Speaker 1: Too many streaming devices. Hackers can use lasers to talk
Speaker 1: to your smart devices. T Mobile unveils a fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: plan a hidden camera finder, getting the best deals on airfare,
Speaker 1: plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the stuff that I think you should know about
Speaker 1: happening in the tech world. It's also where I answer
Speaker 1: the questions that you send me, whether it's through Facebook, email, website, carrier, pigeon,
Speaker 1: however you get them to me, we answer them here.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Producer Megan, Hey, how's it going.
Speaker 1: It is going well, well, somewhat well. So you know,
Speaker 1: I always tell Megan this. So we do this thing
Speaker 1: for We tape our segment for the stations that we're
Speaker 1: on KTLA in Los Angeles, but we're also on a
Speaker 1: bunch of other stations, and so we always tape our
Speaker 1: stuff for the next day and we do it live
Speaker 1: as well. So some of the stations run a tape,
Speaker 1: some of them do it live. But anyway, all the
Speaker 1: time I always say to her, Ever, since having kids,
Speaker 1: I'm always like, we should just tape this today, even
Speaker 1: if it's two days early. Yeah, because you never know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen tonight when I go home, Like the
Speaker 1: kids could be sick. I'm not in tomorrow anyway, So
Speaker 1: last night turn out to be me. So I actually
Speaker 1: was cleaning out. I was taking down the Halloween decorations,
Speaker 1: and I blew off the front yard with like a
Speaker 1: you know, an air blower, and I knew I should
Speaker 1: have worn the eyeglass stuff or whatever because there's so
Speaker 1: much dust from all the fires and everything. So just
Speaker 1: all this stuff was blown up all over the place,
Speaker 1: and my kid was there and I'm like, oh, watch
Speaker 1: your eyes. Well, well, of course, so what happens? I
Speaker 1: get something in my eye? So last night I spent
Speaker 1: probably three hours going to the doctor. You know, I
Speaker 1: was literally running water over my eye for forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: trying to get it out of the mirror, you know,
Speaker 1: in the mirror whatever. Long story short, it was just
Speaker 1: like a scratch on the lower part of my eye. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank god not the cornea, because he's like, if this
Speaker 1: was a cornea, you'd be really hurting. But basically, I
Speaker 1: think I got something in there and like tried to
Speaker 1: rub it out of my eye, but I scratch you know.
Speaker 2: Anyway, did you go to the like an ear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like no, no, no, like an emergency care, you know,
Speaker 1: like a little okay. So so that was you know,
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars thankfully, and then these eye drops they
Speaker 1: prescribe me, you're like fifty five dollars. Yeah, what this
Speaker 1: is insane? So long story short. I could have been
Speaker 1: fine with my eyewear, you know, like if I would
Speaker 1: have just put on the stupid glasses I normally wear, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have been fine. And of course now it
Speaker 1: costs you have all people.
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, wouldn't feel like really good
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 1: I usually am. And usually it's like, look, anytime you
Speaker 1: ever do stuff with the with the eyewear protection, you're
Speaker 1: always like, give me a break. Yeah, nothing's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: right until it does, and then it's like you wish
Speaker 1: she did. Yeah, So all that time and energy wasted
Speaker 1: last night, the pizza, like all we had dinner ready,
Speaker 1: like all this stuff we had to like you know,
Speaker 1: so anyway, it's one of those things lesson learned. Just
Speaker 1: do what you're supposed to do when you're doing something,
Speaker 1: like if there's a step to take, like where eye
Speaker 1: protection whatever, Just do it. Yeah, it'll save you the
Speaker 1: house helmet Yeah, where.
Speaker 2: The helmets in the seatbelt? Please?
Speaker 1: All good advice. If you're listening for the first time,
Speaker 1: I do want to say, welcome to you. If you
Speaker 1: heard me on the Leo Laporte radio show or maybe
Speaker 1: on his podcast, welcome to this show. You're going to
Speaker 1: soon find out that it's much more unpolished than Leo's show. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, but we try. We're a podcast, we're not radio.
Speaker 1: But it's fun.
Speaker 2: We don't have commercials though, I mean we have little
Speaker 2: tiny ones.
Speaker 1: But do we even have commerce? I don't know if
Speaker 1: we do. We have like intros, we have like the intro,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, but all right, let's start with
Speaker 1: this because I've been watching the Have you been watching
Speaker 1: any of the Apple TV plus stuff? No? Okay, so
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you're you're into it.
Speaker 1: It's the first time I've ever been waiting for a
Speaker 1: new episode of a show. Wow, which is so crazy.
Speaker 2: I've heard this time ever.
Speaker 1: In a long time, I mean probably in like a decade. Well,
Speaker 1: with Netflix, they give you everything all at once, right,
Speaker 1: and I'm beginning to realize that I'm not sure that's
Speaker 1: the right way to do it, because it has gotten
Speaker 1: me in the app kind of checking the app. I've
Speaker 1: been watching The Morning Show on Apple TV plus Jennifer Anderson,
Speaker 1: Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell. It's not the best show in
Speaker 1: the world, but a I'm in that business, so I
Speaker 1: find it fascinating and it's just fun. And I don't
Speaker 1: watch a lot of TV, so for me, it's actually
Speaker 1: quite interesting. And you know, I was up in Petaluma
Speaker 1: over the weekend, so I had a lot of time.
Speaker 1: So I watched three episodes of a show in one weekend,
Speaker 1: which is more TV than I can tell you I've
Speaker 1: watched in a long time. But I tell you this
Speaker 1: because Apple TV Plus I'm getting for free because I
Speaker 1: bought an iPhone, and a lot of other people are
Speaker 1: getting it for free. But we're soon gonna have some
Speaker 1: decisions to make. According to a new survey by TV
Speaker 1: Time and UTAIQ, beyond the Big Three, they're saying seventy
Speaker 1: percent of those asked feel there will be too many
Speaker 1: streaming services to choose from. I kind of agree it's overwhelming. Right,
Speaker 1: So you've got HBO, Max coming up. You've got Disney
Speaker 1: Plus coming up, and Apple TV Plus just launched in
Speaker 1: addition to that. What else do you have? Well, you've
Speaker 1: got what else? Netflix, Ulu, all these random little ones,
Speaker 1: you know, like the food Boos of the world, like
Speaker 1: all these like you.
Speaker 2: Know, I don't know any of these, like off the
Speaker 2: grid smaller streaming services. I know they're out there.
Speaker 1: They're specialized. Like if you're into soccer, I think Fubu
Speaker 1: is like a big soccer one or Fubo. Okay, So
Speaker 1: if you're into British stuff, I think there's one that's
Speaker 1: for British stuff, you know, like that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: CBS has CBS All Access. Yeah, you can't watch CBS
Speaker 2: like show, like an old show or whatever without that.
Speaker 1: So crazy, isn't it. Oh, Amazon Prime Now a lot
Speaker 1: of people get that for free with Prime, so it's fine.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it's getting kind of crazy. So let's just
Speaker 1: see some of the things. In the survey. Forty two
Speaker 1: percent less than half said they intended to add a
Speaker 1: new streaming service for household viewing, which will probably be
Speaker 1: HBO Max or Disney Plus. And that's the thing. Disney
Speaker 1: Plus and HBO Max are both like very lucrative or
Speaker 1: not appealing, I should say, like, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good stuff on them.
Speaker 2: It covers a lot of yeah, surface area of shows.
Speaker 1: Like if I'm understanding Disney Plus, right, they have all
Speaker 1: the movies basically that he's ever come out with.
Speaker 2: So I ABC content.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I get all the Pixar movies, Like my
Speaker 1: kids can just watch like all the Pixar movies forever forever. Wow,
Speaker 1: And that's pretty wild for seven bucks a month.
Speaker 2: No, I love it, it's very it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight percent of participants said they were aware of
Speaker 1: the November twelfth launch of Disney Plus. Who's not. They've
Speaker 1: been advertising everywhere, so clearly, let's see. The other thing
Speaker 1: that helped with Apple TV plus is when Jennifer Aniston
Speaker 1: joined Instagram. Oh yeah, and she broke a record, earning
Speaker 1: one million followers in forty five minutes. And she has
Speaker 1: seventeen point five million followers.
Speaker 2: She broke Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as we say, still got it. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing for her.
Speaker 2: She is a force for sure.
Speaker 1: The service that most people don't know about is called
Speaker 1: QB qeb QB.
Speaker 2: How do you expel it?
Speaker 1: I don't know Quibi okay, And this is this has
Speaker 1: a lot of money behind it, Quebe, I don't know,
Speaker 1: has a lot of money behind it. Only five percent
Speaker 1: of people are aware of it. It's the one that's
Speaker 1: being started by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. You know,
Speaker 1: she was the former eBay person, like.
Speaker 2: She was, And I know Katzenberg.
Speaker 1: Is he's big. He does something used DreamWorks SKG. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Bielberg Disney.
Speaker 2: And then like left and them like made like Shrek
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 1: That's all that's right, SKG DreamWorks SKG Yeah. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: he was the k in SKG Spielberg Katzenberg Geff. And
Speaker 1: I'm guessing is the last one, uh huh no, because
Speaker 1: well he did music, I think.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Jason Blum Bloom and Steven Spielberg they're they're they're
Speaker 1: going to be part of the shows too. Anyway. This
Speaker 1: Kibi thing is like supposedly for short term short form content. Oh,
Speaker 1: I've heard of this, so it's that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big one too. So yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm on overload with all these things. Every month
Speaker 1: I get my credit card bill and I look at
Speaker 1: this all these little charges and it's like Netflix sixteen bucks,
Speaker 1: it's too little to be concerned about. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot for like, oh wait, when you add them
Speaker 1: all up, you're kind of like, am I really getting
Speaker 1: the use of this?
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 1: And then at and T TV, I always talk about
Speaker 1: I pay fifty a month for that, but I get
Speaker 1: HBO plus every cable channel. So it's kind of like, well, HBO,
Speaker 1: if I got it on its own, be fifteen you
Speaker 1: HBO go Yeah all that HBO.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got it? And HBO Max is confusing. I think
Speaker 2: we talked about it.
Speaker 1: Last Yeah, but it's it's going to be good to Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. Yeah, all right. Our first question Megan.
Speaker 2: Okay, our first question comes from Kim, and she's asking
Speaker 2: about outdoor wireless security cameras. She's looking for an outdoor
Speaker 2: security wireless camera that alerts me and is inexpensive. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of outdoor wireless cameras, but she wants
Speaker 1: she said, what was her requirement.
Speaker 2: Like cheap and inexpensive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean who doesn't want that, right? I mean, oh,
Speaker 1: hold on, I'd like to pay a lot of money
Speaker 1: for our camera.
Speaker 2: Some people I feel like want like really great quality cameras.
Speaker 2: You know, Okay, I'm just saying, like Devil's advocate, there
Speaker 2: are people, Oh yeah, especially in this city.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I think I would recommend this. So Amazon
Speaker 1: bought a company called Blink Eli and K and I
Speaker 1: think we saw them at CES. Were you with me
Speaker 1: at CES when we saw this company? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't remember them.
Speaker 1: But well their thing is that their little battery or
Speaker 1: their little camera lasts for two years on a battery,
Speaker 1: and it's and the best part is there's no installation.
Speaker 1: It comes to like a magnetic mount. You screw that
Speaker 1: magnetic mount to your outside wall and then you just
Speaker 1: the camera is magnetic pops on there. So you can
Speaker 1: install this thing easily yourself. It's called the Blink XT
Speaker 1: two indoor outdoor smart security camera. And the other thing
Speaker 1: is cloud storage is included. So she's talking cheap. Did
Speaker 1: I even tell you the price?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Ninety dollars? Oh wow, that's for the camera, and you
Speaker 1: don't have to pay for cloud storage. So the way
Speaker 1: the cloud storage works, this company is now owned by Amazon.
Speaker 1: They bought them. The way the cloud storage works is
Speaker 1: it gives you I think fourteen days of rolling storage.
Speaker 1: So and they only do clips. This is not the
Speaker 1: kind of camera that's going to record twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1: If you want that, you're talking more expensive, right, You've
Speaker 1: got to get a nest or something like that. A
Speaker 1: lot of people have these R lowcams. Those are good,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna cost you more. They kind of work
Speaker 1: the same way where they take clips, I believe. But
Speaker 1: you can also I think you can look in a
Speaker 1: live stream of this camera, but it's going to eat
Speaker 1: up the battery. That's how you get that two years
Speaker 1: of battery life. It only starts recording when it senses motion.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And this company blink because I interviewed I think it
Speaker 1: was the CEO or the founder someone from the company
Speaker 1: a CS and I was like, dude, how are you
Speaker 1: getting two years of battery life? And I said, that's
Speaker 1: literally why Amazon bought us, because they built the technology
Speaker 1: into these microchips that just they take a trickle of
Speaker 1: energy versus you know, hogging up a ton of you know.
Speaker 2: So they it senses movement, so like what if it's
Speaker 2: like windy.
Speaker 1: Well if something well that I'm sure they have algorithms
Speaker 1: built in that. Yeah, that help with that. But I
Speaker 1: have my nest cam during the holidays like Halloween, when
Speaker 1: I have my decorations up, it's going crazy. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: sending me alerts every ten minutes because the decorations are
Speaker 1: blown in the wind and it notices those and it
Speaker 1: goes crazy. Yeah. So but I think that's a good
Speaker 1: one to blink XT two indoor outdoor smart cam. You
Speaker 1: don't hear about this company as much, but I'm sure
Speaker 1: if you're within Amazon, they probably promote them a lot.
Speaker 1: But that's easy, right, Yeah, I mean I say, I say,
Speaker 1: go for it. Oh sorry, Okay, hold on, this is
Speaker 1: that there is a catch. Okay, So that camera that
Speaker 1: I just mentioned, that's an add on. You actually have
Speaker 1: to buy a starter kit. I remember this little trick. Okay,
Speaker 1: You've got to buy a starter kit which includes two
Speaker 1: cameras and it's one eighty Okay, So I think that's
Speaker 1: part of it is there's like a little hub that
Speaker 1: you have to use inside your house that helps you.
Speaker 1: But anyway, still still pretty darn good. Once you buy this,
Speaker 1: you don't really have to think much about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that. Speaking of smart home devices, hackers can
Speaker 1: use lasers to speak to your Amazon Echo or your
Speaker 1: Google Home. And this was a surprise story at a
Speaker 1: wired What they did was they aimed laser beams at
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of devices. You're talking smartphones, the iPhone,
Speaker 1: the Android phone, Amazon Echo, Google Homes, Facebook Portal, anything
Speaker 1: that has a microphone on it. They were able to
Speaker 1: trick it by sending a command over laser and all
Speaker 1: they did was tune the laser beam so that it
Speaker 1: sort of mimicked the frequency of a human voice. And
Speaker 1: guess what the little microphone thought. It was a human voice.
Speaker 2: And it's crazy.
Speaker 1: It is crazy. Now Here's the only thing that's kind
Speaker 1: of good about this is that it didn't work very
Speaker 1: well from very far. So if you're thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got your device by a window and they can
Speaker 1: hack in, you know, Okay, here's a scenario. You've got
Speaker 1: a smart door lock, or you've got a garage that
Speaker 1: has a smart you know, it's connected to your system,
Speaker 1: and they use this little laser to say, hey, a
Speaker 1: open the garage and now they can get into your
Speaker 1: garage from outside the house because you've done you know,
Speaker 1: you've set that up. So when you have all these
Speaker 1: smart home devices connected, yes, I have that, not that.
Speaker 2: You should say, but like I wouldn't. I don't know
Speaker 2: I would ever think to connect my garage opener to
Speaker 2: like ALEXA.
Speaker 1: Oh see why not? Like I love it, I personally
Speaker 1: have not done that. I do have the ability to
Speaker 1: do it because I like the idea that Amazon could
Speaker 1: put packages in my garage. I have not done that.
Speaker 1: Now I do.
Speaker 2: So I mentioned this to my mom, like the idea
Speaker 2: of letting a ups or whatever be able to put
Speaker 2: a package inside.
Speaker 1: She was like, no, really, yeah, I wonder why. I mean,
Speaker 1: is it the house thing? Like is it just because
Speaker 1: your house is your house? Like I don't feel comfortable
Speaker 1: with that either. Yeah, but I don't know why, Like
Speaker 1: if the guy's going to rob your house because he
Speaker 1: has access because he's Amazon guy, Like what are you
Speaker 1: going to do? And you have video of him doing it?
Speaker 1: You know? Or her could be her?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't know. I think it's just
Speaker 2: the idea of having someone be able to get into
Speaker 2: your house that you don't know. If it's like a
Speaker 2: male person that you know well and you see them
Speaker 2: every day, then like maybe it's different. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I actually personally wouldn't want someone to be able to
Speaker 2: even if it's Amazon, and like I can track it down.
Speaker 2: Like it's like why I would rather.
Speaker 1: Avoid it, Yeah, invasion of your privacy. Well, see, for me,
Speaker 1: it's more technical, like I don't really care about them
Speaker 1: opening the door perhaps like and slipping the pack the
Speaker 1: package in. But like to me, it's like we have
Speaker 1: an alarm at the house, and so it would be
Speaker 1: a whole nother thing where like you'd have to disable
Speaker 1: the alarm and like they can't, so then you have
Speaker 1: to on the days you're getting a package, which is
Speaker 1: every day in our house, by the way, literally every day,
Speaker 1: you'd have to disable the alarm for the personal comming.
Speaker 1: So it's a whole big thing, right, I think that
Speaker 1: would happen for a lot of people. Yeah, but then
Speaker 1: you would argue, I'm sure you can set it up
Speaker 1: where when they disable the front door or they unlock
Speaker 1: it with the electronic clock, it'll disable your alarm. But
Speaker 1: then who wants to go that far? Now everything's connected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like what if the one day, like let's
Speaker 2: say Lindsay leaves her eyepad.
Speaker 1: Drag my wife into this, Okay, Well, like.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, anyone, let's say.
Speaker 1: You like to make it real personal.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, let's say there's an iPad right
Speaker 2: there by the front door and they just are like,
Speaker 2: you know what, whatever, and they take it.
Speaker 1: Yes, but do you do that? I mean, you work
Speaker 1: here at our station. Do you just like steal stuff
Speaker 1: that you see around the station?
Speaker 2: No, well, you're a normal person.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, ninety nine point nine percent of people
Speaker 1: are normal. They're not stealing when they see like they
Speaker 1: see a laptop on the table, like, oh, you know what,
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to be a thief today, but I'm
Speaker 1: just going to steal that laptop because it's right there.
Speaker 2: Okay, never mind.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of weirdos. But I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: think that people don't give human beings the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt. Like ninety nine point nine percent of the
Speaker 1: people you meet are totally normal, average, regular, good people.
Speaker 1: And I would hope the person knocking on the door
Speaker 1: with Amazon is. But I agree, you don't know.
Speaker 2: No, I think you should definitely test it out. Though.
Speaker 1: I'll leave every I'll do it, and I'll leave like
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff. I'll leave like a bowl
Speaker 1: of candy like a signer. Okay, it's funny because I
Speaker 1: leave a tip out for the housekeeping at any hotel
Speaker 1: I stay at, and I always make a point to
Speaker 1: write a little note next to it that says thank you,
Speaker 1: because I don't want them to just think they're stealing,
Speaker 1: like my five dollars I leave out right right, So
Speaker 1: I'll write a note next to the laptop that says thanks,
Speaker 1: and see if they take it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's nice. You should, but you don't say,
Speaker 2: like housekeeping, this is for you.
Speaker 1: No, I just say thank you and they know it's
Speaker 1: I've never had a problem with that situation. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: usually they write back a nice note like they love
Speaker 1: writing back, a little note that says thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And then they leave extra towels and extra soap and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, like all this stuff in the bathroom
Speaker 1: they leave like double which I hate because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't need all this, but they do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 1: It's an ongoing cycle, oh, Rich, problem happens all the time.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's the deal with the laser beams, I guess.
Speaker 1: And the two takeaways from that story are don't leave
Speaker 1: your things by the window, and then also maybe these
Speaker 1: manufacturers will do more voice authentication so it knows it's you,
Speaker 1: and it has to verify certain things like maybe it
Speaker 1: asked for a pin. If it's like, hey, drain my
Speaker 1: bank account, it'll be like, hey, can I have your
Speaker 1: PIN number before we do that, you know, if it's
Speaker 1: the command. And then also maybe they'll build like some
Speaker 1: sort of shield around the microphone that helps it deflect
Speaker 1: these laser beams. Sounds so evil, all right, producer Megan,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 2: So I have a question from Tina. She is a
Speaker 2: She says that she's Tech Challenge, and she asks that
Speaker 2: she's been trying to figure out if there is any
Speaker 2: way that she can buy some sort of flash drive
Speaker 2: to plug into her iPhone seven to get all of
Speaker 2: the videos and photos off of her phone and onto
Speaker 2: something safe so that it will all be kept in
Speaker 2: an attached area. That's basically her question.
Speaker 1: What an attached to areas?
Speaker 2: She says, keep the info attached to the photos.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, so she basically wants a backup of
Speaker 1: her pictures off her iPhone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I would recommend a few things. I think that
Speaker 1: and this is a is a huge problem, like people
Speaker 1: just forget to back up their phone. They think they
Speaker 1: have an eye cloud. Some of them are, some of
Speaker 1: them aren't. But I think the main things I would
Speaker 1: recommend here. Number one, Google Photos. I just just download
Speaker 1: it and use it if you're if you're if you
Speaker 1: hate Google, or you don't like Google, get ee Cloud
Speaker 1: and just make sure your photos are in there. So
Speaker 1: if your photos are on your iPhone and they're an
Speaker 1: eye cloud, I mean that's pretty good. Yeah right. I
Speaker 1: mean you'd have to have your phone go dead and
Speaker 1: iCloud go dead for you to be at a loss. Right.
Speaker 1: Let's see. The other thing is if you're an Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime member, they have Amazon Prime Photos. You can download
Speaker 1: that app and you do get unlimited storage of full
Speaker 1: resolution of your pictures. I don't believe videos, but I
Speaker 1: know you do of your pictures, so I think you
Speaker 1: can just download that and it's kind of like the
Speaker 1: same thing. Let's see what else. The other thing if
Speaker 1: you want a physical device, which I think is very
Speaker 1: tricky to do, but it can be done. But a
Speaker 1: couple of them that I recommend. The first is a
Speaker 1: device called eb which we did a story with it.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a hard drive that's Wi Fi connected.
Speaker 1: You put it in your house, You download the app
Speaker 1: on your phone. Every time your phone gets you know, overnight,
Speaker 1: it will kind of look for all your pictures and
Speaker 1: it will back them up. And their engineers are pretty smart.
Speaker 1: They even made it so that it will go into
Speaker 1: iCloud and pull your pictures out from there.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: So even if you have pictures not on your phone,
Speaker 1: they're backed up an iCloud, it'll still back up those.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty good. Yeah, that's expensive. It's like, I think,
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty bucks. So, but it's a one
Speaker 1: time thing. You know, it should last for a while.
Speaker 1: The other thing, if you just want something you physically
Speaker 1: plug into your phone, there's a thing from sand Disc
Speaker 1: called i Expand. And again we did a story on
Speaker 1: this a long time ago, and it's it's just you know,
Speaker 1: you plug it in and it will run through the backup.
Speaker 1: I found in my testing with that device that it's
Speaker 1: not always perfect and it's a lot of work to
Speaker 1: plug the thing in, let it go through its motions,
Speaker 1: you got to keep the app open, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: So I think one of those more automatic solutions are
Speaker 1: probably better. The Google, the Amazon, the iCloud or the
Speaker 1: EB Right, how do you have your pictures backed up
Speaker 1: iCloud iCloud? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the best thing. You Uh,
Speaker 1: Google Photos and I have you lad. I do have iCloud.
Speaker 1: I have two hundred gigs on there, but I use
Speaker 1: it mostly for like to back up my computer, so
Speaker 1: I have my desktop always synks to that, so let's smart.
Speaker 1: Remember I got burned with my computer last time where
Speaker 1: it failed, So now I have that turned on. Where
Speaker 1: anything I because a lot of times you just throw
Speaker 1: stuff on your desktop. Do you do that like where
Speaker 1: you just throw stuff on there, or you have stuff
Speaker 1: in your downloads folder or you have stuff in your
Speaker 1: documents folder. All that is sync to iCloud for me,
Speaker 1: and then I use it for other little things too.
Speaker 2: Do you use photos on your computer?
Speaker 1: No, I do not. I only use Google Photos for
Speaker 1: the organization. And I'm desperately waiting for them to do
Speaker 1: their d duplication feature because I have dumped so many
Speaker 1: pictures in there that there's like triple kits and quadruple kits.
Speaker 2: That sounds like so so necessary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they just need AI to go through and
Speaker 1: be like, hey, Rich, you have seven of these pictures,
Speaker 1: which one do you want to keep? Do you want
Speaker 1: to keep the biggest one? Do you want to keep
Speaker 1: the one that's the highest resolution. Do you want to
Speaker 1: keep the one that you took first or the you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because a lot of them are
Speaker 1: when you when you migrate your accounts and you consolidate,
Speaker 1: a lot of times you get little thumbnails mixed in.
Speaker 1: You get you know, you uploaded a picture to Instagram
Speaker 1: after you did a filter on it, and now it's
Speaker 1: in your library forever, and it's really it just bugs me.
Speaker 1: I just want to cleaned up. Well. T Mobile is
Speaker 1: really gunning for their merger with Sprint, and it looks
Speaker 1: like it's probably going to happen. But they did have
Speaker 1: a big event with a couple of takeaways. Number One,
Speaker 1: they are going to launch their five G network nationwide
Speaker 1: on December sixth, covering two hundred million Americans in more
Speaker 1: than five thousand cities and towns, including millions in rural America.
Speaker 1: So that's number one. So if you're been waiting for
Speaker 1: five G, it's coming fast and furious December sixth from
Speaker 1: T Mobile. It's not gonna be the entire nation, It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be everywhere. But it sounds like a pretty
Speaker 1: big start. Two hundred million people? How many Americans are
Speaker 1: in the US.
Speaker 2: Isn't it like one hundred and twenty million or something?
Speaker 1: I think it's like six hundred how many millions? I
Speaker 1: think it's seven hundred million Americans? How many Americans? Let's see?
Speaker 1: Uh what? Oh, never mind, it's wait, what is it?
Speaker 1: Hold on? This can't be right?
Speaker 2: Was that close?
Speaker 1: The Census Bureau rejects a population of four hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen million and twenty sixty So the last census we
Speaker 1: had three hundred million. Okay, so that says it covers
Speaker 1: two hundred million people. Wow, so it's only like it's
Speaker 1: like a third of the US or two thirds of
Speaker 1: the US kind of oh wow, that's amazing. All right.
Speaker 1: So the two phones you can get five G on
Speaker 1: from T Mobile are the Samsung Galaxy Note ten plus
Speaker 1: five G or the one plus seventy Pro five G.
Speaker 1: McLaren say those ten times fast and it will work
Speaker 1: with sprints five G and T Mobiles five G. So anyway,
Speaker 1: there you go five G. Let's see crazy fast speeds.
Speaker 1: It's going to be fourteen times faster than standard T mobile. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: fourteen times network capacity than standard T mobile, crazy fast
Speaker 1: speeds over one hundred megabits per second to ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the US population. And wow, that's pretty good. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else. Okay, they have this other new
Speaker 1: plan called T mobile Connect and this is going to
Speaker 1: get all the headlines new prepaid service that's going to
Speaker 1: be just fifteen dollars a month, which is half of
Speaker 1: T Mobile's cheapest service. So what's the biggest question you
Speaker 1: have about that service? Megan about at and t noh
Speaker 1: T Mobile for fifteen.
Speaker 2: Bucks a month, how much data do you get?
Speaker 1: That's right? And what do you get to gigabytes of
Speaker 1: high speed data that's you're going to burn through that
Speaker 1: on your on the Instagram you're surfing right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's let's see, for twenty five dollars a month, you
Speaker 1: have five gigs of data. But still for a lot
Speaker 1: of people who just want I get a lot of
Speaker 1: emails from people who have phones for their elderly parents
Speaker 1: and they say, look, my mom's she did four minutes
Speaker 1: last year or four minutes last month, like can you
Speaker 1: recommend a plan? And they're all kind of expensive unless
Speaker 1: you go, so anyway, fifteen dollars. No, that's amazing, pretty
Speaker 1: good for a certain use case, right, not for everyone.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this next question comes from Rendee. Didn't I
Speaker 2: hear about an app or something that helps find you
Speaker 2: lower car and home insurance?
Speaker 1: Oh well, she probably did, maybe for me a long
Speaker 1: time ago. Were you here when I talked about Gabby?
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound for there.
Speaker 1: I think it was before your time. But I thought
Speaker 1: this was a great app, and it's it's called Gabby,
Speaker 1: and it kind of like they put a little high
Speaker 1: tech spin when you go to any of those websites.
Speaker 1: By the way, ninety nine point nine percent of websites
Speaker 1: that you go to online to compare your car insurance
Speaker 1: or your home insurance or your renters, they're all bogus.
Speaker 2: They're just taking your data.
Speaker 1: They're taking your data and they're selling it to the
Speaker 1: companies that say, hey, we want to get that data
Speaker 1: and we'll sell you a quote. Yeah. So it's not
Speaker 1: a it's not very good. And now I think that Gabby.
Speaker 1: Their difference is that they probably do some of that,
Speaker 1: but they do work with a bunch of insurers, like
Speaker 1: I think, in a legit way. So they shop from
Speaker 1: our network of forty top insurance companies, including Progressive, Kemper, Traveler's, Hippo, Lemonade,
Speaker 1: clear Cover, Safec, Mercury Insurance. And so I think that
Speaker 1: they just seem And the reason why I think they
Speaker 1: just seem more legit is because it's a tech company
Speaker 1: more so than like these random quote online dot com
Speaker 1: kind of things, you know what I mean. And I've
Speaker 1: done those, believe me. And the problem with doing them
Speaker 1: is that they just get you get hounded. Don't even
Speaker 1: ever put your phone number in those things because you
Speaker 1: will just get calls like you cannot believe. So anyway,
Speaker 1: Gabby's really cool. And the other thing I like about
Speaker 1: what they do, at least when they started, and I
Speaker 1: think they still do this is that you can log
Speaker 1: in with your insurance. So if you have like Progressive,
Speaker 1: and you log in with Gabby, like Gabby will you
Speaker 1: create account, you log in with your Progressive account. They
Speaker 1: go in and crawl your Progressive account to see the
Speaker 1: coverages that you have, and so they know exactly what
Speaker 1: you've got going on the cars that you have, and
Speaker 1: then they use that to pull your quote and compare
Speaker 1: so and they also know how much you're paying, So
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of like a step above all
Speaker 1: these other random things. If you're not comfortable with logging in,
Speaker 1: which some people aren't, I totally am, you can upload
Speaker 1: a pdf of your declarations page from your insurance company
Speaker 1: and they'll use That might not be as good. But
Speaker 1: the other thing that Gaby will do is kind of
Speaker 1: remind you every six months to shop and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: we found your stuff. You know, we found a lower rate.
Speaker 1: So for me personally, when I tried this, I did
Speaker 1: not find a lower rate. Okay, so my insurance I've
Speaker 1: had them for a while and I just feel like
Speaker 1: I have a pretty good rate with them, so I
Speaker 1: can't seem to get any cheaper. But anyway, that's when
Speaker 1: I check out gabby dot com. Gabby dot com seems
Speaker 1: pretty good cool. Have you ever stay in an Airbnb, Megan?
Speaker 2: Have I stayed in Airbnb?
Speaker 1: Yes? What about a hotel room?
Speaker 2: Have I stayed in a hotel room?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I've never stayed in.
Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered about a hidden camera in a
Speaker 1: room that you've stayed in?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that like a thing? Like I think most people
Speaker 1: at this point we see it on the news, think
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Our camera's everywhere. Yeah, yeah, I think it's normal to
Speaker 2: be a little bit paranoid these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I agree. I mean I kind of I
Speaker 1: don't search my hotel room, but you kind of when well,
Speaker 1: when you see like a little grate, you wonder I
Speaker 1: do take a look inside the grate, especially in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: I kind of look just up at the grate in
Speaker 1: the you know, if there's usually like an air vent
Speaker 1: or I just kind of I'm always.
Speaker 2: Like, what's the air event? Is that where you think
Speaker 2: it would be?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's just an easy place to hide it.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's usually where you hear about him when
Speaker 1: you see it on the news air events. Well, the
Speaker 1: reason I tell you all this is because there is
Speaker 1: a new device called the Scout Hidden Camera Finder on
Speaker 1: a website spyguy dot com. And this guy wanted to
Speaker 1: create a device that can help people because he sees
Speaker 1: this on the news all the time, and so he
Speaker 1: created the Hidden Camera Finder and the Scout. It's a
Speaker 1: little device that has kind of like these high powered
Speaker 1: LED lights plus a little hole in the middle, so
Speaker 1: if you held it up, it looks like a hole
Speaker 1: with LED lights around it. And plus a place to
Speaker 1: hold it. And when you light up those lights, you
Speaker 1: look through the hole and those lights will reflect on
Speaker 1: a camera lens. Right, so you kind of look around
Speaker 1: the room almost like what would it be like looking
Speaker 1: through not binoculars, but almost like a little.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like binoculars. Binoculars one binocular, Yeah, like
Speaker 2: one like one lens mono.
Speaker 1: Monocular, a monocule kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so the reason why this works is because most
Speaker 1: lenses out there in a camera have an infrared filter
Speaker 1: and that bounces back the infrared light or the I
Speaker 1: guess the LED light.
Speaker 2: How have we not thought of this? I don't know,
Speaker 2: but it's so smart.
Speaker 1: But it's funny. He says this because when you when
Speaker 1: we record stuff with the iPhone ten or the iph
Speaker 1: ten and up, which has this IR blaster for your
Speaker 1: face ID, it always flickers when you're taking a video
Speaker 1: of it, because that's it's reacting with a camera that
Speaker 1: you're taking a picture of somehow. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: like what he's talking about. So, long story short, you
Speaker 1: look around the room with this little thing, and if
Speaker 1: you see a light flashing back at you, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's probably a camera there and you can go look.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of wild. It's one hundred dollars. And
Speaker 1: the reason why there's other ways of looking for cameras
Speaker 1: and rooms. I guess a preferred method is using some
Speaker 1: sort of wireless transmitter that senses if there's a wireless
Speaker 1: transmission going on. But this works with cameras that might
Speaker 1: record to a micro SD card and they're not transmitting anything. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know. Let's say there was a story with Southwest
Speaker 1: Airlines where I think we talked about it here where
Speaker 1: they put the camera in the bathroom and I think
Speaker 1: my theory was it was a GoPro because they were
Speaker 1: watching it live on the iPad. Maybe I just shared
Speaker 1: it on Twitter. I can't remember, but it would catch
Speaker 1: something like that. Well, I guess that would be transmitting.
Speaker 1: So never mind. The point is this kind of this
Speaker 1: is a low tech way of finding cameras.
Speaker 2: So would you buy one?
Speaker 1: I personally would not know, Yeah, but you know, would
Speaker 1: you No? This is kind of think it's it's next level.
Speaker 2: I think if you're a spy, well, what if you traveled?
Speaker 1: What if you traveled for work three hundred days a year?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like you're in a different hotel room every night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that makes sense, sure, but I
Speaker 2: don't so there's you know, no reason.
Speaker 1: But I think there's an appeal to this kind of
Speaker 1: device and it's cool that it's out there. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: some people may be drawn to it because they're you know,
Speaker 1: more caution than others. But my thing, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just feel like with an Airbnb, it's like illegal
Speaker 2: to put cameras in.
Speaker 1: The Airbnb, right, I think so.
Speaker 2: So, I mean that would be if you're someone who,
Speaker 2: like for some reason, stays in a lot of airbnbs.
Speaker 2: I feel like Airbnb over hotel, right, I feel like
Speaker 2: airbnbs definitely have cameras.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that the like if I had to
Speaker 1: think of the law, I think that anytime there's an
Speaker 1: expectation of privacy, yeah, you know, you would expect like
Speaker 1: a camera. Now I wonder because I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: the law on this, because if it's your house that
Speaker 1: you're renting and you have cameras in the living room
Speaker 1: and in the dining room, I don't know, is that okay?
Speaker 1: But not in the bedroom perhaps because there's an expectation
Speaker 1: of privacy, and in the bathroom because I think there
Speaker 1: is something to do with expectation of privacy. When you're
Speaker 1: in a living room, you don't have as much expectation
Speaker 1: of privacy as you are in the bedroom, right, right,
Speaker 1: but you're in a private home. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it gets a little complicated.
Speaker 2: I mean, these are like good things to talk about, though,
Speaker 2: I mean Airbnb should Airbnb has some issues right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but maybe they do have rules for they might.
Speaker 2: Be like no cameras. I would, I would.
Speaker 1: Assume, but you also want to protect your place if
Speaker 1: you had.
Speaker 2: No No, I totally agree. I yeah, I would never
Speaker 2: honestly want to rent anything out. I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's say it had a camera. Let's say
Speaker 1: you go on the airbnbing and you get in there
Speaker 1: and there's a camera in the kitchen and a camera
Speaker 1: in the living room. Are you okay with that?
Speaker 2: No? Because I feel like whoever's renting out this house
Speaker 2: is literally just I think they're just watching you, Like
Speaker 2: they just turn their phone on and they're just like
Speaker 2: seeing what's going on. I think that that's really strange.
Speaker 1: But do they have a right to do that because
Speaker 1: it's their house? Yeah? See, these are it's complete I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're paying, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know the answer to that. Yeah, it's a weird thing,
Speaker 1: right when you start to think.
Speaker 2: About it, Well, okay, if it's the same thing, as
Speaker 2: you know, it's not the same. But getting a hotel
Speaker 2: room like you.
Speaker 1: That I think you're expectation of privacy.
Speaker 2: But if you have like a suite like I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's weird, all right, it is weird.
Speaker 1: Uh wait is it my turn? Yeah? I think it
Speaker 1: is my turn.
Speaker 2: You just talked about the.
Speaker 1: Camera, Gabby, Oh the camera. Oh, it's your turn. Go ahead.
Speaker 2: So this next question comes from Bill. So I know
Speaker 2: you have written some iPhone books since I use Android,
Speaker 2: have you ever considered writing one hundred and one Tips
Speaker 2: for Android? I would be your first customer. Love listening
Speaker 2: to your podcasts.
Speaker 1: Ah, well, thank you, Bill. Here's the thing. I get
Speaker 1: this question all the time. And yes, my book is
Speaker 1: one hundred and one iPhone Tips and Tricks, and I
Speaker 1: get this question all the time. People want to know,
Speaker 1: rich when are you going to write the Android book?
Speaker 1: And believe me, I would if I could. And here's
Speaker 1: the reasons why I can't. Android is different on every
Speaker 1: device out there, even if you have a Samsung device,
Speaker 1: it's different on the Note than it is on the
Speaker 1: S nine, And it's different on the S ten, And
Speaker 1: it's different on the S six that some people are
Speaker 1: still rocking. It's different on the LG phone. It's different
Speaker 1: on the Pixel phone. It's different on the new Pixel
Speaker 1: versus the old Pixel. It's tricky with Android because there
Speaker 1: is not one flavor of Android that runs across all devices.
Speaker 1: In fact, even within Android, like if you said, well, Rich,
Speaker 1: just do it for like Android ten or Android nine.
Speaker 1: There are features that are left out of manufacturer's phones
Speaker 1: because every manufacturer has the right to include or not
Speaker 1: include a feature except for core things like you know
Speaker 1: you have to have Google play Store on there, right yeah,
Speaker 1: or you know YouTube or maps pre installed. But after that.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how to tackle the whole Android thing. Now,
Speaker 1: if I didn't have a full time job on a
Speaker 1: TV station, I only wrote books, Like yes, would I
Speaker 1: write a book on the Note ten? Of course, I'd
Speaker 1: love to, And that'd be a great book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, like since you can just personalize the
Speaker 2: phone so much, it would be What would be interesting
Speaker 2: would be if like you did your take on like
Speaker 2: how you run your Android, right.
Speaker 1: And I actually thought about that. Yeah, but and there
Speaker 1: are some things, and you know, maybe it is my
Speaker 1: fault for not sitting down and trying to come up
Speaker 1: with one hundred and one things that actually work across
Speaker 1: all Androids. Yeah, but I feel like the book would
Speaker 1: much would be much more oriented towards like apps you
Speaker 1: can download in ways of customizing your phone. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things like I have a system.
Speaker 1: When I get an Android phone to test, I sort
Speaker 1: of go through and like do all these same things,
Speaker 1: like the way I set up my WiFi and the
Speaker 1: way I set up this and my homescreen and the
Speaker 1: things I download. So maybe there's a place for it.
Speaker 1: I think that the iPhone is just easier to do
Speaker 1: right now because it does run the same software on
Speaker 1: iPhone six S until eleven pro. It's like five generations
Speaker 1: of phones times three phones in each generation, so you're
Speaker 1: talking like fifteen devices that it works on, you know,
Speaker 1: going back five years. So it's anyway. So that's the
Speaker 1: short answer of it, and the long answer is that yes,
Speaker 1: I'd love to do it, but I only have so
Speaker 1: much time in my life, and I also want to
Speaker 1: make a book that's going to be available to the
Speaker 1: most amount of people, because it's tough to write a
Speaker 1: book and it only sells like three hundred copies because
Speaker 1: that's how many people have the OnePlus, you know, so
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's tough not to knock on one
Speaker 1: plus I love them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, Oh so you would have to write
Speaker 2: the book specific to like a Samsung or right.
Speaker 1: Oh so that's the tough part.
Speaker 2: But I could probably you could do the pixel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not no one has the pixel that's the problem.
Speaker 1: No that phone. Okay, just to give you an example, I.
Speaker 2: Thought it was like such a popular.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll give you. I'll give you an example. Okay,
Speaker 1: the pixel last year. Okay, hold on, I'll start the
Speaker 1: other way. Okay, the iPhone in one quarter sells about
Speaker 1: fifty million units in one quarter. That's three months a
Speaker 1: newer iPhone or any iPhone. Let's just say when an Apple,
Speaker 1: they sell about fifty million iPhones in three months, right, pixel?
Speaker 1: I think they sold last year two to four million total.
Speaker 2: What that's in the US?
Speaker 1: Uh, in the world everywhere?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Uh Pixel three. Let's see, let's see how many they sold.
Speaker 2: I've noticed a lot of influencers have been like pushing
Speaker 2: the Pixel. But I'm like, you definitely posted this on
Speaker 2: an iPhone. If they talk about it in a video
Speaker 2: like a selfie video on Instagram stories, like, it doesn't
Speaker 2: look like it's actually been shot.
Speaker 1: On an iPhone, really well, they probably do sell it
Speaker 1: on them. Yeah that's what's uh, isn't that crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 2: That is crazy?
Speaker 1: So there you go. I think, yeah, two million, that's
Speaker 1: that's wild. That's okay. So that's why that's the problem
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: That's the problem.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Bill, Okay, So should we speak about the iPhone
Speaker 1: because a new review is out of the camera in
Speaker 1: the iPhone and there's this website called doc Soomark DxO Mark, and.
Speaker 2: You have your review coming out pretty soon.
Speaker 1: Yes, So I a little spoiler alert. We did a iPhone.
Speaker 1: I took the iPhone eleven Pro Max versus the Pixel four.
Speaker 1: I took them both out and I did like three
Speaker 1: different locations five hours, and I just shot a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of pictures. We're gonna show that on KTLA and
Speaker 1: I'll save my opinion for maybe the next report or
Speaker 1: the next podcast. I can tell it now, I guess
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. But DxO Mark came out their
Speaker 1: review of the iPhone eleven Pro camera. And before you
Speaker 1: think that the iPhone eleven Pro Max is the top
Speaker 1: camera out there, according to them, there's two phones that
Speaker 1: are better. Oh and those two phones are the Huawei
Speaker 1: May thirty Pro, which you can't get in America, and
Speaker 1: the second one is the Shaomi me CC nine Pro Premium,
Speaker 1: which again not in America.
Speaker 2: Is that the one that's like one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: no idea megabytes or something.
Speaker 1: Oh, one hundred and twenty megapixelsh And then after the
Speaker 1: iPhone comes the Samsung Galaxy Note ten Plus, and then
Speaker 1: the Galaxy Yeah, Galaxy Note ten basically after the iPhone. Okay,
Speaker 1: so anyway, okay, and then the pixel is way far down.
Speaker 1: It's it's actually number one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten eleven. Now, DxO Mark is very controversial. People trash
Speaker 1: them online. People, some people swear by them. Other people
Speaker 1: trash them, say that they get paid to do all
Speaker 1: these things whatever. But the reality is they do a
Speaker 1: very thorough job of reviewing the cameras. And so here's
Speaker 1: the bottom line from the iPhone eleven Max pro eleven.
Speaker 1: Pro Max matches our top store for video recording video
Speaker 1: clips with good detail, very wide dynamic range, and smooth
Speaker 1: stabilization in most circumstances. It's still image results put it
Speaker 1: among the best thanks to consistently good results from the
Speaker 1: primary camera, which now has a very capable wide angle
Speaker 1: lens with the widest field of view we've seen. Boca
Speaker 1: Is and Zoom are not quite up with the very best,
Speaker 1: Big Deal, but those are not top priorities. New iPhone
Speaker 1: is an easy recommendation for any mobile image creator, especially
Speaker 1: with those who have already invested in the iOS system.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'll just go ahead and kind of
Speaker 1: like tell you my difference. When I'm carrying the iPhone,
Speaker 1: I feel like I can conquer the world, and I
Speaker 1: really do. It just feels like it does everything. It's
Speaker 1: really good. We shoot with it all the time. Remember
Speaker 1: we shot we tried to shoot something with a pixel
Speaker 1: the other day. Yeah, pixel photos are amazing, but it
Speaker 1: kind of like I've always said, it's a one trick pony.
Speaker 1: What happened when we tried to shoot a video the
Speaker 1: other day on the pixel? What happened to that video?
Speaker 2: Audio was all messed up like it didn't sink right,
Speaker 2: which was really strange.
Speaker 1: Have we ever had that problem on an iPhone?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Never, No. So we plug a microphone into the pixel,
Speaker 1: which it accommodates, and we roll our video and you
Speaker 1: play back the video and guess what, Rich's lips are
Speaker 1: moving and you're not hearing what I'm saying until a second.
Speaker 2: Later, and it sounded really sounded really strange. And that
Speaker 2: wasn't the MIC's fault. That was like the pixel, like
Speaker 2: the way it Yeah, so if you.
Speaker 1: Only want great pictures and really nothing else matters to you,
Speaker 1: I do think the pixel is amazing if you want
Speaker 1: a combination of things like an Apple Watch and you know,
Speaker 1: not Siri, but like you know, and great apps, yeah,
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff that comes along, and accessories,
Speaker 1: like you can walk into any seven eleven in America
Speaker 1: and buy a case for your iPhone or cable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't say the same.
Speaker 2: Right, the cable might not work, cable might cable might
Speaker 2: blow up, but you know they're everywhere, but you can
Speaker 2: get one. Most of them don't work, right seven eleven.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not gonna yeah, you know, yeah totally,
Speaker 1: But it's the cheaper cables. Yeah, they can definitely not
Speaker 1: work as much. By the way, I just learned a
Speaker 1: new tip for the Apple Watch. So when I get
Speaker 1: phone calls on the Apple Watch, you can just place
Speaker 1: your palm over it and touch the whole face of
Speaker 1: the watch and it will silence the call, but it
Speaker 1: will still let it ring anyway. Pro tip for you.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: All right, Megan, go ahead, one more question. I think
Speaker 1: that's all we have time for.
Speaker 2: Oh key, what do I want to ask? Okay, so
Speaker 2: this next question comes from Eddie Love, your podcast and
Speaker 2: site always filled with amazing info. I am looking to
Speaker 2: buy a new tablet on Black Friday. I know you
Speaker 2: recommend iPad, but we are an Android family. We don't
Speaker 2: own any Apple products. So do you have an Android
Speaker 2: reckon all tablet?
Speaker 1: I do not, and I don't know what to say
Speaker 1: because I I just the reason I don't recommend the
Speaker 1: Android tablets because I just don't think they're as good
Speaker 1: as the you know, yeah, the iPad, right, and the
Speaker 1: iPad price for three twenty nine, You're getting so much
Speaker 1: for that money, including a great tablet experience, great accessories,
Speaker 1: Apple pencil support if you want it, cases, you know,
Speaker 1: you can get all kinds of cases and keyboard covers
Speaker 1: and all kinds of great stuff. So it extends beyond
Speaker 1: just kind of like the main like, oh, is it
Speaker 1: a good tablet? You know? And I get it. If
Speaker 1: you're an Android family, I get it. That's really tough
Speaker 1: to get a Apple tablet.
Speaker 2: If anything, if this person were to get an iPad,
Speaker 2: I feel like it would slowly make them want to
Speaker 2: like turn Apple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I get it if you've bought all your
Speaker 1: apps and Google Play and you want them to work
Speaker 1: on the tablet. But anyway, so the only tablet I
Speaker 1: would truly recommend if you're looking for an Android tablet
Speaker 1: is probably the Amazon Fire HD ten. They just came
Speaker 1: out with the new version of it. And the reason
Speaker 1: why I like the new version, it's one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars, by the way, super cheap, and this is
Speaker 1: why a lot of people are attracted to them. And
Speaker 1: by the way, don't buy any Amazon products until have
Speaker 1: a moratorium on buying anything Amazon untidy Black Friday, because
Speaker 1: they will go on sale all their products. Their branded
Speaker 1: products always go on sale. Put them in your shopping cart.
Speaker 1: Now wait until Black Friday and purchase but this is
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars. I would expect this to
Speaker 1: be one thirty during I'm just going to throw out
Speaker 1: that prediction.
Speaker 2: Did Amazon by Eero?
Speaker 1: Yes, so that will put it on sale on sale.
Speaker 1: They also have the new thing about the Fire HD ten.
Speaker 1: They just came out with the new version and it
Speaker 1: has USB C, which is great because we've been waiting
Speaker 1: for that for a long time. The only other thing
Speaker 1: to know about the Fire tablet is that it does
Speaker 1: not have Google Play Store on it, so you can't
Speaker 1: actually install the apps like that, but it has a
Speaker 1: lot of apps through the Amazon Store, but it does
Speaker 1: run Android. But the only other thing I'd look at
Speaker 1: is one of the tablets from Samsung and you know,
Speaker 1: one of their tabs. I think it's like the tab
Speaker 1: S six or something like that. But maybe look at those.
Speaker 2: And if you want a really really an expensive tablet,
Speaker 2: the Walmart.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you want to super super cheap thirdy, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Walmart on. We did a review of them and
Speaker 1: it's the on tablet. It's their own brand. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they're super cheap. I think they were like sixty five
Speaker 1: dollars or like ninety dollars really cheap for either like
Speaker 1: an eight inch or ten inch. I mean it's really
Speaker 1: really cheap.
Speaker 2: But you can like watch shows on.
Speaker 1: If you just need to do basic stuff like watch shows.
Speaker 1: You're not going to do any work on there, but
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, well that's going to do it for
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: Oh really?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What can you believe it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: How fast did that go? See when you're having.
Speaker 2: Fun talking about tech.
Speaker 1: When you're having fun, time flies. And that's why this
Speaker 1: job goes by so fast. Thanks so much for listening.
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