WEBVTT - Tesla Semi, OnePlus 5T & Resolving iCloud Backup Issues 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.520 You are listening to Rich on Tech. I'm Rich Demiro. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:14.440 This is the show where I talk tech and give 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.040 you the inside scoop on all kinds of cool tech news, 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.680 apps and websites. Plus I help you get the most 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.680 out of your gadgets by answering your tech questions live 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.360 What is going on? Welcome to you, Thanks for joining me. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.960 I'm Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA TV in Los Angeles. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:33.120 You can learn more about me at richontech dot TV. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.199 Welcome to everyone watching on Facebook Live and welcome to 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.879 you listening no matter where you're listening from. Thanks for 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.919 joining me. I love having you here. 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What's going on in your tech life, specifically 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:13.960 that you want to ask me about, because I will 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.840 do my best to help you answer those. I want 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.720 to talk about Tesla real quick. So yesterday was depending 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.640 on when you're listening, but this is yesterday. Last night 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:29.160 was the big Tesla unveil. So Tesla unveiled a semi 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.640 truck and didn't work out for me to be at 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.080 the event. I was invited. I did not go, basically 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.399 due to some circumstances around my job and kind of 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.800 timing of the story and all that stuff. But I'm 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.679 still excited for what Tesla has and I think the 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.240 semi truck is interesting. But the reality is, when it 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.440 came to me covering this, I think there's a lot 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.040 of people out there still waiting for their Tesla Model three. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.559 And so you have Tesla already now promoting this new 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.600 semi truck and then this new roadster that's supposed to be, 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.120 you know, the follow up to their original roadster, and 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.880 I'm sitting there wondering, well, wait, a second war is 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.359 my Model three? And when I say my Model three, 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.239 I don't mean my Model three. I mean all the 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.720 people that have ordered them, and Tesla said they were 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.760 going to do like five thousand a quarter. They've only 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.960 made like two hundred and sixty of these things, and 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.239 they took a lot of reservations. So the semi truck 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.440 is cool. But to me, it's like, come on, let's 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.280 concentrate on getting this stuff out that people have already 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.079 put their thousand dollars down for, people are waiting for. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:35.639 Some of these people aren't going to see a car 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.240 for a good two years from the time that they 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.280 put down their money. To me, that's kind of crazy. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.280 But I will tell you about the semi truck. This 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.960 is a brand new Tesla electric semi truck. It can 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.480 go zero to sixty and five seconds compared to fifteen 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.639 seconds with a diesel. And this is the interesting part. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.200 They say it can climb five percent grades at a 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.880 steady sixty five miles an hour, where a diesel truck 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.080 max is out at forty five miles an hour on 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:07.160 a five percent grade. It's also more responsive. It can 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.040 cover more miles than a diesel truck in the same 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.760 amount of time. And they are saying it's going to 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.040 integrate with passenger cars better. So I find that really interesting. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:16.920 I mean, I think what they're doing here is pretty awesome. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.559 They've got two touchscreen displays inside. This thing looks very futuristic. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.800 It has navigation, blind spot monitoring, electronic data logging. Here's 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.720 the other thing. They've got to build new chargers for 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.080 these semi trucks. So now these are called mega chargers. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.800 So you've got the Tesla, you've got regular electric car chargers, 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.760 then you've got superchargers, and now you have mega chargers. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.080 These are going to add about four hundred miles to 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.040 the truck's range in thirty minutes. But now, don't forget 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.280 they have to build all these things. They're not built. 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.560 When it comes to safety, the semi does not jackknife. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.520 Apparently it's got some onboard sensors that detect instability and 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.960 react with positive or negative torque to each wheel while 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.280 independently working all the breaks. So that's really interesting. And 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:07.280 you've got autopilot, automatic emergency braking, lane keeping, lane departure 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.280 event recording. And here's the other cool thing it can do. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.200 It can travel in a convoy, so you can have 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.880 a bunch of these semi trucks all following each other 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:20.800 like a herd of elephants, and there you go autonomously, 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.080 so you only need one driver for like five or 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.160 six trucks. How crazy is that it can go five 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.920 hundred miles on a charge at highway speed and filled 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.960 with a bunch of stuff. And Tesla says that eighty 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.400 percent of freight in the US is moved less than 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.240 two hundred and fifty miles, So that's kind of interesting. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.440 I didn't realize that, because you would think that freight 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.800 would be moved, you know, across the US, like they 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.919 ship things from you know, New York to LA. But 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.839 I guess now that I think about it, most of 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.520 the major companies have like regional factories where they make 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.000 stuff like Cheetos and stuff, so they don't really need 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.120 to ship those. You're not getting your Cheetos in LA 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.800 from New York, getting them from a factory somewhere in 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.640 the LA area, I'm guessing. So here comes the when 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.760 can I get it question? When it comes to the 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:10.440 Tesla semi five thousand dollars deposit and production is in 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:15.560 twenty nineteen. So twenty nineteen is two years away. Well, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.120 it's only a year away. But here's the thing, you 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:19.760 really think these are going to come out in early 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.159 twenty nineteen. Probably not. We're looking at the end of 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.440 twenty nineteen if they can even do that. Full mines 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.480 are open. Three one zero five nine four three zero 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.440 zero three three one zero five nine four three zero 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.960 zero three. You're listening to Rich on Tech. We're talking 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:40.520 about the Tesla Semi. They also unveiled a roadster, and 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.520 this is a car that's supposedly going to be the 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.640 fastest car ever in the world. And you know, I 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.599 was a little cool on Tesla. Before I did my 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.479 Tesla test drive. I took a They loaned me a 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:55.120 the pretty much their fastest Tesla Model S car, and 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.800 it was phenomenal. It really was. It was It was 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.640 so fast. When you accelerated, you just literally went back 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.000 in your seat. Three two three you're on with Rich. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.960 Yeah, so I have this question. Maybe you could help 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.120 me out. I have an iPhone six S. It's a 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.400 sixty four gigabyte but I know it has nothing to 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.359 do with my iCloud. But every single time, once in 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.840 a while, I'll always get this pop up that'll say 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.680 forty four weeks that you haven't backed up this and 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.000 you need more iCloud storage. And I don't really want 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.120 to purchase like the extra memory for the iCloud, and 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.279 I'm just trying to see maybe a different alternative to 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.599 try to like get this annoying pop up to just 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:38.480 stop popping up. 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.520 Well, yeah, to buy the ninety nine cents. So here's 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.560 the thing. There's a couple of things going on which 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.080 you should know about. Number one, a lot of times 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.000 you don't actually need the extra iCloud storage. What's happening 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.400 is if you've upgraded your iPhone, Apple is keeping an 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.040 old backup in your iCloud, which is taking up a 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.320 lot of your storage. So the first thing to do 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.400 is go into your iCloud and go into your backups 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.320 where it says like manage storage and look for your 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.840 old backups, Okay, and that's the number one thing to do. 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.600 So once you like on mine, it kept saying that 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.320 same exact message, But the reality of it is, I 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.160 just needed to delete my old backup because a lot 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:18.760 of times your old backup has a bunch of stuff 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.360 in there you no longer need once you have a 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.840 new phone. That's the first thing. Second thing I would 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.120 do is go into your photos if you don't want 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.360 to use iCloud and just use Google Photos and offload 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.880 all your photos there, or you can choose another one. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.120 You can use Flicker if they're still around, you can 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:40.080 use Microsoft OneDrive. There's so many different things that you 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.440 can use to offload your pictures and keep them off 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.400 your phone. So I personally use Google Photos and I 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.480 don't use the iCloud storage for my photos. Now, believe me, 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.200 when you go to turn this off, Apple's going to 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.280 make a huge deal and say, hey, okay, we're going 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.240 to delete everything you've ever done on your iPhone and 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.760 just you have to make sure everything's backed up first 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.240 before you believe that. But the reality is they're not 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.040 going to delete everything. But yes, your pictures will go away. Ncloud. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.920 I think that's what's happening to your system. And I 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.600 think if you get rid of the old backups and 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.120 offload the pictures, I think you're gonna be okay. So 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:15.120 good question, Thanks so much for calling. Leave me that 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.200 first segment already in the can you guys, so I'll 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.320 be back with more after this. I got lots of 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.240 stuff to talk about. We have new phones, we've got 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.880 pixel buds, we've got oh my gosh, there's so many 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.560 things to talk about. In the tech world this week. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.440 So I'll be back in just a little bit to 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.400 talk about more of that and take more of your calls. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:37.800 You're listening to Rich on tech Live. Welcome back to 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.120 Rich on tech Live. I'm Rich Demiro. This is the 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.840 show where I talk about technology, answer your tech questions, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.240 and tell you about all the cool stuff that's happening 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.800 in the tech world. Let's just go right back to 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.600 the phones. At three one zero five nine four three 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.720 zero zero three three one zero five nine four three 0:08:54.960 --> 0:09:00.280 zero zero three four one four you are on with Rich. Yes, good, 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:00.880 how are you doing? 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:03.800 iPhone can X. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.760 Sometimes it's gets struck like sometimes I can use like no, 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:09.920 nothing's disagree. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.200 Nothing is working on which one on the iPhone ten 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.360 ten X? Yeah? Yeah, on which app? 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:19.040 Or apps? 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.320 Oh? Interesting? You know, I've sort of noticed on the 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.120 iPhone ten that there are a lot of bugs. And 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.400 I've been using the iPhone ten for a little bit 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.720 and I'm telling you it's a beautiful device, but there 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.640 are a lot of bugs on this device. And here's 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.280 the thing that's happening. I notice, especially in the corners 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.079 of the phone, that anything that's in those corners can 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:46.559 sometimes be tough to manage or tough to actually tough 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.280 to actually use, and so if buttons are in the corners, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.920 I've noticed that they don't always respond to my fingertip. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.920 So I think that it's a matter of things need 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.520 to be updated, a matter of the iOS being updated 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.240 and also the apps being up dated. So I think 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.120 things are going to be okay eventually, but right now, 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:08.720 it is definitely an interesting experience on the iPhone ten 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.360 or X, whatever you want to call it, because of 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.120 all the updates that need to be done. So yeah, 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.320 so I would say my advice to you is just 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.000 hold tight and hopefully you get you'll get some of 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.000 the updates that we need to make this phone a 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.600 better phone. Speaking of phones, one Plus announced a brand 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.280 new phone. Have you guys heard of one Plus. This 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.760 is a brand that's out of China, but they make 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.719 some really nice devices and they've they make some of 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.320 my favorite Android phones. Some of my Android phones that 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.079 I love are kind of the clean Androids, like the 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.200 Pixel and also the one plus. This is now the 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.320 one Plus five T. The only thing I don't like 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:45.920 about what they're doing is they're coming out with phones 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.840 way too fast. They just come out with their last 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.920 phone like six months ago, and now they have this 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.040 one one plus five T has a six inch screen, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.280 it's an O led screen, it's got an eighteen to 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.480 nine aspect ratio. It's got a display that adapts. You 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.800 can see it out side. They move their fingerprint reader 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.280 to the back, and now they have the same regular camera, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.080 but now they have a better secondary camera, so it 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.720 gives you better low light pictures. And if you never 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.920 heard of one plus, check them out because they really 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.320 make some nice devices for the price. This phone, sixty 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.760 four gigabyte, starts at four hundred and ninety nine dollars. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.679 It'll be available November twenty first, and it's got an 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.160 amazing design do I have? And it's you know, they 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.720 move the fingerprint reader to the back, which is really nice. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.200 And it's if you're thinking of a phone, I'm telling 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:33.719 you don't want to get the iPhone. You don't want 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.600 to spend all the money on the iPhone, and you 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.600 don't want to spend one thousand dollars on a Google pixel. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.360 Definitely check out one plus OnePlus dot net is their 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.600 website and they're doing solid stuff. It's a great device. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.200 It's got a great camera, it's got great software, and 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.199 now they have face unlocked too, so you can use 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.720 your face to unlock the phone. They say they use 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.400 one hundred identifiers to unlock the five t different than 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.760 the way that Apple's doing it on the iPhone ten. 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.400 But it's a really nice phone, very smooth, and I 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.200 think you'll be happy with it. So check out one 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.480 Plus if you are thinking of getting a new smartphone. Phone. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.520 Lines are open three one zero five nine four three 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.959 zero zero three. I'll never forget. I was in an 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.760 uber in San Francisco and the guy had a one 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.920 plus and I was like, wait, what phone is that? 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.640 It is the first time I ever saw it back 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.880 in the day. Sixty six one, you're on with Rich? 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.000 Who am I speaking with? Hey? 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.079 Rich, It's Greg from the Antelope Valley. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:30.960 But what's on your mind? 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:37.000 I'm hoping, uh, Santy will bring me a three sixty camera? 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:41.160 What are your I'm hoping not to spend a whole 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.160 lot of money, but something with you know, fairly good quality. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.000 Ooh, three sixty cam? Are you gonna be? Do you 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.200 want to standalone three sixty or do you just want 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.600 a three sixty cam that connects to a device. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.280 Yeah, either either or I was looking at the uh 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.040 I think it's by say I'm sung and it kind 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.320 of looks like a little robot. M yep. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.360 Do you have a Do you have an Android device? 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.280 No? I have an iPhone okay, so. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.120 That one works with iPhone as well. So there is 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.480 one that's uh, there's two that I like. So the 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.600 one that you have, the one that you're talking about, 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.800 is the Samsung Gear and that one is really nice. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.480 But the other one I really like is the Insta 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.960 three sixty. So that's the other one I check out, 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.319 and they sort of they came up with it there. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.120 They make a really nice one. It kind of connects 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.000 right to your device, so it pops into the lightning jack, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.280 which is kind of neat, whereas whereas the Samsung one 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.599 is standalone by itself and you just you know, you 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.400 offload it via Bluetooth or Wi Fi. So I would 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.920 check out Insta three sixty dot com and see what 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.880 you think about THEIRS. I've used THEIRS and I really 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.800 like it. It's just it's slick because it's just it 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.520 just pops into your phone, so you don't have to 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.400 carry anything around, you don't have to worry about it 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.360 being charged. It's just really nice that way. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.280 So oh and as far as the price, uh on. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.480 The Insta three sixty, uh, you know, let's see how 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.360 much that one is. They're not that expensive. I think 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.520 it's like, uh, well, okay, this one is expensive because 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.800 they have they have various models. The newest one is 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.600 three hundred dollars, but they have an old one. Let's 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.280 see an older one that is I think a little 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.760 bit less, and that one, yes, two hundred dollars. So 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.360 ok And if you look at the Samsung Gear, I 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:30.120 think the let's see Gear three sixty, that one. Do 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.920 you know how much that one's running? Uh? 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.680 No, no, because I think they just came out with 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.960 the new one seventeen as well. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.840 Yeah, there's a new version of it. So there's two 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.560 of them out there right now. And the new one 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.560 is let's see how much this one is? 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:46.640 Yeah? 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.200 Interesting, they have the old one, I know is highly 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:54.120 discounted and a new one. Okay, new one's two hundred bucks. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.320 So so yeah, I would look at those two Insta 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.760 Insta three sixty and then the Samsung Year three sixty 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.600 and see which one you like better. They're both basically 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:06.000 the same price. I kind of slightly go towards the 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.760 one that sticks into your phone because it's just a 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.960 little bit easier. But you know, you can do either one, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.320 so see which one you like. All right, guys, rich 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.440 on Tech dot tv is the website. If you want 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.800 to learn more about me, I'll be back with more 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:29.360 of your questions. Welcome back to rich on Tech Live. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.240 Thanks for joining me. I'm rich Dmiro and we are 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.400 talking about all kinds of fun technology. A bunch of 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.800 things happen this week in technology, and one thing that 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.280 is really fascinating to me is what's happening with the 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.320 smart home devices, especially the Google Home, which I've got 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.800 a couple of in my house, and they activated a 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.000 new feature it's called Google Home Broadcast. And this reminds 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.360 me of back in the day. At my house, we 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.960 had an intercom system and you can, you know, use 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:01.880 it to talk from room to room and from the 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.560 front door. And nobody in my house used it, obviously 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.400 because nobody it was like an older house, but it 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.240 just you know, I thought it was awesome and nobody 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.480 knew how to use this intercom pa system whatever you 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.600 want to call it. But I did, and so I 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.600 would use it to, you know, say things from room 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.560 to room, talk to my parents downstairs, whatever. And now 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.120 you have a Google Home basically letting you do the 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.200 same thing. So Google Home Broadcast is a news service 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.120 from your assistant on Google Home that lets you broadcast 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.360 your voice to all your speakers. So let me tell 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:34.840 you how you can use this. So if you have 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.960 a Google Home in your house, you can say the 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:42.400 code word, which is mmmmm, which I can't really say 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.240 it because mine will go off. But it's the letters 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.600 O and then K and then the search term goog 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.200 l E and then you say broadcast and then whatever 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.000 you want to broadcast, and when you say that, it 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.880 will take your recording of your voice and broadcast that 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.920 to all the other speakers in your house. So I 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.240 did this the other night when it was time for 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.240 my kids to read. I said, all right, uh, okay, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.719 Google broadcasts it's time to read. And there goes. So 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.800 it said it's time to read kids on all the 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.840 other Google Homes throughout my house. How cool is that? 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.880 I love it. You can also say uh, now, yeah, 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.000 there cos it's broadcasting. Now you can also say okay, Google, 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.280 it's dinner time and they ring a dinner bell on 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.760 all your Google homes. That's really fun. And you can 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.800 also from your phone. I'm not sure. Yeah, I know, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.879 thank you. But the other thing you can do is 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.680 from your phone if you have the Google Assistant, either 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.920 installed or on your phone, if you know, if you 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:41.639 have an Android it's kind of built in if you 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.320 install it on your iPhone, you can open up the 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.600 Google Assistant app and then say, okay, Google broadcast, I'm 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.880 on my way home. And next thing, you know, all 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.119 your speakers in your house will say that even if 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.119 you're outside of your house. Isn't that fun? So and 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:57.760 I know you're like, oh, I would never need that, 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.119 but I'm sure you do this, you know, with if 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.200 you're a significant other or your kids. You know, you're 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.240 leaving an appointment or whatever, and then you that's I'm sorry, Angie. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.320 I know, Angie said, you're making my Google Home go off. 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:09.879 That's why I try not to say the words, but 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.840 sometimes it was tough not to. But yeah, you can 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:15.720 do this from outside your house. So if you're leaving 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:20.040 an appointment, coming back from the dentist, whatever, it's still broadcasting. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.960 You can just do that I think this is really fun. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.080 It's rolling out right now, it's online, it's probably on yours, 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:27.879 and the Google Home is going to be one of 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.160 the hottest products this holiday season for sure. I think 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:32.760 it's the best one out there. I think it's better 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.520 than Alexa. I think it's better than anything we have. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.760 If you want to spend fifty bucks, and they're going 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.520 to be cheaper this holiday season, I think they're going 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.440 to be like thirty dollars, I definitely get one of 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.440 these things. The Google Home Mini will will be your 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.919 best friend. It's such a cool little device to have around, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.440 So check that out, all right. Phone lines are open 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.200 three one zero five to nine four three zero zero 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:58.280 three three one zero five nine four three zero zero three. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.200 And yeah, I try not to when I'm talking talking 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.760 about this stuff, actually say the terms like the A word. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:10.000 You know, Amazon's female name. I guess I guess she's female, right, 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:17.720 and then the the OKAG word because these things activate 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.639 people's stuff like crazy. So yeah, guys, re enter for 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.120 the charger. If you're on the Facebook Live you can 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.159 re enter as well. And I'll talk more about that 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.679 in a minute. But the phone lines are open if 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.040 you have a tech question three one zero five nine 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.400 four three zero zero three. While we're on the subject 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.840 real quick of smart things, I just want to tell 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:36.760 you about something that I really am obsessed with that 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.240 I love. It's the idea of these smart plugs. I've 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.240 got a couple of them around my house and during 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.960 the holiday is great thing to have because they can 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.280 turn on and off your Christmas lights or any of 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:51.160 your decorations or whatever you want. Basically, and now I home, 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.320 you know them, they make all those products. They have 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:58.320 an outdoor smart plug, so it's this forty dollars. And 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.520 most smart plugs right now I know are inside, so 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.520 they're mostly rated for indoor use. But this one is 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.840