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Speaker 2: You are listening to Rich on tech Live on Rich

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Speaker 2: Demiro rich on tech dot tv. This is the show

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Speaker 2: calls live. Hey there, what's going on? I'm Rich Demiro,

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Speaker 2: tech reporter at KTLA five News in Los Angeles. I'm

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Speaker 2: three zero zero three. And of course welcome to everyone

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Speaker 2: watching on Facebook Live. Thanks so much for being there

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Speaker 2: behind the scenes as I record the show. And of

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Speaker 2: course if you're watching or listening rather on the podcast,

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Speaker 2: thanks for tuning in. You could be listening in your car,

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Speaker 2: you could be walking, you could be I don't know,

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Speaker 2: you could be anywhere. You could be anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 2: That's the cool thing about this. On the show today,

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Speaker 2: we're going to talk about kids in their tablets. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna talk about the Windows Surface Book two, this new

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Speaker 2: app that is kind of cool cleans up your contacts

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Speaker 2: and helps you manage those. I know it's been a

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Speaker 2: Of the Pixel too, and of course I will check

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Speaker 2: social media and.

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Speaker 1: Look at some of your comments.

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Speaker 2: Man, let's talk about this topic first off on the

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Speaker 2: show though, kids and tablets. You know, if you guys

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Speaker 2: know me and you see me on TV, you know

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Speaker 2: I've got two kids, or on Instagram or Twitter, I've

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Speaker 2: And let me tell you a never a dull moment

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Speaker 2: when you have kids. Obviously that's the number one thing.

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Speaker 2: But the second part of that is that there's a

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Speaker 2: and their tablets and kids and electronics and kids and

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Speaker 2: how much do they watch now When I was a kid,

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Speaker 2: this is all applying to now, Okay, I'm not talking

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Speaker 2: about when I was a kid. When I was a kid,

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Speaker 2: here's how it worked, you got home from school, You

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Speaker 2: got up early before school, you watched cartoons for as

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Speaker 2: Then you would get home from school, throw down your stuff,

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Speaker 2: and you would either watch video game or play video games,

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Speaker 2: Play, and your parents you just know, like this is

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Speaker 2: not saying that's necessarily a bad thing. I think that

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Speaker 2: But this new research from Common Sense tells us kind

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Speaker 2: Forty two percent of kids ages zero to eight have

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Speaker 2: their own tablet, and that's up from one percent in

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Speaker 2: what they're watching on iPad. So my kid the other

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Speaker 2: big Mouth. That's the show you I don't even know.

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Speaker 2: They're also going to start some public service announcements with

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Speaker 2: Will Ferrell arguing for a device free dinner. So they're saying, basically,

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Speaker 2: we tried. We actually went cold turkey at the table

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Speaker 2: We are no longer having iPads at the table. And

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Speaker 2: believe me, we've all been guilty. The parents too, do

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Speaker 2: come on, how exciting is a slot machine when you

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Speaker 2: What do you think is happening when you're looking at

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Speaker 2: your notifications the same exact thing.

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Speaker 2: When you're when you're pulling down on Instagram and you're

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Speaker 2: So I'm not I'm not arguing against this. I'm just

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of like dessert. You don't get it

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Speaker 2: Forty nine percent of children eight or under watch TV

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Speaker 2: and according to pediatricians, apparently that's a no no. Now,

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Speaker 1: Again, it's all moderation.

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Speaker 3: Hey Rich Greg from the Antelope Valley.

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Speaker 1: Greg, how you doing today on this Thursday?

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Speaker 3: Not too bad in yourself?

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Speaker 1: I am always doing fantastic on a Thursday, so day

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Speaker 3: Yes, great. I have a little problem here. I have

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Speaker 3: little crack there, Okay, okay, But within the last week

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Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like it could be. I think it's

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Speaker 2: could you know, it could every time your phone is

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Speaker 1: So what are you thinking of doing?

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Speaker 2: Are you thinking it's a success so it's not terribly old.

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Speaker 1: Are you thinking of upgrading?

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not right now. I was just thinking of

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Speaker 2: Here's the deal. I mean, you could start there. You

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Speaker 1: They'll come right to your house and fix it.

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Speaker 2: Or you can go to like I would not go

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Speaker 1: So here's what I would do.

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Speaker 2: I would go into like a place like New break

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Speaker 1: Look, have them look at it.

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Speaker 2: They see these things every day, so they know kind

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's time time to get a new phone.

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Speaker 2: And what you can do is if it's something like

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Speaker 1: But for you, it might be too much trouble.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, right right, So I would

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Speaker 2: they may say, hey, look we can replace it, and

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Speaker 2: we can't guarant tea that anything's gonna work any better,

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Speaker 1: Greg.

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Speaker 3: Okay, and you said the what was the name of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's like a little chain of places are

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Speaker 2: it's you Break I Fix And that's that's the one

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Speaker 2: that's a store. And the reason why I recommend them

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Speaker 2: and they have a lot of locations.

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Speaker 1: So find one of those.

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Speaker 2: You Break I Fix, and if you want someone to

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Speaker 2: the whatever the I Cracked folks like literally came to

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Speaker 2: And I was like, Wow, that's pretty amaz that you

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Speaker 3: Wow, okay, but you don't if I was to take

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Speaker 3: it to Apple, they even though it's under the still

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, I mean you could do that first.

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Speaker 2: They're they're going to tell you right off the bat,

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Speaker 2: So do that first. You know, it can't hurt. They're

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Speaker 2: is they're going to see that crack, and like when

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Speaker 1: Apple's not stupid.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time they may say, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: for them to diagnose it because they're their repair is

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well, thank you, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Greg, thanks so much for listening and being a

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Speaker 2: Greg in Antelope Valley. All right, let's take one more

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Speaker 2: call here in the nine oh nine area code.

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Speaker 1: Nine oh nine you're on with Rich. Who am I

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Speaker 4: Hi? This is Sam from Pomona.

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Speaker 1: Sam from Pomona. How you doing today?

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Speaker 4: I'm doing pretty good. Got a couple of tech questions

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Speaker 1: Well, hopefully I have. It's a couple of tech answers.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I recently got rid of my cable because the

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Speaker 4: antenna and now I'm getting, you know, HD great reception.

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Speaker 4: I watch you guys on kt LA literally every morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: One of the things that you know, I had was

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Speaker 4: and it's like forty nine dollars and brought it home,

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Speaker 4: set it up. The thing works, you know, pretty good.

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Speaker 4: I mean i'd give a you know, an eight out

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Speaker 4: Have you got any experience with these?

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Speaker 2: Yes, So I'll tell you the one that I recommend

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Speaker 2: I can pause live TV, I can record.

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Speaker 1: But the one I recommend is.

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Speaker 2: Called Tableau TA b l O. And this is there's

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Speaker 2: a couple of them out there. There's one there's Tableau is.

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Speaker 2: I think it's probably one of the best. But here's

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Speaker 2: how it works. It's it's going to work a little

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Speaker 2: bit differently from what you have. But what Tableau does

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Speaker 1: And that's free, unlimited. So that's the one that I like.

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Speaker 2: And what's cool about this one and it's probably a

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Speaker 1: It's just infinitely better.

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Speaker 2: change channels. Now, if you're leaving it tuned to one

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Speaker 1: It's not that big of a deal.

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Speaker 2: But if you're flipping channels a lot, which you probably

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Speaker 2: aren't doing with over the air channels because there's not

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Speaker 2: that many of them, it probably won't be a problem.

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Speaker 2: But that's the one I like. I think it's not

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Speaker 2: much more than the one that you bought. Two tuners.

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Speaker 2: Let's see how much a two tuner is. Let's see here,

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Speaker 2: select your country. It is, Yeah, about a hundred bucks

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Speaker 2: for a refurbished one. So and I think a refurbished

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Speaker 2: on this thing will be just fine. So that's what

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Speaker 2: I recommend. Definitely check it out, Sam, and I think

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Speaker 2: you'll be much happier than the tiny thing that you

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Speaker 2: got from from Fries and nothing wrong with that, but

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Speaker 2: I just don't think it has as many features as

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Speaker 2: you would like. And I think Tableau is kind of

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Speaker 2: set up for this new world we live in of

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Speaker 2: the over the air DVR.

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Speaker 1: So check it out.

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Speaker 2: All right, there you have it. We are going to

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Speaker 2: take more of your phone calls after this. The phone

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Speaker 2: number is three one zero five nine four three zero

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Speaker 2: zero three. When we come back, i'll talk about the

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Speaker 2: new Microsoft Surface book and man, who would have thought

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Speaker 2: that contacts could be fun again? I'll tell you about

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Speaker 2: a new app that helps you manage those as well.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro. Will be right back.

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Speaker 2: Microsoft is very busy these days making their gadgets. They

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Speaker 2: have come out with a lot of new stuff lately,

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Speaker 2: and now they've got a brand new Surface Book two.

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Speaker 2: Surfacebook was you know, every A lot of the gadgets

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Speaker 2: that Microsoft is coming out with are very popular, like

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Speaker 2: they're they're well done. And I've got to say, after

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Speaker 2: seeing Microsoft kind of struggle for so many years in

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Speaker 2: various different aspects of kind of the mobile world and

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Speaker 2: all this different stuff, it's nice to see that they're

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Speaker 2: really killing it in the place that matters the most,

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Speaker 2: which is their bread and butter, which their computers.

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Speaker 1: And this new Surface Book two.

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Speaker 2: Is kind of a sequel to the first Surface Book,

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Speaker 2: which was good, but you know, you can always tell

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Speaker 2: a first gen product.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people loved it.

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Speaker 2: But now they've done some refinements and this new Surface

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Speaker 2: Book two is five times more powerful than the original,

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Speaker 2: but it still has all day battery life and the

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Speaker 2: neat thing about the Surface book. If you don't know

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Speaker 2: what this thing is, it's a computer, it's a laptop,

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Speaker 2: it's a tablet.

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Speaker 1: It's everything all in one.

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Speaker 2: And it's different than the regular surface because this is

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Speaker 2: more like a laptop, like a real laptop surface. You

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Speaker 2: can't really has a keyboard attachment, but you can't really

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Speaker 2: put it on your knees to like use it as

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Speaker 2: a laptop because it doesn't work that way.

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Speaker 1: It kind of like it just doesn't.

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Speaker 2: I can't explain it, but it's almost like a tent

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't stay. So this Surface book is much

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Speaker 2: more like a keyboard with a solid surface that connects

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Speaker 2: to a tablet. They can also disconnect. So people love

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Speaker 2: this thing. It's sold very well. Everyone who got one

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Speaker 2: really liked it. The reviews were great and Surfacebook too.

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Speaker 2: And the reason why people like surface is because if

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Speaker 2: you're doing real business, iPads are great.

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 2: You know, people love their iPads, but iPad is primarily

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Speaker 2: a consumption device. And yes, you can do office on there.

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Speaker 2: You can do I mean, you could do everything on there.

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Speaker 2: I mean I'm producing this whole live show on an iPhone.

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Speaker 2: So it's amazing what you can do. But the reality is,

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Speaker 2: when you really want to get business done, you want

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Speaker 2: to do presentations, all that kind of stuff, sometimes you

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Speaker 2: just want a good old fashioned computer. And this is

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Speaker 2: kind of the best of both worlds because you get

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Speaker 2: all the ports. You get USB the regular one, and

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Speaker 2: now the new thing is that they've added USB C

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Speaker 2: and then of course you have a full size SD

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Speaker 2: card slot, so you don't need dongles. I just bought

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Speaker 2: this new MacBook Pro and I can't show it too

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Speaker 2: because I don't want to mess anything up. But the

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Speaker 2: reality is it's been a learning experience because everything needs

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Speaker 2: to be plugged in with some sort of adapter because

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Speaker 2: everything there's only two USBC ports on it.

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Speaker 1: And that's it.

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Speaker 2: So I love the fact that it's simple, but it

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Speaker 2: takes a little bit more work. And I've noticed, you know,

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Speaker 2: I've had to buy all new cables. I've had to

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Speaker 2: buy some adapters U and sometimes people just don't want

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Speaker 2: to deal with all that mess. Surfacebook is not cheap,

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Speaker 2: by the way. Surfacebook two starts at fifteen hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: for the thirteen inch model twenty five hundred dollars for

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Speaker 2: the fifteen inch model. Pre Orders start on November ninth

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Speaker 2: and delivery on November sixteenth. Phone lines are open three

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Speaker 2: one zero five nine four three zero zero three three

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Speaker 2: one zero five nine four three zero zero three. Let

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Speaker 2: me tell you about an app that I've been playing

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Speaker 2: with for the past couple days. I think is really

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Speaker 2: cool and I never thought that Contacts would be cool. So,

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Speaker 2: by the way, playing on iPhone pla with Siri, something

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Speaker 2: that Siri does really well is she will, if you

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Speaker 2: have an iPhone and use sort of the Gmail app

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Speaker 2: on there, do yourself a favor and actually sign in

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Speaker 2: native mail app even if you have Gmail app installed

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Speaker 2: in there. And let me tell you why. Siri does

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Speaker 2: this amazing thing where she can look inside all your

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Speaker 2: email and kind of gather information from there. And I

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Speaker 2: know it sounds creepy and scary, but it's not. She

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Speaker 2: will literally if you pull down on your main screen

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Speaker 2: and type in the name of someone that maybe sent

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Speaker 2: you an email, she will tell you what their phone number,

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Speaker 2: what she thinks their phone number is.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing.

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Speaker 2: I wish we had this on our computers because it's

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Speaker 2: really smart. Anyway, I'm going outside of what I'm talking

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Speaker 2: about here. But this app is called card Hop Cardhop

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Speaker 2: and it comes from someone who made another great app

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Speaker 2: for the iPhone called fantastic hel And what they've done

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Speaker 2: is they've kind of pioneered the natural language where you

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Speaker 2: can just type in your appointment and it will kind

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Speaker 2: of parse it and put it in to a put

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Speaker 2: it into a calendar event. Well, card hop does the

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Speaker 2: same thing but for contacts. So this is really cool. Basically,

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Speaker 2: here's how it works. You install it on your computer.

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Speaker 2: It's only Mac right now. But when someone sends you

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Speaker 2: an email, you know how usually at the bottom of

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Speaker 2: their email they've got their entire signature line with all

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Speaker 2: of their contact information. Well you literally just take that,

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Speaker 2: just immediately parses all that data and puts it in

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Speaker 2: the proper fields in the contacts and then of course

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Speaker 2: it sinks it to your iPhone or Google Contacts or whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's really cool, and.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the developers know how cool it is because

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Speaker 2: when you paste it in, you watch the little things

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Speaker 2: move over like.

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Speaker 1: And it's really kind of fun.

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Speaker 2: And then of course you can search your stuff, you

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Speaker 2: can add, you can edit and It's not gonna work

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Speaker 2: perfectly every time, but it is really good. My only

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Speaker 2: downside to this Apple Number one is fifteen bucks. I

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Speaker 2: think it's normally twenty, but right now they're giving it

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Speaker 2: at fifteen, and then you get a twenty one day

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Speaker 2: grace period, so you get twenty one days to try

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Speaker 2: it out, which makes sense for something that's fifteen dollars.

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Speaker 1: Believe me. I was at a meeting the other day

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Speaker 1: and this kid didn't want to buy an app that

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Speaker 1: was two dollars.

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Speaker 2: I was like, come on, dude, it's two bucks. But

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Speaker 2: this the only problem I've noticed with cardhop, and I

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Speaker 2: see this with everything. It doesn't pull in contact photos

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Speaker 2: from Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, and I wish it would.

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Speaker 2: It takes them from Gravitar, which you may or may

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Speaker 2: not have heard of, but not everyone has that. So

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Speaker 2: to me, if this thing pulled in Facebook, LinkedIn and

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Speaker 2: Twitter photos, I'd be buying it tomorrow. Right now, I'm

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Speaker 2: still playing with it for the twenty one days. But

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Speaker 2: it is an amazing little app, and I really think

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Speaker 2: that they need to someone needs to do this. I

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Speaker 2: used to have this great app on Android called hack Sinc.

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Speaker 2: And it would at first Facebook was really nice about

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Speaker 2: giving you all your contact photos right and it would

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Speaker 2: sync with your iPhone. If you notice the new iOS eleven,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't happen anymore. The Facebook app doesn't do it anymore.

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Speaker 2: If you have a way to get Facebook photos into

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Speaker 2: my contacts, let me know in the comments, because I

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Speaker 2: don't know a way anymore, and it's really annoying because

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Speaker 2: I love having photos of my friends that are updated

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Speaker 2: in my contacts when someone calls and I just can't

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Speaker 2: find it anymore. So yeah, that's my little mini rant.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why they don't do it, but they should.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 1: Phone lines are open. Three one zero five nine.

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Speaker 2: Four three zero zero three three one zero five nine

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Speaker 2: four three zero zero three.

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Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on tech Live.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, I'll tell you what I think

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Speaker 2: of the new Google Pixel two, and.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a hint. It's not as good as

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Speaker 1: I thought it would be. I'll be back after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on tech Live. I'm Rich DeMuro.

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Speaker 1: To the podcast.

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Speaker 2: This is the show where I answer your tech questions

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Speaker 2: live and talk about all the cool stuff that's happening

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Speaker 2: in the tech world. One of those things right now

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Speaker 2: is the Pixel Pixel two, so Pixel last year's phone.

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Speaker 2: This is Google's kind of answer to the iPhone. And

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Speaker 2: I hate saying that, but that's the way people know it.

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Speaker 2: It's not really an answer to the iPhone. It's just

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Speaker 2: their phone. But the reality is that's the way it

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Speaker 2: gets portrayed in the media because you know, it's it's

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Speaker 2: everything has to be an answer to the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: But it's really not. It's just Google doing what Google does,

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Speaker 1: which is make devices too.

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Speaker 2: So Pixel two. I was very excited about the Pixel one.

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Speaker 2: Well I didn't really know to expect out of the

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Speaker 2: Pixel one, but I fell in love with it. Love

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Speaker 2: the camera, love the software. It was just a great phone.

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Speaker 2: Very different from the way iOS operates, but really nice phone.

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Speaker 2: I held that phone for the longest I think out

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Speaker 2: of any phone last year. I think it might have

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Speaker 2: been a record of eight months. That's pretty amazing. When

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Speaker 2: you test every single phone it's it's not easy to

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Speaker 2: keep keep it in your pocket because you get the

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Speaker 2: new phone in three months, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: you want to switch to that because it's got something

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Speaker 2: new and different and you're trying it out.

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Speaker 1: Long story short, I love the Pixel Pixel two.

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Speaker 2: I was super excited for it because I assume they

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Speaker 2: would add water resistance, and they did, but they Man,

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Speaker 2: I don't know where to start with this thing.

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Speaker 1: It's just getting This thing is.

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Speaker 2: Getting trashed on reviews. Everyone's talking about how terrible the

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Speaker 2: screen is. And I will say I noticed when I

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Speaker 2: was taking pictures with the Pixel two that they just

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Speaker 2: weren't as bright and vivid as the first Pixel. Now

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Speaker 2: when I look on my computer, they're not as bad.

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Speaker 2: So maybe it is a screen. But the reality is

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Speaker 2: it's not a deal breaker. It's not like this phone

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Speaker 2: is flawed. It's not like this phone is ruined. It's

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Speaker 2: still a really nice phone. But the problem is I'm

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Speaker 2: actually thinking for the first time in a long time

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Speaker 2: that Android feels like it is behind iOS. And I

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Speaker 2: used to think that Android in some aspects was ahead

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Speaker 2: of iOS.

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Speaker 1: But guess what, the iPhone now.

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Speaker 2: Has all the features that iOS people used to love

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Speaker 2: dual cameras. You know, all these little fancy camera tricks,

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Speaker 2: you know, all these little iOS software things that you

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Speaker 2: can do, wireless charging. But the reality is now Android

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Speaker 2: feels like it's behind. Especially this phone, when I thought

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Speaker 2: I was gonna love it so much, it doesn't have

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Speaker 2: it doesn't have the wireless charging.

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Speaker 1: It's got a nice little screen.

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Speaker 2: The camera is pretty amazing, but I don't think it's

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Speaker 2: like leaps and bounds ahead of the first pixel. So

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Speaker 2: at this point, if you're looking at an Android, I

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Speaker 2: almost feel like the Samsung is going to do a

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Speaker 2: better job for you than the pixel, because you know,

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Speaker 2: the pixel is like I'm almost bored by it. I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 2: well I can take a picture with a blurry background.

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Speaker 1: What else can I do? Not much? I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can.

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Speaker 2: Squeeze it and activate the Google Assistant that way, what

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Speaker 2: else can I do? There's no headphone jack, so I

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Speaker 2: can't plug those in. But I'm fine with that, not

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Speaker 2: a big deal to me. But I also feel like

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Speaker 2: the iOS just feels ahead. In the wearables, the Apple

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Speaker 2: Watch when you pair it with an iPhone is just amazing.

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Speaker 2: It's almost a magical experience. Car Play I used to

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Speaker 2: not think was very good, and now after using CarPlay

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Speaker 2: for the past eight weeks or so, I'm like.

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Speaker 1: This is way better than Android Auto Android Auto.

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Speaker 2: When I want to switch between my different audio applications,

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Speaker 2: I've got to press a button and I got to

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Speaker 2: go through all these menus on Apple, I can just boom,

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Speaker 2: I'm there, and I really just feel like I'm at

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Speaker 2: the first for the first time in a long time.

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Speaker 2: I just feel like Android is letting me down. And

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's not a good reason to get this.

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Speaker 2: If you love Android, you're gonna love this phone. But

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Speaker 2: it's really gonna make me and a lot of people

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Speaker 2: think twice because we used to think, oh, if it

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Speaker 2: comes from Google, it's the best. Not so much anymore.

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Speaker 2: But I do like the software. It's nice, but it

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Speaker 2: just doesn't have a lot of stuff going on there.

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Speaker 2: I like get bored. I'm looking at it.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, what can I do on this thing?

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Geller boy Genius. He started the website bgr dot

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Speaker 2: com boy Genius Report.

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Speaker 1: He's not very nice about it. Here's what he says.

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Speaker 2: Some have dipped their toes in the water, but none

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Speaker 2: will just come out and say it. This phone is

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Speaker 2: a complete you know what show of epic proportions and

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Speaker 2: people should seriously question why the maker of the world's

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Speaker 2: number one operating system can even make a good smartphone.

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Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen, Pixel t xcel isn't sitting on a shelf,

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Speaker 2: it's going in the trash.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Ouch man, that's really like whoo, that's not very nice

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Speaker 2: at all. Well, there you go, So thanks for listening.

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Speaker 2: seven fifty, and nine thirty every morning, and of course

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Speaker 2: Stephanie and Gabe in the afternoon. That's actually my last

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Speaker 2: live shot of the day. So it's always a fun

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Speaker 2: one for me because it's like one o'clock where you

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Speaker 2: guys are, but ten am where I am. So just

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Speaker 2: letting you guys know on Monday, if you're listening to

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Speaker 2: this before Monday, October. Let's see October twenty fourth, Tuesday. Rather,

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Speaker 2: I will be on the Hallmark channel Home and Family Show,

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Speaker 2: So Hallmark TV you can find it. It's not a

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Speaker 2: lot of the streaming services. I know it's on my

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Speaker 2: direct TV now. You can tvo it or DVR at

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Speaker 2: whatever people do these days. But Home and Family is

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Speaker 2: the show. It's kind of like their version of a

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Speaker 2: morning show. It's kind of fun. They tape it here

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Speaker 2: at Universal Studios in Los Angeless, a great little show.

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Speaker 2: I'll be on that on Tuesday. And of course you

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Speaker 2: can always listen to me on KFI AM six forty

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Speaker 2: in the five o'clock hour on Wednesdays and sometimes on

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Speaker 2: Fridays too, so or whenever anyway, thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 2: I don't blast you guys with too much stuff. And

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Speaker 2: I'm Rich Dmiro. I will see you and next time