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Speaker 2: That's the cool thing about this. On the show today,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about kids in their tablets. We're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about the Windows Surface Book two, this new
Speaker 2: app that is kind of cool cleans up your contacts
Speaker 2: and helps you manage those. I know it's been a
Speaker 2: while since a contact management app was exciting, but this
Speaker 2: one is.
Speaker 1: I'll give you my review.
Speaker 2: Of the Pixel too, and of course I will check
Speaker 2: social media and.
Speaker 1: Look at some of your comments.
Speaker 2: Man, let's talk about this topic first off on the
Speaker 2: show though, kids and tablets. You know, if you guys
Speaker 2: know me and you see me on TV, you know
Speaker 2: I've got two kids, or on Instagram or Twitter, I've
Speaker 2: got a you know, two boys and they're three and six.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you a never a dull moment
Speaker 2: when you have kids. Obviously that's the number one thing.
Speaker 2: But the second part of that is that there's a
Speaker 2: real struggle these day with the whole idea of kids
Speaker 2: and their tablets and kids and electronics and kids and
Speaker 2: how much do they watch now When I was a kid,
Speaker 2: this is all applying to now, Okay, I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about when I was a kid. When I was a kid,
Speaker 2: here's how it worked, you got home from school, You
Speaker 2: got up early before school, you watched cartoons for as
Speaker 2: long as you wanted until literally you had to walk
Speaker 2: out the door.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Then you would get home from school, throw down your stuff,
Speaker 2: and you would either watch video game or play video games,
Speaker 2: or you'd watch shows on TV until it was time
Speaker 2: to do your homework or time to go outside or
Speaker 2: time to go to bed, either one.
Speaker 1: I mean, we played outside a lot. That was the
Speaker 1: other thing. When we played outside, you would just go
Speaker 1: outside and.
Speaker 2: Play, and your parents you just know, like this is
Speaker 2: the time to come home. I had one friend's dad
Speaker 2: who would whistle for him anyway. That's all when I
Speaker 2: was a kid. Nowadays, it's a little bit different. We
Speaker 2: are in this world of digital devices and what a
Speaker 2: kids want to do when they come home. They basically
Speaker 2: want to sit down and act like a bowl full
Speaker 2: of mush and absorb everything on their tablet. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying that's necessarily a bad thing. I think that
Speaker 2: there's a anything.
Speaker 1: In moderation is good.
Speaker 2: But this new research from Common Sense tells us kind
Speaker 2: of what the deal is. And here's the first stat
Speaker 2: Forty two percent of kids ages zero to eight have
Speaker 2: their own tablet, and that's up from one percent in
Speaker 2: twenty eleven. One percent in twenty eleven. Now get it,
Speaker 2: the iPad didn't come out till twenty ten, so you
Speaker 2: know this, there's not much to think about. Before that,
Speaker 2: people were glued to their TVs. But the TV has
Speaker 2: given way to the tablet. And it's a weird thing because,
Speaker 2: you know, the tablet is much more personal than the TV.
Speaker 2: With the TV, at least you had you know, your
Speaker 2: mom or dad could walk by in the background and
Speaker 2: see you that you were watching a cartoon.
Speaker 1: You kind of had an idea.
Speaker 2: But nowadays everything's so personalized. It's so individualized right on
Speaker 2: your tablet screen that you barely even know what your
Speaker 2: kid's doing on there. My kid was watching this show
Speaker 2: on Netflix, by the way, Netflix, This is just you know,
Speaker 2: come on, common sense. When I put my kid's profile
Speaker 2: on Netflix, let me lock it down with a password. Okay,
Speaker 2: just some sort of passcode. I mean, isn't that the
Speaker 2: most basic thing that should be available to me as
Speaker 2: a parent, is that I can lock down when I
Speaker 2: put my kid on Netflix. And I get it. You
Speaker 2: can make the argument that, oh, rich, well, you should
Speaker 2: watch your kids better. You know, maybe you should stand
Speaker 2: over them the whole time. They shouldn't be able to
Speaker 2: see what's on Netflix without you looking. Well, guess what
Speaker 2: real life comes in here to play. And you can't
Speaker 2: always watch your kids every single minute of the day
Speaker 2: what they're watching on iPad. So my kid the other
Speaker 2: day happen to watch He's watching this show and gosh,
Speaker 2: I gotta figure out what the name of this show is.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna look it up on Netflix real quick, because
Speaker 2: the only reason I knew how bad this show was
Speaker 2: is because my photographer, Steven Stark, told me that he
Speaker 2: was watching it and he was like, oh, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: really bad. But it looks like a cartoon. So, oh gosh,
Speaker 2: what is the name of this show? It has a
Speaker 2: little cartoon.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I can't find it.
Speaker 2: It's like it looks like a kids cartoon and it
Speaker 2: is not okay. And I don't know if I'll ever
Speaker 2: be able to find this show on here really fast.
Speaker 2: But it's brand new. It just came out, and it's like,
Speaker 2: it's not a good show. It's not a show for kids.
Speaker 2: And my kid was watching it and I'm like, uh, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, give me that. Give me that back. You
Speaker 2: cannot be on there. Oh big mouth. There it is
Speaker 2: big Mouth. That's the show you I don't even know.
Speaker 2: You don't even want to start watching it because the
Speaker 2: stuff my photographer is telling me about it, that is
Speaker 2: not a show for kids. Somehow he switched to my
Speaker 2: profile and started watching that. Anyway, average amount of time
Speaker 2: spent with mobile devices skyrockets increasing ten times. So it
Speaker 2: used to be five minutes a day in twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: Now it's forty eight minutes in twenty seventeen. So forty
Speaker 2: eight minutes now that that's on a good day. I
Speaker 2: think for a lot of kids, forty eight minutes with
Speaker 2: their tablet is like, I mean, think about it, that's
Speaker 2: just two shows. And you know that's that's literally two shows. Now,
Speaker 2: that's what I try to limit my kids to each
Speaker 2: night when they come home, is just two shows. But
Speaker 2: some days or more some days are not.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: They're also going to start some public service announcements with
Speaker 2: Will Ferrell arguing for a device free dinner. So they're saying, basically,
Speaker 2: put down your phones during dinner. And this is something
Speaker 2: we tried. We actually went cold turkey at the table
Speaker 2: dinner table with the kids. We said, just after a
Speaker 2: couple of years, we said, you know what, no more
Speaker 2: iPads at the table.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: We are no longer having iPads at the table. And
Speaker 2: believe me, we've all been guilty. The parents too, do
Speaker 2: the same thing. You sit down and next thing you know,
Speaker 2: you're looking at your phone because you get a notification,
Speaker 2: and it ruins the entire dinner. So I'm guilty of this.
Speaker 2: My wife is guilty of it, the kids are guilty
Speaker 2: of it. We're all guilty of it. And the reality
Speaker 2: is it's not that we're doing anything wrong. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, how exciting is a slot machine when you
Speaker 2: roll the dice and you know or you pull that
Speaker 2: handle and you don't know what's going to come up.
Speaker 2: What do you think is happening when you're looking at
Speaker 2: your notifications the same exact thing.
Speaker 1: That's all you're doing.
Speaker 2: When you're when you're pulling down on Instagram and you're
Speaker 2: pulling down on Facebook to refresh the feed. Think about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're you're you're playing the lottery and it's fun.
Speaker 2: So I'm not I'm not arguing against this. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying life could be better. And when I was a kid. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we had we had the TV on during dinner. A
Speaker 2: lot of times. We had a TV in a kitchen.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what the answer is. I think
Speaker 2: that it's a it's in moderation. So with my kids,
Speaker 2: Monday night free for all. Everyone's tired. I mean, what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do. It's Monday, so they can eat
Speaker 2: in front of the TV. They could do whatever they want.
Speaker 2: Tuesday night, I'm a little more strict. I'm like, all right,
Speaker 2: no iPads. And then if they bring them, I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right. But uh, you know, you gotta do what
Speaker 2: you gotta You gotta do what you gotta do. Sometimes
Speaker 2: it's just a matter of survival as a parent. And
Speaker 2: if you give them their iPad and they watch a
Speaker 2: show and they're calm and they're enjoying life, that's that's
Speaker 2: a good thing.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But it was a big decision in our family when
Speaker 2: to get them tablets and when to let them watch
Speaker 2: these things. And it used to be a shared device
Speaker 2: and now, of course they each have their own. But
Speaker 2: you know, they can be a lifesaver, believe me, life saver.
Speaker 2: At the restaurant, we were out at a restaurant, on
Speaker 2: Friday night, and we were able to bring the kids
Speaker 2: because we had them have their iPads at the table. Now,
Speaker 2: I know that sounds terrible, but the reality is, number one,
Speaker 2: we're with our kids at least, and so we're functioning
Speaker 2: as a family. Number Two, we didn't have to pay
Speaker 2: for a babysitter, which was nice. But number three, you know,
Speaker 2: they get to go out to a restaurant and enjoy
Speaker 2: that time with us, even though they eventually moved on
Speaker 2: to their iPads.
Speaker 1: And so now I was talking with my wife.
Speaker 2: Because I feel like we had such a successful dinner
Speaker 2: that maybe we're going to try the thing where we
Speaker 2: maybe talk first until dinner comes, and then once dinner
Speaker 2: comes and they eat, then they can have their iPad.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of like dessert. You don't get it
Speaker 2: till you finish your food. In our house, let's see
Speaker 2: what else?
Speaker 1: What else? What else?
Speaker 2: Forty nine percent of children eight or under watch TV
Speaker 2: or videos or play video games in the hour before bedtime,
Speaker 2: and according to pediatricians, apparently that's a no no. Now,
Speaker 2: you know, we try to make the hour before bed
Speaker 2: more like, you know, more like reading and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So if they're but some nights again they're just going
Speaker 2: straight from watching right to bed and you know, it
Speaker 2: just depends.
Speaker 1: Again, it's all moderation.
Speaker 2: But I think these stats are really telling because the
Speaker 2: way that technology has really, you know.
Speaker 1: Affected the childhood is is so different.
Speaker 2: It's it's really it's really interesting to me because this
Speaker 2: is the way I put it. I grew up with
Speaker 2: a screen in front of my face from the time
Speaker 2: I was about I don't know, in my teens, I
Speaker 2: don't know, let's say fifteen, okay, and I had my
Speaker 2: first computer, and then of course my you know, you
Speaker 2: just had a computer, a laptop, whatever, and then of
Speaker 2: course you had things come along like the like the phones,
Speaker 2: but the phones were never in front of your face
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 1: Now they are.
Speaker 2: My kids meanwhile, they know how to swipe from about
Speaker 2: six months, and I think.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of kids.
Speaker 2: My kid yesterday he stood up on the on the
Speaker 2: little table in front of the TV and he's sitting
Speaker 2: there tapping the TV, tapping the TV and trying to
Speaker 2: swipe on the TV. And that my other kid did
Speaker 2: that too, And it's just crazy. It's just built into
Speaker 2: who they are. All right, phone lines are open, I'm
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Speaker 2: in the sixty six to one area code.
Speaker 3: Hey Rich Greg from the Antelope Valley.
Speaker 1: Greg, how you doing today on this Thursday?
Speaker 3: Not too bad in yourself?
Speaker 1: I am always doing fantastic on a Thursday, so day
Speaker 1: before Friday.
Speaker 3: Yes, great. I have a little problem here. I have
Speaker 3: had my iPhone six S for it'll be a year
Speaker 3: in November, and you know, of course accidents happened. I
Speaker 3: have dropped it and within I think I dropped it
Speaker 3: a good good, a good drop last December, and the
Speaker 3: bottom left hand side is a little if there's a
Speaker 3: little crack there, Okay, okay, But within the last week
Speaker 3: I have noticed some fine red lines on the left
Speaker 3: hand of my screen going from the battery icon all
Speaker 3: the way down to the that I have my Safari
Speaker 3: button there, Okay, and they don't go away, and it's
Speaker 3: a little bit annoying. So I'm wondering, is it something
Speaker 3: to do with my screen or is it something to
Speaker 3: do with the software or hardware.
Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like it could be. I think it's
Speaker 2: something to do with the Well, it could be the screen,
Speaker 2: could be a screen issue, could be some pixels that
Speaker 2: have gotten ruined, but if they're lighting up red, they're
Speaker 2: not dead. I think it's something to do with some
Speaker 2: sort of logic board or something that's driving the video
Speaker 2: on the phone, and that's what's causing it. And it
Speaker 2: could you know, it could every time your phone is
Speaker 2: moving or get shifted or jostled, it could make the
Speaker 2: problem worse eventually.
Speaker 1: So what are you thinking of doing?
Speaker 2: Are you thinking it's a success so it's not terribly old.
Speaker 1: Are you thinking of upgrading?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not right now. I was just thinking of
Speaker 3: getting it fixed. And I've you know, seen places that
Speaker 3: replace the you know, like a broken screen, so I
Speaker 3: one that's why I was calling to see if, well,
Speaker 3: if that's something I should do, or if it's you know,
Speaker 3: something inside I get.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. I mean, you could start there. You
Speaker 2: can go to one of those places. If you want
Speaker 2: someone to come to you, you can go to iicracked
Speaker 2: dot com.
Speaker 1: They'll come right to your house and fix it.
Speaker 2: Or you can go to like I would not go
Speaker 2: to some random place, you know, like in the mall,
Speaker 2: because the problem here is that this may not fix
Speaker 2: it and you know, or it may come back and
Speaker 2: then you have to go back to them. So you
Speaker 2: want someplace that sort of has a warranty on their
Speaker 2: on their stuff, and the place at the mall, you know,
Speaker 2: like the random places that just you know, they open
Speaker 2: up overnight and it's just some kid. You know, they
Speaker 2: may not offer the service, they may not be there
Speaker 2: if you need them in three months. So something like
Speaker 2: I cracked the guarantee the work that they do if
Speaker 2: the screen cracks again. But mostly these companies, you know,
Speaker 2: they will replace the screen, but it sounds like you
Speaker 2: may need the LCD replaced as well. So if there's
Speaker 2: a lot of damage, they can do that, but it's
Speaker 2: just gonna cost you more.
Speaker 1: So here's what I would do.
Speaker 2: I would go into like a place like New break
Speaker 2: I Fix, and I would get an estimate.
Speaker 1: Look, have them look at it.
Speaker 2: They see these things every day, so they know kind
Speaker 2: of the difference between what's going on, you know, if
Speaker 2: something's going to just take a screen or need a
Speaker 2: part inside. So I'd go there, get the estimate. If
Speaker 2: it's three hundred bucks, no way, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's time time to get a new phone.
Speaker 2: And what you can do is if it's something like
Speaker 2: three hundred dollars, then you can sell this phone on
Speaker 2: eBay and you'll get some money for it, because someone
Speaker 2: out there on eBay knows how to fix these phones
Speaker 2: and they'll fix it and then they'll flip it and
Speaker 2: sell it.
Speaker 1: But for you, it might be too much trouble.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, right right, So I would
Speaker 2: say do that, go in, get an estimate, and sometimes
Speaker 2: they may say, hey, look we can replace it, and
Speaker 2: we can't guarant tea that anything's gonna work any better,
Speaker 2: or that the lines are gonna go away because they
Speaker 2: just they just don't know until they actually put a
Speaker 2: new screen on there. So that's that's what you're sort
Speaker 2: of up against.
Speaker 1: Greg.
Speaker 3: Okay, and you said the what was the name of
Speaker 3: the place you break?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's like a little chain of places are
Speaker 2: you in? You said, you're in Los Angeles area? Right, Uh,
Speaker 2: it's you Break I Fix And that's that's the one
Speaker 2: that's a store. And the reason why I recommend them
Speaker 2: is because a lot of the third party insurance companies
Speaker 2: will send you there, so I know they're pretty legit
Speaker 2: and they have a lot of locations.
Speaker 1: So find one of those.
Speaker 2: You Break I Fix, and if you want someone to
Speaker 2: come to you, you can just go on I cracked
Speaker 2: dot com and they will send a technician to your
Speaker 2: house and they'll do it anywhere I was at. I
Speaker 2: was in Florida on a shoot one time, and the
Speaker 2: the whatever the I Cracked folks like literally came to
Speaker 2: fix this athlete's phone like right there in the like
Speaker 2: outside the locker room, basically, you know, one of the players.
Speaker 2: And I was like, Wow, that's pretty amaz that you
Speaker 2: can just do this anywhere so.
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, but you don't if I was to take
Speaker 3: it to Apple, they even though it's under the still
Speaker 3: under the warranty, they wouldn't fix it because of that crack.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, I mean you could do that first.
Speaker 2: They're they're going to tell you right off the bat,
Speaker 2: So do that first. You know, it can't hurt. They're
Speaker 2: not going to charge you. But what they're gonna do
Speaker 2: is they're going to see that crack, and like when
Speaker 2: I took my wife's phone in there was like a
Speaker 2: diagnosis fee or something like that, so they believe me.
Speaker 1: Apple's not stupid.
Speaker 2: But at the same time they may say, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: we just noticed that your phone has a crack problem
Speaker 2: that you know, if it's turned left, it cracks, so
Speaker 2: you know, you may they may you never know. I
Speaker 2: would take it there first and then go to these
Speaker 2: other places, but don't let them. Don't pay at Apple
Speaker 2: for them to diagnose it because they're their repair is
Speaker 2: always going to be more expensive.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well, thank you, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Greg, thanks so much for listening and being a
Speaker 2: part of rich On Tech Live. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Greg in Antelope Valley. All right, let's take one more
Speaker 2: call here in the nine oh nine area code.
Speaker 1: Nine oh nine you're on with Rich. Who am I
Speaker 1: speaking with?
Speaker 4: Hi? This is Sam from Pomona.
Speaker 1: Sam from Pomona. How you doing today?
Speaker 4: I'm doing pretty good. Got a couple of tech questions
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 1: Well, hopefully I have. It's a couple of tech answers.
Speaker 4: Okay, I recently got rid of my cable because the
Speaker 4: bill got way too high. I put in an outdoor
Speaker 4: antenna and now I'm getting, you know, HD great reception.
Speaker 4: I watch you guys on kt LA literally every morning.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: One of the things that you know, I had was
Speaker 4: a DVR, and I kind of missed that because I'll
Speaker 4: go into the kitchen to make breakfast and miss stuff,
Speaker 4: you know, and I come back and anyway, so I
Speaker 4: did a little research and I bought one of these
Speaker 4: uh TV tuners with the ability to record. I went
Speaker 4: over to Fries and I got this at the Trek Okay,
Speaker 4: and it's like forty nine dollars and brought it home,
Speaker 4: set it up. The thing works, you know, pretty good.
Speaker 4: I mean i'd give a you know, an eight out
Speaker 4: of ten maybe, But the remote control with this thing,
Speaker 4: the buttons are so tiny, and I mean literally I
Speaker 4: got to put my glasses on and turn on a
Speaker 4: light to figure out what I'm doing with this thing.
Speaker 4: Have you got any experience with these?
Speaker 2: Yes, So I'll tell you the one that I recommend
Speaker 2: that I really like. I have an antenna on my
Speaker 2: house and I get all the channels. It's great, and
Speaker 2: I can pause live TV, I can record.
Speaker 1: But the one I recommend is.
Speaker 2: Called Tableau TA b l O. And this is there's
Speaker 2: a couple of them out there. There's one there's Tableau is.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably one of the best. But here's
Speaker 2: how it works. It's it's going to work a little
Speaker 2: bit differently from what you have. But what Tableau does
Speaker 2: is it basically records over the air. It's it's just
Speaker 2: a box and then it has you know, you you
Speaker 2: attach a hard and you can record. So there's a
Speaker 2: subscription fee of five dollars a month if you want
Speaker 2: to set recordings you know, like you would on a
Speaker 2: TVO two weeks out, or you can just set manual
Speaker 2: recordings and see one day of guide information for free.
Speaker 1: And that's free, unlimited. So that's the one that I like.
Speaker 2: And what's cool about this one and it's probably a
Speaker 2: little bit different than yours is that it also works
Speaker 2: in conjunction with a smart device, so you can actually
Speaker 2: access not only your recordings from any iPad, iPhone, but
Speaker 2: also an Apple TV, Amazon Fire, TV Roku.
Speaker 1: It's just infinitely better.
Speaker 2: And the only thing I noticed about this that I
Speaker 2: the only downside I would say that it has is
Speaker 2: about a twelve second buffer from when you try to
Speaker 2: change channels. Now, if you're leaving it tuned to one
Speaker 2: channel or you're just tuning in a show, you won't
Speaker 2: really notice that.
Speaker 1: It's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2: But if you're flipping channels a lot, which you probably
Speaker 2: aren't doing with over the air channels because there's not
Speaker 2: that many of them, it probably won't be a problem.
Speaker 2: But that's the one I like. I think it's not
Speaker 2: much more than the one that you bought. Two tuners.
Speaker 2: Let's see how much a two tuner is. Let's see here,
Speaker 2: select your country. It is, Yeah, about a hundred bucks
Speaker 2: for a refurbished one. So and I think a refurbished
Speaker 2: on this thing will be just fine. So that's what
Speaker 2: I recommend. Definitely check it out, Sam, and I think
Speaker 2: you'll be much happier than the tiny thing that you
Speaker 2: got from from Fries and nothing wrong with that, but
Speaker 2: I just don't think it has as many features as
Speaker 2: you would like. And I think Tableau is kind of
Speaker 2: set up for this new world we live in of
Speaker 2: the over the air DVR.
Speaker 1: So check it out.
Speaker 2: All right, there you have it. We are going to
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Speaker 1: Windows. Microsoft.
Speaker 2: Microsoft is very busy these days making their gadgets. They
Speaker 2: have come out with a lot of new stuff lately,
Speaker 2: and now they've got a brand new Surface Book two.
Speaker 2: Surfacebook was you know, every A lot of the gadgets
Speaker 2: that Microsoft is coming out with are very popular, like
Speaker 2: they're they're well done. And I've got to say, after
Speaker 2: seeing Microsoft kind of struggle for so many years in
Speaker 2: various different aspects of kind of the mobile world and
Speaker 2: all this different stuff, it's nice to see that they're
Speaker 2: really killing it in the place that matters the most,
Speaker 2: which is their bread and butter, which their computers.
Speaker 1: And this new Surface Book two.
Speaker 2: Is kind of a sequel to the first Surface Book,
Speaker 2: which was good, but you know, you can always tell
Speaker 2: a first gen product.
Speaker 1: A lot of people loved it.
Speaker 2: But now they've done some refinements and this new Surface
Speaker 2: Book two is five times more powerful than the original,
Speaker 2: but it still has all day battery life and the
Speaker 2: neat thing about the Surface book. If you don't know
Speaker 2: what this thing is, it's a computer, it's a laptop,
Speaker 2: it's a tablet.
Speaker 1: It's everything all in one.
Speaker 2: And it's different than the regular surface because this is
Speaker 2: more like a laptop, like a real laptop surface. You
Speaker 2: can't really has a keyboard attachment, but you can't really
Speaker 2: put it on your knees to like use it as
Speaker 2: a laptop because it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: It kind of like it just doesn't.
Speaker 2: I can't explain it, but it's almost like a tent
Speaker 2: and it doesn't stay. So this Surface book is much
Speaker 2: more like a keyboard with a solid surface that connects
Speaker 2: to a tablet. They can also disconnect. So people love
Speaker 2: this thing. It's sold very well. Everyone who got one
Speaker 2: really liked it. The reviews were great and Surfacebook too.
Speaker 2: And the reason why people like surface is because if
Speaker 2: you're doing real business, iPads are great.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: You know, people love their iPads, but iPad is primarily
Speaker 2: a consumption device. And yes, you can do office on there.
Speaker 2: You can do I mean, you could do everything on there.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm producing this whole live show on an iPhone.
Speaker 2: So it's amazing what you can do. But the reality is,
Speaker 2: when you really want to get business done, you want
Speaker 2: to do presentations, all that kind of stuff, sometimes you
Speaker 2: just want a good old fashioned computer. And this is
Speaker 2: kind of the best of both worlds because you get
Speaker 2: all the ports. You get USB the regular one, and
Speaker 2: now the new thing is that they've added USB C
Speaker 2: and then of course you have a full size SD
Speaker 2: card slot, so you don't need dongles. I just bought
Speaker 2: this new MacBook Pro and I can't show it too
Speaker 2: because I don't want to mess anything up. But the
Speaker 2: reality is it's been a learning experience because everything needs
Speaker 2: to be plugged in with some sort of adapter because
Speaker 2: everything there's only two USBC ports on it.
Speaker 1: And that's it.
Speaker 2: So I love the fact that it's simple, but it
Speaker 2: takes a little bit more work. And I've noticed, you know,
Speaker 2: I've had to buy all new cables. I've had to
Speaker 2: buy some adapters U and sometimes people just don't want
Speaker 2: to deal with all that mess. Surfacebook is not cheap,
Speaker 2: by the way. Surfacebook two starts at fifteen hundred dollars
Speaker 2: for the thirteen inch model twenty five hundred dollars for
Speaker 2: the fifteen inch model. Pre Orders start on November ninth
Speaker 2: and delivery on November sixteenth. Phone lines are open three
Speaker 2: one zero five nine four three zero zero three three
Speaker 2: one zero five nine four three zero zero three. Let
Speaker 2: me tell you about an app that I've been playing
Speaker 2: with for the past couple days. I think is really
Speaker 2: cool and I never thought that Contacts would be cool. So,
Speaker 2: by the way, playing on iPhone pla with Siri, something
Speaker 2: that Siri does really well is she will, if you
Speaker 2: have an iPhone and use sort of the Gmail app
Speaker 2: on there, do yourself a favor and actually sign in
Speaker 2: to your mail on the phone itself. So use the
Speaker 2: native mail app even if you have Gmail app installed
Speaker 2: in there. And let me tell you why. Siri does
Speaker 2: this amazing thing where she can look inside all your
Speaker 2: email and kind of gather information from there. And I
Speaker 2: know it sounds creepy and scary, but it's not. She
Speaker 2: will literally if you pull down on your main screen
Speaker 2: and type in the name of someone that maybe sent
Speaker 2: you an email, she will tell you what their phone number,
Speaker 2: what she thinks their phone number is.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: I wish we had this on our computers because it's
Speaker 2: really smart. Anyway, I'm going outside of what I'm talking
Speaker 2: about here. But this app is called card Hop Cardhop
Speaker 2: and it comes from someone who made another great app
Speaker 2: for the iPhone called fantastic hel And what they've done
Speaker 2: is they've kind of pioneered the natural language where you
Speaker 2: can just type in your appointment and it will kind
Speaker 2: of parse it and put it in to a put
Speaker 2: it into a calendar event. Well, card hop does the
Speaker 2: same thing but for contacts. So this is really cool. Basically,
Speaker 2: here's how it works. You install it on your computer.
Speaker 2: It's only Mac right now. But when someone sends you
Speaker 2: an email, you know how usually at the bottom of
Speaker 2: their email they've got their entire signature line with all
Speaker 2: of their contact information. Well you literally just take that,
Speaker 2: copy it and paste it into card Hop and it
Speaker 2: just immediately parses all that data and puts it in
Speaker 2: the proper fields in the contacts and then of course
Speaker 2: it sinks it to your iPhone or Google Contacts or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's really cool, and.
Speaker 2: In fact, the developers know how cool it is because
Speaker 2: when you paste it in, you watch the little things
Speaker 2: move over like.
Speaker 1: And it's really kind of fun.
Speaker 2: And then of course you can search your stuff, you
Speaker 2: can add, you can edit and It's not gonna work
Speaker 2: perfectly every time, but it is really good. My only
Speaker 2: downside to this Apple Number one is fifteen bucks. I
Speaker 2: think it's normally twenty, but right now they're giving it
Speaker 2: at fifteen, and then you get a twenty one day
Speaker 2: grace period, so you get twenty one days to try
Speaker 2: it out, which makes sense for something that's fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1: Believe me. I was at a meeting the other day
Speaker 1: and this kid didn't want to buy an app that
Speaker 1: was two dollars.
Speaker 2: I was like, come on, dude, it's two bucks. But
Speaker 2: this the only problem I've noticed with cardhop, and I
Speaker 2: see this with everything. It doesn't pull in contact photos
Speaker 2: from Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, and I wish it would.
Speaker 2: It takes them from Gravitar, which you may or may
Speaker 2: not have heard of, but not everyone has that. So
Speaker 2: to me, if this thing pulled in Facebook, LinkedIn and
Speaker 2: Twitter photos, I'd be buying it tomorrow. Right now, I'm
Speaker 2: still playing with it for the twenty one days. But
Speaker 2: it is an amazing little app, and I really think
Speaker 2: that they need to someone needs to do this. I
Speaker 2: used to have this great app on Android called hack Sinc.
Speaker 2: And it would at first Facebook was really nice about
Speaker 2: giving you all your contact photos right and it would
Speaker 2: sync with your iPhone. If you notice the new iOS eleven,
Speaker 2: that doesn't happen anymore. The Facebook app doesn't do it anymore.
Speaker 2: If you have a way to get Facebook photos into
Speaker 2: my contacts, let me know in the comments, because I
Speaker 2: don't know a way anymore, and it's really annoying because
Speaker 2: I love having photos of my friends that are updated
Speaker 2: in my contacts when someone calls and I just can't
Speaker 2: find it anymore. So yeah, that's my little mini rant.
Speaker 2: I don't know why they don't do it, but they should.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Phone lines are open. Three one zero five nine.
Speaker 2: Four three zero zero three three one zero five nine
Speaker 2: four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on tech Live.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I'll tell you what I think
Speaker 2: of the new Google Pixel two, and.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a hint. It's not as good as
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Speaker 2: This is the show where I answer your tech questions
Speaker 2: live and talk about all the cool stuff that's happening
Speaker 2: in the tech world. One of those things right now
Speaker 2: is the Pixel Pixel two, so Pixel last year's phone.
Speaker 2: This is Google's kind of answer to the iPhone. And
Speaker 2: I hate saying that, but that's the way people know it.
Speaker 2: It's not really an answer to the iPhone. It's just
Speaker 2: their phone. But the reality is that's the way it
Speaker 2: gets portrayed in the media because you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: everything has to be an answer to the iPhone.
Speaker 1: But it's really not. It's just Google doing what Google does,
Speaker 1: which is make devices too.
Speaker 2: So Pixel two. I was very excited about the Pixel one.
Speaker 2: Well I didn't really know to expect out of the
Speaker 2: Pixel one, but I fell in love with it. Love
Speaker 2: the camera, love the software. It was just a great phone.
Speaker 2: Very different from the way iOS operates, but really nice phone.
Speaker 2: I held that phone for the longest I think out
Speaker 2: of any phone last year. I think it might have
Speaker 2: been a record of eight months. That's pretty amazing. When
Speaker 2: you test every single phone it's it's not easy to
Speaker 2: keep keep it in your pocket because you get the
Speaker 2: new phone in three months, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you want to switch to that because it's got something
Speaker 2: new and different and you're trying it out.
Speaker 1: Long story short, I love the Pixel Pixel two.
Speaker 2: I was super excited for it because I assume they
Speaker 2: would add water resistance, and they did, but they Man,
Speaker 2: I don't know where to start with this thing.
Speaker 1: It's just getting This thing is.
Speaker 2: Getting trashed on reviews. Everyone's talking about how terrible the
Speaker 2: screen is. And I will say I noticed when I
Speaker 2: was taking pictures with the Pixel two that they just
Speaker 2: weren't as bright and vivid as the first Pixel. Now
Speaker 2: when I look on my computer, they're not as bad.
Speaker 2: So maybe it is a screen. But the reality is
Speaker 2: it's not a deal breaker. It's not like this phone
Speaker 2: is flawed. It's not like this phone is ruined. It's
Speaker 2: still a really nice phone. But the problem is I'm
Speaker 2: actually thinking for the first time in a long time
Speaker 2: that Android feels like it is behind iOS. And I
Speaker 2: used to think that Android in some aspects was ahead
Speaker 2: of iOS.
Speaker 1: But guess what, the iPhone now.
Speaker 2: Has all the features that iOS people used to love
Speaker 2: dual cameras. You know, all these little fancy camera tricks,
Speaker 2: you know, all these little iOS software things that you
Speaker 2: can do, wireless charging. But the reality is now Android
Speaker 2: feels like it's behind. Especially this phone, when I thought
Speaker 2: I was gonna love it so much, it doesn't have
Speaker 2: it doesn't have the wireless charging.
Speaker 1: It's got a nice little screen.
Speaker 2: The camera is pretty amazing, but I don't think it's
Speaker 2: like leaps and bounds ahead of the first pixel. So
Speaker 2: at this point, if you're looking at an Android, I
Speaker 2: almost feel like the Samsung is going to do a
Speaker 2: better job for you than the pixel, because you know,
Speaker 2: the pixel is like I'm almost bored by it. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: well I can take a picture with a blurry background.
Speaker 1: What else can I do? Not much? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can.
Speaker 2: Squeeze it and activate the Google Assistant that way, what
Speaker 2: else can I do? There's no headphone jack, so I
Speaker 2: can't plug those in. But I'm fine with that, not
Speaker 2: a big deal to me. But I also feel like
Speaker 2: the iOS just feels ahead. In the wearables, the Apple
Speaker 2: Watch when you pair it with an iPhone is just amazing.
Speaker 2: It's almost a magical experience. Car Play I used to
Speaker 2: not think was very good, and now after using CarPlay
Speaker 2: for the past eight weeks or so, I'm like.
Speaker 1: This is way better than Android Auto Android Auto.
Speaker 2: When I want to switch between my different audio applications,
Speaker 2: I've got to press a button and I got to
Speaker 2: go through all these menus on Apple, I can just boom,
Speaker 2: I'm there, and I really just feel like I'm at
Speaker 2: the first for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 2: I just feel like Android is letting me down. And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's not a good reason to get this.
Speaker 2: If you love Android, you're gonna love this phone. But
Speaker 2: it's really gonna make me and a lot of people
Speaker 2: think twice because we used to think, oh, if it
Speaker 2: comes from Google, it's the best. Not so much anymore.
Speaker 2: But I do like the software. It's nice, but it
Speaker 2: just doesn't have a lot of stuff going on there.
Speaker 2: I like get bored. I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, what can I do on this thing?
Speaker 2: Jonathan Geller boy Genius. He started the website bgr dot
Speaker 2: com boy Genius Report.
Speaker 1: He's not very nice about it. Here's what he says.
Speaker 2: Some have dipped their toes in the water, but none
Speaker 2: will just come out and say it. This phone is
Speaker 2: a complete you know what show of epic proportions and
Speaker 2: people should seriously question why the maker of the world's
Speaker 2: number one operating system can even make a good smartphone.
Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen, Pixel t xcel isn't sitting on a shelf,
Speaker 2: it's going in the trash.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Ouch man, that's really like whoo, that's not very nice
Speaker 2: at all. Well, there you go, So thanks for listening.
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