Speaker 1: Apple Apple Apple, My hands on impressions of the new iPhone, fourteen,
Speaker 1: fourteen Pro, Apple Watches and new AirPods, plus your tech
Speaker 1: questions answered. What's going on? I'm rich Demiro and this
Speaker 1: is rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about
Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's
Speaker 1: also the place where I answer the questions you send me.
Speaker 1: I'm a tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, broadcasting live on my Instagram at
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome to everyone that is listening live.
Speaker 1: Uh someone said, didn't know his side gig was a DJ. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're listening to the podcast, you don't realize that.
Speaker 1: I kind of warmed myself up by do a little
Speaker 1: dance at the beginning of the show before I introduce myself,
Speaker 1: so you know, it just gets the energy up, just
Speaker 1: gets things going. Man, what a whirlwind. I mean, I
Speaker 1: went straight from COVID pandemic to literally there are so
Speaker 1: many things that are coming up on the calendar, so
Speaker 1: much travel, so many invitations. It's like it just feels
Speaker 1: like it used to be, and I kind of maybe
Speaker 1: forgot how much I traveled or how many things I
Speaker 1: got invited to because at this point, there's so many
Speaker 1: invites to different places and I'm talking around the world
Speaker 1: that there's just no way I can do them all.
Speaker 1: So it's great, don't get me wrong. But I was
Speaker 1: just in New Jersey. If you've been following my saga
Speaker 1: of my new fitted suit, my Indo Chino suit, I
Speaker 1: got to wear it for the first time at the
Speaker 1: wedding I went to. It was awesome, very very tight fit.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that I've never had such a
Speaker 1: fitted suit. People seem to like it, but it is
Speaker 1: definitely I would say, you know, it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where I felt like I was like, can I
Speaker 1: sit down in this suit or not? But it's definitely
Speaker 1: a different feeling and you do feel good in it
Speaker 1: because it is so fitted. So that was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: New Jersey was great. Stayed in this hotel called the
Speaker 1: Canopy by Hilton in Jersey City, which I've never stayed
Speaker 1: in a Canopy, but I absolutely loved it because it's
Speaker 1: just like it wasn't an expensive hotel, but it was
Speaker 1: a very modern hotel, so I had like modern amenities,
Speaker 1: Like the room was just very nice and clean and neat.
Speaker 1: They had like water refill stations at the every floor,
Speaker 1: like near the elevator. They had like a cool like
Speaker 1: you know, outdoor area which was kind of cool with
Speaker 1: like a craft cocktail bar, so that was nice. It
Speaker 1: was just really nice. The people at the front desk
Speaker 1: were really friendly, so it was just really really nice. Then,
Speaker 1: of course I got up to the Apple event right after.
Speaker 1: I was home for a day. Then I went up
Speaker 1: to Coopertino. And I'm not kidding Apple, you know, love
Speaker 1: them or hate them, They they really attention to detail.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking you know, every journalist that goes up
Speaker 1: there is warmly greeted personally. They are you know, someone
Speaker 1: has you have a point to point contact. It is
Speaker 1: very well done. And so I got up to Coopertino.
Speaker 1: We did the first Apple event in three years in
Speaker 1: the Steve Jobs Theater, which was really cool. They had
Speaker 1: WWDC in there just a little bit, but this was
Speaker 1: the first time we were like actually in the theater.
Speaker 1: So the Apple event was was phenomenal, except for the
Speaker 1: fact that Apple has decided it seems that it's easier
Speaker 1: to do pre taped presentations, so CEO Tim Cook came
Speaker 1: out on stage for about two minutes, did a brief intro, Hey, welcome,
Speaker 1: thanks for being here, we're all sitting there, and then
Speaker 1: they roll tape. So what you saw at home on
Speaker 1: the live stream was basically what I was sitting in
Speaker 1: a theater watching. The big difference is that after the event,
Speaker 1: I got to spend the next forty eight hours hands
Speaker 1: on with all the products, so that was very exciting.
Speaker 1: I got demos of every single new feature. I am
Speaker 1: very well versed in all things new with iPhone. So
Speaker 1: if you have some questions, definitely put them in the
Speaker 1: chat here. But I'm gonna go through pretty much every
Speaker 1: product that they announced. So the way this show is
Speaker 1: gonna work, it's gonna be Apple centric. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: kind of the iPhone fourteen, then i'm gonna do the pro,
Speaker 1: then i'm gonna do like the watch, the AirPods, whatever
Speaker 1: else they announced, and in between I will do some questions.
Speaker 1: So first let's start with the iPhone fourteen and fourteen plus.
Speaker 1: So these are pretty much, you know, your standard basic
Speaker 1: iPhones this year around, they have the fourteen and the
Speaker 1: fourteen plus. You've got a six point one inch screen
Speaker 1: and then a six point seven inch screen. So remember
Speaker 1: Back in the day they had the Mini, the Regular,
Speaker 1: and the Plus. Now it's just the Regular and the Plus.
Speaker 1: I think they've decided that the Mini just wasn't doing
Speaker 1: it for people. So not a whole ton of changes
Speaker 1: for the iPhone fourteen and fourteen plus unless you want
Speaker 1: that big phone, right, if you want that big screen size,
Speaker 1: go for the fourteen Plus. This is kind of just
Speaker 1: gonna give you a lot of phone for the money.
Speaker 1: So they do have a new camera on there, new
Speaker 1: twelve megapixel main camera. It's got a larger sensor, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna capture some more light. Pictures are gonna look
Speaker 1: better theoretically, I'm gonna have to test that out. But
Speaker 1: they've got a new front facing camera that is that
Speaker 1: has auto focus for the first time, so that means
Speaker 1: your selfies are going to be in focus, your group
Speaker 1: photos are going to be more in focus because the
Speaker 1: camera actually focuses instead of just being a fixed focus.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else ultra wide camera is. Let's see
Speaker 1: that has you know, some improvements to low light photos
Speaker 1: with the ultra wide. So that's always good because the
Speaker 1: ultra Wide on the iPhone, especially the basic model, has
Speaker 1: you know, left a little bit to be desired. Another
Speaker 1: cool new mode is Action Mode. So this is kind
Speaker 1: of like a GoPro built into the iPhone. And I
Speaker 1: will say I was the only reporter up at the
Speaker 1: Coopertino event to take one of the iPhones and run
Speaker 1: around the event space with it in action mode and
Speaker 1: then put that video on social media. And I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna get kicked out for doing that, but
Speaker 1: and yes, all of the Apple people. It went around
Speaker 1: the Apple PR folks, and they definitely knew that I
Speaker 1: did that, and you probably weren't supposed to do, but they,
Speaker 1: I think since the video looked pretty good, they were like,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll let it pass. So they definitely mentioned
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh you did see that, Like,
Speaker 1: oh we saw it, we all saw it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh okay. So they kind of frown upon, you know,
Speaker 1: taking the phone from the area and running with it.
Speaker 1: But you know, I got to push the envelope and
Speaker 1: I was basically the only reporter to do that. If
Speaker 1: you look up online, if you search action mode iPhone fourteen,
Speaker 1: you'll see like blogs posted about my video. So kind
Speaker 1: of cool, you know, trying to make a name for
Speaker 1: myself in this tech industry a couple of So anyway,
Speaker 1: Action Mode is kind of like this super stabilized video
Speaker 1: that is kind of like a GoPro but on the
Speaker 1: iPhone it's not perfect, but it will give you some
Speaker 1: more creative options there. Now a couple things to know
Speaker 1: about the iPhone fourteen, the standard one. It's using last
Speaker 1: year's processor, or at least a version of last year's processor,
Speaker 1: so not a big increase there, but you know last
Speaker 1: year's processor A fifteen Bionic is still really good and
Speaker 1: it's super fast and for everything you need on this phone,
Speaker 1: it's going to be just fine. A couple of new
Speaker 1: things they added to all of the phones this year
Speaker 1: are crash detection and Emergency SOS through satellite. So crash
Speaker 1: detection I was not able to get a demo off
Speaker 1: because they were not going to put me in a
Speaker 1: car and crash it. But basically it's using these new
Speaker 1: sensors in the iPhone, these accelerometers like a combination of
Speaker 1: things microphone accelerometer, gyroscope, and it is using an algorithm
Speaker 1: to detect G force and all different types of crashes
Speaker 1: in a passenger car. So they made that very clear.
Speaker 1: I was trying to understand like what the difference is
Speaker 1: between like a semi truck and a passenger car, but
Speaker 1: it will work in things like an suv, sedan, you know,
Speaker 1: any type of car that a regular person would drive,
Speaker 1: but not necessarily like a commercial car. I'm not sure why,
Speaker 1: but that they made that distinction clear. So and when
Speaker 1: crash detection is, you know, happens just like fall detection.
Speaker 1: You'll get an alert on your phone. It'll say, hey,
Speaker 1: we think you're in a crash. Do you want us
Speaker 1: to call nine one one. If you don't respond within
Speaker 1: ten seconds, then it will immediately dial emergency and it
Speaker 1: will alert your contacts and it will send your location
Speaker 1: to the Emergency Services Emergency SOS via satellite. I did
Speaker 1: get a demo of and it was pretty incredible. So somehow,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they did this, but they made
Speaker 1: the iPhone, using the standard antennas inside the iPhone, able
Speaker 1: to communicate with satellites eight hundred miles above the Earth.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how they made that possible. It took
Speaker 1: a lot of engineering. They actually set up new relay
Speaker 1: centers where they have Apple employees that will be waiting
Speaker 1: for these messages to come through. For emergencies and relay
Speaker 1: them to nine one one, or they'll connect you right
Speaker 1: to nine one one. Again, this is all through messages.
Speaker 1: It's not a phone call, and it happens when you
Speaker 1: dial nine one one if there's no cell phone signal,
Speaker 1: it'll say, all right, let's connect you Vius satellite and
Speaker 1: on your phone, it will show you how to point
Speaker 1: the phone to the sky to get a clear view
Speaker 1: of a satellite that is traveling like thousands of miles
Speaker 1: an hour. So in that time of your sending and
Speaker 1: receiving a message, you actually have to move the phone
Speaker 1: a little bit because the satellites moved so fast. But
Speaker 1: it is incredible. That's coming out in November. It will
Speaker 1: be a paid feature, but you are going to get
Speaker 1: two years of that for free. And it's one of
Speaker 1: these things where Apple really kind of just kept hitting
Speaker 1: home the fact that like if you have an iPhone,
Speaker 1: if you have an Apple Watch, you are going to
Speaker 1: be safe from you know, not only can you never
Speaker 1: be stranded, but you are safe in a crash if
Speaker 1: you fall. You know, there's fall detection, there's crash detection,
Speaker 1: there's a mergent and see SOS, I mean they've really
Speaker 1: done a lot with health and safety here, all right.
Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen and fourteen Plus available in midnight Blue, Starlight.
Speaker 1: Purple is the new color, and red starts at one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight gigs up to five hundred and
Speaker 1: twelve gigs. Purple is a new color. And I gotta
Speaker 1: say the purple is really good looking. It's a very
Speaker 1: light purple. And I would say it's not like a
Speaker 1: very you know, anyone can carry the purple color like
Speaker 1: it's it's a preference, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: it's not like you say, oh, I can't carry that
Speaker 1: because you know it's just too purply or it's not
Speaker 1: purplely enough. It's like a very interesting purple color. Friday
Speaker 1: September sixteenth is when the iPhone fourteen is available the Plus.
Speaker 1: If you want the Plus, you have to actually wait
Speaker 1: until October seventh. Pricing for these eight hundred dollars or
Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars, and that is the iPhone fourteen. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the first question of the podcast. Roy says,
Speaker 1: you may have mentioned this already, but what companies do
Speaker 1: you recommend to trade in your old iPhone for money
Speaker 1: other than Apple? Thank you? Very much. So here's the deal, roy,
Speaker 1: I recommend you trade in your phone wherever you get
Speaker 1: the most money. Now, I always say every year, it
Speaker 1: goes kind of in a matrix. Right, you're going to
Speaker 1: get the most and it's gonna be the easiest if
Speaker 1: you sell it to a friend, right, so, friend, family member.
Speaker 1: You know, let's go online see how much your phone
Speaker 1: is worth, and then you know, take that price and
Speaker 1: kind of use that as your guide to sell it
Speaker 1: to a friend or family member. That's gonna be the
Speaker 1: simplest because you can do a cash transaction. You're giving
Speaker 1: it someone. You know, you don't have to pay shipping,
Speaker 1: you don't have to ship your phone. You don't have
Speaker 1: to think about all that stuff. Very very easy. After that,
Speaker 1: you know, there are different levels like eBay. Clearly you're
Speaker 1: gonna get the most, but you're gonna have to deal
Speaker 1: with the most kind of hassle. There's sites like Swapa,
Speaker 1: which I believe someone just mentioned on the live chat.
Speaker 1: Swapa is a good one as well. A lot of
Speaker 1: people like selling their phone there. Again, you have to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more techy to do something like that. Now,
Speaker 1: if you do something like Gazelle, you're really not going
Speaker 1: to get much for your phone if you do it
Speaker 1: like that. But trade in what's happening right now is
Speaker 1: the carriers are giving you more money than your phone
Speaker 1: is worth. So if you're talking about you know, an
Speaker 1: iPhone ten R or an iPhone eleven or twelve or thirteen,
Speaker 1: you know they're giving up to one thousand dollars right now.
Speaker 1: So the trick is with those trade in deals, they
Speaker 1: don't give you the thousand dollars all at once. They
Speaker 1: give it to you over anywhere between I think it's
Speaker 1: twenty four to thirty six months. So basically you are
Speaker 1: on a fixed plan where they give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of cash every month towards your bill so that
Speaker 1: you stick with that carrier. And that's why they're giving
Speaker 1: you that extra money. So it's not real money, it's
Speaker 1: not like cold, hard cash, but you are getting almost
Speaker 1: like a free phone because of how much they're giving
Speaker 1: you for that trade in. So again I would just
Speaker 1: talk to your carrier, I talk to Apple, and I
Speaker 1: would talk to you know, look at the websites. You
Speaker 1: know there's some there's a gosh, there's a website that
Speaker 1: I can't I can't remember. But there's like a here
Speaker 1: it is Flipsy flips Y, and so if you put
Speaker 1: your phone into Flipsy, it will search all of the
Speaker 1: different phone websites that you can sell your phone on.
Speaker 1: And you know, the reality with selling your phone is
Speaker 1: it's a little bit scary because you know you are
Speaker 1: taking a leap of faith when you ship that out,
Speaker 1: making sure that the person pays you and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I think these systems have gotten pretty good where
Speaker 1: you're not taking too much of a risk anymore. So. Oh,
Speaker 1: the other thing that I should mention about these phones
Speaker 1: is they've done away with the SIM card and so
Speaker 1: now there's what's called an e SIM. This has been
Speaker 1: around for a while, it's just never really been forced
Speaker 1: upon people in America, and now it's going to be.
Speaker 1: So if you get a new iPhone fourteen, there's no
Speaker 1: more transferring that little tiny SIM card to your new phone.
Speaker 1: You actually have to set up what's called an eSIM
Speaker 1: and it's electronic. It happens instantly. You don't even need
Speaker 1: a Wi Fi signal to do it. But it just
Speaker 1: basically transfers your number to an electronic a little electronic
Speaker 1: chip on the phone that's built in and you can
Speaker 1: have up to I think they said six or eight
Speaker 1: of them only too active at a time, but you
Speaker 1: can have you know, a bunch of these different sims.
Speaker 1: So let's say you travel to Italy all the time,
Speaker 1: like would be my dream, you can just keep your
Speaker 1: Italian eSIM in the background and every time you get
Speaker 1: to Italy just activate that eSIM. So yeah, it's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. Eric is asking what's the max capacity on
Speaker 1: the fourteen plus. It is five hundred and twelve gigabytes
Speaker 1: on the fourteen plus. All right, now let's talk about
Speaker 1: the iPhone fourteen Pro and the fourteen Promax. These are
Speaker 1: the phones that the fourteen is fine, but it's just
Speaker 1: you know, it's your everyday iPhone. The fourteen Pro and
Speaker 1: the Promax is really where you're gonna get going to
Speaker 1: get the best features from Apple, and this is where
Speaker 1: they came out with newer feature. Well, so again, same
Speaker 1: sizees six point one inch, six point seven inch. The
Speaker 1: first thing you're gonna notice is this always on display,
Speaker 1: which is really really quite phenomenal. So your phone screen
Speaker 1: pretty much always stays on. Now if you leave the room,
Speaker 1: if you are away from your phone for a while,
Speaker 1: it will kind of go to sleep secretly, but when
Speaker 1: you come back to it, the always on display will
Speaker 1: come on. So it's using different cues to not drain
Speaker 1: the battery by having the always on display on when
Speaker 1: you're not using it. But if your phone is just
Speaker 1: on your desk at work all day, now it will
Speaker 1: show the time, it will show the date, it will
Speaker 1: show your notifications, it will show you know, the little
Speaker 1: Now you can have complications on there, like the weather,
Speaker 1: your calendar updates, whatever. It's really really cool now always on.
Speaker 1: I know Android phones have had it for years, but
Speaker 1: I will say that I think Apple is doing this
Speaker 1: really nicely. I think the two best always on displays
Speaker 1: that I know of are the Pixel and now I
Speaker 1: would say the iPhone fourteen Pro. So it just looks
Speaker 1: really good and it's in color. Yes you can turn
Speaker 1: it off. Tony's asking if you can turn it off. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you can turn it off. People are asking. I did check,
Speaker 1: Yes you can turn it off. I don't know why
Speaker 1: you'd want to turn it off. Apple's done such a
Speaker 1: good job with this, and already I'm finding myself just
Speaker 1: kind of loving the always on display aspect of this phone.
Speaker 1: Does it cause burnin. No, it doesn't. I asked Apple
Speaker 1: that question. They sort of laughed at me. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: there's no burnin risk at all. I'm like, okay, sorry
Speaker 1: for asking. So you do have the always on display. Now,
Speaker 1: when you open up the phone, the first thing you
Speaker 1: notice is instead of that notch at the top, there's
Speaker 1: now kind of a pill shaped area. Apple is calling
Speaker 1: this dynamic Island. I know it sounds so silly, sounds
Speaker 1: like a Netflix reality show, But what Dynamic Island is
Speaker 1: It is kind of smart. It's a fusion of both
Speaker 1: the hardware that has to be there, you know, the
Speaker 1: little cameras and sensors that they can't seem to move,
Speaker 1: and also a mix of software. So when you do
Speaker 1: face ID, it shows up in the dynamic island. When
Speaker 1: you're playing music, it shows up in the dynamic island,
Speaker 1: you get a timer going, it shows up in dynamic Island.
Speaker 1: You can tap into the Dynamic Island to change the
Speaker 1: song or check your timer. Apps can use the dynamic
Speaker 1: Island to interact in new ways. So there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff that is happening in this
Speaker 1: Dynamic Island, and it's different it's unique. It's kind of
Speaker 1: a good little play on the area of the phone
Speaker 1: that has gotten a lot of criticism from Apple for
Speaker 1: not getting rid of But now it seems to work.
Speaker 1: We'll see how long they stick with it. So dynamic
Speaker 1: island is there. Next, you have a brand new forty
Speaker 1: eight megapixel main camera. So the forty eight megapixel main
Speaker 1: camera still takes pictures in twelve megapixels, so each I'm
Speaker 1: not a camera expert, but each pixel I guess is
Speaker 1: four pixels together, So that means more light gets into
Speaker 1: each pixel, which means if you're taking you know, the
Speaker 1: standard camera of shots, it's gonna they're gonna be faster
Speaker 1: to take, especially in low light, they're gonna be brighter.
Speaker 1: You can take four eight megapixel shots if you want
Speaker 1: to switch to pro raw. So I'm not gonna do that,
Speaker 1: but I know some people may want to if you're
Speaker 1: like a really big time photographer. The thing is you're
Speaker 1: not going to let in as much light when you're
Speaker 1: using all those forty eight megapixels for the pixels, So
Speaker 1: that will definitely take a hit on that aspect of it.
Speaker 1: But there's also different zooms now, So now in addition,
Speaker 1: to the wide angle the one X the three X,
Speaker 1: you now have a two x telephoto zoom. And the
Speaker 1: way they're doing the two X is they're actually sort
Speaker 1: of cropping in on the one X. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting, all right, So what else? The Action Mode,
Speaker 1: this is what I was talking about earlier. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing on the iPhone. On the Pro, it's just
Speaker 1: a little bit better because you have that better main camera.
Speaker 1: But the Action Pro does work on. Action mode does
Speaker 1: work on all the different cameras as far as I know.
Speaker 1: Cinematic mode. You can now go up into four K
Speaker 1: with Cinema Mode at thirty frames and twenty four frames.
Speaker 1: The iPhone fourteen, Pro and Promax also have the crash detection,
Speaker 1: the Emergency SOS and these phones are available in again
Speaker 1: a purple color. It's called Deep purple, and silver gold
Speaker 1: and space black. So my choice here this year is
Speaker 1: going to be silver for me. The deep purple is
Speaker 1: really beautiful. So the deep purple is really really nice,
Speaker 1: and I would recommend it again. I think it is
Speaker 1: a color that spans all genders all, you know, Like
Speaker 1: I don't think that it's a color that you would say, oh,
Speaker 1: that's for you know, one type of person or another.
Speaker 1: I think that the purple that they came up with
Speaker 1: is really really nice. So it's a beautiful purple color,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a different purple than the iPhone fourteen.
Speaker 1: The iPhone fourteen is like a bright purple. This purple
Speaker 1: is almost like if you didn't know, it's almost like
Speaker 1: a bluish black color. So it's really really nice. But
Speaker 1: I think silver for me is the color I would
Speaker 1: go with this year. This is going to come in
Speaker 1: one twenty eight, two fifty six, five twelve, and the
Speaker 1: one terabyte capacities, so they start at nine to ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I would not get the one twenty eight. I would
Speaker 1: bump up to two fifty six if you can. And
Speaker 1: it's going to be nine ninety nine for the fourteen
Speaker 1: Pro or on eleven hundred for the fourteen Pro Max. Again,
Speaker 1: i'd probably go for the two fifty six, although if
Speaker 1: you're paying for iCloud storage, you probably don't need all
Speaker 1: that extra onboard storage. I pay for the two terabyte storage,
Speaker 1: and so you really don't need all that storage on
Speaker 1: your phone because my photos are going into iCloud and
Speaker 1: or Google Photos, so you can just delete the photos
Speaker 1: off your phone, but I kind of like having a
Speaker 1: year's worth of photos on my phone. So that's the
Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen Pro and the Promax. No real substantial changes
Speaker 1: to the the like what the phones look like, although
Speaker 1: I do feel like they are a bit lighter, and
Speaker 1: I don't think the cases will fit them because I
Speaker 1: think that the back like camera array is just slightly
Speaker 1: slightly different. So if you're thinking you're going to put
Speaker 1: your old case on it, I'm not really sure. And
Speaker 1: Michael is asking a terabyte how much? I don't have
Speaker 1: the price on a terabyte, but I guess I can
Speaker 1: check because you can pre order soon or maybe today's
Speaker 1: the pre orders, actually I think it. Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: pre order today. iPhone fourteen Pro. Let's just see how
Speaker 1: much it is. So if you go all the way
Speaker 1: up to that one terabyte, let's see, did you want
Speaker 1: the Pro or the Pro Max. Let's see if we
Speaker 1: just do Pro Max, the one terabyte is going to
Speaker 1: be sixteen hundred bucks. So that's a lot. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you need a terabyte, but you know, if
Speaker 1: you're a videographer. Let's put it this way. I've been
Speaker 1: using the iPhone thirteen for a year, and I'm up
Speaker 1: to just about four hundred gigabytes of storage, and so
Speaker 1: I haven't reached that five hundred and twelve and I've
Speaker 1: literally taken a whole year's worth of videos on those
Speaker 1: device on that device. So if I'm not up to
Speaker 1: five hundred and twelve, I think five to twelve will
Speaker 1: be good. I think two fifty six will be good
Speaker 1: for the average person that's not shooting videos for TV.
Speaker 1: Any changes with the charging cables, no, no changes with
Speaker 1: the charging cables at all. So that's that. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's get into the next question of the show here.
Speaker 1: All right, Oscar says, my son is turning ten next month.
Speaker 1: We want to buy him an iPad. Which would you
Speaker 1: recommend for gaming such as Roadblocks? Not really wanting to
Speaker 1: buy him the latest version, nor the oldest one, but
Speaker 1: one that would be just right. Thanks for your help, Oscar.
Speaker 1: All right, Oscar number one, you know, I hate roadblocks.
Speaker 1: I am not a fan of roadblocks, so my preference
Speaker 1: would be for your kid to not play roadblocks. But
Speaker 1: I understand my kids love roadblocks too, and as a parent,
Speaker 1: I absolutely despise it. And the reason I despise it
Speaker 1: is because I don't see anything redeeming about Roadblocks. I
Speaker 1: don't find the games are very good. I find that
Speaker 1: they are very all over the place. There's no real
Speaker 1: point to them. They are some of them are are
Speaker 1: kind of fearful, you know. I just don't. I don't
Speaker 1: see the point. I really don't, and I know that
Speaker 1: that's just my opinion, but that's the way I feel
Speaker 1: as a parent. Like my kids when they played Minecraft,
Speaker 1: I really liked it, even though Minecraft has some you know,
Speaker 1: aspects of it that I don't think are very good,
Speaker 1: but it seemed good for them. Res Roadblocks, I don't
Speaker 1: see anything good about it. I see it's almost My
Speaker 1: kids are like zombies when they play it. So again,
Speaker 1: I would you know, I don't think you're gonna get
Speaker 1: your kids to stop playing Roadblocks, but if you can,
Speaker 1: that would be my first choice. So I think that
Speaker 1: you should get your child the iPad. It's just the
Speaker 1: standard iPad, and it is just you know, it's basically
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty nine dollars. Now, what I would
Speaker 1: say is look at the Apple. Since your kid is
Speaker 1: ten years old, he's in school, I would go to
Speaker 1: the education store and right now, Apple has a pretty
Speaker 1: good deal for K through twelve. So let's see here
Speaker 1: and if we go to the iPad there the iPad okay,
Speaker 1: so right now you get one hundred dollars gift card
Speaker 1: if you buy an iPad. So that's pretty good. So
Speaker 1: you buy the iPad. It is uh, let's see how
Speaker 1: much it is with the education pricing. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they change the education pricing. Oh yeah, it is
Speaker 1: three hundred and nine dollars, so you save twenty bucks
Speaker 1: on the iPad and you also get one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: gift card. So I think that's a win win. Definitely
Speaker 1: the time to get it, and it's only right now,
Speaker 1: like Apple doesn't do this for very long, so I
Speaker 1: would jump on that. And you can also look and
Speaker 1: see sometimes the retailers that are selling the iPad will
Speaker 1: match the price, like they'll give you a cheaper price
Speaker 1: for the iPad out the door, but you won't get
Speaker 1: that gift card. But that's what I recommend is just
Speaker 1: getting the standard iPad. Don't go with the Kindle Fire,
Speaker 1: don't go with the Mini, don't go with the you know,
Speaker 1: the air, Just get the standard iPad. If your kid
Speaker 1: is just playing games, on it and doing basic stuff.
Speaker 1: That's what my kids have. They like it. It works
Speaker 1: for them. It's just fine, and I think that it's
Speaker 1: it's still got a lot of life left in it.
Speaker 1: So the other thing to do before you check anything
Speaker 1: when it comes to buying stuff is go to the
Speaker 1: website Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com, and that will
Speaker 1: tell you where we are in the life cycle of
Speaker 1: these products. So when it comes to the iPad, the
Speaker 1: standard iPad, right, let's see where is it if we
Speaker 1: look at the oh what happened there? Okay, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: here we go. If we look at the standard iPad
Speaker 1: right now, they're saying caution because the standard iPad has
Speaker 1: been out for three hundred and sixty days and the
Speaker 1: average is five hundred and eighty between new models. So
Speaker 1: we're kind of like halfway through the cycle with that.
Speaker 1: But I think you're just fine forgetting it because the
Speaker 1: iPad they may have an event next month in October,
Speaker 1: but I think the standard iPad is still pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's about a year old at this point. So okay, oh,
Speaker 1: a lot of apple Man, Apple, Apple Apple, All right,
Speaker 1: what should we talk about next? AirPods pro or the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. Let's talk about the Apple Watch, since I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people love their Apple Watches. All right,
Speaker 1: so you've got two three new Apple Watches. Actually, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go through the Series eight and the se
Speaker 1: right now, and then we'll get to the Ultra in
Speaker 1: a second. But the new thing on the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: Series eight is basically temperature sensing. So they've added a
Speaker 1: thermometer to the watch, which it does not like I
Speaker 1: was looking for a reading of, like my exact temperature
Speaker 1: at that moment in time. That's not how it works.
Speaker 1: It looks for relative changes of temperature in your body.
Speaker 1: So while you're sleeping, it samples your temperature every five seconds.
Speaker 1: Seems like at a little bit much Apple little a
Speaker 1: little eager there every five seconds, and it can detect
Speaker 1: changes as small as one tenth of a degree celsius.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty interesting, or maybe it's a tenth, yeah,
Speaker 1: tenth of a degree celsia celsius. In the health app,
Speaker 1: you can see your nightly shifts in your baseline temperature,
Speaker 1: which can be caused by exercise, jet lag, or illness. Look,
Speaker 1: here's the deal, and Tony's saying it right now. Who
Speaker 1: sleeps with the Watch. I agree. I've had the Apple
Speaker 1: Watch since day one. I've never slept with it because
Speaker 1: it just is not comfortable to me to sleep with.
Speaker 1: And so the battery has gotten to a place where
Speaker 1: now with the fast charging, you can charge it before bed.
Speaker 1: It'll give you us it'll say like, hey, if you
Speaker 1: want to sleep with this thing, you gotta charge it
Speaker 1: now for another twenty minutes and then you'll be okay
Speaker 1: to get through your bedtime. But I just I'd never
Speaker 1: I take it off, and I just don't find that
Speaker 1: the sleep information given by the Apple Watch is very good.
Speaker 1: Now today my Aura ring is arriving, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start wearing that to bed, and that's much easier to
Speaker 1: wear because it's a ring. And so apparently the sleep
Speaker 1: tracking on that is pretty good. But on the flip
Speaker 1: side of the Aura, from what I've heard, is that
Speaker 1: the immediate tracking is not very good. Like the fitness
Speaker 1: tracking in the in the second by second like when
Speaker 1: you're on the treadmill, is really good with the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: but the Apple Watch doesn't seem to be good at
Speaker 1: like giving you kind of like your whole body indicator.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so temperature sensing is there. So because of
Speaker 1: the temperature sensing, users can get new ovulation estimates. That's
Speaker 1: obviously for female users, and that you know, that has
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of implications in itself. Crash detection is
Speaker 1: now built into the Apple Watch as well, so there
Speaker 1: used to be fall detection, but now they have crash detection.
Speaker 1: And since seven is saying the temperature feature may be
Speaker 1: good for COVID, fever or metopause temperature changes, and yes,
Speaker 1: I agree, but I'm not sure that that's exactly built
Speaker 1: in like right now, I think Apple is just taking
Speaker 1: the readings. I'm not sure how much they're doing with
Speaker 1: the readings. I think that maybe the third party apps
Speaker 1: will come in, and I do think that you know,
Speaker 1: if your temperature changes, it could indicate something like COVID
Speaker 1: or an illness. But I think it's gonna be third
Speaker 1: party apps that take advantage with a big big asterisk
Speaker 1: on them saying don't rely on this as your end all,
Speaker 1: like see a doctor if you really think that these
Speaker 1: changes are doing something to your body. So the crash
Speaker 1: detection now for the cars is in the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: as well, so it has a new gyroscope, a new accelerometer,
Speaker 1: and so that's helping enable those features. There's also a
Speaker 1: new low power mode. Now. The old low power mode
Speaker 1: that was on the Apple Watch basically disabled everything, so
Speaker 1: you only had a little tiny time indicator on the
Speaker 1: watch when you put low power mode on, or power
Speaker 1: reserve whatever it's called. So this is a low power
Speaker 1: mode which your watch still works, it just doesn't do
Speaker 1: as many things as it did before. But now your
Speaker 1: battery can reach up to thirty six hours, so that's
Speaker 1: kind of neat. Now the Apple Watch SE. The only
Speaker 1: news there is that it's faster. So it's got the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch a processor, which means the Apple Watch SE
Speaker 1: is a lot faster, twenty percent faster than the previous generation.
Speaker 1: That also has crash detection as well, and the price
Speaker 1: is cheaper on that. I think I said it was
Speaker 1: fifty dollars less than the old model, but I believe
Speaker 1: it's just twenty dollars less. So the Apple Watch SE
Speaker 1: starts at two hundred and fifty dollars. The Apple Watch
Speaker 1: Series eight starts at three ninety nine, same price as
Speaker 1: last year. My recommendation is, you know, there's this whole
Speaker 1: idea of do you get cellular or not. So with
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch SE, if you're giving that to a
Speaker 1: child as a way to keep in touch with them,
Speaker 1: definitely get the cellular And what that means is that
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to call you, text you,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be able to see their location no
Speaker 1: matter what, even if they don't have an iPhone nearby.
Speaker 1: If you just get the Apple Watch without cellular, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to do anything with that watch,
Speaker 1: like communication wise, if there's no iPhone nearby or they
Speaker 1: leave a Wi Fi area. So I would definitely, if
Speaker 1: you want the most use out of the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: SE when it comes to kids, go with the cellular version.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna have to pay ten dollars a month
Speaker 1: for that or five to ten dollars a month depending
Speaker 1: on your carrier for that service, but I think it's
Speaker 1: worth it. That's what my kid has Apple Watch Series eight.
Speaker 1: When it comes to cellular on the regular Apple Watches,
Speaker 1: I only recommend cellular if you run with just your watch.
Speaker 1: So if you find yourself in a position where you
Speaker 1: are leaving the house with just your watch, you probably
Speaker 1: want cellular. But if you never leave the house without
Speaker 1: your phone, you don't need cellular on your Apple Watch
Speaker 1: because your Apple Watch is always going to be communicating
Speaker 1: with your phone and going through your phone for that
Speaker 1: cellular connection. So that's the whole distinction between the whole
Speaker 1: cellular situation. So for kids, I would go cellular. For
Speaker 1: adults only go cellular if you're a runner or if
Speaker 1: you leave the house a lot without your phone and
Speaker 1: you want to be always connected. So that's the Apple
Speaker 1: Watch eight and the Apple Watch sc If you have
Speaker 1: an Apple Watch seven, don't necessarily think you need to
Speaker 1: upgrade to the eight, but the se definitely a great
Speaker 1: new addition for kids like that. That watch has been
Speaker 1: a while since it's been updated. So oh and Johnny
Speaker 1: at Apple says, you've got to try playing Roadblocks and
Speaker 1: you'll see what's so great about it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I see my kids playing. I watched them play, and
Speaker 1: I just you know, my kid waited in this. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of Roadblocks is like waiting in these games.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like they play a lot of mind
Speaker 1: games with the kids, and I just I don't appreciate
Speaker 1: that either. Like my kid was crying one time because
Speaker 1: he was waiting so long to like play this like
Speaker 1: American Idol style game, and I was like, what are
Speaker 1: you waiting for? He's like, oh, I gotta I'm up
Speaker 1: next or whatever. Anyway, so all right, all right, let's
Speaker 1: talk or let's take another question. Where are we in
Speaker 1: the questions here? Let's see here? Uh, Pam says, good morning.
Speaker 1: Did you say you use your ATM card in Europe?
Speaker 1: We're getting ready to travel and not sure how that works. Also,
Speaker 1: what was the cell phone idea you spoke of? As always,
Speaker 1: thanks for your trusted halo and info. Thank you, Pam. Yes, Pam,
Speaker 1: I recommend using your ATM card in in Europe because
Speaker 1: you're going to get the best exchange rate. Obviously if
Speaker 1: you're if you have a credit card, you can use
Speaker 1: that as well, just don't make sure it doesn't have
Speaker 1: a foreign conversion fee. So a lot of these credit cards,
Speaker 1: especially ones that have sometimes the ones that have no
Speaker 1: yearly fee attached to them, they might charge a three
Speaker 1: percent foreign transaction fee. You do not want to pay
Speaker 1: a foreign transaction fee, that's for sure. So I what
Speaker 1: I do in Europe is I was using my tap
Speaker 1: to pay credit card most of the time, but I
Speaker 1: did take out cash from the ATM and so what
Speaker 1: I do is I have a little bit of American
Speaker 1: cash on me when I go to the country. Then
Speaker 1: when I get to that country, I bline it to
Speaker 1: the first ATM and I get some cash in their currency.
Speaker 1: So I have it just in case, you know, if
Speaker 1: you need it for the train or something that doesn't
Speaker 1: I would say, when I was in Rome, ninety nine
Speaker 1: point nine percent of places took tap to pay or
Speaker 1: a credit card. But it used to be when I
Speaker 1: was traveling in foreign countries, like some places just took cash, right,
Speaker 1: But now everything pretty much takes a card. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I still like to have some cash for little things
Speaker 1: like you're buying a bottle of water or something. You can,
Speaker 1: you know, toss a buck or two out. So in
Speaker 1: the ATMs, there's a little bit of a trick that
Speaker 1: they use, and the trick is that it says it
Speaker 1: tries in all of these things. When you try to
Speaker 1: make a transaction, sometimes it says, you know, do you
Speaker 1: want to convert into your currency? And it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're doing the right things. You're like, oh, of course
Speaker 1: I want to pay in my currency. You don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. You always want to decline the conversion
Speaker 1: and you want to do a local transaction in their currency.
Speaker 1: So the ATM when you're taking money out will try
Speaker 1: to trick you and will say, oh, accept conversion. If
Speaker 1: you accept that conversion, you're going to pay a lot
Speaker 1: of extra fees and you're gonna pay their conversion rate,
Speaker 1: Whereas if you just take out money in their rate,
Speaker 1: your bank is going to do the exchange rate on
Speaker 1: the other side, and your bank is not going to
Speaker 1: fool around. They're going to give you the best rate possible.
Speaker 1: One of the few times when a bank will not
Speaker 1: fool around with you. Let's see. And what was the
Speaker 1: cell phone idea you spoke of? So this is a
Speaker 1: great thing. We were talking about eSIMs. And this is
Speaker 1: where I first used an eSIM was in Europe when
Speaker 1: I went to Rome. I used the Erlo app ai
Speaker 1: r A l O and that app. You go in
Speaker 1: there and you just buy a simcard for whatever country
Speaker 1: you're in and it's a great deal and you activate
Speaker 1: it right from your phone. Boom, your phone is activated.
Speaker 1: They're data only, so you can only you know, you
Speaker 1: can't make and receive calls with them, but you can
Speaker 1: send text you know, I message Telegram, whatever not, SMS.
Speaker 1: But you can also just use all the data too,
Speaker 1: so really easy, really simple, and that's what I recommend
Speaker 1: Ai r Alo for that. All right, now let's talk
Speaker 1: about Apple Watch Ultra. This is Apple sort of top
Speaker 1: of the line Apple Watch, the Ultra. I can't believe
Speaker 1: for something that is so intense, it is seriously the
Speaker 1: lightest watch. Like this thing looks big and bulky on
Speaker 1: your wrist, it actually looked pretty. I don't have the
Speaker 1: biggest risks in the world, and it actually looked really
Speaker 1: good on my wrist. Like it's something I would consider
Speaker 1: getting because of a couple things. First off, it's the Ultra.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, it's the best. And then it
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's got some extra features built in,
Speaker 1: bigger battery, some more durability. It also has a flat screen,
Speaker 1: so if you like that flat screen, it is flat.
Speaker 1: It's not rounded on the edges, which is kind of nice.
Speaker 1: But it looks like it would be very heavy, but
Speaker 1: it's not. It's super lightweight. And so I don't know
Speaker 1: how Apple did it, but they did. Now, this Apple
Speaker 1: Watch Ultra is for the rugged outdoors person or the
Speaker 1: athlete and or the you know, any extreme sports kind
Speaker 1: of person divers, this kind of stuff. Three built in microphones,
Speaker 1: so when you're talking on this thing, you should hear
Speaker 1: the quality and voice. You should see a perceptive change
Speaker 1: in the quality and voice calls. There's three mics that
Speaker 1: are picking up your voice. There's also this new action button,
Speaker 1: So this is an additional button on this device, and
Speaker 1: it's in high contrast international orange, and it's on the
Speaker 1: left side of the device, and it just a big
Speaker 1: orange button that you can program to do different things.
Speaker 1: So you can press it to bring up an app,
Speaker 1: you can press it when you're inside an app for
Speaker 1: an alternative functionality. And app developers, you know, they're just
Speaker 1: learning about this stuff too, so they're going to start
Speaker 1: building their apps with all of these functions in mind.
Speaker 1: But the other thing that's different about this is it's
Speaker 1: got a bigger speaker on it, So the speaker is
Speaker 1: really big. The digital crown, that little turn button is
Speaker 1: much bigger and like more substantial, so it's easier to
Speaker 1: manipulate with like a glove on your hand. And this
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is just like I can't explain
Speaker 1: this watch. But it's not for like the everyday person
Speaker 1: like me. It's really for someone who I've got people
Speaker 1: in mind that climb rocks for you know, on the weekends,
Speaker 1: or really extreme hiking in extreme sports, triathlons, triathletes, those
Speaker 1: kind of people, marathon runners, people that really need the
Speaker 1: maximum battery, maximum use of an Apple Watch without ruining
Speaker 1: it by you know, all these things. Just the bands
Speaker 1: on this watch are one hundred dollars, so it comes
Speaker 1: with one, thankfully, but an extra band from Apple is
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks. That's that's pretty expensive. It also has
Speaker 1: more GPS built in, so this has what's called L
Speaker 1: one and L five GPS, and so what that means
Speaker 1: is that you are going to get even more accurate
Speaker 1: GPS locks and quicker because it has better GPS on it.
Speaker 1: The it's got this new waypoints functionality, and I believe
Speaker 1: this is coming to other Apple watches too. But the
Speaker 1: Compass app we did this cool little walk around the
Speaker 1: Apple campus where we figured out basically, you can set
Speaker 1: waypoints on your watch and you can navigate back to those,
Speaker 1: but you can also do something called backtrack. And this
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting, and I believe this is coming
Speaker 1: to the Apple Watch as well, not just the Ultra,
Speaker 1: but the backtracks feature will let you kind of track
Speaker 1: your entire walk or run or hike or whatever, so
Speaker 1: that if you get lost, you can just follow your
Speaker 1: tracks back to where you started. And the interesting thing
Speaker 1: about this is that you can start this manually, but
Speaker 1: it also triggers automatically, so if you leave cellular or
Speaker 1: Wi Fi range, your watch goes hmm, all right, Rich
Speaker 1: is leaving like any sort of civilized area, so let's
Speaker 1: start recording his tracks just in case he needs to
Speaker 1: make his way back to where he started. And so
Speaker 1: it uses what's called backtracks, and it uses GPS to
Speaker 1: it starts recording your GPS data. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's every couple of seconds or every minute, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: but it basically it's almost like a breadcrumb to where you,
Speaker 1: you know, can lead yourself back to where you started from.
Speaker 1: So that's a really nice way of not getting lost,
Speaker 1: which is really nice. Let's see this Apple Watch Ultra
Speaker 1: also has crash detection, and let's see what else does
Speaker 1: it have that's interesting. It's just a really kind of
Speaker 1: neat looking watch. Now, this is the first generation of
Speaker 1: an Apple product, so I would say, you know, little
Speaker 1: caution here because the first generation of Apple products they're good,
Speaker 1: but you know, the second generation comes along and they've
Speaker 1: smoothed out all the things that were kind of not
Speaker 1: you know, maybe not the best on the first generation.
Speaker 1: Don't forget Apple is planning things out, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of years in advance. So this watch is is great,
Speaker 1: but it is the first generation and next generation will
Speaker 1: probably have a couple of things that are a little
Speaker 1: bit better. And yes, someone's asking on the chat. What
Speaker 1: is the price of the Apple Watch ultra It is
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars and there is no camera on the
Speaker 1: watch that someone's asking in the chat, no camera on it.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred dollars. Now that includes GP, that includes cellular.
Speaker 1: There is no version of this watch without a cellular connection.
Speaker 1: Now I say cellular connection, I mean a cellular antenna.
Speaker 1: It's not activated. You know, you have to pay the
Speaker 1: ten dollars a month if you want to make and
Speaker 1: receive calls and texts and all that stuff. One thing
Speaker 1: you should know, at least in the US, if you
Speaker 1: have an Apple Watch with cellular and you have an
Speaker 1: emergency and you do not have that cellular activated on
Speaker 1: your watch, by law, that Watch will still connect to
Speaker 1: nine one one for free. So this applies to any
Speaker 1: cellular device in America. Cellular device in America, you dial
Speaker 1: nine one one on it, even if there's no cell
Speaker 1: phone plan on that device, it will still connect you
Speaker 1: to a nine one one operator. So let's just say,
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, you just want to be safe, you
Speaker 1: buy the cellular version of the Apple Watch. It will
Speaker 1: still be able to call nine one one in emergency
Speaker 1: if you need it to, even if you don't pay
Speaker 1: that five to ten dollars a months your cell phone carrier.
Speaker 1: Now I did ask Apple that specifically, because that's not
Speaker 1: really something I can test out. I knew that was
Speaker 1: true of cell phones, but I was just curious with
Speaker 1: Apple Watches. But that is the case now, I say
Speaker 1: in America, in the United States only because different countries
Speaker 1: have different laws about that. So, for instance, in Japan,
Speaker 1: it's illegal for a non activated cell phone device to
Speaker 1: call nine one one, and I don't know why that is.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just to keep the phone calls down from
Speaker 1: you know, prank calls and stuff. But in the US,
Speaker 1: at least, any device that is a cellular device can
Speaker 1: call nine one one, even if it is not active
Speaker 1: on a plan, so good to know. Anyway, eight hundred
Speaker 1: dollars for the Apple Watch Ultra. This is available later on.
Speaker 1: I don't have the day. Oh uh oh, Friday September
Speaker 1: twenty third, so it's available, well not this Friday or
Speaker 1: not next Friday, but the next Friday later in September.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's really cool. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's for me, but it's definitely a cool device.
Speaker 1: Thirty six hours of battery life, sixty hours of battery
Speaker 1: life if you put on the low power mode. So
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of a big device. You know who
Speaker 1: you are if you need that device, right, You know
Speaker 1: that you're an extreme sports person. You know that you're
Speaker 1: an extreme athlete or are hiking, you know, in the
Speaker 1: middle of nowhere, and that's something that appeals to you,
Speaker 1: all right, Bobby says, I was one of the few
Speaker 1: lucky to actually snag one of those hundred dollars fire
Speaker 1: TVs on Amazon Prime Day. The one problem I seem
Speaker 1: to be having is that there doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: an answer to if I leave the room for more
Speaker 1: than five minutes, my TV shuts off. I have googled
Speaker 1: and googled, but can't find a way to change the
Speaker 1: settings so the TV doesn't turn off. There's plenty of
Speaker 1: explanations out there and how to get the fire stick
Speaker 1: to stop turning the TV off, but not this Prime
Speaker 1: day one hundred dollars. I figured since you got one,
Speaker 1: you might know the answer. I'm sure lots of us
Speaker 1: would appreciate the info. Thanks Bobby. Bobby. Yes, I did
Speaker 1: get one of these one hundred dollars Amazon fire TVs.
Speaker 1: I have since handed it over to my in laws
Speaker 1: who are using it in kind of like a kid's
Speaker 1: playroom situation, and so far we have not had this issue.
Speaker 1: So I think there could be two things going on here.
Speaker 1: Number One, you might have set this TV up in
Speaker 1: demo mode and that might be causing it to time
Speaker 1: out after five minutes and go into some sort of
Speaker 1: demo mode. That's just a guess. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: haven't heard any talk from my in laws that this
Speaker 1: TV is doing this, so I think this could either
Speaker 1: be a lemon or it could be in that demo
Speaker 1: mode situation. So here's what I would do. I would
Speaker 1: or it could the other thing it could be doing,
Speaker 1: is it may not be turning off, but it may
Speaker 1: be activating a screen saver that is just blank, So
Speaker 1: that could be another way. So I would here's my
Speaker 1: order of things. Number one, I'd look at the screen
Speaker 1: saver and see what that's set to and see what
Speaker 1: the timeout is on that screen saver. Number two, I
Speaker 1: would reset the TV, like, go into the settings and
Speaker 1: go back to a factory reset and start fresh, and
Speaker 1: watch every menu as you go through. If it still
Speaker 1: happens after that, I would contact Amazon and get a
Speaker 1: replacement TV. So it sounds like it could just be
Speaker 1: a software thing or kind of a you know, just
Speaker 1: a setting somewhere, But it sounds like you've gone through
Speaker 1: the settings pretty thoroughly, so maybe you just got a
Speaker 1: defective TV. I mean, they sold thousands of these things,
Speaker 1: so there's a chance that it's defective. But Amazon should
Speaker 1: make good on that TV. There's a warranty on it.
Speaker 1: So it's been you know, a couple months at Prime
Speaker 1: day was in July, so I think that you should
Speaker 1: be good. If not, send me an email hello at
Speaker 1: richontech dot TV, and I will escalate the issue to
Speaker 1: Amazon and make sure that you get the help that
Speaker 1: you need. But you know. That's you know, sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: do that for folks. You know, if they're really stuck
Speaker 1: in a place where they can't seem to get any
Speaker 1: help with something, I will, you know, if I can,
Speaker 1: I'll step in. I don't you know. Look, I don't
Speaker 1: have any special privileges at these companies, but sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: listen to me a little bit more just because you know,
Speaker 1: they know that I'll report on it on social media
Speaker 1: or on TV if there's some kind of you know,
Speaker 1: widespread issue that they're sort of covering up or not
Speaker 1: really helping people with. So that's that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the AirPods Pro so AirPods Pro.
Speaker 1: And again, you know, I tell you all this stuff.
Speaker 1: I did have a whole day yesterday. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I can talk about this, but I'm whatever. I did it.
Speaker 1: So I spent the whole day at the Apple campus
Speaker 1: yesterday going hands on with these products, and so not
Speaker 1: just during the event, but after the event. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of time to sort of play with these
Speaker 1: products and to really see what they're all about, and
Speaker 1: not just that, but talk to the experts that help
Speaker 1: create them. And so I you know, really have a
Speaker 1: good knowledge of these things, a working knowledge of how
Speaker 1: they work, without one hundred percent playing with them for
Speaker 1: you know, days on end. Just yet, I will fully
Speaker 1: review them, but that takes some time. AirPods Pro so
Speaker 1: new chip inside. It's been a while, It's been about
Speaker 1: what three years since the AirPods Pro came out. New
Speaker 1: chip inside H two it's called H one was the
Speaker 1: first one. H two chip is going to cancel as
Speaker 1: much as twice as much noise as the last AirPods Pro. Now.
Speaker 1: I love the first generation AirPods Pro. I thought they
Speaker 1: were really good. There were some things I didn't like
Speaker 1: about them, specifically the transparency mode and how they felt
Speaker 1: like you could be underwater a little bit with the
Speaker 1: noise cancelation. I don't sense that in these new generations.
Speaker 1: So if you didn't like the first generation of AirPods Pro,
Speaker 1: I would definitely see what the new generation feels like
Speaker 1: in your ears. So the transparency mode, specifically, this is
Speaker 1: on by default, and what it does is it lets
Speaker 1: you hear stuff around you. But it's you know, you
Speaker 1: keep these EarPods, these air pods in you can still
Speaker 1: hear your surrounding areas and what they've done with this
Speaker 1: transparency mode is it's sort of adaptive and so even
Speaker 1: if you don't have active noise cancelation on. Let's say
Speaker 1: you're doing transparency mode, you're walking down the street, you
Speaker 1: hear a siren from an ambulance, it will actually lower
Speaker 1: the decibels of that siren to make it more comfortable
Speaker 1: for you know, your ears not going to drown it out.
Speaker 1: You'll still hear it, but it's not going to be
Speaker 1: as like jarring to your ears. So these actually do
Speaker 1: take out some of the environmental noise, which I thought
Speaker 1: was pretty interesting. If they didn't fit in your ears.
Speaker 1: There's a new smaller ear tip, so there's an extra
Speaker 1: small ear tips, so now you get extra small, small, medium,
Speaker 1: and large. This is kind of funky. I didn't try
Speaker 1: this feed sure, but I guess I will at some point.
Speaker 1: But you now use the camera on your iPhone to
Speaker 1: measure your ear and your head and it takes a
Speaker 1: reading of the shape of your ear and head and
Speaker 1: then adjust the audio for your ear and head. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean, really, I'm not an audio file
Speaker 1: so maybe I just don't appreciate that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, if it makes audio sound better, so
Speaker 1: be it. I know that that's a thing, and I
Speaker 1: know other companies are doing that, and so clearly it's
Speaker 1: a thing. The other big change is now the touch
Speaker 1: controls in the AirPods Pro on the stems. Used to
Speaker 1: be able to kind of squeeze them to do different things,
Speaker 1: to activate Siri or to you know, change the music
Speaker 1: to the next song, play pause, you know, change the
Speaker 1: transparency mode or active noise cancelation. Now you can swipe
Speaker 1: up or down on them and adjust the volume. And
Speaker 1: it's a very easy motion. It's a very simple motion
Speaker 1: and it works. I did test it out and it
Speaker 1: actually is quite useful. You get a slightly better battery life,
Speaker 1: so an extra one and a half hours of listening time.
Speaker 1: I thought that the AirPods Pro first generation listening time
Speaker 1: was amazing. I always joked that I barely ever had
Speaker 1: to charge these things. But these apparently get even more time.
Speaker 1: So now you get six hours extra total listening time
Speaker 1: over the first generation. So I feel like AirPods. I mean,
Speaker 1: unless you're going on an international trip and listening for
Speaker 1: like twenty four hours, I don't think that it's that
Speaker 1: big of a deal. And Tony's asking if they're waterproof.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're waterproof, but they're definitely water resistant.
Speaker 1: And so I dropped mine in a cup of coffee
Speaker 1: and they survived. The first generation. I thought they were dead,
Speaker 1: and no, they came back to life after they dried out.
Speaker 1: I did rinse them off and dried them out for
Speaker 1: a day or two and they still work. Let's see.
Speaker 1: The new thing about charging is the case is I
Speaker 1: believe it's charging wireless charging by default, and you can
Speaker 1: now charge the case with an Apple Watch charger, so
Speaker 1: that's kind of nice if you're in that Apple ecosystem.
Speaker 1: You can charge the case with an Apple Watch charger,
Speaker 1: so one less charger to bring with you. They also
Speaker 1: have a newly designed charging case that has a lanyard
Speaker 1: loop on it. So there's a lanyard loop on the
Speaker 1: charging case, which means that you can attach a third
Speaker 1: party lanyard to the case, which makes it easier to
Speaker 1: hold clip to a belt, whatever you want. The lanyard
Speaker 1: that they showed us as a demo was thirteen dollars
Speaker 1: and Apple does not include a lanyard in the box.
Speaker 1: But there's going to be plenty of accessories that will
Speaker 1: latch onto this. It's just a standard lanyard loop area.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that they've built find My into
Speaker 1: the case, so you can now locate your charging case
Speaker 1: with precision on the iPhone. So if you have an
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve or thirteen I think it's a twelve or
Speaker 1: thirteen or fourteen, your phone can actually guide you to
Speaker 1: the case with precision. There's also a speaker on the case,
Speaker 1: so the case can emit a tone, so it tells
Speaker 1: you when it's you know where it is. And if
Speaker 1: you look at my instagram at rich On Tech, you
Speaker 1: can see I did a little demo of the sound
Speaker 1: on the case. It's actually quite loud. It's not like
Speaker 1: the sound that the AirPods themselves emit, which can be
Speaker 1: kind of soft. It's quite loud coming from the speaker
Speaker 1: on the on the actual case. These are two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars, same as before. They'll be available on Friday,
Speaker 1: September twenty third, and I will tell you that I think,
Speaker 1: just in the demos that I got that the AirPods
Speaker 1: Pro second generation are are much better. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think they're more comfortable. In the year they sound better,
Speaker 1: and the noise cancelation is definitely better, and so is
Speaker 1: that transparency mode. So if you didn't like the first
Speaker 1: generation of AirPods pro, I know, two hundred fifty dollars
Speaker 1: is a lot for a pair of earbuds, but it's
Speaker 1: something that you come to really love and enjoy. And
Speaker 1: my wife and I bought her the regular AirPods. We
Speaker 1: got to the checkout at the Apple Store and she
Speaker 1: had no idea how much they were, but you know,
Speaker 1: they ring us up and I think they were like
Speaker 1: two hundred bucks. And she said, wait, two hundred dollars
Speaker 1: for earbuds. What are you crazy? And I said no, no,
Speaker 1: just trust me. And they turn out to be her
Speaker 1: favorite device for the iPhone because she just loved them.
Speaker 1: I mean, they just until they stop working. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the deals with AirPods, but there's this weird
Speaker 1: thing that a lot of times, like the right or
Speaker 1: left like doesn't charge, or the right or left like
Speaker 1: stops working and it like doesn't connect. So I've seen
Speaker 1: that problem a couple of times with her AirPods, some
Speaker 1: older AirPods I had. So I hope that that problem
Speaker 1: is gone. And let's see what did someone ask what's
Speaker 1: transparency mode. Transparency mode means that you can have these
Speaker 1: AirPods in your ears and you can still hear what's
Speaker 1: going on around you. So it's sort of it sort
Speaker 1: of takes in the outside sounds, it processes them, but
Speaker 1: you're still hearing them. Kind of like the way they
Speaker 1: sound and kind of true to life, just maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit less, all right, Dennis says, need your opinion
Speaker 1: on two phones. I'm not an Apple fan, so I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the Galaxy Flip four or the Pixel six
Speaker 1: Pro currently using an LG stylos. Dennis, the Galaxy Flip
Speaker 1: four is a very endearing device. There's something very fun
Speaker 1: about the Galaxy Flip four. So if camera is not
Speaker 1: your number one priority, if kind of like having a
Speaker 1: fun overall device is an Android device is your thing,
Speaker 1: I would go with the Flip four. The Pixel six
Speaker 1: Pro is great. I just find that it's a little big,
Speaker 1: whereas the Flip four is going to be a lot
Speaker 1: easier to hold and handle. And also the Pixel is
Speaker 1: coming out with a new version on October seventh, and
Speaker 1: so they're having a big event in New York City
Speaker 1: where they're going to launch the Pixel seven so I
Speaker 1: would hold off on the Pixel six for now because
Speaker 1: I think the Pixel seven is going to be better,
Speaker 1: and I think the size of the Pixel seven is
Speaker 1: going to be better than the Pixel six Pro. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if you need the Pixel six the
Speaker 1: pro or the seven Pro because that just adds a
Speaker 1: zoom lens and I'm not sure you really need that.
Speaker 1: So I would check out the Galaxy Flip. You do
Speaker 1: not get zoom on the Galaxy Flip. You do, but
Speaker 1: it is optical and so you don't get any sorry,
Speaker 1: it is digital zoom. You don't get optical zoom on
Speaker 1: the Flip four, so it is an optical zoom. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you can go two x four x ten x whatever,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a digital zoom, so it's
Speaker 1: not going to be as good as an optical zoom.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to another question here while we
Speaker 1: still have another couple of minutes. Lisa says, you always
Speaker 1: seem to have good advice, so I need some. My
Speaker 1: husband has hearing aids that make holding the phone up
Speaker 1: to his ear impossible. He uses the speaker phone Future,
Speaker 1: but still has problems listening even at the loudest volume
Speaker 1: for use at home. Can you recommend a speaker so
Speaker 1: we can use to link to or a cable to
Speaker 1: increase the volume. I await your suggestions. Thank you, Lisa, Lisa.
Speaker 1: Home Pod Mini, home Pod Mini two words, three syllables,
Speaker 1: two words. HomePod Mini fantastic extra speaker. You link it
Speaker 1: up to your iPhone. You can make and received calls
Speaker 1: on it. It works as a speaker phone and it
Speaker 1: will be significantly louder than anything that the iPhone can admit.
Speaker 1: It's ninety nine dollars regularly. I'm sure you can find
Speaker 1: it on sale for cheaper than that. But it's very simple.
Speaker 1: It's very easy, same thing as speakerphone. When the answers
Speaker 1: the phone, you just toggle a little switch there and
Speaker 1: it says, you know, do you want to connect that
Speaker 1: call to the HomePod. Yeah, it's been a while since
Speaker 1: I use the HomePod. But it may even ring on
Speaker 1: the HomePod. There may be a setting to have the
Speaker 1: HomePod ring or to answer by default on the HomePod
Speaker 1: as well, so I would check those features. But HomePod
Speaker 1: Mini super simple, super easy. Put it next to your
Speaker 1: husband's chair and you know he can just use that
Speaker 1: for you know, whatever he needs for listening. Tony says,
Speaker 1: how is this when someone leaves their room phone in
Speaker 1: a room and you can hear the sound on the phone.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that means. All right, one more
Speaker 1: question before I go here. Doug says, if your family
Speaker 1: or close friends was telling you they were switching cell
Speaker 1: phone plans from Verizon, what cell phone company would you suggest?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Doug C Junior, Doug, that's an interesting one.
Speaker 1: I will say that I have Verizon, and I've been
Speaker 1: not very impressed with the service lately. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's just my phone. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the LA area. I don't know if it's where
Speaker 1: I live, where I work, but it seems to me
Speaker 1: that the Verizon service either going through some growing pains
Speaker 1: or some issues. I'm not sure, but it has become
Speaker 1: spottier than I like. And I was on a very
Speaker 1: important call in my studios at KTLA where I literally
Speaker 1: could not make or receive a phone call. It was
Speaker 1: that bad. I had to go outside and that has
Speaker 1: never happened before in the history of working at that studio.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what they changed. What's different. In
Speaker 1: my home? My Apple Watch doesn't get a good signal,
Speaker 1: which is really also annoying. So I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: not bagging on Verizon. I still like them. I still
Speaker 1: think overall from everywhere I've traveled in the world that
Speaker 1: Verizon has been very good. But I think that when
Speaker 1: it comes to the service that you have. For instance,
Speaker 1: my dad just switched to a different cell phone carrier
Speaker 1: because his carrier didn't work where he vacations, and so
Speaker 1: he wanted a phone that works where he goes on
Speaker 1: the weekends to you know, this little cabin, and so
Speaker 1: he wanted a phone that works there, And everyone that
Speaker 1: goes up there says, oh, yeah, this service works up there,
Speaker 1: So he switched to that service provider. And so I
Speaker 1: think it really just comes down to where you work,
Speaker 1: where you live, and what you're doing. So for years
Speaker 1: I would go to USC games at the Coliseum and
Speaker 1: no carrier work there. I think maybe, I mean I
Speaker 1: can't even remember, but maybe Verizon worked there but at
Speaker 1: and T T Mobile didn't. So I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people like their carrier. They like it because it
Speaker 1: works where they need it to work, and the price
Speaker 1: is right for them. So I think that carriers to
Speaker 1: look at include T Mobile, Mint, Mobile. If you want
Speaker 1: a very good value Visible which is owned by Verizon.
Speaker 1: If you want a cheaper Verizon plan, let's see at
Speaker 1: and T. If you want just a kind of a
Speaker 1: rock of a carrier that has just worked and it's
Speaker 1: just solid and they've got lots of features, and you
Speaker 1: know it's going to work in a lot of good places. Verizon.
Speaker 1: I love their UW when you have it, like the
Speaker 1: Ultra wideband is just phenomenal. When it's there, it's pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And Johnny at Apple says, do you think flip phones
Speaker 1: already yet? I do. I think with the Flip four,
Speaker 1: it's finally at a place where I can recommend it
Speaker 1: to people. I think that you have to be willing,
Speaker 1: like I said in my review, you have to be
Speaker 1: willing to accept some of the pros and cons of
Speaker 1: a flip phone. And the pros or that it's cool,
Speaker 1: it's different, it's fun, it's unique. It gives you various
Speaker 1: like angles that you can watch videos. You always have
Speaker 1: a tripod. The downside is that it's a foldable phone.
Speaker 1: The screen could crack, it could break. You're not going
Speaker 1: to get as good of a camera system as you
Speaker 1: can on the regular Samsung phones, but it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: And finally Bella says, how about Spectrum. You know, Spectrum
Speaker 1: Phone is fine, I personally don't like it because it
Speaker 1: links you to Spectrum service and I don't want to
Speaker 1: be I want less bundled products because when you bundle products, yeah,
Speaker 1: you might save some money, but now you're you're less
Speaker 1: likely to switch when you're bundled up. So if I
Speaker 1: have Internet with Spectrum and I have Spectrum on my phone,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to switch from Spectrum if there's a
Speaker 1: better deal that comes along, because it's too much of
Speaker 1: a hassle to switch. And so that for that reason,
Speaker 1: even though yeah, you can save a lot of money
Speaker 1: maybe with Spectrum, I just would rather have my services independent.
Speaker 1: And so I just like the flexibility of not having
Speaker 1: everything bundled in. And I'm telling you, mark my words,
Speaker 1: we're seeing more and more bundles. So we're seeing like
Speaker 1: the carriers, like Verizon, they just added a bundle that
Speaker 1: gives you Apple One. You know, you've got used to
Speaker 1: have HBO Max bundled with AT and T, although that's
Speaker 1: been decoupled. T Mobile. You know, they give you Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus, they give you Netflix. The reason why they
Speaker 1: bundle these things in is because you are going to
Speaker 1: be less likely to switch because you're like, ah, it's
Speaker 1: too much effort. I don't want to ruin my Verizon
Speaker 1: or my Spectrum or my Hulu or my Disney Plus
Speaker 1: or my Apple or whatever, because it's all kind of
Speaker 1: intermingled and it's all mixed. So that is what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. And even with you know, someone mentioned insurance,
Speaker 1: same thing. They bundle the insurance because you know, once
Speaker 1: it's all bundled up, or you're really gonna go to
Speaker 1: different places to shop around for different types of insurance.
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