WEBVTT - Movies Anywhere App, Roku vs Fire TV & Top Smartphone Compared 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.360 What is going on? Rich Jamiro here rich on Tech. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.480 You are listening to rich on Tech Live. This is 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:17.840 the show where I talk tech and help you get 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.160 the most out of your gadgets. Also, I'm gonna take 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.000 your phone calls. Rich Damiro tech reporter at KTLA TV 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.400 Channel five in Los Angeles. Some of you might know 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.560 me from there. You can learn more about me at 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:32.640 richontech dot TV. Phone lines are open. You can call 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.080 in with your tech questions at three one zero five 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.000 nine four three zero zero three three one zero five 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.360 nine four three zero zero three. So much going on 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.159 in the tech world lately. It really gets me excited 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.440 because I you know, I just by the way, I 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.960 do want to say hi. We are also broadcasting live 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.400 on Facebook. So if you're watching this live and not 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.480 listening to it as a podcast, to load to everyone 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.000 that's watching live. So there's two ways to kind of 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.680 consume this live on fook behind the scenes, but also 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.200 as the podcast that you might be listening to. So, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.440 you know, there's just so much going on in the 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.720 tech world and it does get me excited, and you know, 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.039 I'm basically my job is to kind of play with 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.320 these gadgets. See what's cool, see what's good, see what's bad. 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.800 And the neat part is that I feel like a 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.680 lot of good things are happening, especially for consumers lately. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.319 And Google, Man, they had this event last week. Now 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.399 I was in Japan during the actual event, and so 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.000 I couldn't be there, unfortunately, because this is always one 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.360 of my favorite things is to go to any of 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.120 these events. But Google especially and Apple of course in Samsung, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.600 I mean, there's so many good ones now, but they 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.360 launched so many new products. Let me count these up. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.840 You got one, you got the Google Pixel two two 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.080 of those, because there's an xcel and a regular. You've 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.600 got a Google Home Mini speaker. Then you've got a 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.800 Google Home Max. Then you've got a Google Pixel book 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.080 and pen. Then you've got Google Clips. Man, that's a 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.040 lot of stuff. Oh and Google Pixel Buds. I didn't 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.680 even count those. But that's a lot of products. And 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.600 the crazy thing is is that it's becoming really competitive 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.080 for these companies. I mean, you've got Apple who sort 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.560 of led the way in creating the products from start 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.200 to finish. They create the product and the software that 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.520 runs on it, and a lot of people like that 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.120 because it works really nicely. If you've ever used an 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:22.119 iPhone or a MacBook computer or any of these things, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.800 I mean, they really do work nicely. And that's because 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.080 Apple is kind of controlling it from start to finish, 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.200 and so other tech companies have kind of taken a 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.520 page from that. Microsoft did that with the Surface and 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.240 they decided, you know what, we're going to make our 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.600 own computer. And then of course Samsung they don't really 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.320 They've done some stuff with software because they do actually 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.880 make a software called Ties in which they use to 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.120 run on their some of their mobile devices, but on 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.280 their phones they do use Android, but it's a heavily 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.680 customized version of Android that you'll only find on a 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.640 Samsung phone, and so they've really tightly integrated the hardware 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.560 and the software as well. And of course Google too. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.720 So we saw the Google Pixel lilast year. That was 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.240 absolutely one of my favorite phones of last year. Such 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.080 a great device, and what I loved about it is 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.240 that it was simple, it was pure Android, and the 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.680 camera on that thing was just amazing. And the funny 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.280 thing is about the camera is that it's not even 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.320 really the camera that's so good. It's the processing power 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.880 that Google puts behind it with artificial intelligence. So let's 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:21.799 just go over some of the things they announced. They're 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.359 Google Pixel two, that's the first thing, and basically this 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.800 looks like the Pixel except a little bit longer. They 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.760 kind of kept that same weird back that they had before, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.800 with the kind of metal on the bottom and the 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.360 glass on the top. I was never really a huge 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.600 fan of the design of the original Pixel, but I 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.640 did carry it around for many months because I love 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.000 the camera so much and the software. They have a 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.440 five inch version or a six inch version, and they 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.800 have these funny names too. They've got them in clearly white, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.839 kind of blue, just black, and then the bigger one 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.920 comes in black and white and just black. So the 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.440 great thing about the these devices are well, they're not 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.680 really I mean, Google would love them to be mass 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.400 market devices, but they're just not. They do have the 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.040 best camera I've ever seen on a smartphone, but people 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.240 just you know, they're tough to get. They're only sold 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.640 at Verizon and then you have to get them, you know, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.360 unlocked from the Google Store. And I think maybe they'll 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.200 be in more places this year. But they weren't even 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.920 tough to they were tough to get just by buying them. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:25.560 I mean you couldn't even get them online. It was 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.960 like they were sold out for half the year. Anyway, 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.560 this year's Google Pixel two has the world's highest rated 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.240 smartphone camera, so it gets a score of ninety eight 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.440 by the DxO Mark, which is you know, there's a 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.760 lot of websites that rate things, but DxO mark is 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.400 kind of this big mobile rating website for cameras and 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.640 regular cameras and of course smartphone cameras, and they have 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.880 become smitten with the Google Pixel because it's just so good. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:55.440 So I just think the cameras on the picture on 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.520 this thing was just amazing last year. Now they've added 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.960 some new things, which you have this new portrait mode. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.719 All the cameras are adding this thing, the portrait mode, 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.120 which gives you that nice blurry background, and Android devices 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.320 have had this for a while, but now Google is 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.560 doing it in a much better way. And the neat 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.159 thing about theirs is that it works with selfies as well, 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.480 so not just on the back camera but also on 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.320 the front facing camera, so you can have a lot 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.920 of fuhne with that. The videos are stabilized. You get 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.240 unlimited storage which to me nowadays, I mean, it's cool, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:25.839 but it's not that big of a deal because everyone 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.560 gets unlimited storage with Google Photos. Anyway, this you just 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.760 get the full resolution. So you can charge this thing 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.000 fifteen minutes, you get up to seven hours. They have 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.960 this new feature in it called Google Lens, and this 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:39.760 kind of reminds me of back in the day they 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.400 had something called Google Goggles, and it was basically where 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.720 you can aim your phone at something and it identifies it. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.840 And we all know Google knows everything about everything, So 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:50.400 you can have some phone with that. Point it at 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.200 the Eiffel Tower, it's going to tell you all information 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.520 about the Eiffel Tower. Point it at a book, it's 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:55.920 going to tell you where you can buy that book, 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.680 or more information about the book. And of course you 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.800 can do QR codes as well and phone numbers. One 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.440 of the cool things is you can scan a business 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.320 card and just tap on the phone number and call 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.359 that person or email them. There you have it. So 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.920 Google Pixel two, that's going to be coming out very soon. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.240 And the pricing on the Google Pixel too. Let's look 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:21.680 up the pricing on the Google Pixel two. So let's 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.039 see six hundred and fifty dollars for the original for 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.040 the regular size, I guess I should say, and that 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:32.480 is going to be for sixty four gigs of storage. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.560 So if you want sixty four gigs of storage that's unlocked, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.080 that's going to cost you six hundred and fifty bucks. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.520 If you want one hundred and twenty eight gigs of storage, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.160 you got to pay an extra hundred bucks. So you're 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.320 talking now seven hundred and fifty dollars for that phone. Now, 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.000 if you want to go with the bigger pixel, the 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.080 six inch pixel XL, which is always my choice, I 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.760 always go with the bigger phone because I like the 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.560 larger screen size and the bigger battery, I say, why not. 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.599 You're already spending that much money, you might as well 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.000 spend a little bit more. And then you've got, let's see, 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.120 so the bigger phone sixty four gigs, So that is 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.960 let's sell me what our total amount eighth and fifty dollars. So, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.000 and of course the just black is there, but the 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.120 black and white is sold out already on the website 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.000 as I'm looking at it. Then there's this thing called 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.360 the Google Home Mini. This is a speaker basically like 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.640 the one that came out last year Google Home. This 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.840 is a tiny one. This is a fifty dollars speaker, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.280 voice activated. You can ask it questions, all kinds of stuff. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.440 I have one set up here in my office and 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.080 I really like it. It's a great size. And the 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.840 cool thing about this device is that you can, basically, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.520 at this price, put one in every single room. So 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.240 you put one of these in every room. You can 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.880 go into any room you want, ask questions, you know, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.320 get answers, change your lights. I've got my lights behind 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.280 me here. You see those lights if you're watching on 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.640 the live stream, I've got those hooked up and I 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.800 can control all the lights in this room by just 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.160 doing a Google command, which is really neat. You could 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.480 change the color, turn them on, turn them off, dim them, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.640 you can play music. There's so how much you can do. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.680 I have a son No speaker in every room and 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.960 I love Sonos, but it's really wearing thin on me 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.080 at this point because I'm kind of digging the fifty 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.920 dollars Google Home Mini. And the sound is really good 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.400 on it, so, I mean it's not gonna be as 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.240 good as sons obviously, but it's pretty good. I mean, 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.160 how good do you need your sound to sound. I 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.680 don't know. For me, I don't need it that good. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.280 I just want to hear some music while I'm cooking, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.240 And if I can easily call out, you know, an 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.080 album or a genre of music and have it play, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.600 that's pretty convenient. And also my kids they love asking 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.720 questions to Google. I do too, and it's just fun 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.640 to always have someone around that knows everything. Other than 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:39.800 my wife, she would say, I'm a note all. Probably. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.880 It can also recognize up to five five other voices, 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.000 so six voices total on the Google Home Mini, and 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.400 that is going to be fifty dollars when it comes 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.320 out very soon as well Google Home Max this is 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:53.240 four hundred bucks. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:53.559 Whoo. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.960 That one's expensive. So this is kind of to me, 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.880 seems like the most similar to what Sonos is doing. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.520 If you want a really high powered, quality speaker, and 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.560 so this is it. This is the high quality speaker. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.720 And this is obviously a bigger speaker. It's twenty times 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.360 more powerful than the original Google Home. I have not 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.679 tried this one out myself, but this one has something 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:19.640 called smart Sound, and Sonos has something very similar built in. Basically, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.720 the speaker adapts itself dynamically to the room that it's in, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.000 so your stuff always sounds great. The problem is when 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.720 I tried to set this up with my sons, it 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.800 never worked, so I don't even have this thing. I 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.600 don't have my sons tuned in a good way. But 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.719 the smart sound on the Google Home Max, you don't 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.959 have to do anything. It automatically uses Google's artificial intelligence 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.719 to adapt to your environment, your context, and your preferences. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.840 It automatically tunes itself. That's really cool. So I would 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.800 like to see that happen. And again I'm not an audiophile, 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.520 so I don't really don't care, but it's really cool 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.320 that you can do this stuff. And the neat thing 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.440 about the Google Home Max. When you get that, you 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.280 get twelve months of YouTube music ad free on Google. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.880 So twelve months times ten bucks, that's one hundred and 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.440 twenty dollars. So you do the math four hundred minus 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:09.000 one twenty you're talking what two hundred eighty dollars two 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.199 three four, Yeah, So you know, if you do your 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:17.160 math like that Google Pixel book, this one is a 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.600 head scratcher for me. I just don't see spending one 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.640 thousand dollars on a device that does not run apps 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.760 that I need it to run, so I get it. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.800 I have a MacBook. I just got a new MacBook 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.280 Pro and I love it. It's thin, it's light, but it 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.199 runs everything I need. And now most of the stuff 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.880 I do do in Chrome. But there's a lot of 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.160 little apps I have on my you know doc here 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.240 that are not Chrome apps. They're not web apps, they're 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.960 actually apps. So this only runs Android apps, and of 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.120 course anything that runs on the web, so Google Docs, 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:53.200 Google Photos, Gmail YouTube. But the cool thing about this 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.360 is that it's a four and one suit. It's a laptop, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.199 and then you can flip it back it's a tablet. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.920 Then you can also flip it kind of tent style, 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.600 so you can, you know, watch things on the plane 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.360 like that. But I just don't see the I mean, 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.079 I see the appeal of this thing at one hundred 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.120 bucks or two hundred dollars, but not at a thousand. 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.120 So to me, the Google Pixel Book is a very 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.920 very small targeted amount of people that would want to 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.640 get that device. It's definitely not for me, definitely not 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.000 for the creator. Moving on, Google Clips, this is a 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.719 camera that's also a head scratcher. It's kind of like 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.880 a GoPro without a screen and with a brain, so 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.480 it automatically captures moments in your life without audio either. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.079 So this is kind of a weird little thing. I 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.520 think it's about two hundred and fifty dollars, Yeah, coming 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.640 out two hundred and fifty bucks. Works with iPhone, works 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.960 with Samsung, and works with a pixel. But it's just 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.840 a weird thing. You set it and you forget it. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.800 And this thing is going to recognize your family and 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.200 your pets and automatically take pictures or videos of them 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.840 as it sees fit. It's kind of a weird thing. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.480 I don't really see this becoming very appealing because the 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.520 reality is, if you want to take a picture of 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:02.920 your kids, you want to take a picture of your 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.160 kids now, I get it. There are some moments that 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.319 are really cool, like if you're teaching your kid how 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.000 to walk and you can set this thing up on 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.200 the side and capture your kid taking its first steps. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.319 I get that. Or your dog leave it in your 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.040 house and you can see your dog all day long, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.160 kind of some of the funny things your dog does. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.480 But the reality is, I don't know, that's kind of 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.840 a weird one. So I'm gonna skip that. But maybe 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.760 some people will buy it. I don't think so. Two 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.360 hundred and fifty bucks, no way. That's a big purchase 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.160 for no sound and kind of a weird, hands off 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.040 kind of approach. Now, if they put it out for 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.040 fifty bucks, yeah, I could see that thing being popular. 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.480 And finally, Google Pixel Buds. These are earbuds that you know. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.000 They basically are wireless headphones for your Pixel or any 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:48.120 Android phone. I have not tried these, but I don't 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.160 like the look of them. They look kind of weird 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.720 and they go in your ears, and I'm not a 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.200 fan of any earbuds that go in your ears except 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:59.000 for my Apple AirPods, and those work fantastic. I can't 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.480 imagine a better pair of headphones at this point for 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.880 everyday use. Those are one hundred and sixty bucks. These 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.920 are I think, let's see Google Pixel buds. I believe 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.640 these are yeah, one hundred and sixty dollars, so same 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.600 price so to me, unless you want the Google Assistant, 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.480 which is built into these things as well, I don't 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.840 really see these as very appealing to me. Or of course, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:22.599 you have to have all Google products because you're a 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:27.120 Google fanboy, but I don't know. Premium audio. They don't 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.040 get tangled because there's like a small cord that just 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.319 goes around the back of your neck wireless of course, 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.600 built in microphone. They fit your ears. The neat thing 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.560 they showed off at the Google event is how they 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.360 can translate things, so real time translation, which you can 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.760 speak into your speak into them in a different language, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.720 and then it'll translate into another language, but all through 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.200 your phone. So you can already do this on your 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.320 Android phone anyway, So I don't really see the point 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.920 of that either. So anyway, but I guess my point 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.280 out of all these Google products is that I like 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.840 I like what they're doing with a pixel, I like 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:00.360 what they're doing with the speakers, but the rest of 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.760 the stuff I can kind of pass on. So there 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.000 you have it, all right. Taking more of your phone 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.280 calls after this, The phone number to call in is 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.760 three one zero five nine four three zero zero three. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.280 You are listening to Rich on tech Live. I'm Rich Demiro, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.960 tech reporter at KTLA five News in Los Angeles. I 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.960 will take more of your phone calls at three one 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.160 zero or I guess I'll take my first phone call 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.480 three one zero five nine four three zero zero three 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:32.920 right after this. Thanks for listening to Rich on tech Live. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.880 You can subscribe to this podcast by searching rich on 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.880 tech in your favorite podcasting app. That way, you can 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:48.040 listen anywhere. Welcome back to rich on tech Live. I'm 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.440 Rich Demiro, tech reporter for KTLA five News in Los Angeles, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.200 taking your calls, answering your questions, and just having a 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.040 good old time with you. Thanks for tuning in. This 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.520 is a new for me, so it kind of fun 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.160 that we're doing in this little podcast here. You could 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.240 be watching on Facebook Live or you could be listening 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.960 in your car or wherever. So thank you so much 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.920 for doing that. I do appreciate it. So let's take 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.400 our first call. We have someone calling from the five 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.680 six to two area code five six two. You're on 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.120 with Rich. Who am I speaking with? 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.320 All Right, this is a logan. I'm just calling them. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.400 Maybe you've gone over the topic or not, but. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.640 I'm thinking about switching phones right now. I have an Android, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.320 I mean the Galaxy Note five, and I just want 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.280 to see what are your thoughts on the next phones 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.720 that are coming out in regards to the new Note, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.840 the iPhone eight, Plus or the iPhone X or the 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:41.680 Google Pixel. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.720 Oh my gosh, I know, aren't there so many great 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.720 phones to choose from? Right now? Logan, I am like 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.800 I'm in heaven right now with all these phones. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.120 So yeah, there's so many good options to choose some 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.720 but it's like you know which one is the best one? 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.840 You know, like like which one? And I YouTube the 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.920 different reviews and you know the now so they don't 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.040 have that many reviews on it. But but yeah, you know, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.360 I'm just like, what are your thoughts? 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.800 Well, okay, so let's go through something. Well, first off, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.200 what what do you want to do on your phone? 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.200 Are you doing social media? Are you doing pictures? Like 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.320 what's most important to you? 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.160 I'm a relator, so I would say pictures, you know, 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.960 and kind of having everything synced up I have. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:25.000 I have a HP laptop and then I have the iPad, 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.880 so I'm kind of all over the place, but I 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:28.640 don't really have preference. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.520 Yeah, so realtor, so I would definitely say pictures are 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.280 going to be important to you for sure, That's number one. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.960 So I mean that to me is kind of Google Pixel, 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.960 the or the Note eight. So the thing about the 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:44.800 Note eight, I think would be good for you is 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.640 that you would use the stylus I think to either 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.000 markup documents. You probably send contracts to people, so that 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.400 would be really handy. The only thing I don't like 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.080 about the Note eight is some of the bloat software 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.440 on it. But otherwise I've been carrying around for a while. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.680 I really like Get. I think it's one of the 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.840 better Android phones out there, and it's a well rounded phone. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.919 So the pixel is amazing, but it's kind of like 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.000 one sided. It doesn't have a lot of the features, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.240 a lot of the neat features that you get, like 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.760 wireless charging that you get on a Samsung device. So 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.879 when it comes to iPhone, I mean, look, here's the 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.560 deal with the iPhone. iPhone is amazing, and as a realator, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.320 you know, you might find some use in certain features 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:24.959 on the iPhone. Just having a phone that a lot 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.120 of people have. You can easily air drop photos. You can, 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.640 but you're telling me you use an HP laptop, which 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.480 leads me to believe you won't be using air drop 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:38.240 or I message on your laptop. So I think for you, 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.679 it really comes down to you've had a Galaxy you 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.480 might want to look at. I'd say, maybe the No. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:43.840 Eight. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.560 I think that's probably gonna be the best bet for 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.680 you as a realator logan because you're gonna get a 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.040 lot of use out of that, out of that stylus. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.000 So thanks so much. Yeah. I mean, these these phones 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.960 nowadays are so good and there's so many of them 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.760 that it's really tough to make a decision. The iPhone ten. 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.800 I'm not discounting that phone. I'm just saying, you know, 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:07.560 the iPhone ten. The problem with that one is that 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.240 it's kind of new technology, so you may not want 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.320 to jump on board right away. You're gonna pay a 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.200 thousand bucks for something that's a little bit unproven. Six 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.560 one nine area code. You're on with Rich six one nine. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:18.399 Who am I speaking with? 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:20.960 Hey? This is John John. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:22.640 How you doing. Are you calling from San Diego? 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.760 I am calling from San Diego. I'm using two of 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.240 the products that you recommended. 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.600 Uh, oh, well, I hope you're happy with them. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.960 One is the original Pixel right, love it, and the 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.400 other one is my epic Epic two wireless headphone. 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.680 Look at that. You're my best fan because you're using 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.560 two things that I've recommended in the past and you 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:43.080 like them. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:47.280 Both, right, I do they work fantastic, They pare easy 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.280 and everything. Yeah, I have a question with the Pixel two. 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.960 The greatest thing I think about initially getting the Pixel 0:18:55.119 --> 0:19:00.240 was it had fantastic support that you could get their 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.119 text their phone, and I'm wondering if they're continuing with 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.680