Speaker 1: The mother of all data breaches, What you need to
Speaker 1: know about how to protect your personal information, the new
Speaker 1: iPhone security feature you should enable pretty much right now,
Speaker 1: and why you might be able to file your taxes
Speaker 1: for free for real this time. Plus your tech questions answered.
Speaker 1: What's going on in Rich Dumiro And This is Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech broadcasting live from Los Angeles, coast to coast.
Speaker 1: This is the show where I talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's also the
Speaker 1: place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe
Speaker 1: the tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open
Speaker 1: up the phone lines at triple eight Rich one oh one.
Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Give me a call if you have a
Speaker 1: question about technology. Email is also an option. Just go
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech dot tv hit the link that
Speaker 1: says contact. We got some great guests on the show
Speaker 1: this week. Juan Carlos Bagnell, some gadget guy on YouTube,
Speaker 1: will join me to review the new one plus twelve
Speaker 1: smartphone getting a lot of good reviews, and I think
Speaker 1: his will be positive as well.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from him.
Speaker 1: Mitch Goldstone of scanmyphotos dot com is gonna explain how
Speaker 1: small businesses can secure a portion of a five point
Speaker 1: five billion dollar payment card settlement he helped secure and
Speaker 1: I got the letter right to my house and it
Speaker 1: says it's time to file your claim. So I will
Speaker 1: explain why why he did that and how you can
Speaker 1: get some money out of that. And John Faulkner of
Speaker 1: Clean Fleet Report will join to review the Kia EV nine.
Speaker 1: This is their new three row suv. Well it is
Speaker 1: bring your wife to work day. Bobo brought Britney in,
Speaker 1: his beautiful newlywed wife, so thanks for joining us here
Speaker 1: in the studio. She might she may pick some mus
Speaker 1: I picked the first song, so well, maybe let her
Speaker 1: pick something. Uh okay, So this is really wild. I
Speaker 1: switched to the Samsung Galaxy S twenty four Ultra this
Speaker 1: week to really put it through its paces. I don't
Speaker 1: do this very often. The last time I did it
Speaker 1: was with the Pixel fold where I actually switch my
Speaker 1: personal SIM card and phone number into the phone. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of a big deal because it changes everything, right,
Speaker 1: but I really wanted to see kind of like it's
Speaker 1: been a while since I was in an Android and
Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to see like day to day
Speaker 1: what it was like, and it's been amazing. This phone
Speaker 1: is really really impressive. When I say this is the
Speaker 1: most powerful phone I've ever tested, it truly is. I mean,
Speaker 1: the screen is just impeccable. The software I've even gotten
Speaker 1: used to Samsung's little special flavor of one. UI have
Speaker 1: gotten used to that it is fast. The antenna places
Speaker 1: where my iPhone did not have a signal or work
Speaker 1: very properly. This thing is just blazing fast. The powerful
Speaker 1: nature of this thing is just really incredible.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I will say the one little issue I have with
Speaker 1: it is I think the camera is good, but I
Speaker 1: think it will be great when Samsung does a couple
Speaker 1: software updates. And overall, very very happy with this phone.
Speaker 1: I think it is their absolute best device they've put
Speaker 1: out ever. The Circle to Search feature is just so
Speaker 1: much fun. The little AI features not using them as much,
Speaker 1: but the Circle to search is like it's just such
Speaker 1: an incredible feature where you can scribble anything you want
Speaker 1: on your screen, circle highlight whatever, and it will reverse
Speaker 1: search that on Google. So if you're on like Instagram, whatever,
Speaker 1: you want to see the shirt that someone's wearing, like
Speaker 1: the brand, whatever, just circle it and you can buy it.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say I've noticed about is
Speaker 1: the the ecosystem that Apple has built. It is really
Speaker 1: tough to get out of that. And I noticed it
Speaker 1: with my chargers. They're all mag safe. My Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: I can't wear that because of this thing. And so
Speaker 1: it just goes to show the power of what Apple
Speaker 1: has built. It is very tough for people to get
Speaker 1: out of it. And not to mention the whole green
Speaker 1: bubble thing. Let me read you a couple of actual
Speaker 1: texts I got from people in the past couple of days.
Speaker 1: Friend number one we texted and he wrote Android question mark.
Speaker 1: I figured i'd spare you the complaining about the green
Speaker 1: bubble and I said, yeah, I know, I'm testing the
Speaker 1: new Samsung phone. Friend number two, Okay, thanks green bubbles.
Speaker 1: And then he put a little emoji that I don't
Speaker 1: know what it means, but it looked like it was
Speaker 1: like two eyes looking off to the side. Acquaintance this oside,
Speaker 1: I bobo said, Okay, side eye, that's what it is. Acquaintance.
Speaker 1: I don't even really know this person. And we texted
Speaker 1: a couple of times and she said, also, I noticed
Speaker 1: your green bubble. I take it you're using the new phone.
Speaker 1: Random person. Uh call screener Kim. This just happened a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes ago. I didn't say anything, didn't prep
Speaker 1: this at all. I just texted her from the green bubble.
Speaker 1: She goes, also, you're turning my text green today. Ew
Speaker 1: must be tech with that Samsung phone. And she made
Speaker 1: me switch to WhatsApp. So, Kim, I love you, but
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is what you have to deal with.
Speaker 1: And so this is why I love doing this actually,
Speaker 1: because I get to see what it's like to have to,
Speaker 1: you know, put up with this stuff.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it's all in good fun.
Speaker 1: My friends know that's from time to time they will
Speaker 1: see me text with a green bubble. It is all good.
Speaker 1: But Apple, you really really created a division amongst folks
Speaker 1: with this thing. Well. As the tech person, you know,
Speaker 1: I am tech support for friends and family. I have
Speaker 1: people that run into me on the street they say hi,
Speaker 1: and the second question is like, hey, can I ask
Speaker 1: you a question real quick? It's like it's like the
Speaker 1: doctor at the party, right like can I show you
Speaker 1: this rash? Like no, I'm trying to enjoy my night.
Speaker 1: But that's what people do. They proceed to pull out
Speaker 1: their phone and ask me to, you know, figure out something.
Speaker 1: Well for family, of course, I've got a soft spot
Speaker 1: in my heart. And so my mom, Well, let me
Speaker 1: tell you.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: My son comes home this morning and goes, Dad, I
Speaker 1: need a new iPad. This one's all broken. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what what do you mean? You need a new ipe? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this doesn't work. Just Coulick, go get a new one. Like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: We're gonna figure out what's going.
Speaker 2: On with the iPad. So sure enough, I take a look.
Speaker 1: Everything's like all gobbledygook and this and that, and I said, look,
Speaker 1: I looked at his storage. I said, dude, you're at
Speaker 1: one hundred percent storage. Your iPad can't physically do anything
Speaker 1: else because it's so filled up. And so it took
Speaker 1: me a little bit. I figured out that cap cut
Speaker 1: was using up all of his storage, cleared it out,
Speaker 1: giving back his iPad. He's like, oh it works now.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you just were ready to throw this
Speaker 1: thing out. Then my mom I call my mom picking
Speaker 1: up the kids on the way to school. Call my
Speaker 1: mom just casually. She's like, oh, good thing you called.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, why, Well, my phone. My TV's not working.
Speaker 1: What do you mean your TV's not working? I would
Speaker 1: just stop working. Well, what do you mean, Well it
Speaker 1: comes on? But nothing comes on? I said, well is
Speaker 1: your fire stick? You know, just got the Amazon fire
Speaker 1: stick that I set up on a Roku TV, and
Speaker 1: you know, sure enough, we go through this whole troubleshooting stuff.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you know, but like troubleshooting
Speaker 1: from three thousand miles away with someone who is, you know,
Speaker 1: not necessarily tech savvy is not the easiest thing. So
Speaker 1: she's pulling out the HDMI, she's pulling out the power cord,
Speaker 1: and I have to make sure she gets all this
Speaker 1: stuff back in. I can't figure it out. So what
Speaker 1: I do. I go to my brother justin you're on
Speaker 1: the line. This is my actual brother who I had
Speaker 1: to bring in to actually help me with my mom's
Speaker 1: set up. Did you help her get this set up?
Speaker 4: Hey Rich greeting from Jersey.
Speaker 1: Yes, greetings from New Jersey. So I had to turn
Speaker 1: to you. So I was like the I guess I
Speaker 1: was like, what do you do at the hospital when
Speaker 1: they kind of like just they figure out like what's
Speaker 1: wrong with you? They assess you the trioge I was
Speaker 1: the triage, But you actually went to Mom's place and
Speaker 1: figured out what was wrong with the firestick.
Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I still don't know. I
Speaker 4: tried everything. I swapped out the USB cable, I.
Speaker 5: Tried the plug and the wall I moved that.
Speaker 4: I tried changing the port on the HDMI port on
Speaker 4: the TV.
Speaker 6: Nothing would work.
Speaker 4: I think the actual stick is just dead or it's
Speaker 4: not accepting power for some reason.
Speaker 1: Now you are a tech savvy person. Would a mere
Speaker 1: mortal be able to figure out what you tried to
Speaker 1: do with this fire stick?
Speaker 4: I probably not. I mean she she couldn't, so I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 1: I was impressed though she was able to pull the
Speaker 1: power chords out yesterday, pull the uh she was likery.
Speaker 1: I was trying to describe like the micro USB power
Speaker 1: chord versus like HDMI, and I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like the small one that plugs into the side of
Speaker 1: the fire TV versus the big one that plugs into
Speaker 1: the back of the TV.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really complicated. What did you end up doing?
Speaker 4: So I gave up on the fire sticks all together
Speaker 4: at some point, and like, this thing's not working, so
Speaker 4: she had, Like you said, she has a Roku TV.
Speaker 4: I'm like, let me just download the apps that she
Speaker 4: uses onto the TV directly. Let me tell you this
Speaker 4: was a process what so it wasn't logged into what?
Speaker 4: It wasn't logged into any Wi Fi? So I connected
Speaker 4: it to the Wi Fi. Then the first thing I asked,
Speaker 4: before you can do anything, you have to update the TV.
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, fine, it hasn't been connected to
Speaker 4: Wi Fi and whoever knows how long, so let me
Speaker 4: let me do the update. Ten minutes later, comes back
Speaker 4: and the Wi Fi is disconnected again. It must I
Speaker 4: think it factory reset the TV. So I get it
Speaker 4: back on my Wi Fi. And you know how much
Speaker 4: of a pain it is to enter in all the
Speaker 4: little password symbols through the control, the remote control.
Speaker 7: So I do that.
Speaker 4: Then I had to before I could do anything. Now,
Speaker 4: I had to create a Roku account account.
Speaker 1: And you sent me a screenshot of this. And what's
Speaker 1: the first thing I said? Because you handed over all
Speaker 1: of her personal information right.
Speaker 4: Asked for was like her social her birth data, birth
Speaker 4: her ads, like her full address, Like.
Speaker 1: No, you're just kidding about the social but but look,
Speaker 1: Roku is a data play. They're getting data right off
Speaker 1: the top because they do make money on ads, and
Speaker 1: so you put all that in in there and then
Speaker 1: you download it all the apps, and I imagine you
Speaker 1: crowdsource the passwords for the apps from various family members.
Speaker 6: I contacted everybody I know, my sisters, my friends, my
Speaker 6: ex boyfriends of sisters, all kinds of things, and I
Speaker 6: finally got log into several different apps.
Speaker 2: So now she's up and running.
Speaker 1: And now she's using the remote that came with the TV,
Speaker 1: So she's going from fire TV to Roco.
Speaker 4: Right, But it doesn't even end there. The remote is
Speaker 4: I don't know what happened to it, but the up
Speaker 4: button doesn't really work that well, so you got to
Speaker 4: click it like four times before it moves.
Speaker 1: Ooh, that's not fun. All right, Well, it sounds like
Speaker 1: we got to get our a new fire stick. So
Speaker 1: I bring you on and we got to go. But
Speaker 1: I bring you on to say, is this stuff easy?
Speaker 1: Like people call in this show every day. They're frustrated,
Speaker 1: they're confused, they're tired of all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Is technology easy?
Speaker 4: No, definitely not. They've made it more complicated than it
Speaker 4: needs to be in every possible way all right.
Speaker 1: Justin DeMuro, thanks so much for joining me on the
Speaker 1: show today. I appreciate you helping out and being my
Speaker 1: my tech support army over there on the East Coast.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on, all right.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1: Coming up on today's show, how Ai is ruining everything
Speaker 1: in our world from Taylor Swift to the election. But
Speaker 1: first it is your turn. Your call is coming up
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Speaker 1: Jim in Claremont, California. Jim, you're on with Rich Hi.
Speaker 8: Rich.
Speaker 9: I heard that the new Android phone might have some
Speaker 9: type of translation feature where you could speak to other
Speaker 9: people that don't speak the same language.
Speaker 5: Is that true or not?
Speaker 1: Yeah? This is on the S twenty four series from Samsung.
Speaker 1: They've got a couple of translation features and they're actually
Speaker 1: really cool. So one of them will help you translate
Speaker 1: phone calls. So you can make a phone call to someone,
Speaker 1: and when you make a call to someone, there's a
Speaker 1: little pop up that says call assist, and you can
Speaker 1: tap that and it will basically translate the call in
Speaker 1: real time, so you can speak your language, it will
Speaker 1: detect the other language that the person's speaking. It will
Speaker 1: listen to that and then translate it and play it
Speaker 1: back in the language that you can understand, and you
Speaker 1: can just have a back and forth conversation like that.
Speaker 1: Is it perfect, No, but it's pretty good. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you can imagine that, you can just call someone
Speaker 1: in Japan. They can answer the phone a restaurant and
Speaker 1: speak in Japanese and you can understand what they're saying,
Speaker 1: and they can understand what you're saying, all because of
Speaker 1: this middleman translation. That's pretty incredible. So that's one way
Speaker 1: you can do it. The other translation feature they have
Speaker 1: built in is in the text messaging app, and so
Speaker 1: you can type a message and literally translate it. It'll
Speaker 1: be translated in real time, so when that message arrives,
Speaker 1: no matter what it says and what language, it will
Speaker 1: figure that out and translate it into the language that
Speaker 1: you understand. And then the third way that it can
Speaker 1: translate things is with a translator app. And so when
Speaker 1: you are sitting there talking to someone, it's a two
Speaker 1: way app, so on your side of the screen it
Speaker 1: has your language and on their side of the screen
Speaker 1: it has their language, and then it translates back and forth.
Speaker 1: And the neat thing they did here is that you
Speaker 1: can hold the phone between you and one half of
Speaker 1: the screen is sort of rotated so that they can
Speaker 1: read the bottom half of the top half and you
Speaker 1: could read the other side, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: like flip the phone around.
Speaker 2: And that was kind of the magic of that.
Speaker 1: Because Google translates been around for a while, Apple has
Speaker 1: their own translate app as well, but these are all
Speaker 1: built into the Samsung Galaxy S twenty four series. They
Speaker 1: are coming to the S twenty three series in the
Speaker 1: next couple of months, they said, in the first six
Speaker 1: months of the year, so if you have an S
Speaker 1: twenty three, you can do that and they're really fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's got more than just that you
Speaker 1: can translate text on screen. I mean, there's really a
Speaker 1: lot Like our phone is getting to the point where
Speaker 1: you can pretty much, you know, deal with any language
Speaker 1: you want on this phone and it works. Jim, thanks
Speaker 1: for the call today, and Clairemont appreciate that beautiful day
Speaker 1: here in southern California. So a lot of people outside,
Speaker 1: I guess enjoying the warm weather for the first time
Speaker 1: before it rains again. All right, let me get through
Speaker 1: two quick AI stories, because AI is incredible, but it's
Speaker 1: also messing things up. So AI, these fake AI Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift images are spreading across the internet. These are explicit
Speaker 1: images that were generated using AI of Tailor Swift, and
Speaker 1: as you can imagine, not very nice. People are not
Speaker 1: happy about this. We haven't heard officially from Taylor about this,
Speaker 1: but they were spreading on x formerly Twitter for a while,
Speaker 1: read it and Facebook, and it took a while for
Speaker 1: these things to get taken down. A lot of people
Speaker 1: saw these images when they were searching for Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: related things, and as you can imagine, not a good thing.
Speaker 1: Apparently they stem from this toxic telegram group dedicated to
Speaker 1: sharing abusive images of women. So you might be saying, well,
Speaker 1: how did they generate these things, because these AI systems
Speaker 1: don't they block this stuff? Well, yeah they do, but
Speaker 1: people spend their entire day trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: to get around these things. So they didn't necessarily say
Speaker 1: make me an image of Taylor Swift. They used words
Speaker 1: that might generate images similar to Taylor Swift. And then
Speaker 1: somehow I haven't seen these, so I don't know what
Speaker 1: they look like or what they were doing, but apparently
Speaker 1: they were pretty bad. So this is not the first
Speaker 1: time we're going to see this. This is not the
Speaker 1: last time we're going to see this. This is going
Speaker 1: to be this idea of a deep fake. We are
Speaker 1: just going to see more and more of this and
Speaker 1: it's going to get more and more real. And so
Speaker 1: especially with celebrities people in the public light, you are
Speaker 1: not going to be able to believe what you see
Speaker 1: when you see those pictures. Then when it comes to
Speaker 1: the election, we know that this is going to be
Speaker 1: the election of AI and it is going to have
Speaker 1: a huge impact in this election. With misinformation and all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff, whether it's pictures, whether it's videos, whether
Speaker 1: it's audio. So we have the first AI generated audio
Speaker 1: robo call. This happened in New Hampshire. It was purportedly
Speaker 1: President Biden urging Democrats not to vote in the primary.
Speaker 1: And this call apparently was sent to a lot of
Speaker 1: people they got it. I listened to it. It sounded
Speaker 1: like Biden, and apparently they use this this eleven Labs
Speaker 1: audio feature that basically you just need a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes of people's voice to generate an AI voice, And
Speaker 1: I thought this sounded very convincing. And the problem is
Speaker 1: people are getting these calls. You don't know is it real?
Speaker 1: Is it fake? Grobal calls are a part of the election,
Speaker 1: So how do you know if this stuff is real?
Speaker 1: How do you know if it's fake? You just have
Speaker 1: to be on guard. Anything you see, anything you hear,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to celebrities election stuff, you might say,
Speaker 1: wait a second, is that real? You just got to
Speaker 1: think about it, because this AI stuff is really getting realistic.
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Coming up, We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the new one plus twelve smartphone
Speaker 1: getting a lot of accolades. You're listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich to me Zo
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. It is quite the year
Speaker 1: for smartphones. We just talked about the new Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: S twenty four series. Uh, there's a new mint Pixel
Speaker 1: phone which I'll talk about a little bit. But we
Speaker 1: also have a new one plus phone, the one plus twelve,
Speaker 1: and this is a powerhouse of a phone as well,
Speaker 1: very different than the way Samsung approaches things. But joining
Speaker 1: me to talk about this phone is onan Carlos Bagnell,
Speaker 1: some gadget guy on YouTube. I highly recommend that you
Speaker 1: follow him there. He does great in depth reviews of
Speaker 1: smartphones and also other things.
Speaker 2: So one, thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm really stoked.
Speaker 11: We need to make this a tradition because we got
Speaker 11: to chat about the one plus eleven last year.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh was that last year that we did.
Speaker 1: I did not even realize that when I called you up.
Speaker 1: I just watched your review and I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I gotta talk this guy about this because you know,
Speaker 1: let me.
Speaker 11: You're absolutely right. We've got a lot of fun stuff
Speaker 11: going on right now.
Speaker 1: So this phone, you know, it's got the specks that
Speaker 1: people love. It's got very high end specs up to
Speaker 1: sixteen gigabytes a RAM. It's got a nice display, it's
Speaker 1: got fast charging wired and wireless. It's got the you know,
Speaker 1: four cameras that you want, Dolby at most. It's got
Speaker 1: two colors, Silky Black and Flowy Emerald, and the price
Speaker 1: is so glad.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I got I got the Flowy Emerald, and it's
Speaker 11: a real pretty phone.
Speaker 10: So yeah, this is definitely a looker.
Speaker 1: Okay, so give me your impressions of this phone. So
Speaker 1: it's under a thousand bucks so but well pretty.
Speaker 10: Well under a thousand bucks too.
Speaker 11: So right now, I mean, just like we know with
Speaker 11: Samsung and these other companies, they love to come out
Speaker 11: with like a pre order deal or some kind of
Speaker 11: launch sale. And right now, the top of the line,
Speaker 11: the sixteen gigs of RAM with five hundred and twelve
Speaker 11: gigs of storage is at the base model price, so
Speaker 11: seven ninety nine in this early launch window. So this
Speaker 11: is a really clear shot against phones like the S
Speaker 11: twenty four plus and the iPhone fifteen plus, but with some.
Speaker 10: Of the hardware that kind of closes in a.
Speaker 11: Little bit more on the more premium pro and ultraphones,
Speaker 11: it's kind of split in the difference in a really
Speaker 11: exciting way.
Speaker 1: By the way, sixteen gigabytes of RAM, I mean, some
Speaker 1: people don't have that on our laptop, and that's on
Speaker 1: a phone.
Speaker 11: Well, and I've been doing some technical deep dives, so
Speaker 11: I won't border your audience with the hard core nerd stuff.
Speaker 11: But the more RAM we put in today, that's a
Speaker 11: company's estimation on how valuable AI might be in the future.
Speaker 11: The more AI you do on device, you need a
Speaker 11: lot more RAM to power that AI. So one plus
Speaker 11: the one plus version in China can come with twenty.
Speaker 10: Four gigs overth Oh wow, we know, yeah, we know.
Speaker 11: They're not tied into Google services and cloud services. They're
Speaker 11: going to be doing more on device, especially because a
Speaker 11: lot of areas don't have robust five G networks. So
Speaker 11: when we see these devices coming here having more RAM
Speaker 11: on the device, that's not going to do anything for
Speaker 11: your day to day phone use. But if you think
Speaker 11: AI might be a companion service for you in the future.
Speaker 10: This is sort of the promise of what's to come.
Speaker 1: So in general, the hardware, display, the haptics, speakers STUF
Speaker 1: good on this thing.
Speaker 10: Chier very very good.
Speaker 11: So one plus is moving up the food chain. The
Speaker 11: one plus eleven was a nice sort of balance of
Speaker 11: budget and compromises. There really are no compromises here. These
Speaker 11: are extremely competitive cameras. I think they're better cameras than
Speaker 11: what are on the iPhone fifteen non pro and the
Speaker 11: Galaxy S twenty four non Ultra. But the screen gets
Speaker 11: brighter than any other phone that's been released in North America.
Speaker 11: The battery is larger, but even though the battery is
Speaker 11: larger than even the most expensive Samsung, it charges substantially faster.
Speaker 11: Their charge standard on this phone can go from completely
Speaker 11: empty to completely full in roughly thirty three minutes.
Speaker 1: Wow, So that's eighty that's the eighty watt fast charging.
Speaker 10: That's the eighty watt fast charging.
Speaker 11: And then you you also mentioned they do have a
Speaker 11: it's a unique standard for them, but it is a
Speaker 11: wireless fast charging that can charge faster wirelessly than a
Speaker 11: Samsung or an Apple can charge plugged in with a cable.
Speaker 11: So they're not going light this This phone is coming
Speaker 11: out swinging and it's an aggressive play at this kind
Speaker 11: of performance per dollar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of what I always think of when
Speaker 1: it comes to one plus. It's like if you want
Speaker 1: to spend your money and get like a lot for
Speaker 1: your money, like you're getting you know, you might not
Speaker 1: be getting the best camera on the pro phones that
Speaker 1: we see out there, but you're getting a really good camera.
Speaker 1: And I feel like really good camera. The cameras have
Speaker 1: gotten better too. But tell me a little bit about
Speaker 1: one plus, like in general, like if you know, cause
Speaker 1: dec you don't. I don't think you see ads on
Speaker 1: TV for one plus like you put Samsung, Apple and Pixel.
Speaker 11: So one plus is a subsidiary of a larger brand
Speaker 11: internationally named Opo, and this is their arm that they
Speaker 11: sell in certain regions. And they made a lot of
Speaker 11: waves early on in the company's history, before they were
Speaker 11: directly under Opo, they were this kind of flagship flagship
Speaker 11: killer rebel brand, so really really low cost devices that
Speaker 11: were like sixty percent of your premium tier phone, but
Speaker 11: you spent a lot less.
Speaker 10: Over time, they've kind of matured into.
Speaker 11: More of just a direct premium handset maker, and for
Speaker 11: a while they were showing up in T Mobile stores.
Speaker 11: They had a carrier partnership with T Mobile that ended
Speaker 11: in between the ten and the eleven, where I think
Speaker 11: the brand, especially OPO, was looking at their footprint internationally
Speaker 11: where they were really selling phones, and it didn't make
Speaker 11: a lot of sense to build phones to carrier specs
Speaker 11: and then just have them sit on store shelves like
Speaker 11: this is one of those brands you would see in
Speaker 11: the dusty back corner of a carrier store. They weren't
Speaker 11: paying to really put them up right next to Samsung's
Speaker 11: and Apples.
Speaker 10: They've they've kind of scaled back on.
Speaker 11: That operation, but this is still uh they've still got
Speaker 11: relationships in North America distribution. These are going to be
Speaker 11: showing up in Best buys if you want to play
Speaker 11: with them, Yeah, that's gonna be really exciting. Is I'm
Speaker 11: not every best buy unfortunately, but you will see some
Speaker 11: of these start to show up where you can actually
Speaker 11: handle them and look at them and play with them
Speaker 11: before you have to commit money into ordering one. But
Speaker 11: this is a new strategy. OPO is saying, we're going
Speaker 11: to go very very marginly. We're going to sell the
Speaker 11: most aggressive technologies that we can get our hands on.
Speaker 11: We're gonna cut prices as much as we can, and
Speaker 11: in a way, I bet you they are probably balancing
Speaker 11: out some of those costs against their previous carrier relationships.
Speaker 11: So this is a very exciting strategy for a brand
Speaker 11: that has consistently delivered very good value for the money
Speaker 11: and now trying to push that strategy even a little
Speaker 11: bit further.
Speaker 1: All Right, So the camera, that's the thing that everyone
Speaker 1: wants to know about. How are the cameras on this.
Speaker 10: These are so good?
Speaker 11: One plus has stepped up significant. This is the fourth generation.
Speaker 11: They're saying Hasselblad. They have a partnership with the photography
Speaker 11: company Hasselblad, the company that sent cameras to the Moon.
Speaker 11: So every single time we see one of these pairings,
Speaker 11: the phone camera just gets better, like a Zeiss even
Speaker 11: back in the day Schneider.
Speaker 10: So these sensors are some.
Speaker 11: Of the most bleeding edge sensors for the types of
Speaker 11: photography that we see in a phone. This is the
Speaker 11: newest stacked sensor from Sony that's coming in for the
Speaker 11: main camera sensor. There's a new omni vision, so it's
Speaker 11: not the furthest reach, but the telephoto is a very
Speaker 11: big sensor that is excellent. It's soaking up light, so
Speaker 11: an older Galaxy could reach farther across the soccer field
Speaker 11: when your kids are playing in sunshine. But this is
Speaker 11: the kind of sensor that is really good at taking
Speaker 11: like a fun candid indoors right. The image doesn't fall apart.
Speaker 11: You can still catch a moment of people laughing or hugging.
Speaker 11: You're not shoving your phone right into their face to
Speaker 11: try and get like this moment and distract from what's
Speaker 11: going on. It's a really good candid lifestyle kind of
Speaker 11: photography solution. And the Ultra Wide is similarly a very
Speaker 11: high resolution, high performance sensor. So I would still say
Speaker 11: like an iPhone Pro or a Galaxy Ultra is likely
Speaker 11: going to outperform this phone, but at hundreds of dollars more.
Speaker 11: And when you put this up against the phones that
Speaker 11: cost the same from Apple and Samsung, these cameras are
Speaker 11: noticeable improvements in terms of hardware the physics of how
Speaker 11: we capture and play with light. One plus has the
Speaker 11: win in the sub one thousand dollars but still premium
Speaker 11: category of phones.
Speaker 1: This year, anything that you don't like about this device,
Speaker 1: any red flags, anything people should be aware of.
Speaker 11: I think that kind of goes back a little bit
Speaker 11: more to the company's relationship in North America with consumers
Speaker 11: and some of their branding strategy, Like the one Plus
Speaker 11: ten had a PRO version and a T version. The
Speaker 11: one Plus eleven just came out on its own. The
Speaker 11: one plus twelve is coming out with a twelve and
Speaker 11: a twelve R. If you really try to follow the
Speaker 11: roadmap of what one plus devices have been, it's really
Speaker 11: confusing to know which phone am I getting. Am I
Speaker 11: getting the best phone that they offer? Am I getting
Speaker 11: the nicer phone? Am I getting the more budget friendly phone.
Speaker 11: You can look at the price tags, obviously, but I
Speaker 11: feel like that is part of the education. That's part
Speaker 11: of the on ramping to someone who's considering one of
Speaker 11: these is you do kind of need to do your
Speaker 11: own research. It's not as established as iPhone, iPhone fifteen,
Speaker 11: iPhone fifteen Pro, Galaxy S Series twenty four to twenty
Speaker 11: four plus Ultra. We kind of understand this a little
Speaker 11: bit better. But when I go dollar for dollar, there
Speaker 11: really isn't anything I find on an iPhone fifteen plus
Speaker 11: or an S twenty four plus that I would recommend.
Speaker 11: There's better screen tech, better charging tech, longer battery life,
Speaker 11: bigger battery, better camera sensors. One plus has a very
Speaker 11: very clear shot at I think what is the weakest
Speaker 11: segment of Apple and Samsung currently, Apple and Samsung doing
Speaker 11: way better Above one thousand dollars. One plus is seeing
Speaker 11: a clear opportunity to kind of hit Apple and Samsung
Speaker 11: where they're most vulnerable.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna leave it there. One plus twelve
Speaker 1: coming in at seven hundred ninety nine dollars available on
Speaker 1: February six. You can do a pre order now, and
Speaker 1: they've got some deals. You can check them out at
Speaker 1: a best Buy as well. One Carlos Bagnew, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining me today.
Speaker 11: Yeah, pleasure, and I'll make sure to leave a spot
Speaker 11: on my calendar for the one plus thirteen planning ahead.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Go follow on some gadget guy on YouTube, some gadget
Speaker 1: guy on YouTube. All right, if we're on a link
Speaker 1: to that phone, Rich on tech dot TV, coming up,
Speaker 1: more of your calls, Triple eight Rich one on one plus.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about the mother of all data breaches.
Speaker 2: What you need to know.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one
Speaker 1: on one and that's eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Playing some Michael Jackson songs
Speaker 1: this weekend because last weekend, after the show, I went
Speaker 1: and saw the MJ play. It was great, but it
Speaker 1: was raining, And I'll tell you this is how people
Speaker 1: get scammed. Had nothing to do with the play. We
Speaker 1: had a great time at the play, but it can
Speaker 1: happen to anyone. And I the main thing when you're
Speaker 1: getting scammed is that you're under some sort of pressure,
Speaker 1: whether it's time, whether it's money, whether it is someone
Speaker 1: else telling you to do something. And so that sort
Speaker 1: of happened to us, and we did end up getting
Speaker 1: scammed in a huge way. But I'll explain basically, after
Speaker 1: the play, trying to get a ride home, right called
Speaker 1: the Uber Uber circling around. It's pouring in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Now La shuts down when it rains because people here
Speaker 1: do not know how to deal with the rain. We
Speaker 1: don't have umbrellas, we don't have boots, we have nothing.
Speaker 1: We were wearing shorts and flip flops most of the time,
Speaker 1: and so when it rains it gets pretty wild anyway,
Speaker 1: So I was under pressure after this play ended. As
Speaker 1: you can imagine, there's thousands of people spilling out onto
Speaker 1: the streets of Hollywood Boulevard and I can't meet up
Speaker 1: with the car. And my wife is like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: What's happening? And I'm not blaming her, but it's like
Speaker 1: one of these things where you want to get home
Speaker 1: like you're done, you know, and so.
Speaker 2: The car is not. I'm just not linking up with
Speaker 2: the uber.
Speaker 1: So I see this taxi at the at the curb
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know what, let's just get in
Speaker 1: the taxi. So we jump in the taxi. It's pouring rain,
Speaker 1: we're soaked, and we start on our way home. And
Speaker 1: about three minutes into the ride, my wife is like,
Speaker 1: where's the meter. I'm like, oh, no, there's no meter,
Speaker 1: there's no sign it was it was a taxi, but
Speaker 1: I think the person was off duty and just picking
Speaker 1: up rides, and so I was like, oh no, we're
Speaker 1: going to be taken here, Like I have no idea
Speaker 1: how much this ride's going to be whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: are they going to request cash, I don't know. So
Speaker 1: long story short, we got home safely, which was my
Speaker 1: main goal. The ride ended up being about three times
Speaker 1: the price of the Uber, but I was perfectly fine
Speaker 1: with that because we were home safe. But my lesson
Speaker 1: learned is that when you're under pressure, that's when you
Speaker 1: are susceptible to being scammed. When you're trying to do
Speaker 1: something fast, you're doing something hasty, stop and think. Because
Speaker 1: if I would have thought like why is there no
Speaker 1: light on this car? And when I get in, why
Speaker 1: is there no meter in this car? Those would have
Speaker 1: been two red flags that would have made me get
Speaker 1: out of that car.
Speaker 2: Knock, get in.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Lauren in San Diego. Lauren, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12: How did you and you love your lovely wife? Like
Speaker 12: like the taxi ride I gave you last week?
Speaker 1: That was you great? Well, you are a great driver.
Speaker 12: Do you want to tax you?
Speaker 5: Just kidding you?
Speaker 12: One quick question, Rich, would you recommend key mobile five
Speaker 12: G home Internet to just the power of one of
Speaker 12: device That would be a thirty two inch Samsung Smart TV.
Speaker 12: I like to watch the two b TV movies and
Speaker 12: like YouTube movies, documentaries and I think also.
Speaker 7: A game show like Match.
Speaker 5: Game with jeene Ate Burn and Charles Nelson Riley.
Speaker 7: Would you recommend that?
Speaker 12: Should that work out?
Speaker 5: Per month?
Speaker 9: Just just well, what do you what do you have
Speaker 9: right now?
Speaker 7: Nothing?
Speaker 5: No internet whatsoever? Just a smartphone?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: And what brand is your phone?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 1: What what carrier are you on?
Speaker 8: AT and T?
Speaker 12: And I have a Samstung smart.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're on AT and T. So do you know
Speaker 1: if T Mobile works at your home?
Speaker 12: No idea, I take it it does.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, are you in like a main area?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, all right, so in that case, I would
Speaker 1: recommend this. It's it's not as cheap as it was.
Speaker 1: They have raised the prices recently, but it's a great
Speaker 1: way to uh, you know, to get internet quickly at
Speaker 1: your house. There are two other services. You have T
Speaker 1: Mobile Home Internet and also Verizon has their own home Internet,
Speaker 1: and then AT and T has one which I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember what's it called, like Airplay or something like that.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the name of THEIRS is, but
Speaker 1: THEIRS is not available in many locations. But let me
Speaker 1: see AT and T five G Home Internet. I gotta
Speaker 1: find out what this name is. Internet Air there it
Speaker 1: is AT and T Internet Air. So I would go
Speaker 1: on the web and I would check all three of these.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're getting targeted ads for this T Mobile one,
Speaker 1: which is just fine. But the main thing is if
Speaker 1: you don't have a good wireless signal at your home,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be that good. So the good
Speaker 1: news is none of these have contracts, so you can
Speaker 1: call up you can get this thing shipped to your house.
Speaker 1: It's basically plug and play. You plug it in your window,
Speaker 1: it pulls in that signal and then it broadcasts that
Speaker 1: signal out as a so it takes in a cellular
Speaker 1: signal and converts that into a Wi Fi signal that
Speaker 1: you would then connect this TV too. So that's what
Speaker 1: I would recommend. See which one I would start with
Speaker 1: AT and T just because your service is through AT
Speaker 1: and T and you know it works. So I would
Speaker 1: check to see if their Internet Air is available at
Speaker 1: your location. It is in very limited areas so it
Speaker 1: may not be, but I would check to see if
Speaker 1: that one's available first. Then I would move on to
Speaker 1: Verizon T Mobile to a price check, see which one
Speaker 1: is cheaper for what you get and the speed you
Speaker 1: get and I think as far as this powering what
Speaker 1: you want to do, which is just stream stuff on
Speaker 1: your TV, it will absolutely work one hundred percent. So
Speaker 1: if you're streaming stuff on your phone already, it's the
Speaker 1: same thing, it's the same signal. It'll just be on
Speaker 1: your big screen TV. So good question, Lauren, Thanks for
Speaker 1: calling in today from San Diego. Let's see we got
Speaker 1: an email question here. Let's see. Jay says, I would
Speaker 1: like to connect my mom's phone remotely to assist her
Speaker 1: with installing apps or guide her on how to use
Speaker 1: the phone. Is there a free app that we can use.
Speaker 1: What would be your suggestion? She has a Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: A fourteen. Thank you, Jy. I would recommend the free
Speaker 1: app called team Viewer. Team Viewer they make an Android app.
Speaker 1: They also make an app for basically every platform, whether
Speaker 1: it is Windows, whether it's Mac Os, whether it's Linux, Chrome,
Speaker 1: Raspberry Pie. You know what that is Android and I
Speaker 1: so you can download this for free. It's a paid
Speaker 1: service if you're a company, but for personal it is free.
Speaker 1: And so if you just type in team Viewer Android
Speaker 1: on Google, you can search it. You can install that
Speaker 1: on her phone. Then you can install it on your desktop,
Speaker 1: and what you do is you basically there is a
Speaker 1: special code that the app will generate on her phone.
Speaker 1: You ask her for that code and you can log
Speaker 1: in from your device and basically take over the screen.
Speaker 1: And that should work with no problems. That's the app
Speaker 1: that I use for my mom's computer and it works
Speaker 1: just fine. And of course you have to do it
Speaker 1: with their permission, and there's like a one time access
Speaker 1: or you can link them up permanently and have more access.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the email, and let me tell you about this.
Speaker 1: The mother of all data breaches. Massive data breach with
Speaker 1: twenty six billion records was discovered Onlines, probably the largest
Speaker 1: data leak in history. Not necessarily new, but it was
Speaker 1: compiled from thousands of previous breaches. So they took all
Speaker 1: this information that was flowing around. They put it into
Speaker 1: one megaaload usernames, passwords, emails, phone numbers from places like LinkedIn, Twitter, Tencent, MySpace.
Speaker 2: Uh, what do you need to know?
Speaker 1: You need to know that you should not be reusing
Speaker 1: your passwords and enable multi factor authentication. There is a
Speaker 1: website cybernews dot com which will allow you to put
Speaker 1: in your phone number or your email and it will
Speaker 1: tell you if it's part of this breach. I recommend
Speaker 1: you do that. If it is, change those passwords. This
Speaker 1: is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. This is the show
Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I think you
Speaker 1: should know about. It's also the place where I answer
Speaker 1: your questions. Coming up this hour. Mitch Goldstone of scanmyphotos
Speaker 1: dot com.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Not only does he run a small business, but he
Speaker 1: actually helps secure five point five billion dollars in a
Speaker 1: settlement about how payment cards are processed with small businesses.
Speaker 1: So you might have gotten an envelope in the mail
Speaker 1: if you run a small business that says you can
Speaker 1: claim your share of the five point five billion dollar
Speaker 1: settlement if you accepted Visa or MasterCard from January first,
Speaker 1: two thousand and four through January twenty fifth, twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and you might have thrown you might have be ready
Speaker 1: to throw it out and say, wait, this is probably
Speaker 1: junk mail.
Speaker 2: No it's not.
Speaker 1: He will explain what that's all about and how he
Speaker 1: won that much money from these credit card processing companies.
Speaker 1: I finished watching Killers of the Flower Moon. This is
Speaker 1: a epic three plus hour movie that's trying to get
Speaker 1: through all the Academy Award nominees, and this, I think
Speaker 1: takes the cake as the most paused movie I've ever
Speaker 1: watched in my life because it was three hours and
Speaker 1: thirty minutes or something like that, and with two kids
Speaker 1: and two jobs and a wife and some other things
Speaker 1: happening in the world, I can't sit in front of
Speaker 1: a TV for that amount of time without getting up
Speaker 1: and pausing, and so I think I paused this movie
Speaker 1: probably like thirty seven times, also over two days. But
Speaker 1: I did switch to a new app for my movie watching,
Speaker 1: and I think that you should check it out. It
Speaker 1: is called just Watch, and I was using one called
Speaker 1: Real Good r ee L g oo D, but I
Speaker 1: find that just Watch is actually kind of easier, and
Speaker 1: I'm really digging it. I haven't paid for the pro
Speaker 1: they give you everything for free, but there's one pro
Speaker 1: feature that's actually kind of nice, and it lets you
Speaker 1: sort your movie list like your little watch list, by time,
Speaker 1: like the run time, So if you only have, like
Speaker 1: you know, if you're Friday night, you don't feel like
Speaker 1: staying up very long. You want to see the shortest
Speaker 1: movie on your list, you can sort it by runtime,
Speaker 1: but they charge you two dollars and fifty cents a
Speaker 1: month for that, so I subscribe for a couple of
Speaker 1: months just to you know, why not right anyway, the
Speaker 1: app is called just Watch. And if you know me,
Speaker 1: if you listen to this show, you know I refuse
Speaker 1: to watch any movie that that are not streaming on
Speaker 1: one of my services because I pay for so many
Speaker 1: of them. So I've got all of the Academy Award
Speaker 1: movies on my little list here, and it tells me
Speaker 1: where they're playing and if they're playing for free. So
Speaker 1: I think next up is going to be The Holdovers
Speaker 1: because that's on Peacock, and so I can watch that
Speaker 1: for free since I pay for Peacock. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Let's go to Stanley in Bettsville, Ohio.
Speaker 2: Stanley are On with Rich.
Speaker 5: Hello rich On Tech. Hello, Hello from the Great Lakes
Speaker 5: region of America.
Speaker 1: How is it there? Is it cold?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 5: It's forty okay, well not nice cold, but dreary, rainy
Speaker 5: and snow tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, well.
Speaker 5: Wait, my friend, yeah, anyway, my question, Rich is I've
Speaker 5: had an INSPI on twenty four inch all in one
Speaker 5: unit from a major computer manufacturer in round Rock text.
Speaker 5: I know who, you know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Sure we can, we can deduce.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I enjoyed it tremendously. And again it's the
Speaker 5: all in one CPU and screen all in one package. Well,
Speaker 5: looking to upgrade to the twenty seven inch version after
Speaker 5: several years, and I opted for the package they offer
Speaker 5: to transfer data from the old twenty four inch PC
Speaker 5: to the new twenty seven inch PC. Do those things
Speaker 5: actually work well? And I'm thinking, if it's going to
Speaker 5: work anywhere, it will from the same manufacturer to the
Speaker 5: same manufacturer. What's your experience?
Speaker 2: So is it?
Speaker 1: Are you? Do they give you software that's or like,
Speaker 1: what what's the old computer?
Speaker 2: Like version of.
Speaker 10: Windows on Windows ten?
Speaker 2: Okay and the new one has eleven?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is software that when you're getting this
Speaker 1: new computer, they just bundle it in and say for
Speaker 1: an extra forty bucks, we'll give you this hard driving
Speaker 1: more or whatever.
Speaker 5: That's the way I understand it. I don't know if
Speaker 5: it's all software or if there's a physical connection between
Speaker 5: some ports or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be. I mean, here's the thing. So
Speaker 1: Number one, I typically don't. I don't transfer computers to
Speaker 1: the next one like I've done, you know, many upgrades
Speaker 1: over the years. I always start fresh because I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you're bringing your old computer over, unless you have
Speaker 1: a specific reason to why bring all the baggage that
Speaker 1: comes with that computer that you've run for so long
Speaker 1: onto a new, fresh computer that's going to run nice
Speaker 1: and fast and clean. So I personally always install things
Speaker 1: with a fresh start. But if you don't want to
Speaker 1: do that, there's a couple of ways around this. Number One,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to use a program that's going to
Speaker 1: bring over, like the applications and things like that can
Speaker 1: get kind of tricky, so I don't typically recommend that.
Speaker 1: But if you want to bring over your software, your
Speaker 1: files and things like that, you know you can dump
Speaker 1: those all into something like one drive which is built
Speaker 1: into the Windows computer on the you know, the old one,
Speaker 1: and then you know, on the new computer just reaccess
Speaker 1: those and bring those over. Now, you may have too
Speaker 1: many files and that's not going to work, and so
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to spend the money on
Speaker 1: buying cloud storage for that to happen, but you can
Speaker 1: also just put them on an external hard drive and
Speaker 1: you can back them up to a drive and then
Speaker 1: bring that drive over to the new computer. The main
Speaker 1: thing is that you're probably still going to have to
Speaker 1: unless you're cloning a drive, You're probably still going to
Speaker 1: have to bring over your applications, which means you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to reinstall those on the new computer as well.
Speaker 1: Now Windows used to have sort of a migration tool
Speaker 1: built in. They do not anymore, which is probably why
Speaker 1: this computer company is offering to sell you some software.
Speaker 1: The popular software is PC mover from LapLink. That may
Speaker 1: be what they're selling you forty bucks online. So if that,
Speaker 1: you know, if you want it to be easy and
Speaker 1: simple and you want to use the software transfer, then
Speaker 1: go ahead. It's it's going to make life a little
Speaker 1: bit easier and you know everything's going to be pulled
Speaker 1: over to the new computer. Personally, I'm just much more
Speaker 1: hands on and I like to know what's happening and
Speaker 1: what's being pulled over and what settings are changing and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So I would like to
Speaker 1: do this myself. But I don't see any problem with
Speaker 1: doing this. If you want to make life easy for yourself,
Speaker 1: go ahead. That's probably the best way to do it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call there in Bettsville, Ohio. Stanley appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Richard in Saint Charles, Illinois.
Speaker 2: Richard, you're on with rich Hi, I've got a problem.
Speaker 7: I've got a computer that has Windows pen on it,
Speaker 7: and it keeps every few days saying you have to update.
Speaker 7: It'll do it when you turn it off, if you
Speaker 7: tell it to or whatever, and eventually, and I always say,
Speaker 7: forget it. I never want any updates. How do I
Speaker 7: get it so I don't have to have these things
Speaker 7: screwing up my computer all the time?
Speaker 2: Oh? Good question.
Speaker 1: Well, first off, I do recommend doing the updates, and
Speaker 1: I know people don't want to do updates because it
Speaker 1: changes things, it changes the way their computer works. But
Speaker 1: there's a reason for these updates, and it is mostly security.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they do throw in an update that will change
Speaker 1: the way your computer works. But if you want to
Speaker 1: just do the updates that are security related, when you're
Speaker 1: looking at that update screen, you should have the choice
Speaker 1: to choose the individual updates that you want to do.
Speaker 1: You could tell which ones are security related. Because they're
Speaker 1: typically marked that way, but other times there's a bigger
Speaker 1: update that will change some of the things on your computer.
Speaker 1: So I would say it's best to do the updates
Speaker 1: just if you want to keep your computer protected. There
Speaker 1: is no way to stop the updates easily, as.
Speaker 2: Far as I know.
Speaker 1: On Windows, there are some ways to pause them for
Speaker 1: seven days, and you can repeat that if you want
Speaker 1: to pause them for a period of time, but there
Speaker 1: really isn't a way to stop them forever. Looking here
Speaker 1: and seeing if there's a way to defer some of
Speaker 1: these updates, yeah, I mean it's one of these things
Speaker 1: where there are some ways to just defer them for
Speaker 1: a while, but there's not a way to keep them
Speaker 1: from never happening. I mean, really, you can defer them
Speaker 1: for as long as you want to keep them from
Speaker 1: happening for a certain period of time, but eventually you
Speaker 1: know you're probably gonna have to do these things, and.
Speaker 2: I do recommend you do them.
Speaker 1: I think with any any device that you have, whether
Speaker 1: it is your phone, whether it is your computer, these
Speaker 1: software updates are put there for a reason, and they're
Speaker 1: put there to protect you from the exploits that are
Speaker 1: discovered in the wild, and so especially on a Windows computer,
Speaker 1: that is the most common platform out there, and so
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that can affect this,
Speaker 1: and so by not doing these updates, you are putting
Speaker 1: yourself at a disadvantage. I understand it changes things. I
Speaker 1: know sometimes you get these things on there and they're
Speaker 1: just you know, they change the way your computer works
Speaker 1: or runs. But they still are very important to do.
Speaker 1: So my advice is to always do them. I know
Speaker 1: it changes, but if you want to put them off,
Speaker 1: you can pause them for a while and keep them
Speaker 1: at bay for just a little bit. But I always
Speaker 1: recommend doing them all. Right, coming up, let's see what
Speaker 1: can I tell you about. Speaking of security, if you
Speaker 1: have an iPhone, there is a new security setting that
Speaker 1: I definitely think you should turn on. And Apple is
Speaker 1: changing big changes over in Europe. I'm not sure they'll
Speaker 1: trickle here to the US, but Apple is overhauling its
Speaker 1: app store in response to this new European Union digital law,
Speaker 1: and so I will tell you what you need to
Speaker 1: know about that, plus the website. Rich on tech dot TV.
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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Gordon. Gordon is in Costa Mesa. You're
Speaker 1: on with Rich.
Speaker 8: Hey, Rich, I.
Speaker 14: Have a Asis laptop seventeen inch and it's eleven years old
Speaker 14: and it's starting to fail, and I wanted to know
Speaker 14: what brand is a good brand, whether I should stay
Speaker 14: with Windows or Mac. I don't do a few bills
Speaker 14: on the computer, but nothing really much.
Speaker 1: Uh as you're thinking of switching to Mac, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 14: I have never used the Mac. I always use Windows.
Speaker 14: But a friend of mine was saying it was easy
Speaker 14: to learn, but I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, I think it's easy to I mean, it's
Speaker 1: definitely a change. I think that uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: really really good MacBook, the MacBook Error is an excellent choice.
Speaker 2: But what do you What do you do on the computer?
Speaker 14: Mostly emails and just kind of surfing and you know,
Speaker 14: we might get a wireless bill and I just and
Speaker 14: it's paid with a credit card or bank account, so
Speaker 14: it's not really on the computer that I have a
Speaker 14: bank account number such and such.
Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean the main thing is that you're
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna be fine with any computer. I think
Speaker 1: it's really the specs that matter with these things, because
Speaker 1: I assume you're just going to like go to get
Speaker 1: like best Buy or something like that to buy one.
Speaker 14: Is that or are you going to try either that
Speaker 14: or Costco?
Speaker 10: But oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 14: I need I need somebody to assist me to transfer
Speaker 14: everything I have on the other computer to the new one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's also, well, that would be yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that would be a consideration, especially with this computer that
Speaker 1: you have that's been around for a while. But again
Speaker 1: I would recommend just you can dump all your files
Speaker 1: onto like an external hard drive, and that's an easy
Speaker 1: way to do it. But uh, okay, So when it
Speaker 1: comes to the question of Mac versus PC, so you
Speaker 1: already know PC, you already know how it works, so
Speaker 1: I have no problem with you sticking with that. I
Speaker 1: personally think that the MacBook Air is a really easy
Speaker 1: to use computer that is.
Speaker 2: Going to last for a long time.
Speaker 1: I'm impressed that you got eleven years out of this
Speaker 1: current laptop, so kudos to you for that. But you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the new laptop, I think it
Speaker 1: really comes down to the specs. So and Costco you mentioned,
Speaker 1: that's a great place to start because they typically only
Speaker 1: have a small selection of laptops, whether it is a
Speaker 1: couple of Apple laptops or a couple of Windows laptops,
Speaker 1: and they're all excellent. So you really cannot go wrong
Speaker 1: with something that you buy at Costco. So if that's
Speaker 1: if you do have a membership there, I would go
Speaker 1: in there see what they have. And when it comes
Speaker 1: to laptops on the Windows side, you know they have
Speaker 1: some gaming laptops and things like that. You don't need those.
Speaker 1: But if it's just a standard laptop like an a
Speaker 1: sus or an Acer. I would get something that has
Speaker 1: sixteen gigabytes of RAM. That's kind of the minimum that
Speaker 1: I would look for. And then for the hard drive,
Speaker 1: probably like a one terabyte hard drive. You could probably
Speaker 1: be okay with a five to twelve gigabyte, but I
Speaker 1: think a one terabyte drive along with sixteen gigabytes of
Speaker 1: RAM is going to be best. And then when it
Speaker 1: comes to the processor, when it comes to Intel, the
Speaker 1: higher the number the better. And so if you're looking
Speaker 1: at like say an Intel, you know they usually go
Speaker 1: by Core I five, Core I seven, Core I nine.
Speaker 1: If it's like a three, that's probably going to be
Speaker 1: you know, that's on the low end of things. I
Speaker 1: look for at least a five or a seven on
Speaker 1: the Intel processors. So that's really what it comes down
Speaker 1: to is look for those specs. Make sure you're getting
Speaker 1: something that that it's decent specs that's going to last
Speaker 1: you a long time, versus something that's just you know,
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars a best Buy and it's like a
Speaker 1: chromebook style thing and it's not going to last you
Speaker 1: very long because you got a long time out of
Speaker 1: this last computer. I'm very very impressed Now, when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Apple side of things, the Apple the
Speaker 1: MacBook Air M one is a little bit older. But
Speaker 1: this thing was on sale for like seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars over the holiday, so I'm checking to see
Speaker 1: what the price is now. Oh, it's still seven hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty bucks. And so if you want to switch
Speaker 1: to the Apple side of things, this MacBook Air from
Speaker 1: twenty twenty has an M one chip. It only has
Speaker 1: eight gigs of RAM and a two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: six gigabyte hard drive, so that on the on that aspect,
Speaker 1: the spect are not very good. But this is going
Speaker 1: to be a very fast computer and I think that's
Speaker 1: and it's going to last a long time and there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of bloatwear on the Mac computer. So
Speaker 1: I hope that helps. But I would say go to
Speaker 1: Costco and that's probably the best place to start. And
Speaker 1: if you need to, you can email me a picture
Speaker 1: of those the two that you're trying to decide between. There.
Speaker 1: Believe me, people have done it before, so that might
Speaker 1: be the best way to do it. All right, Thanks
Speaker 1: for the call. Gordon calling in today from Costa Mesa. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there is a new feature on the iPhone if
Speaker 1: you have an iPhone that you need to enable. It
Speaker 1: is called stolen Device Protection. This is an iOS seventeen
Speaker 1: point three, So if you haven't updated your phone to
Speaker 1: iOS seventeen point three, you'll need to do it. I
Speaker 1: talked about this. This is all because of the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal. If you turn on the setting, it will
Speaker 1: now require your face ID or your fingerprint, or a
Speaker 1: one hour delay before allowing big changes to your account
Speaker 1: like changing your Apple ID password or disabling fine min
Speaker 1: and so this will add an extra layer to your phone.
Speaker 1: In case someone steals your phone and also figures out
Speaker 1: your passcode, they won't be able to make major changes
Speaker 1: to your phone that will enable them to not only
Speaker 1: steal your phone, but also rob you of your identity
Speaker 1: and your data and your financial apps. So it basically
Speaker 1: puts one level of protection between you and the bad people.
Speaker 1: Go to iPhone settings face ID, and it's under Stolen
Speaker 1: Device Protection. If you don't see that new feature, you
Speaker 1: got to do a software update again. iPhone Settings face ID,
Speaker 1: Stolen Device Protection.
Speaker 2: Turn it on.
Speaker 1: Coming up next. Mitch Goldstone from scan my Photos dot Com.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one
Speaker 1: oh one, that's eighty eight seven four two four one
Speaker 1: zero one joining me in the studio Mitch Goldstone of
Speaker 1: scan my Photos dot Com. Mitch, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me today, Rich.
Speaker 3: Pleasure is always for the guys.
Speaker 1: You. You're actually one of only two people who have
Speaker 1: been in studio. First, yeah, you were the first, and
Speaker 1: now you're actually the third because we've only had Jefferson Graham,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 2: I know Jeff is the greatest guy in there. I
Speaker 2: know he is a great guy.
Speaker 1: Okay. Oh and oh, Bobo reminded me, yeah, my son.
Speaker 1: Do I have both my sons on? Yeah? Okay, no,
Speaker 1: just one, just one? Okay, Parker was over the phone. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So the reason you're here, we'll talk about scan my
Speaker 1: photos dot Com and the fact that you run this
Speaker 1: great business that helps you ble scan all of the
Speaker 1: old photos and film reels and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: you also did something really interesting. You run a small
Speaker 1: business and you somehow secured a five point five billion
Speaker 1: dollar payment card settlement, and it all relates to this
Speaker 1: you brought into prop. Tell me if you can hear this,
Speaker 1: if you're of a certain age when you went to
Speaker 1: the store. That's the sound you heard when you checked out.
Speaker 1: It is a credit card. What do you call this thing?
Speaker 1: Credit card?
Speaker 3: Imprinter with carbon copy receipts took three days to send
Speaker 3: those to Miami. Millions of merchants took three days to
Speaker 3: get their money. And that sounds so I have to say,
Speaker 3: I'm humbled to be here today after last week's show
Speaker 3: with my other hero, Joanna Stern.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's great.
Speaker 1: She awesome, She is awesome and every time and she
Speaker 1: emails you to say, hey, join and we come on show. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: When when do you need me? Okay, So let's talk
Speaker 1: about this settlement. So five point five to four billion
Speaker 1: dollar anti trust class action settlement for merchants who accepted
Speaker 1: Visa MasterCard from twenty four to twenty nineteen. So what
Speaker 1: started you on this journey to try to get the settlement?
Speaker 1: What was the problem?
Speaker 5: Rich?
Speaker 3: The problem was my business partner and I, Carl Berman,
Speaker 3: ran the photo business, and we realized that everything got
Speaker 3: less expensive and faster, much like Moore's law, everything but
Speaker 3: one thing. Even with scanning. We digitized two pictures and
Speaker 3: a second slides one every second, but credit card fees
Speaker 3: kept on going up, so we were concerned. I reached
Speaker 3: out to Visa and MasterCard. The biggest mistake they never
Speaker 3: took my call from Purchase New York and in San Francisco,
Speaker 3: and all I wanted to do was ask why are
Speaker 3: these rates going up?
Speaker 2: So what are these fees? Just explain what those fees
Speaker 2: are like.
Speaker 1: Every time when you use a credit card at a company,
Speaker 1: or even a debit card or is this just credit
Speaker 1: credit and debit card, they take a little patient, they
Speaker 1: take a little portion, which is a big portion.
Speaker 3: It's tens of billions of dollars a year. Back then,
Speaker 3: when you had the credit card imprint and carbon copies,
Speaker 3: it was cost based. But what happened was I reached
Speaker 3: out and found the most awesome law firm, Robins Kaplan
Speaker 3: in Minneapolis. Out here in Century City, Craig Wildfang, Ryan,
Speaker 3: the whole group. They're the ones that took on the
Speaker 3: tobacco industry. Mister Wildfang was Janet Reno. Worked with Janet
Speaker 3: Reno Department of Justice, and we got together and they
Speaker 3: explained to me that Visa and MasterCard were both owned
Speaker 3: by the same banks, Wells Fargo, ba of a chase,
Speaker 3: all of them city and they also had the same
Speaker 3: board of directors, and twice a year, millions of merchants
Speaker 3: like scan my photos would get a letter saying your
Speaker 3: rates are going up. But we got two letters, one
Speaker 3: from Visa, one for MasterCard and on the same day
Speaker 3: and the same rates.
Speaker 2: So I'm thinking, I don't want to throw out a
Speaker 2: term like collusion.
Speaker 3: But five point five billion dollars in collusion took eighteen years.
Speaker 3: Carl and I started in two thousand and five with this.
Speaker 3: It's collusion, anti competitive price fixing. So the best part
Speaker 3: about the lawsuit is once I followed as lead plaintiff,
Speaker 3: Visa and MasterCard immediately went public, which confirmed that there
Speaker 3: was a problem. And then they did the second thing
Speaker 3: almost instantly, they created a separate board of directors because
Speaker 3: the same guys are on Visa. So it took eighteen years.
Speaker 3: It's a massive, its largest antitrust suit in US history.
Speaker 3: And I know every one of your listeners around the
Speaker 3: country right now who are business owners, are thinking, well,
Speaker 3: how do I get involved?
Speaker 2: How do I get this money?
Speaker 1: But eighteen years, eighteen years, this took, and it's all
Speaker 1: because of you, Like literally you.
Speaker 3: Well, but yeah, it's kind of like, you know Aaron
Speaker 3: brockovic promos.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have a story about that.
Speaker 3: I mentioned at cees at the Netflix Pavilion, I ran
Speaker 3: into our dear friend Lance all and Off and I
Speaker 3: was chatting with him, and as soon as I left him,
Speaker 3: these two guys came up to me and said, I
Speaker 3: overheard what you guys were talking about. One is movie
Speaker 3: producer and another is a screenwriter. And they were saying,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is like the next Aaron Brockovitz
Speaker 3: two point zero.
Speaker 1: We're going to see a movie with mention it. Oh,
Speaker 1: more like Matt Damon.
Speaker 3: There's a lot I don't know, but it was really
Speaker 3: it was so inspiring. They were excited with it. But
Speaker 3: the point now is people aren't taking this seriously. You know,
Speaker 3: if you have a class action envelope, you throw it away,
Speaker 3: it's for a penny or a coupon. Rich this is thousands, tens,
Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands of dollars based on the size of
Speaker 3: the business.
Speaker 1: It is huge.
Speaker 3: So I helped design When people go to the scan
Speaker 3: my Photos website, all the information is there. You'll see
Speaker 3: the claim form. Carl and I helped design it. We
Speaker 3: have barcode in it, so you just scan the barcode.
Speaker 3: It takes a second. So now there are all these
Speaker 3: other companies that are trying to help businesses with undisclosed fees.
Speaker 3: One company all over on TikTok Social is saying for
Speaker 3: forty percent will handle everything for you.
Speaker 1: No please everyone. So so just to get this straight,
Speaker 1: there is a direct way to do this where you
Speaker 1: can file you know, your claim, I guess. But then
Speaker 1: there's these other klingon companies that are coming out of
Speaker 1: the woodwork saying, hey, we'll do this for you. You
Speaker 1: tell us how much. We'll fill out all the information,
Speaker 1: but we're going to take a cut of that. Don't
Speaker 1: like a third party, you don't want to do that.
Speaker 3: No, and you received one as well in the mail, right.
Speaker 1: So is this real?
Speaker 5: This is?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 2: This is the real one.
Speaker 5: That is it?
Speaker 3: And all you have to do is fill it out.
Speaker 3: It takes a second. There's a bar code in it.
Speaker 3: And because there's so many millions, I never thought i'd
Speaker 3: be moiles. There are millions of merchants, businesses that are
Speaker 3: in business that are also no longer in business. So
Speaker 3: we're sending out a million a day, a million of
Speaker 3: those every day. And the important thing is all the
Speaker 3: giant big companies know about this and they're having.
Speaker 2: People figure it out.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: I want all small businesses to take advantage of this.
Speaker 3: The average is like five percent of people ever redeemed. No,
Speaker 3: this needs to be one hundred percent. We need every
Speaker 3: small business And the problem is if you don't fill
Speaker 3: that out, it just goes into the pool. So everyone
Speaker 3: who did gets more. But if you're no longer in business,
Speaker 3: and I know a lot of people that listen to
Speaker 3: rich and tech from you and from years ago, may
Speaker 3: no longer be in business, you still get it from
Speaker 3: two thousand and four to twenty nineteen, and all you
Speaker 3: have to do is fill out the form. We put
Speaker 3: everything on the scan my Photos website as well. If
Speaker 3: you just go to in the news or the blog,
Speaker 3: right up front all the information and there's a direct
Speaker 3: link to help with the claims administrator. All of that
Speaker 3: so really easy.
Speaker 1: So the official website is Paymentcard Settlement dot com. Right okay,
Speaker 1: scan my Photos dot com will also have a link.
Speaker 1: You might have gotten a letter in the mail that
Speaker 1: says it's time to file your claim for your share
Speaker 1: of the five point five plus billion dollar settlement if
Speaker 1: you accepted Visa or MasterCard from January first, two thousand
Speaker 1: and four through January twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, and it's
Speaker 1: it comes from the payment card Interchange Fee settlement. So again,
Speaker 1: if you ran a small business and you know, even
Speaker 1: if you're not running that business anymore, you may have
Speaker 1: a portion of this money coming your way, but you
Speaker 1: have to put in the claim for it.
Speaker 3: You do, and we want as many people as possible.
Speaker 3: That's way even on Twitter at the scan my photo
Speaker 3: c or credit card. So on Twitter the address is
Speaker 3: scan my photo CEE. Just reach out to us, ask
Speaker 3: us any questions, let us know did you get one
Speaker 3: of these? Did you not? Do you have any questions
Speaker 3: and we'll put your right in charge with the claims adjuster.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now that you did this, Mitch, I mean,
Speaker 1: has anything changed with the way credit cards are taken
Speaker 1: at businesses? Everything?
Speaker 3: All the technology has changed because back then you'd have
Speaker 3: to swipe the card. Now they're all the security features
Speaker 3: are in it with the the chip, the chip, all
Speaker 3: of that. So all of the reasons the bank said
Speaker 3: we need to charge lots of money because of fraud.
Speaker 3: Fraud has been vastly reduced because of how easy and
Speaker 3: quick and instantaneous. When you use a debit card and
Speaker 3: you go and you swipe it, money is instantly taken
Speaker 3: out of your account, yet the merchant is still being
Speaker 3: charged and interchange.
Speaker 1: Right because of that convenience. I always find it interesting
Speaker 1: when I can't use my own card, when they're protecting
Speaker 1: me from myself. I'm like, no, you're just protecting your bank.
Speaker 1: You know that, you don't really care. You know, I've
Speaker 1: been in Japan, I've been an other most of the time.
Speaker 1: It happens when I'm traveling and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, you try to use your card
Speaker 1: that first you step off the plane. You try to
Speaker 1: use your card, even debit or credit, and it's like
Speaker 1: it gets locked up, and you're like, oh no, now
Speaker 1: I got to deal with this card being locked up.
Speaker 1: So thank you for doing that. It's very exciting. And
Speaker 1: quickly before we go, give me an update on scan
Speaker 1: myphotos dot com. This is a huge business that you
Speaker 1: run just keeping people's memories digitized forever.
Speaker 3: It is well, we have crazy big news tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 3: kind of precluded from talking about it yet, but people
Speaker 3: will see it all over the country today with you, though,
Speaker 3: I'd rather focus on the credit cards than the other part.
Speaker 3: Things are going great and on that side, but this
Speaker 3: is more about the millions of businesses out there, tiny
Speaker 3: little businesses, big businesses. Please fill out the claim form.
Speaker 1: Absolutely you heard it from the man himself, Mitch Goldstone
Speaker 1: of scan my photos dot com. Five point five billion
Speaker 1: dollar payment card settlement. Go to the website payment Card
Speaker 1: Settlement dot com or scan my photos dot com to
Speaker 1: get more information and to submit your claim.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining me in studio today.
Speaker 1: You're the best. Appreciate it rich On Tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Of course we'll have a link as well coming up
Speaker 1: more of your questions at triple eight rich one on
Speaker 1: one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Plus I will tell you about how Apple is making
Speaker 1: some changes to their app store because of a European law.
Speaker 2: Coming up.
Speaker 1: Welcome, come back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here
Speaker 1: hanging out with you talking technology at triple eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Just had Mitch Goldstone in
Speaker 1: here to talk about his Aaron Brockovic moment five point
Speaker 1: five billion dollars. So if you ran a small business
Speaker 1: between twenty four and twenty nineteen, accepted Visa and or MasterCard,
Speaker 1: you might have some money coming your way. The website
Speaker 1: once again payment Cardsettlement dot Com. Well, this week Apple
Speaker 1: made some or is announced some major changes to the
Speaker 1: way it's doing business in Europe, all in response to
Speaker 1: this new Digital Markets Act, which takes effect in March
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Over in Europe. This is all for
Speaker 1: the EU. The reason I'm telling you this is because
Speaker 1: a it is a huge shift in the way Apple
Speaker 1: does business, because Apple historically, traditionally has run a very
Speaker 1: clared shop. You buy the iPhone, they make the phone,
Speaker 1: they make the software, they make the hardware, they make
Speaker 1: the app store, they make the payment system. It is
Speaker 1: all very apply and then all the accessories you buy
Speaker 1: are mostly Apple stuff.
Speaker 2: As well.
Speaker 1: Over in Europe, they are trying to break down those walls,
Speaker 1: and so Apple is making some changes to comply with
Speaker 1: this new law. So number one, users are going to
Speaker 1: be able to download apps from competing app stores outside
Speaker 1: of the Apple App Store. That's for the first time
Speaker 1: ever on Android We call this sideloading, and it's been
Speaker 1: available and Android for many, many years. This is the
Speaker 1: first time it's available on the iPhone in a big
Speaker 1: way without jail breaking. Banks and other services will be
Speaker 1: allowed to offer competing payment methods inside their apps, so
Speaker 1: you no longer have to use Apple Pay as your default.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to use Samsung Pay, Maybe you want
Speaker 1: to use PayPal pay, maybe you want to use Venmo pay,
Speaker 1: maybe you want to use Google Pay.
Speaker 2: Whatever you want, you'll be able to do it.
Speaker 1: The new iPhones will show users an option to download
Speaker 1: a different web browser like Chrome and Firefox as an
Speaker 1: alternative to the Safari. You could already set a default
Speaker 1: browser that is not Safari on the iPhone, but they
Speaker 1: are going to also allow a different version of the
Speaker 1: web browser to run. It's a little complicated, but basically
Speaker 1: any web browser that you run on the iPhone still
Speaker 1: in the background sort of runs the Safari framework. They
Speaker 1: are now going to allow Chrome and Firefox to run
Speaker 1: their own framework. The whole point of these changes is that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's to limit the power of big tech
Speaker 1: companies like Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft in areas like
Speaker 1: app stores and payments, because right now they have a
Speaker 1: lot of power. You buy the iPhone, you subscribe using
Speaker 1: Apple Services to any app that you want to download
Speaker 1: in there. Now, this is going to have profe implications,
Speaker 1: mostly over in Europe, and I think that I don't
Speaker 1: really see a lot of this stuff happening in the
Speaker 1: US unless Apple is compelled to do it here for
Speaker 1: some reason. But in Europe this is a huge shift,
Speaker 1: and I'll be honest, there's a big debate online about
Speaker 1: whether this is going to be good for consumers or
Speaker 1: bad for consumers. I think that you can see both
Speaker 1: sides of that. So on the one side, let's say
Speaker 1: your kid plays roadblocks, and if you buy roebucks from
Speaker 1: roadblocks directly on the iPhone, maybe they're cheaper than if
Speaker 1: you buy the roebucks through Apple's payment system, and so
Speaker 1: in that way it will be nice. But on the
Speaker 1: flip side, and Apple has said that this is going
Speaker 1: to open up a lot of security and privacy risks
Speaker 1: for fraud, for hacks, and the reason for that is
Speaker 1: that you can now get tricked much more easily on
Speaker 1: an iPhone because you are using methods to pay, methods
Speaker 1: to download apps that are not vetted, and so there
Speaker 1: will be many opportunities where people will stumble because you
Speaker 1: think you're buying one thing and it turns out you
Speaker 1: might be buying another. So you're taking outside of that
Speaker 1: guarded security wall that Apple offers right now, and it
Speaker 1: is going to be kind of a free for all.
Speaker 1: So we'll continue to watch that. But again, big changes
Speaker 1: in the way that Apple is doing business over in Europe,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a big deal. Ed is
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Speaker 13: And I never hear you mention it that they advertise
Speaker 13: something called Tableau Ta b L Tableau TV and says
Speaker 13: you can even record TV shows. It's supposed to be
Speaker 13: I guess, kicking your table company to the curb getting
Speaker 13: better TV service. Don't know much about it. Is it
Speaker 13: worth looking into? Do you know anything about it?
Speaker 1: Yes? I just met with them when I was in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas at CS a couple of weeks ago. Right,
Speaker 1: it feels like forever ago, but it was just recent, right,
Speaker 1: But yes, so and I and I used Tableau extensively
Speaker 1: for the old model. I've not tested the new model,
Speaker 1: but they are sending me that. And so the new model,
Speaker 1: which is the one you're probably seeing advertised, looks like
Speaker 1: a circular puck.
Speaker 2: It's got an.
Speaker 1: Area on the back where you can attach a antenna,
Speaker 1: so you'll need an antenna, and then it has a
Speaker 1: built in DVR and there's no subscription, so it is free.
Speaker 1: And so what you do is you plug in the
Speaker 1: antenna into this device. You got to make sure you
Speaker 1: have a good signal for that, and it will allow
Speaker 1: you to record shows and you know, just like you
Speaker 1: would on a TVO back in the day or any
Speaker 1: other DVR. And there's really there's really no downside to this.
Speaker 1: You get fifty hours of internal storage, you can add
Speaker 1: external storage.
Speaker 2: It works over Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing is anything that's recorded onto this device,
Speaker 1: you can watch it on any device in your home.
Speaker 1: So inside the house, this little device becomes almost like
Speaker 1: a you know, like a DVR for every device. So
Speaker 1: if you want to watch the show on your phone,
Speaker 1: you can watch it on your phone. If you want
Speaker 1: to watch it on your smart TV. You can watch
Speaker 1: it on your smart TV. It's pretty easy to set up.
Speaker 1: You get a fourteen day channel guide for free and
Speaker 1: again no subscription fees. So the main things you don't
Speaker 1: get no four K support, no you know, no watching
Speaker 1: outside of the house. And it is a little buggy.
Speaker 1: From my friends that have used this, they say that
Speaker 1: there are some software bugs. But Tableau this is brand
Speaker 1: new for the second generation of it, and it was
Speaker 1: just purchased by Scripts, by the way, the big news company,
Speaker 1: and so they are pushing this thing hard. And I
Speaker 1: believe the price is about one hundred dollars, so I
Speaker 1: say one hundred percent. If you have a good signal
Speaker 1: over the air and you want to get over the
Speaker 1: air shows and you want to record them, absolutely go
Speaker 1: for the Tableau. I think it's a fantastic device. Just
Speaker 1: be aware of the software bugs that you might encounter,
Speaker 1: but know that they are continually upgrading and making this
Speaker 1: thing better. Thanks for the call today, Ed in Las Vegas,
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Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, I'm gonna tell you about being ghosted.
Speaker 1: What the Better Business Bureau says, you can get ghosted
Speaker 1: by your tax preparer. You don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1: New Pixel features coming soon to the Pixel that. I've
Speaker 1: played with them and they are pretty cool. Plus, we
Speaker 1: have a guest, John Faulkner of Clean Fleet Report is
Speaker 1: going to have his review of the Kia EV nine.
Speaker 1: This is the three row s u V e V
Speaker 1: first of many. First, let's go to Matt in Seal Beach, California. Matt,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Rich. Hi, welcome to the shop.
Speaker 9: I've got a networking question for you. I recently upgraded
Speaker 9: my internet service to two point five gigabits. They provided
Speaker 9: me with an euro Mesh system, okay, which is which
Speaker 9: is great, works awesome. The problem I'm having is on
Speaker 9: the Euro there is there is a one gigabit jack
Speaker 9: and a two point five bigabit jack. I would love
Speaker 9: to get two point five gigabits coming out of that
Speaker 9: through a hard line, but I'm unable to because the
Speaker 9: only two point five big a bit jack is taken
Speaker 9: up by the connection from the O n T to
Speaker 9: the mesh system. And I'm basically looking for a unit
Speaker 9: that has you know, multiple two point five out or
Speaker 9: a solution to get that that hard line.
Speaker 1: Oh so you're saying that the two point five jack
Speaker 1: is taken up by the INN and the out is one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the out of the one, So I can I
Speaker 9: can only get one out, which is you know, I
Speaker 9: get It's great, I get like nine and eighty up
Speaker 9: and down. Yeah, really like the two point five.
Speaker 6: If I could.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can get well, okay, So first off,
Speaker 1: what you have is like relatively new and very high speed.
Speaker 1: So yeah, most of these home networking solutions that are
Speaker 1: out do not have capabilities for that just yet because
Speaker 1: it is so new and it's so high end. Now
Speaker 1: with that said, there is a new euro called the
Speaker 1: Eero Max seven and it is it's pretty intense. I
Speaker 1: mean you're talking. This thing is five hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars for a one pack, and uh, if you
Speaker 1: look on this thing, this is meant for these super
Speaker 1: high internet standards that you're that are now starting to
Speaker 1: come about. Like at my house, I have a one
Speaker 1: gigabit connection, but they actually I think it goes up
Speaker 1: to five gigabits in my house. I've not upgraded that
Speaker 1: because I just don't need that much, but it is
Speaker 1: nice to have if you can, so I think the
Speaker 1: short answer is most of these are not meant for
Speaker 1: that type of speed just yet. We're just starting to
Speaker 1: see them come into the marketplace. So if I were you,
Speaker 1: I would take a look at the super high end
Speaker 1: offerings from You already have euro so it may be
Speaker 1: worth it to just see if you can add one
Speaker 1: of these. It's called the EO Max seven. See if
Speaker 1: you can add that to the mix. And I think
Speaker 1: it should be backwards compatible with your other devices. So
Speaker 1: you would have to spend six hundred bucks on this thing,
Speaker 1: which is a lot. I don't know if this thing
Speaker 1: has gone on sale just yet, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: it's on sale, like available. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: actually been discounted yet. But that's probably the one that
Speaker 1: you want to look at to see if they have
Speaker 1: if that'll do what you need. But this one definitely
Speaker 1: handles speeds up to nine point four gigabits wired and
Speaker 1: wireless up to four point three gigabits, so that would
Speaker 1: definitely take care of what you need if you're looking
Speaker 1: for that high end speed. Otherwise, you know, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the back of it by the way, and there
Speaker 1: are one two, three four ports on the back and
Speaker 1: there's two two point five gigabit ports and then ten
Speaker 1: to ten gigabit ports, so you would be covered with that.
Speaker 2: But that's six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: So that's probably the easiest way to add it to
Speaker 1: your system is just to go with the Eero Max
Speaker 1: seven and that's probably going to take care of it.
Speaker 1: But again, if you want to switch to a different system,
Speaker 1: I would just take a look at the super high
Speaker 1: end like ORB or TP link whatever they have that's
Speaker 1: like they're almost their their max or there you know,
Speaker 1: pro level systems, because that's what's going to have these speeds.
Speaker 1: But we're going to see much more of this come
Speaker 1: about in the next six months to a year, probably
Speaker 1: see many more of these. K for the question, Matt,
Speaker 1: You've got some serious speed. Matt's got a serious need
Speaker 1: for speed there in Seal Beach. Thanks for the call today,
Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one on one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Gary writes in Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: you mentioned that Samsung is providing seven years of security
Speaker 1: updates with the S twenty four. How long will they
Speaker 1: provide monthly updates. Samsung doesn't make it easy to find
Speaker 1: this information. The S nine started with monthly updates, then
Speaker 1: went to quarterly, then semi annual. Their mid range phone
Speaker 1: start with quarterly then go to semi annual. Is Google
Speaker 1: any better in this regard? Do they offer monthly updates
Speaker 1: for the seven years on the Pixel eight? I'd like
Speaker 1: an Android phone that provides monthly security updates as long
Speaker 1: as possible. Thanks Gary, Well, Gary, you're right that the
Speaker 1: new Samsung does offer seven years of OS and security updates,
Speaker 1: and on the Pixel eight lineup, they're also offering seven
Speaker 1: years of updates as well. Now here's the thing. Nobody
Speaker 1: is guaranteeing the frequency of those updates. So with Google,
Speaker 1: they used to guarantee that the updates would come out
Speaker 1: on a monthly basis, the first Monday of the month.
Speaker 1: They have gone away from that. And the reason they've
Speaker 1: gone away from it is because people were setting their
Speaker 1: calendars to it and then getting angry when they didn't deliver,
Speaker 1: and that puts a lot of pressure on the company,
Speaker 1: especially over seven years, to come out those software updates.
Speaker 1: So Samsung has said, yes, we will support this for
Speaker 1: seven years, but we're not going to give you a
Speaker 1: rundown of exactly the timeline of that, so it may
Speaker 1: come out, you know, when necessary, but they will keep
Speaker 1: it up to date. Same thing with Pixel phones. They
Speaker 1: are now just coming out with the updates as necessary
Speaker 1: when they can, on their own schedule. So that's the
Speaker 1: deal with that. Tony writes in Hey, Rich, after listening
Speaker 1: to your podcast, I heard a caller talking about Verizon
Speaker 1: quietly raising their prices without us knowing. I immediately checked
Speaker 1: my bill, and yes they are. I'm tired of their antics.
Speaker 1: Living in New Jersey and I travel along the East coast,
Speaker 1: Verizon is dominant. I'm thinking of at least switching to
Speaker 1: their Visible and going with a thirty five dollars plan.
Speaker 1: I drive all night and I stream a lot. My
Speaker 1: question is if I switch my iPhone and Apple Watch
Speaker 1: to Visible and then next year upgrade my phone, it
Speaker 1: doesn't give Visible as a provider when I check out
Speaker 1: and using Apple's finance for two years, it only gives
Speaker 1: AT and T, T Mobile and Verizon. Would I just
Speaker 1: choose Verizon as always? Thank you sir for what you do, Tony. Uh, Tony, No,
Speaker 1: you could not just choose Verizon. You can you can't
Speaker 1: just choose Verizon because you're that's for a Verizon plan.
Speaker 1: So if you're going with a visible plan, the whole
Speaker 1: thing is that you would actually get a cheaper price
Speaker 1: on the plan over the couple of years. So they're
Speaker 1: not going to give you that financing deal. Now, if
Speaker 1: you've heard from me, I don't recommend financing in general.
Speaker 1: I always say save up for it and buy it
Speaker 1: out right if you can. I understand that most people
Speaker 1: don't like to do that these days, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what I feel. But Apple does
Speaker 1: have a program called the Apple iPhone Upgrade Program, and
Speaker 1: that is basically their own own version of a financing
Speaker 1: program that gives you a new iPhone, you know, every
Speaker 1: twelve months or every year, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: They have their own sort of program.
Speaker 1: So that's if you want to split up that payment
Speaker 1: and not pay the full price outright, that is the
Speaker 1: program that you would have to choose. You can't just
Speaker 1: choose the AT and T or the team OB or
Speaker 1: the Verizon because you do have to have an active
Speaker 1: plan with those carriers to take advantage. And the reason
Speaker 1: why is because they're making money on you staying with
Speaker 1: them and paying an inflated price every month to stay
Speaker 1: with them. So yes, you can get the Visible service
Speaker 1: for thirty five bucks a month or one of these
Speaker 1: other MV and o's that are much cheaper. But if
Speaker 1: you're on one of these big unlimited plans, which you
Speaker 1: typically have to do to get that financing or that
Speaker 1: quote unquote free phone, they're making, you know, twenty thirty
Speaker 1: dollars off of you every month kind of built into
Speaker 1: the price of your plan. If you do the math
Speaker 1: and you look at the old plans that used to
Speaker 1: pay for your phone, like let's say five, six, seven
Speaker 1: years ago, when you paid two hundred dollars for a smartphone,
Speaker 1: basically you would pay less for your phone, but more
Speaker 1: for your plan. Now you just pay more for your
Speaker 1: plan and are less for your plan and more for
Speaker 1: your phone. It's all the same. The math works out
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, if you do it
Speaker 1: like three years, it's about the same exact price. They
Speaker 1: just moved things around. It's like a it's like one
Speaker 1: of those games, you know with the cups and the balls.
Speaker 1: Is there a name for that game? Bobo is laughing.
Speaker 1: Bobo really perked up there. I don't know what I
Speaker 1: said it's a cups and balls game. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. I'm sure there's a name for it.
Speaker 1: Let's see cups. I just keep saying cups and balls. No,
Speaker 1: it's a cups and balls game. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: magic game. Yeah, see Bobo. Get all right? Triple A
Speaker 1: Rich one o one eighty eight seven four two four
Speaker 1: to one zero one. Uh. Coming up, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to John Faulkner of Clean Fleet Report. He's going to
Speaker 1: review the Kia EV nine. The website once again, rich
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Speaker 1: Rubyl wrote in on Twitter or I guess formerly known
Speaker 1: as Twitter now X. The cups and balls is called
Speaker 1: shell game.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: See that's what I knew. There was a term I knew.
Speaker 1: There's the term. Bobo say, has never heard of it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like to shell It's something.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Let me get through a few news news spots before
Speaker 1: we get to John Faulkner of clean Fleet Report to
Speaker 1: talk about the Kia EV nine. It is tax season.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're getting things going for the tax year.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about my favorite app by the way
Speaker 1: that I use. It's called fly finn Ai, and it
Speaker 1: is incredible. If you're a freelancer or you keep track
Speaker 1: of like anything that you could write off at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, fly finn uses AI to figure
Speaker 1: out what those things might be. So you basically link
Speaker 1: it up to your checking account or your credit card
Speaker 1: or your debit card and all the little like items
Speaker 1: the transactions it will identify and like, let's say you
Speaker 1: make a transaction that you know, you buy a plane ticket,
Speaker 1: It'll be like, well, was this for business? And you
Speaker 1: can keep it and then give that's your tax person,
Speaker 1: or they can do the taxes later. Again, that's called
Speaker 1: fly finn Ai really cool iOS and Android. Speaking of taxes,
Speaker 1: don't be ghosted by your tax preparer. According to the
Speaker 1: Better Business Bureau, these are fly by night tax preparation offices.
Speaker 1: They offer large or fast refunds, and at the end
Speaker 1: of the day they ask you to sign your own
Speaker 1: tax return even though they prepared it. That is the
Speaker 1: red flag. They don't use a prepare tax ID number,
Speaker 1: which if you are using someone to prepare your taxes,
Speaker 1: they have to sign them with this P ten PTI
Speaker 1: N prepare tax ID that basically links them to your taxes.
Speaker 1: Doesn't put you, you know, it doesn't take you off
Speaker 1: the hook if something goes wrong, but just the irs
Speaker 1: knows that someone helped you with your taxes. So what
Speaker 1: these people do is they help you with your taxes,
Speaker 1: they get you this big refund or whatever they promise it,
Speaker 1: and then they they're never to be found again, and
Speaker 1: then you're stuck with a major headache. So only allow
Speaker 1: your refunds to be deposited in your own account. Review
Speaker 1: your return, make sure it has the proper signatures on it.
Speaker 1: Watch out for any of these pop up tax prep
Speaker 1: places that may try to ghost you and leave you
Speaker 1: with a major headache.
Speaker 2: Just be wary.
Speaker 1: This is really cool. I sat through talk about boring.
Speaker 1: I sat through a government zoom session on this new
Speaker 1: IRS Direct File free tax filing, and it was great
Speaker 1: because I learned a lot about it. But it was
Speaker 1: like over an hour and it's like, Okay, can you
Speaker 1: get to the point here, like what you know? But
Speaker 1: the IRS is launching this thing called direct File, and
Speaker 1: this is a new free online tax filing service. It's
Speaker 1: a pilot with only twelve states this year, but it
Speaker 1: means you can completely file your taxes through the IRS
Speaker 1: website for free. And they're doing it in Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Hey you say Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington,
Speaker 1: and Wyoming. And so this doesn't necessarily have income limits,
Speaker 1: but it does have certain situations that apply. So if
Speaker 1: you have like a lot of deductions, or you have
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of like interests or something like that,
Speaker 1: you won't be able to use it. But you can
Speaker 1: look on the direct file website and see if you
Speaker 1: can do this, and if you can, it's all free.
Speaker 1: And so this is for your federal tax filing. You'll
Speaker 1: still have to file your state taxes the other way.
Speaker 1: But this is all because TurboTax, which was trusted previously
Speaker 1: with the free tax filing, basically allegedly hid their free
Speaker 1: service from Google searches and tricked people into paying for
Speaker 1: stuff they didn't need to pay for. So the IRS
Speaker 1: trusted into it TurboTax with the free file service for
Speaker 1: many years, and people would get there and they think
Speaker 1: they're filing for free, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they be like, oh no, you got to pay this amount.
Speaker 1: And so now the IRS is doing their own thing
Speaker 1: and of course into it and TurboTax say they did
Speaker 1: nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: But you know, this is going to be much easier.
Speaker 1: So if you want to do this direct file thing,
Speaker 1: if you want to see if you qualify, it's not
Speaker 1: available just yet, but you can read about it on
Speaker 1: the website IRS dot gov gov. Do not go to
Speaker 1: IRS dot com. That is not an official website. You
Speaker 1: will be scammed, or at least you will be. Let's
Speaker 1: see what does that go to IRS dot com. That
Speaker 1: takes you to I'll see what. That takes you to
Speaker 1: IRS dot gov. Slash direct file that will take you
Speaker 1: to the official one. IRS dot com is a okay,
Speaker 1: it's a way to like pay your taxes and stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's not affiliated with the government, so they're sort
Speaker 1: of come on, government, like, you should just take that
Speaker 1: website because that's that's probably confusing to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: New pixel features coming out January thirty. First, you now
Speaker 1: have two new pixel phones in Mint. Pixelate Pixelate Pro
Speaker 1: are available in this new Mint color. Pixelate Pro can
Speaker 1: now take body temperature using the thermometer app. I tested
Speaker 1: this out. It is so cool. It feels like the future.
Speaker 1: You take the phone, you wave it over your forehead
Speaker 1: and it will take your temperature. And it took a
Speaker 1: lot for Google to figure this out, but this was
Speaker 1: now we know when the when the Pixel eight pro
Speaker 1: first came out, had this little had this little temperature
Speaker 1: sensor on it, and we're like, this thing is pointless
Speaker 1: because you can only use it to take the temperature
Speaker 1: of objects, like they said, you cannot use this on people. Well,
Speaker 1: the plan all along was to get this thing to
Speaker 1: a place where you could use it on people. And
Speaker 1: it was very complicated because you're holding your phone over
Speaker 1: your forehead and swiping it. So Google had to come
Speaker 1: up with a lot of different things and algorithms and
Speaker 1: a way to help you do that. And it's really good.
Speaker 1: And so now if you have a Pixelate Pro, you
Speaker 1: can update the thermometer app and it will take temperature
Speaker 1: of humans. The other feature coming out is circle to Search.
Speaker 1: I've already talked about how cool that is. You can
Speaker 1: search anything on your phone just by circling it or
Speaker 1: scribbling over it. That is going to make Instagram stalking
Speaker 1: so much easier. And I joke, but if someone shares
Speaker 1: a pair of sneakers that they have, like the other day,
Speaker 1: someone posted last night a picture of a meal they
Speaker 1: were having and on the plate it said.
Speaker 2: The name of the place. I was like, Oh, that
Speaker 2: looks cool.
Speaker 1: So I just circled to search found the place and
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, that's a cool looking place. That
Speaker 1: would have taken me like ten extra steps to get
Speaker 1: to previous.
Speaker 2: All right, they're playing me off.
Speaker 1: Coming up, John Faulkner of Clean Fleet Report, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the Kia EV nine. My name is Rich Dumiro
Speaker 1: and you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: link for. Just go to the website. Hit the big
Speaker 1: red banner at the top of the screen that says
Speaker 1: heard it mentioned on the radio, Easy as that there
Speaker 1: are a whole bunch of three row electric SUVs set
Speaker 1: to hit the market. One of the first is the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Kia EV nine. John Faulkner of Clean
Speaker 1: Fleet Report has driven it. John, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8: Hello, Rich good speak with you.
Speaker 1: Good to have you so welcome to the show. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about these three row SUV evs. First off, this
Speaker 1: is kind of like the Holy Grail for the US
Speaker 1: because people love their big SUVs.
Speaker 8: I've been asked for so long, when is a company
Speaker 8: going to come out with a three row electric suv?
Speaker 8: A true three row. Now, there are SUVs that are
Speaker 8: electric that are still the habitaord row, but not really.
Speaker 8: This one is a true third row. You can get
Speaker 8: two full size adults in the third row with leg
Speaker 8: room and the back seat and a third row reclients,
Speaker 8: so you have nice headroom also, so.
Speaker 1: This is uh, this is basically room for seven. Is
Speaker 1: that right?
Speaker 8: It's if you get the bench seat, you have seven.
Speaker 8: If you get the captains chairs in the second row
Speaker 8: you have you have six, two four six.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh captains, Wow, they offer that. I remember when
Speaker 1: we were shopping for an SUV, we really wanted the
Speaker 1: captain's seats in the second row because then you don't
Speaker 1: have to move the row or the you know, the
Speaker 1: seats every time you want to get into the back, which.
Speaker 8: Is really something that Key has done nicely. Onto EV nine.
Speaker 8: The second row captain source chairs not only slide, but
Speaker 8: they fold, therefore getting into that third row even for
Speaker 8: a large person someone me, You're you're taller than me,
Speaker 8: you'd have no problem getting it at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So this car gets anywhere from two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty to three hundred and four miles of range.
Speaker 1: You've got fast charging, you can get one hundred miles
Speaker 1: of range in ten minutes. Let's talk about kind of
Speaker 1: like the basics of this car. So what do you
Speaker 1: get for this price of what fifty seven thousand starting at.
Speaker 8: The yes, now well, including including the fourteen hundred ninety
Speaker 8: five dollars destination charge, which is mandatorque. You can't get
Speaker 8: around paying that.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 8: Base the base model light or wheel drive single motor
Speaker 8: is fifty six three ninety five and that's two hundred
Speaker 8: and two and fifteen horse power to fifty eight torque.
Speaker 8: Then you then move up and they have another single
Speaker 8: motor called the Light Long Range, and that gets you
Speaker 8: that three hundred and four driving range. Then you start
Speaker 8: getting into the all wheel drive models, and those are
Speaker 8: the ones that have all will drive dual motors. Two
Speaker 8: hundred and thirty for the Wind, two eighty for the
Speaker 8: Land Model, and the one that I drove is the
Speaker 8: GT Line and that's two hundred and seventy miles, but
Speaker 8: that has the most horse power and power and torque
Speaker 8: and it's a So when it comes down to which
Speaker 8: one you're looking for, this is a true family vehicle,
Speaker 8: and Kia has made a statement that they are going
Speaker 8: after families, and so you have to make a decision
Speaker 8: do you want because that is a price bread fifty
Speaker 8: six three ninety five to seventy five three ninety five,
Speaker 8: So you have to say, okay, do I want that?
Speaker 8: Extra horse power and torque when you get into the
Speaker 8: all will drive once you could tow up to five
Speaker 8: thousand pounds, So maybe that's the sideration. But if you're
Speaker 8: just driving around town doing a lot of commuting and such,
Speaker 8: probably the best one is the light long range where
Speaker 8: will drive single motor. That's sixty thousand and sixty ninety
Speaker 8: five and that's your three hundred and four all electric
Speaker 8: driving range.
Speaker 2: Now, what's this?
Speaker 1: I read in your review that you can pay for
Speaker 1: boost mode.
Speaker 2: What's that mean?
Speaker 8: Yes, you could pay one time for boost so's it's
Speaker 8: it's a subscription plan, but this one is a one
Speaker 8: time payment and what that'll do is that will give
Speaker 8: you extra power for a short amount of time. Now,
Speaker 8: you drove the EB six, yes, yes, and remember that
Speaker 8: had the boost button, so that's what this would be also,
Speaker 8: but that does not come standard on any of these models.
Speaker 8: You have to pay extra for that.
Speaker 1: We're starting to see more and more of that where
Speaker 1: it's like an add on after you purchase it. So
Speaker 1: the range, Now, because this is such a large vehicle,
Speaker 1: how does it compare to other evs on the market.
Speaker 8: Well, if you're looking at a if you're if you're
Speaker 8: looking at a vehicle that weighs in over this, like
Speaker 8: over five pounds, and it's a gasoline that's probably getting,
Speaker 8: you know, in the mid twenties, high twenties, you can
Speaker 8: you can just kind of figure out what it would be. Also,
Speaker 8: the the the consideration though, obviously with any EV is
Speaker 8: how far are you going to go? And as soon
Speaker 8: as you as soon as you load down an EV
Speaker 8: with people and gear, and then your range is going
Speaker 8: to drop. And that's that that isn't a mystery to anybody.
Speaker 8: So it really comes down to how are you going
Speaker 8: to use this vehicle? If you're going to be doing
Speaker 8: a lot of driving, then in long distances, then you
Speaker 8: may want to be going with either a hybrid or
Speaker 8: a plug in hybrid suv or a pure gasoline model.
Speaker 1: But if you're just driving to and you know, driving
Speaker 1: the kids to and from school every day, just like
Speaker 1: you know, general kind of day to day around town
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and you have a charger at home,
Speaker 1: that's really kind of the sweet spot, right well.
Speaker 8: It is, and the and even on a level one
Speaker 8: one and twenty volt regular outlet at your house, you
Speaker 8: would still get about forty to fifty miles of range
Speaker 8: overnight just plugging in for eight nine hours. And but
Speaker 8: then if you do invest in a Level two UH
Speaker 8: in your garage at your house, you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 8: be putting in all the range you're gonna need. And
Speaker 8: if you're do need to go to a DC fast charger,
Speaker 8: that's the beauty of this. That the eight hundred bolt
Speaker 8: architecture that this vehicle has, you're gonna be able to
Speaker 8: you can be able to get that. You're gonna be
Speaker 8: able to get that extremely fast charging which is ten
Speaker 8: to eighty percent and twenty five minutes, and that's that
Speaker 8: that that's that's fast. If you're on a road trip,
Speaker 8: if you're going from here to here to Las Vegas
Speaker 8: and you need to stop, and again everyone listening, I'm
Speaker 8: in southern California. So if you're driving California to Las Vegas,
Speaker 8: you want to stop halfway there, you plug it in
Speaker 8: and in twenty five minutes, after you've gone and gets
Speaker 8: over to eat and drink, you're charged up again. You're
Speaker 8: on your way again. So charging now is really not
Speaker 8: the issue anymore as far as speed goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as long as you find a charger that is
Speaker 1: you know, is a fast charger from here to Vegas.
Speaker 1: Like you know, the last time I went for CS
Speaker 1: they they've even got more chargers than before. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's you know, California is pretty well covered with
Speaker 1: chargers in places. It's it's when you get outside that
Speaker 1: it could be trickier. What did you think about the
Speaker 1: you know, since this is such a large ev what
Speaker 1: do you think about the ride, the handling, acceleration.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you this, this was so smooth and so quiet,
Speaker 8: and it's incredibly comfortable. The GT line has twenty one
Speaker 8: eighth tires on it, but these are these are designed
Speaker 8: to have load noise and and I mean it was
Speaker 8: quiet inside. I mean and if you if, if you
Speaker 8: really think that you need to drownd out any sound,
Speaker 8: you're going to have that fourteen speaker seven ohndred night
Speaker 8: Watt Meridian Premium audio system that sounds the best thing
Speaker 8: you ever heard. So but you don't need that. It
Speaker 8: is it's really quiet, it's really smooth, The handling is
Speaker 8: really amazing. Obviously, with all wheel drive, which is the
Speaker 8: model that I had, you have you have a you
Speaker 8: have an electronic torque vectoring which basically in simple terms,
Speaker 8: is it puts a power to the wheel that demands
Speaker 8: it the most, so you're going around the corner it
Speaker 8: needs it needs power to the right front wheel or
Speaker 8: the left rear wherever. Once it does, it automatically seamlessly,
Speaker 8: the cars just it handles amazingly.
Speaker 2: Well, got about a minute left.
Speaker 1: What is uh?
Speaker 2: What what's the competition for this?
Speaker 1: I'm assuming early competition is sort of like the Rivian
Speaker 1: that's very expensive. What's the competition a gas car?
Speaker 8: That'd probably be the gas car the So right now,
Speaker 8: the Model Y has a third row, but there's I
Speaker 8: wouldn't even put your smallest kid back there. The There
Speaker 8: are other three row SUVs and Ribbean R one s,
Speaker 8: the Mercedes Benz eqs, and Balbo has the Ex ninety upcoming.
Speaker 8: Those are all pure evs, but neither the Ribbean nor
Speaker 8: then Mercedes has a third row of the same size
Speaker 8: as this. Plus they're all over the eighty thousand dollars
Speaker 8: federal tax credit limit. For that you can they should
Speaker 8: qualify and all of the EV nine's fully loaded to
Speaker 8: fall under that eighty thousand.
Speaker 1: Range, and that's seventy five dollars credit. It's a little
Speaker 1: confusing because right now the initial models will will not
Speaker 1: have that, but eventually they will be eligible.
Speaker 8: That's right, because the first ones that you can buy
Speaker 8: now are built in Korea. The next ones are gonna
Speaker 8: be built in Georgia, and that's later this year, so yes,
Speaker 8: they will Okay.
Speaker 1: John Faulkner of a Cleanfleet Report Cleanfleetreport dot com you
Speaker 1: can read his review of the twenty twenty four Kia
Speaker 1: EV nine. I should call it the flash drive because
Speaker 1: you'll have a full review soon. But this is kind
Speaker 1: of like your initial impressions and things like that, but
Speaker 1: it is quite thorough.
Speaker 2: So thanks for being on the show. Appreciate it today.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Rich all Right, rich on Tech dot tv if you
Speaker 1: want to link to that. Coming up, we are gonna
Speaker 1: do the feedback you have been emailing me all throughout
Speaker 1: the show. I will share what you're saying coming up
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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. Let's get through a couple of
Speaker 1: stories before I get to the feedback segment. Ring is
Speaker 1: sunsetting its request for assistance tool in the Neighbors app.
Speaker 1: So this was for law enforcement. If they needed help
Speaker 1: with an investigation, they could put out a request for
Speaker 1: assistance to people that may have ring video doorbells in
Speaker 1: the area and get the video from those doorbells. But
Speaker 1: of course, with the user permission, they would submit it.
Speaker 1: But Ring says, you know what, We're not going this
Speaker 1: direction anymore. Agencies can no longer use request for assistance
Speaker 1: to obtain videos now they need a warrant. So they're
Speaker 1: still inviting public safety agencies to post tips, updates, and
Speaker 1: events in this app. But critics didn't like this. They
Speaker 1: thought that they turned ring doorbells into too much of
Speaker 1: a surveillance tool that was unchecked, and so law enforcement
Speaker 1: now will need a warrant to request video. They could
Speaker 1: still go door to door and ask for this stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's not going to be an easy request for
Speaker 1: assistance tool now inside the Neighbors app. Neighbors is kind
Speaker 1: of like Rings version of Citizen. New Egg has a
Speaker 1: new refurbished program so you can buy resale products top
Speaker 1: pre owned products at competitive prices, Apple products, GPUs abs,
Speaker 1: gaming PCs, monitors, laptops, tablets, phones, vacuums. It's all part
Speaker 1: of New Egg Refreshed, and you get a ninety day
Speaker 1: guarantee with this, so ninety days New Egg refresh if
Speaker 1: you're looking for refurbished stuff at a cheaper price. US
Speaker 1: Mobile this is maybe a carrier you haven't heard of,
Speaker 1: but they have a very competitive plan now if you
Speaker 1: pay for the whole year in advance, fifteen dollars a
Speaker 1: month for a ten gigabyte data plan, unlimited talking, text,
Speaker 1: ten gigabytes of hotspot, and international calling and texting. They
Speaker 1: even have better plans that are a little bit more,
Speaker 1: but US Mobile with a really really competitive plan fifteen
Speaker 1: bucks a month for ten gigs of data, unlimited talk
Speaker 1: and text, hotspot and international calling. Google has an app
Speaker 1: called art Selfie two. This uses AI to transform your
Speaker 1: selfies into over twenty five different historic art styles works
Speaker 1: inspired by Claude Monet, Johannes Vermiir Renoir, and more. And
Speaker 1: the cool thing about this not only is it fun
Speaker 1: to see yourself in these styles, but then you get
Speaker 1: little facts about the art style you so you're learning
Speaker 1: while you're having fun with Generative AI. It's basically their
Speaker 1: secret way of teaching you about art by doing something fun.
Speaker 1: Art Selfie two is available through the Google Arts and
Speaker 1: Culture app, So if you're a teacher out there, it's
Speaker 1: kind of fun get this for your students. Google Arts
Speaker 1: and Culture. It's available on iOS and androids called art
Speaker 1: Selfie two.
Speaker 2: It's inside that app.
Speaker 1: If you have a Honda Accord from twenty eighteen to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, you can get a retro fit to
Speaker 1: get wireless Apple Car Play. They're going to offer this
Speaker 1: starting late this month in January. You do have to
Speaker 1: go to the Honda dealership to get this done. It
Speaker 1: is a software update and it will probably cost something.
Speaker 1: But if you want to get rid of the cables
Speaker 1: on your Apple Car Play and you have a twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty twenty two Honda Cord, this is going
Speaker 1: to be an easy way to do that. If you're
Speaker 1: waiting for that Apple Car to launch, well, it's been
Speaker 1: pushed back. The car that we've heard so much about,
Speaker 1: but yet see no evidence that it's coming out twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight at the latest. One hundred thousand bucks for
Speaker 1: this car and it's not going to be as self
Speaker 1: driving as Apple wanted. Apple. I'm telling you just buy Lucid,
Speaker 1: solve all your problems. Buy Lucid today. You can have
Speaker 1: an Apple car tomorrow. And Lucid basically operates like an
Speaker 1: Apple car. It's about this, It's very similar. It's expensive,
Speaker 1: it's premium, it's luxurious. It'd be a perfect match. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: buy Lucid and you could get your Apple car soon.
Speaker 1: You heard it here first. And finally, T Mobile Tuesday's
Speaker 1: app it's switching to what's called Tea Life. This rolled
Speaker 1: out to iOS devices on January twenty fifth. Android release
Speaker 1: is coming soon. So basically, if you're using the T
Speaker 1: Mobile Tuesday's app, it is now called Tea Life and
Speaker 1: it has a whole bunch of other stuff inside the app,
Speaker 1: so it's like not your account information, but it's like
Speaker 1: more than just a T Mobile Tuesday's app.
Speaker 2: All right, feed.
Speaker 1: Bag segment Mark says, I'm looking for a device that
Speaker 1: will mute commercials on TV automatically, so I don't have
Speaker 1: to grab the remote, hit mute, then not leave the
Speaker 1: room so I know when to unmute. Is there anything available?
Speaker 1: Love Your Show on nine to ten am Detroit. I
Speaker 1: don't know anything that's available to automatically mute commercials. Maybe
Speaker 1: there is something, but I have not heard of it.
Speaker 1: Pat says, hey, Rich, I just heard you talking about
Speaker 1: AI fake images and audio. I have several solutions in
Speaker 1: order of importance. Number one, people need to stop being
Speaker 1: so stupid. Number two, who answers a robo call these days?
Speaker 1: Stupid people? That's who? Well, I mean, you don't know
Speaker 1: if it has the caller ID number three. Why would
Speaker 1: appla it campaign think a fake AI robo call would
Speaker 1: be useful? Because people are stupid? See the problem here
Speaker 1: proved me wrong. The level of stupidity today is exponentially
Speaker 1: higher than it was thirty years ago, headed towards idiocracy
Speaker 1: at an accelerating pace. Pat, Yes, and no, I think
Speaker 1: that we just have more access to information and things,
Speaker 1: and it's just, you know, we know more about this stuff.
Speaker 1: If someone got a fake phone call years ago or
Speaker 1: saw an image on you know whatever sent to their house,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't necessarily be able to share it with everyone else.
Speaker 1: Now it's instant sharing everywhere, so we just know more
Speaker 1: people that are falling for stuff. Renee says, Hey, we
Speaker 1: heard you on your show talk about an app that
Speaker 1: can be put on the phone and control another phone,
Speaker 1: like adjust the volume, brighten the screen. I didn't catch
Speaker 1: the name, and I want to look into it. My
Speaker 1: father in law is constantly putting his phone on mute
Speaker 1: or darkens the screen. He lives far away, and I
Speaker 1: can help him a lot instead of calling the police
Speaker 1: for a welfare check, then they have to fix his phone.
Speaker 2: Really wow, what is the name of this app? The
Speaker 2: name of the app was Team Viewer.
Speaker 1: Team Viewer. That was the name of the app. Randall says,
Speaker 1: I have an HP all in one twenty seven inch
Speaker 1: Windows eleven PC. The RAM is sixteen. I like to
Speaker 1: process raw files. Is upping my RAM to thirty two
Speaker 1: gigabytes helpful? The PC will slow down well. Doubling my
Speaker 1: RAM help absolutely. RAM will help with that. So I
Speaker 1: think you'll be very happy with doubling that and it's
Speaker 1: not very expensive to do that. Finally, let's read Steven's
Speaker 1: email iPhone issue. I got hacked last week. Within three minutes,
Speaker 1: I lost all my data on my iPhone thirteen. Apple
Speaker 1: support is useless. A hacker can change my phone number
Speaker 1: and password and Apple cannot change it back. They say
Speaker 1: it's a security issue. I was in the middle of
Speaker 1: a conversation when my phone shut down. Opened it up again,
Speaker 1: and the message told me I had been locked out.
Speaker 1: Conversations with Apple Support was a They said nothing they
Speaker 1: can do. As the day passes, there are more inconveniences
Speaker 1: to overcome. My Apple idea is worthless and I have
Speaker 1: zero help. Backstory. I got an email from Apple Support
Speaker 1: inform me I was charged thirty dollars. I checked there
Speaker 1: was no such charge. I clicked here, being busy, I
Speaker 1: received the email. I thought nothing of it. Three minutes later,
Speaker 1: I was locked out. With as careful as I've always been,
Speaker 1: I got sucker punched. Yes, this is a huge issue.
Speaker 1: You were fished and they do this all the time.
Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven. Please be careful and like I
Speaker 1: said with my taxi story, when you're doing things fast
Speaker 1: and hastily, that's when you fall victim to this stuff.
Speaker 1: Steve and I feel for you. Believe me, sorry that
Speaker 1: happened to you. If you can believe it, that's going
Speaker 1: to do it. For this episode of the show, you
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