Speaker 1: Microsoft has a new competitor to the iPad, Netflix has
Speaker 1: a new automatic download feature, and earn an easy ten
Speaker 1: bucks at Amazon.
Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, kind of a grab bag
Speaker 1: of tech stories for you. Things have been kind of
Speaker 1: slow since the July fourth holiday, but some news is
Speaker 1: trickling in, and let's start with Microsoft. They've got a
Speaker 1: new competitor to the iPad and it's called the Surface Go. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're familiar with the Surface they've done.
Speaker 2: A lot with this lineup.
Speaker 1: It's basically their premiere computers that they're making now, which
Speaker 1: kind of started out as a tablet slash computer, but now.
Speaker 2: They have the Surface Laptop, They've got.
Speaker 1: The Surface Studio, which is a giant computer, and now
Speaker 1: they have the Surface Go. This is a combination tablet
Speaker 1: and computer and it starts at four hundred dollars. It
Speaker 1: has a ten in screen, plus you can add a
Speaker 1: pen or a keyboard in addition to the touch screen,
Speaker 1: so when you do that, the price is actually gonna
Speaker 1: jump up quite considerably, but it's.
Speaker 2: Still a pretty good deal.
Speaker 1: There's also a build and kickstands so it can stand
Speaker 1: up all by itself and The biggest difference between the
Speaker 1: Surface Go and the iPad is probably the ports that
Speaker 1: you get on it, because you do get a USB
Speaker 1: C port, which adds a lot of convenience, plus a
Speaker 1: headphone jack which the iPad has, and also a micro
Speaker 1: SD slot which is really good for adding additional memory,
Speaker 1: transferring information and stuff like that. The Microsoft Surface Go
Speaker 1: is in stores on August second.
Speaker 2: There will be two versions of this.
Speaker 1: One that runs Windows S which only lets you install
Speaker 1: apps inside the Windows Store, which pretty much everything that
Speaker 1: you need is in there at this point, but there
Speaker 1: will be a version also that runs the full Windows
Speaker 1: so you can install any app on all.
Speaker 2: Right, Moving on now to Netflix.
Speaker 1: They have a new feature that will automatically download the
Speaker 1: next episode of a show you're watching. It's called smart Downloads,
Speaker 1: and Android users are getting it first, starting right now.
Speaker 2: Once you turn on the Future, it will.
Speaker 1: Automatically download the next episode of a show that you're watching.
Speaker 1: So let's say you're binging a series, you finish one
Speaker 1: show on your phone. As long as you're on Wi Fi,
Speaker 1: we'll delete the show you just watched and it will
Speaker 1: automatically download the next show in the series. Apple users
Speaker 1: are going to get the feature later this year. And
Speaker 1: this is really interesting because we've seen now the progression
Speaker 1: of Netflix going from saying they would never let you
Speaker 1: download shows to now making it easier than ever to
Speaker 1: download shows. I think this makes life a lot easier
Speaker 1: for the casual Netflix viewer, which you know, if you
Speaker 1: watch a show, you set it up and next thing
Speaker 1: you know, you've got the next.
Speaker 2: One available to watch.
Speaker 1: But for someone like me, I'm going to go through
Speaker 1: and pretty much download all the shows in a series anyway,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna have all my phone.
Speaker 2: But depending on how much storage you have, this can
Speaker 2: be really handy.
Speaker 1: Finally, today, Amazon has an easy way for you to
Speaker 1: earn a ten dollars credit for Prime Day.
Speaker 2: Which is happening next week.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is spend ten dollars this
Speaker 1: week at Whole Foods.
Speaker 2: So here's how it works.
Speaker 1: The promotion runs July eleventh through seventeenth. Basically, you have
Speaker 1: to be an Amazon Prime Member, You go into Whole Foods,
Speaker 1: you spend ten dollars in a single transaction, you scan
Speaker 1: your Prime code at checkout, and then you're going to
Speaker 1: get an automatic credit to use it Amazon on Prime Day,
Speaker 1: which is on Monday, July sixteenth, and it runs through
Speaker 1: a portion of the day on Tuesday July seventeenth.
Speaker 2: So if you haven't used your prime.
Speaker 1: Code yet, this is basically the QR code that Amazon
Speaker 1: assigns you. It's kind of like a phone number that
Speaker 1: you would use at a Raufs or something like that.
Speaker 1: You can find that in your Whole Foods app or
Speaker 1: your Amazon app. It does take a one time setup
Speaker 1: to do it, but otherwise it's pretty easy to find.
Speaker 1: And then once you do that, you can also link
Speaker 1: in your phone number as well. So if you just
Speaker 1: want to go to the checkout and use your phone
Speaker 1: number and not have them scan the prime code app,
Speaker 1: you can do that too. I've got all the details
Speaker 1: on my website on how to do that. It's richontech
Speaker 1: dot tv. You only have to do it once. I've
Speaker 1: already tried out my prime code inside the Whole food Store.
Speaker 2: It was very easy to use.
Speaker 1: They asked me at checkout, they scanned it on my phone,
Speaker 1: and I saved a dollar twenty five off my order,
Speaker 1: which was about ten percent off of whatever items were
Speaker 1: on sale. Thanks so much for listening, and if you
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Speaker 2: I'm Rich Damiro.
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