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Speaker 1: little at three one zero five nine four three zero
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Speaker 1: zero three. So start thinking about what's going on in
Speaker 1: your life. What's going on in your tech life, specifically
Speaker 1: that you want to ask me about, because I will
Speaker 1: do my best to help you answer those. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Tesla real quick. So yesterday was depending
Speaker 1: on when you're listening, but this is yesterday. Last night
Speaker 1: was the big Tesla unveil. So Tesla unveiled a semi
Speaker 1: truck and didn't work out for me to be at
Speaker 1: the event. I was invited. I did not go, basically
Speaker 1: due to some circumstances around my job and kind of
Speaker 1: timing of the story and all that stuff. But I'm
Speaker 1: still excited for what Tesla has and I think the
Speaker 1: semi truck is interesting. But the reality is, when it
Speaker 1: came to me covering this, I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there still waiting for their Tesla Model three.
Speaker 1: And so you have Tesla already now promoting this new
Speaker 1: semi truck and then this new roadster that's supposed to be,
Speaker 1: you know, the follow up to their original roadster, and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there wondering, well, wait, a second war is
Speaker 1: my Model three? And when I say my Model three,
Speaker 1: I don't mean my Model three. I mean all the
Speaker 1: people that have ordered them, and Tesla said they were
Speaker 1: going to do like five thousand a quarter. They've only
Speaker 1: made like two hundred and sixty of these things, and
Speaker 1: they took a lot of reservations. So the semi truck
Speaker 1: is cool. But to me, it's like, come on, let's
Speaker 1: concentrate on getting this stuff out that people have already
Speaker 1: put their thousand dollars down for, people are waiting for.
Speaker 1: Some of these people aren't going to see a car
Speaker 1: for a good two years from the time that they
Speaker 1: put down their money. To me, that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you about the semi truck. This
Speaker 1: is a brand new Tesla electric semi truck. It can
Speaker 1: go zero to sixty and five seconds compared to fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds with a diesel. And this is the interesting part.
Speaker 1: They say it can climb five percent grades at a
Speaker 1: steady sixty five miles an hour, where a diesel truck
Speaker 1: max is out at forty five miles an hour on
Speaker 1: a five percent grade. It's also more responsive. It can
Speaker 1: cover more miles than a diesel truck in the same
Speaker 1: amount of time. And they are saying it's going to
Speaker 1: integrate with passenger cars better. So I find that really interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think what they're doing here is pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: They've got two touchscreen displays inside. This thing looks very futuristic.
Speaker 1: It has navigation, blind spot monitoring, electronic data logging. Here's
Speaker 1: the other thing. They've got to build new chargers for
Speaker 1: these semi trucks. So now these are called mega chargers.
Speaker 1: So you've got the Tesla, you've got regular electric car chargers,
Speaker 1: then you've got superchargers, and now you have mega chargers.
Speaker 1: These are going to add about four hundred miles to
Speaker 1: the truck's range in thirty minutes. But now, don't forget
Speaker 1: they have to build all these things. They're not built.
Speaker 1: When it comes to safety, the semi does not jackknife.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's got some onboard sensors that detect instability and
Speaker 1: react with positive or negative torque to each wheel while
Speaker 1: independently working all the breaks. So that's really interesting. And
Speaker 1: you've got autopilot, automatic emergency braking, lane keeping, lane departure
Speaker 1: event recording. And here's the other cool thing it can do.
Speaker 1: It can travel in a convoy, so you can have
Speaker 1: a bunch of these semi trucks all following each other
Speaker 1: like a herd of elephants, and there you go autonomously,
Speaker 1: so you only need one driver for like five or
Speaker 1: six trucks. How crazy is that it can go five
Speaker 1: hundred miles on a charge at highway speed and filled
Speaker 1: with a bunch of stuff. And Tesla says that eighty
Speaker 1: percent of freight in the US is moved less than
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty miles, So that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that, because you would think that freight
Speaker 1: would be moved, you know, across the US, like they
Speaker 1: ship things from you know, New York to LA. But
Speaker 1: I guess now that I think about it, most of
Speaker 1: the major companies have like regional factories where they make
Speaker 1: stuff like Cheetos and stuff, so they don't really need
Speaker 1: to ship those. You're not getting your Cheetos in LA
Speaker 1: from New York, getting them from a factory somewhere in
Speaker 1: the LA area, I'm guessing. So here comes the when
Speaker 1: can I get it question? When it comes to the
Speaker 1: Tesla semi five thousand dollars deposit and production is in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. So twenty nineteen is two years away. Well,
Speaker 1: it's only a year away. But here's the thing, you
Speaker 1: really think these are going to come out in early
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Probably not. We're looking at the end of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen if they can even do that. Full mines
Speaker 1: are open. Three one zero five nine four three zero
Speaker 1: zero three three one zero five nine four three zero
Speaker 1: zero three. You're listening to Rich on Tech. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the Tesla Semi. They also unveiled a roadster, and
Speaker 1: this is a car that's supposedly going to be the
Speaker 1: fastest car ever in the world. And you know, I
Speaker 1: was a little cool on Tesla. Before I did my
Speaker 1: Tesla test drive. I took a They loaned me a
Speaker 1: the pretty much their fastest Tesla Model S car, and
Speaker 1: it was phenomenal. It really was. It was It was
Speaker 1: so fast. When you accelerated, you just literally went back
Speaker 1: in your seat. Three two three you're on with Rich.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I have this question. Maybe you could help
Speaker 2: me out. I have an iPhone six S. It's a
Speaker 2: sixty four gigabyte but I know it has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with my iCloud. But every single time, once in
Speaker 2: a while, I'll always get this pop up that'll say
Speaker 2: forty four weeks that you haven't backed up this and
Speaker 2: you need more iCloud storage. And I don't really want
Speaker 2: to purchase like the extra memory for the iCloud, and
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to see maybe a different alternative to
Speaker 2: try to like get this annoying pop up to just
Speaker 2: stop popping up.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, to buy the ninety nine cents. So here's
Speaker 1: the thing. There's a couple of things going on which
Speaker 1: you should know about. Number one, a lot of times
Speaker 1: you don't actually need the extra iCloud storage. What's happening
Speaker 1: is if you've upgraded your iPhone, Apple is keeping an
Speaker 1: old backup in your iCloud, which is taking up a
Speaker 1: lot of your storage. So the first thing to do
Speaker 1: is go into your iCloud and go into your backups
Speaker 1: where it says like manage storage and look for your
Speaker 1: old backups, Okay, and that's the number one thing to do.
Speaker 1: So once you like on mine, it kept saying that
Speaker 1: same exact message, But the reality of it is, I
Speaker 1: just needed to delete my old backup because a lot
Speaker 1: of times your old backup has a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: in there you no longer need once you have a
Speaker 1: new phone. That's the first thing. Second thing I would
Speaker 1: do is go into your photos if you don't want
Speaker 1: to use iCloud and just use Google Photos and offload
Speaker 1: all your photos there, or you can choose another one.
Speaker 1: You can use Flicker if they're still around, you can
Speaker 1: use Microsoft OneDrive. There's so many different things that you
Speaker 1: can use to offload your pictures and keep them off
Speaker 1: your phone. So I personally use Google Photos and I
Speaker 1: don't use the iCloud storage for my photos. Now, believe me,
Speaker 1: when you go to turn this off, Apple's going to
Speaker 1: make a huge deal and say, hey, okay, we're going
Speaker 1: to delete everything you've ever done on your iPhone and
Speaker 1: just you have to make sure everything's backed up first
Speaker 1: before you believe that. But the reality is they're not
Speaker 1: going to delete everything. But yes, your pictures will go away. Ncloud.
Speaker 1: I think that's what's happening to your system. And I
Speaker 1: think if you get rid of the old backups and
Speaker 1: offload the pictures, I think you're gonna be okay. So
Speaker 1: good question, Thanks so much for calling. Leave me that
Speaker 1: first segment already in the can you guys, so I'll
Speaker 1: be back with more after this. I got lots of
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. We have new phones, we've got
Speaker 1: pixel buds, we've got oh my gosh, there's so many
Speaker 1: things to talk about. In the tech world this week.
Speaker 1: So I'll be back in just a little bit to
Speaker 1: talk about more of that and take more of your calls.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Rich on tech Live. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Rich on tech Live. I'm Rich Demiro. This is the
Speaker 1: show where I talk about technology, answer your tech questions,
Speaker 1: and tell you about all the cool stuff that's happening
Speaker 1: in the tech world. Let's just go right back to
Speaker 1: the phones. At three one zero five nine four three
Speaker 1: zero zero three three one zero five nine four three
Speaker 1: zero zero three four one four you are on with Rich. Yes, good,
Speaker 1: how are you doing?
Speaker 3: iPhone can X.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's gets struck like sometimes I can use like no,
Speaker 2: nothing's disagree.
Speaker 1: Nothing is working on which one on the iPhone ten
Speaker 1: ten X? Yeah? Yeah, on which app?
Speaker 3: Or apps?
Speaker 1: Oh? Interesting? You know, I've sort of noticed on the
Speaker 1: iPhone ten that there are a lot of bugs. And
Speaker 1: I've been using the iPhone ten for a little bit
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you it's a beautiful device, but there
Speaker 1: are a lot of bugs on this device. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing that's happening. I notice, especially in the corners
Speaker 1: of the phone, that anything that's in those corners can
Speaker 1: sometimes be tough to manage or tough to actually tough
Speaker 1: to actually use, and so if buttons are in the corners,
Speaker 1: I've noticed that they don't always respond to my fingertip.
Speaker 1: So I think that it's a matter of things need
Speaker 1: to be updated, a matter of the iOS being updated
Speaker 1: and also the apps being up dated. So I think
Speaker 1: things are going to be okay eventually, but right now,
Speaker 1: it is definitely an interesting experience on the iPhone ten
Speaker 1: or X, whatever you want to call it, because of
Speaker 1: all the updates that need to be done. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so I would say my advice to you is just
Speaker 1: hold tight and hopefully you get you'll get some of
Speaker 1: the updates that we need to make this phone a
Speaker 1: better phone. Speaking of phones, one Plus announced a brand
Speaker 1: new phone. Have you guys heard of one Plus. This
Speaker 1: is a brand that's out of China, but they make
Speaker 1: some really nice devices and they've they make some of
Speaker 1: my favorite Android phones. Some of my Android phones that
Speaker 1: I love are kind of the clean Androids, like the
Speaker 1: Pixel and also the one plus. This is now the
Speaker 1: one Plus five T. The only thing I don't like
Speaker 1: about what they're doing is they're coming out with phones
Speaker 1: way too fast. They just come out with their last
Speaker 1: phone like six months ago, and now they have this
Speaker 1: one one plus five T has a six inch screen,
Speaker 1: it's an O led screen, it's got an eighteen to
Speaker 1: nine aspect ratio. It's got a display that adapts. You
Speaker 1: can see it out side. They move their fingerprint reader
Speaker 1: to the back, and now they have the same regular camera,
Speaker 1: but now they have a better secondary camera, so it
Speaker 1: gives you better low light pictures. And if you never
Speaker 1: heard of one plus, check them out because they really
Speaker 1: make some nice devices for the price. This phone, sixty
Speaker 1: four gigabyte, starts at four hundred and ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 1: It'll be available November twenty first, and it's got an
Speaker 1: amazing design do I have? And it's you know, they
Speaker 1: move the fingerprint reader to the back, which is really nice.
Speaker 1: And it's if you're thinking of a phone, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you don't want to get the iPhone. You don't want
Speaker 1: to spend all the money on the iPhone, and you
Speaker 1: don't want to spend one thousand dollars on a Google pixel.
Speaker 1: Definitely check out one plus OnePlus dot net is their
Speaker 1: website and they're doing solid stuff. It's a great device.
Speaker 1: It's got a great camera, it's got great software, and
Speaker 1: now they have face unlocked too, so you can use
Speaker 1: your face to unlock the phone. They say they use
Speaker 1: one hundred identifiers to unlock the five t different than
Speaker 1: the way that Apple's doing it on the iPhone ten.
Speaker 1: But it's a really nice phone, very smooth, and I
Speaker 1: think you'll be happy with it. So check out one
Speaker 1: Plus if you are thinking of getting a new smartphone. Phone.
Speaker 1: Lines are open three one zero five nine four three
Speaker 1: zero zero three. I'll never forget. I was in an
Speaker 1: uber in San Francisco and the guy had a one
Speaker 1: plus and I was like, wait, what phone is that?
Speaker 1: It is the first time I ever saw it back
Speaker 1: in the day. Sixty six one, you're on with Rich?
Speaker 1: Who am I speaking with? Hey?
Speaker 3: Rich, It's Greg from the Antelope Valley.
Speaker 1: But what's on your mind?
Speaker 3: I'm hoping, uh, Santy will bring me a three sixty camera?
Speaker 3: What are your I'm hoping not to spend a whole
Speaker 3: lot of money, but something with you know, fairly good quality.
Speaker 1: Ooh, three sixty cam? Are you gonna be? Do you
Speaker 1: want to standalone three sixty or do you just want
Speaker 1: a three sixty cam that connects to a device.
Speaker 3: Yeah, either either or I was looking at the uh
Speaker 3: I think it's by say I'm sung and it kind
Speaker 3: of looks like a little robot. M yep.
Speaker 1: Do you have a Do you have an Android device?
Speaker 3: No? I have an iPhone okay, so.
Speaker 1: That one works with iPhone as well. So there is
Speaker 1: one that's uh, there's two that I like. So the
Speaker 1: one that you have, the one that you're talking about,
Speaker 1: is the Samsung Gear and that one is really nice.
Speaker 1: But the other one I really like is the Insta
Speaker 1: three sixty. So that's the other one I check out,
Speaker 1: and they sort of they came up with it there.
Speaker 1: They make a really nice one. It kind of connects
Speaker 1: right to your device, so it pops into the lightning jack,
Speaker 1: which is kind of neat, whereas whereas the Samsung one
Speaker 1: is standalone by itself and you just you know, you
Speaker 1: offload it via Bluetooth or Wi Fi. So I would
Speaker 1: check out Insta three sixty dot com and see what
Speaker 1: you think about THEIRS. I've used THEIRS and I really
Speaker 1: like it. It's just it's slick because it's just it
Speaker 1: just pops into your phone, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: carry anything around, you don't have to worry about it
Speaker 1: being charged. It's just really nice that way.
Speaker 3: So oh and as far as the price, uh on.
Speaker 1: The Insta three sixty, uh, you know, let's see how
Speaker 1: much that one is. They're not that expensive. I think
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, well, okay, this one is expensive because
Speaker 1: they have they have various models. The newest one is
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars, but they have an old one. Let's
Speaker 1: see an older one that is I think a little
Speaker 1: bit less, and that one, yes, two hundred dollars. So
Speaker 1: ok And if you look at the Samsung Gear, I
Speaker 1: think the let's see Gear three sixty, that one. Do
Speaker 1: you know how much that one's running? Uh?
Speaker 3: No, no, because I think they just came out with
Speaker 3: the new one seventeen as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a new version of it. So there's two
Speaker 1: of them out there right now. And the new one
Speaker 1: is let's see how much this one is?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Interesting, they have the old one, I know is highly
Speaker 1: discounted and a new one. Okay, new one's two hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, I would look at those two Insta
Speaker 1: Insta three sixty and then the Samsung Year three sixty
Speaker 1: and see which one you like better. They're both basically
Speaker 1: the same price. I kind of slightly go towards the
Speaker 1: one that sticks into your phone because it's just a
Speaker 1: little bit easier. But you know, you can do either one,
Speaker 1: so see which one you like. All right, guys, rich
Speaker 1: on Tech dot tv is the website. If you want
Speaker 1: to learn more about me, I'll be back with more
Speaker 1: of your questions. Welcome back to rich on Tech Live.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me. I'm rich Dmiro and we are
Speaker 1: talking about all kinds of fun technology. A bunch of
Speaker 1: things happen this week in technology, and one thing that
Speaker 1: is really fascinating to me is what's happening with the
Speaker 1: smart home devices, especially the Google Home, which I've got
Speaker 1: a couple of in my house, and they activated a
Speaker 1: new feature it's called Google Home Broadcast. And this reminds
Speaker 1: me of back in the day. At my house, we
Speaker 1: had an intercom system and you can, you know, use
Speaker 1: it to talk from room to room and from the
Speaker 1: front door. And nobody in my house used it, obviously
Speaker 1: because nobody it was like an older house, but it
Speaker 1: just you know, I thought it was awesome and nobody
Speaker 1: knew how to use this intercom pa system whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it. But I did, and so I
Speaker 1: would use it to, you know, say things from room
Speaker 1: to room, talk to my parents downstairs, whatever. And now
Speaker 1: you have a Google Home basically letting you do the
Speaker 1: same thing. So Google Home Broadcast is a news service
Speaker 1: from your assistant on Google Home that lets you broadcast
Speaker 1: your voice to all your speakers. So let me tell
Speaker 1: you how you can use this. So if you have
Speaker 1: a Google Home in your house, you can say the
Speaker 1: code word, which is mmmmm, which I can't really say
Speaker 1: it because mine will go off. But it's the letters
Speaker 1: O and then K and then the search term goog
Speaker 1: l E and then you say broadcast and then whatever
Speaker 1: you want to broadcast, and when you say that, it
Speaker 1: will take your recording of your voice and broadcast that
Speaker 1: to all the other speakers in your house. So I
Speaker 1: did this the other night when it was time for
Speaker 1: my kids to read. I said, all right, uh, okay,
Speaker 1: Google broadcasts it's time to read. And there goes. So
Speaker 1: it said it's time to read kids on all the
Speaker 1: other Google Homes throughout my house. How cool is that?
Speaker 1: I love it. You can also say uh, now, yeah,
Speaker 1: there cos it's broadcasting. Now you can also say okay, Google,
Speaker 1: it's dinner time and they ring a dinner bell on
Speaker 1: all your Google homes. That's really fun. And you can
Speaker 1: also from your phone. I'm not sure. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: thank you. But the other thing you can do is
Speaker 1: from your phone if you have the Google Assistant, either
Speaker 1: installed or on your phone, if you know, if you
Speaker 1: have an Android it's kind of built in if you
Speaker 1: install it on your iPhone, you can open up the
Speaker 1: Google Assistant app and then say, okay, Google broadcast, I'm
Speaker 1: on my way home. And next thing, you know, all
Speaker 1: your speakers in your house will say that even if
Speaker 1: you're outside of your house. Isn't that fun? So and
Speaker 1: I know you're like, oh, I would never need that,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you do this, you know, with if
Speaker 1: you're a significant other or your kids. You know, you're
Speaker 1: leaving an appointment or whatever, and then you that's I'm sorry, Angie.
Speaker 1: I know, Angie said, you're making my Google Home go off.
Speaker 1: That's why I try not to say the words, but
Speaker 1: sometimes it was tough not to. But yeah, you can
Speaker 1: do this from outside your house. So if you're leaving
Speaker 1: an appointment, coming back from the dentist, whatever, it's still broadcasting.
Speaker 1: You can just do that I think this is really fun.
Speaker 1: It's rolling out right now, it's online, it's probably on yours,
Speaker 1: and the Google Home is going to be one of
Speaker 1: the hottest products this holiday season for sure. I think
Speaker 1: it's the best one out there. I think it's better
Speaker 1: than Alexa. I think it's better than anything we have.
Speaker 1: If you want to spend fifty bucks, and they're going
Speaker 1: to be cheaper this holiday season, I think they're going
Speaker 1: to be like thirty dollars, I definitely get one of
Speaker 1: these things. The Google Home Mini will will be your
Speaker 1: best friend. It's such a cool little device to have around,
Speaker 1: So check that out, all right. Phone lines are open
Speaker 1: three one zero five to nine four three zero zero
Speaker 1: three three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I try not to when I'm talking talking
Speaker 1: about this stuff, actually say the terms like the A word.
Speaker 1: You know, Amazon's female name. I guess I guess she's female, right,
Speaker 1: and then the the OKAG word because these things activate
Speaker 1: people's stuff like crazy. So yeah, guys, re enter for
Speaker 1: the charger. If you're on the Facebook Live you can
Speaker 1: re enter as well. And I'll talk more about that
Speaker 1: in a minute. But the phone lines are open if
Speaker 1: you have a tech question three one zero five nine
Speaker 1: four three zero zero three. While we're on the subject
Speaker 1: real quick of smart things, I just want to tell
Speaker 1: you about something that I really am obsessed with that
Speaker 1: I love. It's the idea of these smart plugs. I've
Speaker 1: got a couple of them around my house and during
Speaker 1: the holiday is great thing to have because they can
Speaker 1: turn on and off your Christmas lights or any of
Speaker 1: your decorations or whatever you want. Basically, and now I home,
Speaker 1: you know them, they make all those products. They have
Speaker 1: an outdoor smart plug, so it's this forty dollars. And
Speaker 1: most smart plugs right now I know are inside, so
Speaker 1: they're mostly rated for indoor use. But this one is
Speaker 1: for outdoor use. It's forty dollars and it goes, it can.
Speaker 1: It's designed to withstand the elements control outdoor lighting decorations,
Speaker 1: small appliances up to eighteen hundred watts. And this one
Speaker 1: is also Apple home Kit. So here's the thing. There
Speaker 1: are there are many competing home automation smart home stuff.
Speaker 1: So you have Google Assistant, you have Alexa, you have
Speaker 1: home Kit, and there's also there's another one, but no
Speaker 1: one's really using that at this point. But basically, well,
Speaker 1: Samsung has one too, But the reality is all these
Speaker 1: are competing because the smart home is the future, and
Speaker 1: if you have products that work with these other smart assistants,
Speaker 1: people want to buy them. So if you have a
Speaker 1: Google Assistant, then people are more app to buy the
Speaker 1: Google Assistant products that work with that because you can
Speaker 1: activate them. Most of the time when I'm seeing the
Speaker 1: trend is that they're not choosing favorites right now. So
Speaker 1: for instance, this iHome smart plug works with everything including
Speaker 1: the A word, the G word, home Kit, Nest, and Wink,
Speaker 1: so you can basically control all these things from your voice.
Speaker 1: And for me personally, I'm I'm kind of on the
Speaker 1: Google Assistant realm right now because I'm really liking what
Speaker 1: the Google Assistant does. I think it understands your language
Speaker 1: in the most natural language possible. So when you give
Speaker 1: a command, you don't have to say, please turn on
Speaker 1: the bedroom light number two. It will understand if you
Speaker 1: just say, hey, turn on my bedroom lights, and it
Speaker 1: will turn them on. It's very smart like that. When
Speaker 1: I had Alexa setup, i felt like she was much
Speaker 1: more specific, like I had to say specific things to
Speaker 1: her to make her work. Properly, and it's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: once you learn the syntax, you kind of figure it out.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, I think Google is a little
Speaker 1: bit easier. So I'll put all these links to things
Speaker 1: I talk about on my website. It's Rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot tv. You're listening to episode number two zero six
Speaker 1: of the podcast. Angie Ford in the chat room says,
Speaker 1: our curve TV's worth it. My guy really wants one.
Speaker 1: I'd say no because they sort of went out of fashion.
Speaker 1: They were, they were huge a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and now you never see him anymore. So you might
Speaker 1: get a good deal on them during Black Friday because
Speaker 1: they're trying to clear them out. Two six two you
Speaker 1: are on with Rich. Can you lower the Facebook behind
Speaker 1: you so I can hear you? Two six two you're
Speaker 1: on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Uh. Yeah, I was just putting ask Rich what does
Speaker 3: he know about the Wish app about ordering stuff through Wish?
Speaker 1: Yeah, wish okay, good question. Where are you calling from?
Speaker 3: We're Sine Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Wisconsin? Okay, a good question. Caller wants to
Speaker 1: know what about the Wish app. So. Wish is a
Speaker 1: popular app on iPhone and Android, and it basically sells
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff and at really cheap prices. So
Speaker 1: you can browse through Wish and just see a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff that prices like I'm talking a dollar,
Speaker 1: you know, two dollars, three dollars, four dollars, whatever, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people like this app. It's super cheap.
Speaker 1: It's like one of those things. It's like scrolling through
Speaker 1: your Instagram feed, but you can buy stuff for really
Speaker 1: cheap prices. But here's the catch. It ships from China
Speaker 1: most of the time, and so the reality is it
Speaker 1: takes a long time to get your stuff. That's the
Speaker 1: biggest complaint about Wish. So what happens is it's so
Speaker 1: cheap that you kind of forget you ordered it, and
Speaker 1: then next thing, you know, six to eight weeks later,
Speaker 1: it will show up on your doorstep, and you wonder,
Speaker 1: how can you get something like an iPhone charging cable
Speaker 1: for a buck? Well, let me tell you. When I
Speaker 1: was in China, I could not believe how cheap this
Speaker 1: stuff was over there. So the iPhone cables I saw,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm talking every color, every imaginable type and
Speaker 1: size or whatever, they were all a buck. I couldn't
Speaker 1: even believe it. They sell them for the same exact
Speaker 1: cables for twenty dollars. Here in the US. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of markup on these tech products, so Wish is
Speaker 1: it's fine. I mean, you know, I'm sure it's very
Speaker 1: hit or miss. So the app is wish dot com
Speaker 1: if you want to download it. I personally would probably
Speaker 1: not shop from something like this because I'm kind of
Speaker 1: an Amazon guy and I just want to get my
Speaker 1: stuff fast. And I also I think a lot of
Speaker 1: this stuff it looks cool, but it's kind of cheap,
Speaker 1: so you definitely want to just keep that in mind
Speaker 1: when you're getting this stuff. All right, good question. Thanks
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Speaker 1: This is the podcast where I talk about all the
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Speaker 1: to the phone lined nine four nine. You are on
Speaker 1: with Rich nine four nine. What's on your mind? Hello?
Speaker 4: La, Hi, Hi, Hi, This is Cindy. I have a question.
Speaker 4: Sure my daughter recently she crashed her phone. She has
Speaker 4: an iPhone seven and I call insurance. We have insurance,
Speaker 4: but they said I have to pay to work two
Speaker 4: twenty five. What's your advice for me? Whether it go
Speaker 4: with them and I have to turn in her crass phone,
Speaker 4: or should I just go buy a refurbished phone?
Speaker 1: What kind of phone?
Speaker 4: So if you can the seven seven, iPhone seven okay?
Speaker 1: iPhone seven okay. So your question is your daughter messed
Speaker 1: up her phone and they want two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars to repair it through the insurance, or should
Speaker 1: you just buy a refurbished phone? So an iPhone seven?
Speaker 1: If we look online to see how much that costs.
Speaker 1: Let's see. So let's buy a iPhone seven with device,
Speaker 1: would you like? I'm on gazelle dot com. This is
Speaker 1: a website that buys and sells phones. So you've got
Speaker 1: an iPhone seven. They are going for about four hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty nine dollars on the uh yeah, four hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty nine on the cheap end. Anywhere from four
Speaker 1: twenty nine to four eighty nine. So basically, the insurance
Speaker 1: company wants two twenty five, you've already paid into the insurance.
Speaker 1: I'd say, probably go for it. It's gonna be cheaper
Speaker 1: than getting her a new phone. And I know it hurts,
Speaker 1: but I would say get her the get her the
Speaker 1: two hundred twenty five dollars, and get her a case
Speaker 1: for that device as well, like a better case. So
Speaker 1: I like cases from Tech twenty one. I like cases
Speaker 1: from Incipio otter Box if you want something that's strong,
Speaker 1: But you got to get her more than just a
Speaker 1: case that looks nice. So because those are not going
Speaker 1: to protect her phone in the way that you need
Speaker 1: them protected. Realistically, when you're talking about protecting an iPhone,
Speaker 1: the case has to have a little lip over the
Speaker 1: screen because if the screen hits the ground, it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna break. And some of these fancy cases that just
Speaker 1: look nice, they don't have the protection that when your
Speaker 1: phone falls flat on the ground, the screen is going
Speaker 1: to hit the ground. So you definitely want a case
Speaker 1: that has that comes up almost over the edge of
Speaker 1: the phone a little bit, and that's kind of a lip,
Speaker 1: and that will protect your phone much more so if
Speaker 1: you have that insurance, I know, two hundred twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars a lot, but you've probably also been paying into
Speaker 1: that insurance as well, and that's the thing. So the
Speaker 1: better thing, I mean, the insurance thing is a tough
Speaker 1: one because it's so expensive. You're paying for the insurance
Speaker 1: the whole time, and then when you actually have a problem,
Speaker 1: you have to pay even more to use the insurance.
Speaker 1: So it's tough. We're in a tough place with these
Speaker 1: phones because they're getting so expensive that whenever there's a problem,
Speaker 1: you realize just how expensive they are. Three one zero
Speaker 1: five nine four three zero zero three three one zero
Speaker 1: five nine four three zero zero three. Let me tell you,
Speaker 1: guys about a new travel app I tried out the
Speaker 1: other day. It's called hit List, And this is a
Speaker 1: new app that it's it's pretty cool, it's kind of promising.
Speaker 1: It just came to Android, it's been on iOS for
Speaker 1: a while. And the way it works is you pop
Speaker 1: in where you want to go, and it gives you
Speaker 1: ideas on when to travel, the times to travel, and
Speaker 1: it finds really good flight combinations. So the website is
Speaker 1: hit List. That's the app. Go go find it in
Speaker 1: the iTunes Store or the Android Store and see what
Speaker 1: you think about it. I'm I'm a big fan of
Speaker 1: all these travel apps because you kind of want to
Speaker 1: find one that works for you. I really like my
Speaker 1: Hopper app, and I of course like Google Flights. But
Speaker 1: this is a new one. I'm gonna add this to
Speaker 1: my list. It's called hit List, So check it out
Speaker 1: if you're looking for a cheap flight. Spring Break is
Speaker 1: just around the corner. I know crazy four one four
Speaker 1: you are on.
Speaker 3: With rich him Christ your.
Speaker 5: Right, I have a gals six. Maybe tell my trage up.
Speaker 5: The valley guy is so fast? Is there a way
Speaker 5: I can keep it charge up for like they usually
Speaker 5: say like three or four days and give me charge.
Speaker 1: Took forth So it used to hold a charge and
Speaker 1: now it doesn't correct. Okay, So here's what i'd recommend.
Speaker 1: So you've had this phone. If this is an S six,
Speaker 1: this is okay. So number one, I'm sorry to tell
Speaker 1: you this, but the Samsung Galaxy S six never had
Speaker 1: a good battery. So even from day one, out of
Speaker 1: all the phones I've tested, S six, for some reason,
Speaker 1: the battery just drained on that thing really fast. So
Speaker 1: it probably worked for a good amount of time to you.
Speaker 1: But the reality is it's never worked very good, and
Speaker 1: I know that's frustrating for a phone. I would say
Speaker 1: with this phone, the only way to rescue it at
Speaker 1: this point is to probably format it and start over.
Speaker 1: And I know that that involves deleting everything off the
Speaker 1: phone and reinstalling your apps one by one, but I
Speaker 1: think there's something happening there where the old stuff is
Speaker 1: kind of mixing up with your new stuff, and it's
Speaker 1: just there's a lot of stuff hanging around on this phone.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to do that, I would recommend,
Speaker 1: in this order go ahead and delete any app on
Speaker 1: that device that you don't use. Then I would make
Speaker 1: sure that all of your apps are updated. Then I
Speaker 1: would make sure you have the latest software update on
Speaker 1: that phone, and then I would use an app that
Speaker 1: I like called HTC boost Plus. And this app is free,
Speaker 1: and what we'll do it will basically go through your
Speaker 1: phone and kind of clear out all the junk. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where the S six was
Speaker 1: never good to begin with, and it's just a problem
Speaker 1: because it's it's just not good after all these years.
Speaker 1: So hopefully it answers your question. All right, five six two,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 5: I'm Rich.
Speaker 1: My name is Ramon calling from Downy Hey, Ramone, how
Speaker 1: you doing great?
Speaker 5: Love your show?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Thank you question. I have an s A plus and
Speaker 3: I was looking at the decks. Is that worth it
Speaker 3: to get that?
Speaker 2: Or what is a plus is having that deck?
Speaker 1: Oh? Good question. So Dex is from Samsung. This is
Speaker 1: a little device that you plug in your phone. It's
Speaker 1: basically a little kind of what would you call a
Speaker 1: doc that you plug your phone into your Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: Note and the essay in the essay plus No. Eight
Speaker 1: and it's a doc that connects to a big screen
Speaker 1: like a computer screen, and it turns your phone into
Speaker 1: a big screen computer and you can do a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff on this thing. I saw. I saw the
Speaker 1: demo twice and it's quite impressive. Now I haven't seen
Speaker 1: the big pickup of it. I haven't seen a lot
Speaker 1: of people using it, but I think that people that
Speaker 1: have it are generally happy, and I think at the price,
Speaker 1: it's not a bad investment. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: can replace your computer forever, but it's kind of a
Speaker 1: cool device and what can you do on it. Well,
Speaker 1: you can surf the web, you can do your emails,
Speaker 1: you can do you know, you can do almost do
Speaker 1: everything you can do on your phone, obviously, but on
Speaker 1: a bigger screen in a nicer way. So I haven't
Speaker 1: heard a lot of people that have used it. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of those sleeper kind of things that
Speaker 1: it's going to get better as it goes along. But
Speaker 1: it's a fun thing to have, and I don't see
Speaker 1: why you wouldn't want it if you just want to
Speaker 1: carry your phone around and you know, then you can
Speaker 1: dock your phone in your office and just have a
Speaker 1: nice big screen to use with it. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to do everything that you could do on
Speaker 1: a real computer, but you can do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I don't think it's a bad thing.
Speaker 1: It's not one of those things that came out and
Speaker 1: people were like, you know, wrong answer. Yeah, now that
Speaker 1: I have these sound effects, I'm gonna use them. But
Speaker 1: I think that at the same time, it's something that
Speaker 1: not that many people know about and not that many
Speaker 1: people are aware of, but you know about it, so
Speaker 1: I don't know, check it out all right, good question,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for calling in. Today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, man, that's going to do it for the show.
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Speaker 2: Huh?
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