WEBVTT - Amazon wants to track your sleep 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.280 Amazon unveils a kindle you can write on. Google shuts 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:18.000 down yet another service, t Mobile gives customers more free 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:22.319 in flight Wi Fi plus Your tech questions answered? What's 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.919 going on on? Rich Demiro? And this is Rich on Tech, 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.960 the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.280 think you should know about. It's also the place right 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.400 answer the questions you send me What's going on on? 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.920 Rich Demiro? Oh? Did I already say that I'm the 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:43.360 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:49.280 Welcome to the folks watching on Instagram live. From time 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.200 to time, I will Instagram live depending on my mood. Really, 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.120 that's what it comes down to, because it is a 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.920 different level of show to have live viewers, you know, 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.400 watching what you say. Responding. People are are sitting there 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.320 commenting on stuff. You know, everyone's trying to get a 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.759 little joke in there that that might catch my eye. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.600 So I get it. It's it's a whole different show. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.840 But anyway, it's a lot of fun. If you're watching 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.080 the show on Instagram, you might have noticed I'm wearing 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.640 a new ring. So long story short, my wife got 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.520 me the aur A ring for my birthday. Oh you 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.160 are a And I've been wearing it for a couple 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.240 of weeks. I had to exchange it for a bigger 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.400 size because they said go small, and then I did, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.720 and I felt like my circulation was being cut off. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.559 So I got the bigger size and you know, it's 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.399 it's I if the best way to describe this ring 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.320 is sort of the anti Apple Watch. There are there's 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:48.400 no screen on it, there's no fancy like you know, notifications, 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:54.360 it doesn't vibrate. It just literally watches your metrics throughout 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.520 the day and especially at night. And so the app 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.600 really kind of gives you guidance on how you're feeling 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.600 and why you're feeling that way. So it gives you 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.600 like a score for each day, like I think it's 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.080 called the readiness score, And so if you get something 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.960 like a ninety, you feel good. If you get something 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:14.960 like an eighty, you're like ugh, if you get like 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:16.840 a seventy or sixty, you're like, Okay, what am I 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.359 doing right now? I got to go back to sleep. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.320 So it's really been interesting and I'm gonna have a 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.240 full review of this soon. I'm still forming my opinions. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.080 I will say if you have an Apple Watch, you 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.840 don't need the Aura. If you have the Aura, you 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.079 don't need the Apple Watch. I'm wearing both right now, 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.840 and it's definitely it's like too much. It's like I 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.160 just feel like everything I do, every move I make, 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.360 is like being recorded and processed and somehow sliced and 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.200 diced and like it's just too much. And so I 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.560 actually went back to my regular watch. I had to 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.480 bring it to a watch shop to get the battery 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.840 replaced and then to get the clasp fixed, and I 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.280 put that on for a while. But then I and 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:57.440 I realized, without having an Apple Watch, it is so calming, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.720 Like I can't tell you if you've worn an Apple 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:01.480 Watch for a long time like I have. I'm just 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.760 so used to being interrupted all the time with little 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.239 pings and dings and up but up up, and without that, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.480 it was like life was so silent for the while, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.639 and I was missing things, like people would be like 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.799 where are you, you know, like I'd be like, oh, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.320 my phone is in the other room. It's really you know, 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.080 it's just a really different experience because you're checking your 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.080 phone every once in a while and uh uh, Coco 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.799 on the on the comments says it is hard to 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.320 wear an Apple watch to bed, so better where a ring. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.880 I agree, but my wife now calls me et because 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:38.280 the ring at night is really firing these sensors and 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.280 so it lights up. I think it's red, and you're 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.400 literally like, because it's nighttime in your room, you can 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.720 see this so bright, and uh, it's it's really it's 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.200 so funny because if you and anyway, and there's a 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.800 whole nother side of doing your sleep metrics, which is 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.600 the anxiety side of things, like where you're worried about 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.920 your sleep metrics because you're awake, and so that's a 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.720 whole other side of like when you don't, like typically 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.560 I don't wear my Apple watch or anything to you know, 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.000 like any ring or whatever to bed because it's just 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.000 too like nerve wracking, like sleep should be a nice 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.840 kind of like relaxing time. And so anyway, there's a 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.919 whole bunch of complications. And believe me, we are just 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.440 at the beginning of all this stuff. But I will say, 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.640 if you want something that's calm and interesting but still 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:30.040 getting your stats, the Aura ring is really unique. It's expensive. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.080 It's about I think three hundred dollars plus the monthly 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.719 service I think is like five or six dollars. So 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.800 I'll do a full review and kind of put some 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.160 of my thoughts into a TV segment, but it is 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.159 it's different. I don't know if I'm gonna stick with it. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.159 I'll be totally honest, and I've told my wife, I said, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.040 please don't buy me tech because you know, I test 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:51.520 out a lot of tech and I go through a 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.080 lot of it and it's tough for me to stick 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.800 with one thing for a long time. And so the 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:00.000 ring is great. But I do really enjoy my Apple Watch, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.760 and I realized that after a couple of days of 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.720 not wearing it, like I kind of really really like that. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.000 So we'll see. All right, let's get to the first 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.560 topic of the show. Amazon is having another Prime Day sale, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.200 and you're probably tired of hearing about Prime Day because 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.800 Amazon seems to have a bunch of these and only 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.800 historically has happened once a year. But this is the 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.799 second one. So it's happening October eleventh and October twelfth. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.360 Not too many details on this Prime Day, so I'm 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.839 not going to spend a whole bunch of time on it. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.799 Other than you should know about it. I always recommend 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.640 that you put stuff that you want in your shopping 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.640 cart now so that you can see if the price 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.920 drops on it later. Don't just go around buying stuff 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.159 just to buy it. But this is kind of an idea. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.159 The idea behind this is to give you an early 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.479 kickoff to the holiday shopping season. And they are doing 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.160 something and I think is very very smart. They're doing 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.440 a top one hundred list of some of the most 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.720 popular and giftable items. So notice they don't say of 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.400 just the most popular items, because if they did that, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.040 it'd be filled with like you know, filters for your 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.400 air conditioning system and stuff like that. So it's probably 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.200 it is. I'm sure it's curated, and so they'll put 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.640 stuff on there that's interesting, but they'll also put popular 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.560 items on there. So top one hundred list I think 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.800 is really smart because on a day like Prime Day, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.000 sometimes you're kind of looking for stuff to buy, like 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.560 you don't necessarily need anything, and so you're just kind 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.120 of like looking around the site and you end up 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.440 buying like a you know, some sort of weird like 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.679 you know, smoothie straw that or something I don't know whatever, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.400 and so by having that top one hundred list, it'll 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.200 give people more ideas. So that's basically it. I'm not 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.600 going to spend any more time on sun Prime Day. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.240 All I know is that I've got to I've got 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.560 I'm gonna talk about a bunch of the Amazon products 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.560 that they unveiled this week, and I've got my eye 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.480 and a bunch of them, like I want to buy 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.240 the TV, the Kindle, the Fire TV Cube, and so 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.279 I will be watching the prices of those items over 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:57.800 Prime Day. So let's get to the first question of 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:03.919 the show. All right, Jim says, Howdy, I'm taking a 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.800 page out of your book, and it looks like paramount 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.880 Plus is one of the services that will let you 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.960 cancel before the trial membership ends and lets you keep 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.760 using it until the actual renewal date. Thanks for the tip, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.440 and he forwarded his Paramount Plus subscription has been canceled, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.880 but you can still use it until October sixteenth, and so, yeah, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.120 this is a great tip here, and I think this 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.560 is one of the smartest pro tips. When you you 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.000 know people, they it's very easy to get these free 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.560 trials of services. But what happens is you forget about it, 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.440 and their entire mo is to get you to forget 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.760 about the fact that you subscribe to that service and 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.880 then boom, you will be paying an extra month of 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.760 that service. And I talked about this in the last show, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.120 I believe, and I think that's why Jim emailed. But 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.080 I did that Panera like free coffee thing, and it 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.880 was like free for three months, and I was like, oh, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.800 of course I'll remember to cancel this, like I've got 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.160 three months to cancel, and s off looking at my 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.640 statement on my card, and next thing, you know, it's 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.120 like eleven ninety nine for Panera. I'm like, ah, they 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.600 got me Panera, And so that eleven ninety nine paid 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.280 for all the Panera that, you know, the two or 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.160 three coffees that I got for free for those three months. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.080 Same thing with these streaming services. I'm guilty of it. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.200 I forget all the time to cancel. But my one 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.560 pro tip is that you can go and cancel a 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.920 majority of these services as soon as you sign up. 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.720 I know it sounds counterintuitive, but you can sign up 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.080 for something like Paramount Plus and then immediately cancel it. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.640 Go into your settings and cancel it and it'll still 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.360 allow you to use that service through the time that 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.600 your free trial goes through. And not every service lets 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:43.920 you do this. I've noticed with a lot of the 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.640 Apple services, surprisingly as soon as you cancel, it's like, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.160 now you're done, we cut you off immediately, So that's 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.680 kind of interesting. But I would say a majority of 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:57.320 the services let you stay using the service until the 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.960 time runs out on your free trial, so little pro tip. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.120 And it also works on things that you subscribe to 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.559 on your phone. So if you subscribe through Apple on iTunes, 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.920 you can go into iCloud and then subscriptions and cancel 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.920 those and even a day or two after you subscribe, 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.800 and it should still let you use those. It's very 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.280 convenient for apps that have like a short free trial 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.000 like three days and then it's like three ninety nine 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.600 a week or something. You're definitely going to forget comments 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.200 coming in on the live stream, bd Castle says, just 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.720 said reminder on your calendar when to cancel. Yes, I 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.520 absolutely do that for sure. That's another good way. Rosa says, 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.160 my husband adds it to his calendar. Yeah. I do 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.360 that as well, but sometimes I forget to see it 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.600 on my calendar or it's not a convenient time when 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.200 I see my calendar to actually go ahead and cancel it. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:52.120 And Sarah says, or Sra says, you can ask Siri 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.600 to remind you twenty nine days from now to cancel 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.160 your subscription. That works really great. That is a very 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.800 smart thing. Take advantage of those voices and reminders, whether 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.680 it's Google, whether it's Siri, those are very handy. Even 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.840 if you have you know, alex A in your house, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.520 you can ask her and she will. She will help 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.959 you keep tabs on that as well. So all good 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.640 ways to avoid paying for things that you don't need 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.480 to pay for. All right, let's talk Google. And this 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.400 is a major problem I have with Google is that 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.880 they are all over the place. I've talked about this before, 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.760 but you just can't trust Google to continue a product 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.040 that they come out with. And one of those products 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.160 that many people thought they would never back or never 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:42.120 continue is called Stadia. Stadia is a controller that is 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.680 it uses Chrome casts and it streams your video games 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.520 to your TV. So it was just a piece of 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.559 hardware that literally really never needed to be upgraded because 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.360 it was the like, Okay, let me explain this in 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.240 a better way. So the when you're playing a game 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.480 on your TV, it's actually being played on a giant 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.800 supercomputer somewhere on a server farm that Google runs or whatever, 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.960 and then it's just being streamed to your TV like that. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.480 Gameplay is being streamed to your TV and real time, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.160 just like Netflix. And so the idea is that you 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.920 wouldn't need to spend money on a big expensive console. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.760 You would just need any controller that could play this game. 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.000 And everything was being run through the cloud, and so 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.600 it's basically always up to date, it's always fast, there's 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.720 no lag, it's like you know. But this took a 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.920 lot of technical know how to get this to work 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.640 properly because video games are all about latency. Like you 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.240 want when you press that a button, you want that 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.040 thing to fire right immediately. You can't have a delay 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.120 between pressing a button and having something happen on the screen. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.959 And so that's what Google figured out how to do 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.360 with this streaming. Well, that was all great, but apparently, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:54.880 according to Google, the streaming games for consumers that's built 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.120 on a strong technology foundation, but it hasn't gained the 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.200 traction with users that we expected. So they'll be winding 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:06.719 down Stadia. So that's sad. So here's the cool thing 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:11.800 that that Google is doing. They're refunding all Stadia hardware 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.680 purchases made through the Google Store and all game and 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.640 add on content purchases that were made through the Google 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.959 Stadia Store. Players will continue to have access to their 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:25.760 games library through January eighteenth, and they expect all refunds 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.880 to be completed by mid January, so not all is lost. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.120 Google says that they're going to use the technology that 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.480 they figured out for things like YouTube, Google Play, and 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:39.360 their augmented reality efforts. So there's something here to this. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.760 But yeah, it's really really kind of sad that. You know, 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.280 Stadia was this thing that a lot of people didn't 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.240 want to get invested in because they figured Google might 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.439 shut it down, and their worst fear came true. Google 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:59.719 shut it down. All right, let's get to the next 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:04.560 quest question of the show. Carol says, Hey, Rich, I 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.600 think I heard you say that those of us who 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.960 have a z flip three can upgrade to the z 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.439 Flip four for one hundred dollars. How do we do that? 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.319 And then a follow up said, I'm hoping the battery, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.640 life and camera are better. What do you think is 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:21.079 it worth the hassle of the upgrade? And I say absolutely. Now, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.040 what Carol was referring to is that for a while, 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.360 Samsung was doing a deal where if you bought the 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.040 new z Flip four and traded in the three, it 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.240 would only cost you one hundred dollars to upgrade. So 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.079 you send them your old phone, you send them a 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.080 hundred bucks, and they'll send you the brand new phone. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.800 And in my review of the z Flip four, I 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.559 found it to be a very pleasant experience. It's totally different. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.240 It's a phone that flips like a flip phone, but 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.640 it's got a nice big screen inside. So just imagine 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.840 your typical Samsung phone, but it flips closed right like 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.160 an old flip phone, like a Motorol erasor and you 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.200 have all the beauty of a smartphone. They made the 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.200 outer screen bigger, more functionable, they made the cameras better, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.680 they made the battery last longer. I felt like this 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.760 phone was really really fun. It's not for me because 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.680 I need a phone with a stronger camera setup because 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.760 I'm doing a lot of creation stuff on there for 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.200 TV and also for social media, but for general kind 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.080 of social media if you're not trying to, you know, 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.280 you know, do a huge bunch a ton of stuff, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.360 it'd be just fine. Like the camera is just fine 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.280 on this thing. I found the front facing camera left 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.360 a little bit desired for me personally, but you know, 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.960 they've improved it and so, and it folds in half 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:36.440 so it fits in your pocket, and it's a really 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.200 nice little phone. And I think it's come a long 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.280 way since the first generation. And so Carol was saying, 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.400 should she do the upgrade? Is it worth the hassle? 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.600 And I say absolutely. I mean for one hundred dollars. Now, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.040 the one hundred dollars deal, as far as I could tell, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.720 is gone. I think it's closer to two to three 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.200 hundred dollars to upgrade. But at the same time, three 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.400 hundred bucks to upgrade your phone to the brand new one. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.880 One's gonna have a better camera, better battery, a more 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:03.600 useful screen, you're gonna reset the clock on the hinge mechanism. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.800 I think that it's it's definitely worth it, so I 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.640 say go for it. The flip for is probably at 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.320 this point the only foldable phone that I would recommend 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.320 in a big way. The fold is really fantastic. That 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.360 one opens and closes like a greeting card. But the 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.520 problem with that is that it's a very small it's 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.560 just a it appeals to a very small group of 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:31.040 people that need something like that because the technology is 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.160 not fully there yet. The fold is still a little 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.640 bit chunky. It's a little bit bulky, it's a little 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.720 bit heavy. So I really really like that phone, but 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.160 I just don't think that it's ready for prime time 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.000 just yet for the average person. If you want a 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.680 foldable and you've made that your life, and you've made 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.840 it your life mission to have something like that, like 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.280 I only want a phone that's going to do both 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.840 a tablet and a phone, then yeah, the fold is fantastic. 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.040 It's a great situation. But the price is still really 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.160 expensive as well, at eight hundred dollars, So i'd recommend 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.200 the flip over the fold, just for the average person. Also, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.960 if the screen on the outside was just a little 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.520 bit bigger on the fold, it might have convinced me 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.880 to switch, because there are some advantages, especially for someone 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.640 that travels a lot, of having that foldable phone. It's 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.080 just such a such a cool device. So great question, Carol, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:22.920 and good luck with the new phone. All right, let's 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.960 talk about a new kindle. This is so Amazon this 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.240 week had their big Amazon Fall event where they talk 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.760 about all of the gadgets that they are going to 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.120 launch over the holidays, and they just throw a whole 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.080 bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:42.280 And because it's Amazon, because they are you know, really interesting, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.760 you know, smart about their prices and stuff and their promotions, 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.720 they will sell a ton of these gadgets. They may 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.680 not sell all of them to the same amount, but 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.640 they will sell a lot of these. Now, one of 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.120 these is it's a little bit of an unknown. We'll 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.800 see if this works or not. But it's called the 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.360 Amazon Kindle Scribe. And this is the first kindle that 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.000 lets you not only read, but also write on the screen. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.679 It is a ten point two inch screen. It's the 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.000 same kind of screen that you see on your typical kindle, 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.440 but now it responds to writing, so you can use 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.800 this included pen to write on the screen. It's a 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:22.480 frontlet display. It includes the pen. The price is very high, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.359 especially for a kindle. It's three hundred and thirty nine dollars, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.960 which uh ah, quite honestly, I would not pay that 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.359 for this. I think that the target price for me 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.359 on this is two ninety nine, which I know is 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.919 still wildly expensive for a kindle, But you have to 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.199 remember that you're also getting a notepad in this, and 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.040 it's a really cool notepad because you can take you know, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.480 digital notes on it. And you might be saying, well, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.920 for three hundred and three forty, I can get an iPad. Well, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.640 the iPad is great, and I agree, and you can 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.800 write on the screen, but the you know, the pen 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.440 is going to the pencil Apple pencil is going to 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.000 cost you another one hundred dollars. Your minimum for the 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.560 Apple pencil with the with the iPad is going to 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.639 be you know, you're looking at four to five hundred 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.320 dollars for that situation here you're talking. I think the 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.440 target price is closer to three hundred, so you know, 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.399 it's one hundred dollars, but you're not getting all the 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.080 apps and stuff that you would get an iPad. So 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.959 let's just imagine that this is more for the person 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:22.080 who wants that kindle e paper experience but also kind 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.800 of likes the idea of having a notepad that you 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.040 can write in. And I'm kind of a notepad. Guy, 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.080 I like pen and paper, even though you know, the 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.040 older I get, the less I use it because the 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.320 more I kind of like put stuff into my phone. 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.679 But I still love the idea of it. So what 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.639 can you do with this thing? You can write in 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:41.919 the margins of the book that you're reading, So if 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.119 you're I'm a big fan of highlighting passages in my 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.520 kindle books that I read, and so you can do that. 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.800 You can now write things in addition to take notes. 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.199 In addition to the highlighting, you can organize with to 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.680 do lists. You can use it as your planner, which 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.480 would be kind of cool. I like that idea of 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:03.359 a calendar. You make journal entries, you could review documents 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.399 that you imported from your phone or computer. And again 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.359 it's all sort of distraction free. Because it's a kindle, 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.480 you can't do too much on it. But the fact 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.200 that you can use this as a as a notepad, 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:17.199 to me is very appealing. USBC charging. The battery is 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:21.080 designed to last much longer than the standard you know, 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:26.000 you know, like a iPad battery. Let's say, so you're talking, 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.359 you know, weeks or months depending on how you use 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.359 this thing. It's not gonna last months if you're writing 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.520 on it on a daily basis, But again, that's kind 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.359 of the basics of this kindle scribe. I think that 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:39.919 the reality is we're gonna have to see how this 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.440 is because it's a bigger kindle than most people are 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.760 used to. So is it gonna be comfortable for reading? 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.280 I'm not sure. I have not tested this personally, but 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.439 I think they've got some of these things right. Where 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.280 it comes with the pen, there's a basic pen that 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.480 never needs to be charged, so it's you're never gonna 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.240 be in that situation where you want to use this 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.760 pen and you can't because you need to charge it up. 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.919 The magnetically attaches to the side of the device, just 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.199 like a wood on an iPad. And then there's a 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:07.520 premium pen, which I think they probably should have made 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.280 this whole thing a premium pen. But the premium pen 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.600 is a dedicated, dedicated eraser on the top, plus a 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.360 customizable shortcut button. I think that they should just make 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.600 that the default pen. And the cool thing is all 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.359 of your documents are backed up to the cloud for free, 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.840 which I really like, and in twenty twenty three you'll 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:29.840