WEBVTT - iPhone 12 is finally revealed alongside HomePod Mini 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.200 A breakdown of Apple's announcements on iPhone twelve and home 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.759 pod Mini, the best deals on the iPhone twelve, a 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.520 helpful math app, plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.320 What's going on? 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.400 I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.759 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.640 you should know about. It's also where I answer the 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.040 questions that you send me. In case you don't know 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.680 who I am. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.680 five in Los Angeles. Thanks so much for tuning me 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.120 in today. Hope you're having a great day. Can you 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.000 believe we've been doing this pandemic thing for this long. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:50.360 It's my seven month work from home anniversary, seven months 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.880 in this little studio in my house that I set 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.960 up overnight thinking this would all be done in like 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:57.440 two or three weeks. I don't know what I was 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.840 thinking at the time, because now when I think back, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.520 it's like, what did I think would change in two 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:06.600 or three weeks. There's been a lot of gadgets, lots 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.680 and lots of gadgets. It is really the time of 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.560 the year when just so many things come out. I've 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.160 been talking about a lot of them on this show 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.080 phones galore. So this week I've been playing with a 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.600 Pixel five, which I actually put my SIM card into 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.520 and I don't really do that for a lot of phones, 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.720 but I really wanted to see, like could I make 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.640 this my phone? And I think the answer is no. Sadly, 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:33.960 what else have I've been playing with the one plus 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.480 eight T so the Pixel five we talked about on 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.240 the show, it's kind of like the Pixel four A 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.000 four A five G. I'd actually recommend that phone, I 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.960 think for more people or most people, because it's got 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.560 a bigger screen and even though it doesn't have the 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.040 water resistance or the what's. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.080 The other thing it doesn't have? Has a headphone. See, 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:55.480 this is weird. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.200 It's got a bigger screen, it has a headphone jack, 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.320 but there's no wireless charging, and there there's no water resistance, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.279 and then there's a little bit less RAM. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.080 So it's just kind of a weird thing. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.600 Like you would think the bigger phone would be more powerful, better, 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:10.240 but it's just not. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.040 So the Pixel five has been great. I like it. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.640 I think it's nice, but it's tiny, tiny, tiny in 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.880 my hands. After going from the iPhone eleven Pro Max 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.959 and my wife looked at the pictures I took last 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.239 night at the beach, and she goes, Eh, what phone 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.440 did you use last night? I don't like those pictures, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.200 so that's a bad sign if she doesn't like them. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.840 And I feel like the pixel is frozen in time. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.400 I don't think anything's changed on it in three years, 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.079 Like the camera just feels like the same exact camera 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.040 that we had three years ago, and so that's kind 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.000 of weird. But I do like the price, and I 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.320 think if you like small phones, when it comes to 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.079 Android phones, it's probably one of the best because it 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.120 always just takes a solid picture. So one thing that 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.120 I just have to hand it to the pixel. Out 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.160 of all the Android phones, it takes a great picture 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.480 every single time aim. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:00.840 It at something. 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.280 There's just no thought. So if your kid is making 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.000 a funny face, boom, you take a picture, it's perfect 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.639 the first time, whether whereas you know the Samsung's and 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.960 the one pluses of the world, you got to take 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.440 a couple of pictures for it to really be good. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.400 So and in low light two the pixel is just 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.520 really really good. Although I just feel like I'm spoiled 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.360 by the iPhone because it's gotten so good with the 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.359 camera that it's it's really good. 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:26.480 Now the one plus eight T. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.640 This is a kind of a head scratcher because as 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.760 I was going through my meeting with them and kind 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.800 of learning more about this phone, it's like, wait, what 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.840 so there's no wireless charging on this one and there's 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.440 it's it's yeah, it's just a strange phone. And the 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.119 camera's not as good as the one plus eight pro. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.400 So it's like this weird kinda I don't know. But 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.000 it's got a great processor, it's got great memory. You know, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.040 it's like twelve gigs of memory, I think, so that's good. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.920 But it's just I don't know. It's like and the 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.800 camera's just not that good, and oh, this weird thing 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.120 that's happening to me, which you know, you take a 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.600 selfie and it's like blurry like half the time. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:07.520 So that's weird. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.280 But it's a seven hundred and fifty dollars phone. It's 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:10.880 a nice phone. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:11.680 I mean to me, my. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.640 Preference with all androids is OnePlus. It's just I wish 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.720 they would figure out the camera situation because I would 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.360 recommend them to every single person in the world if 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.280 they could figure out their camera situation. Bright light things 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.800 not moving, it looks great. It's when you get into 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.520 the more nuanced, you know, low light kind of stuff, selfies, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:35.160 pictures of people, movement, it just doesn't doesn't work as well. 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.160 So anyway, we got lots of stuff to kind of 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.960 continue to go through. I'm happy to answer any specific 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.160 questions you have on these devices, because that's the main 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.920 thing is when you're deciding between a couple of devices, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.440 you know, let me know, and I can. I can 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.440 definitely help steer that because I do spend a lot 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.640 of time with these things trying to figure out which 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.479 one is best and what one does better than the other. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:01.400 But I will say, out of the three sort of 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.360 mid range phones, you've got the one plus eight T, 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.400 you got the Pixel five well, you also have the 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.039 Pixel four A five G, and then you have the 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.919 Samsung S twenty FE, which is a fan edition. I 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.159 will say my pixels, the Pixels are the are my 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.760 favorite for like sort of the overall like camera situation. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.080 I think that the one plus is the best for 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.600 the software, and then the Samsung is the best for 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.200 sort of like the speediness and just in general. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:29.599 It's kind of a nice you know, it's a nice 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:30.400 middle ground phone. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.279 So anyway, I think you're just depending on your preferences, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.960 you'll be happy with any of those. But we're here 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.160 to talk about the big news of the week, and 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:44.000 that is the iPhone. Apple finally gave us the info 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.400 on the iPhone twelve, so I'll go over the iPhone 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.359 twelve and twelve Mini. Actually, you know, I'll probably just 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:50.320 do all four of them right now. 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.559 So there's four. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.960 There's two main models, and then within those models, there's 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.359 two different sizes of each. So we'll start with the 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.080 iPhone twelve that's kind their standard phone right in the middle, 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.279 and then they have a smaller version, which is the 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.839 iPhone twelve Mini. So the iPhone twelve has a six 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.000 point one inch screen. It's got an OLED screen now 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.279 for the first time in that kind of mid range. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.440 I guess you want to call it for Apple, and 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.720 you know last year's they had LCDs. Let's see, it's 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.880 got the new processor, which is the A fifteen fourteen Bionic, 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.600 which Apple says is like faster than any chip in 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.120 a phone, and I do believe them, still has good 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.400 battery life. It's got the you know, dual camera system now, 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.720 so it's got the ultra wide and the wide camera. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.160 So the difference here is that you don't get the 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:45.160 telephoto lens. That's the main thing here. Let's see what 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.160 else do you need to know about those phones? Oh, 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.520 it's got the ceramics shield, so this is like a 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.120 stronger screen. But like, let's be honest, who's not going 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.279 to put a screen protector on their phone because it 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.200 has that. That's just not going to happen. So you 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.320 drop your phone either cracks or a dozen. I mean, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.680 it's not like, oh it, I dropped it ten times, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.680 it only cracked four out of the ten times. It's 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.720 just you drop it once in a crack. That's all 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.839 you need to know. So hopefully you don't drop your 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.560 phone too much, hopefully it doesn't crack as much. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:12.280 What else? 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.520 It comes in four colors or five colors rather blue, green, black, white, red. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.400 And again you've got the regular and the mini. So 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.040 the mini is five point four inches. That's pretty small 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.760 considering the pixel that I'm carrying I think is a 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.360 six inch phone, and so five point four in the 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.520 pixel seems tiny in my hand. Five point four seems 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:37.840 really small to me. Pricing is six ninety nine, seven 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.600 ninety nine. And that's kind of it when it comes 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.640 to those phones. I mean, it's it's it's. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.120 Basically, it's it's just better. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:50.200 Of course, it's faster, and oh it also has this 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.320 new thing called mag Safe, and so these are magnets 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.160 on the back of the phone that lets you attach 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.760 a bunch of magnetic accessories, including a charging cable. They've 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.520 got wallets, they've got snap on cases, all kinds of stuff. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.640 So it's cool. It's just going to make you spend 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:05.480 more money. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.119 On accessories, that's for sure. 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:12.560 Now let's talk about the big brothers or sisters, the 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.800 iPhone twelve Pro and the iPhone twelve Pro Max. Now, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.280 originally I thought these were the same phone, just different sizes. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.240 But I did the Brian Tong's podcast Apple Bits XL 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.200 and he mentioned that the camera is slightly better on 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.920 the Pro Max. I didn't realize that. I thought they 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.960 were just the same. You just had a choice of size, 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.559 and it's like, okay, well, if you want the bigger one, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.720 you go big. If you want the middle one, you 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.440 go middle. And the iPhone twelve Pro is a six 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.760 point one inch screen, so again same size as the 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.880 twelve and then the Pro Max is six point seven 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:50.000 inch screen and apparently with the Pro Max they made 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.440 the screen bigger, but it's like the same form factor 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.240 as my current phone, which is the iPhone eleven Pro, 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.080 so they know they made the screen more edge to 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.640 edge kind of thing. And this has the top of 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.520 the line camera that Apple offers. It also has the 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.800 ceramic shield and the bionic chip they fourteen. It's got 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:13.440 the ultra wide, the telephoto, and then the wide camera 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.040 and the main thing to know here is that they've 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.960 improved the cameras, especially in low light. They also added AlIdar, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.120 which is like a laser scanner that helps with augmented reality, 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.000 but nobody's really doing that anyway, so you probably won't 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.000 really care about that too much, but it does help 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.120 with low light photography, which will be nice. It also 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.240 has Adobe Vision for video, so video will look better, 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.160 but only if you have a way to play it back, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:37.880 so that's not really a thing that a lot of 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:42.319 people care about. They also have what's this called Pro Raw, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.120 so if you're like a photographer that really wants to 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.080 edit your stuff and sort of that raw version, you 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:53.160 have that as well. Four colors here, Graphite silver, gold 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.040 and Pacific blue. The phone is nine ninety nine or 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.080 one thousand ninety nine. The other cool thing they did 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:04.640 here is that they finally finally made the base storage 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.360 one twenty eight. They did away with that whole random 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.680 thing where it would be sixty four and then two 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.199 fifty six and so. But the thing is, the difference 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.640 in pricing was not very much, so you're actually it 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.720 was like, you're getting quadrupleed the storage, but for you know, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.800 only a couple bucks more. So it didn't make sense. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.640 So finally it's one twenty eight based storage. My pick 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.040 out of all these, and the phone I will probably 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.760 be pre ordering, is the iPhone twelve PROMX in Pacific blue. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.880 I last year I bought the phone in the gray 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.480 color because I got scared. I was like, well, when 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.520 I sell it, it'll get more or actually it'll sell 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:49.120 faster because it's gray and not green. And this year 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:50.959 I'm kind of like, eh, whatever, I'll worry about. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:51.280 That next year. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:56.319 So there's the main things to know on the iPhone twelve. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.720 In an upcoming segment here on the show, I will 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.840 talk about some of the iPhone. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.640 Deals that the various carriers are doing. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.400 They're very complicated, but you can get a deal if 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.000 you work it. So I will tell you about those 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.760 in just a moment, but first let's get to a question. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:22.840 Let's see where is my question? Okay, Jody says, Hey, Rich, 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.040 I'm not sure you can answer this, but hopefully so. 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.720 Suspended from Twitter for no reason whatsoever. Had the account 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.200 for a long time, there was no warning. I've appealed 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.080 but heard nothing but general thanks for the info. I've 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.439 been told by many that it's not humans suspending accounts, 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.840 so obviously mistakes can happen. But then what I heard 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.920 from someone with the same problems. She was able to 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.079 retrieve her account from someone who works with Twitter. To 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.080 get accounts back up, it costs a hundred bucks. I 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.240 can't really afford to throw this money away, but I think, 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.920 but I think without it, I'll never have my Twitter again, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.400 and I really like it back. Have you ever heard 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.280 of such a thing? Of course it would be a scam, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.880 but several people claim it wasn't and they got their 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.760 account unlocked. Thoughts, thank you for your time. Here is 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:09.079 my answer. Nope, nope, wrong one, that's my answer. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:10.680 Absolutely not. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.560 Do not spend one hundred dollars to get your Twitter 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.320 account back. I mean, number one, I didn't know that 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.760 people just randomly get suspended for no reason. So there 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.040 could have been something that you did on your account 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:28.320 that flagged it somehow. And long story, but this was 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.120 from many, many years ago. But I remember they did 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.920 this thing on Twitter where at some point or sorry 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.760 on Google, where at some point Twitter was giving them 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.000 what's called the fire hose to tweets, where Twitter would 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.360 feed Google a real time fire hose of everything people 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.320 were tweeting, and then when you would search on Google 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.240 for something, you would literally see all the people tweeting 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:51.600 about that. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:52.960 Now they do a version of that. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.640 Now, it's not the same as it originally was because 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.040 on the original one, the results page on Google would 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.560 actually change right before your eyes and you see, you 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.480 just see all these scrolling tweets of whatever you search for. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:06.719 They don't do that anymore. They do like kind of 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:07.720 the top tweets now. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:08.600 But anyway, so. 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.080 Back in the day, my Twitter, for whatever reason, would 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.960 not show up in that fire hose, and so I 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.960 reached out to Twitter and I asked them, I said, hey, 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.160 you know, what's the deal, And they said, oh, let 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.640 me look into it, and they came back to me 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.880 and said, oh, your account was flagged for because you 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.520 basically followed and unfollowed a whole bunch of people at once. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.360 And this was back in the day when Twitter was 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.520 kind of new, and so I was, you know, experimenting 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.480 with various things, and I want to you know, you'd 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.000 follow a bunch of people and then you'd want to 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.000 clear out your account to start fresh. So I did 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.040 that at one point, and so that kind of blocked 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.320 me from Google. So anyway, Jody, I do believe that, yeah, 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.720 maybe something could have happened here that you did not 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.640 really knowing why you were suspended. I would try to 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.600 get it back going through the you know, logical chain 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.440 of command, which you know, if you go to help 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.640 dot Twitter dot com and you know, start there and 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.200 just say, you know, hey, I can't don't have access 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:00.400 to my account. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:01.600 Try that first. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.240 And then if you can't do that, just start a 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:08.240 new account, use a different just use a different email address. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:14.600 No big deal. All right, good question. Now let's get 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.959 to the iPhone deals. There are a lot. They are 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.240 so confusing I can't really explain them, but I'm gonna 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.960 go over them. In case something catches your ear and 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:28.560 then you know you can go and investigate. Number one, Walmart, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.640 they have up to one hundred and thirty dollars in 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.800 savings starting on October sixteenth for customers who activate the 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.640 iPhone twelve or iPhone twelve pro on an AT and 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.400 T or Verizon installment plan through Walmart dot com or 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.040 in store. Notice the words AT and T or Verizon. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.040 So clearly some sort of kickback is happening here, or 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.240 maybe that's only who they work with. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:48.720 Who knows. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.320 iPhone twelve starts at seven forty nine on installment, which 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.400 is a savings over the outright retail of eight seventy nine, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.040 and comes in black, white, red, green, and blue, which 0:14:59.040 --> 0:14:59.280 we know. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.880 Now, let me compare that. Hold on, So. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:10.120 We said earlier that the iPhone twelve starts at seven 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.200 forty nine, and that's interesting because it says, oh, okay, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.600 so they're actually even fifty dollars cheaper than oh, no, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.720 outright retailer eight seventy nine. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.600 That's weird. I don't know what that means. That's kind 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:24.120 of strange. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.040 Anyway, the pricing has been a little weird because at 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.400 some point there was a premium for the unlocked phones 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.120 on the unlocked phone and also the phone on T 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.600 Mobile or Sprint. But now I don't think that's the 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:40.200 case anymore. Anyway, Let's see what else. iPhone twelve pro 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.080 starts at nine to forty nine on installment outright, retail 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:48.760 is ten forty nine. Now see, now that's weird. iPhone 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:54.000 ten twelve pro is ten nine. Oh, okay pro, So 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.960 they're they're trending like fifty dollars more. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:56.360 I don't know. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.680 Let's see in addition, anyway, so that's Walmart. Then you've 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.960 got Verizon. Now they made it big to do because 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.200 Verizon's got the new five G. I actually got the 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.080 five G on my Pixel five, and I'll be honest, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.680 so far, I've not seen a speed that's faster than LTE. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.320 But you know, I'm still kind of following that and 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.840 seeing like what the deal is there. But I do 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.960 have high hopes. I've said this before on the podcast. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.120 I do have high hopes for Verizon because I think 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.600 that they're gonna do five G really nicely. I keep 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.080 getting a lot of information from T Mobile about how 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.040 THEIRS is so much better, but again, when I've tested THEIRS, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.200 I have not really seen that with my own eyes. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.360 I mean, I think out of all the times I 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.360 tested T mobiles five G, I didn't really get any 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.160 signal that was better than any speed that was better 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.680 than four G. All right, so Verizon, let's see what 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:49.840 they're doing pricing. iPhone twelve starts at six ninety nine retail. Oh, 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:54.640 the Mini iPhone twelve starts at seven ninety nine. iPhone 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.760 twelve pro starts at nine ninety nine. Okay, yeah, we 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.280 already know all that. Okay, So here's their deal, an 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.320 iPhone twelve for as low as free when you switch 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.359 to Verizon, trade in select smartphones and sign up for 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.800 a Select unlimited plan. So what that means is you 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.879 have to have a really new smartphone like I'm guessing 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.760 last year's phone like mine, or you know, one of 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.480 the Samsung Galaxy S twenties or a note that is 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.280 from last year. And that's how you can get the 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.840 iPhone for free. That makes sense, and you have to 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:28.080 sign a sign as select an unlimited plan. Existing customers 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.919 can get the iPhone twelve, let's see, for fifteen dollars 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:36.560 a month when you do a Verizon device payment and 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.879 select an unlimited plan when you trade in a select phone, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.440 so iPhone twelve for fifteen it's usually thirty three, so 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:45.960 they're giving you like fifteen bucks. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:47.480 A month for twenty four months. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.119 Existing iPhone eight or eight plus customers can save two 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.000 hundred and fifty dollars when you trade in and purchase 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.120 a new iPhone twelve on an unlimited plan. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.720 So there's your Verizon deals. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.760 If you look, I mean, what's gonna happen is you're 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.639 gonna go on your website or you're gonna go into 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.159 the store and you're just gonna kind of say like, hey, 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.080 here's the phone I got, what deal do you have? 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.920 And then we have AT and T is offering existing 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.359 and new AT and T customers on an unlimited plan 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:18.080 a five G Apple device for zero dollars with an 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.480 AT and T installment plan when you have an AT 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.159 and T unlimited plan and a qualifying trade in. Again 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.760 that word qualifying trade in. That means you have to 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.760 have one of the new phones to trade in. So 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.760 the thing I think is funny, I mean it's I 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.520 don't know, it's just so funny. Okay, T Mobile, Now 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.119 this is an interesting deal. You can get two iPhone 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.280 pros with two lines of unlimited five G data for 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.640 just one hundred bucks a month. That sounds pretty compelling, 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.560 but again, it's like this whole thing where you have 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.440 to say on for a certain amount of months. There's 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.639 a lot of fine details that you got to look at. 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.320 Then they have get an iPhone twelve free or up 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.480 to eight hundred and fifty with late or up to 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.040 eight fifty off of any other model with late model 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.880 trade in and new line of service. So that's nice 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:10.119 that at least they say late model trade in. So 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.720 that's an interesting thing. So if I, let's say I 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:17.199 wanted to switch to T Mobile, I could switch my phone, 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.120 which you know, I don't know how much i'd get 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.440 for my phone from, you know, if I just sold 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.879 it on Gazelle or something like that or swap a 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.600 but I can get eight fifty off the price of 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.600 the iPhone twelve Pro Max, which is eleven hundred bucks. 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.920 So I could theoretically pay two hundred and fifty dollars 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.600 for a brand new iPhone if I switched to T Mobile, 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.040 and you know, got a new line of service. So 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.520 that's not bad. That's not bad at all. Get five 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:47.840 hundred dollars up to up to five hundred dollars off 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.560