: like a dinner, and then they also do the day
Speaker 1: after this big excursion. So you get your phone as
Speaker 1: your review unit and then you have all day to
Speaker 1: kind of go out and use it. And so we
Speaker 1: went to a couple places that I thought were so cool.
Speaker 1: We went to the Winchester Mystery House, which is like
Speaker 1: this wild mansion that has like one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: rooms and a lot of them, like staircases that lead
Speaker 1: to nowhere, all kinds of wild things. If you're in
Speaker 1: San Jose, highly recommend you visit that. That was just
Speaker 1: a wild experience. The other thing that was really cool
Speaker 1: is this place called the Mystery Spot up in San Jose,
Speaker 1: or I guess this was a Santa Cruz and that
Speaker 1: is like this weird cabin they built that. You go
Speaker 1: in there and you can't stand up straight. You like
Speaker 1: literally are at a I don't know angle when you
Speaker 1: stand up. It's really really weird. It like defies all
Speaker 1: gravity rules. Now it's funny because my kids and I
Speaker 1: we were up in San Jose or Santa Cruz a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and these were the two places
Speaker 1: we skipped. We're like, ah, those are tourist traps. We're
Speaker 1: not going to those. Sure enough. They were so much fun.
Speaker 1: I had a blast and I can't wait to bring
Speaker 1: the kids. Anyway. I tell you that because here's what
Speaker 1: you need to know about these new phones. So you've
Speaker 1: got three new phones, S twenty four, S twenty four
Speaker 1: plus S twenty four Ultra. The focus this year is
Speaker 1: all about AI. So you've got various AI features, especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to translating things. You've got Live Translate.
Speaker 1: You can make a phone call to someone in a
Speaker 1: different language, translates in live time. I know, it sounds
Speaker 1: like a sci fi movie. You can chat with someone
Speaker 1: in text messaging in a different language. It just trans
Speaker 1: describes it and translates it instantly. Then you've got the
Speaker 1: recorder functionality that will transcribe everything that you record on there.
Speaker 1: So if you have a meeting for work, you can
Speaker 1: just let this thing record it. It will not only
Speaker 1: transcribe that meeting, it will also come up with a
Speaker 1: summary of that meeting for you.
Speaker 2: That is really cool.
Speaker 1: Then they've got this new feature which I just absolutely love,
Speaker 1: called Circle to Search. You basically press and hold the
Speaker 1: home button on your phone and you can circle or
Speaker 1: scribble over anything that is on your screen, whether it's text,
Speaker 1: whether it's a photo, whether it's a video, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and it will search Google for that. And this is
Speaker 1: a killer feature that I don't think is going to
Speaker 1: come to the iPhone in quite the same way, but
Speaker 1: it is coming to previous Samsungs, especially the S twenty
Speaker 1: three and also the pixel eight Pixelate Pro. The Pixelate
Speaker 1: Pixelate pros happening on January thirty first. The other Samsung
Speaker 1: they said within the next six months. This is a
Speaker 1: amazing feature. You got to check out my Instagram at
Speaker 1: rich On Tech see what that's all about. It is
Speaker 1: seriously cool. Then you've got all of these AI editing features,
Speaker 1: in fact, I just used it to edit a photo
Speaker 1: I tweeted because there's a sign in the background I
Speaker 1: didn't want. And so you can do all kinds of
Speaker 1: great stuff on these pictures with the AI editing tools.
Speaker 1: Seriously cool. I mean, you cannot trust a picture ever. Again,
Speaker 1: You've got someone you take a picture of someone making
Speaker 1: a basket in basketball, and you can literally just press
Speaker 1: and tap and hold on the person as they make
Speaker 1: their shot and just bring them up so they can
Speaker 1: like slam dunk the shot, I mean, and it fills
Speaker 1: in the background and everything. It's really really cool. You
Speaker 1: can resize things, you can do whatever you want. They've
Speaker 1: got this instant slow mo feature, so if you take
Speaker 1: a video, just press a hold on.
Speaker 2: It instantly slows it down.
Speaker 1: So again, that same person making a basket, you didn't
Speaker 1: shoot it in slow mo.
Speaker 2: Now you can just slow it down.
Speaker 1: It uses AI to recreate the frames on that video,
Speaker 1: and it's really really good. And by the way, yes,
Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff is what we saw on
Speaker 1: the Pixel eight series, but on Samsung because it's a
Speaker 1: much higher powered phone. It is a lot faster and
Speaker 1: it works a lot better. So yes, you can get
Speaker 1: this stuff on the Pixel, but on the Samsung it
Speaker 1: is definitely better and faster because the phones are just
Speaker 1: more powerful. The other thing, they now seven years of
Speaker 1: security and operating system upgrades upgrades, So if you buy
Speaker 1: a Samsung S twenty four today in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: this thing will be supported until am I getting the
Speaker 1: math right?
Speaker 2: Twenty thirty one?
Speaker 1: What say what twenty thirty one, you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about a new phone. I mean you're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: that's just wild. So seven years of security and operating
Speaker 1: system updates. That's the same thing that Google promised for
Speaker 1: their Pixel phones. So look, we're getting a lot better
Speaker 1: and Apple does about five to six years on their phones.
Speaker 1: So when you buy a phone today, I know it's expensive,
Speaker 1: but you can keep it for a long time and
Speaker 1: then you can give it to someone else and it's
Speaker 1: still going to be secure. Prices on these things. They
Speaker 1: did change one thing. They used to have a ten
Speaker 1: times optical zoom on the previous model. Now it's a
Speaker 1: five times lens, but because they made the lens better,
Speaker 1: it still goes up to ten times optical. It's just
Speaker 1: cropping the shot and it's very complicated, but the reality
Speaker 1: is it's still going to be just fine. You could
Speaker 1: still zoom up to one hundred times and it looks
Speaker 1: even better than before. How much are we talking? Eight
Speaker 1: hundred dollars entry level, one thousand dollars for the middle,
Speaker 1: and thirteen hundred dollars for the S twenty four Ultra
Speaker 1: Whoo start saving now. That's one hundred dollars more than
Speaker 1: last year and one hundred dollars more than the iPhone
Speaker 1: fifteen promacs. All of this is on pre order now.
Speaker 1: If you order now, you get double storage. It's going
Speaker 1: to be available on January thirty.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about those phones later. And they tease
Speaker 1: something a new ring, a Galaxy ring, which is kind
Speaker 1: of like a wearable fitness ring. So that's really cool.
Speaker 1: Oh so much fun up there in San Jose. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up your turn Triple eight rich one O one
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Speaker 1: My name is rich Dumiro. You are doing something smart.
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: at Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight
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Speaker 2: Couple of things to know.
Speaker 1: If you want to follow along with the show notes
Speaker 1: in real time, just go to rich on tech dot
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Speaker 1: slash wiki. If I mentioned something you're like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: what was that? Just go there.
Speaker 2: It will be there in real time. Uh.
Speaker 1: And also find me on Instagram at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: That's where I hang out the most. You can check
Speaker 1: out my stories and if you want to see more
Speaker 1: about my travels up to San Jose see some sample
Speaker 1: pictures from the S twenty four. You can just go
Speaker 1: to my profile page on Instagram at rich on tech
Speaker 1: and hit the circle that says I'm guessing.
Speaker 2: Let me see what it says.
Speaker 1: I think it says Samsung S twenty four and so yep,
Speaker 1: there it is Samsung. So there you go. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Terry in Seal Beach. Terry, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Hi Rich, How are you?
Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic? How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good? I got a question, since you're in the
Speaker 3: Los Angeles area, what is this weird stuff coming down
Speaker 3: from the sky today?
Speaker 2: You know what? Look, it's called rain. Oh okay, and
Speaker 2: it seems to happen.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: The good news is you're in Los Angeles. Because you're
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, it'd be snow. So you know, it's all good.
Speaker 3: That's why we pay the price to live here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that price is not cheap. What can I
Speaker 2: help you with?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm getting ready to go out of the country
Speaker 3: for a couple of weeks, and obviously I can't use
Speaker 3: an e SIM on my phone. I have to actually
Speaker 3: physically swap out SIM th each country I go to.
Speaker 3: And I was just wondering, is zero a way even
Speaker 3: if I'm using a foreign SIM that I can still
Speaker 3: text and receive in sentex.
Speaker 2: The folks back here, is this an iPhone or a
Speaker 2: different type of phone.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's a Google pixelill five A five G,
Speaker 3: which is not you know, I heard your recommendation a
Speaker 3: long time ago about using a SIMS. Unfortunately I can't
Speaker 3: use anim on this phone.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that might have been before. Is that before
Speaker 1: the SIMS started on those Yes? Okay, all right, So
Speaker 1: you've got so you basically have a carrier here in
Speaker 1: the US, like a T Mobile, Verizon, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and you're going to pop that SIM card out and
Speaker 1: then you're going to pop in a SIM card for
Speaker 1: the country that you are in correct, Okay, your text
Speaker 1: messages from the other SIM will not still get delivered
Speaker 1: to that phone because they are dependent on that SIM
Speaker 1: card and the I'm trying to think if there's a solution.
Speaker 1: The only solution I can think of is sometimes these
Speaker 1: carriers have an app like a Verizon Messages or a
Speaker 1: T Mobile Digits that will deliver the messages digitally to
Speaker 1: your phone, but that is carrier dependent, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if you have the SIM card in there or
Speaker 1: out of there, if that would still work. Like, like,
Speaker 1: I want to be able to check my my text
Speaker 1: messages on a different device, and it's really tricky to
Speaker 1: be able to do that. So I think it's it's
Speaker 1: one of those things where once that SIM card is out,
Speaker 1: it's just that those texts are not going to come
Speaker 1: through on there.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this. I have a backup phone
Speaker 3: that I take with me because I learned the hard way.
Speaker 3: If you drop a phone on the remote island and
Speaker 3: it cracks, you're out of luck.
Speaker 5: But you can.
Speaker 3: Still use a backup phone via Wi Fi. So I
Speaker 3: was just wondering if I bring my backup phone with
Speaker 3: my US domestic SIM in it will I be able
Speaker 3: to text by a Wi Fi Oh yeah?
Speaker 2: Does that?
Speaker 1: Does that phone have Wi Fi calling on it? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: turn on the wife. So here's what you do. Turn
Speaker 1: on the Wi Fi call, put the take the sim out,
Speaker 1: put it in that phone. It will activate. You know,
Speaker 1: usually it's pretty automatic. I could just switches over if
Speaker 1: you If you pop the simmon there, it will activate.
Speaker 1: Once that's activated, your old phone will have no service,
Speaker 1: you know. Now you can use that on your trip.
Speaker 1: But this old phone, this other phone, you will turn
Speaker 1: on Wi Fi calling and then once you're over in
Speaker 1: the other country, just make sure your roaming is off
Speaker 1: and it as long as this carrier supports Wi Fi calling,
Speaker 1: your text will come through and your phone calls will
Speaker 1: come through on Wi Fi calling. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I learned this actually from a friend when I was
Speaker 1: in Japan because I had my phone off and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, I've got my I don't want
Speaker 1: to use my US carrier. He's like, dude, He's like,
Speaker 1: why don't you just turn on your Wi Fi calling.
Speaker 1: I said, well, text messages won't come through. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: they will, And sure enough, they came through as soon
Speaker 1: as I activated that Wi Fi calling on that but
Speaker 1: kept the roaming off. So I want to report back though, Terry,
Speaker 1: when you get back. You got it all right, good luck,
Speaker 1: have fun. And it sounds like a nice place you're
Speaker 1: going to.
Speaker 3: If it's a it's called Fiji.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well, enjoy Fiji.
Speaker 3: It's actually even warmer than southern California right now.
Speaker 1: I've had water from there and it's it's pretty tasty,
Speaker 1: so I imagine the whole island is even better. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the call today, triple eight rich one O one
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Speaker 2: You know, the Fiji water is so good.
Speaker 1: Even my kids, My kids are nine to twelve, and
Speaker 1: even they know the quality of Fiji water. When they're
Speaker 1: in the store and I'm like, look, you can pick
Speaker 1: out any water bottle you want, They're like, Dad, we
Speaker 1: want Fiji. I'm like, what kind of kids am I
Speaker 1: raising that they're drinking Fiji water. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I drank out of the hose right and it was
Speaker 1: cold and delicious, And you know what Fiji water is
Speaker 1: very is very similar.
Speaker 2: I guess.
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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we are going to talk to
Speaker 1: Ray Wong about Yes twenty four from Samsung.
Speaker 2: You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 2: on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at
Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one oh one. We are on location
Speaker 1: in San Jose, California, where Samsung held their Galaxy Unpacked event.
Speaker 1: This is where they unveiled the S twenty four lineup
Speaker 1: in the audience along with myself, Ray Wong, tech reviewer
Speaker 1: at Inverse dot com.
Speaker 2: Ray, thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me Rich.
Speaker 1: All right, so you've been following Samsung for a long time.
Speaker 1: You know we've got these new phones. This was all
Speaker 1: about AI. Is that a buzzword or is it actually.
Speaker 2: Happening on these devices?
Speaker 4: It's the biggest buzzword, not just on Samsling devices but
Speaker 4: across consumer tech. And honestly, I think the features are
Speaker 4: very useful and compelling this year.
Speaker 1: So first off, the event, what did you think of
Speaker 1: the actual event?
Speaker 2: It was at the SAP Center in San Jose.
Speaker 1: They bring in people from all over the world, but
Speaker 1: it was just focused on the phones, with one little tease.
Speaker 2: For a new wearable ring.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Usually Samsung's past Unpacked events are full of theatrics, and
Speaker 4: you know their spectacles, and you come here for the
Speaker 4: kind of like big showy kind of tricks.
Speaker 6: But honestly, this year.
Speaker 4: It it did seem like a little subdued, a little
Speaker 4: more tame, got Mister Beast kind of showing up virtually,
Speaker 4: and then Pokemone showed up in person.
Speaker 6: So I guess those are two of their spot guests.
Speaker 1: Now, these phones live translate a lot of translation features,
Speaker 1: so this live translate feature, They've got this interpreter feature
Speaker 1: where you can talk to someone and kind of see
Speaker 1: things on screen for each language. And then with text messages,
Speaker 1: they've got chat assist, which translates your text messages into
Speaker 1: a bunch of different languages.
Speaker 2: So with this phone, you.
Speaker 1: Can almost communicate with someone else speaking a different language
Speaker 1: without knowing that language correct.
Speaker 4: Basically, somebody calls you, and if they're speaking a different language,
Speaker 4: you can select their language and you can speak back,
Speaker 4: and it'll automatically translate your voice into another language and
Speaker 4: vice versa. Apparently also works on a PAYFA or a landline.
Speaker 4: From what they said, I tried the feature out yesterday.
Speaker 4: It seems pretty pretty cool, pretty useful. Probably useful for
Speaker 4: like if you're calling a restaurant and they're speaking a
Speaker 4: different language, or you're in a different country you're traveling.
Speaker 4: Like I said earlier, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 4: there's a lot of utility and the Galaxy Ai features.
Speaker 4: A lot of past sam sum features have been like
Speaker 4: pretty gimmicky. They'll have to like throw everything at the
Speaker 4: wall and hope something sticks. It's usually a feature that
Speaker 4: you tried once and then never remember that exists again.
Speaker 4: With these Galaxy Ai features, Samsung has somehow like become
Speaker 4: more thoughtful. There are features that I think a lot
Speaker 4: of users will actually use on the daily And I
Speaker 4: actually found myself saying, Wow, that's actually pretty cool, like
Speaker 4: over and over after every single one of my like
Speaker 4: AI demos.
Speaker 1: A couple other features, this voice to text, so this
Speaker 1: is the future that's been on the Pixel. I find
Speaker 1: it very handy as a journalist to be able to
Speaker 1: just transcribe anything that I'm hearing. So now that that's
Speaker 1: coming to Samsung, do you think people will find use
Speaker 1: in that the average person that's not a journalist.
Speaker 6: One hundred percent?
Speaker 4: You know, as a journalist myself, I use that recorder
Speaker 4: app on Pixel all the time. It's great for transcribing
Speaker 4: like long interviews. Pixel phones are pretty limited in terms
Speaker 4: of like sales, and I think that's just just having
Speaker 4: this feature on a device that is sold in more
Speaker 4: in more numbers is going to expand the utility of it.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I think that Samsung actually goes.
Speaker 2: A little further.
Speaker 4: There's a way to translate the trend inscriptions after the fact,
Speaker 4: so they kind of go above Google a little bit,
Speaker 4: and I think I'm gonna be very excited to try
Speaker 4: that out, especially when I'm interviewing people.
Speaker 6: We speak in foreign languages all right.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest features is this circle to search,
Speaker 1: which I think this is pretty incredible. I think this
Speaker 1: is really probably one of the best uses of Google
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. And we've had lens in the past,
Speaker 1: but this is a feature that allows you to search
Speaker 1: anything on your screen, or just circle anything on your
Speaker 1: screen or scribble on it and it will search Google
Speaker 1: for that. Tell me about your thoughts on this feature
Speaker 1: and trying it out.
Speaker 6: Like I said, this is going to be a feature.
Speaker 4: I think everyone's going to find some kind of utility
Speaker 4: out of basically you just find an image, find some texts,
Speaker 4: find a video. You have to pause a video for
Speaker 4: but then you basically hold down the home button and
Speaker 4: then you circle the item and then it a little
Speaker 4: car pops up from the bottom and it shows you
Speaker 4: what it's discovered.
Speaker 6: I tried out on a pair of sneakers.
Speaker 4: That I have yesterday and it was able to find
Speaker 4: my limited edition Nike's.
Speaker 6: Was genuinely impressed.
Speaker 4: It is easy to use, it was fast, and I
Speaker 4: think it's gonna give a boost to like shopping. People
Speaker 4: are gonna find things in sid of like let's say videos,
Speaker 4: and then just just have a quick link.
Speaker 2: To buy it.
Speaker 1: Also, this is a big differentiator between iPhone and Android, Like,
Speaker 1: this is a feature that you can only get on Android.
Speaker 1: I think it's only going to be available to be
Speaker 1: done on Android. The way it's kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: taking over the whole screen. So do you think that
Speaker 1: will get people interested in Android?
Speaker 6: Man, that's a tough question.
Speaker 4: I think there's just so much stickiness to iPhone and iOS.
Speaker 4: You know, there's so many great Google apps out there
Speaker 4: on Android. But people who buy and use iPhones, they're
Speaker 4: willing to like kind of like work around that and
Speaker 4: open apps, you know, do a couple of more extra taps.
Speaker 4: So I don't think iPhone switchers or I don't think
Speaker 4: iPhone users will switch to Android just because of this
Speaker 4: singular feature unless you're like searching.
Speaker 6: A lot all day all the time.
Speaker 4: But I think it will make Android a more compellent,
Speaker 4: more compelling platform.
Speaker 1: The AI features on this it's a lot of the
Speaker 1: stuff that we've seen on the Pixel with regards to
Speaker 1: photo editing. So you can delete items, you can regenerate backgrounds,
Speaker 1: you can make items bigger in your photos. Everything gets
Speaker 1: this special AI water mark, which I thought was interesting too.
Speaker 1: So what do you make of these AI photo editing features?
Speaker 4: There's some that are pretty practical, some that are pretty gimmicky.
Speaker 4: I think the object eraser and like the that kind
Speaker 4: of like magic eraser like features a little bit gimmicky.
Speaker 4: I don't really like tampering with my images too much,
Speaker 4: Like I have no intention of like really like lifting
Speaker 4: a person that's flying in the air and like moving
Speaker 4: them like a little bit higher in the photo, or
Speaker 4: like adding and generating some kind of fil for like
Speaker 4: you know, a background or a foreground. I think the
Speaker 4: the features that I'm most excited for are like when
Speaker 4: it pertains to the camera or like instance, low mo
Speaker 4: where you can turn a regular video into a slow
Speaker 4: motion video by adding by using AI to like add
Speaker 4: extra frames. It's super smooth, it looks really great. I
Speaker 4: think that one's really cool. And the ones that are
Speaker 4: the features are the AI features are a little less sexy, honestly,
Speaker 4: I think will connect more with users. Features like being
Speaker 4: able to remove a reflection, remove a shadow that's maybe
Speaker 4: like cast over your face, Like we've all held selfie,
Speaker 4: we've all held our phones in front of like the sun,
Speaker 4: and you know, you get that shadow on your face,
Speaker 4: and just being able to automatically remove that shadow off
Speaker 4: your face is.
Speaker 6: Like pretty cool.
Speaker 4: It's easy to see these features in a demo and think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: it works.
Speaker 6: Of course it works right like it's in a controlled environment.
Speaker 4: But being able to actually try it out myself with
Speaker 4: my own like pictures and see that it works really well,
Speaker 4: that really like surprised me.
Speaker 2: The ring.
Speaker 1: They had a big surprise at the end where they
Speaker 1: mentioned this Galaxy ring.
Speaker 2: It's a wearable. It looks like the Aura ring.
Speaker 1: No details though, So do you think we have room
Speaker 1: for another wearable? Do you think this is something that
Speaker 1: people are looking to put on their finger.
Speaker 4: Well, Rich, I'm wearing an Uher ring right now, and
Speaker 4: I've been wearing one for many years before this, before
Speaker 4: it even existed, I wore another one. There's definitely room
Speaker 4: for more wearables.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 4: I'm not wearing an Apple watch right now or any
Speaker 4: kind of smart watch, mainly because I like wearing a regular,
Speaker 4: classic mechanical watch.
Speaker 6: But I also don't want to.
Speaker 4: Lose that functionality being able to track my heart rate,
Speaker 4: you know, get like stress level tracking, sleep tracking. As
Speaker 4: somebody who's been wearing a smart ring for like many years,
Speaker 4: like I want to say, like four or five years,
Speaker 4: It's like a big finally for Samsung. I'm surprised it
Speaker 4: took them so long to like as Againta's category.
Speaker 1: Any other takeaways from this experience at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is the beginning of a new
Speaker 4: trend for smartphones. You know, we've kind of peaked, you know,
Speaker 4: phones have kind of peaked in terms of like hardware design,
Speaker 4: in terms of like software design, and AI is kind
Speaker 4: of like new way to kind.
Speaker 6: Of give it a second act.
Speaker 4: I was a little skeptical about it when Google announced
Speaker 4: the as system with bard features and AI features of
Speaker 4: their own on the Pixel eight series, But I think
Speaker 4: I'm more convinced now now that Samsung has done it.
Speaker 4: They've done it in a very thoughtful way, a very
Speaker 4: functional and very practical way. Even even a company like
Speaker 4: Apple is gonna have to launch your own like generative
Speaker 4: AI features on the iPhone sooner or later because you
Speaker 4: can only rely on hardware for so long. I expect
Speaker 4: to see a lot of AI features roll out into
Speaker 4: every phone basically in the next twelve months and beyond all.
Speaker 1: Right, Ray Wang, tech reviewer at Inverse dot com.
Speaker 2: How can folks follow you online.
Speaker 6: You can find me on x dot com.
Speaker 4: I'm at ray WANGI ri yw n g Y and
Speaker 4: if you want to follow me on Instagram, it's sour Lemons.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 6: All right, thank you for having me.
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Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one on one is the phone number
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: And just to put a cap on this whole Samsung stuff,
Speaker 1: the AI features that I was talking about will come
Speaker 1: to older devices. So if you have this is my advice.
Speaker 1: If you have a Samsung Galaxy S twenty two or earlier,
Speaker 1: this S twenty four model is a great update. If
Speaker 1: you have an S twenty three, you don't really need
Speaker 1: to upgrade. The AI feature will come to your phone
Speaker 1: in the first half of twenty twenty four. S twenty three,
Speaker 1: S twenty three plus S twenty three Ultra, S twenty
Speaker 1: three f E, the Galaxy Z Fold five, the Z
Speaker 1: Flip five, and the Galaxy Tab S nine series are
Speaker 1: all getting the Galaxy AI features in the first half
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. It's also coming the circle to
Speaker 1: search feature I was talking about that I love. That's
Speaker 1: coming to the Pixel eight Pixel eight Pro as well
Speaker 1: on January thirty first, and I'm assuming other phones later.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Shar in the Colorado Springs Shar you're
Speaker 1: on with rich Heller.
Speaker 10: Rich My first of all, I apologize that my thought
Speaker 10: is I'm probably not going to be giving you the
Speaker 10: information in the exact order that you need, but I
Speaker 10: will certainly do my best here. This is what has transpired.
Speaker 10: I had an old Apple iPhone and I subsequently purchased
Speaker 10: Apple iPhone fourteen pro right, and I was going through
Speaker 10: a provider Total by Verizon, and I contacted their customer
Speaker 10: service number and you know, asked that they switched the
Speaker 10: number that I had associated with the old phone to
Speaker 10: the new phone. Now, mind you, the old phone had
Speaker 10: a physical sim. The new phone has an e sim.
Speaker 10: So anyway, the individual claimed that they had transferred the number. Well,
Speaker 10: come to find out that that service I guess ended
Speaker 10: on my old phone, like any a day or so
Speaker 10: after that. So anyway, the person told me, well, the
Speaker 10: new number should be activated on the new phone, you know,
Speaker 10: just activate the service on the new phone and you'll
Speaker 10: be good to go. Well, I tried that and it
Speaker 10: didn't work. And so subsequently what ended up happening was
Speaker 10: I no longer had a phone number associated with the
Speaker 10: old phone, didn't have service with the old phone, and
Speaker 10: now with the new phone there was I had activated
Speaker 10: service there, but it has not been associated with that phone.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how can I help? What's what's the problem?
Speaker 10: So my question is what do I need to do
Speaker 10: in order to activate service on that phone when I've
Speaker 10: already purchased the service.
Speaker 1: So you don't have a phone at this point, you
Speaker 1: don't have a phone number on this phone?
Speaker 10: Correct? They told me that they had transferred the old
Speaker 10: phone number to the new phone, and that hasn't happened
Speaker 10: because they had been telling me, well, send us a
Speaker 10: text message to verify. Well, I can, because it doesn't
Speaker 10: have service.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So the new phones you've got, You've got both phones
Speaker 1: in your possession, and the new phone does not have service,
Speaker 1: and neither does the old phone.
Speaker 10: Correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this number, this is what's called porting, and
Speaker 1: this number is stuck in like you know, fantasy land,
Speaker 1: somewhere out there. It's in the clouds right now? Is
Speaker 1: it the same phone number that you're trying to get?
Speaker 2: Okay? So what you need to do? And you're sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a iPhone, of course it works with this.
Speaker 1: So how many people have you talked to at total
Speaker 1: by Verizon?
Speaker 10: Oh? I probably spoke about fifteen different people.
Speaker 2: Oh, Mike, fifteen different people.
Speaker 10: It's insane.
Speaker 2: Well, that is insane. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I will tell you when I had this issue
Speaker 1: and my phone went dead and I was freaking out
Speaker 1: because my phone number was in La La land somewhere
Speaker 1: stuck between two phones. The person literally was going around
Speaker 1: in circles asking me for all this information, this and
Speaker 1: that and none of it worked right. And I kept
Speaker 1: calling back until I got someone that literally did this
Speaker 1: process in thirty seconds. They knew what they were doing
Speaker 1: and it worked properly. Okay, I think you either need
Speaker 1: to escalate this to the next person. I know Total
Speaker 1: by Verizon is sort of a prepaid system. Can you
Speaker 1: go into a Verizon store with that service to help
Speaker 1: to get customer service or know?
Speaker 2: Is this all online?
Speaker 10: Well my thought is I think I'm going to be
Speaker 10: forced to do that. I mean, I contacted Verizon business.
Speaker 1: No, they wouldn't they wouldn't do it. It's this Total. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Total by Verizon is a prepaid service. Usually when you
Speaker 1: go with a prepaid or Envy and oh, you know,
Speaker 1: you're definitely you should be getting the quality of service
Speaker 1: you expect.
Speaker 2: Sometimes that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: So Charp number one, I want you to stay on
Speaker 1: hold and give your number to UH to Kim and
Speaker 1: I will I know people at at Total and I
Speaker 1: will see if I can get some help on the
Speaker 1: back end here. I appreciate it because this shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 1: You know, this is I love when people save money.
Speaker 1: And clearly you've made a decision that you can use
Speaker 1: this service and it's good for it fits you and
Speaker 1: it works exactly. But you shouldn't have to be stranded
Speaker 1: without a phone number for so long. So okay, what
Speaker 1: I think you should do is, when you get off
Speaker 1: the phone with me, call Total one more time, and
Speaker 1: you have to be very clear about your question to
Speaker 1: the customer service agent number one, say I'd like to
Speaker 1: get this escalated to a supervisor. And you say, I
Speaker 1: tried transferring my phone my phone number from one phone
Speaker 1: to the other, and it has not arrived on my
Speaker 1: new phone. I need someone to go in and make
Speaker 1: sure that this is all properly provisioned so that my
Speaker 1: phone gets the number on it.
Speaker 2: And that's all you do.
Speaker 1: You're doing a You're not even porting the number really,
Speaker 1: because are you going from total to Total?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're just literally switching devices. So say I
Speaker 1: switch devices and my new device the phone number has
Speaker 1: not showed up on there yet, and you say, I
Speaker 1: just need to get this phone number activated on the
Speaker 1: new device. You basically give them the e SIM there's
Speaker 1: like a code on the phone.
Speaker 10: And that's the other what they keep asking me for.
Speaker 10: An I M the yes yes, and the I am
Speaker 10: there isn't an I M the I there is associated
Speaker 10: with the thought there is.
Speaker 2: It's the I M I two.
Speaker 1: Okay. So the two things you need to give them
Speaker 1: are the IME I two and perhaps the E I D.
Speaker 1: Those are the two pieces of information if you give
Speaker 1: them the regular I AM I that is for you said,
Speaker 1: this is an iPhone fourteen correct pro pro And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember if they went on SIM with a
Speaker 1: fourteen I can't it is.
Speaker 2: It is okay.
Speaker 10: When I spoke to the individual's business with Verizon, he
Speaker 10: said that it was SIM period.
Speaker 1: Okay, So iPhone fourteen pro only has an SIM, So
Speaker 1: just give them the uh either I am I should
Speaker 1: actually work with this one. But but give them the
Speaker 1: I M E I two. That's the one that is
Speaker 1: the is the dedicated SIM and that should work. So
Speaker 1: uh bashar, I'm gonna put you on hold, give Kim
Speaker 1: your info and phone number, and I will see what
Speaker 1: I can do. But I want to follow up on
Speaker 1: this and make sure because this should not be happening.
Speaker 10: I appreciate that. I mean, it's been exasperating. And then
Speaker 10: that's the other thing they would tell me one moment
Speaker 10: we are going to escalate this to a supervisor, and
Speaker 10: then they would keep me on the line for fifteen
Speaker 10: twenty minutes and then tell me we're going to escalate
Speaker 10: it to corporate.
Speaker 1: And I knew it was no and this this isn't Look,
Speaker 1: this is not an escalation. It's activating a phone. It's simple.
Speaker 1: It takes literally thirty seconds when it works. So clearly
Speaker 1: someone needs to train these people to understand what you're
Speaker 1: trying to do. But the words I'm telling you, you're
Speaker 1: just switching devices. It's just a device swap and you're
Speaker 1: going from a physical sim to an e SIM. Very
Speaker 1: very simple procedure. It should not be a problem. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the call sharer in Colorado Springs eighty eight Rich
Speaker 1: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. Speaking of Verizon, they're raising prices.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that and the Apple Vision pro
Speaker 1: coming up. Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology. This is the
Speaker 1: show where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also the place where I
Speaker 1: answer your tech questions. Once again. My name is Rich DeMuro.
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Speaker 2: Facebook. We've got a.
Speaker 1: Lively community on there. Let's see about eight hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty thousand of you dealing with my sometimes just silly stuff.
Speaker 1: Like last night, I'm complaining I couldn't find anything to
Speaker 1: watch on all the streaming apps I had, and I
Speaker 1: got frustrated, so I said, life was so much easier
Speaker 1: with a list of DVR recordings. Hopping between a dozen
Speaker 1: different streaming apps searching for something to watch is really
Speaker 1: getting old. Yeah, I mean I subscribe to all these apps,
Speaker 1: and we sit there, we order the pizza, We're sitting
Speaker 1: in front of the TV. We got everything ready to go,
Speaker 1: and we can't find something to watch. We start a
Speaker 1: movie fifteen minutes and we're like.
Speaker 2: Where's this going? You got to stop it?
Speaker 1: And then we went to another movie and then we
Speaker 1: fall asleep. So that's how it works in the DeMuro household.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Gina. Gina in Venice. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 10: Hi, good afternoon, Rich. Hello, Hey, all I can think.
Speaker 7: About is that song?
Speaker 10: Do you know?
Speaker 7: Do you know the way to Sam Jose?
Speaker 1: When I talk about San Jose. Yes, I don't know
Speaker 1: that song, but I will listen to it by Dion Warwick. Okay,
Speaker 1: do you know the way to San Jose? All right,
Speaker 1: I love it nineteen sixty eight. I'll ask Bobo if
Speaker 1: he can find it on our system. The restaurants to
Speaker 1: go to by the way and San Jose is called
Speaker 1: Original Jo's.
Speaker 2: And I yeah, it was great. I had a great
Speaker 2: time there. All right. What can I help you with, Gina.
Speaker 7: So I'm wondering. I'm an Apple person, I have across
Speaker 7: the the all platforms, and I'm wondering if there's a
Speaker 7: way to think applications that I have like to sink
Speaker 7: Gmail across all applications. So when I I've read it
Speaker 7: a message or email and on my iPhone and delete it,
Speaker 7: it's all also deleted on my Mac or my.
Speaker 11: iPad or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, So there's a couple of ways you can
Speaker 2: do this.
Speaker 1: If you download, like specifically for Gmail, if you download
Speaker 1: the Gmail app, you can install that on your various devices.
Speaker 1: And if you delete a message on one device, whether
Speaker 1: it's the web, whether it's the iPhone, whether it's the iPad,
Speaker 1: it will delete on all the other devices as well.
Speaker 1: If you're using the Apple Mail app, as long as
Speaker 1: you set up the email using kind of like their flow,
Speaker 1: which if you haven't done this in a while, like
Speaker 1: if you set it up a long time ago, you
Speaker 1: might have. You might have set it up as what's
Speaker 1: called pop three. And if you're setting up as pop three,
Speaker 1: that means that the email is kind of downloaded to
Speaker 1: your device and everything happens locally.
Speaker 2: So you want to set it up as what's.
Speaker 1: Called imap im ap, and when you make a change there,
Speaker 1: it is reflected on the server, which means it'll be
Speaker 1: reflected anywhere else. So if it's not deleting, like let's
Speaker 1: say you've got the mail app on your phone, you
Speaker 1: delete an email from Gmail and it doesn't delete, then
Speaker 1: that means I would go in. I would delete my
Speaker 1: entire email account from the mail app and set it
Speaker 1: up fresh, and your email will be safe because it's
Speaker 1: it's going to be on the server from Gmail. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the Gmail app is the easiest way to go.
Speaker 1: That's what I use because it does work across everything
Speaker 1: perfect and I.
Speaker 7: Learned stuff And I have one te quick question famous
Speaker 7: last words on this show, Gina, I know when you
Speaker 7: click the box trust this device, yes, does it?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: You should only click that box when you are attaching
Speaker 1: the device a trust the device to your computer or like,
Speaker 1: if you see that message when you are plugging into
Speaker 1: like an outlet at the airport, run as far as
Speaker 1: you can, because that is why they put that there.
Speaker 1: That is only for your phone to your computer, and
Speaker 1: that is because it means that you can transfer data
Speaker 1: between those two things. If you see that message anywhere else,
Speaker 1: if you're at a library, public computer, you do not
Speaker 1: want to do that. You don't want to trust that device.
Speaker 1: Your device can still charge off of that computer or
Speaker 1: that outlet, but it will not send data. So trust
Speaker 1: this device is Take that very seriously when you see it.
Speaker 1: That's there for a reason.
Speaker 7: All right, Thank you so much. Rit I really appreciate
Speaker 7: your program and all the information you provide.
Speaker 1: Well, Gina, I appreciate you listening. You are the best
Speaker 1: part of the show. Thanks so much. Debobo, do you
Speaker 1: find the song? We can't find the song? Okay, well
Speaker 1: we're going to have to let's go to Let's go
Speaker 1: to Okay, yeah, fine on YouTube.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 1: Let's go to John and Temecula. John, you're on with Rich, Hey.
Speaker 12: Rich, question, I just purchased a Samsung A fifteen to
Speaker 12: five G. Okay, I know it's ain song. We wife
Speaker 12: and I both just use phones, you know, from basic
Speaker 12: phone texting whatever.
Speaker 1: Sure the A is there is there sort of budget
Speaker 1: series phones that are typically at a lower price.
Speaker 12: Yeah, definitely. And we had the A thirty two to
Speaker 12: five g's prior.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is a great phone. That's the A lineup
Speaker 1: is great. This is I think this is actually like
Speaker 1: the world's top selling phone. But okay, keep going.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So so anyways, we live in a remote area and
Speaker 12: we are service provider's T Mobile, and we've been using
Speaker 12: for about seven years the T Mobile four G cell.
Speaker 2: Spot Okay, right, the like the in house thing.
Speaker 9: Yes, okay, So, and we.
Speaker 12: Had the I've had the LG phones, we had A
Speaker 12: twelve phones, and now this is the first phone that
Speaker 12: won't connect to that cell spot. Okay, We've I've been
Speaker 12: on the phone for at least a couple hours with
Speaker 12: T Mobile people and they couldn't help me. So I'm
Speaker 12: kind of just thinking I'm going to be stuck with
Speaker 12: Wi Fi calling.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, so, so it sounds so okay,
Speaker 1: So you don't have any T Mobile service at all
Speaker 1: at the house.
Speaker 2: Correct, zero, even with the old phones.
Speaker 12: Correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, But you were using this, uh, this range extender
Speaker 1: that you plug into your Internet and it puts out
Speaker 1: a signal that a four G signal that the phone
Speaker 1: recognizes and then uses that to make calls.
Speaker 12: Yeah, basically anybody that walks in the house. Oh yeah,
Speaker 12: the mobile will now have service.
Speaker 2: Okay. And this phone, so does this phone not have
Speaker 2: four G service at all? Support four G?
Speaker 12: I don't know. That's a good question.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So usually in the settings, if you go into the
Speaker 1: settings on your phone, I want you to try something.
Speaker 1: Go into settings on your phone and under connections it'll say,
Speaker 1: let's see mobile networks, and you can my on my
Speaker 1: phone it says allow five G service and allow two
Speaker 1: G service. So if I turn off allow five G service,
Speaker 1: see if your phone defaults to four G.
Speaker 2: So mine just went back down to four G.
Speaker 12: Okay, So go into connections, you said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's settings connections and then mobile networks and
Speaker 1: you see where it says allow five G service.
Speaker 2: There, yeah, turn that off. Okay, and now does your
Speaker 2: phone show lt E up at the top.
Speaker 12: No, it says allowed two G.
Speaker 2: Okay, leave that on. Okay, but just turn off the
Speaker 2: five G one I did, and does it come up
Speaker 2: lt E No? Okay?
Speaker 1: Interesting, So I wonder if this phone I find it
Speaker 1: hard to believe this phone would not have a four
Speaker 1: G antenna inside. You might want to give it a
Speaker 1: second to see if it picks up that signal.
Speaker 12: So what what has happened with this phone? Which is
Speaker 12: kind of crazy? If I restart the phone, excuse me,
Speaker 12: it'll connect with the cell spot for maybe at the
Speaker 12: most it's been like seven or eight minutes, okay, and
Speaker 12: then it disconnects.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, this phone does support four G, so it could
Speaker 1: be okay. Well, the bottom line is, John, honestly, the
Speaker 1: world has moved to Wi Fi calling, so I see
Speaker 1: no reason. If you can turn on Wi Fi calling
Speaker 1: on this phone and it works in your house, you're
Speaker 1: going to get your phone calls and you're gonna get
Speaker 1: your messages the same way. Now for other people that
Speaker 1: come in, if their phone still work with this little
Speaker 1: you know, mobile extender that you have, that's fine. But
Speaker 1: I think the bottom line is that a this phone
Speaker 1: should work because I'm looking at the specs and it
Speaker 1: does have four G service, so it should work with
Speaker 1: that extender. Sometimes you have to register the phone with
Speaker 1: the extender for it to work. Since you're telling me
Speaker 1: other people have been able to come into your house
Speaker 1: and use it, that's interesting because typically you have to
Speaker 1: register the phones with this extender for it to work,
Speaker 1: as far as I've experienced in the past. But I
Speaker 1: think if you're fine with the Wi Fi calling and
Speaker 1: it works, toggle that on. You'll be fine. Everything's going
Speaker 1: to work pretty much the same. Make sure that you
Speaker 1: set your nine to one one address in the settings
Speaker 1: when you set up the Wi Fi calling, and this
Speaker 1: phone should perform pretty similar to the way it would
Speaker 1: with the extender, if not better, as long as you
Speaker 1: have a good signal. But there really shouldn't be any
Speaker 1: reason why this phone doesn't work with this extender, unless
Speaker 1: you know, everything is just sort of out of date
Speaker 1: with this extender and it's just not recognizing it on
Speaker 1: the new phone. But I would just use Wi Fi calling, John,
Speaker 1: and when you're out of the house, your phone should
Speaker 1: work as it typically would on that T Mobile network.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call today out there in Temecula. Verizon
Speaker 1: I mentioned they are raising prices on some older unlimited plans.
Speaker 1: Verizon is increasing prices by four dollars a month per
Speaker 1: line on older plans starting March first. The plans five
Speaker 1: G Get More, five G Play More, five G Do More,
Speaker 1: and five G Start. So what do they want you
Speaker 1: to do? They want you to go to the new
Speaker 1: unlimited plans Unlimited Plus, Unlimited, Welcome Ultimate Unlimited. Pricing for
Speaker 1: the new plans is not changing. But again, if you
Speaker 1: see this on your bill, which you will see starting
Speaker 1: March first, that's what it's all about. It's because you're
Speaker 1: on an older unlimited plan. I would personally do the math,
Speaker 1: see how much your old plan is, see how much
Speaker 1: the new unlimited plans are, and switch if the math
Speaker 1: does not work out. This was reported by c Net. Again,
Speaker 1: Verizon increasing pricing plans by four dollars a month on
Speaker 1: some older unlimited plans starting on March first. If you
Speaker 1: have a five G Get More, five G Play More,
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Speaker 1: see this increase. You'll probably get an email from Verizon
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about the uh Apple Vision pro.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you my experience.
Speaker 1: I put this thing on last week and it's quite incredible.
Speaker 1: It's also quite expensive. I will explain what you need
Speaker 1: to know about the new headset from Apple eighty eight
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Speaker 1: My name is rich DeMuro eighty to eight rich one
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Speaker 1: zero one. I want to get into the Apple Vision
Speaker 1: pro but I got my main man, Micah here from Maine.
Speaker 1: You got a suggestion on how to get text messages
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Speaker 13: Yes, I do three or four of them actually, oh mydad.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's certainly gotten easier. Sure sounds that way. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the suggestions, Micah that you know, look, there's so
Speaker 1: many ways of doing this. I think that at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you either have to be set
Speaker 1: up in advance with some of those things. I think personally,
Speaker 1: Google Voice has been just incredible, Like I've had my
Speaker 1: Google Voice number forever because of these reasons. And I
Speaker 1: know people that travel a lot love Google Fi because
Speaker 1: you basically get service everywhere. It's very inexpensive, it's very flexible.
Speaker 1: And also T Mobile is very good with the international
Speaker 1: add ons with their plan or I shouldn't even say
Speaker 1: add on a lot of times, it's just included in there.
Speaker 1: But I will say in general, international travel has gotten
Speaker 1: a lot easier, a lot better. And again for most
Speaker 1: of the modern phones, if you have e SIM, you've
Speaker 1: got that dual SIM card situation on most of the
Speaker 1: modern phones. The caller originally did not have the dual
Speaker 1: SIM and that's what made it very tricky. But he
Speaker 1: had an extra phone, so makes it kind of easy.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Micah in main there. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the Apple Vision pro. So I had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to try this on. This is Apple's thirty five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars augmented reality headset. And so first thing I do,
Speaker 1: I get into this thing, they scan my face with
Speaker 1: an iPhone app and that helps them understand the size
Speaker 1: of the light seal, and that helps keep the light out. Now,
Speaker 1: when I put this thing on, I actually had a
Speaker 1: lot of light bleeding through, and so that actually did
Speaker 1: not work very well. But the first time I tried
Speaker 1: it on, it was very There's not a lot of
Speaker 1: light coming in. So the other thing is the Okay,
Speaker 1: so I get in there and they immediately start showing me.
Speaker 1: You put this thing on, and you see the room
Speaker 1: that you're in. I was like in a living room
Speaker 1: that they set up at the Apple headquarters, and immediately
Speaker 1: it looked like I was just looking at the living
Speaker 1: room I was in. But of course they trick you
Speaker 1: and it starts writing in three D the word hello,
Speaker 1: floating in the middle of your eyesight, and that was
Speaker 1: really cool, And that's like kind of your like OMG
Speaker 1: moment with this thing. You're like, this is really cool
Speaker 1: because I just thought I was sitting in the room
Speaker 1: I was in and looking through glasses. No, I'm looking
Speaker 1: through a camera that is showing me the room. And
Speaker 1: then you start to kind of move around and all
Speaker 1: you use with this headset is your fingers and your eyes,
Speaker 1: so you literally look with your eyes where you want
Speaker 1: to select on the screen, and then just tap your
Speaker 1: fingers together, pinch your fingers together, and that selects it.
Speaker 1: So that alone is just such a breakthrough with this
Speaker 1: intuitive gesture that you use to browse this thing. And
Speaker 1: when I'm talking, it's like Minority Report. It really is,
Speaker 1: because you just move things around, like if you want
Speaker 1: to take the window, you kind of pinch the edge,
Speaker 1: you make it bigger, you make it smaller, you kind
Speaker 1: of grab the window, move it over to your side
Speaker 1: of view. You can have a bunch of windows open.
Speaker 1: You can look around and see those windows just floating
Speaker 1: in mid air. It is quite incredible. Then we tried
Speaker 1: out some movie apps, so we looked at first we
Speaker 1: looked at some pictures and videos in spatial video, which
Speaker 1: Apple doesn't call it three D, but it's really just
Speaker 1: three D. They call it spatial because you remember three D
Speaker 1: TV's bombed. But looking at pictures and videos in three
Speaker 1: D is just quite incredible. So you can take pictures
Speaker 1: and videos on your iPhone in three D and then
Speaker 1: look at them inside this environment.
Speaker 2: Really really cool.
Speaker 1: How often are you gonna do that, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's still pretty cool to have it I watched
Speaker 1: Super Mario World in three D.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like being in an Imax theater in
Speaker 1: your living room because it's just an enormous screen in
Speaker 1: front of you. You can make it as big as you
Speaker 1: want or as small as you want. Let's see what
Speaker 1: else do we do?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Then I took a part a F one car in
Speaker 1: front of me. So they have this giant F one
Speaker 1: car in three D. I can move it around, I
Speaker 1: can zoom in, I can pop the wheel off, I
Speaker 1: can pop all the parts off.
Speaker 2: So I just.
Speaker 1: Imagined that this could be really useful for teaching as well. Again,
Speaker 1: thirty five hundred dollars for this. It is incredible, but
Speaker 1: it is very very expensive. Pre orders are open now.
Speaker 1: It is in stores February second. Coming up Joanna Stern
Speaker 1: from The Wall Street Journal and I will talk about
Speaker 1: our experiences inside the Vision Pro.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eighty eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: The big news this week.
Speaker 1: Apple Vision Pro is available for pre order if you
Speaker 1: can still get one. Joining me now is Joanna Stern,
Speaker 1: personal tech columnist at the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me, Joyna, Thanks for having me Rich.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you got you went hands on with this
Speaker 1: thing four times, or I should say head on with
Speaker 1: this four times.
Speaker 14: Heads on, heads on with the face computer four times.
Speaker 2: And what do you make of this?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an augmented reality, virtual reality headset. Apple
Speaker 1: obviously doesn't call it that. They called a spatial computer.
Speaker 1: But what do you make of this thing?
Speaker 2: In general?
Speaker 14: Yeah, every time I put this on, I really have
Speaker 14: two reactions. One, this is the best headset I've ever used.
Speaker 14: The image quality, the way you navigate this with just
Speaker 14: your hands, no clunky controllers like we've had with the Oculus.
Speaker 14: It just feels natural, similar to when we first got
Speaker 14: that iPhone and it moved away from the clunky smartphones
Speaker 14: and they had stylustes and it wasn't really that natural
Speaker 14: to interact with those, And so now feels like Apple's
Speaker 14: doing the same thing with the headset. So that's part
Speaker 14: one of the impression. Part two of the impression is
Speaker 14: you're wearing a computer on your face and it feels
Speaker 14: like that right now. You almost can start to see
Speaker 14: the future of this device. When you put it on
Speaker 14: that it's going to get smaller and the battery pack
Speaker 14: is going to disappear, and it is going to feel
Speaker 14: more like glasses. You just don't know. We just all
Speaker 14: don't know when that's going to happen. And right now,
Speaker 14: as I'm just saying, it's a face computer, You're putting
Speaker 14: a computer on your face. And yes, it's cool, but
Speaker 14: it's also big.
Speaker 1: It seems to be quite popular at thirty five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars plus accessories. As I'm scrolling through my social media,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of people have ordered this. They're
Speaker 1: eagerly anticipating it. Is that just par for the course
Speaker 1: with any new gadget?
Speaker 14: I think the big question is who are those people
Speaker 14: on social media?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 14: Are they early adopters who have always bought the first
Speaker 14: Apple thing?
Speaker 2: That's my guess.
Speaker 14: Are these the people in your life that now you
Speaker 14: many years later have iPhones and iPads and air pods
Speaker 14: and Apple Watches? Probably not right. I mean, these are
Speaker 14: sort of the way these products get mainstream or go mainstream.
Speaker 14: Is It's just it follows the Apple playbook early first
Speaker 14: version is not meant for the masses, and certainly with
Speaker 14: this when we look at thirty five hundred dollars for
Speaker 14: device which we aren't quite sure what it will do
Speaker 14: for us, Well, that's a luxury item. I mean, I'm
Speaker 14: not saying this is actually like a luxury, beautiful item,
Speaker 14: but it is a luxury to be able to buy
Speaker 14: a thirty five hundred dollars phase computer that you're not
Speaker 14: really sure yet how is going to fit into your life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you said this was incredible, but do you think
Speaker 1: that this has potential to revamp the way we experience
Speaker 1: entertainment and also compute Because they call it a spatial computer.
Speaker 2: Will I replace my laptop with this?
Speaker 14: It seems very clear. Again, I haven't had the chance
Speaker 14: to test this, and I know you haven't either outside
Speaker 14: of Apple's walls, but given these demos, they seem to
Speaker 14: be sort of building a narrative around at least one
Speaker 14: big use case, and that is entertainment. One of the
Speaker 14: two of the demos I got to see over the
Speaker 14: last couple months, we're around the spatial videos and photos
Speaker 14: again three D. We won't say the bad word, and
Speaker 14: that really is remarkable. I mean, it is really cool
Speaker 14: to be able to take a video on the weekend
Speaker 14: of your kids in three D and then watch it
Speaker 14: back in this headset and feel like you're really there
Speaker 14: with them. Right. It feels a lot more immersive and real.
Speaker 14: The question is how often are we going to do that?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 14: How often are we going to want to use these
Speaker 14: devices to do that? Sure it's good for the business
Speaker 14: trip you might take when you're not with your kids,
Speaker 14: But I can see my kids in real life. I'm
Speaker 14: lucky to be able to do that. Maybe it's when
Speaker 14: they get older and I can relive those memories. Maybe
Speaker 14: it's people who have passed away. So I think there
Speaker 14: are a lot of interesting cultural uses that might evolve here.
Speaker 14: But again, it's got to come along. Right. You're going
Speaker 14: to want to have a device eventually that's easier to
Speaker 14: put on, sleeker, and maybe you can you don't have
Speaker 14: to have a big battery pack with it.
Speaker 1: What did you make of the everyone's retweeting like this
Speaker 1: picture of.
Speaker 2: Like my ear, your ear?
Speaker 1: You know, this bulky headset that's like crunching down on ears.
Speaker 1: Did you find that this thing was really heavy and
Speaker 1: or hot on your head?
Speaker 14: I have always thought this thing is quite heavy, and
Speaker 14: I do really think that is going to be the
Speaker 14: main thing that prevents you from being able to use
Speaker 14: this for longer periods of time, then you probably want
Speaker 14: you'd probably want to wear it for a little bit longer,
Speaker 14: and you might start to feel the weight literally on
Speaker 14: your head.
Speaker 1: I'd be curious to watch an entire movie in this thing,
Speaker 1: because it's something I have not been able to do
Speaker 1: in another headset. And also on the plane, they all
Speaker 1: they always show this, you know, this picture of someone
Speaker 1: watching on the plane. Do you think you would use
Speaker 1: this on an airplane or do you think it'll get
Speaker 1: a lot of use on a plane?
Speaker 14: I do, I definitely think, you know. I like I
Speaker 14: bring my iPad typically on longer flights. It's it's sort
Speaker 14: of a travel device for me. I don't use an
Speaker 14: iPad as much on my day to day activities, but
Speaker 14: I could see this sort of replacing the iPad for
Speaker 14: watching on longer flights. The issue, then, I think, also
Speaker 14: becomes like this a very solo experience, so you can't
Speaker 14: really share with somebody else. You don't really see what's
Speaker 14: going on around you. I mean, there are ways to
Speaker 14: obviously control that. Using the dial on the device, you
Speaker 14: can dial in how much you see around you. But
Speaker 14: I've sat next to people on airplanes wearing VR headsets
Speaker 14: and other types of glasses, and I mean they look
Speaker 14: nerdy and they're fine with that.
Speaker 1: What were you most impressed with? What are you you know?
Speaker 1: What do you think is the best aspect of this device?
Speaker 2: At launch?
Speaker 14: I always go back to how easy it is to
Speaker 14: navigate around. I think one of the things that Apple
Speaker 14: had to overcome here is making this a device that's
Speaker 14: easy for anyone to sort of use. The controllers on
Speaker 14: these previous devices, you've really felt like they're clunky. They
Speaker 14: kind of get away, get in between that experience. So
Speaker 14: I think that's one thing that is going to help
Speaker 14: with moving this into the future. I think the second
Speaker 14: really is the focus Apples putting on the real world.
Speaker 14: This is not about the so called metaverse where you
Speaker 14: get out of the real world and you're surrounded in
Speaker 14: all digital objects and you've gone to outer space or
Speaker 14: wherever you've gone. You can do some of that in here,
Speaker 14: but they're putting the real focus on being able to
Speaker 14: see people and things around you. As soon as you
Speaker 14: put on the headsetting rich you know, you put it on,
Speaker 14: you see the menu, and you see your surroundings. If
Speaker 14: I had it on right now, I would be seeing
Speaker 14: you and I would see the menu in front of me.
Speaker 14: And so that seems like a really big difference, and
Speaker 14: again also really showing where Apple, I think is wants
Speaker 14: to go with this in the future, which is not
Speaker 14: a device to be alone in your home, but a
Speaker 14: device that you can wear out and about and see
Speaker 14: digital information and not just be staring down at your phone.
Speaker 1: What did you make of the eyesight, because they in
Speaker 1: my demo, it was kind of the surprise at the
Speaker 1: end where this person looks up from their computer or
Speaker 1: whatever they were doing and they've got these digital eyes
Speaker 1: on the screen.
Speaker 2: It was it was a little weird, especially when they blink.
Speaker 1: They said, see you can see me blinking, and then
Speaker 1: you know, they took a picture all these little things,
Speaker 1: which is nice to have, but it's still a little odd.
Speaker 14: It's odd, for sure. I think that really is I
Speaker 14: think about making sure that people feel like there's that
Speaker 14: privacy component here that they know, oh, you're looking at
Speaker 14: me versus you're looking at something else. I mean, for
Speaker 14: your listeners, just to describe this, I mean, it sort
Speaker 14: of makes it look like a pair of ski goggles, right,
Speaker 14: so it's not just a plain piece of plastic in
Speaker 14: front of your face, which it is. But what Apple's
Speaker 14: done is put a screen in front of the headset
Speaker 14: that mimics what your eyes look like, so it looks
Speaker 14: like the person is looking at you, and that is
Speaker 14: to make it seem like you're just wearing glasses and
Speaker 14: you're naturally talking to somebody. But yeah, it didn't also
Speaker 14: work that well, Like it looked like like to your point,
Speaker 14: it was like I'm blinking and I was like are you?
Speaker 14: And it looks quite delayed. And I also asked him
Speaker 14: to take it off to make sure he actually had
Speaker 14: eyes because I couldn't. It was like, do you have
Speaker 14: the real lize? Like, what do your real eyes look like?
Speaker 14: I'm interested to see what it looks like on me.
Speaker 14: In our demos, we didn't see really quite yet any
Speaker 14: killer apps. And I don't actually want to say that
Speaker 14: there's going to be some killer app for this, but
Speaker 14: we didn't see a ton yet of third party apps.
Speaker 14: What are the developers creating for this headset? And we
Speaker 14: know that that was such a key to the iPhone
Speaker 14: and the iPad is these developers and software makers coming
Speaker 14: along and saying I can build this really cool thing
Speaker 14: with this, something you couldn't do with the stock apps
Speaker 14: that Apple provides. And so I think there's some big
Speaker 14: questions about what are these developers making. Once this is out,
Speaker 14: we'll have a better sense. And is there incentive for
Speaker 14: them to want to make things here? I mean, this
Speaker 14: is sure Apple's going to sell a lot of these
Speaker 14: to early adopters right now, but this is not a
Speaker 14: mainstream product, and so does that make developers not want
Speaker 14: to sort of invest in it right now?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 1: Joanna Stern, personal tech columnist at The Wall Street, Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining me today.
Speaker 2: How can folks follow you online?
Speaker 14: They I'm at Juanna Stern everywhere, X, Threads, Instagram, I
Speaker 14: don't know Blue Sky, don't use it really much. Masted
Speaker 14: on all of them. Yeah, you've listened them all.
Speaker 2: All right, sounds like it's pretty easy. Thanks so much
Speaker 2: for joining me today.
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Speaker 1: Uh Gladden in Beachy there. Hey, yeah, welcome to the show.
Speaker 9: Walk out to the car here.
Speaker 15: Hey, look, my question was I was listening a couple
Speaker 15: of weeks ago. You're telling everybody that's do you have
Speaker 15: Spectrum cable and like a Samsung TV or whatever smart
Speaker 15: TV that Disney Plus is taking free subscriptions.
Speaker 9: Well, I went to Disney Plus either on my phone
Speaker 9: or I did it on the TV screen, and it's
Speaker 9: not all the information email that such.
Speaker 15: I'm then and ask you to ask you for your
Speaker 15: a credit card number.
Speaker 9: Now I stopped there. Are they going to charge me
Speaker 9: later on or just just a security background check?
Speaker 2: Good question.
Speaker 1: So this is you're talking about the free deal if
Speaker 1: you have Spectrum TV with the Select plans. So if
Speaker 1: this is if you have traditional cable TV from Spectrum
Speaker 1: and you're on the Select plan. They announced that Disney
Speaker 1: Plus is now included the Disney Plus Basic, which is
Speaker 1: basically their Disney Plus with ads. It's about eight dollars
Speaker 1: a month value and you can get this for free.
Speaker 1: And I posted this to my Instagram, my Twitter, and
Speaker 1: my Facebook, and a lot of people took advantage of
Speaker 1: it and a lot of people said, yes, this works
Speaker 1: just fine.
Speaker 2: So Gladden.
Speaker 1: The main thing you need to know is that you
Speaker 1: have to activate it first through Spectrum.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: You have to go to Spectrum dot com slash Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: That's where you have to activate it first, and then
Speaker 1: you sign in with the Disney account, so it will
Speaker 1: all the instructions are there, but it will lead you
Speaker 1: through the process. I think it sounds like you went
Speaker 1: to Disney Plus first, and of course it just looks
Speaker 1: like you're signing up as a regular person, so you
Speaker 1: have to go through Spectrum first. That will give Disney
Speaker 1: Plus the signal that hey, this person is a Spectrum customer,
Speaker 1: give this to them for free. Now I have not
Speaker 1: done this personally, so I don't know if once you
Speaker 1: get to that Disney Plus sign up area, if they
Speaker 1: do ask for a credit card for like a background thing, like,
Speaker 1: you know, if they just want to keep it on
Speaker 1: file in case you cancel your spectrum. But the way
Speaker 1: I see it on their website, it says if you
Speaker 1: cancel your Spectrum, you will lose access to Disney Plus basics.
Speaker 1: So doesn't sound like they require a credit card or
Speaker 1: they'll fall back to charging you. It just you have
Speaker 1: you lost access. That's the way I see it. So
Speaker 1: start at Spectrum dot dot com slash Disney Plus and
Speaker 1: then follow the steps there. Sign in with your Spectrum account,
Speaker 1: move over to the Disney account and then get it
Speaker 1: through there.
Speaker 2: But good question.
Speaker 1: And if you have Spectrum TV on that select plan,
Speaker 1: absolutely get this for free.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: And we're paying so much for these services, get something
Speaker 1: for free. Thanks for the call today, Gladden and glad
Speaker 1: to have you on. Marshall and Resita. You're on with
Speaker 1: Rich Yeah, Hey, how's it going.
Speaker 8: Hanging in there?
Speaker 16: I hope you doing on?
Speaker 8: I twitched over from that note twenty Ultra I had that,
Speaker 8: you saw me and Amazon Press. I have a twenty four.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry I had no twenty Now we've got the
Speaker 8: twenty three. But you know that doesn't have expandable memory.
Speaker 8: I got a five twelve memory when I bought the phone,
Speaker 8: so they doubled your memory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're doing the same thing right now for the
Speaker 1: S twenty four buyers. If you get the two fifty six,
Speaker 1: you get the five twelve, you get the five twelve,
Speaker 1: you get the one terabyte.
Speaker 2: So it's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but tell them, whoever you talk to the Jamsung,
Speaker 8: tell them to put the expandable memory back in, because
Speaker 8: they did this back in the five or sixth senteries.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you remember, Oh yeah, Marshall.
Speaker 8: They put it back in on the seven or something
Speaker 8: like that because people complained, yep, and.
Speaker 2: Then they took it away.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. People love the expandable memory. But
Speaker 1: these phones are getting to the place where they have
Speaker 1: they're getting the carrier or the phone makers want no
Speaker 1: ports whatsoever. So on the Samsung, I'm actually still I'm
Speaker 1: surprised at the latest Samsung still has a SD card slot.
Speaker 2: But anyway, keep going.
Speaker 16: I need a big suggestionment from your part. I want
Speaker 16: a tangible thing. I could put it, take it like,
Speaker 16: you know, because if I put the micro c car
Speaker 16: once I filled it up, you know, I could take
Speaker 16: it out and put a fresh one in, but take
Speaker 16: it with me and then whatever I want to do
Speaker 16: with that card. I don't want to put myself up
Speaker 16: in a cloud. I don't want to put it onto
Speaker 16: a laptop. And like, I want something I could take
Speaker 16: and put into the you know, plug into the phone,
Speaker 16: download all the stuff from you know, the pictures and
Speaker 16: videos hurrna. I have put it into something tangible that
Speaker 16: I can put, you know, carry around with me because
Speaker 16: it's got five twelve, five hundred and twelve memory on it,
Speaker 16: so it probably needs to be considered something large to
Speaker 16: you know, you know, not physical large, but like you know,
Speaker 16: data large.
Speaker 1: Well, the good news is, look, the good news says
Speaker 1: with these phones with the USBC, you could plug any
Speaker 1: drive into them. Just get a hard drive if you
Speaker 1: want to do it that way, that's the cheapest. If
Speaker 1: you want something small, get a flash drive and the uh.
Speaker 1: The phone actually has an app built in called my
Speaker 1: Let's see what it's called here files, my files. So
Speaker 1: if you go into the my files app, if you
Speaker 1: plug in a hard drive or a flash drive, it's
Speaker 1: going to show up under storage and you could just
Speaker 1: go ahead and copy and paste all the stuff that
Speaker 1: you want from your phone into that drive. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's some apps that can help you do that
Speaker 1: as well, but it's built into the phone.
Speaker 2: It's very simple to do it that way.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to go to the cloud the
Speaker 1: drives that I recommend, if you want to just get
Speaker 1: a regular hard drive. Just go on Amazon search you
Speaker 1: know hard drive Western Digital and you can get like
Speaker 1: a probably a two terabyte drive for like sixty bucks
Speaker 1: at this point. Make sure it's USBC. But if you
Speaker 1: want to get a flash drive, PNY has what's called
Speaker 1: the duo link, and this is a USB three point
Speaker 1: two C drive USBC, plug it into the bottom. They
Speaker 1: make it in one twenty eight gigabytes or two fifty six.
Speaker 1: One twenty eight gigabytes is twenty bucks. Two fifty six
Speaker 1: is twenty five dollars. That's that's a pretty good value.
Speaker 1: If you want to get sand disc. They make some
Speaker 1: products that are USB flash drive ives under the I
Speaker 1: expand name and same thing. You can get these things
Speaker 1: very cheap. Just look for USBC. They're they're kind of
Speaker 1: dropping the I expand. It looks like so it's they
Speaker 1: call it the Ultra Dual drive Go and USBC. You
Speaker 1: can get it all the way up to a terabyte. Okay,
Speaker 1: so one terabyte is going to be one hundred and
Speaker 1: nine to ninety nine. You said your phone, I think
Speaker 1: you said it was two fifty six or five to
Speaker 1: twelve thirty six ninety nine for a five hundred and
Speaker 1: twelve gigabyte drive flash drive. This thing is tiny, it's
Speaker 1: it'll fit on your keychain, So go ahead, you can
Speaker 1: get that and sink all of your photos.
Speaker 2: Videos, files, whatever you want. Marshall.
Speaker 1: And yes, I remember you. We met outside the Amazon
Speaker 1: Fresh store and I think it was Woodland Hills maybe
Speaker 1: when it was first opening. You showed me your phone.
Speaker 1: You said, rich you made me get this. And when
Speaker 1: people say that to me, I'm always like hesitant.
Speaker 2: I'm like, do you like it? And you said yes,
Speaker 2: thanks for the call today.
Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one on one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Apparently playing
Speaker 1: football on Peacock pays off record number of viewers for
Speaker 1: the streaming only NFL playoff game. Over twenty three million
Speaker 1: viewers for the Dolphins versus Chiefs wild card game that
Speaker 1: aired exclusively on Peacock. This got me scratching my head.
Speaker 1: I said, wait a second, where's this game? Wait, it's
Speaker 1: streaming only what And of course we had to watch
Speaker 1: it because you know, Tata was in the audience watching Kelsey.
Speaker 1: So my wife is all into the Chiefs all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, uh, twenty three million viewers, most streamed event
Speaker 1: ever in US history if you include local TV, twenty
Speaker 1: seven point six million total viewers.
Speaker 2: So wait, it was on local TV too, I'm confused.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't on local TV, so streaming numbers were
Speaker 1: close to typical NFL viewership. Hey, streaming is happening. Amazon's
Speaker 1: got it on Thursday Night Football. Now we got it
Speaker 1: on Peacock. All I have to say is I saw
Speaker 1: a bunch of emails from Peacock saying all my family
Speaker 1: members were logging into my account, so I knew something
Speaker 1: was happening. You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
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Speaker 1: coming up on the show? I know we're thinking super
Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday? Coming up? When is that?
Speaker 2: The eleventh of February?
Speaker 9: Is that?
Speaker 2: Like, let's see when is super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Super Bowl twenty twenty four, Sunday, February eleventh, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: There you go Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Now that's
Speaker 1: the place to have a super Bowl. I mean you
Speaker 1: get to Vegas and it's like, you know, when you
Speaker 1: go to Vegas, somehow you become a different person. And
Speaker 1: they have marketed this and they have perfected this. You
Speaker 1: get to Vegas and you are suddenly having a bloody
Speaker 1: mary at like you know, you don't even look at
Speaker 1: the time, you don't even care. You're gambling, you're drinking,
Speaker 1: you know, you're I don't know, you're You're just a
Speaker 1: different person and it's fun and I get it. And
Speaker 1: as soon as you leave Vegas, you're just act to
Speaker 1: like who you were. And it's like this little place
Speaker 1: where people can just be as wild as they want.
Speaker 9: To be.
Speaker 2: Then they get back home and.
Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, that TPS report is ready to go, sir.
Speaker 1: It's just the way it is Vegas, So have fun there. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we are going to talk TVs, the TV to purchase
Speaker 1: for your Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 2: We'll talk budget TVs.
Speaker 1: We'll talk TV terms with Caleb Dennison coming up very
Speaker 1: soon in the show. Katie is in Uh, Katie is
Speaker 1: in La Century City, Century City. Welcome to the show, Katie.
Speaker 1: Have you been to Vegas?
Speaker 11: Oh? Yes, many times?
Speaker 2: And do you agree that.
Speaker 1: You become kind of like a little bit more fun,
Speaker 1: a little bit different, a little bit hang.
Speaker 11: Loose, definitely different.
Speaker 1: I hear Katie just had some like memories flash in
Speaker 1: her mind.
Speaker 2: Okay, what can I help you with?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Right, First of all, thank you for taking my call
Speaker 11: on hear very good things about you. And number two,
Speaker 11: I have a very simple question, so I hope I'm
Speaker 11: not taking up your time. If we change carriers on
Speaker 11: our cell phones from one to another, from AT and
Speaker 11: T to something else, can we keep our phone numbers
Speaker 11: the way they are?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: This is called yeah, this is called porting out a
Speaker 1: phone number, and basically all the cellular all the cellular
Speaker 1: companies use a system that allows them to grab the
Speaker 1: phone number from your old account bring it to the
Speaker 1: new account. Now, how easy that is can sometimes be
Speaker 1: a little tricky. So the thing you need to know
Speaker 1: about porting a phone number out number one, do not
Speaker 1: cancel your old service. That is the number one thing
Speaker 1: to know. So you need to have your old service active,
Speaker 1: and you have to also kind of set up that
Speaker 1: service for the portout. And with AT and T specifically
Speaker 1: you can Basically you need a pen, you need your account,
Speaker 1: You need your account information very perfectly for the new
Speaker 1: carrier to be able to grab that phone number. And
Speaker 1: with AT and T you need to get a special
Speaker 1: pin code because phone numbers are our lives, and so
Speaker 1: you don't want to just be able to have a
Speaker 1: stranger take your phone number from you. And so these
Speaker 1: cellular carriers have gotten pretty like strict about porting out.
Speaker 1: They want to let you do it easily, but they
Speaker 1: also want to make sure you are who you say
Speaker 1: you are, and so you basically need to get a
Speaker 1: pin number with AT and T so that you can
Speaker 1: give that special pin number to the new provider and
Speaker 1: get them and that way they can grab that phone number.
Speaker 1: So on AT and T you can dial from your
Speaker 1: phone star Port p O R T and you can
Speaker 1: get a number transfer pin sent to you via your
Speaker 1: text message. You'll need your account passcode to generate that,
Speaker 1: so just keep in mind you will need some of
Speaker 1: that information. If you have the AT and T app,
Speaker 1: you can go into the people and Permissions and it
Speaker 1: says transfer port transfer phone number and you have to
Speaker 1: request a PIN there and it will display on the
Speaker 1: screen and that PIN number is what's going to get
Speaker 1: that new carrier the ability to grab your phone number.
Speaker 1: So it's you know, porting is not tough, but you
Speaker 1: do need to have all of your information in a
Speaker 1: line and also some of these code numbers before you
Speaker 1: can allow that port to happen. And that's for a
Speaker 1: reason because again people do these things where they steal
Speaker 1: your number and then they can get your codes for
Speaker 1: logging into various websites, you know, the two factor authentication
Speaker 1: codes and or they you know, there's a lot they
Speaker 1: can do a lot of damage they can do. So
Speaker 1: that is the way to do it, Katie, and just yeah,
Speaker 1: make sure you don't and by the way, once you
Speaker 1: once that number is transferred to the new service, it's
Speaker 1: automatically canceled at your old provider. So once that number
Speaker 1: is pulled out of your account and you have it
Speaker 1: with your new service, your old service will be disconnected automatically.
Speaker 1: There's usually nothing you have to do after that. It
Speaker 1: should automatically disconnect. Thanks for the call, Katie. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you heard good things about me. You must have been
Speaker 1: talking to my family. Google's incognito mode not so private
Speaker 1: after all. Google is settling a five billion dollar class
Speaker 1: action lawsuit accusing it of privacy violations because the incognito
Speaker 1: warning is not.
Speaker 2: Really that clear that.
Speaker 1: By the way, yeah, they can still track you when
Speaker 1: you're using incognito. So here's what you need to know
Speaker 1: about Incognito mode. Number one. Incognito mode is the private
Speaker 1: browsing feature that is available on Chrome, but also other
Speaker 1: browsers have it. They have something similar, but this is
Speaker 1: specifically on Chrome. So on Chrome, if you go to
Speaker 1: new Incognito window, it opens up this little window that
Speaker 1: basically says you can brivee.
Speaker 2: Browse privately.
Speaker 1: It says people who use this device won't be able
Speaker 1: to see your activity. However, your downloads, your bookmarks, you're reading,
Speaker 1: list items also be saved, so Chrome will not save
Speaker 1: the following information, your browsing history, cookies, and site data
Speaker 1: information entered informs.
Speaker 2: Your activity might still be.
Speaker 1: Visible to the websites you visit, your employer or school,
Speaker 1: and your Internet service provider. So what does this mean.
Speaker 1: It means a lot of people thought that when they
Speaker 1: go inside that incognito browser tab, everything is safe, and
Speaker 1: everything is secure, and everything is invisible to anyone else.
Speaker 2: You are not invisible, so you have to remember that.
Speaker 1: And so, yes, your employer could see the websites you visit,
Speaker 1: your school could see the website, the ISPs, and most importantly,
Speaker 1: Google and the website you're going to can identify you
Speaker 1: by your IP address and other factors.
Speaker 2: So what are they going to do.
Speaker 1: They're going to change the warning on this little incognito
Speaker 1: mode when you go into it and say that website
Speaker 1: information data could be still be collected by websites and services,
Speaker 1: including Google.
Speaker 2: So just keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: If you're at work and you're surfing the web and
Speaker 1: you go into this incognito, your work can still see
Speaker 1: what you're doing, the best way to think about it
Speaker 1: is that what you're doing is not saved by your computer,
Speaker 1: but it's still saved by or it's still registered by
Speaker 1: the websites that you're going to. Now, the one thing
Speaker 1: I would add to this, there is an option on
Speaker 1: incognito that says block third party cookies.
Speaker 2: There's a little.
Speaker 1: Toggle right on the main screen when you go into
Speaker 1: that mode. I would toggle that on. And what that's
Speaker 1: gonna do is that's gonna keep websites from cross tracking you.
Speaker 1: So let's just say you use incognito mode to shop
Speaker 1: for a new ring for your significant other, and you
Speaker 1: go into this because you don't want to see all
Speaker 1: those ads follow you around to other websites. Well, that's
Speaker 1: a good way of doing it. And if you block
Speaker 1: third party cookies, those websites will not exchange information with
Speaker 1: other websites to try to sell you jewelry when you're
Speaker 1: on different websites. So that's the way to understand it.
Speaker 1: But just keep in mind that's what's happening. There's an
Speaker 1: app that I love that I think you should download.
Speaker 1: It's called Perplexity. This is a really really cool app
Speaker 1: and it's basically like an AI app that uses chat,
Speaker 1: GBT and claude to give you just like information about
Speaker 1: stuff and it's available for iOS and Android, and what
Speaker 1: I love about it is not only does it answer
Speaker 1: questions and like very easy to understand answers that are
Speaker 1: like very well thought out. Every day they send you
Speaker 1: a notification with like one kind of like item, so
Speaker 1: it may say the S and P five hundred hit
Speaker 1: a record high. That was a notification yesterday, and when
Speaker 1: you tap it, it gives you all information about that,
Speaker 1: like almost like a little history lesson every day, but
Speaker 1: it's on a different topic and it tells you most
Speaker 1: importantly the sources. So it says, like, here's why we
Speaker 1: know this is true. So you know, AI can hallucinate,
Speaker 1: it can make up stuff. But what Plexity tries to
Speaker 1: do is it tries to tell you, hey, here's where
Speaker 1: I got this information from and here's why it's important.
Speaker 2: So it's really great. I love it.
Speaker 1: I look forward to the little notification I get every
Speaker 1: day from it.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: It's called Perplexity Peer p l e x it Y.
Speaker 1: It's available for both iOS and Android. You don't have
Speaker 1: to use it as your search engine, but also when
Speaker 1: you ask it a question, it's got this thing called copilot,
Speaker 1: and it tries to figure out like what you're asking
Speaker 1: and it will come up with like the question. It's
Speaker 1: just a really cool use of AI that makes you
Speaker 1: feel very smart and you can feel like you can
Speaker 1: trust most of the answers that it gives you. So
Speaker 1: I kind of just use it every day for the
Speaker 1: daily notification, but you can also do searches on there,
Speaker 1: so if you're in a different city, like when I
Speaker 1: was in San Jose, I just typed in San Jose
Speaker 1: and it gave me like a whole history of the city,
Speaker 1: like a nice brief little history. And when I asked
Speaker 1: San Jose just now, it said which San Jose are
Speaker 1: referring to? Costa Rica or California, And it kind of
Speaker 1: helps you aft your question better to come up with
Speaker 1: a great response. And now it just gave me a
Speaker 1: whole thing about San Jose using all kinds of sources Wikipedia,
Speaker 1: San Jose website, tripadvisorweather dot com for the weather. And
Speaker 1: it's just a really cool app. So again, it's called
Speaker 1: Perplexity AI, available for free. Of course, they have a subscription.
Speaker 1: You do not need the subscription to use the app.
Speaker 1: You get some extra features if you do. I'll put
Speaker 1: a link on the wiki. Rich on tech dot TV
Speaker 1: slash Wiki. All right, coming up more of your calls
Speaker 1: at Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Plus we'll
Speaker 1: talk about more tech news in the world of technology.
Speaker 1: You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you
Speaker 1: on a nineties weekend. If you're listening on the radio,
Speaker 1: playing all nineties songs A eight rich one on one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Coming up right after this, we are talking to TV
Speaker 1: reviewer Caleb Dennison. He is going to share his top
Speaker 1: picks for Super Bowl Sunday. I'm listening. I've told you
Speaker 1: I'm in the market. Dennis is in Corona, California. Dennis,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Rich. Hello, Dennis, I'm hearing myself.
Speaker 1: Oh there we go.
Speaker 5: Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes? Hi.
Speaker 5: Hey, So I've been with Verizon for years and I've
Speaker 5: had on I've been on auto pay, and I didn't
Speaker 5: really realize it that they've been incrementally increasing my rates.
Speaker 5: It almost seems on a monthly basis, so T Mobile
Speaker 5: I can.
Speaker 1: Get well, that's why they love having you on autopay, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why they That's why they charge ten dollars if
Speaker 1: you want to not do that.
Speaker 5: No doubt, no doubt. So T Mobile will give me
Speaker 5: the same price for four lines where I can get
Speaker 5: my ten and eleven years old daughters of phone, which
Speaker 5: is another question, but I'll call you another vine another
Speaker 5: time about how to monitor them. But in any event,
Speaker 5: I'd like to switch. But I have a question regarding
Speaker 5: so I always buy unlocked phones from eBay. I wait
Speaker 5: till a couple progressions go and then I can get
Speaker 5: a good deal on you know, like an eleven for example,
Speaker 5: which is what I have. My wife has an se
Speaker 5: can an unlocked phone on a Verizon network work for
Speaker 5: T Mobile because I think one's a GSM and one's
Speaker 5: a C D M A or something like that.
Speaker 1: Well that used to be more of the case. Nowadays
Speaker 1: phones are pretty much universal. So what, well, what phones
Speaker 1: are we talking about?
Speaker 12: Like?
Speaker 2: What is it an iPhone?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 5: I also have a physical SIM? Do I still need
Speaker 5: a physical SIM? Or can these phones utilize digital sim?
Speaker 2: Well? Sorry, I didn't catch what kind of phone it
Speaker 2: was an iPhone eleven?
Speaker 1: Okay, iPhone eleven, iPhone eleven let's see if it has
Speaker 1: an EM sure that has a SIM. Let's see. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see iPhone eleven. I got to figure out that
Speaker 1: supports let's see. Okay, okay, iPhone. Yeah, iPhone eleven has
Speaker 1: one SIM and one physical SIM. So your iPhone eleven,
Speaker 1: it should it should have a U, it should have
Speaker 1: an SIM on it.
Speaker 2: So uh.
Speaker 1: The simple question is typically phones, especially the iPhone, has
Speaker 1: been pretty good about covering all bands, so I think
Speaker 1: you'll be okay.
Speaker 2: But it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: Just you can just go to T Mobile and pop
Speaker 1: in the uh the code from the phone like the
Speaker 1: I M I, and you can see if it will.
Speaker 2: You know if it will work there.
Speaker 1: So if you search on on Google, just search T Mobile,
Speaker 1: I M E I check and it'll bring you to
Speaker 1: a page that says, uh, you know, check your phone
Speaker 1: to see if it'll work.
Speaker 5: And so yeah, I didn't see anything like that. And
Speaker 5: then one last question. I have steptrum for my internet
Speaker 5: and I get about I think I want to say,
Speaker 5: it's like seventy NBS seventy to eighty, and I'm on
Speaker 5: a legacy which everybody else gets like two or three
Speaker 5: hundred or whatever. They brought it back down to fifty
Speaker 5: dollars to match T Mobile. But the T Mobile hotspot
Speaker 5: and the house seems to be pretty good. There's a
Speaker 5: seventy to two fifty. Would you recommend just going T
Speaker 5: mobile for everything that the wireless in the house and
Speaker 5: the phones.
Speaker 2: Oh you mean that, you mean the whole the Internet
Speaker 2: for the house, the T Mobile things WI.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look, if you get goods, if you get good service
Speaker 1: from T Mobile, if you're getting seventy eighty down, I
Speaker 1: mean that's pretty good. I think that the look cable Internet,
Speaker 1: I think is still slightly better, especially if you have
Speaker 1: a lot of devices you're doing a lot of gaming
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But if you're just watching Netflix and
Speaker 1: and you know, just pretty standard stuff surfing the web,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff, I think you'll be fine. But again,
Speaker 1: just make sure you have a good five g U
Speaker 1: S signal with T Mobile in your house.
Speaker 2: You know that for sure.
Speaker 5: You just built a tower at the school and I live.
Speaker 2: Oh, then.
Speaker 5: They put a tower on their soccer field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure the school got paid a lot for
Speaker 1: that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I would, I would go with it.
Speaker 1: I would just keep your other service before you cancel,
Speaker 1: just to make life easy. In case the T Mobile
Speaker 1: doesn't work out. But it sounds like, uh, sounds like
Speaker 1: to me, Dennis, you're going you're going all in on
Speaker 1: T Mobile. So look, if they've got a cell tower
Speaker 1: right near your house like that, you're gonna get fantastic coverage,
Speaker 1: good speeds, and T Mobile versus Verizon out and about.
Speaker 1: I think that Verizon probably has more coverage in like
Speaker 1: especially rural areas, compared to T Mobile. But in my experience,
Speaker 1: T Mobile the network is really really good. It's very fast,
Speaker 1: and uh, I think if you're saving all that money
Speaker 1: getting four lines or the price of two plus the
Speaker 1: home internet at a discount.
Speaker 2: Go for it. Easy, easy easy. Thanks for the call today.
Speaker 1: Coming up, Caleb Dennison, we're going to talk top TV
Speaker 1: picks for Super Bowl Sunday. You are listening to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one O one eighty eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Joining me now, Caleb Dennison. He
Speaker 1: is the senior editor at Digital Trends and a TV
Speaker 1: reviewer extraordinaire. Caleb, Thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 17: It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the interview because I've got a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff I want to cover with you. But first off,
Speaker 1: TV trends you saw at CES.
Speaker 18: Well, I got to say the biggest trend that I
Speaker 18: saw at CES was the bigness of the TVs. I
Speaker 18: could not believe some of the screen sizes that we
Speaker 18: saw at the show.
Speaker 17: This year.
Speaker 18: We're talking about one hundred and ten inch and one
Speaker 18: hundred and fifteen inch TVs. That one hundred inch barrier
Speaker 18: has been broken, and so now we're seeing TVs that
Speaker 18: are the size of projector screens, which called into question
Speaker 18: why you'd ever get a projector at this point?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Interesting, Yeah, So what's the common what's the most common
Speaker 1: size people are buying at this point?
Speaker 18: Well, I think sixty five is probably technically the still
Speaker 18: the most popular size, but we're seeing a lot more
Speaker 18: seventy five and especially eighty five inch TV selling, and
Speaker 18: we tend to see a lot of those bigger screens
Speaker 18: selling right about now as we head toward the big gang.
Speaker 1: Okay, so in terms of TV terms, there's O LAD,
Speaker 1: Q LEAD, LED, qHD micro led. Oh what what ones
Speaker 1: of these terms do we need to know.
Speaker 18: I think the two that folks need to understand the
Speaker 18: difference between our Q LEAD and O lead because those
Speaker 18: are really the ones we see the most. Also Mini LED,
Speaker 18: which is just a different flavor of Q lead TV.
Speaker 17: Right.
Speaker 18: The essential difference is that a Q lead TV works
Speaker 18: a lot like your computer monitor does. There are little
Speaker 18: LED back lights in the back of the TV and
Speaker 18: they shine through an LCD panel. And these things now
Speaker 18: have something called quantum dots, which are these cool little
Speaker 18: nanoparticles that help make the TV brighter and more colorful.
Speaker 18: And these TVs are excellent at getting very bright and
Speaker 18: so they're great for a really bright room. If you
Speaker 18: watch a lot during the day, you might want to
Speaker 18: lean toward a Q lead TV. If they have a drawback,
Speaker 18: it's that their black levels are not perfectly black. That's
Speaker 18: where old really excels. O lead uses an organic compound
Speaker 18: and they don't require a bunch of later, So the
Speaker 18: OLED TVs are super super thin, thinner than your phone
Speaker 18: in your pocket. I guarantee you and these things exceed
Speaker 18: at doing perfect black levels and really gorgeous colors. And
Speaker 18: I mentioned the black level thing a lot because contrast
Speaker 18: is the thing that the eye picks up on the
Speaker 18: most and O led TVs are just the more the
Speaker 18: more contrasty TV of the two. The only problem with
Speaker 18: OLEAD is that they're hard to make, and therefore they
Speaker 18: are usually a bit more expensive than the Q Lead
Speaker 18: TVs or many LED TVs you'll see out there.
Speaker 1: What about reflection wise, I used to you know, it
Speaker 1: used to be like the LEDs who were better than
Speaker 1: the old Eds with reflections.
Speaker 2: Is that still the case?
Speaker 17: Not so much.
Speaker 18: A lot of the O LED TVs these days have
Speaker 18: really good anti glare treatment on them, and so they're
Speaker 18: they're fairly good at handling reflections. I think the thing
Speaker 18: that really helps the TV overpower glare or reflections is
Speaker 18: its capability of getting super super bright, which again I
Speaker 18: think if you're going to be watching during the day
Speaker 18: a lot, and you've got windows with sun coming in
Speaker 18: and you're not in the mood to draw your curtains
Speaker 18: or whatever, you probably want to lean toward Mini LED
Speaker 18: or or q lead TV.
Speaker 1: So many LED is sort of like the best flavor
Speaker 1: of LED.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 18: It's the latest hottest flavor of LED TV. They basically
Speaker 18: shrunk down the back lights to be super small Anybody
Speaker 18: who's gone out there and bought LED lights these days
Speaker 18: know how tiny they are and how bright they are,
Speaker 18: and at working at television they can use more of
Speaker 18: them for more brightness and more control and they Yeah, generally,
Speaker 18: when you look at a mini LED TV, you're looking
Speaker 18: at a more premium picture quality, though these days you
Speaker 18: don't have to spend a whole lot more to get it.
Speaker 1: So what types in general brands, Like, what brands do
Speaker 1: you like out there? Because I'm seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: like High Sense getting awards and you know, TCL, what
Speaker 1: are the brands that you really like?
Speaker 18: I'm in love for High Sense and TCL for delivering
Speaker 18: the best picture quality for the money. They are by
Speaker 18: far the highest value out there right now. And I
Speaker 18: know that those are brands that maybe people are still
Speaker 18: warming up to, but I guarantee you you see them
Speaker 18: at your Costco and at Amazon and at best Buy
Speaker 18: now they're everywhere. They've proven to be very reliable, and again,
Speaker 18: the picture quality that you can get for the money
Speaker 18: from these TVs is absolutely splendid. So you know, if
Speaker 18: you ask me what my top pick for a budget
Speaker 18: TV is going to be, guaranteed it's going to be
Speaker 18: a TCL or a High Sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's get into some of those picks.
Speaker 1: So do you want to give us specific picks for
Speaker 1: some of these TVs?
Speaker 18: Yeah, Actually, I have some model numbers that I think
Speaker 18: people should be looking out for, Okay, So from High Sense,
Speaker 18: I would look at, for instance, the U seven pay
Speaker 18: remember the number seven. That's probably the easiest way to
Speaker 18: go about it. You can get a sixty five inch
Speaker 18: High Sense U seven K for about eight hundred dollars
Speaker 18: right now. If you're a little bit more picky about
Speaker 18: picture quality or you just want to get the best TV,
Speaker 18: you can get the High Sense U eight K is
Speaker 18: about one thousand dollars or so for the sixty five inch,
Speaker 18: and these TVs go right up to eighty fi five
Speaker 18: inches too, So if you want to go really big
Speaker 18: by this is by far the best way to get
Speaker 18: a really big screen without just draining your bank account.
Speaker 18: I also recommend TCL, and again they have a seven
Speaker 18: and an eight. It's almost like they plan this right.
Speaker 18: So with TCL, it's the Q seven again about eight
Speaker 18: hundred dollars for a sixty five inch, and the QM
Speaker 18: eight around one thy to eleven hundred dollars for a
Speaker 18: sixty five inch, So if you want to spend a
Speaker 18: little bit more, you'll get a lot more picture quality.
Speaker 18: But those those seven models I think are the best
Speaker 18: pick for the most amount of people out there.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. So both high Sense and TCL are both
Speaker 1: using the seven and eight. That makes it easy to
Speaker 1: kind of remember, you know, seven is good, eight is better.
Speaker 1: What about when it comes to like premium sets.
Speaker 18: I am in love with the Samsung S ninety C
Speaker 18: O LED television and hot tip best Buy has an
Speaker 18: exclusive model to them called S eighty nine C just
Speaker 18: like one number away. Don't know why they did that,
Speaker 18: but it's a little less expensive and it is for
Speaker 18: all intents and purposes the same od LED television. This
Speaker 18: thing is just spentacular, absolutely remarkable how good the picture
Speaker 18: quality is on this thing. And it's one of my
Speaker 18: top TV picks of the year by far.
Speaker 1: Now this is the one that you're talking about. I
Speaker 1: just looked it up on best Buy and it is
Speaker 1: on like really sale. So could this is saying it's
Speaker 1: two thousand bucks sixteen hundred dollars off?
Speaker 2: Does that sound right?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 18: You know, when these TVs first come out at the
Speaker 18: very beginning of the season, and TV season starts around
Speaker 18: April or May. Usually they are at their loftiest prices.
Speaker 18: Over time, they tend to come down. We see some
Speaker 18: discounts around Black Friday in the holiday shopping season. But
Speaker 18: right now is probably the best time to buy TV
Speaker 18: if you're looking to save money because the new models
Speaker 18: that were just announced at CES, they'll start coming out
Speaker 18: again in March or April, and so a lot of
Speaker 18: businesses are trying to clear out the twenty twenty three
Speaker 18: stock to make room for the twenty twenty four and
Speaker 18: now is a great time to save a lot of
Speaker 18: money on TV. I don't think TV prices are going
Speaker 18: to get much lower than they are right now.
Speaker 17: The trick is you want to buy.
Speaker 18: Soon because as stock starts dwindling, Once these things disappear,
Speaker 18: they're not coming back.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting that I didn't realize Samsung was doing
Speaker 1: O LEDs. I thought they were mostly doing the Q leads.
Speaker 18: But that's yeah, yeah, that's a little bit of a
Speaker 18: shift in strategy from them. We're coming into the third
Speaker 18: year that Samsung will be making an O leed, and
Speaker 18: this after crashing O lead for years and years and years,
Speaker 18: but I think they caved once they realized that consumers
Speaker 18: really love that O LED. Look if you've ever seen
Speaker 18: an OLED TV, and you can look at one if
Speaker 18: you walk into Costco, they'll have one sitting right there,
Speaker 18: shining bright and looking gorgeous. Most people understand as soon
Speaker 18: as they see it that they don't understand what true
Speaker 18: black really does until you see that contrast on an
Speaker 18: OLED TV and it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And also the top of the line iPhone and Samsung
Speaker 1: phones are O lead and they are incredible displays too.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Absolutely, we carry them around in our pocket, and you know,
Speaker 18: we've been able to get them in a television for
Speaker 18: quite some time, but they used to be just prohibitively expensive.
Speaker 18: Now that OLED's been around for about ten years, they're
Speaker 18: starting to come down to earth a little more.
Speaker 1: All Right, we've got to run in a minute here,
Speaker 1: But any other picks that you wanted to share, LG
Speaker 1: also makes.
Speaker 17: An outstanding OLED TV.
Speaker 18: I would look at the C three if you're having
Speaker 18: trouble finding that Samsung old that we talked about. And
Speaker 18: of course if you are a movie buff or a cenophile,
Speaker 18: Sony is still the best out there.
Speaker 17: They make the very best.
Speaker 18: TVs in my opinion, though you tend to pay a
Speaker 18: little bit of a Sony tax to get a Sony
Speaker 18: TV these.
Speaker 1: Days, but it's a Sony and you know, people, look,
Speaker 1: Sony is the brand that it stood the test of
Speaker 1: time and they still do make a great product. And
Speaker 1: these are all fantastic picks. I love them. This is
Speaker 1: why I love talking to you. You explain TVs simpler
Speaker 1: than any human being out there. And you know, you
Speaker 1: go into like a Best Buy or you know, all
Speaker 1: these places were so just there's so many terms, and
Speaker 1: there's so many things, and there's so many model numbers,
Speaker 1: and to just have it broken down in this way
Speaker 1: to understand what's the best. What can I get away with?
Speaker 1: If I like this, it's all perfect. And that's why
Speaker 1: I have you on the show.
Speaker 2: Caleb.
Speaker 1: How can folks find you online? How can they find
Speaker 1: your reviews and what you talk about?
Speaker 18: Well, you can find my written reviews at digitaltrends dot com,
Speaker 18: or if you actually want to see the TVs I'm
Speaker 18: talking about, you can go to our YouTube channel, Digital
Speaker 18: Trends on YouTube. I have a ton of videos there,
Speaker 18: not just explaining the technology, but also talking about the
Speaker 18: TVs that you will want to buy.
Speaker 1: All right, Caleb Dennison, Senior editor at Digital Trends, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining me today. I'll put all your
Speaker 1: picks on the website rich on Tech dot tv. Coming up,
Speaker 1: we will share some more of your questions in the
Speaker 1: feedbag segment. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here closing out
Speaker 1: the show. This is rich on Tech. We're going to
Speaker 1: go through a little, uh, kind of a lightning segment
Speaker 1: with some news items, and I'll get to your feedback segment.
Speaker 1: Meta is adding new nighttime nudges for teens on Instagram.
Speaker 1: So if your teen is on their phone late at
Speaker 1: night surfing, reels, surf and Instagram, the phone is now
Speaker 1: going to remind teens that they've been using the app
Speaker 1: too much and encourage them to close it and get
Speaker 1: to bed. This is going to happen when teens spend
Speaker 1: more than ten minutes on Instagram, on reels or direct
Speaker 1: messages late at night. It will remind teams that it's
Speaker 1: late and encourage them to close the app. Whether they
Speaker 1: do it is up to them. Wall Street Journal says
Speaker 1: there's a huge cost hidden cost to subscriptions. Americans vastly
Speaker 1: underestimate how much they spend on subscriptions each month. If
Speaker 1: you ask them, they say probably about sixty two to
Speaker 1: ninety six dollars. The actual amount closer to two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy three dollars. A lot of people forget to
Speaker 1: cancel subscriptions and don't realize they're still paying. The best
Speaker 1: way to get rid of subscriptions and clear out the
Speaker 1: subscriptions you have, you get a new card. Once you
Speaker 1: get a new card, because the old one is not
Speaker 1: going to charge anymore, that you stop paying for those subscriptions. Interesting,
Speaker 1: when vision Pro launches, there will not be some prominent
Speaker 1: apps on board, Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube.
Speaker 2: Nope, we're We're not going to be there.
Speaker 1: And some of them are even blocking their iPad apps
Speaker 1: from running on vision Pro, which means those are three
Speaker 1: big entertainment apps that will not be there. Wirecutter, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite reviews websites, has some new picks for
Speaker 1: the best Wi Fi mesh networking systems. They say Euro
Speaker 1: six is the best for most people. The Asus Zen
Speaker 1: Wi Fi ax is the best upgrade pick if you
Speaker 1: have a really fast Internet plan and if you're want
Speaker 1: a budget, you want to budget pick the TP link
Speaker 1: Deco S four provides good coverage but at a lower price.
Speaker 2: Once again on the Wirecutter.
Speaker 1: Consumer Report says each Facebook user is monitored by thousands
Speaker 1: of companies. Study by Consumer Reports analyzed Facebook data sharing
Speaker 1: from seven hundred and nine volunteers. On average, each person's
Speaker 1: data was sent to Facebook by over two thousand different companies.
Speaker 1: Some had over seven thousand companies. Wow, data broker named
Speaker 1: live Ramp appeared in ninety six percent of participants data
Speaker 1: major retailers like home Depot, Macy's, and Walmart. We're also
Speaker 1: in the top one hundred data sharing companies. Keep in mind, friends,
Speaker 1: these companies. Yes, you love Macy's, you love home Depot,
Speaker 1: you love Walmart, you love Target, but they are marketing geniuses.
Speaker 1: Their entire goal is to get you to love them
Speaker 1: so that you take your paycheck and you deposit it
Speaker 1: into their account. Little by little, we all do it.
Speaker 1: You go into Costco. I saw a meme on Instagram.
Speaker 1: It said I saved three hundred and forty seven dollars
Speaker 1: at Costco today by not going in for blueberries.
Speaker 2: It's so true.
Speaker 1: Norton has a new AI tool to help you detect scams.
Speaker 1: It's called Norton Genie and it uses AI to analyze screenshots.
Speaker 1: You can pop in a text message, you got, an email,
Speaker 1: or a social media post. It will scan it and
Speaker 1: figure out if it is a scam or not. It's
Speaker 1: available at Genie dot Norton dot com, or you can
Speaker 1: download the app on iOS and Android. So if you're
Speaker 1: thinking this might be a scam, it could be and
Speaker 1: this might help you figure it out. Let's get to
Speaker 1: the feedback. Janis says, I'm contacting you for a friend.
Speaker 1: He was working for his girlfriend's company. His laptop was synced.
Speaker 1: He has now broken up with her, but his girlfriend
Speaker 1: has been accessing his laptop his iPhone, reading things, changing things,
Speaker 1: locking him out of things. He spent hours on the
Speaker 1: phone and in person with Apple and T Mobile. No
Speaker 1: one can get her off his phone and laptop. Her
Speaker 1: name in login is all over it. Any suggestions the janis,
Speaker 1: I doubt if Apple and T Mobile have looked into this,
Speaker 1: that they cannot get this person off the phone or
Speaker 1: the laptop. Do a factory reset and that will take
Speaker 1: care of it. Both on the iPhone and on a
Speaker 1: MacBook or computer. Just look for a factory reset that
Speaker 1: will wipe everything clean and it will be just fine.
Speaker 1: Shary says, hey, Rich, I love your show. I need
Speaker 1: help with a dilemma. I was searching for Laker tickets
Speaker 1: on a website. I dozed off holding my phone while
Speaker 1: searching for two hundred dollars tickets. I was awakened by
Speaker 1: a text message from my credit card asking if I
Speaker 1: made a purchase for almost twenty thousand dollars. When I
Speaker 1: checked my account, it said I got two court side
Speaker 1: seats for almost ten thousand dollars each. After doing some research,
Speaker 1: I found that the ticketing website I was looking at
Speaker 1: saves your credit card info since I'd made previous purchases.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's possible I purchased the tickets accidentally
Speaker 1: in my sleep or do you think I was hacked.
Speaker 1: I've disputed and I'm waiting a decision. Shary sounds like
Speaker 1: you're going to the Laker's court side. You just spent
Speaker 1: a lot of money on that. No, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you went through the entire flow
Speaker 1: of this ticketing thing, you know, sleeping. I mean that
Speaker 1: would be a lot of like steps. Come on, there's
Speaker 1: either something you're not telling me here or you got
Speaker 1: to dispute these. Don't use the tickets because you want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you can get a refund on those.
Speaker 1: I know there's no refunds, but that is so wild.
Speaker 1: Joy says, I use a Google spreadsheet for my financial records.
Speaker 1: Some people have access to my computers or any way
Speaker 1: to set up a password or two factor authentication, so
Speaker 1: only I can open my Google spreadsheet. I love your podcast,
Speaker 1: Joy Joy. I think when you open up this spreadsheet
Speaker 1: on your computer, use that incognito mode I was talking about.
Speaker 1: That means you can log in and when you exit
Speaker 1: this tab on your browser, nobody else will be able
Speaker 1: to get into that browser. Patrick says your show, your
Speaker 1: podcast is my favorite. Well done, thank you, and Laurel
Speaker 1: says love your segments on KTLA. I wear the Fitbit
Speaker 1: Inspire for sleep monitoring while my Apple Watch is on
Speaker 1: the charger. I accidentally discovered I could set the Fitbit
Speaker 1: Watch to merge into the Apple Health. This gives me
Speaker 1: twenty four hour heart monitoring and all of my stuff
Speaker 1: in one place. This is a great feature and worth reporting.
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. Laurel, keep up the good sleep.
Speaker 1: If you can believe it, that's gonna do it. For
Speaker 1: this episode of the show, you can find links to
Speaker 1: everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot tv for the show notes. You can
Speaker 1: find me on social media. I am at rich on
Speaker 1: tech Next week, let me check the calendar.
Speaker 2: What do we got?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: More stuff. We'll talk about whatever's happening in the tech world.
Speaker 1: You know I'm gonna bring you good stuff. I will
Speaker 1: bring it, I promise. Thanks so much for listening. There
Speaker 1: are so many ways you can spend your time.
Speaker 2: I do appreciate you spending it right here with me.
Speaker 1: Special thanks to my guests, everyone who makes this show possible,
Speaker 1: plus most of all you for listening. My name is richdmiro.
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