WEBVTT - Hands-on with Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo, the AI personality test everyone’s taking & Android helps airlines track lost luggage (164, March 7, 2026) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.480 Hands on with Apple's five hundred ninety nine dollars game 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:09.000 changing laptop, the AI personality test that creates a fifty 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:13.680 page report about you, and Android can now help airlines 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.800 find your lost luggage. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.119 and this is Rich on Tech. This is the show 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.000 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.320 should know about. It's also the place where I answer 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:30.440 your questions about technology. I believe that tech should be interesting, useful, 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.360 and fun. Let's open up those phone lines at triple 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.040 eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.720 four to two four one zero one. Give me a 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:46.120 call if you want some tech advice. Email is also open. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:51.360 Just go to Rich on tech dot TV and hit contact. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:56.600 That's Rich on tech dot TV and hit contact. Guests 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:01.320 this week, we've got Andrew O'Hara from Apple Insider. He 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.840 was at the Apple event with me. This week, we're 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:09.840 gonna break down some of Apple's latest announcements, including refreshed MacBooks, iPads, 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.600 iPhone seventeen E and of course the Neo. And later 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.919 in the show, I as actar Mobile Analyst at PC 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:21.480 mag we'll talk from Mobile World Congress about some of 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:27.720 the biggest trends he saw at this year's show in Barcelona. Well, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.959 I hope you're having a fantastic week. Welcome to you, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.200 thanks for joining me here on the show. This week, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.040 I headed to New York City for just a quick 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.760 forty eight hour trip. I was there for Apple's I 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.039 did not have my pick. I would have probably gone 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.000 to Shanghai. That would have been pretty cool. But here's 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.559 the deal with Apple. They're so secretive. They told everyone 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.880 that they invited, do not tell anyone where this is. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.880 So I could not. I walked around the block no 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.440 less than fifteen minutes trying to find this place because 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.840 there was no signs, there was nothing. And so finally 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.000 once I got in, it was like, ah, the whole 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.400 Apple set up. I mean, they really transformed this place. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.440 It looked like an Apple store, and they had a 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.240 little kind of keynote first off, and then they let 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.480 us all into this back room that had all the 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.480 Apple products, all the new stuff to check out. One 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.240 quick New York side note. By the way, I found 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:28.120 a hotel room near Times Square. Forget this under two 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.320 hundred dollars a night. How did I do that? I 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.200 will tell you about that later. In the show. I 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.880 am so proud of myself for that one. So what 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.520 did we get? Apple updated a bunch of products this week, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.880 the MacBook Air, which I have in my cart right now, 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.120 the MacBook Pro, the iPhone seventeen E. But the one 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.280 that I'm going to talk about right now that really 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:53.520 is just a game changer is this MacBook Neo. Apple 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.880 has gotten everything right with this. Well that's debatable, but 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.320 they got a lot right with this, especially the price. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.680 Five one hundred ninety nine dollars. Wait, what hold on, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.520 let me get up. I just fell off my chair. 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.440 Five hundred ninety nine dollars for an Apple MacBook computer 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.240 four hundred ninety nine dollars if you qualify for education pricing, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.920 and a lot of people do, teacher students, all that 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:23.200 good stuff. So Apple is going directly after Chromebooks and 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.360 after cheap Windows laptops in a way that I've never 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.239 seen before. This is the most affordable MacBook that Apple 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.760 has ever sold. And I think the attention this laptop 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.040 is getting, the pre orders it's getting, this thing is 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:42.360 going to be off the charts. Why because it's exactly 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.480 what people need. It's not the fanciest it's not the 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.920 highest powered machine. But you know, if you need a 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.760 MacBook Air, or if you need a MacBook Pro, or 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.600 if you need a high end desktop computer, a gaming pc. No, 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.960 this is for everyone else. Everyone who just says I 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:02.800 need a computer, and I say, what do you want 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.160 to do on that computer? I don't know, surf the web, 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:10.480 watch videos, do my email? Okay, fine, MacBook Neo, that's perfect. Now. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:14.160 Apple is powering this computer with an A eighteen pro 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.400 chip inside. That is a chip that previously powered an iPhone. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.240 Wait what an iPhone chip in a laptop. Yes, it 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.200 makes a ton of sense because think about it. Think 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.520 about how people are using their iPhone. They're already doing 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.840 everything on their phone. They're doing emails, all the stuff 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:37.080 I just mentioned, emails, watching videos, editing videos, editing photos, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:42.080 recording things. I mean, this is basically a glorified iPhone 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.480 that has a bigger screen and a keyboard. Who doesn't 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.360 want that? You get more space and a track pad 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.680 of course. All right, so speck wise, you know, if 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.040 you're comparing this and you're saying Ridge, okay, well tell 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.320 me the specs is probably not that good for that price. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.599 I mean, it's stuff that's been proven. You get a 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:05.320 thirteen inch screen, you get sixteen hours of battery life, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.800 you get a ten edp camera. Okay, find not the best. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:13.280 Dual mics, dual speakers that, by the way, support spatial audio, 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:19.280 two USBC ports, headphone jack, Wi Fi, Bluetooth, and it 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.800 runs the full Mac os. What does that mean? That 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.200 means that on like a Chromebook where you're limited to 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.760 pretty much web apps, this is a real mac If 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.719 you want to put Final Cut Pro in this thing, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.680 you can. Now I don't know if it supports those specs, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.159 but the point is you can install real apps on 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.559 this thing, and people are gonna do that. They're gonna 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.080 put the apps that they want on here. And if 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.160 you have an iPhone, which a lot of people coming 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.200 to this probably will, you're gonna get that magic of 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.400 how Apple. You know, one of my favorite things is 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.120 you copy something on your computer, you paste it on 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.000 your iPhone. Simple, all that stuff that you can do 0:05:55.080 --> 0:06:00.240 iPhone mirroring, handoff text messages. Now, this is a an 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:05.240 inexpensive computer, you know, by I guess most standards for laptops, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.359 but they did not make this thing feel cheap. It 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.840 feels very apply in fact, it's aluminum. It's lightweight, under 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:15.600 three pounds. Comes in four fun colors of course, Indigo, blush, silver, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:20.920 and citrus. And it's different than most budget laptops. When 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.640 people ask me for a budget laptop, I cringe at 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.920 what I'm about to recommend them because it's bulky, it's ugly. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.359 It just doesn't look or feel nice. This one's also fanless. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.120 Think about this as almost like an iPad with a keyboard, 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.240 almost like an iPhone iPad keyboard machine. That's really what 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.480 it is. There's no touch screen. That's the first thing 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.120 I did when I put my hands on this machine. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.120 I went to touch the screen, and the person at 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.400 apples like, no, it's not a touch screen. I'm like, oh, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.240 can I not touch it? Or is it not touch screen? 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.520 Like no, no, just don't touch it. Don't it's not a 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.560 touch screen. And yes, there are compromises. It only comes 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.479 with eight gigabytes of RAM, which means nothing to a 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.719 lot of people, but in the tech world you probably 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.200 want closer to sixteen for a proper laptop, two hundred 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.680 and fifty six gigs of storage, and if you want 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.440 more storage or a fingerprint sensor, you have to pay extra. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.360 That's one hundred dollars extra. That'll double your storage, but 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.840 you still have to get locked into that eight gigs 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.760 of memory that RAM. So what does that mean. It 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.160 means that, you know, if you're trying to have fifteen 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.720 thousand apps all open at the same time, it may 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.280 not perform that well. But in my testing when I 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:27.920 went hands on, I mean I had a bunch of 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.320 stuff open. I did a bunch of stuff on this computer, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.720 and it was fine. There was one tiny little hesitation 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.120 when I opened up a big giant file, but that's 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.160 to be expected. But for most people, again, this is 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.760 going to be perfectly fine. So any of the early 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.000 criticism that people say, oh, well it doesn't have this, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.960 doesn't have this premium feature, where's the back lit keyboard, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.360 where's the faster chip, where's more ram doesn't matter. You know, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.880 my mom does not know what more ram is. She's 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.720 going to try this thing and say, oh, this works great, 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.679 this is perfect. I love this thing. Apple's not trying 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.640 to win the spec sheet war here, It's trying to 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.400 win the recommendation war from people like me, and every 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.840 single tech person that I've seen pretty much agrees that 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.440 this is going to be the best answer for people 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.560 when they say I just need a basic computer, that's 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.960 all I need. This is going to be for a 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.200 lot of people. Now on the Windows side, I think 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.280 there's two sides to the effect here. Number one, when 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.080 with the Windows computers, they're going to see sales drop 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.160 because people are going to start recommending this Mac computer 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.400 for an inexpensive everyday computer. On the good side of things, 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.840 it's going to force Windows manufacturers to do things better, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.679 to stop shipping PCs that are sluggish, junkie software pop ups. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.280 Hey saw this, do that hardware that's just not very good. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.160 And for Chrome books, this is going to give them 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.240 a run for their money because, let's be real, a 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.480 lot of these students that have chromebooks, they know they're cheap. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.439 They cost you one hundred and fifty two hundred dollars, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.160 and they don't feel very good. Now, schools will probably 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.000 continue using them because they can keep them under wrap, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.240 and you know, they can lock them down and there's 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.280 not much students do on them. But this might put 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.520 the MacBook back in classrooms in a bigger way. So 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:07.560 bottom line, I think Apple is going to sell a 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.360 ton of these things. Again. It's called the MacBook Neo. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.280 It's available March eleventh, and I think it's going to 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.760 be one of Apple's most popular computers for just about 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.400 anyone who wants a simple computer that is high quality 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.000 and lasts. Now. I did post about this on my 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:27.440 Facebook page. I got hundreds of comments. People love the price. 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.480 People see it as a student or education machine. People 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:38.120 see it as a great best computer, sorry, basic computer, email, browsing, zoom, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.880 writing papers. That eight gigabytes of RAM, if you know that, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.000 that's where people had the biggest issue, they said. Thomas 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.960 said that eight gigs of RAM, though Christian said, my 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.000 iPad pro is still more powerful, and Jason said he's 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.160 worried about software compatibility, but as far as I can tell, 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:55.839 you can install a lot of software on this thing. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.360 What else I have more? Oh yeah. A lot of 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:02.000 people compared it to the ip pad. Andrew said, feels 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.160 like they took an iPad and added a keyboard. And 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.360 that's the wild thing here. If you get one of 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.520 these Apple Magic keyboards, a magic keyboard for an iPad 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.800 starts at two hundred and fifty dollars, So basically, if 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.520 you're a student, for another two fifty you get a 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.679 whole computer. That's wild. Sean says they should have let 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.160 iPad pro run macOS. I don't know about that. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:23.520 Uh. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.520 And Windows users say, you know what, I think I 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.040 might switch to a Mac. We're gonna see a lot 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.920 of people switch to Mac because of this. All right, 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.320 if you want to learn more about that, go to 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.280 my website rich on Tech dot tv. I've got all 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.120 my thoughts about the MacBook Neo coming up. We've got 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.440 a great show eight A eight rich one O one 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.040 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.240 We'll take your calls. Plus, I'll tell you about the 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.880 AI personality test that promises a major report about you. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.320 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.480 out with you talking technology. A triple eight rich one 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.880 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.200 four to one zero one. Give me a call if 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.480 you have a question about technology or need some tech advice. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.280 I will tell you one thing. Please follow me on Instagram. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.840 I'm not saying that because I'm trying to boost my 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.920 numbers on there. I could care less. I wouldn't even 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.800 be on there if I wasn't wanting to help you 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.600 out and I'm at rich on Tech and let me 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:28.480 tell you why I get messages every single day from you, 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.240 people like you, And what are they asking me? They're 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.080 asking me, Hey, Rich, is this a scam? Is that 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.720 a scam? I just downloaded this software to my computer. 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.880 Now I'm worried. And nine times out of ten I 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.679 have done a post about whatever they're experiencing and giving 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.200 them these warnings, but yet they don't see that, they 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.000 don't see them, and next thing you know, they are 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.680 downloading like this one email I just got, or message 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.679 I just got. This person downloaded an attachment from one 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.240 of these fake invitations that are going around right now, 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.920 and now they've got some remote access software on their computer. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.440 Now that all would have been avoided if they were 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.080 following me on Instagram and not just following me. But 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.079 I would say, I would argue, I think there's a 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.400 way on Instagram to like get an alert every time 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.120 you post something. And I'm not saying you have to 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.320 do that, but I think you tap those three dots 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.720 and you say add to favorites, and I think that 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.440 will show you more of my stuff. Because just because 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.000 you post something to Instagram does not mean all of 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.320 your followers see it. You know, there's an algorithm at 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.760 stake there. But when a lot of these things bubble up, 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.839 and a lot of these scam posts that I do, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.960 they go kind of viral because people want to share 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.040 with their friends. And here's the thing, because so many 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.640 of you are emailing me on a daily basis, I'm 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.839 seeing all of this stuff first, so I see stuff 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.080 before it even bubbles up to the general public, like 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:51.240 these scam invitations. So I posted about those scam invitations. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:56.760 Let's see, I'm scrolling back, scrolling back back on January thirtieth, 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.880 that is at least five weeks ago. They are still 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.000 going around. People are still getting them, people are still 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.840 seeing them for the first time. So again, if you 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.480 are following me and seeing this stuff, you'd say, ah, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.960 I already heard about that. I already know what not 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.800 to do here. So again it's at rich on Tech 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.120 follow me there, mostly because I am trying to keep 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.000 you up to date with the stuff that is trying 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.959 to scam you. And then that way, even if you're 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.480 tech savvy, you can share that on your stories to 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.440 your friends so that they are aware, Like, I can't 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.440 believe this one I got yesterday from someone. They said, Rich, 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.280 is this legit? And it was this thing that's been 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.600 going around on Facebook for years now, this idea that 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.559 if I got a copy and post, copy and paste 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.400 this message so that Facebook does not have access, I 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.200 hereby declare that I do not give Facebook meta my 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.920 permission to use any of my personal data. And now 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.160 they added AI to the mix. But give me a break. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.720 You're posting something to Facebook saying you don't have permission 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.680 to use my data. That's their entire business is using 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.000 your data. So again people are posting this, they're saying, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.360 I hereby declare I do not give Facebook the right 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.920 to use anything. Yeah, you already did that in the 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.600 terms of service when you sign up. If you don't 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.080 want a site to use your data, don't sign up 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.320 with the website or pay for it. That's the only 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.040 way you know they're not using your data most of 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.960 the time. Let's go to Mike in Austin, Texas. Mike, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:18.520 what's up? 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.320 Yeah, I called before. I have a one of those 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.760 dual routers that does the two point four to five 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.680 whatever the numbers are. Yeah, and I cannot print from 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.280 my phone, my laptop or anything. To it, and I 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.240 called you about it, and I just couldn't figure it out. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.040 So I thought, you know what to heck with the router. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.520 I bought a cable and hooked my laptop up to 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:47.960 the printer and they're both different brands and neither one 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.240 will still print. So now I don't know what to do. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:53.320 Well, you got to get this. You got to get 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.800 this printer on the network. That's the bottom line. So 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:02.600 the two you know, you've got two two networks happening there. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.080 You've got the five gigaherts and you've got the two 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.320 point four gigaherts. Those are two different spectrums. Usually the 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.000 printer may just talk to one of those, which I'm 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.800 guessing is the two point four. So what you have 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:15.640 to do is you've got to go into your settings 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.520 and if you're using Spectrum. I do remember this call 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.360 now because I got a bunch of emails afterwards, people said, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.200 you gotta tell Mike to go into the Spectrum app 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.720 and you can toggle the two point four spectr the 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.360 two point four gigahertz network so that the printer has 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.240 an opportunity to connect to that. So unless this is 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.640 a really old printer, that's just having a lot of 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.320 trouble connecting, it should just connect to that network if 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.520 you give it a chance. So a couple other things 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.640 I would do. Number one, make sure that the software 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.840 is updated on this printer, So go in to the 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.960 firmware and update whatever this thing you know connected. Well, 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.240 hold on, I just realized you can't get this thing 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.920 on the internet, So how are you gonna connect it 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.480 with the to get the firmware updates? So what I 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.920 would do is I would I would physically reset, like, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.760 do a factory reset on this printer. So whatever printer 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.960 this is, google that and say factory reset. Do a 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.160 factory reset, start it up from fresh and see it. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.120 Don't even change anything, and just see if you can 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.280 get it to connect to your new spectrum router. If 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.320 you can't, then go into your spectrum map, or you 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.760 can go into the router itself. Usually the information is 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.360 pasted on the bottom of the router that explains how 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.400 to get into the router. You go in there, you 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.760 switch it into it may be called compatibility mode, it 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.200 may just be called two point four gigahertz. You turn 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.720 that on and then you try connecting the printer. And 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.520 once you connect the printer there. It should stay connected 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.520 even after the network starts spitting out that five gigahertz 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.800 signal as well, because it'll still it'll still understand that 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.520 connection with the printer. And then once you have that, 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.440 I would update the printer with the software and the firmware, 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.480 make sure it's all up to date, and that should 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.080 do it. The other thing you can do is a 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.520 lot of printers have what's called direct connections, so you 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.359 can connect your computer directly to the Wi Fi signal 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.360 that the printer itself spits out. So if you look 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.680 up the name of your printer and just say Wi 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.240 Fi direct, it should tell you how to turn on 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.040 that Wi Fi printer Wi Fi network. It's almost it 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.280 almost turns the printer into its own little hot spot. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.479 And so once you do that, you can connect your 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.400 computer to that hot spot and print directly that way. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.760 But you know, Mike, we're already breaking the rules here 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.240 of no printer questions, because we know that printers are 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:40.959 notoriously the most impossible thing to fix, uh with with 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.840 tech support, and what it usually what you usually need 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.480 to do is just restart everything and your printer will 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.520 miraculously connect. Now, if you had a connection before, I 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.160 would say and spectrum change something. That's when you have 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.200 to go through and just factory reset it. But keep 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.439 me posted, Mike, send me an email, let me know 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.640 if you figure it out, because I don't know about you, 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.760 but I've got, you know, printers at two different workplaces 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.760 and two different printers at home, and nine times out 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.960 of ten they work, but there's always that one time 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.800 they don't. And also check your VPN sometimes if you 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.719 have that ACTIVATD it's not gonna work. Thanks for the call, Mike, 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.080 appreciate it. Eighty to eight rich one O one eighty 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.080 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Uh, Steve, 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.679 Oh we're going. We gotta go. Okay, we gotta go. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.200 Eighty eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.440 to two four one zero one. Rich on Tech dot TV. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.600 Coming up. I will get to Steve's question he emailed 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.240 and this AI personality test I took it. You can too. 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.880 I'll explain. Coming up right here on rich on Tech. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.040 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.240 out with you, talking technology triple A rich one O 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.320 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:18:55.440 --> 0:19:00.000 zero one. The website is rich on tech dot tv. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.520 If you want links to anything I mentioned there, it 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.760 is all on the website. This is episode one sixty four. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.000 Steve writes in Hey, Rich, I love everything you do. 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.600 I learned so much from you. My wife wants to 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.840 add someone to a picture, but we're struggling to figure 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.520 out how we use Google Photos and can't find a 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.159 way to do it. Is there way to add a 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.879 person who isn't already in the photo? Absolutely, Steve. I 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.840 had to try this myself because I know it works. 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.399 And this is actually it's funny you say this because 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.840 this was one of the features that Samsung showed off 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.800 with their new Galaxy S twenty six Ultra, where you 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.639 can literally use their AI built into the gallery to 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.240 add something to your picture, whether that's a person or 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.360 an object or a dog, and they made a big 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.240 deal out of it. But what Google, what Samsung's doing 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.840 is they're actually running a lot of stuff on Gemini 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.720 in the background. And so I had a hunch you 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.840 can do this on Gemini, and you absolutely could. So 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.760 just take your two pictures, make sure you've got them 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:05.119 on there. Go to Gemini dot Google dot com, upload 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.639 the first picture and then upload the second picture. Or 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.879 you can say something like upload the first picture and 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.639 then you can say add this person to the other picture, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.359 and no joke, the AI will generate the photo with 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.720 both of them included. It is really really good. I 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.440 mean it's I did it, and it's just it's so 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.919 funny how good it is. Like this if you have 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.320 not tried the Nano Banana, which, by the way, now 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.080 they're up to Nano Banana two, like they're already on 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:38.400 the second generation of this image generation tool inside Google's Gemini. 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.680 It's truly incredible. Like the stuff you can do there, 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.920 you will not believe. It's stuff that mere mortals were 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:50.080 never able to do by themselves. I'm talking any kind 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.400 of photo edit, any kind of fix, anything you want. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.080 It can be done inside Nano Banana. It might take 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.240 you a few tries to get it perfect, but it's 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:01.359 really good, you know. Restore old photo, add someone to 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.760 a photo, subtract someone from a photo, subtract an object, 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.280 remove the background, change about whatever you want. It's all 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.400 so easy, and it's free. By the way, now it's 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:13.120 limited to how many you can do on a day 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.680 unless you pay the other thing and I've talked about 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.080 this before on the show, is that I am now 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.439 coding my own apps using Gemini. So you tap this 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.959 thing called Canvas and you can just say what kind 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:27.320 of app you want. So last week I told you 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.480 that I made this image resizor app that is just 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.720 the absolute best image resizer I've ever used. It does 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:37.520 exactly what I want, and it's amazing and it looks beautiful. 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.080 And now this week I needed a new thing for 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:42.480 my newsletter. I wanted to have where it adds a 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.879 little at rich on tech Reference when I put a 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.200 URL in there and it does that. I want, you know, 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:49.919 if I send people to a website, I want that 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.000 website to know, hey, rich On tech Scent, you know 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:54.320 sent me, so that they say, oh, thank you rich 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.880 And so I made that and it works so perfectly. 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:00.720 And then not only can you make the app, but 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.440 you can keep refining it to do exactly what you need. 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:07.440 So after I use my little reference my referral link 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.280 cleaner thing, I said, oh, I would like the last 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:12.760 five links where I can copy like I want them 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:14.199 as a history on the bottom. So if I need 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:15.679 to go back when I'm doing something, I can just 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:17.680 I don't have to do it all over again. Sure enough, 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:19.920 there you go. Sure, let me just revise that app 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:22.200 So if you're not trying this stuff, at least give 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.560 it a try. I know AI is scary. AI is 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.360 going to ruin every job in the world, but it's 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:31.120 also doing some things that are really, really incredible. Speaking 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:35.720 of AI, this new personality test it's called Deep Personality. 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:41.800 It promises a deep psychological analysis powered by AI. So 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:46.240 it combines twenty eight research based psychology assessments into one 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:48.720 test you can complete in under an hour. I did 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:52.040 this yesterday. I was writing my newsletter and I just said, okay, 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:53.560 let me take this so I can before I write 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:56.199 about it. Obviously I want to try it, and so 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:59.160 I got down the rabbit hole. You sign up, it's free, 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:02.919 and you start answer questions, and man, these questions are personal. 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:05.240 I mean you could tell where they're going. It's like 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.760 every single aspect of who you are and your personality. 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:10.439 It's the stuff that like if you went to a 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:13.320 therapist or a psychologist, they'd probably ask you like all 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:19.840 these tests. It uses the Big five personality traits attachment style, anxiety, 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:24.160 depression screening ADHD. I don't have that. Thankfully, I found 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:28.240 that out plus your personal values and once you finish, 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:31.720 it generates a fifty plus page AI report. So yeah, 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:34.280 it's clear that it's written by AI. But it analyzes 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:38.359 your personality patterns, your strengths, your blind spots, relationship tendencies. 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:41.159 And then this is where it gets interesting. They have 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:44.080 a compare tool, so you can have your partner or 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.359 a friend or a coworker take the same test, and 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:49.439 the system will analyze how your personalities interact. Now, my 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:51.159 wife keeps asking me, She's like, should I take this? 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:53.800 I'm like, I don't know. What if this thing is like, uh, 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:58.200 does not compute? Does not compute? And we've been married 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:00.640 for what twenty years now? And what if we find 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:05.920 out we are not compatible? That would be horrible. Creators 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:08.080 say the goals to give people an owner's manual for 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:11.720 their personality. And here's the other really interesting thing. I'm 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:13.600 probably gonna lose you all now because you're all gonna 0:24:13.600 --> 0:24:17.280 go take this test. You're gonna stop listening. Here's what 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.800 you can do. It actually gives you a button where 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:23.119 you can export all of its findings and then plug 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:26.159 it in to chat, EBT or claude, and now you 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:31.119 have a chatbot that knows you. So I have me, 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.359 I named mine Me, and now I can say, Hey, 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:38.040 I'm going to a party tonight. Tell me how I 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:40.520 should interact with my friends. Now that's silly because I 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:43.199 already know how I'm gonna interact. But my point is 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.720 you can use this and it understands you. Hey, I've 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:48.159 got a big project coming up, I'm procrastinating. Why do 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:50.440 you think I'm procrastinating? And one of the best ways 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:53.320 to get around that procrastination. And because it knows your 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:56.800 exact personality, it's gonna give you the tools you need. 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:01.000 Now keep in mind before you send me the angry emails. 0:25:01.480 --> 0:25:05.440 This is not therapy. It is not replacing real therapy, 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:09.600 real therapists, real psychologists. And you know this is an 0:25:09.600 --> 0:25:14.159 online assessment. It's good for self reflection. And you know, 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:17.760 of course, there are privacy concerns, So you know I 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:20.760 taught you about using email aliases. That's what I used. 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:23.199 So I didn't sign up with my real email address. 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:26.560 I made one of these cloaked emails. So if my information, 0:25:26.640 --> 0:25:28.400 if I turn out to be crazy and they've got 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:30.560 to commit me because of what I typed into this 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:32.119 whole thing. They're never gonna be able to find me. 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:34.520 I mean, I don't think that's gonna happen, but you 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.480 never know. Oh who knows. Maybe this was all trap 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:41.000 just to get all my personal information. But I did 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:44.439 answer it truthfully, and here's what I asked it to 0:25:44.560 --> 0:25:48.000 give me a blurb about myself. I am a curious, 0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:52.080 mind structured thinker. I'm someone who loves exploring new ideas 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:55.119 and turning them into something useful. I'm driven by learning, 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:58.120 building and sharing insights that help people understand the world 0:25:58.200 --> 0:26:01.639 a little better. Always experire me, always improving, and always 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.360 looking for the next interesting thing to figure out. If 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:08.240 that doesn't describe me in three sentences perfectly, I don't 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:11.600 know what does. So it's proof that this thing actually 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:14.359 does kind of work. Anyway, If you want the link, 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:17.080 go to the website. Now, I'm just kidding. I'm not 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:22.640 gonna i'll give you the link. It is deep Personality 0:26:22.840 --> 0:26:27.040 dot app Deep Personality dot app. Of course I will 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:29.960 link that up on the website. Rich on tech dot 0:26:30.040 --> 0:26:34.359 tv Deep Personality dot App. It is eye opening. Let 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:37.920 me just let me update this right here online personality test. 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:40.159 I'll put that, just to make sure that link is 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:42.480 there when you go to the website, because one thing 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:45.480 is my biggest pet peeve. Especially this is coming from 0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:48.639 working on TV. When people say, oh, go to the 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:51.399 website for more information. You go to that website and 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:54.440 guess what, It's not there. It's just nowhere to be found. 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:56.840 Or you're hunting and pecking and trying to find this thing. 0:26:57.200 --> 0:27:00.080 I have made up my goal on KTLA when I 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:02.520 I say to people, hey, go to the website for 0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:05.320 more information. You go to my website. Rich on tech 0:27:05.320 --> 0:27:07.800 dot TV. It is there. In fact, I even added 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:09.480 a little star at the top so I can even 0:27:09.520 --> 0:27:11.680 call it out for certain segments I do where I'll say, 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:13.760 go tap the star at the top, and I'll make 0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:17.240 sure it's right there. Rich on tech dot TV. 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:17.959 All right. 0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:21.800 I got an email from Marsha on Northridge said, I 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:24.400 bought a new Galaxy S twenty five Ultra last December. 0:27:24.440 --> 0:27:26.720 None of my battery packs seem to fit it. I 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:29.240 have an older Samsung Fast Charged battery pack, but the 0:27:29.280 --> 0:27:31.400 chord that came with it doesn't fit my new phone. 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:35.720 My husband suggested buying a converter USBA to USBC, so 0:27:35.760 --> 0:27:38.280 I ordered it from Amazon. It still didn't fit. Then 0:27:38.320 --> 0:27:41.120 I spent hours searching for a new Samsung battery pack. 0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:42.880 I found one online, they said that in ship where 0:27:42.920 --> 0:27:48.040 I live. So I ordered a Balkan and the cord 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:50.440 is too small and falls out of my phone. Can 0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:52.280 I just get a chord from my old battery pack 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:53.879 that works with my new phone? Or do I need 0:27:53.920 --> 0:27:57.160 a new one? My current one weighs about two pounds. 0:27:57.200 --> 0:28:00.600 We travel a lot. No, here's the deal, Marcia. Just 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:02.760 get a new a new pack. They're cheap enough, and 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:04.520 your old one, you know who knows what the deal 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:07.440 is with that one. The Galaxy S twenty five Ultra 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:10.840 uses what's called USBC, So what you want is a 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:15.239 USBC output, and you want one that preferably has a 0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:19.399 USBC cable built into it. So you don't want to 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:21.640 adapt or you don't want to use that because that's annoying. 0:28:22.000 --> 0:28:23.879 So the easiest thing is to find a case that 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:26.639 had or a charger or a portable battery pack that 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:32.200 has a USBC cable. Ten thousand million hours is probably sufficient, 0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:33.920 but if you travel a lot, you want that twenty 0:28:33.960 --> 0:28:37.320 thousand million hour. It's going to be a little bit Bulk, 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:41.360 you're a little bit bigger, and so I recommend Belkin. 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:44.840 They've got a great one. If you go on Belkan 0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:51.000 and look for Belkan USB CWY ten thousand million hours 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:53.480 power bank, you'll find one. I'll link it up on 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:56.640 the website. But basically they've got one with the power 0:28:56.680 --> 0:28:59.400 cables built in. That's the one that I like the most, 0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:01.840 and so I'll up because I think it's easier. The 0:29:01.880 --> 0:29:05.600 other one I really like is from Ecoflow and this 0:29:05.640 --> 0:29:07.600 one would also work on there. But the problem is 0:29:08.080 --> 0:29:11.760 the the Samsung Ultra doesn't have mag Safe built in, 0:29:11.800 --> 0:29:13.280 and I'm not sure if you have a case with that. 0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:14.960 So I would say just get the plug in one. 0:29:14.960 --> 0:29:16.760 It's much easier. So I'll link it up on the 0:29:16.760 --> 0:29:20.520 website rich on Tech dot TV. But get yourself a 0:29:20.520 --> 0:29:23.360 battery pack. You need it. Don't travel without it. I 0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:25.719 always travel everywhere with a battery pack and a cable 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:29.080 that I did talk about my newsletter this week. All right, 0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:31.840 eight to eight rich one O one eighty eight seven 0:29:31.960 --> 0:29:33.880 four to two four one zero one. I see the 0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:35.920 phone lines. I see you guys. I will get you 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:46.640 coming up right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back, 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:49.880 to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here talking technology at 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:52.680 triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:56.000 four to two four one zero one. The website is 0:29:56.320 --> 0:30:00.880 rich on tech dot tv. Uh links there. Everything I 0:30:00.920 --> 0:30:06.960 mentioned is right there. Let's go to Stephanie in Glendora. Stephanie, 0:30:07.000 --> 0:30:09.400 you're on with Rich Oh Hi, Rich. 0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:12.240 Yeah, I have a question. Maybe it's simple for you, 0:30:12.320 --> 0:30:15.520 but it's not for me. I've been using Google's for 0:30:15.560 --> 0:30:18.400 a long time for several years, but I like the 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:22.080 Samsung flip phone. I just love it. I tried that 0:30:22.200 --> 0:30:27.120 once after being on Google system for a long time, 0:30:27.480 --> 0:30:30.720 and I just couldn't do it. It was very I 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:32.800 found it very confusing to try to use it. Is 0:30:32.800 --> 0:30:38.160 there any way to to make a Samsung flip phone 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:41.760 work similarly to the Google Pixel? 0:30:42.200 --> 0:30:44.760 Okay? This is uh okay. So you're saying you like 0:30:44.960 --> 0:30:48.360 the flip the Samsung like the Flip seven or. 0:30:48.360 --> 0:30:49.960 Yeah, the flip Yeah, the flip phone. I don't know 0:30:49.960 --> 0:30:52.200 if they're ld right the same way, but I like 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:53.120 that flip. 0:30:52.960 --> 0:30:55.200 Okay, but you can't. You don't like the software that 0:30:55.280 --> 0:30:56.320 Samsung puts on. 0:30:56.280 --> 0:30:57.400 The right okay? 0:30:57.400 --> 0:30:58.640 It just drives me nuts. 0:30:58.760 --> 0:31:02.000 Yeah, Okay, So It's funny you say this because I 0:31:02.120 --> 0:31:06.280 probably spent the first ten years of my Samsung life 0:31:06.960 --> 0:31:10.400 making my samsungs act more like Pixels. Because I agree, 0:31:11.200 --> 0:31:14.640 I love I mean, the Pixel software is clean, it's simple, 0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:18.920 it's intuitive, and Samsung runs on the same kind of 0:31:18.960 --> 0:31:22.360 base engine. I mean, they both run Android, but Samsung 0:31:22.640 --> 0:31:26.000 heavily skins their software and puts their own kind of 0:31:26.000 --> 0:31:28.200 flavor on it, right, they put their own spin on it. 0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:34.240 So I would say I've tested every single way. I've 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:37.520 tested every single way to make a Samsung more pixel like, 0:31:37.600 --> 0:31:38.760 and I will tell you what I did at the 0:31:38.800 --> 0:31:42.000 end of the day. Okay, I just went with what 0:31:42.040 --> 0:31:46.120 Samsung does, because here's a deal. You can add all 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:49.080 the software you want. You can add launchers, you can 0:31:49.160 --> 0:31:52.280 change the icons, you can do all this stuff, and 0:31:52.320 --> 0:31:55.360 at the end of the day, the phone just doesn't 0:31:55.360 --> 0:31:59.080 function as well as it does with Samsung's actual software. 0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:01.640 I know that's not what you want to hear, but 0:32:03.040 --> 0:32:05.160 I will say a lot of it is like muscle memory, 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:08.160 like for instance, with the Android. You know, for me, 0:32:08.320 --> 0:32:10.840 on the Pixel, you swipe up from the home screen 0:32:10.960 --> 0:32:14.080 and boom, You're you're right into like tapping to search 0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:17.640 for things and stuff like that. So it's really easy, 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:20.880 you know, So you can put like a launcher on there, 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:25.440 Like there's the popular launcher is Nova, which you can 0:32:25.440 --> 0:32:28.240 put on there. There's one called lawn chair. But have 0:32:28.320 --> 0:32:30.320 you even heard of a launcher? Do you even understand 0:32:30.320 --> 0:32:30.760 what that is? 0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:33.600 Well, I've googled it, and you know, I get the 0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:37.120 AI information. I've seen that, but I've never really tried. 0:32:37.680 --> 0:32:39.440 Maybe you know a simple way to do this? 0:32:39.760 --> 0:32:42.840 Yeah, I mean you could. I mean, like lawn chair 0:32:43.000 --> 0:32:46.240 is the one that looks the most like Pixel, so 0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:48.680 you can install. The beauty of an Android phone is 0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:50.320 that you can install software on it to make it 0:32:50.360 --> 0:32:52.720 pretty much do and act however you want. But I 0:32:52.800 --> 0:32:55.640 find personally, the more software I add to it, the 0:32:55.640 --> 0:32:59.680 more it's not as smooth or as fluid, or things 0:32:59.760 --> 0:33:02.920 just don't work as well. And so when I've installed 0:33:03.000 --> 0:33:06.760 all these different launchers on a on a Samsung, like 0:33:06.800 --> 0:33:09.920 the Nova and the lawnchair, there's ones that look just 0:33:10.120 --> 0:33:12.640 like Pixel, Like I think there might be one called 0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:17.360 pixel launcher, but don't even don't there isn't one, But 0:33:17.680 --> 0:33:20.120 I think lawnchair is the one that launchair. 0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:21.440 Okay, I'm seeing that. 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:24.040 Yeah, but it's not I don't even think it's Let's see, 0:33:24.040 --> 0:33:26.120 it's open source. It's the last time I was updated 0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:29.840 on December twenty seventh, so I would say try that. 0:33:30.600 --> 0:33:32.840 See if you want to install that on your phone, 0:33:32.880 --> 0:33:34.560 see if that works for you. But here's the thing, 0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:37.720 I just I feel I was updated on February twenty eighth, 0:33:37.840 --> 0:33:40.160 so it was recently updated, So I would try that's 0:33:40.200 --> 0:33:43.520 probably your best bet. If you install launch Air from 0:33:43.600 --> 0:33:46.200 the Google Play Store, that's going to make your phone 0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:50.040 like an like a pixel, like instantly, and so that's 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:52.960 your best bet. So if you like that, stick with it. 0:33:53.200 --> 0:33:56.120 Okay, do you think and because you made it sound 0:33:56.240 --> 0:34:00.160 like Samsung doesn't really allow you to use some thing 0:34:00.320 --> 0:34:03.720 different that would you know, alter the way they do things. 0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:07.440 So even if you this launcher will alter it so 0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:09.919 it will work like a pixel or oh yeah, there's 0:34:09.920 --> 0:34:11.120 still going to be some problems. 0:34:11.239 --> 0:34:13.520 No, no, they'll let you. I I find and I don't. 0:34:13.560 --> 0:34:17.480 I don't wanna. I don't want to make you think 0:34:17.560 --> 0:34:20.160 something that you don't know. But like what when I 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:22.560 use these things, I feel like the phone is not 0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:24.480 as responsive. I feel like I have to tap the 0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:27.520 icons a couple of times I feel like things are 0:34:27.560 --> 0:34:30.440 not like as smooth as the animations, but those are 0:34:30.440 --> 0:34:32.840 all those are all rich problems. If you use this 0:34:32.920 --> 0:34:35.839 and you install it and you like it, then why not, right, 0:34:36.320 --> 0:34:38.319 But and you can try it. And here's the deal. 0:34:38.560 --> 0:34:42.960 So what your homework, Okay, your homework, Stephanie, is to 0:34:43.280 --> 0:34:46.600 install this launch air launcher. See if you like it. 0:34:47.320 --> 0:34:49.400 Make sure it's set as your launcher because like you 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:50.920 have to make sure it's your defaults. You have to 0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:53.759 go into settings and there's instructions on how to do that, 0:34:53.760 --> 0:34:57.839 but as your default and try it, you know, and 0:34:57.960 --> 0:35:00.000 you know, just try put some icons on the homescreen. 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:02.560 Yeah you like it. If you hate it, just install 0:35:02.600 --> 0:35:04.520 it and uninstall it and your phone goes back to 0:35:04.560 --> 0:35:07.680 the way it was. Okay, there's really no harm, no 0:35:07.800 --> 0:35:09.920 foul in this. It's not like it's not like the 0:35:09.960 --> 0:35:12.680 old days when I started out installing what was called ROMs. 0:35:13.120 --> 0:35:15.200 So back in the day, I would take a Samsung 0:35:15.239 --> 0:35:17.200 phone and I would install a ROM on it, which 0:35:17.239 --> 0:35:20.560 is like a completely new operating system from the ground up. 0:35:21.080 --> 0:35:24.279 And those were always wonky because nothing would work right. 0:35:24.360 --> 0:35:27.000 But I know, I was younger back then, Stephanie, I 0:35:27.000 --> 0:35:29.600 had more time on my hands to fiddle with stuff 0:35:29.640 --> 0:35:29.840 like this. 0:35:30.560 --> 0:35:33.839 Okay, all right, okay, I'll try that and see that works. 0:35:33.920 --> 0:35:35.399 But at the end of the day, what I will 0:35:35.400 --> 0:35:38.200 tell you is I love the Pixel I love the 0:35:38.239 --> 0:35:43.279 Pixel software, and I wish that Google and Samsung would 0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:45.600 come to an agreement and say, hey, let's make a 0:35:45.680 --> 0:35:48.200 version of these phones that run the Pixel software, because 0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:50.000 we know so many people love it. But the Pixel 0:35:50.000 --> 0:35:53.400 phones are so underpowered for people, and they don't you know, 0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:55.719 they don't come in every single flavor like the Samsung 0:35:55.800 --> 0:36:00.360 does give us some options, right, yeah, I agree, But 0:36:00.400 --> 0:36:02.640 I will also tell you. I will also tell you 0:36:02.640 --> 0:36:04.799 that I think Samsung software has gotten a lot better 0:36:04.840 --> 0:36:07.319 over the years, and if you learn to kind of 0:36:07.400 --> 0:36:10.320 embrace it, it's not that bad. It's just a little 0:36:11.120 --> 0:36:12.839 you know, there's like a little things here and there 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:15.319 that I don't But at this point, my S twenty 0:36:15.360 --> 0:36:18.440 six Ultra is set up just you know, with the 0:36:18.480 --> 0:36:20.680 stock stuff, and I've got it set up to do 0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:22.880 what I need to do, and it, you know, it 0:36:22.920 --> 0:36:23.680 works really well. 0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:26.359 So okay, all right, sounds good, all. 0:36:26.360 --> 0:36:28.399 Right, Stefanie, Well, thank you Rich, Thanks for the call. 0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:32.480 Appreciate it today, Okay, bye eighty eight rich one oh 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:35.520 one eighty eight eight seven four to two four one 0:36:35.840 --> 0:36:42.000 zero one. Let's see here, as Stefani in San Diego says, Hey, Rich, 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:43.399 I've been a fan of your work for a while. 0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:45.520 I watch your TV segments, follow you on social media, 0:36:45.560 --> 0:36:49.160 and love the newsletter. Oh my gosh, the trifecta. Oh no, 0:36:49.200 --> 0:36:51.680 she didn't mention the radio show. Never mind. Even though 0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:53.920 my family doesn't always follow along, I send them links 0:36:53.920 --> 0:36:57.640 and screenshots of the tips you share. Thank you, Oh 0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:01.759 my gosh, speaking of advice, Okay, I'll get to this 0:37:02.040 --> 0:37:04.279 after the break. Eighty eight rich one on one eighty 0:37:04.360 --> 0:37:06.399 eight seven four to two four one zero one. More 0:37:06.440 --> 0:37:14.800 rich on Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome 0:37:14.800 --> 0:37:17.920 back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:21.239 with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one on 0:37:21.239 --> 0:37:25.120 one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:37:25.600 --> 0:37:27.480 Get in on the phone lines if you want to 0:37:27.480 --> 0:37:29.880 be on the show for some tech advice or you 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:30.760 got a tech question. 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:31.440 Uh. 0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:34.040 Before we went to break, uh a. Stefani and San 0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:37.440 Diego wrote in and said she enjoys the segments, but 0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:39.400 I try to save the tips you mentioned so I 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:42.479 can find them later. But regular bookmarks on my web 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:45.000 browser are not working. I do most of my browsing 0:37:45.000 --> 0:37:47.720 and research on my phone. At one point I copied 0:37:47.760 --> 0:37:49.880 all my open tabs put them into Claude how to 0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:52.480 organize them into a note, but it was very clunky. 0:37:53.000 --> 0:37:54.840 Do you have any recommendations for a better way to 0:37:54.880 --> 0:37:59.440 manage websites or save useful links? Yes? I use an 0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:04.759 app called Raindrop dot io rain Drop dot io and 0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:08.120 it works on both your computer and also on your iPhone. 0:38:08.160 --> 0:38:11.760 That's one way of doing it. There's also another app 0:38:12.239 --> 0:38:15.960 that if you are just on iPhone that's pretty handy. 0:38:16.320 --> 0:38:21.040 It's called Plinky p l i n ky Planky dot 0:38:21.080 --> 0:38:24.280 app and so you can download that on your iPhone 0:38:24.600 --> 0:38:27.520 and basically it's a way to just remember things, anything 0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:31.759 that you want to read later or you know, reference later. 0:38:32.280 --> 0:38:34.600 I use Raindrop dot Io. I like it because it's 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:37.080 cross platform, and you know, if you listen to me, 0:38:37.520 --> 0:38:40.400 I like things that are cross platform. Plinky is beautiful, 0:38:40.920 --> 0:38:44.680 but it is pretty much right now on the iPhone. 0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:48.080 It's kind of a Mac thing iPhone, iPad and Mac 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:51.759 and so it looks like, yeah, it's just you can 0:38:51.800 --> 0:38:55.319 save things through your Chrome browser extension. But you know, 0:38:55.360 --> 0:38:59.719 you've got folders, you've got tags, you can search. The 0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:01.960 plank key actually looks it's like a modern version of 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:04.480 rain Drop. Raindrop's been around forever, so it's a little 0:39:04.520 --> 0:39:07.320 more like old school looking, but it does the trick. 0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:10.040 And so what I do is so Raindrop you can 0:39:10.080 --> 0:39:12.560 pay like twenty eight dollars a year where if you 0:39:12.680 --> 0:39:16.560 bookmark a website to find it later, you can add 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:19.320 tags manually, or if you pay the thirty dollars a 0:39:19.400 --> 0:39:21.879 year or whatever it is, it will tag it automatically. 0:39:22.320 --> 0:39:24.080 And it also has a lot of other features for 0:39:24.120 --> 0:39:28.840 that price. But this is kind of embarrassing, but I 0:39:28.880 --> 0:39:30.880 will go through and I will use chat ebt to 0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:32.800 give me those tags and I'll put them in because 0:39:32.800 --> 0:39:36.239 I'm saving the twenty eight dollars. I know, what is it, 0:39:36.280 --> 0:39:38.719 penny wise, pound foolish. It's like so silly. It's like, 0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:42.200 just pay the thirty bucks rich for something you like anyway. 0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:45.440 So that's it Raindrop, dot Io and Plinky. There's a 0:39:45.480 --> 0:39:47.120 million in one of these apps that you know can 0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:49.840 help remember stuff for later. But those are two that 0:39:49.920 --> 0:39:52.239 I think are some of the better ones, and I 0:39:52.400 --> 0:39:55.399 like them because they both have browser extensions, So when 0:39:55.400 --> 0:39:58.880 you're browsing the web on Chrome or Firefox or Safari, 0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:02.919 you can send stuff right to these apps and read 0:40:02.960 --> 0:40:06.120 it later or you know, look at it later. Great question, 0:40:06.400 --> 0:40:09.920 Great question. Estefani eighty eight, rich one On one eighty 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:13.640 eight seven four two four one zero one. Marianne in 0:40:13.760 --> 0:40:14.960 Los Angeles, what's up? 0:40:18.960 --> 0:40:19.120 Hi? 0:40:20.840 --> 0:40:22.560 Yeah? There you are? 0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:23.319 You are you're? 0:40:25.920 --> 0:40:26.719 Are you doing good? 0:40:26.760 --> 0:40:29.040 You sound like you're underwater? Are you on the Titanic? 0:40:29.880 --> 0:40:30.840 Let me kick out? 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:34.480 Okay, that's probably what's happening. Oh so I thought you 0:40:34.520 --> 0:40:37.400 were like at like, you know, SeaWorld or something. I know, 0:40:37.600 --> 0:40:40.160 like of those underwater you know, with like the fish 0:40:40.239 --> 0:40:42.040 or above you. 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:44.959 No, hey, welcome to my world. But anyways, I wanted 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:48.799 to please walk kind of go back a few weeks ago. 0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:52.040 You were speaking about a brother's printer, and I kid 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:56.279 you not. I have my MSc four six five C 0:40:56.760 --> 0:40:59.759 as in Kathy, and it's Nancy for eighteen years. Oh 0:40:59.800 --> 0:41:01.680 my god, a color I'm gonna give me. I think 0:41:01.719 --> 0:41:07.239 older than your son cartridge. It literally never had a 0:41:07.480 --> 0:41:11.360 paper jam. It died after Christmas, and I had a 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:13.600 paper jam. But I took all the paper out. There 0:41:13.680 --> 0:41:17.200 was one sheet of paper. I think the sences just die. 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:20.759 Perhaps you know at this point are deserving the printer. 0:41:21.080 --> 0:41:23.319 So I bought a new one. But my point being 0:41:23.440 --> 0:41:26.359 is that I just think they're you know, they felt 0:41:26.360 --> 0:41:27.720 like a tank like you had mentioned. 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:29.000 Yeah, so I used that. 0:41:29.160 --> 0:41:32.120 I used that colored printer just for special projects. I 0:41:32.120 --> 0:41:34.319 also love it because I can make photo copies like 0:41:34.360 --> 0:41:37.160 a hard copy. I get a copy of something I 0:41:37.160 --> 0:41:39.239 don't want to do PDF or whatever, I can make 0:41:39.280 --> 0:41:45.080 a make beautiful, wonderful cleric copy. The quality is excellent. 0:41:45.200 --> 0:41:48.200 Well a secret. Which one did you get? What did 0:41:48.200 --> 0:41:48.920 you replace it with? 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:49.160 Oh? 0:41:49.239 --> 0:41:52.520 Yeah, that's me right now. I bought the MFC dash 0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:58.160 teas and Palm nine eight zero d's and David w 0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:02.239 as M William Okay, and that one's an INCA ink 0:42:02.400 --> 0:42:03.280 tank printer. 0:42:03.520 --> 0:42:06.239 Oh okay, Yes, I love the ink tanks. I think 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:06.719 they're great. 0:42:06.760 --> 0:42:09.200 Yea, yeah, well it's the first one I bought. Yeah, 0:42:09.200 --> 0:42:11.600 and I was a little apprehensive. I'm like, oh, but 0:42:11.680 --> 0:42:13.680 I think they're all the printers that are going that 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:17.520 route now. Excellent quality, it's one hundred times faster, yes, 0:42:18.120 --> 0:42:19.839 and it gives me all the features that I want. 0:42:20.239 --> 0:42:23.279 I I've got a brother ink tank at home, and 0:42:23.320 --> 0:42:25.560 I've got a I'm sorry, I've got sorry an EPs 0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:27.759 and ink tank. I need to actually I need to 0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:30.160 get a brother to try, like to test it out, 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:32.440 because right now I've I've tested the HP and I've 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:35.839 tested the Epsen and they're both you know, they both 0:42:35.880 --> 0:42:39.200 have their pros and cons, but they're both ink tank. 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:41.799 And you know, it's interesting because HP, I'm sure did 0:42:41.840 --> 0:42:44.600 not want to go ink tank because they make a 0:42:44.640 --> 0:42:47.120 lot of money on their ink cartridges. Like the last 0:42:47.120 --> 0:42:49.200 ones I bought for my printer before were like two 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:52.320 hundred dollars and it was like this is crazy, like 0:42:52.320 --> 0:42:56.359 two hundred dollars on inc Like what so I think 0:42:56.360 --> 0:42:59.040 they kind of fought that trend. But that's I think 0:42:59.080 --> 0:43:01.840 people like the tank because you feel more in control. 0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:03.520 You can see it through the window, like how much 0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:06.880 ink you have left? It feels real versus these cartridges. 0:43:06.960 --> 0:43:09.759 You're like, hold on, is there like one millimeter of 0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:11.759 ink in that cartridge? Like what's going on here? 0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:14.200 I know, I think over a period of time, be 0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:16.680 on the show, I do think they evaporate over time. 0:43:17.520 --> 0:43:20.200 It doesn't say that, but I'm based on my experience, 0:43:20.239 --> 0:43:23.480 but I wanted to emphasize that on the New Brothers. 0:43:23.760 --> 0:43:27.359 I bought this particular style because it only has the 0:43:27.480 --> 0:43:31.719 USB port for my thumb drive. Oh how many other 0:43:31.760 --> 0:43:34.480 ones do not? But I can also hook this up 0:43:34.520 --> 0:43:36.719 Wi Fi yes to my computer. 0:43:36.480 --> 0:43:37.160 Yeah, and your phone. 0:43:37.200 --> 0:43:38.839 Oh there you go. 0:43:38.960 --> 0:43:41.160 Yeah, No, this is great. This is I'm looking at 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:43.080 it right now. This looks this perfect. I mean it's 0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:45.680 is it about five hundred bucks? This one's like four sixty. 0:43:45.480 --> 0:43:48.920 Nine, it's about four God, I think it's for sixty 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:49.960 nine anything like that. 0:43:50.320 --> 0:43:52.359 That's that's that's on the price your side. But you're 0:43:52.360 --> 0:43:54.319 getting you're getting all the features. Like you said, it's 0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:57.319 got the USB, it's got the little color display, it's 0:43:57.320 --> 0:44:00.600 got the automatic document feeder, duplex print. You know, these 0:44:00.600 --> 0:44:03.560 are all things that are there premium. So there are 0:44:03.640 --> 0:44:05.839 cheaper ones out there, but this has like pretty much 0:44:05.840 --> 0:44:07.160 every feature you would want. 0:44:07.280 --> 0:44:10.040 So yeah, I think this one was the Cadillac. Yeah, 0:44:10.080 --> 0:44:11.960 and it's just for my knees because I'm sorry for 0:44:12.040 --> 0:44:15.680 home purposes, So this is my serves my knees. The 0:44:15.800 --> 0:44:18.640 quality is just the curb and it's faster. 0:44:18.360 --> 0:44:19.239 Than the speed of light. 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:23.640 Yes, sixteen sixteen pages per minute. That's that's pretty good. 0:44:24.160 --> 0:44:25.240 That's really fast. 0:44:25.480 --> 0:44:26.880 Wow, yeah, really fast. 0:44:26.920 --> 0:44:28.800 Well I do, yeah, go ahead. 0:44:28.920 --> 0:44:33.520 I'm sorry on my other printer, the previous one I 0:44:33.560 --> 0:44:39.040 had about too, and that one was really slow, which 0:44:39.239 --> 0:44:42.239 was that it was very slow the first printer I bought. 0:44:42.480 --> 0:44:44.120 Okay, so you returned there, I got this. 0:44:45.600 --> 0:44:49.040 I'm sorry, all right, Well, thank you. 0:44:49.280 --> 0:44:51.600 Uh, Marianne, we're losing a little bit on your signal there, 0:44:51.600 --> 0:44:55.080 but that was uh, you know, you've got some good recommendations. 0:44:55.239 --> 0:44:59.799 And I again, the standard printer that people just love 0:45:00.880 --> 0:45:07.600 is this brother h L L two four six zero DW. 0:45:08.080 --> 0:45:11.479 It's just a simple black and white printer. It's under 0:45:11.480 --> 0:45:13.520 two hundred dollars. That's the one that I had, maybe 0:45:13.520 --> 0:45:15.600 not that exact model number, but I had it for 0:45:16.320 --> 0:45:21.800 no less than ten years. And my kids bugged me, Dad, 0:45:21.920 --> 0:45:24.640 we need a color printer, Dad, we need color. I said, no, 0:45:24.680 --> 0:45:27.080 you guys can color these pages in. I said, that's 0:45:27.120 --> 0:45:29.400 more fun for you, and they said, no, we need color. 0:45:29.680 --> 0:45:32.279 So I bought the color printer and the ink was 0:45:32.360 --> 0:45:35.440 just it was like the printer was nothing. And then 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:37.799 all of a sudden. It was just you know, it 0:45:37.880 --> 0:45:40.480 was just much more you know, spending on that ink anyway, 0:45:40.520 --> 0:45:42.839 So now I'm testing the ink tanks. I like those, 0:45:43.080 --> 0:45:45.920 but I still miss my laser jet. I loved my 0:45:46.000 --> 0:45:48.640 laser jet because well that's a brand name, I think, 0:45:48.680 --> 0:45:51.319 but I love my laser printer. I think laser jet 0:45:51.360 --> 0:45:53.680 is an HP thing. But laser printer is what I 0:45:53.719 --> 0:45:56.160 had from brother and I just if you just need 0:45:56.200 --> 0:46:01.080 black and white, simple workhorse, grab the the brother and 0:46:01.400 --> 0:46:04.320 I'll put it on the website. Rich on tech dot TV. 0:46:06.239 --> 0:46:07.960 Let's see here. So it's tell me, I've got about 0:46:08.000 --> 0:46:10.520 a minute left. Is that right? Okay? It is right? Okay, 0:46:10.560 --> 0:46:13.120 So let's uh, let's see here. What can I do 0:46:13.200 --> 0:46:17.359 in a minute? Oh my gosh, okay, Trish, Hey, Rich, 0:46:17.400 --> 0:46:19.479 I love watching you on TV. I keep getting phone 0:46:19.520 --> 0:46:23.080 messages I'm losing storage space and encouraging me to download 0:46:23.080 --> 0:46:25.520 a cleanup app. What do you recommend? Well, first off, 0:46:25.560 --> 0:46:28.680 those storage warning messages sound bogus because Apple doesn't really 0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:31.200 recommend you to get a cleanup app. They don't say that, 0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:34.239 but those maybe ads you're seeing from third parties. But 0:46:34.920 --> 0:46:36.719 if you want a good cleanup app, the one that 0:46:36.760 --> 0:46:38.600 I recommend. If you listen to this show, you already 0:46:38.640 --> 0:46:42.279 know what I'm gonna say. It's Clever Cleaner c L 0:46:42.360 --> 0:46:44.759 e v e R Cleaner. So if you're trying to 0:46:44.800 --> 0:46:47.560 clean up all the photos and things on your phone, 0:46:47.960 --> 0:46:50.080 Clever Cleaner is the one I like. You know why 0:46:50.640 --> 0:46:53.640 because it does not have any ads, it does not 0:46:53.680 --> 0:46:56.840 have any payments. It's not bogus. It's really good. And 0:46:56.880 --> 0:46:58.320 so if you want to clean up some storage on 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:00.879 your iPhone, that's the app that I like. I will 0:47:00.880 --> 0:47:02.319 put a link to it because I know I get 0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:04.520 the emails from people say, Rich, I downloaded this one. 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:06.799 It's not the right one Clever Cleaner, make sure you 0:47:06.800 --> 0:47:09.400 get the right one. You can also check your settings 0:47:09.400 --> 0:47:13.239 on the iPhone settings General iPhone Storage and that will 0:47:13.280 --> 0:47:16.000 show you exactly what is taking up space. But this 0:47:16.080 --> 0:47:17.840 is one of the biggest issues in our world in 0:47:17.880 --> 0:47:22.560 twenty twenty six. Cloud storage versus physical storage. The line 0:47:22.600 --> 0:47:24.879 between them is very tricky for a lot of people 0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:27.080 to figure out, like where is this stuff and why 0:47:27.120 --> 0:47:29.839 is it taking up so much space? Eighty eight rich 0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:32.000 one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:47:32.120 --> 0:47:35.640 four one zero one coming up. I'll tell you how 0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:38.840 Android can now help you find your lost luggage, just 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:40.920 like the air tags do. I'll explain coming up right 0:47:40.920 --> 0:47:49.080 here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:52.760 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology triple 0:47:52.800 --> 0:47:55.359 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:47:55.400 --> 0:47:58.880 to two four one zero one. Everything we just talked about, 0:47:58.880 --> 0:48:04.120 all those printers, the apps and the yeah, the app 0:48:04.160 --> 0:48:06.320 to clean up your iPhone, it's all linked up on 0:48:06.360 --> 0:48:08.719 the website rich on Tech dot TV. And I went 0:48:08.760 --> 0:48:10.720 and I checked because I've been talking about Clever Cleaner 0:48:10.719 --> 0:48:13.479 for a while, and so I went to their app 0:48:13.520 --> 0:48:17.400 store listing. It's only for iPhone, by the way, and 0:48:17.440 --> 0:48:19.840 I just made sure that they're still not charging anything 0:48:19.840 --> 0:48:22.360 for that app or there's no in app purchases. So 0:48:22.560 --> 0:48:25.200 one of the best ways I think to figure out 0:48:25.239 --> 0:48:28.359 if I should download an app, because almost every app 0:48:28.400 --> 0:48:31.680 works on this kind of freemium plan where basically you 0:48:31.719 --> 0:48:33.480 can download the app, but you're gonna use it for 0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:35.799 a minute, and all of a sudden they're gonna ask you, hey, subscribe. 0:48:36.239 --> 0:48:38.600 Like this great disposable camera app I have, It's like 0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:41.799 it really pushes you to subscribe, and you can tell 0:48:41.840 --> 0:48:45.440 this This is actually genius from Apple. If you scroll 0:48:45.520 --> 0:48:48.680 all the way down on the App Store listing, whether 0:48:48.719 --> 0:48:50.799 you're on the computer or on the phone, it's got 0:48:50.800 --> 0:48:53.360 this little information area and it says that who sells 0:48:53.360 --> 0:48:56.160 the app, where it's compatible, the size of the app. 0:48:56.440 --> 0:48:59.080 But there's something that's listed. It says in app purchases. 0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:02.120 And so let me just go to like three other 0:49:02.239 --> 0:49:04.680 cleaner apps. Let me just look up this random cleaner app, 0:49:05.280 --> 0:49:09.280 and sure enough, in app purchases, yes, ten dollars, twelve dollars, 0:49:09.320 --> 0:49:12.200 forty dollars, forty dollars. So that tells me that that 0:49:12.200 --> 0:49:15.480 app is going to immediately try to charge me this 0:49:15.560 --> 0:49:19.120 one AI cleanup kick Pro sure enough in app purchases 0:49:19.280 --> 0:49:24.360 one week, thirteen dollars, one year, fifty dollars. So I 0:49:24.400 --> 0:49:26.720 always check to see if there's an in app purchase 0:49:26.880 --> 0:49:29.160 before I download an app, because that way I know 0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:30.640 what I'm getting into. Are they just gonna give me 0:49:30.680 --> 0:49:33.320 a hard sell or they actually giving me something useful 0:49:33.360 --> 0:49:35.400 and sometimes it's it's you know a bit of both. 0:49:35.960 --> 0:49:38.640 So just that's just one way to check out the app. 0:49:38.800 --> 0:49:40.640 Google does not do that for some reason. I don't 0:49:40.680 --> 0:49:46.280 know why. Android and help you find lost luggage. Google's 0:49:46.360 --> 0:49:48.560 rolling out a new feature on Android called find Hub. 0:49:49.280 --> 0:49:51.680 If you put a Bluetooth tracker tag in your suitcase, 0:49:51.719 --> 0:49:53.279 your phone can show you where it is on a 0:49:53.280 --> 0:49:56.360 map using nearby Android devices. Yes, very similar to the 0:49:56.400 --> 0:49:59.279 way air tags work. That part's not new. The new 0:49:59.360 --> 0:50:03.120 part is that you can create a secure location link 0:50:03.200 --> 0:50:05.799 and send it directly to the airline, so that way 0:50:05.920 --> 0:50:08.880 baggage staff can see the live location of your suitcase 0:50:09.239 --> 0:50:11.920 instead of just you know, searching through their systems. The 0:50:12.040 --> 0:50:15.400 location link is encrypted, it's temporary, it expires after a week. 0:50:16.040 --> 0:50:17.719 You can stop sharing it at any time. If they 0:50:17.760 --> 0:50:20.240 don't find your luggage after a week, it's probably gone. Anyway. 0:50:21.160 --> 0:50:23.800 Google worked with a lot of the airline baggage systems 0:50:23.880 --> 0:50:27.080 to kind of integrate this. They can put this right 0:50:27.120 --> 0:50:30.400 into the system. Ten airlines are supporting the future more 0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:33.120 than ten. But I don't see any US names on 0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:38.560 this list just yet. Air India, China Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, 0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:43.200 Turkish Airlines, Luftanza Quantis. So hopefully we'll see some American 0:50:43.200 --> 0:50:46.160 airlines in there as well, or I should say US 0:50:46.200 --> 0:50:49.920 based airlines. American Airlines is an airline so you know 0:50:49.960 --> 0:50:53.399 what I meant. And this comes after Apple did something 0:50:53.480 --> 0:50:55.680 very similar with the air tag, so you should know 0:50:55.719 --> 0:50:58.239 this if you use air tags and you put them 0:50:58.239 --> 0:51:00.280 in your luggage, which you, by the way, should be doing. 0:51:01.400 --> 0:51:03.600 If you go into the find my app and you 0:51:03.640 --> 0:51:06.440 look at one of your air tags, let's just do 0:51:06.520 --> 0:51:10.640 this one my key. You can see there's a let's 0:51:10.680 --> 0:51:15.879 see scroll down whereas it share air tag. No, that's 0:51:15.920 --> 0:51:18.759 not it. Hold on, Why am I not finding this? 0:51:18.880 --> 0:51:20.719 Uh oh oh, you know what? Maybe it has to 0:51:20.719 --> 0:51:24.480 get a lock on it first. Okay, here we go. Yep, 0:51:24.840 --> 0:51:26.239 so you get that. Once you get the lock on, 0:51:26.280 --> 0:51:30.280 it says share item location, allow others to locate this item, 0:51:30.560 --> 0:51:33.080 and you press continue, says this person who opens the 0:51:33.080 --> 0:51:34.680 link will be able to see the location of your 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:37.719 air tag for a limited time. And I can't share 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:40.360 it right now because it is with me. And Apple 0:51:40.480 --> 0:51:42.560 is smart like that. So if you ever have an 0:51:42.600 --> 0:51:45.080 air tag in your luggage, you can share that location 0:51:45.200 --> 0:51:48.000 of that air tag in live time with the airline. 0:51:48.320 --> 0:51:49.840 You can send them that link and a lot of 0:51:49.840 --> 0:51:52.080 these systems have that integrated. So if you go online 0:51:52.280 --> 0:51:54.000 and you say, hey, my luggage is lost, we'll say, oh, 0:51:54.000 --> 0:51:55.600 do you have a link to your air tag, and 0:51:55.640 --> 0:51:57.360 now you'll be able to do the same thing with Android. 0:51:57.880 --> 0:52:01.160 Let's go to Randy in a Granada Hill. Randy, you're 0:52:01.200 --> 0:52:01.759 on with Rich. 0:52:03.200 --> 0:52:06.120 Say Rich, nice to take my call. Long time, first time. 0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:10.879 I have two questions that time allows, but quickly on 0:52:10.920 --> 0:52:14.200 my news Z fold seven. When I go to a 0:52:14.320 --> 0:52:17.360 site and I want to go back to the previous site, 0:52:17.520 --> 0:52:20.360 I have to literally literally the only way I know 0:52:20.400 --> 0:52:22.000 how to do it so far, and this is when 0:52:22.000 --> 0:52:23.759 the phone is closed. By the way. I don't know 0:52:23.760 --> 0:52:28.040 if that matters, but I have to close the app 0:52:28.280 --> 0:52:30.920 and then go back to you know, I can't navigate 0:52:30.960 --> 0:52:33.439 between apps. Oh does that make sense? 0:52:33.560 --> 0:52:35.640 Yeah? I are you using? Which are you using the 0:52:35.800 --> 0:52:38.960 swipe gestures? Are you using the buttons at the bottom swipe? 0:52:39.320 --> 0:52:41.359 So if you don't, yeah, the body know you can 0:52:41.480 --> 0:52:44.399 on the bottom even the right hand buttons like on. 0:52:44.360 --> 0:52:46.520 The bottom of your phone screen? Are there are there 0:52:46.560 --> 0:52:48.280 buttons like like digital buttons? 0:52:48.400 --> 0:52:48.680 Yeah? 0:52:48.760 --> 0:52:49.839 Okay, Oh you're using those? 0:52:49.960 --> 0:52:53.759 Okay, so just tap now I'm using I'm using the swipe. 0:52:53.400 --> 0:52:55.960 Oh you are, okay, so then just just swipe, just 0:52:55.960 --> 0:52:59.719 swipe right left to right, and that'll swipe between your apps. 0:53:00.680 --> 0:53:01.200 Do you see that? 0:53:01.280 --> 0:53:03.799 Well, for example, I bring up my tile app right, 0:53:04.239 --> 0:53:06.400 and I want to go back to whatever else happened. 0:53:06.440 --> 0:53:09.200 I'm swiping and it just takes it away, puts it 0:53:09.239 --> 0:53:12.880 back onto the whatever the desktop of the phone. 0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:16.160 Speaker swiping up or you swiping to the side. 0:53:18.560 --> 0:53:20.799 Well, when I swipe up, it brings up all the 0:53:21.080 --> 0:53:21.440 all the. 0:53:21.400 --> 0:53:23.440 App okay, so that so that's one way you can 0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:25.480 switch between them. So you can swipe up a little 0:53:25.520 --> 0:53:28.239 bit and pause. But the way to switch between the 0:53:28.280 --> 0:53:30.000 two apps on the on the Samsung, I'm doing it 0:53:30.040 --> 0:53:32.160 right now. You just swipe at the bottom. Now you 0:53:32.200 --> 0:53:34.240 may have that turned off by mistake. 0:53:34.400 --> 0:53:36.320 Yeah, I think that's probably due. 0:53:36.440 --> 0:53:38.680 I don't think that's I think that's part of gestures. 0:53:38.719 --> 0:53:40.040 I don't think you can turn that off. 0:53:40.960 --> 0:53:42.840 What do you mean, swipe to the right and left 0:53:42.880 --> 0:53:45.480 on the bottom right, swipe right or left? 0:53:45.600 --> 0:53:48.760 Yeah, if you just swipe, yeah, it'll it'll swipe between 0:53:48.800 --> 0:53:50.080 the recent apps that you get. 0:53:50.160 --> 0:53:53.600 Yeah, that's not bringing up my previous at all. So 0:53:53.719 --> 0:53:54.760 I must have a setting. 0:53:55.360 --> 0:53:56.960 Do you have a big case on this phone? 0:53:58.800 --> 0:53:59.960 I have a standard case. 0:54:00.239 --> 0:54:04.080 Okay, that could also be doing it too. So yeah, 0:54:04.160 --> 0:54:06.600 sometimes the case will make it so that it doesn't. 0:54:06.640 --> 0:54:10.000 So there's actually a sensitivity you can adjust inside the 0:54:10.520 --> 0:54:15.040 gestures as well. So I would look inside the uh, 0:54:15.480 --> 0:54:17.640 the navigation bar. Let's see, so I mind I have 0:54:17.760 --> 0:54:24.000 mindset to high because it's you know, yeah, so if 0:54:24.040 --> 0:54:27.719 you go to navigation bar, it's the swipe gesture. There's 0:54:27.760 --> 0:54:29.680 not really anything you can do to change it. It's 0:54:29.719 --> 0:54:32.480 it's just built in where you can swipe from the 0:54:32.600 --> 0:54:36.120 sides and also to the uh, you know, at the bottom. 0:54:36.280 --> 0:54:38.480 But if you also pull in from the left, that'll 0:54:38.480 --> 0:54:41.400 bring you I mean, it's just yeah, you gotta just 0:54:41.600 --> 0:54:44.600 we're gonna tie. You gotta just swipe in. Just swipe 0:54:44.600 --> 0:54:46.480 at the bottom. There should be a bar there. You swipe, 0:54:46.520 --> 0:54:48.840 it'll swipe between all your apps. I'm doing it right now. 0:54:49.800 --> 0:54:52.600 Restart your phone if that feature is not working. All right. 0:54:52.640 --> 0:54:54.960 Coming up, we are going to talk to Andrew O'Hara 0:54:55.120 --> 0:55:00.279 from Apple Insider about all of Apple's big announcements this week. 0:55:01.239 --> 0:55:03.680 Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:55:03.719 --> 0:55:06.600 out with you, talking technology triple eight Rich one O 0:55:06.719 --> 0:55:09.479 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:55:09.760 --> 0:55:14.880 zero one joining me now, Kim said, we just rickrolled everyone, Yes, 0:55:15.000 --> 0:55:16.920 we did. I love that song. I don't care if 0:55:16.960 --> 0:55:21.080 it's a rickroll. Andrew O'Hara joining me from Apple Insider. 0:55:21.160 --> 0:55:24.000 He was in New York City at the event I 0:55:24.120 --> 0:55:26.160 was at with Apple. Andrew, thanks for joining me. 0:55:27.280 --> 0:55:28.320 Yeah, of course, anytime. 0:55:28.800 --> 0:55:31.160 So, first off, what was your impression of the event? 0:55:31.200 --> 0:55:32.640 This was a little different because it was not an 0:55:32.640 --> 0:55:34.839 Apple event, it was an Apple experience, and they pulled 0:55:34.840 --> 0:55:37.760 it off in three different cities simultaneously, in three different 0:55:37.800 --> 0:55:40.360 secret locations, as only Apple could do. 0:55:41.960 --> 0:55:44.640 It was definitely something different, and it was interesting to 0:55:44.640 --> 0:55:48.759 see Apple kind of slow roll all the product announcements 0:55:48.760 --> 0:55:52.239 from Monday Tuesday and then dropping the MacBook Neo on 0:55:52.400 --> 0:55:55.600 us on Wednesday right at the event. So it was 0:55:55.640 --> 0:55:58.680 a massive number of new devices that were you know, 0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:04.239 updated across all different product product categories, Mac, iPad and 0:56:04.400 --> 0:56:07.080 iPhone all getting refreshes. So it was it was kind 0:56:07.080 --> 0:56:07.840 of cool to see. 0:56:08.000 --> 0:56:09.719 Now, I think I know your answer, but what do 0:56:09.760 --> 0:56:12.560 you think was the biggest thing that stood out to 0:56:12.560 --> 0:56:13.240 you this week? 0:56:14.640 --> 0:56:16.759 I mean, it's got to be the MacBook Neo. I mean, 0:56:16.800 --> 0:56:20.359 that's that's that's what everybody is most interested in and 0:56:20.560 --> 0:56:22.920 how this is gonna work. First a series chip that 0:56:22.960 --> 0:56:26.200 Apple's done in a mac fun new colors, like this 0:56:26.200 --> 0:56:28.200 thing is going to be crazy popular. 0:56:28.080 --> 0:56:30.799 Now, Okay, so Apple insider, I would think that that's 0:56:30.880 --> 0:56:33.520 more like inside like people like that go to that 0:56:33.560 --> 0:56:37.200 website probably are a little more techy. So what are 0:56:37.239 --> 0:56:39.239 they saying about this, Like are they saying this a 0:56:39.239 --> 0:56:41.239 great thing? Or are they saying, Oh, it's underpowered, it's 0:56:41.280 --> 0:56:42.839 not good for the average person. What do they what 0:56:42.840 --> 0:56:43.319 do they think? 0:56:44.400 --> 0:56:46.880 You know, it runs the gamut for sure. There's a 0:56:46.880 --> 0:56:49.480 lot of people who they feel very siloed in like 0:56:49.520 --> 0:56:52.239 their workflow and the thing about the MacBook Neo, it's 0:56:52.280 --> 0:56:55.200 not for everyone, but it's meeting a new price point 0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:58.960 that Apple really has not like fully done. 0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:00.120 We've had a five. 0:57:00.080 --> 0:57:03.000 Ninety nine MacBook before, but it was the twenty twenty 0:57:03.480 --> 0:57:07.000 m one MacBook Air that has been still selling at Walmart. 0:57:07.280 --> 0:57:10.480 This thing is brand new, fun colors, even better performance 0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:11.799 for at least on the you know. 0:57:11.800 --> 0:57:12.840 The CPU side. 0:57:13.239 --> 0:57:15.600 I think they did a great job here, even if 0:57:15.640 --> 0:57:18.320 it's not you know, the core Apple insider audience. 0:57:18.720 --> 0:57:20.160 What do you think is the biggest compromise. 0:57:20.280 --> 0:57:24.960 Is it the RAM that's probably going to be it 0:57:25.120 --> 0:57:27.360 just when you get into like a whole lot of multitasking. 0:57:27.480 --> 0:57:29.760 For for most people, it is still gonna be fine. 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:33.880 You're gonna have slight compromises on the graphics, maybe in 0:57:33.920 --> 0:57:36.680 comparison to even the M one, but I think the 0:57:37.120 --> 0:57:40.120 memory that RAM is probably gonna be the biggest bottleneck 0:57:40.160 --> 0:57:40.439 of all. 0:57:41.320 --> 0:57:43.440 And I was talking earlier about this computer and I 0:57:43.480 --> 0:57:46.400 wondered if it could run like Final Cut Pro. Do 0:57:46.440 --> 0:57:48.560 you think would you be daring enough to run Final 0:57:48.600 --> 0:57:50.080 Cut Pro on this thing? I mean, because it can 0:57:50.160 --> 0:57:52.720 run full apps? Is there any do you have you 0:57:52.760 --> 0:57:55.840 heard of any limitations on the apps that it can't run? 0:57:57.360 --> 0:58:00.600 No, not really, it's it should run basically any I 0:58:00.640 --> 0:58:02.680 mean you're gonna run into issues with games if you're 0:58:02.680 --> 0:58:06.280 gonna try to run any super powerful games, of course, 0:58:06.560 --> 0:58:10.160 but for regular, regular apps, there's gonna be no issues 0:58:10.200 --> 0:58:12.080 in your day to day you know usage. 0:58:12.160 --> 0:58:14.880 So I don't really understand because you know, the iPhone 0:58:14.920 --> 0:58:18.520 chip has never run like mac os So how did 0:58:18.560 --> 0:58:20.440 Apple do they have to do anything like behind the 0:58:20.480 --> 0:58:21.680 scenes to get that to work. 0:58:23.200 --> 0:58:25.400 I mean, all Apple Silicon is kind of based on 0:58:25.480 --> 0:58:26.520 the same you know. 0:58:26.640 --> 0:58:27.520 Bit of structure. 0:58:27.800 --> 0:58:29.600 So it was definitely a little bit of work that 0:58:29.680 --> 0:58:32.040 I think. The biggest thing that I have heard that 0:58:32.280 --> 0:58:34.520 was a challenge for Apple to do was at the 0:58:34.600 --> 0:58:37.840 second usbcport. I mean that this is the first kind 0:58:37.840 --> 0:58:40.800 of a series chip that has had multiple ports on there. 0:58:41.000 --> 0:58:42.920 There's no max say for anything, and it was a 0:58:43.040 --> 0:58:45.080 huge amount of engineering work to be able to add 0:58:45.440 --> 0:58:46.280 two of them on there. 0:58:46.320 --> 0:58:47.560 You mean, you have different speeds. 0:58:47.680 --> 0:58:51.439 One's USB three, the other's USB two speeds for most people, 0:58:51.480 --> 0:58:55.560 again not gonna matter, but little small compromises like that, 0:58:55.600 --> 0:58:57.360 But it was still a big achievement just to get 0:58:57.400 --> 0:58:59.320 the second port on an a series chip. 0:58:59.480 --> 0:59:01.880 That's Wow's But bottom line, it sounds like to me 0:59:02.080 --> 0:59:04.880 from everything I've read and everything that I've experienced, this 0:59:04.920 --> 0:59:08.240 is going to be a game changer. People are going 0:59:08.280 --> 0:59:09.640 to buy this thing, and they're going to sell a 0:59:09.640 --> 0:59:10.600 lot of them. 0:59:11.120 --> 0:59:14.360 I think they're going to sell an incredible amount. I mean, 0:59:14.600 --> 0:59:17.640 the M one MacBook Air was until you know, last 0:59:17.680 --> 0:59:20.600 week or whatever, is still being sold at Walmart. That 0:59:20.600 --> 0:59:23.680 thing originally sold for one thousand dollars when it launched 0:59:23.680 --> 0:59:26.439 in twenty twenty, and now we have the MacBook Neo 0:59:26.800 --> 0:59:30.800 with better single and multi core CPU performance by a 0:59:30.840 --> 0:59:33.280 lot on your single core, which is launching apps and 0:59:33.600 --> 0:59:37.680 using your kind of computer. Slightly lower on the graphic 0:59:37.760 --> 0:59:40.560 side of things, but anything in like Apple Arcade, like 0:59:40.600 --> 0:59:43.280 all of those titles, the New Ocean Horn three, like 0:59:43.320 --> 0:59:45.760 all those are going to probably run very fine on here. 0:59:45.800 --> 0:59:47.520 They're running on phones. They're going to run on this 0:59:47.560 --> 0:59:50.080 thing without issue, right, So I think this is going 0:59:50.160 --> 0:59:51.600 to just sell super well. 0:59:51.640 --> 0:59:54.080 That is my thesis on this. It's like people like, oh, 0:59:54.120 --> 0:59:56.200 this is underpowered, it only has this like hold on, 0:59:56.920 --> 0:59:59.200 ninety nine percent of people are doing all this stuff 0:59:59.200 --> 1:00:01.120 on their phone. You're when I edit videos, I edit 1:00:01.200 --> 1:00:03.480 on cap cut on my phone, and it's like that 1:00:03.520 --> 1:00:05.439 works just fine. I'm Premiere on my phone. 1:00:05.440 --> 1:00:05.560 Now. 1:00:05.560 --> 1:00:07.040 If I want to do something a little higher end, 1:00:07.120 --> 1:00:09.440 of course, I'll use final Cut. But the point is 1:00:09.640 --> 1:00:11.240 a lot of people are using their phone as their 1:00:11.280 --> 1:00:13.960 every device, and so this is just a larger kind 1:00:13.960 --> 1:00:16.440 of canvas to do that. The other thing is, by 1:00:16.440 --> 1:00:18.480 the way, my wife is still using the m one 1:00:18.840 --> 1:00:22.000 MacBook and you know, the MacBook Air, and it's fine. 1:00:22.040 --> 1:00:24.919 She's surfing the web, she's doing her emails, she's buying 1:00:24.920 --> 1:00:27.880 stuff on Amazon. It's not. It's a perfectly fine computer 1:00:27.960 --> 1:00:28.240 for that. 1:00:29.680 --> 1:00:32.520 Yeah, those things are still running. People are still using 1:00:32.520 --> 1:00:35.440 those without issue. And this one's even more powerful. But 1:00:35.520 --> 1:00:37.560 like you said, I run into so many creators that 1:00:37.600 --> 1:00:41.640 are doing so much video production like on iPhones, and 1:00:42.000 --> 1:00:45.280 now it's just in a laptop form factor. It shouldn't 1:00:45.320 --> 1:00:48.280 be scared because it's an iPhone chip. It's it's still 1:00:48.280 --> 1:00:50.400 just Apple Silicon and it's really powerful. 1:00:50.880 --> 1:00:54.240 So they also updated the MacBook Air. Anything new about 1:00:54.280 --> 1:00:56.120 that that we should know because I've got one in 1:00:56.160 --> 1:00:58.400 the shopping car. I've got an M three right now. 1:00:58.400 --> 1:01:01.440 This is an M five anything like That's a super 1:01:01.480 --> 1:01:02.160 new about this? 1:01:03.600 --> 1:01:08.400 Nothing crazy new. I love the MacBook Air. I like 1:01:08.560 --> 1:01:11.280 prefer to use it instead of my MacBook Pro because 1:01:11.320 --> 1:01:13.280 of how like light and thin it is. 1:01:13.400 --> 1:01:14.360 It's just gorgeous. 1:01:14.600 --> 1:01:17.160 It is, you know, thinner than the new MacBook Neo is. 1:01:17.440 --> 1:01:19.600 So like I've always loved the MacBook Air. The new 1:01:19.600 --> 1:01:22.880 one M five processor. I believe Apple finally updated it 1:01:22.880 --> 1:01:26.040 to Wi Fi seven, which with fast internet in this house, 1:01:26.400 --> 1:01:29.080 wi Fi seven speeds are very welcomed. And then they're 1:01:29.120 --> 1:01:32.920 doubling the base storage, which is probably the biggest messaging 1:01:32.960 --> 1:01:35.240 around this. You can be able to pick this up 1:01:35.320 --> 1:01:37.760 and have I think five twelve gigs now as you're 1:01:37.800 --> 1:01:41.360 starting SSD size. That's going to be really handy for 1:01:41.400 --> 1:01:44.040 people who are using this as like a great education 1:01:44.320 --> 1:01:48.080 or work computer. That is ample storage for most people. 1:01:48.360 --> 1:01:51.400 And then you've got the new iPad air anything huge 1:01:51.400 --> 1:01:52.760 there that they changed. 1:01:54.000 --> 1:01:56.439 No, so starting storage is going to remain the same. 1:01:56.480 --> 1:01:59.120 We're moving to the M four processor about twenty five 1:01:59.200 --> 1:02:02.920 percent increase and performance compared to the last generation. Apple's 1:02:02.920 --> 1:02:05.800 adding the N one ship that's their modem or their 1:02:05.840 --> 1:02:09.439 networking chip, so Wi Fi seven thread for smart home 1:02:09.480 --> 1:02:12.160 tech Blue two six. We're getting the C one X, 1:02:12.200 --> 1:02:15.320 which is Apple's modem for better battery performance and some 1:02:15.360 --> 1:02:19.440 privacy features on cellular, but really like those are the 1:02:19.440 --> 1:02:22.160 big things there. Apple also increased the memory from eight 1:02:22.200 --> 1:02:25.680 gigs to twelve gigs, so multitasking going to be better. 1:02:25.800 --> 1:02:29.040 iPads twenty six helps with that significantly, so for people 1:02:29.040 --> 1:02:32.200 who are using this as like that multitasking tablet, this 1:02:32.280 --> 1:02:33.400 is going to be a good choice. 1:02:33.440 --> 1:02:37.760 And the iPhone seventeen E this is kind of their 1:02:37.880 --> 1:02:40.920 entry level iPhone five hundred ninety nine dollars comes in pink. 1:02:41.000 --> 1:02:43.520 Now it also comes in black and also comes in white. 1:02:44.000 --> 1:02:45.800 The big things that I noticed at the event they 1:02:45.800 --> 1:02:48.320 were talking about is mag safe, which is a good 1:02:48.360 --> 1:02:52.720 addition to that, and then the portrait photography. So what's 1:02:52.800 --> 1:02:54.840 your I mean, if you had a sixteen E, you 1:02:54.840 --> 1:02:57.880 wouldn upgrade to this or would you? 1:02:57.920 --> 1:02:58.080 No? 1:02:58.160 --> 1:03:00.240 I don't think anyone in the market, for you know, 1:03:00.560 --> 1:03:02.840 who has a sixteen E is going to be upgrading 1:03:02.840 --> 1:03:05.480 to this. But this is going to be ideal for switchers, 1:03:05.520 --> 1:03:07.640 similar to the MacBook Neo for a lot of people 1:03:07.680 --> 1:03:10.880 who are going from PC's chromebooks, tired of them not 1:03:11.000 --> 1:03:13.320 lasting long, or maybe they have an iPhone they want 1:03:13.360 --> 1:03:15.439 to get into the Mac space. This is a very 1:03:15.480 --> 1:03:18.120 similar vibe. They want a you know, they want the 1:03:18.160 --> 1:03:20.400 Apple experience, they want to get an iPhone and they 1:03:20.400 --> 1:03:23.320 want something new. But it's not going to be as expensive. 1:03:23.400 --> 1:03:25.439 I mean, this thing is priced like you said, five 1:03:25.560 --> 1:03:28.400 ninety nine, but I guarantee we're going to see tons 1:03:28.400 --> 1:03:32.080 of deals and carrier discounts on this thing. But again, 1:03:32.240 --> 1:03:34.520 performance wise, it has an eight nineteen ship so latest 1:03:34.600 --> 1:03:37.520 chip in there. Again, they doubled the storage, which is huge, 1:03:38.000 --> 1:03:41.920 and they added mag Safe. So for again most regular 1:03:42.000 --> 1:03:44.480 people out there, this is going to be plenty enough iPhone. 1:03:44.720 --> 1:03:46.640 You get lots of cool features with the other ones, 1:03:46.680 --> 1:03:50.080 like extra cameras and dynamic island and all sorts of things, 1:03:50.360 --> 1:03:53.600 but for just core iPhone experience, they really really did 1:03:53.640 --> 1:03:55.959 a good job on this. Compared to the sixteen E. 1:03:56.320 --> 1:03:58.480 In my opinion, the storage and mac Safe make this 1:03:58.600 --> 1:03:59.760 a much better deal. 1:04:00.040 --> 1:04:02.160 Yeah, it's funny because it's like all these like entry 1:04:02.240 --> 1:04:05.320 level Apple products. You know, if you're a high end user, 1:04:05.360 --> 1:04:07.200 you might point out like, oh, well it doesn't have this, 1:04:07.360 --> 1:04:09.240 it doesn't have a wide angle camera lens, it doesn't 1:04:09.280 --> 1:04:11.640 have all these features. But for a person who says 1:04:11.720 --> 1:04:13.520 I just need a phone, right, like, if you're just 1:04:13.560 --> 1:04:17.280 saying that these things are actually really good for the value, 1:04:17.400 --> 1:04:20.000 like I would say. The only thing that they didn't upgrade, 1:04:20.000 --> 1:04:22.680 which I was a little disturbed, not disturbed, but kind 1:04:22.680 --> 1:04:25.120 of sad at was the and I know, again average 1:04:25.120 --> 1:04:27.200 person doesn't care, but like it's still I think runs 1:04:27.200 --> 1:04:31.720 on like sixty hrtz right refresh rate, which is you know, yeah, 1:04:32.800 --> 1:04:35.360 it's like every Android, even the cheap ones are one 1:04:35.480 --> 1:04:37.640 twenty at this point. But it's it's fine. I mean, 1:04:37.680 --> 1:04:38.760 that's like very nitpicky. 1:04:38.800 --> 1:04:42.400 I think the only time I hear someone complaining about 1:04:42.440 --> 1:04:46.360 the refresh rate is in the comments of articles or videos. 1:04:46.720 --> 1:04:48.880 When I'm talking to people in the real world, I 1:04:48.880 --> 1:04:50.600 have never had someone come up to me like, oh, 1:04:50.640 --> 1:04:53.440 but what's the refresh rate? Or this only has sixty 1:04:53.480 --> 1:04:56.280 herds like I've never heard anyone else complain about that. 1:04:56.320 --> 1:04:58.600 It's something you feel a little bit when you use them, 1:04:58.680 --> 1:05:02.080 and it's nicer, But I don't think people are clamoring 1:05:02.120 --> 1:05:04.000 for that, especially in these entry level devices. 1:05:04.320 --> 1:05:06.400 Anything we didn't mention before we go that you want 1:05:06.440 --> 1:05:08.800 to uh, you want to tell or say. 1:05:10.000 --> 1:05:12.840 I don't think so. My honestly, my biggest excitement was 1:05:12.840 --> 1:05:16.000 the studio displays. Apple upgraded all their displays and the 1:05:16.040 --> 1:05:19.520 fact that they have their new Studio Display XDR. That 1:05:19.560 --> 1:05:23.760 thing looks gorgeous, the million to one contrast ratio, thunderbowl 1:05:23.840 --> 1:05:27.200 five for Daisy chaining multiple these, and lower price point 1:05:27.240 --> 1:05:31.160 than the now discontinued Pro Display XDR, and it comes 1:05:31.160 --> 1:05:31.840 with a stand. 1:05:33.000 --> 1:05:34.360 I'm very excited for that one. 1:05:34.440 --> 1:05:36.640 That is like the one thing from this whole event 1:05:36.800 --> 1:05:40.640 or this experience that I'm probably going to use daily. 1:05:40.720 --> 1:05:42.040 So for me, that was the thing. 1:05:41.880 --> 1:05:42.680 I was most excited for. 1:05:42.800 --> 1:05:44.960 I'm guessing that's expensive. What's the price point on that? 1:05:45.000 --> 1:05:46.560 Are we talking like what I. 1:05:46.520 --> 1:05:49.919 Want to say, like thirty two thirty three for that one? 1:05:50.400 --> 1:05:53.960 I Hey, they have the affordable one. It's not micro 1:05:54.360 --> 1:05:56.480 it's not micro led, but they do have a more 1:05:56.520 --> 1:05:59.520 affordable one. Apple's monitors are always premium, but it's hard 1:05:59.600 --> 1:06:01.800 to arg you with the build quality and the design. 1:06:01.920 --> 1:06:04.040 Everything else just feels plastic y. 1:06:04.280 --> 1:06:07.280 And I saw three of them running off a MacBook Air, 1:06:07.320 --> 1:06:09.760 I believe, at the Apple event, and I was pretty impressed. 1:06:09.760 --> 1:06:12.560 I would love that setup. All right, Andrew O'Hara from 1:06:12.600 --> 1:06:15.520 Apple Insider, what's the best place for folks to find? 1:06:15.520 --> 1:06:19.240 You can find me anywhere. Just google it Apple insider 1:06:19.280 --> 1:06:22.680 dot com, find Apple Insider on YouTube, or my podcast 1:06:22.720 --> 1:06:23.680 Smart Home Insider. 1:06:23.840 --> 1:06:25.760 All right, thanks so much for joining me today, Andrew, 1:06:25.800 --> 1:06:28.320 appreciate it. Eight eight eight rich one O one eight 1:06:28.360 --> 1:06:30.760 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one 1:06:30.960 --> 1:06:38.560 more after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Let's 1:06:38.640 --> 1:06:43.200 go to Let's go to line four. Doug is in 1:06:43.240 --> 1:06:48.080 Temecula California. Doug, Welcome to the show. 1:06:49.080 --> 1:06:50.840 Hello, Rich, thanks for taking my call. 1:06:51.240 --> 1:06:52.640 Yeah, what can I help you with? 1:06:53.560 --> 1:06:56.840 Well, I have a Lenovo laptop. It's running in the 1:06:56.960 --> 1:07:02.400 current Windows operating system, but I want to clean it off. 1:07:02.480 --> 1:07:05.160 I want all my information off of it. I want 1:07:05.160 --> 1:07:09.080 to restart it now on my phone. They have a 1:07:09.160 --> 1:07:13.600 reset the factory specs, but I couldn't find anything on 1:07:13.640 --> 1:07:16.120 the on the computer. I wanted how to go about 1:07:16.600 --> 1:07:20.800 you know, a fresh input of the operating system and 1:07:20.800 --> 1:07:22.920 and you know, clearing my information. 1:07:24.000 --> 1:07:26.520 Yeah. So if it's running Windows, you can you can 1:07:26.560 --> 1:07:30.600 absolutely do this right from Windows. So if you if 1:07:30.640 --> 1:07:33.360 you type in the search menu right at the bottom 1:07:33.520 --> 1:07:36.520 a little search bar, just type in reset this PC 1:07:37.360 --> 1:07:40.680 and that will bring you right to it. And there's 1:07:40.680 --> 1:07:44.960 a yeah, and it'll bring you to your system recovery 1:07:45.600 --> 1:07:47.640 and there's a couple options. So you have you said 1:07:47.680 --> 1:07:50.480 you want to get everything off this computer and start fresh. 1:07:50.600 --> 1:07:52.320 Is there a reason? Why did you just? You got 1:07:52.360 --> 1:07:53.880 too much stuff on there? You want to start over? 1:07:54.880 --> 1:07:55.120 Uh? 1:07:55.400 --> 1:07:58.040 Yeah, And I may be letting it go. 1:07:58.520 --> 1:08:02.040 Oh okay, you may be letting go okay. So yeah, 1:08:02.080 --> 1:08:04.000 so if you do, there's there's a couple. There's a 1:08:04.000 --> 1:08:08.040 couple options. There is the option to reset and you 1:08:08.080 --> 1:08:11.040 can keep your files or you can remove your files. 1:08:11.440 --> 1:08:14.000 And this process takes it takes a little while, but 1:08:14.040 --> 1:08:17.840 you're gonna want to do the remove everything option. And 1:08:17.920 --> 1:08:20.639 so when when you do that, it's going to give 1:08:20.640 --> 1:08:24.000 you a fresh start on this computer. Now, the next 1:08:24.040 --> 1:08:26.120 question may be, oh, is my stuff still going to 1:08:26.160 --> 1:08:30.160 be on there? Can someone recover it, you know, potentially, 1:08:30.760 --> 1:08:33.680 So if you're worried about something that's very sensitive on 1:08:33.680 --> 1:08:37.280 this computer, you can do this option again once you 1:08:37.360 --> 1:08:39.400 set it up, and you can try it again. Or 1:08:39.800 --> 1:08:41.760 there may be some apps out there that you can 1:08:41.880 --> 1:08:46.320 use to completely restore, you know, right over the hard drive. 1:08:46.600 --> 1:08:48.400 But I think that's a little advanced. I don't think 1:08:48.400 --> 1:08:50.600 you're gonna need to do that. So I would just 1:08:50.680 --> 1:08:55.080 recommend going into the computer, you know, like I said, system, 1:08:55.320 --> 1:08:57.000 and you can you can also just go into your 1:08:57.000 --> 1:08:59.800 setting system and then you'll see it says recovery. Let's 1:08:59.840 --> 1:09:03.720 see if I can find it manually. Here where is it? Yeah, 1:09:03.720 --> 1:09:06.400 it's like all the other it is system recovery. And 1:09:06.439 --> 1:09:10.479 then reset this PC. You tap reset PC and it'll 1:09:10.520 --> 1:09:13.600 say keep my files or remove everything, and those are 1:09:13.640 --> 1:09:15.839 your two options. And I would do the remove everything. 1:09:16.000 --> 1:09:18.280 It's going to take a while. Make sure your babysit it, 1:09:18.320 --> 1:09:20.920 because it does take a long time to do this. 1:09:21.080 --> 1:09:24.639 It's not something that's really fast. So you know, give 1:09:24.640 --> 1:09:28.000 yourself half an hour for this process because it sits 1:09:28.000 --> 1:09:30.599 there and it removes everything, and then it reinstalls Windows 1:09:30.600 --> 1:09:34.400 and then it's basically a fresh computer from the factory. Now, 1:09:34.479 --> 1:09:38.000 I only recommend doing that if you're you know, a 1:09:38.000 --> 1:09:41.040 little more advanced, and also if you just want to 1:09:41.080 --> 1:09:43.040 start fresh. Like for me, I used to do this 1:09:43.080 --> 1:09:45.439 once a year when I would get an upgrade to 1:09:45.520 --> 1:09:48.280 my operating system on Mac. Would always start fresh, and 1:09:48.280 --> 1:09:50.200 then I just got kind of lazy because it takes 1:09:50.240 --> 1:09:52.960 so much time to like restart and kind of like 1:09:53.040 --> 1:09:56.800 reset up all my things, and so I would Now 1:09:56.840 --> 1:09:58.800 I've kind of got a little bit lazier. Now I 1:09:58.840 --> 1:10:01.400 only do this when I get a new computer. But 1:10:02.000 --> 1:10:05.240 you know, I like the idea of starting fresh. It's 1:10:05.320 --> 1:10:08.240 nice because I don't know about you, but I download 1:10:08.520 --> 1:10:12.120 so many things. I'm always testing some software, I'm always 1:10:12.200 --> 1:10:16.480 changing some settings, and invariably, even if you uninstall that software, 1:10:16.600 --> 1:10:18.839 A lot of these little things linger on your computer, 1:10:19.320 --> 1:10:21.640 and so it's kind of annoying when you have you know, 1:10:21.640 --> 1:10:23.760 you start up your computer and a program starts up 1:10:23.840 --> 1:10:26.040 or there's some kind of sort of fragment left behind. 1:10:26.479 --> 1:10:29.599 But that's the way to do it again. If you're 1:10:29.640 --> 1:10:32.040 listening one more time and you want to do this 1:10:32.080 --> 1:10:36.519 to your computer, only delete everything if you are okay, 1:10:36.520 --> 1:10:38.040 you know, if you've got everything backed up or you 1:10:38.040 --> 1:10:40.240 don't need anything. Because it's going to delete everything off 1:10:40.280 --> 1:10:43.759 your computer. There is an option that will keep your files. 1:10:44.400 --> 1:10:48.240 This is also known as refresh, so that will reinstall Windows, 1:10:48.280 --> 1:10:50.360 but it'll keep your files. But keep in mind there's 1:10:50.360 --> 1:10:53.639 always something that could go wrong, so you know. Now, 1:10:53.640 --> 1:10:56.519 if you're really advanced, there's another way to do this 1:10:56.680 --> 1:10:59.960 with an app called Rufus. You can create a bootable USB. 1:11:00.960 --> 1:11:04.880 You can download the Windows media from Windows. This is 1:11:04.920 --> 1:11:09.040 called a clean installation, and you can download this and 1:11:09.080 --> 1:11:11.760 you can start up your computer from a flash drive 1:11:11.800 --> 1:11:14.240 and install it that way. That's for a little more 1:11:14.280 --> 1:11:16.600 advanced users. So if you know how to do that 1:11:16.680 --> 1:11:18.439 and you understand those terms, you can do that. But 1:11:18.479 --> 1:11:19.920 you already you don't need to hear that from me. 1:11:20.439 --> 1:11:22.439 That's the way. I had a job once where my 1:11:22.520 --> 1:11:26.600 whole job was to just clean install these old computers 1:11:26.640 --> 1:11:29.519 at this school. And I love doing that. Oh, just 1:11:29.600 --> 1:11:32.600 come in. I would just get my little coffee and 1:11:32.640 --> 1:11:34.240 I would just sit there. I'd go to a classroom, 1:11:34.320 --> 1:11:37.200 grab one of these computers, clean, install windows, and just 1:11:37.280 --> 1:11:39.200 like move on to the next one. That's what I 1:11:39.200 --> 1:11:42.800 did for like six months. I love that job. It 1:11:42.880 --> 1:11:45.760 was so fun just to wipe everything clean because invariably 1:11:45.800 --> 1:11:48.200 all these computers had, you know, all the students installed 1:11:48.200 --> 1:11:50.680 stuff on there. The teachers would install and I just 1:11:50.840 --> 1:11:54.240 love that first boot up where everything was just fresh. Ah, 1:11:54.320 --> 1:11:57.360 I love it. I still love that feeling. Eighty eight 1:11:57.479 --> 1:12:00.160 Rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two 1:12:00.320 --> 1:12:05.920 for one zero one. Christine writes in Hey, Rich, we 1:12:05.960 --> 1:12:08.200 watch you every day on TV. We love your segments. 1:12:08.520 --> 1:12:11.160 My question is about companies that offer a discount if 1:12:11.160 --> 1:12:14.120 you sign up for direct pay, where they automatically take 1:12:14.120 --> 1:12:16.920 the monthly payment from your checking account. I'm a little weary. 1:12:17.280 --> 1:12:19.720 Is it wary or weary? I never know because it 1:12:19.800 --> 1:12:23.160 sounds like I'm giving my banking information directly to a 1:12:23.240 --> 1:12:25.320 vendor like T Mobile, for example. Do you think it's 1:12:25.520 --> 1:12:28.040 safe or wise to sign up for direct pay or 1:12:28.120 --> 1:12:31.960 is my information protected in some way? Well, I mean, look, 1:12:32.520 --> 1:12:35.880 I personally hate direct pay. I hate to use that 1:12:35.920 --> 1:12:37.720 word because I think it's very strong and I just 1:12:37.800 --> 1:12:41.400 don't really like using it. But I don't like direct pay. 1:12:41.520 --> 1:12:46.280 Why because you're giving access to your checking account and 1:12:46.360 --> 1:12:49.639 they're taking the money out on their own accord, big 1:12:49.680 --> 1:12:52.879 companies taking money out of your account. What could possibly 1:12:52.920 --> 1:12:55.120 go wrong? Now here's what I don't like about this. 1:12:55.240 --> 1:12:58.759 It only benefits them. They get to pay less fees 1:12:59.040 --> 1:13:01.599 for your payment because it's cheaper to process a payment 1:13:01.680 --> 1:13:05.400 via a direct I guess you call it direct pay 1:13:05.479 --> 1:13:08.439 or direct withdrawal, whatever you want to call it, versus 1:13:08.479 --> 1:13:11.479 a credit card. And so these companies love it because 1:13:11.520 --> 1:13:14.720 also they have your account information. So when you get 1:13:14.760 --> 1:13:16.680 your phone bill and it's a little bit higher than 1:13:16.720 --> 1:13:19.280 it typically is, guess what, they don't care because they're 1:13:19.280 --> 1:13:20.679 just going to take it out of your banking account 1:13:20.680 --> 1:13:23.760 no matter what. And believe me, I've done this over 1:13:23.800 --> 1:13:26.479 the years, and I just I really try not to 1:13:26.479 --> 1:13:28.760 give it out unless you have to. Now, in the 1:13:28.800 --> 1:13:33.280 case of certain companies like your wireless provider, a lot 1:13:33.320 --> 1:13:35.120 of them have said, oh, you got to give us 1:13:35.160 --> 1:13:37.680 your bank account or we're going to charge you more 1:13:37.680 --> 1:13:40.559 every month. And so in that case, yes, you kind 1:13:40.560 --> 1:13:41.880 of have to do it unless you want to pay 1:13:41.880 --> 1:13:45.800 ten dollars extra. But do this very sparingly, very sparingly. 1:13:46.320 --> 1:13:51.880 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:13:51.960 --> 1:13:56.000 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The 1:13:56.040 --> 1:13:59.840 website for the show is rich on Tech dot tv. 1:14:00.680 --> 1:14:02.680 Be sure to sign up for my newsletter. Once you 1:14:02.760 --> 1:14:05.519 are there, you can also see all the show notes. 1:14:05.560 --> 1:14:09.960 This is episode one sixty four. The phone line for 1:14:10.080 --> 1:14:12.880 the show is eight eight eight rich one oh one 1:14:13.080 --> 1:14:15.960 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:14:16.040 --> 1:14:19.960 Coming up this hour, we're gonna talk to I as 1:14:20.560 --> 1:14:25.120 actar Mobile analyst at PC mag. He's gonna talk about 1:14:25.240 --> 1:14:31.120 Mobile World Congress, which happened this week in Barcelona. Ayas 1:14:31.160 --> 1:14:33.080 and I actually used to work as scene at together, 1:14:33.240 --> 1:14:36.080 so we've got a little little thing in common there. 1:14:36.680 --> 1:14:39.080 But he has been to Mobile World Congress. I have not. 1:14:39.800 --> 1:14:42.200 I've never been to that show. It used to be 1:14:42.320 --> 1:14:46.000 much more consumer focused and much more US focused, but 1:14:46.160 --> 1:14:50.040 now it is much more you know, companies that are 1:14:50.040 --> 1:14:52.840 doing stuff in other countries. It's still interesting and it 1:14:52.880 --> 1:14:55.320 still goes to show the trends that are happening. But 1:14:55.400 --> 1:14:58.280 it's kind of worldwide. Like the Samsung's of the world 1:14:58.280 --> 1:15:00.880 and stuff, a lot of them aren't releasing there or 1:15:01.000 --> 1:15:03.400 unveiling their devices that they used to now. They're doing 1:15:03.479 --> 1:15:05.559 it all at their own events. Anyway, we'll hear from 1:15:05.640 --> 1:15:08.599 him and see what he thinks about that. Speaking of devices, 1:15:08.640 --> 1:15:11.679 reviews are in for the Pixel ten A from Google. 1:15:12.080 --> 1:15:14.599 This is their budget phone. It starts at four ninety nine. 1:15:15.240 --> 1:15:17.200 I've got one at home to test out. I have 1:15:17.320 --> 1:15:20.200 not tested it yet, I'll be honest because I kind 1:15:20.200 --> 1:15:21.720 of know what to expect. It's going to be a 1:15:21.760 --> 1:15:26.200 basic phone with a great camera, six point three inch display, 1:15:26.320 --> 1:15:30.760 forty eight megapixel main camera. Google's Tenser G four chips 1:15:30.800 --> 1:15:34.760 so last year's chip, I believe, with eight gigs a RAM. 1:15:35.200 --> 1:15:38.719 It's got a clean version of Android, sixteen seven years 1:15:38.720 --> 1:15:41.720 of software and security updates, which is among the longest 1:15:42.439 --> 1:15:45.760 for all smartphones. It's got Google's AI stuff built in. 1:15:46.280 --> 1:15:49.880 It's got great picture quality, I'm assuming because Pixels are 1:15:49.920 --> 1:15:53.479 known for that. Battery life reviewers say is solid up 1:15:53.520 --> 1:15:57.679 to two days of use, with lighter usage. The biggest 1:15:57.720 --> 1:16:00.719 criticism is that the hardware barely changed from last year's 1:16:00.760 --> 1:16:04.599 Pixel nine A same processor, same cameras, same ram, same battery. 1:16:05.000 --> 1:16:06.599 So a lot of people are saying it's just more 1:16:06.600 --> 1:16:09.479 of a refresh, but it's got a flat back this time. 1:16:10.720 --> 1:16:12.960 Let's see what else? Still the best value under five 1:16:13.040 --> 1:16:15.679 hundred dollars, and I would say that this is actually 1:16:15.760 --> 1:16:17.600 do not pay five hundred for this. Make sure you 1:16:17.600 --> 1:16:20.639 don't pay more than three ninety nine because this phone 1:16:20.680 --> 1:16:23.160 is always discounted. If it's not discounted today, it will 1:16:23.160 --> 1:16:25.960 be tomorrow. So three ninety nine is the price point 1:16:26.000 --> 1:16:28.640 I would say to aim for for the Pixel ten A. 1:16:29.120 --> 1:16:31.400 If you just want something super basic, super easy, you 1:16:31.400 --> 1:16:34.640 don't want anything Apple or iPhone because the seventeen E 1:16:34.760 --> 1:16:37.200 is really competing with this at five ninety nine. And 1:16:37.240 --> 1:16:39.599 by the way, don't pay that for that phone four 1:16:39.720 --> 1:16:42.160 ninety nine for the seventeen E, I would I would 1:16:42.400 --> 1:16:48.719 make my target price. Let's go to Bill in Burbank. 1:16:48.760 --> 1:16:52.040 Am I getting rickrolled here with Bill? That's uh, this 1:16:52.080 --> 1:16:54.000 isn't the bill? Is it is? 1:16:54.080 --> 1:16:54.840 This Bill? Here? 1:16:54.920 --> 1:16:55.120 Yeah? 1:16:55.560 --> 1:16:56.120 Can you hear me? 1:16:56.320 --> 1:16:58.559 Yes? Okay, you don't you don't sound like the bill. 1:16:58.600 --> 1:17:00.360 I know, so it's a different bill. So I don't 1:17:00.360 --> 1:17:02.000 think I'm getting fooled here. Okay, what's up? 1:17:02.040 --> 1:17:02.240 Bill? 1:17:02.360 --> 1:17:02.920 A new bill? 1:17:03.720 --> 1:17:05.400 You got a new bill, but it's not in the mail. 1:17:06.000 --> 1:17:09.320 No, I barely get bills, you know. The only bills 1:17:09.320 --> 1:17:10.559 I get in the mail at this point are all 1:17:10.600 --> 1:17:13.679 the medical bills, and those, by the way, pro tip, 1:17:13.920 --> 1:17:15.800 don't ever pay the medical bill. Oh I'm gonna get 1:17:15.800 --> 1:17:18.920 all the emails from the doctor. People. Don't pay your 1:17:18.920 --> 1:17:21.520 medical bills the first time you get them, because invariably 1:17:21.920 --> 1:17:23.760 they send you a bill, Oh, it's eight hundred dollars, 1:17:23.760 --> 1:17:25.280 and all of a sudden you're like what And they 1:17:25.280 --> 1:17:26.920 send you a bill six weeks you're like, oh, it's 1:17:27.080 --> 1:17:29.559 twenty seven dollars. You're like, what what if I paid 1:17:29.600 --> 1:17:32.040 the eight hundred. My wife actually did that. She got 1:17:32.080 --> 1:17:35.200 a refund from all the money she paid, and they said, oh, 1:17:35.240 --> 1:17:37.240 your insurance actually paid and they gave her a refund. 1:17:37.240 --> 1:17:39.920 We couldn't believe it. Anyway, I digress, bill, what's up? 1:17:40.600 --> 1:17:44.840 That's great information, but you're one in a million. Yeah, 1:17:45.360 --> 1:17:48.280 every time you end up paying a bill, regardless of 1:17:48.320 --> 1:17:51.360 whether it's true or not. If it's not the correct bill. 1:17:51.640 --> 1:17:53.200 You're gonna have a hard time collecting. 1:17:53.439 --> 1:17:56.160 Yeah, I couldn't believe it. They refunded her card. Like 1:17:56.439 --> 1:17:58.160 we got a text. She showed it to me. She's like, 1:17:58.400 --> 1:18:00.519 I can't believe this. I'm like, I've ever heard of 1:18:00.520 --> 1:18:02.639 that in my life and it was automatic, didn't even 1:18:02.640 --> 1:18:04.040 have to do anything. I was like, those are some 1:18:04.360 --> 1:18:06.880 Those are some honest doctors, Like that's those are that's 1:18:06.880 --> 1:18:07.840 a good doctor group. 1:18:08.200 --> 1:18:13.600 Anyway, you also have a lifestyle that doesn't allow you 1:18:13.680 --> 1:18:16.960 to get screwed too much. So I think that just 1:18:17.040 --> 1:18:21.520 being that kind of person opens a bigger door for us. 1:18:20.479 --> 1:18:25.120 That's me digressing, and I hardly ever even talk on 1:18:25.120 --> 1:18:30.880 the phone, So let's see what I am my discussion 1:18:31.040 --> 1:18:34.639 or questions are in regards to the first one. Last week, 1:18:34.640 --> 1:18:36.599 I remember you were talking to a guy who had 1:18:37.280 --> 1:18:39.960 had a choice or an option to get an iPhone 1:18:40.120 --> 1:18:46.760 eleven free from the Obama phone scenario. Yes, I well, 1:18:46.840 --> 1:18:50.519 I followed through with that entire process because I was 1:18:50.520 --> 1:18:54.200 waiting around for somebody to offer a Samsung phone instead 1:18:54.240 --> 1:18:57.160 of the garbage I was getting. So I was going 1:18:57.200 --> 1:19:01.400 on an immediate replacement by waiting for that opportunity to happen. 1:19:01.920 --> 1:19:04.400 And the company is air Talk, if you don't mind 1:19:04.400 --> 1:19:06.360 my saying, but they're the ones that give you the 1:19:06.479 --> 1:19:10.599 choice of that iPhone eleven and just about eight other phones. 1:19:10.920 --> 1:19:11.320 Wow. 1:19:11.560 --> 1:19:15.080 And I was looking for that Samsung option and I 1:19:15.160 --> 1:19:18.240 found and I got it. And here, speaking of getting 1:19:18.280 --> 1:19:23.160 something better than you're expected, they were giving, they were 1:19:23.360 --> 1:19:27.599 going to send me a Samsung, which is my target phone. 1:19:28.680 --> 1:19:31.160 I just seem to get along with the Samsung phone 1:19:31.520 --> 1:19:35.400 just fine and very little problems except for me getting 1:19:35.400 --> 1:19:39.679 mad at it. So they ended up sending a better 1:19:39.720 --> 1:19:42.320 phone than I expected, and I got an A forty two. 1:19:43.800 --> 1:19:46.439 And that one, which is what I'm talking on, is 1:19:46.479 --> 1:19:49.439 really really a good phone, and I'm going to try 1:19:49.439 --> 1:19:52.160 and protect it as best as possible. And that leads 1:19:52.240 --> 1:19:57.240 me into my second question. I purchased several different screen protectors. 1:19:57.560 --> 1:19:59.960 I already have the one on the back. You know, 1:20:00.120 --> 1:20:02.640 forget these things when you buy the phone. But if 1:20:02.640 --> 1:20:04.719 you get a cheap phone, they give you those things. 1:20:04.800 --> 1:20:07.360 I guess that's supposed to make you think you've got, 1:20:07.720 --> 1:20:09.520 you know, some high quality. 1:20:09.080 --> 1:20:12.280 Phone with it. 1:20:12.800 --> 1:20:15.200 No, they did not. And I found that the cheaper 1:20:15.280 --> 1:20:19.200 the phone, they do include these things, and the higher 1:20:19.280 --> 1:20:22.519 end phones they don't, so I was stuck with the 1:20:22.560 --> 1:20:25.479 option of trying to find just the right cover that 1:20:25.680 --> 1:20:29.080 was difficult in themselves, but best by Finally, I just 1:20:29.320 --> 1:20:31.759 was able to find a cover that's did on the back. 1:20:32.479 --> 1:20:38.120 For the front. I purchased a glass option and a 1:20:38.240 --> 1:20:43.360 plastic option the And my question would be, uh, first 1:20:43.360 --> 1:20:46.439 of all, as far as application is concerned, it's probably 1:20:46.479 --> 1:20:51.000 really important to cover the entire front surface. Would you agree? 1:20:51.680 --> 1:20:53.760 I would say, so, I mean these yeah, I mean 1:20:53.760 --> 1:20:55.479 that's that's typically how most of them work. 1:20:55.560 --> 1:20:59.680 Instead of yeah, sometimes they were they're just shy of 1:20:59.720 --> 1:21:04.000 cover bring that well from my experience anybody, that's probably 1:21:04.000 --> 1:21:06.840 where the phone would drop right on that edge and 1:21:06.880 --> 1:21:10.720 then cause a problem. So the glass didn't cover that. 1:21:11.000 --> 1:21:13.760 I bought it well, it was only a dollar was 1:21:13.800 --> 1:21:18.200 on the cheap rack, So I decided I didn't want 1:21:18.200 --> 1:21:20.559 to put that glass on because it's not really protecting 1:21:20.600 --> 1:21:23.320 the whole thing, and I know how they will want 1:21:23.400 --> 1:21:27.320 to break that edge first and ignore the rest of it. 1:21:28.320 --> 1:21:30.240 What can I help you with? What? What can I 1:21:30.280 --> 1:21:30.680 help with? 1:21:31.080 --> 1:21:31.280 One? 1:21:32.200 --> 1:21:36.200 Have you had experience with applying the hard plastic ones 1:21:36.200 --> 1:21:37.240 that you cut the fit? 1:21:38.040 --> 1:21:41.400 I I've okay, So here's the deal. This is the 1:21:42.000 --> 1:21:44.680 I have a lot of experience putting on screen protectors. 1:21:45.120 --> 1:21:47.000 I would say the cut to fit ones are going 1:21:47.080 --> 1:21:49.519 to be very tricky because if you don't have a 1:21:49.560 --> 1:21:52.160 proper applicator, you're going to get bubbles, and that's the 1:21:52.200 --> 1:21:53.760 main thing you do not want. Now, some of them 1:21:53.800 --> 1:21:55.640 you can push out. Some you're not gonna be able to. 1:21:56.680 --> 1:21:59.559 But if you're cutting it to the screen, it's your 1:21:59.640 --> 1:22:03.519 problem never gonna get a perfect fit. So you know 1:22:03.600 --> 1:22:06.599 that's that's number one. I would say if you can 1:22:06.640 --> 1:22:10.120 find a screen protector with an applicator, like it almost 1:22:10.160 --> 1:22:12.720 comes with a plastic tray to put it on, that 1:22:12.720 --> 1:22:14.680 would be your best bet. If you want something that's 1:22:14.720 --> 1:22:18.040 truly gonna protect this thing. I'm looking just a casual 1:22:18.120 --> 1:22:22.479 look on Amazon, and because this model is a little 1:22:22.479 --> 1:22:25.400 bit seems like it's a little bit more specialized. This 1:22:25.920 --> 1:22:31.559 a forty two, I'm not really seeing a screen protector 1:22:31.600 --> 1:22:35.439 with an applicator. So with that said, I would say, 1:22:35.800 --> 1:22:37.439 if you're paying a dollar for that, how much was 1:22:37.439 --> 1:22:39.280 the other the other one that you gotta cut? 1:22:39.400 --> 1:22:43.880 Oh, then there was just two three dollars for two 1:22:43.960 --> 1:22:44.280 of them. 1:22:44.520 --> 1:22:46.719 So I would say, try your best on the first 1:22:46.760 --> 1:22:49.080 one and if it, you know, doesn't work, then you 1:22:49.120 --> 1:22:50.720 may have to try, you know, peel it off and 1:22:50.760 --> 1:22:53.640 put the second one on there. But what about just 1:22:53.680 --> 1:22:57.479 getting a good case that covers this whole phone with 1:22:57.479 --> 1:22:59.800 with some raised edges and that will really help with 1:22:59.840 --> 1:23:02.840 the I mean I personally like a screen protector as 1:23:02.840 --> 1:23:05.240 well as a case, just to really you know, you 1:23:05.280 --> 1:23:07.160 can knock that thing around no problem, you. 1:23:07.120 --> 1:23:10.519 Know, total agreement. And that's what I want. That's what 1:23:10.560 --> 1:23:12.840 I want to do, because it doesn't make sense to 1:23:12.880 --> 1:23:15.800 allow yourself because you know you're going to drop it. 1:23:15.840 --> 1:23:19.400 Oh of course, Oh that's fine. 1:23:19.439 --> 1:23:22.080 I that's as far as I need to take it. 1:23:22.120 --> 1:23:25.880 But I'm very careful about doing those detail things. So 1:23:25.920 --> 1:23:28.439 I'll just put the trust on myself and go ahead 1:23:28.439 --> 1:23:28.840 and do it. 1:23:28.920 --> 1:23:29.160 Yeah. 1:23:30.040 --> 1:23:33.559 I have a question about the lottery, and whether you're 1:23:33.560 --> 1:23:37.280 familiar with this or not, everybody has like a an 1:23:37.320 --> 1:23:42.200 account that you log into the lottery and regardless of 1:23:42.240 --> 1:23:44.800 what you're trying to go after or do. Mine, in 1:23:44.840 --> 1:23:49.080 particularly would be Scratchers and the second Chances, which is 1:23:49.120 --> 1:23:52.719 the poor Man's Lottery. But it's still there and it's 1:23:52.720 --> 1:23:57.560 something worth going for it because you never know. For 1:23:57.680 --> 1:24:00.680 over a month I have been able to into that 1:24:01.320 --> 1:24:04.600 to the lottery account. 1:24:03.960 --> 1:24:06.000 Not once you have not been able to. 1:24:06.560 --> 1:24:09.800 Yeah, And I would venture to say that if you 1:24:09.840 --> 1:24:12.400 give it a try, you will learn exactly what I'm 1:24:12.439 --> 1:24:15.320 talking about. And I smell a really big rat. 1:24:15.720 --> 1:24:16.200 Interesting. 1:24:16.880 --> 1:24:20.920 Yeah, it is very very It's just it's right in 1:24:20.920 --> 1:24:23.599 front of your face. Is just like Kim Trail, and 1:24:23.920 --> 1:24:27.880 it's just very peculiar. And of course I don't trust 1:24:27.920 --> 1:24:31.679 anything about the lottery. There's too much money that's readily 1:24:31.760 --> 1:24:32.679 available to steal. 1:24:32.760 --> 1:24:35.439 Well, it's all going to the schools bill, it's all 1:24:35.439 --> 1:24:37.760 going to the education. So I mean, look, we got 1:24:37.760 --> 1:24:42.160 to run. But I've actually downloaded that the California Lottery app, 1:24:42.160 --> 1:24:44.360 and I've used it to scan. The little trick is 1:24:44.360 --> 1:24:46.160 you only have to scratch the scratcher. You get to 1:24:46.200 --> 1:24:48.080 scan a little barcode on the corner and it tells 1:24:48.080 --> 1:24:50.040 you if it's a win or a loser. I have 1:24:50.160 --> 1:24:53.280 not tried to sign into an account, but we'll look 1:24:53.320 --> 1:24:55.880 into that. Thanks for the call, Bill, appreciate it. Enjoy 1:24:55.960 --> 1:24:58.479 the new phone eighty eight rich one oh one more 1:24:58.560 --> 1:25:04.479 rich on tech right after this Welcome back to Rich 1:25:04.560 --> 1:25:10.719 on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Well, 1:25:10.800 --> 1:25:14.400 if you like the movie F One, you might be 1:25:14.479 --> 1:25:18.200 watching Formula One starting this weekend. But guess what, if 1:25:18.200 --> 1:25:21.200 you want to watch in the US, you'll need Apple TV. 1:25:21.439 --> 1:25:24.600 The twenty twenty six Formula One season kicks off with 1:25:24.680 --> 1:25:29.040 the Australian Grand Prix, and this is a big change 1:25:29.080 --> 1:25:32.760 for people here in the US. Every race weekend will 1:25:32.760 --> 1:25:36.720 be streaming exclusively on Apple TV in the US. That's 1:25:36.760 --> 1:25:40.719 for the first time. That includes practices, qualifying sprint races 1:25:40.760 --> 1:25:44.120 and the Grand Prix itself. That means no more F 1:25:44.200 --> 1:25:46.920 one races on ESPN, which has had the US rights 1:25:46.920 --> 1:25:52.080 since twenty eighteen. Apple reportedly spend around seven hundred million 1:25:52.080 --> 1:25:54.599 dollars on a five year deal to lock in the rights, 1:25:55.120 --> 1:25:59.400 showing just how valuable live sports are, especially because that 1:25:59.439 --> 1:26:02.680 movie did so well. I think it really got a 1:26:02.680 --> 1:26:04.479 lot of people to come out of the woodwork with 1:26:04.560 --> 1:26:07.400 this stuff. People that maybe didn't think they were fans 1:26:07.400 --> 1:26:09.759 are like, okay, I might watch that, and Apple said, okay, 1:26:09.760 --> 1:26:12.760 hold on, let's buy that. So you can watch the 1:26:12.800 --> 1:26:16.640 Apple TV app on phones, on TV streaming devices, or 1:26:16.680 --> 1:26:19.680 a web browser. Now here's the thing. You may think, Oh, 1:26:19.720 --> 1:26:22.000 it's Apple TV. I've got Android doesn't work for me. 1:26:22.000 --> 1:26:25.280 I've got Roku, I've got you know, Google TV. No, no, no, 1:26:25.880 --> 1:26:28.559 there's an Apple TV app for all of those devices. 1:26:28.600 --> 1:26:32.320 Ever since Apple TV started streaming, they created an Apple 1:26:32.360 --> 1:26:34.880 TV app that lets you watch all of their Apple 1:26:34.920 --> 1:26:37.599 TV content no matter what platform you're on. Pretty much, 1:26:38.000 --> 1:26:40.680 I'm pretty sure it's available for all of them. The 1:26:40.720 --> 1:26:43.360 service about twelve ninety nine a month. There's a seven 1:26:43.439 --> 1:26:48.080 day free trial. And you know that Apple also has MLS. 1:26:48.160 --> 1:26:50.320 They've got a deal with Major League Soccer, so this 1:26:50.400 --> 1:26:54.160 is their second big sports deal. And let me check. 1:26:54.360 --> 1:26:58.360 My friend does Jared Newman, friend of the show, does 1:26:58.439 --> 1:27:01.719 this Cord Cutter Weekly the big list of streaming deals. 1:27:02.160 --> 1:27:05.479 So let's see if there's anything for Apple TV. Oh, 1:27:06.080 --> 1:27:09.719 thirty days. See I just said seven day free trial. 1:27:09.720 --> 1:27:12.880 That's the one they advertise. So the one you can 1:27:12.920 --> 1:27:16.040 get if you use his link is thirty days. Yeh, 1:27:16.120 --> 1:27:20.000 see seven day free trial. And let's click his link 1:27:20.040 --> 1:27:23.680 and see what happens. Click his link. Thirty days. Look 1:27:23.720 --> 1:27:26.439 at that, where's my bell? Thirty days of free trial? 1:27:26.560 --> 1:27:29.000 So if you want that I will put that link 1:27:29.080 --> 1:27:31.960 on the website rich on tech dot TV, so you 1:27:32.000 --> 1:27:35.400 can check it out if you like formula one. So 1:27:35.400 --> 1:27:37.760 do they call formula one F one? Just in general? Okay, 1:27:37.800 --> 1:27:42.000 it's the same. It's like interchangeable. Let's go. Speaking of TVs, 1:27:42.120 --> 1:27:45.000 Charlie's got a question in Huntington Beach, looks like about 1:27:45.000 --> 1:27:46.360 his TV. What's up, Charlie. 1:27:47.840 --> 1:27:53.519 Okay, I have two TVs. I have a one down stairs, 1:27:53.640 --> 1:28:00.840 one upstairs. But the one upstairs I have extenders. It 1:28:01.120 --> 1:28:09.000 constantly is not recognizing the router. It's an LGTV that's upstairs. 1:28:09.360 --> 1:28:15.160 Okay, the LGTV is upstairs. The router the the where's 1:28:15.240 --> 1:28:18.160 the signal coming in from? Like, where's the router? The 1:28:18.200 --> 1:28:19.160 router's downstairs? 1:28:20.040 --> 1:28:21.720 No, the router is upstairs as well. 1:28:21.840 --> 1:28:23.080 Oh near the same TV. 1:28:24.960 --> 1:28:28.040 Yeah, well not far from it, maybe thirty feet away. 1:28:27.920 --> 1:28:30.920 Oh thirty feet And you're having problems. 1:28:30.520 --> 1:28:30.760 With this. 1:28:32.360 --> 1:28:37.040 Constantly. And if you go into the setting and you 1:28:37.320 --> 1:28:40.480 look for you know, are you connected or you're not connected? 1:28:41.280 --> 1:28:45.160 And you pull it up and it'll indicate nope, and 1:28:45.240 --> 1:28:48.040 it wants you to go back in put the password. 1:28:48.600 --> 1:28:52.439 You can put the password in. It will work for 1:28:52.479 --> 1:28:55.360 a while, and then I say, if you turn the 1:28:55.400 --> 1:28:59.280 TV off, you come back later and. 1:28:59.600 --> 1:29:00.719 It's just connect again. 1:29:01.920 --> 1:29:02.600 Yes, yeah, the. 1:29:02.640 --> 1:29:05.320 One downstairs never has a problem. 1:29:05.360 --> 1:29:08.240 What brand is that that one? 1:29:08.479 --> 1:29:10.879 I switched that one out to a Sony Yeah. 1:29:10.920 --> 1:29:14.920 Well okay, So I mean you got to figure out. 1:29:14.960 --> 1:29:19.000 Have you tried a like a full reset of this TV, 1:29:19.160 --> 1:29:20.760 like a factory reset. 1:29:22.520 --> 1:29:24.360 Unplugging it and plugging it in? 1:29:24.560 --> 1:29:24.920 Yes? 1:29:25.160 --> 1:29:27.720 Okay, what about a factory reset like setting it to 1:29:27.760 --> 1:29:30.040 its initial settings? How old is this TV? 1:29:31.560 --> 1:29:31.680 Uh? 1:29:32.360 --> 1:29:32.799 Maybe? 1:29:32.920 --> 1:29:33.160 Now? 1:29:33.720 --> 1:29:35.519 Maybe this one is eight years old? 1:29:35.720 --> 1:29:38.479 Okay, So I think you're working with a couple of 1:29:38.479 --> 1:29:40.679 things here, so you've got it. Could be that you've 1:29:40.720 --> 1:29:42.360 had this thing going for a long time. It just 1:29:42.400 --> 1:29:44.840 could be confused about your WiFi. Maybe you've changed your 1:29:44.840 --> 1:29:48.800 settings over the years. Who knows the other thing? Okay, 1:29:48.840 --> 1:29:51.320 So here's here's what I would do if I were you. Okay, Charlie, 1:29:51.320 --> 1:29:53.479 Here's what I would do. Number one, I would ditch 1:29:53.520 --> 1:29:55.920 the extender. I don't think you need that extender. I 1:29:55.920 --> 1:29:58.240 think that might be confusing things because if your router 1:29:59.240 --> 1:30:01.479 is thirty feet awa from this TV, it should see 1:30:01.479 --> 1:30:04.160 that router no problem without an extender. So that's number one, 1:30:04.560 --> 1:30:08.160 so unplug that. Number two. I would do a full 1:30:08.360 --> 1:30:11.479 factory reset of this TV, so that means you go 1:30:11.479 --> 1:30:15.120 into your settings general reset to initial settings, and that 1:30:15.160 --> 1:30:17.160 will delete everything it's gonna re I mean, yeah, you're 1:30:17.160 --> 1:30:19.640 gonna have to reinstall your apps, log in, all that nonsense, 1:30:20.000 --> 1:30:22.800 but that will clear everything off of this TV as 1:30:22.800 --> 1:30:26.320 if you just got it from the factory and that 1:30:26.400 --> 1:30:28.920 and then reconnect it to your Ethernet or it's your 1:30:28.960 --> 1:30:31.559 Internet that way and see if that fixes it. The 1:30:31.600 --> 1:30:32.760 other thing I would do is see if you have 1:30:32.800 --> 1:30:35.519 any software updates before you, you know, do the whole 1:30:35.760 --> 1:30:39.320 network or the the the reset of the whole device. 1:30:39.720 --> 1:30:41.920 I would check for software updates, make sure you don't 1:30:41.920 --> 1:30:46.120 have any software updates there and do that. If your 1:30:46.320 --> 1:30:50.040 connection is a five gigahertz connection, you might try to 1:30:50.040 --> 1:30:52.600 connect to the two point four gigahertz band. I'm not 1:30:52.640 --> 1:30:55.640 sure if that's an issue with your home or with 1:30:55.680 --> 1:30:58.400 your router and maybe sending out those dual signals. Try 1:30:58.439 --> 1:31:01.719 connecting to the two point four. It's an older TV, 1:31:02.040 --> 1:31:04.120 but that doesn't mean it shouldn't connect to the internet. 1:31:04.160 --> 1:31:06.600 I mean it doesn't. It's it's still Wi Fi it 1:31:06.720 --> 1:31:08.960 still should be fine, but I think a couple of 1:31:08.960 --> 1:31:11.680 those things just to see if you can figure it 1:31:11.720 --> 1:31:14.439 out and make it work again, that would be your 1:31:14.479 --> 1:31:17.200 best bet. If it doesn't work after that, the best 1:31:17.240 --> 1:31:19.320 thing I would say is just to get an Ethernet cable. 1:31:19.560 --> 1:31:21.639 I know it's annoying, I know it's ugly, but it's 1:31:21.720 --> 1:31:24.280 probably gonna be your best bet is because the router's 1:31:24.320 --> 1:31:26.840 only thirty feet away. Just run an Ethernet cable to 1:31:26.880 --> 1:31:28.439 the back of your TV. If none of those other 1:31:28.479 --> 1:31:32.320 things work, hopefully those things make this work. But again 1:31:32.640 --> 1:31:36.240 in this order, I would say you tried restarting to TV, 1:31:36.280 --> 1:31:38.360 I would get rid of the extender. I would check 1:31:38.400 --> 1:31:41.439 for software updates if you can, if you have a 1:31:41.439 --> 1:31:43.160 connection for that, and then I would do a factory 1:31:43.200 --> 1:31:45.840 reset see if that helps connect it back up. Thanks 1:31:45.840 --> 1:31:47.599 for the call, Charlie. Coming up, we're going to talk 1:31:47.720 --> 1:31:50.960 Mobile World Congress. Welcome back to rich on Tech rich 1:31:51.000 --> 1:31:55.360 DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The website 1:31:55.400 --> 1:31:59.040 for the show richon tech dot TV. Anything I mentioned 1:31:59.520 --> 1:32:03.920 is on there, episode one sixty four, and you can 1:32:03.960 --> 1:32:06.439 get all the links to everything I mentioned earlier, the 1:32:06.479 --> 1:32:09.960 whole Apple TV. I mentioned my pala Jared Newman. He 1:32:10.000 --> 1:32:15.040 writes a website called cord Cutter Weekly, and he's got 1:32:15.040 --> 1:32:18.360 this thing called the Big List of Streaming Deals. And 1:32:18.400 --> 1:32:20.599 so if you're ever looking for like you know, you're 1:32:20.600 --> 1:32:24.680 signing up for Peacock or Paramount Plus or whatever, and 1:32:24.720 --> 1:32:26.680 you want to get like the best possible deal on 1:32:26.720 --> 1:32:29.040 the sign up, you go to his website. He's got 1:32:29.040 --> 1:32:31.880 this big list of streaming it's called the Big List 1:32:31.920 --> 1:32:34.040 of Streaming Deals, and he updates it all the time. 1:32:34.600 --> 1:32:39.559 Updated on March, yeah, updated yesterday, and so yeah, always 1:32:39.560 --> 1:32:41.799 go there. That's my first stop. It's a great, great resource. 1:32:41.840 --> 1:32:44.599 It's linked up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv. 1:32:45.000 --> 1:32:48.400 All right, joining me now, I as actar Mobile Analyst 1:32:48.520 --> 1:32:51.679 at PC mag Ayas. Welcome to the show. 1:32:52.560 --> 1:32:53.479 Thanks for having me Rich. 1:32:53.680 --> 1:32:56.800 We've got a lot of shared history. You used to 1:32:56.800 --> 1:33:00.120 work at cnet as well as me, and used to 1:33:00.160 --> 1:33:01.559 work with Leo as well. 1:33:02.560 --> 1:33:04.240 That's great that I zor up with him and this 1:33:04.280 --> 1:33:05.879 week in tech and Cataluma, California. 1:33:05.920 --> 1:33:08.280 It's a really small world that is wild. 1:33:08.479 --> 1:33:08.679 Well. 1:33:09.240 --> 1:33:11.519 Welcome to the show for the first time, and for 1:33:11.560 --> 1:33:13.960 the first new time, I guess I should say and 1:33:14.360 --> 1:33:17.519 you were at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. First off, 1:33:17.560 --> 1:33:19.519 explain what that show is all about. 1:33:20.280 --> 1:33:21.200 Yeah, sure, sure. 1:33:21.240 --> 1:33:24.240 So Mobile World Congress is the largest mobile trade show 1:33:24.240 --> 1:33:26.840 in the world, and you have companies from everywhere around 1:33:26.880 --> 1:33:29.759 the globe come to this event to show off new phones, 1:33:29.840 --> 1:33:33.799 networking technology, and components. There's a lot of industry insiders 1:33:33.800 --> 1:33:35.600 there because it is a trade show. What's happening is 1:33:35.640 --> 1:33:38.040 a lot of deals are being made, like finding technologies 1:33:38.080 --> 1:33:40.920 to license or to even acquire. So the stuff that 1:33:40.960 --> 1:33:45.439 happens here will be resonating for several years after the fact. 1:33:45.640 --> 1:33:47.599 Was this your first time there or have you been before? 1:33:48.600 --> 1:33:51.559 This was my second one on the floor, and it 1:33:51.880 --> 1:33:55.920 was just as exciting as last year. And there's just 1:33:56.040 --> 1:33:59.400 so many different things that people are trying and companies 1:33:59.439 --> 1:34:02.599 trying just fan out because there's major companies out there 1:34:02.600 --> 1:34:04.679 that take a lot of the spotlight Apple, I'm looking 1:34:04.680 --> 1:34:07.000 at you, since you realised to all these devices during 1:34:07.040 --> 1:34:10.000 Mobile World Congress, so there was a lot of competition 1:34:10.400 --> 1:34:11.519 in the new circles. 1:34:11.720 --> 1:34:14.599 They always seem to do that Apple looking at you 1:34:14.640 --> 1:34:17.320 because they're also launching all these devices on the same 1:34:17.400 --> 1:34:20.080 day that the Samsung Galaxy S twenty six Ultra launches 1:34:20.160 --> 1:34:22.519 March eleventh, So I don't know if they do that 1:34:22.520 --> 1:34:25.320 stuff on purpose, but it certainly seems like the timing 1:34:25.520 --> 1:34:28.920 always lines up where Apple steals the spotlight. Whether it's 1:34:28.960 --> 1:34:31.280 CS or whether it's like a show like this, it's 1:34:31.320 --> 1:34:34.680 just just always seems to happen. But that's neither here 1:34:34.760 --> 1:34:37.320 nor there. The two things that I saw the big 1:34:37.360 --> 1:34:41.040 news was number one, six G. Qualcomm made a big 1:34:41.360 --> 1:34:43.680 deal about you know, they're going to launch six G 1:34:43.880 --> 1:34:46.880 in a couple of years, like by twenty thirty. And 1:34:46.920 --> 1:34:49.000 then the other thing I saw was that little phone 1:34:49.040 --> 1:34:51.120 with like the gimbal thing coming out of the top. 1:34:51.160 --> 1:34:52.559 Can you explain either of those? 1:34:53.479 --> 1:34:53.679 Yeah? 1:34:53.720 --> 1:34:54.479 Sure, so six G. 1:34:54.600 --> 1:34:56.240 I'm going to try to make this as simple as 1:34:56.320 --> 1:34:58.439 humanly possible, because I had to read about it a 1:34:58.479 --> 1:35:00.880 lot to figure this out. The main thing that people 1:35:00.920 --> 1:35:03.680 are going to like about twenty about six G that 1:35:03.760 --> 1:35:06.479 will be out by twenty twenty nine or twenty thirty, 1:35:06.479 --> 1:35:10.120 depending on how it actually susses out, is that it 1:35:10.160 --> 1:35:12.880 will have increased capacity. So let's say you're a trade 1:35:12.880 --> 1:35:15.640 show or a stadium at airport, You're going to be 1:35:15.640 --> 1:35:18.960 able to have faster connections to the same networks, and 1:35:19.000 --> 1:35:20.920 it's going to be consistent because sometimes you'll have a 1:35:20.960 --> 1:35:22.479 dead zone. Let's say you go to the subway and 1:35:22.479 --> 1:35:25.479 it's a dead zone. Six gens Reaped is going to 1:35:25.479 --> 1:35:29.360 get into places that are well kind of dead right now. 1:35:29.720 --> 1:35:33.479 And the second to answer your second question, the phone 1:35:33.520 --> 1:35:36.200 with the gimbal camera that came out of it. It's 1:35:36.360 --> 1:35:40.840 the Honor robot camera, and it is a really interesting 1:35:40.920 --> 1:35:43.400 idea in the fact that the camera, none of the 1:35:43.479 --> 1:35:45.840 lives in the body of the phone. A little door open. 1:35:45.880 --> 1:35:48.799 If the camera itself comes out on a little arm 1:35:49.080 --> 1:35:51.800 and it's with the gimbal, you can point, tilt and 1:35:51.880 --> 1:35:54.120 zoom with your phone, so that way you can hold 1:35:54.160 --> 1:35:56.880 your phone steady, but the camera moves. I don't think 1:35:56.920 --> 1:35:59.599 we'll be seeing this in the US because Honor they're 1:35:59.680 --> 1:36:02.000 usually in China, so we don't see their products. But 1:36:02.080 --> 1:36:04.720 this is the kind of thing that could influence other 1:36:05.040 --> 1:36:07.599 companies to go, hey, we should do something like that. 1:36:07.920 --> 1:36:10.400 I mean, it's funny, it looks like dances and does 1:36:10.439 --> 1:36:12.280 all like I saw so many videos about it on 1:36:12.960 --> 1:36:16.200 the social media. It reminds me of one plus one 1:36:16.240 --> 1:36:18.320 time made a phone I don't know if you remember this, 1:36:18.400 --> 1:36:20.599 but the selfie cam popped out of the top of it. 1:36:21.760 --> 1:36:24.480 Yeah, and there's been stuff that they're motorized. 1:36:25.240 --> 1:36:27.120 I was thinking about, I don't know how long before 1:36:27.160 --> 1:36:29.400 we'll get back to like having a little tiny mirror 1:36:29.400 --> 1:36:31.880 on the back of phones for selfies to use that 1:36:31.960 --> 1:36:34.320 monstrous camera that's on the back of all of these plays. Now, 1:36:34.640 --> 1:36:37.720 it's you gotta just you gotta do something different to 1:36:37.760 --> 1:36:39.639 stand out, and that definitely stood out. 1:36:40.120 --> 1:36:41.920 Yeah, I got a lot of publicity, but it's like 1:36:41.960 --> 1:36:45.040 the reality of you know, how many people actually need that. 1:36:45.200 --> 1:36:46.680 I'm not sure, but I do see a lot of 1:36:46.720 --> 1:36:51.280 creators using that little dgi osmo, that little tiny camera 1:36:51.360 --> 1:36:53.280 that they like, they seem to like, So maybe that's 1:36:53.320 --> 1:36:56.200 kind of like what it was. What else did you 1:36:56.240 --> 1:36:57.240 see that was interesting? 1:36:58.640 --> 1:37:02.439 Okay, So, like my favorite thing I saw there is well, 1:37:02.439 --> 1:37:05.599 there's two they're both modular. So there was a concept 1:37:05.760 --> 1:37:08.880 phone called the Techno Adam. It was super thin, it's 1:37:08.920 --> 1:37:11.960 kind of like an iPhone Air in size, and it 1:37:12.200 --> 1:37:15.439 uses magnets, which magnets are really the hottest technology in 1:37:15.479 --> 1:37:19.200 the world right now because yeh, of all the things, 1:37:19.200 --> 1:37:23.040 it just snaps together so this one had several magnetic 1:37:23.120 --> 1:37:26.400 areas and you could snap multiple power banks to the 1:37:26.439 --> 1:37:28.519 back of it, so you could add battery life. If 1:37:28.560 --> 1:37:32.120 you wanted a telephoto camera, you could just snap another 1:37:32.200 --> 1:37:34.639 module on and it would be passive on the cameras, 1:37:34.640 --> 1:37:36.360 so you don't need to necessarily have a phone with 1:37:36.439 --> 1:37:39.160 all of these cameras on it. It also had a 1:37:39.280 --> 1:37:42.840 giant long range camera twenty three millimeter lens could attach 1:37:42.880 --> 1:37:45.160 to this, and you you could turn your phone into 1:37:45.400 --> 1:37:49.519 multiple things at once, or you only bring. 1:37:48.560 --> 1:37:50.360 With you what you need on the on the day. 1:37:50.400 --> 1:37:51.840 It's kind of like the old days where you would 1:37:52.600 --> 1:37:54.479 really old days, you'd take your sin card out of 1:37:54.479 --> 1:37:56.000 a phone and then put it in the little phone 1:37:56.040 --> 1:37:57.040 so you can go out at night with it. 1:37:57.080 --> 1:37:59.760 So it's this Ideally you did that more nerds only 1:37:59.800 --> 1:38:02.360 we did that. No normal person ever did that. 1:38:03.600 --> 1:38:06.719 Yes, I guess it'll make it easier for the normal 1:38:06.800 --> 1:38:09.280 people to do stuff like this, but that concept device 1:38:09.760 --> 1:38:11.760 may never come to market. 1:38:11.760 --> 1:38:13.519 A techno was very clear about that. 1:38:13.680 --> 1:38:15.400 I was asking them over and over again, like are 1:38:15.439 --> 1:38:18.360 you showing this so other OEMs will you work with you? 1:38:18.479 --> 1:38:22.479 And and these manufacturers will license that technology and Techno 1:38:22.560 --> 1:38:25.920 claims that if this product comes out, they will be 1:38:25.920 --> 1:38:27.280 the ones to introduce it. 1:38:27.479 --> 1:38:30.000 Okay, it reminds me. Okay, now, I'm just I'm just 1:38:30.800 --> 1:38:32.880 remembering all these old things I used to cover. That 1:38:32.960 --> 1:38:34.960 reminds you of the Moto mods. I don't know if 1:38:34.960 --> 1:38:38.880 you remember, they had like this super slim Moto like 1:38:38.960 --> 1:38:42.400 Motorola phone that was like really thin and you would 1:38:42.400 --> 1:38:45.040 snap on like a little projector or like an extra 1:38:45.080 --> 1:38:47.360 battery pack or like I don't know if they had 1:38:47.400 --> 1:38:49.880 an extra camera thing or whatever, but or speaker maybe 1:38:49.920 --> 1:38:51.559 they had for it. But that kind of reminds me 1:38:51.560 --> 1:38:52.320 of that. Do you remember that. 1:38:52.560 --> 1:38:56.680 I totally remember that I did a video about the 1:38:56.720 --> 1:38:59.120 Techno and people were writing in the comments you forgot 1:38:59.160 --> 1:39:02.000 about Moto mods LGG five that had components of what 1:39:02.000 --> 1:39:06.880 about project? Are all these components devices? And every one 1:39:06.880 --> 1:39:09.200 of those I root for them. I want this to happen. 1:39:09.200 --> 1:39:12.519 It's not that I've forgotten. I love the idea of 1:39:12.880 --> 1:39:16.200 a device that can do multiple things and it's not compromised. 1:39:16.320 --> 1:39:18.639 Because it's really hard to have all of these great 1:39:18.680 --> 1:39:21.599 pieces of technology on a super thin device that people 1:39:21.720 --> 1:39:24.360 want these days, So why not break it up? And 1:39:24.400 --> 1:39:27.519 I and again it's I'm gonna say this. Apple does 1:39:27.600 --> 1:39:30.599 play a part in this because with mag safe people 1:39:30.600 --> 1:39:34.599 are they're more accepting of this idea. And I have 1:39:34.840 --> 1:39:40.599 a Apple's history as it is, it definitely sets the trend. 1:39:40.680 --> 1:39:44.639 So while this magnetic thing happened before, now that it's 1:39:44.680 --> 1:39:47.680 accepted with Apple, I'm expecting more companies to continue doing this. 1:39:47.800 --> 1:39:51.439 Like the new Pixel ten series has pixel snap, which 1:39:51.479 --> 1:39:54.439 is basically mag safe, so I think it's got a 1:39:54.520 --> 1:39:55.760 better chance of success now. 1:39:55.960 --> 1:39:59.000 Yeah, which is wild because Samsung still has not jumped 1:39:59.040 --> 1:40:01.400 on that the max safe. They have it in their 1:40:01.479 --> 1:40:04.040 cases now this year, which is fine, but it's like, 1:40:04.520 --> 1:40:07.799 what is keeping you from building a magnet into this phone? 1:40:08.160 --> 1:40:10.920 I think it's laziness, I really do, because if you 1:40:10.920 --> 1:40:12.519 look at the S twenty six culture, as much as 1:40:12.560 --> 1:40:15.240 I love that device, it's basically the same as last 1:40:15.280 --> 1:40:17.280 year's device. You know, it's just a little bit you know, 1:40:17.439 --> 1:40:19.680 I don't even know it's different. I mean the screen obviously, 1:40:20.040 --> 1:40:22.519 but it's like they they didn't want to like the 1:40:22.560 --> 1:40:25.759 amount of come, the amount of tie price and costs 1:40:25.800 --> 1:40:28.240 that it would take to redo the screen the back 1:40:28.280 --> 1:40:30.479 of the phone for the magnets probably just would cost 1:40:30.520 --> 1:40:30.920 too much. 1:40:31.840 --> 1:40:33.559 Yeah, I think you're right about I think you're right 1:40:33.560 --> 1:40:34.000 about the price. 1:40:34.040 --> 1:40:35.439 By the way, it takes a lot of time to 1:40:35.760 --> 1:40:40.080 change all the processes of building these devices, so it's 1:40:40.160 --> 1:40:42.120 probably years away from now. 1:40:42.600 --> 1:40:44.240 They probably didn't expect it to hit so big. 1:40:44.400 --> 1:40:46.360 We got one time for one more, give me one 1:40:46.360 --> 1:40:48.679 more thing that you really liked from Mobile World to Congress. 1:40:49.400 --> 1:40:53.280 Okay, I gotta find it. Lenovo think book modular AIPC concept. 1:40:53.400 --> 1:40:55.160 Let me quickly try to explain with this is just 1:40:55.200 --> 1:40:59.240 imagine a regular thin, super thin laptop, but the keyboard 1:40:59.280 --> 1:41:01.960 is magnetically. You can pop that off and attach a 1:41:02.040 --> 1:41:04.720 second fourteen inch o LED screen, so you can use 1:41:04.760 --> 1:41:08.120 it as a double touchscreen device. If you want, you 1:41:08.120 --> 1:41:10.640 can pop that second screen off, attach it with a 1:41:10.720 --> 1:41:13.400 magnetic cable of course is magnetic, have it as your 1:41:13.439 --> 1:41:17.040 second displays, and if you wanted to, you can attack 1:41:17.120 --> 1:41:20.639 that display to the back of the of the regular 1:41:20.640 --> 1:41:24.960 display so you can give a presentation to other people. Now, 1:41:24.960 --> 1:41:27.040 the reason why I enjoy this one the most. Lenovo 1:41:27.200 --> 1:41:30.679 has a tendency to use prods up devices and turn 1:41:30.720 --> 1:41:33.439 them into real products within several years, so I'm the 1:41:33.479 --> 1:41:37.080 most excited about this because again, people are using their 1:41:37.080 --> 1:41:40.479 technologies in ways they weren't really designed for. And now 1:41:40.680 --> 1:41:44.840 these modular concepts allow you to change out the way 1:41:44.840 --> 1:41:46.559 you use the device. Oh right, I forgot to mention 1:41:46.640 --> 1:41:49.120 that the ports are modular. So if you need a USBA, 1:41:49.240 --> 1:41:50.680 pop out the C and put it in the A. 1:41:50.800 --> 1:41:53.960 You need an HDMI, pop that in so you have 1:41:54.640 --> 1:41:56.720 and if technology changes over time, you can get a 1:41:57.160 --> 1:41:57.599 new port. 1:41:57.720 --> 1:41:59.120 I just I like this idea. 1:41:59.360 --> 1:42:01.680 Everything is reminding me of something else. This reminds me 1:42:01.760 --> 1:42:08.320 of framework that's like the podular anyway, exactly, everything old 1:42:08.400 --> 1:42:12.439 is new again. I asz Actar Mobile analyst at pc MAGA. 1:42:12.479 --> 1:42:14.599 Thanks so much for joining me today. Really appreciate it. 1:42:14.680 --> 1:42:16.240 And do you have a good time over there? Was 1:42:16.280 --> 1:42:16.599 it fun? 1:42:17.560 --> 1:42:20.280 It was a blast, so many things and we have 1:42:20.400 --> 1:42:23.800 so many videos, pictures, articles at PCMag dot com. Seen 1:42:23.840 --> 1:42:25.720 that dot com. We've got tons of stuff, so check 1:42:25.760 --> 1:42:28.160 that out. Because there's no way we covered everything in 1:42:28.160 --> 1:42:28.719 this interview. 1:42:28.960 --> 1:42:30.920 Yeah, no, there's no and there's no way even when 1:42:30.960 --> 1:42:32.320 you go to c Yes, there's no way to cover 1:42:32.360 --> 1:42:35.599 everything that's there either, but you guys certainly try. Thanks 1:42:35.600 --> 1:42:37.320 so much for joining me today. Appreciate it. I'll put 1:42:37.320 --> 1:42:40.519 a link on my website rich on tech dot TV. 1:42:41.439 --> 1:42:45.960 Coming up, it is time to open up the feedback. 1:42:46.280 --> 1:42:48.400 That's right. These are the emails, the comments, the questions 1:42:48.400 --> 1:42:50.760 you sent me all week long. We'll open up and 1:42:50.800 --> 1:42:52.920 get through as many as we can. Coming up right here, 1:42:53.000 --> 1:43:03.000 I'm rich On tech jamiro here, welcome back. All right, 1:43:03.080 --> 1:43:09.439 it is time for the feedbag. This is where I 1:43:09.520 --> 1:43:12.880 read your emails, your comments, your questions. You send me 1:43:12.920 --> 1:43:15.479 a lot of them, and I love getting them. Don't 1:43:15.479 --> 1:43:18.880 get me wrong, but this is the stuff that you 1:43:18.960 --> 1:43:20.599 know you had to say to me this week, because 1:43:20.600 --> 1:43:22.439 I say a lot of stuff to you every week. 1:43:22.680 --> 1:43:24.360 So this is what you had to say to me. 1:43:24.479 --> 1:43:29.439 So here we go. RJ writes in Hey, rich, I 1:43:29.520 --> 1:43:32.720 was listening to the recent segment on a show and 1:43:32.800 --> 1:43:35.639 heard you mention the challenge of having identification while out 1:43:35.680 --> 1:43:38.240 for a run. I wanted to suggest a couple of 1:43:38.280 --> 1:43:42.320 simple analog options I've used for years. Road Id and 1:43:42.640 --> 1:43:47.519 breck Id both use a velco velcro wristband with a 1:43:47.560 --> 1:43:50.519 small engraved metal plate that can hold several lines of information. 1:43:50.960 --> 1:43:55.120 Mine includes my name and country blood type, and you're 1:43:55.120 --> 1:43:58.599 a birth passport number two emergency contacts analergies. The nice 1:43:58.600 --> 1:44:00.400 thing about the metal plate is that it's and it 1:44:00.400 --> 1:44:03.559 would survive something like a fire. Well, oh gosh, that's 1:44:03.600 --> 1:44:07.240 really dark. Your show is always enjoyable and informative. Keep 1:44:07.320 --> 1:44:10.519 up the good work, RJ. Yes, I've actually heard of 1:44:10.600 --> 1:44:12.559 road id. I had him for my kids when they 1:44:12.600 --> 1:44:16.280 were little, and I liked that. I never thought about 1:44:16.320 --> 1:44:18.920 having one for myself while running, but maybe I'll look 1:44:18.960 --> 1:44:23.160 into that. Thanks for the recommendation there, RJ. And Irma 1:44:23.200 --> 1:44:25.519 writes in I want to tell you how much I 1:44:25.520 --> 1:44:28.240 appreciate listening to you. I'm eighty eight years old and 1:44:28.280 --> 1:44:30.960 a little techie for a lady my age, and I 1:44:31.000 --> 1:44:33.479 really enjoy the things I learned from your show. I 1:44:33.560 --> 1:44:35.360 just wanted you to know how much I appreciate what 1:44:35.439 --> 1:44:38.160 you do. I also tell all my friends about you. 1:44:38.240 --> 1:44:38.400 Well. 1:44:38.400 --> 1:44:45.880 Thank you, Irma. Appreciate that. Rick and Crabtree Oregon rights. Yes, 1:44:45.920 --> 1:44:51.000 I used to say Oregon before I before I was enlightened. 1:44:52.040 --> 1:44:54.240 I was thinking about the caller whose dad is having 1:44:54.280 --> 1:44:57.080 problems with the free phone program. Since that's a federal program, 1:44:57.120 --> 1:45:00.839 maybe he should contact his congress person. Sometimes those offices 1:45:00.880 --> 1:45:03.479 can help sort things out with federal agencies, and since 1:45:03.520 --> 1:45:07.200 it's an election year, candidates often like helping someone in 1:45:07.200 --> 1:45:10.880 their district with an issue like that. Good call Rick, 1:45:11.000 --> 1:45:15.000 That's always an option. Steve and san Diego says, Hey, Rich, 1:45:15.120 --> 1:45:17.960 regarding your discussion about the possibility of passing away with 1:45:18.040 --> 1:45:20.519 no one knowing, I wanted to share we had a 1:45:20.600 --> 1:45:23.120 dark show last week. I wanted to share a few 1:45:23.160 --> 1:45:25.880 services that can help with daily proof of life check ins. 1:45:26.360 --> 1:45:30.040 One is called snug Safe, I Am Fine, Daily call 1:45:30.560 --> 1:45:34.599 Calling Care, I'm okay, and town Care. There are others 1:45:34.600 --> 1:45:36.639 as well, but these are a few examples that check 1:45:36.680 --> 1:45:39.639 in on you regularly and alert someone if you don't respond. 1:45:41.200 --> 1:45:43.479 This reminds me of the app that went viral, the 1:45:44.640 --> 1:45:47.080 am I Dead. I think it was called like basically 1:45:47.160 --> 1:45:50.320 in It was big in China where the people that 1:45:50.360 --> 1:45:52.280 live by themselves would check in every day on the app. 1:45:52.280 --> 1:45:54.519 They would just press a big button to prove to 1:45:54.560 --> 1:45:57.120 their loved ones that they're still alive. And the young 1:45:57.160 --> 1:46:01.120 people were using it, which is wild. Let's see here, 1:46:03.640 --> 1:46:08.040 Dale in Mansfield, Ohio listening on My name is Dale. 1:46:08.040 --> 1:46:11.240 I listened to your program on Wman and Mansfield, Ohio 1:46:11.360 --> 1:46:13.639 ninety eight point three FM. I really enjoy your show 1:46:13.680 --> 1:46:16.519 and appreciate the insight and advice you share each week. 1:46:16.560 --> 1:46:20.360 Thanks for what you do well. Thank you Dale. Let's 1:46:20.400 --> 1:46:23.080 see here. Mo writes in Hey Rich, I listened to 1:46:23.120 --> 1:46:26.280 your show every Sunday. I find it really useful. On 1:46:26.320 --> 1:46:28.360 today's show, you had a caller asking if there's a 1:46:28.360 --> 1:46:31.280 device that could alert someone if a person wasn't moving around. 1:46:31.760 --> 1:46:35.679 I use a setup called Nomo Smartcare. You place censors 1:46:35.680 --> 1:46:38.280 around the house. There are no cameras. You set parameters 1:46:38.320 --> 1:46:40.600 like when you're expected to be home, connect it to 1:46:40.640 --> 1:46:42.800 the app, and pay a subscription of about twenty dollars 1:46:42.840 --> 1:46:45.599 a month. If there's no motion detected during those expected hours, 1:46:45.880 --> 1:46:48.679 it sends a text to a contact. It works because 1:46:48.680 --> 1:46:50.639 I tested it. I also had the real situation where 1:46:50.640 --> 1:46:53.559 it texted my friend when it didn't detect motion during 1:46:53.600 --> 1:46:56.439 the time it expected me to be active. I used 1:46:56.439 --> 1:46:58.320 to be a programmer. I did a lot of research 1:46:58.360 --> 1:47:01.439 before choosing this. I liked that it did not require 1:47:01.560 --> 1:47:03.799 checking in every day, and there's no call center involved. 1:47:03.880 --> 1:47:05.400 It's so funny. It's like the opposite of the other 1:47:05.720 --> 1:47:08.000 email I'm not affiliated with the company, but I thought 1:47:08.040 --> 1:47:12.080 you might be impressed with it. Regards Moe, top salesperson 1:47:12.120 --> 1:47:16.360 at Nomo's Smartcare. No, he's kidding, He's just recommending this. 1:47:17.360 --> 1:47:20.280 I've actually seen that system. I go to the assist 1:47:20.360 --> 1:47:22.759 of Tech conference every year, and I saw a system 1:47:22.840 --> 1:47:25.960 like that that they had, and I think we're going 1:47:26.000 --> 1:47:30.599 to see more of those as well. Bob listening in Australia, says, Hey, Rich, 1:47:30.640 --> 1:47:33.040 I just wanted to say, deliver another golden nugget on 1:47:33.240 --> 1:47:35.960 a hidden golden nugget on the show. Over the years, 1:47:36.000 --> 1:47:38.559 I've learned. I've added several things you've mentioned to my 1:47:38.640 --> 1:47:42.639 toolkit Ara Low about five years ago, type list which 1:47:42.720 --> 1:47:44.800 ended up working better than whisper flow for me, and 1:47:44.800 --> 1:47:48.080 now Number Barn. I looked into Number Barn after your 1:47:48.080 --> 1:47:50.320 show because I need a replacement for Mint Mobile. I 1:47:50.360 --> 1:47:52.920 live in Australia but keep a US phone number. Mint 1:47:53.000 --> 1:47:55.120 kept losing Wi Fi calling, so I was paying for 1:47:55.200 --> 1:47:58.320 something I couldn't really use. Now I have a US 1:47:58.439 --> 1:48:00.880 number that instantly forwards to my use Ustrellian mobile for 1:48:00.920 --> 1:48:03.320 about seven dollars a month instead of one eighty a year. 1:48:03.880 --> 1:48:06.360 It also sends an email in SMS after every message 1:48:06.360 --> 1:48:09.320 with it, which they don't really advertise. Next, I'm going 1:48:09.360 --> 1:48:12.160 to look into Google Voice, since you need a US 1:48:12.240 --> 1:48:15.440 number to sign up. Love the show. My only complaint 1:48:15.640 --> 1:48:19.160 one podcast a week isn't enough. Oh well, thank you, 1:48:19.439 --> 1:48:24.400 Bob uh Tony in Arizona. Hey, Rich, I was listening 1:48:24.400 --> 1:48:27.000 to your podcast and I fell asleep. Oh well, that's 1:48:27.240 --> 1:48:31.519 a glaring review. A glowing review. I had a nightmare 1:48:31.520 --> 1:48:32.960 that my phone got hacked while I was on a 1:48:33.040 --> 1:48:34.880 road trip. The screen filled up with video ads and 1:48:34.880 --> 1:48:37.320 I couldn't turn the volume down. I'm guessing your ads 1:48:37.320 --> 1:48:39.120 were playing at the time. I don't have my computer 1:48:39.200 --> 1:48:41.320 with me. I didn't have my computer, so I couldn't 1:48:41.320 --> 1:48:43.760 boot into recovery mode, and there was nothing I could do. 1:48:43.800 --> 1:48:45.840 I woke up totally frustrated and had to calm myself 1:48:45.880 --> 1:48:48.120 down and ask AI, what should I do if that 1:48:48.160 --> 1:48:50.800 ever happened. I'm fine now, Just a warning, what could 1:48:50.840 --> 1:48:53.439 happen if you fall asleep listening to Rich on tech? 1:48:55.040 --> 1:49:00.160 That is hilarious. That's a nerdy you're boring, That's that's 1:49:00.200 --> 1:49:05.200 a nerdy nightmare. That is really nerdy, Tony, Uh, We're 1:49:05.880 --> 1:49:09.519 I read I read your newsletter every Saturday morning. Oh no, 1:49:09.760 --> 1:49:13.640 this this changed it. Hold on, Oh well, maybe it's not. 1:49:13.920 --> 1:49:16.400 I read your newsletter every Saturday morning with my coffee, 1:49:16.400 --> 1:49:19.360 and I really enjoy it. Okay, that was I thought 1:49:19.400 --> 1:49:24.040 that was something else. Okay, I think that's it. That's 1:49:24.080 --> 1:49:25.719 going to do it for this episode of the show. 1:49:25.800 --> 1:49:28.200 You can find links to everything I'm mentioned on the website. 1:49:28.240 --> 1:49:30.719 Go to rich on tech dot tv. You can find 1:49:30.760 --> 1:49:33.400 me on social media at rich on Tech. Next week, 1:49:33.920 --> 1:49:37.599 David Pogue, author of Apple the First fifty Years. We'll 1:49:37.640 --> 1:49:42.080 share stories about Apple's biggest products, Steve Jobs, and much more. 1:49:42.200 --> 1:49:44.519 Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways 1:49:44.520 --> 1:49:46.680 you can spend your time. I really do appreciate you 1:49:46.680 --> 1:49:48.840 spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who 1:49:48.840 --> 1:49:51.280 makes this show possible. Bobo on the board, Kim on 1:49:51.320 --> 1:49:53.439 the phones. My name is rich Dmiro. I'll talk to 1:49:53.439 --> 1:49:54.320 you real soon.