Speaker 1: Instagram adds a new way to connect, but its map
Speaker 1: feature has people worried about privacy. A big new version
Speaker 1: of chatchybt is here and it's smarter than ever. Hulu
Speaker 1: is going away kind of sort of plus your tech
Speaker 1: questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich dmiro and this
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Speaker 1: this week Adam Dawd. He is a freelance technology writer.
Speaker 1: He's always testing something new. He's gonna talk to us
Speaker 1: about some of the latest gadgets he's been trying out,
Speaker 1: including lawnmowers. These robotic lawnmowers everyone seems to be talking about.
Speaker 2: And we have the CEO of US Mobile.
Speaker 1: This is a great cell phone service he's going to
Speaker 1: talk about how you can get better coverage and save money.
Speaker 1: And they've also got this cool feature that can get
Speaker 1: you two networks at once. Well, welcome to you, Welcome
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Speaker 1: so we don't live stream the show on TV or
Speaker 1: on the internet, but we do record the show and
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Speaker 1: Tech Weekly. It airs on KTLA Plus. So if you're
Speaker 1: watching there, thanks for tuning in there. Thanks for tuning
Speaker 1: in over the radio the podcast, however you watch or listen,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. This week, it is the last week
Speaker 1: of summer in the DeMuro household, which I cannot believe.
Speaker 1: Summer went very fast. Kids are going back to school,
Speaker 1: and you know how tough it is over the summer
Speaker 1: to keep kids entertained. They went to camp, but you know,
Speaker 1: the default was always screen time. And so I did
Speaker 1: something interesting this week. I ordered some kites on Amazon. Yes, kites,
Speaker 1: the old school thing that you fly, you know, go
Speaker 1: fly a kite. And I came home from work one
Speaker 1: day and I said to the kids you know who
Speaker 1: were on their screens, and said, hey, we're going to
Speaker 1: fly some kites.
Speaker 2: Let's go, And they're like, I don't want to go
Speaker 2: to as a note, we're going.
Speaker 1: So we grabbed some sandwiches. My mom is in town,
Speaker 1: so we grabbed her. We went to the park and
Speaker 1: we put together these kites. I had no idea I'd
Speaker 1: not flown a kite in like, you know, thirty years
Speaker 1: or something. Put them together and I didn't know what
Speaker 1: to expect. But all of a sudden, we're putting these
Speaker 1: kites together, We're getting them in the sky, and it
Speaker 1: was great. Oh my gosh, we had It's such a
Speaker 1: good time flying these kites, figuring out how to get
Speaker 1: them up into the air. So my advice to you,
Speaker 1: order some kites, go go fly some kites with your kids.
Speaker 1: It's it's just such a good reminder that like the
Speaker 1: simplest things in life are sometimes just so much fun.
Speaker 1: Like that cost me all of like twenty dollars minus
Speaker 1: the sandwiches, which costs a little bit more.
Speaker 2: But we had a great time.
Speaker 1: My kids, who were, you know, complaining about it at
Speaker 1: the beginning, by the end we're like, let me fly again,
Speaker 1: let me fly again. So we had a great time
Speaker 1: doing that. I talked that we got some sandwiches on
Speaker 1: the way. This was another thing we tried this week,
Speaker 1: ordering discounted gift cards online. So we were going to
Speaker 1: this place, you know, the sub sandwich place Jersey Mikes.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard of it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I wonder if they sell a discounted gift card, you know,
Speaker 1: because some places never have a discount, and this is
Speaker 1: one of them. And so I was like, I bet
Speaker 1: you can buy a gift card online and then use
Speaker 1: it on the app. And so we found this website.
Speaker 1: It was called Let's See Where is It card, cash
Speaker 1: Card cash Dot, and you go on there, you buy
Speaker 1: your gift card at a discount, and basically it's other
Speaker 1: people that have this gift card that don't want it,
Speaker 1: and they sell it at a discount to this website,
Speaker 1: and then the website sells it for a little bit
Speaker 1: more to you. And so I bought like an eighty
Speaker 1: dollars gift card for like sixty five bucks, and then
Speaker 1: we used it to order our food, and so we
Speaker 1: saved like fifteen to twenty percent just by doing something
Speaker 1: that took about two seconds. So I thought that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And then I went through all the gift
Speaker 1: cards that I had laying around the house and I
Speaker 1: sold them to card Cash, So you know, yes, you
Speaker 1: get much less than the face value. But this one
Speaker 1: gift card I literally had sitting in my home for
Speaker 1: fifteen years. It was a fifty dollars gift card and
Speaker 1: so it didn't expire. The value was still there, and
Speaker 1: I sold it for like, I know, it was twenty
Speaker 1: seven dollars, which is half, but if I went to
Speaker 1: the restaurant to use that gift card, it probably would
Speaker 1: have cost me a couple hundred dollars, right because it
Speaker 1: was for like a nice restaurant. So I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll just take the twenty seven dollars
Speaker 1: instead of the fifty. And I literally, I've I've had
Speaker 1: that gift card sitting in my house for so long.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds silly to do that, but clearly
Speaker 1: people do it because there's a lot of gift cards
Speaker 1: on that website that's card Cash. There's other websites similar
Speaker 1: to that, like I think Raise is the other one.
Speaker 1: They might have changed their name to Gift Card Exchange.
Speaker 2: So we did that.
Speaker 1: The other thing we did this we got new furniture
Speaker 1: for the kids this week before the new school year.
Speaker 1: You know, they had these old beds and things, and
Speaker 1: so typically I would just put their old furniture out
Speaker 1: by the curb, wait a day and hopefully someone takes it.
Speaker 1: If not, schedule the trash to pick it up. My kid,
Speaker 1: my oldest kid, was like, Dad, we got to put
Speaker 1: these things on offer up. I said, nobody wants to
Speaker 1: buy these old dressers. He said, yes, they will.
Speaker 2: I will do it. I said, all right, you do it,
Speaker 2: and I'll split the money with you if it works out.
Speaker 1: So he took the pictures, he wrote the listings, he
Speaker 1: put it on offer up using my phone, and I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. Within seconds, these messages just start coming in like, hey,
Speaker 1: is this available?
Speaker 2: Is this available? Where are you? Is this available? I
Speaker 2: was like what?
Speaker 1: And you know, they were not expensive, like maybe fifty
Speaker 1: bucks each, And so finally we got someone. He's like,
Speaker 1: I will be there at this time and I'll pay
Speaker 1: the hundred bucks in cash for both of them. It
Speaker 1: was like all right, you know, like the one is
Speaker 1: broken this and that. He's like, no, it's fine, I
Speaker 1: do this all the time. So sure enough, this guy
Speaker 1: shows up. He's got to pick up truck. He picks
Speaker 1: up the two dressers and I said, what do you
Speaker 1: do with these? Do you like refurbish them and resell them?
Speaker 1: He goes, no, I just kind of fix them up
Speaker 1: and we rent them out for homestaging. I was like, brilliant.
Speaker 1: So again, I mean, we've heard the old adage one
Speaker 1: man's treasure, one man's trash, another man's treasure. I mean
Speaker 1: it's so true, and these apps lets you kind of
Speaker 1: tap into this world that has never been available before. Sure,
Speaker 1: you could have a garage sale, it takes a lot
Speaker 1: of effort, but we sold this within like a couple hours,
Speaker 1: and it really was awesome. I gave my kid half
Speaker 1: of it. We ended up selling their old bed as well.
Speaker 1: And that's like a little bit longer. The person was.
Speaker 1: They said they'd be there a certain time, they didn't.
Speaker 1: We ended up waiting till like the night time, and
Speaker 1: the person finally showed up. But they and then they
Speaker 1: show up in this tiny car. I'm like, there is
Speaker 1: no way you're fitting this giant bed in this car.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they did it, but they got
Speaker 1: it all in there and they got and that was
Speaker 1: another you know, one hundred dollars for that so again,
Speaker 1: think of these things offer up the main thing you
Speaker 1: have to think about when you're selling this stuff like Facebook, Marketplace, whatever.
Speaker 1: You have to be aware of the scam artists. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of scams out there, so be careful with that.
Speaker 1: But you also have to have patience because there are
Speaker 1: so many messages that you're getting about this stuff that
Speaker 1: you really have to have patience in answering those questions.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I thought that was pretty cool. Now the
Speaker 1: big news of the week Instagram. They've got this new
Speaker 1: feature that people are just going nuts over because they're
Speaker 1: worried that Instagram is sharing their location. It's this new
Speaker 1: maps feature that when you open up Instagram, you can
Speaker 1: see where all your friends are on a map. So
Speaker 1: people are freaking out because they said, hold on, I
Speaker 1: didn't turn this on, and I see myself on this map.
Speaker 1: So here's what happened. So Instagram made this feature smartly
Speaker 1: opt in, which means it is off by default. But
Speaker 1: here's what happened, and this is why people are freaking out.
Speaker 1: They saw themselves on the map because they had tagged
Speaker 1: one of their posts with a location. And if you
Speaker 1: do that, even if you turn this feature off or
Speaker 1: leave it off, you're still going to be showing up
Speaker 1: on that map. So here are the options for sharing
Speaker 1: this is this new Instagram maps feature. Okay, number one.
Speaker 1: The first option is the most generous. It is letting
Speaker 1: everyone see where you are that you follow, who follows
Speaker 1: you back, your quote unquote friends, Right, that's the most generous,
Speaker 1: Like pretty much anyone can see your location if they're
Speaker 1: following you that you follow back. Then you've got your
Speaker 1: close friend list, which this is the list that you
Speaker 1: might have set up. It's like the starred friends on
Speaker 1: your stories. When you share a story, you can share
Speaker 1: it widely or you can share it to just your
Speaker 1: close friends. That's the second option for sharing your location.
Speaker 1: The next option is just thesise civic people. Maybe you
Speaker 1: just want to share with your spouse or your kids
Speaker 1: or vice versa. You can make a new list that says, hey,
Speaker 1: I just want to share my location at all times
Speaker 1: with these people, and then no one at all is
Speaker 1: the default, and that's the one that a lot of
Speaker 1: people are choosing.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: If you choose to share your location, it updates every
Speaker 1: time you open the Instagram app. And so again people
Speaker 1: misunderstood this because they all of a sudden saw this
Speaker 1: map and saw themselves on it and said, wait a second,
Speaker 1: Instagram opted me in. No, it's because you went to
Speaker 1: a restaurant and you tag that location and it showed
Speaker 1: that location on the map. So you got to be
Speaker 1: aware of these things. I made a post on my
Speaker 1: Instagram at rich on Tech so that people understand this
Speaker 1: and I get it. This is the thing like this
Speaker 1: feature would be so cool if it worked, Like I
Speaker 1: would love to share my location at all times with
Speaker 1: my friends because think about it, I fly all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm always going to a new city. Let's say I
Speaker 1: go to Denver, New York City, or wherever I land.
Speaker 1: I don't know every one of the people that I
Speaker 1: know that's in that area, but it'd be cool if
Speaker 1: I landed, I open up Instagram maps and I say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jim lives here. Let's let me call up Jim and
Speaker 1: let's go grab a drink or go to dinner. You know,
Speaker 1: that would be super cool. Let's say you go to
Speaker 1: a baseball game or a concert. You say, I wonder
Speaker 1: who else I know that's here. You could open up
Speaker 1: this map and see who else is there, So it'd
Speaker 1: be really cool in theater where you are at all times,
Speaker 1: because for them, that's what their world is all about, right,
Speaker 1: meeting up with friends, making sure they're at the party
Speaker 1: on Friday night or at dinner, whatever they're doing, they
Speaker 1: want to be there. But I think with Instagram it's
Speaker 1: weird because Instagram is such a blend of public and private.
Speaker 1: It makes this feature really tricky. So you've got the
Speaker 1: closed systems like find my or Life three sixty, which
Speaker 1: you're specifically using for that sort of friend finder feature.
Speaker 1: Instagram is much more nuanced with so many different privacy settings.
Speaker 1: So anyway, if you see that setting and you don't
Speaker 1: want it, you can just keep it turned off.
Speaker 2: That's no one at all.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go your Facebook or your Instagram
Speaker 1: settings on your phone. A lot of people are saying
Speaker 1: you got to go in and revoke Instagram's ability to
Speaker 1: see your location at all. You could do that if
Speaker 1: you're really worried, but you don't have to just keep
Speaker 1: this setting off. And I put a link in directions
Speaker 1: on how to find that setting on Instagram onmind. Just
Speaker 1: go to at rich on Tech. You can find it
Speaker 1: there all right. Coming up on today's show, I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk about all kinds of great stuff, including Hulu
Speaker 1: is changing in a big way.
Speaker 2: I'll talk about that, plus your calls.
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two, four to one zero one. Give
Speaker 1: me a call if you have a question about technology.
Speaker 4: My name is Richdmuro.
Speaker 1: You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you
Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: We've got everyone here.
Speaker 1: We've got Bobo on the board, We've got Kim on
Speaker 1: phone owns, We've got you on the line.
Speaker 2: We've got emails already coming in.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: The playlist is from my mom, so direct all comments
Speaker 1: about the playlist to her Bobo.
Speaker 2: What songs do we have coming up on there? Uh?
Speaker 2: Let me see what else you got on here?
Speaker 6: Got some Fleetwood, Fleetwood, Mac, some Bruno, Mars, Aretha Franklin, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: she's she's some some Aerosmith, Okay.
Speaker 2: Eclectic eclectic? You were you were? You had a question
Speaker 2: earlier with the with the offer up, with.
Speaker 5: The offer up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you meet them at your house or did
Speaker 2: you meet them somewhere else. No, I met them at
Speaker 2: my house. So did they recognize you?
Speaker 4: They didn't.
Speaker 2: Well, you never know, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But I I you know, I kind of put on
Speaker 1: the hat with that little mustache and the glasses and
Speaker 1: I come out and I'm like okay, and I talking now.
Speaker 1: I mean, you never know, like people some you know,
Speaker 1: that's always the risk. For me like that, that is
Speaker 1: a very isolated, like because I'm on TV, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit different, like average person doesn't have to think
Speaker 1: about that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: For me, it's a little bit more like weird because yeah,
Speaker 1: there's always this chance this person comes like, hey, aren't
Speaker 1: you that guy?
Speaker 2: It happened to me, Yeah, oh it did. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I went to buy a couple buy a pair of
Speaker 6: shoes from a guy a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 6: he kept like he kept looking at me, and then
Speaker 6: when I said something, he was like I know you
Speaker 6: And I was like, no, you don't, Like I don't
Speaker 6: even live in this area. He was like, nah, your voice,
Speaker 6: you bobo, you work on a radio. I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: that's me.
Speaker 1: That's how people actually, I would say, the most come
Speaker 1: up to me is say well they I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: they know from TV, but it's always the voice. I
Speaker 1: heard you around the corner and I heard your voice,
Speaker 1: or I mean, it's just it's all kinds but.
Speaker 2: Part of the job, part of the job. But try it.
Speaker 1: Jim Jim rode in by the way, for the gift cards,
Speaker 1: he said this, this website gives all current discounts for
Speaker 1: every gift card and every site that sells discounted gift cards.
Speaker 1: It's really convenient and it seems like it's been pretty
Speaker 1: accurate every time I've used it. It's called card bear doc.
Speaker 1: And what's really neat about this it's almost like an
Speaker 1: aggregator site. So it shows you all the different gift
Speaker 1: cards and where you can get them for the discount.
Speaker 1: So like, for instance, it's funny the gift card that
Speaker 1: I sold is actually on here on the front page,
Speaker 1: and it gives you all the different places you can
Speaker 1: buy it with a different discounts. So card cash is
Speaker 1: listed GCX, card depot Cardcookiecardcenter, gift cards dot Com. I
Speaker 1: guess there's a lot of these websites that sell gift cards,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you, it only takes a couple of
Speaker 1: seconds I'm guessing if you do this a lot, there
Speaker 1: is a chance you could be burned, right, because there
Speaker 1: is some you know, there could be fraud whatever, so
Speaker 1: just be careful, you know, maybe try one or two.
Speaker 1: But I did it again with DoorDash. After the first
Speaker 1: time I did it, I was like, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: liking this because you say five to ten, especially with food,
Speaker 1: Like if you're trying to buy like a Target gift
Speaker 1: card or a best Buy Home Depot Walmart, you're not
Speaker 1: going to get a big discount because those are very
Speaker 1: very popular places. All the food places are very heavily
Speaker 1: discounted because there's a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 1: extra I guess I don't know cost in there. Like
Speaker 1: you know, you're buying a sandwich for ten dollars. It
Speaker 1: only costs them a dollar to make it, so there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of extra in there. But let's go
Speaker 1: to Maryland in Chula Vista, Maryland. You're on with Rich Hi.
Speaker 3: Rich.
Speaker 7: I have a smart TV. The brand is high Sense.
Speaker 7: We get our table through at and t u Verse.
Speaker 7: My favorite channel is Turner Classic Movies comes through just
Speaker 7: fine on the cable TV. So I also installed on
Speaker 7: my smart TV the Watch TCM app so that you
Speaker 7: can also watch excuse me, Turner classic movies through the app. Sure,
Speaker 7: and it worked just fine, and then all of a
Speaker 7: sudden one day it quit working. I couldn't figure out why.
Speaker 7: What happens is when I click on the little you
Speaker 7: know icon there on the screen, it shows watch TCM
Speaker 7: and the music comes on to introduce it, and then
Speaker 7: all of a sudden, the little white arrow thing starts
Speaker 7: spinning at the bottom and that's all it does.
Speaker 2: Okay, so nothing's happening.
Speaker 7: I tried to uninstall it and then reinstall it. I
Speaker 7: did that twice. Did not work. I tried unplugging the TV,
Speaker 7: plugging it back in, didn't work. And by the way,
Speaker 7: all my other apps do work. Did what the only
Speaker 7: one that has suddenly quit working?
Speaker 2: What type of software is this TV running?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, rich, I don't know what.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, it's a high Sense TV. Is it running
Speaker 1: Google TV? Is it running Roku TV?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a high Sense running Roku. Okay.
Speaker 1: Interesting, I'm looking for the Watch TCM. It says available
Speaker 1: online iOS phones and tablets, Android phones, Amazon and Apple TV.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say anything about Roku which is interesting. So
Speaker 1: that's that's odd in itself, Like it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: this app is available, but maybe they just haven't updated
Speaker 1: their website. What I think happened is, uh, there's probably
Speaker 1: a bad update to this app. So I think he
Speaker 1: did the right things. Uninstall, reinstall, restart the TV. Other
Speaker 1: than that, I would say, unless you're running some sort
Speaker 1: of VPN that is or an AD blocker that's messing
Speaker 1: with it, check for that. It's probably just an app update.
Speaker 1: You gotta wait for an app update, reinstall the app,
Speaker 1: make sure your apps are updated.
Speaker 2: And hopefully it comes back to life.
Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one O one seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at
Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Uh Kim says,
Speaker 1: this is the Ocean Spray Cranberry juice song. Remember that
Speaker 1: the viral video. The guy he was, Uh, I guess
Speaker 1: his name is my house?
Speaker 5: Off of it?
Speaker 2: Did he yep me into buying a house off the
Speaker 2: money he made this?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: He was on a long boarder drinking ocean spray and
Speaker 1: remember it was like just like a twenty two second
Speaker 1: video that guy I see here it is on TikTok.
Speaker 1: Let's let me let me watch this, Yeah, just cruising along.
Speaker 1: You gotta love social media. I mean it really has launched.
Speaker 1: I mean I go to all these events. So I've
Speaker 1: been to like all the tech events for you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen years now twenty years, and.
Speaker 2: It's just amazing.
Speaker 1: It used to be when you went to these events,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, it was just a lot of like
Speaker 1: you know, you know, standard tech journalists, let's put it
Speaker 1: that way, from over the years, like maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit older folks, you know, from the big newspapers and
Speaker 1: you know, and it just was very different. And now
Speaker 1: you go, and what I love about all these tech companies, Google, Samsung, Apple,
Speaker 1: they pluck these people that are, you know, the TikTokers
Speaker 1: of the world, the Instagram folks that do really well,
Speaker 1: and they bring them to the events or they invite
Speaker 1: them at least I don't know if they bring them
Speaker 1: or invite them.
Speaker 2: Either way, sometimes it's like a mix.
Speaker 1: But it's just so cool because now it is such
Speaker 1: a diverse group of people.
Speaker 2: You've got young, you've got old.
Speaker 1: You've got people from all over the world, and really
Speaker 1: the entree is just if you did something cool with
Speaker 1: your phone, you can now be a part of this
Speaker 1: world because you have an audience and you've got followers,
Speaker 1: and you're you've got a voice, and you share something
Speaker 1: that's unique, and so it's really cool.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, when I started, it was the people
Speaker 1: from you know, the major news networks, the major newspapers,
Speaker 1: and the major you know, YouTube sites, just literally the
Speaker 1: biggest people. And now anyone who's got you know, who's
Speaker 1: kind of taken off online can be invited and be
Speaker 1: a part of this, and I just think that's so cool.
Speaker 1: Big new oh eight eight eight rich one oh one
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Speaker 1: The website for the show rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Everything I mentioned is listed there. Uh let's say we
Speaker 1: had an email from someone saying, hey, what was that
Speaker 1: website for the you know where you sold the furniture
Speaker 1: offer up, It'll be listed on the website rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV.
Speaker 2: I do link up everything we talk about.
Speaker 1: This week chat GPT got a big new update they
Speaker 1: call it GPT five, and I was it's so funny
Speaker 1: how I get excited about this stuff. I literally was
Speaker 1: sitting there refreshing my screen on my computer all day
Speaker 1: yesterday waiting for my app to get GBT five.
Speaker 2: I mean, what a dork. I mean, it's such a nerd, but.
Speaker 1: It's cool, and you know, you see it and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: what can this do differently? I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it just seems better and so it's faster, it's smarter.
Speaker 2: So the big news about.
Speaker 1: GBT five is that it's now a unified model, so
Speaker 1: it now kind of understands what your question is and
Speaker 1: decides the best way to respond. Now you might be thinking, rich,
Speaker 1: didn't it always do that? Yes, but now it's thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: are you asking a coding question, are you asking a
Speaker 1: deep reasoning question? Are you adding a quick are you
Speaker 1: asking a quick question like you know which cities have
Speaker 1: the most people in the US. You know that's an
Speaker 1: easy question. But it can also understand if you're asking
Speaker 1: something deeper, and it will go into its different modes
Speaker 1: automatically in the background to figure out the answer. So
Speaker 1: that's really cool. So it's just basically one one window
Speaker 1: for everything. Now you don't have to check a lot
Speaker 1: of boxes and things like that. Coding, it's gotten much
Speaker 1: better at coding. It's gotten much much better at writing.
Speaker 1: I use my chat gbt to polish up my newsletter
Speaker 1: every week. If you're not subscribed to the free newsletter,
Speaker 1: definitely get on the list. And I noticed yesterday when
Speaker 1: I was polishing, it just seemed a lot smarter. And
Speaker 1: it seemed to kind of stick to my writing a
Speaker 1: lot better, which I like because I don't want it
Speaker 1: to change everything. I want it to keep how I write,
Speaker 1: but just kind of, you know, keep the grammar perfect,
Speaker 1: you know, make sure that everything's spelled right. So it's
Speaker 1: just better at doing that. Yesterday I noticed better health responses.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people are asking questions about mental
Speaker 1: health and just in general medical questions and things, so
Speaker 1: it's better at that. It's more accurate if flags concerns,
Speaker 1: better adapts to a user's knowledge level. Still not a
Speaker 1: replacement for a doctor. Do not use chatchybt's your doctor.
Speaker 1: I mean just even in my house, like my kid
Speaker 1: came to me, he's like, Dad, what's this thing on
Speaker 1: my face? I'm like, it's a scratch. He's like, I
Speaker 1: asked chatgybt and it said it could be this, this, this,
Speaker 1: I'm like Tanner, come on, like, dude, relax, it's a scratch.
Speaker 1: You scratched your face. Less hallucinations, that's the big thing.
Speaker 1: You have to be concerned. Like these ais will just
Speaker 1: spit out answers like nobody's business, and you'll think they're
Speaker 1: right and it's like completely wrong sometimes, so you got
Speaker 1: to be careful about that. But it says that it's
Speaker 1: much better at that at this point. Also, it's less agreeable.
Speaker 1: So like a lot of times these GPTs will just
Speaker 1: agree with you, like no matter what you say, it's
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, that's a great idea, it's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. And now it's less agreeable, so that's smart.
Speaker 1: And they also have different personalities. Now, so when I
Speaker 1: asked it the question for the first time, it said,
Speaker 1: do you like this personality? I said, I didn't realize
Speaker 1: you had different personalities to choose from, But now you
Speaker 1: can ask for different personalities. You've got a cynic, a robot,
Speaker 1: the listener, and the nerd, so I haven't switched to
Speaker 1: one of these different personalities, but you can do that
Speaker 1: as well. So again, GPT five, if you're opening up
Speaker 1: CHATCHIBT and it says, hey, we have a new version.
Speaker 1: It's available to everyone, even if you're on the free model.
Speaker 1: And you might be wondering, well, why do I have
Speaker 1: to pay for CHATCHYBT if I get the free model
Speaker 1: for free? Well, the difference is how much you use it.
Speaker 1: So if you start using this a lot, it will
Speaker 1: at some point say, okay, you're out of your free answers.
Speaker 1: If you want to continue with this model that's advanced,
Speaker 1: you have to pay or we're going to drop you
Speaker 1: down to the lesser model until you're I guess the
Speaker 1: usage resets after a certain amount of time twenty four
Speaker 1: hours or something like that. The other big news this week,
Speaker 1: Disney Plus is going to integrate Hulu into the Disney
Speaker 1: Plus app, so the Hulu standalone app is going to
Speaker 1: go away. So this is gonna happen where Disney is
Speaker 1: going to fully merge Hulu into Disney Plus in the
Speaker 1: next year, so no more separate Hulu app, which already
Speaker 1: they've integrated the Hulu content, which I think is kind
Speaker 1: of annoying because it's like, oh, let me watch that show.
Speaker 2: Sorry, you got to pay for Hulu. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: why'd you show me that?
Speaker 1: So now I guess that's going to get even worse
Speaker 1: because Hulu is just going to be completely gone as
Speaker 1: a standalone app, and it's just going to be inside
Speaker 1: Disney Plus. So the integration, I get it. It makes
Speaker 1: sense because now it's just one place for everything. And
Speaker 1: then ESPN, I guess they did a big thing where
Speaker 1: they are going to launch their first direct to consumer
Speaker 1: streaming service on August twenty first. This is going to
Speaker 1: be twenty nine to ninety nine a month, and it's
Speaker 1: going to include all of the ESPN networks, ESPN Plus
Speaker 1: and forty seven thousand live events per year. For the
Speaker 1: one thing you want to watch, you're gonna go to
Speaker 1: that app be like, oh let me watch the game.
Speaker 1: Not gonna be there. It's gonna be on the one
Speaker 1: service you don't subscribe to. So the bundle deal at
Speaker 1: launch this is pretty good. Actually, ESPN Unlimited Plus, Disney
Speaker 1: Plus and Hulu for twenty nine to ninety nine a
Speaker 1: month for your first twelve months. That sounds pretty good.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that that is the ad the version that
Speaker 1: includes ads. There's no way they're giving you all that
Speaker 1: stuff for thirty bucks a month without ads. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know, because I feel like I paid twenty dollars
Speaker 1: a month for Disney Plus just by itself.
Speaker 2: I remember when Disney Plus launched, it was so cheap.
Speaker 2: It was like six ninety nine a month.
Speaker 1: You're like, wait a second, I can get everything that
Speaker 1: Disney has ever made in its entire lifetime for seven
Speaker 1: bucks a month? Why would I not subscribe? And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, over the years, what's happening. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: just click click click click click.
Speaker 2: More and more and more and more and more.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the new stuff to watch was
Speaker 1: like less less less, less less. And that's the other thing,
Speaker 1: the old school movies, like you try to go back
Speaker 1: to these movies that you watched as a kid, which
Speaker 1: was you know, ratings as a kid, like basically you
Speaker 1: just didn't watch a rated AR movie, you know, like
Speaker 1: if you're a kid. I snuck into one rated AR
Speaker 1: movie once, and I tell my kids this story. I
Speaker 1: was so scared. It was the scariest experience.
Speaker 2: Of my life.
Speaker 1: My best friend and I went to a movie theater.
Speaker 1: We snuck into a RATEDAR movie. I remember the movie.
Speaker 1: It was called Jacob's Ladder. That's dating me long time ago.
Speaker 1: We got into this movie and we were not prepared
Speaker 1: for what we saw. And I don't even know what
Speaker 1: we saw. All I know is I was so scared.
Speaker 1: We ran out of that movie theater. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is what adults do, Like, we just ran out.
Speaker 1: And to this day I tell my kids that because
Speaker 1: they want to watch rated R this and that. I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: you don't need to watch that right now, like, just
Speaker 1: there's a time and a place for it. And then
Speaker 1: my kid the other day in the car is like, Dad,
Speaker 1: have you watched any NC seventeen movies? I'm like, what, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? I don't even know if
Speaker 1: they make those anymore? Say, oh, yeah they do. I
Speaker 1: looked it up on Google. They gave me a whole
Speaker 1: list of them. I'm like, what this. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, these kids today are so far advanced.
Speaker 1: They really really are. And you know, if you don't
Speaker 1: have those parental controls. By the way, on your internet,
Speaker 1: you got to uh eighty eight rich one O one
Speaker 1: eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, We've got more of your calls.
Speaker 1: Plus Google is giving college students free access to AI.
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Speaker 2: Eighty eight rich.
Speaker 1: One O one eighty eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at eight
Speaker 1: eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two.
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Speaker 1: every show. Frank from port Chester, New York writes in
Speaker 1: Hey Rich, I love your idea about saving a note
Speaker 1: in Google Keep about a person and then adding relevant
Speaker 1: info about them. I'm a sales guy and this is
Speaker 1: a great way for me to track what's been said
Speaker 1: at meetings, like noting a client has two kids, hates
Speaker 1: Italian food but loves German. I'm trying to adopt this system,
Speaker 1: but I'm struggling with using Gemini to enter notes. It
Speaker 1: doesn't always do what I want, it'll start researching a
Speaker 1: topic instead of entering my notes. For example, I'll say
Speaker 1: something like client is interested in AI, and instead of
Speaker 1: recording that, it starts reading facts about how AI will
Speaker 1: change the world. It also sometimes cuts me off mid
Speaker 1: sentence and only saves part of what I said. I
Speaker 1: know I can type or dictate notes directly into Keep,
Speaker 1: but I loved your idea of integrating Gemini.
Speaker 2: Help. What am I doing wrong? Well, thanks for listening in.
Speaker 1: New York City there or at port Chester, I'm guessing
Speaker 1: that's New York area, right, You're right. I think that
Speaker 1: Gemini is finicky and the system that I described is
Speaker 1: not perfect, but it is really good when it works.
Speaker 1: And so the trick that I found is you have
Speaker 1: to use specific starter phrases like create a note or
Speaker 1: take a note. So if you say something vague like remember,
Speaker 1: it might trigger a different AI mode. So that is
Speaker 1: the main advice that I have if you're trying to
Speaker 1: use Gemini with any of Google's apps. So if you
Speaker 1: go to Gemini dot Google dot com, go into the
Speaker 1: settings on the left hand side and then tap apps,
Speaker 1: and it gives you the hints for all of the
Speaker 1: different apps. So for instance, for Gmail, it says prompt
Speaker 1: to try find emails by topic. So for instance, I
Speaker 1: would say to Gemini search my emails for and that
Speaker 1: will trigger it to look in my emails, versus saying
Speaker 1: something like I want to email.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Like you have to use these phrases, and yes, this
Speaker 1: is going to get better, but right now it is
Speaker 1: a little bit sort of mechanical. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: the old days of you had to know what the
Speaker 1: syntax was to kind of use the voice systems. That's
Speaker 1: the way I feel it is because think about it,
Speaker 1: these AI systems are doing two different things. One is saying, oh,
Speaker 1: let me look into your personal stuff. The second is, oh,
Speaker 1: let me just kind of go at AI knowledge in general.
Speaker 1: So that's my main answer is try to use the
Speaker 1: keywords at the beginning of your question. So for instance,
Speaker 1: when I want to do a calendar invite, I'll say
Speaker 1: create a calendar invite that says take a note that
Speaker 1: says remind me to do this, and that's when it
Speaker 1: really triggers those Google apps.
Speaker 2: So good question.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the email, Frank, appreciate you listening there on
Speaker 1: wr in New York City. Doreen from Irvine writes, in
Speaker 1: you reported on how to use a flash drive to
Speaker 1: back up photos from a phone. Is it possible to
Speaker 1: use a flash drive to back up contacts or text messages?
Speaker 2: I have a Samsung phone.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is so for text messages, and you're thankfully
Speaker 1: you said Samsung, because if you said iPhone, there's no
Speaker 1: there's no easy way to do this. There is an
Speaker 1: app called I Amazing, which we'll do it, but I
Speaker 1: believe you have to pay for that. Apple doesn't really
Speaker 1: give you an easy way to get your texts as
Speaker 1: far as I know. But on Samsung, very very easy.
Speaker 1: You can download an app called SMS Backup and Restore.
Speaker 1: SMS Backup and Restore. I've used it for many years.
Speaker 1: You just download it and next thing you know, you
Speaker 1: can say export my messages and it will go right
Speaker 1: into your phone storage, or you can send it to yourself,
Speaker 1: upload it to the cloud, whatever you want to do. Now,
Speaker 1: for contacts, it's actually quite easy as well. So if
Speaker 1: you go into the Contacts app on your Samsung phone,
Speaker 1: go into Contacts, look in settings, tap settings, and right
Speaker 1: there you see export Contacts. You can just export your
Speaker 1: contacts wherever you want. You can put them into storage,
Speaker 1: you can put them on a flask drive, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do. Now, I also discovered lo and behold.
Speaker 1: The iPhone actually lets you do this as well. So
Speaker 1: if you open up the Contacts app on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: go into your list. So in the upper left hand
Speaker 1: corner it says lists. It's of course a hidden feature.
Speaker 1: But if you tap on one of your lists, press
Speaker 1: and hold, lo and behold, it says export. You tap
Speaker 1: export and you can export that entire contact list like
Speaker 1: of it, nine hundred and eighty contacts. It'll send it
Speaker 1: wherever you want. You can email yourself that file, you
Speaker 1: can upload it to the cloud, whatever you want. So
Speaker 1: again on the iPhone contacts lists, tap a list, press
Speaker 1: and hold on it, it says export. It's like a
Speaker 1: secret menu that you would never find if you were
Speaker 1: just looking. I didn't even know it existed until I
Speaker 1: looked for it, and now it's there. So great question, Doreen.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Jay from Los Angeles writes in I use
Speaker 1: Wirecutter and Consumer Reports for reviews of products I want
Speaker 1: to buy. Please recommend a few more reliable review sites.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jay, Those are great great sites. I often
Speaker 1: look at Wirecutter, you know, I love Wirecutter. I feel
Speaker 1: like sometimes their stuff can be hit or miss. So
Speaker 1: I like to kind of do my own research as well.
Speaker 1: So obviously I'm always recommending stuff that I like, but
Speaker 1: I find that Wirecutter is pretty good.
Speaker 2: They do a wide span of stuff.
Speaker 1: Consumer reports, you know, I think they're really good as well.
Speaker 1: I think I use them for my washer dryer the
Speaker 1: other day that I bought, and I will be honest,
Speaker 1: they're fine. It's not like amazing, but it's fine. The
Speaker 1: site that I think is really interesting is called Vetted
Speaker 1: v E T T D vetted dot AI, and so
Speaker 1: what their idea is is they use AI to help
Speaker 1: you find stuff. And what they do is they go
Speaker 1: through all the different websites that have reviews that are
Speaker 1: sort of vetted, I mean hence the name, and they
Speaker 1: will look at all those reviews and aggregate them and
Speaker 1: put them together and then come up with their recommendation. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, I just did best espresso machines and Vetted
Speaker 1: Analysis comes up with the leel It Bianca V three.
Speaker 1: This machine is best overall for ideal for serious home
Speaker 1: buristas three thousand dollars Bobo. You know I'm not spending
Speaker 1: three grand on a home buriste. Okay, so that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I am not spending that. I love my coffee, no.
Speaker 2: Way, I'm not a coffee drinker. But you spend it.
Speaker 2: I would not spend it. I barely.
Speaker 1: I wanted to buy a sixty dollars cake cup machine
Speaker 1: at Target the other day.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't buy that because I'm too cheap.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll try to see if the one
Speaker 1: I have at work still works.
Speaker 2: And it didn't. By the way, you know about of
Speaker 2: shoes that I sent you either, and that was one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1: No, I'm a cheap skate when I love buying stuff,
Speaker 1: but I don't buy stuff that I don't need. It
Speaker 1: takes me a while to buy stuff, like it really
Speaker 1: really does. Like I'm not I like buying. But it's
Speaker 1: not like I'm just sitting there, like you sent me
Speaker 1: those shoes that I've wanted, I'm like, oh, these are cool.
Speaker 1: I'm not just like that person that just presses By
Speaker 1: no way, believe me. I've got a brand new peril
Speaker 1: on right now.
Speaker 2: I'm still wearing my crocks.
Speaker 1: I need a new pair of crocs I've been wearing
Speaker 1: for three years on this show, and I won't buy
Speaker 1: those and I wear them every weekend. Anyway, vetted dot
Speaker 1: ai is great and chat gybt and Google are really
Speaker 1: doing a lot of things with reviews on ai, so
Speaker 1: check those out as well. Eighty eight rich one oh
Speaker 1: one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero
Speaker 1: and more rich on Tech after this, welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you
Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Bar brights in on email. Hey Rich love all your
Speaker 1: tips and ideas. I watch you on KTLA two. I
Speaker 1: wonder if you've had this question before. I have an
Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen Pro. I don't use iCloud. It bugs me
Speaker 1: when they keep asking for money just to back up
Speaker 1: my data. I use Google Photos and Google Drive, and
Speaker 1: I just learned that iTunes is only used for podcasts.
Speaker 1: I used to use iTunes to back up my phone.
Speaker 1: Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for your time. Yes,
Speaker 1: you actually still can use iTunes on Windows to back
Speaker 1: up your phone to your computer. It's not as straightforward
Speaker 1: or as apparent as it.
Speaker 4: Used to be.
Speaker 1: But I just downloaded it to my Windows computer sitting here,
Speaker 1: and sure enough it's you plug it. So download iTunes
Speaker 1: to your computer.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And by the way, iTunes is not just for podcasts,
Speaker 1: it's for everything still. It's got music and shows and
Speaker 1: you know, it's just everything is through the cloud now.
Speaker 2: So Apple wants to push the cloud.
Speaker 1: They don't think people are plugging their phones into computers
Speaker 1: anymore because that doesn't get them any money, and so
Speaker 1: they don't want to promote that.
Speaker 2: But you can still do this.
Speaker 1: So if you plug in your phone to your computer
Speaker 1: and unlock your phone, it'll say do you want to
Speaker 1: trust this device? And you do that, and you will
Speaker 1: see up at the top where it says music and
Speaker 1: things like that, underneath the little menu bar there would
Speaker 1: be a little tiny icon of a smartphone. Tap that
Speaker 1: icon and you'll now see all the settings for your phone,
Speaker 1: just like the old days. And then you'll see somebody
Speaker 1: that says backups, and so it says automatically backup iCloud,
Speaker 1: backup the most important data on your phone to iCloud
Speaker 1: or this computer. You can tap that and it will
Speaker 1: automatically back up your iPhone a full backup of your
Speaker 1: iPhone will be stored in this computer. Now, the only
Speaker 1: thing that gets a little tricky there is if you
Speaker 1: have a ton of photos on your phone's it might
Speaker 1: run out of space because you're trying to put all
Speaker 1: those photos on your computer. So you said you use
Speaker 1: Google Photos. What you can do is you can go
Speaker 1: into Google Photos and there's an option to delete the
Speaker 1: pictures off your phone. So if you tap press and
Speaker 1: hold on the Google Photos icon on your smartphone, it'll
Speaker 1: say free up space. You tap that, it will delete
Speaker 1: all the pictures off your phone, but keep them in
Speaker 1: Google Cloud for safekeeping. Of course, you always want to
Speaker 1: have a secondary backup somewhere else, just in case something
Speaker 1: happened to Google Cloud. I don't expect that to happen,
Speaker 1: but you never know it could. So again, Barb, to
Speaker 1: answer your question, you can absolutely use iTunes to back
Speaker 1: up your iPhone to your computer on Windows eleven. Just
Speaker 1: know that they don't make the icon as visible as
Speaker 1: it used to be, So when you plug in your phone,
Speaker 1: just look underneath the little menu bar for that tiny
Speaker 1: little phone icon and it will.
Speaker 2: Bring you up that backup option. Let's go to Mark
Speaker 2: and Woodland Hills Mark.
Speaker 5: You're on with Rich, Well, Rich.
Speaker 3: I know you travel quite a bit and you're the
Speaker 3: tech guy, so I'm gonna see what you can advise
Speaker 3: us with. I have to get a whole new travel kit.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at carry on luggage, Hardshell check the luggage.
Speaker 3: I'm getting contradictory information online and from TSA about smart
Speaker 3: suitcases because I guess some of them have lycium batteries
Speaker 3: embedded into them. And I'm just kind of confused at
Speaker 3: this point. And I was hoping that you could help
Speaker 3: me get a fresh start. And I don't plan to
Speaker 3: do more than you know, three days a three weeks
Speaker 3: travel day, for instance. And is there anything locally, like
Speaker 3: a nice outlet that has reasonably priced equipment, you know,
Speaker 3: for travel?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good question. I've actually been looking at new
Speaker 1: luggage myself. I'm currently using Amazon Basics luggage, which I
Speaker 1: think I purchased for about I should look because this
Speaker 1: is talk about being cheap. I travel around the world.
Speaker 1: My suitcase has been to like twenty countries. I don't
Speaker 1: know so many countries and it's literally Amazon Basics, And
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my Amazon to see how much I
Speaker 1: spent on this and.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you it's held up. Let's see my luggage.
Speaker 1: Okay, I order this in twenty twenty one Amazon Basics
Speaker 1: Urban Soft Side Spinner, a three piece set.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's see how much this cost me? Three pieces?
Speaker 1: Okay, of course it's not it's no longer available, but
Speaker 1: let's see if I can see my order details. So
Speaker 1: I bought three pieces of luggage I still use, okay,
Speaker 1: more than I thought. Two hundred and nine dollars for
Speaker 1: three pieces. That's actually pretty good. I mean, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: pretty that's pretty cheap.
Speaker 6: I think I have a suggestion, Yes this is weird
Speaker 6: for me, if you literally go to Believe it or
Speaker 6: not home Depot and look up suitcases like luggage on
Speaker 6: home Depot. I bought my son a three piece set
Speaker 6: for ninety bucks.
Speaker 2: Oh that he's still using. And it's see this is the.
Speaker 1: Thing about luggage, and I'm looking at Amazon Basics now
Speaker 1: it's actually way cheaper. So the same or similar three
Speaker 1: piece which looks way better than what I got, is
Speaker 1: only one hundred and twenty three dollars now, so the
Speaker 1: price is actually dropped. It drop yeah, And I'll put
Speaker 1: this link on the thing because I've brought the luggage
Speaker 1: around the world. It has been perfectly fine. It is great,
Speaker 1: and there's I mean, it's got the little wheels that spin,
Speaker 1: it's got the telescoping arm. I mean, it's it's perfect.
Speaker 1: And my wife keeps bugging me to get a new luggage.
Speaker 1: She's like, Ranch, you travel so much, you have to
Speaker 1: have a nice luggage. I said, why, this luggage works
Speaker 1: just fine. I even when I landed in Mexico City
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, it was pouring rain. My
Speaker 1: luggage was out in the rain for like thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: It took about an hour to get my luggage. And
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I opened it up.
Speaker 5: It was fine.
Speaker 1: It was even repelled the rain. So again, why do
Speaker 1: I need something that's more expensive? So she's been trying
Speaker 1: to convince me to get something like, you know, this
Speaker 1: priceier luggage American Tourist or the Away Luggage and Mark.
Speaker 1: To quickly answer your question about the place that's local,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to go super pricey, obviously
Speaker 1: to me is fantastic.
Speaker 2: You're gonna spend an arm and a leg in there.
Speaker 2: But if you.
Speaker 1: Want there actually is an away luggage store in the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles area, and Away makes you know. They're kind
Speaker 1: of this like company that's super hip and cool, and
Speaker 1: they make really nice luggage that people like. And they've
Speaker 1: got a store in West Hollywood, so if you want
Speaker 1: to see that stuff in person, it's on Melrose. That's
Speaker 1: the stuff that I really like, Like I think Away
Speaker 1: makes really nice stuff. There's also another luggage that's called
Speaker 1: Props Props Props luggage, and this is really cool because
Speaker 1: it's got the legs built in.
Speaker 9: So.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I do not unpack
Speaker 1: when I get to a hotel room. I just use
Speaker 1: my luggage to live out of. And so I just
Speaker 1: take that thing out of the closet, that like little
Speaker 1: luggage stand, that luggage rack, and I put it in
Speaker 1: the room and then I just put my luggage on top,
Speaker 1: and I just live out of my suitcase.
Speaker 2: As they say. But I know some people like to unpack.
Speaker 1: But Props has that little luggage stand built into the
Speaker 1: suitcase itself. Propsluggage dot Com. I have not tested this,
Speaker 1: but they pitched me on it a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a cool idea.
Speaker 1: I've got some friends that use it. It's let's see,
Speaker 1: it's probably I'm guessing it's quite expensive. Let's see graphite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety nine dollars for one suitcase, so
Speaker 1: it's not cheap. The other thing is you mentioned the
Speaker 1: lithium battery in the suitcase. Why that is my question?
Speaker 1: Why do you need smart luggage? Why do you need
Speaker 1: a battery pack in your suitcase? You do not need that.
Speaker 1: Battery packs are cheap, they're inexpensive, they're thirty dollars. You
Speaker 1: want it in your backpack when you're on a plane
Speaker 1: because you want to be able to charge your stuff.
Speaker 1: I do not understand this fascination with USB ports and
Speaker 1: power packs inside the luggage.
Speaker 2: We don't need that.
Speaker 1: And the thing about the lithium batteries, I am not
Speaker 1: an expert in this, but i do travel with a
Speaker 1: lot of gadgets and I've often you know, they always
Speaker 1: ask you when you check in your luggage do you
Speaker 1: have any lithium ion batteries in your luggage? And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I have like a portable bluetooth speaker, I have a
Speaker 1: phone in there, I've got a tablet in there. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll travel with stuff in my actual check loveuggage, and
Speaker 1: from what I've understood, and don't you know, don't quote
Speaker 1: me on this, like don't pack stuff in your bags
Speaker 1: without telling the airport. But what I've understood is that
Speaker 1: those lithium ion batteries are specific to like medical devices.
Speaker 1: It seems like they are very specific. It's not like
Speaker 1: if you bring a Bluetooth speaker in your luggage. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's what they're talking about, or an air
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Bonnie in Ohio. Bonnie, you're on with
Speaker 1: Rich Hi.
Speaker 9: Rich.
Speaker 10: We have a text three several weeks in Ohio on
Speaker 10: items like laptop things for kids to go back to school.
Speaker 10: I'm wondering if you have a laptop under five hundred
Speaker 10: dollars you would recommend just for basic internet searching email? Uh?
Speaker 1: Are you interested in a Chrome book or do you
Speaker 1: want like a Windows based or a Mac based Windows
Speaker 1: based Okay, Windows based okay, because the Chromebooks are very
Speaker 1: inexpensive and so you can get that for a deal.
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to the Windows based laptops,
Speaker 1: my favorite is really the Asus the Vvo Book it's called,
Speaker 1: and I love this because it's such a great laptop
Speaker 1: for not a very expensive price. So those are the
Speaker 1: that's the one that I really like. The problem is
Speaker 1: you got to find it when it's on sale and
Speaker 1: you said you have like a you've got like a
Speaker 1: tax free holiday coming.
Speaker 10: Up, Yes, through the fourteenth, I believe.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I wonder when they uh do that, you know,
Speaker 1: do the sale or the sales as good? Because this
Speaker 1: laptop was on sale for even though what I'm testing,
Speaker 1: which is the Asus zen Book, which I really like,
Speaker 1: that one was on sale I think for six ninety nine,
Speaker 1: which is incredible, Like this thing is brand new, beautiful,
Speaker 1: So that that brand I like, if you see a
Speaker 1: sus at the you know, if you're going to Best
Speaker 1: Buy or wherever you're going to buy it. The other
Speaker 1: thing is really I think that what it comes down
Speaker 1: to is the specs of the computer. So you know,
Speaker 1: I can give you the top brands that I like.
Speaker 1: I think Lenovo is great. I think a SUS is great.
Speaker 1: But I think really what it comes down to is
Speaker 1: the specs. And so if you're looking for specs, I
Speaker 1: think you want to make sure that you're getting something
Speaker 1: that's either it's interesting because they've got these new processors
Speaker 1: called Snapdragon, which the battery the battery life is really
Speaker 1: good with those.
Speaker 2: So if you're.
Speaker 1: Looking for a Snapdragon, I think it's called like the
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Speaker 1: for things like super high end processing, like if you're
Speaker 1: video editing or something like that, it'll work, but it's
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Speaker 1: Hard drive, you want a one terabyte hard drive, So
Speaker 1: one terabyte hard drive is going to give you plenty
Speaker 1: of room when it comes to RAM. This is the
Speaker 1: gigabyte number, like four gigs, sixteen gigs, eighteen gigs or sorry, eighteen.
Speaker 1: It's usually in numbers like four, eight, sixteen, thirty two.
Speaker 1: I would look for at least sixteen gigs of RAM.
Speaker 1: I told you about the hard drive for a terabyte.
Speaker 1: Now the graphics card, that's the other thing under five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. You're probably not gonna find a separate graphics
Speaker 1: card instead these computers, but you might, and so you'll
Speaker 1: notice it'll either say integrated graphics or it'll specifically give
Speaker 1: you the graphics card number. Ideally, you would want a
Speaker 1: computer that gives you a graphics card number separate, because
Speaker 1: that means that it's got better graphics processing than one
Speaker 1: that's built into the processor. And then with the screen size,
Speaker 1: you always want to get the biggest screen size you can.
Speaker 1: Fourteen sixteen inches would be ideal. I had a thirteen
Speaker 1: inch laptop and it just it was way too tiny.
Speaker 1: But again, yeah, I'm looking at this. Oh wow, look
Speaker 1: at this. So they've got best Buy has a list
Speaker 1: of laptops under five hundred dollars, so you can actually
Speaker 1: go through. Let me see, I'm going to type in
Speaker 1: some of the things I just put in there. I
Speaker 1: said sixteen gigs of RAM, and the storage and let's
Speaker 1: see what comes up. So they're coming up with two hps.
Speaker 1: Those are refurbished. Oh wow, so it might be a
Speaker 1: little tough. Let me see, you might have to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the sixteen gigs of RAM is really tricky. Interesting, Maybe
Speaker 1: it's thirty two. Let me try one more thing here,
Speaker 1: maybe you can get even more O there you go.
Speaker 1: So it looks like you can get those specs for
Speaker 1: under five hundred. A lot of it is the Dell
Speaker 1: and the HP models, so you know you can find it.
Speaker 1: It's just a little trickier to get that under five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars price point. You're gonna watch something that's on
Speaker 1: sale for sure. But great question, Thanks Bonnie. I know
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Speaker 1: gave him like a Chromebook and it's just like this
Speaker 1: thing must be like one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Like it's just it's so bad. It's just like, oh
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Speaker 1: He's going to talk about robotic lawnmowers and some other
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Speaker 1: Joining me now is Adam Dawd, freelance technology writer. He
Speaker 1: is always testing something. We're always running into each other
Speaker 1: at all the events around the world.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: This guy travels, I think more than anyone I know. Uh,
Speaker 1: and is always trying something. Adam, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. It's good to be here.
Speaker 2: Are you on the road a lot throughout the year
Speaker 2: or what?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 11: So, I'm I'm usually on the plane at least once
Speaker 11: per month going somewhere or doing something, So yes, I
Speaker 11: might travel a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you've got you've got a quite the freelance proliferation
Speaker 1: of sites that you write for. What's your primary do
Speaker 1: you have like a primary place you write.
Speaker 11: Probably slash Gear is where I do get a lot
Speaker 11: of my bread and butter. I do a lot of
Speaker 11: editing behind the scenes at slash Gear, though, so but
Speaker 11: I write there too, so you'll see my work there.
Speaker 5: But most of the work that.
Speaker 11: I do there you'll never see, because you know, the
Speaker 11: good editors, they never know.
Speaker 5: What you do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: So you've been testing a bunch of stuff, robotic lawnmowers.
Speaker 1: I've been fascinated by because the idea of a spinning,
Speaker 1: cutting sharp blade on a robot making its way around
Speaker 1: my lawn with kids and pets and things just sounds
Speaker 1: curiously interesting.
Speaker 2: So what do you make of these things? Which ones
Speaker 2: did you test?
Speaker 11: Okay, so I tested so far, I've tested six of them.
Speaker 11: The most notable comes from Napimo, which is a sub
Speaker 11: brand of Segue, which are you know, the little Paul
Speaker 11: Blart scooters that around. Yes, also did one from Sunseeker.
Speaker 11: Also did one from Yarbo, which is is a trip
Speaker 11: by itself. Yeah, Yarbo is is a bit of a trip.
Speaker 11: So just to uh.
Speaker 5: To put aside, one of the one.
Speaker 11: Of the the the the popular culture things that you mentioned,
Speaker 11: is this maning blades. Unlike a traditional lawnmower, a robot
Speaker 11: lawnmark is basically just a plastic disc with like little
Speaker 11: razor blades about an inch long that sticks out the
Speaker 11: end of it. So like it's not the metal bar
Speaker 11: that traditional so, and it's because it reduces the weight
Speaker 11: that the motor has to run because these are usually
Speaker 11: battery powered. So that's you know, that's one of the
Speaker 11: things like even if it did run over your foot,
Speaker 11: which by the way, one of mine has it, it
Speaker 11: probably won't do a whole ton of damage.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's it's they've they've thought about that that
Speaker 1: so it's more like almost like one of those weed whackers.
Speaker 1: Remember it has like that little kind of blade that
Speaker 1: comes out. I mean, I get that. So it's all
Speaker 1: it's just plastic. Okay, So it's not as dangerous as
Speaker 1: you might think.
Speaker 11: I mean, it is a metal blade at the end
Speaker 11: of that plastic disc, right, Yeah, it's like it's like
Speaker 11: the little blade that you'd find in like a like
Speaker 11: a like a thing you shave with.
Speaker 1: Okay, got it. Okay, So so you charge this thing up,
Speaker 1: you set up the app. Do you have to tell
Speaker 1: it where to go or does this find its way
Speaker 1: around your lawn or what?
Speaker 11: Yeah, so some of them will find their way around
Speaker 11: their lawn by yourself. Other times you have to like
Speaker 11: draw a boundary and then it'll go in. Like it'll
Speaker 11: go in and just like figure out the best route
Speaker 11: to go. Like with all the obstacles and stuff like that,
Speaker 11: most of them you just you just draw the out
Speaker 11: external boundary and it just goes. And the nice thing
Speaker 11: about these things is you set it and forget it,
Speaker 11: like once you go through all the initial setup, which
Speaker 11: by the way, is a lot, But once you go
Speaker 11: through the initial setup, you just let it go and
Speaker 11: you say, I want you to mow my lawn, you know,
Speaker 11: three times a week Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and you
Speaker 11: have a perpetually short lawn. It doesn't go through the
Speaker 11: long and then short and then long in the short phases.
Speaker 11: It's just perpetually all that one, which is really nice
Speaker 11: and uh it's it's also a great conversation starter. I
Speaker 11: have had cars stop back up.
Speaker 5: And say, excuse me, what is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, now on that note, what's to keep someone from
Speaker 1: just stealing this thing?
Speaker 2: Is it the same?
Speaker 11: You know, like it's there's a few things. First of all,
Speaker 11: most robot lawnmowers have built in security, like if they
Speaker 11: get picked up, they'll like go into like a lockdown mode.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 11: Second of all, if you can't charge it, you can't
Speaker 11: use it. So if you're gonna steal the mower, you
Speaker 11: better steal the base station as well. And also most
Speaker 11: robot lawnmowers have a third element, which is called an
Speaker 11: RTK beacon, which.
Speaker 2: Is you're getting fancy on me here, I am, I.
Speaker 11: Really am, so this RTK beacon. The probably the most
Speaker 11: robot lawn mower is the stay use GPS there boundary
Speaker 11: wires are very rarely a thing anymore. But the problem
Speaker 11: with GPS is the GPS you're using to drive down
Speaker 11: your street has an accuracy of roughly three to nine
Speaker 11: feet find when you're driving down Hollywood Boulevard. Not so
Speaker 11: great when you're trying to stay stay off your neighbor's lawn.
Speaker 11: So these robot lawnmowers use an RTK beacon, which is
Speaker 11: a fixed point on the planet Earth where the GPS
Speaker 11: satellites will talk to this beacon and say, I say
Speaker 11: you're here, and the beacons like nope, I am actually
Speaker 11: here five feet to the north, and then the satellites
Speaker 11: will be like, oh, I must be a little bit off,
Speaker 11: So I'm going to tell your lawnmower that everywhere I
Speaker 11: think it is is actually five feet to the north,
Speaker 11: and with that you can get down to like centimeter
Speaker 11: level accuracy.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 11: That's used in robot lawnmowers. It's also used in like
Speaker 11: large construction vehicles like John Deere. Construction vehicles have these
Speaker 11: RTK beacons that can like their graters will like actually
Speaker 11: use this beacon to figure out where they are so
Speaker 11: they can they can push away dirt where they're supposed
Speaker 11: to and not push away dirt where they're not supposed to.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's really wild. It's got the beacon. Which of
Speaker 1: these three did you like the best? I guess the
Speaker 1: takeaway is like, which features should we look for in
Speaker 1: a good robotic lawnmower?
Speaker 2: And what's the price point? I feel like these things
Speaker 2: are expensive too.
Speaker 11: They are very expensive, not appropriately enough. The most expensive
Speaker 11: one that I tested was also my favorite.
Speaker 5: But the mowers start at about.
Speaker 11: Above a thousand dollars, so roughly one thousand to twelve hundred.
Speaker 11: Maybe that's for the for the lower end ones. The
Speaker 11: one I the one I like the most, was like
Speaker 11: closer to five thousands.
Speaker 5: But they have smaller versions.
Speaker 2: I can one guy live with me for that price.
Speaker 11: The one I have is designed for like golf courses,
Speaker 11: so like they have smaller ones that are closer to like,
Speaker 11: you know, fifteen hundred to two hundred to two thousand rathers.
Speaker 5: So they are pricey.
Speaker 11: However, you know, think about the man hours that you
Speaker 11: spend pushing this thing back and forth across your lawn.
Speaker 5: You know you're in la so you do this year round.
Speaker 2: Why don't do anything?
Speaker 1: Let's be clear, Oh Kia, I've never mowed a lot
Speaker 1: in my life. I actually have once when I was
Speaker 1: a kid and I had the blade so close to
Speaker 1: the grass. My neighbor had to call my dad and say,
Speaker 1: never again, because your kid ruined all of my grass.
Speaker 1: And so that was the one and only time I
Speaker 1: ever mowed the lawn. Now, my dad, by the way,
Speaker 1: loves mowing the lawn like he is a lawnmower OFFICIANTO.
Speaker 1: So he would not want this technology in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, because he likes to be out there.
Speaker 1: I think it was his way of being away from
Speaker 1: the family, you know, like, oh, gotta go mow that
Speaker 1: lawn again.
Speaker 11: See he goes and mows the lawn. I go to
Speaker 11: London and we just have our different methods.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: But but yeah, so it's it's really cool.
Speaker 11: And they are expensive, no doubt about that, but they
Speaker 11: are coming down in price.
Speaker 5: They're actually a lot more popular in Europe than they
Speaker 5: are here.
Speaker 11: Another mowere that I tested up was from Huskvarna and
Speaker 11: they actually developed the first autonomous lawnmower back in the
Speaker 11: nineties and this thing used you know, boundary wires and
Speaker 11: stuff like that. It kind of went across your lawn,
Speaker 11: kind of like a robot vacuum cleaner inside your house.
Speaker 11: But but yeah, Husbarn has been this in this for
Speaker 11: a long time. Navamo, this is actually one of their
Speaker 11: first that they that they launched, so I was kind of.
Speaker 5: Surprised that they did it as well as they did.
Speaker 1: So, wait, which one is your favorite, the Navamo the
Speaker 1: Sunseeker or the Yarbo the.
Speaker 11: The Navamo is is my favorite because it was the
Speaker 11: easiest to set up and it it does the best job.
Speaker 5: The Yarbo.
Speaker 11: Man that is a study in over engineering because this
Speaker 11: thing has like tank treads, and it's designed for like
Speaker 11: real like solid.
Speaker 5: And dust use.
Speaker 11: But the nice thing about the Arbow is you can
Speaker 11: put a snowblower attachment on it.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 11: And you can put a leaf blower on it. They
Speaker 11: have a couple of other modules that you can do.
Speaker 11: But but yeah, so the Arbow is is.
Speaker 1: Oh I'd love to see an autonomous snowblower going down
Speaker 1: the street, like on your sidewalk. Like people would just
Speaker 1: be like, what the heck is going on at the
Speaker 1: DeMuro house, although it doesn't really snow where I live. So, okay,
Speaker 1: we got we got about a minute left. I want
Speaker 1: to quickly talk about your take on Samsung's foldables. My
Speaker 1: thesis was that they've gotten to a place where I
Speaker 1: can actually recommend them this year, but you have to
Speaker 1: have a reason for wanting it.
Speaker 2: What's your thought?
Speaker 11: Very similar to this is a remarkable leap forward. I'm
Speaker 11: using the fold seven as we speak. It's a great
Speaker 11: leap forward and very much needed. Samsung was doing a
Speaker 11: little bit of laurel resting up until this year, so
Speaker 11: now it's caught up with a lot of the competition
Speaker 11: and actually surpassed a lot of the competition, which is
Speaker 11: great to see, and uh, it's still a little bit
Speaker 11: too expensive.
Speaker 5: The flip is less impressive.
Speaker 11: But they increase the UH screen on it, which is great,
Speaker 11: the cover screen on it, which is great. And I
Speaker 11: think the funny part about my opinion foldables is I
Speaker 11: judge foldables based on how much I can use them
Speaker 11: when they're folded, not when they're open. And both phones
Speaker 11: do a really great job in that in that respect.
Speaker 5: So yeah, if.
Speaker 11: You're in the market for a foldable, if you work
Speaker 11: with a lot of spreadsheets, spreadsheets are great on this
Speaker 11: thing then and I'm a data nerd, so I use
Speaker 11: spreadsheets all the time. But anyway, yeah, if you're if
Speaker 11: you're into that, then yeah, these are great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think this year is like if you have a
Speaker 1: use case, like you're like, oh, yeah, I wanted a
Speaker 1: bigger screen to watch movies or use spreadsheets or you know,
Speaker 1: edit photos, whatever, or if you just want to be
Speaker 1: like on the cutting edge and have something cool that's
Speaker 1: different than Sure, I couldn't say that in previous years,
Speaker 1: Like this is the first year. I'm like, yes, this
Speaker 1: is You'll be completely happy with these, all right, Adam Daud.
Speaker 1: We're gonna leave it there, dead Technology. That is your
Speaker 1: user name on threads, Adam Dowd Dead Technology. There is
Speaker 1: a story there, but you're gonna have to ask Adam
Speaker 1: if you want that. He can explain.
Speaker 2: This is nothing. It's just it's silly, it's funny. It's
Speaker 2: silly anyway. Thanks for joining me today.
Speaker 5: Adam, Thanks for having me forward to doing it again.
Speaker 1: I will see you at the next event. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: the Pixel event in New York City. Uh eighty to eight
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Speaker 1: But here are the deals that I found online. Number one, Verizon,
Speaker 1: you can get NFL Sunday Ticket for free if you
Speaker 1: get a.
Speaker 2: New line with them, if you add a line.
Speaker 1: Existing customers pay two hundred and seventy six dollars, so
Speaker 1: that's you know, decent savings. There Best Buy two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty eight dollars if you do the my best
Speaker 1: Buy Plus membership, So if you already have that, you
Speaker 1: can get it or you have to buy that membership
Speaker 1: which is fifty dollars a year. Students, this is the
Speaker 1: best deal one hundred and nineteen dollars via YouTube Student plan.
Speaker 1: So if you're a student, I think you have to
Speaker 1: be a college student because I couldn't figure out how
Speaker 1: to do it for my kid who's in you know,
Speaker 1: elementary school and high school, so that we couldn't take
Speaker 1: advantage of military first responders, nurses, teachers, and medical providers.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of people. One hundred and ninety eight dollars.
Speaker 1: But you have to get verified through id dot me.
Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with it. This is like a
Speaker 1: platform that has a bunch of discounts on things, but
Speaker 1: you have to verify your eligibility and usually you only
Speaker 1: have to do that one time. So if you're already verified,
Speaker 1: this should be pretty easy. But in the case of
Speaker 1: my wife, who is a teacher, she basically had to
Speaker 1: submit like her social Security number, and I was like, uh,
Speaker 1: not doing that. So I ended up going with the
Speaker 1: Verizon deal two hundred and seventy six dollars.
Speaker 2: That's what I did.
Speaker 1: You can also get it if you're a new customer
Speaker 1: for two eighty through the YouTube you know, the standard
Speaker 1: YouTube YouTube TV thing. So anyway, yeah, watching football, it
Speaker 1: turns out is very expensive, something that I did not
Speaker 1: realize till my kid got into it. Uh, Comcast is
Speaker 1: moving their email service to Yahoo. So a Comcast is
Speaker 1: shutting down it's Infinity email platform and it's going to
Speaker 1: migrate all Comcast dot Net accounts to Yahoo Mail over
Speaker 1: the next few months. So yes, Hiler, Hiler, Hiler, things
Speaker 1: are changing.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Now, I think this is probably gonna be better because
Speaker 1: you know, if you're using some random third party email service,
Speaker 1: it's probably not that good. So Yahoo has a decent,
Speaker 1: you know, email platform, which I think is going to
Speaker 1: be better in general. But I get it, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a major shift for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: But everything's going to transfer over all. Your messages, your folders,
Speaker 1: your contacts, your email addresses are going to stay the same.
Speaker 1: So basically the only thing that's going to change is
Speaker 1: everything where you go to log in and of course
Speaker 1: the way everything looks. So I guess they started sending
Speaker 1: out messages on August second to customers, so if you
Speaker 1: got that, it is legitimate. About thirty days after that,
Speaker 1: so we're talking September second, you're going to get an
Speaker 1: email that's going to tell you to log in at
Speaker 1: connect dot exfinity dot com to accept the new Yahoo terms,
Speaker 1: and then you have one hundred and twenty days from
Speaker 1: that day to complete the migration. If you don't, you
Speaker 1: might lose your entire account. So again, you've got one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty days to do this, but you know
Speaker 1: you should probably do it earlier than later. Now, if
Speaker 1: you don't want to switch to Yahoo Mail, you can
Speaker 1: just export all of your stuff and close your account.
Speaker 1: You can do that at export dot exfinity dot com.
Speaker 1: So that is happening. It's going to be a big change.
Speaker 1: And finally, before we go to break here, Amazon Autos
Speaker 1: is now selling used and certified pre owned vehicles just
Speaker 1: in the LA area. So Amazon Autos basically if you
Speaker 1: want to look for a used car, you can do
Speaker 1: that there three year, three day, three hundred mile return policy,
Speaker 1: thirty day, one thousand mile limited warranty, no hidden fees,
Speaker 1: transparent pricing. So basically you can buy the car on
Speaker 1: the website and then you go to your dealer to
Speaker 1: pick it up. So they're working with local dealers that
Speaker 1: list these cars. I guess, so one more option. I
Speaker 1: think they're going up against the car Maxes of the
Speaker 1: world and also the Carvanas of the world. Now you
Speaker 1: can go to Amazon for your use car eight to
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Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, We've got us CEO, Ahmed Kattak.
Speaker 1: He is going to talk about the services that they
Speaker 1: offer and how they have this need this need offering
Speaker 1: where basically you can have two networks on your phone
Speaker 1: at once, kind of like the old days of Google
Speaker 1: Fi what they were trying to build there, but you
Speaker 1: can actually do this with them. And I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of their service. So we'll talk to him and
Speaker 1: here he's building over there. Let's go to Sabrina in Eugene, Oregon.
Speaker 9: What's up, Hey, I traveled last weekend and I used
Speaker 9: the hotspot on my phone to connect to the internet
Speaker 9: the first evening and the next morning, and then I
Speaker 9: left to go watch a granddaughter's game, and after that
Speaker 9: I could not connect to the internet. Figured I just
Speaker 9: didn't have a good enough signal from a hotspot to work.
Speaker 9: I got home and it still will not connect. I
Speaker 9: can see an IP address, it will not connect to Google.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 9: I can't use the Chrome browser, I can't use the Fi,
Speaker 9: I can't use Firefox. I pinged a couple things and
Speaker 9: the ping does not work. Can you think of any
Speaker 9: settings I might have done to make it not work anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, So where where is this hotspot coming from? Your phone?
Speaker 9: My phone?
Speaker 2: Okay? Do you have an Android or iPhone?
Speaker 9: iPhone fourteen on AT and T okay, iPhone fourteen on
Speaker 9: AT and T.
Speaker 2: So here's my question.
Speaker 1: Does if you go to you know, the web on
Speaker 1: your phone itself, does that work?
Speaker 3: It does?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 9: So and then but then I got home and my
Speaker 9: internet provider is Comcast, and it still doesn't work. I
Speaker 9: have full bars, I can see the Internet, and I
Speaker 9: can see IP, but none of my browsers and none
Speaker 9: of my cloud kind of apps nothing works.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you mean when you're connected to the
Speaker 1: hotspot or in general, because the Comcast wouldn't be that
Speaker 1: doesn't really have anything to do with your hot spot?
Speaker 9: No, right, once I got home, I quit using my
Speaker 9: hotspot and connected like I normally would at home. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and it still doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So it sounds like the device that you're
Speaker 1: using is not working.
Speaker 9: How How I don't I don't. I'm just kind of wondering. No, okay, So,
Speaker 9: and I guess it could be hardware.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well that's.
Speaker 9: Because I'm really hyper sensitive on how I take care
Speaker 9: of my computer because it's my livelihood.
Speaker 1: Well, so it sounds like the computer's not working, not
Speaker 1: the hot spot, because if you're saying you're connecting your computer,
Speaker 1: it's your home Wi Fi and it's still not working. Right,
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with your hotspot. Now now
Speaker 1: we're talking, it's just a computer that's not working.
Speaker 9: Oh no, I agree with that, and so I just
Speaker 9: can you think of any setting or something I may
Speaker 9: have done on the computer so that it wouldn't connect.
Speaker 1: The only thing I can think of is, well, a
Speaker 1: couple of things. I mean, obviously you've tried restarting the
Speaker 1: computer and all that good.
Speaker 9: Stuff multiple times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So the only thing I can think
Speaker 1: of is that it's trying to connect to the hotspot
Speaker 1: and it's not getting a good signal from there, and
Speaker 1: that's causing the issues.
Speaker 2: Does does anything work on this computer?
Speaker 9: To see all my options? And I can clearly click
Speaker 9: on you know, my two point four, my five from
Speaker 9: my home Wi Fi and it still doesn't work.
Speaker 2: And it still doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Okay, So so it sounds like this computer there's something
Speaker 1: going on with it. Have you tried hardwiring it to
Speaker 1: your modem to see if it works.
Speaker 9: That way, I have hardwired in it does not work.
Speaker 1: Doesn't work that way either, Nope. Okay, Well what kind
Speaker 1: of computer is.
Speaker 9: This Mac fourteen pro?
Speaker 2: Okay? So it's a Mac. Okay.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is if you go into
Speaker 1: your network settings on your Mac, you can you can
Speaker 1: go in and delete the different services like the Ethernet service.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could delete the WiFi Fi service,
Speaker 1: let me say, and that could help you know and
Speaker 1: when you when you reconnect it.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: The only other thing is you can look inside and
Speaker 1: this gets a little bit kind of techy, but you
Speaker 1: can look inside the Wi Fi kind of settings and
Speaker 1: proxies do you have. Are you running any sort of
Speaker 1: VPN or anything?
Speaker 9: I do have Decender VPN, but I've since to say
Speaker 9: that I deleted it. I'm installed it to see if
Speaker 9: that made any difference, and it didn't.
Speaker 2: Interesting okay.
Speaker 1: And if you tried a different web browser on this computer, yeah, I.
Speaker 9: Did, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
Speaker 1: All right, Sabrina, I think it sounds like it's time
Speaker 1: to take this computer into the Apple Store and get
Speaker 1: them to do a diagnostic on it and see what's
Speaker 1: going on. Sounds like you're pretty tech savvy, so it
Speaker 1: sounds like you've done all of your due diligence on
Speaker 1: this thing. You've checked the different networks. And it's interesting
Speaker 1: though that you came to me thinking that it was
Speaker 1: the hot spot on your phone, because I was going
Speaker 1: to say, if if the computer is working on your
Speaker 1: home Internet, I was going to say, you probably just
Speaker 1: ran out of your hot spot data allotment on your
Speaker 1: phone because you were using it so much on the
Speaker 1: vacation or on the trip. So that doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: it's the case, because nothing's working on this computer. So
Speaker 1: I would take it into the uh the Apple store
Speaker 1: and have them run a diagnostic. It could be that
Speaker 1: your it sounds like to me like there's some sort
Speaker 1: of DNS issue with your like if you were using
Speaker 1: like a different DNS setting or something like that. That's
Speaker 1: what it sounds like to me, like it's not getting
Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm trying to look in here and see
Speaker 1: what i've got, Like your your your IP address, I
Speaker 1: mean you said your IP address was fine. I mean
Speaker 1: it's just everything you said sounds like you've checked it
Speaker 1: out and it's just that, Yeah, something something's weird there,
Speaker 1: So uh, bring it in and see what they say
Speaker 1: and hopefully they fix it, because that is not good
Speaker 1: to not be with.
Speaker 2: Your computer for sure. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. If you use Microsoft Lens,
Speaker 1: it is shutting down. Microsoft is retiring its popular Lens
Speaker 1: PDF scanner app for iOS and Android. This according to
Speaker 1: Bleeping Computer. I guess they found a help note on
Speaker 1: this on the Microsoft website. So this used to be
Speaker 1: called Office Lens. Now it's called Microsoft Lens. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because it's all going away. So this was
Speaker 1: actually one of the better free PDF scanners out there, and'
Speaker 1: I mean clearly it had fifty million downloads on Google Play.
Speaker 2: That's a lot. Wow.
Speaker 1: Retirement is starting mid September, so if you're using this
Speaker 1: mid September, you got to think about a new program
Speaker 1: that you can use to replace this mid September rather
Speaker 1: mid November. It's going to be removed from the app
Speaker 1: stores December fifteenth, twenty twenty five. No new scans are
Speaker 1: possible inside the app, so existing scans will remain viewable
Speaker 1: in your my scans folder, but you can't do any
Speaker 1: new ones. And there's no more support. So what do
Speaker 1: you do. You can download, Oh my gosh, you're gonna
Speaker 1: love this, the Microsoft three sixty five Copilot app, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, they're trying to get you to do more
Speaker 1: with their with their AI. So I did check this
Speaker 1: Microsoft Copilot app. I did download it, and if you
Speaker 1: press a hold on the icon, sure enough, the scan
Speaker 1: functionality is in there.
Speaker 2: It's just as good as it was before. And it's
Speaker 2: I think that the Microsoft one has pretty good scanning.
Speaker 1: So let's see what this does. Yeah, I mean it does.
Speaker 1: It does everything you need. It copies the text, it
Speaker 1: cleans things up, you can write on it, you can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's really good. So again, if you're using Microsoft
Speaker 1: Lens formerly Office Lens, you need to transition to a
Speaker 1: new program called Microsoft three sixty five Copilot App. You
Speaker 1: can also use the built in scanning functionality that's on
Speaker 1: the iPhone or the Adobe Scan app which is also
Speaker 1: cross platform and that's really good. Or you can use
Speaker 1: Google Drive. They also let you scan documents as well,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of ways to scan documents.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: It's pretty easy at this point, but the Microsoft one
Speaker 1: was a good one.
Speaker 2: Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Nick from Alpine writes in Hey, Rich, I listened to
Speaker 1: your show and you mentioned that Google Photos has a
Speaker 1: storage saver setting that compresses your photos. Does Gmail have
Speaker 1: a similar setting. I'm nearing my limit. There's no compression
Speaker 1: option that I know of in Gmail. But they do
Speaker 1: have a feature called Google Storage Manager. And if you
Speaker 1: go to one dot Google dot com, you go there,
Speaker 1: you tap storage okay, and then you go scroll down.
Speaker 2: Let's see where is this.
Speaker 1: Get more storage? Cleanup space. Tap cleanup space and you
Speaker 1: will see it'll tell you how full your storage is.
Speaker 1: And I'll give you all all of these suggestions for
Speaker 1: cleaning up your storage. So I can get rid of
Speaker 1: large photos and videos. I can save nine hundred and
Speaker 1: forty five gigabytes. I can get rid of large drive files,
Speaker 1: save one hundred and eighty two gigabytes. I can Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the wild one. I can delete emails with large attachments.
Speaker 1: I can get rid of seven gigabytes in my Gmail
Speaker 1: right now, and then you can tap it says clean
Speaker 1: up by service. You can go in and get even
Speaker 1: more specific with all the giant attachments and things, so
Speaker 1: you can go emails with large attachments, emails and trash
Speaker 1: spam emails, so you can offer to it'll offer to
Speaker 1: clean up all of that stuff for you. So emails
Speaker 1: with large attachments, Gosh, I only have thirty two of those.
Speaker 1: I've cleaned them all out over the years, so but yeah,
Speaker 1: pictures will take that up. But anyway, that's where you.
Speaker 4: Want to go.
Speaker 2: Nick one dot Google dot com.
Speaker 1: Check out those clean up your storage options and you
Speaker 1: can get rid of all of that stuff. Good question
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Speaker 1: Plus I'll tell you why AT and T is paying
Speaker 1: out one hundred and seventy seven million dollars in a
Speaker 1: data breach settlement. Coming up next, Welcome back to rich
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Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven
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Speaker 2: My mom is doing.
Speaker 1: The playlist today, Paulette wrote, wrote in on my Instagram
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech, your Mom's playlist is killing it again.
Speaker 1: I think you need to make her your permanent music person, Paulette.
Speaker 1: That really hurts me and Bobo. We sit here every
Speaker 1: week and pick out the music for this show and
Speaker 1: we think we do a nice job, and we never
Speaker 1: get compliments on our playlist. Never, no one ever comes in, Oh.
Speaker 9: My godness, the great I know.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, what I mean, what was that song
Speaker 2: you just played? Good film Florida.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's not all that unique. Come on, we would
Speaker 1: have played that j just because Mom wanted it and
Speaker 1: we get some love too.
Speaker 2: Was that on her list?
Speaker 3: That was?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so she's I mean no, it's not like
Speaker 1: she pulled something like some deep sided B track or something.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I get you when you go home, hopefully they're
Speaker 2: not listening.
Speaker 1: At and T is paying one hundred and seventy seven
Speaker 1: million dollars in a data breach settlement.
Speaker 2: So you might remember this. This was back in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four.
Speaker 1: They had two data breaches impacted seventy three million customers
Speaker 1: in April and one hundred million in July. And there
Speaker 1: was a lot like one of these was worse than
Speaker 1: the other, but they had all. This was like the
Speaker 1: mega mega data breach. I mean we're talking names, addresses,
Speaker 1: social security numbers, pass codes for the account.
Speaker 2: I mean this was bad.
Speaker 1: So settlement is twenty eight million for the April breach,
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty nine million for the July breach. Now,
Speaker 1: if you were like really affected and you've got like
Speaker 1: traceable I guess quote fairly traceable losses to the April breach,
Speaker 1: you can get up to five thousand dollars. The July
Speaker 1: breach victims can get up to twenty five hundreds. So
Speaker 1: I think the April must have been the worst one
Speaker 1: with the socials. If you do not have direct damages,
Speaker 1: like someone like myself where my data was breached, it
Speaker 1: was out there, but there was no traceable, you know,
Speaker 1: damage to it, you'll get a smaller payment. They haven't
Speaker 1: said what that payment is, but the claim window is
Speaker 1: now open until November eighteenth. The court will finally approve
Speaker 1: this on the December third. Payouts expected early next year.
Speaker 1: If you didn't get an email about this, you probably will.
Speaker 1: They do them in like rolling waves, so you might
Speaker 1: not have gotten it immediately, but you eventually will. Or
Speaker 1: you can just go on the website and file yourself
Speaker 1: preemptive preemptively uh telecom data settlement dot com.
Speaker 2: Telecom data settlement dot com.
Speaker 1: That's for the AT and T breach to get your
Speaker 1: uh get your name in there. Yeah, I'll put that
Speaker 1: link up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv,
Speaker 1: uh Bob from Los Angeles writes in Hey, Rich, I
Speaker 1: always shoot video on my Samsung phone in horizontal mode
Speaker 1: because it feels like I get a fuller frame. But
Speaker 1: when I go to edit that footage, especially with the
Speaker 1: Instagram edits app you recommended, I sometimes get weird black
Speaker 1: bars on the sides. The video looks fine on my phone,
Speaker 1: but not so much after importing. Is there a right
Speaker 1: or wrong way to record video? If I know I'll
Speaker 1: be editing it later. This is the biggest problem of
Speaker 1: our time. I mean not really, but it's one of them.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: There was a time, there was a time when I
Speaker 1: would pooh pooh vertical video, like I would say, you
Speaker 1: cannot shoot vertical video ever. But here's the problem. We
Speaker 1: are in a world with two different videotypes. When you're
Speaker 1: looking at your computer screen, it's horizontal. When you're looking
Speaker 1: at your TV or a movie, it's horizontal. When you're
Speaker 1: looking at your phone, it's vertical. And what are people doing.
Speaker 1: They're flipping through these videos on their phone and it's
Speaker 1: all vertical. So this is the bane of all creators'
Speaker 1: existence because when I'm out on a shoot, my photographer
Speaker 1: is shooting a horizontal and I'm shooting at vertical because
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to post my stuff to social
Speaker 1: He's going to create the other piece for TV. So
Speaker 1: what I would recommend, Bob, if you want the best
Speaker 1: of both worlds, go into your camera app and turn
Speaker 1: on the grid. In your settings, there's an option for
Speaker 1: a grid, and when you're shooting, keep your subject in
Speaker 1: the middle of that grid between the two lines, and
Speaker 1: that way you've got horizontal covered and you've got the
Speaker 1: vertical covered. If you ever edit it, that's the reality
Speaker 1: of it is that you either shoot it one way
Speaker 1: that works for both, or you shoot it one way
Speaker 1: or the other way. Now, with respect to edits, there
Speaker 1: is a way to get rid of things and get
Speaker 1: rid of those black bars on the sides or the
Speaker 1: top or the bottom. So when you're in your video,
Speaker 1: you have to tap the video and you'll see something
Speaker 1: where it says crop and you can crop your video,
Speaker 1: expand it. You can usually pinch it, just use your
Speaker 1: fingers to pinch it, or you can snap it to
Speaker 1: like nine by sixteen is the standard kind of up
Speaker 1: and down video. Half video, half half square video, sixteen
Speaker 1: by nine and you could do all these different things.
Speaker 1: But that's called the aspect ratio. But you're not alone, Bob.
Speaker 1: This is this is a major issue.
Speaker 2: They used to have.
Speaker 1: They used to have apps that you can use on
Speaker 1: the iPhone that even if you were shooting horizontal, it
Speaker 1: was still shoot vertical. I mean, it's a whole thing
Speaker 1: or vertical whatever. So confusing now, but yeah, basically, know
Speaker 1: where you're putting the video. If you're gonna watch it
Speaker 1: on your TV, shoot it horizontal. If you're gonna edit
Speaker 1: it for Instagram reels, shoot it vertically. That's the bottom line.
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Speaker 1: I've got a whole bunch of TV segments I do
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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we're gonna talk to the CEO
Speaker 1: of US Mobile right here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology the
Speaker 1: website rich on tech dot tv. If you need a
Speaker 1: link to anything I mentioned. HBO is going to crack
Speaker 1: down on password sharing. HBO Max says it's about to
Speaker 1: get aggressive with users who share their accounts. So here's
Speaker 1: what we can expect. According to droid Life, they will
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Discovery will roll out tougher messaging to suspected
Speaker 1: account sharers in September, so if you're sharing your account,
Speaker 1: you might see like, hey, you should really get your
Speaker 1: own account. Some messaging will require action to keep watching
Speaker 1: instead of the easily disablable warnings from before. But by
Speaker 1: the end of the year Titan enforcement, so it's going
Speaker 1: to be even worse. The goal the company has spent
Speaker 1: months analyzing data to identify legitimate versus unauthorized users, which
Speaker 1: basically means they want to convert shared accounts into paying subscribers.
Speaker 1: So if you are freeloading on someone's HBO Max, you
Speaker 1: better start saving your money now because you're going to
Speaker 1: need your needs your own account by the end of
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 2: Let's bring on.
Speaker 1: We've got the CEO of of US Mobile, Ahmed Kattek,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 5: Great to be on your show, Rich.
Speaker 2: I'm a fanboy for a little bit.
Speaker 1: I just got to say I absolutely love what you're
Speaker 1: doing at US Mobile. I really am impressed, genuinely. I've
Speaker 1: got two lines with you guys, and it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Just it's okay. So US Mobile is it's a carrier.
Speaker 1: You may not even have heard of, by the way,
Speaker 1: But what's cool is that you've built the carrier that
Speaker 1: I want because you've done it in a tech forward
Speaker 1: way that lets me control everything I need to control
Speaker 1: from a dashboard without going into a store, without talking
Speaker 1: to someone, without really doing anything except just doing what
Speaker 1: I want.
Speaker 2: So good job on that.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Rich, And for those of you who haven't
Speaker 8: heard of US Mobile. I promise you you'll all hear
Speaker 8: us about us you know, in the next year or so.
Speaker 2: So what explain what US Mobile is.
Speaker 8: So US Mobile is what you call a virtual network operator.
Speaker 8: But what that means is that we offer cell phone service,
Speaker 8: but we don't really operate any of our net networks.
Speaker 8: And we are basically built on top of existing networks,
Speaker 8: which in the US means all three.
Speaker 5: Major networks.
Speaker 8: We are the only virtual network operator that's built on
Speaker 8: top of all three major networks. And and and just
Speaker 8: just an f I I if you know, if you know,
Speaker 8: you know when you're using any of you know, whether
Speaker 8: whether you're using Venmo or any of these tools, remember
Speaker 8: that they're also not banks. They're also virtual banks. So
Speaker 8: this technology, this business model has existed for a very
Speaker 8: long time in insurance and banking, and now more and
Speaker 8: more people are obviously learning about it on the on
Speaker 8: the wireless and telco side.
Speaker 1: And the neat thing is that you can choose from
Speaker 1: whatever network you want to run on you. You've got
Speaker 1: funny names for them like dark Star and like, uh warp,
Speaker 1: what are they dark star?
Speaker 2: Warp and something else light speed.
Speaker 8: The part of it is I grew up watching Star
Speaker 8: Wars and start directly, and I dreamed of being in
Speaker 8: a spaceship when I was a young kid. So I
Speaker 8: think there was a bit of uh, you know that
Speaker 8: geekness playing into this. But also US Mobile is probably
Speaker 8: the most public wireless network in a way that we
Speaker 8: are subredded. Sees tens of millions of views, and I'm
Speaker 8: there responding to people directly. A lot of these names
Speaker 8: are just crowdsourced. We asked our customers what we should
Speaker 8: name these networks, because contractually we're not allowed to, you know,
Speaker 8: call these networks with the parent carrier's name, like Team
Speaker 8: Olverizen or AT and T so, so we had to
Speaker 8: come up with our own names, and we thought it'd
Speaker 8: be fun to ask our users what they wanted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you actually have a feature that lets you
Speaker 1: this is so I was earlier in a ts that
Speaker 1: like you kind of did what Google five was trying
Speaker 1: to do many years ago, which was like unify the
Speaker 1: networks into like their idea is, you'd have one mega
Speaker 1: netlik you didn't have to think about what network your
Speaker 1: phone was using.
Speaker 2: It would just choose the best network.
Speaker 1: And you've sort of done that now with your plan,
Speaker 1: you can add a secondary carrier that it'll it'll default
Speaker 1: to if the first carrier doesn't have as good of
Speaker 1: a signal. Can you explain that feature?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 8: Rich, So, you know, we call the US Mobile a
Speaker 8: super carrier, and the reason we call it is because
Speaker 8: we're the only network in America that has access to
Speaker 8: all three networks. And the timing was right.
Speaker 5: So the way the Google Fi did it was they.
Speaker 8: Had their own you know, they they on a network
Speaker 8: level try to steer traffic to different networks based on
Speaker 8: different parameters. And one of the biggest sallegies with that is,
Speaker 8: you know, the Google file said, we're on t mobile land,
Speaker 8: we ere on Sprint like tmobile is spind to any
Speaker 8: of these and they're not going to tell you if
Speaker 8: they're bad in a specific area. And also, the way
Speaker 8: latency works in network, because you're bad for that one
Speaker 8: second might not mean that you're bad for the next
Speaker 8: second or the second after that. Having said that, all
Speaker 8: networks have their strong suits in different cities and areas
Speaker 8: urban suburban, So we took a different approach towards it.
Speaker 8: We combined all three networks, but we gave the users
Speaker 8: the power to switch to any network instantly.
Speaker 2: And there's two ways you can do it.
Speaker 8: Pretty much every single recent flagship phone in America has
Speaker 8: two SIM cards in it. But having said that, iPhones
Speaker 8: started going double SIM cards back in twenty seventeen, so
Speaker 8: you know, you've almost had seven or eight years, You've
Speaker 8: had hundreds of millions of phones. iPhones and Samson phones
Speaker 8: actually have the ability to have two networks on them.
Speaker 5: And so that technology is.
Speaker 8: Called DSDs which is dual same dual standby, and we
Speaker 8: are going to get into DSDA later that I can
Speaker 8: talk about which is dual same dual aggregation, and I'll
Speaker 8: explain both of them, so it be dual same dual
Speaker 8: span by. What happens is you can have two networks
Speaker 8: at the same time. And there's you can either with
Speaker 8: a flip of a button switch networks immediately. So with
Speaker 8: for example, on my iPhone with the US Mobile, I've
Speaker 8: set my iPhone up here, I double tapped the back
Speaker 8: of the phone, or I use the action button and
Speaker 8: the switches it, or you can go into the settings
Speaker 8: off your phone. You know, this is goes for pretty
Speaker 8: much all these dual save phones, and you can have
Speaker 8: the phone decide. You know, there's a all of you
Speaker 8: if you you know, you can go into your settings
Speaker 8: and you'll say allow automatic data switching, right, and then
Speaker 8: the phone decides based on congestion ratios and vice versa,
Speaker 8: and and and so so that you know, and so
Speaker 8: US Mobile kind of was born a few years before
Speaker 8: that technology became mainstream. What's special about US Mobile is
Speaker 8: that we've built the whole carrier around. We built the
Speaker 8: whole experience around the fact that you should be able
Speaker 8: to switch. So when you when you get a plan
Speaker 8: with US Mobile twenty five dollars limited plan or a
Speaker 8: forty four dollars and limited plan, depending on whether you
Speaker 8: travel abroad or because both them are limited and uncapped.
Speaker 8: The forty four dollars aimed plant comes with one multi
Speaker 8: network lin so you can add a second network. The
Speaker 8: twenty five dollars one you can spare anywhere between five
Speaker 8: to ten dollars. But what that basically means is you
Speaker 8: will never end up anywhere in America without having cell
Speaker 8: phone bars unless you're I was in in a moab
Speaker 8: Utah like last year's and other house November. But even
Speaker 8: that we are solving, right, I mean, that's where satellite
Speaker 8: comes in.
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to ask about that, because that's
Speaker 1: you know, and I've been you know, people wonder like
Speaker 1: why should I go to an MV and O versus
Speaker 1: an AT and T, a T mobile or a Verizon
Speaker 1: you know, in the satellite I think is going to
Speaker 1: be a differentiator. But are you guys going to add
Speaker 1: that to your to your plans?
Speaker 2: Like how where are you with that?
Speaker 8: With some With some companies we're talking directly like startlink
Speaker 8: with others, you know, uh, with others, we're going to
Speaker 8: get that as a detrit from our carrier having that partnership.
Speaker 8: So like one of our carriers is parknering with ASD
Speaker 8: Space Mobile.
Speaker 5: So the point is it's going to be part of
Speaker 5: our It's going to be part of our plans.
Speaker 1: Okay, because that's I mean, because people in the future.
Speaker 1: That's to me, it's like I want a phone that
Speaker 1: not only supports satellite, but also a plan that does
Speaker 1: it as well, and I think that's important. And then
Speaker 1: the other thing is the cellular watches. I know you
Speaker 1: recently added that feature. Do people even care about that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, like for me, like I run
Speaker 1: a lot without my phone, so I always like the
Speaker 1: cellular But when I talk to people. Most of them
Speaker 1: are a majority don't have a use case for that
Speaker 1: because they're not without their phone most of the time.
Speaker 8: I think it's a there's a two prong issue. Should
Speaker 8: you have a cellular watch one hundred percent? Just imagine
Speaker 8: the peace of mind it gives you, I mean rich,
Speaker 8: forget the fact that you run without your phone, what
Speaker 8: if your phone's battery dies. It's been an absolute game changer.
Speaker 8: So everyone should have cellular connectivity. US Mobile gives it
Speaker 8: for free with the forty four dollars plan, and then
Speaker 8: so you can add it as lewis five dollars. Then
Speaker 8: why doesn't everyone have it? Because carriers make it really
Speaker 8: hard to activate it. You had Apple that built a
Speaker 8: really great technology. I think it's a mixture of Apple
Speaker 8: and carriers who really couldn't figure out that really great experience.
Speaker 8: With US Mobile, we really redefine that experience. We're adding
Speaker 8: a cellular watch is basically two or three clicks. I
Speaker 8: would say that's the bigger issue. And by the way,
Speaker 8: Sellar watch has been a huge driver for US Mobile,
Speaker 8: not in terms of subscribers. Sure, we're adding more subscribers
Speaker 8: on Apple Watch, and probably most carriers out there. But
Speaker 8: that is how now people are learning about us if
Speaker 8: you look at even our Twitter and how I mean
Speaker 8: starting with Jack Dorsey who you know, basically found US
Speaker 8: mobile because he was looking at for a cellular watch
Speaker 8: than a lot of other people. If you actually go
Speaker 8: to any GPT in America, CHAGPT, clode Rock, if you
Speaker 8: ask what the best Apple cellular watch plan is, the
Speaker 8: number one response will be US Mobile on it. So
Speaker 8: I would say it's everyone should have it. It's a
Speaker 8: great security. And now with all these schools banning phones, Apple, like,
Speaker 8: I mean, watches are the way to go, but the
Speaker 8: reality is it's hard to activate it, and that's where
Speaker 8: you lose most of the customers.
Speaker 1: Well, I like US Mobile because you know, I test
Speaker 1: a lot of phones, and I'm not kidding. I switch
Speaker 1: my sim my e sim to a different phone pretty
Speaker 1: much like every week, and that is nearly impossible to do.
Speaker 1: I've been locked out on like the main carriers. I
Speaker 1: get where it goes into I call it never never Land,
Speaker 1: where it leaves my phone and never makes it to
Speaker 1: the new phone with yours.
Speaker 2: It is so easy.
Speaker 1: I literally say I need to activate this on a
Speaker 1: new plan. It sends me a QR code to my email,
Speaker 1: I scan it and within seconds that line is on
Speaker 1: a new phone. I know that's only my use case,
Speaker 1: like not a lot of people need that, but for
Speaker 1: me that the ease of activation and switching and changing
Speaker 1: the plan like features is so nice.
Speaker 8: Listen, you're not wrong, and I'll tell you why. It's
Speaker 8: hard because most of these carriers don't own the hardware
Speaker 8: and the software together. There's a third party company that's
Speaker 8: built the software for them, and that's what made Tesla great.
Speaker 8: That's what made some of these other companies great, which
Speaker 8: is whether you agree with Elon or not, the Tesla
Speaker 8: is a product works really well because they own that
Speaker 8: software layer.
Speaker 5: And that is what happened with.
Speaker 1: You Apple too, same thing. I mean that the phone
Speaker 1: software in the hardware, we got a run. But in
Speaker 1: US Mobile dot com is the website. You can go
Speaker 1: there check it out. What's number one reason why someone
Speaker 1: should switch from their standard carrier.
Speaker 8: I believe you to have service anywhere in America, no
Speaker 8: one offers that. And then the second reason is we
Speaker 8: were ranked and we're one on the consumer reports to
Speaker 8: have the best customer service. And you can reach out
Speaker 8: to me anytime on reddit on our subreddit. So I
Speaker 8: would say, you ask for one reason, I gave you
Speaker 8: three reasons.
Speaker 2: You know, in ten seconds, three reasons, three carriers. There
Speaker 2: you have it.
Speaker 1: US Mobile CEO Ahmed Katak, thanks so much for joining
Speaker 1: me today.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Streach.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we are going to open up
Speaker 1: the feedbag and read some of the emails, the comments,
Speaker 1: and the questions that you sent me this week as
Speaker 1: coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. We're going to get to the feedbag in
Speaker 1: just a moment. Good article this week from Consumer Reports
Speaker 1: which details how to get better sound from your TV
Speaker 1: if you can't really hear what's happening on the screen.
Speaker 1: Not just if you're you know you have hearing loss,
Speaker 1: but just in general. You know, sometimes you just can't
Speaker 1: really hear what's happening. So even if the volumes up,
Speaker 1: dialogue can be tough to follow. This is like a
Speaker 1: thing on TV. I don't know, as someone's explaining to
Speaker 1: me why this is nowadays, but there's just so much
Speaker 1: going on anyway. They say to start with the TV
Speaker 1: audio settings. Look for dialogue speech, boost voice clarity or
Speaker 1: clear voice modes. Turn off night mode if if flat
Speaker 1: is the dialogue, switch from surround sound to stereo sound,
Speaker 1: or boost the center channel sound, or use the EQ
Speaker 1: to lower the base and boost mid high frequencies where
Speaker 1: voices typically are. They've got sound bars with voice enhancement,
Speaker 1: which include the Sons Ray and the ARC Samsung Voice
Speaker 1: Enhancement LG Clear Voice, and then z Vox and then
Speaker 1: wireless listening. You can connect Bluetooth earphones or earbuds. TV
Speaker 1: listeners they've got those. I've seen them at Costco, like
Speaker 1: those STETHOSAP style headsets like TV ears or Sendheiser, they've
Speaker 1: got them. And then of course you might be able
Speaker 1: to connect your hearing aids directly to the TV. So
Speaker 1: the main bottom line is that if you just want
Speaker 1: the easiest and most effective way to listen to audio
Speaker 1: or hear our see audio, just turn on the close captions,
Speaker 1: which is what we do in our house. And it's
Speaker 1: not because we can't hear the TV. It's mostly just
Speaker 1: because our kids are so loud in the background. We're like,
Speaker 1: what are they saying? All right, I'll link that up
Speaker 1: on the website. Rich on tech dot Tv. Time for
Speaker 1: the feedbag segment. That is your feedback plus the mail bag.
Speaker 1: These are the emails, the comments, and the questions I
Speaker 1: get from you. If you'd like to submit yours, go
Speaker 1: to rich on tech dot tv hit contact. Mike writes
Speaker 1: in from Bakersfield, I just watched your review on the
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy Fold seven. You gave a good review, but
Speaker 1: there's one thing I learned from my Fold five. I've
Speaker 1: had to change the screen twice in two years. It
Speaker 1: starts out as a black dot along the crease, then
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Speaker 1: my phone protection plan has covered the repairs. I do
Speaker 1: like the phone and its features, but get cell phone
Speaker 1: protection because you will need it. Mike, I do believe
Speaker 1: that Samsung said the screen was more durable this time around,
Speaker 1: so but good warning. Thanks for the comment on that.
Speaker 1: Julia from Los Angeles writes in, Hey, rich rose Bud,
Speaker 1: you mentioned it before. It's an awesome app for journaling,
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Speaker 1: working out for you. Karen in Tarzana says I had
Speaker 1: trouble controlling my Sled smart bulbs with my Alexa recently,
Speaker 1: something I imagine many of your listeners have experienced. I
Speaker 1: got an email from Amazon saying the Sengled skill no
Speaker 1: longer works in Alexa, but I found a workaround that
Speaker 1: saved me from buying new bulbs.
Speaker 2: I have an Echo Show eight.
Speaker 1: I put the Show eight into this device discovery mode
Speaker 1: using a voice command. Then, one by one, I reset
Speaker 1: each bulb by switching the lamp off and on ten
Speaker 1: times until the bulb blinked. About a minute later, Alexa
Speaker 1: discovered the bulb, I renamed it, put it back in
Speaker 1: its usual spot, and now I can control all my
Speaker 1: bulbs by voice again, even in Alexa routines. This Sengled
Speaker 1: app no longer sees the bulbs when I'm okay with that,
Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping us up to date and all this
Speaker 1: tech stuff. I'm a loyal podcast listener and a KTLA viewer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not the only one that had issues with Single.
Speaker 1: I look this up. Apparently they were so off and
Speaker 1: on with their support that Amazon said we're no longer
Speaker 1: allowing you to be on this Alexa Skills platform. So
Speaker 1: the company's still in business, but they just weren't living
Speaker 1: up to their side of things, I guess. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad you hear that things are working for you. Incidentally,
Speaker 1: in the future with thread, which is local control of
Speaker 1: your smart home stuff, a lot of those issues will
Speaker 1: not have to go to the cloud, so a lot
Speaker 1: of these devices will be controlled in your home by
Speaker 1: your devices in your home. So things should get better
Speaker 1: in the future. Melody from Carlsbad says, I listened to
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Speaker 1: I wanted to give you a scam alert. I got
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Speaker 1: There you go. Okay, so watch out for that. Hey, rich,
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