WEBVTT - Amazon opens a clothing store 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.920 Google changes its messaging apps once again. Instagram adds Amber 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.040 Alerts a cool place to stay this summer. Plus your 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.880 tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.120 this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.440 about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.120 It's also the place where I answer the questions you 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.440 send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:33.720 in Los Angeles. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.080 Hope you're having a fantastic week. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.080 So one thing I love about my job is that 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.519 I get to do a lot of stuff before anyone else. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.840 Or get to see stuff that people don't get to see. Well, 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:46.240 in this. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.360 Case, I guess I just got to see it before 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.720 anyone else. So Amazon's got this new high tech clothing 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.680 store here in Los Angeles. It's at the Americana at 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.040 the Brand and they invited me inside, which was kind 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.160 of cool. Now, yeah, one can go in at this point, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.520 but I got to go in before anyone got to 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.319 go in, and I got to bring my cameras in, 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:06.000 so that was kind of cool. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.120 We got to shoot a segment for KTLA about this. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.880 So why does Amazon have a new clothing store when 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.160 they just closed all of their physical stores that they 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.640 opened that were the bookstores and the four Star stores. Yes, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.360 they still have the grocery stores and the whole foods, 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.360 although they're closing some of those as well. Not the 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.920 fresh but the whole foods. I think they announced like 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:32.360 a whole bunch of Nation why that they were closing anyway. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.800 So the Amazon style is our clothing store, and of 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:36.440 course it's Amazon, so they got to put like a 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.319 little twist on kind of the experience, and it's a 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.120 high tech twist. And the big thing about this store 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:43.960 is that when you walk in, they don't have like 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.520 a bunch of colors and sizes stacked up to the ceiling. 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.000 They have one of each. And then you scan a 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.120 QR code and you say, send to my dressing room. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.320 And that's how you shop. So you send a bunch 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.720 of stuff to your dressing room, and then you go 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.360 to your dressing room. The stuff is in there, and 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.800 you unlock the dressing room with your phone. It's all 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.600 very high tech and cool, but the secret is all 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.280 in this dressing room. So when you get into this 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.200 fitting room, there are a couple of things. Number one, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.959 it's the clothes that you asked for are in there 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.839 already hung up and they look all nice. Then there's 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.360 a touch screen that tells you what you already have 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.360 in there, and they have put in other clothes that 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.880 they think you'll like, well, the computer will think you'll like. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.560 So they have an algorithm that says, Okay, Rich likes 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:28.280 these kind of shirts. Let's give him three more of 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.440 those types of shirts. We'll hang him up in there. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.120 When he gets in there, he'll look at him and 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.959 try him on. Then, to top it all off, there 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.560 is a special closet inside the fitting room, and I 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.560 call it the magic closet because it has double doors 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.760 on it. It's got one door that you can open 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.840 on your end, and then it's got a back door 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.000 that the that the employees can open. And so when 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.560 you request a different size or color from on that 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.120 touch screen, the employee goes and gets it and puts 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.240 it inside that closet, and you magically open the closet 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.320 and it's there. So they've done this thing for privacy 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.119 where when the employee is opening the back door, your 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.440 front door to that closet is locked and closed, and 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.800 a little red light comes on that says, basically, you 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.240 can't open the door, and then when they close that 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.040 back door, the red light goes off. Your door is unlocked. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.960 And you also hear this like chime sound and a 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.600 nice big bright light or I guess a glowing light 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.040 kind of illuminates the entire closet from behind, and so 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.400 that signals to you that, okay, your closer in there. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.160 It's really cool, it's fun. It's very different. I mean, look, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.680 you can have a bunch of associates that are just 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.120 running closed back and forth, like if you say, you know, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.240 if you told a human like in another department store, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:42.920 like oh, can you go grab me a thirty four 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.480 by thirty three instead of this thirty two, and they 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.360 can go look for it and come back. So it's 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.160 the same thing, except a little bit more automated, a 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.720 little more high tech. And so I thought it was 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.640 really cool. I think the big thing that's going to 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.560 make or break this store is the amount of time 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.480 it takes the employees to not only stock these dressing 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:07.320 rooms with your initial stuff, but also the replenishment. So 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.800 when I was there, it took a good ten minutes 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.440 to get your fitting room stocked. Like when you say 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.840 you scan a close a piece of clothing and you say, okay, 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.040 I'd like this. It took a good ten minutes for 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.440 that to show up inside the dressing room. So and 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.599 then when I requested another size, it took i'd say 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.120 probably like five minutes. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.800 So you know, it does take some time. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.280 I think if people are frustrated with that time, they 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.920 won't come back. But otherwise, this has a lot of potential. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.800 It's definitely a cool way to shop, especially if you're 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.920 by yourself, because you don't need to scream out across 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.080 the room like I usually do my wife, like, hey, len, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.840 can you grab me a different size or a different 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.400 color because this one doesn't fit? And you won't have 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.680 to do that. So and of course while you're in 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.960 that room, you can also rate things on that touch screen. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:56.800 So the touch screen has a whole bunch of clothes 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.279 on it and it says okay, So while you're sitting 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.840 there waiting for your next stuff, it says like, oh, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.640 you want to go through some clothes and kind of 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.599 thumbs up or thumbs down some of this stuff, and 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.800 that can help the algorithm sort of understand you better. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.520 So it's a cool thing. It's called Amazon Style. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.520 It's now open at the Americana at the brand and 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.320 I'd say check it out if you're in the LA area. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.320 Definitely worth a checkout. I'd like to go back and 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.640 do some wor shopping. I bought a pair of jeans, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.880 I bought some shampoo, and again, Amazon is using a 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.279 whole bunch of data and algorithms to help stock this store, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.120 so they know if these yoga pants do really well 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.040 on Amazon dot Com and they've never been sold in stores, 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.520 they're probably gonna do pretty well in stores because they've 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.839 got a thousands of good five star ratings or whatever. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.159 That's similar to what they did in their other stores. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.320 But I guess they realized in those other stores that 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.400 they opened the kind of the Amazon four star and 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.960 the Amazon bookstores that people like to buy books online. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.960 It's simple, it's easy. You hear about a book recommendation, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.320 you don't really need to flip through it. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:57.600 You can do that all online. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.279 You can get an idea for what the book is, 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.719 you can read review use, and then you know you 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.359 don't really need to go into a store to buy it. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:09.120 Even though bookstores still hold a very a very warm 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:10.200 spot in my heart. 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:11.360 I love those bookstores. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.280 I just get so many ideas when I go in there, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.040 but again, they just realize people like to buy stuff online. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.440 Clothing a little different. You want to touch it, you 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.200 want to feel it, you want to see it. And 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.839 so this could really work for clothes and maybe boost 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.719 the clothing sales on Amazon, although I don't think one 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.800 store would, but I think it'll give them a lot 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.280 of data if they want to open these up at 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:34.920 malls across America. All right, let's get to the first 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.919 question of the week. Richard F says, how do I 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.599 block ads on a Samsung Android phone? The S twenty 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.360 one fe Great question? Great phone. I gave that phone 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.520 a very high rating. It's I think four hundred and 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.000 thirty dollars for a very good phone, and I loved it. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.880 So how do you block ads on it? Good question? 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.120 So you can download an app that blocks ads, like 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.960 something like block Blowkatta Blockotta block coatta b l O 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.840 c k A d A, something like that. 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.760 There are a whole bunch of apps that. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.920 Will There's ad Guard, there's ad block, I mean, there's 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:13.800 so many things that will you origin. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:14.680 I mean, there's so many. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:16.280 I don't know if they have an app for the 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.800 phone but there's so many ways you can block ads 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.800 these days. I'm both Android and iOS, but the easiest 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.120 way that I know to do it on Android is 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.880 to go into your settings, and you go into Settings, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.480 and you go into Connections, and then you go into 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:34.080 more Connection Settings, and then you select private DNS and 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.200 you type in under private DNS provider host name. You 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:43.560 type in the letters d NS dot ad guard dot com. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.440 So again you go into Settings, Connections, More Connection Settings, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.760 Private DNS, Private DNS provider host name, and you type 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.160 in DNS dot ad guard dot com. What does that do. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.960 It's not an app, it's not a VPN. It's literally 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.920 just routing all of your phone address information, you know, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.280 like when you're looking up a website, it's routing it 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:08.040 through this ad Guard DNS server, and so when it 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.720 gives the phone like, okay, here's how you find Yahoo 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.960 dot com, Here's how you find Google dot com, here's 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:13.720 how you find. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:14.400 eBay dot com. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.120 Oh, you want a link for double click, we can't 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.560 find that because they're blocking anything that serves up ads. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.239 And so on your phone, you'll notice where the ads 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.760 typically are. Either there'll be a blank space space, there'll 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.440 be no AD or there'll be a big giant web 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.599 URL that says cannot be resolved error, and that's a 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.120 little annoying, but you know it's better to see that 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.280 and you know there was an AD there. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:38.920 But that's really the easiest way. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.120 Ad Guard is a company that a service, whatever you 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.760 want to call it, that you know, provides ad blocking 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.559 on pretty much all of the different platforms. It works 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.480 a little bit differently on all the different like whether 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:54.760 you're on desktop, MACPC, or iOS or Android, it works 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.400 a little different, but at the end of the day, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.960 it's it's just a super simple way to get rid 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.440 of ads on your phone and it works. Now if 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.400 you're ever having trouble with a website, whether it's not loading, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.600 whether it's an app is not working, you always have 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.240 to remember that you put in that DNS dot adguard 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.760 dot com and if something's not working on your phone 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:19.000 as it should be, you can go back into there 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.320 and turn that off and you can turn it off 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.640 temporarily and then just go enable it once you're done again. Now, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.120 I block ads across my whole network in my home 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:32.520 using euro and it does present some problems sometimes for sure. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.160 I don't know why, but just you know, like the 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.840 other day, I was trying to log into an app 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.560 and it was like, Nope, can't do it because we 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.760 can't reach something. And you'll notice that sometimes websites don't 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.760 load or sometimes there's like an error, and so if 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.240 you ever run into that, you can temporarily disable this 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.600 ad blocking. The other thing I've noticed is when I'm 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:58.440 searching Google on my phone at home, sometimes these ads, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.720 you know, the first like you know, the first three 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.760 results are typically ads, and most people don't even realize that. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.439 I've watched so many people use Google, and I've watched 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.400 them as soon as they search or something, they literally 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.240 click the first link at the top that is marked AD, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.080 but nobody notices that, and nobody scrolls down like I 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.240 always do to get to the actual what we call 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.160 organic results. And so I've just noticed people over and 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.280 over they just click those ads right at the top, 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.200 and typically it will bring you to what you need 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.160 because either Amazon's buying it or you know, whoever you're 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:29.440 searching for has. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:30.480 Purchased that keyword. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.040 But it's just it boggles my mind that so many 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.560 people just default to that top, that top result, and 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.040 I guess that's why Google makes billions and billions of 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.400 dollars because most people are not very discerning about what 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.959 they click on the Google results, and Google knows that, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:47.840 which is why those ads. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:48.920 Do really well for them. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.880 So sometimes if I'm at home and I search for like, 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.720 let's say someone asks me a question about something, I 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.480 go to research it and the first link that comes 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.600 up is that company. I'll sometimes click it or it 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.320 comes up, but I'm like, oh, that's interesting, let me 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.720 click that. I can't because it'll literally say like, sorry, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.280 we can't find the server. So if that ever happens, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.480 you can just go in and switch things up. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:09.880 All right. 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.160 Speaking of Google, Google, you know, I give them a 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.520 lot of a lot of trouble for always changing things. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.160 Google just loves to change things up, and especially when 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.439 it comes to messaging. I feel like Google has been 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.960 all over the place lately, especially with a pixel phone 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.720 and with some of the products they just they're always different, 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.920 Like the pixel phone, you know. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.559 It's like I just wish that Like if you look 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:34.920 at the. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.720 iPhone from day one until now, it has been this 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:42.400 really natural slow evolution. You know, it's always been a 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.000 piece of glass or a you know, glass screen back metal, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.800 whatever you know, material they're using at this at the time, 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:50.559 kind of the. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:51.480 Same form factor. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.960 Yes, they've made it bigger some years, smaller some years, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:55.960 but it kind of looks like an iPhone every time 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.920 you see it, as opposed to the pixel. Every time 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.839 you get a pixel every year, it's completely different. Like 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.000 everything about it is different. The design language, the look, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.280 the feel, the curves, everything is different. And so it 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.800 just really bugs me that they like can't evolve something 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.120 to like just slowly change it and just make it 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.880 better every year. And you know, they just make these 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.000 really big harsh changes sometimes at Google, except with search. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.080 With Search they kind of kept the same for many 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.280 years now, but all the other stuff they kind of 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.280 make these big like twists and turns and moves and 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.240 lefts and rights and like we're left, Okay, well I 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.640 like this yesterday. Now it doesn't work that way. I 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.160 like this this feature. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:36.960 Oh it's gone. Anyway. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.600 All that to say that Google is eyeing Google Duo 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.720 and Google Meet. These are two different video services that 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.520 they run. Google Duo is more for the mobile phone, 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.520 Google Meat is sort of for the desktop. If you 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.480 want to think of these in terms as Google Duo 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:57.040 is a competitive FaceTime. Google Meat is an alternative to Zoom, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.959 and they both have different features. But Google says, you 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.320 know what, We're just going to go ahead and merge 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.520 these two things together, and we're gonna call it Google Meet. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.040 So Duo is going away. It's gonna be called Google Meet. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.280 If you have the app on your phone, they're going 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.040 to rename it to Meet later this year, and it's 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.720 gonna be one way to video chat using Google products 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.960 across the board. So if you want, you know, like 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.960 Duo was really good at video chatting link to a 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.839 phone number, and so Meat was really good at sending 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.720 a link to someone and they can video chat. Now 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.040 it's gonna be all mixed together. So you can video 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:37.000 chat using a link, you can video chat using a 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:41.800 phone number, you can video chat using you know, whatever 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.040 way that they want you to do it. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:43.640 You know what is it? 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.600 So you got a link, a phone number, user name 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.840 I guess, and then a text message. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.120 I don't know, but that's it. So just know that 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:52.760 that's happening. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.480 Those features are going to be merged soon and Google 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.680 Duo sadly is going away. I remember the day it 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:04.840 came out, and now it's going away. Lupita says, my 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.640 dad is eighty, he wants a smartphone. What is the 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.360 best cheap phone I can get him? He only wants 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.920 it for Internet use, for movies and music. He already 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.480 has a flip phone. Smiley face, Thank you, Lupita, Lupida, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.080 great question. But if your dad already has a flip phone, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.200 why does he need another smartphone. I think that you're 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.239 missing the obvious answer here, and that is an Amazon 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.360 Fire Tablet. If he wants something that is just inexpensive 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.000 and can do what you're talking about, I think that 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.600 the fire Tablet is the way to go, and they're 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.600 super cheap. You can go with the fire Tablet seven 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.320 and that is sixty dollars. They just revamped it. It's 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.040 brand new. It's got sixteen or thirty two gigs of storage, 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.400 ten hour battery, two gigs of RAM, which doesn't sound 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.800 like a lot, and it's probably not probably a little 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.640 slower than you'd want it to be, but for music 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:55.960 and movies it's going to be just fine. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.440 It does have USBC on the bottom. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.000 Now, if you want to slight upgrade, you can go 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.440 to the eight and that's gonna be ninety dollars, So 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.720 for thirty more dollars, you can go with the eight 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.640 and that's gonna give you an HD screen, a little 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.320 bit more battery life, and a bigger screen as well. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:13.760 But I would recommend that. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.600 I don't think that your dad wants another phone, unless 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.880 he's planning on activating this with a cellular line, which 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.680 I don't think he would if he's looking for an inexpensive, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.800 cheap phone. You said cheap, So if you're looking for cheap, 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.440 I doubt dad wants to pay thirty dollars a month 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.760 for another line to put data on this phone and 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.640 where he can use it anywhere he wants. So I 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:37.560 would say just go with the tablet. I think that's 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.920 gonna be the easiest way to do it. And if 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.160 he wants a cheap smartphone, a couple of options. There 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.320 is the Samsung S twenty gosh is it the S 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.640 twenty one FC S twenty one FV. I think we 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.880 just reviewed this one. They're not up to the S 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.280 twenty two. No S twenty one. Oh no, sorry, not 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:01.520 the fe I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's the Samsung. Oh 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.120 my gosh, hold on, it's the h A thirty. Hold on, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.720 hold on, I gotta look at my story I just 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:12.240 did on KTLA. So we did the Samsung A fifty 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.280 three five G. That's the one that I would recommend 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.960 for him. So the Samsung A fifty three five G 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.200 is wow. Yeah, it's as low as like I think 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.680 three hundred and thirty dollars or sorry, four hundred and 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.440 thirty dollars. But you can get that on sale or 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:33.560 even cheaper. So let's see do I say the price tonight? 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:35.400 Did I really? Oh? Wow? 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.240 I said for about four hundred dollars, so I would 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:43.000 go for that. I think that that's uh. So it's say, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.200 this is the problem with with Samsung's website. You go 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.040 to look at the price and they actually include all 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.200 this stuff. So it's looking like if you do an 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.960 unlocked it looks like it's four hundred and forty nine. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.200 See it says it has a trade in, so you're 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.080 getting one hundred dollars for your trade in. So the 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.120 price of the phone is four hundred and fifty dollars, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.600 but you can get that for cheaper. You just trade 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.840 in any phone, you get one hundred dollars off. Then 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.200 I'm looking at honey, they give you another eighty dollars off, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.359 so you can get that for considerably cheaper than the 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.120 price tag. That's one option. The other thing I would 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.000 look at is the TCL phones. They've got the TCL 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:18.040 twenty series. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.200 And the TCL thirty series. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.520 Those are pretty inexpensive as well, so I would do 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.680 I would look into those, but good question, and just 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.520 go with the tablet much much cheaper. And Dad's gonna 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.679 get as Netflix as Hulu Music, if you have Spotify, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.440 Amazon Prime, whatever he needs. I think you can go 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.760 with it that way, all right. Instagram this week is 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.960 bringing Amber alerts to the platform. This is a big 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.120 deal because when I grew up, we had we had 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:49.040 missing children on the back of milk cartons, and you know, 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.600 that was good because a lot of kids were reunited safely, 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.080 but it was also not perfect because you know, the 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.480 children that they had to feature could be on a 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.520 wide swath of wherever those milk cartons were delivered. So 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.720 with Amber alerts on Instagram, there's a couple advantages. Number One, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:06.800 they're going to show these in the news feed or 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.280 in your feed on Instagram. It's going to have a photo, 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.480 it's going to have a description, and it's also going 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.119 to have a link to local law enforcement, So whatever 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:22.080 law enforcement that is handling that child's case is going 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:23.560 to be linked up right through the app, which I 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.320 think is is very smart and as opposed to the 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.600 cell phone those only show text descriptions, so by having 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.280 the picture, it's going to be a big advantage to 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:37.520 this and reuniting these kids safely. Now, the other thing 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.960 they're going to do is they are using geotagging, So 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:43.840 it's going to use a variety of signals to show 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.360 these to people. And that could be the city that's 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.000 on your profile, it could be your IP address or 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.760 where you're located, or if you have location services turned on, 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.600 they'll use that as well. And so I think that 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.520 this is pretty smart that these these alerts will be 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.320 super localized to where they think they need to be, 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.760 and that's a pretty big deal. Now, Instagram did tell 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.480 me that they have been doing this on Facebook since 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.760 twenty fifteen, and it says they've assisted law enforcement in 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.600 hundreds of successful child endangerment cases in the US and 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.240