WEBVTT - Nothing Phone 3, lock your number & Chuck E. Cheese grows up (128, July 6, 2025) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 How to lock down your phone number so no one 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:06.960 else can steal it. Nothing's New smartphone wants to replace 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:11.240 screen time with light shows. Chuck E Cheese is back, 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:16.440 but this time it's for adults. Plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.279 What's going on on Rich dmiro And this is Rich 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.200 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.160 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.400 also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.280 I believe the tech should be interesting, useful and fun. 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.840 Let's open up those phone lines at triple eight Rich 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.120 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.440 two four one zero one. Give me a call if 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.640 you have a question about technology. Email is also an option. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:49.440 Just go to Rich on Tech dot tv and hit contact. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.080 This week, I'll take you to the NINA nine to 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.440 one to one conference. There you'll hear about cutting edge 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.840 technology designed to get you help faster and say more lives. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:07.119 Then later Selim ben nayat Nothing's AI and Services product lead, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:12.000 we'll talk about how the company is reimagining the smartphone. 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:16.800 And later later later on, Trey Boj smart shopping expert 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.039 at truetrade dot com is going to share some tips 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.520 to help you get through the Prime Day, which is 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.640 happening this week. Well, I hope you're having a fantastic 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.840 Fourth of July weekend. We got to see some fireworks, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.479 got to celebrate with friends, and I hope you are 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.840 doing the same. It wasn't lost on me that I 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:42.080 was in London this week for an event by a 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.360 startup called Nothing. I thought it was very ironic that 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.560 I visited the place that I guess gave birth to 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.280 our place here in America. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:51.960 And you know, it was interesting. 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:53.760 I hadn't been to London in a long time, and 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.880 so being there the week of our Independence Day just 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.920 brought a lot of feelings in and a lot of stuff. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.600 Think about how just think about, just for a second, 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.760 how America broke free of England. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:09.600 I mean, really think about that. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.120 Like here, you are a place, just a collection of 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.280 these little colonies across the pond, as they say, and 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.440 this big old country that's been around forever just sort 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.919 of loses control. I mean, that must have been really 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.000 wild back in the day. Anyway, I digress. I'll share 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.480 some thoughts about London later on, but let me tell 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.760 you about Nothing. This is a company that's the name yes, 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.359 Nothing and the name gives you a sense of kind 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:36.280 of what they're all about. 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.080 They're playful. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.040 It's a design oriented company that's been making phones for 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.800 about five years now. A lot of the team is 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.520 from another company is to cover a lot called OnePlus, 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:47.960 but the founder there branched out and went on his 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.720 own to create something new and different, and this is it. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.840 It's called the Nothing Phone. This is specifically the Nothing 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.440 Phone three. Now, the company's made a few phones over 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.920 the years, but not many of them were for the 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.920 US market. A lot of them were sold what's under 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.600 what's called a beta program, which means if you bought 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.560 this thing, you had to be like a tech enthusiast 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.560 because you only had fourteen days to return it and 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.679 then you were on your own, no warranty, no support. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.960 But this new phone then Nothing Phone three will be 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.720 sold in the US market, although I don't believe they 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.880 have any direct carrier support, so you're not gonna be 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:21.800 able to buy it from like a AT and T 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.560 or T Mobile as far as I know, You'll have 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.280 to buy it direct from them or from Amazon, which 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.040 is gonna make it an uphill battle for this phone, 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.840 which is a shame. Because I've been using it for 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.000 the past week and I really like it. If you're 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.720 watching streaming the show on KTLA plus, this is what 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.000 the phone looks like. It's got this really cool clear back, 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.040 it's got a whole bunch of cameras, and even this 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.560 little display on the back they call a glyph matrix. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.320 It's like a little dot matrix display. Remember how I 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.320 said this is a design forward company. You're either gonna 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.400 love or hate the design when you see this phone. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.680 It also has a blinking red light on the back 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.800 when you're recording. I mean, how cool is that? Like 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.840 a nod to the old days of cam quarters, right. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.200 It's also a nice way in our record centric society 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.520 to let people know that you are recording video or audio. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.600 Like I said, there's that little dot matrix screen. They 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.599 call it the glyph matrix. This is a display that 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.040 can show things like the time countdowns, but also there's 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.800 fun stuff like a spin the Bottle game. I showed 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.279 this to some folks yesterday at our Fourth of July 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.880 celebrations and they're like, what do you mean Spin the 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.640 bottle is on that phone? When was the last time 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.080 you played Spin the Bottle I'm like, I don't know, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.360 sixth grade, it's been a while, but let's play it tonight. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.520 I mean, it was all adults in a lot of 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.719 us were marriage so that was kind of weird. But 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.760 there's also a magic eight ball. If the spin the bottle. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.920 Things not your style. But this goes to show this 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.240 company is not trying to be the next Pixel, the 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.200 next Samsung, the next Apple. They know that this thing 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.840 will either, you know, make you love or hate it 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.400 when you see it. Now, in five years, nothing has 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.400 what they say three million fans, I'm guessing they've sold 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.359 about three milli devices right from that number. Compare that 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:07.200 to Apple, which sells about fifty million phones every three months, 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.680 so yeah, they sell considerably more. But back to the phone, 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.640 it's really nice. It's got a good processor, not the best, 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.919 but it's a very capable phone. I've had no problems 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.080 with it. They're actually using the latest battery technology, which 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.040 is called silicon carbon, which is really cool because not 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.600 many major phone makers are doing that just yet here 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.560 in the US. That means the battery charges faster, you 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.080 can pack more energy into a slimmer form factory form 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.279 factory form factor. This one also charges up to uses 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.400 fast charging up to sixty five watts, while the iPhone 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.000 and Samsung are somewhere around forty five at the max. 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.400 I'm not even sure if the iPhone is that fast, 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.160 then you've got the software features. I'm gonna have an interview, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.240 like I said a bit later in the show, to 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.880 talk about some of the reasoning behind Nothing's choices. But 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.240 this phone is built with features designed to help you 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.200 look at it less. Yes, how's that for a concept. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.280 It also runs a really nice version of Android. Say 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.279 it's really close to the pixel, which is one of 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.640 the reasons I love it. It's clean, It has a 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.359 lot of nice but little useful touches in it, so 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.000 they don't do a ton with the software. They just 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.560 make it very useful and very appealing to the eye. 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.839 A couple of features in this Essential Search. This is 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.039 kind of like all your search on the iPhone, but 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.440 it's much more useful because it searches both stuff on 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.520 your phone, but when you ask something a little bit 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.159 more complicated, it will reach out to AI for an answer. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.000 Then there's this thing called Essential Space. This is like 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.440 an AI enhanced digital notebook. It can store your screenshots, 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.760 your voice memos, and more. It uses AI to organize 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.160 it all. So far, I can't figure out if there's 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.599 any search functionality there, which would be very helpful, but 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.119 maybe that's coming soon. Then there's this feature called flip 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.320 to Record. This is a way to record meetings. You 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.360 just press the button on the side of the phone. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.479 They've got this dedicated key and you flip your phone over. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.760 It will record and transcribe your meetings and give you 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.679 a summary. Now, you're limited to about three hundred minutes 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.280 for free each month, but if you're in meetings more 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.360 than that per month, I think you need to reassess 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:02.359 what you're doing with your life. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:03.000 Just kidding. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.760 People love meetings. People love to be in meetings. I 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.440 don't know what it is about meetings, like the before 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.480 the meeting, the meeting, the after the meeting, Like just 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:11.960 give me the information I need and I want to 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:12.760 get out of my life. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:13.600 Then nothing. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:18.440 Phone three comes in white or black. Twelve gigabyte RAM 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.800 plus two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.440 That model will sell for eight hundred dollars. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.640 Then there's a sixteen gigabyte RAM five to twelve that'll 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.640 sell for a little bit more. But here lies the problem. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:33.600 This is an excellent phone. It's got three fifty megapixel cameras. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.440 I think they look great. I took this thing around 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.920 London for an hour, snapping tons of pictures. I don't 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.520 think there's one bad one in the shop in the bunch. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.360 I love the software. The hardware is capable. But the 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.600 problem is no one here in the US is gonna 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.680 buy it. You know why because think about it. If 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.680 you can't get it AT and T you can't get it. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.480 Verizon you can't get it T Mobile. That's where people 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.200 here in the US get their phones. They also like 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.280 to add their phone to their plan and divide up 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.760 the payments. This is how people buy things in the US. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:02.840 If you need help with it, you can't go to 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.280 the Genius Bar. And that is all a shame because 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.040 this funky little startup out of London is actually making 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.760 a really good phone, but it's hamstrung. Only the nerdiest 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.640 of nerds like myself and phone enthusiasts willing to pep 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.160 up their iPhone or the Pixel or maybe their Samsung, 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:22.040 is gonna seek this thing out. Nothing really needs something. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.320 See what I did there to help us break out 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.400 of the smartphone rut, the treadmill that keeps us coming 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.080 back to new iPhones every couple of years, new Samsung's, 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.000 and maybe a new pixel. But I think if someone 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.679 gets this device, they're gonna like it a lot. It 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.080 looks a little weird, I'll admit that, But isn't that 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.400 kind of fun these days? Like every phone I've tested 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.720 over the past ten years, I've taken out at parties 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.840 over the weekends, like literally day day in, day out, 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.800 Nobody cares. I show them this phone, like, oh, it's 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.920 the new Samsung is Okay, what's it do differently? It's 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.880 got an extra it's got better cameras. Okay, Oh it's 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.920 a new iPhone. Look the screen stays out all the time. Okay, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.640 why do I need that? No one cares. I literally, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.440 I'm not kidding. When I had the brand new iPhone 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.400 with the always on display, this a couple of years ago. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.920 You're not supposed to show these things to people. I 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.360 made it a point when I went to my kids 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.360 baseball practice to put the phone face up on the 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.560 bleachers like at the game, to see if anyone would 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.160 notice why my screen was on on the iPhone. The 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.240 whole game with the time and the stuff that nobody 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.240 said it word, nobody cared. So anyway, if you put 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.040 this thing face down and people see it, they are 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:28.600 going to ask you questions about it, and I think 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.160 that's a good start. The Nothing Phone three is available 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.440 for pre order now, open sales start on July fifteenth. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:35.960 If you want a link to see what it looks like, 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.920 go to my Instagram at rich on Tech. I also 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.480 picked up the Nothing headphones, which are equally as weird 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.439 as well. I'll talk about them coming up, all right, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.120 eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.000 seven four to two four one zero one. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.000 My name is rich Demiro. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.400 We got lots ahead talking about tech, taking your questions, 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.280 tech news, all kinds of great stuff right here on 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:03.360 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.719 Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology on this. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.560 Is it July fourth weekend or fourth of July? I 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:15.359 feel like that's a let's see July fourth versus fourth 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.800 of July. I know that ap style. Okay, yeah, fourth 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.800 of July, so it's not Yeah, it's not July fourth. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:24.880 I mean, I guess you could say whatever you want. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.360 By the way, I told you I went to London 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.840 this week. It was only there for two days, which 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.920 was kind of wild, very quick turnaround. But when I 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:38.240 tell you that travel is so automated now, I don't 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.600 think I had to interact with one person on the 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:46.360 entire way from LA to London. And it's all automated 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:52.120 where you basically scan your passport or your face. I mean, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.720 it's really wild that you just go through these systems 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.880 now that are just all automated, Like both here and 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.520 when I got to London, it was all completely automated. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.400 The only downside I've noticed is that you don't get 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.280 a stamp in your passport because it's all automated, so 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.040 you can there was a sign on the wall that said, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.400 if you want a passport stamp, I think you could 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.680 like go to some special window and they'll stamp it 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:13.080 for you. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.160 But I you know, it's. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.160 Just like the changing way of I finally got global entry, 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.800 and so I'm not kidding. When you come back into 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.720 the US, there's like an iPad that you look at 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.640 and before you even look this thing scans your face 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.640 and somehow figures out that you know and opens up 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:29.040 the door. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:30.640 I mean, it's really, really wild. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.320 It's come a long way since the days when I 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.240 was going to Japan and it would take you know, 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.040 just getting in and out would take an hour or two. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:43.200 Let's go to Cheryl in Oregon. Cheryl, you're on with Rich. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.760 Welcome to the show. Hello Rich, Hello Cheryl. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:53.720 I'm looking for the best hardware to take videos of 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.120 edible and medicinal plants and the best software to edit 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:01.199 the videos. Back in the nineteen eighty I did this 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.720 and at that time I was using I believe it 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.880 was eight millimeter And things have really changed. And as 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:13.640 I'm looking at the various choices, I'm getting quite confused 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.439 as to what I really need because my needs are 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:17.560 really simplistic. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.240 They do so Okay, So that was my question. Where 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:22.559 are these videos. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:26.640 Living right now? They're on YouTube? 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:27.520 They're very old? 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.800 Okay, No, I mean like, where are the new videos 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.720 that are where's the videos you're making? 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.040 Where are they going to live social media? 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.720 They're going to be both on YouTube and on my website. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.959 Okay? And are you shooting in four K? 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:41.719 I don't know what. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.560 I'm going to shoot in. Like I said, last time 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.280 I did this, I used eight millimeter and I've never 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.640 used digital for making videos, OK. And I was looking 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.960 at possibly even just using an iPhone and then using 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.120 the editing called iMovie on my iMac. Yes, but maybe 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.040 I need something that's a lie little more complicated. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:02.440 No, you do not. Don't. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.680 Don't complicate things when they don't need to be. I 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.560 edit video for a living, and I can tell you 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.600 my setup, and over the years it's actually gotten simpler, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.200 which is just wild. So it is so easy to 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.160 create video for online number one. And I hang out 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.600 with a lot of YouTubers. Ninety nine point nine percent 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.160 of them shoot on their iPhone, So that's number one. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.160 All you need is an iPhone and you can use 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.520 a new iPhone an old iPhone, it does not matter. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:28.959 Just get an iPhone. You'll be fine. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.880 And then for the hardware, like the computer, you need 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:39.080 some sort of MacBook so or okay, my delineation with 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.440 the laptop. If you're going to be moving around with 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.920 your computer, get a laptop. If you're not going to 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.760 be moving around, like if this thing's going to sit 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.120 on a desk, just get a desktop. You're going to 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.480 get better specs for the money, So don't buy a 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.560 laptop if you're not going to be moving it from 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.440 the place where you're editing or doing your work. For me, 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.160 I'm traveling a lot. I'm always bringing my computer. That's 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.760 why I have a laptop. If I was sitting at 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.720 home editing all day, never leaving my desk, I would 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.719 absolutely have a desktop, because you get more bang for 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.720 your book when you go on the Apple website. There's 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.160 really two options when it comes to the laptop, So 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.480 I'm gonna stick to that because I imagine that's what 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.000 most people want. You've got the MacBook Pro or the 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.960 MacBook Air. I can tell you I edit video for 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.120 TV and I use my MacBook Air and it works 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.400 just fine. I've never had a problem. If you're doing 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.920 anything for social media, that's going to be just fine. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.400 My advice is to get the most memory, like the 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.320 most ram that you can day one, and also the 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.640 most storage that you can. And also do not get 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.239 the base processor. Get one just a little bit higher 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.000 than what they typically like, whatever the base model is 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.880 that they offer, don't get that one. Get the next 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.120 level up, okay, And then when it comes to actually 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:55.280 editing this video, I would recommend final cut. If you 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:56.880 want to pay for it, that's what I use on 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.040 a daily basis. Final Cut Pro is really good, but 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.840 it's really simple. It's similar to iMovie. You can start 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.040 with iMovie. I think that's going to be a little 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.200 simplistic for what you want. If you want to download 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.040 cap cut to your computer, you can do that if 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:11.440 you like. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.880 That program, they offer a free program for your computer. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.240 Adobe also has some video editing software that a lot 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.880 of people like, Premiere Or They also have a thing 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.080 called Rush, which is a little bit more basic. So 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.840 those are two good options. And then the other thing 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.280 I would recommend is really on your phone if you 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.720 just want to edit on your iPhone. I was just 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.680 using the brand new Instagram edits app and it is 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.920 incredible for free, Like I couldn't believe it. Like I'm 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.280 done with cap cut now because I don't need it anymore, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.520 and it's completely free and that works on your iPhone. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.040 So if you just want to shoot on your iPhone 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.760 and edit on your iPhone, that's an option as well. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.120 And then the other thing I would recommend is if 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.400 you need microphones. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.400 The Dji mics. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:16:01.440 Are pretty much the most amazing thing that I've added 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.280 to my system over the years. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:04.960 So Dji Mike two. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.800 This is going to give you great audio from your 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.280 you know, from your mobile setup and it plugs right 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.640 into your iPhone or they record into themselves, no wires. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.200 When I tell you, Cheryl that this has gotten so 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.920 much easier over the years, it really has. The only 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.880 other thing I'd probably recommend is a tripod, and uh, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.160 I've got one linked up on my website that I like, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:27.800 a brand new one I'm using. I think it's called 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:32.000 Ulawanzi and it's it's a really good little tripod that's 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.280 super simple, lightweight, you can carry it anywhere. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:35.520 That's what I use. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:37.920 I travel the world and this is how I record 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.760 my stories for TV and it works perfectly. It's simple, 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.440 it's easy. Don't try to get complicated unless you're making 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.320 a movie or something like that. If you're just doing 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.280 social media video videos for YouTube and your website, that 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.360 will be perfect. Thanks for calling eighty to eight rich 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.520 one on one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.320 four one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you how 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.440 you can lock down yourself number so no one can 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:01.920 steal it. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:03.560 That's coming up right here. I'm rich on Tech. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.640 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Well, you probably don't 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:14.080 think about one until you need it. But the technology 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.320 behind it is evolving and it could save more lives 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.440 if it gets more modernized. That includes texting nine one one, 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.480 also sharing your location automatically from your smartphone, which is 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.920 happening in a lot of places. The goal, of course, 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.160 is to make emergency response faster, smarter, and more effective. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:35.280 So recently I attended the National Conference where first responders, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.760 tech companies, and policy makers gather to discuss the future 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.280 of nine one one and what it means for you 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.040 to start. I spoke with Dale Curtis of the NINA 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.960 nine one one association they put on the conference. He 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.680 represents the twenty five thousand people across the country who 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.880 pick up that call when you need help. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.840 So NINA represents twenty five thousand people who work in 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.240 nine one one all across the country. There are six 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.480 thousand emergency calls in this country. Almost every community or 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.000 county has one right so it's the people who answer 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.400 the calls, manage the calls, do the supervising, the training, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.080 and provide the technology. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.320 And what are some of the challenges facing nine to 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:15.400 one one in our country? 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:20.080 The perennial challenges in nine to one one are people, technology, 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.479 and then funding and leadership, so there's lots of issues 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:28.000 with recruitment, retention and taking care of those hardworking people. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.840 The technology, most number one centers are still using what 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.080 we call legacy nine one one, which means you call them, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.879 you have a voice conversation. But there's a new technology 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.359 called Next Generation nine one one, which is based on 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:47.080 Internet and data protocol, so everything your smartphone can do. 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:52.399 The NNAL one center ought to be able to do photos, videos, 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:58.480 precise location. You could have your pre configured emergency medical 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.439 information that could go on ammatically to NOMAL one. All 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.359 those kinds of things that your your phone can do 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.160 and we take for granted. But legacy no one one 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.640 is just a voice conversation. Most places, you can send 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.000 a text to nine one one. We always say call 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:17.440 if you can, but text if you can't. Kidnapping situation 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.040 or a domestic abuse situation, or you're afraid of making 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.040 any noise, you can send a text to nine one 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:23.960 in most places. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:24.400 Today. 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.360 America needs Next generation nine one one. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:28.600 They need it everywhere. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.920 You should get the same service, whether you're calling from 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.560 Long Beach, California, or Long Island, New York. Everyone should 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:36.879 have the same standard. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:41.880 And expect to get at a fast, efficient, effective emergency response. 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.560 And the goal of all this is what save lives. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.520 Ultimately, lives are at stake. Seconds can make a huge 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.920 difference between life and depth in every emergency. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:55.160 Don Berningham, I'm the executive director for the Industry Council 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:56.960 for Emergency Response Technologies. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.600 What about AI? Are we going to have AI answering 0:19:59.640 --> 0:19:59.960 non onal one? 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:05.159 Yeah, well, you'll see a lot of AI applications. A 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.280 lot of companies have already begun to implement AI as 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.640 part of their call handling system and their response systems. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.680 We're not currently seeing that for emergency calls. We are 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.919 seeing AI used to answer non emergency calls, but certainly 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.800 over time we're going to see more of it in 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.480 use with emergency calls as well, and to pull other 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:30.200 data into the center that can be used for first responders. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:30.840 When they arrive on the sea. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.080 But I think what you're going to see over time 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.760 more multimedia applications with nine one one, So if you 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.119 witness a crime, you can send a picture or a 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:42.439 video to the center that they can pass on to 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.479 a law enforcement officer. You know, really the problem is 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.080 implementation and getting funding for it, and you'll find that 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.520 around the country there's quite a large disparity between those 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.720 states that have the funding to implement the technology and 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:57.560 those that don't. 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.400 Jim wolf A Murder Moral Solutions. We're right in the 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:07.119 midst of significant evolution of technology that really accelerates the 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:09.000 way in which we're able to respond to a call 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.800 in a more informed manner. So when you dial nine 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.800 one one from the telephone, it goes into what we 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.440 call a peace app or public safety answering point. It's 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.919 a nine one one center. You'll have a call taker 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:21.959 that will answer to call nine one one, what's your 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:26.000 emergency typically what you'll hear, and they'll start gathering information 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.679 around where you located, what's happening, and they'll enter that 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.680 into the computer system and then it will pass along 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.320 to a dispatcher who will send it in a sign 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.680 and resource whether it's fire, police, or ems to go 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.240 to that call for service. So what we've seen nine 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:44.639 to one one originally started in the nineteen sixties, primarily 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.679 on a copper line that ran into a center. We 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:49.760 still see this a lot around the country today, where 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.800 it's a copper line running in and they use addresses 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.000 primarily to get location. Well, today we know that about 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.360 eighty percent or four out of five nine one one 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:02.919 calls are being made on a cellular telephone. Google and Apple, 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:06.960 we're able to send precise information so that when the 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.840 caller calls in, they're able to precisely locate that spot 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:13.840 on a map. It's incredibly helpful for nine to one 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:15.800 one centers to be able to get people to the 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:18.760 right spot more quickly. You know, there are ways in 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.760 which people can go into programs like smart nine to 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.880 one one dot com that allows people to be able 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:29.360 to connect valuable information to their mobile telephone number around 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:32.400 say allergies or maybe they have a child that has 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:36.080 autism and they shouldn't be touched. So information for first 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:39.640 responders that can be passed through regardless of where you're 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:41.680 at in the country. It's a tremendous resource. 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:43.840 What about the keywords detected I'm seeing? 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:46.080 What's the AI from a nine to one to one 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:50.359 standpoint really helps do some things that are revolutionary inside 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.200 of a nine one one center, For example, being able 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.720 to transcribe nine to one one calls in real time. 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:58.760 That's huge, And then we can index it and characterize 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:00.760 it in the way that we could search again to 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:05.960 look for words like knife, gun, shooting, bomb fire. You 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:09.879 get the example keywords where you can make automatic notifications, 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:13.399 so commsupervisors and other people can begin to pick up 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:17.359 on high risk events that are occurring now. Conversely, things 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:20.240 and this is common every day around the country, around 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.920 the world, is foreign language being called into a center 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:27.200 that's not native maybe to the call taker. So using 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:31.639 AI and emerging technologies to detect the foreign languages being spoke, 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:35.560 to transcribe it in real time, and to provide the 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:39.399 call taker with information back in their native language that 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:42.240 allows them to make better, more in foreign choices about 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:45.119 who to send, how to resource that call, and how 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:49.680 to get people there more quickly. So, the FCCCENE recently 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:52.960 commissioned a study that estimated that in the US alone, 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:56.639 ten thousand lives could be saved annually with the reduction 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.040 of one minute from the time in nine to one 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:02.680 to one call is made until properly equipped first responders 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:05.600 arrive at seat. That's so, when we think ten thousand 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:08.840 lives annually, how can we accelerate it and how can 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:13.680 we produce information that delivers a more informed response, or 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:16.480 ways that technology can really help to be able to 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:18.679 accelerate that in ways it was never seen before. 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:23.080 Nora Lagrani with Aliyrium and I am the director of 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:27.879 product for our new cloud call handling solution called Mira. 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:32.160 Mira is what we believe is the evolution of call 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:37.280 handling solutions. So you know, today we're getting new ways 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:41.320 in which people can request assistance, whether it is sensors, 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:44.240 whether it is your watches, whether it is you know, 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:48.000 just general calling or even texting to nine one one, 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:51.200 and all of that comes with important information that has 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:53.960 to get to the first responder and the person that 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:58.040 is responding to the call. And what Mira does is 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:01.280 it helps make those connections deliver the right information at 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:04.120 the right time to the person that's there in all 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:05.840 of the different forms that it can come in. 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:07.800 There's a lot of calls that come in for say 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:08.760 the same things. 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:12.439 So think about there is a car accident on the 0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:16.919 highway right and there's ten twenty thirty calls. People are 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:19.080 driving by and let oh there's a car accident, let 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:22.240 me dial nine one one. That's great, but the call 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:26.320 takers taking that are now getting inundated with the same 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:29.760 calls for the same incidents, but there's also other things 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:33.000 going on, and so they have to quickly be able 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:36.720 to go through those calls and be able to just 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:42.160 tackle those. So what MIRAH can do is automatically set 0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:45.880 up an area where we say, okay, if you're calling 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:50.359 from this area around this crash, we can play a 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:52.560 message that says, hey, if you're calling about the crash 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:56.919 on I ninety, then you know, police fire ems so 0:25:57.040 --> 0:25:59.920 on their way, thank you so much. If you're calling 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:02.439 about something else, then stay on the line and then 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:04.639 they're added to the queue. This helps kind of filter 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:09.400 out those additional calls that are all around the same 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:12.359 thing and really focus the call takers on kind of 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:15.320 that main emergency is that are all different? 0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:16.480 All right? 0:26:16.520 --> 0:26:19.959 That was from the NINA nine one one conference, and 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:23.200 I know they mentioned that website in there to fill 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:25.320 out a profile that if you call nine one one, 0:26:25.800 --> 0:26:29.480 it will put that information on the dispatch you person's screen. 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:34.320 It's smart nine one one dot com smart nine one 0:26:34.320 --> 0:26:35.960 one dot com. You can go in there fill out 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:40.119 information like allergies, household information, and if the dispatch center 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:44.920 supports that technology, they can actually see that information when 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:47.240 you call in, So I'll link that up on the 0:26:47.240 --> 0:26:51.960 website rich on tech dot tv. Also on the website, 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:53.840 if you go there, you can get show notes. This 0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:57.080 is episode one hundred twenty eight, So if you go 0:26:57.080 --> 0:26:58.760 to the website you can see the show notes for 0:26:58.800 --> 0:27:01.159 everything I mentioned, including thes how you can listen to 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:03.640 the show, how you can subscribe to the podcast, and 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:06.639 of course how to get in touch with the show. 0:27:07.040 --> 0:27:09.840 The phone number is triple eight Rich one oh one 0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:13.440 eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. 0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:15.600 You can also go to the website and leave your 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:19.560 question there. Just go to rich on tech dot tv. 0:27:20.320 --> 0:27:22.520 Once you're there, hit contact and that will send a 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:26.280 message right to my screen. All right, as we got 0:27:26.280 --> 0:27:28.200 a minute before we got to go to break, I'll 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:31.480 do this quick quick quick question here. Let's see here 0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:35.639 Dave from California Rights and I got a question about 0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:38.159 selling home phone. So if I wanted to get rid 0:27:38.200 --> 0:27:40.280 of our landline, can the number we've had for forty 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:43.960 years be added or forwarded to a cell phone? Check 0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:46.639 out porting it the idea of porting it to a 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:50.520 virtual service. There's a website called number barn dot com. 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:54.080 Number barn dot com. You can port it there and 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:57.120 basically do a bunch of things with it from there, 0:27:57.200 --> 0:27:59.520 like forward it to another number or just keep it there. 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:02.160 And so it depends how much you want to pay. 0:28:02.160 --> 0:28:04.920 It's two dollars a month for starting prices. That'll just 0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:07.439 keep the number active in your name, because once you 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:08.639 get rid of this number. 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:10.240 It's not easy to get back. 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:12.400 So if you've had it for a long time, that's 0:28:12.440 --> 0:28:16.399 something you probably want to do again. Number barn dot com. 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:18.520 All right, coming up, I will tell you how AT 0:28:18.640 --> 0:28:21.200 and T has a new feature to help you lock 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:23.000 down your line if you don't want someone else to 0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:25.680 steal it from under you. This is rich on Tech. 0:28:28.880 --> 0:28:31.600 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:35.320 out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich one 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:37.600 on one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:28:37.640 --> 0:28:42.360 one zero one. AT and T has this new wireless 0:28:42.440 --> 0:28:46.760 account lock feature that lets you prevent any changes that 0:28:46.800 --> 0:28:49.840 are not authorized to your AT and T account, which 0:28:49.880 --> 0:28:56.400 is uh simswaps, any device swaps. So this is really 0:28:56.720 --> 0:29:01.440 for simswap attacks. So this is when someone basically takes 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:05.600 over your cellular account, either changes your number to their 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:08.640 device or physically removes a SIM card and puts it 0:29:08.680 --> 0:29:12.040 into another device. So this was a big problem. Both 0:29:12.160 --> 0:29:15.400 Verizon and T Mobile have ways of preventing this. AT 0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:18.120 and T was a notable holdout, but now they have it. 0:29:18.680 --> 0:29:21.120 So it's called wireless account lock. You can toggle it 0:29:21.200 --> 0:29:24.280 on in the my AT and T app look for 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:27.240 the toggle switch. You can lock or unlock the account 0:29:27.240 --> 0:29:31.080 at any time. The main thing is if you turn 0:29:31.160 --> 0:29:34.320 on this lock, you're not gonna be able to switch phones, 0:29:34.440 --> 0:29:35.800 right like, you wouldn't be able to pourt out your 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:38.960 phone number to a different carrier, and you would not 0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:41.960 be able to upgrade your smartphone. So with that in mind, 0:29:42.000 --> 0:29:44.120 you would have to turn this off before you want 0:29:44.120 --> 0:29:45.960 it to make any of those changes. That's the main 0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:48.040 thing you need to know. It doesn't really change anything else. 0:29:48.800 --> 0:29:51.920 But AT and T says that most of this fraud 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:55.640 happens when someone pretends to be you, so they might 0:29:55.720 --> 0:29:58.120 call like AT and T and say, hey, you know 0:29:58.280 --> 0:30:01.440 this is me and I'm here's my They gather all 0:30:01.480 --> 0:30:04.400 this information about your account from somewhere online, mostly from 0:30:04.520 --> 0:30:06.600 data breaches or if they trick you into handing it 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:08.640 over to them, and then they use that and they 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:10.200 call and then by the way. Once they have your 0:30:10.240 --> 0:30:12.720 phone number, they go in and start hacking all of 0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:15.800 your other accounts, like your bank account, your crypto account, 0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:19.000 your email. Because now they have control of your phone number, 0:30:19.280 --> 0:30:22.760 that means they have control of your two factor authentication codes. 0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:26.360 They can get those. So this was a big problem. 0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:29.840 In some cases. Even employees at the wireless stores were 0:30:29.840 --> 0:30:32.600 in on it. And so if you enable this wireless 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:35.400 account lock on AT and T, not even their employees 0:30:35.440 --> 0:30:38.680 can override it. So it's really smart and you should 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:40.680 probably do it if you're not going to be changing 0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:43.480 your phone or anything, just to give you a secondary 0:30:43.520 --> 0:30:46.200 layer of protection. I think the carriers have gotten some 0:30:46.240 --> 0:30:48.720 more layers of protection built in, but this is a 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:51.280 new one that just really locks down everything and says 0:30:51.400 --> 0:30:55.760 no changes to this account unless I go in and 0:30:55.920 --> 0:30:59.480 turn this off. So I made a whole tutorial on 0:30:59.520 --> 0:31:02.440 my website, rich on tech dot TV. If you go there, 0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:04.760 look for the story that says AT and T ads 0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:08.240 simswap protection. And I've put the instructions for not only 0:31:08.280 --> 0:31:11.200 AT and T, but also Verizon T Mobile, and then 0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:14.600 I've linked up instructions for Cricket, Google five, Mint Mobile, 0:31:14.680 --> 0:31:19.120 Spectrum Mobile, US Mobile, Visible and Exfinity. Almost all the 0:31:19.480 --> 0:31:23.040 carriers have some sort of provision of protecting your account, 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:27.479 whether it is a pin code on your account or 0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:30.440 this physical lock on your account. Well physical, I guess 0:31:30.440 --> 0:31:32.800 it's a virtual lock, but I would check it out 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:33.240 for sure. 0:31:33.920 --> 0:31:37.760 Uh, let's go to Dan in San Francisco. Dan, you're 0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:38.280 on with Rich. 0:31:39.040 --> 0:31:40.440 Hey, let's thanks for taking my call. 0:31:40.560 --> 0:31:41.240 Sure, what's up? 0:31:41.920 --> 0:31:46.160 Well, I've got an iPhone twelve Pro and just recently 0:31:47.040 --> 0:31:51.080 the flashlight and the front facing I guess I don't know. 0:31:51.440 --> 0:31:56.880 The main cameras stopped working. I checked my software is 0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:59.560 all up to date, there's no obstructions. That's hoping you 0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:00.040 can help me. 0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:04.160 With that, and both of those things just stopped working. Yeah, 0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:04.960 the front. 0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:11.040 Colt my selfie cam does still work, and I've tried 0:32:11.080 --> 0:32:13.440 it on I've tried the camera option on other apps 0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:16.720 like Facebook and Instagram, and and the camera works there, 0:32:16.760 --> 0:32:19.040 but it's just not on the It won't work on. 0:32:18.960 --> 0:32:21.280 The camera on the regular camera. 0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:23.760 Okay, So it's not a physical hardware thing. It sounds 0:32:23.760 --> 0:32:26.240 like it's a software thing. What about the flashlight you 0:32:26.280 --> 0:32:27.120 said that doesn't work? 0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:32.200 Yeah, and how is that? Okay? So when you how 0:32:32.240 --> 0:32:35.360 are you toggling on the flashlight on. 0:32:35.280 --> 0:32:37.400 The on the home screen. There's a little button down 0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:39.600 on the bottom left when I when I touch it, 0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:43.320 I feel that the vibration right, but the light doesn't 0:32:43.360 --> 0:32:43.640 come on. 0:32:43.760 --> 0:32:47.760 Okay, Well, so it sounds like your flashlight could be 0:32:48.240 --> 0:32:50.520 at a low setting. That could be Number one. Have 0:32:50.640 --> 0:32:54.120 you tried swiping from the upper right hand corner to 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:57.600 bring up control center on your phone? 0:32:57.880 --> 0:32:58.360 I have not. 0:32:58.520 --> 0:33:00.600 Okay, So when your phone is when you're looking at 0:33:00.640 --> 0:33:02.400 your phone, there's a way to swipe from the upper 0:33:02.680 --> 0:33:05.040 right hand corner and it brings a whole bunch of 0:33:05.040 --> 0:33:05.680 settings up. 0:33:05.720 --> 0:33:06.720 Do you see all those. 0:33:09.120 --> 0:33:10.800 I can find it? Okay, I'm talking on. 0:33:11.120 --> 0:33:13.080 Okay, got it? Okay, So what I would do is 0:33:13.120 --> 0:33:15.080 just check to see if the flashlight. If you swipe 0:33:15.120 --> 0:33:17.200 from the upper right hand corner when your phone is unlocked, 0:33:17.240 --> 0:33:19.520 you'll get what's called the control center. There should be 0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:23.560 a flashlight icon in there. Tap that flashlight icon and 0:33:23.600 --> 0:33:26.600 see if it triggers your flashlight. And then also you 0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:30.040 can press and hold that icon once it's well, depends 0:33:30.040 --> 0:33:31.440 on the version of your phone. It used to be 0:33:31.520 --> 0:33:33.800 press and hold. Now mine brings up a secondary thing. 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:36.400 But you can either press and hold or you can 0:33:36.520 --> 0:33:39.440 see the little there's like a little section that shows 0:33:39.520 --> 0:33:43.080 up with the with the animation of a flashlight, and 0:33:43.200 --> 0:33:45.760 if you press that up and down, you'll notice that 0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:50.360 it adjusts the intense intensity of the flashlight the brightness. 0:33:50.720 --> 0:33:52.720 So you may have yours all the way turned down. 0:33:52.760 --> 0:33:55.120 I think that's what's happening here. It sounds like to me, 0:33:55.600 --> 0:33:57.360 but but that's what I would do, is check to 0:33:57.360 --> 0:33:59.040 see if you can. If you can toggle it on 0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:01.880 from control center. You may have to add that control 0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:03.720 in settings if it's not there, but it should be 0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:06.560 there by default. So that's the two things there for 0:34:06.640 --> 0:34:09.759 the camera. Since it's working in the other apps. It 0:34:09.760 --> 0:34:12.799 does sound like it's some sort of software issue. So 0:34:13.560 --> 0:34:16.280 if you have gone through everything like restarting your phone, 0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:18.479 which you've tried it sounds like, I hope you've tried, 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:21.080 that you've updated your software, which it sounds like you've tried. 0:34:22.239 --> 0:34:25.200 I would make sure there's no screen time restrictions on anything, 0:34:25.239 --> 0:34:28.319 make sure you have no accessibility features turned on. The 0:34:28.400 --> 0:34:30.759 thing that you probably want to do first is there 0:34:30.880 --> 0:34:35.239 is an option in settings called reset all settings, and 0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:38.799 so you can go to Settings General and then it 0:34:38.800 --> 0:34:42.600 says transfer or reset phone. I know it sounds scary, 0:34:42.920 --> 0:34:45.800 but if you tap that, there is an option called reset. 0:34:45.880 --> 0:34:48.800 You tap that, and then there's an option called reset 0:34:48.840 --> 0:34:51.920 all Settings. I really wish that Apple would not hide 0:34:51.960 --> 0:34:55.120 this so deep into the settings, because if you see reset, 0:34:55.160 --> 0:34:57.040 you're not going to use it right because it sounds 0:34:57.080 --> 0:34:59.440 really scary. It sounds like it's going to erase everything 0:34:59.440 --> 0:35:02.200 on your phone. But if you tap reset all Settings, 0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:05.440 that's going to reset almost every personalized feature on your 0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:10.120 phone without resetting or without erasing any data. Try that first, 0:35:10.520 --> 0:35:13.080 restart your phone, see if the flashlight and the camera 0:35:13.160 --> 0:35:15.840 work properly there. If none of that works, then I 0:35:15.880 --> 0:35:19.480 would do what's called a erase all content in Settings. 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:22.560 That's going to actually factory format your phone back to 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:24.279 clearing everything out. 0:35:24.960 --> 0:35:27.200 And if things still don't work, make. 0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:28.919 Sure your phone's backed up before you do that, because 0:35:28.920 --> 0:35:31.279 you will have to bring the data back over. If 0:35:31.320 --> 0:35:32.839 it still doesn't work after that, you got to bring 0:35:32.840 --> 0:35:35.200 it to an Apple store. Eighty to eight rich one 0:35:35.239 --> 0:35:38.200 on one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:35:38.440 --> 0:35:43.760 one zero one more rich on Tech after this, Welcome 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:46.440 back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out 0:35:46.440 --> 0:35:50.520 with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O 0:35:50.640 --> 0:35:53.640 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:35:53.760 --> 0:35:57.200 zero one. Hope you're getting or got some time with 0:35:57.280 --> 0:36:01.200 your friends and family this weekend, this fourth of July weekend. 0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:04.200 You know, we saw some fireworks. That's always fun. 0:36:05.200 --> 0:36:06.919 It's been a while since we saw him up close 0:36:06.960 --> 0:36:10.120 and personal like that, so kind of neat this hour, 0:36:10.400 --> 0:36:15.560 We've got Selim benaiatt Nothing's AI and Services product lead 0:36:15.640 --> 0:36:18.799 to talk about this new phone we were talking about 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:20.920 earlier in the show, the Nothing Phone three. 0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:22.160 It's pretty unique. 0:36:22.160 --> 0:36:27.000 It's got some unique features, got unique software AI built in, 0:36:27.280 --> 0:36:30.319 and a lot of it is engineered to help you 0:36:30.719 --> 0:36:33.000 use your phone less, like all this doom scrolling we 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:35.319 do all day, which I know we're all guilty of it. 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:38.719 But this phone is it's got a little display on 0:36:38.800 --> 0:36:41.600 the back that will show your notifications and things so 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:44.120 that you can leave it face down and focus on 0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:44.960 the people around you. 0:36:46.000 --> 0:36:50.240 Let's go to let's go to. Well, we got Frank. 0:36:50.280 --> 0:36:52.719 It looks like someone dropped off. We got Frank. Frank. 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:56.440 You're on with Rich. Oh, hi, Rich, this is thank job. 0:36:57.040 --> 0:36:59.680 I'm kling to find out if there's a good replacement 0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:03.400 for landline. I've been told of magic Jack as an option. 0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:06.000 I was wondering what you think of it, or you know, 0:37:06.040 --> 0:37:08.560 have a better option than using you know to replace 0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:09.480 the land line home? 0:37:09.960 --> 0:37:11.759 Uh, well, what are you trying to do with this 0:37:12.000 --> 0:37:14.480 landline phone? Like, are you just trying to have like 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:17.879 a just your old line just with a with Wi 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:18.520 Fi or whatever? 0:37:20.480 --> 0:37:23.520 Well, no, that the landline. Let me, I've had here 0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:25.920 for many years, I've lived here. But the main reason 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:27.840 I want to keep it is because it's hooked up 0:37:27.880 --> 0:37:31.280 to my home alarm system and becomes a much bigger 0:37:31.400 --> 0:37:33.520 tack for me to get rid of it and go 0:37:33.600 --> 0:37:35.359 with a different alarm system. So I want I want 0:37:35.400 --> 0:37:38.400 to have a landline that works when somebody calls in 0:37:38.520 --> 0:37:39.920 from you know, any number. 0:37:40.360 --> 0:37:41.120 Okay, but but. 0:37:43.000 --> 0:37:45.040 Uh well magic Jack has been around for a long 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:49.680 time and it's it. You know, it works as advertised. 0:37:50.360 --> 0:37:51.840 Let me see how much of it is these days 0:37:51.880 --> 0:37:55.359 thirty five dollars Now. The question with magic jacket used 0:37:55.400 --> 0:37:58.600 to require plugging into a computer for it to work. 0:37:58.800 --> 0:38:00.879 So uh, use your. 0:38:00.840 --> 0:38:03.680 High speed internet to connect to your magic Jack device? 0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:07.080 Do they make a standalone device? Uh? 0:38:07.280 --> 0:38:08.880 To be honest with you, I haven't looked at all 0:38:08.960 --> 0:38:09.600 the options. 0:38:09.760 --> 0:38:12.319 Yeah, because I'm looking at this and it looks like 0:38:12.520 --> 0:38:18.200 you do have to connect this to some sort of computer, which, yeah, 0:38:18.239 --> 0:38:20.320 so that would be a little bit more tricky because 0:38:20.320 --> 0:38:23.440 you're gonna have to plug this into your computer's USB 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:26.520 and then plug the Ethernet into it, and then plug 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:28.719 your phone line into it. So it's kind of like 0:38:28.760 --> 0:38:31.040 you need it sounds as far as I remember, this 0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:33.640 used to work. You had to have a computer running 0:38:33.680 --> 0:38:36.799 to basically work with the service the whole time. So 0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:39.680 I think a better solution for what you're talking about 0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:41.680 would probably be Umaoma. 0:38:41.880 --> 0:38:42.520 Have you heard of that? 0:38:43.560 --> 0:38:43.719 No? 0:38:43.960 --> 0:38:48.880 Okay, So Uma they make a standalone device that you 0:38:48.920 --> 0:38:53.600 can plug in and it's just works as I mean, 0:38:53.600 --> 0:38:55.960 it does exactly what you're talking about. It just replaces 0:38:56.000 --> 0:38:58.080 your phone line with this device. So you plug in 0:38:58.120 --> 0:39:00.960 the device into your wall. You can either connect it 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:03.080 via Wi Fi or you can connect it with an 0:39:03.080 --> 0:39:05.640 Ethernet and then you plug your phone into there and 0:39:05.680 --> 0:39:07.880 that's it. It just works like a regular phone line 0:39:07.920 --> 0:39:11.480 after that, so you can get you know, depends on 0:39:11.880 --> 0:39:14.920 the product you get. Let's see here, I'm looking for 0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:20.520 the basic home phone service is so the device is 0:39:20.520 --> 0:39:23.000 one hundred dollars one time costs and the monthly phone 0:39:23.040 --> 0:39:26.000 service is free. You have to pay taxes and fees 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:29.040 which usually run about ten to twelve dollars a month. 0:39:29.560 --> 0:39:32.680 So that's probably what i'd recommend if I were you, 0:39:33.040 --> 0:39:35.000 just for the ease of use. And then you can 0:39:35.040 --> 0:39:37.040 also use this as a regular phone line as well, 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:40.239 so you get unlimited calling and things like that. Oh 0:39:40.400 --> 0:39:42.360 right now they've got the fifty dollars off, so you 0:39:42.360 --> 0:39:45.680 can even do that as well. So the website, the 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:49.800 website Frank is umaooma dot com. I think that's probably 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:51.480 going to be a better bet than the magic jack 0:39:51.520 --> 0:39:52.480 for what you're talking about. 0:39:53.920 --> 0:39:56.319 Thank you very much for the advice. And as far 0:39:56.320 --> 0:40:00.760 as keep being able to keep the same number, you think. 0:40:00.760 --> 0:40:02.319 Yes, you have to do what it's called a poor 0:40:02.560 --> 0:40:05.319 in so you need to. You know, you'll pour out 0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:07.440 the phone number from your old device and you'll pour 0:40:07.520 --> 0:40:10.920 it into the new device. I would go on whatever 0:40:11.040 --> 0:40:13.520 carrier you have right now for that phone number. I 0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:16.120 would Google poured out and see what the instructions are 0:40:16.120 --> 0:40:18.960 because sometimes they're very specific, and then I would go 0:40:18.960 --> 0:40:22.319 to the UMA website and just google port in phone 0:40:22.360 --> 0:40:25.640 number UMA and get the instructions there. Read all those 0:40:25.640 --> 0:40:28.759 instructions thoroughly, and then you can pourt out your number 0:40:28.800 --> 0:40:30.800 from one place and bring it over to the other place. 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:32.760 It's a pretty simple situation. 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:36.600 All right, Great, thank you very much for good advice. 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:41.440 All right, Frank Enjoy great question. Always when people want 0:40:41.480 --> 0:40:43.080 to keep their phone number or switch it. You know, 0:40:43.560 --> 0:40:45.879 it's funny. I've taken for granted that I've known about 0:40:45.960 --> 0:40:48.520 UMA for so long. I mean, Magic Jack's been around 0:40:48.520 --> 0:40:50.360 for a very long time as well, but it's still 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:54.080 like not everyone knows about it. Let's see here we have, 0:40:54.200 --> 0:40:57.400 Greg writes in from Huntington Beach, Hey Rich with prime 0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:00.280 days coming soon, What are the best sounding Bluetooth always 0:41:00.320 --> 0:41:04.440 canceling headphones you'd recommend for top sound quality and value? 0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:08.560 Great question, Greg, I test them all, although I haven't 0:41:08.560 --> 0:41:10.719 tested the top choice, which is what everyone loves. 0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:11.360 I've tested the. 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:13.239 Older model, but I haven't gotten around to the newer 0:41:13.239 --> 0:41:18.800 model yet. But I would say overall, the top noise 0:41:18.840 --> 0:41:23.000 canceling headphones, according to pretty much everyone I know, are 0:41:23.040 --> 0:41:26.919 the Sony wh one thousand x six. They just came 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:32.480 out best overall, incredible sound, great noise cancelation, very comfortable. 0:41:32.960 --> 0:41:36.640 Those are what pretty much everyone I know uses on 0:41:36.760 --> 0:41:39.399 the long international flights we're taking, so i'd say that's 0:41:39.480 --> 0:41:42.440 number one. They're expensive though they're not cheap, but you 0:41:42.480 --> 0:41:45.160 were saying, you know, over Prime Day they'll probably maybe 0:41:45.160 --> 0:41:47.480 they'll go on sale. The problem with Prime Day a 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:49.960 lot of times the main item does not go on 0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:52.960 sale like the current year. It's usually the year's past. 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:55.279 But you'd be just fine with the XM fives or 0:41:55.360 --> 0:42:00.680 fours or whatever. But that's number one. Number two obviously 0:42:01.120 --> 0:42:04.760 the Bows quiet comfort headphones. Those are perennial favorites. Everyone 0:42:04.800 --> 0:42:07.480 loves those. They're gonna be just as expensive, but they 0:42:07.560 --> 0:42:11.560 might go on sale during the Prime Day as well. Now, 0:42:11.680 --> 0:42:14.000 if you have an iPhone and you want the best 0:42:14.080 --> 0:42:18.359 for the iPhone, the AirPods max USBC is really nice. 0:42:18.400 --> 0:42:19.080 They're brand new. 0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:22.000 They're very expensive, but if you have an iPhone, it 0:42:22.120 --> 0:42:26.080 keeps you connected to that Apple ecosystem, and that means 0:42:26.120 --> 0:42:28.160 if you have an iPhone and a Mac computer, they're 0:42:28.160 --> 0:42:31.560 gonna switch seamlessly between those two devices, which is really nice. 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:34.399 They sound good, the noise canceling is good. Some people 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:37.040 are turned off by the fact that they're very iconic 0:42:37.080 --> 0:42:40.840 looking those AirPods Max like you know, people weren't to 0:42:40.920 --> 0:42:43.120 the gym and things people think is a status symbol. 0:42:43.239 --> 0:42:45.120 I mean, they are expensive, so they probably are, but 0:42:46.480 --> 0:42:48.439 they do sound They do sound good, and they work 0:42:48.560 --> 0:42:51.279 very nicely with the Apple products. Now, if you want 0:42:51.320 --> 0:42:56.880 something you said best value anchor Soundcore Life Q thirty's 0:42:57.600 --> 0:43:00.799 are pretty good for noise cancelation and they're under one 0:43:00.880 --> 0:43:03.439 hundred dollars. They'll probably be even cheaper during prime day. 0:43:03.800 --> 0:43:06.080 That's if you just want something that's pretty basic and 0:43:06.200 --> 0:43:09.120 not very expensive. Now there's two other pairs of headphones 0:43:09.160 --> 0:43:11.200 that I think are worth checking out, depending on what 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:14.799 you want. The Nothing Headphones one which would I've been 0:43:14.840 --> 0:43:17.280 talking about today on the show Cool Design. 0:43:17.440 --> 0:43:18.480 I think they have great audio. 0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:20.520 I wore them pretty much the entire flight there and 0:43:20.560 --> 0:43:22.560 back to London, about ten hours each way. 0:43:23.000 --> 0:43:23.960 They sound excellent. 0:43:24.000 --> 0:43:27.040 They have physical buttons on them, which I love, and 0:43:27.080 --> 0:43:30.880 they're very easy to understand, so they've got pretty unique. 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:34.239 The buttons on these things are something that you don't 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:36.720 really see everywhere. It's got a physical on and off switch, 0:43:37.360 --> 0:43:39.960 it's got a physical button to pair them for Bluetooth, 0:43:39.960 --> 0:43:41.680 although I couldn't find it when it was on the plane, 0:43:41.719 --> 0:43:42.720 which was really annoying. 0:43:42.960 --> 0:43:43.800 It's kind of hidden. 0:43:45.040 --> 0:43:48.440 It's got a rotating button that also clicks, which is 0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:52.360 great for volume. And then it's got almost like a 0:43:52.440 --> 0:43:57.480 flipper switch button which can fast forward or rewind your track. 0:43:57.640 --> 0:44:00.040 Is like skip ahead, skip back, but if you do 0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:02.880 you press and hold, it is scrubs through your music. 0:44:02.960 --> 0:44:06.120 If it's on a supported audio program like I don't 0:44:06.120 --> 0:44:08.000 know which one supports. I try it on Spotify. I 0:44:08.040 --> 0:44:09.920 wasn't really sure if that worked or not. I didn't 0:44:09.960 --> 0:44:12.120 hear the scrubbing, but they say that some of the 0:44:12.200 --> 0:44:15.600 audio apps will support that, so that's really cool. Like 0:44:15.600 --> 0:44:17.520 if you want to rewinder fast forward like you did 0:44:17.560 --> 0:44:19.200 back in the old day on the tape, so it'll 0:44:19.239 --> 0:44:22.440 do that. And then it's got another physical button that 0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:24.840 will activate your you can program it to do a 0:44:24.840 --> 0:44:27.160 whole bunch of things like activate your AI assistant. So 0:44:27.200 --> 0:44:29.520 those are cool. And they come in at just three 0:44:29.600 --> 0:44:31.680 hundred dollars, which I know is still expensive, but a 0:44:31.680 --> 0:44:34.239 lot cheaper than some of the other four hundred and 0:44:34.239 --> 0:44:36.759 fifty dollars headphones out there. So that's another one. And 0:44:36.800 --> 0:44:40.520 then finally Sos Ace. These are headphones. If you already 0:44:40.520 --> 0:44:42.640 have Sonos speakers or a soundbar, you want them to 0:44:42.680 --> 0:44:45.279 work with that. They're very comfortable. The noise canceling is great. 0:44:45.760 --> 0:44:48.600 I really like them a lot, even though I'm at 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:51.600 odds with Sonos right now. But those sound good as well. 0:44:51.680 --> 0:44:54.319 So gave you a lot of options there, Greg, I 0:44:54.320 --> 0:44:56.360 think put them all in your cart, see which ones 0:44:56.400 --> 0:44:57.719 drop in price. 0:44:57.480 --> 0:44:59.080 And I think you'll be happy with any of those. 0:45:01.000 --> 0:45:02.719 You guys send me so many emails every week, so 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:06.000 I'm just going to go through them this week. Down 0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:09.279 from spring Hill, Florida, says I just bought an inexpensive 0:45:09.320 --> 0:45:11.560 Samsung phone to use for calls and texts. I can 0:45:11.600 --> 0:45:15.040 send text fine, but I'm not receiving texts from iPhones. 0:45:15.560 --> 0:45:18.000 The store told me iPhone users may need to change 0:45:18.000 --> 0:45:20.840 a setting to send text to Android, but that's not 0:45:20.880 --> 0:45:23.120 realistic for my husband or friends. I can't afford to 0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:27.200 switch to an iPhone. Any suggestions, don I've never heard 0:45:27.239 --> 0:45:31.680 of a special setting that to receive text from an 0:45:31.719 --> 0:45:35.239 iPhone user, so I'm baffled. I think that whoever told 0:45:35.280 --> 0:45:37.080 you that at the store just wanted you to buy 0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:41.120 an iPhone, and that's not the case. SMS is universal. 0:45:41.160 --> 0:45:43.600 It works across every phone and every carrier all across 0:45:43.600 --> 0:45:46.480 the world. So the only thing I've noticed, and this 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:48.920 is more of an Apple problem than your problem, is 0:45:48.960 --> 0:45:51.640 that if someone is trying to text you that has 0:45:51.680 --> 0:45:54.480 tried to text you in the past on an iPhone, 0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:58.160 it sometimes does not go through because I message gets confused. 0:45:58.200 --> 0:46:00.920 So what I would do, since you recently switch phones, 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:03.920 is have that person say, hey, if you're if this 0:46:04.000 --> 0:46:06.959 text is not going through, delete the whole text chain 0:46:07.080 --> 0:46:11.120 and start over, and that typically fixes the problem. 0:46:11.440 --> 0:46:13.399 Now, my wife will fight me on this one. 0:46:13.440 --> 0:46:16.800 She'll say, well, group text don't work with iPhone and Android. 0:46:16.800 --> 0:46:18.759 I'm like, yes, they do. I'm on a lot of 0:46:18.760 --> 0:46:21.799 group texts with iPhone Android. They may not work exactly 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:23.920 the same, and everyone in that message may not be 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:26.680 blue Bubble, but it's still gonna send the messages and 0:46:26.719 --> 0:46:29.799 even reactions work at this point I've noticed. So it's 0:46:29.960 --> 0:46:32.440 with our cs and all that. Now, what kind of 0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:35.359 phone did you say you got inexpensive Samsung? I mean, 0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:38.640 unless it's a flip phone. Look, there's no issue with 0:46:38.719 --> 0:46:41.719 texting between iPhone and Android. The only issues are with 0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:43.680 the people that are on iPhone making fun of the 0:46:43.680 --> 0:46:44.440 people and Android. 0:46:44.440 --> 0:46:46.200 That's the only issue I identify at this point. 0:46:46.800 --> 0:46:48.839 Eight to eight rich one on one eight eight eight 0:46:49.040 --> 0:46:51.480 seven four to two four one zero one. 0:46:51.520 --> 0:46:55.040 Coming up more of your emails. Plus I'll tell you why. 0:46:54.960 --> 0:46:57.319 Amazon is warning you to be careful. This is rich 0:46:57.360 --> 0:47:01.680 on Tech. Welcome back to rich Tech. Rich DeMuro here 0:47:01.760 --> 0:47:05.520 hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich 0:47:05.640 --> 0:47:08.640 one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:47:08.680 --> 0:47:14.760 four one zero one. Uh, just looking at an email 0:47:14.800 --> 0:47:18.959 here from Let's see from Allen. He says magic Jack 0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:24.360 does allow to plug into Ethernet. Yes, but let's see. 0:47:24.640 --> 0:47:28.680 Uh hmm, okay, magic Jack requirements. We were talking about 0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:32.920 getting magic Jack versus Uma. But it's interesting, Okay, Okay, 0:47:32.920 --> 0:47:35.880 here we go. Magic Jack devices can be powered by 0:47:35.920 --> 0:47:39.160 a USB wall charger or a standard there you go. 0:47:39.920 --> 0:47:42.960 So it's uh, it looks like it needs a computer 0:47:43.120 --> 0:47:44.760 like it used to, but you don't need that anymore. 0:47:44.840 --> 0:47:47.759 So so yeah, in that case, I would say you 0:47:47.840 --> 0:47:49.520 might want to just look at the price of each 0:47:49.560 --> 0:47:51.640 and see how much magic Jack is for a year 0:47:51.760 --> 0:47:56.160 versus service with Uma. Uma might be too much depending 0:47:56.480 --> 0:47:58.080 so yeah, it looks like it plugs in. You need 0:47:58.120 --> 0:48:01.120 like a little USB adapter. That's what that you USBs for. Okay, 0:48:01.200 --> 0:48:03.960 got it. That's why I like having the email so 0:48:04.000 --> 0:48:07.560 we can get real time feedback on some of the 0:48:07.560 --> 0:48:09.920 things we talk about. Here two apps to tell you 0:48:09.960 --> 0:48:14.160 about this week. Number one, Rotten Tomatoes has launched an 0:48:14.160 --> 0:48:18.640 official app on iOS. And this is the This is 0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:20.680 the website that a lot of people like for their 0:48:20.719 --> 0:48:25.360 movie ratings. It confused me for so long, right, this 0:48:25.400 --> 0:48:27.399 whole idea of Rotten Tomatoes. I always thought that Rotten 0:48:27.440 --> 0:48:29.879 Tomatoes was a bad rating. I'm like, wait, that means 0:48:29.920 --> 0:48:31.799 it's good if it has a good Rotten Tomatoes Like, 0:48:31.800 --> 0:48:36.759 I never understood that with some proprietary algorithm that gives 0:48:36.800 --> 0:48:40.640 it a percentage twenty percent, thirty, fifty, sixty, seventy eighty 0:48:40.680 --> 0:48:42.920 up to one hundred percent, and the higher the percentage 0:48:42.960 --> 0:48:45.359 the better. Those critics like that, and I think at 0:48:45.360 --> 0:48:49.279 some point it's like certified fresh, right. And then they 0:48:49.280 --> 0:48:52.800 also do the popcorn Meter, which is the audience reviews, 0:48:53.280 --> 0:48:55.480 and so audience members can go on there and review 0:48:55.880 --> 0:48:58.719 the movie and rate it, and then you get that number. Now, 0:48:58.760 --> 0:49:00.920 most of the time those number can line up, but 0:49:00.960 --> 0:49:03.719 a lot of times they do not like a movie 0:49:03.840 --> 0:49:06.640 could be critically panned. You know, they don't like it, 0:49:06.680 --> 0:49:09.400 but the audience loves it, or the audience hates a 0:49:09.440 --> 0:49:12.360 movie but the critics liked it. So sometimes those numbers 0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:15.920 can be very different. But anyway, Rotten Tomatoes does have 0:49:15.960 --> 0:49:18.200 an official app for iPhones, So if you love Rotten 0:49:18.200 --> 0:49:20.839 Tomatoes you live and die by those scores. You can 0:49:20.920 --> 0:49:23.560 download this app and create a watch list of the 0:49:23.600 --> 0:49:25.560 movies you want to see, discover the movies that you 0:49:25.640 --> 0:49:27.799 want to watch, and I of course leave your own 0:49:27.920 --> 0:49:32.239 ratings and reviews. They also have built in AI called 0:49:32.480 --> 0:49:35.359 rt I don't know what that means, but you can 0:49:35.480 --> 0:49:37.960 search for movies and things. I asked like, what's the 0:49:38.080 --> 0:49:40.960 movie like back to the Future, and it said back 0:49:41.040 --> 0:49:44.680 to the Future. Said okay, what's something else like back 0:49:44.719 --> 0:49:47.640 to the Future. So it's still a work in progress 0:49:48.120 --> 0:49:50.359 and I don't think this is as full featured as 0:49:50.400 --> 0:49:52.680 my favorite app right now, which is called Just Watch. 0:49:53.920 --> 0:49:55.160 Just Watch is a lot simpler. 0:49:55.160 --> 0:49:56.800 This one will tell you Rotten Tomatoes will tell you 0:49:56.840 --> 0:49:58.600 where things are streaming as well, so if it's on 0:49:58.640 --> 0:50:01.160 like Netflix or Max or whatever, you can see that, 0:50:01.760 --> 0:50:05.200 but just watch will let you sort in so many 0:50:05.200 --> 0:50:08.640 different ways and also show you the stuff that's just 0:50:08.760 --> 0:50:11.719 playing on your streaming services. So if you're only paying 0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:14.239 for Netflix, you can filter all your movies and your 0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:17.319 watch lists just by Netflix, which is really handy. So again, 0:50:17.400 --> 0:50:20.200 Rotten Tomatoes did the thing that I don't like. But 0:50:20.280 --> 0:50:23.600 they came out on iOS first and then Android coming soon. 0:50:24.480 --> 0:50:26.880 I don't I mean, I get why these companies do it, 0:50:26.880 --> 0:50:29.520 but Rotten Tomatoes is a huge company, just come out 0:50:29.520 --> 0:50:31.439 with the iOS and Android at the same time. Why 0:50:31.440 --> 0:50:33.160 do you have to make us android or it's just 0:50:33.280 --> 0:50:36.839 Android folks in general wait, like, why give that one 0:50:36.880 --> 0:50:40.160 experience and then everyone else has to wait? So again, 0:50:40.640 --> 0:50:44.200 Rotten Tomatoes available on iOS now, Android version coming soon. 0:50:44.800 --> 0:50:46.160 Then the other app that I want to tell you 0:50:46.200 --> 0:50:48.919 about this week, which I really like too, is called 0:50:49.000 --> 0:50:52.000 Hello Weather. So if you're looking for like a simple 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:54.959 weather app, I really like this one, and it's both 0:50:55.000 --> 0:50:57.880 on iOS and Android at the same time. Now, this 0:50:57.920 --> 0:50:59.400 app has been out for a while, but it just 0:50:59.440 --> 0:51:03.440 got a total redo, major overhaul. Everything from the design 0:51:03.480 --> 0:51:06.960 to performance they say is brand new. The app was 0:51:07.000 --> 0:51:10.440 completely rewritten, so especially on the iPhone, it's going to 0:51:10.480 --> 0:51:11.880 look a lot better, but it works great on the 0:51:11.920 --> 0:51:14.600 Android as well. And what I like about this app 0:51:14.680 --> 0:51:18.480 is it's just simple. You can see everything on one page, 0:51:18.520 --> 0:51:20.800 like really easily. So if I tap into Hello Weather, 0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:26.080 I'm looking at the forecast, it's got your main forecast 0:51:26.160 --> 0:51:28.560 front and center right at the top, and then it's 0:51:28.560 --> 0:51:31.080 got this afternoon, tells you what's happening for the rest 0:51:31.080 --> 0:51:33.799 of the day. Then it's got this week and it 0:51:33.880 --> 0:51:37.759 shows you nice, easy to see stuff and that's it. 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:39.000 It's very, very simple. 0:51:39.600 --> 0:51:42.200 And then if you tap Radar, oh, that's where they 0:51:42.200 --> 0:51:44.279 get you. You got to upgrade for pro feature. So 0:51:44.280 --> 0:51:47.120 if you want the radar feature, you do have to upgrade, 0:51:47.520 --> 0:51:50.680 and it depends on the price you know you want 0:51:50.680 --> 0:51:53.759 to pay either monthly, annually, or one time. I love 0:51:53.800 --> 0:51:55.879 how they say annually is the best deal for six 0:51:55.920 --> 0:52:00.279 dollars versus thirty dollars one time. Well, in five I've 0:52:00.719 --> 0:52:03.040 six times five five years, you'd be paying more than 0:52:03.080 --> 0:52:05.200 the within the one time, so it's not really the 0:52:05.239 --> 0:52:08.680 best deal anyway. If you're looking for another app that 0:52:08.719 --> 0:52:13.360 I really like, if you like, if you like your radar. 0:52:13.880 --> 0:52:17.280 There's an app called Tomorrow Let's see, it's called weather 0:52:18.200 --> 0:52:22.479 by Tomorrow. And the website, I believe is it's really 0:52:22.480 --> 0:52:24.640 tough to find because if you're searching weather online, it 0:52:24.680 --> 0:52:30.280 never comes up. It's Tomorrow dot io Tomorrow dot io. 0:52:30.640 --> 0:52:32.080 And if you go to their app. What I love 0:52:32.120 --> 0:52:34.719 about that is they've got this great storm tracker on 0:52:34.800 --> 0:52:38.920 there and you can see a map with the storms, 0:52:40.120 --> 0:52:42.399 you know, the whole storm, any storm that's in your area, 0:52:42.719 --> 0:52:45.160 like a thunder not a thunderstorm per se, but like 0:52:45.239 --> 0:52:49.200 a tropical storm or a hurricane. It will show you 0:52:49.239 --> 0:52:52.640 the trajectory of that storm. And it's really really good. 0:52:52.960 --> 0:52:55.839 So anyway, that's at Tomorrow dot Io. I'll link both 0:52:55.880 --> 0:52:57.400 these apps. Are all three of these apps up to 0:52:57.440 --> 0:53:00.920 the website. Rich on Tech dot TV. All right, coming up, 0:53:00.920 --> 0:53:03.840 we're going to talk to Nothing about how they're reimagining 0:53:03.880 --> 0:53:05.960 the smartphone. 0:53:07.000 --> 0:53:08.680 Welcome back to rich On Tech. 0:53:08.840 --> 0:53:12.520 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:53:12.600 --> 0:53:15.120 triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:53:15.280 --> 0:53:19.400 four to two four one zero one. John writes in 0:53:19.480 --> 0:53:21.879 you're Rich, you touched on Uma this morning. I've had 0:53:21.880 --> 0:53:24.200 it for thirteen years and I swear by it. I've 0:53:24.239 --> 0:53:27.360 literally saved thousands of dollars by using VoIP. 0:53:27.480 --> 0:53:31.120 By the way, great show. Thanks John. Uh. 0:53:31.360 --> 0:53:35.320 We've got a guest, Selim benaiet Uh. He is Nothing's 0:53:35.440 --> 0:53:39.800 AI and services product lead. I talked to him about 0:53:39.800 --> 0:53:45.720 how the company is reimagining smartphone interaction through software and AI. 0:53:46.920 --> 0:53:49.560 First off, how would you describe Nothing as a company? 0:53:50.040 --> 0:53:54.160 It's a company that tries to do something different in 0:53:54.200 --> 0:53:57.239 the consumer electronics space in a way. We want to 0:53:57.280 --> 0:54:01.080 bring fun back to technology and bire creativity. 0:54:02.000 --> 0:54:06.240 Why have a such a unique design on your phones? 0:54:06.760 --> 0:54:10.600 Because we believe the light needs to come back to 0:54:11.160 --> 0:54:16.440 the tech sector and having a more differentiated design that 0:54:16.600 --> 0:54:20.760 has a certain opinion has true value in the market, 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:25.680 the value of people feeling more positive emotions towards the 0:54:25.680 --> 0:54:26.320 HeartWare device. 0:54:26.840 --> 0:54:29.000 Tell me about the phone three specifically, how does it 0:54:29.080 --> 0:54:30.680 make AI? I know you have a lot of experience 0:54:30.680 --> 0:54:32.960 in that. How does it make AI more useful for 0:54:33.000 --> 0:54:33.840 the average person? 0:54:34.239 --> 0:54:36.440 The sping we took with AI on phone three is 0:54:36.480 --> 0:54:41.160 really to create a more calm, reduced experience for people. 0:54:41.480 --> 0:54:45.360 Do not constantly need to check on my phone constantly 0:54:45.400 --> 0:54:48.560 feel like they need to react to notifications. For instance, 0:54:48.719 --> 0:54:52.240 we have Essential Search that just helps you find information 0:54:52.440 --> 0:54:54.560 much quicker by swiping up on the screen and just 0:54:54.600 --> 0:54:58.200 asking something a question. Then we have Essential Space that 0:54:58.360 --> 0:55:01.640 truly helps you remember what matters to you at the 0:55:01.719 --> 0:55:02.800 right time, right moment. 0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:05.160 You talked about that Essential search. 0:55:05.280 --> 0:55:07.080 Search is one of the biggest things we do on 0:55:07.120 --> 0:55:10.279 our phone that's rapidly evolving because of AI. Can you 0:55:10.280 --> 0:55:12.600 explain a little bit more about how that works on 0:55:12.680 --> 0:55:15.080 this phone and is it your first stop to do anything, 0:55:15.080 --> 0:55:17.600 whether it's looking for contact or looking up information. 0:55:18.280 --> 0:55:22.080 Yeah, it's a good observation. So first search truly is 0:55:22.600 --> 0:55:26.040 a strong entry point into trying to understand you as 0:55:26.080 --> 0:55:29.600 a user and trying to help you get stuff done 0:55:29.600 --> 0:55:32.359 on the phone quicker. And so it works that way. 0:55:32.400 --> 0:55:35.200 So you swipe up, you ask a question, and in 0:55:35.239 --> 0:55:38.160 the first instance, we look for the answer on the phone, 0:55:38.640 --> 0:55:42.080 perhaps it's a contact that you're looking for or an 0:55:42.120 --> 0:55:43.920 app on your phone, and if we don't find it 0:55:43.960 --> 0:55:46.960 on the phone, it gets sent to an LLLM that 0:55:47.040 --> 0:55:49.200 then gives you the answer immediately on the phone. 0:55:49.480 --> 0:55:51.279 Do you are you saying which one that is? Is 0:55:51.320 --> 0:55:53.960 it your own proprietary or it's. 0:55:53.840 --> 0:55:57.240 One of the lllms out there, and I'm not naming 0:55:57.280 --> 0:55:59.560 any names that just because we're trying to use the 0:55:59.719 --> 0:56:02.799 LM that will give the best experience for the user, 0:56:02.920 --> 0:56:04.759 and so it could be any of the ones out there. 0:56:05.360 --> 0:56:08.680 The presentation specifically mentioned doom scrolling, like our phones have 0:56:08.800 --> 0:56:12.120 just become a venue for doom scrolling? So how does 0:56:12.200 --> 0:56:15.000 nothing combat that? And they put a big emphasis on 0:56:15.080 --> 0:56:17.520 sort of being present with the glyph interface. 0:56:18.120 --> 0:56:20.160 Explain how you guys are tackling that problem. 0:56:20.280 --> 0:56:20.759 Yeah, totally. 0:56:20.840 --> 0:56:25.879 So we truly believe that today's devices are not here 0:56:25.920 --> 0:56:29.120 to sort of empower creativity anymore, and so we try 0:56:29.160 --> 0:56:31.640 to reduce the noise. When you look at the design 0:56:31.680 --> 0:56:36.440 philosophy and the AI software philosophy, it's truly trying to 0:56:36.520 --> 0:56:40.080 understand what features can we or what experiences can we 0:56:40.120 --> 0:56:43.719 implement that will give power back to the humans. So 0:56:43.760 --> 0:56:45.799 we want to put the user back into the center 0:56:45.840 --> 0:56:49.040 of the experience. And I'd say the glyph matrix, for instance, 0:56:49.200 --> 0:56:52.680 is a strong expression of that philosophy because you need 0:56:52.719 --> 0:56:55.480 to take the phone and put it face down onto 0:56:55.560 --> 0:56:59.640 the table, literally hiding the screen, and so this brings 0:56:59.640 --> 0:57:04.440 more into the experience and and sort of it feels 0:57:04.520 --> 0:57:07.120 like it's more care when you when you're then in 0:57:07.160 --> 0:57:09.399 track with your phone. I mean you specifically said you've 0:57:09.440 --> 0:57:11.520 got the feature of the flip to record, So if 0:57:11.520 --> 0:57:13.680 you're in a meeting, you flip your phone face down. 0:57:13.760 --> 0:57:16.439 What was the idea behind that, Yeah, it was for that. 0:57:16.640 --> 0:57:19.680 It's if you're in a meeting or in a conversation 0:57:20.200 --> 0:57:23.200 as we are right now. I think there's a big 0:57:23.200 --> 0:57:26.160 difference in trying to record the conversation in your brain 0:57:26.240 --> 0:57:29.600 or taking notes and truly being present us looking into 0:57:29.640 --> 0:57:33.320 the eyes and trying to understand what the conversation is about. 0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:36.080 And so for for us, the flip to record act 0:57:36.200 --> 0:57:39.840 as almost your second brain, or act as a companion, 0:57:39.880 --> 0:57:42.360 a helper for you to then be more present in 0:57:42.400 --> 0:57:44.960 the moment with the person you're talking to. 0:57:45.000 --> 0:57:47.080 The gliph in our face. We've talked about it a lot, 0:57:47.160 --> 0:57:49.160 but it's sort of evolved. It was used to be 0:57:49.240 --> 0:57:51.160 lights on the back of the phone. Now it's a 0:57:51.200 --> 0:57:54.720 digital display. Do you think that will bring added functionality 0:57:54.800 --> 0:57:55.120 to it? 0:57:55.680 --> 0:57:58.920 Yeah, truly, it's not just style, even though style is 0:57:59.120 --> 0:58:02.520 a big factor at nothing right but it's also functionality 0:58:02.760 --> 0:58:07.240 and functionality towards again helping someone be more present, more 0:58:07.320 --> 0:58:11.360 calm in an experience with a smartphone, your. 0:58:11.280 --> 0:58:14.360 Vision for the smartphone of the future. You've talked a 0:58:14.360 --> 0:58:17.760 lot about devices anticipating our needs. Does that happen with 0:58:17.800 --> 0:58:20.480 this device and will happen more in the future. 0:58:20.840 --> 0:58:21.360 Definitely. 0:58:21.680 --> 0:58:23.720 I think a good angle to look at what we 0:58:23.800 --> 0:58:27.800 do in the Air and Services function at Nothing is 0:58:27.880 --> 0:58:31.520 that we want to help humans tap into their innate 0:58:31.520 --> 0:58:34.960 creativity more by being more present, by being more calm, 0:58:35.480 --> 0:58:38.920 by having experiences that help them sort of understand their 0:58:38.960 --> 0:58:42.360 own potential. And so definitely that's something we actively work up. 0:58:42.560 --> 0:58:45.360 So it's telling about being based in London. Smartphone companies, 0:58:45.400 --> 0:58:47.520 you know, you've got a lot of them in the US, 0:58:47.560 --> 0:58:50.640 a lot of them in China. You're in London. What 0:58:50.640 --> 0:58:52.640 do you think that means for Nothing as a company? 0:58:53.160 --> 0:58:54.080 Yeah, I think it's. 0:58:55.400 --> 0:58:57.320 On the one side, obviously, London is a tremendous place 0:58:57.360 --> 0:59:00.800 for talent, young talent. We have Imperial that just really 0:59:00.800 --> 0:59:03.120 helps me build the AI function because we want to 0:59:03.160 --> 0:59:05.880 double the head counting the AI function, And so obviously 0:59:05.920 --> 0:59:10.000 London is a global melting pot. High diversity meaning high 0:59:10.000 --> 0:59:12.440 diversity or thought meaning better product outcomes. 0:59:12.480 --> 0:59:12.960 At the end. 0:59:13.520 --> 0:59:16.760 And then I think also it helps us to remember 0:59:16.840 --> 0:59:19.040 that we are still an underdog and that we still 0:59:19.080 --> 0:59:21.320 need to fight to truly make that impact that we 0:59:21.320 --> 0:59:21.680 want to do. 0:59:22.160 --> 0:59:23.720 I feel like I got a lot of that sense 0:59:23.760 --> 0:59:26.280 on stage today that you're not trying to be every 0:59:26.280 --> 0:59:27.280 other phone company. 0:59:27.520 --> 0:59:30.080 Do you think that can help you win? Totally? 0:59:30.480 --> 0:59:33.560 I think if you ask us said nothing, and if 0:59:33.560 --> 0:59:37.720 you listen to our community, people crave a new, differentiated, 0:59:37.760 --> 0:59:42.240 opinionated experience and a product. And so we believe, you know, 0:59:42.320 --> 0:59:44.800 being away from sort of the brain trust that you 0:59:44.840 --> 0:59:47.040 have in SF or a Silicon Valley, or that you 0:59:47.160 --> 0:59:51.280 have maybe in other areas, that helps us have differentiated 0:59:51.320 --> 0:59:52.320 opinions and thoughts. 0:59:52.360 --> 0:59:55.040 For sure, it is so hard to get people, especially 0:59:55.040 --> 0:59:58.400 in the US, to think about different smartphones. Yes, we 0:59:58.480 --> 1:00:04.080 are dominated by a couple of big brands, Apple, Google, Samsung. 1:00:04.680 --> 1:00:08.720 How do you get someone to try the nothing phone? Yeah? 1:00:08.920 --> 1:00:12.800 I mean if you look at our customers, especially net 1:00:12.840 --> 1:00:16.440 new customers, the majority from then come from, for instance, 1:00:16.480 --> 1:00:18.920 an Apple background, and I think a lot has to 1:00:18.960 --> 1:00:23.040 do with the customer agreeing with the design and software 1:00:23.080 --> 1:00:25.800 opinion that we have and nothing, And so I think 1:00:26.240 --> 1:00:29.400 that trajectory will just continue, right, we will have an 1:00:29.400 --> 1:00:33.400 opinion about a specific experience, which is a calm experience, 1:00:33.520 --> 1:00:37.240 a reduced experience, and experience has put you more in control, 1:00:37.720 --> 1:00:40.400 and we believe more and more people will start to 1:00:40.440 --> 1:00:40.880 agree with that. 1:00:41.520 --> 1:00:44.200 You've delivered a flagship level phone at an eight hundred 1:00:44.200 --> 1:00:45.560 dollars price point. 1:00:46.280 --> 1:00:48.520 Do you think you've done pretty well with that? I 1:00:48.560 --> 1:00:49.080 would say so. 1:00:49.280 --> 1:00:49.480 Yeah. 1:00:49.520 --> 1:00:54.120 I think we're happy with the outcome because the flagship 1:00:54.160 --> 1:00:57.360 the phone free re represents everything that we've learned, everything 1:00:57.400 --> 1:01:01.200 that we believe in and made real, made to be 1:01:01.280 --> 1:01:02.400 holding your hand. 1:01:02.440 --> 1:01:05.240 Yeah, so we're pretty happy with it. Are you excited 1:01:05.280 --> 1:01:07.280 to get this thing into the hands of people? One 1:01:07.360 --> 1:01:07.920 hundred percent? 1:01:08.000 --> 1:01:09.760 I mean, trust me, when I saw the phones coming 1:01:09.800 --> 1:01:13.080 down from the ceiling and people literally jumping and running 1:01:13.120 --> 1:01:15.160 towards it to play with it, that was an awesome feeling. 1:01:15.280 --> 1:01:16.560 Yes, it's rewarding. 1:01:17.760 --> 1:01:19.560 It is rewarding, and it's a cool phone. 1:01:19.960 --> 1:01:20.200 Again. 1:01:20.240 --> 1:01:23.880 It comes out on July fifteenth here in the United States. 1:01:24.720 --> 1:01:27.480 The website Nothing dot tech. If you want a link 1:01:27.520 --> 1:01:28.960 to it, you can go to my website rich on 1:01:29.000 --> 1:01:31.280 tech dot TV. All right, coming up, we'll take some 1:01:31.280 --> 1:01:33.400 more calls to triple eight rich one oh one eighty 1:01:33.480 --> 1:01:36.160 eight seven four to two four one zero one. I 1:01:36.200 --> 1:01:38.280 see you waiting on hold. We'll get back to you 1:01:38.960 --> 1:01:45.240 right after this. Welcome back to rich On Tech. So 1:01:45.440 --> 1:01:48.920 the stuff you don't see that happens during the breaks. 1:01:49.640 --> 1:01:53.760 Kim and I are sitting here figuring out RCS because 1:01:53.800 --> 1:01:56.080 we had that email about you know, the RCS not 1:01:56.160 --> 1:01:58.280 going through, and Kim says, no, there's definitely issues with it. 1:01:58.320 --> 1:02:00.560 I said, no, there should not be, and so I 1:02:00.600 --> 1:02:04.880 got the Nothing phone and I've been texting Kim our 1:02:04.960 --> 1:02:08.760 call screener with you know, the messages app, and it's 1:02:08.800 --> 1:02:11.200 really funny because some of the messages are going through 1:02:11.240 --> 1:02:14.600 as RCS and some are going through as SMS. And 1:02:14.640 --> 1:02:15.880 so I said, all right, let me try to send 1:02:15.880 --> 1:02:17.760 you a big file, like a video file and see 1:02:17.760 --> 1:02:19.320 if that comes through. And she said, yes, it came 1:02:19.360 --> 1:02:22.560 out good. Not the size of a pinhead and fuzzy. 1:02:23.040 --> 1:02:25.120 It's a huge improvement over what I used to get 1:02:25.160 --> 1:02:25.720 from Android. 1:02:25.800 --> 1:02:27.360 So I don't know why. 1:02:27.400 --> 1:02:31.040 It's like I think it maybe RCS depends on the 1:02:31.080 --> 1:02:35.280 speed of your of your signal, but it's just it's 1:02:35.320 --> 1:02:37.480 like we're in a studio here, and things are there's 1:02:37.520 --> 1:02:38.880 not a very good signal with anything. 1:02:38.920 --> 1:02:40.200 But anyway, so we did. 1:02:40.320 --> 1:02:44.160 We're able to send between iPhone and Android a full video, 1:02:44.600 --> 1:02:47.720 full resolution, so it is. It does work. I knew 1:02:47.760 --> 1:02:49.240 it worked. I just you know, I need to like 1:02:49.280 --> 1:02:53.560 sometimes verify these things. Verra in Hopland, California. 1:02:53.600 --> 1:02:54.760 What's up? What can we help you with? 1:02:55.480 --> 1:02:55.640 Hi? 1:02:55.760 --> 1:02:59.400 Thank you taking my call. Yeah, I have a printer. 1:03:00.320 --> 1:03:03.960 I'm looking for a recommendation on a direct USB printer 1:03:04.000 --> 1:03:07.000 where I can print directly from my USB drive. I 1:03:07.040 --> 1:03:10.800 have three printers that always don't work most of times 1:03:10.840 --> 1:03:15.479 don't work with my computer, and I'm looking for something 1:03:15.560 --> 1:03:18.360 under three hundred dollars a direct USB printer. 1:03:19.120 --> 1:03:22.560 So you want to print from a USB flash drive, right, 1:03:22.960 --> 1:03:23.320 and not go. 1:03:23.440 --> 1:03:25.880 Through my computer because something's wrong with my program. 1:03:26.120 --> 1:03:27.960 Okay, what about your phone? Do you need to print 1:03:28.000 --> 1:03:29.640 from that? No? 1:03:29.640 --> 1:03:31.480 No, so just you just want to plug in the 1:03:31.640 --> 1:03:37.440 little drive and print correct. Okay, Well, I would recommend 1:03:37.440 --> 1:03:40.600 a printer that has Obviously you need one with USB 1:03:41.240 --> 1:03:43.480 and then you need one that has I would probably 1:03:43.560 --> 1:03:45.600 want something that has a screen because you know, that 1:03:45.680 --> 1:03:47.600 makes it easier to see what's on that little drive 1:03:47.640 --> 1:03:50.400 to print it and select it, right, Do you have 1:03:50.440 --> 1:03:55.160 a preference for laser color anything like that? 1:03:56.120 --> 1:03:58.520 Just cheaper, the cheapest possible, because I've seen him for 1:03:58.560 --> 1:03:59.520 like five hundred dollars. 1:04:01.440 --> 1:04:01.720 Yeah. 1:04:01.760 --> 1:04:04.000 Well, I mean, look, I mean do you well, do 1:04:04.000 --> 1:04:08.840 you want laser or inkjet? That's the big question. I guess, okay, inkjet? Okay, 1:04:08.880 --> 1:04:11.120 So I think the the ink jets. 1:04:11.160 --> 1:04:12.160 I mean, look, it's. 1:04:12.880 --> 1:04:17.400 You know, the Brother printers fare really well, and I 1:04:17.440 --> 1:04:19.120 think that that's you know, that's what I've had for 1:04:19.160 --> 1:04:21.400 a long time. Right now, I have an HP, which 1:04:21.440 --> 1:04:24.880 I think is fine, and it does have the USB 1:04:25.040 --> 1:04:27.520 direct like you're talking about, but I don't think it's 1:04:27.680 --> 1:04:30.080 I'm I'm it's tough for me to recommend an HP 1:04:30.320 --> 1:04:32.680 because it's just like it's there. It does the job, 1:04:32.720 --> 1:04:34.400 but it's not very exciting, you know what I mean. 1:04:34.680 --> 1:04:37.240 And I feel like I'm always buying something for it. 1:04:38.000 --> 1:04:40.520 So the Brother I was just looking. I just literally 1:04:40.560 --> 1:04:42.440 booked marks some of these. They just come out some 1:04:42.480 --> 1:04:44.960 new ratings of the printers on in consumer reports and 1:04:44.960 --> 1:04:50.360 I'm looking at this, let's see all in one cartridge. 1:04:50.880 --> 1:04:52.560 So you don't want the ink tank, the EPs and 1:04:52.600 --> 1:04:55.080 Eco tanks rate really well as well, so I would 1:04:55.080 --> 1:04:58.440 I would look into those, that's the EPs and Eco 1:04:58.520 --> 1:05:01.120 tank and they've got you know, different model numbers depending 1:05:01.120 --> 1:05:03.040 on how much you want to spend. You said under 1:05:03.040 --> 1:05:05.240 five hundred. Five hundred is a pretty big budget, I'd. 1:05:05.120 --> 1:05:08.480 Say, but nearly ended the front of the three hundred. 1:05:08.680 --> 1:05:11.400 Oh okay, well, I mean look if you okay, So 1:05:11.560 --> 1:05:13.520 if I were you, I would just go to the 1:05:13.560 --> 1:05:16.840 Brother website and I would just pick one of the 1:05:17.240 --> 1:05:21.040 multifunctions that are under the inkjet multifunctions that are under 1:05:21.080 --> 1:05:24.440 three hundred, and they all rate really high. I had 1:05:24.440 --> 1:05:26.840 a Brother for about ten years and it worked great. 1:05:26.840 --> 1:05:29.680 It was a laser printer. But I would look for 1:05:29.720 --> 1:05:30.920 one of those that does that. I have to do 1:05:30.960 --> 1:05:32.480 a little more research to see if it has the 1:05:32.560 --> 1:05:35.240 USB plug in, just to make sure I've been doing. 1:05:35.520 --> 1:05:37.600 I can't seem to sign yeah, I can't seem to 1:05:37.600 --> 1:05:39.800 fine when they say, oh, USB connectivity, but. 1:05:39.800 --> 1:05:40.280 I don't want that. 1:05:40.360 --> 1:05:42.120 I want to do but the print that's the problem 1:05:42.320 --> 1:05:42.880 I'm having. 1:05:43.440 --> 1:05:47.480 Oh well, if it says USB connectivity, that typically means 1:05:47.560 --> 1:05:49.520 it'll take a flash drive. If it has a USB 1:05:49.640 --> 1:05:52.840 port on it, it will take that flash drive. I mean, 1:05:52.880 --> 1:05:55.000 I know mine does, and I've done that before. In 1:05:55.040 --> 1:05:58.000 a pinch, I usually print off my phone and you know, 1:05:58.200 --> 1:05:59.880 just when I need to do that kind of stuff. 1:06:00.080 --> 1:06:00.880 What model do you have? 1:06:01.000 --> 1:06:04.840 Then, Oh my gosh, I've I'm not at my house, 1:06:04.840 --> 1:06:07.840 so I don't know. It's a brother. I don't know, 1:06:07.880 --> 1:06:10.600 it's just a I just got it at Costco when 1:06:10.600 --> 1:06:12.200 I was there. It was like an impulse purchase. But 1:06:12.240 --> 1:06:15.040 it works fine. I mean, it's you know, I think printers, 1:06:15.080 --> 1:06:17.040 as long as they have the feature you want, that 1:06:17.080 --> 1:06:19.880 little flash drive, you're going to be fine. The main 1:06:19.960 --> 1:06:21.720 thing that I think you got to look out for 1:06:21.840 --> 1:06:23.920 is really the price of the ink. So my advice 1:06:23.960 --> 1:06:26.560 when you're buying a printer is, don't just look at 1:06:26.600 --> 1:06:29.280 the price of the printer that three hundred dollars because 1:06:29.320 --> 1:06:31.880 printers are cheap. It's where they get you is the ink. 1:06:32.080 --> 1:06:34.280 And so online, I just spent one hundred and fifty 1:06:34.280 --> 1:06:37.120 bucks on ink, which I'm pretty sure the printer itself 1:06:37.200 --> 1:06:38.400 was like one fifty. 1:06:38.560 --> 1:06:40.240 So that's what i'd recommend. 1:06:40.440 --> 1:06:42.920 So without because we're on the air live and I 1:06:42.960 --> 1:06:44.600 you know, I need to actually look at this and 1:06:44.640 --> 1:06:47.800 research what I'm gonna recommend for you. I've got to 1:06:47.840 --> 1:06:50.080 do that in you know, off the air, but I 1:06:50.120 --> 1:06:52.280 can email you what I think would be best for 1:06:52.320 --> 1:06:54.920 this out of these brothers. But I would say the 1:06:54.960 --> 1:06:57.760 Brother Printer's rate very highly. As long as they have 1:06:57.840 --> 1:07:00.440 that USB, I think that's going to be a solid choice. 1:07:01.200 --> 1:07:03.480 If you want the Epsen Eco Tank, that's also going 1:07:03.560 --> 1:07:05.280 to be a solid choice. Those are like the top 1:07:05.320 --> 1:07:09.600 two right now. I'd say, hps, you know they're they're there, 1:07:09.760 --> 1:07:12.200 and they're everywhere, right like, everywhere you go. You've got 1:07:12.320 --> 1:07:16.840 HP printers stacked up everywhere. Are they the best? I'm 1:07:16.840 --> 1:07:20.000 not sure. I don't really Personally. I think I'm just 1:07:20.080 --> 1:07:21.920 fine with the one I have, and I'm not sure 1:07:21.920 --> 1:07:24.320 if i'd recommend the one I have right but I'm 1:07:24.320 --> 1:07:26.800 looking at these ratings and the the Epsen's are sweeping 1:07:26.840 --> 1:07:29.320 the top, and so are the Brother printers, So those 1:07:29.320 --> 1:07:30.920 are the probably the ones that I go with. The 1:07:30.960 --> 1:07:33.439 Canons are also pretty decent, but they don't they don't 1:07:33.520 --> 1:07:36.080 rank as high. But if you're let me do this, 1:07:36.200 --> 1:07:38.240 let me send me an email hello at rich on 1:07:38.320 --> 1:07:40.520 tech dot TV, and I will come up with the 1:07:40.520 --> 1:07:42.360 printer that I think is the best, or I'll try 1:07:42.400 --> 1:07:43.760 it in the break see if I have some time 1:07:43.800 --> 1:07:46.480 to research and find an actual model number that I 1:07:46.480 --> 1:07:48.000 think will be the best for you for what you're 1:07:48.040 --> 1:07:50.760 looking for. Uh, do we have time? Let's go to 1:07:50.840 --> 1:07:53.400 Kevin in Colorado. Kevin, you're on with Rich? 1:07:54.880 --> 1:07:58.240 Yes, Rich, I'm looking for a GPS tracker to put 1:07:58.280 --> 1:08:01.680 in a like an enclosed trailer, a car trailer, and 1:08:01.720 --> 1:08:04.800 I have from some pretty expensive equipment in that trailer. 1:08:05.920 --> 1:08:09.600 And I keep hearing that some of these GPS trackers 1:08:09.640 --> 1:08:13.720 are pretty easy to defeat by seeds, And I just 1:08:13.840 --> 1:08:16.320 was looking for your opinion on which one, maybe, or 1:08:16.360 --> 1:08:17.320 which way to go on that. 1:08:17.960 --> 1:08:19.559 So you don't want to do something like an air 1:08:19.600 --> 1:08:22.120 tag like that seems too simple, right for this? You 1:08:22.200 --> 1:08:24.240 want something that actually connects. 1:08:24.680 --> 1:08:29.880 Yeah, a lot of the new GPS equipment will actually 1:08:29.920 --> 1:08:31.840 call you over the phone or give you an alert 1:08:31.880 --> 1:08:34.839 over the phone to tell you if if your trailer 1:08:34.920 --> 1:08:37.320 is moved or moving then where it's at. 1:08:37.439 --> 1:08:38.519 Yes, you want you want? 1:08:38.760 --> 1:08:41.519 You want like a heavy duty solution that's actually connected 1:08:41.560 --> 1:08:45.400 via cellular twenty four to seven and has the movement 1:08:45.560 --> 1:08:47.120 sensors and all that good stuff on it. 1:08:47.200 --> 1:08:49.680 Correct, Okay, right, so an air tag's. 1:08:49.400 --> 1:08:51.720 Not I mean for most people, you know, most people 1:08:51.760 --> 1:08:54.519 are just looking for a very simple solution, air tag tile, 1:08:54.600 --> 1:08:56.240 those kind of things are going to be just fine. 1:08:56.320 --> 1:08:58.680 But for you, I think you're going to want to 1:08:58.720 --> 1:09:02.160 look at something a little bit are powered. There's two 1:09:02.280 --> 1:09:07.280 companies to look at, and the first is called landairse 1:09:08.160 --> 1:09:12.599 dot Com and these are typically you know, the both 1:09:12.640 --> 1:09:16.360 of these companies do stuff for both businesses like corporate solutions, 1:09:16.360 --> 1:09:18.320 but also they make a consumer product. And the way 1:09:18.320 --> 1:09:21.400 that these things work is it's a small GPS tracker. 1:09:22.080 --> 1:09:24.520 It's got a battery, and it's got a cellular antenna. 1:09:24.960 --> 1:09:27.519 And so this is not gonna be free. You're gonna 1:09:27.520 --> 1:09:30.800 have to pay for both the tracker and also the 1:09:31.120 --> 1:09:33.920 cellular connection each month. And that's anywhere from you know, 1:09:34.080 --> 1:09:36.759 it could be ten dollars or more depending on the device. 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:40.719 So and then the devices themselves, they're not that expensive. 1:09:40.760 --> 1:09:44.040 I mean, it looks like you've got thirty dollars all 1:09:44.080 --> 1:09:46.479 the way up to one hundred and sixty nine dollars. 1:09:46.800 --> 1:09:46.920 Now. 1:09:47.000 --> 1:09:48.640 The difference and the thing you probably want to look 1:09:48.680 --> 1:09:53.559 out for is the power on this tracker. Is this 1:09:53.640 --> 1:09:55.599 tracker plugged in all the time so that you can 1:09:55.640 --> 1:09:59.280 get twenty four to seven, you know, anytime, or is 1:09:59.320 --> 1:10:01.479 this battery off braided and the battery on these things 1:10:01.520 --> 1:10:04.280 because they're running twenty four to seven, the battery use 1:10:04.360 --> 1:10:06.880 could be substantial. And then there's a third way to 1:10:06.960 --> 1:10:10.400 track which is a tracker that actually plugs in to 1:10:10.479 --> 1:10:13.760 what's called the OBD port on your car. Like it's 1:10:13.800 --> 1:10:16.040 that it's a little port like on the left hand side, 1:10:16.160 --> 1:10:19.040 kind of below the steering wheel to the left. It's 1:10:19.040 --> 1:10:21.920 like for diagnostics and things. So some of these trackers 1:10:21.960 --> 1:10:23.720 will actually plug into there. Since you said you have 1:10:23.800 --> 1:10:27.240 a trailer, I don't think that's the case here. And 1:10:27.320 --> 1:10:30.320 as for thieves, uh yeah, thieves are probably hipped to 1:10:30.360 --> 1:10:33.840 this kind of stuff there in many ways, is not 1:10:34.080 --> 1:10:36.960 really a there's not really a way to keep them 1:10:37.000 --> 1:10:39.200 from getting access to this thing unless you hide it 1:10:39.240 --> 1:10:40.600 on there or you have it in some sort of 1:10:40.600 --> 1:10:43.400 lock box that's you know, bolted to the device or 1:10:43.400 --> 1:10:44.120 to the trailer. 1:10:44.240 --> 1:10:46.200 So that's another option if you're worried about that. 1:10:47.240 --> 1:10:50.439 But land airc dot com is one and then the 1:10:50.479 --> 1:10:55.200 other one is tracky t r a c KI dot com. 1:10:55.439 --> 1:10:58.439 I've not tested the Trackie but from everything I'm looking at, 1:10:58.520 --> 1:10:59.840 it looks like you want to go with the track 1:11:00.160 --> 1:11:02.160 Pro because it's gonna cost you. 1:11:02.160 --> 1:11:02.680 A little bit more. 1:11:02.680 --> 1:11:05.439 It looks like it's forty bucks, but the battery life 1:11:05.520 --> 1:11:09.640 is going to be substantially better than the other, like 1:11:09.680 --> 1:11:12.679 the main model. So it says it's got worldwide coverage, 1:11:12.720 --> 1:11:16.879 advanced tracking, speed monitoring, geo fencing, it's got a strong magnet. 1:11:17.360 --> 1:11:19.960 So those are probably the two that I'd start looking at. 1:11:20.000 --> 1:11:24.360 Track you dot Com and landairseed dot com. Again, look 1:11:24.360 --> 1:11:27.920 at the battery life, look at the cost of both 1:11:27.960 --> 1:11:31.479 the device and more importantly, the long term cellular that 1:11:31.479 --> 1:11:34.920 you're gonna have to pay for for these tracking devices, 1:11:34.960 --> 1:11:37.200 because this is a bit of a bigger job than 1:11:37.200 --> 1:11:38.960 something you would use an air tag for. You know, 1:11:38.960 --> 1:11:42.000 if you got luggage thrown air tag in there, you know, 1:11:42.120 --> 1:11:44.120 anything you want to track thrown air tag or a 1:11:44.200 --> 1:11:47.639 tile in But these are much more going to ping 1:11:47.920 --> 1:11:51.840 the cellular connection when something happens here. Good question eighty 1:11:51.920 --> 1:11:54.120 eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to 1:11:54.160 --> 1:11:57.639 two four one zero one. This is rich on Tech. 1:11:59.160 --> 1:12:02.280 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:12:02.280 --> 1:12:05.639 out with you, talking technology the phone line is open 1:12:05.760 --> 1:12:08.240 eighty to eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven 1:12:08.360 --> 1:12:12.280 four to two four one zero one coming up this hour. 1:12:12.400 --> 1:12:14.960 We've got more of your emails, more of your questions, 1:12:15.040 --> 1:12:18.519 we've got the feedback, and we've got a guest, Trey 1:12:18.560 --> 1:12:23.960 Boje uh smart shopping expert at truetray dot com. She's 1:12:24.000 --> 1:12:26.120 gonna share some tips to help you get the best 1:12:26.160 --> 1:12:29.519 deals for Prime Day. I don't know if you notice this, 1:12:29.560 --> 1:12:31.559 and I'm not sure this is on your Amazon app, 1:12:31.600 --> 1:12:33.639 but it's certainly on mine. Maybe I'm in some sort 1:12:33.680 --> 1:12:36.960 of test group. But if you go to your Amazon app, 1:12:37.520 --> 1:12:40.519 they added a new price history feature. So if you 1:12:40.560 --> 1:12:43.639 go to any product on there, right by the price, 1:12:43.800 --> 1:12:46.920 at least on my app, it says, and I'm trying 1:12:46.920 --> 1:12:50.120 to load something up as we speak here, it says 1:12:50.160 --> 1:12:53.360 price history, and you can tap it and get a 1:12:53.640 --> 1:12:57.479 thirty day or ninety day price history, which is really 1:12:57.560 --> 1:13:00.679 handy for Prime Day. So right on to the price 1:13:01.080 --> 1:13:04.720 mindsets price history, I tap that and for this, uh, 1:13:05.520 --> 1:13:09.000 this aura frame I'm looking at, they're using their their 1:13:09.080 --> 1:13:12.720 rufus Ai and it says the current price of one 1:13:12.760 --> 1:13:15.679 hundred and forty nine is higher than the average featured 1:13:15.720 --> 1:13:18.240 offer price on Amazon in the past thirty days. Look 1:13:18.280 --> 1:13:27.320 at that, Amazon saying to itself like here thirty days, okay, 1:13:27.320 --> 1:13:30.400 it went down to fifty one dollars. Wow, that's really cheap. 1:13:31.200 --> 1:13:33.960 So it looks like this is just from their AI. 1:13:34.160 --> 1:13:36.400 So I wonder if you can just ask their AI 1:13:36.520 --> 1:13:39.240 on any page. Let me try that. So I'm gonna 1:13:39.280 --> 1:13:41.840 go to a different product here. Let's see, let's go 1:13:41.960 --> 1:13:47.840 to this uh fire HD ten fifty percent off for 1:13:47.920 --> 1:13:52.559 this uh this tablet okay. Now instead of tapping price history, 1:13:53.200 --> 1:13:56.880 I'm gonna go there's a little rufous question thing there. 1:13:56.880 --> 1:13:59.120 It is show price history. Okay, So I guess you 1:13:59.120 --> 1:14:02.479 could just ask their A to show price history. That's 1:14:02.520 --> 1:14:06.080 a really key feature for Prime Day because you can 1:14:06.120 --> 1:14:08.600 get really sucked into Prime Day with like all the 1:14:08.640 --> 1:14:09.400 pricing and stuff. 1:14:09.400 --> 1:14:11.840 But if it's not a real deal, don't don't buy it. Anyway. 1:14:11.880 --> 1:14:12.840 We'll talk to Trey about that. 1:14:13.560 --> 1:14:16.960 Uh let's see, let's go to andrew website for the show. 1:14:16.960 --> 1:14:19.200 By the way, Rich on tech dot TV, I put 1:14:19.200 --> 1:14:21.200 links everything I mentioned there. Rich on tech dot TV, 1:14:21.320 --> 1:14:23.440 Andrew in Orange County. 1:14:23.160 --> 1:14:27.640 What's up? Hello, Hello, I'm doing well. What can I 1:14:27.680 --> 1:14:28.120 help you with? 1:14:29.280 --> 1:14:32.400 Well, I've got about one hundred mini dvs that I'd 1:14:32.439 --> 1:14:34.280 like to digitize. 1:14:34.320 --> 1:14:37.120 And maybe eventually put them on YouTube something like that. 1:14:37.200 --> 1:14:40.760 But what is the best hardware and software to accomplish 1:14:40.800 --> 1:14:43.600 that and to obviously get the best resolution? 1:14:44.120 --> 1:14:46.599 Do you have a do you have a player? You've 1:14:46.600 --> 1:14:47.519 got a DV player. 1:14:49.160 --> 1:14:50.880 I have the old camera and it does play. 1:14:51.080 --> 1:14:54.400 Okay, Well that all the chords that. 1:14:55.840 --> 1:14:56.320 It works. 1:14:56.520 --> 1:14:56.800 Okay. 1:14:56.840 --> 1:15:00.640 Well, I did this project myself, d I Y, and 1:15:00.720 --> 1:15:03.120 so I can tell you what I did. And things 1:15:03.160 --> 1:15:05.880 have changed a little bit. I think the video editing 1:15:05.960 --> 1:15:09.800 is a lot easier these days because of technology. But 1:15:10.800 --> 1:15:13.800 I used the el Gato. It depends if you're on 1:15:14.479 --> 1:15:18.000 Windows or Mac, but I'll give you both. But and 1:15:18.040 --> 1:15:20.360 there's so many there's so many ways to do this, 1:15:20.680 --> 1:15:22.400 Like just the way I'm telling you is the way 1:15:22.400 --> 1:15:24.960 that I did it. But if you want to save 1:15:25.000 --> 1:15:27.360 yourself a headache, just bring it to someone. They could 1:15:27.400 --> 1:15:28.920 do it for you and put on a hard drive. 1:15:29.240 --> 1:15:30.800 But if you want to do it yourself, which is 1:15:30.880 --> 1:15:34.320 obviously cheaper and more hands on, and you know, if 1:15:34.360 --> 1:15:36.840 you have the time, do this yourself. But I use 1:15:36.920 --> 1:15:41.559 the el Gato Video Capture device and basically it's a 1:15:41.560 --> 1:15:45.439 little device that just sits between your computer and your 1:15:45.840 --> 1:15:48.960 your player, so it connects. Now, this is old school, 1:15:49.000 --> 1:15:51.559 so it's going to connect with those three analog cables 1:15:52.120 --> 1:15:56.200 which are let's see red, white, and yellow, got video 1:15:56.640 --> 1:16:00.759 audio those cables and then basically you're just gonna capture 1:16:00.840 --> 1:16:03.680 none of this. All this happens in real time, so 1:16:03.720 --> 1:16:06.479 you're gonna have to capture to your computer in real time. 1:16:06.560 --> 1:16:09.360 So you play the tape, you press recorder on your computer, 1:16:09.720 --> 1:16:13.040 it records it into like an H two six four file. 1:16:13.800 --> 1:16:16.919 So oh and this says it works with Mac or PC, 1:16:17.200 --> 1:16:20.240 so that's interesting. El Gato and they're they're a big 1:16:20.320 --> 1:16:29.120 brand in sort of basically do'll sell that on Amazon, 1:16:29.200 --> 1:16:31.400 So you can get that at Amazon and also Best Buy. 1:16:32.000 --> 1:16:36.320 And that's the easy VHS to DVD three and again 1:16:37.000 --> 1:16:40.439 old technology. It's just you connect your camcorder to the 1:16:40.479 --> 1:16:42.599 little device, you record and. 1:16:42.760 --> 1:16:43.519 You can edit. 1:16:44.640 --> 1:16:48.639 So those are the two basic devices that I've tested 1:16:48.680 --> 1:16:51.800 and I can tell you they work. The software is 1:16:51.880 --> 1:16:54.240 just okay on both of them, but it does the trick. 1:16:54.280 --> 1:16:56.439 And then once you get that, you want to probably 1:16:56.520 --> 1:16:59.320 clip your videos and edit them so you can use 1:16:59.320 --> 1:17:02.200 any software you want for that, you can use you 1:17:02.200 --> 1:17:04.960 know what's built into Windows, Windows movie Maker kind of thing. 1:17:05.000 --> 1:17:06.640 Let's see, I think they changed the name on that. 1:17:07.720 --> 1:17:10.760 Let's see, did they do that? Windows movie Maker, let's 1:17:10.760 --> 1:17:14.160 see discontinued. Okay, well then I thought that they had 1:17:14.280 --> 1:17:17.120 changed the name. But you know, you can download cap 1:17:17.160 --> 1:17:18.320 cut and just use that. 1:17:18.320 --> 1:17:20.439 That's free. Again. 1:17:20.520 --> 1:17:24.400 Adobe Rush is also good, and you know you can 1:17:24.439 --> 1:17:26.400 do that very easily to clip those things. If you're 1:17:26.400 --> 1:17:29.240 on a Mac, you can obviously use iMovie or Final 1:17:29.240 --> 1:17:31.439 Cut if you happen to have access to that software. 1:17:31.720 --> 1:17:34.920 But then if you look on Amazon for if you 1:17:34.960 --> 1:17:39.400 search video capture VHS to digital converter, there's going to 1:17:39.439 --> 1:17:42.240 be a million of these things on there, and a 1:17:42.280 --> 1:17:45.040 lot of them are cheap and cheaper than the two 1:17:45.040 --> 1:17:47.200 that I just mentioned. The thing I will tell you 1:17:47.680 --> 1:17:49.640 is that you get what you pay for, and what 1:17:49.720 --> 1:17:54.560 you're paying for really with Elgado or Roxio is the software. 1:17:55.080 --> 1:17:57.400 So you get one of these random capture cards. A 1:17:57.400 --> 1:18:00.559 lot of times they are just not very good software 1:18:00.600 --> 1:18:02.519 that you need to use this thing, So just be 1:18:02.600 --> 1:18:05.360 careful with some of the random brands. But with that said, 1:18:05.920 --> 1:18:09.240 they do make these little devices and I have not 1:18:09.320 --> 1:18:12.000 tested them, but like the first one that comes up 1:18:12.080 --> 1:18:14.519 is called I Record, and it's a little it looks 1:18:14.520 --> 1:18:17.320 like a little black box with a screen on it, 1:18:17.840 --> 1:18:21.240 and so you can plug your camcorder into that box 1:18:21.760 --> 1:18:24.720 directly and then just hit record it or record to 1:18:24.760 --> 1:18:27.160 like a memory card, and then you can plug that 1:18:27.200 --> 1:18:30.280 into your computer and edit from there. So that's another 1:18:30.320 --> 1:18:33.080 way of doing it. It's another option. But what I 1:18:33.200 --> 1:18:36.160 like about getting the convert I mean, either way, if 1:18:36.160 --> 1:18:37.960 this one works for you. I have not tested this 1:18:38.000 --> 1:18:41.360 one called clear Click. It's a little bit more expensive. Again, 1:18:41.560 --> 1:18:44.000 these are different ways of doing the same task. But 1:18:44.040 --> 1:18:45.479 at the end of the day, once you have these 1:18:45.479 --> 1:18:48.920 things recorded and kind of clipped and edited, you could 1:18:48.960 --> 1:18:52.000 throw them into Google Photos YouTube whatever you want. What 1:18:52.040 --> 1:18:54.160 I love about Google Photos when you throw these old 1:18:54.240 --> 1:18:56.640 videos in there, is it actually searches for people in 1:18:56.720 --> 1:18:59.840 the videos and puts them in your people list, so 1:19:00.400 --> 1:19:03.120 you can you know, like for me, let's say I 1:19:03.120 --> 1:19:06.479 had like a grandfather or grandmother in these videos, they 1:19:06.479 --> 1:19:09.519 would show up in these old videos when I search, 1:19:09.600 --> 1:19:11.639 which is really cool. So and you can also look 1:19:11.680 --> 1:19:15.160 for places and things like that, so digitizing your old 1:19:15.200 --> 1:19:19.120 stuff just truly unlocks it in so many ways that 1:19:19.720 --> 1:19:22.760 just flipping through something that's analog or digital just does 1:19:22.800 --> 1:19:25.880 not work. So it's it's really really cool, all right. 1:19:26.000 --> 1:19:30.920 Vera did email me, and I did find I looked 1:19:30.920 --> 1:19:33.800 at the printer that I thought was pretty good, that 1:19:33.920 --> 1:19:37.639 is top rated, and it is the Brother MFC Jay. 1:19:37.680 --> 1:19:44.839 Oh sorry, Andrew, thanks for the call. I just went like, directly, 1:19:45.160 --> 1:19:47.240 this is how distract this is. This is I'm gonna 1:19:47.280 --> 1:19:51.200 call this the TikTok effect. I'm literally sitting here talking 1:19:51.240 --> 1:19:54.040 about Andrew's issue and then I'm just like looking at 1:19:54.040 --> 1:19:57.160 my email and via the caller from earlier about the 1:19:57.160 --> 1:20:00.759 printer did email me to follow up. But the Brother 1:20:00.960 --> 1:20:06.720 MFCJ sixty ninety DW wireless color Inkjet all in one 1:20:06.800 --> 1:20:08.760 three point fifty, I know she said three hundred underd 1:20:08.760 --> 1:20:10.760 well at first set under five hundred, then she said 1:20:10.840 --> 1:20:14.400 under three hundred. So if you want this one looks 1:20:14.439 --> 1:20:15.960 like it has a dual tray. I don't think you 1:20:16.000 --> 1:20:18.360 need the dual trays because you're just doing something simple. 1:20:18.720 --> 1:20:22.160 So the one below this I'd probably recommend for you. 1:20:22.560 --> 1:20:24.439 And if you look at it right on the front, 1:20:24.840 --> 1:20:27.559 there's that USB port. She can plug your flash drive 1:20:27.600 --> 1:20:29.960 into there. It's got a nice screen. You can print 1:20:29.960 --> 1:20:33.400 stuff right from there. So that's the one that is 1:20:33.439 --> 1:20:35.320 top rated. But I think you need the one right 1:20:35.400 --> 1:20:39.960 underneath this, just because I don't think you need the 1:20:39.960 --> 1:20:45.000 the both trays there. So I'm looking at this one. Brother, Okay, 1:20:45.040 --> 1:20:48.920 here we go, brother, MFC J five eight five five. 1:20:49.520 --> 1:20:52.400 That one has it as well, and it's two hundred 1:20:52.400 --> 1:20:54.479 and ninety nine dollars. I think that's going to be 1:20:54.520 --> 1:20:58.160 exactly what you need. Randy writes in I'm looking for 1:20:58.200 --> 1:21:00.880 a good phone that takes great quality photos. Can you 1:21:00.920 --> 1:21:03.960 give me three choices at reasonable prices? 1:21:04.040 --> 1:21:04.640 Absolutely? 1:21:05.120 --> 1:21:08.240 So you want affordable, I think there's two two to 1:21:08.320 --> 1:21:11.719 choose from Google. Pixel nine A one of the best 1:21:11.720 --> 1:21:16.200 cameras for the price, great software, great image quality, seven 1:21:16.280 --> 1:21:19.799 years of support from Google. Four hundred ninety nine dollars, 1:21:20.439 --> 1:21:24.280 and it probably goes on sale for cheaper than that, 1:21:24.560 --> 1:21:27.040 so I would say four fifty you might be able 1:21:27.080 --> 1:21:29.479 to get this four. Let's see if it's gone on sale. 1:21:29.640 --> 1:21:33.000 Pixel nine A yeah, right now, it's still hanging at 1:21:33.040 --> 1:21:35.840 about four ninety nine, so you may find it cheaper 1:21:35.880 --> 1:21:38.439 over Prime Day, who knows. And then the other option 1:21:38.680 --> 1:21:42.960 is the iPhone sixteen E solid camera. Not as many 1:21:43.040 --> 1:21:45.240 lenses as I'd like. I think it's only just one 1:21:45.320 --> 1:21:48.439 lens on there. But it's easy to use. And of 1:21:48.479 --> 1:21:50.360 course you get Apple, and you get all the things 1:21:50.400 --> 1:21:53.439 that come with Apple, which is, you know, the Genius bar, 1:21:53.600 --> 1:21:56.240 the stores, the accessories, all that good stuff. That's five 1:21:56.320 --> 1:21:59.360 hundred and ninety nine dollars. So again, good phone takes 1:21:59.400 --> 1:22:03.640 great quality pictures. Three choices. I gave you two. I 1:22:03.680 --> 1:22:07.400 think above and beyond those two, I think those are 1:22:07.400 --> 1:22:09.479 gonna be perfect for you if you want a reasonable price. 1:22:09.520 --> 1:22:12.759 Tag eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight seven 1:22:12.840 --> 1:22:15.519 four to two four one zero one website, rich on 1:22:15.880 --> 1:22:17.840 Tech dot TV. While you're there, be sure to sign 1:22:17.880 --> 1:22:20.719 up for my newsletter. Got all kinds of good information 1:22:20.800 --> 1:22:25.920 in there. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:22:26.040 --> 1:22:29.160 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:22:29.360 --> 1:22:33.280 talking technology. Coming up this hour, we're gonna talk Prime Day. 1:22:34.640 --> 1:22:37.800 Checking the emails, Kurt writes in from Utica, New York. 1:22:37.920 --> 1:22:40.479 You talked about the epsom Eco tank printer. I found 1:22:40.479 --> 1:22:43.120 one on the side of the road, thrown out, but 1:22:43.200 --> 1:22:45.400 almost a full tank of ink and it works great. 1:22:46.200 --> 1:22:49.960 Now that's a win in my book. I mean, who's. 1:22:49.720 --> 1:22:51.639 Gonna throw out a printer with almost a full tank 1:22:51.680 --> 1:22:54.280 of ink? That's that's easily worth like fifty bucks that 1:22:54.400 --> 1:22:57.200 ink right there, Kurt. 1:22:57.240 --> 1:22:58.559 I'm glad it worked out for you. 1:23:00.120 --> 1:23:02.559 See here, Sherry writes in and oh, I have it, 1:23:02.720 --> 1:23:06.240 she said, I have the Amazon price history. Yay, much 1:23:06.240 --> 1:23:08.559 easier than Camel Camel Camel. When I'm on my phone. 1:23:08.600 --> 1:23:11.839 It'll be interesting to compare the two. I think Google 1:23:12.479 --> 1:23:15.160 Amazon was probably noticing that so many people were using 1:23:15.200 --> 1:23:18.719 Camel Camel Camel, and I'll be quite honest, the reason 1:23:18.760 --> 1:23:22.799 why they like you using theirs is because when Camel 1:23:22.840 --> 1:23:26.400 Camel Camel, when you pop a URL into them, they 1:23:26.439 --> 1:23:30.000 get a commission when you end up buying that product, 1:23:30.240 --> 1:23:32.599 and so that's part of their business model. But with Amazon, 1:23:32.640 --> 1:23:35.160 if you're just looking at their their Amazon price history, 1:23:36.000 --> 1:23:38.160 they don't have to pay that commission because you've stuck 1:23:38.240 --> 1:23:41.840 on the Amazon website. So that may just be one thing. 1:23:41.880 --> 1:23:44.320 I mean, obviously they're just maybe helping you out as well. 1:23:44.640 --> 1:23:46.559 So I wonder if you could do this on the 1:23:46.600 --> 1:23:50.160 Amazon website. Let's see here, I hate doing things live, 1:23:50.280 --> 1:23:52.360 like while I'm on the air, because it's like it's 1:23:52.400 --> 1:23:54.759 a little jarring when you're listening and you're trying to figure. 1:23:54.520 --> 1:23:56.960 Out, like what's he doing? But I know they have 1:23:57.040 --> 1:23:59.160 that rufous thing? Is it? Okay? 1:23:59.479 --> 1:24:02.720 So there's a little section of the Amazon when you're 1:24:02.760 --> 1:24:05.960 on Amazon and the desktop, it says ask rufus and 1:24:06.000 --> 1:24:08.479 then it says ask something else about a product, and 1:24:08.479 --> 1:24:11.479 I'm gonna say price history, and let's see if it 1:24:11.520 --> 1:24:16.799 works on the website, and sure enough it does. Okay, Wow, 1:24:16.920 --> 1:24:19.439 there you go. So if you want to see the 1:24:19.439 --> 1:24:23.760 price history on the website, on Amazon itself, just look 1:24:23.760 --> 1:24:26.240 for that little ask rufous underneath the picture of the 1:24:26.240 --> 1:24:29.960 product and where it says ask something else, Tap that 1:24:30.080 --> 1:24:32.680 and say price history. Let's see if it can give 1:24:32.680 --> 1:24:36.200 you a longer price history, say price history over one 1:24:36.280 --> 1:24:40.080 hundred and eighty days. Let's see if I can do that. No, 1:24:40.320 --> 1:24:42.479 it can't. Ninety days is the max. But anyway, that's 1:24:42.520 --> 1:24:47.080 a really handy thing. Let's see here. Let's go to Lewis. Lewis, 1:24:47.360 --> 1:24:52.680 you're on with Rich. Bye, Rich, how I'm doing fantastic, 1:24:52.760 --> 1:24:53.599 Welcome to the show. 1:24:54.439 --> 1:24:58.479 Thank you, listen. I'm an old man and I'd like 1:24:58.600 --> 1:25:02.200 to do interviews. And I was wondering if you could 1:25:02.280 --> 1:25:06.160 recommend a tape recorder, even though they don't call them taping. 1:25:06.280 --> 1:25:08.639 I found out they don't call them tape recorders anymore. 1:25:08.680 --> 1:25:11.360 I mean, not since Radio Shock out of business. 1:25:12.640 --> 1:25:14.240 Something that's easy to use. 1:25:14.800 --> 1:25:16.160 I have side issues. 1:25:16.320 --> 1:25:20.360 I'm still on a flip phone, So I was wondering, 1:25:20.560 --> 1:25:24.439 is there a recorder that I can use that is 1:25:24.520 --> 1:25:26.680 easy to use. I bought one and I wound up 1:25:26.720 --> 1:25:29.040 having to throw it away because I couldn't figure it 1:25:29.680 --> 1:25:32.919 figure it out. I wound up re racing by mistake. 1:25:33.080 --> 1:25:35.680 I mean, just anyway, I'm calling you to see if 1:25:35.680 --> 1:25:38.479 you had any recommendations for us old guys. We're still 1:25:38.920 --> 1:25:41.240 used to the old cassette recorders. 1:25:41.439 --> 1:25:44.920 Well, I mean, look there there are so many of these, now, 1:25:45.040 --> 1:25:46.800 do you so you want some? How are you going 1:25:46.880 --> 1:25:47.760 to listen to this? 1:25:49.760 --> 1:25:50.920 Well that's another thing. 1:25:51.040 --> 1:25:52.280 I thought I'd just play it. 1:25:52.280 --> 1:25:55.200 Back, Okay, Okay, Well that's fine. 1:25:55.240 --> 1:25:57.360 So you're gonna play it back off the device that 1:25:57.400 --> 1:26:01.479 you that you're recording correct? Well, look, I mean the 1:26:01.600 --> 1:26:04.360 number of the so you mentioned a couple of very 1:26:04.400 --> 1:26:07.040 specific things. I'm gonna start with the thing that I 1:26:07.040 --> 1:26:10.719 think is the best right now for most people, maybe 1:26:10.720 --> 1:26:13.479 not for your specific situation. But there's a device called 1:26:13.520 --> 1:26:18.760 PLoud p L A U D and what plod. Yeah, plaud. 1:26:19.120 --> 1:26:22.400 This looks like a credit card and it's super thin, 1:26:22.640 --> 1:26:25.080 and it's got a ton of storage on it and 1:26:25.320 --> 1:26:28.760 it's one tap and it records digitally. Now, the reason 1:26:28.760 --> 1:26:31.280 I don't think this one is good for you is 1:26:31.320 --> 1:26:34.840 because it sinks to your smartphone, and so you would 1:26:34.880 --> 1:26:38.000 need a smartphone for that to work. It also uses 1:26:38.080 --> 1:26:40.760 AI to slice and dice what you're saying, you know, 1:26:40.800 --> 1:26:43.960 whatever you said. You're doing recordings of interviews, so it 1:26:44.000 --> 1:26:45.440 would give you a summary. 1:26:45.000 --> 1:26:45.679 Of the interview. 1:26:46.000 --> 1:26:48.360 So I think that's best for most people that have 1:26:48.520 --> 1:26:52.479 a smartphone that wants something that does that really well. Now, 1:26:52.520 --> 1:26:55.960 by the way, all the smartphones have this functionality built 1:26:55.960 --> 1:26:58.720 into them. Whether it's the iPhone, whether it is the 1:26:58.760 --> 1:27:02.720 Pixel or the Samson, they all have a voice recorder 1:27:03.040 --> 1:27:07.040 that not only records, but also plays back and transcribes 1:27:07.200 --> 1:27:10.400 what is recorded. So that's that's you know, I'm just 1:27:10.439 --> 1:27:12.639 giving kind of big picture for a lot of people. 1:27:13.160 --> 1:27:17.000 Now for your specific situation, I think all you need 1:27:17.200 --> 1:27:20.160 is a digital voice recorder that sounds like what you 1:27:20.240 --> 1:27:23.800 need to me. And if you go on Amazon, you've 1:27:23.800 --> 1:27:26.320 got a couple to choose from. The brand that a 1:27:26.320 --> 1:27:31.200 lot of the journalists use is called Zoom Zom and 1:27:31.320 --> 1:27:35.160 so I would look at the Zoom. They've got one 1:27:35.240 --> 1:27:38.920 that is let's see here, one hundred and nine dollars. 1:27:38.960 --> 1:27:40.280 How much do you want to spend on this thing? 1:27:41.920 --> 1:27:45.080 Well, one hundred nine sounds reasonable. 1:27:44.680 --> 1:27:47.120 Okay, Well, this one is one hundred and nine. They 1:27:47.160 --> 1:27:50.000 make a bunch of different models, but they have one 1:27:50.040 --> 1:27:52.240 for I'm looking at what their most basic is. It 1:27:52.280 --> 1:27:55.040 looks like the one oh nine is their cheapest model. 1:27:55.439 --> 1:27:59.000 But Zoom is this is the h one and that 1:27:59.160 --> 1:28:06.400 is probably the simplest, easiest, most widely recognized recorder out there. 1:28:06.840 --> 1:28:10.160 And it has two microphones. It's got great audio quality, 1:28:10.160 --> 1:28:12.479 it's got a little screen that you can see if 1:28:12.479 --> 1:28:14.760 it's recording and things like that. Plus you can play 1:28:14.760 --> 1:28:18.080 it back and listen to it as well, all through 1:28:18.080 --> 1:28:23.880 that device. So I'd probably recommend that one number one correct. Yeah, 1:28:25.840 --> 1:28:27.800 and so oh look at that, and look at this, 1:28:27.920 --> 1:28:31.879 Look at this Lewis. It even has accessibility audio guidance 1:28:31.880 --> 1:28:33.360 function for the visually impaired. 1:28:33.720 --> 1:28:37.080 So that might be oh my gosh, oh right, that's 1:28:37.120 --> 1:28:38.920 why I called you there you go. 1:28:39.120 --> 1:28:41.160 That's a bonus right there, So i'd go with that one. 1:28:41.160 --> 1:28:43.720 It's called the zoom h one. Check that out. 1:28:43.800 --> 1:28:46.479 Otherwise, if you don't want that one, you know, they've 1:28:46.520 --> 1:28:48.920 got like a Sony model. I mean, these are just 1:28:48.960 --> 1:28:51.679 basically the audio cassette recorders that I had as a 1:28:51.680 --> 1:28:54.320 as a nerdy kid, but now they're just all digital 1:28:54.520 --> 1:28:56.240 and so it's like, you know, instead of a tape, 1:28:56.240 --> 1:28:59.599 they're just recording. But this this Sony one looks really nice. 1:29:00.320 --> 1:29:02.519 That's one hundred and twenty eight. Then they've got an 1:29:02.560 --> 1:29:06.559 off brand that is thirty dollars, So if you want 1:29:06.560 --> 1:29:09.280 that one, that's a super cheap brand. Rich on Tech 1:29:09.320 --> 1:29:11.240 dot TV, Lewis, I'll link them all up for you. 1:29:11.479 --> 1:29:14.439 Rich on tech dot TV talking Prime Day right after this. 1:29:17.680 --> 1:29:20.360 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:29:20.360 --> 1:29:24.280 out with you, talking technology. We're going to talk Prime 1:29:24.560 --> 1:29:27.040 Day in just a moment, But first I want to 1:29:27.040 --> 1:29:27.800 tell you about this. 1:29:28.800 --> 1:29:29.160 Chuck E. 1:29:29.320 --> 1:29:34.559 Cheese is coming out with something new, Chuck's Arcade. This 1:29:34.600 --> 1:29:39.080 is a modern arcade that blends retro and new games. 1:29:39.760 --> 1:29:42.280 So it's built with people like me and mind people 1:29:42.280 --> 1:29:45.760 who grew up going to Chuck E Cheese, and it's 1:29:45.840 --> 1:29:48.760 called all about nostalgia, but with a modern twist. You're 1:29:48.760 --> 1:29:52.320 gonna get the classic games like Donkey Kong, Mortal Kombat, Galaga, 1:29:52.720 --> 1:29:55.800 but also the new stuff that almost made me get 1:29:55.880 --> 1:29:59.200 sick at CS, the VR game, So, oh my gosh. 1:29:59.280 --> 1:30:03.000 Locations are now opening a couple malls, let's see Saint Louis, 1:30:03.040 --> 1:30:06.439 Oklahoma City, I'll passo, and some of them have like 1:30:06.479 --> 1:30:09.840 a pizzeria, retro merchandise and if you're wondering, are the 1:30:09.920 --> 1:30:15.280 animatronics there, they are, but they're not performing. They're almost 1:30:15.320 --> 1:30:17.639 like a museum piece. Like I think they just took 1:30:17.680 --> 1:30:21.759 the animatronics from all the decommissioned shows they have around 1:30:21.760 --> 1:30:24.480 the country and just put them in these new places, 1:30:24.520 --> 1:30:26.960 like just sitting there, like it's like kind of weird, 1:30:27.000 --> 1:30:30.559 like just staring at you. But each location is gonna 1:30:30.560 --> 1:30:33.760 be unique, so maybe there'll be some some folks that 1:30:33.920 --> 1:30:36.720 like want to visit all of them. But let's see, 1:30:36.720 --> 1:30:39.639 there are a list of locations and details that Chucks 1:30:40.240 --> 1:30:43.320 Arcade dot fun so I'm gonna go do a story 1:30:43.320 --> 1:30:45.800 with them. They're they're building one at the Braham Mall 1:30:45.960 --> 1:30:48.519 in California, so or in the LA area. So I'm 1:30:48.520 --> 1:30:51.040 gonna go check it out. You know, I love Chuck 1:30:51.080 --> 1:30:52.920 E Cheese, you know, well I did. I mean, I 1:30:52.920 --> 1:30:55.800 don't go there anymore, but but I brought my kids 1:30:55.800 --> 1:30:57.680 there for a long time, you know, and they were 1:30:57.720 --> 1:31:01.360 liking that stuff. And to me, I just a kitty gambling, right, 1:31:01.400 --> 1:31:04.960 It's literally like training your kids for Vegas like that 1:31:05.120 --> 1:31:07.519 and the other one, David Busters. It's like this, It's 1:31:07.520 --> 1:31:11.439 all what's the difference. It's all just like kitty gambling. Like, 1:31:11.520 --> 1:31:13.280 let's be real here, and like for me as an adult, 1:31:13.320 --> 1:31:14.560 I'm like, let's just cut to the chase. Let me 1:31:14.600 --> 1:31:16.960 go to Vegas one. Let me lose my money fast. 1:31:17.600 --> 1:31:20.760 All right, Let's let's get Trey Bosh here. Trey is 1:31:21.200 --> 1:31:25.680 the shopping expert at Truetrey dot com, True t r 1:31:25.880 --> 1:31:27.000 ae dot com. 1:31:27.640 --> 1:31:29.080 Trey, welcome back to the show. 1:31:29.760 --> 1:31:30.760 Thanks for having me back. 1:31:30.840 --> 1:31:31.040 Rich. 1:31:31.439 --> 1:31:33.160 So, did you ever go to Chuck E Cheese? 1:31:34.240 --> 1:31:36.160 I don't think I grew up in Massachusetts. 1:31:36.160 --> 1:31:38.840 I don't remember Chuck E Cheese until I think I 1:31:38.880 --> 1:31:40.280 heard about it when I was in college in New 1:31:40.360 --> 1:31:43.000 York City, so I must have missed it or something. 1:31:43.040 --> 1:31:45.479 But there were similar places like that, and I have 1:31:45.560 --> 1:31:49.240 to say, like the still animatronics in these new locations, 1:31:49.240 --> 1:31:50.200 I'd be curious to see. 1:31:50.240 --> 1:31:52.400 It's like if it feels like a wax museum or not. 1:31:52.640 --> 1:31:54.960 Yeah, it reminds me of that movie. I didn't watch it, 1:31:55.040 --> 1:31:56.839 but it's like called Five Nights at Freddy's. 1:31:56.880 --> 1:31:59.200 Did Bobo do you watch that? Did you see that movie? 1:31:59.360 --> 1:31:59.479 No? 1:31:59.640 --> 1:32:02.240 He's he did? I not seen him, but I have to. 1:32:02.320 --> 1:32:06.439 But you know the concept, right, Yeah, animatronics come alive 1:32:06.479 --> 1:32:07.960 and try to like hurt people. 1:32:08.080 --> 1:32:09.439 Yeah, pretty much. 1:32:10.640 --> 1:32:12.960 But that's the thing is like these animatronics are creepy enough, 1:32:12.960 --> 1:32:15.280 but the fact they're just standing guard there, like what 1:32:15.320 --> 1:32:15.719 the heck? 1:32:15.960 --> 1:32:16.360 Anyway? 1:32:16.520 --> 1:32:20.920 Okay, Prime Day twenty twenty five. It starts on July eighth, 1:32:21.080 --> 1:32:24.320 runs through July eleventh, And are we expecting it to 1:32:24.400 --> 1:32:27.840 be a big holiday shopping event this year? 1:32:28.880 --> 1:32:31.000 It is going to be a big holiday shopping event. 1:32:31.040 --> 1:32:33.800 I mean, it's interesting that for many years retailers were 1:32:33.840 --> 1:32:36.759 trying to make something out of July because it's slow. 1:32:36.840 --> 1:32:40.960 We're all taking vacations, we're traveling. So what Amazon Prime 1:32:41.040 --> 1:32:43.879 did is kind of solidify July as a shopping holiday, 1:32:43.920 --> 1:32:46.959 and then everyone else piled on top with their own sales. 1:32:47.479 --> 1:32:49.479 So I do think it'll be big, and I'm seeing 1:32:49.520 --> 1:32:52.479 some interesting sales that I'm going to take advantage of. 1:32:52.720 --> 1:32:55.880 But then it's really important for shoppers to look around 1:32:55.960 --> 1:32:59.440 as well, because there will be so many other retailers participating, 1:32:59.520 --> 1:33:01.240 you know, in and around that week. 1:33:01.479 --> 1:33:04.559 So basically Amazon gets us all sort of like jazzed 1:33:04.640 --> 1:33:06.920 up and ready to spend money. But then Walmart comes in, 1:33:07.040 --> 1:33:09.439 Best Buy, all these other online retailers and say, hey, 1:33:09.560 --> 1:33:11.280 come on over here, we got great deals too. 1:33:13.120 --> 1:33:16.040 Yeah, and that makes it kind of confusing for the 1:33:16.080 --> 1:33:16.800 consumer too. 1:33:17.000 --> 1:33:19.000 You wonder where do I shop? Where am I getting 1:33:19.040 --> 1:33:19.559 the best deal. 1:33:19.600 --> 1:33:21.920 That's the thing that troubles me a little bit about it, 1:33:22.240 --> 1:33:24.320 because I get so many questions about this, like where 1:33:24.320 --> 1:33:26.080 should I buy that laptop that I need for my 1:33:26.200 --> 1:33:28.120 kids college or you know, so I think it's hard 1:33:28.160 --> 1:33:29.040 to figure that out. 1:33:29.400 --> 1:33:31.360 Well, yeah, so I guess that's one of the questions 1:33:31.400 --> 1:33:33.599 I have because I just default to Amazon for pretty 1:33:33.640 --> 1:33:35.960 much everything, even though you know there may be better 1:33:36.000 --> 1:33:38.559 prices out there? Is there a one size and there 1:33:38.560 --> 1:33:40.000 may not be a right answer to this? Is there 1:33:40.000 --> 1:33:43.639 like a search engine for prices? Like if I type 1:33:43.640 --> 1:33:46.280 in the model of the laptop, is there one place 1:33:46.320 --> 1:33:48.400 that's guaranteed to like give me like all the prices 1:33:48.400 --> 1:33:49.559 that different retailers are not? 1:33:49.600 --> 1:33:54.280 Really, I think it's Google shopping. So you go to 1:33:54.320 --> 1:33:56.360 Google Shopping, you enter the name of an item, and 1:33:56.400 --> 1:34:01.040 it all wherever it's sold, whatever retailer, at what price, 1:34:01.240 --> 1:34:02.799 it all pops up in one place. 1:34:03.000 --> 1:34:05.000 That's a really good guide in my opinion. 1:34:05.200 --> 1:34:07.280 Okay, so Google shopping if you want to look for 1:34:07.320 --> 1:34:10.160 that stuff, And then what can we expect for this year? 1:34:10.160 --> 1:34:12.439 At number one's four days? I mean, this is like 1:34:12.720 --> 1:34:14.519 our wallets are just gonna be empty by. 1:34:14.360 --> 1:34:15.000 The end of this. 1:34:16.680 --> 1:34:20.760 Yeah, I mean I think that four days is potentially 1:34:20.760 --> 1:34:23.479 too long. I'm not quite sure why they're experimenting with 1:34:23.520 --> 1:34:27.439 this longer time, And the discounts that I'm seeing aren't 1:34:27.479 --> 1:34:30.320 as deep as I'm accustomed to around Amazon Prime, so 1:34:30.360 --> 1:34:31.120 it seems. 1:34:30.800 --> 1:34:32.479 A little bit more modest. 1:34:34.000 --> 1:34:36.880 But what Amazon has been sort of accused of or 1:34:36.960 --> 1:34:39.360 made fun of about in the past is that we're 1:34:39.360 --> 1:34:42.439 seeing sales in so many different things, so everything from 1:34:42.520 --> 1:34:43.840 toilet paper to tech. 1:34:43.920 --> 1:34:45.200 You know, it's everywhere. 1:34:45.320 --> 1:34:47.599 And so I do think that if you're an Amazon shopper, 1:34:47.640 --> 1:34:49.760 you're an Amazon Prime member, and you have some things 1:34:49.760 --> 1:34:51.519 on your list that you need to pick up anyway, 1:34:51.920 --> 1:34:54.200 Amazon Prime Day will be a good time to save 1:34:54.280 --> 1:34:56.200 a little bit of money. Just something to remember though 1:34:56.360 --> 1:34:58.960 we are seeing slightly higher prices right now because of 1:34:59.040 --> 1:35:02.479 the tariffs, and after July ninth, of course some of 1:35:02.479 --> 1:35:06.200 those bigger, scarrier tarffs might come into play, but we 1:35:06.240 --> 1:35:08.920 won't see those higher prices for a couple of months. 1:35:09.160 --> 1:35:11.760 So that's a long windy way to say it's a 1:35:11.800 --> 1:35:14.479 good time to get some shopping done while we have 1:35:14.600 --> 1:35:18.599 these these sales and just only slightly elevated prices. 1:35:18.920 --> 1:35:21.599 And I like the tip you you have for saving 1:35:21.640 --> 1:35:23.400 for later because I always tell people to do this 1:35:23.479 --> 1:35:25.880 as well, like you know, get the stuff in your 1:35:25.920 --> 1:35:28.479 cart now. So there's a difference you have your cart 1:35:28.520 --> 1:35:31.240 on Amazon that you've got your saved for later. Both 1:35:31.240 --> 1:35:33.599 of those places will eventually show you if an item's 1:35:33.640 --> 1:35:36.280 on sale, right they will, And. 1:35:36.240 --> 1:35:37.760 So I think that's a great thing to do. 1:35:37.960 --> 1:35:41.960 Wishless, same kind of thing and what Amazon is also 1:35:42.040 --> 1:35:43.920 really good at is that when you go to your 1:35:43.960 --> 1:35:47.320 cart below, they often say like, hey, do you need this? 1:35:47.479 --> 1:35:48.120 Do you need this? 1:35:48.120 --> 1:35:50.000 This is on sale and that's on sale, And so 1:35:50.120 --> 1:35:53.160 Amazon will tell you what you if what you typically 1:35:53.160 --> 1:35:55.040 buy is on sale. So they're going to hold your 1:35:55.080 --> 1:35:57.160 hand a little bit and guide you through. 1:35:57.840 --> 1:35:59.160 That's smart for them. 1:36:00.400 --> 1:36:03.360 What about this new, this new thing, today's big deals. 1:36:04.960 --> 1:36:07.280 Yeah, so this is brettan new So I've not experienced 1:36:07.280 --> 1:36:09.519 this yet, you know, I think, you know, Amazon is 1:36:09.560 --> 1:36:10.479 playing around a little bit. 1:36:10.520 --> 1:36:12.120 They're trying to figure out what's going to stick. 1:36:12.320 --> 1:36:14.840 It sounds like lightning deals, which they've done for many years, 1:36:14.880 --> 1:36:16.800 are still going to be there, but some of those 1:36:16.840 --> 1:36:19.120 other kind of buzzy terms that they were used, they 1:36:19.120 --> 1:36:21.160 were using in the past couple of years, have kind 1:36:21.160 --> 1:36:24.160 of drifted away. So I think this is the newest one, 1:36:24.400 --> 1:36:26.280 So we'll see how it goes. It looks to me 1:36:26.520 --> 1:36:29.760 like it's a lightning deal but bigger, you know, like 1:36:29.840 --> 1:36:32.320 lightning deal, but longer. I guess it's like the sale 1:36:32.360 --> 1:36:34.559 doesn't come and go in a couple hours. It lasts 1:36:34.560 --> 1:36:35.439 a little bit longer. 1:36:36.240 --> 1:36:39.000 And I was talking earlier in the show about this 1:36:39.000 --> 1:36:41.880 new feature that they've added to the because we always say, like, 1:36:41.920 --> 1:36:45.200 go to Camel Camel Camel to like price check things, right, Well, 1:36:45.280 --> 1:36:47.400 now it looks like Amazon is one upping them at 1:36:47.400 --> 1:36:49.080 their own game with this price history. 1:36:49.479 --> 1:36:50.759 Have you seen this on the app? 1:36:50.800 --> 1:36:53.000 You can you can ask for the price history from 1:36:53.040 --> 1:36:55.400 their AI or there's a link to it on the 1:36:55.439 --> 1:36:56.040 mobile app. 1:36:56.840 --> 1:36:57.880 I have not seen that. 1:36:58.000 --> 1:37:01.479 I mean, I usually use Camel Camel Camel or PayPal 1:37:01.520 --> 1:37:04.960 Honey because they have historical pricing. But that's very interesting 1:37:05.000 --> 1:37:08.559 that Amazon is doing that, especially because their prices go 1:37:08.760 --> 1:37:11.519 up and down constantly, So maybe they are kind of 1:37:11.560 --> 1:37:13.439 taking the bowl by the horns and trying to control 1:37:13.479 --> 1:37:14.080 the conversation. 1:37:14.760 --> 1:37:17.160 I my theory is that because let's say, when you 1:37:17.200 --> 1:37:20.160 go to Camel Camel Camel or or Honey and you 1:37:20.240 --> 1:37:22.519 click their link, you're gonna have to pay, like Amazon 1:37:22.560 --> 1:37:25.360 has to pay them a commission, right bright, Or if 1:37:25.400 --> 1:37:27.920 you're doing your own price checks on Amazon's website, you've 1:37:27.960 --> 1:37:30.720 stayed there, no commission, So that's just I don't know. 1:37:30.760 --> 1:37:32.719 That's a theory. But maybe they're just trying to be helpful. 1:37:32.720 --> 1:37:34.360 I don't know, I don't know. 1:37:34.439 --> 1:37:36.200 Maybe it's a little bit of both, you know, but 1:37:36.479 --> 1:37:39.160 just remember because there are so many other deals out there, 1:37:39.280 --> 1:37:42.479 don't don't stick just to Amazon. It's a buyer's market. 1:37:42.600 --> 1:37:45.720 You have opportunities to save everywhere. So what I like 1:37:45.800 --> 1:37:49.240 to do is to install at least one browser extension 1:37:49.240 --> 1:37:50.080 from a deal site. 1:37:50.120 --> 1:37:51.760 A coupon cabin happens to be my. 1:37:51.760 --> 1:37:55.960 Favorite for this because they'll you'll see pop ups that'll say, 1:37:56.200 --> 1:37:58.519 you know, you can get two point five percent cash back, 1:37:58.600 --> 1:38:01.720 or you can get five dollars off of this, and 1:38:01.280 --> 1:38:04.639 that occurs no matter where you're shopping, and then they'll 1:38:04.680 --> 1:38:07.200 run coupons for you at the end at checkout. So 1:38:07.400 --> 1:38:09.479 for me, if a tool does a lot of things 1:38:09.520 --> 1:38:11.280 like that and helps me save money, I'm all in. 1:38:11.479 --> 1:38:13.280 So just make sure you have at least one browser 1:38:13.280 --> 1:38:16.479 extension installed when you're doing the shopping, and just pay 1:38:16.479 --> 1:38:18.640 attention to those other sales that are coming. You know, 1:38:18.680 --> 1:38:21.920 we've got Walmart's having a big sale, target Best Buy Coals. 1:38:22.479 --> 1:38:24.599 One that I'm kind of excited about is Dollar General. 1:38:24.640 --> 1:38:27.080 They're having seven days of savings and you think, why 1:38:27.080 --> 1:38:29.000 does Dollar General need to have a big sale, But 1:38:29.560 --> 1:38:32.639 they have seventy plus items for back to school for example, 1:38:32.680 --> 1:38:35.360 that are under a dollar, and then you'll have things 1:38:35.400 --> 1:38:37.599 on sale on top of that, and that's a great 1:38:37.640 --> 1:38:39.599 way to save a lot on those things for your 1:38:39.680 --> 1:38:41.240 kids getting back to school time. 1:38:41.520 --> 1:38:43.799 And I love all the names of these other sales, 1:38:43.800 --> 1:38:46.679 so Dollar General, like you said, seven Days of Savings, Walmart, 1:38:46.720 --> 1:38:51.880 Walmart Deals, Target Circle Week, Best by Black Friday, and 1:38:51.960 --> 1:38:56.320 July Coal's Summer Cyber Deals. And then also, let's not 1:38:56.360 --> 1:38:59.320 forget my lows Rewards. What are they doing? 1:39:00.080 --> 1:39:00.680 Yeah, so my. 1:39:00.720 --> 1:39:06.120 Low's Rewards is a loyalty specific program, and you'll see 1:39:06.120 --> 1:39:09.480 this kind of coming and going within all of these retailers. 1:39:09.520 --> 1:39:13.600 You know, they're coming out against Amazon because Amazon you 1:39:13.840 --> 1:39:15.479 have to be a Prime member and that is a 1:39:15.600 --> 1:39:18.800 fee based feature. And so what some of the other 1:39:18.840 --> 1:39:21.920 retailers will say, well, you know it's for everyone, but 1:39:22.040 --> 1:39:24.320 if you're a Walmart Plus member, if you're a Low's 1:39:24.320 --> 1:39:28.200 Loyalty member, you get advanced notice or special deals. And 1:39:28.280 --> 1:39:30.120 so I think that's what they're trying to do is 1:39:30.160 --> 1:39:34.520 retain that customer but not be as strict as Amazon, 1:39:34.560 --> 1:39:36.040 which I think is a smart play. 1:39:36.560 --> 1:39:39.360 And then right now I'm putting you on the spot here, 1:39:39.400 --> 1:39:41.800 but right now aren't they doing like a dollar off 1:39:41.840 --> 1:39:44.080 gas or something. Isn't there some sort of gas promotion 1:39:44.160 --> 1:39:44.960 Amazon's doing? 1:39:45.680 --> 1:39:49.040 Yeah, And that felt a little bit too much for me. 1:39:49.200 --> 1:39:52.800 I think sometimes what Amazon does is they play around 1:39:52.880 --> 1:39:55.799 with too many things at once and it becomes confusing. 1:39:55.840 --> 1:39:58.680 So I'm just not sure if that gas discount is 1:39:59.200 --> 1:40:02.400 that production dip or helpful. But what they're doing I 1:40:02.479 --> 1:40:04.760 assume is that they're kind of duking it out with 1:40:04.840 --> 1:40:08.160 Walmart because with Walmart Plus membership, but you also have 1:40:08.240 --> 1:40:11.200 to pay for you get gas discounts, and so Amazon's 1:40:11.200 --> 1:40:13.360 may be like dinging against Walmart a little bit. 1:40:13.439 --> 1:40:14.320 That's that's my guess. 1:40:14.360 --> 1:40:16.920 Anyway, all right, we're going to leave it there, but 1:40:17.200 --> 1:40:19.479 we still think the Amazon Prime membership is worth the 1:40:19.479 --> 1:40:21.599 fifteen dollars a month or one thirty nine a year. 1:40:22.560 --> 1:40:23.360 For me, it is. 1:40:23.479 --> 1:40:26.120 I shot there frequently, especially, you know, I get pet 1:40:26.160 --> 1:40:29.040 food and just beauty supplies and things like that. I 1:40:29.080 --> 1:40:31.679 think that for every consumer, you should ask yourself every 1:40:31.800 --> 1:40:34.280 year as you come up for renewal. Am I using 1:40:34.320 --> 1:40:36.960 this as frequently as I need to? You know, remember 1:40:37.000 --> 1:40:39.360 that if you hit the threshold I believe it's twenty 1:40:39.360 --> 1:40:41.320 five or thirty five dollars when you order. 1:40:41.360 --> 1:40:42.799 You'll get free shipping anyway. 1:40:43.000 --> 1:40:45.759 So are you using those other things like photo storage, 1:40:45.800 --> 1:40:49.120 Amazon Video, Amazon Music? If you're using all those other 1:40:49.200 --> 1:40:51.840 features the free kindle book, then it's worth it. But 1:40:52.000 --> 1:40:54.479 if not, just you know, minimize the number of times 1:40:54.479 --> 1:40:57.000 you're ordering from Amazon. Hit that threshold and get free 1:40:57.000 --> 1:40:57.679 shipping anyway. 1:40:57.960 --> 1:41:02.160 All right, Trey Bodge being expert at true tray dot 1:41:02.200 --> 1:41:04.840 com t r U E t r a E dot com. 1:41:04.880 --> 1:41:05.720 Thanks for joining me. 1:41:05.680 --> 1:41:07.280 Today, Thanks for having me. 1:41:07.400 --> 1:41:09.360 All right, Coming up, we're gonna open up the feedbag 1:41:09.479 --> 1:41:13.760 right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 1:41:13.800 --> 1:41:16.400 on Tech. We're gonna open up the feedbag in just 1:41:16.560 --> 1:41:20.920 a moment. The first couple more things about Amazon. They 1:41:20.920 --> 1:41:26.680 are warning about fake Prime renewal scam emails. Amazon customers 1:41:26.720 --> 1:41:29.760 reporting fake emails claiming that their Prime membership is about 1:41:29.760 --> 1:41:32.080 to renew at a higher price. It may include a 1:41:32.080 --> 1:41:35.679 phony cancel subscription link that actually leads to a fake 1:41:35.840 --> 1:41:40.160 Amazon login page, so be careful. If you're in doubt, 1:41:40.160 --> 1:41:43.080 go directly to Amazon dot com or use the official 1:41:43.120 --> 1:41:46.879 Amazon app. You can also report fake messages to Amazon 1:41:46.920 --> 1:41:51.360 dot com slash reporter scam and set up two factor authentication. 1:41:51.640 --> 1:41:54.519 Please fore your Amazon account. That's a big one. Amazon 1:41:54.560 --> 1:41:58.640 dot com slash two s v T step to us 1:41:58.720 --> 1:42:01.400 set that up. They call it two step verification. And 1:42:01.479 --> 1:42:03.280 also I wanted to mention one more way to save 1:42:03.360 --> 1:42:06.080 on Prime Day. There's an extension that's brand new. We 1:42:06.080 --> 1:42:07.400 talked about it in the show a couple of weeks 1:42:07.400 --> 1:42:11.639 ago when it launched, called shopback dot com. I can 1:42:12.080 --> 1:42:17.439 tell you that I have successfully gotten eight dollars back 1:42:17.479 --> 1:42:18.759 for my Amazon orders. 1:42:18.760 --> 1:42:20.960 So every Amazon order, if you remember to do it. 1:42:20.920 --> 1:42:24.559 You activate the shop back and it gives you a 1:42:24.640 --> 1:42:27.400 dollar back on your Amazon order. Takes a little bit 1:42:27.439 --> 1:42:29.120 for it to all work out, but so far I've 1:42:29.120 --> 1:42:32.439 gotten eight successful orders. Half of my orders I forgot 1:42:32.439 --> 1:42:35.240 to activate the or I did it for my phone. 1:42:35.520 --> 1:42:37.120 But if you do it, you can get it. So 1:42:37.120 --> 1:42:39.280 I'll put a link on my website. Rich on tech 1:42:39.479 --> 1:42:42.679 dot tv and they've got all kinds of cash back 1:42:42.720 --> 1:42:45.000 offers on all kinds of websites, but the Amazon one's 1:42:45.080 --> 1:42:47.400 kind of cool. And during Prime Day they're giving you 1:42:47.479 --> 1:42:50.160 five dollars back when you spend one hundred dollars at Amazon. 1:42:50.880 --> 1:42:52.599 All right. Time for the feedback. 1:42:52.680 --> 1:42:55.080 These are the emails, the comments, and the questions I 1:42:55.080 --> 1:42:57.120 get from you. Go to rich on tech dot tv 1:42:57.680 --> 1:43:01.200 to submit them. Laura from Portland rights in you went 1:43:01.200 --> 1:43:02.040 to Mexico City. 1:43:02.080 --> 1:43:02.639 How exciting. 1:43:02.680 --> 1:43:05.719 I've been teaching myself Spanish for two years, thinking about 1:43:05.760 --> 1:43:08.799 running away to Central or South America. Didn't realize Mexico 1:43:08.840 --> 1:43:12.320 City was on a mountain. And you ate a grasshopper. Gross. 1:43:12.400 --> 1:43:14.559 I heard Bobo says he doesn't want to eat bugs. 1:43:14.560 --> 1:43:17.519 Happy birthday, Bobo. But I hate to break it to him. 1:43:17.520 --> 1:43:20.360 We already do more than you'd think. I'm vegan and 1:43:20.439 --> 1:43:22.439 I read a lot of ingredient lists. Let's just say 1:43:22.479 --> 1:43:26.200 I've learned some things, so have I What does it 1:43:26.200 --> 1:43:28.160 does it say grasshoper on ingredient list? 1:43:28.240 --> 1:43:28.559 Does it? 1:43:28.680 --> 1:43:28.840 No? 1:43:28.960 --> 1:43:31.640 They hide it. They put another name to it, like 1:43:31.680 --> 1:43:34.560 a food coloring. Oh, like a grand food coloring. Is 1:43:34.600 --> 1:43:37.439 a bug shell has like a beatle name of it. 1:43:37.800 --> 1:43:37.960 Well. 1:43:38.000 --> 1:43:40.479 Also, there's a sometimes at the airport they have like 1:43:40.520 --> 1:43:43.920 cricket protein bars. Yeah, and you wouldn't know it unless 1:43:43.920 --> 1:43:45.360 you read it and you're like, oh wait, I'm just 1:43:45.439 --> 1:43:46.240 about to eat cricket. 1:43:46.320 --> 1:43:50.120 Yeah, I'm good. No, we'll stand firm on that one. Bobo. 1:43:51.040 --> 1:43:53.400 Ronald writes in, I've had simply codes on my computer 1:43:53.479 --> 1:43:55.720 for months. You mentioned using it, but not once has 1:43:55.720 --> 1:43:57.880 a code worked for me. Some websites don't even have 1:43:57.920 --> 1:44:00.960 a promo box. Just today I tried ordering glasses from 1:44:01.040 --> 1:44:03.599 Glasses USA. There wasn't even a spot to enter one. 1:44:03.920 --> 1:44:05.800 But thanks for all your other great info. I'm really 1:44:05.880 --> 1:44:08.080 enjoying the free Perplexity upgrade you shared. 1:44:09.160 --> 1:44:09.559 Ronald. 1:44:10.040 --> 1:44:12.080 I love you, but I don't know what you're talking about. 1:44:12.160 --> 1:44:15.519 I went to the Glasses USA website. I tried it 1:44:15.520 --> 1:44:17.679 with a code from simply Codes and it worked perfectly. 1:44:18.200 --> 1:44:21.240 So I just go to the website simplycodes dot com. 1:44:21.280 --> 1:44:22.880 I don't even let me just is that the right 1:44:23.160 --> 1:44:26.840 simply yes, simply coodes dot com. Just search for the code. 1:44:26.840 --> 1:44:28.840 You don't have to install anything if you don't want to. 1:44:28.920 --> 1:44:30.920 But yes, there are there are It does work on 1:44:30.960 --> 1:44:34.639 that website. Georgia writes in, thanks for having Molly Frank 1:44:34.680 --> 1:44:37.280 on your show. Tech addiction is having a huge effect 1:44:37.320 --> 1:44:40.639 in our society. Oprah once had families give up tech 1:44:40.680 --> 1:44:43.479 for a week and share what they thought, what they 1:44:43.520 --> 1:44:46.320 went through. I hope you'll consider interviewing Jonathan. 1:44:45.960 --> 1:44:47.640 Hyatt, is it? 1:44:47.680 --> 1:44:47.840 Hey? 1:44:47.840 --> 1:44:49.080 I don't know how he says last name, but he 1:44:49.120 --> 1:44:51.800 wrote this book that I've read that was really good, 1:44:51.840 --> 1:44:55.880 The Anxious Generation, about the teen brain and phones. Both 1:44:55.920 --> 1:44:59.479 would be great voices on this topic. Yes, I Jonathan, 1:44:59.520 --> 1:45:01.640 I did read to a long time ago, and he 1:45:01.680 --> 1:45:05.880 said no, but he gave us someone else. He said, look, 1:45:05.920 --> 1:45:07.639 and he was very nice about it. He said, look, 1:45:07.680 --> 1:45:10.479 I'm very busy, but you can interview this person. So 1:45:10.560 --> 1:45:13.240 he was very nice about it. You know that book 1:45:13.360 --> 1:45:17.479 was very very well received. John writes in just listen 1:45:17.560 --> 1:45:20.360 to your report on the NINA conference in Long Beach, 1:45:20.400 --> 1:45:23.439 for being a retired nine one one dispatcher and former 1:45:24.000 --> 1:45:26.920 NINA executive board member, I want to hey, Rich, I 1:45:26.960 --> 1:45:29.439 just wanted to share a tip about emergency contacts on 1:45:29.479 --> 1:45:31.400 your phone. I learned this the hard way when my 1:45:31.520 --> 1:45:35.080 son fractured his leg to reach me. He had mom 1:45:35.280 --> 1:45:39.160 ice saved in his phone ICE, meaning in case of emergency. 1:45:39.640 --> 1:45:42.160 I've now done this for my whole family. Love your show. 1:45:43.280 --> 1:45:46.840 That's a great start, Diane, But here's the thing. If 1:45:46.880 --> 1:45:49.599 someone can't unlock your phone, they may not be able 1:45:49.640 --> 1:45:53.560 to access those ICE calls, those contacts. 1:45:53.880 --> 1:45:54.880 So when you set up your. 1:45:54.880 --> 1:45:57.559 Phone, be sure to go into those emergency settings I 1:45:57.640 --> 1:46:01.479 mentioned to actually set up your emergency contact those people 1:46:01.760 --> 1:46:05.519 the first responders can access even if your phone is locked. 1:46:06.840 --> 1:46:09.479 Ray from Honolulu writes in I enjoy your show and 1:46:09.479 --> 1:46:12.560 I listen to the podcast every Sunday here in Honolulu. 1:46:12.600 --> 1:46:15.880 I also catch you on WOR in New York now 1:46:16.000 --> 1:46:21.240 and then thank you Ray Brandon from Texas, just once 1:46:21.320 --> 1:46:23.320 to say I've been listening for years and really enjoy 1:46:23.400 --> 1:46:26.920 your content, even as someone who's worked in it most 1:46:26.960 --> 1:46:33.040 of my life. Let's see who else here? So many emails, 1:46:34.600 --> 1:46:37.679 let's see. Oh, we've got tons of emails about Yahoo 1:46:37.720 --> 1:46:42.080 email not working properly, can't read them all here. Let's 1:46:42.080 --> 1:46:46.320 see here we've got Karen writing in on X listening 1:46:46.400 --> 1:46:48.880 to the June twenty eighth episode. I heard I heard 1:46:48.920 --> 1:46:52.400 a caller ask about digital storage for receipts and paperwork. 1:46:52.840 --> 1:46:55.960 I use Microsoft's one note built in camera tool. It's 1:46:55.960 --> 1:47:00.480 available on iPad or Android. Easy to annotate and automatically 1:47:00.479 --> 1:47:04.600 search images for text, easy and free solution. And I 1:47:04.600 --> 1:47:07.240 think we had one nice made my day email here 1:47:08.080 --> 1:47:11.519 that I can't find right now. So oh well, all right, Yep, 1:47:11.640 --> 1:47:15.920 can't find that one, Bobo. Do we run a little? Oh, 1:47:15.920 --> 1:47:18.960 here we go, Kenneth writes in thank you. You have 1:47:19.040 --> 1:47:21.840 a great show, one that provides a valuable service to 1:47:21.840 --> 1:47:23.680 your listeners. All right, that's gonna do it for this 1:47:23.720 --> 1:47:25.400 episode of the show. You can find everything I mentioned 1:47:25.439 --> 1:47:28.120 on the website. Go to richon tech dot tv. Find 1:47:28.120 --> 1:47:30.320 me on social media. I am at rich on Tech. 1:47:30.400 --> 1:47:33.040 Next week we're going to talk to former Google executive 1:47:33.080 --> 1:47:36.559 and author of Yield How Google bought, built, and bullied 1:47:36.600 --> 1:47:38.040 its way to digital dominance. 1:47:38.400 --> 1:47:39.560 That's Ari Paparo. 1:47:39.680 --> 1:47:42.960 And then we're gonna hear from Samsung about their latest smartphones. 1:47:43.520 --> 1:47:45.320 Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways 1:47:45.360 --> 1:47:47.639 you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending 1:47:47.680 --> 1:47:50.160 it right here with me. Don't text and drive please 1:47:50.760 --> 1:47:52.640 for the safety of everyone. Thanks to everyone who makes 1:47:52.680 --> 1:47:54.639 this show possible. My name is rich Demiro. 1:47:54.960 --> 1:47:56.160 I will talk to you real soon.