WEBVTT - Google Pixel 4 Puts the Smart in Smartphone 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.160 Hands off with the Google Pixel four. Google smart speakers 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:12.080 get a handy new feature. Samsung has a fingerprint issue 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.120 on its hands. See what I did there and your 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.919 tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.880 is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.440 the tech stuff I think you should know about. Plus 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.759 I answer all the questions that you just send me. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.760 Here them right there, that's them questions. We print them out. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:31.720 Yeah, we do. 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.040 Welcome producer Megan. What's going on? 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:34.320 Hey? 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.199 Hey, is that your new thing? Did you think about that? 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.479 Did you have that swear that just came out? And 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.240 then I and then you literally like read my mind 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.720 and I, yeah, I don't know where that came from. Okay, 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:47.640 so maybe that's my thing. 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.600 Maybe, well okay, so this is, hey, hey, kind of funny. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.320 But so you know, I fill in for Leo Laporte. Yeah, 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.400 on occasion. Actually I'm gonna be doing it in two weeks. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.120 But so I didn't realized that he had a way 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.960 of like introducing the show every time. And so it's 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.120 really like when you're doing a syndicated radio show, like 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.520 it's really nerve wracking. I think like literally you're on 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.520 like the producers. You're in your ear and it's like 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.280 you're hot, you know, and all of a sudden you're 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.640 like lived all these people around the nation, and I 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.480 didn't know what to say, like how do you say, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.400 you know, like good morning, but it wasn't morning in 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.679 some places, you know. So anyway, so I noticed that 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.959 Leo always he always does something like well, hey, hey, hey, 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.360 how are you doing today or something like that, and 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.080 so it kind of like reminded me of what you 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.479 just did. But I have not come up with a thing, yeah, 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:32.479 like of what I say. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.640 But there's another podcast I listened to and they go hello. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.080 Hello, Hello, Right, so everyone has their thing of how 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.520 they intro and if you watch or listen to this show, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.039 I should say listen because there is no watching. You 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.440 realize that there is nothing. There's no givens, there's everything. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.640 Every week is like one hundred percent different. So but anyway, 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.240 we did just have a meeting with our big boss 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.000 here at our new company. You know, we were purchased 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.520 KTLA as part of Tribune was purchased by another a 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.360 new company called Nextstar. And so that's our new company 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.280 that we work for, which I used to work for 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.240 back in the day we had our big meeting. How 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.640 nervous were you scale of one to ten for this meeting. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.480 I was. I mean ten is really extreme. I would 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:13.519 say maybe a seven. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:14.600 Did you sleep last night? 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.360 Yeah, I slept. I actually did sleep. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:17.200 I supped really well. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.400 Okay, you were not obviously nervous at all. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:21.840 No, Well, I was also jet lagged. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.680 I feel like, as a reporter, like you just can't 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:25.480 really get nervous. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:26.360 No, you don't. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.240 I feel like you're used to just always being on. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.160 But for me, I'm like, I feel like I just 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.120 trip over all my words. That's how I feel. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:35.920 But I think we did well. The meeting was very short. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.840 I had nothing, I you were great. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.760 We just ended up. We ended up just talking about 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.320 like how much we love doing social media. So who 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.519 knows if it was good or not. But yeah, let's 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.680 get to the big news of the week. The Pixel 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.800 four smartphone is unveiled for real. I was in New 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.600 York for the big Made by Google event and I 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.880 have a Pixel four right here, which, according to my 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.120 i NDA, they call it or embargo, whatever you want 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.080 to call it. There are certain rules and apparently I 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:06.760 was reading it and it said you can only tweet 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.440 pictures from the main camera, which I think by saying that, 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.639 I'm breaking the rules of saying what the rules are. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.920 Oh wow, Which so I was gonna tweet like a 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.120 selfie and then I was like, oh my gosh, I 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.160 can't even like tweet a selfie because it says you can't. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.839 But anyway, so all the tech companies, when they give 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.280 you stuff to review, there's a certain time that they want. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.440 We've talked about this before, when you can reveal your thoughts. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.359 There's a thing called first impressions. So if you're ever 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.919 watching YouTube videos, when you see first impressions, that means 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.240 that it is not a review or hands on not 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.360 a review. Only when you see that magic word review, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.720 that means that the embargo has been lifted and you 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.240 are free to give all of your thoughts on this device. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.000 And so there's a lot of stuff I've noticed about 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.520 this device. I can't necessarily say it because they want 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.560 to have a certain window where people can collect their 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.680 thoughts and then publish them. It's kind of annoying, but 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.119 that's just the way they play. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:55.800 It makes sense. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.960 So Pixel four is the new smartphone from Google, and 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:00.360 if you've listened to me at all. You know, I 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.400 love the pixel lineup. It is pure Google. Pixel four 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.480 fixes a lot of the problems that we've seen on 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.720 previous devices. The number one thing is there is no 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.680 ultra wide camera lens, which every other smartphone maker in 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.480 the world is doing. Google decided not to. They did 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.320 put a secondary lens, but it's more for zoom and 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.000 they say that they think that zoom is more important 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.680 to users, which I kind of agree with because I 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.520 was debating this with my wife last night. I was like, 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.120 how many people actually take ultra wide pictures? Like what 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.720 are the use cases? Not many, but how many people 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.840 are at their kids recital or out? And about how 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.920 many times you see people pinching in on the screen 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.800 to zoom in all the time. Yeah, and when you 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.279 do that you lose a lot of quality. Google, you 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.400 don't really lose a lot of quality, So that's amazing. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.480 It also has this motion sense, which means there's a 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.960 little radar inside which you can control it with your 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.520 hand just by waving it. That is very hit or miss, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.360 but it's there and it works. The face on lock 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.760 is super fast. It's amazing. It's actually too fast because 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.560 every time I look at my phone. It's unlocked already. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:03.400 Really yeah, so's kind of crazy, but it's great. You 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.640 can snooze alarms by waving your hand over them. You 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.159 can silence phone calls, you can skip to the next song. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.159 That's kind of cool. The camera has been improved, but 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.640 the pixels pretty darn good, so it's kind of tough 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.160 to improve that camera. But you can now take pictures 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.560 of stars, which I've not tried. I will do that 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.919 this weekend in my backyard. I can't wait. Just you 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:22.840 can take a picture for as long as four minutes. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.440 Oh wow, So I can't wait to see what that 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:26.920 looks like. You have to put it on a tripod 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:28.720 if you're going to do that, okay, because you can't 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:29.240 just hold it for. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:30.440 So I was going to say, you should go on 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.200 the parking lot and take a picture of the sky 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.599 with the grip at the observatory at like three am. 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.279 I was going to do that. I actually thought of 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.000 that this morning. Yeah, but I don't I need to 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.640 get a little stand for the phone. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:40.960 Yeah. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.520 It actually gave me a case that has a built 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.160 in tripod, but it's too bulky for me to like 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.480 carry around every day. So Let's see, so you can 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:51.560 take pictures that way. Let's see. The screen is ninety 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.080 hurts capable, which means when you're scrolling through Twitter and 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.119 Facebook and all that stuff, it looks smoother than normal. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.680 But that's not really a big thing for most people. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.280 Battery life, they say, it's all day. It has wireless charging, 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.400 all that good stuff. The things that does not have 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.280 no fingerprint reader, no wide angle lens, and no original 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.960 picture storage at ar sorry, no unlimited picture storage at 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.160 original quality, which is one of the big things that 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.040 the three previous Pixels had, which means you can store 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.719 all your photos and four K videos at the best 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.560 resolution and never worry about paying for that. Now that's 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.880 not a thing anymore. Why it probably got too expensive 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.080 for Google and they probably just don't need it anymore, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.280 like they I don't know, they just decided that's not important. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.440 So I never thought it was important because I pay 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.799 for Google storage anyway, but and I don't think it's Look, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:42.839 these tech companies have a lot of research, and they 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.039 understand how people are using their devices in ways that 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.960 we don't even understand. Because your phone is reporting back 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.039 all the time what you're doing with it, and so 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.240 they understand. They know if people are using the pinch 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:53.960 to zoom, they know if people are using this app 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.760 or that app, so we can kind of speculate on 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.600 the top features. Google actually an Apple and all these 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.960 companies they know what the top features are, so they 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.480 know what they can ditch. And yeah, they're going to 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.480 get some stuff in the media about it, but they 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:06.640 know it's not going to be a big deal at 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.520 the end of the day. The other app that's kind 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.320 of cool is the recorder app, and it transcribes everything 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.840 in real time in addition to recording your voice, so 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.840 it's kind of like a notes app that's much more 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.280 useful because you can look at the transcript. Cool if 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.400 you're in meetings all the time and you know that 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.720 kind of stuff. Again, I've been using the Pixel Xcel version. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.720 It's big. I think for most people to probably want 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.280 the smaller one, but I like the big screen and 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.600 so far, so good. I mean, I can only give 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.160 you my impressions of it. I cannot give you my 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.560 review of it. Yeah, but I will tell you that 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.080 I will probably be buying the one twenty eight gigabyte 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:41.600 Pixel for Xcel. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.000 So how would you rate it? On a scale of 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.080 one to ten as an impression. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.560 I just love the Pixel. I think it's like the 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.960 perfect smartphone for I think for creator it's a little 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.400 bit tougher because it's not like as good as the 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.320 iPhone when it comes to like creating content, and the 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.560 apps aren't as good. But I think that as a 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.840 smart phone, it is really smart, like it just anticipates 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.440 everything that you want to do and kind of like 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.640 is ready for that. And I think that's the difference 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.720 between iPhone and Pixel. iPhone has all the apps, it's perfect, 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.560 it's polished, it just does everything you need it to do. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.240 But it's more of I call a hunt and peck 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.800 mentality versus on this phone. The Pixel uses AI to 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.560 kind of surface things that it thinks you want to 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.920 do next. And I think that's the biggest difference between 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.840 the two devices. Right, So hopefully that made sense. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.080 Yeah, that makes and with that ten, I think that's 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:33.480 a ten. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.640 Let's go to Megan with the first question of the day. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.760 All right, So this first question comes from Evelyn and 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.679 she writes in on rich on tech Dot TV. All 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.920 you have to do is you can send a question 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.520 to Rich through rich on tech dot TV, go to 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.400 the contact page and you can submit your question. Evelyn asks, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.760 what have you heard about this product? It's called Infinity Cloud. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.160 This is not the first question I'm getting about this thing. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.320 And it's spelled in a weird way, like it's spelled 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.760 Is it spelled infinity kloed? Is that how she spelled it? Yes? Okay, 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.000 So I've gotten at least I would say, four or 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.080 five emails about this, so clearly they are advertising somewhere 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.160 that I am not a part of, Like whether it's 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.960 Instagram or Facebook or Late Night TV, I don't know, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:18.839 but I've gotten a lot of emails. I'm trying to 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.240 figure out. There's not like a main website that I found, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.840 But I did find on Amazon they have something called 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:30.080 the Infinity Cloud USB drive and it's spelled that same way, 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.920 and it's one hundred and twenty eight gigabyte drive and 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:37.080 it includes Infinity Cloud super Fast one click backup software 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.120 for Mac and PC. I'm guessing this is what she's 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.800 talking about. It's a ninety dollars device and it's kind 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.200 of from what I can tell, it's a flash drive 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:50.640 that backs up things on your computer. Okay, and I 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.400 don't like the name Infinity Cloud because it sounds like 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.920 you're getting as much backup storage as you need and 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.600 this is a hundred yeah, and this is one hundred 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:01.360 and twenty eight gigs. 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:02.520 So yeah, that's weird. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.440 Here's my advice on this. I think it has a 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.920 fancy name. I think they're advertising and they're you know, 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.960 they're getting people to buy this thing, but don't. I 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.320 would say, if you're going to back up stuff. Number one, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.720 if you have a Windows computer or a Mac computer, 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.000 buy a hard drive Western Digital. Seventy bucks will get 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.480 you a two terabyte hard drive. You plug it into 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.520 your computer, your Mac or your Windows computer will automatically 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.400 back up all your files there. That's number one. Number 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.240 two when it comes to the cloud, use iCloud, use 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.800 Google Photos for your photos, use Microsoft one Drive for 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.200 your documents if you want, you know, depending on the 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.880 platform you're on, and all again, you can get some 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.000 free storage with those, but you can also pay to 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.160 get more storage. And finally, if you want to use 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:47.120 something like back Blaze or Carbonite, if you want sort 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:51.079 of the entire computer backed up to one So what 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.640 would happen with that with back Blaze or Carbonite is 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.080 it's off site, so it's very similar to time Machine 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.320 or Windows backup, but it's off site, so god forbid 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.679 you're you know hard drive ever you know crashes, plus 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.199 the secondary backup you have gets lost or burned or ruined. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.280 You can go to back blaze and say, hey, can 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.040 you get all my data back? And it gets back 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.120 to the way you were and they may charge you 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.000 like a fee if you want like a drive sent 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.480 to your house with all of your stuff on it, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.200 or you can just download it from the computer as well. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.640 So those are the things that I would recommend back 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:27.600 Blaze or Carbonite. And the first backup, by the way, 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.600 is going to take a long time because you're backing 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.440 up your whole computer. Yeah, after that, it's incremental and 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.480 it's just done. Like I had. I had Carbonite for 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.319 a while and it was great because like you just 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.640 knew your whole computer was backed up without even thinking. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:39.400 I kind of like that. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.840 Yeah, And I'm just seeing how much it is. So 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.560 back blaze is sixty bucks for a year or six 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.640 dollars a month, okay, And I always go back to 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.840 the beer mentality. If you purchase a beer or a 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.000 drink for five bucks, ten dollars one time that month, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.199 you can have back blaze for six dollars. Yeah. I'm 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:58.839 not saying you need to do that, but I'm just saying, 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:00.840 you know, you spend money on things like you go 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.360 to Chipotle, it's nine bucks. You could add your computer 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:04.920 backed up for the whole month. Yeah, and he could 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.719 add a bowl cereal at home, or a beer or 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.560 a beer. Samsung says they will soon patch a fingerprint 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:17.640 recognition problem on the Galaxy S ten. Samsung said that 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.800 there is a software patch ready to go for a 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:26.400 fingerprint recognition failure on the S ten smartphone. Apparently there's 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.800 a bug in the Galaxy S ten that allows people 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.839 to unlock the phone using their fingerprint, even if their 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.080 fingerprint is not the one registered to unlock the phone. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.400 That sounds really bad. 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.400 Aka anyone can open the phone. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:44.520 Pretty much so. A British user told The Sun newspaper, 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.440 which is a tabloid I believe over in Europe, that 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.240 she had a third party screen protector on her phone 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.560 and her husband was able to unlock it using his 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.720 fingerprint without register. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.160 The only example, apparently. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.360 But it's big enough where Reuter's did a story on it. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.120 Everyone else has picked it up, and Samsung did tell 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.880 Reuters and Gizmoto that they do have a software fix 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.679 that they're going to put out for this. And here's 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.760 the thing they said, Apparently some of the issues with 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:16.560 your fingerprint recognition happen with some third party screen protectors 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:23.120 that are silicone, silic can silicon based and plastic based. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.440 And so it's I guess, if you have a glass 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.240 screen protector, which I would normally recommend, it's probably not 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.680 that big of an issue, but with these cheaper ones 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:36.079 it is. So again, I've you know, I haven't used 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.160 a plastic screen protector in a long time. I always 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.960 use one that's glass from tech Armor, and so I 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.160 haven't seen this issue. I guess I can try to 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.760 recreate it on the Samsung Galaxy S ten, but I don't. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.480 I don't think So that's that's a that's a weird one. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.280 Yeah, you should try to recreate it, but. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.080 It wouldn't workcuse I don't have a scream protector, so 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.480 I'd need like a cheap I guess I can go 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.880 to like one of those cheap malt kiosks, and you know, yeah, anyway, 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.920 so again my advice you if you have a Samsung 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.240 Galaxy S ten, is this gonna happen? I don't know. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.319 Try if you have a cheap plastic screen protector on 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.640 there A, you probably want to upgrade that. B. Have 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.679 a friend try their fingerprint and see if it works 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:11.320 and let me know. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.440 Yeah, and then maybe change to a pass cut. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.160 Yeah. I would definitely change for the time being. Yeah, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.440 until you see that softwareupdate. 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:23.160 Okay, cool. Next question comes from Kathy and she she asks, 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.720 I need to get a new streaming stick. I had Firestick, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.680 I now have an iPhone. So between firestick and Apple TV, 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.720 which would you recommend? And then she said my TV 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.080 is ten eighty but may soon get an HD, So 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.520 I assume I should get an HD streaming stick. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.840 They're all I mean, they're all the st at this point. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:42.080 Yeah. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.640 I don't think they sell a stick that's not Roku 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.880 might in their bottom like their lowest one. They might. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.560 But yeah, and also, your TV is ten eighty. That's 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.800 that's HD already, so you're already there. Yeah, you're already there. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:15:00.240 What Let's see? So she has Apple TV, No, No, 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:01.360 she has an iPhone? 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:07.400 She she has she had firestick. She oh. She also 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.280 says she has Roku in some rooms and she hates it. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.720 Okay, so she had Firestick and then she hates the Roku. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.000 I mean, I don't so between Firestick and Apple TV, 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:17.240 which would you recommend? 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.000 So okay, So Firestick I think that's one I use. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.680 It's it's super cheap, it works really well, it pushes 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.440 all Amazon stuff, And I find that the organization of 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.320 the Firestick is atrocious because like if I just want 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.240 to see what the top movies are for like rental 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.800 or purchase, it's like takes like twenty five menus to 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.120 find that, whereas an Apple TV just go to iTunes 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.680 as like top movies boom. But again, and Apple TV 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.440 is way more expensive, And I think that's the delineation here. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.920 How much do you want to spend Apple TV you're 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.240 looking at closer to two hundred dollars versus Firestick. You 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.360 can get it for like twenty five bucks or maybe 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.440 I think the fifty as the most expensive one as 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:56.840 a stick, So it depends how many you're buying. And 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.680 with Apple TV you get the integration to your iPhone. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.680 Do you want to airplay stuff from your iPhone through the. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.440 Screen, something she probably wants and photos. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.640 You can also, so if you have a firestick like 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.800 I do, to get your photos from your iPhone onto 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.600 the TV, you can do it. You can download the 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.480 Amazon Photos app, you can upload them one by one 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.960 and do that. Or if you have an iPhone, obviously 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:19.480 it's just kind of like you can just do a 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.160 photo stream or you can do your recent pictures or whatever. Yeah, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.680 So I mean, I think personally, I would probably lean 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.720 towards the Apple TV. If you have an iPhone and 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.720 you're saying you hated Roku, which I don't know why 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.800 you hate Roco. It's pretty good, and you. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.080 Had fire stuff Roku. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.480 Yeah, So Roku just sent me a Ultra to test 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.240 ok and so I set it up and I know, 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.760 went through the whole thing, and I haven't used a 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.640 Roku in forever, and I got to say, I was 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.480 actually quite impressed. It's just clean and straightforward, except there 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.200 are a lot of ads on the screen. I don't 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.800 like the ads, and the interface looks like it's out 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:52.960 of the eighties because it kind of like when you 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.720 start streaming, really does that bar that comes up is like, 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.040 come on, could you just redo that a little bit? 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.880 Apple TV is probably the most it is the most 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.399 polished out of all of them, and you're also and 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.040 you're also spending the most. Where is this Roku is 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:08.920 half the price and it does all the same things 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.239 and if not more because the remote it came with 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.680 is really nice. It can plug You can plug a 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.880 headphone jack into it or headphones into the remote, which 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.480 is really cool. It controls the volume on your TV 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.439 and the power on off. And it has two buttons 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.520 that you can assign to anything. So if you love 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.040 to come home and stream something over and over, like 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.280 I mean, Netflix is a bad example because I feel 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:34.320 like the remote has that button. Yeah it may not, 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.119 So whatever you want to do, you know, you can 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:37.760 assign that button. Or maybe you want to listen to 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.119 a podcast or music. So I I personally think that, uh, 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.280 the Apple TV might be the way to go for you, Kathleen, 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.760 But you know, it depends. It all depends on how 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.080 much you want to spend. I think that's the main thing. Oh, 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:55.080 speaking of Amazon, Amazon's Holiday Toy Guide seems like a 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.400 great place to reference all of your holiday shopping because 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.680