Speaker 1: How to lock down your phone number so no one
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Speaker 1: This week, I'll take you to the NINA nine to
Speaker 1: one to one conference. There you'll hear about cutting edge
Speaker 1: technology designed to get you help faster and say more lives.
Speaker 1: Then later Selim ben nayat Nothing's AI and Services product lead,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about how the company is reimagining the smartphone.
Speaker 1: And later later later on, Trey Boj smart shopping expert
Speaker 1: at truetrade dot com is going to share some tips
Speaker 1: to help you get through the Prime Day, which is
Speaker 1: happening this week. Well, I hope you're having a fantastic
Speaker 1: Fourth of July weekend. We got to see some fireworks,
Speaker 1: got to celebrate with friends, and I hope you are
Speaker 1: doing the same. It wasn't lost on me that I
Speaker 1: was in London this week for an event by a
Speaker 1: startup called Nothing. I thought it was very ironic that
Speaker 1: I visited the place that I guess gave birth to
Speaker 1: our place here in America.
Speaker 2: And you know, it was interesting.
Speaker 1: I hadn't been to London in a long time, and
Speaker 1: so being there the week of our Independence Day just
Speaker 1: brought a lot of feelings in and a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: Think about how just think about, just for a second,
Speaker 1: how America broke free of England.
Speaker 2: I mean, really think about that.
Speaker 1: Like here, you are a place, just a collection of
Speaker 1: these little colonies across the pond, as they say, and
Speaker 1: this big old country that's been around forever just sort
Speaker 1: of loses control. I mean, that must have been really
Speaker 1: wild back in the day. Anyway, I digress. I'll share
Speaker 1: some thoughts about London later on, but let me tell
Speaker 1: you about Nothing. This is a company that's the name yes,
Speaker 1: Nothing and the name gives you a sense of kind
Speaker 1: of what they're all about.
Speaker 2: They're playful.
Speaker 1: It's a design oriented company that's been making phones for
Speaker 1: about five years now. A lot of the team is
Speaker 1: from another company is to cover a lot called OnePlus,
Speaker 1: but the founder there branched out and went on his
Speaker 1: own to create something new and different, and this is it.
Speaker 1: It's called the Nothing Phone. This is specifically the Nothing
Speaker 1: Phone three. Now, the company's made a few phones over
Speaker 1: the years, but not many of them were for the
Speaker 1: US market. A lot of them were sold what's under
Speaker 1: what's called a beta program, which means if you bought
Speaker 1: this thing, you had to be like a tech enthusiast
Speaker 1: because you only had fourteen days to return it and
Speaker 1: then you were on your own, no warranty, no support.
Speaker 1: But this new phone then Nothing Phone three will be
Speaker 1: sold in the US market, although I don't believe they
Speaker 1: have any direct carrier support, so you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to buy it from like a AT and T
Speaker 1: or T Mobile as far as I know, You'll have
Speaker 1: to buy it direct from them or from Amazon, which
Speaker 1: is gonna make it an uphill battle for this phone,
Speaker 1: which is a shame. Because I've been using it for
Speaker 1: the past week and I really like it. If you're
Speaker 1: watching streaming the show on KTLA plus, this is what
Speaker 1: the phone looks like. It's got this really cool clear back,
Speaker 1: it's got a whole bunch of cameras, and even this
Speaker 1: little display on the back they call a glyph matrix.
Speaker 1: It's like a little dot matrix display. Remember how I
Speaker 1: said this is a design forward company. You're either gonna
Speaker 1: love or hate the design when you see this phone.
Speaker 1: It also has a blinking red light on the back
Speaker 1: when you're recording. I mean, how cool is that? Like
Speaker 1: a nod to the old days of cam quarters, right.
Speaker 1: It's also a nice way in our record centric society
Speaker 1: to let people know that you are recording video or audio.
Speaker 1: Like I said, there's that little dot matrix screen. They
Speaker 1: call it the glyph matrix. This is a display that
Speaker 1: can show things like the time countdowns, but also there's
Speaker 1: fun stuff like a spin the Bottle game. I showed
Speaker 1: this to some folks yesterday at our Fourth of July
Speaker 1: celebrations and they're like, what do you mean Spin the
Speaker 1: bottle is on that phone? When was the last time
Speaker 1: you played Spin the Bottle I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: sixth grade, it's been a while, but let's play it tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was all adults in a lot of
Speaker 1: us were marriage so that was kind of weird. But
Speaker 1: there's also a magic eight ball. If the spin the bottle.
Speaker 1: Things not your style. But this goes to show this
Speaker 1: company is not trying to be the next Pixel, the
Speaker 1: next Samsung, the next Apple. They know that this thing
Speaker 1: will either, you know, make you love or hate it
Speaker 1: when you see it. Now, in five years, nothing has
Speaker 1: what they say three million fans, I'm guessing they've sold
Speaker 1: about three milli devices right from that number. Compare that
Speaker 1: to Apple, which sells about fifty million phones every three months,
Speaker 1: so yeah, they sell considerably more. But back to the phone,
Speaker 1: it's really nice. It's got a good processor, not the best,
Speaker 1: but it's a very capable phone. I've had no problems
Speaker 1: with it. They're actually using the latest battery technology, which
Speaker 1: is called silicon carbon, which is really cool because not
Speaker 1: many major phone makers are doing that just yet here
Speaker 1: in the US. That means the battery charges faster, you
Speaker 1: can pack more energy into a slimmer form factory form
Speaker 1: factory form factor. This one also charges up to uses
Speaker 1: fast charging up to sixty five watts, while the iPhone
Speaker 1: and Samsung are somewhere around forty five at the max.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if the iPhone is that fast,
Speaker 1: then you've got the software features. I'm gonna have an interview,
Speaker 1: like I said a bit later in the show, to
Speaker 1: talk about some of the reasoning behind Nothing's choices. But
Speaker 1: this phone is built with features designed to help you
Speaker 1: look at it less. Yes, how's that for a concept.
Speaker 1: It also runs a really nice version of Android. Say
Speaker 1: it's really close to the pixel, which is one of
Speaker 1: the reasons I love it. It's clean, It has a
Speaker 1: lot of nice but little useful touches in it, so
Speaker 1: they don't do a ton with the software. They just
Speaker 1: make it very useful and very appealing to the eye.
Speaker 1: A couple of features in this Essential Search. This is
Speaker 1: kind of like all your search on the iPhone, but
Speaker 1: it's much more useful because it searches both stuff on
Speaker 1: your phone, but when you ask something a little bit
Speaker 1: more complicated, it will reach out to AI for an answer.
Speaker 1: Then there's this thing called Essential Space. This is like
Speaker 1: an AI enhanced digital notebook. It can store your screenshots,
Speaker 1: your voice memos, and more. It uses AI to organize
Speaker 1: it all. So far, I can't figure out if there's
Speaker 1: any search functionality there, which would be very helpful, but
Speaker 1: maybe that's coming soon. Then there's this feature called flip
Speaker 1: to Record. This is a way to record meetings. You
Speaker 1: just press the button on the side of the phone.
Speaker 1: They've got this dedicated key and you flip your phone over.
Speaker 1: It will record and transcribe your meetings and give you
Speaker 1: a summary. Now, you're limited to about three hundred minutes
Speaker 1: for free each month, but if you're in meetings more
Speaker 1: than that per month, I think you need to reassess
Speaker 1: what you're doing with your life.
Speaker 2: Just kidding.
Speaker 1: People love meetings. People love to be in meetings. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is about meetings, like the before
Speaker 1: the meeting, the meeting, the after the meeting, Like just
Speaker 1: give me the information I need and I want to
Speaker 1: get out of my life.
Speaker 2: Then nothing.
Speaker 1: Phone three comes in white or black. Twelve gigabyte RAM
Speaker 1: plus two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage.
Speaker 2: That model will sell for eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Then there's a sixteen gigabyte RAM five to twelve that'll
Speaker 1: sell for a little bit more. But here lies the problem.
Speaker 1: This is an excellent phone. It's got three fifty megapixel cameras.
Speaker 1: I think they look great. I took this thing around
Speaker 1: London for an hour, snapping tons of pictures. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's one bad one in the shop in the bunch.
Speaker 1: I love the software. The hardware is capable. But the
Speaker 1: problem is no one here in the US is gonna
Speaker 1: buy it. You know why because think about it. If
Speaker 1: you can't get it AT and T you can't get it.
Speaker 1: Verizon you can't get it T Mobile. That's where people
Speaker 1: here in the US get their phones. They also like
Speaker 1: to add their phone to their plan and divide up
Speaker 1: the payments. This is how people buy things in the US.
Speaker 1: If you need help with it, you can't go to
Speaker 1: the Genius Bar. And that is all a shame because
Speaker 1: this funky little startup out of London is actually making
Speaker 1: a really good phone, but it's hamstrung. Only the nerdiest
Speaker 1: of nerds like myself and phone enthusiasts willing to pep
Speaker 1: up their iPhone or the Pixel or maybe their Samsung,
Speaker 1: is gonna seek this thing out. Nothing really needs something.
Speaker 1: See what I did there to help us break out
Speaker 1: of the smartphone rut, the treadmill that keeps us coming
Speaker 1: back to new iPhones every couple of years, new Samsung's,
Speaker 1: and maybe a new pixel. But I think if someone
Speaker 1: gets this device, they're gonna like it a lot. It
Speaker 1: looks a little weird, I'll admit that, But isn't that
Speaker 1: kind of fun these days? Like every phone I've tested
Speaker 1: over the past ten years, I've taken out at parties
Speaker 1: over the weekends, like literally day day in, day out,
Speaker 1: Nobody cares. I show them this phone, like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: the new Samsung is Okay, what's it do differently? It's
Speaker 1: got an extra it's got better cameras. Okay, Oh it's
Speaker 1: a new iPhone. Look the screen stays out all the time. Okay,
Speaker 1: why do I need that? No one cares. I literally,
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. When I had the brand new iPhone
Speaker 1: with the always on display, this a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to show these things to people. I
Speaker 1: made it a point when I went to my kids
Speaker 1: baseball practice to put the phone face up on the
Speaker 1: bleachers like at the game, to see if anyone would
Speaker 1: notice why my screen was on on the iPhone. The
Speaker 1: whole game with the time and the stuff that nobody
Speaker 1: said it word, nobody cared. So anyway, if you put
Speaker 1: this thing face down and people see it, they are
Speaker 1: going to ask you questions about it, and I think
Speaker 1: that's a good start. The Nothing Phone three is available
Speaker 1: for pre order now, open sales start on July fifteenth.
Speaker 1: If you want a link to see what it looks like,
Speaker 1: go to my Instagram at rich on Tech. I also
Speaker 1: picked up the Nothing headphones, which are equally as weird
Speaker 1: as well. I'll talk about them coming up, all right,
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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: My name is rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: We got lots ahead talking about tech, taking your questions,
Speaker 1: tech news, all kinds of great stuff right here on
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology on this.
Speaker 1: Is it July fourth weekend or fourth of July? I
Speaker 1: feel like that's a let's see July fourth versus fourth
Speaker 1: of July. I know that ap style. Okay, yeah, fourth
Speaker 1: of July, so it's not Yeah, it's not July fourth.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you could say whatever you want.
Speaker 1: By the way, I told you I went to London
Speaker 1: this week. It was only there for two days, which
Speaker 1: was kind of wild, very quick turnaround. But when I
Speaker 1: tell you that travel is so automated now, I don't
Speaker 1: think I had to interact with one person on the
Speaker 1: entire way from LA to London. And it's all automated
Speaker 1: where you basically scan your passport or your face. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really wild that you just go through these systems
Speaker 1: now that are just all automated, Like both here and
Speaker 1: when I got to London, it was all completely automated.
Speaker 1: The only downside I've noticed is that you don't get
Speaker 1: a stamp in your passport because it's all automated, so
Speaker 1: you can there was a sign on the wall that said,
Speaker 1: if you want a passport stamp, I think you could
Speaker 1: like go to some special window and they'll stamp it
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: But I you know, it's.
Speaker 1: Just like the changing way of I finally got global entry,
Speaker 1: and so I'm not kidding. When you come back into
Speaker 1: the US, there's like an iPad that you look at
Speaker 1: and before you even look this thing scans your face
Speaker 1: and somehow figures out that you know and opens up
Speaker 1: the door.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really, really wild.
Speaker 1: It's come a long way since the days when I
Speaker 1: was going to Japan and it would take you know,
Speaker 1: just getting in and out would take an hour or two.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Cheryl in Oregon. Cheryl, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. Hello Rich, Hello Cheryl.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for the best hardware to take videos of
Speaker 3: edible and medicinal plants and the best software to edit
Speaker 3: the videos. Back in the nineteen eighty I did this
Speaker 3: and at that time I was using I believe it
Speaker 3: was eight millimeter And things have really changed. And as
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the various choices, I'm getting quite confused
Speaker 3: as to what I really need because my needs are
Speaker 3: really simplistic.
Speaker 2: They do so Okay, So that was my question. Where
Speaker 2: are these videos.
Speaker 3: Living right now? They're on YouTube?
Speaker 4: They're very old?
Speaker 1: Okay, No, I mean like, where are the new videos
Speaker 1: that are where's the videos you're making?
Speaker 2: Where are they going to live social media?
Speaker 3: They're going to be both on YouTube and on my website.
Speaker 2: Okay? And are you shooting in four K?
Speaker 4: I don't know what.
Speaker 3: I'm going to shoot in. Like I said, last time
Speaker 3: I did this, I used eight millimeter and I've never
Speaker 3: used digital for making videos, OK. And I was looking
Speaker 3: at possibly even just using an iPhone and then using
Speaker 3: the editing called iMovie on my iMac. Yes, but maybe
Speaker 3: I need something that's a lie little more complicated.
Speaker 2: No, you do not. Don't.
Speaker 1: Don't complicate things when they don't need to be. I
Speaker 1: edit video for a living, and I can tell you
Speaker 1: my setup, and over the years it's actually gotten simpler,
Speaker 1: which is just wild. So it is so easy to
Speaker 1: create video for online number one. And I hang out
Speaker 1: with a lot of YouTubers. Ninety nine point nine percent
Speaker 1: of them shoot on their iPhone, So that's number one.
Speaker 1: All you need is an iPhone and you can use
Speaker 1: a new iPhone an old iPhone, it does not matter.
Speaker 2: Just get an iPhone. You'll be fine.
Speaker 1: And then for the hardware, like the computer, you need
Speaker 1: some sort of MacBook so or okay, my delineation with
Speaker 1: the laptop. If you're going to be moving around with
Speaker 1: your computer, get a laptop. If you're not going to
Speaker 1: be moving around, like if this thing's going to sit
Speaker 1: on a desk, just get a desktop. You're going to
Speaker 1: get better specs for the money, So don't buy a
Speaker 1: laptop if you're not going to be moving it from
Speaker 1: the place where you're editing or doing your work. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm traveling a lot. I'm always bringing my computer. That's
Speaker 1: why I have a laptop. If I was sitting at
Speaker 1: home editing all day, never leaving my desk, I would
Speaker 1: absolutely have a desktop, because you get more bang for
Speaker 1: your book when you go on the Apple website. There's
Speaker 1: really two options when it comes to the laptop, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick to that because I imagine that's what
Speaker 1: most people want. You've got the MacBook Pro or the
Speaker 1: MacBook Air. I can tell you I edit video for
Speaker 1: TV and I use my MacBook Air and it works
Speaker 1: just fine. I've never had a problem. If you're doing
Speaker 1: anything for social media, that's going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: My advice is to get the most memory, like the
Speaker 1: most ram that you can day one, and also the
Speaker 1: most storage that you can. And also do not get
Speaker 1: the base processor. Get one just a little bit higher
Speaker 1: than what they typically like, whatever the base model is
Speaker 1: that they offer, don't get that one. Get the next
Speaker 1: level up, okay, And then when it comes to actually
Speaker 1: editing this video, I would recommend final cut. If you
Speaker 1: want to pay for it, that's what I use on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. Final Cut Pro is really good, but
Speaker 1: it's really simple. It's similar to iMovie. You can start
Speaker 1: with iMovie. I think that's going to be a little
Speaker 1: simplistic for what you want. If you want to download
Speaker 1: cap cut to your computer, you can do that if
Speaker 1: you like.
Speaker 2: That program, they offer a free program for your computer.
Speaker 1: Adobe also has some video editing software that a lot
Speaker 1: of people like, Premiere Or They also have a thing
Speaker 1: called Rush, which is a little bit more basic. So
Speaker 1: those are two good options. And then the other thing
Speaker 1: I would recommend is really on your phone if you
Speaker 1: just want to edit on your iPhone. I was just
Speaker 1: using the brand new Instagram edits app and it is
Speaker 1: incredible for free, Like I couldn't believe it. Like I'm
Speaker 1: done with cap cut now because I don't need it anymore,
Speaker 1: and it's completely free and that works on your iPhone.
Speaker 1: So if you just want to shoot on your iPhone
Speaker 1: and edit on your iPhone, that's an option as well.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing I would recommend is if
Speaker 1: you need microphones.
Speaker 2: The Dji mics.
Speaker 1: Are pretty much the most amazing thing that I've added
Speaker 1: to my system over the years.
Speaker 2: So Dji Mike two.
Speaker 1: This is going to give you great audio from your
Speaker 1: you know, from your mobile setup and it plugs right
Speaker 1: into your iPhone or they record into themselves, no wires.
Speaker 1: When I tell you, Cheryl that this has gotten so
Speaker 1: much easier over the years, it really has. The only
Speaker 1: other thing I'd probably recommend is a tripod, and uh,
Speaker 1: I've got one linked up on my website that I like,
Speaker 1: a brand new one I'm using. I think it's called
Speaker 1: Ulawanzi and it's it's a really good little tripod that's
Speaker 1: super simple, lightweight, you can carry it anywhere.
Speaker 2: That's what I use.
Speaker 1: I travel the world and this is how I record
Speaker 1: my stories for TV and it works perfectly. It's simple,
Speaker 1: it's easy. Don't try to get complicated unless you're making
Speaker 1: a movie or something like that. If you're just doing
Speaker 1: social media video videos for YouTube and your website, that
Speaker 1: will be perfect. Thanks for calling eighty to eight rich
Speaker 1: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you how
Speaker 1: you can lock down yourself number so no one can
Speaker 1: steal it.
Speaker 2: That's coming up right here. I'm rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Well, you probably don't
Speaker 1: think about one until you need it. But the technology
Speaker 1: behind it is evolving and it could save more lives
Speaker 1: if it gets more modernized. That includes texting nine one one,
Speaker 1: also sharing your location automatically from your smartphone, which is
Speaker 1: happening in a lot of places. The goal, of course,
Speaker 1: is to make emergency response faster, smarter, and more effective.
Speaker 1: So recently I attended the National Conference where first responders,
Speaker 1: tech companies, and policy makers gather to discuss the future
Speaker 1: of nine one one and what it means for you
Speaker 1: to start. I spoke with Dale Curtis of the NINA
Speaker 1: nine one one association they put on the conference. He
Speaker 1: represents the twenty five thousand people across the country who
Speaker 1: pick up that call when you need help.
Speaker 5: So NINA represents twenty five thousand people who work in
Speaker 5: nine one one all across the country. There are six
Speaker 5: thousand emergency calls in this country. Almost every community or
Speaker 5: county has one right so it's the people who answer
Speaker 5: the calls, manage the calls, do the supervising, the training,
Speaker 5: and provide the technology.
Speaker 1: And what are some of the challenges facing nine to
Speaker 1: one one in our country?
Speaker 5: The perennial challenges in nine to one one are people, technology,
Speaker 5: and then funding and leadership, so there's lots of issues
Speaker 5: with recruitment, retention and taking care of those hardworking people.
Speaker 5: The technology, most number one centers are still using what
Speaker 5: we call legacy nine one one, which means you call them,
Speaker 5: you have a voice conversation. But there's a new technology
Speaker 5: called Next Generation nine one one, which is based on
Speaker 5: Internet and data protocol, so everything your smartphone can do.
Speaker 5: The NNAL one center ought to be able to do photos, videos,
Speaker 5: precise location. You could have your pre configured emergency medical
Speaker 5: information that could go on ammatically to NOMAL one. All
Speaker 5: those kinds of things that your your phone can do
Speaker 5: and we take for granted. But legacy no one one
Speaker 5: is just a voice conversation. Most places, you can send
Speaker 5: a text to nine one one. We always say call
Speaker 5: if you can, but text if you can't. Kidnapping situation
Speaker 5: or a domestic abuse situation, or you're afraid of making
Speaker 5: any noise, you can send a text to nine one
Speaker 5: in most places.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 6: America needs Next generation nine one one.
Speaker 2: They need it everywhere.
Speaker 6: You should get the same service, whether you're calling from
Speaker 6: Long Beach, California, or Long Island, New York. Everyone should
Speaker 6: have the same standard.
Speaker 5: And expect to get at a fast, efficient, effective emergency response.
Speaker 2: And the goal of all this is what save lives.
Speaker 5: Ultimately, lives are at stake. Seconds can make a huge
Speaker 5: difference between life and depth in every emergency.
Speaker 7: Don Berningham, I'm the executive director for the Industry Council
Speaker 7: for Emergency Response Technologies.
Speaker 2: What about AI? Are we going to have AI answering
Speaker 2: non onal one?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you'll see a lot of AI applications. A
Speaker 7: lot of companies have already begun to implement AI as
Speaker 7: part of their call handling system and their response systems.
Speaker 7: We're not currently seeing that for emergency calls. We are
Speaker 7: seeing AI used to answer non emergency calls, but certainly
Speaker 7: over time we're going to see more of it in
Speaker 7: use with emergency calls as well, and to pull other
Speaker 7: data into the center that can be used for first responders.
Speaker 2: When they arrive on the sea.
Speaker 7: But I think what you're going to see over time
Speaker 7: more multimedia applications with nine one one, So if you
Speaker 7: witness a crime, you can send a picture or a
Speaker 7: video to the center that they can pass on to
Speaker 7: a law enforcement officer. You know, really the problem is
Speaker 7: implementation and getting funding for it, and you'll find that
Speaker 7: around the country there's quite a large disparity between those
Speaker 7: states that have the funding to implement the technology and
Speaker 7: those that don't.
Speaker 8: Jim wolf A Murder Moral Solutions. We're right in the
Speaker 8: midst of significant evolution of technology that really accelerates the
Speaker 8: way in which we're able to respond to a call
Speaker 8: in a more informed manner. So when you dial nine
Speaker 8: one one from the telephone, it goes into what we
Speaker 8: call a peace app or public safety answering point. It's
Speaker 8: a nine one one center. You'll have a call taker
Speaker 8: that will answer to call nine one one, what's your
Speaker 8: emergency typically what you'll hear, and they'll start gathering information
Speaker 8: around where you located, what's happening, and they'll enter that
Speaker 8: into the computer system and then it will pass along
Speaker 8: to a dispatcher who will send it in a sign
Speaker 8: and resource whether it's fire, police, or ems to go
Speaker 8: to that call for service. So what we've seen nine
Speaker 8: to one one originally started in the nineteen sixties, primarily
Speaker 8: on a copper line that ran into a center. We
Speaker 8: still see this a lot around the country today, where
Speaker 8: it's a copper line running in and they use addresses
Speaker 8: primarily to get location. Well, today we know that about
Speaker 8: eighty percent or four out of five nine one one
Speaker 8: calls are being made on a cellular telephone. Google and Apple,
Speaker 8: we're able to send precise information so that when the
Speaker 8: caller calls in, they're able to precisely locate that spot
Speaker 8: on a map. It's incredibly helpful for nine to one
Speaker 8: one centers to be able to get people to the
Speaker 8: right spot more quickly. You know, there are ways in
Speaker 8: which people can go into programs like smart nine to
Speaker 8: one one dot com that allows people to be able
Speaker 8: to connect valuable information to their mobile telephone number around
Speaker 8: say allergies or maybe they have a child that has
Speaker 8: autism and they shouldn't be touched. So information for first
Speaker 8: responders that can be passed through regardless of where you're
Speaker 8: at in the country. It's a tremendous resource.
Speaker 2: What about the keywords detected I'm seeing?
Speaker 8: What's the AI from a nine to one to one
Speaker 8: standpoint really helps do some things that are revolutionary inside
Speaker 8: of a nine one one center, For example, being able
Speaker 8: to transcribe nine to one one calls in real time.
Speaker 8: That's huge, And then we can index it and characterize
Speaker 8: it in the way that we could search again to
Speaker 8: look for words like knife, gun, shooting, bomb fire. You
Speaker 8: get the example keywords where you can make automatic notifications,
Speaker 8: so commsupervisors and other people can begin to pick up
Speaker 8: on high risk events that are occurring now. Conversely, things
Speaker 8: and this is common every day around the country, around
Speaker 8: the world, is foreign language being called into a center
Speaker 8: that's not native maybe to the call taker. So using
Speaker 8: AI and emerging technologies to detect the foreign languages being spoke,
Speaker 8: to transcribe it in real time, and to provide the
Speaker 8: call taker with information back in their native language that
Speaker 8: allows them to make better, more in foreign choices about
Speaker 8: who to send, how to resource that call, and how
Speaker 8: to get people there more quickly. So, the FCCCENE recently
Speaker 8: commissioned a study that estimated that in the US alone,
Speaker 8: ten thousand lives could be saved annually with the reduction
Speaker 8: of one minute from the time in nine to one
Speaker 8: to one call is made until properly equipped first responders
Speaker 8: arrive at seat. That's so, when we think ten thousand
Speaker 8: lives annually, how can we accelerate it and how can
Speaker 8: we produce information that delivers a more informed response, or
Speaker 8: ways that technology can really help to be able to
Speaker 8: accelerate that in ways it was never seen before.
Speaker 9: Nora Lagrani with Aliyrium and I am the director of
Speaker 9: product for our new cloud call handling solution called Mira.
Speaker 9: Mira is what we believe is the evolution of call
Speaker 9: handling solutions. So you know, today we're getting new ways
Speaker 9: in which people can request assistance, whether it is sensors,
Speaker 9: whether it is your watches, whether it is you know,
Speaker 9: just general calling or even texting to nine one one,
Speaker 9: and all of that comes with important information that has
Speaker 9: to get to the first responder and the person that
Speaker 9: is responding to the call. And what Mira does is
Speaker 9: it helps make those connections deliver the right information at
Speaker 9: the right time to the person that's there in all
Speaker 9: of the different forms that it can come in.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of calls that come in for say
Speaker 2: the same things.
Speaker 9: So think about there is a car accident on the
Speaker 9: highway right and there's ten twenty thirty calls. People are
Speaker 9: driving by and let oh there's a car accident, let
Speaker 9: me dial nine one one. That's great, but the call
Speaker 9: takers taking that are now getting inundated with the same
Speaker 9: calls for the same incidents, but there's also other things
Speaker 9: going on, and so they have to quickly be able
Speaker 9: to go through those calls and be able to just
Speaker 9: tackle those. So what MIRAH can do is automatically set
Speaker 9: up an area where we say, okay, if you're calling
Speaker 9: from this area around this crash, we can play a
Speaker 9: message that says, hey, if you're calling about the crash
Speaker 9: on I ninety, then you know, police fire ems so
Speaker 9: on their way, thank you so much. If you're calling
Speaker 9: about something else, then stay on the line and then
Speaker 9: they're added to the queue. This helps kind of filter
Speaker 9: out those additional calls that are all around the same
Speaker 9: thing and really focus the call takers on kind of
Speaker 9: that main emergency is that are all different?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: That was from the NINA nine one one conference, and
Speaker 1: I know they mentioned that website in there to fill
Speaker 1: out a profile that if you call nine one one,
Speaker 1: it will put that information on the dispatch you person's screen.
Speaker 1: It's smart nine one one dot com smart nine one
Speaker 1: one dot com. You can go in there fill out
Speaker 1: information like allergies, household information, and if the dispatch center
Speaker 1: supports that technology, they can actually see that information when
Speaker 1: you call in, So I'll link that up on the
Speaker 1: website rich on tech dot tv. Also on the website,
Speaker 1: if you go there, you can get show notes. This
Speaker 1: is episode one hundred twenty eight, So if you go
Speaker 1: to the website you can see the show notes for
Speaker 1: everything I mentioned, including thes how you can listen to
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Speaker 1: a minute before we got to go to break, I'll
Speaker 1: do this quick quick quick question here. Let's see here
Speaker 1: Dave from California Rights and I got a question about
Speaker 1: selling home phone. So if I wanted to get rid
Speaker 1: of our landline, can the number we've had for forty
Speaker 1: years be added or forwarded to a cell phone? Check
Speaker 1: out porting it the idea of porting it to a
Speaker 1: virtual service. There's a website called number barn dot com.
Speaker 1: Number barn dot com. You can port it there and
Speaker 1: basically do a bunch of things with it from there,
Speaker 1: like forward it to another number or just keep it there.
Speaker 1: And so it depends how much you want to pay.
Speaker 1: It's two dollars a month for starting prices. That'll just
Speaker 1: keep the number active in your name, because once you
Speaker 1: get rid of this number.
Speaker 2: It's not easy to get back.
Speaker 1: So if you've had it for a long time, that's
Speaker 1: something you probably want to do again. Number barn dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, I will tell you how AT
Speaker 1: and T has a new feature to help you lock
Speaker 1: down your line if you don't want someone else to
Speaker 1: steal it from under you. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich one
Speaker 1: on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. AT and T has this new wireless
Speaker 1: account lock feature that lets you prevent any changes that
Speaker 1: are not authorized to your AT and T account, which
Speaker 1: is uh simswaps, any device swaps. So this is really
Speaker 1: for simswap attacks. So this is when someone basically takes
Speaker 1: over your cellular account, either changes your number to their
Speaker 1: device or physically removes a SIM card and puts it
Speaker 1: into another device. So this was a big problem. Both
Speaker 1: Verizon and T Mobile have ways of preventing this. AT
Speaker 1: and T was a notable holdout, but now they have it.
Speaker 1: So it's called wireless account lock. You can toggle it
Speaker 1: on in the my AT and T app look for
Speaker 1: the toggle switch. You can lock or unlock the account
Speaker 1: at any time. The main thing is if you turn
Speaker 1: on this lock, you're not gonna be able to switch phones,
Speaker 1: right like, you wouldn't be able to pourt out your
Speaker 1: phone number to a different carrier, and you would not
Speaker 1: be able to upgrade your smartphone. So with that in mind,
Speaker 1: you would have to turn this off before you want
Speaker 1: it to make any of those changes. That's the main
Speaker 1: thing you need to know. It doesn't really change anything else.
Speaker 1: But AT and T says that most of this fraud
Speaker 1: happens when someone pretends to be you, so they might
Speaker 1: call like AT and T and say, hey, you know
Speaker 1: this is me and I'm here's my They gather all
Speaker 1: this information about your account from somewhere online, mostly from
Speaker 1: data breaches or if they trick you into handing it
Speaker 1: over to them, and then they use that and they
Speaker 1: call and then by the way. Once they have your
Speaker 1: phone number, they go in and start hacking all of
Speaker 1: your other accounts, like your bank account, your crypto account,
Speaker 1: your email. Because now they have control of your phone number,
Speaker 1: that means they have control of your two factor authentication codes.
Speaker 1: They can get those. So this was a big problem.
Speaker 1: In some cases. Even employees at the wireless stores were
Speaker 1: in on it. And so if you enable this wireless
Speaker 1: account lock on AT and T, not even their employees
Speaker 1: can override it. So it's really smart and you should
Speaker 1: probably do it if you're not going to be changing
Speaker 1: your phone or anything, just to give you a secondary
Speaker 1: layer of protection. I think the carriers have gotten some
Speaker 1: more layers of protection built in, but this is a
Speaker 1: new one that just really locks down everything and says
Speaker 1: no changes to this account unless I go in and
Speaker 1: turn this off. So I made a whole tutorial on
Speaker 1: my website, rich on tech dot TV. If you go there,
Speaker 1: look for the story that says AT and T ads
Speaker 1: simswap protection. And I've put the instructions for not only
Speaker 1: AT and T, but also Verizon T Mobile, and then
Speaker 1: I've linked up instructions for Cricket, Google five, Mint Mobile,
Speaker 1: Spectrum Mobile, US Mobile, Visible and Exfinity. Almost all the
Speaker 1: carriers have some sort of provision of protecting your account,
Speaker 1: whether it is a pin code on your account or
Speaker 1: this physical lock on your account. Well physical, I guess
Speaker 1: it's a virtual lock, but I would check it out
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's go to Dan in San Francisco. Dan, you're
Speaker 2: on with Rich.
Speaker 10: Hey, let's thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Sure, what's up?
Speaker 10: Well, I've got an iPhone twelve Pro and just recently
Speaker 10: the flashlight and the front facing I guess I don't know.
Speaker 10: The main cameras stopped working. I checked my software is
Speaker 10: all up to date, there's no obstructions. That's hoping you
Speaker 10: can help me.
Speaker 1: With that, and both of those things just stopped working. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the front.
Speaker 10: Colt my selfie cam does still work, and I've tried
Speaker 10: it on I've tried the camera option on other apps
Speaker 10: like Facebook and Instagram, and and the camera works there,
Speaker 10: but it's just not on the It won't work on.
Speaker 2: The camera on the regular camera.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's not a physical hardware thing. It sounds
Speaker 1: like it's a software thing. What about the flashlight you
Speaker 1: said that doesn't work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and how is that? Okay? So when you how
Speaker 2: are you toggling on the flashlight on.
Speaker 10: The on the home screen. There's a little button down
Speaker 10: on the bottom left when I when I touch it,
Speaker 10: I feel that the vibration right, but the light doesn't
Speaker 10: come on.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, so it sounds like your flashlight could be
Speaker 1: at a low setting. That could be Number one. Have
Speaker 1: you tried swiping from the upper right hand corner to
Speaker 1: bring up control center on your phone?
Speaker 4: I have not.
Speaker 1: Okay, So when your phone is when you're looking at
Speaker 1: your phone, there's a way to swipe from the upper
Speaker 1: right hand corner and it brings a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: settings up.
Speaker 2: Do you see all those.
Speaker 10: I can find it? Okay, I'm talking on.
Speaker 1: Okay, got it? Okay, So what I would do is
Speaker 1: just check to see if the flashlight. If you swipe
Speaker 1: from the upper right hand corner when your phone is unlocked,
Speaker 1: you'll get what's called the control center. There should be
Speaker 1: a flashlight icon in there. Tap that flashlight icon and
Speaker 1: see if it triggers your flashlight. And then also you
Speaker 1: can press and hold that icon once it's well, depends
Speaker 1: on the version of your phone. It used to be
Speaker 1: press and hold. Now mine brings up a secondary thing.
Speaker 1: But you can either press and hold or you can
Speaker 1: see the little there's like a little section that shows
Speaker 1: up with the with the animation of a flashlight, and
Speaker 1: if you press that up and down, you'll notice that
Speaker 1: it adjusts the intense intensity of the flashlight the brightness.
Speaker 1: So you may have yours all the way turned down.
Speaker 1: I think that's what's happening here. It sounds like to me,
Speaker 1: but but that's what I would do, is check to
Speaker 1: see if you can. If you can toggle it on
Speaker 1: from control center. You may have to add that control
Speaker 1: in settings if it's not there, but it should be
Speaker 1: there by default. So that's the two things there for
Speaker 1: the camera. Since it's working in the other apps. It
Speaker 1: does sound like it's some sort of software issue. So
Speaker 1: if you have gone through everything like restarting your phone,
Speaker 1: which you've tried it sounds like, I hope you've tried,
Speaker 1: that you've updated your software, which it sounds like you've tried.
Speaker 1: I would make sure there's no screen time restrictions on anything,
Speaker 1: make sure you have no accessibility features turned on. The
Speaker 1: thing that you probably want to do first is there
Speaker 1: is an option in settings called reset all settings, and
Speaker 1: so you can go to Settings General and then it
Speaker 1: says transfer or reset phone. I know it sounds scary,
Speaker 1: but if you tap that, there is an option called reset.
Speaker 1: You tap that, and then there's an option called reset
Speaker 1: all Settings. I really wish that Apple would not hide
Speaker 1: this so deep into the settings, because if you see reset,
Speaker 1: you're not going to use it right because it sounds
Speaker 1: really scary. It sounds like it's going to erase everything
Speaker 1: on your phone. But if you tap reset all Settings,
Speaker 1: that's going to reset almost every personalized feature on your
Speaker 1: phone without resetting or without erasing any data. Try that first,
Speaker 1: restart your phone, see if the flashlight and the camera
Speaker 1: work properly there. If none of that works, then I
Speaker 1: would do what's called a erase all content in Settings.
Speaker 1: That's going to actually factory format your phone back to
Speaker 1: clearing everything out.
Speaker 2: And if things still don't work, make.
Speaker 1: Sure your phone's backed up before you do that, because
Speaker 1: you will have to bring the data back over. If
Speaker 1: it still doesn't work after that, you got to bring
Speaker 1: it to an Apple store. Eighty to eight rich one
Speaker 1: on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one more rich on Tech after this, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Hope you're getting or got some time with
Speaker 1: your friends and family this weekend, this fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 2: You know, we saw some fireworks. That's always fun.
Speaker 1: It's been a while since we saw him up close
Speaker 1: and personal like that, so kind of neat this hour,
Speaker 1: We've got Selim benaiatt Nothing's AI and Services product lead
Speaker 1: to talk about this new phone we were talking about
Speaker 1: earlier in the show, the Nothing Phone three.
Speaker 2: It's pretty unique.
Speaker 1: It's got some unique features, got unique software AI built in,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it is engineered to help you
Speaker 1: use your phone less, like all this doom scrolling we
Speaker 1: do all day, which I know we're all guilty of it.
Speaker 1: But this phone is it's got a little display on
Speaker 1: the back that will show your notifications and things so
Speaker 1: that you can leave it face down and focus on
Speaker 1: the people around you.
Speaker 2: Let's go to let's go to. Well, we got Frank.
Speaker 2: It looks like someone dropped off. We got Frank. Frank.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich. Oh, hi, Rich, this is thank job.
Speaker 4: I'm kling to find out if there's a good replacement
Speaker 4: for landline. I've been told of magic Jack as an option.
Speaker 4: I was wondering what you think of it, or you know,
Speaker 4: have a better option than using you know to replace
Speaker 4: the land line home?
Speaker 1: Uh, well, what are you trying to do with this
Speaker 1: landline phone? Like, are you just trying to have like
Speaker 1: a just your old line just with a with Wi
Speaker 1: Fi or whatever?
Speaker 4: Well, no, that the landline. Let me, I've had here
Speaker 4: for many years, I've lived here. But the main reason
Speaker 4: I want to keep it is because it's hooked up
Speaker 4: to my home alarm system and becomes a much bigger
Speaker 4: tack for me to get rid of it and go
Speaker 4: with a different alarm system. So I want I want
Speaker 4: to have a landline that works when somebody calls in
Speaker 4: from you know, any number.
Speaker 2: Okay, but but.
Speaker 1: Uh well magic Jack has been around for a long
Speaker 1: time and it's it. You know, it works as advertised.
Speaker 1: Let me see how much of it is these days
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars Now. The question with magic jacket used
Speaker 1: to require plugging into a computer for it to work.
Speaker 2: So uh, use your.
Speaker 1: High speed internet to connect to your magic Jack device?
Speaker 1: Do they make a standalone device? Uh?
Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I haven't looked at all
Speaker 4: the options.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm looking at this and it looks like
Speaker 1: you do have to connect this to some sort of computer, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that would be a little bit more tricky because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to plug this into your computer's USB
Speaker 1: and then plug the Ethernet into it, and then plug
Speaker 1: your phone line into it. So it's kind of like
Speaker 1: you need it sounds as far as I remember, this
Speaker 1: used to work. You had to have a computer running
Speaker 1: to basically work with the service the whole time. So
Speaker 1: I think a better solution for what you're talking about
Speaker 1: would probably be Umaoma.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So Uma they make a standalone device that you
Speaker 1: can plug in and it's just works as I mean,
Speaker 1: it does exactly what you're talking about. It just replaces
Speaker 1: your phone line with this device. So you plug in
Speaker 1: the device into your wall. You can either connect it
Speaker 1: via Wi Fi or you can connect it with an
Speaker 1: Ethernet and then you plug your phone into there and
Speaker 1: that's it. It just works like a regular phone line
Speaker 1: after that, so you can get you know, depends on
Speaker 1: the product you get. Let's see here, I'm looking for
Speaker 1: the basic home phone service is so the device is
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars one time costs and the monthly phone
Speaker 1: service is free. You have to pay taxes and fees
Speaker 1: which usually run about ten to twelve dollars a month.
Speaker 1: So that's probably what i'd recommend if I were you,
Speaker 1: just for the ease of use. And then you can
Speaker 1: also use this as a regular phone line as well,
Speaker 1: so you get unlimited calling and things like that. Oh
Speaker 1: right now they've got the fifty dollars off, so you
Speaker 1: can even do that as well. So the website, the
Speaker 1: website Frank is umaooma dot com. I think that's probably
Speaker 1: going to be a better bet than the magic jack
Speaker 1: for what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much for the advice. And as far
Speaker 4: as keep being able to keep the same number, you think.
Speaker 1: Yes, you have to do what it's called a poor
Speaker 1: in so you need to. You know, you'll pour out
Speaker 1: the phone number from your old device and you'll pour
Speaker 1: it into the new device. I would go on whatever
Speaker 1: carrier you have right now for that phone number. I
Speaker 1: would Google poured out and see what the instructions are
Speaker 1: because sometimes they're very specific, and then I would go
Speaker 1: to the UMA website and just google port in phone
Speaker 1: number UMA and get the instructions there. Read all those
Speaker 1: instructions thoroughly, and then you can pourt out your number
Speaker 1: from one place and bring it over to the other place.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty simple situation.
Speaker 4: All right, Great, thank you very much for good advice.
Speaker 1: All right, Frank Enjoy great question. Always when people want
Speaker 1: to keep their phone number or switch it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I've taken for granted that I've known about
Speaker 1: UMA for so long. I mean, Magic Jack's been around
Speaker 1: for a very long time as well, but it's still
Speaker 1: like not everyone knows about it. Let's see here we have,
Speaker 1: Greg writes in from Huntington Beach, Hey Rich with prime
Speaker 1: days coming soon, What are the best sounding Bluetooth always
Speaker 1: canceling headphones you'd recommend for top sound quality and value?
Speaker 1: Great question, Greg, I test them all, although I haven't
Speaker 1: tested the top choice, which is what everyone loves.
Speaker 2: I've tested the.
Speaker 1: Older model, but I haven't gotten around to the newer
Speaker 1: model yet. But I would say overall, the top noise
Speaker 1: canceling headphones, according to pretty much everyone I know, are
Speaker 1: the Sony wh one thousand x six. They just came
Speaker 1: out best overall, incredible sound, great noise cancelation, very comfortable.
Speaker 1: Those are what pretty much everyone I know uses on
Speaker 1: the long international flights we're taking, so i'd say that's
Speaker 1: number one. They're expensive though they're not cheap, but you
Speaker 1: were saying, you know, over Prime Day they'll probably maybe
Speaker 1: they'll go on sale. The problem with Prime Day a
Speaker 1: lot of times the main item does not go on
Speaker 1: sale like the current year. It's usually the year's past.
Speaker 1: But you'd be just fine with the XM fives or
Speaker 1: fours or whatever. But that's number one. Number two obviously
Speaker 1: the Bows quiet comfort headphones. Those are perennial favorites. Everyone
Speaker 1: loves those. They're gonna be just as expensive, but they
Speaker 1: might go on sale during the Prime Day as well. Now,
Speaker 1: if you have an iPhone and you want the best
Speaker 1: for the iPhone, the AirPods max USBC is really nice.
Speaker 2: They're brand new.
Speaker 1: They're very expensive, but if you have an iPhone, it
Speaker 1: keeps you connected to that Apple ecosystem, and that means
Speaker 1: if you have an iPhone and a Mac computer, they're
Speaker 1: gonna switch seamlessly between those two devices, which is really nice.
Speaker 1: They sound good, the noise canceling is good. Some people
Speaker 1: are turned off by the fact that they're very iconic
Speaker 1: looking those AirPods Max like you know, people weren't to
Speaker 1: the gym and things people think is a status symbol.
Speaker 1: I mean, they are expensive, so they probably are, but
Speaker 1: they do sound They do sound good, and they work
Speaker 1: very nicely with the Apple products. Now, if you want
Speaker 1: something you said best value anchor Soundcore Life Q thirty's
Speaker 1: are pretty good for noise cancelation and they're under one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. They'll probably be even cheaper during prime day.
Speaker 1: That's if you just want something that's pretty basic and
Speaker 1: not very expensive. Now there's two other pairs of headphones
Speaker 1: that I think are worth checking out, depending on what
Speaker 1: you want. The Nothing Headphones one which would I've been
Speaker 1: talking about today on the show Cool Design.
Speaker 2: I think they have great audio.
Speaker 1: I wore them pretty much the entire flight there and
Speaker 1: back to London, about ten hours each way.
Speaker 2: They sound excellent.
Speaker 1: They have physical buttons on them, which I love, and
Speaker 1: they're very easy to understand, so they've got pretty unique.
Speaker 1: The buttons on these things are something that you don't
Speaker 1: really see everywhere. It's got a physical on and off switch,
Speaker 1: it's got a physical button to pair them for Bluetooth,
Speaker 1: although I couldn't find it when it was on the plane,
Speaker 1: which was really annoying.
Speaker 2: It's kind of hidden.
Speaker 1: It's got a rotating button that also clicks, which is
Speaker 1: great for volume. And then it's got almost like a
Speaker 1: flipper switch button which can fast forward or rewind your track.
Speaker 1: Is like skip ahead, skip back, but if you do
Speaker 1: you press and hold, it is scrubs through your music.
Speaker 1: If it's on a supported audio program like I don't
Speaker 1: know which one supports. I try it on Spotify. I
Speaker 1: wasn't really sure if that worked or not. I didn't
Speaker 1: hear the scrubbing, but they say that some of the
Speaker 1: audio apps will support that, so that's really cool. Like
Speaker 1: if you want to rewinder fast forward like you did
Speaker 1: back in the old day on the tape, so it'll
Speaker 1: do that. And then it's got another physical button that
Speaker 1: will activate your you can program it to do a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of things like activate your AI assistant. So
Speaker 1: those are cool. And they come in at just three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, which I know is still expensive, but a
Speaker 1: lot cheaper than some of the other four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars headphones out there. So that's another one. And
Speaker 1: then finally Sos Ace. These are headphones. If you already
Speaker 1: have Sonos speakers or a soundbar, you want them to
Speaker 1: work with that. They're very comfortable. The noise canceling is great.
Speaker 1: I really like them a lot, even though I'm at
Speaker 1: odds with Sonos right now. But those sound good as well.
Speaker 1: So gave you a lot of options there, Greg, I
Speaker 1: think put them all in your cart, see which ones
Speaker 1: drop in price.
Speaker 2: And I think you'll be happy with any of those.
Speaker 1: You guys send me so many emails every week, so
Speaker 1: I'm just going to go through them this week. Down
Speaker 1: from spring Hill, Florida, says I just bought an inexpensive
Speaker 1: Samsung phone to use for calls and texts. I can
Speaker 1: send text fine, but I'm not receiving texts from iPhones.
Speaker 1: The store told me iPhone users may need to change
Speaker 1: a setting to send text to Android, but that's not
Speaker 1: realistic for my husband or friends. I can't afford to
Speaker 1: switch to an iPhone. Any suggestions, don I've never heard
Speaker 1: of a special setting that to receive text from an
Speaker 1: iPhone user, so I'm baffled. I think that whoever told
Speaker 1: you that at the store just wanted you to buy
Speaker 1: an iPhone, and that's not the case. SMS is universal.
Speaker 1: It works across every phone and every carrier all across
Speaker 1: the world. So the only thing I've noticed, and this
Speaker 1: is more of an Apple problem than your problem, is
Speaker 1: that if someone is trying to text you that has
Speaker 1: tried to text you in the past on an iPhone,
Speaker 1: it sometimes does not go through because I message gets confused.
Speaker 1: So what I would do, since you recently switch phones,
Speaker 1: is have that person say, hey, if you're if this
Speaker 1: text is not going through, delete the whole text chain
Speaker 1: and start over, and that typically fixes the problem.
Speaker 2: Now, my wife will fight me on this one.
Speaker 1: She'll say, well, group text don't work with iPhone and Android.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, they do. I'm on a lot of
Speaker 1: group texts with iPhone Android. They may not work exactly
Speaker 1: the same, and everyone in that message may not be
Speaker 1: blue Bubble, but it's still gonna send the messages and
Speaker 1: even reactions work at this point I've noticed. So it's
Speaker 1: with our cs and all that. Now, what kind of
Speaker 1: phone did you say you got inexpensive Samsung? I mean,
Speaker 1: unless it's a flip phone. Look, there's no issue with
Speaker 1: texting between iPhone and Android. The only issues are with
Speaker 1: the people that are on iPhone making fun of the
Speaker 1: people and Android.
Speaker 2: That's the only issue I identify at this point.
Speaker 1: Eight to eight rich one on one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: Coming up more of your emails. Plus I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1: Amazon is warning you to be careful. This is rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich Tech. Rich DeMuro here
Speaker 1: hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Uh, just looking at an email
Speaker 1: here from Let's see from Allen. He says magic Jack
Speaker 1: does allow to plug into Ethernet. Yes, but let's see.
Speaker 1: Uh hmm, okay, magic Jack requirements. We were talking about
Speaker 1: getting magic Jack versus Uma. But it's interesting, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. Magic Jack devices can be powered by
Speaker 1: a USB wall charger or a standard there you go.
Speaker 1: So it's uh, it looks like it needs a computer
Speaker 1: like it used to, but you don't need that anymore.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, in that case, I would say you
Speaker 1: might want to just look at the price of each
Speaker 1: and see how much magic Jack is for a year
Speaker 1: versus service with Uma. Uma might be too much depending
Speaker 1: so yeah, it looks like it plugs in. You need
Speaker 1: like a little USB adapter. That's what that you USBs for. Okay,
Speaker 1: got it. That's why I like having the email so
Speaker 1: we can get real time feedback on some of the
Speaker 1: things we talk about. Here two apps to tell you
Speaker 1: about this week. Number one, Rotten Tomatoes has launched an
Speaker 1: official app on iOS. And this is the This is
Speaker 1: the website that a lot of people like for their
Speaker 1: movie ratings. It confused me for so long, right, this
Speaker 1: whole idea of Rotten Tomatoes. I always thought that Rotten
Speaker 1: Tomatoes was a bad rating. I'm like, wait, that means
Speaker 1: it's good if it has a good Rotten Tomatoes Like,
Speaker 1: I never understood that with some proprietary algorithm that gives
Speaker 1: it a percentage twenty percent, thirty, fifty, sixty, seventy eighty
Speaker 1: up to one hundred percent, and the higher the percentage
Speaker 1: the better. Those critics like that, and I think at
Speaker 1: some point it's like certified fresh, right. And then they
Speaker 1: also do the popcorn Meter, which is the audience reviews,
Speaker 1: and so audience members can go on there and review
Speaker 1: the movie and rate it, and then you get that number. Now,
Speaker 1: most of the time those number can line up, but
Speaker 1: a lot of times they do not like a movie
Speaker 1: could be critically panned. You know, they don't like it,
Speaker 1: but the audience loves it, or the audience hates a
Speaker 1: movie but the critics liked it. So sometimes those numbers
Speaker 1: can be very different. But anyway, Rotten Tomatoes does have
Speaker 1: an official app for iPhones, So if you love Rotten
Speaker 1: Tomatoes you live and die by those scores. You can
Speaker 1: download this app and create a watch list of the
Speaker 1: movies you want to see, discover the movies that you
Speaker 1: want to watch, and I of course leave your own
Speaker 1: ratings and reviews. They also have built in AI called
Speaker 1: rt I don't know what that means, but you can
Speaker 1: search for movies and things. I asked like, what's the
Speaker 1: movie like back to the Future, and it said back
Speaker 1: to the Future. Said okay, what's something else like back
Speaker 1: to the Future. So it's still a work in progress
Speaker 1: and I don't think this is as full featured as
Speaker 1: my favorite app right now, which is called Just Watch.
Speaker 2: Just Watch is a lot simpler.
Speaker 1: This one will tell you Rotten Tomatoes will tell you
Speaker 1: where things are streaming as well, so if it's on
Speaker 1: like Netflix or Max or whatever, you can see that,
Speaker 1: but just watch will let you sort in so many
Speaker 1: different ways and also show you the stuff that's just
Speaker 1: playing on your streaming services. So if you're only paying
Speaker 1: for Netflix, you can filter all your movies and your
Speaker 1: watch lists just by Netflix, which is really handy. So again,
Speaker 1: Rotten Tomatoes did the thing that I don't like. But
Speaker 1: they came out on iOS first and then Android coming soon.
Speaker 1: I don't I mean, I get why these companies do it,
Speaker 1: but Rotten Tomatoes is a huge company, just come out
Speaker 1: with the iOS and Android at the same time. Why
Speaker 1: do you have to make us android or it's just
Speaker 1: Android folks in general wait, like, why give that one
Speaker 1: experience and then everyone else has to wait? So again,
Speaker 1: Rotten Tomatoes available on iOS now, Android version coming soon.
Speaker 1: Then the other app that I want to tell you
Speaker 1: about this week, which I really like too, is called
Speaker 1: Hello Weather. So if you're looking for like a simple
Speaker 1: weather app, I really like this one, and it's both
Speaker 1: on iOS and Android at the same time. Now, this
Speaker 1: app has been out for a while, but it just
Speaker 1: got a total redo, major overhaul. Everything from the design
Speaker 1: to performance they say is brand new. The app was
Speaker 1: completely rewritten, so especially on the iPhone, it's going to
Speaker 1: look a lot better, but it works great on the
Speaker 1: Android as well. And what I like about this app
Speaker 1: is it's just simple. You can see everything on one page,
Speaker 1: like really easily. So if I tap into Hello Weather,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the forecast, it's got your main forecast
Speaker 1: front and center right at the top, and then it's
Speaker 1: got this afternoon, tells you what's happening for the rest
Speaker 1: of the day. Then it's got this week and it
Speaker 1: shows you nice, easy to see stuff and that's it.
Speaker 2: It's very, very simple.
Speaker 1: And then if you tap Radar, oh, that's where they
Speaker 1: get you. You got to upgrade for pro feature. So
Speaker 1: if you want the radar feature, you do have to upgrade,
Speaker 1: and it depends on the price you know you want
Speaker 1: to pay either monthly, annually, or one time. I love
Speaker 1: how they say annually is the best deal for six
Speaker 1: dollars versus thirty dollars one time. Well, in five I've
Speaker 1: six times five five years, you'd be paying more than
Speaker 1: the within the one time, so it's not really the
Speaker 1: best deal anyway. If you're looking for another app that
Speaker 1: I really like, if you like, if you like your radar.
Speaker 1: There's an app called Tomorrow Let's see, it's called weather
Speaker 1: by Tomorrow. And the website, I believe is it's really
Speaker 1: tough to find because if you're searching weather online, it
Speaker 1: never comes up. It's Tomorrow dot io Tomorrow dot io.
Speaker 1: And if you go to their app. What I love
Speaker 1: about that is they've got this great storm tracker on
Speaker 1: there and you can see a map with the storms,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole storm, any storm that's in your area,
Speaker 1: like a thunder not a thunderstorm per se, but like
Speaker 1: a tropical storm or a hurricane. It will show you
Speaker 1: the trajectory of that storm. And it's really really good.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's at Tomorrow dot Io. I'll link both
Speaker 1: these apps. Are all three of these apps up to
Speaker 1: the website. Rich on Tech dot TV. All right, coming up,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Nothing about how they're reimagining
Speaker 1: the smartphone.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. John writes in
Speaker 1: you're Rich, you touched on Uma this morning. I've had
Speaker 1: it for thirteen years and I swear by it. I've
Speaker 1: literally saved thousands of dollars by using VoIP.
Speaker 2: By the way, great show. Thanks John. Uh.
Speaker 1: We've got a guest, Selim benaiet Uh. He is Nothing's
Speaker 1: AI and services product lead. I talked to him about
Speaker 1: how the company is reimagining smartphone interaction through software and AI.
Speaker 2: First off, how would you describe Nothing as a company?
Speaker 11: It's a company that tries to do something different in
Speaker 11: the consumer electronics space in a way. We want to
Speaker 11: bring fun back to technology and bire creativity.
Speaker 1: Why have a such a unique design on your phones?
Speaker 11: Because we believe the light needs to come back to
Speaker 11: the tech sector and having a more differentiated design that
Speaker 11: has a certain opinion has true value in the market,
Speaker 11: the value of people feeling more positive emotions towards the
Speaker 11: HeartWare device.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the phone three specifically, how does it
Speaker 1: make AI? I know you have a lot of experience
Speaker 1: in that. How does it make AI more useful for
Speaker 1: the average person?
Speaker 11: The sping we took with AI on phone three is
Speaker 11: really to create a more calm, reduced experience for people.
Speaker 11: Do not constantly need to check on my phone constantly
Speaker 11: feel like they need to react to notifications. For instance,
Speaker 11: we have Essential Search that just helps you find information
Speaker 11: much quicker by swiping up on the screen and just
Speaker 11: asking something a question. Then we have Essential Space that
Speaker 11: truly helps you remember what matters to you at the
Speaker 11: right time, right moment.
Speaker 2: You talked about that Essential search.
Speaker 1: Search is one of the biggest things we do on
Speaker 1: our phone that's rapidly evolving because of AI. Can you
Speaker 1: explain a little bit more about how that works on
Speaker 1: this phone and is it your first stop to do anything,
Speaker 1: whether it's looking for contact or looking up information.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a good observation. So first search truly is
Speaker 11: a strong entry point into trying to understand you as
Speaker 11: a user and trying to help you get stuff done
Speaker 11: on the phone quicker. And so it works that way.
Speaker 11: So you swipe up, you ask a question, and in
Speaker 11: the first instance, we look for the answer on the phone,
Speaker 11: perhaps it's a contact that you're looking for or an
Speaker 11: app on your phone, and if we don't find it
Speaker 11: on the phone, it gets sent to an LLLM that
Speaker 11: then gives you the answer immediately on the phone.
Speaker 2: Do you are you saying which one that is? Is
Speaker 2: it your own proprietary or it's.
Speaker 11: One of the lllms out there, and I'm not naming
Speaker 11: any names that just because we're trying to use the
Speaker 11: LM that will give the best experience for the user,
Speaker 11: and so it could be any of the ones out there.
Speaker 1: The presentation specifically mentioned doom scrolling, like our phones have
Speaker 1: just become a venue for doom scrolling? So how does
Speaker 1: nothing combat that? And they put a big emphasis on
Speaker 1: sort of being present with the glyph interface.
Speaker 2: Explain how you guys are tackling that problem.
Speaker 12: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 11: So we truly believe that today's devices are not here
Speaker 11: to sort of empower creativity anymore, and so we try
Speaker 11: to reduce the noise. When you look at the design
Speaker 11: philosophy and the AI software philosophy, it's truly trying to
Speaker 11: understand what features can we or what experiences can we
Speaker 11: implement that will give power back to the humans. So
Speaker 11: we want to put the user back into the center
Speaker 11: of the experience. And I'd say the glyph matrix, for instance,
Speaker 11: is a strong expression of that philosophy because you need
Speaker 11: to take the phone and put it face down onto
Speaker 11: the table, literally hiding the screen, and so this brings
Speaker 11: more into the experience and and sort of it feels
Speaker 11: like it's more care when you when you're then in
Speaker 11: track with your phone. I mean you specifically said you've
Speaker 11: got the feature of the flip to record, So if
Speaker 11: you're in a meeting, you flip your phone face down.
Speaker 11: What was the idea behind that, Yeah, it was for that.
Speaker 11: It's if you're in a meeting or in a conversation
Speaker 11: as we are right now. I think there's a big
Speaker 11: difference in trying to record the conversation in your brain
Speaker 11: or taking notes and truly being present us looking into
Speaker 11: the eyes and trying to understand what the conversation is about.
Speaker 11: And so for for us, the flip to record act
Speaker 11: as almost your second brain, or act as a companion,
Speaker 11: a helper for you to then be more present in
Speaker 11: the moment with the person you're talking to.
Speaker 1: The gliph in our face. We've talked about it a lot,
Speaker 1: but it's sort of evolved. It was used to be
Speaker 1: lights on the back of the phone. Now it's a
Speaker 1: digital display. Do you think that will bring added functionality
Speaker 1: to it?
Speaker 11: Yeah, truly, it's not just style, even though style is
Speaker 11: a big factor at nothing right but it's also functionality
Speaker 11: and functionality towards again helping someone be more present, more
Speaker 11: calm in an experience with a smartphone, your.
Speaker 1: Vision for the smartphone of the future. You've talked a
Speaker 1: lot about devices anticipating our needs. Does that happen with
Speaker 1: this device and will happen more in the future.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 11: I think a good angle to look at what we
Speaker 11: do in the Air and Services function at Nothing is
Speaker 11: that we want to help humans tap into their innate
Speaker 11: creativity more by being more present, by being more calm,
Speaker 11: by having experiences that help them sort of understand their
Speaker 11: own potential. And so definitely that's something we actively work up.
Speaker 1: So it's telling about being based in London. Smartphone companies,
Speaker 1: you know, you've got a lot of them in the US,
Speaker 1: a lot of them in China. You're in London. What
Speaker 1: do you think that means for Nothing as a company?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 11: On the one side, obviously, London is a tremendous place
Speaker 11: for talent, young talent. We have Imperial that just really
Speaker 11: helps me build the AI function because we want to
Speaker 11: double the head counting the AI function, And so obviously
Speaker 11: London is a global melting pot. High diversity meaning high
Speaker 11: diversity or thought meaning better product outcomes.
Speaker 2: At the end.
Speaker 11: And then I think also it helps us to remember
Speaker 11: that we are still an underdog and that we still
Speaker 11: need to fight to truly make that impact that we
Speaker 11: want to do.
Speaker 1: I feel like I got a lot of that sense
Speaker 1: on stage today that you're not trying to be every
Speaker 1: other phone company.
Speaker 2: Do you think that can help you win? Totally?
Speaker 11: I think if you ask us said nothing, and if
Speaker 11: you listen to our community, people crave a new, differentiated,
Speaker 11: opinionated experience and a product. And so we believe, you know,
Speaker 11: being away from sort of the brain trust that you
Speaker 11: have in SF or a Silicon Valley, or that you
Speaker 11: have maybe in other areas, that helps us have differentiated
Speaker 11: opinions and thoughts.
Speaker 1: For sure, it is so hard to get people, especially
Speaker 1: in the US, to think about different smartphones. Yes, we
Speaker 1: are dominated by a couple of big brands, Apple, Google, Samsung.
Speaker 2: How do you get someone to try the nothing phone? Yeah?
Speaker 11: I mean if you look at our customers, especially net
Speaker 11: new customers, the majority from then come from, for instance,
Speaker 11: an Apple background, and I think a lot has to
Speaker 11: do with the customer agreeing with the design and software
Speaker 11: opinion that we have and nothing, And so I think
Speaker 11: that trajectory will just continue, right, we will have an
Speaker 11: opinion about a specific experience, which is a calm experience,
Speaker 11: a reduced experience, and experience has put you more in control,
Speaker 11: and we believe more and more people will start to
Speaker 11: agree with that.
Speaker 1: You've delivered a flagship level phone at an eight hundred
Speaker 1: dollars price point.
Speaker 2: Do you think you've done pretty well with that? I
Speaker 2: would say so.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I think we're happy with the outcome because the flagship
Speaker 11: the phone free re represents everything that we've learned, everything
Speaker 11: that we believe in and made real, made to be
Speaker 11: holding your hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're pretty happy with it. Are you excited
Speaker 2: to get this thing into the hands of people? One
Speaker 2: hundred percent?
Speaker 11: I mean, trust me, when I saw the phones coming
Speaker 11: down from the ceiling and people literally jumping and running
Speaker 11: towards it to play with it, that was an awesome feeling.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's rewarding.
Speaker 1: It is rewarding, and it's a cool phone.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: It comes out on July fifteenth here in the United States.
Speaker 1: The website Nothing dot tech. If you want a link
Speaker 1: to it, you can go to my website rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV. All right, coming up, we'll take some
Speaker 1: more calls to triple eight rich one oh one eighty
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. I
Speaker 1: see you waiting on hold. We'll get back to you
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to rich On Tech. So
Speaker 1: the stuff you don't see that happens during the breaks.
Speaker 1: Kim and I are sitting here figuring out RCS because
Speaker 1: we had that email about you know, the RCS not
Speaker 1: going through, and Kim says, no, there's definitely issues with it.
Speaker 1: I said, no, there should not be, and so I
Speaker 1: got the Nothing phone and I've been texting Kim our
Speaker 1: call screener with you know, the messages app, and it's
Speaker 1: really funny because some of the messages are going through
Speaker 1: as RCS and some are going through as SMS. And
Speaker 1: so I said, all right, let me try to send
Speaker 1: you a big file, like a video file and see
Speaker 1: if that comes through. And she said, yes, it came
Speaker 1: out good. Not the size of a pinhead and fuzzy.
Speaker 1: It's a huge improvement over what I used to get
Speaker 1: from Android.
Speaker 2: So I don't know why.
Speaker 1: It's like I think it maybe RCS depends on the
Speaker 1: speed of your of your signal, but it's just it's
Speaker 1: like we're in a studio here, and things are there's
Speaker 1: not a very good signal with anything.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so we did.
Speaker 1: We're able to send between iPhone and Android a full video,
Speaker 1: full resolution, so it is. It does work. I knew
Speaker 1: it worked. I just you know, I need to like
Speaker 1: sometimes verify these things. Verra in Hopland, California.
Speaker 2: What's up? What can we help you with?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 14: Thank you taking my call. Yeah, I have a printer.
Speaker 14: I'm looking for a recommendation on a direct USB printer
Speaker 14: where I can print directly from my USB drive. I
Speaker 14: have three printers that always don't work most of times
Speaker 14: don't work with my computer, and I'm looking for something
Speaker 14: under three hundred dollars a direct USB printer.
Speaker 1: So you want to print from a USB flash drive, right,
Speaker 1: and not go.
Speaker 14: Through my computer because something's wrong with my program.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about your phone? Do you need to print
Speaker 2: from that? No?
Speaker 1: No, so just you just want to plug in the
Speaker 1: little drive and print correct. Okay, Well, I would recommend
Speaker 1: a printer that has Obviously you need one with USB
Speaker 1: and then you need one that has I would probably
Speaker 1: want something that has a screen because you know, that
Speaker 1: makes it easier to see what's on that little drive
Speaker 1: to print it and select it, right, Do you have
Speaker 1: a preference for laser color anything like that?
Speaker 14: Just cheaper, the cheapest possible, because I've seen him for
Speaker 14: like five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, look, I mean do you well, do
Speaker 1: you want laser or inkjet? That's the big question. I guess, okay, inkjet? Okay,
Speaker 1: So I think the the ink jets.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, it's.
Speaker 1: You know, the Brother printers fare really well, and I
Speaker 1: think that that's you know, that's what I've had for
Speaker 1: a long time. Right now, I have an HP, which
Speaker 1: I think is fine, and it does have the USB
Speaker 1: direct like you're talking about, but I don't think it's
Speaker 1: I'm I'm it's tough for me to recommend an HP
Speaker 1: because it's just like it's there. It does the job,
Speaker 1: but it's not very exciting, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm always buying something for it.
Speaker 1: So the Brother I was just looking. I just literally
Speaker 1: booked marks some of these. They just come out some
Speaker 1: new ratings of the printers on in consumer reports and
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this, let's see all in one cartridge.
Speaker 1: So you don't want the ink tank, the EPs and
Speaker 1: Eco tanks rate really well as well, so I would
Speaker 1: I would look into those, that's the EPs and Eco
Speaker 1: tank and they've got you know, different model numbers depending
Speaker 1: on how much you want to spend. You said under
Speaker 1: five hundred. Five hundred is a pretty big budget, I'd.
Speaker 2: Say, but nearly ended the front of the three hundred.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, I mean look if you okay, So
Speaker 1: if I were you, I would just go to the
Speaker 1: Brother website and I would just pick one of the
Speaker 1: multifunctions that are under the inkjet multifunctions that are under
Speaker 1: three hundred, and they all rate really high. I had
Speaker 1: a Brother for about ten years and it worked great.
Speaker 1: It was a laser printer. But I would look for
Speaker 1: one of those that does that. I have to do
Speaker 1: a little more research to see if it has the
Speaker 1: USB plug in, just to make sure I've been doing.
Speaker 14: I can't seem to sign yeah, I can't seem to
Speaker 14: fine when they say, oh, USB connectivity, but.
Speaker 1: I don't want that.
Speaker 14: I want to do but the print that's the problem
Speaker 14: I'm having.
Speaker 1: Oh well, if it says USB connectivity, that typically means
Speaker 1: it'll take a flash drive. If it has a USB
Speaker 1: port on it, it will take that flash drive. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know mine does, and I've done that before. In
Speaker 1: a pinch, I usually print off my phone and you know,
Speaker 1: just when I need to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 14: What model do you have?
Speaker 1: Then, Oh my gosh, I've I'm not at my house,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. It's a brother. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just a I just got it at Costco when
Speaker 1: I was there. It was like an impulse purchase. But
Speaker 1: it works fine. I mean, it's you know, I think printers,
Speaker 1: as long as they have the feature you want, that
Speaker 1: little flash drive, you're going to be fine. The main
Speaker 1: thing that I think you got to look out for
Speaker 1: is really the price of the ink. So my advice
Speaker 1: when you're buying a printer is, don't just look at
Speaker 1: the price of the printer that three hundred dollars because
Speaker 1: printers are cheap. It's where they get you is the ink.
Speaker 1: And so online, I just spent one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: bucks on ink, which I'm pretty sure the printer itself
Speaker 1: was like one fifty.
Speaker 2: So that's what i'd recommend.
Speaker 1: So without because we're on the air live and I
Speaker 1: you know, I need to actually look at this and
Speaker 1: research what I'm gonna recommend for you. I've got to
Speaker 1: do that in you know, off the air, but I
Speaker 1: can email you what I think would be best for
Speaker 1: this out of these brothers. But I would say the
Speaker 1: Brother Printer's rate very highly. As long as they have
Speaker 1: that USB, I think that's going to be a solid choice.
Speaker 1: If you want the Epsen Eco Tank, that's also going
Speaker 1: to be a solid choice. Those are like the top
Speaker 1: two right now. I'd say, hps, you know they're they're there,
Speaker 1: and they're everywhere, right like, everywhere you go. You've got
Speaker 1: HP printers stacked up everywhere. Are they the best? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I don't really Personally. I think I'm just
Speaker 1: fine with the one I have, and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if i'd recommend the one I have right but I'm
Speaker 1: looking at these ratings and the the Epsen's are sweeping
Speaker 1: the top, and so are the Brother printers, So those
Speaker 1: are the probably the ones that I go with. The
Speaker 1: Canons are also pretty decent, but they don't they don't
Speaker 1: rank as high. But if you're let me do this,
Speaker 1: let me send me an email hello at rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV, and I will come up with the
Speaker 1: printer that I think is the best, or I'll try
Speaker 1: it in the break see if I have some time
Speaker 1: to research and find an actual model number that I
Speaker 1: think will be the best for you for what you're
Speaker 1: looking for. Uh, do we have time? Let's go to
Speaker 1: Kevin in Colorado. Kevin, you're on with Rich?
Speaker 13: Yes, Rich, I'm looking for a GPS tracker to put
Speaker 13: in a like an enclosed trailer, a car trailer, and
Speaker 13: I have from some pretty expensive equipment in that trailer.
Speaker 13: And I keep hearing that some of these GPS trackers
Speaker 13: are pretty easy to defeat by seeds, And I just
Speaker 13: was looking for your opinion on which one, maybe, or
Speaker 13: which way to go on that.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to do something like an air
Speaker 1: tag like that seems too simple, right for this? You
Speaker 1: want something that actually connects.
Speaker 13: Yeah, a lot of the new GPS equipment will actually
Speaker 13: call you over the phone or give you an alert
Speaker 13: over the phone to tell you if if your trailer
Speaker 13: is moved or moving then where it's at.
Speaker 2: Yes, you want you want?
Speaker 1: You want like a heavy duty solution that's actually connected
Speaker 1: via cellular twenty four to seven and has the movement
Speaker 1: sensors and all that good stuff on it.
Speaker 2: Correct, Okay, right, so an air tag's.
Speaker 1: Not I mean for most people, you know, most people
Speaker 1: are just looking for a very simple solution, air tag tile,
Speaker 1: those kind of things are going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: But for you, I think you're going to want to
Speaker 1: look at something a little bit are powered. There's two
Speaker 1: companies to look at, and the first is called landairse
Speaker 1: dot Com and these are typically you know, the both
Speaker 1: of these companies do stuff for both businesses like corporate solutions,
Speaker 1: but also they make a consumer product. And the way
Speaker 1: that these things work is it's a small GPS tracker.
Speaker 1: It's got a battery, and it's got a cellular antenna.
Speaker 1: And so this is not gonna be free. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to pay for both the tracker and also the
Speaker 1: cellular connection each month. And that's anywhere from you know,
Speaker 1: it could be ten dollars or more depending on the device.
Speaker 1: So and then the devices themselves, they're not that expensive.
Speaker 1: I mean, it looks like you've got thirty dollars all
Speaker 1: the way up to one hundred and sixty nine dollars.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: The difference and the thing you probably want to look
Speaker 1: out for is the power on this tracker. Is this
Speaker 1: tracker plugged in all the time so that you can
Speaker 1: get twenty four to seven, you know, anytime, or is
Speaker 1: this battery off braided and the battery on these things
Speaker 1: because they're running twenty four to seven, the battery use
Speaker 1: could be substantial. And then there's a third way to
Speaker 1: track which is a tracker that actually plugs in to
Speaker 1: what's called the OBD port on your car. Like it's
Speaker 1: that it's a little port like on the left hand side,
Speaker 1: kind of below the steering wheel to the left. It's
Speaker 1: like for diagnostics and things. So some of these trackers
Speaker 1: will actually plug into there. Since you said you have
Speaker 1: a trailer, I don't think that's the case here. And
Speaker 1: as for thieves, uh yeah, thieves are probably hipped to
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff there in many ways, is not
Speaker 1: really a there's not really a way to keep them
Speaker 1: from getting access to this thing unless you hide it
Speaker 1: on there or you have it in some sort of
Speaker 1: lock box that's you know, bolted to the device or
Speaker 1: to the trailer.
Speaker 2: So that's another option if you're worried about that.
Speaker 1: But land airc dot com is one and then the
Speaker 1: other one is tracky t r a c KI dot com.
Speaker 1: I've not tested the Trackie but from everything I'm looking at,
Speaker 1: it looks like you want to go with the track
Speaker 1: Pro because it's gonna cost you.
Speaker 2: A little bit more.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's forty bucks, but the battery life
Speaker 1: is going to be substantially better than the other, like
Speaker 1: the main model. So it says it's got worldwide coverage,
Speaker 1: advanced tracking, speed monitoring, geo fencing, it's got a strong magnet.
Speaker 1: So those are probably the two that I'd start looking at.
Speaker 1: Track you dot Com and landairseed dot com. Again, look
Speaker 1: at the battery life, look at the cost of both
Speaker 1: the device and more importantly, the long term cellular that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to pay for for these tracking devices,
Speaker 1: because this is a bit of a bigger job than
Speaker 1: something you would use an air tag for. You know,
Speaker 1: if you got luggage thrown air tag in there, you know,
Speaker 1: anything you want to track thrown air tag or a
Speaker 1: tile in But these are much more going to ping
Speaker 1: the cellular connection when something happens here. Good question eighty
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology the phone line is open
Speaker 1: eighty to eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one coming up this hour.
Speaker 1: We've got more of your emails, more of your questions,
Speaker 1: we've got the feedback, and we've got a guest, Trey
Speaker 1: Boje uh smart shopping expert at truetray dot com. She's
Speaker 1: gonna share some tips to help you get the best
Speaker 1: deals for Prime Day. I don't know if you notice this,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure this is on your Amazon app,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly on mine. Maybe I'm in some sort
Speaker 1: of test group. But if you go to your Amazon app,
Speaker 1: they added a new price history feature. So if you
Speaker 1: go to any product on there, right by the price,
Speaker 1: at least on my app, it says, and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to load something up as we speak here, it says
Speaker 1: price history, and you can tap it and get a
Speaker 1: thirty day or ninety day price history, which is really
Speaker 1: handy for Prime Day. So right on to the price
Speaker 1: mindsets price history, I tap that and for this, uh,
Speaker 1: this aura frame I'm looking at, they're using their their
Speaker 1: rufus Ai and it says the current price of one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine is higher than the average featured
Speaker 1: offer price on Amazon in the past thirty days. Look
Speaker 1: at that, Amazon saying to itself like here thirty days, okay,
Speaker 1: it went down to fifty one dollars. Wow, that's really cheap.
Speaker 1: So it looks like this is just from their AI.
Speaker 1: So I wonder if you can just ask their AI
Speaker 1: on any page. Let me try that. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to a different product here. Let's see, let's go
Speaker 1: to this uh fire HD ten fifty percent off for
Speaker 1: this uh this tablet okay. Now instead of tapping price history,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go there's a little rufous question thing there.
Speaker 1: It is show price history. Okay, So I guess you
Speaker 1: could just ask their A to show price history. That's
Speaker 1: a really key feature for Prime Day because you can
Speaker 1: get really sucked into Prime Day with like all the
Speaker 1: pricing and stuff.
Speaker 2: But if it's not a real deal, don't don't buy it. Anyway.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to Trey about that.
Speaker 1: Uh let's see, let's go to andrew website for the show.
Speaker 1: By the way, Rich on tech dot TV, I put
Speaker 1: links everything I mentioned there. Rich on tech dot TV,
Speaker 1: Andrew in Orange County.
Speaker 2: What's up? Hello, Hello, I'm doing well. What can I
Speaker 2: help you with?
Speaker 13: Well, I've got about one hundred mini dvs that I'd
Speaker 13: like to digitize.
Speaker 6: And maybe eventually put them on YouTube something like that.
Speaker 13: But what is the best hardware and software to accomplish
Speaker 13: that and to obviously get the best resolution?
Speaker 1: Do you have a do you have a player? You've
Speaker 1: got a DV player.
Speaker 13: I have the old camera and it does play.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that all the chords that.
Speaker 13: It works.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, I did this project myself, d I Y, and
Speaker 1: so I can tell you what I did. And things
Speaker 1: have changed a little bit. I think the video editing
Speaker 1: is a lot easier these days because of technology. But
Speaker 1: I used the el Gato. It depends if you're on
Speaker 1: Windows or Mac, but I'll give you both. But and
Speaker 1: there's so many there's so many ways to do this,
Speaker 1: Like just the way I'm telling you is the way
Speaker 1: that I did it. But if you want to save
Speaker 1: yourself a headache, just bring it to someone. They could
Speaker 1: do it for you and put on a hard drive.
Speaker 1: But if you want to do it yourself, which is
Speaker 1: obviously cheaper and more hands on, and you know, if
Speaker 1: you have the time, do this yourself. But I use
Speaker 1: the el Gato Video Capture device and basically it's a
Speaker 1: little device that just sits between your computer and your
Speaker 1: your player, so it connects. Now, this is old school,
Speaker 1: so it's going to connect with those three analog cables
Speaker 1: which are let's see red, white, and yellow, got video
Speaker 1: audio those cables and then basically you're just gonna capture
Speaker 1: none of this. All this happens in real time, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to capture to your computer in real time.
Speaker 1: So you play the tape, you press recorder on your computer,
Speaker 1: it records it into like an H two six four file.
Speaker 1: So oh and this says it works with Mac or PC,
Speaker 1: so that's interesting. El Gato and they're they're a big
Speaker 1: brand in sort of basically do'll sell that on Amazon,
Speaker 1: So you can get that at Amazon and also Best Buy.
Speaker 1: And that's the easy VHS to DVD three and again
Speaker 1: old technology. It's just you connect your camcorder to the
Speaker 1: little device, you record and.
Speaker 2: You can edit.
Speaker 1: So those are the two basic devices that I've tested
Speaker 1: and I can tell you they work. The software is
Speaker 1: just okay on both of them, but it does the trick.
Speaker 1: And then once you get that, you want to probably
Speaker 1: clip your videos and edit them so you can use
Speaker 1: any software you want for that, you can use you
Speaker 1: know what's built into Windows, Windows movie Maker kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I think they changed the name on that.
Speaker 1: Let's see, did they do that? Windows movie Maker, let's
Speaker 1: see discontinued. Okay, well then I thought that they had
Speaker 1: changed the name. But you know, you can download cap
Speaker 1: cut and just use that.
Speaker 2: That's free. Again.
Speaker 1: Adobe Rush is also good, and you know you can
Speaker 1: do that very easily to clip those things. If you're
Speaker 1: on a Mac, you can obviously use iMovie or Final
Speaker 1: Cut if you happen to have access to that software.
Speaker 1: But then if you look on Amazon for if you
Speaker 1: search video capture VHS to digital converter, there's going to
Speaker 1: be a million of these things on there, and a
Speaker 1: lot of them are cheap and cheaper than the two
Speaker 1: that I just mentioned. The thing I will tell you
Speaker 1: is that you get what you pay for, and what
Speaker 1: you're paying for really with Elgado or Roxio is the software.
Speaker 1: So you get one of these random capture cards. A
Speaker 1: lot of times they are just not very good software
Speaker 1: that you need to use this thing, So just be
Speaker 1: careful with some of the random brands. But with that said,
Speaker 1: they do make these little devices and I have not
Speaker 1: tested them, but like the first one that comes up
Speaker 1: is called I Record, and it's a little it looks
Speaker 1: like a little black box with a screen on it,
Speaker 1: and so you can plug your camcorder into that box
Speaker 1: directly and then just hit record it or record to
Speaker 1: like a memory card, and then you can plug that
Speaker 1: into your computer and edit from there. So that's another
Speaker 1: way of doing it. It's another option. But what I
Speaker 1: like about getting the convert I mean, either way, if
Speaker 1: this one works for you. I have not tested this
Speaker 1: one called clear Click. It's a little bit more expensive. Again,
Speaker 1: these are different ways of doing the same task. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, once you have these
Speaker 1: things recorded and kind of clipped and edited, you could
Speaker 1: throw them into Google Photos YouTube whatever you want. What
Speaker 1: I love about Google Photos when you throw these old
Speaker 1: videos in there, is it actually searches for people in
Speaker 1: the videos and puts them in your people list, so
Speaker 1: you can you know, like for me, let's say I
Speaker 1: had like a grandfather or grandmother in these videos, they
Speaker 1: would show up in these old videos when I search,
Speaker 1: which is really cool. So and you can also look
Speaker 1: for places and things like that, so digitizing your old
Speaker 1: stuff just truly unlocks it in so many ways that
Speaker 1: just flipping through something that's analog or digital just does
Speaker 1: not work. So it's it's really really cool, all right.
Speaker 1: Vera did email me, and I did find I looked
Speaker 1: at the printer that I thought was pretty good, that
Speaker 1: is top rated, and it is the Brother MFC Jay.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, Andrew, thanks for the call. I just went like, directly,
Speaker 1: this is how distract this is. This is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call this the TikTok effect. I'm literally sitting here talking
Speaker 1: about Andrew's issue and then I'm just like looking at
Speaker 1: my email and via the caller from earlier about the
Speaker 1: printer did email me to follow up. But the Brother
Speaker 1: MFCJ sixty ninety DW wireless color Inkjet all in one
Speaker 1: three point fifty, I know she said three hundred underd
Speaker 1: well at first set under five hundred, then she said
Speaker 1: under three hundred. So if you want this one looks
Speaker 1: like it has a dual tray. I don't think you
Speaker 1: need the dual trays because you're just doing something simple.
Speaker 1: So the one below this I'd probably recommend for you.
Speaker 1: And if you look at it right on the front,
Speaker 1: there's that USB port. She can plug your flash drive
Speaker 1: into there. It's got a nice screen. You can print
Speaker 1: stuff right from there. So that's the one that is
Speaker 1: top rated. But I think you need the one right
Speaker 1: underneath this, just because I don't think you need the
Speaker 1: the both trays there. So I'm looking at this one. Brother, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go, brother, MFC J five eight five five.
Speaker 1: That one has it as well, and it's two hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety nine dollars. I think that's going to be
Speaker 1: exactly what you need. Randy writes in I'm looking for
Speaker 1: a good phone that takes great quality photos. Can you
Speaker 1: give me three choices at reasonable prices?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: So you want affordable, I think there's two two to
Speaker 1: choose from Google. Pixel nine A one of the best
Speaker 1: cameras for the price, great software, great image quality, seven
Speaker 1: years of support from Google. Four hundred ninety nine dollars,
Speaker 1: and it probably goes on sale for cheaper than that,
Speaker 1: so I would say four fifty you might be able
Speaker 1: to get this four. Let's see if it's gone on sale.
Speaker 1: Pixel nine A yeah, right now, it's still hanging at
Speaker 1: about four ninety nine, so you may find it cheaper
Speaker 1: over Prime Day, who knows. And then the other option
Speaker 1: is the iPhone sixteen E solid camera. Not as many
Speaker 1: lenses as I'd like. I think it's only just one
Speaker 1: lens on there. But it's easy to use. And of
Speaker 1: course you get Apple, and you get all the things
Speaker 1: that come with Apple, which is, you know, the Genius bar,
Speaker 1: the stores, the accessories, all that good stuff. That's five
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars. So again, good phone takes
Speaker 1: great quality pictures. Three choices. I gave you two. I
Speaker 1: think above and beyond those two, I think those are
Speaker 1: gonna be perfect for you if you want a reasonable price.
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Speaker 1: Checking the emails, Kurt writes in from Utica, New York.
Speaker 1: You talked about the epsom Eco tank printer. I found
Speaker 1: one on the side of the road, thrown out, but
Speaker 1: almost a full tank of ink and it works great.
Speaker 2: Now that's a win in my book. I mean, who's.
Speaker 1: Gonna throw out a printer with almost a full tank
Speaker 1: of ink? That's that's easily worth like fifty bucks that
Speaker 1: ink right there, Kurt.
Speaker 2: I'm glad it worked out for you.
Speaker 1: See here, Sherry writes in and oh, I have it,
Speaker 1: she said, I have the Amazon price history. Yay, much
Speaker 1: easier than Camel Camel Camel. When I'm on my phone.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to compare the two. I think Google
Speaker 1: Amazon was probably noticing that so many people were using
Speaker 1: Camel Camel Camel, and I'll be quite honest, the reason
Speaker 1: why they like you using theirs is because when Camel
Speaker 1: Camel Camel, when you pop a URL into them, they
Speaker 1: get a commission when you end up buying that product,
Speaker 1: and so that's part of their business model. But with Amazon,
Speaker 1: if you're just looking at their their Amazon price history,
Speaker 1: they don't have to pay that commission because you've stuck
Speaker 1: on the Amazon website. So that may just be one thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they're just maybe helping you out as well.
Speaker 1: So I wonder if you could do this on the
Speaker 1: Amazon website. Let's see here, I hate doing things live,
Speaker 1: like while I'm on the air, because it's like it's
Speaker 1: a little jarring when you're listening and you're trying to figure.
Speaker 2: Out, like what's he doing? But I know they have
Speaker 2: that rufous thing? Is it? Okay?
Speaker 1: So there's a little section of the Amazon when you're
Speaker 1: on Amazon and the desktop, it says ask rufus and
Speaker 1: then it says ask something else about a product, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say price history, and let's see if it
Speaker 1: works on the website, and sure enough it does. Okay, Wow,
Speaker 1: there you go. So if you want to see the
Speaker 1: price history on the website, on Amazon itself, just look
Speaker 1: for that little ask rufous underneath the picture of the
Speaker 1: product and where it says ask something else, Tap that
Speaker 1: and say price history. Let's see if it can give
Speaker 1: you a longer price history, say price history over one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty days. Let's see if I can do that. No,
Speaker 1: it can't. Ninety days is the max. But anyway, that's
Speaker 1: a really handy thing. Let's see here. Let's go to Lewis. Lewis,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Bye, Rich, how I'm doing fantastic,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 15: Thank you, listen. I'm an old man and I'd like
Speaker 15: to do interviews. And I was wondering if you could
Speaker 15: recommend a tape recorder, even though they don't call them taping.
Speaker 15: I found out they don't call them tape recorders anymore.
Speaker 2: I mean, not since Radio Shock out of business.
Speaker 15: Something that's easy to use.
Speaker 13: I have side issues.
Speaker 15: I'm still on a flip phone, So I was wondering,
Speaker 15: is there a recorder that I can use that is
Speaker 15: easy to use. I bought one and I wound up
Speaker 15: having to throw it away because I couldn't figure it
Speaker 15: figure it out. I wound up re racing by mistake.
Speaker 15: I mean, just anyway, I'm calling you to see if
Speaker 15: you had any recommendations for us old guys. We're still
Speaker 15: used to the old cassette recorders.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, look there there are so many of these, now,
Speaker 1: do you so you want some? How are you going
Speaker 1: to listen to this?
Speaker 13: Well that's another thing.
Speaker 15: I thought I'd just play it.
Speaker 2: Back, Okay, Okay, Well that's fine.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna play it back off the device that
Speaker 1: you that you're recording correct? Well, look, I mean the
Speaker 1: number of the so you mentioned a couple of very
Speaker 1: specific things. I'm gonna start with the thing that I
Speaker 1: think is the best right now for most people, maybe
Speaker 1: not for your specific situation. But there's a device called
Speaker 1: PLoud p L A U D and what plod. Yeah, plaud.
Speaker 1: This looks like a credit card and it's super thin,
Speaker 1: and it's got a ton of storage on it and
Speaker 1: it's one tap and it records digitally. Now, the reason
Speaker 1: I don't think this one is good for you is
Speaker 1: because it sinks to your smartphone, and so you would
Speaker 1: need a smartphone for that to work. It also uses
Speaker 1: AI to slice and dice what you're saying, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you said. You're doing recordings of interviews, so it
Speaker 1: would give you a summary.
Speaker 2: Of the interview.
Speaker 1: So I think that's best for most people that have
Speaker 1: a smartphone that wants something that does that really well. Now,
Speaker 1: by the way, all the smartphones have this functionality built
Speaker 1: into them. Whether it's the iPhone, whether it is the
Speaker 1: Pixel or the Samson, they all have a voice recorder
Speaker 1: that not only records, but also plays back and transcribes
Speaker 1: what is recorded. So that's that's you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: giving kind of big picture for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Now for your specific situation, I think all you need
Speaker 1: is a digital voice recorder that sounds like what you
Speaker 1: need to me. And if you go on Amazon, you've
Speaker 1: got a couple to choose from. The brand that a
Speaker 1: lot of the journalists use is called Zoom Zom and
Speaker 1: so I would look at the Zoom. They've got one
Speaker 1: that is let's see here, one hundred and nine dollars.
Speaker 1: How much do you want to spend on this thing?
Speaker 15: Well, one hundred nine sounds reasonable.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, this one is one hundred and nine. They
Speaker 1: make a bunch of different models, but they have one
Speaker 1: for I'm looking at what their most basic is. It
Speaker 1: looks like the one oh nine is their cheapest model.
Speaker 1: But Zoom is this is the h one and that
Speaker 1: is probably the simplest, easiest, most widely recognized recorder out there.
Speaker 1: And it has two microphones. It's got great audio quality,
Speaker 1: it's got a little screen that you can see if
Speaker 1: it's recording and things like that. Plus you can play
Speaker 1: it back and listen to it as well, all through
Speaker 1: that device. So I'd probably recommend that one number one correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so oh look at that, and look at this,
Speaker 1: Look at this Lewis. It even has accessibility audio guidance
Speaker 1: function for the visually impaired.
Speaker 15: So that might be oh my gosh, oh right, that's
Speaker 15: why I called you there you go.
Speaker 1: That's a bonus right there, So i'd go with that one.
Speaker 2: It's called the zoom h one. Check that out.
Speaker 1: Otherwise, if you don't want that one, you know, they've
Speaker 1: got like a Sony model. I mean, these are just
Speaker 1: basically the audio cassette recorders that I had as a
Speaker 1: as a nerdy kid, but now they're just all digital
Speaker 1: and so it's like, you know, instead of a tape,
Speaker 1: they're just recording. But this this Sony one looks really nice.
Speaker 1: That's one hundred and twenty eight. Then they've got an
Speaker 1: off brand that is thirty dollars, So if you want
Speaker 1: that one, that's a super cheap brand. Rich on Tech
Speaker 1: dot TV, Lewis, I'll link them all up for you.
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV talking Prime Day right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. We're going to talk Prime
Speaker 1: Day in just a moment, But first I want to
Speaker 1: tell you about this.
Speaker 2: Chuck E.
Speaker 1: Cheese is coming out with something new, Chuck's Arcade. This
Speaker 1: is a modern arcade that blends retro and new games.
Speaker 1: So it's built with people like me and mind people
Speaker 1: who grew up going to Chuck E Cheese, and it's
Speaker 1: called all about nostalgia, but with a modern twist. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get the classic games like Donkey Kong, Mortal Kombat, Galaga,
Speaker 1: but also the new stuff that almost made me get
Speaker 1: sick at CS, the VR game, So, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Locations are now opening a couple malls, let's see Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, I'll passo, and some of them have like
Speaker 1: a pizzeria, retro merchandise and if you're wondering, are the
Speaker 1: animatronics there, they are, but they're not performing. They're almost
Speaker 1: like a museum piece. Like I think they just took
Speaker 1: the animatronics from all the decommissioned shows they have around
Speaker 1: the country and just put them in these new places,
Speaker 1: like just sitting there, like it's like kind of weird,
Speaker 1: like just staring at you. But each location is gonna
Speaker 1: be unique, so maybe there'll be some some folks that
Speaker 1: like want to visit all of them. But let's see,
Speaker 1: there are a list of locations and details that Chucks
Speaker 1: Arcade dot fun so I'm gonna go do a story
Speaker 1: with them. They're they're building one at the Braham Mall
Speaker 1: in California, so or in the LA area. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go check it out. You know, I love Chuck
Speaker 1: E Cheese, you know, well I did. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't go there anymore, but but I brought my kids
Speaker 1: there for a long time, you know, and they were
Speaker 1: liking that stuff. And to me, I just a kitty gambling, right,
Speaker 1: It's literally like training your kids for Vegas like that
Speaker 1: and the other one, David Busters. It's like this, It's
Speaker 1: all what's the difference. It's all just like kitty gambling. Like,
Speaker 1: let's be real here, and like for me as an adult,
Speaker 1: I'm like, let's just cut to the chase. Let me
Speaker 1: go to Vegas one. Let me lose my money fast.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's let's get Trey Bosh here. Trey is
Speaker 1: the shopping expert at Truetrey dot com, True t r
Speaker 1: ae dot com.
Speaker 2: Trey, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 12: Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 15: Rich.
Speaker 2: So, did you ever go to Chuck E Cheese?
Speaker 12: I don't think I grew up in Massachusetts.
Speaker 16: I don't remember Chuck E Cheese until I think I
Speaker 16: heard about it when I was in college in New
Speaker 16: York City, so I must have missed it or something.
Speaker 16: But there were similar places like that, and I have
Speaker 16: to say, like the still animatronics in these new locations,
Speaker 16: I'd be curious to see.
Speaker 12: It's like if it feels like a wax museum or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it reminds me of that movie. I didn't watch it,
Speaker 1: but it's like called Five Nights at Freddy's.
Speaker 2: Did Bobo do you watch that? Did you see that movie?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: He's he did? I not seen him, but I have to.
Speaker 1: But you know the concept, right, Yeah, animatronics come alive
Speaker 1: and try to like hurt people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing is like these animatronics are creepy enough,
Speaker 1: but the fact they're just standing guard there, like what
Speaker 1: the heck?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 1: Okay, Prime Day twenty twenty five. It starts on July eighth,
Speaker 1: runs through July eleventh, And are we expecting it to
Speaker 1: be a big holiday shopping event this year?
Speaker 16: It is going to be a big holiday shopping event.
Speaker 16: I mean, it's interesting that for many years retailers were
Speaker 16: trying to make something out of July because it's slow.
Speaker 16: We're all taking vacations, we're traveling. So what Amazon Prime
Speaker 16: did is kind of solidify July as a shopping holiday,
Speaker 16: and then everyone else piled on top with their own sales.
Speaker 16: So I do think it'll be big, and I'm seeing
Speaker 16: some interesting sales that I'm going to take advantage of.
Speaker 16: But then it's really important for shoppers to look around
Speaker 16: as well, because there will be so many other retailers participating,
Speaker 16: you know, in and around that week.
Speaker 1: So basically Amazon gets us all sort of like jazzed
Speaker 1: up and ready to spend money. But then Walmart comes in,
Speaker 1: Best Buy, all these other online retailers and say, hey,
Speaker 1: come on over here, we got great deals too.
Speaker 16: Yeah, and that makes it kind of confusing for the
Speaker 16: consumer too.
Speaker 12: You wonder where do I shop? Where am I getting
Speaker 12: the best deal.
Speaker 16: That's the thing that troubles me a little bit about it,
Speaker 16: because I get so many questions about this, like where
Speaker 16: should I buy that laptop that I need for my
Speaker 16: kids college or you know, so I think it's hard
Speaker 16: to figure that out.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, so I guess that's one of the questions
Speaker 1: I have because I just default to Amazon for pretty
Speaker 1: much everything, even though you know there may be better
Speaker 1: prices out there? Is there a one size and there
Speaker 1: may not be a right answer to this? Is there
Speaker 1: like a search engine for prices? Like if I type
Speaker 1: in the model of the laptop, is there one place
Speaker 1: that's guaranteed to like give me like all the prices
Speaker 1: that different retailers are not?
Speaker 16: Really, I think it's Google shopping. So you go to
Speaker 16: Google Shopping, you enter the name of an item, and
Speaker 16: it all wherever it's sold, whatever retailer, at what price,
Speaker 16: it all pops up in one place.
Speaker 12: That's a really good guide in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Google shopping if you want to look for
Speaker 1: that stuff, And then what can we expect for this year?
Speaker 1: At number one's four days? I mean, this is like
Speaker 1: our wallets are just gonna be empty by.
Speaker 2: The end of this.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean I think that four days is potentially
Speaker 16: too long. I'm not quite sure why they're experimenting with
Speaker 16: this longer time, And the discounts that I'm seeing aren't
Speaker 16: as deep as I'm accustomed to around Amazon Prime, so
Speaker 16: it seems.
Speaker 12: A little bit more modest.
Speaker 16: But what Amazon has been sort of accused of or
Speaker 16: made fun of about in the past is that we're
Speaker 16: seeing sales in so many different things, so everything from
Speaker 16: toilet paper to tech.
Speaker 12: You know, it's everywhere.
Speaker 16: And so I do think that if you're an Amazon shopper,
Speaker 16: you're an Amazon Prime member, and you have some things
Speaker 16: on your list that you need to pick up anyway,
Speaker 16: Amazon Prime Day will be a good time to save
Speaker 16: a little bit of money. Just something to remember though
Speaker 16: we are seeing slightly higher prices right now because of
Speaker 16: the tariffs, and after July ninth, of course some of
Speaker 16: those bigger, scarrier tarffs might come into play, but we
Speaker 16: won't see those higher prices for a couple of months.
Speaker 16: So that's a long windy way to say it's a
Speaker 16: good time to get some shopping done while we have
Speaker 16: these these sales and just only slightly elevated prices.
Speaker 1: And I like the tip you you have for saving
Speaker 1: for later because I always tell people to do this
Speaker 1: as well, like you know, get the stuff in your
Speaker 1: cart now. So there's a difference you have your cart
Speaker 1: on Amazon that you've got your saved for later. Both
Speaker 1: of those places will eventually show you if an item's
Speaker 1: on sale, right they will, And.
Speaker 12: So I think that's a great thing to do.
Speaker 16: Wishless, same kind of thing and what Amazon is also
Speaker 16: really good at is that when you go to your
Speaker 16: cart below, they often say like, hey, do you need this?
Speaker 12: Do you need this?
Speaker 16: This is on sale and that's on sale, And so
Speaker 16: Amazon will tell you what you if what you typically
Speaker 16: buy is on sale. So they're going to hold your
Speaker 16: hand a little bit and guide you through.
Speaker 2: That's smart for them.
Speaker 1: What about this new, this new thing, today's big deals.
Speaker 16: Yeah, so this is brettan new So I've not experienced
Speaker 16: this yet, you know, I think, you know, Amazon is
Speaker 16: playing around a little bit.
Speaker 12: They're trying to figure out what's going to stick.
Speaker 16: It sounds like lightning deals, which they've done for many years,
Speaker 16: are still going to be there, but some of those
Speaker 16: other kind of buzzy terms that they were used, they
Speaker 16: were using in the past couple of years, have kind
Speaker 16: of drifted away. So I think this is the newest one,
Speaker 16: So we'll see how it goes. It looks to me
Speaker 16: like it's a lightning deal but bigger, you know, like
Speaker 16: lightning deal, but longer. I guess it's like the sale
Speaker 16: doesn't come and go in a couple hours. It lasts
Speaker 16: a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: And I was talking earlier in the show about this
Speaker 1: new feature that they've added to the because we always say, like,
Speaker 1: go to Camel Camel Camel to like price check things, right, Well,
Speaker 1: now it looks like Amazon is one upping them at
Speaker 1: their own game with this price history.
Speaker 2: Have you seen this on the app?
Speaker 1: You can you can ask for the price history from
Speaker 1: their AI or there's a link to it on the
Speaker 1: mobile app.
Speaker 12: I have not seen that.
Speaker 16: I mean, I usually use Camel Camel Camel or PayPal
Speaker 16: Honey because they have historical pricing. But that's very interesting
Speaker 16: that Amazon is doing that, especially because their prices go
Speaker 16: up and down constantly, So maybe they are kind of
Speaker 16: taking the bowl by the horns and trying to control
Speaker 16: the conversation.
Speaker 1: I my theory is that because let's say, when you
Speaker 1: go to Camel Camel Camel or or Honey and you
Speaker 1: click their link, you're gonna have to pay, like Amazon
Speaker 1: has to pay them a commission, right bright, Or if
Speaker 1: you're doing your own price checks on Amazon's website, you've
Speaker 1: stayed there, no commission, So that's just I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a theory. But maybe they're just trying to be helpful.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 16: Maybe it's a little bit of both, you know, but
Speaker 16: just remember because there are so many other deals out there,
Speaker 16: don't don't stick just to Amazon. It's a buyer's market.
Speaker 16: You have opportunities to save everywhere. So what I like
Speaker 16: to do is to install at least one browser extension
Speaker 16: from a deal site.
Speaker 12: A coupon cabin happens to be my.
Speaker 16: Favorite for this because they'll you'll see pop ups that'll say,
Speaker 16: you know, you can get two point five percent cash back,
Speaker 16: or you can get five dollars off of this, and
Speaker 16: that occurs no matter where you're shopping, and then they'll
Speaker 16: run coupons for you at the end at checkout. So
Speaker 16: for me, if a tool does a lot of things
Speaker 16: like that and helps me save money, I'm all in.
Speaker 16: So just make sure you have at least one browser
Speaker 16: extension installed when you're doing the shopping, and just pay
Speaker 16: attention to those other sales that are coming. You know,
Speaker 16: we've got Walmart's having a big sale, target Best Buy Coals.
Speaker 12: One that I'm kind of excited about is Dollar General.
Speaker 16: They're having seven days of savings and you think, why
Speaker 16: does Dollar General need to have a big sale, But
Speaker 16: they have seventy plus items for back to school for example,
Speaker 16: that are under a dollar, and then you'll have things
Speaker 16: on sale on top of that, and that's a great
Speaker 16: way to save a lot on those things for your
Speaker 16: kids getting back to school time.
Speaker 1: And I love all the names of these other sales,
Speaker 1: so Dollar General, like you said, seven Days of Savings, Walmart,
Speaker 1: Walmart Deals, Target Circle Week, Best by Black Friday, and
Speaker 1: July Coal's Summer Cyber Deals. And then also, let's not
Speaker 1: forget my lows Rewards. What are they doing?
Speaker 12: Yeah, so my.
Speaker 16: Low's Rewards is a loyalty specific program, and you'll see
Speaker 16: this kind of coming and going within all of these retailers.
Speaker 16: You know, they're coming out against Amazon because Amazon you
Speaker 16: have to be a Prime member and that is a
Speaker 16: fee based feature. And so what some of the other
Speaker 16: retailers will say, well, you know it's for everyone, but
Speaker 16: if you're a Walmart Plus member, if you're a Low's
Speaker 16: Loyalty member, you get advanced notice or special deals. And
Speaker 16: so I think that's what they're trying to do is
Speaker 16: retain that customer but not be as strict as Amazon,
Speaker 16: which I think is a smart play.
Speaker 1: And then right now I'm putting you on the spot here,
Speaker 1: but right now aren't they doing like a dollar off
Speaker 1: gas or something. Isn't there some sort of gas promotion
Speaker 1: Amazon's doing?
Speaker 16: Yeah, And that felt a little bit too much for me.
Speaker 16: I think sometimes what Amazon does is they play around
Speaker 16: with too many things at once and it becomes confusing.
Speaker 16: So I'm just not sure if that gas discount is
Speaker 16: that production dip or helpful. But what they're doing I
Speaker 16: assume is that they're kind of duking it out with
Speaker 16: Walmart because with Walmart Plus membership, but you also have
Speaker 16: to pay for you get gas discounts, and so Amazon's
Speaker 16: may be like dinging against Walmart a little bit.
Speaker 12: That's that's my guess.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, we're going to leave it there, but
Speaker 1: we still think the Amazon Prime membership is worth the
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars a month or one thirty nine a year.
Speaker 12: For me, it is.
Speaker 16: I shot there frequently, especially, you know, I get pet
Speaker 16: food and just beauty supplies and things like that. I
Speaker 16: think that for every consumer, you should ask yourself every
Speaker 16: year as you come up for renewal. Am I using
Speaker 16: this as frequently as I need to? You know, remember
Speaker 16: that if you hit the threshold I believe it's twenty
Speaker 16: five or thirty five dollars when you order.
Speaker 12: You'll get free shipping anyway.
Speaker 16: So are you using those other things like photo storage,
Speaker 16: Amazon Video, Amazon Music? If you're using all those other
Speaker 16: features the free kindle book, then it's worth it. But
Speaker 16: if not, just you know, minimize the number of times
Speaker 16: you're ordering from Amazon. Hit that threshold and get free
Speaker 16: shipping anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, Trey Bodge being expert at true tray dot
Speaker 1: com t r U E t r a E dot com.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me.
Speaker 12: Today, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up, we're gonna open up the feedbag
Speaker 1: right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. We're gonna open up the feedbag in just
Speaker 1: a moment. The first couple more things about Amazon. They
Speaker 1: are warning about fake Prime renewal scam emails. Amazon customers
Speaker 1: reporting fake emails claiming that their Prime membership is about
Speaker 1: to renew at a higher price. It may include a
Speaker 1: phony cancel subscription link that actually leads to a fake
Speaker 1: Amazon login page, so be careful. If you're in doubt,
Speaker 1: go directly to Amazon dot com or use the official
Speaker 1: Amazon app. You can also report fake messages to Amazon
Speaker 1: dot com slash reporter scam and set up two factor authentication.
Speaker 1: Please fore your Amazon account. That's a big one. Amazon
Speaker 1: dot com slash two s v T step to us
Speaker 1: set that up. They call it two step verification. And
Speaker 1: also I wanted to mention one more way to save
Speaker 1: on Prime Day. There's an extension that's brand new. We
Speaker 1: talked about it in the show a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago when it launched, called shopback dot com. I can
Speaker 1: tell you that I have successfully gotten eight dollars back
Speaker 1: for my Amazon orders.
Speaker 2: So every Amazon order, if you remember to do it.
Speaker 1: You activate the shop back and it gives you a
Speaker 1: dollar back on your Amazon order. Takes a little bit
Speaker 1: for it to all work out, but so far I've
Speaker 1: gotten eight successful orders. Half of my orders I forgot
Speaker 1: to activate the or I did it for my phone.
Speaker 1: But if you do it, you can get it. So
Speaker 1: I'll put a link on my website. Rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot tv and they've got all kinds of cash back
Speaker 1: offers on all kinds of websites, but the Amazon one's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. And during Prime Day they're giving you
Speaker 1: five dollars back when you spend one hundred dollars at Amazon.
Speaker 2: All right. Time for the feedback.
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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Bobo. But I hate to break it to him.
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Speaker 1: you read it and you're like, oh wait, I'm just
Speaker 1: about to eat cricket.
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Speaker 1: for months. You mentioned using it, but not once has
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Speaker 1: on your show. Tech addiction is having a huge effect
Speaker 1: in our society. Oprah once had families give up tech
Speaker 1: for a week and share what they thought, what they
Speaker 1: went through. I hope you'll consider interviewing Jonathan.
Speaker 2: Hyatt, is it?
Speaker 15: Hey?
Speaker 1: I don't know how he says last name, but he
Speaker 1: wrote this book that I've read that was really good,
Speaker 1: The Anxious Generation, about the teen brain and phones. Both
Speaker 1: would be great voices on this topic. Yes, I Jonathan,
Speaker 1: I did read to a long time ago, and he
Speaker 1: said no, but he gave us someone else. He said, look,
Speaker 1: and he was very nice about it. He said, look,
Speaker 1: I'm very busy, but you can interview this person. So
Speaker 1: he was very nice about it. You know that book
Speaker 1: was very very well received. John writes in just listen
Speaker 1: to your report on the NINA conference in Long Beach,
Speaker 1: for being a retired nine one one dispatcher and former
Speaker 1: NINA executive board member, I want to hey, Rich, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to share a tip about emergency contacts on
Speaker 1: your phone. I learned this the hard way when my
Speaker 1: son fractured his leg to reach me. He had mom
Speaker 1: ice saved in his phone ICE, meaning in case of emergency.
Speaker 1: I've now done this for my whole family. Love your show.
Speaker 1: That's a great start, Diane, But here's the thing. If
Speaker 1: someone can't unlock your phone, they may not be able
Speaker 1: to access those ICE calls, those contacts.
Speaker 2: So when you set up your.
Speaker 1: Phone, be sure to go into those emergency settings I
Speaker 1: mentioned to actually set up your emergency contact those people
Speaker 1: the first responders can access even if your phone is locked.
Speaker 1: Ray from Honolulu writes in I enjoy your show and
Speaker 1: I listen to the podcast every Sunday here in Honolulu.
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Speaker 1: and then thank you Ray Brandon from Texas, just once
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Speaker 1: your content, even as someone who's worked in it most
Speaker 1: of my life. Let's see who else here? So many emails,
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Speaker 1: email not working properly, can't read them all here. Let's
Speaker 1: see here we've got Karen writing in on X listening
Speaker 1: to the June twenty eighth episode. I heard I heard
Speaker 1: a caller ask about digital storage for receipts and paperwork.
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Speaker 1: think we had one nice made my day email here
Speaker 1: that I can't find right now. So oh well, all right, Yep,
Speaker 1: can't find that one, Bobo. Do we run a little? Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go, Kenneth writes in thank you. You have
Speaker 1: a great show, one that provides a valuable service to
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