WEBVTT - Unlimited cloud storage is now a thing 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.000 Is the one plus nine Pro five G camera? All 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.840 the company hyped it up to be unlimited cloud storage? 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.160 Is it too good to be true? My favorite new 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.320 phone mount? Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.200 I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.680 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.320 you should know about. It is also the place where 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.559 I answer the questions you send me, whether via email 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:41.639 or Facebook or Twitter, or see me on the streets whatever. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.040 I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:49.320 I hope you are having a fantastic day, getting ready 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.560 to do something awesome in life. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.880 A taking a breath. I got a. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.160 Little bit of a late start this morning, had some 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.280 little tiny fires to put out, but all is good, 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.360 and you know, I can't complain overall. And I feel like, 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.759 you know, the kids are getting back into school, which 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.759 is just wild. I can't believe it. I never thought 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:11.800 that would happen. My wife is going back to work, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.720 which is wild. I didn't think that would happen. I 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.920 am still working from home, so I don't know. You know, 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.640 I've been working from home for a year now, and 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.520 it used to be I would check in you know, 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:24.880 just say, hey, are you sure you don't want me 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:26.319 to come in? You know, do I need to come in? 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.480 And at this point it's kind of like, you know, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.880 we've gone this far. Things are working out at home. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.200 Actually it's kind of funny. I might have mentioned this 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.640 on the podcast, but working from home is actually infinitely 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.920 easier for my segment because I have all the tech 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.320 stuff I need. So a lot of the stuff that 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.760 I talk about on TV is gadgets that people are 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.880 using at home, or are gadgets that people are using 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.520 at home, and so I have basically a real life 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.960 set here with my entire house. Like yesterday we shot something. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.840 Oh well, I can't talk about that well anyway, you 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:58.920 know what I mean. So there's different areas of my house, 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.840 like if I need an outdoor area, if I need 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.960 at an indoor area, or if I. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:04.560 Need like a. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.840 What was I gonna say, a desk, like a what 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.880 do you call a desk office area? That's what the 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.040 word is, you know, if I need a kitchen area. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.720 We have used every single area of my home to 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.160 shoot and it's kind of funny, but you know, it's 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.440 worked and it's been great. So in some ways it 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.920 is easier to be here. You know, I've got the 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.919 three smart speakers lined up and connected to Wi Fi 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.040 and ready to go. So if I need to compare 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.519 something boom, I can compare how the response is. I've 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.560 got the various cloud you know, or the various streaming 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.120 services hooked up so I can see, you know, if 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.080 I need to do a quick tutorial on something, I 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.680 can do that. So you know, I'm not like forcing 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.160 myself to go back to work. We have a new 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.880 boss starting April twenty first, I believe, so I think 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.359 you know, who knows. We'll see what happens then, and 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.799 you know, I'm sure he'll have some thoughts on things, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:56.040 and you know it'll just be different because there's there's 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.160 you know, change is always in store, right when you 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.320 have new people start. I mean, hopefully they won't change 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.120 too much, but you know, there's always there's always room 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.400 for improvement, right. All right, let's start with my story 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.120 on KTLA today. I love this story because you know, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.240 this is this is my secret weapon with my segment. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.880 It is you so because I get so many emails 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.040 on a daily basis from viewers of my segment and 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.880 listeners to the podcast, and people on my Facebook, and 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.920 people on my Instagram and people on my Twitter. I 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.840 have literally you can't pay for an inside track that 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.360 I have. So when I do a story like Today's 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.160 story with three little gadgets, these are the things that 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.600 people want most. These are things that I get questions 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.560 about all the time. When we did the story about 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.280 the password Manager, I get questions about password Manager so 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:47.760 much so that story. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:48.520 Was a huge success. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.000 Today's story huge success because people are always looking for 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.440 great Bluetooth speakers. They're always looking for dash cams, and 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.240 they're always looking for cool accessories for their smartphone. And 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.360 I found three of them. Let me just go through them. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.080 The first is the Lexon minno X. This was a 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.000 tiny Bluetooth speaker that I actually found on sale at Nordstrum. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.200 I couldn't resist it. My wife was looking at bathing 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.200 suits and I'm sitting there like, I found this little 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.680 sale rack and I'm like, what is this electronics at Nordstrum, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.200 And so I bought this thing because I couldn't resist 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.159 it was so tiny, and I brought it home. I 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.760 played a song on it, my current favorite song, Chris Stapleton's. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:24.080 Oh My God. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:30.000 What's starting Over? I think it's called starting Over Chris. Yeah, 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.080 starting Over. Oh such a good song. So anyway, I 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.840 played that and I just couldn't believe it. I was 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.480 like stun I said, lindsay get out here. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.040 I was outside. I was like, come on out, you 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.039 gotta listen to this thing. 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.400 And we both were just like sitting there in shock. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:42.880 So it's a little tiny speaker. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:44.039 Now. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:45.719 I don't want to bum you out and tell you 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.880 that I paid twenty four dollars for it, because it's 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.599 selling for forty on Amazon. You know, maybe you'll find 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.480 it on sale at some point, you know, do a 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.880 price alert. You don't have to buy things, you know immediately. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.400 But I just love it. It's water resistant, it's rechargeable. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.680 It's USBC, which gives me, you know, hope that it's 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.200 like you know, current, and it sounds great. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:05.680 It's literally the tiny speaker. 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:06.839 If you want to see the video on it, go 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.080 to my Facebook, Facebook dot com slash rich on tech. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.800 Cool little speaker that is now a tool in my 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.400 toolkit when I when I bring my backpack of stuff 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.240 anywhere I go. All right, The next thing is the 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.200 nexsar Beam GPS dashcam and I had this thing, I'll 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.320 be honest, sitting here for about probably six months to test, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.600 and I just didn't get a chance to test it. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.960 And part of that was that my screen or my 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.960 my windshield and my car has been broken for a bit, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.240 like there was this crack that formed and it just 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.039 kept getting bigger. And I finally one day was like, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.800 oh my gosh, why am I taking so long to 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.680 fix this little tiny repair? 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.240 And so I call up safe Light. You know, I 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:47.960 didn't even call him. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.640 I just did out on my computer and the guy 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.240 was out here within three hours, fixed it within an hour, 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.640 and boom. I waited probably six months to fix my windshields, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.119 so don't wait to do things. And it was about 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.120 a quarter let's see. It was a third of the 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.720 price that I thought it would be. So I was like, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.680 why did I wait so long to do this? Now 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.200 I have a great you know, I can see through 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.440 my windshield again. And now I was able to set 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.120 this up. And I fell in love with this camera immediately, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.320 Like I'm talking immediately. It's so easy, it's tiny, The 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.919 GPS is integrated into the camera housing kind of like 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.640 into the little suction mount. It's tough to explain, but 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.000 it's just so easy to set up. You run the 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.240 wire to your you know, cigarette light or whatever they 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.799 call nowadays the power port, and you download the app. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.400 And the real magic of this dash cam is the app. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.800 The app is so nice, it's so well designed, it's 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.280 so slick, and I'm using on iOS, so it's really good, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.440 and it's just unbelievable. And what this thing does is 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:47.839 it you know, it just records the road. It's one 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.479 hundred and twenty dollars camera, but it uses AI to 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.599 detect unusual events. So there's a little g sensor inside 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.080 the camera. You know, if there's a hard crash or anything, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:57.839 or like a you know, someone hits your car while 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.279 you're parked, it's gonna spring into action and it's going 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.360 to record. And not only that, if your phone is nearby, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.080 it's going to immediately send that data to the cloud 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.159 like that little clip, so that you know, for safekeeping reasons. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.720 So it's really fantastic. The video is crystal clear. And 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.280 I know that one hundred and twenty dollars is a 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.480 little pricey for a standard dash cam, but honestly, I 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:21.440 think you're paying for the amazing design and smarts on 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.480 this camera. You can get a camera on Amazon for 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.080 like what forty fifty bucks. But I'm telling you the 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.200 software is what's going to absolutely kill you because you're 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.200 just going to be like, this is so annoying. This 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.640 is a pleasure. You want to sit there and look 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.760 through all your clips. Exporting clips is easy. Making a 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.680 clip is easy. You get unlimited cloud storage for your clip, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.200 so if you want to upload them all to the cloud, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.600 you can do that. It's really quite amazing. NEXSAR Beam 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.880 GPS dashcam is what it's called. And finally, this might 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.800 be my favorite of the bunch, the Tentacle three P sixty. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.440 This is a phone mount slash tripod. I might have 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.000 talked about it in the podcast, but it's just amazing. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.120 It's a forty dollars device. I've been using it as 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.080 a stabilizer, as a wrap around mount. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:05.200 It could be a tripod. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.640 It's it's you know, maybe six inches tall. It's not 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.480 the big, huge tripod. But you can literally wrap this 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.040 thing around tree branches, you can stand it up, you 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.720 can use this. I mean, it's just it's possibilities are unlimited. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.040 So during the summer, you know, summer's coming up, you're 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.800 gonna be traveling, you're gonna be doing stuff outside the house. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.920 This is like just a simple smart way to like 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.160 just up the ante, right. You take it on a hike, 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.400 you take it wherever you go on a boat, and 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.079 it's just seriously cool. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.160 I talked to the guy who invented it. Let me 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:37.760 get his. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.000 Name because now I, of course I know his name 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.280 is Hans, but I have to remember his last name. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.640 Oh my gosh, I'm so embarrassed right now, I am 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.400 so embarrassed. I can't believe it. Hans Dose, I should 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.600 remember that. So Hans does cool guy wore a wore 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:57.520 a Hawaiian shirt to my mazoom interview with him. He's 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.959 in a where is he's some short in like sank 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.600 any area kind of. But he came up with this 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.640 thing because he was on a hike and he tried to, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.679 you know, prop up his phone on a tree branch 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.840 take a picture. Next thing, you know, the phone crashed 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.200 to the ground. The whole thing shattered, and what a 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.920 nightmare and boom. Now he's an amazing entrepreneur. So good 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.560 for you, Hans, And I'll never forget your last name. Again, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.160 I'm sorry, cool guy. I mean, and you know, we 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.719 put this on TV today. He said it was amazing. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.080 So many people bought one, and I just love that 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.360 because I love when I find things that I think 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.160 are just life changing and awesome and other people feel 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:34.120 exactly the same. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.040 So anyway, check it out. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.080 I've got a link on my I'll put the links 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:43.560 in the show note for all those gadgets. Okay, let's 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.880 get to the first question. Let's see not so much 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.040 question but comment. William says, Hey, Rich just wants to 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:51.840 let you know that my son bought the very first 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.760 Volkswagen ID four sold by Galpin Volkswagen, maybe the first 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.640 sold in California. He absolutely loves it, despite the fact 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.680 that some of the tech items origin only promised by 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.680 Volkswagen are not available on the first models. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:05.080 Awesome, William. 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:07.600 I don't know if I tell you know, I forget 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.080 what I talk about on the podcast, but I did 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.360 drive the Volkswagen, and I'll be honest, I fell in 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.400 love with it. But at this point I am going 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.440 to go with the Tesla three for my personal car 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.320 because I just feel like I love what Volkswagen's doing. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.320 It's amazing. I fell in love with that car. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.240 But at the end of the day, when I really 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.720 collect all my thoughts and all of my kind of 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:33.040 feelings about the situation, I love what what Tesla's doing 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.320 as much as what Apple's doing. They are an Apple 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.120 of the car world, and you're not just buying the Tesla, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.280 You're buying into the entire world of Elon Musk and 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.600 the way he thinks and his smart brain and the 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.280 way they do things. And so for that reason, that's 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.640 the direction I will end up going when I buy 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.320 a new car. I just got my windshield fixed, so 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.480 that's not happening anytime soon, but you know what I mean, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.400 when I'm ready for it. So, but you know, William awesome. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.080 The Volkswagen the I four I was super duper impressed with. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.760 I thought it was seriously cool, and I think it's 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.960 a strong contender if you are considering a Tesla, especially 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.800 the model hy which is like their little suv. The 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.680 ID four is a great alternative to that, and so 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.760 definitely definitely check it out. All right, let's get to 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.599 the first story. I guess, well we'll be on the 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:25.720 second story. I guess this is the second story. But 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.319 this is gosh, this makes me sad. So one Plus 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.679 launched the new one Plus nine series smartphones. And here's 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.199 the thing, I get a lot of this stuff early, right, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:37.920 So I had the one plus phones for a couple 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.640 of weeks, and I'm sitting there and I'm using them, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.200 and I've never been so excited to unbox a phone 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:43.840 and use it because I'm like, this might be my 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:44.520 next phone. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:44.840 Right. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.960 Well, after using it for a couple of days, it 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.800 became very clear to me that this was not gonna 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.839 be my next phone. And that's because the camera was 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.280 just so all over the place. I could not trust 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.200 it to take a consistent shot. And so I I 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.440 thought this, but you know, you never really know, and 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.120 so I decided I wasn't really going to cover it 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.839 for KTLA for various reasons. With that said, I kind 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.439 of was like, Eh, this is really a non starter. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.760 I can't go on TV and tell people about this 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.000 phone that might be amazing and then it's like, oh, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.040 by the way, it's only available through one carrier, Like, no, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.520 that doesn't really work these days. So I kind of 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.800 held off, and I just did like some social media stuff, 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.920 like a little video on my Facebook maybe it's something 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:25.880 on my Instagram. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.920 I kind of forget and I just. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.440 I kind of like went through some pictures and I 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.240 was like, I'm not impressed with the pictures on this thing. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.720 But I sat there like, oh my gosh, cause I 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.800 recorded this stuff before the you know, before everyone they 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.320 call them embargoes, before you're allowed to actually publicly talk 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.559 about it, and so you know, I sat there and 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.120 I'm like, I don't know, like, am I wrong? And 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:45.920 I'm like nervous. I'm like sitting up like what if 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.800 all the reviewers come out and they say, oh my god, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.960 this is the best phone ever, this is the best 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.400 camera ever. And I'm sitting there saying, well, I don't 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.800 really like the fringing around the photos of flowers and 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.600 this photo is a little odd. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.120 And sure enough it came out. Well. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:05.520 I watched one review and exactly what I imagined, what 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.160 I thought, was exactly what was said in this review. 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.400 And so I was like breathing a sigh of relief. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.400 I was like, oh, okay, so it was not just me. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.839 It was And I read several reviews, and I looked 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.760 at several reviews and everyone was kind of saying the 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.880 same thing, like Oh my gosh, so much hype for 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.040 this smartphone because of this camera, and it kind of 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.160 fell flat. Now, don't get me wrong. I think that 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.800 it's still a good camera. I think it's a great camera. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.960 It's just not a consistent camera. And that's the problem. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.280 You might get a great shot, you might not get 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.839 such a good shot. And that's like, you know, when 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.640 I was using this thing for the couple of weeks 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.080 i was testing it, I just kept going back to 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.400 my iPhone when I really wanted to make sure I 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.720 got the shot right. And that's a problem. So anyway, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.840 I'll just give you the top level stuff about the 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.559 one plus nine series. There's two phones, the nine Pro, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.719 which you know is the main one, and then the 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.319 nine which you know that's I don't know why you'd 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.920 want that one, but anyway, they've got all the specs 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.559 you need. So, I mean, the specs on this thing 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.000 are just phenomenal. Like this is my perfect Android phone, right. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.679 The screen is big, it feels great in your hand, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.960 it's a perfect size phone. It's got a great color, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.400 it's got a great camera setup. It charges phenomenally fast. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.720 I'm talking thirty minutes to charge the entire phones. You 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.920 never have to worry about charging. It's got you know, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:25.800 tons of megapixels, big sensor. The telephoto lens is terrible, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.200 it really is, is just not good. But the other 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.360 two lenses are really nice, but they're just again, they 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.720 don't create shots that are as good as something you 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.720 can get off the Samsung or the iPhone. And that 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.240 makes me really sad because I've loved this company for 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:41.520 so long and I just feel like they're kind of 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.200 falling apart and I don't know what's happening. And I 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.520 just read today that the main marketing guy, the CMO, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.240 is leaving. And he was a oh, big, big supporter 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.360 of this company for so many years. I met him 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:59.200 many times, Kyle, and it's just, you know, it's just sad. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.880 So anyway, it is IP sixty eight. It's got the 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.800 one and twenty hertz display, the best software on an 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.200 Android phone. The software on the one plus is like 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:13.360 butter it's so good, it's perfect. But yet again I 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.960 come back to it. It's just I can't use it anyway. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.680 I don't want to totally, you know, be a bummer 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.640 about it. Maybe they can fix things in a software 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.520 update and we'll keep an eye on that, but it 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.640 was a little bit overhyped. They've got this new hastle 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.000 blot on I say, Hasselblad partnership, and. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.520 It's just, you know, it just did not do much. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.560 I don't. I think the colors on the pictures are 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:35.160 just kind of. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.120 Very very muted and very dim and dingy looking compared 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.680 to like the iPhone or Samsung, where it's like it 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.320 just pops, you know what I mean. And some people 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:44.760 might like that, I personally don't. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.640 So there you have it. It's going to be available. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.080 Let's see, uh. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.160 Nine hundred and sixty nine dollars for the Pro and 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.840 it's available April second. Now, the other thing that one 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.720 plus came out with is a watch, and I'm a 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.800 little a little concerned about this because this seems like 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.240 the perfect watch for Android people. But again it's like, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.440 are they promising a lot and then not delivering. 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:07.040 We'll see. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.840 So it's a it looks like a Samsung kind of 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.800 that design where it's got the round face and it's 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.000 got you know, notifications, it's got the ability to make 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.280 an answer calls, play music, you can store up to 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.640 five hundred songs on it. It's got bluetoothe you can 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.360 connect wireless earbuds. It's got great battery life. You can 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.200 get a you know, charges in twenty minutes for a 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:32.600 week's worth of power. Let's see two weeks of use 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.800 or a week worth of use if you're really like, 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.040 you know, big active user. It's got water resistance IP 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.560 sixty eight. It's got all kinds of workout types on there, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.800 including automatic detection for running and jogging. It's got built 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.840 in GPS, blood oxygen monitoring, stress detection, breathing training, rapid 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.800 heart rate alerts, and sedentary reminder. So I mean amazing 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.520 for one hundred and fifty nine dollars, I mean sounds 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.440 like a winner. But again, we're just gonna have to 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.760 see what the deal is with this thing. So I'm 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.199 a little bit I'm treading lightly on that because I 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.359 want to believe that's my dream watch. If it had LTE, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.959 it would be my dream watch. It does not, unfortunately, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:16.600 But there you have it. Erica writes in Hey, Rich, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.520 I hope you're well. I recently bought some fight feet 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.040 fit feet electric smart bulbs from Costco. I've seen them 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.679 there for sure. I just don't know how to pronounce 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.800 some feet. I'm guessing I really want to get them 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.280 set up, but my husband thinks they're unsafe to use. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.960 He believes we can be jacked or get spyware. Is 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.320 this the case with smart light bulbs? Thanks Erica. 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:38.160 It's a good question, Erica. 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.160 And we often hear how the weakest link to any 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.560 network is really an Internet connected device. That is, you know, 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.840 the software might be outdated, it might have a bug 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.880 or some sort of hole in the software security hole. 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.320 And so I think your husband is being cautious, but 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.600 I also think he's a little bit like, come on, like, 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.920 I don't think you're gonna get hacked or spyware from 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.320 these things. Now, with that said, what I always recommend 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.600 with any of these smart home devices, especially the ones 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.919 that seem innoculous, right, the ones that seem like, oh, 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:11.639 I'm just put. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.359 Plug it in a light bulb, no big deal. Well, 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:15.840 that's where you need to worry. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.320 Because the nests of the world and the you know, 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.840 the Google homes and the Apple devices, they're they're all fine. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.920 They're gonna your password is gonna be you know, as strong. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.000 They've got everything encrypted, they've got the best software teams 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.879 it's these random brands that are creating stuff that's super 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.480 cheap that you need to be concerned about. Now, I'm 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.040 not saying you should not use it. I do have 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.360 some stuff like this in my home. But you need 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.480