Speaker 1: It's an all out AI war between Chat, GPT and Google.
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Speaker 1: the show this week, C Scott Brown, Senior editor at
Speaker 1: Android Authority, is going to discuss all things Google Io
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Then we've got Jenny Blackburn, VP of
Speaker 1: User Design for Gemini Experiences and Google Assistant. She's gonna
Speaker 1: explain how to use Google Gemini AI Assistant. Yes, this
Speaker 1: week was all about Google Io and it was a
Speaker 1: good one. So as I said, it is an all
Speaker 1: out war between Chat GPT and Google. Google's AI is
Speaker 1: called Gemini, so this week was pretty unique. Google had
Speaker 1: a long standing event scheduled for Tuesday called Google Io.
Speaker 1: It's a big event where they show off all the
Speaker 1: things that they've been working on for the year and
Speaker 1: they show off new features that are coming soon, especially
Speaker 1: of course with AI. But not to be outdone, just
Speaker 1: about a week before the event was supposed to happen,
Speaker 1: what does open AI do? They say, Hey, we're having
Speaker 1: an event on Monday, the day before Google's event. Perfect timing.
Speaker 1: So the Open Ai event was not It didn't seem
Speaker 1: to be open to journalists. I think they had people
Speaker 1: in the audience, but I'm not sure who they were.
Speaker 1: It was just mostly the people on stage showing off stuff.
Speaker 1: Small event, but they unveiled GPT four to oh, so
Speaker 1: this is a new flavor of their chat GPT that's
Speaker 1: even smarter. And the new term across all the ais
Speaker 1: is multi modal. What does that mean. It means that
Speaker 1: instead of just typing your questions, you can now do text,
Speaker 1: you can do voice, you can do vision. So it's
Speaker 1: a combination of things. It understands various inputs. Now we've
Speaker 1: had text, voice, and vision before, but now it continues
Speaker 1: to get better, and video is pretty much the new
Speaker 1: thing that these AI are very good at understanding. So
Speaker 1: they showed off a whole bunch of demos of all
Speaker 1: kinds of cool stuff. The entire event was about twenty
Speaker 1: six minutes. You can watch the video on YouTube. It
Speaker 1: just gives you a really good understanding of what's to
Speaker 1: come with Open AI and chat GBT, and you understand
Speaker 1: why chat GBT has become a household name. It's smooth,
Speaker 1: it's fluid, and in the future, very near future, it's
Speaker 1: going to become even more natural. The real time conversation
Speaker 1: aspect is getting amazing, So they demoed where you can
Speaker 1: talk to this chat GPT as you would a human,
Speaker 1: and you could even interrupt them mid sentence while the
Speaker 1: thing's talking back to you. You could just interrupt and change
Speaker 1: gears whatever you want, just like you would a real human.
Speaker 1: And the real time video interaction is particularly interesting because
Speaker 1: you can now just point your phone at things and say, hey,
Speaker 1: what's this or how can I use this? What's this four?
Speaker 1: And it's just another way of kind of absorbing the
Speaker 1: world's knowledge. So the new voice mode is coming in
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. Now, one of the neat
Speaker 1: things they did was they are making this new level
Speaker 1: of chat GBT four oh available to everyone. So once
Speaker 1: you go on to chat GBT, it may say, hey,
Speaker 1: you've been upgraded to chat GBT four. Oh that's what
Speaker 1: mine said yesterday, and it's free. Now. I will tell you.
Speaker 1: You're like, well, why should I pay twenty bucks to
Speaker 1: get all these features? What's chatchibt plus that generally gave
Speaker 1: you the access to this higher level of you know, smarts. Well,
Speaker 1: there are limits to how much you can use it.
Speaker 1: So I started using it with the added features, and
Speaker 1: after just a couple of chats back and forth, it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, now if you want to keep going,
Speaker 1: you got to pay or we're going to drop you
Speaker 1: down to the three point five. So again, lots of
Speaker 1: cool things coming from chat gbt open a kind of
Speaker 1: staying ahead of the game. There's also a desktop app
Speaker 1: which I did download for the Mac Windows is coming
Speaker 1: later and that brings chatchybt right into your desktop system
Speaker 1: with a quick shortcut keyboard shortcut. It is. It is
Speaker 1: pretty wild. So what did Google do the next day?
Speaker 1: These stakes were high for Google because Google is the
Speaker 1: search leader. Google started their presentation by saying, look, we've
Speaker 1: been working on AI for a long time, fifteen years, okay,
Speaker 1: So they made it very clear that they know their
Speaker 1: stuff when it comes to AI. Now their AI model
Speaker 1: is called Gemini, and again Gemini is getting smarter. It's
Speaker 1: now multi modal, which means it can handle text, it
Speaker 1: can handle images, it can handle video, it can handle code,
Speaker 1: and it's becoming just smarter and more fluid. So a
Speaker 1: couple of things that they announced AI agents. So these
Speaker 1: aiag they have an idea where you may just say
Speaker 1: to your AI, hey, can you return these shoes for me?
Speaker 1: And you take a picture of the shoes that you
Speaker 1: just bought. It will go into your Gmail, find that
Speaker 1: order number, It will find the information and fill out
Speaker 1: the form on how to return them. It will even
Speaker 1: contact the pickup company like UPS or FedEx and get
Speaker 1: you a return pickup date. Now that's a pie in
Speaker 1: the sky idea. That's where they think this can go.
Speaker 1: They didn't say when that's coming out, but that's kind
Speaker 1: of like where they think things are going, where things
Speaker 1: are actually going, and where things are happening in the
Speaker 1: next couple of months. Is here number one Google Search
Speaker 1: getting AI overviews. Now, if you say, rich, I already
Speaker 1: have this in my Google Search. Yes, if you opted
Speaker 1: into the AI experiments on Google, you might have been
Speaker 1: seeing this already. When you type in something on Google
Speaker 1: up at the top, it gives you kind of an
Speaker 1: AI generated overview of that topic. I call it a
Speaker 1: book report, but it provides quick, detailed answers to complex questions. Now,
Speaker 1: the big question here is Google Search going to be
Speaker 1: impacted by this, especially the advertising aspect. Google makes a
Speaker 1: lot of money by showing US ads at the top
Speaker 1: of our search results. You click a couple of those ads.
Speaker 1: That's how they make a bulk of their money. By
Speaker 1: having an AI overview where you just get the answer
Speaker 1: without having to really click anything, that's a problem for
Speaker 1: their advertisers. Now, of course, Google says it will not
Speaker 1: be a problem, but that remains to be seen how
Speaker 1: they're going to walk that fine line of still making
Speaker 1: gobs of money but providing answers very quickly with AI.
Speaker 1: Another new feature in Google Photos ask Photos. This allows you,
Speaker 1: instead of just putting in one keyword for your Google
Speaker 1: Photo collection, like beach, you can now say show me
Speaker 1: where I went to the beach last year and my
Speaker 1: best pictures from that trip, and it will find those
Speaker 1: pictures and unearth them. You can say what's my license
Speaker 1: plate number, and it will figure out which car you
Speaker 1: continually drive on a recent basis, find the picture that
Speaker 1: you took of your license plate, and tell you that
Speaker 1: license plate number. Another example they gave, Hey, when did
Speaker 1: my kid learn how to swim? It will look through
Speaker 1: all the pictures of your kid and figure out when
Speaker 1: they learn to swim. This is wild stuff, but again
Speaker 1: kind of pie in the sky. They're gonna this is
Speaker 1: gonna roll out soon, but they will have this and
Speaker 1: I can't wait to try this. First question, I'm gonna ask, Hey,
Speaker 1: show me all my duplicates of my library because I
Speaker 1: need to clear those out. Then they're putting Gemini, which
Speaker 1: is again their AI, into all of their apps. So
Speaker 1: we're talking Gmail, we're talking Docs. Any app that Google
Speaker 1: makes AI is going to be built in. So for Gmail,
Speaker 1: for instance, you can say, Hey, summarize all the recent
Speaker 1: emails I got from my kids' school, and what are
Speaker 1: my action steps, like what do I need to respond
Speaker 1: to And it will be smart enough to go into
Speaker 1: your Gmail and figure that out. When you're working on
Speaker 1: a document, you can say, hey, help me brainstorm this,
Speaker 1: or you know, help me write this, or look at
Speaker 1: my last presentation in Drive and help me make a
Speaker 1: better one this time around, and it will go into
Speaker 1: Google Drive and find out all that stuff. Now, Google
Speaker 1: says this is all done very privately, So even though
Speaker 1: it can access your documents, and it can access your
Speaker 1: Gmail and it can access your photos, it's not using
Speaker 1: any of your data to train its large language models,
Speaker 1: so it is keeping that information private. And then finally
Speaker 1: they mentioned that they're going to start flagging any of
Speaker 1: their AI generated content with a special watermark so that
Speaker 1: it can be identified. And the other demo I got
Speaker 1: in person, which was really really cool, was called Project Astra.
Speaker 1: This is again what I mentioned with open AI and
Speaker 1: chat GBT. It's a very new way of interacting with
Speaker 1: AI using the video camera on your phone. So you
Speaker 1: would just point your phone at something like they gave
Speaker 1: the example of a record player that's not working, or
Speaker 1: actually that was a different example, but you could just
Speaker 1: point your phone pretty much anything and say hey, where
Speaker 1: am I what does it look like? And they'd say, oh,
Speaker 1: it looks like you're in London. Right now based on
Speaker 1: you know, what we're seeing around you, or hey, show
Speaker 1: me stop when I when I get to a speaker,
Speaker 1: and you know, you can just pan your camera around
Speaker 1: the room and when you get to a speaker, it'll say, oh,
Speaker 1: I see a speaker. I mean, it's just really really
Speaker 1: new and interesting ways of interacting with all of the
Speaker 1: world's information, and access to information is just going to
Speaker 1: continue to get better. The flip side of all of
Speaker 1: this is that these AI models need to be trained,
Speaker 1: and the big question in the future is how are
Speaker 1: we going to train these things? Where are they getting
Speaker 1: the training data? If everything you've searched on the web
Speaker 1: is a summary for the next five years, that's going
Speaker 1: to be great. But when people stop writing articles because
Speaker 1: everything's summarized now, where does the new information come from?
Speaker 1: When everyone's generating images using AI, Where are we getting
Speaker 1: original art from? Where are we getting original music from?
Speaker 1: This is the new question that is going to be
Speaker 1: a rising with the rise of AI. All right, coming
Speaker 1: up on today's show, we're going to talk about new
Speaker 1: accessibility features coming soon. But first it's your term. Give
Speaker 1: me a call triple eight rich one oh one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: If you have a question about technology, phone lines are open.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Manny in Covina, California. Manny, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 2: Hey, mister Rich, good show. Listen. I have a different inquiry.
Speaker 2: It's the beginning of technology. I have a textbook and
Speaker 2: I was wondering if your opinion on the value of
Speaker 2: the Learning to Use Work Perfect five point zero, Slash
Speaker 2: five point one, Lotus one two three and Database three plus.
Speaker 2: The authors are Gary B. Shelley and Thomas J. Casmin.
Speaker 2: What do you think? Should I donate it? Do you
Speaker 2: want it? I mean, but I'd like to get some
Speaker 2: money for it. I looked online and I didn't really
Speaker 2: find too much on whether I can buy one. I
Speaker 2: wanted to see what the query would say. It did
Speaker 2: say that there are like maybe two available, so I
Speaker 2: think it's rare. So your opinion.
Speaker 1: What's the book called again.
Speaker 2: Learning to Use Work Perfect five point zero, Flash five
Speaker 2: point one, Lotus one two three and Database three plus
Speaker 2: dBase three plus.
Speaker 1: And who's the author? I'm sorry, who's the author?
Speaker 2: Shelley Cashman? I'm sorry, Gary B. Shelley, Thomas J. Cashman.
Speaker 1: And then there are three more Okay, so I'm just looking.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously eBay is the place to look for this.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking on eBay and I see a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of different books. Here. This looks like interesting,
Speaker 1: This looks like someone is selling like a copy of
Speaker 1: it maybe. But here's the thing. The bottom line is
Speaker 1: nobody needs this anymore. There is no need for this book.
Speaker 1: So that kind of limits its value because the only
Speaker 1: person that would want this is someone that's interested in
Speaker 1: the nostalgia factor or a collection factor. So a couple
Speaker 1: of things you can do with this number. One, go
Speaker 1: on eBay and type in the name exactly as you
Speaker 1: see it, and kind of get an idea of if
Speaker 1: people are selling this if they're not. If you want
Speaker 1: to sell it on there, go ahead, name a price
Speaker 1: or just let people bit it up. Start at ninety
Speaker 1: nine cents to what happens. But it's one of these
Speaker 1: things where it's it's this is a very small group
Speaker 1: of people that may want something like this. Now that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that it doesn't have value, but you'll find
Speaker 1: out on eBay if it does have value. Second thing
Speaker 1: is you can donate it to someone, maybe like a
Speaker 1: computer museum, or something like that if they want it.
Speaker 1: But really, Manny, I think that this main thing is
Speaker 1: that just go on eBay. eBay's your friend with this,
Speaker 1: and you know, a Google search, and just see if
Speaker 1: anyone else is selling this, see if there is any
Speaker 1: value in this. That's the best way of figuring it out.
Speaker 1: You know, I've got too much stuff already. I don't
Speaker 1: need any I want less stuff because I do keep
Speaker 1: a small amount of tech that I think in the
Speaker 1: future might be interesting. But at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: you know, this kind of stuff like a book, a
Speaker 1: book on how to use word perfect is just really
Speaker 1: probably I can't imagine many people would still want something
Speaker 1: like that. Sadly, now if it was like an old
Speaker 1: Blockbuster card maybe, like those are the kind of things
Speaker 1: that you know, people may find interesting. But good question.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the question today, Manny and Covina eBay, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. When eBay first came out, they call it
Speaker 1: the perfect Store, and it really is because if someone
Speaker 1: wants what you are selling, I mean, really, two people
Speaker 1: have to want what you're selling for it to be valuable.
Speaker 1: If only one person wants it, it's not really valuable.
Speaker 1: But if two people want it and they bit it up.
Speaker 1: It can become very valuable. So eBay is are really
Speaker 1: really to me such an amazing site. When it first
Speaker 1: came out, it just kind of blew my mind because
Speaker 1: I said, this is incredible. Like you put something on
Speaker 1: on a groad sale, you know, at a groad sale
Speaker 1: in front of your house. The only people that can
Speaker 1: possibly want that is someone who drives by and sees
Speaker 1: that product. But eBay is worldwide, everyone has the opportunity
Speaker 1: to buy it. Thanks for the question. Eight eight eight
Speaker 1: rich one one eight eight eight seven four two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Netflix getting into live sports with an
Speaker 1: NFL deal. So NFL is partnering with the NFL for
Speaker 1: uh or sorry. Netflix is partnering with the NFL for
Speaker 1: a three season deal, getting into sports streaming live two
Speaker 1: Christmas Day games this year, so this is a big deal.
Speaker 1: They haven't announced what games these are going to be,
Speaker 1: but as we know, the NFL is really making a
Speaker 1: lot of money off of selling their games to these
Speaker 1: different streaming services. Peacock had won last year. We know
Speaker 1: that Amazon got Thursday Night Football and this is just
Speaker 1: going to continue. I was looking up to see what
Speaker 1: we need to watch NFL this season and it's just
Speaker 1: all over the place. What NFL has not done is
Speaker 1: their own streaming service, which would just be bananas. If
Speaker 1: you could just pay a one time fee and get
Speaker 1: every game no matter what, that would be incredible. But
Speaker 1: we are going to see uh two games, two games
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day on Netflix. I'm here for it, and
Speaker 1: I think we're just going to continue to see more
Speaker 1: on Netflix when it comes to live events and live sports,
Speaker 1: something they really shied away from when Netflix first started.
Speaker 1: They said, why would we ever need to be like
Speaker 1: traditional TV? Why would we ever need to be like
Speaker 1: a traditional broadcaster? And the answer is those games when
Speaker 1: they are played live, are very valuable to advertisers. Netflix
Speaker 1: will make a lot of money on this deal. Eighty
Speaker 1: to eight Rich one on one eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one coming up, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why Twitter is no more. You're listening to Rich
Speaker 1: on tap. Let's go to Mark in San Diego. Mark,
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much. I'm learning a lot with your show
Speaker 3: and I appreciate what you do. Thank you A quick question.
Speaker 3: My current situation is I have at and T DFL
Speaker 3: internet and that's that's okay. If I mentioned names.
Speaker 1: Oh sure.
Speaker 3: And then I also have an old school landline. We've
Speaker 3: had the number in our family forever endeavor. So I'm
Speaker 3: paying on both of those and they just keep moving
Speaker 3: my internet rate up and up and up. So they're now.
Speaker 1: Pushing the Hey, a major company continues to raise prices
Speaker 1: on you. Yeah, no way, I can't believe that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna go. I get eighteen megabytes per second
Speaker 3: and I'm going to be paying ninety dollars a month
Speaker 3: just for.
Speaker 1: The Internet for eighteen eighteen down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: Got to dump that. Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they offered me, you know, they're like, hey,
Speaker 3: we've got this new Internet Air thing in your area.
Speaker 3: So one, what are your thoughts on Internet Air?
Speaker 4: Two?
Speaker 3: I currently have a cell phone that's AT and T
Speaker 3: and then I'm thinking about converting my landline from a
Speaker 3: landline and going to a different carrier like maybe Mint
Speaker 3: Mobile or T Mobile someone else and just let it
Speaker 3: take over my landline number.
Speaker 1: And what do you need to land on?
Speaker 3: How do you like AT and T Internet Air?
Speaker 5: Two?
Speaker 3: Is it smart going to two different carriers for cell phones?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, so the first question is, uh, so you
Speaker 1: have AT and T on your smartphone already, right, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so the question is how is the speed on your smartphone?
Speaker 1: Have you done a speed test?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not, I don't. Do you mean like using
Speaker 3: it as a hotspot?
Speaker 1: Well, just going to like if you go to a
Speaker 1: website like fast dot com on your phone, see how
Speaker 1: fast that is, because that's going to be a pretty
Speaker 1: good indication of how how fast this Internet air is
Speaker 1: going to be. Yeah, because you already have AT and T.
Speaker 1: Now I will tell you that the antenna inside the
Speaker 1: Internet air box is obviously going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more powerful than what's on your phone, but it
Speaker 1: gives you an idea. If you're getting five down, you're
Speaker 1: not going to get much more on the Internet air
Speaker 1: If you're getting one hundred down, then that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Interesting now, so that's my number one suggestion. I would
Speaker 1: also look in the upper right hand corner of your
Speaker 1: phone and see what kind of signal you have? What
Speaker 1: what type of phone do you have? Is it newer
Speaker 1: or do you have like five G Yeah, well.
Speaker 3: It's a couple of year old Pixel four A, yeah,
Speaker 3: Google Pixel four A. But it's been a great little phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh no, I love. I've been testing the Pixel
Speaker 1: eight a actually, and for five hundred bucks it's a
Speaker 1: great little phone, even though I know it'll be sold
Speaker 1: for cheaper, so don't buy it for five hundred Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's number one. So here's what what what AT
Speaker 1: and T is doing with Internet air. They're making that
Speaker 1: available in places where they don't have fiber internet. So
Speaker 1: in places like where you are, where DSL, they want
Speaker 1: to get people off the DSL because it's expensive and
Speaker 1: you know, to maintain and all that stuff. They would
Speaker 1: rather have people using their cellular network that's already in
Speaker 1: the area. So that's where they're activating AT and T air.
Speaker 1: So it's not in many places right now, but where
Speaker 1: it is, and they're they're probably offering a decent price
Speaker 1: as well. I have no problem with switching to it.
Speaker 1: Have you checked the other internet service providers in your area,
Speaker 1: like a Spectrum or cocks or whoever else services your area.
Speaker 1: Have you checked to c because if you're switching, you know,
Speaker 1: you might get a pretty good deal for the first
Speaker 1: two years or so on them as well.
Speaker 3: And I'm glad you brought that up because I just
Speaker 3: started looking into that obviously when I went to AT
Speaker 3: and T to try to negotiate a deal. They're like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: you know, we'll offer you this, you know, for fifty
Speaker 3: five bucks a month, you get the Internet air and
Speaker 3: that's it. They weren't willing to negotiating.
Speaker 1: No, they don't. They don't negotiate on the home Internet.
Speaker 1: None of them do. They're not. That's like kind of
Speaker 1: the new thing. In fact, AT and T is not
Speaker 1: really negotiating at all anymore on their home Internet. The
Speaker 1: thing that's non negotiable is the price increases like clockwork
Speaker 1: every year or so, my no mind does. But the
Speaker 1: website that I'd recommend to see what else is in
Speaker 1: your area speed test dot net. They have what's called
Speaker 1: a speed test performance site, and so you type in
Speaker 1: your zip code and it will tell you the different
Speaker 1: providers in your area and also the speeds that people
Speaker 1: are getting with those providers. So, for instance, if I
Speaker 1: type in a zip code in Los Angeles near where
Speaker 1: I am, you can see the different providers and what
Speaker 1: they're getting. Now. AT and T Internet Air is not there,
Speaker 1: but they do have kind of the T Mobile Internet.
Speaker 1: They've got a couple other providers that they do have
Speaker 1: speed tests for so I'd recommend looking at that as well.
Speaker 1: And I think that was your first question. The second
Speaker 1: question was the switching to the Mint mobile or whatever.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's kind of why I kept my landline
Speaker 3: all this time. If one network went down, I was
Speaker 3: had the other one as a backup. But like if
Speaker 3: I go with maybe a T Mobile and stay with
Speaker 3: AT and T or a Mint.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other The only issue with that, if you
Speaker 1: are going to switch to internet air, they probably give
Speaker 1: you the best price if you're also on their cell
Speaker 1: phone network as well? Is that not the case?
Speaker 3: Gotcha?
Speaker 1: So that would be my only consideration. But I will
Speaker 1: tell you I recently switched my wife to one of
Speaker 1: the mv and o's because my bill for her just
Speaker 1: kept going up and she doesn't use a lot of data,
Speaker 1: and it just it was like ninety bucks a month,
Speaker 1: and I switched to one that was like forty five
Speaker 1: a month unlimited. And it's you know, I've been asking
Speaker 1: her like every day, like, hey, do you notice any
Speaker 1: difference in your service? And she's like, no, not really.
Speaker 1: So you know, I have no problem with switching to
Speaker 1: save money, especially if you don't use that much data,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe do one thing at a time, you know,
Speaker 1: like maybe you know, jump off onto the internet air first,
Speaker 1: you know, wait a couple of months, and then if
Speaker 1: you want to switch your your cell phone provider, you
Speaker 1: can do that as well.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, gotcha? Okay, yeah, that's a great tip. Fast dot
Speaker 3: com and speed test dot net.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, check it out.
Speaker 3: Perfect, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, appreciate the call. Thank you all right.
Speaker 1: Uh eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two zero one. I mentioned that Twitter
Speaker 1: is going bye bye, and yeah, that's true. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a tease, but yes, Twitter has completed
Speaker 1: their rebranding to x dot com. If you use Twitter
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, you notice that half the time
Speaker 1: you would go to the website, it would be a
Speaker 1: Twitter address in the URL, and so you'd be like, well,
Speaker 1: wait a second, I thought this switch to X dot com.
Speaker 1: But this week Twitter has finally transitioned fully to x
Speaker 1: dot com. All core systems and all the URLs have
Speaker 1: now been moved to x dot com. And that means
Speaker 1: that the Twitter handle and the bluebird logo are gone.
Speaker 1: They are now just a memory, a memory for all
Speaker 1: of us that remember the failwal Do you remember the
Speaker 1: fail well, no, Adam's in for Bobo today doesn't remember
Speaker 1: the fail Well. That was when Twitter first started. It
Speaker 1: would always just it would always crash, and it would
Speaker 1: because too many people were using it, and it would
Speaker 1: go to this failwale that was like a I think
Speaker 1: it was like an upside down whale and it was just,
Speaker 1: you know, it was like kind of cute. It just
Speaker 1: you know, that meant Twitter was down. But this is
Speaker 1: now fully done and uh, yes, there's no So let
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Speaker 7: Hi, thanks for taking my call. I have a Sansung
Speaker 7: Galaxy twenty three and I just downloaded like the one
Speaker 7: I U six point one or something. Ye, yes, yeah,
Speaker 7: that one. So now when I text, it's the voice
Speaker 7: texting is gone, the microphone to voice text is gone.
Speaker 7: All there is is the ability to record a text
Speaker 7: message and send it.
Speaker 1: Okay, what what app are you using for your for
Speaker 1: your keyboard? Do you know?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So do you have your phone with you?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: Okay, you got to go into settings, okay, and we're
Speaker 1: going to go into keyboard so you can just search
Speaker 1: for keyboard. Let's see keyboard so general management. So if
Speaker 1: you go into general management, okay.
Speaker 7: I think it's Samsung.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if it's a Samsung keyboard, you probably just
Speaker 1: have to re enable it. So if you go in
Speaker 1: there where it says keyboard list and default does it
Speaker 1: so it says Samsung keyboard. And then if you go
Speaker 1: in there let's see here, I'm looking for the uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so voice typing? Do you have voice typing? Is it
Speaker 1: toggled on or off?
Speaker 7: I don't see voice typing?
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you go into your Samsung keyboard under
Speaker 1: keyboard list in de fall right, I mean I'm looking
Speaker 1: at mine right now, says Samsung Keyboard, and then it
Speaker 1: says for me, I haven't selected as Google voice typing
Speaker 1: because I like Google to be on there, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't show you that on there. Huh. Now okay, so
Speaker 1: what if we let's see, let me try a different ways.
Speaker 1: Let's say we go into the keyboard and okay, so
Speaker 1: in the lower when you go to your app, when
Speaker 1: the lower left hand corner, there's no little voice, there's
Speaker 1: no little keyboard microphone icon, no interesting okay, gone. Now,
Speaker 1: so now when you go into your keyboard, so go
Speaker 1: into like a text message. Okay, okay. Now now up
Speaker 1: at the top, do you see the first thing on
Speaker 1: the left hand side is like a little AI kind
Speaker 1: of like toggle like two little stars.
Speaker 7: Uh Like, there's like a little camera. There's a phone,
Speaker 7: and then three.
Speaker 1: Dots a camera and a phone and three dots. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: what so you're looking at the keyboard and you see
Speaker 1: do you see a number row at the top?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, So above the number road, do you see like
Speaker 1: a little gear icon, a little what like a little
Speaker 1: looks like a little gear Oh yeah, okay, so tap
Speaker 1: that okay, okay, Now that should bring you into Samsung keyboard.
Speaker 2: Right, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Now scroll all the way down, okay, to where it
Speaker 1: says voice input. Oh yeah, okay. Now do you have yours?
Speaker 1: Probably says none, Select Samsung or Google.
Speaker 7: It's it's Samsung voice Inputright select Google voice tyking.
Speaker 1: You can if you want, but you can just do
Speaker 1: I mean, Samsung works as well. But you can try
Speaker 1: toggling it to Google and maybe that'll bring it up. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: now you did that.
Speaker 3: Oh it won't let me.
Speaker 7: Oh it's like great and it won't allow me to interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you go back to the one before,
Speaker 1: do you have your your voice? Okay? The bottom line
Speaker 1: is you got to you gotta turn on voice typing again.
Speaker 1: So the only thing I can think of is perhaps
Speaker 1: you have taken away some sort of permission for your
Speaker 1: keyboard that does not allow it to use the voice
Speaker 1: the microphone anymore so the other thing you can do
Speaker 1: is go into your settings if this doesn't work, and
Speaker 1: go into your permissions. And so if you go into
Speaker 1: your permissions, you can see your keyboard and it will
Speaker 1: show you if it has permission to use the the microphone,
Speaker 1: and if it somehow toggled that permission off, that may
Speaker 1: be why you can no longer access the microphone. But
Speaker 1: the two things you need to know is just go.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta really look through those settings and
Speaker 1: look for that that keyboard or the voice setting and
Speaker 1: make sure you can turn that on. If you can't,
Speaker 1: then I would say you have to go into your
Speaker 1: permissions and see if you can set that on. The
Speaker 1: only other thing I would I would say you can
Speaker 1: do is when you're in your Samsung keyboard settings, you
Speaker 1: can click reset to default settings, and that might that
Speaker 1: might switch everything back on. Like the first time you
Speaker 1: open up your keyboard, it may then show you the
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do reset keyboard settings. And then the first
Speaker 1: time that you open up that Samsung keyboard again and
Speaker 1: it may ask you if you want to use the
Speaker 1: voice input, but I'm tapping it and I've got the
Speaker 1: I've got the one UI six point one right on
Speaker 1: there and I am seeing it, so it's not it
Speaker 1: has not gone away. It is just somehow deactivated on
Speaker 1: your device. But you do have to just kind of
Speaker 1: look through those settings and anything you see that has voice,
Speaker 1: make sure it's toggled on and make sure that you
Speaker 1: are allowing that permissions to access the microphone because that
Speaker 1: might have been toggled off in the process. Email me, Kathy,
Speaker 1: please with the update, because I don't want to go
Speaker 1: through the whole system right now, because you know, obviously
Speaker 1: we have limited time. But that is where you'll find it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the question. Today we got an email question.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Kate says he's traveling to the UK
Speaker 1: and I would like to know the best apps for
Speaker 1: getting ride shares and taxis, finding a self guided walking
Speaker 1: tour of a city and its major sites, and the
Speaker 1: best Beatles tour in Liverpool. And thanks already for wiki voyage.
Speaker 1: It is a fantastic overview site, although the info is
Speaker 1: kind of twenty twenty one is so I hope they
Speaker 1: keep it current. Thank you, Kate. Kate, it's funny you
Speaker 1: say this. They're actually adding in this travel itinerary like
Speaker 1: this exact question. You'll be able to ask Google very soon,
Speaker 1: and so just in time for summer planning, they're going
Speaker 1: to do this new AI trip itinerary thing which is
Speaker 1: going to be game changing. But until then, two things
Speaker 1: that I would recommend. Number one, brand new website called
Speaker 1: mind trip dot Ai. Mind trip dot Ai, I pasted
Speaker 1: your question in there and it tells me that for
Speaker 1: ride shares and taxis, you want to use Uber or
Speaker 1: free Now, and I will tell you my experience. Free
Speaker 1: Now was what I use when I went to Europe,
Speaker 1: and it's what I recommend to everyone. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit more popular, but it's much more taxi oriented, whereas
Speaker 1: Uber is you know obviously Uber. And then it tells
Speaker 1: for self guiding walking tours Rick Steves pocket Guide and
Speaker 1: then regarding the best Beatles tour in Liverpool, it also
Speaker 1: has that information as well. Uh. The other thing I
Speaker 1: would recommend is guide geek dot Ai. Guide geek dot Ai.
Speaker 1: Paste your question into there and it should give you
Speaker 1: those answers. But this is the sort of thing that
Speaker 1: AI is just built for. And these two new products,
Speaker 1: both mind trip dot ai and guide geek dot ai,
Speaker 1: are excellent at coming up with these complex answers. Check
Speaker 1: them out. I'll put links in the show note show
Speaker 1: notes rich on Tech dot TV. But this is the
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that AI can really really help you for.
Speaker 1: Of course, you always want to cross reference and make
Speaker 1: sure that the stuff they recommend is still the best recommendations.
Speaker 1: More rich on Tech come your way. Coming up, i'll
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Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple
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Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot TV. Before the break, we had
Speaker 1: Kathy call in and she was perplexed because she could
Speaker 1: not find the voice typing input on her Samsung phone.
Speaker 1: Get a lot of emails, a lot of phone calls,
Speaker 1: Scott and Anaheim, you have the answer.
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 10: When the UI update came on to the Samsung twenty three,
Speaker 10: originally the speak to text microphone was in the bar
Speaker 10: across the top of the keyboard. They moved the microphone
Speaker 10: icon and made it a lot smaller and put it
Speaker 10: in the bottom left corner of the screen. And I
Speaker 10: think that's that's the problem. A lot of my coworkers
Speaker 10: have had as well. They just couldn't find it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I just I got about a dozen responses
Speaker 1: on Twitter and email people all saying the same thing.
Speaker 1: They moved it to the lower left hand corner. Now
Speaker 1: here's the funny thing, Scott. You know, like I don't
Speaker 1: use the Samsung keyboard, I use g board, so I
Speaker 1: you know, my microphone is up in the upper right
Speaker 1: hand corner. But it's funny. When I first opened the keyboard,
Speaker 1: I said, well, there it is right there at the bottom.
Speaker 1: Like I found it in about two seconds. But maybe
Speaker 1: I understand if you're looking in the same place over
Speaker 1: and over and they change it, you're not good at
Speaker 1: Maybe you're just not looking in the lower left hand corner.
Speaker 4: So that.
Speaker 1: But she also said that something was great out which
Speaker 1: made it seem like maybe something else changed. But hopefully
Speaker 1: that's the deal. But thanks for the call, Scott, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: But yes, if you're looking for the you know, if
Speaker 1: you're looking on the update, you just got the new
Speaker 1: update on the Samsung phone. The voice to text is
Speaker 1: now in the lower left hand corner. Coming up this hour,
Speaker 1: C Scott Brown is going to join us. He is
Speaker 1: senior editor at Android Authority. He's going to discuss all
Speaker 1: of the changes coming to Android. Yes, one thing is
Speaker 1: inevitable in the tech world. There will be lots of changes.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how it goes, all right. So this
Speaker 1: week was Global Accessibility the Awareness Day, and so all
Speaker 1: of the major companies, Apple, Google, Samsung, they all came
Speaker 1: out with updates about what they're doing to make their
Speaker 1: phones more accessible to more people. And so Google has
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff that they are doing, and
Speaker 1: let me go through theirs first, and I'll do Apple,
Speaker 1: then I'll do Samsung. So Google is improving Lookout. Lookout
Speaker 1: helps people with blindness and low vision use their phone's
Speaker 1: camera to get more information about the world around them.
Speaker 1: Now they're providing a way to find specific objects, so
Speaker 1: you can select from categories like seating, tables, bathrooms, and
Speaker 1: when you move your camera around, Lookout will notify you
Speaker 1: in the direction and the distance to the item. Then
Speaker 1: they're also doing a text free mode to communicate using
Speaker 1: look to Speak, so you can select pre written customizable
Speaker 1: phrases with your eyes and have them spoken aloud. So
Speaker 1: starting today you've got a text free mode. You can
Speaker 1: also select and personalized emoji symbols and photos to activate speech.
Speaker 1: So this new feature, they say, is to make communicating
Speaker 1: more accessible to people with cognitive differences, literacy challenges, and
Speaker 1: language barriers. So you can literally look at an emoji
Speaker 1: and it will speak that. Let's see what else. Then
Speaker 1: they've got a hands free cursor for Android developers. So
Speaker 1: starting this week, developers can access Project Game Phase, which
Speaker 1: is going to mean that they can move a cursor
Speaker 1: around on the screen. Let's see open face. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's interesting, a hands free cursor. Okay, So yeah, Google,
Speaker 1: Apple's doing something very similar in Google Maps. You can
Speaker 1: get more detailed voice guidance for blind or low vision users.
Speaker 1: That's available globally on Android and iOS. And then let's
Speaker 1: see what else. Accessibility information. More than fifty million places
Speaker 1: are marked with accessibility details. That is expanding to desktop.
Speaker 1: So that was on mobile, now you can get that
Speaker 1: on desktop and I always do that.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: They made a big push a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: to have people like myself that fill in information on
Speaker 1: Google Maps to tell if there is accessibility entrances at places,
Speaker 1: like wheelchair accessible entrances, and I try to always help
Speaker 1: with that. Okay, so what else Apple, They've got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of things. Their most notable is IE tracking,
Speaker 1: so they are introducing hands free I tracking on the
Speaker 1: iPad and the iPhone, so people can only use their eyes.
Speaker 1: So this is for people obviously with physical disabilities. They
Speaker 1: will be able to control their iPad or iPhone using
Speaker 1: just their eyes just by looking at stuff on the screen.
Speaker 1: So the front facing camera notices where their eyes are looking,
Speaker 1: and it uses AI to kind of figure out when
Speaker 1: they stop on something and hover that will select or
Speaker 1: they can swipe things. So this is a pretty pretty
Speaker 1: amazing paradigm shift for the use of the iPad or
Speaker 1: the iPhone for someone with a disability, because that means
Speaker 1: that they can now control this device without any additional
Speaker 1: hardware or software. It's all built into the operating system
Speaker 1: that's coming later this year. Music Haptics they're also introducing
Speaker 1: allows deaf or heart of hearing users to experience music
Speaker 1: through iPhones Tactic Engine that will integrate with Apple Music
Speaker 1: and then third party apps with They can also tap
Speaker 1: into that as well. Vocal Shortcuts users can create customs
Speaker 1: sounds to perform tasks, and then they also have vehicle
Speaker 1: motion cues. So if you're the type of person that
Speaker 1: gets car sick when you're looking at your smartphone, they
Speaker 1: now have this new system that uses animated dots to
Speaker 1: help your brain kind of like understand that the cars
Speaker 1: in motion, and I guess that helps you with motion sickness.
Speaker 1: Let's see. There's also car Play updates, Vision OS enhancements.
Speaker 1: That's you know with the with the their VR headset.
Speaker 1: Not many people have that. Let's see now when it
Speaker 1: comes to Samsung, this is something you can already access
Speaker 1: now it is live. I checked forward on my phone.
Speaker 1: It's called re relumina. How do you say this Relumineo mode.
Speaker 1: And this was initially introduced on TVs to help people
Speaker 1: with vision impairments. Now it's coming to Samsung's smartphones they say,
Speaker 1: select Samsung Galaxy smartphones. So this was a feature for
Speaker 1: smart TVs. It enhances the visuals for low vision. So
Speaker 1: this improves visibility by outlining objects, enhancing contrast, adjusting brightness,
Speaker 1: and sharpening images, making content clearer for people with vision impairments.
Speaker 1: So this was originally shown off. I remember this at
Speaker 1: CS twenty twenty three, and they showed it off again
Speaker 1: at Samsung CS twenty twenty four, but now it's available
Speaker 1: on your Samsung phone. So my recommendation if you have
Speaker 1: any sort of accessibility issues, go into the settings on
Speaker 1: your phone and go into the accessibility because there are
Speaker 1: so many features available to you these days compared to
Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago on the iPhone, on Samsung,
Speaker 1: on Google, on Android, and there's just so many little
Speaker 1: features that you can tap into and activate. So I
Speaker 1: would definitely recommend doing that because they continue to update
Speaker 1: these things. Again the website, rich on tech dot TV,
Speaker 1: I'll link up everything that I just mentioned. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Angie in Los Angeles. Angie, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Hi, thank you for taking my call. I love your show.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 4: I'm looking for just give you a little bit of background.
Speaker 4: This is for a person who's in their early eighties
Speaker 4: picking out a phone. They had that keyboard flip phone
Speaker 4: for a while, loved it. They stopped making it. They
Speaker 4: told them told her that she needed to upgrade to
Speaker 4: a smartphone. So now she's using a motor role up
Speaker 4: motorall was seven to be specific, and now wants to
Speaker 4: replace this phone. But looking for something and hearing your
Speaker 4: intro about the all the you know, adaptive uh features
Speaker 4: on a lot of new phones. Sounds great. She does
Speaker 4: have hearing issues, but no real vision problems other than readers,
Speaker 4: and wants something very simple, doesn't use the internet. Loved
Speaker 4: the keyboard that was on the previous older phone.
Speaker 1: But you mean had a physical keyboard or keypad.
Speaker 4: No, it had a physical It was like a keep
Speaker 4: had the flip phone with the little keypad and you
Speaker 4: just punched the you know.
Speaker 8: It was like.
Speaker 4: Looked similar to one of the ones you profiled on
Speaker 4: qtl A one time where they had an actual physical keypad.
Speaker 4: And I forgot the brand the name of that phone.
Speaker 4: I know that you profiled at a one of your
Speaker 4: segment's song a TLA. But she's just kind of looking.
Speaker 1: For something simple, something really simple.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Motorolas. I'm looking at some of the
Speaker 4: newer Motorolas and they really don't get good reviews. But
Speaker 4: the phone is really hard to I mean for an
Speaker 4: iPhone user myself, who previously had a Samsum and came
Speaker 4: from an android's family, I find her phone very cumbersome
Speaker 4: to use for real person, Yeah, I mean the steps
Speaker 4: she has to go through to delete a phone number is,
Speaker 4: you know, kind of ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, a couple a couple of resources. Number one,
Speaker 1: there's a website called dumb Wireless. I talked about them
Speaker 1: on KTLA and we showed a couple of phones. So
Speaker 1: that may give you some ideas for phones. Like I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this punk phone p U n k T.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they say it, but that looks
Speaker 1: like it'd be really simple. It has the physical buttons.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have a full keyboard, but it's got the
Speaker 1: you know, main number dial keys and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So that may be a place to kind of just
Speaker 1: get some ideas for things. That's the first place i'd look.
Speaker 1: At the c SUN conference, I also showed off this
Speaker 1: phone company called blind Shell blind Shell, and that is
Speaker 1: a phone that's very very simple. It speaks everything. It's
Speaker 1: primarily made for low vision users. But I asked the
Speaker 1: people and I said, can't anyone that kind of like
Speaker 1: just wants a really simple smartphone use this? And they said, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: But the problem with that phone is it's a little expensive,
Speaker 1: so it may be more expensive than you want to
Speaker 1: spend on a smartphone. The other thing is that Samsung
Speaker 1: actually has what's called easy Mode on all of their smartphones.
Speaker 1: And when you activate easy Mode, it's like really simple.
Speaker 1: All the buttons, all the icons, everything becomes bigger. It
Speaker 1: gets rid of all the nonsense and all the extra
Speaker 1: functions and stuff. It kind of puts them like a
Speaker 1: step back, so you don't need to worry about all
Speaker 1: those But that is a great way to just make
Speaker 1: any Samsung phone very simple. And it's called easy Mode.
Speaker 1: So if you go to settings display and just hit
Speaker 1: easy Mode, it really does a lot of things. So
Speaker 1: what it does is it makes bigger on screen items,
Speaker 1: a longer touch and whold delay to prevent accidental actions.
Speaker 1: That's a huge issue with especially some folks that are
Speaker 1: using their phones high contrast keyboard for better readability. And
Speaker 1: it's just a much easier way to use your smartphone.
Speaker 1: And that you could just get the basic Samsung S
Speaker 1: twenty four, even the S twenty three from last year,
Speaker 1: the standard one and put it into easy Mode, and
Speaker 1: then that will be a lot easier for her to use.
Speaker 1: So I think that those are some good resources to
Speaker 1: look for, and you know, one of those should probably
Speaker 1: help maybe replace the phone that she's got. Now. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the call appreciate it, Angie rich On Tech Rich
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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV when in your Belinda rode
Speaker 1: In says, iPad, iPad Air, iPad ten or MacBook Air
Speaker 1: M one which one to go for general browsing. Hmmm.
Speaker 1: We just went to the Apple Store yesterday to check
Speaker 1: out the iPad air and the iPad ten. iPad ten
Speaker 1: is getting a little old, but it's a good price.
Speaker 1: Three point fifty. I'd wait for that price to come
Speaker 1: down to about three hundred before I bought it. MacBook
Speaker 1: Air is about six ninety nine. That's a little bit
Speaker 1: older the M one model, and then the iPad air five.
Speaker 1: I think they're up to the six that might be
Speaker 1: the last model. iPad air is gonna be the most expensive,
Speaker 1: But it kind of depends you're saying general browsing. Any
Speaker 1: of these are gonna work. They're all gonna work good
Speaker 1: for Netflix for you know, if you're traveling, I'd go
Speaker 1: with the iPad and if you're staying stationary, I go like,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to do work as well, then I'd
Speaker 1: go with the mac book care Hm, which one would
Speaker 1: I pick? I'd probably go with the the iPad Air
Speaker 1: because it's the newest out of these, and I think
Speaker 1: that you're gonna get the most use out of that.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little bit more expensive, but I
Speaker 1: think that it'll be a little bit faster, a little
Speaker 1: bit better than these other options because it has the
Speaker 1: new M two chip. So that's probably what i'd go for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I do. My kid, by the way, was
Speaker 1: like I couldn't believe how expensive the iPad was last night.
Speaker 1: He was like, wait, what this thing is like six
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars for the iPad. He was
Speaker 1: really rethinking then that the new one is much more expensive.
Speaker 1: Let's see trying to see what version the iPad is
Speaker 1: at this point. It doesn't Yeah, Apple is not good
Speaker 1: about that. Let's go to Rick in Torrents. Rick, Rick,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Rich. Let me get you off speaker.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, got you.
Speaker 6: I'm sixty nine years old and I've started to have
Speaker 6: a little bit of heart issues, and I decided I
Speaker 6: want a smart watch. But it seems like ninety percent
Speaker 6: of the smart watch is focus more on people that
Speaker 6: are doing sports than your health. I was wondering if
Speaker 6: you know which smart watch has the most as far
Speaker 6: as monitoring your health.
Speaker 1: What brand phone do you have because that makes a difference.
Speaker 6: Well, I've got a Google Pixel eight and I actually
Speaker 6: just got the pixel Watch too last week. Oh okay,
Speaker 6: and I'm wondering if there's one that's going to give
Speaker 6: me more medical information than this one does.
Speaker 1: I think the pixel Watch is. The pixel Watch two specifically,
Speaker 1: is pretty good. They've got the heart rate notifications and
Speaker 1: they're also taking your heart rate at a much shorter interval,
Speaker 1: so they're taking it much more often than some of
Speaker 1: the other smart watches out there, which is you know,
Speaker 1: that's actually very handy if you are trying to monitor
Speaker 1: your heart So. Plus you've got fitbit, They've got Ai
Speaker 1: coming soon, so you're gonna be able to ask it
Speaker 1: all kinds of questions about your health. I think you've
Speaker 1: got a good watch there. I think that that's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be the best bet. Make sure you go through
Speaker 1: the app and set up the uh all of the
Speaker 1: heart rate notifications, so for high, for low, the fall,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Just make sure you go through every
Speaker 1: single setting in the app and make sure all those
Speaker 1: things are toggled on, because they may not have been
Speaker 1: toggled on the first time you set them up. But Rick,
Speaker 1: I think you got a good watch there. Pixel Watch
Speaker 1: two has exactly what you need there. Eighty eight rich
Speaker 1: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Coming up, we're gonna talk new
Speaker 1: Android features. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with
Speaker 1: you talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Joining me now, C Scott Brown, Senior editor at Android Authority.
Speaker 1: He was at Google Io along with myself, So we
Speaker 1: are going to discuss all of the Android developments at
Speaker 1: the conference this year. Scott, thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 11: Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1: So the last caller was asking about the pixel Watch.
Speaker 1: I know that you wear a pixel Watch. I was saying,
Speaker 1: you know, do you like it? Do you think it's
Speaker 1: good for the heart rate stuff? And your answer was
Speaker 1: you like it?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I love it. I came from the Fitbit Sense,
Speaker 12: which came out I think like three or four years
Speaker 12: ago now, and I kept holding on to the Sense
Speaker 12: because there was nothing that had all the features of
Speaker 12: the Sense and you know that was available, Like the
Speaker 12: Sense did everything, and so the pixel Watch too is
Speaker 12: now the only thing that actually does everything the original
Speaker 12: Sense did, with the downside being battery life. The battery
Speaker 12: life is not as good on the pixel watch Too
Speaker 12: as it is on the Sense, but it has a
Speaker 12: lot more features and it looks better. It looks more
Speaker 12: like a regular watch and stuff. So yeah, so I
Speaker 12: love it.
Speaker 1: And apparently with one of the announcements was that they're
Speaker 1: making war os, I guess better battery efficiency, so maybe
Speaker 1: the battery life will get better on that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm hoping.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the things. First off, you
Speaker 1: just your general impression of Google Io twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: in general, what was your takeaway?
Speaker 12: It was a very different Io for a few reasons.
Speaker 12: The biggest one that I noticed was there was no hardware.
Speaker 12: Not one piece of hardware was announced, and that's not
Speaker 12: like Io. Usually they announced at least something. In the past,
Speaker 12: it's been the you know, the new A series Pixel,
Speaker 12: but they launched that a week before Io this year,
Speaker 12: and they've also teased hardware. They teased the Pixel tablet
Speaker 12: one year. They've done a lot of things like that
Speaker 12: and this just isn't just not this time. So I
Speaker 12: would noticed that first off. And then number two, it
Speaker 12: really felt like Google was trying to speak to its
Speaker 12: shareholders more than speaking to the general public. I feel
Speaker 12: like Google was trying to say to its shareholders, Hey,
Speaker 12: we know we're under threat right now from a bunch
Speaker 12: of different companies, but don't worry.
Speaker 11: We got this. That's what I felt like the whole
Speaker 11: show was like.
Speaker 1: And it didn't feel that reassuring because you know, they
Speaker 1: had the open AI thing right before Google I owe,
Speaker 1: and it's like Google, give us some like like I
Speaker 1: feel like with every show you have to have something
Speaker 1: like tangible that people can do like that day, Like
Speaker 1: the takeaway is like, Okay, you can go to your
Speaker 1: you know, Google dot com and do this and it's
Speaker 1: really cool. But we did see a lot of neat things.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Android. So first off, one of the
Speaker 1: new features is private Space. Now, if you have a Samsung,
Speaker 1: you may be familiar with this concept of like what
Speaker 1: do they call like secure folder or something, but this
Speaker 1: explained this feature private space.
Speaker 12: So it it's a space where you can put apps
Speaker 12: that need an extra layer of security. So let's just
Speaker 12: say that you know someone who's shoulder surfed you. Shoulder
Speaker 12: surfing is when someone looks over your shoulder and is
Speaker 12: able to figure out your passcode because they've watched you
Speaker 12: enter it a number of times. So somebody grabs your phone,
Speaker 12: they know your passcode, they enter your passcode, and then
Speaker 12: they have full access.
Speaker 11: To your higher phone. They can do anything.
Speaker 12: And with private space in Android fifteen, what's going to
Speaker 12: happen is is that there will be some apps that
Speaker 12: will be behind this private space locker and they'll need
Speaker 12: a different pass code to get into there. So it
Speaker 12: adds this extra layer protection to prevent somebody from being
Speaker 12: able to access, for example, your banking app, or maybe
Speaker 12: a app that has private health information or your photos,
Speaker 12: whatever the case may be. It's a way to make
Speaker 12: it so that they can't get into it, even if
Speaker 12: they get.
Speaker 11: Into your main phone.
Speaker 12: And what's really cool about this feature is that there's
Speaker 12: going to be what I'm calling a nuke button where
Speaker 12: you can hit a button in settings and it will
Speaker 12: immediately erase your entire private space.
Speaker 11: So all the apps in there are just gone, oh wow.
Speaker 12: That's an extra cool layer of protection that they'll put
Speaker 12: in there, so you know, if somebody rushes into your
Speaker 12: home or breaking into you or whatever whatever's happening, you
Speaker 12: can immediately hit this button delete all your important stuff
Speaker 12: and then don't have to worry about that getting with
Speaker 12: the wrong hands.
Speaker 1: And I imagine that also maybe for like if you're
Speaker 1: at the border and they want to, you know, confiscate
Speaker 1: your phone if you're let's say you're a journalist or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, there's so many like different
Speaker 1: ways of looking at this. Some people may just want
Speaker 1: to hide some like you know, some apps if they
Speaker 1: hand their phone to their kids that they don't want
Speaker 1: their kids to have access.
Speaker 10: I mean.
Speaker 1: There's the nice thing is that this is available and
Speaker 1: it will be an Android feature, So that's really cool. Now,
Speaker 1: this theft detection lock is a really interesting feature because
Speaker 1: we've heard so much about how people snatch phones out
Speaker 1: of people's hands on like busy city streets and they
Speaker 1: catch them kind of like with the phone unlocked. And
Speaker 1: so again, explain how this feature is going to work.
Speaker 11: So this one is really cool. This was really exciting.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So if you're walking down a city street, you're
Speaker 12: on your phone, you're texting whatever. Somebody who rushes up
Speaker 12: behind you, grabs your phone in your hands and runs off.
Speaker 11: Your phone is probably unlocked.
Speaker 12: It is probably open to something, you know, whether it
Speaker 12: be a messaging app or maybe your photos or camera
Speaker 12: or whatever. And now for the next you know, let's
Speaker 12: just say be to be to be fair, let's make
Speaker 12: thirty minutes. The next thirty minutes this person has access
Speaker 12: to your phone because by the time you get to
Speaker 12: a place where you can remotely lock your phone, they
Speaker 12: have thirty minutes to do whatever they want. And so
Speaker 12: what this step protection lock will do is that it'll
Speaker 12: sense that your phone has been grabbed and run off
Speaker 12: with It'll use the sensors inside the phone to determine
Speaker 12: that the phone has been nabbed and then quickly sped
Speaker 12: somewhere else away from you, and then it'll just automatically
Speaker 12: lock down, making it so you have that time to
Speaker 12: go to your computer or your tablet and remotely wipe
Speaker 12: and lock your phone to do anything with it. Honestly,
Speaker 12: they'll still have your phone. You know, you can't get
Speaker 12: your phone back that way. But at the same time,
Speaker 12: you don't have to worry about them, you know, for example,
Speaker 12: messaging your mom and saying, hey, Mom, I'm in real mind,
Speaker 12: I need you to wire ten thousand dollars to this
Speaker 12: bitcoin address. You know, like that's something that could potentially
Speaker 12: happen if somebody had access to your phone for once
Speaker 12: again just that thirty minute window. So this is a
Speaker 12: really cool protection that I think is going to be
Speaker 12: something that people are really going to appreciate, especially if
Speaker 12: they travel a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and kind of building upon that, you're also going
Speaker 1: to be able to lock your phone now from a
Speaker 1: third like any device, by going to like Android dot
Speaker 1: com sash slash lock. That's not live just yet, but
Speaker 1: you will be able to do that, cause like the
Speaker 1: idea is that you're with a friend maybe and you go, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: my phone just got taken, like hurry up, give me
Speaker 1: your phone, let me lock my phone, And so you
Speaker 1: can also do that. And then the other thing they're
Speaker 1: doing is what what iPhone has had for many many
Speaker 1: years is this idea of an activation lock where even
Speaker 1: if they wipe your phone clean, they will not be
Speaker 1: able to activate that phone on or a new account
Speaker 1: if it's still linked your Google account. Is that my understanding, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 12: That's basically just borrowed from from iOS. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 12: a bit of a double edged sword because it does
Speaker 12: it makes selling your phone a little more difficult, Like
Speaker 12: you have to go through a lot more steps to
Speaker 12: make sure that you know the person that you sold
Speaker 12: your phone to will actually be able to access it
Speaker 12: adetic password. So that's a bit of an inconvenience that
Speaker 12: people who sell their phones a lot are going to face.
Speaker 12: But in the broad scheme of things, I feel like
Speaker 12: it'll do more benefit than anything else.
Speaker 1: So anything else that they announced that really was interesting
Speaker 1: to you, anything else you want to talk about that
Speaker 1: was you know, made public.
Speaker 12: As it pertains to Android, I was excited to see
Speaker 12: that Android fifteen is getting more beta's released to other devices,
Speaker 12: other manufacturers, you know. For the past since February, basically
Speaker 12: anyone with a pixel phone, a recent thing phone has
Speaker 12: been able to try out Android fifteen at its various
Speaker 12: stages of development and all that. But up until I own,
Speaker 12: anyone with a non pixel phone didn't have that option.
Speaker 12: And now there's a lot more manufacturers with their own
Speaker 12: betas out. So if you have a phone from one plus,
Speaker 12: show me nothing. Bunch of other Android manufacturers, you can
Speaker 12: now give Android fifteen a shot, assuming that you have
Speaker 12: a recent phone.
Speaker 11: It's only available for the recent flagships.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and then I would expect maybe in the next
Speaker 12: month or two we'll start seeing Samsung having its own beta,
Speaker 12: so that'll be really exciting too.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, with the notable exception being Samsung,
Speaker 1: because they have such a different system on their phones
Speaker 1: that it's not easily like half the stuff that comes out,
Speaker 1: and Android has already been on Samsung before it makes
Speaker 1: its way to Android, which is kind of ironic. All right,
Speaker 1: We're going to leave it there. See Scott Brown, how
Speaker 1: can folks find you online?
Speaker 12: So my preferred method is Instagram, which is c dot
Speaker 12: Scott Brown Instagram. And then also I'm also on threads,
Speaker 12: so if you find my Instagram, you can just connect
Speaker 12: to my threads. I'm not on Twitter anymore or x
Speaker 12: or whatever it is nowadays. I love there, but yeah,
Speaker 12: Instagram and threads are are the best place to get
Speaker 12: old me.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, see Scott Brown, Senior editor
Speaker 1: at Android Authority. Thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that eight eight eight rich one O one eight
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Speaker 1: The website for the show Richontech dot tv. Switching Gears
Speaker 1: coming up. We just talked to Android. Now we'll talk
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Speaker 1: Tech dot tv. Just got an email from Hugo. We've
Speaker 1: been going back and forth about the Sonos app. Soos
Speaker 1: recently updated their app, and I'm telling you, I've never
Speaker 1: seen something ruin a piece of technology like this in
Speaker 1: my entire life. I've got Sons speakers in every room.
Speaker 1: Took me ten years to kind of build that collection up,
Speaker 1: and I love it because I always have something on
Speaker 1: and I love how you can group them and you know,
Speaker 1: listen to all the different services whatever you want. And
Speaker 1: this new app update, I think it came out in
Speaker 1: like May seventh. I can't even use my system anymore.
Speaker 1: It's horrible. I mean, really really bad. What do I
Speaker 1: say at the beginning of the show? I think that
Speaker 1: tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. It's certainly interesting.
Speaker 1: The changes that they've made for the worst useful, they
Speaker 1: get a big zero fun. It took all the fun
Speaker 1: out of listening to any music in my home. So
Speaker 1: let's see the email that they sent to him. He
Speaker 1: forwarded me this email that son No says they've received
Speaker 1: a great deal of feedback thus far on both the
Speaker 1: improvements made as well as where we fell short. They're
Speaker 1: working on going through it all in the coming weeks.
Speaker 1: There's more work that needs to be done on the sonosapp,
Speaker 1: and we want to provide an update. They already introduced
Speaker 1: a software update on the fourteenth. But I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to toss my system out. I can't even
Speaker 1: change a volume on this thing, it's that bad. So
Speaker 1: hopefully they will continue to refine and make my system
Speaker 1: useful again. I know if you have a son Nos
Speaker 1: you are probably feeling the same thing. The systems are there,
Speaker 1: it's just everything has been changed. I kind of feel
Speaker 1: like the woman who called in Kathy about the volume
Speaker 1: button being moved that's the way I feel at my sons.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Linda in Burbank. Linda, you're on with rich.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I remember hearing U two three weeks ago
Speaker 8: a man calling in saying how they want to, you know,
Speaker 8: do away with the landlines. Yes, and you know in
Speaker 8: my situation about a couple that shoots a weeks ago? Yeah, no,
Speaker 8: months ago, my cell phone went out on me. It
Speaker 8: wasn't working and.
Speaker 4: I had to have my use by landline.
Speaker 8: To call my cell phone company. Now, if I didn't
Speaker 8: hear my landline, i'd be at the crank.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely an issue. So you you have a
Speaker 1: landline in Bourbank Conley? Is still interesting? Okay? You know,
Speaker 1: so AT and T, who's the who's the company that
Speaker 1: provides the landline?
Speaker 8: AH and T?
Speaker 1: And how much do they charge you a month for that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 9: I don't recall right now, well I really don't.
Speaker 1: So the big issue here is that AT and T.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Linda, pre siate it. The big
Speaker 1: issue is that AT and T in California wants to
Speaker 1: end its designation as what's called a cooler col R
Speaker 1: Carrier of Last Resort. What they're saying is that right
Speaker 1: now in these places that don't have an alternative to landlines,
Speaker 1: AT and T is the specified carrier of last resort
Speaker 1: and they have to maintain those lines until there is
Speaker 1: an alternative. And so they have petitioned the California Public
Speaker 1: Utilities Commission to say, look, can we just drop this
Speaker 1: whole carrier of last resort thing? We'd rather not keep
Speaker 1: these lines up and running because they're too expensive and
Speaker 1: we just don't feel like it. And actually, this week
Speaker 1: a judge at the California Public Utilities Commission is actually
Speaker 1: saying they recommend rejecting this AT and T request. The
Speaker 1: reason they said, there's no other carrier to replace AT
Speaker 1: and T there in its wireline territory. And they also
Speaker 1: went as far as saying that AT and T is
Speaker 1: going around saying that they have to maintain these outdated
Speaker 1: copper lines because of this ruling. California says, no, we
Speaker 1: don't have a rule that says you have to maintain
Speaker 1: these copper lines. What we do have a rule that
Speaker 1: says that you need to have some sort of way
Speaker 1: for these people to get in touch with other folks.
Speaker 1: You can replace these lines with fiber. You can replace
Speaker 1: them with something else. And so there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a back and forth here with what the exact
Speaker 1: rules are. And so the reality is that, you know,
Speaker 1: and I understand Linda's you know, she's saying that if
Speaker 1: she didn't have her cell phone, she or her land lines,
Speaker 1: she wouldn't be able to call her carrier. The number
Speaker 1: one thing to know that if your phone is not working,
Speaker 1: no matter what in the US, you can use a
Speaker 1: cell phone to dial nine one one as long as
Speaker 1: that cell phone is operable, and even if it doesn't
Speaker 1: have a plan on it, if it can catch a signal,
Speaker 1: it will work on any of the major wireless carrier
Speaker 1: signals to dial nine one one. So in a true emergency, yes,
Speaker 1: you would be able to dial nine one one, even
Speaker 1: if your phone signal is you know, if your phone
Speaker 1: isn't connected whatever you know is having some sort of issue. Now,
Speaker 1: if if the signals are down, yes that'd be a problem.
Speaker 1: But if even if you don't have a phone like activated,
Speaker 1: it will still call nine one one. That's number one.
Speaker 1: Other countries don't have that rule. Number two. I understand
Speaker 1: the idea of these wirelines and people like them, and
Speaker 1: people like them for emergencies, but the idea that the
Speaker 1: cell phone is not as reliable maybe in certain places
Speaker 1: if you don't have a signal, Like sure, I understand that,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to say that there should be
Speaker 1: no requirement that you have to have some sort of carrier.
Speaker 1: That's why they're called a carrier of last resort because
Speaker 1: people living these areas don't have an alternative. What California
Speaker 1: is saying is that we don't really care what the
Speaker 1: alternative is, whether that's a voipe line, whether it's a
Speaker 1: cell phone line, whether it's an Internet line, like, but
Speaker 1: you need an alternative. You can't just have these people
Speaker 1: left high and dry without any way to dial their
Speaker 1: friends or family or emergencies. And so I understand, Linda's
Speaker 1: in a populated area in Burbank, So I understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, if you needed to, you can walk to
Speaker 1: your neighbor and get some help that way. But some
Speaker 1: people live in very rural areas that really don't have
Speaker 1: any alternative. The good news is we are seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of other options open up, something like a starlink,
Speaker 1: which is satellite based, which is really really good, and
Speaker 1: so we're just seeing more options. But again this idea
Speaker 1: of the landline is going away. It will go away eventually,
Speaker 1: and we are seeing more and more of these companies
Speaker 1: that provide landlines charge higher fees and also just try
Speaker 1: to get rid of them for all of those reasons.
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Speaker 1: a promo code out there. And you start searching promo
Speaker 1: code whatever website name, and you start typing in these
Speaker 1: random codes. Nine times out of ten they never ever work.
Speaker 1: And so if you want a code that actually works,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this Simply Codes. I think in my
Speaker 1: experience it has saved me money. It actually does work.
Speaker 1: So if you want to sign up for Simply Codes,
Speaker 1: you can just go to their website and tell me
Speaker 1: what you think. I think it's pretty good. They say
Speaker 1: that they just came out this new like AI powered
Speaker 1: system this week, and that's why they say they have
Speaker 1: tens of They scan tens of thousands of codes daily
Speaker 1: to provide the most relevant and reliable author offers. You
Speaker 1: can also submit your own promo codes via the app.
Speaker 1: You can like take a screenshot of a promo code
Speaker 1: that you get and it will kind of slice and
Speaker 1: dice and get all the information out there. So I
Speaker 1: takes a lot for me to like switch from what
Speaker 1: I was using before, which was Honey, and I still
Speaker 1: think Honey is good. Oh the one downside of simply
Speaker 1: Codes so Honey will try all the codes for you.
Speaker 1: This one does not try the codes. You have to
Speaker 1: copy and paste them in, so it's like a little
Speaker 1: bit extra work. But in my experience, like the couple
Speaker 1: times I've used it, it's the codes have worked like
Speaker 1: right off the bat. So the first time I pasted
Speaker 1: one in it worked. So anyway, again, the website simplycodes
Speaker 1: dot com. I'll put the link online. Just go to
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv, hit the light bulb and
Speaker 1: you can get the show notes. I also wanted to
Speaker 1: mention this. So I love to listen to articles because
Speaker 1: I read a lot, but sometimes my eyes are just
Speaker 1: tired and I'm like, you know what, can you read
Speaker 1: this to me? And so there's a couple ways, and
Speaker 1: I mentioned this in my newsletter this week, a couple
Speaker 1: of ways to listen to articles. So there's a brand
Speaker 1: new app this week. I know it's iOS only, so
Speaker 1: if you have Android, please do not come after me.
Speaker 1: But hopefully they'll come out with an Android version soon.
Speaker 1: But I will go through some options that you can
Speaker 1: get on Android. But this is a new app called
Speaker 1: eleven Labs Reader. So if you go to the app
Speaker 1: store on iOS and I'll tell you exactly what to
Speaker 1: type in to search for this. Okay, it's coming up,
Speaker 1: eleven labs Reader AI Audio. Type that in. It only
Speaker 1: has fifteen ratings. That's how new this app is. It
Speaker 1: just came out this week. It's like secret basically. But
Speaker 1: eleven Labs is an incredible AI company and they do
Speaker 1: AI voices, so beach to text. That's what their whole
Speaker 1: game is. And this app is basically a proof of
Speaker 1: concept for their AI voices. So you can paste in
Speaker 1: any text you want. You can paste in a link
Speaker 1: to an article, you can upload an entire PDF and
Speaker 1: it will read the entire thing to you. Again, it's
Speaker 1: called eleven Labs Reader AI Audio and it's excellent. I
Speaker 1: use it yesterday at the gym to just listen to
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of articles that were on my list.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you, because it's new there, it
Speaker 1: was down for a little bit. I think so many
Speaker 1: people are like discovering this that it's kind of of course,
Speaker 1: now that I mention it, it'll probably be even worse,
Speaker 1: but at least you'll have it on your phone. It
Speaker 1: was like an hour yesterday where it didn't work properly,
Speaker 1: but then it worked again now if you want to.
Speaker 1: By the way, the voices are so high quality. You
Speaker 1: can pick from like a whole bunch of different voices
Speaker 1: on there. You can pick one that you like and
Speaker 1: it just reads the text to you. It's really really good.
Speaker 1: So the other options if you want a speech to text,
Speaker 1: these are all Pocket, poc k et Pocket. What they
Speaker 1: can do is really cool is you put you put
Speaker 1: your articles in there and then it will read them
Speaker 1: in succession. So it can just go through your reading
Speaker 1: list and just read them.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 1: The audio is not as high quality as something like
Speaker 1: eleven Labs, but it's still it's totally free. It works,
Speaker 1: and it's really good. And Pocket is just a great
Speaker 1: way to save articles to read later in general. So
Speaker 1: if you're like me, where you're coming across a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff throughout the day, some things are really short,
Speaker 1: you can tackle them right away. Some things are much longer.
Speaker 1: You want to read them maybe on a plane or
Speaker 1: when you have a minute to sit on your couch.
Speaker 1: Pocket is a great app for that. So that will
Speaker 1: also read your articles out now a premium version of
Speaker 1: this whole thing is called speech a FI, and I
Speaker 1: might have mentioned this on the radio show a couple
Speaker 1: weeks ago, but speech a PI is again they use
Speaker 1: AI voices. The thing is, you can use this app
Speaker 1: for free, but if you pay, you get the highest
Speaker 1: quality voices, and it's good. The only thing I've noticed
Speaker 1: about speech a fy the downside is that sometimes they
Speaker 1: don't completely skip all the nonsense in an article, Like
Speaker 1: if you put an article in there, it may still
Speaker 1: read like, I don't know, just different things that it
Speaker 1: should have cleared out. Like eleven Labs does a really
Speaker 1: good job of just isolating the article, and so does Pocket.
Speaker 1: Speech a FI needs to learn a little bit better
Speaker 1: about how to isolate just the article text. But that's
Speaker 1: a good one and you can. You've got to pay
Speaker 1: if you want like the best features. It's a freemium
Speaker 1: version of things completely free on Android. This is excellent.
Speaker 1: Is called Google Reading Mode, and this is an accessibility feature,
Speaker 1: but it's really really handy and it reads in a
Speaker 1: really nice way. You can set a shortcut so you
Speaker 1: can either have an icon on your screen all the
Speaker 1: time and anything you're listening you're looking at on your
Speaker 1: Android screen. You can just tap this reading mode and
Speaker 1: it will start reading whatever's on the screen to you.
Speaker 1: It also displays it in a nice easy to way,
Speaker 1: easy to read version. And again that's called good Reading Mode.
Speaker 1: That's for Android. It's completely free. It's an accessibility feature
Speaker 1: and it works really well. I have mindset on the
Speaker 1: Samsung where if I'm on an article on a page,
Speaker 1: all I have to do is swipe up with two
Speaker 1: fingers from the bottom of the screen and it immediately
Speaker 1: puts my phone into this Android reading mode. And so
Speaker 1: you can see that, you know, I've got this article up. Actually,
Speaker 1: let me bring up like a real article, because that
Speaker 1: was just a tweet that I brought up. Okay, so
Speaker 1: let's go to This is Stephen and Wired. So I
Speaker 1: bring up the two little swipes and now I can
Speaker 1: just press play and immediately it's going to start reading
Speaker 1: this article. Probably put my volume up here. So there
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 11: Close of demos from open Ai and Google that started
Speaker 11: the week's show. There's plenty more disruption to come.
Speaker 1: So there you can get a little idea of the voice.
Speaker 1: You can change the text, you can make it faster
Speaker 1: or slower. And then Safari has something called listen to page.
Speaker 1: So if you're on Safari on the iPhone and you
Speaker 1: tap reader mode, they have a little way that you
Speaker 1: can use just it'll just read the page to you.
Speaker 1: And so again you go into the reader mode and
Speaker 1: then it just says tap AA, then tap listen to
Speaker 1: page and it'll just read the page to you. And
Speaker 1: the other thing is if you're anywhere on your iPhone,
Speaker 1: you could just ask Siri to read this. So all
Speaker 1: you have to say is you know, hey, Siri, read this,
Speaker 1: or I want to listen to this page. And of
Speaker 1: course I just activated every iPhone in front of me.
Speaker 1: But again, these are the kind of things. I mentioned
Speaker 1: all this in my newsletter. So if you want links
Speaker 1: to everything I just mentioned, go to the website rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. It's the first article on the top.
Speaker 1: It says AI wars Google versus Chat GBT. That's the
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that I go through my newsletter. I
Speaker 1: test a bunch of stuff and I explain how these
Speaker 1: things work and I give you options. So instead of
Speaker 1: just giving you the one new app the eleven labs,
Speaker 1: I say, well, here's the alternatives as well. So again
Speaker 1: the website rich on tech dot TV. If you like
Speaker 1: listening to stuff as much as you like reading stuff.
Speaker 1: These uh, these options are really really incredible, all right?
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one more rich on
Speaker 1: Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Let's go to uh John in uh Utica?
Speaker 1: Is that? Am I saying that?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 1: Utica? New York?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, I feel like I should know that I
Speaker 1: grew up in New Jersey and I've been there and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, isn't it like a college there, university there?
Speaker 1: You go, I've been there, so I should know how
Speaker 1: to say that. Oh my gosh. But see, you know
Speaker 1: sometimes you just forget stuff when you get older. How
Speaker 1: can I help?
Speaker 9: I've got too hopefully short questions. The first one is
Speaker 9: when I upload a file to a backup cloud services,
Speaker 9: the date of the file changes.
Speaker 1: Why does it change?
Speaker 9: Because that's when it was received by the backup service.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 9: You know when you when you look at a file
Speaker 9: that shows its name and then to the right of
Speaker 9: it usually is a date.
Speaker 1: Right, okay, got it?
Speaker 9: When you upload that bit surprised you haven't run into
Speaker 9: that problem no matter who I call out anything. Uh,
Speaker 9: they it's dated at the time that they got it,
Speaker 9: not when it was created.
Speaker 1: Okay, creation date, Okay, got it.
Speaker 9: So so my question is, you know a lot of
Speaker 9: my files are important with that date, stand which disappears
Speaker 9: if it's sent tobacco.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, so I use drop Box. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think, let me look in there and see what
Speaker 1: happens when I upload a file. So if I put
Speaker 1: a file into Dropbox, it typically has a couple of
Speaker 1: different ways to look at those files. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the modified Okay, so there's modified, and then there's size,
Speaker 1: and then there's a let's see there. I thought there
Speaker 1: was a way to like look at different Okay, there
Speaker 1: you go. So you've got show modified type extension. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just mine just says modified, so that I guess would
Speaker 1: be the creation date. But doesn't the actual file have
Speaker 1: some metadata in it that would tell you when it
Speaker 1: was What are you trying to do? What are you
Speaker 1: trying to figure out which files to get rid of
Speaker 1: or what? You know? What are you trying to do
Speaker 1: with this with these files?
Speaker 9: Because they were taking a specific date and probably had
Speaker 9: a specific place, that's important for me to keep track
Speaker 9: of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So when you look, when you drill down into
Speaker 1: the kind of the metadata of the file, it should
Speaker 1: have a created date and a modified date? Do they do?
Speaker 1: They not have that?
Speaker 9: How how do I easily get into that data info?
Speaker 1: So if you're looking at the file, are you on
Speaker 1: Windows or a Mac?
Speaker 9: I'm using the Total Commander?
Speaker 1: Okay, so I would I would just whatever you can
Speaker 1: do to write click, you know, to like get info
Speaker 1: for the file. That's what I would do and see
Speaker 1: if that has like a different date.
Speaker 9: But it's funny you're saying that the Windows built in
Speaker 9: file commander will show meta data.
Speaker 1: It should if you're looking at the data like the
Speaker 1: info and the file. Yeah, I don't have a I
Speaker 1: don't have that.
Speaker 9: So it's so I'll try that.
Speaker 10: Oh you know.
Speaker 9: One way I found to overcome that is is it
Speaker 9: a file first, and then when it goes into the
Speaker 9: backup service or in the correct data is there? You know,
Speaker 9: the original data is there?
Speaker 1: Oh right, Okay, that's now. What what are you doing
Speaker 1: with these files? Are they kind of like a backup
Speaker 1: of your system? Or is it a backup of like
Speaker 1: a photo or what? What are they.
Speaker 9: All of that?
Speaker 4: Deal.
Speaker 1: Okay u.
Speaker 9: Yeah, system data, I do not back up because maybe
Speaker 9: that needs to keep its original date. You never know
Speaker 9: what the most kind of files, but my personal data
Speaker 9: files photos of crips. You know, if you if they
Speaker 9: find a photo and they were saying, do you have
Speaker 9: no idea when that photo was taken?
Speaker 1: Well that should be in the metadata of the picture itself,
Speaker 1: like the file. So if you're looking at that picture,
Speaker 1: there should be metadata that's that's saying when that picture
Speaker 1: was taken. That's that's kind of embedded in the file
Speaker 1: and you can look at if you download an app,
Speaker 1: that's the EXIF data e x if. Have you heard
Speaker 1: of that term? Right, so that you should you know,
Speaker 1: you should be able to view the exif data for
Speaker 1: that photo. But again I would in Windows, you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you write click and you know, do
Speaker 1: the properties or whatever, you should be able to see
Speaker 1: the both the creation date and a modification date. And
Speaker 1: in general you can you can also add columns to
Speaker 1: your Windows Explorer that show you know when something was
Speaker 1: created versus modified. So that should help in some of
Speaker 1: these aspects. But with photos specifically, most of the modern
Speaker 1: programs like you know, the Google Photos and things you know,
Speaker 1: they will they will display pictures in order based on
Speaker 1: the metadata. So even if you upload a photo, like,
Speaker 1: for instance, if I upload a photo that I find
Speaker 1: on a drive somewhere that is, you know, an older photo,
Speaker 1: it will still put that in the right place in
Speaker 1: my collection based on the metadata. And by the way,
Speaker 1: there is one trick if you're using I know this
Speaker 1: applies to Google Photos, but in Google Photos, there is
Speaker 1: a way to arrange your stuff by recent So if
Speaker 1: you go into to explore on Google Photos and you
Speaker 1: scroll down, there's a section called recently added, and that
Speaker 1: will put all of your photos in the order they
Speaker 1: were uploaded, even if the dates are different. So that's
Speaker 1: a neat way to look at it. And it's similar
Speaker 1: to the iPhone. So if you think about the iPhone
Speaker 1: the way they organize pictures, if you go into your photos,
Speaker 1: there is a recence, and that's putting all your pictures
Speaker 1: in no matter what the date is, it's just putting
Speaker 1: them in the order you kind of put them on
Speaker 1: your phone, versus the library which puts them in date order.
Speaker 1: So this is good to know. Eighty eight rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Rich on tech Rich Demiro here talking technology with you
Speaker 1: joining me or actually I talked to Jenny Blackburn at
Speaker 1: Google all about Gemini. If you haven't tried Gemini, this
Speaker 1: is formerly barred. This is Google's answer to chat GPT,
Speaker 1: although of course they would never describe it that way,
Speaker 1: but this is their AI assistant. You can access it
Speaker 1: at Gemini dot Google dot com. There's also ways of
Speaker 1: getting it on your smartphone. But Jenny Blackburn explains at
Speaker 1: Google Io all the different ways that you can use
Speaker 1: Google's Gemini AI assistant. So, first off, explain what Gemini is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So Gemini is a conversational AI assistant that you
Speaker 5: can access on the web on your phone and it
Speaker 5: can help you with all sorts of things. So it
Speaker 5: can help you brainstorm, it can help you plan, and
Speaker 5: it can even take action on your behalf with Google's
Speaker 5: apps and services integrated. One of the things that people
Speaker 5: tell me they love the most about Gemini is it
Speaker 5: can help you write and express yourself.
Speaker 1: What about the new features today? What do you think
Speaker 1: are some of the key features that you announced here
Speaker 1: for the average consumer to try.
Speaker 5: Yeah, such exciting announcements today, and I think like the
Speaker 5: overview for me, is it really is becoming this personal
Speaker 5: AI assistant you know a couple examples, is becoming way
Speaker 5: more capable of doing complex tasks, so you can upload
Speaker 5: lots and lots of files or really large files and
Speaker 5: Gemini can help process those. As one example. The other
Speaker 5: thing that I think is awesome for consumers is Gemini Live.
Speaker 5: So Gemini Live lets you have a conversation like you
Speaker 5: and I are having with Gemini in real time, and
Speaker 5: we use our speech technology to just make it supernatural
Speaker 5: and easy to do that. The third thing is we're
Speaker 5: adding more apps and services that you can access through Gemini,
Speaker 5: so you can use Gemini to add things to your calendar.
Speaker 1: For example, you could just take a picture.
Speaker 5: Of a event that maybe your kids got invited to
Speaker 5: and Gemini I'll just add it right to your Google calendar.
Speaker 1: When people are choosing AI to use, what do you
Speaker 1: think sets Gemini apart?
Speaker 5: Well, we're building AI that's great for everyone, and so
Speaker 5: I think what makes Gemini so awesome and what people
Speaker 5: tell us that they love is that integration into the
Speaker 5: apps and services from Google that they use all the time.
Speaker 5: We're also working hard to make Gemini just really easy
Speaker 5: for everybody to use, so you don't have to have
Speaker 5: any special skills. You just ask it or what you
Speaker 5: want and.
Speaker 1: It will help you out about that integration with like
Speaker 1: the different services. I saw they did a Google photos,
Speaker 1: like you can ask what's my license plate? Or when
Speaker 1: did my kid learn to swim? How do you kind
Speaker 1: of balance the privacy of your data and also the
Speaker 1: information that you want to get out of that data.
Speaker 5: Yeah, privacy is super important. We don't train our models
Speaker 5: on any personal information, and everything that you upload to
Speaker 5: Gemini that's personal stays private to your account.
Speaker 1: What kind of improvements are we seeing when it comes
Speaker 1: to interacting with these assistants, they almost feel like a person.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the natural is the goal, and with Live it
Speaker 5: just feels so natural and seamless and so an example,
Speaker 5: you know, I can interrupt Gemini like I would a person.
Speaker 5: You know, sometimes when you use your voice, you have
Speaker 5: to like push a button or you have to say
Speaker 5: things just the right way. But now with Gemini, you
Speaker 5: literally can just say what's on your mind, you can pause,
Speaker 5: you can say and and I just gets it naturally.
Speaker 1: And also I saw the email feature where you can
Speaker 1: now summarize your emails and it can be like an
Speaker 1: assistant in that regard. Explain that feature a little bit, like,
Speaker 1: how are people going to be using that?
Speaker 5: You think users are already using that feature with our
Speaker 5: Gmail extension in Gemini, and now we're bringing Gemini actually
Speaker 5: into Gmail. So if you're in Gmail and you're looking
Speaker 5: at your in box, you have a ton of email,
Speaker 5: you can actually just ask Gemini to summarize that email
Speaker 5: for you and save yourself a whole.
Speaker 9: Bunch of time.
Speaker 1: They showed off a really neat travel itinerary generator. Explain
Speaker 1: what makes that so unique?
Speaker 5: I am so excited about this. So already users love
Speaker 5: to come to Gemini and brainstorm travel ideas. But what
Speaker 5: chatbots typically aren't very good at is understanding the physics
Speaker 5: of the real world, like the fact that you have
Speaker 5: to have time between events and there are opening hours
Speaker 5: and closing hours, and so with this new planning experience
Speaker 5: in Gemini, we've train the models on some of those
Speaker 5: space and time dynamics, and so Gemini can actually create
Speaker 5: a really realistic itinerary for you that takes into account
Speaker 5: how long you have to you know, plan to travel
Speaker 5: between places. And then because of the Gmail integration, it
Speaker 5: can pull in your itinerary to help you get started.
Speaker 5: So I can't wait to use it for my own travel.
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be a killer. The one
Speaker 5: other thing I'll just mention that we announced today that
Speaker 5: I think is super cool speaking of personalization, is something
Speaker 5: called gems, and so this lets users create their own
Speaker 5: tailored versions of Gemini that are four specific things. So
Speaker 5: I have a gem that I've created for travel planning
Speaker 5: for my family and knows what kind of hotels we
Speaker 5: like to stay at, It knows what our typical budget is.
Speaker 5: It knows where we live and how far are we
Speaker 5: like to go, and so you know, you can create
Speaker 5: as many of these as you want, and it just
Speaker 5: it's a great example of how Gemini is becoming so
Speaker 5: much more personal and tailored to your specific needs.
Speaker 1: And what's the goal of all this? What's the kind
Speaker 1: of of you know, end result. Is it really our information?
Speaker 1: Is it Google's information that we're kind of access quicker
Speaker 1: or is it a combination of both.
Speaker 5: I think that the end goal for me is really
Speaker 5: to make everyone have, you know, access to this personal
Speaker 5: AI assystem that helps them live their best life, that
Speaker 5: helps them express themselves better, be more organized save time.
Speaker 5: I think that's the end goal.
Speaker 1: Confused or I think some people may be confused on
Speaker 1: how to access Gemini because we hear this, but it's
Speaker 1: also an app, it's also a feature, it's also a thing.
Speaker 1: So how do people access this tool?
Speaker 5: Yes, we are working to make Gemini available everywhere, but
Speaker 5: if you want to go right to Gemini, you can
Speaker 5: go to Gemini dot Google dot com, and you can
Speaker 5: also download the Gemini app on Android and on iOS.
Speaker 5: You can go right into the Google app and Gemini
Speaker 5: is there. There's a star at the top of the.
Speaker 1: App that you just tap on, and can you give
Speaker 1: me some kind of like hidden tips or tricks that
Speaker 1: people may not you know, if you've never used Gemini, Like,
Speaker 1: where do I start? I know you got the commercial
Speaker 1: with just the prompt, but you know what do I
Speaker 1: say to it?
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, the commercial the cat playing guitar. You know,
Speaker 5: you can just describe an image that you want Gemini
Speaker 5: to make for you, and it will draw that image
Speaker 5: up for you. So that is a really fun place
Speaker 5: to start. The other one I encourage people to try
Speaker 5: is we all have things we have to write, whether
Speaker 5: it's a thank you card or like declining an event
Speaker 5: that you don't really want to go to, you can
Speaker 5: just go to Gemini and say, hey, I need to
Speaker 5: write this message. Here's what I wanted to say, and
Speaker 5: Gemini will write that for you. And so that's a
Speaker 5: great way to get started.
Speaker 1: Since it is so simple. There's no instructions. It's just
Speaker 1: a box that says, you know, prompt, type your prompt.
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you give people ideas on how
Speaker 1: to use this stuff because there's so many like hidden
Speaker 1: features inside. Yeah, we got a challenge.
Speaker 5: Yeah that I think it is super important to help
Speaker 5: people know how to get started. And so when you
Speaker 5: go to Gemini, one of the things that you'll see
Speaker 5: is above that input box, we have some suggestions for
Speaker 5: things that you can try, and if you tap or
Speaker 5: you click on those, it will put that into the
Speaker 5: prompt and you can run through that and kind of
Speaker 5: get an idea of what that response would be like.
Speaker 5: So that's one thing that we're doing to help people
Speaker 5: know how to interact with this. But our goal is
Speaker 5: really that people don't need special expertise. They should be
Speaker 5: able to just start chatting with Gemini the way they
Speaker 5: would chat with a actual assistant.
Speaker 1: And for people that maybe using another assistant like open Ai,
Speaker 1: Chat EBT, probably lesser so clawed, But like, what do
Speaker 1: you say to them, do you think they should try Gemini?
Speaker 5: I definitely think everybody should try Gemini. We're working to
Speaker 5: make it such an awesome, helpful and really fun assistant
Speaker 5: that just helps everybody with whatever they need to do.
Speaker 1: Once again, that was Jenny Blackburn of Google explaining Gemini.
Speaker 1: If you haven't tried it out, definitely do it. It's
Speaker 1: on your iPhone if you have the Google app, open
Speaker 1: up the Google App up at the top, you'll see
Speaker 1: it says search and then there's a little star. If
Speaker 1: you tap that star, it will convert the Google App
Speaker 1: into Gemini and just have some fun ask it some questions.
Speaker 1: It is very knowledgeable. On Android, you can just go
Speaker 1: in search on the play Store Gemini, you can download
Speaker 1: the app and use it that way, and then on
Speaker 1: the web Gemini dot Google dot com. Check it out.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for real time information, like stuff that's
Speaker 1: more so than just ideas and things like you want
Speaker 1: information about where you're traveling or something like that, like
Speaker 1: this is what Gemini is really good at all. Right,
Speaker 1: coming up, we are going to do the feedbag segment,
Speaker 1: that is your emails, your comments into the show. My
Speaker 1: name is rich Sarmiro. You are listening to Rich on tech.
Speaker 1: Before we get to the feedbag, let me just two
Speaker 1: things I wanted to note Google. You know how Google
Speaker 1: search results have gotten really cluttered with all kinds of
Speaker 1: pictures and videos and Twitter and articles and whatever. If
Speaker 1: you want to go back to the old style of
Speaker 1: just text based links, there is now a new filter
Speaker 1: on Google called Web. So the next time you do
Speaker 1: a search, it may pop up as a little button
Speaker 1: underneath the search bar. Like I search for my name
Speaker 1: rich to Mirowna says images, news, videos, Wikipedia, Web. So
Speaker 1: if I tap now web, it gets rid of everything
Speaker 1: except the links. So if you just want a pre
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven Google, you can tap web. It
Speaker 1: doesn't do it for every search, but it does it
Speaker 1: on a search by search basis. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: for just links, there is now a filter on Google
Speaker 1: for links. If it doesn't show the word web underneath
Speaker 1: your search, go to where it says all filters, and
Speaker 1: if you scroll down it'll say web right there. And
Speaker 1: iOS seventeen point five is available now if you haven't
Speaker 1: already updated your iPhone. This has a couple new things
Speaker 1: for the folks over in the EU, but here in
Speaker 1: the US. If you like to play word games, there
Speaker 1: is a new Quartiles game inside Apple News Plus. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: it's only for subscribers, but if you subscribe to Apple
Speaker 1: News Plus, you can access this new Quartiles game. You
Speaker 1: build words, and the longer you build the words the
Speaker 1: letters they give you, the more points you get. I
Speaker 1: tried it this morning. It's very tough. Apple News also
Speaker 1: has an offline mode, so if you fly a lot
Speaker 1: and you want something that's offline and you could download
Speaker 1: your phone. This allows offline access to magazines, newspapers, and
Speaker 1: narrated articles automatically downloads the content. There's from some Find
Speaker 1: My Network updates and a new repair state so if
Speaker 1: you send your phone in for repair, you can still
Speaker 1: leave find My on which is a nice addition. And
Speaker 1: there's fifteen notable security patches. And by the way, if
Speaker 1: you want to find that Quartiles game, open up the
Speaker 1: Apple News app and tap the following tab in the
Speaker 1: lower right hand corner and then tap Quartiles. You'll see
Speaker 1: under puzzles. All right, let's get to the feedbag. This
Speaker 1: is a feedback plus the mail bag equals feedbag. These
Speaker 1: are the emails the comments that I get from you.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to submit yours, just go to Rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot tv and hit contact. James from Tampa,
Speaker 1: Florida says you mentioned you are currently testing Tello. We
Speaker 1: have been using Tello and really enjoy their simple eSIM activation,
Speaker 1: concise invoicing plan prices, ease of changing plans, and their coverage.
Speaker 1: So good, so far, so good, better than my mint
Speaker 1: line in terms of data speeds and coverage even though
Speaker 1: they both use Tea mobile. If I need to call support,
Speaker 1: I get right through to my helpful customer service, even
Speaker 1: though it is offshore. I currently have six eSIMs on
Speaker 1: my iPhone fifteen promacs, only two are active at a time.
Speaker 1: Three of them are playing Tello one hundred minute lines
Speaker 1: with no data because they are special phone numbers vanity
Speaker 1: numbers that are easy to remember that I don't want
Speaker 1: to give up, so I just parked them with Tello
Speaker 1: until I decide what to do. Great show, as always,
Speaker 1: Chow Yes, Tello is a great option if you want
Speaker 1: something that is super simple and gives you a very
Speaker 1: customizable way of creating your phone plan. So if you
Speaker 1: just want talking text, you can sign up for that.
Speaker 1: If you just want tell a text, you can sign
Speaker 1: up for that. If you just want data, you can
Speaker 1: sign up for that. If you want unlimited, you can
Speaker 1: sign up for that. If it's really really great Tello
Speaker 1: dot com, you can find a link on my website.
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv, I've got a a referral
Speaker 1: link that I think gives you like ten bucks off
Speaker 1: or something like that, only because I use it, Robert
Speaker 1: from Sacramento says on the May eleventh program, a gentleman
Speaker 1: mentioned he was happy with his Galaxy S ten, and
Speaker 1: you correctly asked about security updates. He said he was
Speaker 1: getting them. However, Samsung stopped updating that phone in April
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, so unless he rooted his phone, he
Speaker 1: has gone over a year without an update. Given that
Speaker 1: he also mentioned doing nature photography having a quality camera
Speaker 1: with him all the time. Is I'm port will a
Speaker 1: new phone matches Laika or whatever system he uses.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 1: Heck, my Pentax under certain circumstances, especially telephoto, takes better
Speaker 1: pictures of my S twenty four Ultra, but the quality
Speaker 1: top of the line phone cameras is amazing. Anyone serious
Speaker 1: about photography should invest impossible, if possible, in a phone
Speaker 1: with a quality camera. I did think that. After the
Speaker 1: caller said that his S ten was still getting updates,
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't think it is. There is
Speaker 1: a website you can check. It's called end of life
Speaker 1: and it'll tell you when the software is updated. So
Speaker 1: I should come up with the if you just search
Speaker 1: end of life, that does not come. This does not
Speaker 1: come up. I gotta find the link for that website.
Speaker 1: Richard from Murrieta says, Hey, rich I'm a regular listener
Speaker 1: and I want to pass this along if you're inclined
Speaker 1: to inform your audience. Frontier Airlines promotes its go Wild Pass,
Speaker 1: which for one price, offers unlimited flights for the summer
Speaker 1: or the year. I purchased a yearly pass for five
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars. However, when I tried booking flights,
Speaker 1: nothing was available. I contacted Frontier. They said I had
Speaker 1: twenty four hours to apply for a refund, but I
Speaker 1: was past the allotted time. I resolved this with my
Speaker 1: credit card company, which has given me a credit. Despite
Speaker 1: Frontier's deceptive policy. I have since found numerous negative reviews
Speaker 1: online from others in the same situation. Please inform your
Speaker 1: audience that this program is as close to a scam
Speaker 1: as it gets. Thank you, Rich. I've heard of this program.
Speaker 1: I have not familiar, but any unlimited flight program I
Speaker 1: would assume you have to be very, very, very flexible,
Speaker 1: because if they're giving away a lot of flights for
Speaker 1: that one price, it's basically whatever's left on the plane.
Speaker 1: Melissa from Recita, California rights Hi, Rich, I've been watching
Speaker 1: and enjoying your KTLA segments for many years, and I've
Speaker 1: always wondered why there's so little attention paid to Android
Speaker 1: by seemingly everyone in your field. As a decade's long
Speaker 1: user of all things Samsung cell phone, own TVVCR, DVD,
Speaker 1: and now smart TVs, I'm wondering why the overwhelming majority
Speaker 1: of information, tips, updates, and reviews of cell phones are
Speaker 1: focused on Apple, while it seems Samsung is more of
Speaker 1: an afterthought or a courtesy mentioned when it comes to security,
Speaker 1: convenience updates, and tips about using it more efficiently, everyone
Speaker 1: seems mostly to leave it up to the user to
Speaker 1: figure it all out. Thanks for your time, Melissa. Melissa,
Speaker 1: I do understand that the industry is very iOS and
Speaker 1: Apple centric. When I wrote my book, yes, it was
Speaker 1: for iOS and there was a very particular reason for that.
Speaker 1: It's because iPhone works the same for everyone around the world.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the biggest difference between iPhone and
Speaker 1: Samsung and what makes it tough to cover Samsung in
Speaker 1: the same way. There are many different versions of their software,
Speaker 1: There are many different devices, and they all work slightly differently,
Speaker 1: and then the accessories are all different as well. You
Speaker 1: may have a Samsung phone plus a one plus watch
Speaker 1: and nothing headphones, and it's a It's a combination of
Speaker 1: things and that's what makes the Android ecosystem so great,
Speaker 1: but it also makes it really tough to say one
Speaker 1: thing that works for everything. I would like to say
Speaker 1: personally that I hope you notice on this show, I
Speaker 1: do my best to try to be equal and to
Speaker 1: also talk about Apple and Samsung. Maybe not equally, but
Speaker 1: I do try to give it a go and make
Speaker 1: sure that I'm mentioning both of them. Well, that is
Speaker 1: going to do it for this episode of the show.
Speaker 1: You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website.
Speaker 1: Just go to rich on tech dot TV. If you
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Speaker 1: on the show or to answer, just go to the
Speaker 1: website Rich on Tech dot tv hit the contact link,
Speaker 1: and believe me, many of you do that. Every week.
Speaker 1: I do see all of the emails. I cannot respond
Speaker 1: to all of them, but when possible, I do, and
Speaker 1: I very much enjoy doing that. You can find me
Speaker 1: on social media. I am at rich on Tech. I
Speaker 1: am active probably the most on Instagram, also on x
Speaker 1: and also on Facebook, so you can find me on
Speaker 1: all of those social media platforms. Next week it's Microsoft's turn.
Speaker 1: They are talking about AI and there might even be
Speaker 1: some hardware surprises, so I will bring you the latest
Speaker 1: from up in Redman and Seattle, Washington. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for listening. There are so many ways you can spend
Speaker 1: your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here
Speaker 1: with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible.
Speaker 1: My name is rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.