Speaker 1: Thoughts on Samsung's new Galaxy Buds, another foldable phone, license plates,
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Speaker 2: What's going on. I'm Rich Damiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the stuff that I think you should know about.
Speaker 1: So I'm Rich Dmiro, the tech reporter at KTLA five
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Thanks for watching me there. But this
Speaker 1: is where I talk about this stuff that I think
Speaker 1: is really interesting, all from a consumer perspective, all the
Speaker 1: little stories throughout the tech week that I think are
Speaker 1: interesting and you should know about. And plus I take
Speaker 1: your calls. That's the fun part of this show is
Speaker 1: I will take your calls answer your questions. So if
Speaker 1: you have real questions about real tech, I Am going
Speaker 1: to answer them, or at least attempt to answer them,
Speaker 1: because sometimes you know, I don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 1: ask me. Maybe I don't know the answers, and so
Speaker 1: I will do my best to do that. But here's
Speaker 1: the deal. We are entering an era where the foldable
Speaker 1: phone is actually a thing. So I was at the
Speaker 1: Samsung event last week I think it was, and then
Speaker 1: this weekend in Barcelona, Spain, they're having the Big Mobile
Speaker 1: World Congress, by the way, a show that I've always
Speaker 1: wanted to go to that I've never actually gone to,
Speaker 1: even though I'm obsessed with cell phones, I.
Speaker 2: Know how does that work?
Speaker 1: But Huawei introduced something called the may X, and I'm
Speaker 1: guessing it's the Mate X, not the Mate ten. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're using iPhones naming conventions here. But the
Speaker 1: Mate X is a foldable device, so it's a phone
Speaker 1: that also folds into or folds out to become a tablet.
Speaker 1: So when it's folded up, it's got a six point
Speaker 1: six inch screen, and then when you open it up,
Speaker 1: it becomes a tablet that has a eight inch screen.
Speaker 1: And this a little bit different from the one we
Speaker 1: saw from Samsung because the Wahwei actually opens the opposite way,
Speaker 1: so the screen on the Wahwei is on the outside.
Speaker 2: So imagine a book.
Speaker 1: The cover of the book would be the wahweh, whereas
Speaker 1: with the Samsung device, the pages inside the book would
Speaker 1: be the Samsung. So the screen is on the inside
Speaker 1: of the Samsung, it's on the outside of the Wahwei.
Speaker 1: So personally, I think both are kind of crazy because
Speaker 1: either way, I feel like we're at a loss here.
Speaker 1: If you get a grain of sand in between your
Speaker 1: screens on the Samsung, well you've got a problem. And
Speaker 1: with the Wahwei, oh my gosh, I mean your whole
Speaker 1: phone is just exposed to the elements at all times.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't put a case on this thing, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be curious how these things are gonna
Speaker 1: hold up over a couple of weeks or months or
Speaker 1: even a year of use. But Huawei does say it's
Speaker 1: the world's fastest five G foldable phone, and I thought
Speaker 1: this was interesting when it's folded and you have it
Speaker 1: in camera mode because there's screens on both sides. The
Speaker 1: Huawei shows a viewfinder on both sides, so even subjects
Speaker 1: in the frame can contribute to the creative process.
Speaker 2: What does that mean.
Speaker 1: There's a screen on both sides, so the people that
Speaker 1: are taking people you're taking a picture of can actually
Speaker 1: see how they're composed in the screen as well the
Speaker 1: person behind the camera taking the picture. So Huawei may
Speaker 1: X going to be twenty six hundred dollars when it launches.
Speaker 1: I don't have a specific launch date just yet, but
Speaker 1: it will be this year, and I can't wait to
Speaker 1: get my hands on these things.
Speaker 2: I don't I.
Speaker 1: Love the idea of having a device that works in
Speaker 1: two ways, because a lot of times when you travel,
Speaker 1: I don't like to bring my iPad because it's too
Speaker 1: much work. You have the iPad that like basically is
Speaker 1: good for watching Netflix and that's about it and reading
Speaker 1: a magazine whatever. But for the rest of the time,
Speaker 1: I'm using my phone in my computer. So I kind
Speaker 1: of like the idea of a device that can unfold,
Speaker 1: but it has to be the right form factor, like
Speaker 1: a regular phone that also folds out. And I think
Speaker 1: these guys, I mean, i'd say they're getting close, but
Speaker 1: these are very first generation products. So it's just something
Speaker 1: to watch for the future. Mike from Chicago, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich what's going on? Hey?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: I have a question about car mounts for your cell phone. Okay,
Speaker 3: So I recently ordered a wireless car charger mount for
Speaker 3: the for my car, and it seems kind of chinsey
Speaker 3: like when I put it on there and it's charging,
Speaker 3: it just loses power when it's saying it's charging. Do
Speaker 3: you recommend any certain ones for that kind of thing,
Speaker 3: because the ones that I've been trying have been giving
Speaker 3: me no luck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the problem with these things, Mike, is that
Speaker 1: they your phone is basically consuming power faster than this
Speaker 1: wireless charge is able to recharge it.
Speaker 2: So, especially if you're.
Speaker 1: Running GPS, if you're running Android Auto, you notice that
Speaker 1: the power is just not coming through the phone as
Speaker 1: fast as it's depleting it, right, is that what you're experiencing?
Speaker 3: Well, kind of, because I'm not using like any apps
Speaker 3: or anything. The only thing I'm pulling off of it
Speaker 3: is maybe iPhone music.
Speaker 2: Oh w interesting, Okay, I like.
Speaker 3: I literally just got this like two days ago, and
Speaker 3: it took like three weeks to come because it came
Speaker 3: from China.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, we'll say no more. That's there's
Speaker 1: your problem, right there? Is there a how are you
Speaker 1: plugging this into your car? How is the power going in?
Speaker 3: At first, I tried just the USB port, right, because
Speaker 3: the USB port goes straight from there to the car mount, right,
Speaker 3: and then from there it's supposed to wildly charge your car.
Speaker 3: So then I was thinking, Okay, maybe that's not giving.
Speaker 4: It enough power.
Speaker 3: Let's try the I don't know what that's called the
Speaker 3: like the you know where the car chargers normally go
Speaker 3: right socket that's made for that, yep, yep. So I
Speaker 3: switched I got it like an adapter, and I switched
Speaker 3: it to that.
Speaker 4: And like as I'm driving, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, okay, my phone's at seventy three percent. Let's check it.
Speaker 3: In ten minutes, it's at seventy serious, like it says
Speaker 3: it's charging, but it's okay.
Speaker 2: So I just.
Speaker 4: Don't know like where to go, where to look.
Speaker 1: What, you know what I mean, Well, a couple things,
Speaker 1: So this is I don't I'm not a huge fan
Speaker 1: of wireless charging for this reason. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: very hit or miss. It's it's kind of slow, it's
Speaker 1: very inefficient. Now it's at.
Speaker 2: Work, yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1: You know, you leave it sitting on your desk and
Speaker 1: your phone is just kind of sitting there and it's
Speaker 1: trickle charging.
Speaker 2: But a couple of things I would look at.
Speaker 1: Number one, I would check I think you're on the
Speaker 1: right path of going through the what used to be
Speaker 1: called the cigarette lighter.
Speaker 2: To you know, to the charger.
Speaker 1: Right, there's two things this, this wireless charger could be
Speaker 1: a slow charger. You can look at see kind of
Speaker 1: like what the wattages on the packaging if you still
Speaker 1: have that, and see, yeah, that could be the problem.
Speaker 1: Number one, that it's just not fast enough to charge
Speaker 1: the iPhone at a good rate. The second thing is
Speaker 1: the USB adapter you're using in the cigarette lighter could
Speaker 1: be not drawing enough power from the you know, it's
Speaker 1: not transmitting enough power. So I know that I've I've
Speaker 1: experimented with these things in the past and there's definitely
Speaker 1: a difference. Like in my wife's car, I have a
Speaker 1: charger for my phone and I had to experiment with
Speaker 1: a few different of these cigarette lighter you know, USB
Speaker 1: adapters to see which one actually charge my phone at
Speaker 1: a rate that was acceptable. So that's what I would
Speaker 1: say is go on Amazon and see if you can
Speaker 1: find like if you're going to seven to eleven at
Speaker 1: the checkout, those are not gonna work, Like those are
Speaker 1: so slow they're not really gonna work. So you have
Speaker 1: to find one that's like either quick Charge three point
Speaker 1: zero or some sort of like look for like Qualcom
Speaker 1: quick Charge or you know, a higher wattage that that
Speaker 1: signifies that this thing is much faster than just the
Speaker 1: standard like one point one, which is like the trickle
Speaker 1: charge USB, Like you want something that's basically like if
Speaker 1: you look at let's see USB cigarette.
Speaker 3: Well, because I have I have a wireless charger like
Speaker 3: next to my bed that Verizon gave me when I
Speaker 3: bought my excess mm hmm, and and that thing's amazing,
Speaker 3: like it works fine.
Speaker 4: Right then you know the one in my car doesn't
Speaker 4: work so well.
Speaker 3: And then also I have a hard time finding amount
Speaker 3: for my car with this phone being I don't know,
Speaker 3: on the rather larger side. Yeah, like every time I
Speaker 3: put it in there, like sag down.
Speaker 1: Well, because you're using you're doing the vent, the car vent. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: those are okay. So the best, the absolute best mounts
Speaker 1: in the world for your car is from a company
Speaker 1: called pro Clip USA. The problem is they're really expensive,
Speaker 1: so I'm talking like eighty bucks for your for your mount.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Every single car they have gone into that car and
Speaker 1: they have figured out the perfect place where you can
Speaker 1: mount this thing where it attaches to sort of a
Speaker 1: part of your dashboard, like more so than just a
Speaker 1: you know, a peel and stick kind of thing. So
Speaker 1: pro Clip USA that's the best place if you're going
Speaker 1: to keep your phone for a while, and you're keeping
Speaker 1: this car for a while, it's definitely worth the investment.
Speaker 1: And second, you can actually get a mount from them
Speaker 1: that when you put your phone in there. You have
Speaker 1: an iPhone, you said, it literally will snap in. The
Speaker 1: base has the little lightning port, so when you put
Speaker 1: your phone in there, it snaps right into the lightning
Speaker 1: port and it's charging. It's charging nicely. It's such a
Speaker 1: clean setup. That's what I recommend. I switch out phones
Speaker 1: kind of a lot, so I used to use these
Speaker 1: a lot, but now I kind of I don't as much.
Speaker 1: But they are the best setup. And I was just
Speaker 1: buying them every time. I'd switch phones every six months
Speaker 1: to a year, and I'd spend eighty bucks ninety bucks
Speaker 1: on these things, and it got kind of expensive. But
Speaker 1: that's those are the best, So I would check out
Speaker 1: that if you really want a good, clean install, those are.
Speaker 2: The best you can find.
Speaker 1: And that was pro Clip pro Clip USA.
Speaker 2: And by the way, they do go on sale every
Speaker 2: once in a while.
Speaker 1: The most I've ever seen is twenty percent off, usually
Speaker 1: on Cyber Monday Black Friday. The best second best you
Speaker 1: can get is fifteen percent off usually on like a
Speaker 1: holiday like Saint Patrick's Day Valentine's Day, and then ten
Speaker 1: percent off. You can usually find a code for that sometimes,
Speaker 1: but definitely sign up on their mailing list and see
Speaker 1: what you can get for you know, a discount code,
Speaker 1: but pro clip USA. Look all right, Mike, thanks for
Speaker 1: calling in from Chicago today.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, thank you man. I've been watching you since
Speaker 3: before when you did WWG and stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: I appreciate everything you do. Thank you very much. I
Speaker 3: keep up to date, so.
Speaker 2: Thank you cool, thanks for watching. Appreciate it. By bye.
Speaker 1: So last week on the show, I talked about Samsung's
Speaker 1: new Galaxy S ten. I've been using the heck out
Speaker 1: of the ten plus. I will say that I really
Speaker 1: like the Galaxy S ten plus. I think this phone.
Speaker 1: I can highly recommend it already I've used it for
Speaker 1: about a week. I can one recommend it as a
Speaker 1: fantastic Android phone. So I will have a full review
Speaker 1: on that next week on KTLA but and probably here
Speaker 1: as well. But I figured I talk about the Galaxy
Speaker 1: Buds because at the event I also got a pair
Speaker 1: of the Galaxy Buds, which are sort of Samsung's answer
Speaker 1: to the air pods, And I hate to compare everything
Speaker 1: that way because it's not just like Samsung said, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, they did AirPods, let's do ear pods or
Speaker 1: Galaxy buds. But the reality is, look, we need these things.
Speaker 1: It's it's a good form factor that just have something
Speaker 1: that pops in your ears. The Galaxy buds actually feel
Speaker 1: very futuristic. If the AirPods were kind of like little
Speaker 1: headphones that were cut off, like the wires were cut off.
Speaker 1: Galaxy buds almost feel like something out of the future
Speaker 1: because they're so tiny and you just pop them in
Speaker 1: your ear and they almost like magnetically snap into your ear.
Speaker 1: So I hate anything that goes in my ear when
Speaker 1: it comes to headphones, I really don't like a lot
Speaker 1: of them. So I like things that sit on my ear,
Speaker 1: not things that pop in my ear. But I will
Speaker 1: say the Galaxy buds I really like, and they work
Speaker 1: really well. The pairing is super easy. You pop open
Speaker 1: the case on the Galaxy buds. Immediately your Samsung phone says, hey,
Speaker 1: we notice you've got some Galaxy buds in nearby. Do you
Speaker 1: want to connect? Sure you say yes, shows you how
Speaker 1: much battery you have left on them, and that's it.
Speaker 1: Next thing you know, you're off and running. You're you know, literally,
Speaker 1: for me, I was running. So I tried these things
Speaker 1: at the gym. I tried them on the hike, and
Speaker 1: they did not fall out of my ears. The only
Speaker 1: exercise that I thought maybe they might fall out of
Speaker 1: my ears on was when I was on like some
Speaker 1: sort of bench and I was I don't know what
Speaker 1: you call the exercise, but I was basically flying back
Speaker 1: and forward like lifting almost like a sit up. That's
Speaker 1: basically it, but upside down. So and yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that exercise is. I just saw someone else
Speaker 1: at the gym doing it, so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll do that. I'm sure it's good for something.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing there.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I digress. But that's the only time I
Speaker 1: felt like they might fall out of my ears, but
Speaker 1: they did not. So on the hike they did not
Speaker 1: fall out. They sound really good. I'm not an audio expert,
Speaker 1: but they sound really nice. They've got this enhanced ambient sound,
Speaker 1: which actually I really like because I can hear what's
Speaker 1: going on around me even when I have these things
Speaker 1: in so a lot of these earbuds. You put them in,
Speaker 1: it's like sh and like you know, suction cups your
Speaker 1: ear and that's it. You can't hear anything else. And
Speaker 1: it almost sounds like it's really a weird sound. You
Speaker 1: sound like what's happening inside your head. I don't like
Speaker 1: that feeling. These do not do that for me, So
Speaker 1: I like that. The case also doubles as a battery,
Speaker 1: so it holds a charge for seven hours. So the
Speaker 1: Galaxy Buds, you put them in there and they recharge
Speaker 1: a little bit. So if you put them in there
Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes, they'll give you an hour and a
Speaker 1: half of time of use. And that's about an hour
Speaker 1: more than I would work out. So they also give
Speaker 1: you six hours of Bluetooth streaming, five hours of calls.
Speaker 1: And what I like is this is the best part
Speaker 1: to me is if you have a new Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: S ten, it's got that wireless power share on the backside,
Speaker 1: so you can flip your phone over lay your Galaxy
Speaker 1: Buds case with the Galaxy Buds inside on the back,
Speaker 1: and now you can charge your Galaxy buds. As long
Speaker 1: as you have a little charge on your phone, those
Speaker 1: will charge up, no wires necessary, So that's really cool.
Speaker 1: So you basically get wireless charging of your Galaxy buds
Speaker 1: right through your phone. So how does that matter, Well,
Speaker 1: basically ninety nine percent of the time. Well, the AirPods,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I haven't had a problem with those,
Speaker 1: But in the past, every time, without fail, all these
Speaker 1: Bluetooth headphones I'd bring to try out at the gym,
Speaker 1: I would forget to charge them, the battery would be dead, whatever,
Speaker 1: and I'd.
Speaker 2: Get to the gym and that's it. It's like I
Speaker 2: had to go back to my wired earbuds.
Speaker 1: Well, with these, as long as you can, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe give yourself fifteen minutes of leeway at the gym,
Speaker 1: you know, fill up your water bottle, whatever you can
Speaker 1: get at least a little bit of a charge on
Speaker 1: your Galaxy buds and not all is lost, because I
Speaker 1: will tell you I will leave the gym if I
Speaker 1: cannot listen to something on my phone.
Speaker 2: And also the other thing I do.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I do this, but every time
Speaker 1: I pack my gym bag, I always forget one crucial
Speaker 1: aspect and I don't know what it is. I need,
Speaker 1: like a checklist, like Okay, you've got your socks check.
Speaker 1: You've got your undergarments check. You've got your shorts check,
Speaker 1: you've got your shirt check. Oh, you've got your sneakers check.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I cannot remember to get these things.
Speaker 1: Plus you need, you know, your headphones, your phone, a
Speaker 1: little water, maybe a little protein bar, little pre energy,
Speaker 1: little post most energy, little recovery.
Speaker 2: No, I was kidding.
Speaker 1: I don't know about any of that stuff. I check
Speaker 1: and double check my gym bag, and I still manage
Speaker 1: to forget stuff. I don't even know how I do it.
Speaker 1: So now I actually two things. I'll admit I have
Speaker 1: bought socks at the gym I think three times.
Speaker 2: And I actually now.
Speaker 1: Keep a spare pair of socks in my gym bag
Speaker 1: at all times, because for some reason, those are the
Speaker 1: things I forget the most. And I wear dress socks
Speaker 1: to work, so I can't just wear my socks that
Speaker 1: I'm wearing to work. I think I worked out in
Speaker 1: my dress socks once out of desperation, because I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going home anyway. The Galaxy buds go on
Speaker 1: sale for one hundred and twenty nine to ninety nine.
Speaker 1: They were giving them away with pre orders on the
Speaker 1: S ten. But I just read today that those are
Speaker 1: no longer a thing, so I hope that's not the case.
Speaker 1: I hope that was just a fluke in the system.
Speaker 1: But one hundred and thirty bucks, I think it's worth it.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see more discounts and promotions with
Speaker 1: the Galaxy Buds than we ever saw with the AirPods.
Speaker 1: So the Airpod's kind of held steady at one sixty
Speaker 1: for the two years they've been out. I think Galaxy
Speaker 1: Buds we're gonna see that price go down to ninety
Speaker 1: nine bucks. I'm just predicting this and or some promotions
Speaker 1: with the carriers where if you buy the phone there,
Speaker 1: they're gonna give you a free pair of Galaxy Buds.
Speaker 1: So be on the lookout for those. Caesar from Long Beach,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Nothing much?
Speaker 6: Rich?
Speaker 4: You know, let your show? I watch it every day.
Speaker 4: Just always wanted to get more information regarding DVD's movies
Speaker 4: that I have and to put it in my computer.
Speaker 4: I recently started using Plex, where I download my computers
Speaker 4: into my computer. I guess Plex is like a server
Speaker 4: that makes a computer into a server, and you can
Speaker 4: access your movies everywhere you go with your phone, cell phone, laptop,
Speaker 4: so forth right. The only issue that I've been having is, well,
Speaker 4: first of all, I need more memory because I only
Speaker 4: got like one hundred movies in there, and you start
Speaker 4: ticking sticking out my memory.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: But I just wanted to see what would you recommend
Speaker 4: for me. Well, first of all, the movies are in
Speaker 4: my computer, and my computer have to be turned on
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 2: Yes, did my.
Speaker 4: Computer mess up if I leave it on? Could my
Speaker 4: monitors stay on for a while? And I don't know
Speaker 4: if that's going to mess.
Speaker 3: Up my monitors or yeah, I means.
Speaker 4: Is running day and night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely not not an ideal situation. But computers
Speaker 1: are designed to stay on for long periods of time,
Speaker 1: so you're not going to necessarily kill your computer. I
Speaker 1: have a little mini server in my place I bought
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. It's from Synology. So if
Speaker 1: you really want to get serious with this and have
Speaker 1: all your movies on there, that's probably the best bet.
Speaker 1: That's what most people do. Or you can run an
Speaker 1: old computer as your server if you have one, But
Speaker 1: snology is kind of like the leader in that space.
Speaker 1: You basically buy this little box that it's like two hundred bucks,
Speaker 1: and then you get a hard drive or two hard
Speaker 1: drives preferably, and then the cool thing about the Synology
Speaker 1: is it also serves as a mini backup drive.
Speaker 2: So I have my entire or Google Drive.
Speaker 1: Syncd up to that, and you can have your entire
Speaker 1: drop box synced up to that. So this way, if
Speaker 1: anything ever happened with Google Drive, I have a complete
Speaker 1: backup right here in my office. So that's one option.
Speaker 1: Now to answer your question, I would.
Speaker 4: The name of the name of the.
Speaker 1: Unit Sinology, s Ynology, and it's not very expensive. You
Speaker 1: can look online if you type it in. If you
Speaker 1: just literally type in Synology into Amazon, it will give you,
Speaker 1: like the the latest model that most people are buying.
Speaker 1: It's like mine's a couple of years old, so I'd
Speaker 1: give you that one, but it's not it's not really
Speaker 1: the popular one anymore. But if you get that, you
Speaker 1: can install PLEX on it and then you can use
Speaker 1: that as your server. And so it's like basically a
Speaker 1: mini computer. And that's about it. So you have that
Speaker 1: going twenty mine's going twenty four to seven. Unless the
Speaker 1: kids turn it off and then that's it. And then
Speaker 1: I figure that out when I go to drag something
Speaker 1: to it and I'm like, oh, it's not there, and
Speaker 1: I realize that it's turned off. But otherwise, with a computer,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have too many problem with the computer
Speaker 1: being on. I think that the energy consumption is one.
Speaker 1: The secondary thing is your monitor being on all the time.
Speaker 1: There isn't an issue with screen burning if you don't
Speaker 1: have a screen saver. But at the very least I
Speaker 1: would just go into your settings on your computer and
Speaker 1: just have it to your hard drive and your CPU
Speaker 1: either stay awake with you know, network access, or you
Speaker 1: have the monitor just turn off and the computer stays on.
Speaker 1: So just go in and tweak those energy settings and
Speaker 1: you should be fine. But yeah, the way it's working
Speaker 1: is everything's coming off your computer, so your computer has
Speaker 1: to be on for that connection to be made between
Speaker 1: your device and your computer where all the files are
Speaker 1: are housed.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I know it gets a little complicated.
Speaker 1: But the plex thing is a lot of people like
Speaker 1: it because they have their own stuff. They also some
Speaker 1: people share other people's plexes as well.
Speaker 2: But you know, there's there's a lot of ways you
Speaker 2: can do it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good solutions for it as well,
Speaker 1: Like there's if you want to have your own collection
Speaker 1: of something plex, lets you do that, right.
Speaker 4: I love it because, like I said, I have thousands
Speaker 4: of movies on DVD, and I hate looking for a
Speaker 4: movie that I always wanted to watch and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, I know I have access to it on Plex.
Speaker 4: Like in Christmas time, you don't.
Speaker 3: Want to be looking for your Christmas movies and then
Speaker 3: you know and putting into the DVD player and so forth,
Speaker 3: and so.
Speaker 4: I have stolen too much time. So plex friendly looks there.
Speaker 1: That's so funny because that's like literally the only time
Speaker 1: I use my PLEX is when I is during Christmas.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I know I have Doctor Seuss
Speaker 1: or whatever the Grinch you stole Christmas. I know I
Speaker 1: have Christmas Vacation on there. I've gotten some of them over.
Speaker 1: But it's like it really pains me when I bought
Speaker 1: these things to like buy them again digitally, you know,
Speaker 1: So I just made them digital and now I have them.
Speaker 4: Yes, Because I was also doing voodoo for a while,
Speaker 4: buying two dollars for the movie that I have sometimes,
Speaker 4: you know, the screen is not what I want on
Speaker 4: the Pleux, so I gotta go to Vudu. Yep. But
Speaker 4: anyway back to the plex, like just one more thing.
Speaker 4: So what you told me, I mean they told me
Speaker 4: about the NAS. Is that something good I can use also?
Speaker 4: And they ask or NAS or.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I'm talking about. That's that's the NAS. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The NASA's synology is called Network attached storage. So it's
Speaker 1: basically a hard drive that has a network connection and
Speaker 1: the hard drive there's a little bit of a CPO
Speaker 1: in there, there's a little bit of software that runs
Speaker 1: on there. But that's what a NAS is. That's what
Speaker 1: snology is, and so there's several of them out there.
Speaker 1: I think synology is probably the most popular. You can
Speaker 1: build your own, you know, there's a there's a you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of ways to do it, but that's
Speaker 1: what that synology is.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Persfect, thank you so much, answer my questions.
Speaker 2: All right, Caesar, have a good day. All right, same
Speaker 2: to you, Bye bye.
Speaker 5: Her.
Speaker 1: Amazon has a new feature available to all Prime members
Speaker 1: called Amazon Day. This is something that I have literally
Speaker 1: been talking to my wife about for years saying how
Speaker 1: convenient this would be and how smart this would be,
Speaker 1: and I called it.
Speaker 2: I didn't have Amazon Day. Mine was like Amazon sweep, right.
Speaker 1: So the idea was that you would order stuff throughout
Speaker 1: your week, and I need everything I order immediately, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I understand that Amazon's really fast, but I would say,
Speaker 1: only one percent of orders do I actually need the
Speaker 1: next day or the same day, right. The rest I
Speaker 1: can just wait for. So my idea was, I think
Speaker 1: it's really inefficient for them to keep delivering stuff to
Speaker 1: my house, right, So I thought it would be really
Speaker 1: cool if all throughout the week, if I ordered stuff,
Speaker 1: I would just get all my orders at the end
Speaker 1: of the week, like on Friday or Saturday.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, now that's an option. It's called Amazon Day, and
Speaker 1: all the stuff you order throughout the week, you can
Speaker 1: pick the day that you want it delivered. So I
Speaker 1: love this idea because a lot of times I don't
Speaker 1: order small, stupid little things on Amazon because I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's such a waste of resources, of driving of you know,
Speaker 1: I only want to place an order for like something
Speaker 1: that's five dollars, like a kitchen utensil.
Speaker 2: Or tool or whatever.
Speaker 1: Well, now you can do that and at the end
Speaker 1: of the week, they'll just kind of group everything together
Speaker 1: that you ordered and ship it to you. And the
Speaker 1: other side of this is that you know what day
Speaker 1: you're getting your packages, which is really cool. So again
Speaker 1: it's called Amazon Day and Amazon Now clearly there's a
Speaker 1: benefit to Amazon because guess what they can now you know,
Speaker 1: have less packages going out on any given day, and
Speaker 1: that saves them money to group things they don't have
Speaker 1: to ship things separately. But for me, I actually think
Speaker 1: it's just a smart idea. It's good for the environment,
Speaker 1: but it's just also smart, like not every package you
Speaker 1: need on the next day or the same day, And
Speaker 1: so you do have the option if you're ordering something
Speaker 1: like let's say you need razors, you ran out and
Speaker 1: you need them like the next day, well you can
Speaker 1: still get them on your Prime. You can you know,
Speaker 1: specify every order if you want it to go on
Speaker 1: your Amazon Day or if you want it to go
Speaker 1: you know, on normal shipping or whatever. But I think
Speaker 1: this is great, great option. It's like one of those
Speaker 1: things that like Amazon is so big that just by
Speaker 1: offering this they will save literally like a million trees
Speaker 1: a month.
Speaker 2: Or something.
Speaker 1: Just by offering this, not everyone's going to take advantage,
Speaker 1: but it is for prime members only. But if you
Speaker 1: want to set up your Amazon Day where you get
Speaker 1: all your deliveries on the same day Amazon dot Com
Speaker 1: slash Amazon Day. Alan from Panoramic City, You're on with
Speaker 1: Rich what's going on and the baiting.
Speaker 6: Between an iPhone and an Android? And I don't know
Speaker 6: what is better for me?
Speaker 2: What do you want to do with your phone?
Speaker 6: I want to play games, take a lot of pictures.
Speaker 6: I have the Samsum S seven Edge right now. They're
Speaker 6: starting to give me a lot of problems. And I
Speaker 6: play a lot of games. I surf the net a
Speaker 6: lot on the internet, you know, we read a lot
Speaker 6: of things, talk play music.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean the difference. I mean, if you already
Speaker 1: have an Android and you're feeling like it's after a
Speaker 1: couple of years, not really living up to its potential.
Speaker 1: There and the S seven, you know, it was a
Speaker 1: good phone, but the software on the older Samsung's has
Speaker 1: definitely left a little bit to be desired.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: I think that you would be fine with switch to
Speaker 1: an iPhone.
Speaker 6: Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you opposed to the iPhone in any way? Is
Speaker 1: it's what's your hesitation about that?
Speaker 6: I just have little hesitation mainly, you know a lot
Speaker 6: of mixed reviews about it, and I don't know what
Speaker 6: to believe and what not to believe.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, look, the difference between iOS and Android
Speaker 1: is Apple kind of controls everything that you do, and
Speaker 1: so you know, they control kind of how the phone works,
Speaker 1: the software, what you can do with that software, what
Speaker 1: you can customize, what you can't customize. But the reality is,
Speaker 1: I think that for ninety nine point nine percent of people,
Speaker 1: they're not really concerned with that. Like the iPhone works
Speaker 1: all the time, like it just always works. It really,
Speaker 1: it's simple, it's it works, It has the best software.
Speaker 1: When it comes to apps and things, you can do
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, all the stuff that you're telling
Speaker 1: me you want to do on it is very standard
Speaker 1: iPhone tasks. Right, You've got a lot of accessories for
Speaker 1: the iPhone, and I don't think you're going to see
Speaker 1: the same kind of slow down and issue that you
Speaker 1: see with your Samsung with the iPhone. Now with the
Speaker 1: new Samsung, I think that it's good. But I've been
Speaker 1: testing this new one, the s ten, and it's great.
Speaker 1: But the iPhone is is also a fantastic device. I mean,
Speaker 1: if are you looking at getting the newest iPhone like
Speaker 1: the ten R or okay something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sorry, you're rough.
Speaker 6: What do you think of the Android LG.
Speaker 1: I like that one. I've been testing that as well.
Speaker 1: I don't like it as much as the iPhone ten R.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that, I think that the ten R
Speaker 1: is is is a better device.
Speaker 2: So I think.
Speaker 1: The ten R is the x R. That is they
Speaker 1: just call it. It says X but it's ten. I know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's the same thing. So that's fine. The LG,
Speaker 1: you know, V forty is cool. The the thing I
Speaker 1: like about that is that it has a bunch of cameras.
Speaker 1: You've got the three different cameras on the back so
Speaker 1: you can do the wide angle photography, which is kind
Speaker 1: of cool. The iPhone ten R only has one camera
Speaker 1: on the back, so you get but it's it's a
Speaker 1: great phone. I mean, the ten R really is a
Speaker 1: nice device, and I think that some of the headaches
Speaker 1: that you've had with your Samsung you will not have
Speaker 1: with the with the ten R. It just works, It
Speaker 1: charges easily, it's simple, it does wireless charging comes in
Speaker 1: a bunch of different colors, if that's of interest to you.
Speaker 1: The screen is nice and big, the battery last forever.
Speaker 6: That's what I want, my edge. I can't even leave
Speaker 6: it on for you know, anything, for time at all
Speaker 6: without nothing, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree, And that's that's that's a problem
Speaker 1: with some of the Samsungs in the past.
Speaker 2: The battery.
Speaker 1: The battery got better on the S nine, but the
Speaker 1: S seven was was not very good when it came
Speaker 1: to battery, or the S six was really bad.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're willing to switch, I think take
Speaker 1: the chance and see. Right now, Apple is giving a
Speaker 1: little bit of bonus cash for the trade ins on
Speaker 1: the iPhone ten R. So if you go into uh
Speaker 1: to the Apple webs and see you can you can
Speaker 1: go on there and see how much they'll give you
Speaker 1: for your phone. They're giving you a little bit more
Speaker 1: than he normally would, which is still not a lot.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get a ton for the S seven,
Speaker 1: but you will get you know, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean I can look online and see, but you know,
Speaker 1: at least we'll get some sort of trade in and
Speaker 1: that phone is seventy seven hundred and fifty dollars, So
Speaker 1: you can go to the Apple Store too and trade
Speaker 1: it in there. So let's see, so your device is,
Speaker 1: let's see, let me see what your smartphone is. You
Speaker 1: have the let's see Samsung Galaxy S seven. So let
Speaker 1: me just see here Samsung, which model Galaxy capacity. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that's a thirty two gig do you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure it is thirty Okay, so.
Speaker 1: S seven edge you said, or yeah, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: is your smartphone in good condition? You get one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five dollars for that phone, okay, So I
Speaker 1: mean that's not bad. I think that's actually a pretty
Speaker 1: good amount for a phone that's going on three years old, right,
Speaker 1: three four years old? But I don't know, take take
Speaker 1: a chance. I mean, see what you think of it.
Speaker 1: I think the ten R is a really solid device.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's the best combination of what Apple
Speaker 1: has to offer. I wouldn't go anything below the ten
Speaker 1: R because the camera's not as good on the previous models.
Speaker 1: So the ten R has a really good camera. And
Speaker 1: I think that you said you like take pictures, so
Speaker 1: I think that'd be good, and you got the big screen.
Speaker 6: I just got to so I like to take pictures.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I was told that all the Androids now
Speaker 6: are switching the USB connections so that my existing USB
Speaker 6: portion everything won't work. Is that true?
Speaker 1: The there's well, okay, so your phone does use US B,
Speaker 1: but it uses what's called micro USB, and the new
Speaker 1: phones use what's called USB C so and the iPhone
Speaker 1: uses lightning. So with the iPhone you will have a
Speaker 1: different connector. So you we'll need to get you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't.
Speaker 6: Sure about the Android.
Speaker 2: Yes, I got to replace. Yes you would.
Speaker 1: It uses USB C which your phone uses USB, micro
Speaker 1: USB or USB A. I believe that is so you
Speaker 1: wouldn't You wouldn't need new courts for that anyway, so
Speaker 1: combine that, you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, great and answer my question. Thank you very
Speaker 6: much for your time.
Speaker 2: All right, Alan, appreciate you calling in. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Have a good day.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, we had phones with batteries that
Speaker 1: seem to last forever. Well, part of the thing was
Speaker 1: that we didn't really use our phones as much. Well
Speaker 1: then we had smartphones, and of course the battery is
Speaker 1: a daily struggle for many of us. Things have gotten
Speaker 1: a lot better with fast charging and wireless charging, and
Speaker 1: just you know, the batteries haven't really changed, but the
Speaker 1: capacity has well now Energizer well, through an exclusive agreement
Speaker 1: with Energizer, this phone company is making a Energizer phone
Speaker 1: called the Powermax P eighteen k pop. And they showed
Speaker 1: it off at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, and
Speaker 1: I get it. It's a smartphone whatever. It's got five cameras,
Speaker 1: a six inch screen, it's got Android. But the feature
Speaker 1: everyone's going crazy over is it has an eighteen thousand
Speaker 1: milliamp hour battery, the highest capacity battery ever seen in
Speaker 1: a smartphone, so you get weeks of battery life on
Speaker 1: a single charge.
Speaker 2: So eighteen thousand milliamps. Just to give you an.
Speaker 1: Idea, a phone like maybe like the Galaxy S ten
Speaker 1: probably has about a four thousand milliamp battery, maybe thirty
Speaker 1: five hundred iPhones maybe three thousand something like that, two
Speaker 1: thousand for the smaller one. So you're talking almost six,
Speaker 1: you know, four to six times the battery in a
Speaker 1: regular phone. Now this thing is thick, it's about three
Speaker 1: and a half times as thick as an iPhone. So
Speaker 1: nobody's buying this device for the phone. They're getting it
Speaker 1: for this crazy battery. So the battery lasts up to
Speaker 1: ninety hours for calls, one hundred hours for music, and
Speaker 1: you can watch two days of video on a single charge,
Speaker 1: and in standby mode the battery will last fifty days.
Speaker 1: Now you might be wondering, well, Rich, how long is it.
Speaker 2: Gonna take to actually charge this batteries.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take like a week to charge it. It
Speaker 1: doesn't say how long to charge, but it does say
Speaker 1: when a full charge is necessary. Users can recharge their
Speaker 1: device quickly thanks to the fast charge function. I thought
Speaker 1: I read somewhere that it yeah, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to take eight hours to charge this thing. But the
Speaker 1: reality is the Energizer phone is just kind of fun.
Speaker 1: It's almost like one of those novelty things. It might
Speaker 1: have specific use case scenarios, like for certain businesses that
Speaker 1: just want a brick and you know, maybe security personnel
Speaker 1: or I don't know, someone that just needs a phone
Speaker 1: that just the most important thing to them is how
Speaker 1: long the battery is gonna last. That's who's gonna buy
Speaker 1: that phone. I don't have a price on the phone
Speaker 1: just yet. Or when it's going to be available. But again,
Speaker 1: it's the Energizer Powermax P eighteen k POP with an
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand million battery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to see this thing.
Speaker 1: Just go ahead and look at the picture of this
Speaker 1: thing online, because would you carry it around? This thing
Speaker 1: would really kind of I think this thing would weigh
Speaker 1: you down. And I think you'd also get flagged at
Speaker 1: TSA for having a battery that big in your phone.
Speaker 1: But on the flip side, I travel a lot and
Speaker 1: I do bring a lot of those backup batteries, so
Speaker 1: it's kind of the same thing. But anyway, there it
Speaker 1: is the Energizer phone with the largest battery. Definitely fits
Speaker 1: their brand. Speaking of big Western digital brand, sand Disc
Speaker 1: now has a one terabyte micro SD card. The card
Speaker 1: holds one terabyte of information, So this is an unbelievable
Speaker 1: amount of data on one tiny little card. You've seen
Speaker 1: micro SD cards, they are tiny. This is going to
Speaker 1: be four hundred and fifty dollars for a one terabyte card.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing that's very expensive. So it's cool
Speaker 1: that you have a terabyte on a card, but this
Speaker 1: is this is prohibitively expensive. Not just prohibitively expensive. It's
Speaker 1: also exponentially expensive because if you go on Amazon and
Speaker 1: look up prices for a smaller card like a one
Speaker 1: to twenty eight, you can get that for like forty
Speaker 1: five bucks, and sometimes on sale even cheaper. So if
Speaker 1: you look at two fifty six, I think that's even
Speaker 1: like fifty bucks, So five twelve that's kind of expensive.
Speaker 1: That's one hundred and ninety nine dollars. So that's a
Speaker 1: lot of money as well, but still much more reasonable.
Speaker 1: So the reality is you can pop one of these
Speaker 1: cards into I don't know can you pop it into
Speaker 1: I think the Samsungs go up to five twelve capacity.
Speaker 1: I think that's their max for the card, but I
Speaker 1: think theoretically you can put the one terabyte in there.
Speaker 2: But the fact that you can.
Speaker 1: Have a one terabyte card in your device, I mean,
Speaker 1: my laptop has a one terror I don't even think
Speaker 1: it has a one terabyt hard drive. I think it's
Speaker 1: a five hundred gig card drive. Let me see what
Speaker 1: do I have. I gotta I gotta look in my Yeah,
Speaker 1: my hard drive is not even a terabyte. It is
Speaker 1: five hundred gigabytes. So my hard drive on my computer
Speaker 1: is five hundred gigabytes. Imagine if you could just have
Speaker 1: a little oh my gosh, if we can dream for
Speaker 1: a second here, if Apple would ever give us some
Speaker 1: slots on our laptops. Imagine having a little micro SD
Speaker 1: card slot on your laptop. You just popped one of
Speaker 1: these one terabytes in there, and now that's like a
Speaker 1: drive that you just have there at all times. I mean,
Speaker 1: that would be fantastic. And my dream is to have
Speaker 1: I've got two giggle two terabytes of storage on Google Drive.
Speaker 1: And the funny thing is, I cannot organize those two
Speaker 1: terabytes of data because I have no place to download them.
Speaker 1: I can never download two terabytes of data to my
Speaker 1: laptop because it only holds five hundred gigs. So I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here. One of these days, the storage will catch
Speaker 1: up the storage on my laptop, my physical storage will
Speaker 1: catch up to my cloud storage, and I can finally
Speaker 1: go through and organize my Google Drive. Right now, it's
Speaker 1: just a whole mess in there. I've got duplicates, I've
Speaker 1: got stuff thrown in there because I can't organize it.
Speaker 1: I can't run any program that does a ddoup or.
Speaker 2: You know, just anything. I can't get in there and
Speaker 2: organize everything at once.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to the days of more storage
Speaker 1: on our devices. They're there, they're just very expensive. Tasha
Speaker 1: from Inglewood. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 5: Hi, Rich, I have a question. I have an iPhone
Speaker 5: AT or ten however you want to say it, and I,
Speaker 5: if I'm on the phone, I can't send a text
Speaker 5: message or answer emails or anything like. It's not allowing
Speaker 5: me to access my data. And I call them today
Speaker 5: customer service, and they said, it's a certain type of plan.
Speaker 5: It's like a data plan that you can do with
Speaker 5: certain phones. But it's weird that I can never do that.
Speaker 5: But when other people have other things like T Mobile
Speaker 5: and AT and T whatever, they can be on the phone,
Speaker 5: receive text messages, send text messages, phones and emails. But
Speaker 5: I always get it to where it didn't go through.
Speaker 2: Tasha. Are you on Sprint? Yes, okay, that's why.
Speaker 1: So the way their network is devised, and or at
Speaker 1: least the way it used to be, is that you
Speaker 1: cannot use data while you're on the phone. That's just
Speaker 1: the way their network switches over.
Speaker 2: So if you're using.
Speaker 1: A call through their phone, like a you know, if
Speaker 1: you're on a voice call, you cannot access data. That's
Speaker 1: just the way their network is set up. Verizon used
Speaker 1: to be the same way. They're not that way anymore.
Speaker 1: But Sprint is I guess the last holdout since you're
Speaker 1: telling me this, but that's that's the reality of their network.
Speaker 1: That's just the architecture of how it's set up. Now,
Speaker 1: if you are in a Wi Fi area, that should
Speaker 1: not be the case. So if you're if you're on
Speaker 1: your phone and you're in Wi Fi at home and
Speaker 1: you're on a call, you should be able to send
Speaker 1: or browse the web while you're on there.
Speaker 2: Is that not the case?
Speaker 5: Well, I haven't tried that yet. I was actually on
Speaker 5: the customer service and they pretty much told me the
Speaker 5: same thing that you said. You know that if I'm
Speaker 5: on it, you can't use your data. But when I
Speaker 5: saw that you were alive. Well, maybe he knows some
Speaker 5: hack or some you know, way to get around that,
Speaker 5: but I think it's pretty much the same thing that
Speaker 5: the rep told me today that there was nothing we
Speaker 5: could do about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not.
Speaker 1: It's just the architecture of the of the the network
Speaker 1: that they set up. I'm guessing it's interesting that you're
Speaker 1: saying this because I would have thought that they would
Speaker 1: have switched over like everyone else, because now it used
Speaker 1: to be a big differentiator between AT and T and
Speaker 1: Verizon and Sprint is that on AT and T and
Speaker 1: T Mobile you could surf the web while you were
Speaker 1: on the phone, and with you know, with Verizon and
Speaker 1: Sprint you couldn't. That's because their networks were a little
Speaker 1: bit different. But I thought when everyone switched over to
Speaker 1: LTE that that would change. But I guess Sprint must
Speaker 1: still be using something else for their calls, which is
Speaker 1: really interesting to me. I wasn't aware that was still
Speaker 1: an issue with them, but yeah, it definitely that's the
Speaker 1: way their network has been set up historically. So, and
Speaker 1: you have a new phone, which I was going to
Speaker 1: say it could be your phone, but you have the
Speaker 1: brand new ten ar you said, right, or the ten Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's not your phone. Basically your option is I
Speaker 1: would just try it and Wi fi see what happens.
Speaker 1: So when you're at home, if you're at home right now,
Speaker 1: you know, get on the phone with someone else and
Speaker 1: try to surf the web and see if that works.
Speaker 1: If you're in your WiFi as well, that should work.
Speaker 1: But if you're out and about in the city and
Speaker 1: you're trying to you know, it's I could see where
Speaker 1: it's a problem. If someone's like, hey, you know, let
Speaker 1: me look up this restaurant while I'm on the phone
Speaker 1: with you and you can't. You're like, oh, never mind, let.
Speaker 5: Me call you back, right, Or if I'm trying to
Speaker 5: receive or spend the text message, it's like I have
Speaker 5: to hang up, spend it and then call them back,
Speaker 5: you know, And that's just you know, nonproductive for me.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's definitely, that's definitely not ideal.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's not good at all. Okay. I just thought,
Speaker 5: you know, you, being the genius that you are, that
Speaker 5: you know a way around it.
Speaker 1: Well, you can carry around a hot spot with you
Speaker 1: everywhere you go and U and only use I message
Speaker 1: and you know that would help you. But that's I
Speaker 1: don't think that seems very reasonable, Tasha.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, Okay, Well, it was a pleasure talking
Speaker 5: to you, and thank you for confirming what you know
Speaker 5: they told me. I just thought it might have been
Speaker 5: them just saying, you know, just keep me as a
Speaker 5: customer right land the conversation with I'm about to go
Speaker 5: to T Mobile, and I am.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, there you go. This might put you over
Speaker 1: the edge. Now your phone, make sure it's compatible with
Speaker 1: T Mobile. If you want to take it over there,
Speaker 1: you can. You can check that. You should be able
Speaker 1: to check that on their website.
Speaker 5: So I actually tweeted the other day. I tweeted John
Speaker 5: the other day and they get me back within a
Speaker 5: half an hour. It was like, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Pretty much the other.
Speaker 2: Tasha, I don't know.
Speaker 1: The other one that you might want to check out
Speaker 1: if you're going to a different carrier is Visible.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of them?
Speaker 5: Visible?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So Visible is run by Verizon. It's forty bucks a
Speaker 1: month for unlimited everything, and you can literally sign up
Speaker 1: through your phone. They will send you a SIM card,
Speaker 1: you pop it into your phone and it's forty dollars unlimited.
Speaker 2: So oh wow, Yeah, that's a really good deal.
Speaker 1: The only thing that you need to know is they
Speaker 1: limit your speed to five megabits per second, so if
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean anything to you, So basically it's fast
Speaker 1: enough to do all the stuff that you need to do,
Speaker 1: but it's not the fastest. Like you know, on T
Speaker 1: Mobile you'll sometimes get really good speeds in certain places
Speaker 1: like super Fast, other places you may not have service.
Speaker 1: So I find that T Mobile is definitely a little
Speaker 1: bit hit or miss. I think it's gonna be better
Speaker 1: than Sprint, but not as good as Verizon. So just
Speaker 1: just check out Visible and just just google Visible and
Speaker 1: see what it's all about. You could you can search
Speaker 1: Visible ktla and see what my story was on it
Speaker 1: and you can learn more about that. But definitely check
Speaker 1: it out if you're gonna switch.
Speaker 5: What do you think about this respect your mobile service?
Speaker 1: I think it's good. It runs on Verizon and hot spots.
Speaker 1: So if you have Verizon, if you have Spectrum Internet
Speaker 1: and you're not planning on giving that up anytime soon,
Speaker 1: you'll you know, you'll save money. It's like, I think
Speaker 1: it's what forty forty bucks a month, forty five a
Speaker 1: month or something. Historically you needed a certain phone to
Speaker 1: use it, So just make sure that your phone is
Speaker 1: compatible with their service, because that may not be. But
Speaker 1: I think if you're if you're gonna stick with Spectrum Internet,
Speaker 1: it's not a bad deal. It's definitely not a bad deal.
Speaker 1: It's just some of your calls are routed through their
Speaker 1: wireless hotspots, which can be hit or missed sometimes so
Speaker 1: but I think overall you'd probably have a fine, a
Speaker 1: fine experience with it. But I check out Visible before
Speaker 1: I did Spectrum Mobile to be honest.
Speaker 5: Okay, well I do thank you for the information.
Speaker 2: All right, Tasha, I have a good day.
Speaker 1: FedEx is testing a new robot. It's called the FedEx
Speaker 1: same Day Bot, and this didn't really do so well.
Speaker 1: I posted this to my Instagram page if you want
Speaker 1: to see a little video of it. People thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting, but I think we've seen this a lot now.
Speaker 1: Amazon has something similar. We've seen them playing with the drones.
Speaker 1: And the funny thing is we've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: companies kind of experimenting with this technology, but we never
Speaker 1: really see it implemented. So FedEx getting into the game.
Speaker 1: They've got this new same day bot, and what they're
Speaker 1: thinking is that this bot is going to be delivering packages,
Speaker 1: but more like same day orders. So now, the big
Speaker 1: thing with all these companies is that they're all doing
Speaker 1: same day orders and deliveries to compete with the Amazons
Speaker 1: of the world and the Postmates and the Amazon Prime. Now,
Speaker 1: so FedEx is going to try this out with AutoZone
Speaker 1: lows Pizza Hut, Target, Walgreens, and Walmart, and you would
Speaker 1: place an order at one of those places and they
Speaker 1: would use this bot to get the order to your house.
Speaker 1: And it says that on average, more than sixty percent
Speaker 1: of merchants customers live within three miles of a store location.
Speaker 1: So there is an opportunity they're saying for on demand,
Speaker 1: hyperlocal delivery, and I agree. I mean, half the time
Speaker 1: you're ordering stuff like I ordered razors the other day
Speaker 1: on Amazon because they were twelve dollars cheaper on Amazon
Speaker 1: than they were at CVS. I went into CVS and
Speaker 1: it's like now I did a price check and they're
Speaker 1: super expensive. So the reality is if one of these
Speaker 1: companies can offer me a cheaper price that competes with Amazon,
Speaker 1: and I can have it delivered in a couple of
Speaker 1: hours by this little robot, of course I'm on board.
Speaker 1: Right now, we are in the early stages of delivery
Speaker 1: right Amazon is owning the business, but that cannot go
Speaker 1: on forever. These other companies are getting very smart about hey,
Speaker 1: we've got the stock right here, literally within three miles
Speaker 1: of your house. Why are you ordering something from Seattle
Speaker 1: that's being shipped from Louisville that is now coming to
Speaker 1: your house on a FedEx truck when literally it's a
Speaker 1: mile down the road and we can cut out that
Speaker 1: whole middleman process and get you this thing. The problem
Speaker 1: is a lot of times it's more expensive, and it's
Speaker 1: actually cheaper to order from Amazon even though the product
Speaker 1: is coming from miles and miles away. So that will
Speaker 1: change over time as the economy sort of shifts here.
Speaker 1: But this little same day bot is being developed by
Speaker 1: the same guy that invented the segue, so it's got
Speaker 1: some really good smarts inside. It can go over you know,
Speaker 1: they showed it going over a pothole. They showed it
Speaker 1: climbing stairs. I also saw one of these things on
Speaker 1: display at CES if you want to check out that
Speaker 1: that was called the Animal, and that one was pretty
Speaker 1: cool because it actually took the package out of the
Speaker 1: top of the Actually it kind of slid the package
Speaker 1: out of the top of the device that like leaned
Speaker 1: over and popped it out. That was really cool. FedEx
Speaker 1: has not shown how this thing gets the package to
Speaker 1: your door, like how you get it out of it.
Speaker 1: It opens up so you can see what's inside, which
Speaker 1: would lead me to believe it can only have one
Speaker 1: thing in there at a time, but they showed it
Speaker 1: on Jimmy Fallon and he just reached in and pulled
Speaker 1: out a package, actually pulled out a pizza, which personally,
Speaker 1: I think is probably the coolest possible Back to the
Speaker 1: Future solution of these things, because to me, a hot
Speaker 1: pizza being delivered by a robot to my front door
Speaker 1: is like absolutely mind boggling. The only thing better than that,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is that rehydrator they had on Back
Speaker 1: to the Future where she put the tiny pizza in,
Speaker 1: pressed a button andh it was like, you know, became
Speaker 1: a big pizza.
Speaker 2: That was so cool to me.
Speaker 1: So FedEx is going to test this spot this summer
Speaker 1: in select markets including Memphis, Tennessee, pending final approval from
Speaker 1: the city, but it seems like at this point robots
Speaker 1: delivering packages to your home will be a thing in
Speaker 1: the future, just like foldable phones. Just want to make
Speaker 1: you aware of a little, tiny addition, but very useful
Speaker 1: addition to the Google Home app.
Speaker 2: If you have a Google.
Speaker 1: Home, this is they're making it so it's much easier
Speaker 1: to control all your devices. So they've redesigned this app
Speaker 1: a thousand times since it came out, and according to
Speaker 1: Android Police, where I saw this, you can now control
Speaker 1: lights and plugs from different manufacturers and integrate them right
Speaker 1: into your routine. So you can do all that stuff already, right,
Speaker 1: But what they're adding now is the ability to change
Speaker 1: the color of your light. So the first time I
Speaker 1: saw this was actually on the Google Home Hub. I
Speaker 1: thought it was really cool because it gives you a
Speaker 1: look at all the devices in your home, and when
Speaker 1: you press a set of lights, it gives you a
Speaker 1: whole little pellette where you can choose the color for
Speaker 1: those lights. Well, now they're doing that on the Google
Speaker 1: Home app, which is really cool because it used to
Speaker 1: be where every light was different. If you had a
Speaker 1: Fillip's Hue light, you'd have to open up the Hue
Speaker 1: app to change the color, right, if you had a
Speaker 1: Lifix bulb, you'd have to open up the Lifix app
Speaker 1: to change the color. I've been testing these new c
Speaker 1: By ge bulbs, which I love, and the you had
Speaker 1: to you actually use those through the Google Home app,
Speaker 1: but you couldn't change their color except with your voice.
Speaker 1: So now everything is available with your voice and also
Speaker 1: the color palette, so again if you go into the
Speaker 1: Google Home app and you select one of your light bulbs,
Speaker 1: when of your smart light bulbs, it will now pop
Speaker 1: up a little color palette at the bottom. It says
Speaker 1: change color. You can now tap that and you'll get
Speaker 1: all the colors that that light supports, or not all
Speaker 1: of them, because the Phillips bulbs support sixteen million colors
Speaker 1: or something insane like that. So according to the Android
Speaker 1: Police article, you get forty two different shades of the color.
Speaker 1: Some of the bulbs I have only changed, like from
Speaker 1: white to kind of bright white to candle light, so
Speaker 1: whatever it sort of supports in a smaller way, you'll
Speaker 1: get that selection. But it's really cool because theoretically you
Speaker 1: can change all the lights in your house, no matter
Speaker 1: what brands they are, all at the same time now
Speaker 1: using the Google Home app. So not sure if you're
Speaker 1: a Lift or Uber user, but I'm a big Uber
Speaker 1: user and my wife and I always have this debate.
Speaker 1: She loves Lyft and I always use Uber and she's
Speaker 1: always telling me, oh, well, this week I have fifty
Speaker 1: percent off my rides in Lyft, or ooh, this week
Speaker 1: I have ten percent off my rides or ooh this
Speaker 1: week I have a free upgrade to premium. I never
Speaker 1: got any discounts from Uber. I mean they just it's
Speaker 1: like the price, it is there, it is Back in
Speaker 1: the day when they first started, there was lots of
Speaker 1: promos with Uber, and that has quickly dried up. But
Speaker 1: according to an article in tech Crunch, through the Information,
Speaker 1: they say that Lyft has been doing discounts and it's
Speaker 1: been working. So apparently my wife was not the only
Speaker 1: one getting these discounts. Through discounts, Lyft got an additional
Speaker 1: four percent of the US ride share market. They now
Speaker 1: hold thirty four percent of the market, which was actually
Speaker 1: bigger than I thought. Uber claims the remaining sixty six
Speaker 1: percent according to this article. But these discounts seem to work,
Speaker 1: So of course, after I read this article, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll give Lift another chance, because some people say
Speaker 1: they like the drivers better or the cars better.
Speaker 2: And I did so.
Speaker 1: I took Lyft the other night to a little gathering
Speaker 1: eye into and sure enough, the next morning, I got
Speaker 1: a discount ten percent off all my rides on Lyft
Speaker 1: for the next.
Speaker 2: Don't know a week or so.
Speaker 1: So I love discounts, I love promos. I love a
Speaker 1: little bit of good competition. The thing that is keeping
Speaker 1: me using Uber is that Uber has Uber rewards, and
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to get to that tier where I
Speaker 1: finally get some better drivers, because once you get to
Speaker 1: a certain tier, they pair you up with better five
Speaker 1: star drivers.
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm trying to do. That's my goal.
Speaker 1: But if I'm using the discounts in Lyft to get
Speaker 1: cheaper rates, I miss out on my points for Uber.
Speaker 1: So it's a little competition between these companies. But I
Speaker 1: guess my bottom line to you is if you like discounts,
Speaker 1: try out the lift app one more time and they
Speaker 1: will probably send you a little discount off your future rides. Finally,
Speaker 1: you've heard of personalized plates. Now get ready for emojis
Speaker 1: on license plates over in Australia Queensland specifically, they are
Speaker 1: going to allow drivers to get a ojis on their
Speaker 1: personalized license plates. So I don't know what I think
Speaker 1: of this. I mean, it's cool, and I didn't know emojis.
Speaker 2: Were like here forever. I guess they are.
Speaker 1: But to begin with, before you you know, think that
Speaker 1: they're just going to put the worst possible symbols on
Speaker 1: their license plate, like that little what is that chocolate
Speaker 1: chocolate frozen yogurt, you know that frozen yogurt swirl something
Speaker 1: like that. Right to begin with, there's only gonna be
Speaker 1: five symbols available. They include the laugh out loud, which
Speaker 1: is the crying face crying laugh emoji, the winking face emoji,
Speaker 1: the cool sunglasses emoji, the heart eyes, and the standard
Speaker 1: smiling face. And you got to pay for this anywhere
Speaker 1: between one hundred and sixty and five hundred dollars in
Speaker 1: Australian dollars. No idea what it is in American dollars,
Speaker 1: but that's a lot. I mean you're going to pay
Speaker 1: a premium. And of course, you know people are debating
Speaker 1: if this is good or bad. I think it's fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it. In California, we
Speaker 1: do have a version of this. We are allowed to
Speaker 1: put on their like a heart. I've seen a hand.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what else there is, but there are
Speaker 1: a large selection of personalized options available in California. Every
Speaker 1: state's a little bit different. But the reality is, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's worth it. It's a lot of money. I'm
Speaker 1: too cheap to buy personalized plates. I'd love to have them,
Speaker 1: but every time I pay my renewal for the DMV,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Nope, not paying a nickel more for that,
Speaker 1: No way, especially because the rates in California just went
Speaker 1: up by like one hundred bucks last year. So I
Speaker 1: think it's cool. I think it's fun. It shows off
Speaker 1: your personality. I always love I love deciphering personalized plates
Speaker 1: when I'm out there on the road, I'm like, do
Speaker 1: they mean that they are a risk taker or a
Speaker 1: rug maker? You know, like you see these little letters
Speaker 1: and you're like, you can't really tell exactly what they mean.
Speaker 2: But but I think the emojis are kind of fun.
Speaker 1: But anyway, five emojis to start, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think it's funny for the police officers that have
Speaker 1: to write up reports when these cars, you know, get
Speaker 1: traffic tickets or whatever. It's like, oh, the winking face
Speaker 1: emoji seven to seven, nine to.
Speaker 2: One four.
Speaker 1: Got into a car accident. We got to write that
Speaker 1: one up. So anyway, now, you know, if you go
Speaker 1: to Australia, well look at that. That's gonna wrap up
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