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Speaker 1: for its rolling hills, diverse wines, and avery laxed atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to get out of the city and
Speaker 1: get to a place like this, and that's what's happening
Speaker 1: this weekend, celebrating a friend's birthday, and so here I
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Speaker 1: Guests on the show this week include Marcel Campos. He's
Speaker 1: going to talk about the one plus Open. This is
Speaker 1: a new foldable phone that is challenging the likes of
Speaker 1: the Samsung Fold and the Pixel Fold.
Speaker 2: It does things a little bit differently.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about and Michael Sino very important conversation.
Speaker 1: October is cyber security month and he is a Google
Speaker 1: cyber security expert. He's got tips on how to protect
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Speaker 2: You've got me here in Paso.
Speaker 1: You've got Kim on the phones, You've got Adam on
Speaker 1: the board, We've got the whole crew here ready to
Speaker 1: talk technology with you. So lots of things happening in
Speaker 1: the tech world this week. Got a new video game,
Speaker 1: couple of new video games, new Mario video game, new
Speaker 1: Spider Man video games. Those are exciting. Can't wait to
Speaker 1: get home and play those. I've been driving a Rivian
Speaker 1: around this week. I actually took it up here on
Speaker 1: a road trip and so I will report back on
Speaker 1: what it's like to drive that car, which is quite incredible.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I've been testing the Pixel eight Pro camera
Speaker 1: on that phone. It's probably one of my favorite phones,
Speaker 1: well is it. Yeah, it's my favorite phone of the year.
Speaker 1: So I think the iPhone fifteen Promax is amazing and
Speaker 1: so is the Pixel eight Pro. Those are two of
Speaker 1: my favorite devices, and I don't think that's going to
Speaker 1: change by the end of the year. So if you
Speaker 1: are looking for a new phone, I think those are
Speaker 1: the two to beat this year, and of course that
Speaker 1: will go into next year as well.
Speaker 2: We're only in October.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else I tested out some new Samsung products,
Speaker 1: the Galaxy Buds, fe the Galaxy Tab nine.
Speaker 2: I'll talk about that.
Speaker 1: And I was in New Jersey over the weekend last
Speaker 1: weekend and I rented a Tesla. Now, I probably it's
Speaker 1: tough for me to recommend that you do the same,
Speaker 1: because I was very hesitant to do this, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to test it for you and see what the
Speaker 1: process is like, because Hertz has gone through this big
Speaker 1: thing where they're promoting EV's and they're promoting Tesla's and
Speaker 1: they did like a big deal to buy it or
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're buy them or however they
Speaker 1: figure out however they get them in their fleet, but
Speaker 1: that's what they did, and so they're really pushing evs
Speaker 1: a lot. Now I own an EV so for me,
Speaker 1: it's quite easy to kind of slip into a rental
Speaker 1: car and figure it all out. But I will say
Speaker 1: I think there's a pretty big learning curve if you
Speaker 1: have never driven a Tesla and you're getting one on
Speaker 1: your vacation. Now, of course, when you go on vacation,
Speaker 1: people like to rent exotic cars, they like to rent
Speaker 1: fun cars. But at the end of the day, most
Speaker 1: people are just renting the cheapest car. They get fined
Speaker 1: because they don't want to spend a lot on the rental.
Speaker 1: It's just getting them around from point A to point B,
Speaker 1: unless you're in place like you know, Hawaii or something
Speaker 1: where people go with that convertible, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: pro tip convertible in Hawaii is fun like once because
Speaker 1: you know there's not much space back there. La same
Speaker 1: thing people think they need to rent a convertible. It's
Speaker 1: not very It's fun for like a minute, and then
Speaker 1: it's not very fun, So do it the first time,
Speaker 1: but then of course later on you'll probably just get
Speaker 1: a regular car. So the Tesla as a rental car,
Speaker 1: I think that you need to be aware that there
Speaker 1: is a learning curve if you haven't driven one of
Speaker 1: these cars. It just does things very differently from the
Speaker 1: way it physically drives to the way you open the car.
Speaker 1: So I mean, there's no key, there's like a key card,
Speaker 1: and there's two places you got to tap that key card,
Speaker 1: once on the door to get in the door jam,
Speaker 1: and then once inside the car kind of like in
Speaker 1: the center panel. Just those two things alone might take
Speaker 1: you twenty minutes to figure out. If you've never driven
Speaker 1: a Tesla before, and then when you're driving the Tesla,
Speaker 1: which it drives amazing. It's a great car, and there's
Speaker 1: chargers everywhere. So I have no problem with the charging situation.
Speaker 1: I think people will figure out the charging. But again,
Speaker 1: that's another one of those things where if you've never
Speaker 1: charged a car before, now you got to take into
Speaker 1: consideration on your drive if you're going to charge this thing,
Speaker 1: and so that's another consideration, and you got to pull
Speaker 1: up to the charger.
Speaker 2: You may not know how to use it.
Speaker 1: You may not realize you don't need to put a
Speaker 1: credit card in or anything like that. It just figures
Speaker 1: out the car and it charges you appropriately and it
Speaker 1: routes that through the car itself. So my takeaways from
Speaker 1: this couple of things, I thought this was really fun.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed having the electric car and the rental car.
Speaker 1: I think that if you never drove one, it would
Speaker 1: be tricky. And then the main thing that I had
Speaker 1: a problem with was returning the car. So when I
Speaker 1: return the car, you have to return it at eighty
Speaker 1: five percent charge or more or else they charge you
Speaker 1: kind of like a regular rental car. But here's the difference.
Speaker 1: Gas stations are everywhere. They're very simple too. While you're
Speaker 1: pulling into the airport, fill up the gas, and you're done.
Speaker 1: With a Tesla, you've got to plan ahead. So is
Speaker 1: there a charging station near the airport? How long is
Speaker 1: that charge going to take? Thankfully, Tesla's charged pretty quick,
Speaker 1: so it's not that big of a deal. But I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, even me, a person who is very experienced
Speaker 1: in the electric car, said, you know, I can't deal
Speaker 1: with this. I don't have enough time to figure this out,
Speaker 1: and so we return the car with like a thirty
Speaker 1: percent charge because it was just easier. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to wait at the charger. I didn't want to figure
Speaker 1: out where the charger was. It was just too much
Speaker 1: work to make sure that the car would be charged up.
Speaker 1: So what do they do. They will happily charge you
Speaker 1: either twenty five dollars or thirty five dollars. Now, I
Speaker 1: did the math to charge up the car probably about
Speaker 1: maybe twelve to fifteen bucks, so realistically you're paying like
Speaker 1: a twenty dollars searcharge. Now, I think if Hurts really
Speaker 1: wanted to get these things going for the first two
Speaker 1: or three years, they should really waive that charge let
Speaker 1: people get comfortable with the idea of renting an electric car,
Speaker 1: and then start tacking on the fees, because, as we know,
Speaker 1: everything starts out very nice, and then as these companies
Speaker 1: get us accustomed to the niceties of these things, they
Speaker 1: start piling on the charges. Like have you been to
Speaker 1: a hotel lately? The room rate charge is just one
Speaker 1: of the things on your bill, and then there's seventeen
Speaker 1: other charges, everything ranging from you're somehow financing their downtown
Speaker 1: conference center, to a resort fee to a printing fee.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just so many fees that it's like, wait, what,
Speaker 1: why don't you just put this all into my room?
Speaker 1: So I like the Tesla, but it was a little complicated.
Speaker 1: I think you should try it. I think if you
Speaker 1: have a lot of time on your trip, like if
Speaker 1: you have extra time, that's what you really need. If
Speaker 1: you're just trying to get in, pop into the car
Speaker 1: and go, not going to be so great. But if
Speaker 1: you do have some extra time you want to try
Speaker 1: things out, go ahead. So with me, with my family,
Speaker 1: they know I am always testing something. When my wife
Speaker 1: and I go for a walk, we've got to stop
Speaker 1: seventeen times to take pictures with two different smartphones, and
Speaker 1: then I post them to my Instagram, which of course
Speaker 1: you can see them on there at Richon Tech. One
Speaker 1: thing I will say about the Tesla. We had a
Speaker 1: close call, Like this is serious. We had a really
Speaker 1: close call on the road on a highway in New
Speaker 1: Jersey and it was raining and a car lost control
Speaker 1: next to me.
Speaker 2: And I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: This car came at me sideways on the highway and
Speaker 1: I just missed it. I mean I was thankfully, thankfully.
Speaker 1: And by the way, please do not text and drive.
Speaker 1: Please do not fumble with your phone while you're driving.
Speaker 2: Please do not.
Speaker 1: Get distracted, because if I was distracted for even a
Speaker 1: second during what happened to us, I would not be
Speaker 1: here today.
Speaker 2: Guaranteed. It was that close.
Speaker 1: Now, the interesting thing about it is that it's a Tesla,
Speaker 1: and I said, oh my gosh. And I was in shock,
Speaker 1: by the way, when this happened. Thankfully, we're okay. The driver,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what happened to them. They actually, you know,
Speaker 1: a bunch of people stop behind me. I was in shock.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the cameras on the car actually captured this incident,
Speaker 1: and so it was a one car incident, by the way,
Speaker 1: so nobody else was impacted by this, but it did.
Speaker 2: I remember it.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, this car has a
Speaker 1: DVR on it. Let me press and there's a little
Speaker 1: symbol you can press on the Tesla and it will record.
Speaker 1: It's constantly recording what's happening in front of it. But
Speaker 1: then there's a way you can press to save that
Speaker 1: recording so it doesn't record over it after you know,
Speaker 1: ten fifteen hours whatever it does. Anyway, So we have
Speaker 1: the video of this little incident, which is just wild
Speaker 1: to rewatch because it makes you realize that when you're
Speaker 1: in a car, it is a very serious thing when
Speaker 1: you are not looking directly at the road ahead without
Speaker 1: being distracted. Because again, if I was distracted in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, it would not have been good because
Speaker 1: I would have slammed right into this car.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: This car would have either t boned me or I
Speaker 1: would have t boned them being in front of me,
Speaker 1: one or the other, depending on the timing.
Speaker 2: But it was it was pretty scary.
Speaker 1: So please put those phones down, put them in the
Speaker 1: glove compartment, whatever you have to do. Just listen to
Speaker 1: the radio and just ignore everything else because my kids
Speaker 1: were yelling in the backseat, saying, Dad, can you call
Speaker 1: this person? And I was like a minute away from
Speaker 1: like dialing the number of someone in like you know,
Speaker 1: trying to chat. So anyway, Uh, okay, We've got lots
Speaker 1: coming up on the show today. We've got I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you about the Samsung Galaxy Fe tablet, the headphones
Speaker 1: that I tried out on the airplane. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Netflix raising prices. But of course it is your turn.
Speaker 1: We've got some of your calls right here at Triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two, four to one zero one. Give me
Speaker 1: a call if you have a question about technology. Once again,
Speaker 1: my name is Rich d'miro and you are doing something
Speaker 1: smart today. You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you. You talking technology live from Passo Roebules today,
Speaker 1: broadcasting coast to coast and talk in Tech. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you've ever been to Passo Roebules, there is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a debate on how to pronounce the
Speaker 1: name of this city. You will hear it pronounced many
Speaker 1: different ways. But I had someone that grew up in
Speaker 1: the area tell me that it is robulls rhymes with mobiles,
Speaker 1: which I like because I'm a tech guy, so I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty good. But I've called it all
Speaker 1: kinds of things over the years. And if you're not,
Speaker 1: you know, from California originally, like I am not, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of names in this in this state that
Speaker 1: are tricky for me. Even in Los Angeles, there's a
Speaker 1: place called Losienaga Boulevard. I think I called it Los
Speaker 1: Sienga for like many many years, and sub pulvida sepulvita,
Speaker 1: I mean, there are you you will hear.
Speaker 2: All kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: But I guess that's kind of the way it is
Speaker 1: around the world, right You go to one of these
Speaker 1: countries that you don't really know the language, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be mispronouncing stuff all day long. This is the
Speaker 1: show where I talk about that's tech stuff I think
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Speaker 1: your questions about technology. Phone lines are open at triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one website rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV. So Netflix is raising prices as promised. Uh,
Speaker 1: they said they wouldn't actually, but then they did. So
Speaker 1: Netflix has a lot of subscribers two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: seven million at this point. They actually added eight point
Speaker 1: eight million subscribers in the last quarter, which is all
Speaker 1: because you know why, they cracked down on that password sharing.
Speaker 1: So it used to be you could share your password,
Speaker 1: your Netflix account with pretty much anyone you wanted, and
Speaker 1: they really really stopped that from happening in a big way.
Speaker 2: So eight point.
Speaker 1: Eight million new subscribers in a time when a lot
Speaker 1: of these streaming services are contracting or stagnant. So that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. I'm sure they wanted more. No, it says
Speaker 1: exceeded expectations.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: It was even better than they expected. Now here's the
Speaker 1: bad part. Price increases for US plans. So if you
Speaker 1: are still on the basic plan, which by the way,
Speaker 1: you cannot get anymore. That is a grandfathered plan, that
Speaker 1: is a nine to ninety nine plan, Okay, nine dollars
Speaker 1: ninety nine cents a month, that is going up to
Speaker 1: eleven ninety nine a month, so two dollars increase there. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're on the premium plan, like I am. This
Speaker 1: is the one that has four K ultra HD video,
Speaker 1: which I can't even tell the difference, but I do
Speaker 1: it because you get more devices. You can download Netflix too,
Speaker 1: and I've got a family of Force. We're all downloading
Speaker 1: stuff for the plane. That plan is going up from
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine a month to twenty two ninety nine
Speaker 1: a month, So nineteen ninety nine a month to twenty
Speaker 1: two ninety.
Speaker 2: Nine a month. Now.
Speaker 1: The plans that are not changing are the two plans
Speaker 1: that are the AD Supported Plan that will remain the same,
Speaker 1: and also the Standard plan that is I think it's
Speaker 1: like fifteen forty nine. Those two plans are staying the same.
Speaker 1: So if you you have one of those two, you're fine.
Speaker 1: But it's all the people in the middle like myself
Speaker 1: that are on these either the Premium Plan or the
Speaker 1: Grandfather Plan. So the AD Plan is still going to
Speaker 1: stay at six ninety nine a month, the Standard Plan
Speaker 1: is going to be fifteen to forty nine a month,
Speaker 1: the Premium Plan, like I said, is twenty two ninety nine,
Speaker 1: and the Basic Plan, which is no longer available. So
Speaker 1: if you're on that plan at this point, even though
Speaker 1: it's raising two dollars. I would probably stick with it
Speaker 1: because it's still three dollars or four dollars cheaper than
Speaker 1: the next cheapest plan.
Speaker 2: So let's see any other interesting things about this. No,
Speaker 2: not really. Oh, there is one thing.
Speaker 1: So the ad supported plan is going to get an improvement,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. So for that six ninety nine,
Speaker 1: they're going to add downloads to that plan. You couldn't
Speaker 1: download stuff before on that plan, and they're going to
Speaker 1: let you stream in two places instead of just one.
Speaker 1: So some improvements as well as some things that are
Speaker 1: not so good on there. So there you go, Netflix
Speaker 1: raising prices. Let's go to line one. Carmen is in Hollywood, California. Carmen,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good morning, Good morning. My messages of one contact
Speaker 4: in What'sapp? I have no idea how did I get
Speaker 4: rid of them? I didn't erasein. I didn't mean to
Speaker 4: throw them, but I don't know where they went and disappear.
Speaker 4: How can I get them backly? If they're not in Trussian?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, if you deleted them, it's going to be
Speaker 1: tough to get them back, but you may have a backup.
Speaker 1: So if you look on your WhatsApp. Typically, when you
Speaker 1: first set up WhatsApp, it asks you if you'd like
Speaker 1: to back up your messages, whether that's to Google Drive
Speaker 1: or whether it is somewhere else, to an online cloud storage.
Speaker 1: If you're using the iPhone, you can back it up
Speaker 1: to iCloud. So what you can do is you can
Speaker 1: go into the message into the app, and you can
Speaker 1: see if you can restore those messages. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: at my app and I don't have anything saved on here,
Speaker 1: but every time I redownload this app, it asks you,
Speaker 1: do you want.
Speaker 2: To restore messages?
Speaker 1: So what you need to do is figure out if
Speaker 1: you have a backup, and if you do have a backup,
Speaker 1: you need to restore those messages from that backup. So
Speaker 1: again you want to go to your settings, and then
Speaker 1: your chats and then your history. I personally don't have that,
Speaker 1: but you can see if you have that backed up.
Speaker 1: I hope you set it up when you first set
Speaker 1: up WhatsApp, because it does ask you to do it,
Speaker 1: and most people, I think set up either a backup
Speaker 1: to Google Drive or iCloud, depending on the phone you're on.
Speaker 1: But again, just go into those settings, go into chats,
Speaker 1: and it should say chat backup and you can see
Speaker 1: if you can restore the backup from there.
Speaker 2: So once you.
Speaker 1: Once you find that backup, you can Actually it might
Speaker 1: be tricky, but you may have to delete WhatsApp kind
Speaker 1: of start fresh, and then when you get that message
Speaker 1: that says restore, that's where you can restore them too.
Speaker 2: So hopefully that helps. Carmen.
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Speaker 1: TV hit contact. That's exactly what Gary did. Gary said,
Speaker 1: paso robles is Spanish, give it a little justice. Yes, uh,
Speaker 1: that is the other pronunciation that people often debate is
Speaker 1: passo roblaze or I guess I must say now I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm really messing it up. But yes, it's
Speaker 1: just you know, it's one of these things where it's
Speaker 1: just it's y as ten people, You're gonna get different,
Speaker 1: ten different opinions on this place.
Speaker 2: So that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: And then Mary wrote in she said, uh, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: how are you able to broadcast from your her place
Speaker 1: in Passo to the broadcast studio in Los Angeles?
Speaker 2: What's the path? And it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: Actually, we just have some equipment that helps me connect
Speaker 1: like you like, I never left the studio, so I'm
Speaker 1: very impressed with it. And We've used this in various places,
Speaker 1: including overseas.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think. I know we did it in Berlin.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I did it when I was
Speaker 1: in Asia, but yeah, it works like a charm. It's
Speaker 1: quite amazing. Let's see, let's get to question here. You
Speaker 1: guys sell me so many questions, So let's see. Isabelle says,
Speaker 1: my daughter has a brand new Apple watch she does
Speaker 1: not want to use. I would like to use it
Speaker 1: because I think they are very nice looking. However, I
Speaker 1: have an Android cell phone. I don't care to connect it,
Speaker 1: nor do I care to switch to an Apple cell phone.
Speaker 1: My question is can I still use it? The only
Speaker 1: thing I actually want to use is the time and
Speaker 1: the watch. I only want to see the time. Is
Speaker 1: this possible, please help Isabelle. Yes, it is possible, and
Speaker 1: there is a setting for the Apple Watch. You do
Speaker 1: need an iPhone to set up an Apple Watch, but
Speaker 1: once it's set up, it will work on its own.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you're gonna get the full benefit
Speaker 1: of having an Apple Watch.
Speaker 2: But if you just.
Speaker 1: Want the time, like you're saying, then surep you can
Speaker 1: absolutely do this, and it will do some other basic
Speaker 1: things as well. Now I do think you're gonna need
Speaker 1: to set up an iCloud account to do this, so
Speaker 1: if you don't have that, it's free, you can do that.
Speaker 1: But the feature is called family set up, and you
Speaker 1: actually need to use your daughter's iPhone to do this.
Speaker 1: So once you reset the Apple Watch, go into settings
Speaker 1: and factory reset it. That'll bring it to like a
Speaker 1: fresh start. Use your phone, your daughter's iPhone to set
Speaker 1: up the Apple Watch, and it will say are you
Speaker 1: setting this up for yourself or a family member? And
Speaker 1: you are the family member, so say yes, I'm setting
Speaker 1: this up for a family member, and it will guide
Speaker 1: you through the process of setting up that phone for
Speaker 1: you and not her phone, so all of your stuff
Speaker 1: will be just on the watch. It will be separate
Speaker 1: from anything that she has on her account. But like
Speaker 1: I said, you will need to log in with your
Speaker 1: own iCloud account just so that Apple can keep track
Speaker 1: of everything and make sure that you've got your own
Speaker 1: account on there, so you can set that up for
Speaker 1: free during the setup time. And if you just want
Speaker 1: to use the time and the watch, that's fine, but
Speaker 1: you can use other features. I mean, you could use
Speaker 1: like you know, the stop watch, the calendar. My kids
Speaker 1: have Apple Watches and they use them independent of a phone,
Speaker 1: and they do a whole bunch of stuff. They've even
Speaker 1: downloaded little games on there. So there are definitely things
Speaker 1: you can do on the Apple Watch even if you
Speaker 1: don't have an iPhone. And this is because a lot
Speaker 1: of people use these for their kids or even adults
Speaker 1: that you know may have a disability or something like
Speaker 1: that where you want to be able to keep track
Speaker 1: of them or have this watch on their wrist, but
Speaker 1: they're not necessarily using an iPhone.
Speaker 2: So there are many many reasons.
Speaker 1: Why you might want to set this up this way,
Speaker 1: but it can be done very easily. A good question Isabelle,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for writing Let's see. Rob from Los
Speaker 1: Angeles says, Hey, Rich, I follow you on social media
Speaker 1: and your podcast, and I think you're pretty funny and informative.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you, Rob. I have a question about
Speaker 1: two factor authentication apps. I use two FA open source
Speaker 1: app and Microsoft Authenticator app on my accounts. What if
Speaker 1: I want to stop using Microsoft Authenticator and switch to
Speaker 1: the two FA app?
Speaker 2: Will that create.
Speaker 1: Conflict since my accounts were accepting codes generated by the
Speaker 1: app the Microsoft app before, or do I have to
Speaker 1: stick with the same Authenticator app once I attach the
Speaker 1: account to one app.
Speaker 2: Please explain.
Speaker 1: Thanks in advance, Rob in Los Angeles, Rob, great question.
Speaker 1: Now it's interesting because I don't I don't talk about
Speaker 1: the two factor authentication apps too much, but I think
Speaker 1: they are very very important. And if you've heard of
Speaker 1: me talk about securing your online accounts, there are two
Speaker 1: ways you do that. Number one, very strong password, unique
Speaker 1: password for every account, and then the second way is
Speaker 1: with a two factor authentication enabled on your account. And
Speaker 1: there are two ways of doing that, and this is
Speaker 1: why it gets a little bit complicated. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to I don't want people to be detracted from
Speaker 1: doing this right like I want them to do this,
Speaker 1: so I want to make it as simple as possible.
Speaker 1: And the simplest way to do two factor authentication is
Speaker 1: with the text message code. And so you put in
Speaker 1: your phone number on something like Instagram and it says, hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to text you every time you try to
Speaker 1: log in. If you don't give us that secret code
Speaker 1: that we text you, we're not going to allow this
Speaker 1: log in to happen. Well, the problem is that the
Speaker 1: cell phones and phone numbers are a little bit easier
Speaker 1: hacked than we'd like, and so some people could get
Speaker 1: a hold of your cell phone number or intercept that
Speaker 1: code and hack you still even if you have two
Speaker 1: factor on. But it's still a very good way to
Speaker 1: protect your account in most, like ninety nine percent of cases.
Speaker 1: But if you really want to be safe and secure,
Speaker 1: what you want to do is use one of these
Speaker 1: two factor authentication apps. And what these apps do is
Speaker 1: they generate a unique code every thirty seconds or so,
Speaker 1: and when you want to log in, you just go
Speaker 1: to this app and you check out the code and
Speaker 1: you just type it in. And again that's the second factor.
Speaker 1: The first is you logging into the account. The second
Speaker 1: is this app that is generating a code. Now, the
Speaker 1: app is nice because it is independent of your phone number.
Speaker 1: So if you switch phone lines, if you get a
Speaker 1: different carrier, if you get rid of your phone number altogether,
Speaker 1: you don't lose those ways to log into your account
Speaker 1: because you can no longer access those codes. You can
Speaker 1: get them on this app no matter what service you're using.
Speaker 1: So that's why I like to use this service whenever possible.
Speaker 1: And there are apps called authie. There are Google Authenticator,
Speaker 1: there's Microsoft Authenticator. There are several of these authentication apps
Speaker 1: out there. You just have to pick one that you like.
Speaker 1: I would personally say pick one that does not have
Speaker 1: any sort of cost because you don't want to be
Speaker 1: paying for this down the line over time.
Speaker 2: So the question rob is can you switch apps?
Speaker 1: And I had to do some research on this one,
Speaker 1: but I looked up on Wired had an article about this.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I've been not wanting to switch
Speaker 1: because it is a time consuming process, but it can
Speaker 1: be done. And so, as I suspected, you basically have
Speaker 1: to disable the two factor authentication temporarily and then re
Speaker 1: enable it using the new app. And the way that
Speaker 1: you do that is once you enable it. Typically, you
Speaker 1: just scan a QR code on your screen to enable
Speaker 1: this two factor authentication. It links up and then all
Speaker 1: of your codes are right on that app. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: I use an app and I've got all of my
Speaker 1: codes on here for Twitter, I've got it for my Facebook,
Speaker 1: I've got it for my website at work, I've got
Speaker 1: it for my Instagram. And so of course the number
Speaker 1: one thing you're thinking is, well, what if someone hacks
Speaker 1: that app?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got to be careful.
Speaker 1: And this is why you have to have a password
Speaker 1: on your phone or face ID or a fingerprint scanner,
Speaker 1: and there is a log in for that app as well.
Speaker 1: So again, all of these things do require a little
Speaker 1: bit of planning, a little bit of kind of just
Speaker 1: setting things up so that they work. And I know
Speaker 1: people get very hesitant to set this stuff up because
Speaker 1: it sounds so complicated and it feels like you're never
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get into your your logins when
Speaker 1: you need to. But believe me, I will tell you
Speaker 1: I get emails every single day, every single day from
Speaker 1: people that get hacked on Facebook, on Instagram, on their email.
Speaker 1: And when you do that, there is no guarantee that
Speaker 1: you're getting that account back. And I have people that
Speaker 1: are saying, rich, I have my photos on there, I
Speaker 1: have my emails, I have all kinds of personal data
Speaker 1: that I will never be able to get back, and
Speaker 1: I say, you know what, I'm sorry, but the reality
Speaker 1: is you have to lock down these accounts, and most
Speaker 1: people just don't want to. And if you don't, you
Speaker 1: will be hacked. I'm telling you that because it's not
Speaker 1: like they're they're targeting you. They are just coming after
Speaker 1: a lot of people. By the way, coming up on
Speaker 1: the show, we've got a couple of great guests. Marcel
Speaker 1: Campos is going to talk about the one plus Open.
Speaker 1: This is a new foldable phone. After the break, i'll
Speaker 1: tell you some details about that phone. And Michael Sino
Speaker 1: later in the show is going to talk about tips
Speaker 1: on how to protect yourself online. He is a Google
Speaker 1: Google he is a Google cybersecurity expert, and we had
Speaker 1: a great conversation about some of these ways you can
Speaker 1: protect yourself and some of it is pretty basic, like
Speaker 1: I said, the two factor authentication, but Google is also
Speaker 1: pushing this new way of authentication called pass keys, and
Speaker 1: this actually uses your phone as.
Speaker 2: Almost an authentication app.
Speaker 1: So instead of actually using that app to generate a code,
Speaker 1: your phone is the authentication code. So let's say you
Speaker 1: go to a website and it says, hey, you log
Speaker 1: in with your password, and then it says, okay, now
Speaker 1: go to your phone and okay that log in and
Speaker 1: you scan your fingerprint on your phone or you scan
Speaker 1: your face and it will then accept that and let
Speaker 1: you log into the website. So again, we're basically protecting
Speaker 1: ourselves from phishing attempts, from scam attempts, from all this
Speaker 1: stuff because there are people out there twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven that.
Speaker 2: Are trying to figure out how to hack us.
Speaker 1: And believe me, it's pretty easy because there's so many
Speaker 1: people out there that just are wide open. So it's
Speaker 1: it's not that tough for them to do this stuff.
Speaker 1: But when it happens, it's not good. All right, Phone
Speaker 1: lines are let's see triple eight rich one O one
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Speaker 1: You have a question about technology. My name is Rich
Speaker 1: d'miro and you are listening to Rich on tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking tech
Speaker 1: with you. You can follow me on social media. I'm
Speaker 1: at rich on tech, on Instagram, Facebook, X and threads,
Speaker 1: and I usually go over what I posted to uh Instagram.
Speaker 1: This previous week, ooh, I posted some pictures I was
Speaker 1: talking about being back east. I posted some pictures from
Speaker 1: my trip. You can see if I come from a
Speaker 1: family of five siblings, so when we get in the room,
Speaker 1: it is a instant party.
Speaker 2: And believe me, they are a wild group of folks,
Speaker 2: my siblings.
Speaker 1: So if you want to see them and see some
Speaker 1: of the pictures of me and my family are at
Speaker 1: the wedding we went to, you can do that on
Speaker 1: my Instagram at.
Speaker 2: Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: I posted a tip about you ever be on the
Speaker 1: iPhone and it shows you like, hey, would you like
Speaker 1: to rate this app on the app Store and it
Speaker 1: pops up like a little five stars, and it's like
Speaker 1: right in the middle of what you're trying to do.
Speaker 1: So I posted a tip on how to get rid
Speaker 1: of that and make it so apps can't ask you
Speaker 1: to do that anymore. I also posted this cool light
Speaker 1: up clothing. It's let's see what's it called. It's called
Speaker 1: go Glow by Pat Pat and these are really fun.
Speaker 1: I always try to do something like unique and techie
Speaker 1: for Halloween.
Speaker 2: So these are light up clothing.
Speaker 1: So they have like a skeleton on them that lights
Speaker 1: up and changes color. You know, they have different things
Speaker 1: that they do, and it's really cool because I've tried
Speaker 1: this type of clothing before that lights up. This is
Speaker 1: the best I've seen because the battery pack is so tiny,
Speaker 1: it's rechargeable, it's USBC, and the clothes are washable too.
Speaker 2: Some of the other ones I've.
Speaker 1: Tried in the past they have like these big cables
Speaker 1: you got to run through the clothes.
Speaker 2: This one, it's all self contained. It's very very cool.
Speaker 1: And then finally, have you heard of Fingerlings? These are
Speaker 1: the little toys that you put on your finger and
Speaker 1: they are kind of an animated I don't know, it
Speaker 1: looks like almost like a monkey, and it's really really cute.
Speaker 1: And so I was talking to the creator of the fingerlings.
Speaker 1: She's got a new product out, so we were talking about that,
Speaker 1: and then she showed me the old one that sort
Speaker 1: of you know, gave her a pretty big name because
Speaker 1: she's very young. I think she invented these under thirty
Speaker 1: and anyways, she has a new product that my kids love,
Speaker 1: so I'll be talking about that soon as well.
Speaker 2: Let's see, let's go to the phone lines.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, we've got Francesca in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Line one. Francesca, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 5: Hello. I love to listen to you. You're very knowledgable
Speaker 5: and charming and all that, and I am in big trouble.
Speaker 5: Of course, I finally decided to overcome my anxiety by
Speaker 5: the cell phone. I had a bad case of cancer
Speaker 5: and I was told that if I don't need the
Speaker 5: cell phone now, I should not have it because of
Speaker 5: the radiation. So because of this, I was very paranoid.
Speaker 5: Now this is many years later, I decided stop that
Speaker 5: and get the cell phone. Now I don't really even
Speaker 5: know how to make a phone call, so if you
Speaker 5: could help me with that, I'm not sure you know
Speaker 5: when I'm changing the pages, whether I'm using I should
Speaker 5: be using one finger to swipe or three fingers. I
Speaker 5: can't read the instructions because it's too tiny, and even
Speaker 5: with my glasses, I can't read it. So I'm going
Speaker 5: to have to get new glasses.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for the kind words. Sorry that you had
Speaker 1: to go through what you went through with the cancer.
Speaker 1: I hope you're doing or with that. The phone? What
Speaker 1: kind of phone did you get?
Speaker 5: The track phone?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a track phone.
Speaker 1: Is it a smartphone or is it just a flip
Speaker 1: standard phone?
Speaker 5: I think it's a smartphone.
Speaker 2: It is a smartphone, okay, So it has like Android
Speaker 2: on it?
Speaker 5: Maybe I don't see that shine anywhere.
Speaker 2: On the does it is it a is it a Samsung?
Speaker 2: Is it an Apple? Is it an iPhone?
Speaker 5: I don't really know. It was given to me. It's
Speaker 5: a t.
Speaker 2: TC okay, TCL, Yes, got it. Okay, that's an that's
Speaker 2: an Android phone. Yep, TCL.
Speaker 1: So TCL is the company that's they're pretty famous for
Speaker 1: TVs now on this phone because TCL makes two different
Speaker 1: types of phones. They make a flip phone. So does
Speaker 1: it have a physical keyboard or is it all screen?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 2: Does it have buttons you can physically press?
Speaker 5: I have to press but yeah the symbols?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, but it's all on the screen.
Speaker 5: I got it.
Speaker 1: So it's not like it's not like an right, Okay,
Speaker 1: got it? So it is a smartphone. Okay, So it
Speaker 1: sounds like you have you know, one of their TCL smartphones,
Speaker 1: which are good little phones. But again you have to
Speaker 1: learn how to use this. So if you want to
Speaker 1: learn how to use an Android phone, the main things
Speaker 1: that you need to do are make a phone call
Speaker 1: and you're calling me, so maybe you figure that part out,
Speaker 1: but it really comes down to downloading apps and just
Speaker 1: getting this phone to do things that you need to do.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is just set up the
Speaker 1: home screen with the things that you want to do,
Speaker 1: and if that is Facebook, maybe you put that app
Speaker 1: on there.
Speaker 2: If it's your phone, you put that app on there.
Speaker 1: Texting you're probably gonna want to text folks as well,
Speaker 1: so you want your texting app on there. And you
Speaker 1: can do other stuff too, like of course take pictures,
Speaker 1: you can surf the web. But I think if you
Speaker 1: just want to get the basics down, the way to
Speaker 1: learn this phone is just to use it. There is
Speaker 1: typically in smartphones and app called tips, so you might
Speaker 1: search for that, and the way that you search on
Speaker 1: your phone is you swipe up and then you search
Speaker 1: inside there, or you can just search on the bar
Speaker 1: that says Google right on your phone screen. So it
Speaker 1: is a little bit intimidating. I understand because you are
Speaker 1: just getting to learn this phone. I would also think
Speaker 1: that TCL probably has a book about this phone online,
Speaker 1: so if you have access to a computer and you
Speaker 1: want to read kind of like a simple book on
Speaker 1: how to use this But I think the main thing,
Speaker 1: Francesca that you need to know is that you want
Speaker 1: to be able to make calls on this phone, and
Speaker 1: you want to customize it for the things that you
Speaker 1: want to do. And I would say, personally, if you
Speaker 1: have a family member or a friend or a neighbor
Speaker 1: that has an Android phone, just ask them, just say, hey,
Speaker 1: how do you make phone calls? I would say one
Speaker 1: thing you probably want to make sure you're doing is
Speaker 1: connecting it to Wi Fi in your home if you
Speaker 1: do have Wi Fi in your house, because otherwise I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how much data you have with your plan
Speaker 1: with trackphone, but it's typically not that much with them,
Speaker 1: and so you probably don't want to gobble up all
Speaker 1: that data when you're at home if you're in a
Speaker 1: Wi Fi area, So try to connect to Wi Fi
Speaker 1: as much as possible.
Speaker 2: But you know, these.
Speaker 1: Things are mainly just a matter of trial and error.
Speaker 1: You're not going to break anything. I would also I
Speaker 1: would try to learn how to turn the phone off
Speaker 1: and on and also restart it, and that's typically going
Speaker 1: to be either holding down the power button on the
Speaker 1: side or swiping down from the top and pressing the
Speaker 1: settings which looks like a little gear. The other thing, Francesca,
Speaker 1: I think is really fun is just searching Google. So
Speaker 1: there's a microphone icon on your home screen. Just tap
Speaker 1: that and ask Google whatever you want answers to and
Speaker 1: you can have a lot of fun there too, So
Speaker 1: have fun with the phone. I'm glad you are coming
Speaker 1: around and getting into the twenty first century here, So
Speaker 1: thanks for the call today, appreciate it and enjoy You
Speaker 1: are listening to rich on Tech. Phone lines are open
Speaker 1: at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight
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Speaker 1: Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about the one plus
Speaker 1: open foldable smartphone. Plus I'll give you my thoughts on
Speaker 1: some of Samsung's new products, including the Galaxy Buds f
Speaker 1: E and the Galaxy tab S.
Speaker 2: Nine f E.
Speaker 1: These are affordable gadgets from Samsung, and I've got thoughts
Speaker 1: because I used them.
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Speaker 1: talking technology with you at Triple eight Rich one oh one.
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Speaker 1: Doing the show today from Paso robles, a U an
Speaker 1: area in I guess it's central California that is known
Speaker 1: for their wine and their restaurants and just kind of
Speaker 1: a nice, relaxed place. It's a fun place to spend
Speaker 1: a weekend, for sure, if you haven't been. Gloria wrote
Speaker 1: in on the website richon Tech dot TV. We were
Speaker 1: talking about how people mispronounce names of places, and Glory says,
Speaker 1: there's a street in your Belinda baston Cherry, but everyone
Speaker 1: pronounces it as baston Cherry. And when I try to
Speaker 1: explain the why, they just ignore me. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: people are setting their ways sometimes. Coming up on this hour,
Speaker 1: we are going to talk about the one plus Open.
Speaker 1: This is a new foldable phone. I'll tell you about
Speaker 1: some details on that in just a moment. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about.
Speaker 2: The Galaxy Buds FE and the Galaxy tab S nine
Speaker 2: f E. These are two new.
Speaker 1: Less expensive products from Samsung that deliver a lot of
Speaker 1: the things that people like, and we're gonna take more
Speaker 1: of your calls.
Speaker 2: So let's get to.
Speaker 1: The calls right now, let's go to Mickey and so
Speaker 1: here's a city that people mispronounce cam Rio. Right, So
Speaker 1: Mickey and Camerio line too.
Speaker 2: You're on with rech. How do you say Camrio?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 7: Yes, good morning cam Mario.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it right. See, oh there you go. See.
Speaker 1: I think when I first moved to California, I might
Speaker 1: have said like Camarillo.
Speaker 7: Yes, many do.
Speaker 2: So what can I help you with?
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm pulling over. I've had conflicting let me make
Speaker 7: sure you can hear me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 7: Be careful please, okay, yeah, no, I'll pull over. So
Speaker 7: I had conflicting information from my uh the anti virus company. Well,
Speaker 7: I was told to leave this VPN at home and
Speaker 7: on my mobile my cell phone okay, and the cell
Speaker 7: phone house also another antivirus. But anyway, so I even
Speaker 7: talked to a manager. This manager told me. I told
Speaker 7: the manager, I was told by one of your representatives
Speaker 7: in the tech department tech support that the VPN uh
Speaker 7: A lady. She said, Oh, you're supposed to leave it
Speaker 7: on at all times? Who told you turned it off?
Speaker 7: I said one of the text one of the tech
Speaker 7: support people, because I've called back and forth several days times.
Speaker 7: They said said, no, leave it off when you're on
Speaker 7: your computer at home, and uh off on your phone
Speaker 7: off here at home, but once you leave home, turned
Speaker 7: on your VPN. And then and yet someone else told it.
Speaker 7: And the lady says, no, you're supposed to leave your
Speaker 7: VPN at home on the computer. Should be on twenty
Speaker 7: four to seven. She said, the one that told you
Speaker 7: to leave it off, I am going to do. You
Speaker 7: don't know the name, I said, know you, well, I'm
Speaker 7: going to report that. I said, I don't know why
Speaker 7: he would have told you that the supervisor. Then I
Speaker 7: called the nex Baseball was the supervisor. Supervisor said VPN
Speaker 7: should be on twenty four to seven phone and mobile devices.
Speaker 7: So of course I'm taking the words of a supervisor
Speaker 7: and he just he described, you know, some website the
Speaker 7: VPN will work with it to turn it off and
Speaker 7: turn it back on, et cetera. And anyway, So I'm
Speaker 7: just really you know, I'm taking a heart what the
Speaker 7: supervisor said, but I'm just really confused a little skill.
Speaker 2: Okay, what company are you using for your VPN?
Speaker 7: This is for McAfee. I had Basic and I went
Speaker 7: to McAfee Advanced Assists, so few days ago.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of advertising around VPNs. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of talk around VPNs for privacy. We had on a
Speaker 1: privacy or a VPN expert a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: David Huerta, and so I highly recommend that you go
Speaker 1: back and re listen to that interview.
Speaker 2: That is the last.
Speaker 1: Show if you go to the podcast rich on Tech
Speaker 1: podcast and if you look at the episode that is
Speaker 1: titled Let's see it is, oh, VPN's Explained October seventh.
Speaker 1: So I highly recommend that you listen to that episode
Speaker 1: and he will explain exactly when you should use a VPN.
Speaker 1: Because there's so much advertising, because there's so much push,
Speaker 1: and because there's so much profit on VPNs, and of
Speaker 1: course privacy is paramount to everyone, there is a lot
Speaker 1: of misconceptions about when you need to use a VPN.
Speaker 1: So here is my rule of thumb. If you're on
Speaker 1: your home Wi Fi network, you do not need to
Speaker 1: use your VPN. There is no reason for it unless
Speaker 1: you are trying to mask what you're doing to your ISP,
Speaker 1: your Internet service provider you want to change the location
Speaker 1: of where you are and you want to look like
Speaker 1: you are surfing the web from a different place, or
Speaker 1: you're like really really top secret and just don't want
Speaker 1: any sort of trackers tracking you as you move around
Speaker 1: the Internet. So those are the reasons why you might
Speaker 1: want to use a VPN at home. I don't recommend it.
Speaker 1: I don't think you need it now. When you're out
Speaker 1: and about, I would say, stay on your cellular network
Speaker 1: for all of your stuff as much as possible, and
Speaker 1: in that case, you do not need a VPN unless
Speaker 1: the same things apply. If you don't want your ISP
Speaker 1: to know what you're doing, if you don't want to
Speaker 1: be tracked all that good stuff, you can use the
Speaker 1: VPN even on your mobile network. Now, it's when you're
Speaker 1: on Wi Fi that I think you might need a VPN,
Speaker 1: but only during specific use cases. Only when you're doing
Speaker 1: something very sensitive on that Wi Fi network, might you
Speaker 1: want to consider using a VPN. So again, let's say
Speaker 1: you are a public shared plate. Do you want to
Speaker 1: check your bank account? Maybe that's when you might use
Speaker 1: a VPN. But the trick is a lot of these
Speaker 1: VPNs don't actually let you log in if you're sorry.
Speaker 1: A lot of these banks and things won't let you
Speaker 1: log in if you're on a VPN because VPNs can
Speaker 1: also be tricked, and so they want to make sure
Speaker 1: that you're on a direct connection through a cellular company
Speaker 1: or through.
Speaker 2: A Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: So I think the bottom line is there for the
Speaker 1: average person, there are not many many times when you
Speaker 1: need to use a VPN, but there are specific use
Speaker 1: cases where I will fire up the VPN to protect
Speaker 1: my web browsing, or to protect what I'm doing, or
Speaker 1: if I'm on a sketchy Wi Fi network that I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure, I will probably use a VPN to
Speaker 1: just protect those things. But most of the time I
Speaker 1: will stay on cellular, which is very, very secure, and
Speaker 1: there's not really a need for a VPN during those times.
Speaker 1: But Mickey, I understand there are so many questions about
Speaker 1: this stuff. I think the last episode on October seventh,
Speaker 1: VPNs explained with our guests. We'll explain a lot, but
Speaker 1: I kind of summarized what he had to say just now.
Speaker 2: So thank you for the call. Appreciate it. Use a VPN.
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to pay a ton for it.
Speaker 1: I don't think it needs to be activated all the time.
Speaker 1: I think that again, just the times that I mentioned
Speaker 1: are the critical times when you might want to do that.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So I was using the Galaxy Buds FE and the
Speaker 1: Galaxy tab S nine FE on my flight back to
Speaker 1: New Jersey last week. So the Galaxy Buds FE are
Speaker 1: earbuds that are ninety nine dollars. These are brand new
Speaker 1: from Samsung. They've got active noise cancelation. They've got ambient
Speaker 1: sound modes. They've got really long battery life up to
Speaker 1: eight and a half hours of playback time thirty hours
Speaker 1: with the case. They've got decent water resistance. They're only
Speaker 1: IPX two, which means they are splash resistant. They fit
Speaker 1: in my ears great, they sound really good. They have
Speaker 1: a three mic system, so it's got good, clean, clear calls.
Speaker 1: I will tell you though, I did not think these
Speaker 1: were that loud in my ears, especially on the plane.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the deal was.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why, but they were tough to hear,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if that was just limited to me.
Speaker 1: But I will say I switched to between these and
Speaker 1: several other earbuds, and the other earbuds did sound better.
Speaker 1: So I think these sound fine when you're not in
Speaker 1: a place like a plane, but and maybe they need
Speaker 1: a software update to sound better. But overall, I will
Speaker 1: say I do like them. I took them on a run.
Speaker 1: I thought they sounded good during the run. But it's
Speaker 1: one of these things where you know it's they're good.
Speaker 1: Maybe wait for the price to go down to they
Speaker 1: they retail at ninety nine ninety nine. I think that
Speaker 1: they're going to be cheaper during the holidays. So that's
Speaker 1: the Galaxy Buds f E. I think overall they're fine.
Speaker 1: They're not. They they sounded okay on the plane. They
Speaker 1: weren't the best noise cancelation headphones I've ever used on
Speaker 1: a plane, but a lot of the ones I use
Speaker 1: are maybe double the price of these anyway, So if
Speaker 1: you want something that's simple, basic, I think they're going
Speaker 1: to be a good bye.
Speaker 2: Especially if you have a Samsung phone.
Speaker 1: Now, when it comes to this Galaxy tab S nine
Speaker 1: f E, this is a large tablet and I will
Speaker 1: say I actually really like it, and I typically recommend
Speaker 1: the iPads, and that's for a reason.
Speaker 2: You get a lot for your money.
Speaker 1: This starts at four hundred and fifty bucks that's a
Speaker 1: lot of money. It's got a large screen, either a
Speaker 1: ten point nine in screen or a twelve point four
Speaker 1: in screen. It's got a great refresh rate. It's got
Speaker 1: an s pen included, so it's got a stylus included,
Speaker 1: which is kind of nice. It's got up to two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage. It's got a
Speaker 1: micro SD card. You can get one with a SIM card,
Speaker 1: so if you want to use cellular on this. The
Speaker 1: other neat thing about this tablet is that it is
Speaker 1: IP sixty eight, which means it's water and dust resistant,
Speaker 1: which means you can take this thing like in a
Speaker 1: pool and get it wet and it's fine. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put it underwater for a long time, but if you
Speaker 1: want to read in the pool, watch a movie in
Speaker 1: the pool, you can. I don't know why you'd want
Speaker 1: to do that, but you could if you want it to.
Speaker 1: It's got up to twenty hours of video playback. I
Speaker 1: had no problems with the battery situation. It charged really
Speaker 1: nice and fast.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: It has five G connectivity available and this starts at
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty dollars. The biggest downside to this
Speaker 1: tablet and I watched a couple movies on it.
Speaker 2: I used it on the plane.
Speaker 1: Is that it's just heavy, and I thought it was heavy,
Speaker 1: and then I confirm my suspicions by weighing it against
Speaker 1: the iPad, and yeah, it's definitely heavier than the iPad.
Speaker 1: So my only issue with this tablet is that it's heavy.
Speaker 1: But otherwise and the price, I think again you should
Speaker 1: wait for the price to come down on this because
Speaker 1: although they're releasing it at four forty nine, I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be cheaper during the holidays. This is
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff The fe product line is made
Speaker 1: for discounts. Samsung puts these products out there. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of great features at a great price point,
Speaker 1: but the price point gets even better during the holidays
Speaker 1: when they say, you know what, we're gonna make a
Speaker 1: lot of people buy this stuff, so we're gonna make
Speaker 1: these prices too good to refuse. And so I suspect
Speaker 1: the buds will be anywhere from seventy fifty nine to
Speaker 1: seventy nine bucks, and this tablet, they'll probably take a
Speaker 1: hundred bucks off this price to the tablet during the holidays.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a tablet that is Android
Speaker 1: that is not iPad. I still think the iPad offers
Speaker 1: a better selection of apps and a better experience overall,
Speaker 1: but I do like this, and I do like how
Speaker 1: Android tablets actually download stuff in the background, which the
Speaker 1: iPad really does not unless it's an Apple app. So again,
Speaker 1: Galaxy Fie Galaxy Tabs nine feu, put them on your
Speaker 1: list for the holidays. Definitely gonna make some good gifts,
Speaker 1: and I think the prices are gonna be right. Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech is my website, rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, check me out on Instagram at rich on
Speaker 1: Tech and uh, like I said, download the podcast of
Speaker 1: this show. So if you want to listen to all
Speaker 1: the segments and all the answers and all the guests,
Speaker 1: they are always there.
Speaker 2: Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 2: four to.
Speaker 1: Two four one zero one back with the one plus
Speaker 1: open after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Phone
Speaker 1: lines are open at triple eight rich one O one
Speaker 1: eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Wife just texted said she's going on a hike up
Speaker 1: here in the mountains, and I reminded her that because
Speaker 1: she's got a newer iPhone, you need to know about
Speaker 1: this feature called Emergency SOS. So, if you have an
Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen or fifteen, you have a satellite on your iPhone,
Speaker 1: which means if you ever needed help and you didn't
Speaker 1: have a cell phone signal, you could still get help
Speaker 1: just by having a clear view of the sky. So,
Speaker 1: if you have an iPhone fourteen, iPhone fourteen Pro, iPhone fifteen,
Speaker 1: iPhone fifteen Pro, familiarize yourself with Emergency SOS via satellite.
Speaker 1: This will let you text emergency services even when you
Speaker 1: don't have a cellular signal or a Wi Fi signal,
Speaker 1: and you can still get help. It's a very very
Speaker 1: amazing feature that Apple has built into the latest iPhones.
Speaker 1: You can familiarize yourself with it by going into Settings
Speaker 1: and scrolling until you see Emergency SOS and then scrolling
Speaker 1: all the way down and you can try a demo
Speaker 1: of the satellite feature. It's not going to make you
Speaker 1: call it the police or the fire or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but it can help you understand how this feature works
Speaker 1: because it is new and so not a lot of
Speaker 1: people understand it, and it's just basically works that if
Speaker 1: you don't have a signal and you try to dial
Speaker 1: nine one one, it will redirect to the basically the
Speaker 1: staffed response centers that can help you with your emergency.
Speaker 1: And it's not a phone call, it's a back and
Speaker 1: forth text. And by the way, it does take some
Speaker 1: time because it's going over satellite, so it's not instantaneous.
Speaker 1: I mean it is eventually, but it could take a
Speaker 1: minute to connect or something. It is going to a
Speaker 1: satellite that's thousands of miles above you.
Speaker 2: But it is a really cool feature.
Speaker 1: Again, if you have iPhone fourteen or fifteen, you need
Speaker 1: to familiarize yourself with emergency sos and set up those
Speaker 1: emergency contacts as well, because hopefully you'll never need them,
Speaker 1: but it's better to be prepared. If you're on Android
Speaker 1: and you want something similar, they have an add on
Speaker 1: called the Motorola Defy and this is the Motorola Defy
Speaker 1: Satellite Link, and it's basically a little accessory for Android
Speaker 1: phones that puts a satellite enabled messenger on your phone.
Speaker 1: So your phone connects this little link and then the
Speaker 1: link sends the messages up to the satellite. So if
Speaker 1: you need help or you can just text someone no
Speaker 1: matter where you are, if you hike a lot, you're
Speaker 1: on an oil rig in the middle of nowhere, whatever
Speaker 1: it may be in your life that you know, you
Speaker 1: want to stay connected without a cell phone signal. These
Speaker 1: little systems will work, and hopefully we'll see the first
Speaker 1: Android phones with this satellite technology built in very soon.
Speaker 1: Let's go to line three, Jerry and Northridge.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 8: Jerry, Hey, Rich, great show. I had a quick question
Speaker 8: about the how good the security is for the latest
Speaker 8: vision of Ventura. You got an older iMac is at
Speaker 8: twenty eighteen, so it cannot upgrade to Sonoma. Is that
Speaker 8: a big security risk?
Speaker 2: And the only thing you can run on it is
Speaker 2: what the highest.
Speaker 8: Thing could run on is the latest version of Ventura.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've got to look online and see if
Speaker 1: Ventura is still getting security updates. So typically Apple will
Speaker 1: give out security updates for you know, a little while,
Speaker 1: even after they stop supporting the operating system, so it'll
Speaker 1: it'll continue to be supported for a while. So if
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Ventura right now, Ventura the last time
Speaker 1: it got a security update was September seventh, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: so that is very recent. That means that Apple is
Speaker 1: still supporting this. Typically they support these for a while,
Speaker 1: and so I think you're fine. As long as you
Speaker 1: can update that computer to the latest security patch, that
Speaker 1: should be fine. Obviously, with the newer computers, you want
Speaker 1: to put them on the latest software. But no matter
Speaker 1: what software you're running, the system number one, the security
Speaker 1: updates have been getting longer and longer for almost every
Speaker 1: operating system. So Google just announced that they're doing seven
Speaker 1: years of security updates for the latest Pixel phone, so
Speaker 1: Pixel eight it is twenty twenty three. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to get security updates for that phone until twenty thirty.
Speaker 1: And Apple has typically supported their devices for at least
Speaker 1: five years I'd say maybe five maybe six years with
Speaker 1: the latest iOS updates. But they've also separated the operating
Speaker 1: system update from the security updates. So even though they're
Speaker 1: not doing let's say a big operating system update for
Speaker 1: your device, like you said, on your computer, it can
Speaker 1: still get security updates. So as long as it's still
Speaker 1: getting those security updates, you should be fine. I would
Speaker 1: just check for the end of life date for the
Speaker 1: various operating systems and see what it says about that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what it is for Ventura, but it's
Speaker 1: easily findable online. But again, just came out with the
Speaker 1: security update on September seventh, So I think you are okay,
Speaker 1: Jerry for letting that run as long as possible. But
Speaker 1: the main thing is you just don't want to click
Speaker 1: any links that might be phishing and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: because that's really how they're getting you these days. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up, we've got a guest that is going to
Speaker 1: talk about the one Plus Open. This is one Plus's
Speaker 1: first foldable smartphone. Before we get to the guest, let
Speaker 1: me just tell you about this phone. I've been using it,
Speaker 1: and yeah, the reviewers really like it, including myself. This
Speaker 1: is called the one Plus Open. It launches on October
Speaker 1: twenty sixth. It's got a big outside screen six point
Speaker 1: three inches, which means it's like a regular smartphone on
Speaker 1: the outside. Then when you open up on the inside,
Speaker 1: it's seven point eight two inches, So it is big
Speaker 1: on the inside, big on the outside, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of the main thing. But it's also very lightweight. It's
Speaker 1: got a good camera setup. I think the camera is
Speaker 1: hit or miss in my testing. You can look at
Speaker 1: my Instagram at rich On Tech. I took some pictures
Speaker 1: against the iPhone. It's got all the best specs, sixteen
Speaker 1: gigabytes of RAM, five hundred and twelve gigabytes of storage,
Speaker 1: a giant battery, no wireless charging, which is a bummer,
Speaker 1: but the charging that is wired is really fast. The
Speaker 1: price seventeen hundred dollars, but if you trade in any phone,
Speaker 1: they're gonna give you this for fifteen hundred bucks. So
Speaker 1: any phone, I'm talking like literally any phone, they'll give
Speaker 1: you two hundred dollars off, effectively bringing the price down
Speaker 1: to fifteen hundred dollars. So how does this compare with
Speaker 1: the Pixel Fold and the Samsung Fold five. I think
Speaker 1: the Pixel Fold still to me, is better because of
Speaker 1: the camera. But I think that this is a very
Speaker 1: strong contender for a foldable phone because it has such
Speaker 1: great specs, It has such a great kind of stance
Speaker 1: and the screens. The only thing I wish it had
Speaker 1: a little bit better was the camera. But otherwise, the
Speaker 1: price is pretty strong, the design is pretty strong, and
Speaker 1: we're going to hear more about this from Marcell Campos
Speaker 1: with one plus coming up right after this. Rich Demiro here,
Speaker 1: rich on Tech, Welcome back to the show. I am
Speaker 1: on location in New York City at the one plus
Speaker 1: event for the launch of their latest foldable phone. Joining
Speaker 1: me now is Marcel Campos with one Plus. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining me.
Speaker 3: It's my pleasure.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about one plus as a company. First off,
Speaker 1: explain what one plus is all about.
Speaker 9: One plus is a tech company. We start focus on
Speaker 9: smartphones mainly, and we are expanding to other devices like keyboard,
Speaker 9: zero phones. Many other things are coming and we are
Speaker 9: trying to establish our presence in US in a more
Speaker 9: broader way.
Speaker 1: One thing I've always appreciated about the one plus phones
Speaker 1: is the software. It's smart, it's speedy, it's smooth, and
Speaker 1: that has really set the phones apart.
Speaker 2: Do you really focus on.
Speaker 9: That fastens move that's our mantra. Yes, that's pretty much
Speaker 9: the essence of our product, the smartphones. That's how we
Speaker 9: got popular with but also with a lot of feedback
Speaker 9: from the community. We are very focused on community, and
Speaker 9: the community kind of drive us in the right direction.
Speaker 9: Sometimes we have some decisions we go in one direction,
Speaker 9: community come back and say we don't like that.
Speaker 3: We prefer if you're doing a different way.
Speaker 9: We listen today and try to incorporate their needs, their
Speaker 9: feelings about the products for the next generation products. That's
Speaker 9: pretty much how we work. That's our way of working.
Speaker 9: Listen to the community because they know better than anyone else.
Speaker 1: The first time I ever saw one plus phone, I
Speaker 1: was actually in San Francisco. I landed at the airport.
Speaker 1: I got a newber and the driver had a phone.
Speaker 1: And I cover phones for a living and I've seen
Speaker 1: most of them, but I'd never seen this phone.
Speaker 2: And I said, excuse me, what phone is that?
Speaker 1: And he said, oh, it's a one plus. I said, wow,
Speaker 1: it was such a good looking phone. That was the
Speaker 1: original device.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the one right, the first one, the original one
Speaker 9: that was crazy right, you could only buy by invitation.
Speaker 9: The back of the phone has a very distinctive feeling
Speaker 9: and texture. I think it was a very good debut.
Speaker 9: It went to the market in a very aggressive way.
Speaker 9: I think the receptions was definitely way better than we
Speaker 9: could expect. But from that moment on, you know, we
Speaker 9: are in our ear. This will be the ten year
Speaker 9: of one plus worldwide since we launched the brand, and
Speaker 9: a lot of things change and change for good. Those
Speaker 9: changes also make the products not only more interesting and
Speaker 9: more tachy, But we cannot forget or man mission to
Speaker 9: never settle. So we have to always go and look
Speaker 9: forward for what is new, but also what is important.
Speaker 9: Sometimes what is new is not necessarily important or something
Speaker 9: that is really going to change our mind. So finding
Speaker 9: the right compromises to have the best price possible with
Speaker 9: the best device possible, getting away from the fluff, keeping
Speaker 9: only what people really need and use. I think that's
Speaker 9: still the main focus of the company.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're up against big players like Samsung and Apple
Speaker 1: and of course Google Pixel and so those are some
Speaker 1: of the biggest phones here in the US. But you
Speaker 1: continue to put out a product that is a little
Speaker 1: bit different, and I think that's what people appreciate about it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the one plus Open, because this is
Speaker 1: the foldable phone. In the US, we have only a
Speaker 1: handful of foldables. Other markets there are many more. Are
Speaker 1: first off, just kind of give me what the OnePlus
Speaker 1: Open is all about.
Speaker 9: It's a votable phone, not a flip phone. Right, there's
Speaker 9: a difference between flip phones and photable phones. Flip phones
Speaker 9: are those who you can fold in the middle and
Speaker 9: that become smaller. Votable phones in the market is the
Speaker 9: ones you have the right size of the phone. We
Speaker 9: call it candy bars, just like the format because like
Speaker 9: a retangle and then you can open and enlarge the screen.
Speaker 9: So those are the true differences Flip and photobos. This
Speaker 9: is a photoble phone. The main thing about that is
Speaker 9: it is not only another photable phone in the market.
Speaker 9: There's only two competitors with that right now and they
Speaker 9: are doing great. But we believe we have something unique,
Speaker 9: something that people enjoy. One of the things that we
Speaker 9: focus very much on this product is to provide the
Speaker 9: front screen and the right sizing because people spend more
Speaker 9: than seventy eighty percent of the time in the front
Speaker 9: screen and when they want to share something or then
Speaker 9: when they want to have some content consuming content in
Speaker 9: a bigger.
Speaker 3: Screen, they can open and have it.
Speaker 9: Or even in productivity you can have different apps together.
Speaker 9: But when you don't need it, you're going to use
Speaker 9: like a normal phone and have a narrow screen or
Speaker 9: have a blocky screen. It's not the right racial size
Speaker 9: for the people. Most of the people, they want to
Speaker 9: use the phone as a normal phone. So to make
Speaker 9: it thin, light and at the same time the right
Speaker 9: size of the screen, the front screen.
Speaker 3: That's the key for this product.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're not going to come out and say,
Speaker 1: but I can. You've got the super narrow screen on
Speaker 1: the Samsung Fold the Ball, and then you've got kind
Speaker 1: of a more squat screen on the Google Pixel Fold.
Speaker 2: They both take different approaches.
Speaker 1: Those phones are very nice, but this is more like
Speaker 1: a traditional smartphone that also opens up into a nice
Speaker 1: big screen.
Speaker 2: Inside.
Speaker 9: It just feels right when you have in your hand.
Speaker 9: It just feels right. And there's an additional thing that
Speaker 9: I'd like to mention is about the cameras, because usually
Speaker 9: in foldobles you are fighting against the internal room, how
Speaker 9: much space you have inside the phone, how many things
Speaker 9: you put inside. Because you have the hinge, which takes
Speaker 9: a big part of it. It has to be durable,
Speaker 9: has to be sturdy, has to you know, be something
Speaker 9: nice to open and close hold on.
Speaker 1: While you're talking about that hinge up on stage, you
Speaker 1: mentioned that you have tested it for a million folds,
Speaker 1: when many of the other phones are several hundred thousand,
Speaker 1: maybe three hundred, four hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: So this is going to be pretty durable.
Speaker 9: Yeah, supposed to last at least ten years, just the hinge,
Speaker 9: So you can imagine The idea is to show something
Speaker 9: that if you invest your money, it can last. We
Speaker 9: consider that no matter how much dollars you're putting our product,
Speaker 9: no matter which product, it should be a product that
Speaker 9: may last, should be future proof. And that's one of
Speaker 9: a good of examples of how we do that.
Speaker 2: Okay, so back to that camera.
Speaker 1: You've got three lenses on this camera, so you do
Speaker 1: have the ultra wide, you got the standard and a telephoto.
Speaker 1: What is the quality going to be like on those cameras.
Speaker 9: It's going to be top notch quality. We have three cameras.
Speaker 9: They are amazing. They are We have a partnership with
Speaker 9: Hasselblaff to fine tune those cameras and have the best
Speaker 9: caller science behind it to have the best callers, the
Speaker 9: best picture.
Speaker 1: So the outside screen is six point three inches, the
Speaker 1: inside screen is seven point eight inches. You're really getting
Speaker 1: a two in one here. You're getting a standard almost
Speaker 1: a standard smartphone, plus that that tablet screen on the inside.
Speaker 2: What is the thought behind a fold of ball? Who
Speaker 2: needs a fold of ball?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 3: Everyone? Definitely not.
Speaker 9: I think this is still a kind of a niche product,
Speaker 9: still enlarging and growing. We see a lot of people
Speaker 9: migrating for this format and trying and testing. But the
Speaker 9: most important thing to have in mind is once you
Speaker 9: start the using, you find your own users. For that
Speaker 9: for me was the case in the airport. I have
Speaker 9: a delay in a flight, I don't have my computer
Speaker 9: with me, and I want to start working and doing
Speaker 9: meetings that suppose that I should not. And when I
Speaker 9: open the screens, then when I start feeling ops, Now
Speaker 9: I see the difference.
Speaker 3: Now I see why this is good.
Speaker 9: And then I went to the airplane and I put
Speaker 9: like Netflix videos that I download and start watching them
Speaker 9: on the airplane.
Speaker 3: And seeing in a.
Speaker 9: Bigger screen changes the experience with the product. So you
Speaker 9: need to use it to figure out how it serves you.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that is one of my favorite aspects
Speaker 1: of foldobles.
Speaker 2: And it's tough because people are not.
Speaker 1: Wowed very easily these days because we have so much
Speaker 1: stuff like chat, GBT and AI and various gadgets and
Speaker 1: everyone has a smartphone. The best thing I have realized
Speaker 1: is that you just take a picture and open up
Speaker 1: the phone and let them see it on that big
Speaker 1: screen and they're like wow, because you've never seen your
Speaker 1: smartphone pictures like that. People don't even look at them
Speaker 1: on their computer screens. It's only on social media, it's
Speaker 1: only on a tiny screen.
Speaker 9: It's an excellent device for sharing all the content you have,
Speaker 9: not only videos you made, pictures you took, but also
Speaker 9: the contents like I mentioned Netflix, Disney Plus, no.
Speaker 3: Matter which one. If you are a guy that is
Speaker 3: always on the goal.
Speaker 9: If you are kind of these digital nomads, you need
Speaker 9: to work in different places during the week, and you
Speaker 9: are always moving from one place to another, but you
Speaker 9: know the working keep going. This is the perfect companion.
Speaker 1: Again, we're talking about the one plus Open. This is
Speaker 1: the company's first voltable phone. It will launch with five
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve gigabytes of storage, twelve or sixteen gigs
Speaker 1: of memory, sixteen hundred ninety nine dollars fourteen hundred ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars if you trade in pretty much any smartphone.
Speaker 9: Now we don't get it, it's any phone. You go
Speaker 9: to one plus dot com. You can any phone any condition.
Speaker 9: If you have those old lendline phones will accept if
Speaker 9: it's broken, the screen is broken, if it's not working,
Speaker 9: if it's the old Nokia you have the unbreakable one.
Speaker 3: You can trade that and.
Speaker 9: You're gonna have at least minimum two hundred dollars on
Speaker 9: OnePlus dot com. We are doing that for the life
Speaker 9: cycle of the product, so it's not something only for
Speaker 9: the launch, it's something for the whole life cycle of
Speaker 9: the product.
Speaker 1: Effectively, that takes the price down to about fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Marcel Campos of one plus, thanks so much for joining
Speaker 1: me today.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you very much. Was a pleasure to be
Speaker 3: here with you.
Speaker 1: All right, And of course, if you want to see
Speaker 1: some of the pictures that I've been taking on the
Speaker 1: one plus open, go to my website.
Speaker 2: It is rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: More show coming up right after this, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Earlier, we had a question about running
Speaker 1: an older software operating system on a computer and I
Speaker 1: found a good website, end of life dot Date, and
Speaker 1: this has the end of life dates for every platform
Speaker 1: you could ever imagine, the iPhone, the iPad iOS, iPad os,
Speaker 1: mac Os, Windows. I mean, this is pretty thorough. So
Speaker 1: someone clearly does their homework with this website end of
Speaker 1: life dot date, and so if you look at Apple macOS,
Speaker 1: it says all the different releases you got. Sonoma Ventura, Monterey,
Speaker 1: Big Sur, and Catalina, and it tells you the service status,
Speaker 1: if it's still being serviced, and when it got its
Speaker 1: latest software update. So if you look at this, macOS eleven, twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 1: and fourteen are still all getting software updates and Big
Speaker 1: Sur was so released two years and eleven months ago.
Speaker 1: Service status yes, latest update was September eleventh and September
Speaker 1: twenty first for the Monterey Ventura Sonoma. So anyway, great
Speaker 1: website to see if the software where you want to
Speaker 1: run is still being supported with active security updates. Let's
Speaker 1: go to line one FERUSA in Los Angeles. Did I
Speaker 1: say that right?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 10: You did?
Speaker 2: Oh great?
Speaker 11: How much for taking my call?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? What can I help you with today?
Speaker 6: I have an iPhone six and this holiday season I'm
Speaker 6: going to upgrade to an iPhone thirteen or fourteen, and
Speaker 6: I'm particularly interested in the double Eastern feature because I
Speaker 6: do travel internationally a fair bit and I just wanted
Speaker 6: to understand is it the same on both the thirteen
Speaker 6: and fourteen and how.
Speaker 10: Does it work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is the same feature.
Speaker 1: They've been I think they've had this on the iPhone
Speaker 1: since the iPhone ten. They did it secretly for many
Speaker 1: years just to test it out, make sure it worked,
Speaker 1: and then they decided to say no more simcard with
Speaker 1: the last year's phone, So now there's no there's no
Speaker 1: physical SIM card slot inside the iPhone anymore. But the
Speaker 1: way the eSIM works, especially for travel, is that you
Speaker 1: would have your regular SIM, which is still an e SIM,
Speaker 1: but you can have multiple SIMS on your phone.
Speaker 2: You can have a bunch of them.
Speaker 1: I had I think like two or three on my
Speaker 1: phone at one time, and you can activate them, you
Speaker 1: can deactivate them. You can keep one on there for
Speaker 1: a long time and just activate it when you go
Speaker 1: to a different country. But the way you install it
Speaker 1: is you just you know, let's say you have one
Speaker 1: of your main carriers here, that's you know, Verizon, T Mobile,
Speaker 1: any you know, Mint Mobile, whatever it is. You've got
Speaker 1: your main SIM, and then you can add a secondary SIM.
Speaker 1: And that secondary SIM could be an international SIM, it
Speaker 1: could be even a secondary cellular line here in America.
Speaker 1: So let's say you wanted one SIM for your phone
Speaker 1: calls and one for your data, or even.
Speaker 2: Two for your data.
Speaker 1: You can set that up so it's really unlimited what
Speaker 1: you can do. But the way it works over In particular,
Speaker 1: what I do is I typically turn off my main
Speaker 1: SIM and then flip on the international SIM and then
Speaker 1: that way I can still use my data through the
Speaker 1: international SIM and not pay the roaming charges. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways to do this, but that's
Speaker 1: kind of generally how it works. If you're traveling internationally
Speaker 1: to a different country, you can pick up a local
Speaker 1: eSIM there, or you can use one of these companies
Speaker 1: that lets you activate an eSIM right from your phone.
Speaker 2: So the one I always talk about is.
Speaker 1: Aralow Us Mobile also has one, but there are many
Speaker 1: many different companies that do this, and so if you
Speaker 1: just look up eSIM for the country you want to
Speaker 1: go to, you can do that and set it up
Speaker 1: very easily here in the States before you leave. But
Speaker 1: I think that it's a very simple system. The only
Speaker 1: place where it gets a little complicated is if.
Speaker 2: You want to continue.
Speaker 1: Most of these eSIMs are data only, but that's also changing.
Speaker 1: So the eSIM that you get for overseas might just
Speaker 1: candle and not calls. But that makes sense because you
Speaker 1: don't want to give someone a different phone number just
Speaker 1: when you're overseas. They just want to call your regular
Speaker 1: phone number. So in that case, I recommend that you
Speaker 1: turn on your your not your roaming, but your Wi
Speaker 1: Fi calling. And actually, you know what, we just did
Speaker 1: a story on KTLA about this, a TV story because
Speaker 1: I travel a decent amount and I was figuring out
Speaker 1: all the different ways of staying connected. So if you
Speaker 1: go to rich on tech dot TV, scroll down to
Speaker 1: the October eighth story, it says cheapest ways to stay
Speaker 1: connected abroad, and that will bring you to the different
Speaker 1: methods you can use to stay connected overseas, and I
Speaker 1: explain what eSIMs are. I explain the Wi Fi hotspot,
Speaker 1: I explain Wi Fi calling and roaming with your carrier,
Speaker 1: So you can get all of that explained rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV, and then just scroll down until you
Speaker 1: see the story that says cheapest way to stay connected abroad.
Speaker 2: Good question.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the call today, Jony on Twitter
Speaker 1: at rich on tech or x I should say, says,
Speaker 1: is there any way to take low resolution.
Speaker 2: Photos on the new iPhone?
Speaker 1: Those three point eight megapixel photos eat up storage and
Speaker 1: I don't always need the high res thanks rich on Tech. Well,
Speaker 1: the photos aren't three point eight megapixels. I think the
Speaker 1: storage space is three point eight. And yes, on the
Speaker 1: new iPhone, the default megapixels is twenty four now, which
Speaker 1: is amazing because you're getting so much more data on
Speaker 1: your photos, which means you can zoom in, you can crop,
Speaker 1: you just have a lot more flexibility with the amount
Speaker 1: of data these photos carry because they are twenty four
Speaker 1: megapixels by default. If you don't want them to be
Speaker 1: twenty four megapixels, if you want to go back to twelve,
Speaker 1: you can. You go to settings, you go to camera,
Speaker 1: and you go to formats and then inside there it
Speaker 1: says photo capture photo mode twenty four megapixels. You tap
Speaker 1: there and you can tap twelve and you can take
Speaker 1: your twelve megapixel.
Speaker 2: Photos just like before.
Speaker 1: According to Apple, a twelve megapixel photo will be about
Speaker 1: two megabytes, a twenty four megapixel photo will be about
Speaker 1: three megabytes. But like you said, Jony, it's probably closer
Speaker 1: to about three point eight. Let me see on my
Speaker 1: phone here what my latest picture is. So if I
Speaker 1: just pick one of these photos here and let's see,
Speaker 1: this photo is oh five point eight mega five point
Speaker 1: eight megabytes. Wow, so Apple, Apple's really being conservative in
Speaker 1: their estimates. But again with today's storage on the phones.
Speaker 1: I would say take the bigger photos. But if you
Speaker 1: don't need to need that, just go ahead and you
Speaker 1: can change that in the settings. Tom says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: sounds like you're enjoying the scenery up in Passo. Great choice.
Speaker 1: I need a new watch band for my Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: Would you recommend Amazon or just go to the Apple Store.
Speaker 1: I've come to believe Amazon could be kind of hit
Speaker 1: or miss. Thank you, Tom, Tom, I you hit upon
Speaker 1: a nerve with me. I I'm not a fan of
Speaker 1: imitation Apple watch bands. Okay, there are so many random
Speaker 1: bands out there on Amazon.
Speaker 2: I do not like any of them.
Speaker 1: They are cheap, they are yucky, they look bad, and
Speaker 1: yeah they're cheaper than what Apple sells. Apples bands are
Speaker 1: fifty bucks. But I mean, don't you want something that
Speaker 1: was made for the device that you're using. I see
Speaker 1: so many people with cheap Apple watch bands and it
Speaker 1: just bugs me. So, yeah, you can get something on Amazon.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hit or miss. It may work, it
Speaker 1: may pop out, the threads may not work. There may
Speaker 1: be an you know, it may irritate your skin. You
Speaker 1: don't know, and again you won't know until you get it.
Speaker 1: Apple makes really beautiful bands. Yes, they are a little
Speaker 1: bit more expensive for your watch, but I say stick
Speaker 1: with the official bands. Go to the Apple store, pick
Speaker 1: one out, see which one you like, and hopefully it
Speaker 1: will fit for you. I am wearing the Nike Recycled
Speaker 1: Apple band right now. It is made from recycled Apple bands.
Speaker 1: I guess fell on the floor in the factory. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it's like it's like almost all recycled.
Speaker 1: I think it may be one hundred percent recycled. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but it looks really funky because it's got
Speaker 1: like all these different band colors, kind of like it's
Speaker 1: as as if you took a whole bunch of Apple
Speaker 1: bands just melted them down and then made a new
Speaker 1: band from it.
Speaker 2: That's what it looks like. So it's pretty cool. But
Speaker 2: that's all.
Speaker 1: Recycled, and that's kind of Apple's new push. The other
Speaker 1: company I do like for Apple bands is Nomad. They
Speaker 1: made two bands that I wore for a long time,
Speaker 1: and one was glowing in the dark one was bright orange,
Speaker 1: and so I do like those bands as well. Nomad
Speaker 1: is the company that makes them. I'm sure there's other
Speaker 1: companies out there. That make nice Apple watch bands. But
Speaker 1: I feel like Apple just makes such nice bands? Why
Speaker 1: not just stick with the official Thanks for the text
Speaker 1: on Twitter, or I should say X Tom, thanks a
Speaker 1: lot for that.
Speaker 2: All right, you can find me on social media.
Speaker 1: I am at rich on Tech the website again rich
Speaker 1: on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 2: Coming up later in this.
Speaker 1: Show, we're gonna talk to Michael Sino, a cyber security
Speaker 1: expert at Google. You are listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talk in technology at Triple eight.
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Speaker 1: Hi kid had a birthday recently. We got him a
Speaker 1: drone and he he's been a kind of a drone
Speaker 1: wizard for a while, like really really good on these things,
Speaker 1: and so we got them little drones over the years,
Speaker 1: and then finally he wanted to upgrade to like a
Speaker 1: big drone for this birthday. He's nine, by the way,
Speaker 1: So we got him the Dji Mini three. It was
Speaker 1: one of those things, you know, those like impulse buys
Speaker 1: at Costco.
Speaker 2: And I got to say, we took it out.
Speaker 1: It took us a little bit to get it kind
Speaker 1: of set up and stuff, because I've been out of
Speaker 1: town in things.
Speaker 2: But you know, this last week we took it to
Speaker 2: the park a couple times.
Speaker 1: We had such a good time and It is so
Speaker 1: fun to watch your kid excel at something, especially when
Speaker 1: it's something that you're not good at, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's sports, whether it's you know, electronics, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But this was just so cool to watch him fly
Speaker 1: this thing and with such confident and he's watched all
Speaker 1: these YouTube videos about how to do this. I said,
Speaker 1: you know, look, before we go to the park to
Speaker 1: do this, I want you to make sure all the
Speaker 1: software is up to date. I want you to make
Speaker 1: sure you know how to do it, make sure you've
Speaker 1: watched a couple tutorials.
Speaker 2: And he did.
Speaker 1: He said, Dad, you know, I want to sit down
Speaker 1: and control this thing, because that's what a guy said
Speaker 1: pro tip on YouTube about how to control these drones better.
Speaker 1: If you sit down, it's easier to control because you're
Speaker 1: not holding the control in your hand, it's in your lap.
Speaker 1: I said, sure, try it, and so we had such
Speaker 1: a fun time. I'm just telling you this because drones are, like,
Speaker 1: you know, they for a while they were like amazing,
Speaker 1: and then people were, you know, hating on them, and
Speaker 1: now they're just kind of like the part of our
Speaker 1: lives and they do a lot of amazing things in
Speaker 1: this world. But if you haven't tried one or you
Speaker 1: haven't flown one, they're really fun. Try to get your
Speaker 1: hands on one, even one of the small ones. Like
Speaker 1: at Target the other day they had like this twenty
Speaker 1: dollars like tiny little drone that works inside. It was
Speaker 1: literally like fits in the palm of your hand. So
Speaker 1: just try it. They're really really fun. So I love
Speaker 1: the fact that my kid can fly this thing so well,
Speaker 1: like he just the video that comes off of this
Speaker 1: Dji thing is just so crisp and smooth, and it's
Speaker 1: got to gimbal on it so it looks really really good.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I just tell you that because it's just fun.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, got a couple of stories I want
Speaker 1: to get through. Maybe we'll make this sort of a
Speaker 1: lightning round of stories.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Consumer Reports has an app called Permission Slip, and it
Speaker 1: will help you use state laws to your advantage to
Speaker 1: tell companies to stop selling your personal information or delete
Speaker 1: it all together. This app, again is called Permission Slip.
Speaker 1: It lets you easily request companies stop selling your data
Speaker 1: or delete your data. And you can even put this
Speaker 1: on autopilot, so if a new company comes into their database,
Speaker 1: that they can work with, they will ask them to
Speaker 1: get rid of it. They work with about one hundred
Speaker 1: different companies, whether it's a big retailer or whether it's
Speaker 1: one of these data collection companies that just collects a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of data on us. They will make the
Speaker 1: opt out process a lot easier. Again, this is from
Speaker 1: Consumer It's called permission Slip. It was recently updated and
Speaker 1: I have not tried this personally, but I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people have and.
Speaker 2: They've seemed to have good responses.
Speaker 1: But I think these companies have up to a certain
Speaker 1: amount of time to get back to you to let
Speaker 1: you know if they've deleted your info. But anyway, check
Speaker 1: it out Permission Slip from Consumer Reports. It is free,
Speaker 1: there's no subscription required. Apple this week introduced a new
Speaker 1: lower cost Apple pencil for the iPad. This is a
Speaker 1: seventy nine dollars Apple pencil that will work with all
Speaker 1: iPads that have a USB C port. So there are
Speaker 1: now three different Apple pencil models. There is the Apple
Speaker 1: Pencil first generation, the Apple Pencil second Generation, and now
Speaker 1: the Apple Pencil Usb C. This one sits in the
Speaker 1: middle of these two based on price and features. I
Speaker 1: believe or maybe it's Actually it's the cheapest. It's seventy
Speaker 1: nine dollars, so it's pretty inexpensive. I mean still expensive
Speaker 1: if you ask me for a pencil, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's an iPad, it's an Apple pens so it's going
Speaker 1: to be expensive. This Apple pencil has a few features
Speaker 1: that are new and a few features that are not there.
Speaker 1: So it charges via USBC. It magnetically attaches to the
Speaker 1: side of compatible iPads, but it does not charge like
Speaker 1: the us This is so confusing. But the Apple pencil
Speaker 1: Generation two charges magnetically on the side of the iPad.
Speaker 1: This one will connect, but it will not charge. Also,
Speaker 1: it does not have pressure sensitivity, so if you want
Speaker 1: to make like a thicker line by pressing harder on
Speaker 1: the Apple pencil on the screen, it will not do that.
Speaker 2: The second generation does.
Speaker 1: So this is so complicated that Apple actually has a
Speaker 1: matrix on their website about the three Apple pencils you
Speaker 1: can choose. So they've got the first gen, the USBC,
Speaker 1: and the second gen. And you can't get this one
Speaker 1: in grave for.
Speaker 2: Free for some reason. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: But again, new Apple pencil, just be careful when you
Speaker 1: buy the Apple pencil because you need to get one
Speaker 1: that works with your iPad. And I would probably wreck
Speaker 1: going to an Apple store and making sure you know
Speaker 1: the model number of your iPad. And you can find
Speaker 1: that by going into settings on your iPad and then
Speaker 1: tapping settings General about and it will give you the
Speaker 1: model name. And that same thing goes for your iPhone.
Speaker 1: I ask people all the time, Hey, which iPhone do
Speaker 1: you have? I don't know, it's just an iPhone. Well
Speaker 1: look in the settings.
Speaker 2: Let me know. You probably heard about this story.
Speaker 1: T Mobile raising prices for some unlimited plans, but you
Speaker 1: can opt out. So if customers are on one of
Speaker 1: these old plans, the T Mobile one Simple Choice Magenta
Speaker 1: Magenta fifty five plus, they are moving these folks to
Speaker 1: a new unlimited plan, which happens to be about ten
Speaker 1: dollars more per month. Now this has started on October seventeenth.
Speaker 1: So and here's the thing. This was such a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's got so many headlines that T Mobile had to
Speaker 1: come out and say, ho, hold on, hold on, hold on, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's not what you think.
Speaker 2: This was a test.
Speaker 1: This was not something we're doing for everyone. And so
Speaker 1: they can out with a like a whole explainer, and
Speaker 1: they said, Look, here's what they said. I want to
Speaker 1: make it clear that the test hasn't actually yet launched.
Speaker 1: When it does, we will reach out to a small
Speaker 1: subset of customers who are on older rate plans, some
Speaker 1: up to a decade old, to let them know they
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to move from their existing plans to new,
Speaker 1: better plans that offer more features and more value relative
Speaker 1: to what they have. None of this has happened yet,
Speaker 1: but in the near future, eligible customers will get a
Speaker 1: text and or an email from us before anything changes
Speaker 1: on their account. All of them will be given the
Speaker 1: option to stay on their current plan or a similar
Speaker 1: plan if they choose so. Again, T Mobile will be
Speaker 1: changing things, but it's not for everyone and it's not
Speaker 1: an immediate thing, so just be on the lookout. If
Speaker 1: they do email you, you can opt out of that
Speaker 1: new plan. But if you have a plan that's ten
Speaker 1: years old, you might get some new benefits from a
Speaker 1: more expensive plan. IRS is going to do a direct
Speaker 1: file pilot program for the twenty twenty four tax season,
Speaker 1: so eligible taxpayers in thirteen states will be able to
Speaker 1: file taxes directly with the IRS.
Speaker 2: For free.
Speaker 1: The goal is to test the feasibility of this and
Speaker 1: to identify, you know, sort of any challenges before they
Speaker 1: launch this wider. You know, for the whole US. This
Speaker 1: is pretty limited. They're only in thirteen states. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I think California, Arizona, Massachusetts, New York are part of these.
Speaker 1: You can see the full list on the IRS website.
Speaker 1: It's for people with simple tax situations, so you know,
Speaker 1: basic things like a W two. Maybe you have some
Speaker 1: extra income through you know, interest in things like that.
Speaker 1: But it's very it's for simple tax situations. This is
Speaker 1: not for complex tax situations. But again there will be
Speaker 1: and it's not for everyone. Not everyone's going to have
Speaker 1: the option to do this, but you may see that
Speaker 1: you will have the option.
Speaker 2: You might get something in the mail that says.
Speaker 1: Hey, you're eligible to do this IRS direct file, which
Speaker 1: is free. Now it's supposed to be a questionnaire style
Speaker 1: form that's supposed to be easy to fill out all
Speaker 1: by yourself. Now you might be saying, rich, what's difference
Speaker 1: between this and something like TurboTax. Well, yes, there is
Speaker 1: a free file program through some of the tax providers,
Speaker 1: but that goes through a third party like TurboTax or
Speaker 1: you know, into it whatever. This is directly with the IRS,
Speaker 1: so they're basically starting their own tax filing service on
Speaker 1: their website. I guess the way I would think about
Speaker 1: this is if you just went and downloaded the tax
Speaker 1: forms and filled them out manually, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the same thing, except you're doing it now through the
Speaker 1: IRS website. So that is what's happening with the IRS.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I think about this. I think
Speaker 1: that taxes are very complicated. I think that if you
Speaker 1: have a very simple tax situation and you go on
Speaker 1: something like TurboTax, and there were, by the way, big
Speaker 1: lawsuits about this because even though they offer a free
Speaker 1: filing program, they hit it from people so that they
Speaker 1: didn't actually find it and it would be really tough,
Speaker 1: and they would just pay fifty bucks to file their
Speaker 1: taxes even though they could do it for free.
Speaker 2: So the fact that the IRS.
Speaker 1: Is going to make this easy simple, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there that just have one W two
Speaker 1: and maybe nothing else and they just want to file
Speaker 1: their taxes in two minutes done.
Speaker 2: You can do it through the website.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what the results are of this pilot,
Speaker 1: but uh, it's probably a good thing that they're doing it.
Speaker 1: I think taxes should be simplified in general. They're just way, way,
Speaker 1: way too complicated. People pay a lot of money to
Speaker 1: a lot of people to do their taxes, and that's
Speaker 1: great if you have a complex tax situation. But if
Speaker 1: you have a simple tax situation and you're paying money
Speaker 1: to the government, and I'm not going to get into
Speaker 1: the whole you know, that whole side of things, but
Speaker 1: you know it should be easy to give your money
Speaker 1: to this unknown mass of anyway, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here at Triple eight rich
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Speaker 1: four one zero one. Coming up on the show, we're
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Let's go to Tatiana
Speaker 1: in Banning, California, Line one, Tatiana your own with Rich Hi.
Speaker 11: Well, I was calling about her about YouTube. You know,
Speaker 11: I wonder if you know, if you could help me.
Speaker 11: I have a prime membership with YouTube, and it's worked
Speaker 11: fine until last week and the last few days, I
Speaker 11: keep receiving all those you know, notification that I have
Speaker 11: a blockers I have either to unblock or to switch
Speaker 11: to Prime membership, and I already have Prime membership, and
Speaker 11: I keep telling them sort of, and they said, report
Speaker 11: the issue if it's not correct, and I keep reporting that, Hello,
Speaker 11: I am a pro, I have Prime membership, and you
Speaker 11: keep blocking me because sometimes they block and block, and
Speaker 11: yesterday I was not able to watch you tube at
Speaker 11: all and not that I you know, but plinty is
Speaker 11: that why should I? You know, I have my Prime
Speaker 11: membership and the worst thing is to reach anybody on
Speaker 11: YouTube by a phone is not possible. They offer you
Speaker 11: chat and the chat, you know, I tell him, Okay,
Speaker 11: I have Trime membership. Why you are you want me
Speaker 11: to switch to Prime if I already have fun and
Speaker 11: you are blocking me? And she says you have to
Speaker 11: remove ad blocks, but okay, I show them up. You
Speaker 11: know that's what you understand?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: It is so a couple of things happening here. So
Speaker 1: number one, uh, you're referring to YouTube prime membership. So
Speaker 1: Amazon offers a prime membership. So if you have an
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime membership, that does not give you access to YouTube,
Speaker 1: you know, without ads. So that's number one. So it
Speaker 1: is a separate membership. So if you are talking about YouTube,
Speaker 1: what it's called is YouTube Premium. When it first was
Speaker 1: introduced a couple of years ago, it was called YouTube read.
Speaker 1: They have changed the name to YouTube Premium. And the
Speaker 1: way that you can check if you have YouTube Premium
Speaker 1: if you are paying, I believe I pay twenty two
Speaker 1: to ninety nine a month.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much.
Speaker 1: I think it's fifteen ninety nine a month for the
Speaker 1: standard I've got the family plan, but let's see the
Speaker 1: standard plan individuals. Yeah, thirteen ninety nine a month. Family
Speaker 1: is twenty two ninety nine a month. So you can
Speaker 1: check to see if you are on a YouTube Premium
Speaker 1: plan which gives you YouTube and YouTube music ad free
Speaker 1: offline and in the background. You can go to YouTube
Speaker 1: dot com slash Premium and when I go to that page,
Speaker 1: it says you have YouTube Premium managed.
Speaker 2: So that's the first thing, Tatiana.
Speaker 1: If you don't see that when you go to that website,
Speaker 1: you don't have YouTube Premium. Now, the second way to
Speaker 1: check is to go to YouTube dot com and in
Speaker 1: the left hand corner, in the upper left hand corner,
Speaker 1: your YouTube icon changes from YouTube to a little icon
Speaker 1: of the YouTube.
Speaker 2: Screen and it says premium. So that's number one.
Speaker 1: We just need to make sure that you're actually referring
Speaker 1: to what you have. If you have Amazon Prime, that
Speaker 1: does not give you access to YouTube Premium. Now the
Speaker 1: second part of what you're talking about, the ad blocker.
Speaker 1: YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers
Speaker 1: to get rid of ads on YouTube. Why because YouTube
Speaker 1: and Google make a whole lot of money on serving
Speaker 1: up ads during YouTube videos, and in the past people
Speaker 1: were able to get around some of those ads by
Speaker 1: putting an ad blocker on their computer. Well, YouTube does
Speaker 1: not like that, so they are cracking down, not on everyone,
Speaker 1: not in every instance, not on every time, but they
Speaker 1: are cracking down on some of the use of ad
Speaker 1: blockers on YouTube. So if you do have an ad
Speaker 1: blocker on your system and you're trying to access YouTube,
Speaker 1: you will have to pause that ad blocker, and you
Speaker 1: can do that by tapping your ad blocker, and usually
Speaker 1: you can what's called allow list the website, so you
Speaker 1: can say do not use this ad blocker on the
Speaker 1: YouTube dot com website because it will not function properly.
Speaker 1: And in general, if you're using an ad blocker on
Speaker 1: your computer, you can disable that for a website. If
Speaker 1: a website you visit is not working or it feels
Speaker 1: a little wonky, then it's probably your ad blocker that
Speaker 1: is interfering. But Tatiana, in response to your YouTube, when
Speaker 1: you said about the customer service getting someone on chat,
Speaker 1: you're right, it is tough to get someone on the phone.
Speaker 1: But I do find that the YouTube. I had to
Speaker 1: use them the other day for customer service, I did
Speaker 1: find that they were actually pretty good. But yes, you
Speaker 1: do have to chat with them, and you can go
Speaker 1: and they try to they try to evade your chat too,
Speaker 1: like they do anything to make you not chat. But
Speaker 1: eventually you will be able to get them if you
Speaker 1: keep just saying I want to talk to a representative,
Speaker 1: like if they ask you questions on the website, it
Speaker 1: says like, oh, can we help you with this, and
Speaker 1: they try to give you a help page, just keep
Speaker 1: saying like no, no, no, like click down, say this
Speaker 1: did not help me, this did not help me, this
Speaker 1: did not help me, And that will get you to
Speaker 1: the chat person. But yeah, that's the way these websites
Speaker 1: work nowadays. You've got to do something, you got to
Speaker 1: do it all through chat, just because that's the way
Speaker 1: they want you to do it. Thanks for the call today, Tatiana.
Speaker 1: Before we go to our next interview after the break,
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you about this app. It's
Speaker 1: called Google Magnifier. So Google has launched a magnifier app
Speaker 1: for low vision users. So if you have a Pixel phone,
Speaker 1: go to the Google Play Store and download a new
Speaker 1: app called Magnifier, and make sure it's the one from Google,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure there's going to be some others in there.
Speaker 1: But this will let you use it as a user phone,
Speaker 1: as a magnifying glass. You can zoom in on things
Speaker 1: using your camera. You can read small text menus, signs
Speaker 1: from afar. And because it's for people with low vision,
Speaker 1: it's got different adjustments color filters, brightness contrasts. You can
Speaker 1: better see things no matter what your level of eyesight is.
Speaker 2: So this really.
Speaker 1: Aims to help people with low vision in their everyday tasks. Again,
Speaker 1: Google launch a new app called Magnifier. It is only
Speaker 1: available for the Pixel phones. I don't know why they
Speaker 1: did that. Google, please open this up to all Android phones.
Speaker 1: You say, there's twelve million Americans that have vision impairment,
Speaker 1: so please let's help them. Let's open this up to everyone,
Speaker 1: not just pixel users. Again, Google Magnifier app for Pixel users. Now,
Speaker 1: Apple has a similar feature on their phone on the iPhone.
Speaker 2: It's built in. It's called Magnifier.
Speaker 1: You're listening to rich on Tech. Coming up, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Michael Sino, a Google cyber security expert,
Speaker 1: with tips on how to protect you online.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. Recently
Speaker 1: I chatted with Michael Sino, Google cybersecurity expert about cybersecurity
Speaker 1: tips and tools. He dropped a surprising fact that last
Speaker 1: year scammers made two hundred and ten million dollars off
Speaker 1: of people under twenty. Yeah, surprising. So I started by
Speaker 1: asking him, what is google stance on security?
Speaker 10: Security at Google is one of our primary concerns. We
Speaker 10: take it extremely seriously given our mission to organize the
Speaker 10: world's data. That you know, it's also there to protect
Speaker 10: the world's data.
Speaker 1: Now you're saying you've seen a rise in young people
Speaker 1: falling for online scams. Why do you think this generation
Speaker 1: is more susceptible to these scams when you would think
Speaker 1: the opposite would be the case.
Speaker 10: I think it's a matter of exposure. Young people are
Speaker 10: spending more and more time online in different apps in
Speaker 10: different ways, and scammers are honestly adjusting to learn their
Speaker 10: habits and and and you know the trigger you know
Speaker 10: their triggers. So the technology is getting better to try
Speaker 10: to scam them, and while at the same time they're
Speaker 10: spending you know, a much larger amount of time online.
Speaker 10: And let's just say my mother, or my grandmother or
Speaker 10: even me in many cases.
Speaker 1: So what are some of the examples of the types
Speaker 1: of online scams that we're seeing target young people.
Speaker 10: Yeah, one of the biggest is still fishing, right, so
Speaker 10: the oldie but a goody, you know. Nine of data
Speaker 10: breaches start with fishing, you know, from from small from
Speaker 10: you know, small things. Where's it's one person that give
Speaker 10: out their credit card number two large companies getting getting
Speaker 10: hacked via phishing attempts, and they're getting harder and harder
Speaker 10: to detect because people, the people perpetrating these scams are
Speaker 10: getting smarter about how they do it. The wording is
Speaker 10: getting better because in many cases it was easy in
Speaker 10: the past to spot them because the wording would be off.
Speaker 10: If it was in English, it wouldn't it would just
Speaker 10: look incorrect. The fhreezing would be a correct But with
Speaker 10: the rise of AI and a number of other tools,
Speaker 10: it's starting to look you know, much more legitimate and
Speaker 10: harder to detect. But you know, in many cases, you know,
Speaker 10: if you're using Gmail, uh, you know, we block one
Speaker 10: hundred million fishing attempts a day, so it's like ninety
Speaker 10: nine percent of them, but some still slip through. So
Speaker 10: if if if you're not sure of the link, this
Speaker 10: is what I tell both my daughters, don't click it,
Speaker 10: take a look. If it's from a business, make sure
Speaker 10: that you call the business if you're unsure to see
Speaker 10: if this is legitimate, or if it's someone trying to
Speaker 10: get money from you or get your personal information. You know,
Speaker 10: the biggest tip is, I don't give out anything unless
Speaker 10: you know exactly who you're talking to. Right, if you're
Speaker 10: talking to your bank, right, if you're talking to a
Speaker 10: business that you've engaged with before, great, But if you're
Speaker 10: not sure, don't do it. And you know, if if
Speaker 10: an offer you get looks too good to be true,
Speaker 10: like you know, a device for a dollar, or you
Speaker 10: know you can get free headphones, that is most likely
Speaker 10: going to be not a legitimate offer, so don't fall
Speaker 10: for it.
Speaker 1: So a lot of this is education, just being aware
Speaker 1: of the various types of scams, the various methods that
Speaker 1: scam artists use. It used to be back in the
Speaker 1: day we were worried about viruses infecting our devices. I
Speaker 1: always tell people these days, it's really you against the
Speaker 1: scammers that that are trying to send you these links
Speaker 1: and different things that try to trick you.
Speaker 10: It's true, and in many cases one can lead to
Speaker 10: the other. You'll get an email that says click this link,
Speaker 10: and the link isn't there to harvest your data, but
Speaker 10: it's there to get you to install a virus or
Speaker 10: or malware onto your machine. That is, you know, that's
Speaker 10: a whole you know, a whole whole. Other problem is
Speaker 10: some of these links will then be you know, persist
Speaker 10: on your machine and harvest data or or take data
Speaker 10: off off of your machine. So it is a combination
Speaker 10: of viruses combined with phishing and other other attempts.
Speaker 1: So October is cybersecurity awareness month, What what is mean
Speaker 1: exactly and what do you think people should do to
Speaker 1: not celebrate but to honor this, you know, this month
Speaker 1: and and really educate themselves about this stuff.
Speaker 10: You know to me cybersecurity, whereas a month is a
Speaker 10: good opportunity for everybody to take stock of how how
Speaker 10: they behave online and what they use online. And one
Speaker 10: of the biggest things is evaluating your passwords. In May,
Speaker 10: we announced that we are deploying what's called now pass
Speaker 10: keys to Google accounts and it's a much easier way
Speaker 10: to log in. All you need to use it. It's
Speaker 10: the same way you would log into your computer with
Speaker 10: a face scan or a fingerprint or a pin code,
Speaker 10: and it can be linked to not only your Google account,
Speaker 10: but we've partnered with Uber and Hope depot in a
Speaker 10: number of others and it's it's a much more you know,
Speaker 10: a much more secure way and you don't have to
Speaker 10: give out any information. But we realize that not everybody's
Speaker 10: there yet, So the next piece is looking at your
Speaker 10: passwords and ensuring that you use a complex password and
Speaker 10: you don't use the same passwords everywhere, so you know,
Speaker 10: in that case, using a password manager like Google Password
Speaker 10: manager will help generate the passwords for you and store
Speaker 10: them and then keep them on all of your devices
Speaker 10: so that you don't you don't really have to enter anything.
Speaker 10: It will enter it for you, and it will keep
Speaker 10: them different. So your your your bank password is different
Speaker 10: from your other bank password, which is different than an
Speaker 10: online retailer password. So in case one gets compromised, they
Speaker 10: don't they can't log into any of the other accounts.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to talk about pass keys in a moment.
Speaker 2: I want to go back to that.
Speaker 1: But this password manager idea. I've been a big advocate
Speaker 1: of password managers for a long time, but still many
Speaker 1: many people are hesitant to use them because they see
Speaker 1: them as very complicated, and they also get scared when
Speaker 1: they see those complex passwords that they are generating, and
Speaker 1: they think, there's no way I'll ever remember that. And
Speaker 1: if I can't remember it, I'm going to be locked
Speaker 1: out of my account. So can you explain in a
Speaker 1: little bit more detail how those password managers work and
Speaker 1: how they get you back into your accounts.
Speaker 2: You know, automatically.
Speaker 10: Sure each password manager, you know, whether it's Google password manager,
Speaker 10: I know other stores your passwords securely in Google's case
Speaker 10: on our servers, and in many cases, there's no need
Speaker 10: for you to remember the individual password for the site
Speaker 10: because it will it will auto fill it. Like I
Speaker 10: can honestly say, I don't know most of my bank
Speaker 10: passwords by heart. They're stored there. They're storage securely, they're encrypted,
Speaker 10: and if you have multiple devices like a phone and
Speaker 10: a computer, it will replicate across both of them, so
Speaker 10: it will store them there, so wherever you are and
Speaker 10: whatever you're logging in on, it can auto fill them
Speaker 10: for you. On top of that, you know, on top
Speaker 10: of passwords, Two step verification is another good option to
Speaker 10: ensure even if your password does get compromised, there's a
Speaker 10: second factor of authorization and authentication to get into your account.
Speaker 2: On the past keys.
Speaker 1: If I lose the device that is my past key,
Speaker 1: can I use multiple devices to actually authenticate my logins
Speaker 1: or is it tied to just one device.
Speaker 10: It depends on how you set it up so multiple
Speaker 10: it can be replicated across multiple devices. But yeah, so
Speaker 10: you can also recover your account. In many cases it would,
Speaker 10: it would take multiple steps and it's not the easiest process,
Speaker 10: but that's for the for the safety, for your safety,
Speaker 10: so accounts can be recovered from a Google perspective, but yes,
Speaker 10: they can be used on multiple devices.
Speaker 1: Okay, where can people go to find more information about
Speaker 1: all of these online safety resources.
Speaker 10: You can look at safety dot Google dot com and
Speaker 10: also FamilyLink dot Google dot com for tips on securing
Speaker 10: your children and your family.
Speaker 1: Many times people will tell me, Rich, I don't really
Speaker 1: need to do this because it's they're not targeting me,
Speaker 1: They're not trying to come after what do I have?
Speaker 2: What do you say to that?
Speaker 10: What we have is our data, right, are our aims,
Speaker 10: our social security numbers, our bank accounts. So they're you know,
Speaker 10: I look at it as they're they're targeting everybody because
Speaker 10: you never know when someone's going to come trying to
Speaker 10: break into your bank account to take your money. But yeah,
Speaker 10: it's it's it's it's extremely common. Billions and millions of
Speaker 10: dollars go out the window from people every you know,
Speaker 10: every year on credit card fraud, bank fraud, all from
Speaker 10: you know, accidentally clicking the wrong link and giving the
Speaker 10: wrong person their information.
Speaker 1: Once again, that was Michael Sino, director of Security Incident
Speaker 1: Response at Google. You can go to the website safety
Speaker 1: dot Google dot com. For more information on pass keys.
Speaker 1: You can also see safety tips and do a security
Speaker 1: check up on your Google account and review your privacy settings.
Speaker 1: You are listening to Rich on Tech, give me a call.
Speaker 1: It's triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. And this is the part of the show
Speaker 1: where I respond to your emails, your texts, your tweets,
Speaker 1: your feedback.
Speaker 2: We call it the feedback segment.
Speaker 1: And yeah, there are a lot of comments questions, so
Speaker 1: some of you send comments and questions mixed into one.
Speaker 1: So some of these will be comments, some will be questioned,
Speaker 1: some will be answers. Let me just make sure I
Speaker 1: went through everything I wanted to get through today. That
Speaker 1: was interesting enough. Oh oh, I wanted to mention this
Speaker 1: hold on this. So Wirecutter just came out with some
Speaker 1: reviews of tabletop radios.
Speaker 2: I thought this was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So if you want to get a tabletop radio to
Speaker 1: listen to things like this show, they have a couple
Speaker 1: of top picks now. So their top pick for the
Speaker 1: tabletop radio is the san Gean WR fifteen for one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. This has a classic style, smooth controls, strong reception,
Speaker 1: and rich sound. And that is a radio that stands
Speaker 1: kind of vertically. If you want a horizontal design, the
Speaker 1: sang In WR eleven s is eighty five dollars with
Speaker 1: similar features. Now, if you just want a pure and simple,
Speaker 1: kind of classic looking radio, the Studa Baker SB two thousand,
Speaker 1: Wirecutter says it's very affordable at twenty five dollars, and
Speaker 1: it's portable. And if you want oh FM only, well, okay,
Speaker 1: if you want FM only, Victrola Houston is sixty dollars.
Speaker 1: Wirecutter said they tested the radios on things like channel reception,
Speaker 1: signal clarity, sound quality, Bluetooth range, and ease of use.
Speaker 1: Most shoppers want a radio that's attractive but has a
Speaker 1: retro design that will look nice in their home. Ease
Speaker 1: of use is also important. Sound quality is less of
Speaker 1: a concern than aesthetics for most people, and I love
Speaker 1: the sound of this. AM reception is considered a must have.
Speaker 1: So if you want a tabletop radio, those are the
Speaker 1: picks from Wirecutter. I thought that was pretty cool when
Speaker 1: I started this show. I got a classic like my
Speaker 1: mom bought me an antique classic radio.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some of these questions and
Speaker 1: feedback things. So Derek says, Hey, Rich, I sent Apple
Speaker 1: two older phones, an iPhone eight plus and an iPhone
Speaker 1: twelve Promax to replace the batteries. Both phones came back
Speaker 1: as motherboards must be replaced in order to do the
Speaker 1: battery replacement. Motherboards would be five hundred dollars a piece,
Speaker 1: battery replacement one hundred and twenty nine. I had Apple
Speaker 1: send both of them back to me without doing the repair.
Speaker 1: I've since taken them to a non official tech shop
Speaker 1: and they replaced both batteries, not the motherboards, and they
Speaker 1: work just fine.
Speaker 2: I have always trusted Apple. Now I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1: Both phones needing motherboard replacements seems fishy to me, Derek. Derek,
Speaker 1: I think what you experienced is that when Apple does repair,
Speaker 1: they have certain standards to adhere to, and so the
Speaker 1: battery probably need to be replaced, but they probably identified
Speaker 1: something in the motherboard that also needed to be replaced.
Speaker 1: Or maybe they're using a newer battery that needs a
Speaker 1: newer motherboard. I'm not sure, but that's the beauty of
Speaker 1: having options when it comes to repairs. Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure with this non official tech shop if you got
Speaker 1: any sort of warranty or you know, if this is
Speaker 1: guaranteed to work for a long period of time. But
Speaker 1: I think you were right on not spending seven hundred
Speaker 1: dollars to replace these motherboards and batteries on these devices.
Speaker 1: So the non official tech shop they replace the batteries.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was cheaper than even one twenty nine.
Speaker 1: If the phones work, they work, and so good for you.
Speaker 1: But it's nice to have options. I think the official
Speaker 1: repairs bring with them a little bit more of an
Speaker 1: official warranty and things like that, so that's probably the
Speaker 1: differentiation there. Kevin says, good morning, Rich. I've been listening
Speaker 1: to your show for many years and I look forward
Speaker 1: to it every week.
Speaker 2: We live in a rural area outside of Houston.
Speaker 1: We've had horrible internet for the past twenty years, and
Speaker 1: we're finally blessed with Starlink. I want to bypass bypass
Speaker 1: the starlink router and connect one that will accommodate a
Speaker 1: fairly large home. Am I better off buying a router
Speaker 1: out of the box or using something like an access point?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I go okay, could you possibly
Speaker 1: let me know what router you'd recommend that works best
Speaker 1: with starlink. I know enough about tech to get in trouble,
Speaker 1: but I can't easily always get out. Thanks for taking
Speaker 1: the time to read this. Any help would be great,
Speaker 1: Kevin Kevin, I would recommend yeah, bypassing the starlink router
Speaker 1: and just using something like ero E E r O
Speaker 1: or something like Villo v I l O or Netgear
Speaker 1: orb O r B. I those are mesh networks. I
Speaker 1: think any of those will work. You have a big house,
Speaker 1: you'll probably need two to three access points to cover
Speaker 1: your home. And if you want to do something that's
Speaker 1: like outside, like if you have a pool or something,
Speaker 1: you might I think the neck gear has the ORB
Speaker 1: has like an outdoor access point as well. Bill says,
Speaker 1: didn't know if you're following this or how important it
Speaker 1: is to most people, but this was recently announced by Google,
Speaker 1: and he sent a link that said Google Podcasts is
Speaker 1: going to be discontinued and switching to YouTube music app.
Speaker 1: Bill says, for me, I use the Google podcast app
Speaker 1: all the time. I'm not using YouTube very often. I
Speaker 1: will be switching everything to Amazon Music, to which I subscribe.
Speaker 1: It works well for me, and some of the subscribe
Speaker 1: podcasts are ad free with Amazon.
Speaker 2: Your podcast is number one for me anyway.
Speaker 1: Thanks for continuing to provide such great information, Bill, Bill. Yes,
Speaker 1: Google podcast is going away. It's going to be shifted
Speaker 1: to YouTube Music. But I'll be honest, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people with podcasts. It's either Apple Podcasts or
Speaker 1: Spotify or iHeartRadio app or pocket casts. Those are the
Speaker 1: big podcast apps. I don't think Google podcasts ever really
Speaker 1: took off in a big way.
Speaker 2: And it's Google.
Speaker 1: They lose attention very easily, so when they see people
Speaker 1: aren't using that app, they say, oh, never mind, we'll
Speaker 1: just mix this into YouTube music. It also makes YouTube
Speaker 1: music a little stickier because now people are checking it
Speaker 1: on a daily basis to get their favorite podcasts, and
Speaker 1: then maybe they're playing the music or they want to
Speaker 1: subscribe or something like that.
Speaker 2: But there you go. Randall says Rich. I enjoy your
Speaker 2: radio program on KFI.
Speaker 1: I recently bought an inexpensive smart watch eighty bucks through Amazon.
Speaker 1: Has all the features whether I need them or not.
Speaker 1: There appear to be dozens of smart watches who advertise
Speaker 1: on Amazon. They all have the same features. My wife
Speaker 1: bought an Apple smart watch. Her cost three hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty nine dollars. I know it's a rhetorical question, but
Speaker 1: what did my wife get with her Apple watch that
Speaker 1: I did not. I haven't compared the two watches, but
Speaker 1: I bet we'll have some of the same functions.
Speaker 2: Randal.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, I've tested some of these cheapy Apple
Speaker 1: or you know watches on Amazon, and yeah, they do
Speaker 1: the basics, they do them just fine. But the difference
Speaker 1: is you're getting the ecosystem, you're getting the support. You're
Speaker 1: obviously paying a little higher price tag because it's an
Speaker 1: Apple device. And yes, there are some things that the
Speaker 1: Apple want we'll be able to do, specifically with apps
Speaker 1: that you will not be able to get on your
Speaker 1: smart watch. But the bottom line, no matter what is
Speaker 1: if it works for you, that's all that matters. If
Speaker 1: you enjoy this smart watch that you bought at this
Speaker 1: smart price, that is absolutely fine.
Speaker 2: Enjoy it. Jamie says.
Speaker 1: I'd like to say how thankful I am for Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro with all his guidance in technology.
Speaker 2: He's one of the main reasons I watch KTLA.
Speaker 1: Rich has a good energy and advice, and I hope
Speaker 1: we will watch him for a long time. Thank you, Rich, Jamie.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you Jamie. Uh, that's not from my mom.
Speaker 1: That's from Jamie. Thanks for the email. I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: Ken says, Hey, Rich, a few months ago, you were
Speaker 1: remarking about several different note taking apps. I'm curious, did
Speaker 1: you ever eventually choose one? If so, which one? If
Speaker 1: you can believe it, Ken, after testing every single note
Speaker 1: app for weeks on end, Joplin, Obsidian, Notion, every single
Speaker 1: little app you can imagine out there, I went back
Speaker 1: to ever Note. I will tell you why, just like
Speaker 1: I said for the last email. If it works for you,
Speaker 1: that's all that matters. Evernote does exactly what I need. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's expensive. It's one hundred bucks for the year, and
Speaker 1: that is not ideal. One hundred and thirty dollars I
Speaker 1: think I paid. But it does what I need and
Speaker 1: I'm using it for business. I use it to produce
Speaker 1: this entire show. You gotta have something that works for you.
Speaker 1: If you're doing something, you need the tools that are
Speaker 1: right for the job. Ever Note works for me. Maybe
Speaker 1: that'll change in the future, but I will say notion
Speaker 1: was a very close second to what I needed. It
Speaker 1: just didn't work in the exact kind of thing I wanted.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's it. That's gonna do it for this
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