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Speaker 1: nine four three zero zero three three one zero five
Speaker 1: nine four three zero zero three. So much going on
Speaker 1: in the tech world lately. It really gets me excited
Speaker 1: because I you know, I just by the way, I
Speaker 1: do want to say hi. We are also broadcasting live
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Speaker 1: as the podcast that you might be listening to. So,
Speaker 1: you know, there's just so much going on in the
Speaker 1: tech world and it does get me excited, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm basically my job is to kind of play with
Speaker 1: these gadgets. See what's cool, see what's good, see what's bad.
Speaker 1: And the neat part is that I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of good things are happening, especially for consumers lately.
Speaker 1: And Google, Man, they had this event last week. Now
Speaker 1: I was in Japan during the actual event, and so
Speaker 1: I couldn't be there, unfortunately, because this is always one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things is to go to any of
Speaker 1: these events. But Google especially and Apple of course in Samsung,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many good ones now, but they
Speaker 1: launched so many new products. Let me count these up.
Speaker 1: You got one, you got the Google Pixel two two
Speaker 1: of those, because there's an xcel and a regular. You've
Speaker 1: got a Google Home Mini speaker. Then you've got a
Speaker 1: Google Home Max. Then you've got a Google Pixel book
Speaker 1: and pen. Then you've got Google Clips. Man, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. Oh and Google Pixel Buds. I didn't
Speaker 1: even count those. But that's a lot of products. And
Speaker 1: the crazy thing is is that it's becoming really competitive
Speaker 1: for these companies. I mean, you've got Apple who sort
Speaker 1: of led the way in creating the products from start
Speaker 1: to finish. They create the product and the software that
Speaker 1: runs on it, and a lot of people like that
Speaker 1: because it works really nicely. If you've ever used an
Speaker 1: iPhone or a MacBook computer or any of these things,
Speaker 1: I mean, they really do work nicely. And that's because
Speaker 1: Apple is kind of controlling it from start to finish,
Speaker 1: and so other tech companies have kind of taken a
Speaker 1: page from that. Microsoft did that with the Surface and
Speaker 1: they decided, you know what, we're going to make our
Speaker 1: own computer. And then of course Samsung they don't really
Speaker 1: They've done some stuff with software because they do actually
Speaker 1: make a software called Ties in which they use to
Speaker 1: run on their some of their mobile devices, but on
Speaker 1: their phones they do use Android, but it's a heavily
Speaker 1: customized version of Android that you'll only find on a
Speaker 1: Samsung phone, and so they've really tightly integrated the hardware
Speaker 1: and the software as well. And of course Google too.
Speaker 1: So we saw the Google Pixel lilast year. That was
Speaker 1: absolutely one of my favorite phones of last year. Such
Speaker 1: a great device, and what I loved about it is
Speaker 1: that it was simple, it was pure Android, and the
Speaker 1: camera on that thing was just amazing. And the funny
Speaker 1: thing is about the camera is that it's not even
Speaker 1: really the camera that's so good. It's the processing power
Speaker 1: that Google puts behind it with artificial intelligence. So let's
Speaker 1: just go over some of the things they announced. They're
Speaker 1: Google Pixel two, that's the first thing, and basically this
Speaker 1: looks like the Pixel except a little bit longer. They
Speaker 1: kind of kept that same weird back that they had before,
Speaker 1: with the kind of metal on the bottom and the
Speaker 1: glass on the top. I was never really a huge
Speaker 1: fan of the design of the original Pixel, but I
Speaker 1: did carry it around for many months because I love
Speaker 1: the camera so much and the software. They have a
Speaker 1: five inch version or a six inch version, and they
Speaker 1: have these funny names too. They've got them in clearly white,
Speaker 1: kind of blue, just black, and then the bigger one
Speaker 1: comes in black and white and just black. So the
Speaker 1: great thing about the these devices are well, they're not
Speaker 1: really I mean, Google would love them to be mass
Speaker 1: market devices, but they're just not. They do have the
Speaker 1: best camera I've ever seen on a smartphone, but people
Speaker 1: just you know, they're tough to get. They're only sold
Speaker 1: at Verizon and then you have to get them, you know,
Speaker 1: unlocked from the Google Store. And I think maybe they'll
Speaker 1: be in more places this year. But they weren't even
Speaker 1: tough to they were tough to get just by buying them.
Speaker 1: I mean you couldn't even get them online. It was
Speaker 1: like they were sold out for half the year. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this year's Google Pixel two has the world's highest rated
Speaker 1: smartphone camera, so it gets a score of ninety eight
Speaker 1: by the DxO Mark, which is you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of websites that rate things, but DxO mark is
Speaker 1: kind of this big mobile rating website for cameras and
Speaker 1: regular cameras and of course smartphone cameras, and they have
Speaker 1: become smitten with the Google Pixel because it's just so good.
Speaker 1: So I just think the cameras on the picture on
Speaker 1: this thing was just amazing last year. Now they've added
Speaker 1: some new things, which you have this new portrait mode.
Speaker 1: All the cameras are adding this thing, the portrait mode,
Speaker 1: which gives you that nice blurry background, and Android devices
Speaker 1: have had this for a while, but now Google is
Speaker 1: doing it in a much better way. And the neat
Speaker 1: thing about theirs is that it works with selfies as well,
Speaker 1: so not just on the back camera but also on
Speaker 1: the front facing camera, so you can have a lot
Speaker 1: of fuhne with that. The videos are stabilized. You get
Speaker 1: unlimited storage which to me nowadays, I mean, it's cool,
Speaker 1: but it's not that big of a deal because everyone
Speaker 1: gets unlimited storage with Google Photos. Anyway, this you just
Speaker 1: get the full resolution. So you can charge this thing
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, you get up to seven hours. They have
Speaker 1: this new feature in it called Google Lens, and this
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of back in the day they
Speaker 1: had something called Google Goggles, and it was basically where
Speaker 1: you can aim your phone at something and it identifies it.
Speaker 1: And we all know Google knows everything about everything, So
Speaker 1: you can have some phone with that. Point it at
Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower, it's going to tell you all information
Speaker 1: about the Eiffel Tower. Point it at a book, it's
Speaker 1: going to tell you where you can buy that book,
Speaker 1: or more information about the book. And of course you
Speaker 1: can do QR codes as well and phone numbers. One
Speaker 1: of the cool things is you can scan a business
Speaker 1: card and just tap on the phone number and call
Speaker 1: that person or email them. There you have it. So
Speaker 1: Google Pixel two, that's going to be coming out very soon.
Speaker 1: And the pricing on the Google Pixel too. Let's look
Speaker 1: up the pricing on the Google Pixel two. So let's
Speaker 1: see six hundred and fifty dollars for the original for
Speaker 1: the regular size, I guess I should say, and that
Speaker 1: is going to be for sixty four gigs of storage.
Speaker 1: So if you want sixty four gigs of storage that's unlocked,
Speaker 1: that's going to cost you six hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: If you want one hundred and twenty eight gigs of storage,
Speaker 1: you got to pay an extra hundred bucks. So you're
Speaker 1: talking now seven hundred and fifty dollars for that phone. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to go with the bigger pixel, the
Speaker 1: six inch pixel XL, which is always my choice, I
Speaker 1: always go with the bigger phone because I like the
Speaker 1: larger screen size and the bigger battery, I say, why not.
Speaker 1: You're already spending that much money, you might as well
Speaker 1: spend a little bit more. And then you've got, let's see,
Speaker 1: so the bigger phone sixty four gigs, So that is
Speaker 1: let's sell me what our total amount eighth and fifty dollars. So,
Speaker 1: and of course the just black is there, but the
Speaker 1: black and white is sold out already on the website
Speaker 1: as I'm looking at it. Then there's this thing called
Speaker 1: the Google Home Mini. This is a speaker basically like
Speaker 1: the one that came out last year Google Home. This
Speaker 1: is a tiny one. This is a fifty dollars speaker,
Speaker 1: voice activated. You can ask it questions, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: I have one set up here in my office and
Speaker 1: I really like it. It's a great size. And the
Speaker 1: cool thing about this device is that you can, basically,
Speaker 1: at this price, put one in every single room. So
Speaker 1: you put one of these in every room. You can
Speaker 1: go into any room you want, ask questions, you know,
Speaker 1: get answers, change your lights. I've got my lights behind
Speaker 1: me here. You see those lights if you're watching on
Speaker 1: the live stream, I've got those hooked up and I
Speaker 1: can control all the lights in this room by just
Speaker 1: doing a Google command, which is really neat. You could
Speaker 1: change the color, turn them on, turn them off, dim them,
Speaker 1: you can play music. There's so how much you can do.
Speaker 1: I have a son No speaker in every room and
Speaker 1: I love Sonos, but it's really wearing thin on me
Speaker 1: at this point because I'm kind of digging the fifty
Speaker 1: dollars Google Home Mini. And the sound is really good
Speaker 1: on it, so, I mean it's not gonna be as
Speaker 1: good as sons obviously, but it's pretty good. I mean,
Speaker 1: how good do you need your sound to sound. I
Speaker 1: don't know. For me, I don't need it that good.
Speaker 1: I just want to hear some music while I'm cooking,
Speaker 1: And if I can easily call out, you know, an
Speaker 1: album or a genre of music and have it play,
Speaker 1: that's pretty convenient. And also my kids they love asking
Speaker 1: questions to Google. I do too, and it's just fun
Speaker 1: to always have someone around that knows everything. Other than
Speaker 1: my wife, she would say, I'm a note all. Probably.
Speaker 1: It can also recognize up to five five other voices,
Speaker 1: so six voices total on the Google Home Mini, and
Speaker 1: that is going to be fifty dollars when it comes
Speaker 1: out very soon as well Google Home Max this is
Speaker 1: four hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Whoo.
Speaker 1: That one's expensive. So this is kind of to me,
Speaker 1: seems like the most similar to what Sonos is doing.
Speaker 1: If you want a really high powered, quality speaker, and
Speaker 1: so this is it. This is the high quality speaker.
Speaker 1: And this is obviously a bigger speaker. It's twenty times
Speaker 1: more powerful than the original Google Home. I have not
Speaker 1: tried this one out myself, but this one has something
Speaker 1: called smart Sound, and Sonos has something very similar built in. Basically,
Speaker 1: the speaker adapts itself dynamically to the room that it's in,
Speaker 1: so your stuff always sounds great. The problem is when
Speaker 1: I tried to set this up with my sons, it
Speaker 1: never worked, so I don't even have this thing. I
Speaker 1: don't have my sons tuned in a good way. But
Speaker 1: the smart sound on the Google Home Max, you don't
Speaker 1: have to do anything. It automatically uses Google's artificial intelligence
Speaker 1: to adapt to your environment, your context, and your preferences.
Speaker 1: It automatically tunes itself. That's really cool. So I would
Speaker 1: like to see that happen. And again I'm not an audiophile,
Speaker 1: so I don't really don't care, but it's really cool
Speaker 1: that you can do this stuff. And the neat thing
Speaker 1: about the Google Home Max. When you get that, you
Speaker 1: get twelve months of YouTube music ad free on Google.
Speaker 1: So twelve months times ten bucks, that's one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty dollars. So you do the math four hundred minus
Speaker 1: one twenty you're talking what two hundred eighty dollars two
Speaker 1: three four, Yeah, So you know, if you do your
Speaker 1: math like that Google Pixel book, this one is a
Speaker 1: head scratcher for me. I just don't see spending one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars on a device that does not run apps
Speaker 1: that I need it to run, so I get it.
Speaker 1: I have a MacBook. I just got a new MacBook
Speaker 1: Pro and I love it. It's thin, it's light, but it
Speaker 1: runs everything I need. And now most of the stuff
Speaker 1: I do do in Chrome. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: little apps I have on my you know doc here
Speaker 1: that are not Chrome apps. They're not web apps, they're
Speaker 1: actually apps. So this only runs Android apps, and of
Speaker 1: course anything that runs on the web, so Google Docs,
Speaker 1: Google Photos, Gmail YouTube. But the cool thing about this
Speaker 1: is that it's a four and one suit. It's a laptop,
Speaker 1: and then you can flip it back it's a tablet.
Speaker 1: Then you can also flip it kind of tent style,
Speaker 1: so you can, you know, watch things on the plane
Speaker 1: like that. But I just don't see the I mean,
Speaker 1: I see the appeal of this thing at one hundred
Speaker 1: bucks or two hundred dollars, but not at a thousand.
Speaker 1: So to me, the Google Pixel Book is a very
Speaker 1: very small targeted amount of people that would want to
Speaker 1: get that device. It's definitely not for me, definitely not
Speaker 1: for the creator. Moving on, Google Clips, this is a
Speaker 1: camera that's also a head scratcher. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: a GoPro without a screen and with a brain, so
Speaker 1: it automatically captures moments in your life without audio either.
Speaker 1: So this is kind of a weird little thing. I
Speaker 1: think it's about two hundred and fifty dollars, Yeah, coming
Speaker 1: out two hundred and fifty bucks. Works with iPhone, works
Speaker 1: with Samsung, and works with a pixel. But it's just
Speaker 1: a weird thing. You set it and you forget it.
Speaker 1: And this thing is going to recognize your family and
Speaker 1: your pets and automatically take pictures or videos of them
Speaker 1: as it sees fit. It's kind of a weird thing.
Speaker 1: I don't really see this becoming very appealing because the
Speaker 1: reality is, if you want to take a picture of
Speaker 1: your kids, you want to take a picture of your
Speaker 1: kids now, I get it. There are some moments that
Speaker 1: are really cool, like if you're teaching your kid how
Speaker 1: to walk and you can set this thing up on
Speaker 1: the side and capture your kid taking its first steps.
Speaker 1: I get that. Or your dog leave it in your
Speaker 1: house and you can see your dog all day long,
Speaker 1: kind of some of the funny things your dog does.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, I don't know, that's kind of
Speaker 1: a weird one. So I'm gonna skip that. But maybe
Speaker 1: some people will buy it. I don't think so. Two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty bucks, no way. That's a big purchase
Speaker 1: for no sound and kind of a weird, hands off
Speaker 1: kind of approach. Now, if they put it out for
Speaker 1: fifty bucks, yeah, I could see that thing being popular.
Speaker 1: And finally, Google Pixel Buds. These are earbuds that you know.
Speaker 1: They basically are wireless headphones for your Pixel or any
Speaker 1: Android phone. I have not tried these, but I don't
Speaker 1: like the look of them. They look kind of weird
Speaker 1: and they go in your ears, and I'm not a
Speaker 1: fan of any earbuds that go in your ears except
Speaker 1: for my Apple AirPods, and those work fantastic. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine a better pair of headphones at this point for
Speaker 1: everyday use. Those are one hundred and sixty bucks. These
Speaker 1: are I think, let's see Google Pixel buds. I believe
Speaker 1: these are yeah, one hundred and sixty dollars, so same
Speaker 1: price so to me, unless you want the Google Assistant,
Speaker 1: which is built into these things as well, I don't
Speaker 1: really see these as very appealing to me. Or of course,
Speaker 1: you have to have all Google products because you're a
Speaker 1: Google fanboy, but I don't know. Premium audio. They don't
Speaker 1: get tangled because there's like a small cord that just
Speaker 1: goes around the back of your neck wireless of course,
Speaker 1: built in microphone. They fit your ears. The neat thing
Speaker 1: they showed off at the Google event is how they
Speaker 1: can translate things, so real time translation, which you can
Speaker 1: speak into your speak into them in a different language,
Speaker 1: and then it'll translate into another language, but all through
Speaker 1: your phone. So you can already do this on your
Speaker 1: Android phone anyway, So I don't really see the point
Speaker 1: of that either. So anyway, but I guess my point
Speaker 1: out of all these Google products is that I like
Speaker 1: I like what they're doing with a pixel, I like
Speaker 1: what they're doing with the speakers, but the rest of
Speaker 1: the stuff I can kind of pass on. So there
Speaker 1: you have it, all right. Taking more of your phone
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Speaker 1: our first call. We have someone calling from the five
Speaker 1: six to two area code five six two. You're on
Speaker 1: with Rich. Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 3: All Right, this is a logan. I'm just calling them.
Speaker 4: Maybe you've gone over the topic or not, but.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about switching phones right now. I have an Android,
Speaker 3: I mean the Galaxy Note five, and I just want
Speaker 3: to see what are your thoughts on the next phones
Speaker 3: that are coming out in regards to the new Note,
Speaker 3: the iPhone eight, Plus or the iPhone X or the
Speaker 3: Google Pixel.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I know, aren't there so many great
Speaker 1: phones to choose from? Right now? Logan, I am like
Speaker 1: I'm in heaven right now with all these phones.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there's so many good options to choose some
Speaker 4: but it's like you know which one is the best one?
Speaker 4: You know, like like which one? And I YouTube the
Speaker 4: different reviews and you know the now so they don't
Speaker 4: have that many reviews on it. But but yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm just like, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so let's go through something. Well, first off,
Speaker 1: what what do you want to do on your phone?
Speaker 1: Are you doing social media? Are you doing pictures? Like
Speaker 1: what's most important to you?
Speaker 4: I'm a relator, so I would say pictures, you know,
Speaker 4: and kind of having everything synced up I have.
Speaker 3: I have a HP laptop and then I have the iPad,
Speaker 3: so I'm kind of all over the place, but I
Speaker 3: don't really have preference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so realtor, so I would definitely say pictures are
Speaker 1: going to be important to you for sure, That's number one.
Speaker 1: So I mean that to me is kind of Google Pixel,
Speaker 1: the or the Note eight. So the thing about the
Speaker 1: Note eight, I think would be good for you is
Speaker 1: that you would use the stylus I think to either
Speaker 1: markup documents. You probably send contracts to people, so that
Speaker 1: would be really handy. The only thing I don't like
Speaker 1: about the Note eight is some of the bloat software
Speaker 1: on it. But otherwise I've been carrying around for a while.
Speaker 1: I really like Get. I think it's one of the
Speaker 1: better Android phones out there, and it's a well rounded phone.
Speaker 1: So the pixel is amazing, but it's kind of like
Speaker 1: one sided. It doesn't have a lot of the features,
Speaker 1: a lot of the neat features that you get, like
Speaker 1: wireless charging that you get on a Samsung device. So
Speaker 1: when it comes to iPhone, I mean, look, here's the
Speaker 1: deal with the iPhone. iPhone is amazing, and as a realator,
Speaker 1: you know, you might find some use in certain features
Speaker 1: on the iPhone. Just having a phone that a lot
Speaker 1: of people have. You can easily air drop photos. You can,
Speaker 1: but you're telling me you use an HP laptop, which
Speaker 1: leads me to believe you won't be using air drop
Speaker 1: or I message on your laptop. So I think for you,
Speaker 1: it really comes down to you've had a Galaxy you
Speaker 1: might want to look at. I'd say, maybe the No.
Speaker 2: Eight.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably gonna be the best bet for
Speaker 1: you as a realator logan because you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of use out of that, out of that stylus.
Speaker 1: So thanks so much. Yeah. I mean, these these phones
Speaker 1: nowadays are so good and there's so many of them
Speaker 1: that it's really tough to make a decision. The iPhone ten.
Speaker 1: I'm not discounting that phone. I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: the iPhone ten. The problem with that one is that
Speaker 1: it's kind of new technology, so you may not want
Speaker 1: to jump on board right away. You're gonna pay a
Speaker 1: thousand bucks for something that's a little bit unproven. Six
Speaker 1: one nine area code. You're on with Rich six one nine.
Speaker 1: Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 5: Hey? This is John John.
Speaker 1: How you doing. Are you calling from San Diego?
Speaker 5: I am calling from San Diego. I'm using two of
Speaker 5: the products that you recommended.
Speaker 1: Uh, oh, well, I hope you're happy with them.
Speaker 5: One is the original Pixel right, love it, and the
Speaker 5: other one is my epic Epic two wireless headphone.
Speaker 1: Look at that. You're my best fan because you're using
Speaker 1: two things that I've recommended in the past and you
Speaker 1: like them.
Speaker 5: Both, right, I do they work fantastic, They pare easy
Speaker 5: and everything. Yeah, I have a question with the Pixel two.
Speaker 5: The greatest thing I think about initially getting the Pixel
Speaker 5: was it had fantastic support that you could get their
Speaker 5: text their phone, and I'm wondering if they're continuing with
Speaker 5: that tech support. That's my first question. The second one
Speaker 5: is why don't they ever build phone that have a
Speaker 5: great case in them on them? We don't build it
Speaker 5: with the case. I don't understand why they don't think
Speaker 5: of that. Because we get pases and we have to
Speaker 5: go out and buy one. Why don't they build a
Speaker 5: phone with a great case on it.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so to kind of break down your question, John, Okay,
Speaker 1: so Pixel two. Yeah, A big part of the first
Speaker 1: Pixel was that they had sort of instant support on it,
Speaker 1: so you had like basically you could chat with someone.
Speaker 1: You know. They didn't mention that about the second one.
Speaker 1: I know you can call someone with a Pixel two.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have the chat support or
Speaker 1: the instant support like they had with the first one.
Speaker 1: So that's a really good question. I'm not sure. I
Speaker 1: don't see it in any of the paperwork that I
Speaker 1: had on the Pixel two, which is interesting because they
Speaker 1: really hyped that up for the first pixel. Maybe they
Speaker 1: realized that a lot of people buying the pixel were
Speaker 1: sort of, I don't know, a little bit tech savvy,
Speaker 1: so maybe they just decided they didn't really need that.
Speaker 1: Let me see if it if they mentioned that here
Speaker 1: in my paperwork. So let's see, we've got unlimited storage,
Speaker 1: big entertainment, your personal Google search, what you want better together?
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. Maybe I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: think they discontinue that feature, but I don't see it
Speaker 1: as highlighted. But that's a really interesting question. And basically,
Speaker 1: if you had a pixel, which I carried around for
Speaker 1: a long time last year, you would be able to
Speaker 1: kind of get instant support from someone at Google. And
Speaker 1: I just actually used this yesterday for something else unrelated,
Speaker 1: and I was chatting on their website with someone and
Speaker 1: they knew who I was because I was logged in.
Speaker 1: So it was a really cool little feature. So I
Speaker 1: don't know about that part. The second part about the case,
Speaker 1: So that's you know, I think part of this john
Speaker 1: is that people like to customize their phones. So if
Speaker 1: you have a case that's built in to the company
Speaker 1: that might seem like, oh, well, people aren't really going
Speaker 1: to like this device because they can't customize it, So
Speaker 1: that might be part of it. But there are some
Speaker 1: phones that have sort of a rugged exterior, and that
Speaker 1: is the the Samsung Galaxy Active series and also some
Speaker 1: of the there's some other phones from Verizon. They're sort
Speaker 1: of like rough and tough, and they do they come
Speaker 1: they don't come with a case on them, but they
Speaker 1: basically have a case. So I think that that's kind
Speaker 1: of what you're talking about. But the reality is, I
Speaker 1: think number one, the case industry is a multi billion
Speaker 1: dollar industry, So I think the case manufacturers would be
Speaker 1: very unhappy if if all these phones came with a
Speaker 1: case and they no one got to buy a case
Speaker 1: for them. But I think personally, it just depends on
Speaker 1: the person. You know. I like these cases from a
Speaker 1: company called Peel and Getpeel dot com, and they're super
Speaker 1: thin cases, like literally so thin, it's just unbelievable. But
Speaker 1: sometimes I like cases that are a little bit thicker.
Speaker 1: If I'm traveling, I definitely put a bigger, thicker case
Speaker 1: on my phone because the chances is when I'm traveling
Speaker 1: of me dropping my phone is much higher. So that's
Speaker 1: why I like to have a case when I travel,
Speaker 1: but for every day, I really take risks with a lot.
Speaker 1: With a lot of my phones, I kind of don't
Speaker 1: keep a case on them, and that could be a
Speaker 1: problem because I do drop them and that's not fun,
Speaker 1: all right. Phone number is three one zero five nine
Speaker 1: four three zero zero three three one zero five to
Speaker 1: nine four three zero zero three. John A great question,
Speaker 1: And realistically, people love to customize their phones. I mean,
Speaker 1: to me, the part of the beauty of a phone
Speaker 1: is that there's so many choices when it comes to cases,
Speaker 1: and I think that's part of the appeal of the
Speaker 1: iPhone too to a lot of people, is that there
Speaker 1: are so many options when it comes to cases and
Speaker 1: when it comes to accessories. And so I've noticed with
Speaker 1: the Samsung line of phones, there's a lot more You're
Speaker 1: seeing a lot more cases, You're seeing a lot more
Speaker 1: accessories that are made for Samsung because they are kind
Speaker 1: of neck and neck with iPhone when it comes to
Speaker 1: how many people have them and how many people know
Speaker 1: about them. When it comes to a phone like the Pixel,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really see as many accessories for
Speaker 1: the Pixel because yeah, that's just the way it is
Speaker 1: with the pixel. All right, next question we've got from
Speaker 1: the area code three one. Oh you are on with Rich?
Speaker 1: Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 6: Hi? This is June Rich.
Speaker 1: How are you, June? I'm doing great. Where are you
Speaker 1: calling from today?
Speaker 6: Again? It's the same old VA nurse?
Speaker 1: Oh? Okay, how you doing?
Speaker 6: I'm okay. I want to know why T Mobile is
Speaker 6: going to this new program with their new phones where
Speaker 6: they're not financing anymore, and they were saying that more
Speaker 6: of the other companies are going to go the same trend.
Speaker 1: So what do you mean, what like what they're not
Speaker 1: financing in what way?
Speaker 6: You know, how you would go and buy a phone
Speaker 6: and then you would just pay your the phone off
Speaker 6: within two years within your bill every month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're not doing that. They're not offering that
Speaker 1: to you anymore, well.
Speaker 6: At least not at Costco. I usually do that at
Speaker 6: Costco where it kind of gives me a gift card
Speaker 6: and it meets both to both ends for me, and
Speaker 6: Costco is not doing it. I think they're just trying
Speaker 6: to really phase out T Mobile and they're really marked
Speaker 6: getting at and T is verising more.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting that could be, you know, it could be
Speaker 1: on the back end of Tea Mobile. Maybe they're just
Speaker 1: not giving Costco the deal anymore. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: think for the most part, from what I've seen, is
Speaker 1: that almost the only way you can buy a phone
Speaker 1: these days is the monthly payments. I mean, obviously you
Speaker 1: can pay full price for it, but I think that
Speaker 1: the majority of people are financing it, and that's what
Speaker 1: I see, and I still see it on T Mobile's website.
Speaker 1: So maybe you just have to go direct to Tea Mobile.
Speaker 1: I know, Costco Wireless. I mean Costco in general always
Speaker 1: has a better deal on just about everything, as you know, June,
Speaker 1: because I love shopping there as well, and they always
Speaker 1: have sort of a slightly better deal than anything else
Speaker 1: anywhere else you'd get a phone or anything. So if
Speaker 1: you get a bag of popcorn at Costco, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a little bit bigger than the bag of
Speaker 1: popcorn you get somewhere else for the same price. If
Speaker 1: you buy, you know, an electronics device, which I love
Speaker 1: every time. I mean, you know, when I go into Costco,
Speaker 1: I have to look through the electronics section. That's that's
Speaker 1: my thing. That's just what I do. My wife. Every
Speaker 1: single time we go into Costco. She starts going into
Speaker 1: the store and I say, honey, you know I got
Speaker 1: to go look at the electronics. She goes, why you
Speaker 1: just looked last week. I said, well, I have to
Speaker 1: see what's in here, what's new, what's different. And I
Speaker 1: love looking at the prices because let's say you buy
Speaker 1: something like a hard drive at Costco, So your hard
Speaker 1: drive is going to be maybe the same price as
Speaker 1: that hard drive somewhere else, but you're gonna get like
Speaker 1: maybe a free something with that hard drive, like a
Speaker 1: free USB flash drive or something like that. So realistically,
Speaker 1: Costco always has a great deal. Let's say you buy
Speaker 1: a printer there, Well you're going to get a printer,
Speaker 1: but you're also gonna get like a year's worth of
Speaker 1: ink cartridges, whereas you may get two ink cartridges at
Speaker 1: best Buy. So they always have a little value add on,
Speaker 1: which I love. So if you're shopping for electronics, definitely
Speaker 1: check out Costco first because they always have fantastic deals.
Speaker 1: So June, thanks so much for your question, and I
Speaker 1: will take more questions at three one zero five nine
Speaker 1: four three zero zero three after this three one zero
Speaker 1: five to nine four three zero zero three. You are
Speaker 1: listening to rich on tech Live. I'm Rich Demurro. Rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot Tv. Is the website where you can
Speaker 1: find me. I'll be back in just a moment. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to rich on tech Live. You can find
Speaker 1: me on Facebook at facebook dot com slash rich on tech.
Speaker 1: There I'll share fun, tech tips, photos, and pretty much
Speaker 1: anything else I find interesting. See you there. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on tech Live. I'm Rich Demiro rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot tv, and I'm taking your calls, answering your
Speaker 1: tech questions and just having a lot of fun with you. Guys.
Speaker 1: We've got some folks behind the scenes on Facebook Live.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for them for watching and listening and
Speaker 1: joining in, and of course you listening to the podcast.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for that. It's a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to have this all going on. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: movies anywhere. This is a really new, interesting thing that
Speaker 1: just launched, and it is phenomenal. I am very impressed
Speaker 1: that Hollywood is doing something and I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be negative here, but I'm just kind of impressed that
Speaker 1: Hollywood's doing something that's good for the consumer. Because this
Speaker 1: is something that I've wanted for a really long time,
Speaker 1: something that I've thought about for a long time, and
Speaker 1: it's actually happening. And so it's called Movies Anywhere. It's
Speaker 1: a new app, it's basically a new service, not just
Speaker 1: an app. So you sign up, You go to Movies
Speaker 1: Anywhere dot Com. You sign up, and what happens is,
Speaker 1: you know how you've bought all these movies all over
Speaker 1: the place, like you know, on iTunes, on Amazon, on Voodoo, Disney, wherever.
Speaker 1: Google maybe have a movie or two on there. The
Speaker 1: reality is it's been a pain in the neck to
Speaker 1: manage all these digital movies because the problem is they
Speaker 1: don't play everywhere. So if you buy a movie on iTunes,
Speaker 1: it may not play on Amazon. And if you buy
Speaker 1: a movie on Amazon, it doesn't play on your Apple
Speaker 1: TV as of right now, as I say this, because
Speaker 1: I know that the Amazon Video app is coming out
Speaker 1: for Apple TV. So eventually it happened. But the reality
Speaker 1: is this is all new and this is amazing. So
Speaker 1: what you do is you sign up for this account,
Speaker 1: Movies Anywhere, and then you go in and you link
Speaker 1: all of your other accounts, So you link your Amazon
Speaker 1: Video account, you link your Google Play account, you link
Speaker 1: your iTunes account and you link your Voodoo account and
Speaker 1: your Disney Anywhere account. Next thing, you know, all of
Speaker 1: your video libraries are the same everywhere. How amazing is that?
Speaker 1: So all of your videos are synced across every library.
Speaker 1: So let's say you buy a movie on Amazon, Boom,
Speaker 1: it shows up on your iPad in your iTunes account.
Speaker 1: Let's say you buy a movie on Voodoo, Bam, it
Speaker 1: shows up on your Google Play library on your phone.
Speaker 1: Pretty amazing, and it works with all the movies that
Speaker 1: you have, or most of them. So they've got a
Speaker 1: bunch of studios on board. They've got five studios on board,
Speaker 1: which is a majority of them. So they've got Sony
Speaker 1: Pictures Entertainment, Walt Disney Company, which is Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm,
Speaker 1: Just Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar Kids, Twentieth Century Fox which
Speaker 1: is all those movies, Universal, and Warner Brothers. So who's
Speaker 1: missing missing is Lionsgate and also Paramount. So those are
Speaker 1: the two holdouts. And if I was Lionsgate in Paramount,
Speaker 1: I would get on board with this right now because
Speaker 1: guess what this is how people are gonna You're not
Speaker 1: gonna I mean, you're gonna be less apt to buy
Speaker 1: a movie from Lionsgate or Paramount digitally because you know
Speaker 1: that it's not gonna work everywhere and all the rest
Speaker 1: are So they got to get on board. The other thing,
Speaker 1: the other place or thing or whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it that's not on board is Microsoft. Now. Microsoft
Speaker 1: in the past has been very stubborn with stuff like this.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna stubborn anymore. I think it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of time before they get on board.
Speaker 1: But basically, any movies that you purchased on Windows right
Speaker 1: now don't work with this, and vice versa. So there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of movies, not every movie, but a bunch.
Speaker 1: If you sign up for this, they're gonna give you
Speaker 1: up to five movies for First, if you activate your account,
Speaker 1: they're gonna give you two movies, basically Ghostbusters and Ice Age.
Speaker 1: And then if you connect a bunch of your accounts,
Speaker 1: so in one more account, you're gonna get three more
Speaker 1: movies for free, Big Hero six, Jason Bourne, and the
Speaker 1: Lego movie, which my kid loves, so we already have that.
Speaker 1: So actually, out of all these movies, let's see, I
Speaker 1: already had Ice Age. I already had Lego Movie, and
Speaker 1: I already had Big Hero six. Oh no, that was
Speaker 1: on Netflix. I didn't own that, So I got four
Speaker 1: movies for free, which is kind of cool. Does it
Speaker 1: support four K? No, the app doesn't right now, but
Speaker 1: it will support four K movies, so when you watch
Speaker 1: them on your screen, like through your native four K
Speaker 1: like an Amazon or an Apple TV, it will work
Speaker 1: in four K. But basically you can now watch your
Speaker 1: movies anywhere on any device, Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chrome, Cast, iPhone, iPad, iPad, Touch, Roku,
Speaker 1: web browsers. I mean, it's really amazing that they've pretty
Speaker 1: much gotten everything, which is just unbelievable. This is so
Speaker 1: unprecedented and it's so weird because usually, uh, these companies
Speaker 1: are kind of out to get us in a different way.
Speaker 1: And this basically makes me want to buy movies digitally
Speaker 1: now because I'm like, all right, good, I can watch
Speaker 1: them on all my devices. And the neat thing is
Speaker 1: you don't have to change the way you do things.
Speaker 1: That's what's really cool about this. Once you sign up,
Speaker 1: you really don't have to go back to movies anywhere. Now.
Speaker 1: You can just keep using iTunes the way you normally do,
Speaker 1: and if you ever want to switch over to Android
Speaker 1: or Amazon, you can and it just works. So there
Speaker 1: you have it all right, Let's take a phone call
Speaker 1: three one zero five nine four three zero zero three
Speaker 1: three one zero five to nine four three zero zero
Speaker 1: three six six one. You are on with Rich? Who's this?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 2: Rich Squigg from Antelope Valley?
Speaker 1: Greg, how's it going? Is my picture all gone? Or
Speaker 1: what is still working? I don't know what happened when
Speaker 1: I took the live call or when I took the
Speaker 1: live person Uh, it really everything took a nose dive
Speaker 1: with the with the video quality. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Greg, what's going on?
Speaker 2: I was quandering, are there any issues with the iPhone
Speaker 2: as as far as the because I've noticed a brill
Speaker 2: kind of drop off in when I'm talking on the
Speaker 2: phone and I can barely hear the collar.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting my hearing. No, here's what I think happened.
Speaker 1: I think that the ear piece is clogged, because think
Speaker 1: about it, it's against your ear and it can pick
Speaker 1: up some debris. So what I would do is I
Speaker 1: would actually get a canned air. I have mine. Oh yeah, right,
Speaker 1: here canned air, and I would just go ahead and
Speaker 1: give that thing a little blast. Now, be careful because
Speaker 1: you don't want to just you don't want to ruin
Speaker 1: your phone. But I would go in there maybe with
Speaker 1: a Q tip. You can put a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny,
Speaker 1: tiny bit of rubbing alcohol in there if you want
Speaker 1: to kind of clean things. But this is actually a
Speaker 1: great question in general with iPhone because a lot of
Speaker 1: times people will say, my phone's not charging or the
Speaker 1: audio is not work work, And what happens is the
Speaker 1: little connector on the bottom of the iPhone gets some
Speaker 1: lint in it from your pocket, or you know, the
Speaker 1: ear piece collects lint from your pocket and it gets
Speaker 1: stuck in that little grill there. So that's what I
Speaker 1: think is happening with your phone. I would give it
Speaker 1: a little clean out and see if that helps. But
Speaker 1: in general, you don't want to use too many liquids
Speaker 1: on your phone. But a tiny bit of rubbing alcohol,
Speaker 1: just literally just a tiny dap might just help to
Speaker 1: get that cleaned out and just kind of give that
Speaker 1: a nice cleaning and see what happens. If that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: I would do a reset on your phone. See if
Speaker 1: that helps. Do your software update, obviously, and if none
Speaker 1: of that happened, if none of that helps, and I
Speaker 1: would bring it into the Apple Store and see what
Speaker 1: they have to say about that. But generally, I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna I guarant you know. It's funny. We have
Speaker 1: these little earpieces at work, like these little headphones microphones
Speaker 1: that we use, and sometimes all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: stop working and it's like, well they're clogged, they're no longer,
Speaker 1: They've just collected a lot of debris. You put them
Speaker 1: in your pocket, you put them in your ear. So
Speaker 1: it happens, and you just have to be aware of it.
Speaker 1: So good question, Greg, Thanks so much for asking. All Right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take more of your calls and end the
Speaker 1: show right after this so and I will be right
Speaker 1: back with you guys. Thanks for listening to rich on
Speaker 1: Tech Live. You can find me on Instagram with the
Speaker 1: username rich on tech. There I'll share random photos, including
Speaker 1: stuff I eat, my family, and where I'm traveling. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to a rich on Tech Live. I'm rich Demiro,
Speaker 1: tech reporter for KTLA five News in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: other assorted TV stations nationwide. Thanks so much for watching
Speaker 1: on TV and listening to this podcast. It's been a
Speaker 1: fun show. It's been a great first rebirth of the show.
Speaker 1: So hopefully I did everything right and it all worked out.
Speaker 1: Let's call, let's take one more question before we go here.
Speaker 1: Three one? Oho? Oh hang on, let me stop that. Okay?
Speaker 5: Three?
Speaker 1: Oh you are on with Rich? Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 7: Hey? Rich is Darlene. I'm sorry I messed you up?
Speaker 1: Oh, hey, Darlene, what's going on?
Speaker 7: Oh? Not much. I wanted to ask you. I updated
Speaker 7: my iPhone to the IOF eleven. Okay, and now my
Speaker 7: songs don't play when someone calls me.
Speaker 1: Ooh, your songs don't play? Okay, it sounds like something.
Speaker 1: Are there are the songs still on the phone.
Speaker 7: Yes, and there's still a sign to my specific people.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're still a sign.
Speaker 7: Oh play. It's just just a generic ring tone thing.
Speaker 1: Interesting. I have not encountered that problem because I don't
Speaker 1: actually have special ring tones for people, So I'm not
Speaker 1: sure why that's happening. So, so, you you had everything
Speaker 1: set up, it worked, and then you updated to iOS
Speaker 1: eleven and it just stopped working. Right, But you're saying that.
Speaker 7: I've checked and other people have had this problem too.
Speaker 1: Okay, so other people, Okay, now, are you updated to iOS?
Speaker 1: They came out with a new one like yesterday or
Speaker 1: the day before. It was likeo point three. I think
Speaker 1: have you updated to that one? So I believe so well,
Speaker 1: it sounds like they have an issue. This sounds like
Speaker 1: a bug. And I will email my friends at Apple
Speaker 1: and tell them about it, because I'm sure they know.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have a million and one bugs. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're more concerned about the launch of iPhone ten
Speaker 1: in like two weeks, so I'm sure they're like, uh,
Speaker 1: we need to fix that before we fix the ringtone issue.
Speaker 1: But it's it's definitely that's an odd issue. And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think if they changed anything with audio. No,
Speaker 1: they didn't change anything with audio. Yeah, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a weird one. And so the weird part to me
Speaker 1: is that you're selecting the song and it's a signed
Speaker 1: to a person, but when it rings, it doesn't actually play.
Speaker 1: It plays something else.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, right, they're generic, like you know, ring tone.
Speaker 1: That definitely sounds like a bug. So I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: will email my friends and uh, now you know, believe me,
Speaker 1: they're gonna They're not gonna like respond immediately. They're probably
Speaker 1: gonna be like, yeah, we know about this, Rich so
Speaker 1: but for sure, but for sure, that's definitely frustrating. So
Speaker 1: thanks all. I got to talk to you twice today.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. And I don't know what happened with you.
Speaker 1: We tried to bring you on live earlier and it
Speaker 1: was just kind of it garbled my screen. So maybe
Speaker 1: I don't have enough bandwidth for other live video on.
Speaker 1: Let's see email through my Facebook page, Facebook dot com
Speaker 1: slash rich on tech Jill wrote me and she said,
Speaker 1: Roku or Firestick. I would like to ask you which
Speaker 1: one is better, Roku or Firestick. Well, that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: You know. I like Firestick slightly better. I like Amazon
Speaker 1: fireTV in general, just because I like the interface a
Speaker 1: little bit better. What I like about Roku is that
Speaker 1: you have a universal search that's really good, and it's
Speaker 1: also sort of platform agnostic. And what do I mean
Speaker 1: by that is that they don't Roku just wants to
Speaker 1: have everything all at once. They don't really care. They
Speaker 1: don't really like if you go on an Amazon fireTV.
Speaker 1: It's very much, very much slanted towards Amazon content, which
Speaker 1: kind of gets annoying sometimes, whereas Roku they just kind
Speaker 1: of feature stuff from all from all over the place.
Speaker 1: So I think the Roku interface is just a little
Speaker 1: bit outdated, but they have updated it recently, so maybe
Speaker 1: that'll be better. Fire TV, I feel like they do
Speaker 1: a lot of work in kind of keeping that up
Speaker 1: to date, and I love the interface. It just looks nice.
Speaker 1: When it comes to apps, I think right now what
Speaker 1: you see happening with the apps is that a lot
Speaker 1: of them come out on Apple TV and fire first
Speaker 1: and then Roku or Roku kind of at the same time.
Speaker 1: But I think you'll be happy with either, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think it really comes down to are you a
Speaker 1: big Amazon Prime person? And if you are, then I
Speaker 1: think go with the fire Stick. If not, you can
Speaker 1: still get Prime content on the other one. But if
Speaker 1: you watch a lot of Amazon Prime stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: go with the fire Stick. If not, just go with
Speaker 1: the Roku, and I think you'll be pretty happy with that.
Speaker 1: They just came out with a ton of new Roku devices,
Speaker 1: including one called Express Classic, which is really crazy because
Speaker 1: or I said, called Express Classic. Let's see Roku Express.
Speaker 1: I think it's Express Plus rather it connects to classic TV,
Speaker 1: so it's exclusively at Walmart and it's forty bucks, and
Speaker 1: it has the old school connectors, so you can actually
Speaker 1: connect this, this smart streaming device to a stupid TV,
Speaker 1: like an old school TV, a tube TV, because it
Speaker 1: uses the composite connectors, which are you know, the old
Speaker 1: school you remember these they're red, white and yellow, not HDMI,
Speaker 1: so it works with HDMI too, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: if you have an old TV and you just want
Speaker 1: to use it with a Roku. It's kind of funny.
Speaker 1: Actually would probably freak out your friends if you actually
Speaker 1: bought one of those. All right, rapid fire segment. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take questions from the chat room. So if you
Speaker 1: guys have a question for me, you can go ahead
Speaker 1: and write it in the chat on Facebook Live and
Speaker 1: I will answer those in a rapid fire method. So
Speaker 1: I know it's a little delayed from when I talk
Speaker 1: here to when you guys actually see it, so it
Speaker 1: will take a moment for this to happen, so in
Speaker 1: the meantime, I will tell you this. You can find
Speaker 1: me on Facebook, Facebook, dot com, slash rich on Tech,
Speaker 1: Twitter at rich Demiro, and Instagram at rich on tech Instagram.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of fun with because I do
Speaker 1: a lot of stupid stuff on there, Like on my
Speaker 1: Instagram stories, they can disappear, and they disappear in twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, so I really don't care. So you'll see me.
Speaker 1: Like last night I shared what was I what I
Speaker 1: was making for dinner, some pasta dish, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a food person, Like I'm not a foodie.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm definitely not a foodie. But anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: Linda in the comments says, what about iPhone eight? iPhone
Speaker 1: eight is fantastic, so there's nothing wrong with it. In fact,
Speaker 1: I at this point am recommending iPhone eight over the
Speaker 1: iPhone ten. I think it's a better value for more
Speaker 1: most people. iPhone ten the advantages that you basically get
Speaker 1: a big screen that takes up the entire front of
Speaker 1: the phone the disadvantage, and you get a better camera,
Speaker 1: slightly better camera but not much, just slightly. And the
Speaker 1: second thing that you get is no home button, which
Speaker 1: I don't like. So yeah, I recommend the iPhone eight.
Speaker 1: I think that's good. Lisa says, love my Roku. I
Speaker 1: had a fire stick. They don't have CBS All Access
Speaker 1: on there. I love my soaps and CBS. I thought
Speaker 1: Fires does have CBS all Access? Uh does Amazon? Uh
Speaker 1: CBS all Access? I thought they did. Maybe maybe that
Speaker 1: was back in the day. Yeah, okay, yeah it's on there,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. Uh, yeah it's on there now.
Speaker 1: So best app for iPhone? Best app for iPhone? Man?
Speaker 1: What what's my favorite? My iPhone's in use right now,
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to look at think of my home screen. Man,
Speaker 1: what's the best. There's so many good apps. There's so
Speaker 1: many good apps for iPhone, all of them. I mean, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. Uh.
Speaker 1: Just got a new seventeen inch MacBook Pro. How should
Speaker 1: I care for the battery? I heard you shouldn't rain
Speaker 1: it all the way too often. I think you'll be okay,
Speaker 1: you know, I just do whatever I want with my batteries.
Speaker 1: My last MacBook lasted me four years. I did not
Speaker 1: put a second thought into the battery and so h
Speaker 1: and it still works great. I actually gifted it to
Speaker 1: my dad when I got my new one, and now
Speaker 1: he's gonna enjoy it. And the battery lasts just fine.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Marabell says, what's a good time
Speaker 1: to buy an iPhone. I still own an iPhone five C.
Speaker 1: I want a bargain. Okay, you want to bargain on
Speaker 1: your iPhone, Well, the best time to buy is really
Speaker 1: when the new ones come out because they drop the
Speaker 1: price of the old ones by one hundred bucks. But
Speaker 1: the reality is what you really want to do is
Speaker 1: look for those deals from the carriers. So the carriers
Speaker 1: often have deals on iPhones where they will give you.
Speaker 1: What you want to look for is when you can
Speaker 1: trade in your phone and get more than that phone
Speaker 1: is worth. That's the best way to do it. Jim says,
Speaker 1: what do you think of ways traffic reports? You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I'm actually not a fan of ways. I
Speaker 1: don't use ways. I don't like being bopped around. I'm
Speaker 1: just the kind of I will just set it and
Speaker 1: forget it, so I will just take the road. I
Speaker 1: will take the freeway. I'm a very easy driver, and
Speaker 1: I just I don't really need to be taking left
Speaker 1: turns randomly through neighborhoods. So I don't really use ways.
Speaker 1: I've tried it. I took it on a you know,
Speaker 1: I want to do my due diligence. When it came
Speaker 1: to Android auto I tested it out. I was driving
Speaker 1: up to Santa Barbara and it was just crazy. It
Speaker 1: was like every five minutes it was like something's happening
Speaker 1: in the middle of the road. There's debris police on
Speaker 1: the right side camera there, and I'm like, oh, I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize there was so much going on. I'm
Speaker 1: just driving, let me drive. So I ended up switching
Speaker 1: back to my Google Maps. I actually, I don't even
Speaker 1: want to admit this, but these days I've actually been
Speaker 1: really digging Apple Maps. I know it's only when I
Speaker 1: use my iPhone, but I actually think at this point
Speaker 1: Apple Maps is cleaner looking and feeling than Google Maps,
Speaker 1: and it's actually quite good. I know for a while
Speaker 1: Apple Maps was terrible, but it's not that way anymore.
Speaker 1: So it's I would give it another chance. If you
Speaker 1: haven't used it in a while, try it out. But
Speaker 1: I've been very impressed. In fact, now when I go
Speaker 1: back to Google Maps, I'm like, oh, I kind of
Speaker 1: like the look of Apple Maps, and they do have
Speaker 1: some really nice features on there too. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for listening. This has been great. You guys
Speaker 1: have been a ton of fun. That's gonna do it
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