Speaker 1: Hands on with Apple's five hundred ninety nine dollars game
Speaker 1: changing laptop, the AI personality test that creates a fifty
Speaker 1: page report about you, and Android can now help airlines
Speaker 1: find your lost luggage. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro
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Speaker 1: That's Rich on tech dot TV and hit contact. Guests
Speaker 1: this week, we've got Andrew O'Hara from Apple Insider. He
Speaker 1: was at the Apple event with me. This week, we're
Speaker 1: gonna break down some of Apple's latest announcements, including refreshed MacBooks, iPads,
Speaker 1: iPhone seventeen E and of course the Neo. And later
Speaker 1: in the show, I as actar Mobile Analyst at PC
Speaker 1: mag we'll talk from Mobile World Congress about some of
Speaker 1: the biggest trends he saw at this year's show in Barcelona. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a fantastic week. Welcome to you,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me here on the show. This week,
Speaker 1: I headed to New York City for just a quick
Speaker 1: forty eight hour trip. I was there for Apple's I
Speaker 1: did not have my pick. I would have probably gone
Speaker 1: to Shanghai. That would have been pretty cool. But here's
Speaker 1: the deal with Apple. They're so secretive. They told everyone
Speaker 1: that they invited, do not tell anyone where this is.
Speaker 1: So I could not. I walked around the block no
Speaker 1: less than fifteen minutes trying to find this place because
Speaker 1: there was no signs, there was nothing. And so finally
Speaker 1: once I got in, it was like, ah, the whole
Speaker 1: Apple set up. I mean, they really transformed this place.
Speaker 1: It looked like an Apple store, and they had a
Speaker 1: little kind of keynote first off, and then they let
Speaker 1: us all into this back room that had all the
Speaker 1: Apple products, all the new stuff to check out. One
Speaker 1: quick New York side note. By the way, I found
Speaker 1: a hotel room near Times Square. Forget this under two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a night. How did I do that? I
Speaker 1: will tell you about that later. In the show. I
Speaker 1: am so proud of myself for that one. So what
Speaker 1: did we get? Apple updated a bunch of products this week,
Speaker 1: the MacBook Air, which I have in my cart right now,
Speaker 1: the MacBook Pro, the iPhone seventeen E. But the one
Speaker 1: that I'm going to talk about right now that really
Speaker 1: is just a game changer is this MacBook Neo. Apple
Speaker 1: has gotten everything right with this. Well that's debatable, but
Speaker 1: they got a lot right with this, especially the price.
Speaker 1: Five one hundred ninety nine dollars. Wait, what hold on,
Speaker 1: let me get up. I just fell off my chair.
Speaker 1: Five hundred ninety nine dollars for an Apple MacBook computer
Speaker 1: four hundred ninety nine dollars if you qualify for education pricing,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people do, teacher students, all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. So Apple is going directly after Chromebooks and
Speaker 1: after cheap Windows laptops in a way that I've never
Speaker 1: seen before. This is the most affordable MacBook that Apple
Speaker 1: has ever sold. And I think the attention this laptop
Speaker 1: is getting, the pre orders it's getting, this thing is
Speaker 1: going to be off the charts. Why because it's exactly
Speaker 1: what people need. It's not the fanciest it's not the
Speaker 1: highest powered machine. But you know, if you need a
Speaker 1: MacBook Air, or if you need a MacBook Pro, or
Speaker 1: if you need a high end desktop computer, a gaming pc. No,
Speaker 1: this is for everyone else. Everyone who just says I
Speaker 1: need a computer, and I say, what do you want
Speaker 1: to do on that computer? I don't know, surf the web,
Speaker 1: watch videos, do my email? Okay, fine, MacBook Neo, that's perfect. Now.
Speaker 1: Apple is powering this computer with an A eighteen pro
Speaker 1: chip inside. That is a chip that previously powered an iPhone.
Speaker 1: Wait what an iPhone chip in a laptop. Yes, it
Speaker 1: makes a ton of sense because think about it. Think
Speaker 1: about how people are using their iPhone. They're already doing
Speaker 1: everything on their phone. They're doing emails, all the stuff
Speaker 1: I just mentioned, emails, watching videos, editing videos, editing photos,
Speaker 1: recording things. I mean, this is basically a glorified iPhone
Speaker 1: that has a bigger screen and a keyboard. Who doesn't
Speaker 1: want that? You get more space and a track pad
Speaker 1: of course. All right, so speck wise, you know, if
Speaker 1: you're comparing this and you're saying Ridge, okay, well tell
Speaker 1: me the specs is probably not that good for that price.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's stuff that's been proven. You get a
Speaker 1: thirteen inch screen, you get sixteen hours of battery life,
Speaker 1: you get a ten edp camera. Okay, find not the best.
Speaker 1: Dual mics, dual speakers that, by the way, support spatial audio,
Speaker 1: two USBC ports, headphone jack, Wi Fi, Bluetooth, and it
Speaker 1: runs the full Mac os. What does that mean? That
Speaker 1: means that on like a Chromebook where you're limited to
Speaker 1: pretty much web apps, this is a real mac If
Speaker 1: you want to put Final Cut Pro in this thing,
Speaker 1: you can. Now I don't know if it supports those specs,
Speaker 1: but the point is you can install real apps on
Speaker 1: this thing, and people are gonna do that. They're gonna
Speaker 1: put the apps that they want on here. And if
Speaker 1: you have an iPhone, which a lot of people coming
Speaker 1: to this probably will, you're gonna get that magic of
Speaker 1: how Apple. You know, one of my favorite things is
Speaker 1: you copy something on your computer, you paste it on
Speaker 1: your iPhone. Simple, all that stuff that you can do
Speaker 1: iPhone mirroring, handoff text messages. Now, this is a an
Speaker 1: inexpensive computer, you know, by I guess most standards for laptops,
Speaker 1: but they did not make this thing feel cheap. It
Speaker 1: feels very apply in fact, it's aluminum. It's lightweight, under
Speaker 1: three pounds. Comes in four fun colors of course, Indigo, blush, silver,
Speaker 1: and citrus. And it's different than most budget laptops. When
Speaker 1: people ask me for a budget laptop, I cringe at
Speaker 1: what I'm about to recommend them because it's bulky, it's ugly.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't look or feel nice. This one's also fanless.
Speaker 1: Think about this as almost like an iPad with a keyboard,
Speaker 1: almost like an iPhone iPad keyboard machine. That's really what
Speaker 1: it is. There's no touch screen. That's the first thing
Speaker 1: I did when I put my hands on this machine.
Speaker 1: I went to touch the screen, and the person at
Speaker 1: apples like, no, it's not a touch screen. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: can I not touch it? Or is it not touch screen?
Speaker 1: Like no, no, just don't touch it. Don't it's not a
Speaker 1: touch screen. And yes, there are compromises. It only comes
Speaker 1: with eight gigabytes of RAM, which means nothing to a
Speaker 1: lot of people, but in the tech world you probably
Speaker 1: want closer to sixteen for a proper laptop, two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty six gigs of storage, and if you want
Speaker 1: more storage or a fingerprint sensor, you have to pay extra.
Speaker 1: That's one hundred dollars extra. That'll double your storage, but
Speaker 1: you still have to get locked into that eight gigs
Speaker 1: of memory that RAM. So what does that mean. It
Speaker 1: means that, you know, if you're trying to have fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand apps all open at the same time, it may
Speaker 1: not perform that well. But in my testing when I
Speaker 1: went hands on, I mean I had a bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff open. I did a bunch of stuff on this computer,
Speaker 1: and it was fine. There was one tiny little hesitation
Speaker 1: when I opened up a big giant file, but that's
Speaker 1: to be expected. But for most people, again, this is
Speaker 1: going to be perfectly fine. So any of the early
Speaker 1: criticism that people say, oh, well it doesn't have this,
Speaker 1: doesn't have this premium feature, where's the back lit keyboard,
Speaker 1: where's the faster chip, where's more ram doesn't matter. You know,
Speaker 1: my mom does not know what more ram is. She's
Speaker 1: going to try this thing and say, oh, this works great,
Speaker 1: this is perfect. I love this thing. Apple's not trying
Speaker 1: to win the spec sheet war here, It's trying to
Speaker 1: win the recommendation war from people like me, and every
Speaker 1: single tech person that I've seen pretty much agrees that
Speaker 1: this is going to be the best answer for people
Speaker 1: when they say I just need a basic computer, that's
Speaker 1: all I need. This is going to be for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Now on the Windows side, I think
Speaker 1: there's two sides to the effect here. Number one, when
Speaker 1: with the Windows computers, they're going to see sales drop
Speaker 1: because people are going to start recommending this Mac computer
Speaker 1: for an inexpensive everyday computer. On the good side of things,
Speaker 1: it's going to force Windows manufacturers to do things better,
Speaker 1: to stop shipping PCs that are sluggish, junkie software pop ups.
Speaker 1: Hey saw this, do that hardware that's just not very good.
Speaker 1: And for Chrome books, this is going to give them
Speaker 1: a run for their money because, let's be real, a
Speaker 1: lot of these students that have chromebooks, they know they're cheap.
Speaker 1: They cost you one hundred and fifty two hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: and they don't feel very good. Now, schools will probably
Speaker 1: continue using them because they can keep them under wrap,
Speaker 1: and you know, they can lock them down and there's
Speaker 1: not much students do on them. But this might put
Speaker 1: the MacBook back in classrooms in a bigger way. So
Speaker 1: bottom line, I think Apple is going to sell a
Speaker 1: ton of these things. Again. It's called the MacBook Neo.
Speaker 1: It's available March eleventh, and I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be one of Apple's most popular computers for just about
Speaker 1: anyone who wants a simple computer that is high quality
Speaker 1: and lasts. Now. I did post about this on my
Speaker 1: Facebook page. I got hundreds of comments. People love the price.
Speaker 1: People see it as a student or education machine. People
Speaker 1: see it as a great best computer, sorry, basic computer, email, browsing, zoom,
Speaker 1: writing papers. That eight gigabytes of RAM, if you know that,
Speaker 1: that's where people had the biggest issue, they said. Thomas
Speaker 1: said that eight gigs of RAM, though Christian said, my
Speaker 1: iPad pro is still more powerful, and Jason said he's
Speaker 1: worried about software compatibility, but as far as I can tell,
Speaker 1: you can install a lot of software on this thing.
Speaker 1: What else I have more? Oh yeah. A lot of
Speaker 1: people compared it to the ip pad. Andrew said, feels
Speaker 1: like they took an iPad and added a keyboard. And
Speaker 1: that's the wild thing here. If you get one of
Speaker 1: these Apple Magic keyboards, a magic keyboard for an iPad
Speaker 1: starts at two hundred and fifty dollars, So basically, if
Speaker 1: you're a student, for another two fifty you get a
Speaker 1: whole computer. That's wild. Sean says they should have let
Speaker 1: iPad pro run macOS. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And Windows users say, you know what, I think I
Speaker 1: might switch to a Mac. We're gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: of people switch to Mac because of this. All right,
Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about that, go to
Speaker 1: my website rich on Tech dot tv. I've got all
Speaker 1: my thoughts about the MacBook Neo coming up. We've got
Speaker 1: a great show eight A eight rich one O one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: We'll take your calls. Plus, I'll tell you about the
Speaker 1: AI personality test that promises a major report about you.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. A triple eight rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. Give me a call if
Speaker 1: you have a question about technology or need some tech advice.
Speaker 1: I will tell you one thing. Please follow me on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that because I'm trying to boost my
Speaker 1: numbers on there. I could care less. I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: be on there if I wasn't wanting to help you
Speaker 1: out and I'm at rich on Tech and let me
Speaker 1: tell you why I get messages every single day from you,
Speaker 1: people like you, And what are they asking me? They're
Speaker 1: asking me, Hey, Rich, is this a scam? Is that
Speaker 1: a scam? I just downloaded this software to my computer.
Speaker 1: Now I'm worried. And nine times out of ten I
Speaker 1: have done a post about whatever they're experiencing and giving
Speaker 1: them these warnings, but yet they don't see that, they
Speaker 1: don't see them, and next thing you know, they are
Speaker 1: downloading like this one email I just got, or message
Speaker 1: I just got. This person downloaded an attachment from one
Speaker 1: of these fake invitations that are going around right now,
Speaker 1: and now they've got some remote access software on their computer.
Speaker 1: Now that all would have been avoided if they were
Speaker 1: following me on Instagram and not just following me. But
Speaker 1: I would say, I would argue, I think there's a
Speaker 1: way on Instagram to like get an alert every time
Speaker 1: you post something. And I'm not saying you have to
Speaker 1: do that, but I think you tap those three dots
Speaker 1: and you say add to favorites, and I think that
Speaker 1: will show you more of my stuff. Because just because
Speaker 1: you post something to Instagram does not mean all of
Speaker 1: your followers see it. You know, there's an algorithm at
Speaker 1: stake there. But when a lot of these things bubble up,
Speaker 1: and a lot of these scam posts that I do,
Speaker 1: they go kind of viral because people want to share
Speaker 1: with their friends. And here's the thing, because so many
Speaker 1: of you are emailing me on a daily basis, I'm
Speaker 1: seeing all of this stuff first, so I see stuff
Speaker 1: before it even bubbles up to the general public, like
Speaker 1: these scam invitations. So I posted about those scam invitations.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm scrolling back, scrolling back back on January thirtieth,
Speaker 1: that is at least five weeks ago. They are still
Speaker 1: going around. People are still getting them, people are still
Speaker 1: seeing them for the first time. So again, if you
Speaker 1: are following me and seeing this stuff, you'd say, ah,
Speaker 1: I already heard about that. I already know what not
Speaker 1: to do here. So again it's at rich on Tech
Speaker 1: follow me there, mostly because I am trying to keep
Speaker 1: you up to date with the stuff that is trying
Speaker 1: to scam you. And then that way, even if you're
Speaker 1: tech savvy, you can share that on your stories to
Speaker 1: your friends so that they are aware, Like, I can't
Speaker 1: believe this one I got yesterday from someone. They said, Rich,
Speaker 1: is this legit? And it was this thing that's been
Speaker 1: going around on Facebook for years now, this idea that
Speaker 1: if I got a copy and post, copy and paste
Speaker 1: this message so that Facebook does not have access, I
Speaker 1: hereby declare that I do not give Facebook meta my
Speaker 1: permission to use any of my personal data. And now
Speaker 1: they added AI to the mix. But give me a break.
Speaker 1: You're posting something to Facebook saying you don't have permission
Speaker 1: to use my data. That's their entire business is using
Speaker 1: your data. So again people are posting this, they're saying,
Speaker 1: I hereby declare I do not give Facebook the right
Speaker 1: to use anything. Yeah, you already did that in the
Speaker 1: terms of service when you sign up. If you don't
Speaker 1: want a site to use your data, don't sign up
Speaker 1: with the website or pay for it. That's the only
Speaker 1: way you know they're not using your data most of
Speaker 1: the time. Let's go to Mike in Austin, Texas. Mike,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I called before. I have a one of those
Speaker 3: dual routers that does the two point four to five
Speaker 3: whatever the numbers are. Yeah, and I cannot print from
Speaker 3: my phone, my laptop or anything. To it, and I
Speaker 3: called you about it, and I just couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 3: So I thought, you know what to heck with the router.
Speaker 3: I bought a cable and hooked my laptop up to
Speaker 3: the printer and they're both different brands and neither one
Speaker 3: will still print. So now I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Well, you got to get this. You got to get
Speaker 1: this printer on the network. That's the bottom line. So
Speaker 1: the two you know, you've got two two networks happening there.
Speaker 1: You've got the five gigaherts and you've got the two
Speaker 1: point four gigaherts. Those are two different spectrums. Usually the
Speaker 1: printer may just talk to one of those, which I'm
Speaker 1: guessing is the two point four. So what you have
Speaker 1: to do is you've got to go into your settings
Speaker 1: and if you're using Spectrum. I do remember this call
Speaker 1: now because I got a bunch of emails afterwards, people said,
Speaker 1: you gotta tell Mike to go into the Spectrum app
Speaker 1: and you can toggle the two point four spectr the
Speaker 1: two point four gigahertz network so that the printer has
Speaker 1: an opportunity to connect to that. So unless this is
Speaker 1: a really old printer, that's just having a lot of
Speaker 1: trouble connecting, it should just connect to that network if
Speaker 1: you give it a chance. So a couple other things
Speaker 1: I would do. Number one, make sure that the software
Speaker 1: is updated on this printer, So go in to the
Speaker 1: firmware and update whatever this thing you know connected. Well,
Speaker 1: hold on, I just realized you can't get this thing
Speaker 1: on the internet, So how are you gonna connect it
Speaker 1: with the to get the firmware updates? So what I
Speaker 1: would do is I would I would physically reset, like,
Speaker 1: do a factory reset on this printer. So whatever printer
Speaker 1: this is, google that and say factory reset. Do a
Speaker 1: factory reset, start it up from fresh and see it.
Speaker 1: Don't even change anything, and just see if you can
Speaker 1: get it to connect to your new spectrum router. If
Speaker 1: you can't, then go into your spectrum map, or you
Speaker 1: can go into the router itself. Usually the information is
Speaker 1: pasted on the bottom of the router that explains how
Speaker 1: to get into the router. You go in there, you
Speaker 1: switch it into it may be called compatibility mode, it
Speaker 1: may just be called two point four gigahertz. You turn
Speaker 1: that on and then you try connecting the printer. And
Speaker 1: once you connect the printer there. It should stay connected
Speaker 1: even after the network starts spitting out that five gigahertz
Speaker 1: signal as well, because it'll still it'll still understand that
Speaker 1: connection with the printer. And then once you have that,
Speaker 1: I would update the printer with the software and the firmware,
Speaker 1: make sure it's all up to date, and that should
Speaker 1: do it. The other thing you can do is a
Speaker 1: lot of printers have what's called direct connections, so you
Speaker 1: can connect your computer directly to the Wi Fi signal
Speaker 1: that the printer itself spits out. So if you look
Speaker 1: up the name of your printer and just say Wi
Speaker 1: Fi direct, it should tell you how to turn on
Speaker 1: that Wi Fi printer Wi Fi network. It's almost it
Speaker 1: almost turns the printer into its own little hot spot.
Speaker 1: And so once you do that, you can connect your
Speaker 1: computer to that hot spot and print directly that way.
Speaker 1: But you know, Mike, we're already breaking the rules here
Speaker 1: of no printer questions, because we know that printers are
Speaker 1: notoriously the most impossible thing to fix, uh with with
Speaker 1: tech support, and what it usually what you usually need
Speaker 1: to do is just restart everything and your printer will
Speaker 1: miraculously connect. Now, if you had a connection before, I
Speaker 1: would say and spectrum change something. That's when you have
Speaker 1: to go through and just factory reset it. But keep
Speaker 1: me posted, Mike, send me an email, let me know
Speaker 1: if you figure it out, because I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but I've got, you know, printers at two different workplaces
Speaker 1: and two different printers at home, and nine times out
Speaker 1: of ten they work, but there's always that one time
Speaker 1: they don't. And also check your VPN sometimes if you
Speaker 1: have that ACTIVATD it's not gonna work. Thanks for the call, Mike,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Eighty to eight rich one O one eighty
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. Uh, Steve,
Speaker 1: Oh we're going. We gotta go. Okay, we gotta go.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Coming up. I will get to Steve's question he emailed
Speaker 1: and this AI personality test I took it. You can too.
Speaker 1: I'll explain. Coming up right here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology triple A rich one O
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. The website is rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: If you want links to anything I mentioned there, it
Speaker 1: is all on the website. This is episode one sixty four.
Speaker 1: Steve writes in Hey, Rich, I love everything you do.
Speaker 1: I learned so much from you. My wife wants to
Speaker 1: add someone to a picture, but we're struggling to figure
Speaker 1: out how we use Google Photos and can't find a
Speaker 1: way to do it. Is there way to add a
Speaker 1: person who isn't already in the photo? Absolutely, Steve. I
Speaker 1: had to try this myself because I know it works.
Speaker 1: And this is actually it's funny you say this because
Speaker 1: this was one of the features that Samsung showed off
Speaker 1: with their new Galaxy S twenty six Ultra, where you
Speaker 1: can literally use their AI built into the gallery to
Speaker 1: add something to your picture, whether that's a person or
Speaker 1: an object or a dog, and they made a big
Speaker 1: deal out of it. But what Google, what Samsung's doing
Speaker 1: is they're actually running a lot of stuff on Gemini
Speaker 1: in the background. And so I had a hunch you
Speaker 1: can do this on Gemini, and you absolutely could. So
Speaker 1: just take your two pictures, make sure you've got them
Speaker 1: on there. Go to Gemini dot Google dot com, upload
Speaker 1: the first picture and then upload the second picture. Or
Speaker 1: you can say something like upload the first picture and
Speaker 1: then you can say add this person to the other picture,
Speaker 1: and no joke, the AI will generate the photo with
Speaker 1: both of them included. It is really really good. I
Speaker 1: mean it's I did it, and it's just it's so
Speaker 1: funny how good it is. Like this if you have
Speaker 1: not tried the Nano Banana, which, by the way, now
Speaker 1: they're up to Nano Banana two, like they're already on
Speaker 1: the second generation of this image generation tool inside Google's Gemini.
Speaker 1: It's truly incredible. Like the stuff you can do there,
Speaker 1: you will not believe. It's stuff that mere mortals were
Speaker 1: never able to do by themselves. I'm talking any kind
Speaker 1: of photo edit, any kind of fix, anything you want.
Speaker 1: It can be done inside Nano Banana. It might take
Speaker 1: you a few tries to get it perfect, but it's
Speaker 1: really good, you know. Restore old photo, add someone to
Speaker 1: a photo, subtract someone from a photo, subtract an object,
Speaker 1: remove the background, change about whatever you want. It's all
Speaker 1: so easy, and it's free. By the way, now it's
Speaker 1: limited to how many you can do on a day
Speaker 1: unless you pay the other thing and I've talked about
Speaker 1: this before on the show, is that I am now
Speaker 1: coding my own apps using Gemini. So you tap this
Speaker 1: thing called Canvas and you can just say what kind
Speaker 1: of app you want. So last week I told you
Speaker 1: that I made this image resizor app that is just
Speaker 1: the absolute best image resizer I've ever used. It does
Speaker 1: exactly what I want, and it's amazing and it looks beautiful.
Speaker 1: And now this week I needed a new thing for
Speaker 1: my newsletter. I wanted to have where it adds a
Speaker 1: little at rich on tech Reference when I put a
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Speaker 1: if I send people to a website, I want that
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Speaker 1: sent me, so that they say, oh, thank you rich
Speaker 1: And so I made that and it works so perfectly.
Speaker 1: And then not only can you make the app, but
Speaker 1: you can keep refining it to do exactly what you need.
Speaker 1: So after I use my little reference my referral link
Speaker 1: cleaner thing, I said, oh, I would like the last
Speaker 1: five links where I can copy like I want them
Speaker 1: as a history on the bottom. So if I need
Speaker 1: to go back when I'm doing something, I can just
Speaker 1: I don't have to do it all over again. Sure enough,
Speaker 1: there you go. Sure, let me just revise that app
Speaker 1: So if you're not trying this stuff, at least give
Speaker 1: it a try. I know AI is scary. AI is
Speaker 1: going to ruin every job in the world, but it's
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Speaker 1: of AI, this new personality test it's called Deep Personality.
Speaker 1: It promises a deep psychological analysis powered by AI. So
Speaker 1: it combines twenty eight research based psychology assessments into one
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Speaker 1: this yesterday. I was writing my newsletter and I just said, okay,
Speaker 1: let me take this so I can before I write
Speaker 1: about it. Obviously I want to try it, and so
Speaker 1: I got down the rabbit hole. You sign up, it's free,
Speaker 1: and you start answer questions, and man, these questions are personal.
Speaker 1: I mean you could tell where they're going. It's like
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Speaker 1: It's the stuff that like if you went to a
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Speaker 1: depression screening ADHD. I don't have that. Thankfully, I found
Speaker 1: that out plus your personal values and once you finish,
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Speaker 1: it's clear that it's written by AI. But it analyzes
Speaker 1: your personality patterns, your strengths, your blind spots, relationship tendencies.
Speaker 1: And then this is where it gets interesting. They have
Speaker 1: a compare tool, so you can have your partner or
Speaker 1: a friend or a coworker take the same test, and
Speaker 1: the system will analyze how your personalities interact. Now, my
Speaker 1: wife keeps asking me, She's like, should I take this?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know. What if this thing is like, uh,
Speaker 1: does not compute? Does not compute? And we've been married
Speaker 1: for what twenty years now? And what if we find
Speaker 1: out we are not compatible? That would be horrible. Creators
Speaker 1: say the goals to give people an owner's manual for
Speaker 1: their personality. And here's the other really interesting thing. I'm
Speaker 1: probably gonna lose you all now because you're all gonna
Speaker 1: go take this test. You're gonna stop listening. Here's what
Speaker 1: you can do. It actually gives you a button where
Speaker 1: you can export all of its findings and then plug
Speaker 1: it in to chat, EBT or claude, and now you
Speaker 1: have a chatbot that knows you. So I have me,
Speaker 1: I named mine Me, and now I can say, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to a party tonight. Tell me how I
Speaker 1: should interact with my friends. Now that's silly because I
Speaker 1: already know how I'm gonna interact. But my point is
Speaker 1: you can use this and it understands you. Hey, I've
Speaker 1: got a big project coming up, I'm procrastinating. Why do
Speaker 1: you think I'm procrastinating? And one of the best ways
Speaker 1: to get around that procrastination. And because it knows your
Speaker 1: exact personality, it's gonna give you the tools you need.
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind before you send me the angry emails.
Speaker 1: This is not therapy. It is not replacing real therapy,
Speaker 1: real therapists, real psychologists. And you know this is an
Speaker 1: online assessment. It's good for self reflection. And you know,
Speaker 1: of course, there are privacy concerns, So you know I
Speaker 1: taught you about using email aliases. That's what I used.
Speaker 1: So I didn't sign up with my real email address.
Speaker 1: I made one of these cloaked emails. So if my information,
Speaker 1: if I turn out to be crazy and they've got
Speaker 1: to commit me because of what I typed into this
Speaker 1: whole thing. They're never gonna be able to find me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think that's gonna happen, but you
Speaker 1: never know. Oh who knows. Maybe this was all trap
Speaker 1: just to get all my personal information. But I did
Speaker 1: answer it truthfully, and here's what I asked it to
Speaker 1: give me a blurb about myself. I am a curious,
Speaker 1: mind structured thinker. I'm someone who loves exploring new ideas
Speaker 1: and turning them into something useful. I'm driven by learning,
Speaker 1: building and sharing insights that help people understand the world
Speaker 1: a little better. Always experire me, always improving, and always
Speaker 1: looking for the next interesting thing to figure out. If
Speaker 1: that doesn't describe me in three sentences perfectly, I don't
Speaker 1: know what does. So it's proof that this thing actually
Speaker 1: does kind of work. Anyway, If you want the link,
Speaker 1: go to the website. Now, I'm just kidding. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna i'll give you the link. It is deep Personality
Speaker 1: dot app Deep Personality dot app. Of course I will
Speaker 1: link that up on the website. Rich on tech dot
Speaker 1: tv Deep Personality dot App. It is eye opening. Let
Speaker 1: me just let me update this right here online personality test.
Speaker 1: I'll put that, just to make sure that link is
Speaker 1: there when you go to the website, because one thing
Speaker 1: is my biggest pet peeve. Especially this is coming from
Speaker 1: working on TV. When people say, oh, go to the
Speaker 1: website for more information. You go to that website and
Speaker 1: guess what, It's not there. It's just nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1: Or you're hunting and pecking and trying to find this thing.
Speaker 1: I have made up my goal on KTLA when I
Speaker 1: I say to people, hey, go to the website for
Speaker 1: more information. You go to my website. Rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot TV. It is there. In fact, I even added
Speaker 1: a little star at the top so I can even
Speaker 1: call it out for certain segments I do where I'll say,
Speaker 1: go tap the star at the top, and I'll make
Speaker 1: sure it's right there. Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: I got an email from Marsha on Northridge said, I
Speaker 1: bought a new Galaxy S twenty five Ultra last December.
Speaker 1: None of my battery packs seem to fit it. I
Speaker 1: have an older Samsung Fast Charged battery pack, but the
Speaker 1: chord that came with it doesn't fit my new phone.
Speaker 1: My husband suggested buying a converter USBA to USBC, so
Speaker 1: I ordered it from Amazon. It still didn't fit. Then
Speaker 1: I spent hours searching for a new Samsung battery pack.
Speaker 1: I found one online, they said that in ship where
Speaker 1: I live. So I ordered a Balkan and the cord
Speaker 1: is too small and falls out of my phone. Can
Speaker 1: I just get a chord from my old battery pack
Speaker 1: that works with my new phone? Or do I need
Speaker 1: a new one? My current one weighs about two pounds.
Speaker 1: We travel a lot. No, here's the deal, Marcia. Just
Speaker 1: get a new a new pack. They're cheap enough, and
Speaker 1: your old one, you know who knows what the deal
Speaker 1: is with that one. The Galaxy S twenty five Ultra
Speaker 1: uses what's called USBC, So what you want is a
Speaker 1: USBC output, and you want one that preferably has a
Speaker 1: USBC cable built into it. So you don't want to
Speaker 1: adapt or you don't want to use that because that's annoying.
Speaker 1: So the easiest thing is to find a case that
Speaker 1: had or a charger or a portable battery pack that
Speaker 1: has a USBC cable. Ten thousand million hours is probably sufficient,
Speaker 1: but if you travel a lot, you want that twenty
Speaker 1: thousand million hour. It's going to be a little bit Bulk,
Speaker 1: you're a little bit bigger, and so I recommend Belkin.
Speaker 1: They've got a great one. If you go on Belkan
Speaker 1: and look for Belkan USB CWY ten thousand million hours
Speaker 1: power bank, you'll find one. I'll link it up on
Speaker 1: the website. But basically they've got one with the power
Speaker 1: cables built in. That's the one that I like the most,
Speaker 1: and so I'll up because I think it's easier. The
Speaker 1: other one I really like is from Ecoflow and this
Speaker 1: one would also work on there. But the problem is
Speaker 1: the the Samsung Ultra doesn't have mag Safe built in,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if you have a case with that.
Speaker 1: So I would say just get the plug in one.
Speaker 1: It's much easier. So I'll link it up on the
Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot TV. But get yourself a
Speaker 1: battery pack. You need it. Don't travel without it. I
Speaker 1: always travel everywhere with a battery pack and a cable
Speaker 1: that I did talk about my newsletter this week. All right,
Speaker 1: eight to eight rich one O one eighty eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. I see the
Speaker 1: phone lines. I see you guys. I will get you
Speaker 1: coming up right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back,
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. The website is
Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv. Uh links there. Everything I
Speaker 1: mentioned is right there. Let's go to Stephanie in Glendora. Stephanie,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Oh Hi, Rich.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have a question. Maybe it's simple for you,
Speaker 5: but it's not for me. I've been using Google's for
Speaker 5: a long time for several years, but I like the
Speaker 5: Samsung flip phone. I just love it. I tried that
Speaker 5: once after being on Google system for a long time,
Speaker 5: and I just couldn't do it. It was very I
Speaker 5: found it very confusing to try to use it. Is
Speaker 5: there any way to to make a Samsung flip phone
Speaker 5: work similarly to the Google Pixel?
Speaker 1: Okay? This is uh okay. So you're saying you like
Speaker 1: the flip the Samsung like the Flip seven or.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the flip Yeah, the flip phone. I don't know
Speaker 5: if they're ld right the same way, but I like
Speaker 5: that flip.
Speaker 1: Okay, but you can't. You don't like the software that
Speaker 1: Samsung puts on.
Speaker 4: The right okay?
Speaker 5: It just drives me nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, So It's funny you say this because I
Speaker 1: probably spent the first ten years of my Samsung life
Speaker 1: making my samsungs act more like Pixels. Because I agree,
Speaker 1: I love I mean, the Pixel software is clean, it's simple,
Speaker 1: it's intuitive, and Samsung runs on the same kind of
Speaker 1: base engine. I mean, they both run Android, but Samsung
Speaker 1: heavily skins their software and puts their own kind of
Speaker 1: flavor on it, right, they put their own spin on it.
Speaker 1: So I would say I've tested every single way. I've
Speaker 1: tested every single way to make a Samsung more pixel like,
Speaker 1: and I will tell you what I did at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. Okay, I just went with what
Speaker 1: Samsung does, because here's a deal. You can add all
Speaker 1: the software you want. You can add launchers, you can
Speaker 1: change the icons, you can do all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the phone just doesn't
Speaker 1: function as well as it does with Samsung's actual software.
Speaker 1: I know that's not what you want to hear, but
Speaker 1: I will say a lot of it is like muscle memory,
Speaker 1: like for instance, with the Android. You know, for me,
Speaker 1: on the Pixel, you swipe up from the home screen
Speaker 1: and boom, You're you're right into like tapping to search
Speaker 1: for things and stuff like that. So it's really easy,
Speaker 1: you know, So you can put like a launcher on there,
Speaker 1: Like there's the popular launcher is Nova, which you can
Speaker 1: put on there. There's one called lawn chair. But have
Speaker 1: you even heard of a launcher? Do you even understand
Speaker 1: what that is?
Speaker 5: Well, I've googled it, and you know, I get the
Speaker 5: AI information. I've seen that, but I've never really tried.
Speaker 5: Maybe you know a simple way to do this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you could. I mean, like lawn chair
Speaker 1: is the one that looks the most like Pixel, so
Speaker 1: you can install. The beauty of an Android phone is
Speaker 1: that you can install software on it to make it
Speaker 1: pretty much do and act however you want. But I
Speaker 1: find personally, the more software I add to it, the
Speaker 1: more it's not as smooth or as fluid, or things
Speaker 1: just don't work as well. And so when I've installed
Speaker 1: all these different launchers on a on a Samsung, like
Speaker 1: the Nova and the lawnchair, there's ones that look just
Speaker 1: like Pixel, Like I think there might be one called
Speaker 1: pixel launcher, but don't even don't there isn't one, But
Speaker 1: I think lawnchair is the one that launchair.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm seeing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not I don't even think it's Let's see,
Speaker 1: it's open source. It's the last time I was updated
Speaker 1: on December twenty seventh, so I would say try that.
Speaker 1: See if you want to install that on your phone,
Speaker 1: see if that works for you. But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: I just I feel I was updated on February twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: so it was recently updated, So I would try that's
Speaker 1: probably your best bet. If you install launch Air from
Speaker 1: the Google Play Store, that's going to make your phone
Speaker 1: like an like a pixel, like instantly, and so that's
Speaker 1: your best bet. So if you like that, stick with it.
Speaker 5: Okay, do you think and because you made it sound
Speaker 5: like Samsung doesn't really allow you to use some thing
Speaker 5: different that would you know, alter the way they do things.
Speaker 5: So even if you this launcher will alter it so
Speaker 5: it will work like a pixel or oh yeah, there's
Speaker 5: still going to be some problems.
Speaker 1: No, no, they'll let you. I I find and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't wanna. I don't want to make you think
Speaker 1: something that you don't know. But like what when I
Speaker 1: use these things, I feel like the phone is not
Speaker 1: as responsive. I feel like I have to tap the
Speaker 1: icons a couple of times I feel like things are
Speaker 1: not like as smooth as the animations, but those are
Speaker 1: all those are all rich problems. If you use this
Speaker 1: and you install it and you like it, then why not, right,
Speaker 1: But and you can try it. And here's the deal.
Speaker 1: So what your homework, Okay, your homework, Stephanie, is to
Speaker 1: install this launch air launcher. See if you like it.
Speaker 1: Make sure it's set as your launcher because like you
Speaker 1: have to make sure it's your defaults. You have to
Speaker 1: go into settings and there's instructions on how to do that,
Speaker 1: but as your default and try it, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, just try put some icons on the homescreen.
Speaker 1: Yeah you like it. If you hate it, just install
Speaker 1: it and uninstall it and your phone goes back to
Speaker 1: the way it was. Okay, there's really no harm, no
Speaker 1: foul in this. It's not like it's not like the
Speaker 1: old days when I started out installing what was called ROMs.
Speaker 1: So back in the day, I would take a Samsung
Speaker 1: phone and I would install a ROM on it, which
Speaker 1: is like a completely new operating system from the ground up.
Speaker 1: And those were always wonky because nothing would work right.
Speaker 1: But I know, I was younger back then, Stephanie, I
Speaker 1: had more time on my hands to fiddle with stuff
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, okay, I'll try that and see that works.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, what I will
Speaker 1: tell you is I love the Pixel I love the
Speaker 1: Pixel software, and I wish that Google and Samsung would
Speaker 1: come to an agreement and say, hey, let's make a
Speaker 1: version of these phones that run the Pixel software, because
Speaker 1: we know so many people love it. But the Pixel
Speaker 1: phones are so underpowered for people, and they don't you know,
Speaker 1: they don't come in every single flavor like the Samsung
Speaker 1: does give us some options, right, yeah, I agree, But
Speaker 1: I will also tell you. I will also tell you
Speaker 1: that I think Samsung software has gotten a lot better
Speaker 1: over the years, and if you learn to kind of
Speaker 1: embrace it, it's not that bad. It's just a little
Speaker 1: you know, there's like a little things here and there
Speaker 1: that I don't But at this point, my S twenty
Speaker 1: six Ultra is set up just you know, with the
Speaker 1: stock stuff, and I've got it set up to do
Speaker 1: what I need to do, and it, you know, it
Speaker 1: works really well.
Speaker 5: So okay, all right, sounds good, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Stefanie, Well, thank you Rich, Thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it today, Okay, bye eighty eight rich one oh
Speaker 1: one eighty eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Let's see here, as Stefani in San Diego says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I've been a fan of your work for a while.
Speaker 1: I watch your TV segments, follow you on social media,
Speaker 1: and love the newsletter. Oh my gosh, the trifecta. Oh no,
Speaker 1: she didn't mention the radio show. Never mind. Even though
Speaker 1: my family doesn't always follow along, I send them links
Speaker 1: and screenshots of the tips you share. Thank you, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, speaking of advice, Okay, I'll get to this
Speaker 1: after the break. Eighty eight rich one on one eighty
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. More
Speaker 1: rich on Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one on
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Speaker 1: Get in on the phone lines if you want to
Speaker 1: be on the show for some tech advice or you
Speaker 1: got a tech question.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Before we went to break, uh a. Stefani and San
Speaker 1: Diego wrote in and said she enjoys the segments, but
Speaker 1: I try to save the tips you mentioned so I
Speaker 1: can find them later. But regular bookmarks on my web
Speaker 1: browser are not working. I do most of my browsing
Speaker 1: and research on my phone. At one point I copied
Speaker 1: all my open tabs put them into Claude how to
Speaker 1: organize them into a note, but it was very clunky.
Speaker 1: Do you have any recommendations for a better way to
Speaker 1: manage websites or save useful links? Yes? I use an
Speaker 1: app called Raindrop dot io rain Drop dot io and
Speaker 1: it works on both your computer and also on your iPhone.
Speaker 1: That's one way of doing it. There's also another app
Speaker 1: that if you are just on iPhone that's pretty handy.
Speaker 1: It's called Plinky p l i n ky Planky dot
Speaker 1: app and so you can download that on your iPhone
Speaker 1: and basically it's a way to just remember things, anything
Speaker 1: that you want to read later or you know, reference later.
Speaker 1: I use Raindrop dot Io. I like it because it's
Speaker 1: cross platform, and you know, if you listen to me,
Speaker 1: I like things that are cross platform. Plinky is beautiful,
Speaker 1: but it is pretty much right now on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a Mac thing iPhone, iPad and Mac
Speaker 1: and so it looks like, yeah, it's just you can
Speaker 1: save things through your Chrome browser extension. But you know,
Speaker 1: you've got folders, you've got tags, you can search. The
Speaker 1: plank key actually looks it's like a modern version of
Speaker 1: rain Drop. Raindrop's been around forever, so it's a little
Speaker 1: more like old school looking, but it does the trick.
Speaker 1: And so what I do is so Raindrop you can
Speaker 1: pay like twenty eight dollars a year where if you
Speaker 1: bookmark a website to find it later, you can add
Speaker 1: tags manually, or if you pay the thirty dollars a
Speaker 1: year or whatever it is, it will tag it automatically.
Speaker 1: And it also has a lot of other features for
Speaker 1: that price. But this is kind of embarrassing, but I
Speaker 1: will go through and I will use chat ebt to
Speaker 1: give me those tags and I'll put them in because
Speaker 1: I'm saving the twenty eight dollars. I know, what is it,
Speaker 1: penny wise, pound foolish. It's like so silly. It's like,
Speaker 1: just pay the thirty bucks rich for something you like anyway.
Speaker 1: So that's it Raindrop, dot Io and Plinky. There's a
Speaker 1: million in one of these apps that you know can
Speaker 1: help remember stuff for later. But those are two that
Speaker 1: I think are some of the better ones, and I
Speaker 1: like them because they both have browser extensions, So when
Speaker 1: you're browsing the web on Chrome or Firefox or Safari,
Speaker 1: you can send stuff right to these apps and read
Speaker 1: it later or you know, look at it later. Great question,
Speaker 1: Great question. Estefani eighty eight, rich one On one eighty
Speaker 1: eight seven four two four one zero one. Marianne in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, what's up?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: Yeah? There you are?
Speaker 1: You are you're?
Speaker 6: Are you doing good?
Speaker 1: You sound like you're underwater? Are you on the Titanic?
Speaker 7: Let me kick out?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's probably what's happening. Oh so I thought you
Speaker 1: were like at like, you know, SeaWorld or something. I know,
Speaker 1: like of those underwater you know, with like the fish
Speaker 1: or above you.
Speaker 7: No, hey, welcome to my world. But anyways, I wanted
Speaker 7: to please walk kind of go back a few weeks ago.
Speaker 7: You were speaking about a brother's printer, and I kid
Speaker 7: you not. I have my MSc four six five C
Speaker 7: as in Kathy, and it's Nancy for eighteen years. Oh
Speaker 7: my god, a color I'm gonna give me. I think
Speaker 7: older than your son cartridge. It literally never had a
Speaker 7: paper jam. It died after Christmas, and I had a
Speaker 7: paper jam. But I took all the paper out. There
Speaker 7: was one sheet of paper. I think the sences just die.
Speaker 7: Perhaps you know at this point are deserving the printer.
Speaker 7: So I bought a new one. But my point being
Speaker 7: is that I just think they're you know, they felt
Speaker 7: like a tank like you had mentioned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I used that.
Speaker 7: I used that colored printer just for special projects. I
Speaker 7: also love it because I can make photo copies like
Speaker 7: a hard copy. I get a copy of something I
Speaker 7: don't want to do PDF or whatever, I can make
Speaker 7: a make beautiful, wonderful cleric copy. The quality is excellent.
Speaker 1: Well a secret. Which one did you get? What did
Speaker 1: you replace it with?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's me right now. I bought the MFC dash
Speaker 7: teas and Palm nine eight zero d's and David w
Speaker 7: as M William Okay, and that one's an INCA ink
Speaker 7: tank printer.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Yes, I love the ink tanks. I think
Speaker 1: they're great.
Speaker 7: Yea, yeah, well it's the first one I bought. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and I was a little apprehensive. I'm like, oh, but
Speaker 7: I think they're all the printers that are going that
Speaker 7: route now. Excellent quality, it's one hundred times faster, yes,
Speaker 7: and it gives me all the features that I want.
Speaker 1: I I've got a brother ink tank at home, and
Speaker 1: I've got a I'm sorry, I've got sorry an EPs
Speaker 1: and ink tank. I need to actually I need to
Speaker 1: get a brother to try, like to test it out,
Speaker 1: because right now I've I've tested the HP and I've
Speaker 1: tested the Epsen and they're both you know, they both
Speaker 1: have their pros and cons, but they're both ink tank.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's interesting because HP, I'm sure did
Speaker 1: not want to go ink tank because they make a
Speaker 1: lot of money on their ink cartridges. Like the last
Speaker 1: ones I bought for my printer before were like two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars and it was like this is crazy, like
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars on inc Like what so I think
Speaker 1: they kind of fought that trend. But that's I think
Speaker 1: people like the tank because you feel more in control.
Speaker 1: You can see it through the window, like how much
Speaker 1: ink you have left? It feels real versus these cartridges.
Speaker 1: You're like, hold on, is there like one millimeter of
Speaker 1: ink in that cartridge? Like what's going on here?
Speaker 7: I know, I think over a period of time, be
Speaker 7: on the show, I do think they evaporate over time.
Speaker 7: It doesn't say that, but I'm based on my experience,
Speaker 7: but I wanted to emphasize that on the New Brothers.
Speaker 7: I bought this particular style because it only has the
Speaker 7: USB port for my thumb drive. Oh how many other
Speaker 7: ones do not? But I can also hook this up
Speaker 7: Wi Fi yes to my computer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and your phone.
Speaker 7: Oh there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, this is great. This is I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it right now. This looks this perfect. I mean it's
Speaker 1: is it about five hundred bucks? This one's like four sixty.
Speaker 7: Nine, it's about four God, I think it's for sixty
Speaker 7: nine anything like that.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's on the price your side. But you're
Speaker 1: getting you're getting all the features. Like you said, it's
Speaker 1: got the USB, it's got the little color display, it's
Speaker 1: got the automatic document feeder, duplex print. You know, these
Speaker 1: are all things that are there premium. So there are
Speaker 1: cheaper ones out there, but this has like pretty much
Speaker 1: every feature you would want.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I think this one was the Cadillac. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and it's just for my knees because I'm sorry for
Speaker 7: home purposes, So this is my serves my knees. The
Speaker 7: quality is just the curb and it's faster.
Speaker 5: Than the speed of light.
Speaker 1: Yes, sixteen sixteen pages per minute. That's that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's really fast.
Speaker 7: Wow, yeah, really fast.
Speaker 1: Well I do, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry on my other printer, the previous one I
Speaker 7: had about too, and that one was really slow, which
Speaker 7: was that it was very slow the first printer I bought.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you returned there, I got this.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, all right, Well, thank you.
Speaker 1: Uh, Marianne, we're losing a little bit on your signal there,
Speaker 1: but that was uh, you know, you've got some good recommendations.
Speaker 1: And I again, the standard printer that people just love
Speaker 1: is this brother h L L two four six zero DW.
Speaker 1: It's just a simple black and white printer. It's under
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars. That's the one that I had, maybe
Speaker 1: not that exact model number, but I had it for
Speaker 1: no less than ten years. And my kids bugged me, Dad,
Speaker 1: we need a color printer, Dad, we need color. I said, no,
Speaker 1: you guys can color these pages in. I said, that's
Speaker 1: more fun for you, and they said, no, we need color.
Speaker 1: So I bought the color printer and the ink was
Speaker 1: just it was like the printer was nothing. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden. It was just you know, it
Speaker 1: was just much more you know, spending on that ink anyway,
Speaker 1: So now I'm testing the ink tanks. I like those,
Speaker 1: but I still miss my laser jet. I loved my
Speaker 1: laser jet because well that's a brand name, I think,
Speaker 1: but I love my laser printer. I think laser jet
Speaker 1: is an HP thing. But laser printer is what I
Speaker 1: had from brother and I just if you just need
Speaker 1: black and white, simple workhorse, grab the the brother and
Speaker 1: I'll put it on the website. Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. So it's tell me, I've got about
Speaker 1: a minute left. Is that right? Okay? It is right? Okay,
Speaker 1: So let's uh, let's see here. What can I do
Speaker 1: in a minute? Oh my gosh, okay, Trish, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I love watching you on TV. I keep getting phone
Speaker 1: messages I'm losing storage space and encouraging me to download
Speaker 1: a cleanup app. What do you recommend? Well, first off,
Speaker 1: those storage warning messages sound bogus because Apple doesn't really
Speaker 1: recommend you to get a cleanup app. They don't say that,
Speaker 1: but those maybe ads you're seeing from third parties. But
Speaker 1: if you want a good cleanup app, the one that
Speaker 1: I recommend. If you listen to this show, you already
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna say. It's Clever Cleaner c L
Speaker 1: e v e R Cleaner. So if you're trying to
Speaker 1: clean up all the photos and things on your phone,
Speaker 1: Clever Cleaner is the one I like. You know why
Speaker 1: because it does not have any ads, it does not
Speaker 1: have any payments. It's not bogus. It's really good. And
Speaker 1: so if you want to clean up some storage on
Speaker 1: your iPhone, that's the app that I like. I will
Speaker 1: put a link to it because I know I get
Speaker 1: the emails from people say, Rich, I downloaded this one.
Speaker 1: It's not the right one Clever Cleaner, make sure you
Speaker 1: get the right one. You can also check your settings
Speaker 1: on the iPhone settings General iPhone Storage and that will
Speaker 1: show you exactly what is taking up space. But this
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest issues in our world in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Cloud storage versus physical storage. The line
Speaker 1: between them is very tricky for a lot of people
Speaker 1: to figure out, like where is this stuff and why
Speaker 1: is it taking up so much space? Eighty eight rich
Speaker 1: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one coming up. I'll tell you how
Speaker 1: Android can now help you find your lost luggage, just
Speaker 1: like the air tags do. I'll explain coming up right
Speaker 1: here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Everything we just talked about,
Speaker 1: all those printers, the apps and the yeah, the app
Speaker 1: to clean up your iPhone, it's all linked up on
Speaker 1: the website rich on Tech dot TV. And I went
Speaker 1: and I checked because I've been talking about Clever Cleaner
Speaker 1: for a while, and so I went to their app
Speaker 1: store listing. It's only for iPhone, by the way, and
Speaker 1: I just made sure that they're still not charging anything
Speaker 1: for that app or there's no in app purchases. So
Speaker 1: one of the best ways I think to figure out
Speaker 1: if I should download an app, because almost every app
Speaker 1: works on this kind of freemium plan where basically you
Speaker 1: can download the app, but you're gonna use it for
Speaker 1: a minute, and all of a sudden they're gonna ask you, hey, subscribe.
Speaker 1: Like this great disposable camera app I have, It's like
Speaker 1: it really pushes you to subscribe, and you can tell
Speaker 1: this This is actually genius from Apple. If you scroll
Speaker 1: all the way down on the App Store listing, whether
Speaker 1: you're on the computer or on the phone, it's got
Speaker 1: this little information area and it says that who sells
Speaker 1: the app, where it's compatible, the size of the app.
Speaker 1: But there's something that's listed. It says in app purchases.
Speaker 1: And so let me just go to like three other
Speaker 1: cleaner apps. Let me just look up this random cleaner app,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, in app purchases, yes, ten dollars, twelve dollars,
Speaker 1: forty dollars, forty dollars. So that tells me that that
Speaker 1: app is going to immediately try to charge me this
Speaker 1: one AI cleanup kick Pro sure enough in app purchases
Speaker 1: one week, thirteen dollars, one year, fifty dollars. So I
Speaker 1: always check to see if there's an in app purchase
Speaker 1: before I download an app, because that way I know
Speaker 1: what I'm getting into. Are they just gonna give me
Speaker 1: a hard sell or they actually giving me something useful
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's it's you know a bit of both.
Speaker 1: So just that's just one way to check out the app.
Speaker 1: Google does not do that for some reason. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. Android and help you find lost luggage. Google's
Speaker 1: rolling out a new feature on Android called find Hub.
Speaker 1: If you put a Bluetooth tracker tag in your suitcase,
Speaker 1: your phone can show you where it is on a
Speaker 1: map using nearby Android devices. Yes, very similar to the
Speaker 1: way air tags work. That part's not new. The new
Speaker 1: part is that you can create a secure location link
Speaker 1: and send it directly to the airline, so that way
Speaker 1: baggage staff can see the live location of your suitcase
Speaker 1: instead of just you know, searching through their systems. The
Speaker 1: location link is encrypted, it's temporary, it expires after a week.
Speaker 1: You can stop sharing it at any time. If they
Speaker 1: don't find your luggage after a week, it's probably gone. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Google worked with a lot of the airline baggage systems
Speaker 1: to kind of integrate this. They can put this right
Speaker 1: into the system. Ten airlines are supporting the future more
Speaker 1: than ten. But I don't see any US names on
Speaker 1: this list just yet. Air India, China Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines,
Speaker 1: Turkish Airlines, Luftanza Quantis. So hopefully we'll see some American
Speaker 1: airlines in there as well, or I should say US
Speaker 1: based airlines. American Airlines is an airline so you know
Speaker 1: what I meant. And this comes after Apple did something
Speaker 1: very similar with the air tag, so you should know
Speaker 1: this if you use air tags and you put them
Speaker 1: in your luggage, which you, by the way, should be doing.
Speaker 1: If you go into the find my app and you
Speaker 1: look at one of your air tags, let's just do
Speaker 1: this one my key. You can see there's a let's
Speaker 1: see scroll down whereas it share air tag. No, that's
Speaker 1: not it. Hold on, Why am I not finding this?
Speaker 1: Uh oh oh, you know what? Maybe it has to
Speaker 1: get a lock on it first. Okay, here we go. Yep,
Speaker 1: so you get that. Once you get the lock on,
Speaker 1: it says share item location, allow others to locate this item,
Speaker 1: and you press continue, says this person who opens the
Speaker 1: link will be able to see the location of your
Speaker 1: air tag for a limited time. And I can't share
Speaker 1: it right now because it is with me. And Apple
Speaker 1: is smart like that. So if you ever have an
Speaker 1: air tag in your luggage, you can share that location
Speaker 1: of that air tag in live time with the airline.
Speaker 1: You can send them that link and a lot of
Speaker 1: these systems have that integrated. So if you go online
Speaker 1: and you say, hey, my luggage is lost, we'll say, oh,
Speaker 1: do you have a link to your air tag, and
Speaker 1: now you'll be able to do the same thing with Android.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Randy in a Granada Hill. Randy, you're
Speaker 1: on with Rich.
Speaker 9: Say Rich, nice to take my call. Long time, first time.
Speaker 9: I have two questions that time allows, but quickly on
Speaker 9: my news Z fold seven. When I go to a
Speaker 9: site and I want to go back to the previous site,
Speaker 9: I have to literally literally the only way I know
Speaker 9: how to do it so far, and this is when
Speaker 9: the phone is closed. By the way. I don't know
Speaker 9: if that matters, but I have to close the app
Speaker 9: and then go back to you know, I can't navigate
Speaker 9: between apps. Oh does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I are you using? Which are you using the
Speaker 1: swipe gestures? Are you using the buttons at the bottom swipe?
Speaker 9: So if you don't, yeah, the body know you can
Speaker 9: on the bottom even the right hand buttons like on.
Speaker 1: The bottom of your phone screen? Are there are there
Speaker 1: buttons like like digital buttons?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh you're using those?
Speaker 9: Okay, so just tap now I'm using I'm using the swipe.
Speaker 1: Oh you are, okay, so then just just swipe, just
Speaker 1: swipe right left to right, and that'll swipe between your apps.
Speaker 1: Do you see that?
Speaker 9: Well, for example, I bring up my tile app right,
Speaker 9: and I want to go back to whatever else happened.
Speaker 9: I'm swiping and it just takes it away, puts it
Speaker 9: back onto the whatever the desktop of the phone.
Speaker 1: Speaker swiping up or you swiping to the side.
Speaker 9: Well, when I swipe up, it brings up all the
Speaker 9: all the.
Speaker 1: App okay, so that so that's one way you can
Speaker 1: switch between them. So you can swipe up a little
Speaker 1: bit and pause. But the way to switch between the
Speaker 1: two apps on the on the Samsung, I'm doing it
Speaker 1: right now. You just swipe at the bottom. Now you
Speaker 1: may have that turned off by mistake.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's probably due.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's I think that's part of gestures.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can turn that off.
Speaker 9: What do you mean, swipe to the right and left
Speaker 9: on the bottom right, swipe right or left?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just swipe, yeah, it'll it'll swipe between
Speaker 1: the recent apps that you get.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's not bringing up my previous at all. So
Speaker 9: I must have a setting.
Speaker 1: Do you have a big case on this phone?
Speaker 9: I have a standard case.
Speaker 1: Okay, that could also be doing it too. So yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes the case will make it so that it doesn't.
Speaker 1: So there's actually a sensitivity you can adjust inside the
Speaker 1: gestures as well. So I would look inside the uh,
Speaker 1: the navigation bar. Let's see, so I mind I have
Speaker 1: mindset to high because it's you know, yeah, so if
Speaker 1: you go to navigation bar, it's the swipe gesture. There's
Speaker 1: not really anything you can do to change it. It's
Speaker 1: it's just built in where you can swipe from the
Speaker 1: sides and also to the uh, you know, at the bottom.
Speaker 1: But if you also pull in from the left, that'll
Speaker 1: bring you I mean, it's just yeah, you gotta just
Speaker 1: we're gonna tie. You gotta just swipe in. Just swipe
Speaker 1: at the bottom. There should be a bar there. You swipe,
Speaker 1: it'll swipe between all your apps. I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 1: Restart your phone if that feature is not working. All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to talk to Andrew O'Hara
Speaker 1: from Apple Insider about all of Apple's big announcements this week.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology triple eight Rich one O
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one joining me now, Kim said, we just rickrolled everyone, Yes,
Speaker 1: we did. I love that song. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's a rickroll. Andrew O'Hara joining me from Apple Insider.
Speaker 1: He was in New York City at the event I
Speaker 1: was at with Apple. Andrew, thanks for joining me.
Speaker 8: Yeah, of course, anytime.
Speaker 1: So, first off, what was your impression of the event?
Speaker 1: This was a little different because it was not an
Speaker 1: Apple event, it was an Apple experience, and they pulled
Speaker 1: it off in three different cities simultaneously, in three different
Speaker 1: secret locations, as only Apple could do.
Speaker 8: It was definitely something different, and it was interesting to
Speaker 8: see Apple kind of slow roll all the product announcements
Speaker 8: from Monday Tuesday and then dropping the MacBook Neo on
Speaker 8: us on Wednesday right at the event. So it was
Speaker 8: a massive number of new devices that were you know,
Speaker 8: updated across all different product product categories, Mac, iPad and
Speaker 8: iPhone all getting refreshes. So it was it was kind
Speaker 8: of cool to see.
Speaker 1: Now, I think I know your answer, but what do
Speaker 1: you think was the biggest thing that stood out to
Speaker 1: you this week?
Speaker 8: I mean, it's got to be the MacBook Neo. I mean,
Speaker 8: that's that's that's what everybody is most interested in and
Speaker 8: how this is gonna work. First a series chip that
Speaker 8: Apple's done in a mac fun new colors, like this
Speaker 8: thing is going to be crazy popular.
Speaker 1: Now, Okay, so Apple insider, I would think that that's
Speaker 1: more like inside like people like that go to that
Speaker 1: website probably are a little more techy. So what are
Speaker 1: they saying about this, Like are they saying this a
Speaker 1: great thing? Or are they saying, Oh, it's underpowered, it's
Speaker 1: not good for the average person. What do they what
Speaker 1: do they think?
Speaker 8: You know, it runs the gamut for sure. There's a
Speaker 8: lot of people who they feel very siloed in like
Speaker 8: their workflow and the thing about the MacBook Neo, it's
Speaker 8: not for everyone, but it's meeting a new price point
Speaker 8: that Apple really has not like fully done.
Speaker 4: We've had a five.
Speaker 8: Ninety nine MacBook before, but it was the twenty twenty
Speaker 8: m one MacBook Air that has been still selling at Walmart.
Speaker 8: This thing is brand new, fun colors, even better performance
Speaker 8: for at least on the you know.
Speaker 4: The CPU side.
Speaker 8: I think they did a great job here, even if
Speaker 8: it's not you know, the core Apple insider audience.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the biggest compromise.
Speaker 8: Is it the RAM that's probably going to be it
Speaker 8: just when you get into like a whole lot of multitasking.
Speaker 8: For for most people, it is still gonna be fine.
Speaker 8: You're gonna have slight compromises on the graphics, maybe in
Speaker 8: comparison to even the M one, but I think the
Speaker 8: memory that RAM is probably gonna be the biggest bottleneck
Speaker 8: of all.
Speaker 1: And I was talking earlier about this computer and I
Speaker 1: wondered if it could run like Final Cut Pro. Do
Speaker 1: you think would you be daring enough to run Final
Speaker 1: Cut Pro on this thing? I mean, because it can
Speaker 1: run full apps? Is there any do you have you
Speaker 1: heard of any limitations on the apps that it can't run?
Speaker 8: No, not really, it's it should run basically any I
Speaker 8: mean you're gonna run into issues with games if you're
Speaker 8: gonna try to run any super powerful games, of course,
Speaker 8: but for regular, regular apps, there's gonna be no issues
Speaker 8: in your day to day you know usage.
Speaker 1: So I don't really understand because you know, the iPhone
Speaker 1: chip has never run like mac os So how did
Speaker 1: Apple do they have to do anything like behind the
Speaker 1: scenes to get that to work.
Speaker 8: I mean, all Apple Silicon is kind of based on
Speaker 8: the same you know.
Speaker 4: Bit of structure.
Speaker 8: So it was definitely a little bit of work that
Speaker 8: I think. The biggest thing that I have heard that
Speaker 8: was a challenge for Apple to do was at the
Speaker 8: second usbcport. I mean that this is the first kind
Speaker 8: of a series chip that has had multiple ports on there.
Speaker 8: There's no max say for anything, and it was a
Speaker 8: huge amount of engineering work to be able to add
Speaker 8: two of them on there.
Speaker 4: You mean, you have different speeds.
Speaker 8: One's USB three, the other's USB two speeds for most people,
Speaker 8: again not gonna matter, but little small compromises like that,
Speaker 8: But it was still a big achievement just to get
Speaker 8: the second port on an a series chip.
Speaker 1: That's Wow's But bottom line, it sounds like to me
Speaker 1: from everything I've read and everything that I've experienced, this
Speaker 1: is going to be a game changer. People are going
Speaker 1: to buy this thing, and they're going to sell a
Speaker 1: lot of them.
Speaker 8: I think they're going to sell an incredible amount. I mean,
Speaker 8: the M one MacBook Air was until you know, last
Speaker 8: week or whatever, is still being sold at Walmart. That
Speaker 8: thing originally sold for one thousand dollars when it launched
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty, and now we have the MacBook Neo
Speaker 8: with better single and multi core CPU performance by a
Speaker 8: lot on your single core, which is launching apps and
Speaker 8: using your kind of computer. Slightly lower on the graphic
Speaker 8: side of things, but anything in like Apple Arcade, like
Speaker 8: all of those titles, the New Ocean Horn three, like
Speaker 8: all those are going to probably run very fine on here.
Speaker 8: They're running on phones. They're going to run on this
Speaker 8: thing without issue, right, So I think this is going
Speaker 8: to just sell super well.
Speaker 1: That is my thesis on this. It's like people like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is underpowered, it only has this like hold on,
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of people are doing all this stuff
Speaker 1: on their phone. You're when I edit videos, I edit
Speaker 1: on cap cut on my phone, and it's like that
Speaker 1: works just fine. I'm Premiere on my phone.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 1: If I want to do something a little higher end,
Speaker 1: of course, I'll use final Cut. But the point is
Speaker 1: a lot of people are using their phone as their
Speaker 1: every device, and so this is just a larger kind
Speaker 1: of canvas to do that. The other thing is, by
Speaker 1: the way, my wife is still using the m one
Speaker 1: MacBook and you know, the MacBook Air, and it's fine.
Speaker 1: She's surfing the web, she's doing her emails, she's buying
Speaker 1: stuff on Amazon. It's not. It's a perfectly fine computer
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, those things are still running. People are still using
Speaker 8: those without issue. And this one's even more powerful. But
Speaker 8: like you said, I run into so many creators that
Speaker 8: are doing so much video production like on iPhones, and
Speaker 8: now it's just in a laptop form factor. It shouldn't
Speaker 8: be scared because it's an iPhone chip. It's it's still
Speaker 8: just Apple Silicon and it's really powerful.
Speaker 1: So they also updated the MacBook Air. Anything new about
Speaker 1: that that we should know because I've got one in
Speaker 1: the shopping car. I've got an M three right now.
Speaker 1: This is an M five anything like That's a super
Speaker 1: new about this?
Speaker 8: Nothing crazy new. I love the MacBook Air. I like
Speaker 8: prefer to use it instead of my MacBook Pro because
Speaker 8: of how like light and thin it is.
Speaker 4: It's just gorgeous.
Speaker 8: It is, you know, thinner than the new MacBook Neo is.
Speaker 8: So like I've always loved the MacBook Air. The new
Speaker 8: one M five processor. I believe Apple finally updated it
Speaker 8: to Wi Fi seven, which with fast internet in this house,
Speaker 8: wi Fi seven speeds are very welcomed. And then they're
Speaker 8: doubling the base storage, which is probably the biggest messaging
Speaker 8: around this. You can be able to pick this up
Speaker 8: and have I think five twelve gigs now as you're
Speaker 8: starting SSD size. That's going to be really handy for
Speaker 8: people who are using this as like a great education
Speaker 8: or work computer. That is ample storage for most people.
Speaker 1: And then you've got the new iPad air anything huge
Speaker 1: there that they changed.
Speaker 8: No, so starting storage is going to remain the same.
Speaker 8: We're moving to the M four processor about twenty five
Speaker 8: percent increase and performance compared to the last generation. Apple's
Speaker 8: adding the N one ship that's their modem or their
Speaker 8: networking chip, so Wi Fi seven thread for smart home
Speaker 8: tech Blue two six. We're getting the C one X,
Speaker 8: which is Apple's modem for better battery performance and some
Speaker 8: privacy features on cellular, but really like those are the
Speaker 8: big things there. Apple also increased the memory from eight
Speaker 8: gigs to twelve gigs, so multitasking going to be better.
Speaker 8: iPads twenty six helps with that significantly, so for people
Speaker 8: who are using this as like that multitasking tablet, this
Speaker 8: is going to be a good choice.
Speaker 1: And the iPhone seventeen E this is kind of their
Speaker 1: entry level iPhone five hundred ninety nine dollars comes in pink.
Speaker 1: Now it also comes in black and also comes in white.
Speaker 1: The big things that I noticed at the event they
Speaker 1: were talking about is mag safe, which is a good
Speaker 1: addition to that, and then the portrait photography. So what's
Speaker 1: your I mean, if you had a sixteen E, you
Speaker 1: wouldn upgrade to this or would you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 8: I don't think anyone in the market, for you know,
Speaker 8: who has a sixteen E is going to be upgrading
Speaker 8: to this. But this is going to be ideal for switchers,
Speaker 8: similar to the MacBook Neo for a lot of people
Speaker 8: who are going from PC's chromebooks, tired of them not
Speaker 8: lasting long, or maybe they have an iPhone they want
Speaker 8: to get into the Mac space. This is a very
Speaker 8: similar vibe. They want a you know, they want the
Speaker 8: Apple experience, they want to get an iPhone and they
Speaker 8: want something new. But it's not going to be as expensive.
Speaker 8: I mean, this thing is priced like you said, five
Speaker 8: ninety nine, but I guarantee we're going to see tons
Speaker 8: of deals and carrier discounts on this thing. But again,
Speaker 8: performance wise, it has an eight nineteen ship so latest
Speaker 8: chip in there. Again, they doubled the storage, which is huge,
Speaker 8: and they added mag Safe. So for again most regular
Speaker 8: people out there, this is going to be plenty enough iPhone.
Speaker 8: You get lots of cool features with the other ones,
Speaker 8: like extra cameras and dynamic island and all sorts of things,
Speaker 8: but for just core iPhone experience, they really really did
Speaker 8: a good job on this. Compared to the sixteen E.
Speaker 8: In my opinion, the storage and mac Safe make this
Speaker 8: a much better deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because it's like all these like entry
Speaker 1: level Apple products. You know, if you're a high end user,
Speaker 1: you might point out like, oh, well it doesn't have this,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a wide angle camera lens, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have all these features. But for a person who says
Speaker 1: I just need a phone, right, like, if you're just
Speaker 1: saying that these things are actually really good for the value,
Speaker 1: like I would say. The only thing that they didn't upgrade,
Speaker 1: which I was a little disturbed, not disturbed, but kind
Speaker 1: of sad at was the and I know, again average
Speaker 1: person doesn't care, but like it's still I think runs
Speaker 1: on like sixty hrtz right refresh rate, which is you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like every Android, even the cheap ones are one
Speaker 1: twenty at this point. But it's it's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's like very nitpicky.
Speaker 8: I think the only time I hear someone complaining about
Speaker 8: the refresh rate is in the comments of articles or videos.
Speaker 8: When I'm talking to people in the real world, I
Speaker 8: have never had someone come up to me like, oh,
Speaker 8: but what's the refresh rate? Or this only has sixty
Speaker 8: herds like I've never heard anyone else complain about that.
Speaker 8: It's something you feel a little bit when you use them,
Speaker 8: and it's nicer, But I don't think people are clamoring
Speaker 8: for that, especially in these entry level devices.
Speaker 1: Anything we didn't mention before we go that you want
Speaker 1: to uh, you want to tell or say.
Speaker 8: I don't think so. My honestly, my biggest excitement was
Speaker 8: the studio displays. Apple upgraded all their displays and the
Speaker 8: fact that they have their new Studio Display XDR. That
Speaker 8: thing looks gorgeous, the million to one contrast ratio, thunderbowl
Speaker 8: five for Daisy chaining multiple these, and lower price point
Speaker 8: than the now discontinued Pro Display XDR, and it comes
Speaker 8: with a stand.
Speaker 4: I'm very excited for that one.
Speaker 8: That is like the one thing from this whole event
Speaker 8: or this experience that I'm probably going to use daily.
Speaker 8: So for me, that was the thing.
Speaker 4: I was most excited for.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's expensive. What's the price point on that?
Speaker 1: Are we talking like what I.
Speaker 8: Want to say, like thirty two thirty three for that one?
Speaker 8: I Hey, they have the affordable one. It's not micro
Speaker 8: it's not micro led, but they do have a more
Speaker 8: affordable one. Apple's monitors are always premium, but it's hard
Speaker 8: to arg you with the build quality and the design.
Speaker 8: Everything else just feels plastic y.
Speaker 1: And I saw three of them running off a MacBook Air,
Speaker 1: I believe, at the Apple event, and I was pretty impressed.
Speaker 1: I would love that setup. All right, Andrew O'Hara from
Speaker 1: Apple Insider, what's the best place for folks to find?
Speaker 8: You can find me anywhere. Just google it Apple insider
Speaker 8: dot com, find Apple Insider on YouTube, or my podcast
Speaker 8: Smart Home Insider.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much for joining me today, Andrew,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Eight eight eight rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one
Speaker 1: more after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Let's go to line four. Doug is in
Speaker 1: Temecula California. Doug, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 10: Hello, Rich, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what can I help you with?
Speaker 10: Well, I have a Lenovo laptop. It's running in the
Speaker 10: current Windows operating system, but I want to clean it off.
Speaker 10: I want all my information off of it. I want
Speaker 10: to restart it now on my phone. They have a
Speaker 10: reset the factory specs, but I couldn't find anything on
Speaker 10: the on the computer. I wanted how to go about
Speaker 10: you know, a fresh input of the operating system and
Speaker 10: and you know, clearing my information.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So if it's running Windows, you can you can
Speaker 1: absolutely do this right from Windows. So if you if
Speaker 1: you type in the search menu right at the bottom
Speaker 1: a little search bar, just type in reset this PC
Speaker 1: and that will bring you right to it. And there's
Speaker 1: a yeah, and it'll bring you to your system recovery
Speaker 1: and there's a couple options. So you have you said
Speaker 1: you want to get everything off this computer and start fresh.
Speaker 1: Is there a reason? Why did you just? You got
Speaker 1: too much stuff on there? You want to start over?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, And I may be letting it go.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, you may be letting go okay. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so if you do, there's there's a couple. There's a
Speaker 1: couple options. There is the option to reset and you
Speaker 1: can keep your files or you can remove your files.
Speaker 1: And this process takes it takes a little while, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to do the remove everything option. And
Speaker 1: so when when you do that, it's going to give
Speaker 1: you a fresh start on this computer. Now, the next
Speaker 1: question may be, oh, is my stuff still going to
Speaker 1: be on there? Can someone recover it, you know, potentially,
Speaker 1: So if you're worried about something that's very sensitive on
Speaker 1: this computer, you can do this option again once you
Speaker 1: set it up, and you can try it again. Or
Speaker 1: there may be some apps out there that you can
Speaker 1: use to completely restore, you know, right over the hard drive.
Speaker 1: But I think that's a little advanced. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to do that. So I would just
Speaker 1: recommend going into the computer, you know, like I said, system,
Speaker 1: and you can you can also just go into your
Speaker 1: setting system and then you'll see it says recovery. Let's
Speaker 1: see if I can find it manually. Here where is it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like all the other it is system recovery. And
Speaker 1: then reset this PC. You tap reset PC and it'll
Speaker 1: say keep my files or remove everything, and those are
Speaker 1: your two options. And I would do the remove everything.
Speaker 1: It's going to take a while. Make sure your babysit it,
Speaker 1: because it does take a long time to do this.
Speaker 1: It's not something that's really fast. So you know, give
Speaker 1: yourself half an hour for this process because it sits
Speaker 1: there and it removes everything, and then it reinstalls Windows
Speaker 1: and then it's basically a fresh computer from the factory. Now,
Speaker 1: I only recommend doing that if you're you know, a
Speaker 1: little more advanced, and also if you just want to
Speaker 1: start fresh. Like for me, I used to do this
Speaker 1: once a year when I would get an upgrade to
Speaker 1: my operating system on Mac. Would always start fresh, and
Speaker 1: then I just got kind of lazy because it takes
Speaker 1: so much time to like restart and kind of like
Speaker 1: reset up all my things, and so I would Now
Speaker 1: I've kind of got a little bit lazier. Now I
Speaker 1: only do this when I get a new computer. But
Speaker 1: you know, I like the idea of starting fresh. It's
Speaker 1: nice because I don't know about you, but I download
Speaker 1: so many things. I'm always testing some software, I'm always
Speaker 1: changing some settings, and invariably, even if you uninstall that software,
Speaker 1: A lot of these little things linger on your computer,
Speaker 1: and so it's kind of annoying when you have you know,
Speaker 1: you start up your computer and a program starts up
Speaker 1: or there's some kind of sort of fragment left behind.
Speaker 1: But that's the way to do it again. If you're
Speaker 1: listening one more time and you want to do this
Speaker 1: to your computer, only delete everything if you are okay,
Speaker 1: you know, if you've got everything backed up or you
Speaker 1: don't need anything. Because it's going to delete everything off
Speaker 1: your computer. There is an option that will keep your files.
Speaker 1: This is also known as refresh, so that will reinstall Windows,
Speaker 1: but it'll keep your files. But keep in mind there's
Speaker 1: always something that could go wrong, so you know. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're really advanced, there's another way to do this
Speaker 1: with an app called Rufus. You can create a bootable USB.
Speaker 1: You can download the Windows media from Windows. This is
Speaker 1: called a clean installation, and you can download this and
Speaker 1: you can start up your computer from a flash drive
Speaker 1: and install it that way. That's for a little more
Speaker 1: advanced users. So if you know how to do that
Speaker 1: and you understand those terms, you can do that. But
Speaker 1: you already you don't need to hear that from me.
Speaker 1: That's the way. I had a job once where my
Speaker 1: whole job was to just clean install these old computers
Speaker 1: at this school. And I love doing that. Oh, just
Speaker 1: come in. I would just get my little coffee and
Speaker 1: I would just sit there. I'd go to a classroom,
Speaker 1: grab one of these computers, clean, install windows, and just
Speaker 1: like move on to the next one. That's what I
Speaker 1: did for like six months. I love that job. It
Speaker 1: was so fun just to wipe everything clean because invariably
Speaker 1: all these computers had, you know, all the students installed
Speaker 1: stuff on there. The teachers would install and I just
Speaker 1: love that first boot up where everything was just fresh. Ah,
Speaker 1: I love it. I still love that feeling. Eighty eight
Speaker 1: Rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: for one zero one. Christine writes in Hey, Rich, we
Speaker 1: watch you every day on TV. We love your segments.
Speaker 1: My question is about companies that offer a discount if
Speaker 1: you sign up for direct pay, where they automatically take
Speaker 1: the monthly payment from your checking account. I'm a little weary.
Speaker 1: Is it wary or weary? I never know because it
Speaker 1: sounds like I'm giving my banking information directly to a
Speaker 1: vendor like T Mobile, for example. Do you think it's
Speaker 1: safe or wise to sign up for direct pay or
Speaker 1: is my information protected in some way? Well, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I personally hate direct pay. I hate to use that
Speaker 1: word because I think it's very strong and I just
Speaker 1: don't really like using it. But I don't like direct pay.
Speaker 1: Why because you're giving access to your checking account and
Speaker 1: they're taking the money out on their own accord, big
Speaker 1: companies taking money out of your account. What could possibly
Speaker 1: go wrong? Now here's what I don't like about this.
Speaker 1: It only benefits them. They get to pay less fees
Speaker 1: for your payment because it's cheaper to process a payment
Speaker 1: via a direct I guess you call it direct pay
Speaker 1: or direct withdrawal, whatever you want to call it, versus
Speaker 1: a credit card. And so these companies love it because
Speaker 1: also they have your account information. So when you get
Speaker 1: your phone bill and it's a little bit higher than
Speaker 1: it typically is, guess what, they don't care because they're
Speaker 1: just going to take it out of your banking account
Speaker 1: no matter what. And believe me, I've done this over
Speaker 1: the years, and I just I really try not to
Speaker 1: give it out unless you have to. Now, in the
Speaker 1: case of certain companies like your wireless provider, a lot
Speaker 1: of them have said, oh, you got to give us
Speaker 1: your bank account or we're going to charge you more
Speaker 1: every month. And so in that case, yes, you kind
Speaker 1: of have to do it unless you want to pay
Speaker 1: ten dollars extra. But do this very sparingly, very sparingly.
Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
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Speaker 1: This is episode one sixty four. The phone line for
Speaker 1: the show is eight eight eight rich one oh one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, we're gonna talk to I as
Speaker 1: actar Mobile analyst at PC mag. He's gonna talk about
Speaker 1: Mobile World Congress, which happened this week in Barcelona. Ayas
Speaker 1: and I actually used to work as scene at together,
Speaker 1: so we've got a little little thing in common there.
Speaker 1: But he has been to Mobile World Congress. I have not.
Speaker 1: I've never been to that show. It used to be
Speaker 1: much more consumer focused and much more US focused, but
Speaker 1: now it is much more you know, companies that are
Speaker 1: doing stuff in other countries. It's still interesting and it
Speaker 1: still goes to show the trends that are happening. But
Speaker 1: it's kind of worldwide. Like the Samsung's of the world
Speaker 1: and stuff, a lot of them aren't releasing there or
Speaker 1: unveiling their devices that they used to now. They're doing
Speaker 1: it all at their own events. Anyway, we'll hear from
Speaker 1: him and see what he thinks about that. Speaking of devices,
Speaker 1: reviews are in for the Pixel ten A from Google.
Speaker 1: This is their budget phone. It starts at four ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I've got one at home to test out. I have
Speaker 1: not tested it yet, I'll be honest because I kind
Speaker 1: of know what to expect. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: basic phone with a great camera, six point three inch display,
Speaker 1: forty eight megapixel main camera. Google's Tenser G four chips
Speaker 1: so last year's chip, I believe, with eight gigs a RAM.
Speaker 1: It's got a clean version of Android, sixteen seven years
Speaker 1: of software and security updates, which is among the longest
Speaker 1: for all smartphones. It's got Google's AI stuff built in.
Speaker 1: It's got great picture quality, I'm assuming because Pixels are
Speaker 1: known for that. Battery life reviewers say is solid up
Speaker 1: to two days of use, with lighter usage. The biggest
Speaker 1: criticism is that the hardware barely changed from last year's
Speaker 1: Pixel nine A same processor, same cameras, same ram, same battery.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people are saying it's just more
Speaker 1: of a refresh, but it's got a flat back this time.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else? Still the best value under five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and I would say that this is actually
Speaker 1: do not pay five hundred for this. Make sure you
Speaker 1: don't pay more than three ninety nine because this phone
Speaker 1: is always discounted. If it's not discounted today, it will
Speaker 1: be tomorrow. So three ninety nine is the price point
Speaker 1: I would say to aim for for the Pixel ten A.
Speaker 1: If you just want something super basic, super easy, you
Speaker 1: don't want anything Apple or iPhone because the seventeen E
Speaker 1: is really competing with this at five ninety nine. And
Speaker 1: by the way, don't pay that for that phone four
Speaker 1: ninety nine for the seventeen E, I would I would
Speaker 1: make my target price. Let's go to Bill in Burbank.
Speaker 1: Am I getting rickrolled here with Bill? That's uh, this
Speaker 1: isn't the bill? Is it is?
Speaker 2: This Bill? Here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, you don't you don't sound like the bill.
Speaker 1: I know, so it's a different bill. So I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm getting fooled here. Okay, what's up?
Speaker 3: Bill?
Speaker 9: A new bill?
Speaker 2: You got a new bill, but it's not in the mail.
Speaker 1: No, I barely get bills, you know. The only bills
Speaker 1: I get in the mail at this point are all
Speaker 1: the medical bills, and those, by the way, pro tip,
Speaker 1: don't ever pay the medical bill. Oh I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: all the emails from the doctor. People. Don't pay your
Speaker 1: medical bills the first time you get them, because invariably
Speaker 1: they send you a bill, Oh, it's eight hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're like what And they
Speaker 1: send you a bill six weeks you're like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: twenty seven dollars. You're like, what what if I paid
Speaker 1: the eight hundred. My wife actually did that. She got
Speaker 1: a refund from all the money she paid, and they said, oh,
Speaker 1: your insurance actually paid and they gave her a refund.
Speaker 1: We couldn't believe it. Anyway, I digress, bill, what's up?
Speaker 2: That's great information, but you're one in a million. Yeah,
Speaker 2: every time you end up paying a bill, regardless of
Speaker 2: whether it's true or not. If it's not the correct bill.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a hard time collecting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't believe it. They refunded her card. Like
Speaker 1: we got a text. She showed it to me. She's like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe this. I'm like, I've ever heard of
Speaker 1: that in my life and it was automatic, didn't even
Speaker 1: have to do anything. I was like, those are some
Speaker 1: Those are some honest doctors, Like that's those are that's
Speaker 1: a good doctor group.
Speaker 2: Anyway, you also have a lifestyle that doesn't allow you
Speaker 2: to get screwed too much. So I think that just
Speaker 2: being that kind of person opens a bigger door for us.
Speaker 2: That's me digressing, and I hardly ever even talk on
Speaker 2: the phone, So let's see what I am my discussion
Speaker 2: or questions are in regards to the first one. Last week,
Speaker 2: I remember you were talking to a guy who had
Speaker 2: had a choice or an option to get an iPhone
Speaker 2: eleven free from the Obama phone scenario. Yes, I well,
Speaker 2: I followed through with that entire process because I was
Speaker 2: waiting around for somebody to offer a Samsung phone instead
Speaker 2: of the garbage I was getting. So I was going
Speaker 2: on an immediate replacement by waiting for that opportunity to happen.
Speaker 2: And the company is air Talk, if you don't mind
Speaker 2: my saying, but they're the ones that give you the
Speaker 2: choice of that iPhone eleven and just about eight other phones.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And I was looking for that Samsung option and I
Speaker 2: found and I got it. And here, speaking of getting
Speaker 2: something better than you're expected, they were giving, they were
Speaker 2: going to send me a Samsung, which is my target phone.
Speaker 2: I just seem to get along with the Samsung phone
Speaker 2: just fine and very little problems except for me getting
Speaker 2: mad at it. So they ended up sending a better
Speaker 2: phone than I expected, and I got an A forty two.
Speaker 2: And that one, which is what I'm talking on, is
Speaker 2: really really a good phone, and I'm going to try
Speaker 2: and protect it as best as possible. And that leads
Speaker 2: me into my second question. I purchased several different screen protectors.
Speaker 2: I already have the one on the back. You know,
Speaker 2: forget these things when you buy the phone. But if
Speaker 2: you get a cheap phone, they give you those things.
Speaker 2: I guess that's supposed to make you think you've got,
Speaker 2: you know, some high quality.
Speaker 1: Phone with it.
Speaker 2: No, they did not. And I found that the cheaper
Speaker 2: the phone, they do include these things, and the higher
Speaker 2: end phones they don't, so I was stuck with the
Speaker 2: option of trying to find just the right cover that
Speaker 2: was difficult in themselves, but best by Finally, I just
Speaker 2: was able to find a cover that's did on the back.
Speaker 2: For the front. I purchased a glass option and a
Speaker 2: plastic option the And my question would be, uh, first
Speaker 2: of all, as far as application is concerned, it's probably
Speaker 2: really important to cover the entire front surface. Would you agree?
Speaker 1: I would say, so, I mean these yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's typically how most of them work.
Speaker 2: Instead of yeah, sometimes they were they're just shy of
Speaker 2: cover bring that well from my experience anybody, that's probably
Speaker 2: where the phone would drop right on that edge and
Speaker 2: then cause a problem. So the glass didn't cover that.
Speaker 2: I bought it well, it was only a dollar was
Speaker 2: on the cheap rack, So I decided I didn't want
Speaker 2: to put that glass on because it's not really protecting
Speaker 2: the whole thing, and I know how they will want
Speaker 2: to break that edge first and ignore the rest of it.
Speaker 1: What can I help you with? What? What can I
Speaker 1: help with?
Speaker 7: One?
Speaker 2: Have you had experience with applying the hard plastic ones
Speaker 2: that you cut the fit?
Speaker 1: I I've okay, So here's the deal. This is the
Speaker 1: I have a lot of experience putting on screen protectors.
Speaker 1: I would say the cut to fit ones are going
Speaker 1: to be very tricky because if you don't have a
Speaker 1: proper applicator, you're going to get bubbles, and that's the
Speaker 1: main thing you do not want. Now, some of them
Speaker 1: you can push out. Some you're not gonna be able to.
Speaker 1: But if you're cutting it to the screen, it's your
Speaker 1: problem never gonna get a perfect fit. So you know
Speaker 1: that's that's number one. I would say if you can
Speaker 1: find a screen protector with an applicator, like it almost
Speaker 1: comes with a plastic tray to put it on, that
Speaker 1: would be your best bet. If you want something that's
Speaker 1: truly gonna protect this thing. I'm looking just a casual
Speaker 1: look on Amazon, and because this model is a little
Speaker 1: bit seems like it's a little bit more specialized. This
Speaker 1: a forty two, I'm not really seeing a screen protector
Speaker 1: with an applicator. So with that said, I would say,
Speaker 1: if you're paying a dollar for that, how much was
Speaker 1: the other the other one that you gotta cut?
Speaker 2: Oh, then there was just two three dollars for two
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 1: So I would say, try your best on the first
Speaker 1: one and if it, you know, doesn't work, then you
Speaker 1: may have to try, you know, peel it off and
Speaker 1: put the second one on there. But what about just
Speaker 1: getting a good case that covers this whole phone with
Speaker 1: with some raised edges and that will really help with
Speaker 1: the I mean I personally like a screen protector as
Speaker 1: well as a case, just to really you know, you
Speaker 1: can knock that thing around no problem, you.
Speaker 2: Know, total agreement. And that's what I want. That's what
Speaker 2: I want to do, because it doesn't make sense to
Speaker 2: allow yourself because you know you're going to drop it.
Speaker 1: Oh of course, Oh that's fine.
Speaker 2: I that's as far as I need to take it.
Speaker 2: But I'm very careful about doing those detail things. So
Speaker 2: I'll just put the trust on myself and go ahead
Speaker 2: and do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have a question about the lottery, and whether you're
Speaker 2: familiar with this or not, everybody has like a an
Speaker 2: account that you log into the lottery and regardless of
Speaker 2: what you're trying to go after or do. Mine, in
Speaker 2: particularly would be Scratchers and the second Chances, which is
Speaker 2: the poor Man's Lottery. But it's still there and it's
Speaker 2: something worth going for it because you never know. For
Speaker 2: over a month I have been able to into that
Speaker 2: to the lottery account.
Speaker 1: Not once you have not been able to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I would venture to say that if you
Speaker 2: give it a try, you will learn exactly what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. And I smell a really big rat.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is very very It's just it's right in
Speaker 2: front of your face. Is just like Kim Trail, and
Speaker 2: it's just very peculiar. And of course I don't trust
Speaker 2: anything about the lottery. There's too much money that's readily
Speaker 2: available to steal.
Speaker 1: Well, it's all going to the schools bill, it's all
Speaker 1: going to the education. So I mean, look, we got
Speaker 1: to run. But I've actually downloaded that the California Lottery app,
Speaker 1: and I've used it to scan. The little trick is
Speaker 1: you only have to scratch the scratcher. You get to
Speaker 1: scan a little barcode on the corner and it tells
Speaker 1: you if it's a win or a loser. I have
Speaker 1: not tried to sign into an account, but we'll look
Speaker 1: into that. Thanks for the call, Bill, appreciate it. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the new phone eighty eight rich one oh one more
Speaker 1: rich on tech right after this Welcome back to Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Well,
Speaker 1: if you like the movie F One, you might be
Speaker 1: watching Formula One starting this weekend. But guess what, if
Speaker 1: you want to watch in the US, you'll need Apple TV.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six Formula One season kicks off with
Speaker 1: the Australian Grand Prix, and this is a big change
Speaker 1: for people here in the US. Every race weekend will
Speaker 1: be streaming exclusively on Apple TV in the US. That's
Speaker 1: for the first time. That includes practices, qualifying sprint races
Speaker 1: and the Grand Prix itself. That means no more F
Speaker 1: one races on ESPN, which has had the US rights
Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen. Apple reportedly spend around seven hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars on a five year deal to lock in the rights,
Speaker 1: showing just how valuable live sports are, especially because that
Speaker 1: movie did so well. I think it really got a
Speaker 1: lot of people to come out of the woodwork with
Speaker 1: this stuff. People that maybe didn't think they were fans
Speaker 1: are like, okay, I might watch that, and Apple said, okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, let's buy that. So you can watch the
Speaker 1: Apple TV app on phones, on TV streaming devices, or
Speaker 1: a web browser. Now here's the thing. You may think, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's Apple TV. I've got Android doesn't work for me.
Speaker 1: I've got Roku, I've got you know, Google TV. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: there's an Apple TV app for all of those devices.
Speaker 1: Ever since Apple TV started streaming, they created an Apple
Speaker 1: TV app that lets you watch all of their Apple
Speaker 1: TV content no matter what platform you're on. Pretty much,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's available for all of them. The
Speaker 1: service about twelve ninety nine a month. There's a seven
Speaker 1: day free trial. And you know that Apple also has MLS.
Speaker 1: They've got a deal with Major League Soccer, so this
Speaker 1: is their second big sports deal. And let me check.
Speaker 1: My friend does Jared Newman, friend of the show, does
Speaker 1: this Cord Cutter Weekly the big list of streaming deals.
Speaker 1: So let's see if there's anything for Apple TV. Oh,
Speaker 1: thirty days. See I just said seven day free trial.
Speaker 1: That's the one they advertise. So the one you can
Speaker 1: get if you use his link is thirty days. Yeh,
Speaker 1: see seven day free trial. And let's click his link
Speaker 1: and see what happens. Click his link. Thirty days. Look
Speaker 1: at that, where's my bell? Thirty days of free trial?
Speaker 1: So if you want that I will put that link
Speaker 1: on the website rich on tech dot TV, so you
Speaker 1: can check it out if you like formula one. So
Speaker 1: do they call formula one F one? Just in general? Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the same. It's like interchangeable. Let's go. Speaking of TVs,
Speaker 1: Charlie's got a question in Huntington Beach, looks like about
Speaker 1: his TV. What's up, Charlie.
Speaker 6: Okay, I have two TVs. I have a one down stairs,
Speaker 6: one upstairs. But the one upstairs I have extenders. It
Speaker 6: constantly is not recognizing the router. It's an LGTV that's upstairs.
Speaker 1: Okay, the LGTV is upstairs. The router the the where's
Speaker 1: the signal coming in from? Like, where's the router? The
Speaker 1: router's downstairs?
Speaker 6: No, the router is upstairs as well.
Speaker 1: Oh near the same TV.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well not far from it, maybe thirty feet away.
Speaker 1: Oh thirty feet And you're having problems.
Speaker 2: With this.
Speaker 6: Constantly. And if you go into the setting and you
Speaker 6: look for you know, are you connected or you're not connected?
Speaker 6: And you pull it up and it'll indicate nope, and
Speaker 6: it wants you to go back in put the password.
Speaker 6: You can put the password in. It will work for
Speaker 6: a while, and then I say, if you turn the
Speaker 6: TV off, you come back later and.
Speaker 1: It's just connect again.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, the.
Speaker 6: One downstairs never has a problem.
Speaker 1: What brand is that that one?
Speaker 6: I switched that one out to a Sony Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well okay, So I mean you got to figure out.
Speaker 1: Have you tried a like a full reset of this TV,
Speaker 1: like a factory reset.
Speaker 6: Unplugging it and plugging it in?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, what about a factory reset like setting it to
Speaker 1: its initial settings? How old is this TV?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 6: Maybe this one is eight years old?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think you're working with a couple of
Speaker 1: things here, so you've got it. Could be that you've
Speaker 1: had this thing going for a long time. It just
Speaker 1: could be confused about your WiFi. Maybe you've changed your
Speaker 1: settings over the years. Who knows the other thing? Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's here's what I would do if I were you. Okay, Charlie,
Speaker 1: Here's what I would do. Number one, I would ditch
Speaker 1: the extender. I don't think you need that extender. I
Speaker 1: think that might be confusing things because if your router
Speaker 1: is thirty feet awa from this TV, it should see
Speaker 1: that router no problem without an extender. So that's number one,
Speaker 1: so unplug that. Number two. I would do a full
Speaker 1: factory reset of this TV, so that means you go
Speaker 1: into your settings general reset to initial settings, and that
Speaker 1: will delete everything it's gonna re I mean, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to reinstall your apps, log in, all that nonsense,
Speaker 1: but that will clear everything off of this TV as
Speaker 1: if you just got it from the factory and that
Speaker 1: and then reconnect it to your Ethernet or it's your
Speaker 1: Internet that way and see if that fixes it. The
Speaker 1: other thing I would do is see if you have
Speaker 1: any software updates before you, you know, do the whole
Speaker 1: network or the the the reset of the whole device.
Speaker 1: I would check for software updates, make sure you don't
Speaker 1: have any software updates there and do that. If your
Speaker 1: connection is a five gigahertz connection, you might try to
Speaker 1: connect to the two point four gigahertz band. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if that's an issue with your home or with
Speaker 1: your router and maybe sending out those dual signals. Try
Speaker 1: connecting to the two point four. It's an older TV,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean it shouldn't connect to the internet.
Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't. It's it's still Wi Fi it
Speaker 1: still should be fine, but I think a couple of
Speaker 1: those things just to see if you can figure it
Speaker 1: out and make it work again, that would be your
Speaker 1: best bet. If it doesn't work after that, the best
Speaker 1: thing I would say is just to get an Ethernet cable.
Speaker 1: I know it's annoying, I know it's ugly, but it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be your best bet is because the router's
Speaker 1: only thirty feet away. Just run an Ethernet cable to
Speaker 1: the back of your TV. If none of those other
Speaker 1: things work, hopefully those things make this work. But again
Speaker 1: in this order, I would say you tried restarting to TV,
Speaker 1: I would get rid of the extender. I would check
Speaker 1: for software updates if you can, if you have a
Speaker 1: connection for that, and then I would do a factory
Speaker 1: reset see if that helps connect it back up. Thanks
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Speaker 1: All right, joining me now, I as actar Mobile Analyst
Speaker 1: at PC mag Ayas. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me Rich.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of shared history. You used to
Speaker 1: work at cnet as well as me, and used to
Speaker 1: work with Leo as well.
Speaker 11: That's great that I zor up with him and this
Speaker 11: week in tech and Cataluma, California.
Speaker 4: It's a really small world that is wild.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show for the first time, and for
Speaker 1: the first new time, I guess I should say and
Speaker 1: you were at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. First off,
Speaker 1: explain what that show is all about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, sure.
Speaker 11: So Mobile World Congress is the largest mobile trade show
Speaker 11: in the world, and you have companies from everywhere around
Speaker 11: the globe come to this event to show off new phones,
Speaker 11: networking technology, and components. There's a lot of industry insiders
Speaker 11: there because it is a trade show. What's happening is
Speaker 11: a lot of deals are being made, like finding technologies
Speaker 11: to license or to even acquire. So the stuff that
Speaker 11: happens here will be resonating for several years after the fact.
Speaker 1: Was this your first time there or have you been before?
Speaker 11: This was my second one on the floor, and it
Speaker 11: was just as exciting as last year. And there's just
Speaker 11: so many different things that people are trying and companies
Speaker 11: trying just fan out because there's major companies out there
Speaker 11: that take a lot of the spotlight Apple, I'm looking
Speaker 11: at you, since you realised to all these devices during
Speaker 11: Mobile World Congress, so there was a lot of competition
Speaker 11: in the new circles.
Speaker 1: They always seem to do that Apple looking at you
Speaker 1: because they're also launching all these devices on the same
Speaker 1: day that the Samsung Galaxy S twenty six Ultra launches
Speaker 1: March eleventh, So I don't know if they do that
Speaker 1: stuff on purpose, but it certainly seems like the timing
Speaker 1: always lines up where Apple steals the spotlight. Whether it's
Speaker 1: CS or whether it's like a show like this, it's
Speaker 1: just just always seems to happen. But that's neither here
Speaker 1: nor there. The two things that I saw the big
Speaker 1: news was number one, six G. Qualcomm made a big
Speaker 1: deal about you know, they're going to launch six G
Speaker 1: in a couple of years, like by twenty thirty. And
Speaker 1: then the other thing I saw was that little phone
Speaker 1: with like the gimbal thing coming out of the top.
Speaker 1: Can you explain either of those?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sure, so six G.
Speaker 11: I'm going to try to make this as simple as
Speaker 11: humanly possible, because I had to read about it a
Speaker 11: lot to figure this out. The main thing that people
Speaker 11: are going to like about twenty about six G that
Speaker 11: will be out by twenty twenty nine or twenty thirty,
Speaker 11: depending on how it actually susses out, is that it
Speaker 11: will have increased capacity. So let's say you're a trade
Speaker 11: show or a stadium at airport, You're going to be
Speaker 11: able to have faster connections to the same networks, and
Speaker 11: it's going to be consistent because sometimes you'll have a
Speaker 11: dead zone. Let's say you go to the subway and
Speaker 11: it's a dead zone. Six gens Reaped is going to
Speaker 11: get into places that are well kind of dead right now.
Speaker 11: And the second to answer your second question, the phone
Speaker 11: with the gimbal camera that came out of it. It's
Speaker 11: the Honor robot camera, and it is a really interesting
Speaker 11: idea in the fact that the camera, none of the
Speaker 11: lives in the body of the phone. A little door open.
Speaker 11: If the camera itself comes out on a little arm
Speaker 11: and it's with the gimbal, you can point, tilt and
Speaker 11: zoom with your phone, so that way you can hold
Speaker 11: your phone steady, but the camera moves. I don't think
Speaker 11: we'll be seeing this in the US because Honor they're
Speaker 11: usually in China, so we don't see their products. But
Speaker 11: this is the kind of thing that could influence other
Speaker 11: companies to go, hey, we should do something like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's funny, it looks like dances and does
Speaker 1: all like I saw so many videos about it on
Speaker 1: the social media. It reminds me of one plus one
Speaker 1: time made a phone I don't know if you remember this,
Speaker 1: but the selfie cam popped out of the top of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's been stuff that they're motorized.
Speaker 11: I was thinking about, I don't know how long before
Speaker 11: we'll get back to like having a little tiny mirror
Speaker 11: on the back of phones for selfies to use that
Speaker 11: monstrous camera that's on the back of all of these plays. Now,
Speaker 11: it's you gotta just you gotta do something different to
Speaker 11: stand out, and that definitely stood out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a lot of publicity, but it's like
Speaker 1: the reality of you know, how many people actually need that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I do see a lot of
Speaker 1: creators using that little dgi osmo, that little tiny camera
Speaker 1: that they like, they seem to like, So maybe that's
Speaker 1: kind of like what it was. What else did you
Speaker 1: see that was interesting?
Speaker 11: Okay, So, like my favorite thing I saw there is well,
Speaker 11: there's two they're both modular. So there was a concept
Speaker 11: phone called the Techno Adam. It was super thin, it's
Speaker 11: kind of like an iPhone Air in size, and it
Speaker 11: uses magnets, which magnets are really the hottest technology in
Speaker 11: the world right now because yeh, of all the things,
Speaker 11: it just snaps together so this one had several magnetic
Speaker 11: areas and you could snap multiple power banks to the
Speaker 11: back of it, so you could add battery life. If
Speaker 11: you wanted a telephoto camera, you could just snap another
Speaker 11: module on and it would be passive on the cameras,
Speaker 11: so you don't need to necessarily have a phone with
Speaker 11: all of these cameras on it. It also had a
Speaker 11: giant long range camera twenty three millimeter lens could attach
Speaker 11: to this, and you you could turn your phone into
Speaker 11: multiple things at once, or you only bring.
Speaker 4: With you what you need on the on the day.
Speaker 11: It's kind of like the old days where you would
Speaker 11: really old days, you'd take your sin card out of
Speaker 11: a phone and then put it in the little phone
Speaker 11: so you can go out at night with it.
Speaker 1: So it's this Ideally you did that more nerds only
Speaker 1: we did that. No normal person ever did that.
Speaker 11: Yes, I guess it'll make it easier for the normal
Speaker 11: people to do stuff like this, but that concept device
Speaker 11: may never come to market.
Speaker 4: A techno was very clear about that.
Speaker 11: I was asking them over and over again, like are
Speaker 11: you showing this so other OEMs will you work with you?
Speaker 11: And and these manufacturers will license that technology and Techno
Speaker 11: claims that if this product comes out, they will be
Speaker 11: the ones to introduce it.
Speaker 1: Okay, it reminds me. Okay, now, I'm just I'm just
Speaker 1: remembering all these old things I used to cover. That
Speaker 1: reminds you of the Moto mods. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember, they had like this super slim Moto like
Speaker 1: Motorola phone that was like really thin and you would
Speaker 1: snap on like a little projector or like an extra
Speaker 1: battery pack or like I don't know if they had
Speaker 1: an extra camera thing or whatever, but or speaker maybe
Speaker 1: they had for it. But that kind of reminds me
Speaker 1: of that. Do you remember that.
Speaker 11: I totally remember that I did a video about the
Speaker 11: Techno and people were writing in the comments you forgot
Speaker 11: about Moto mods LGG five that had components of what
Speaker 11: about project? Are all these components devices? And every one
Speaker 11: of those I root for them. I want this to happen.
Speaker 11: It's not that I've forgotten. I love the idea of
Speaker 11: a device that can do multiple things and it's not compromised.
Speaker 11: Because it's really hard to have all of these great
Speaker 11: pieces of technology on a super thin device that people
Speaker 11: want these days, So why not break it up? And
Speaker 11: I and again it's I'm gonna say this. Apple does
Speaker 11: play a part in this because with mag safe people
Speaker 11: are they're more accepting of this idea. And I have
Speaker 11: a Apple's history as it is, it definitely sets the trend.
Speaker 11: So while this magnetic thing happened before, now that it's
Speaker 11: accepted with Apple, I'm expecting more companies to continue doing this.
Speaker 11: Like the new Pixel ten series has pixel snap, which
Speaker 11: is basically mag safe, so I think it's got a
Speaker 11: better chance of success now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is wild because Samsung still has not jumped
Speaker 1: on that the max safe. They have it in their
Speaker 1: cases now this year, which is fine, but it's like,
Speaker 1: what is keeping you from building a magnet into this phone?
Speaker 1: I think it's laziness, I really do, because if you
Speaker 1: look at the S twenty six culture, as much as
Speaker 1: I love that device, it's basically the same as last
Speaker 1: year's device. You know, it's just a little bit you know,
Speaker 1: I don't even know it's different. I mean the screen obviously,
Speaker 1: but it's like they they didn't want to like the
Speaker 1: amount of come, the amount of tie price and costs
Speaker 1: that it would take to redo the screen the back
Speaker 1: of the phone for the magnets probably just would cost
Speaker 1: too much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're right about I think you're right
Speaker 4: about the price.
Speaker 11: By the way, it takes a lot of time to
Speaker 11: change all the processes of building these devices, so it's
Speaker 11: probably years away from now.
Speaker 4: They probably didn't expect it to hit so big.
Speaker 1: We got one time for one more, give me one
Speaker 1: more thing that you really liked from Mobile World to Congress.
Speaker 11: Okay, I gotta find it. Lenovo think book modular AIPC concept.
Speaker 11: Let me quickly try to explain with this is just
Speaker 11: imagine a regular thin, super thin laptop, but the keyboard
Speaker 11: is magnetically. You can pop that off and attach a
Speaker 11: second fourteen inch o LED screen, so you can use
Speaker 11: it as a double touchscreen device. If you want, you
Speaker 11: can pop that second screen off, attach it with a
Speaker 11: magnetic cable of course is magnetic, have it as your
Speaker 11: second displays, and if you wanted to, you can attack
Speaker 11: that display to the back of the of the regular
Speaker 11: display so you can give a presentation to other people. Now,
Speaker 11: the reason why I enjoy this one the most. Lenovo
Speaker 11: has a tendency to use prods up devices and turn
Speaker 11: them into real products within several years, so I'm the
Speaker 11: most excited about this because again, people are using their
Speaker 11: technologies in ways they weren't really designed for. And now
Speaker 11: these modular concepts allow you to change out the way
Speaker 11: you use the device. Oh right, I forgot to mention
Speaker 11: that the ports are modular. So if you need a USBA,
Speaker 11: pop out the C and put it in the A.
Speaker 11: You need an HDMI, pop that in so you have
Speaker 11: and if technology changes over time, you can get a
Speaker 11: new port.
Speaker 4: I just I like this idea.
Speaker 1: Everything is reminding me of something else. This reminds me
Speaker 1: of framework that's like the podular anyway, exactly, everything old
Speaker 1: is new again. I asz Actar Mobile analyst at pc MAGA.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And do you have a good time over there? Was
Speaker 1: it fun?
Speaker 11: It was a blast, so many things and we have
Speaker 11: so many videos, pictures, articles at PCMag dot com. Seen
Speaker 11: that dot com. We've got tons of stuff, so check
Speaker 11: that out. Because there's no way we covered everything in
Speaker 11: this interview.
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Speaker 1: you go to c Yes, there's no way to cover
Speaker 1: everything that's there either, but you guys certainly try. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining me today. Appreciate it. I'll put
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