WEBVTT - A $25 activity tracker does the trick 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:13.040 Amazon announces new fire tablets, nestcams have a new subscription model, 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:17.160 and what you're really spending your money on during quarantine times? 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.360 Oh plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.040 Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.800 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.440 should know about and I also answer the questions that 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.360 you send me. My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.199 at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Joining me is 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.600 producer Megan, who is doing this podcast with a mask 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.520 on even though we're on video chat. Welcome to the show, Megan. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.760 You know, I just love wearing my mask everywhere. I 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:48.400 just have to. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.800 I went from my first run in a mask yesterday 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.920 and it wasn't that bad. It was I stopped kind 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:57.480 of running outside because I don't want to deal with 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.720 the looks. So I I said, you. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.440 Know, what do you feel like you were getting? Look? 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:04.880 I got one guy who I was passing who would 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.280 give me like the cross symbol, you know, like I 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.000 was the devil, and so that was enough. I got 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.479 that twice from him and no. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:13.440 Are you kidding? 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:14.720 Are you kidding kidding? 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:15.640 That actually happened. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.800 Yeah, that actually happened, so I you know, but I 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.600 so I counted because you know, my wife and I 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.240 went on a walk with the kids, and I'm like, 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.240 should we have these on? Should we not? Now I'm 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.600 still unclear if you have to because they said you 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.280 have to have masks whenever you leave your house. But 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.600 it's still very like like the documentation is not clear. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.520 But anyway, so I was counting, like the amount of people. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.319 This was the day before he said you always have 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.679 to have masks, you know. Yeah, so I would say 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.360 it's about when I was running, it was about fifty 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.000 percent of people, like maybe even last maybe thirty percent 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.040 that had them on. But now I guess everyone is 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.760 in LA. I'm not really sure. So how are you doing. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:54.280 I'm good. You know. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.320 I have a cotton mask which like it's I got 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.200 it on like at sea, and it's totally like bradable, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.560 So like I like that I have that when I 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.440 go outside because it's not like super uncomfortable like the 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:07.680 medical masks are. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:09.280 So yeah, I was. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.160 Using saran wrap and it just seemed like that's probably 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.320 not a good idea. It definitely it protects you. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.640 Yeah, that sounds really uncomfortable. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.399 It was it was. Yeah, So I did my run 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.160 and I actually did not think it was that bad. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.679 It was. It's not ideal, and but you know, it's 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.960 I don't know anyway, So how weird is this? So 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.480 last night I had a dream that we had an earthquake. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.040 And I never dreamed about earthquakes. I don't really think 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:33.720 about them or care about them. But I just happen 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.120 to have a dream. And the other part about the 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.200 dream is that I was in Las Vegas, Like I 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.840 was in like a casino with like a bunch of 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.960 friends and like whatever, and we were woken up by 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.600 this earthquake. And then when I wake up, the first 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.320 story I see is that there was like a huge 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:51.760 earthquake in on the border of like whatever, California and Nevada. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.400 Oh that's strange. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.080 Oh crazy? Are you predicting the future? 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.240 I don't know, but I'm gonna I'm gonna see if 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.600 I can remember my dream tonight, and maybe it'll be 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:05.160 some lottery numbers. All right, let's get make that happen. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.239 Let's get into the first story of the week. Amazon 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.720 has some new fire tablets, and it's interesting how many 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.840 tech products have come out during the quarantine. And I 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.120 guess a lot of these were in the pipeline and 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.840 it's they come at a good time because people are 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:26.440 at home, we need technology, and tablets are very very 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.920 popular right now. So three new tablets. So, and they're 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.600 not brand new, they're just kind of building upon what 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.280 they've already had. But this is kind of their I 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.880 would say, this is let's see, I'm gonna see if 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.280 this is kind of their middle line or you know, 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.840 cause they Amazon. I would say all of their tablets 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.600 are pretty budget friendly, but they have some that are 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.480 super duper cheap and some that are not so cheap. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.120 So I think these are right about in the middle. Yeah. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.600 So there's the fire seven, which is like their basic 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.440 basic tablet for fifty dollars. Then you have the fire 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.040 HD eight, and then the ten is kind of their 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.720 flagship one. So these are the eight. So Fire HD 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.880 eight has an eight inch display, faster performance with two 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.040 gigabytes a RAM instead of one, Oh my gosh, or 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.160 thirty percent faster, I don't know. It says thirty percent 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.240 faster with two gigs. That means I'm guessing the old 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.719 one used to have one. That's really sad. Two times 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.760 the expandable storage with up to one terabyte via a 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.599 micro SD card, twelve hours of battery life. And the 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.120 big thing I think that they changed here is the 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.240 USB C. It used to come with micro USB, which 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.440 is the older version of charging, and USB C is 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.520 much more modern. And this is only ninety dollars, which 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.839 is pretty good for a tablet. Now. I generally do 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.640 not recommend this tablet because it is so bare, it's 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.680 so basic. It's kind of like it's not very good. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.719 Then they have the but we'll see I have not 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.279 tested this recently. Then they have the fire HD eight plus. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.600 This is kind of the same thing as before, except 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.159 you get wireless charging and kind of nice right to have. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.680 I personally don't think you need wireless charging on a 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.040 tablet because you just plug it in. Tablets usually last 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.760 for a while. Yeah, but there you go. And that 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.920 one's one hundred and nine dollars one hundred and ten, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.080 so twenty more dollars for wireless charging. If you're gonna 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:18.760 get this, I would say, I don't even think you 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.320 need that. I would say just skip it if you're 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.159 gonna go with that. And then finally they have a 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.640 fire HD eight Kids Edition which includes one year of 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.599 Amazon Free Time Unlimited, a new kid proof case with 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.839 a stand, which is cool, and then a two year 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:38.120 worry free guarantee which means that if your kid breaks this, 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.600 you can easily just get another one, which is kind 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.480 of nice. And so again I did put a request 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.520 out to Amazon to get these tablets in because I 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.560 feel like it's been a while since I did anything 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.080 with these tablets and I kind of want to see 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.320 what the deal is with them. And so I think 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.839 we're gonna do a story on these three tablets just 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.760 to kind of give them the once over and see 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.320 what the deal is. Because the kids one is one forty, 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.960 the other one's one ten, and the basic one is ninety. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.239 And I still overall think that you're if you're buying 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.680 a tablet, you are one best served with the entry 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.960 level iPad just because of what you get on it. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.880 You know, all the apps, all the features, the Apple ecosystem, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:20.880 so so. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.440 You you will not be buying I. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.599 Will not be. In fact, I did buy a couple 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.760 of years ago. I bought these tablets for my kids, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.040 and I returned them the next day because they were 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.720 such a value. But they just the kids didn't like them. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.599 They they kept doing things wrong on them. That just 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.320 wasn't the app selection that you get on the iPad. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.240 The iPad is more money, but you get way more 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.120 out of it, so cheaper is not always better. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:53.920 Right, Okay, So our first question today comes from Anna simply, 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.440 how can you tell if a website is a true 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.480 retail website? 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.560 Is true true retail website? You mean, like she means 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.400 like legitimate retail website. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:08.600 I'm guessing I'm assuming that's what she means. Yeah, like 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.320 it's a legit store online store. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.560 That's a good question. I I don't know that. Yeah, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.920 that's a that's a good question because you kind of 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.480 just it's like you kind of know, right you look 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.360 at it and you kind of know if you see Okay, 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.200 So I'll give you some of my thoughts on this 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.360 because a lot of times I get questions about things 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.720 that are selling online and you can tell they're own websites. Okay. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.000 Number one giveaway that you don't want to order from 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.640 that website is if it has like a flashing bar 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.720 with like a countdown to like, if you get off 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.240 this website, you are going to lose that deal. That's 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:43.840 number one. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.400 Oh yeah, right, yeah. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.800 I mean yeah, Amazon does actually do that, which is 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.000 kind of funny because they do with their lightning deals, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.760 but not to the way that these random websites will 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.000 do it. So if you see that, I would I 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.640 would walk away. Number two, If you see any sort 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.760 of pop ups like all over the place with like 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.480 codes on them and like just just a lot of 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.400 pop ups like the high the high pressure sales tactics, 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.720 if you see that, get away. That's it's just not 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.600 going to be a legit website. You don't want to 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:20.160 order from a web get this deal right now, exactly right, 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.040 because they know that they somehow got you to that 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.920 website in a shady way, and now they don't want 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.120 you to leave from that website without purchasing. Does that 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:30.640 make sense? 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:32.200 Yeah? 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.360 And the other the other thing I always do and 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.800 not that. Look, I don't really order from random websites. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:41.800 I kind of order from Amazon, from best Buy, from Target, 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.920 from Walmart. And I did order something the other day 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.920 from Oxo dot com, which is you do you know that brand? 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.960 It's like the kitchen supplies, It's like they're, you know, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.320 fancy kitchen supplies. So I cut my finger on a 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.920 on a can the other day, and so I need 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.079 a new can opener because that's like the third time 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.640 I cut myself on this can opener. So I said, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.640 no more, I'm going back to this old can opener. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.440 And I had to order it directly from the website 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.840 because no other store had it in stock. And you know, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.680 you know that's a legit website because it's a big company. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.520 So those are the ways. I also look for contact information, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.120 So at the bottom, if you can't find an address, 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:24.280 a physical address, a physical email address. And also if 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.120 people aren't linking to the website, it's probably not legit. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.120 If they don't have an Instagram presence or a Twitter 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.600 presence or a Facebook presence, or you click on those 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.360 links and they bring you nowhere, that means that they 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.439 just went to WordPress, they downloaded a template and they 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.480 forgot to put in or at the end it's like 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.320 the yeah, this is the biggest giveaway. If you go 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.560 to the bottom of the website and the it's literally 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.880 still the word Press template, like they forgot to fill 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.760 in their Instagram or fill in their Twitter, and it's 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.080 still such a sampler demo. So those are the kind 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:56.400 of things that I would look out for. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.920 Yeah, I've I've been on Instagram before and I'll get 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.040 ads and I'll like click the ad because it looks 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.760 like a cute dress. And then I go to the 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.440 Instagram account and there's like five followers and like it's 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.720 just sketchy. It's like where did this come from? Like 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.760 is it actually? I don't know who knows if it's 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:14.280 real or not. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.040 But I and I see both sides because I don't 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.960 want to put someone like let's say, Megan, you started 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.040 making something and selling it on Etsy, or I don't 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.240 want to put you at a disadvantage because a small 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.280 business has to start somewhere. But I feel like there 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.160 are telltale signs and like you said, you probably used 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.439 your common sense when it came to looking at that, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.080 saying I don't know, this is just someone that didn't 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.600 add by on Instagram and not much more. And who 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.600 knows if I'm ever going to see this dress. If 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.959 you have some Nest cameras in your house, they are 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.959 changing your subscription or they're asking you to change your subscription. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.000 I don't know if this is going to be forced 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.280 on you or if eventually you'll have to switch over 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.200 what but now it's called nest Aware, and this is 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.520 something that Google announced last year, actually in about October, 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.400 I believe it was at their event in New York City. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.960 And it's kind of cool. So some people are gonna 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.760 actually win in this scenario, other people might not, depending 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.960 on how many cameras you have. I think in my 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.559 case it comes out to be cheaper with their new 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.000 subscription than it did for what I was paying before. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.600 So instead of paying per camera, now any device you 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.400 have in your house is all covered by one price 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.440 per month. So you can do a six dollars a 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.440 month subscription or sixty dollars a year, which saves you 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.120 six times twelve of seventy two versus. So you can 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.200 save two dollars a month or dollar a month by 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.560 going for the yearly, which most people probably would, or 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.760 you can just go monthly. Sometimes people like monthly because 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.720 it's just easier to budget that way. Six bucks, you know, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.800 that's so much it costs. So the new nest Aware 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.360 comes with thirty days of event video history. Now let 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.880 me explain the difference here. Now, the new thing is 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.640 you can pay more, So you can pay twelve dollars 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.000 a month, which is double or one hundred and twenty 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.760 for the year and get ten days of history or sorry, 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.640 the sixty days of event history and twenty four to 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.320 seven video. So let me break this down for you. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:05.920 What they're doing here is they're kind of making the 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:11.000 default where your camera is not continuously recording anymore. It 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.120 is now looking for motion, and once it sees motion, 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.800 that's when it will start recording a clip and sending 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.160 it to you. What does that mean? That saves Google 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.320 a whole bunch of money because they're not recording millions 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.760 and millions of cameras twenty four to seven three sixty five. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.600 Only people who pay extra will get that twenty four 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.040 to seven recording history. And I would say for a 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.080 majority of people, they probably don't need the twenty four 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.200 to seven recording history unless you're running a business operation 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.120 out of your home right or a business operation in general, 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.880 because if someone walks past your house, it you know, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.679 it triggers the clip, It will record the clip and 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.360 then you have the clip of the person. Most of 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.719 the time you don't need the full twenty four to 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.080 seven So. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.559 I mean you don't need the still the like this 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.320 ill shots. Anyways, if there's nothing going on. 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.800 Right, Yeah, basically, And I think the way that these 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.080 cameras work is I think they are recording, well maybe not, 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.840 I don't know. I'm curious if they're still recording to 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.079 the cloud twenty four to seven but not actually giving 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.760 it to you unless you get that little clip, you know, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.679 or unless you pay for the extra amount. But the 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.640 bottom line is for ninety nine percent of people, this 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.720 is probably gonna save them some money, and on Google's 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.760 back end, it saves them a lot of money. The 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:33.000 other thing is that, let's see, I mean, that's basically it. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.640 They're going to send you a clip a notification to 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.120 your phone when something happens. So they send you an 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.559 alert and it says if you prefer twenty four to 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.760 seven continuous recording, then you have to go to the 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.959 Nest Aware Plus, which is that expensive one. Now here's 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.439 the other thing that I think is kind of cool, 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.680 and they talked about this at the event as well. 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.079 They are now turning all those Nest speakers, like you 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:56.959 know that little Google Home that you have one of 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.600 those kind of things, or the Nest Display, They're turning 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:04.079 those into almost a security system because now those are 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.840 going to listen for critical sounds like a smoke alarm 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.640 or glass breaking. So if you have one of these 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:15.400 speakers in your home, you now have a kind of 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.080 a little security system in a. 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.400 Or if you have just the Google Wi Fi, it'll 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.040 listen that one. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.040 I don't know, because Google Wi Fi does have Google 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.720 Assistant built in, and it does have it has microphones, right, yeah, yeah, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.360 because you can use Google Assistant on it. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.080 Yeah, exactly, you can talk to it. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.560 So that's interesting. So I guess that probably would be 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.400 a part of it. It says it says Nest speakers 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.440 and displays, So I'm not sure if the Google Nest 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.800 Wi Fi is included in that because it's not necessarily 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.080 a speaker or a display, but it does function that way. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.760 But that's a good question. Now, the other thing they're 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.960 going to do is you can call nine one one 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.480 from the app. So let's say you're vacationing in Florida. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.520 You get a little alert that there is glass breakage 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.840 in your room with your you know, Google Home. You 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.840 can open up the app from the alert and it 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.280 will dial nine one one in the LA area where 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.320 you live. Not you know, if you just dialed nine 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.520 one on your smartphone in Florida, it would rout you 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.920 to you know, Tampa or wherever you are. So that's 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.520 kind of a cool thing, too smart. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.760 That's really cool. That's really cool. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:20.880 Now, the big caveat to all this, and some people 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.920 might not like this, is that you have to let's see, 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.320 if you are an existing Nesta ware subscription, you can 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.000 upgrade to the new version through the Google Store. Keep 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.440 in mind that you have to migrate to the Google 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.160 account if you haven't done so already. You also have 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.480 the option to keep your current subscription if you choose. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.840 So I need to actually switch to the new subscription 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.800 because I checked my price and it was more to 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.400 keep my subscription than to go to this new one. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.280 So I'll definitely be doing that. Save me some money 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:48.720 for the year. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:51.440 Yeah, that's awesome. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.440 Okay, This next question comes from Rick. Good afternoon, Rich. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.520 Have you tried the Wi Fi Blast product? 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:01.960 Oh, that's kind of like what we were just talking 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.880 about with the Nest. I have not tried the Wi 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.800 Fi Blaster. It sounds like it would work really well. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.080 I've gotten a lot of questions about this device, so 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.840 clearly a lot of Clearly, a lot of people are 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.520 seeing this ad. I'm looking at this. I actually just 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.800 it must be called Wi Fi Blast because I just 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.080 googled it and Wi Fi Blastered is not. Oh here, 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.600 it is Wi Fi Blast. Okay, So now. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.359 Two point six rating on Amazon. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.120 Well okay, so now where are you seeing that? Okay? 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.880 Wi Fi Blast? Okay, I see that, but like, where 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.920 is this website? That's okay? So now if you okay, 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:44.120 I see it on Groupon. I see Better Business Bureau. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.040 So I think that this this is an example of 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.400 what the earlier the earlier question was talking about, how 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.200 do you know a legit website? So here's here's the 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.840 Wi Fi Wi Fi Blast seems to be used by 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.000 a lot of different companies to describe a Wi Fi extender, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.640 and for that reason, I don't trust it and I 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.400 don't like it, and I'm looking number one, I don't 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.560 really recommend Wi Fi extenders anymore because they just don't 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.600 really work. This one, in particular, I'm finding a whole 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.120 bunch of different ones that all look similar, but they're 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.080 all sold by different companies. So for that reason, I 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.399 would say stay away from the Wi Fi Blaster. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.880 And if you yeah, it seems sketchy. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.200 Yeah, if you need to. If you need to get 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.520 an extender versus a full new Wi Fi system, which 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.560 I would recommend, I'd recommend EO, Google, Nest Wi Fi 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.119 or neck your Orbi. If you don't want to splurge 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.119 on that, I would say AMP. Look at AMPED Wireless. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.240 They make a lot of these things, and I have 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.840 tried them in the past. They are legit, they do work. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.639 It's actually a local company, I believe, in the LA area. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.439 But the problem with these Wi Fi extenders is that 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.000 they take a signal that's not very good to begin with, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.919 and they kind of boomerang it around your house, and 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:00.760 so you're just taking a signal it's not very good 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.840 and you're moving it around, Whereas the way that the 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.400 mesh systems work is they're taking a signal and they're 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.359 actually working in unison to create a better signal throughout 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.720 your home. So that's the big difference with these things, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.040 and that's why i'd recommend going with the legit new system. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.679 I know it costs more, but I'm telling you you 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.680 will get Even if this Wi Fi blaster was forty bucks, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.520 you're kind of wasting that forty dollars because you could 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.040 put that forty dollars towards a new system that would 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.440 give you what you're paying for it when it comes 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.960 to your WiFi, let me tell you about the secret 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.640 X ray capabilities of the one plus eight Pro smartphone. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.080 This was such a fun story. I love technology. I 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.840 love when technology is fun. I love when it's exciting. 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.359 I love when it's interesting. I did a review of 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.720 the one plus eight pro smartphone, which I do believe 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:54.159 right now is the best Android smartphone on the market 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.359 right now, And in fact, I wanted to switch to 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.080 this phone. It doesn't have one fee, Meghan that I want. 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.040 That is well, two things that are keeping me from switching. 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:05.960 Number one my Apple Watch. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.840 I I, oh no, yeah, that's that's like part of you. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.520 Oh my gosh. It is so it's so tough to 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:15.760 go without an Apple Watch. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.040 I just I think I might literally get one, like 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:18.680 this weekend. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.960 Okay, you really should. No, I mean, once you experience it, 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.120 it is so tough to I will give you one example. Okay, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:27.960