WEBVTT - "Pandemic pricing" on the Samsung Galaxy S21 lineup 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.560 Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S twenty one CES 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.240 twenty twenty one Wrap up, Google Speakers, get a guest 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.840 mode plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.560 Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:27.640 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.680 should know about. It's also where I answer the questions 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.320 that you send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.479 Channel five in Los Angeles. Back from the Seattle area 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:44.839 and CS twenty twenty one all digital this year. If 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:46.960 you follow me on social media, yeah, you're kind of 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:48.760 up to speed on everything that was going on there. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.080 We did the show from up at the Microsoft studios 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.440 just outside Seattle in Redmond. Beautiful, beautiful area. I really 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.440 fell in love with the area up there. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:00.560 Now. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.680 I used to live up there for about a year. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.800 I lived in Yakima, Washington, and so I was familiar 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.360 with the Pacific Northwest. I remember it just being absolutely beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.320 clean fresh air. I mean it was just I took 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.120 a run on this path that was behind the hotel, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.480 and it like rivaled any run I've taken anywhere in 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.880 America because it was just so beautiful and it wasn't 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.080 even anything. It was just like a run along a river, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.120 but really really nice. CS twenty twenty one, All Digital, 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:31.920 Like I said, a little bit different this year. I 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.080 was a host of the Digital I guess you call 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.520 it the what was it the live anchor desk, So 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.039 we kind of like intro the different you know, keynotes 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.560 and you know, not like well, I don't know. It's 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.360 just like basically like a newscast but for CS. So 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.320 we were talking, you know, just kind of keeping everything moving, 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.600 and I thought it was really cool. It was very different. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:55.720 I think that the all digital CS format worked. But 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.040 I think that people, you know, they enjoyed the break 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.120 this year, but I think that people will be ready 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.080 for going back to Vegas next year, and it will 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.960 be in Vegas next year. I believe the dates are 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.240 January fifth through eighth, but don't quote me on that. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:09.920 And if you're a journalist, you have to go for 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.639 like three days before and three days after anyway, That's 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.920 what happens to me. But it was it was really fun. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.679 My co host was I Justine. She is awesome. I 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.919 literally no joke, just tried to pick her brain all 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.120 week long, so i'd ask her. You know, what's your 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.120 favorite app for the iPhone? What's your How do you 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:29.680 do this on social media? How do you do that? 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.000 What do you how do you deal with this when 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.240 it comes to your followers? Like I just wanted to know, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.079 Like this is a person that she I didn't even 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.720 realize how many followers she has, but let's see. So 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:45.519 on Twitter, Let's see on Twitter, she's got one point 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:50.960 seven million followers, on YouTube six point eight three million. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:55.680 Let's see on Instagram, and on Instagram one point seven million, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.680 so across all those social media platforms. I mean, it's 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.680 pretty amazing to have that any followers across all three 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.480 platforms because a lot of if you look at a 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.320 lot of like the YouTubers specifically, they'll amass this large 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.480 following on YouTube, but they might not be as good 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.360 at getting folks to follow them on like Twitter or 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.440 Facebook or Instagram, I should say, so for her to 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.080 get the trifecta there of millions across all three is 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.560 pretty pretty amazing. And when she tweets stuff for Instagram stuff, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.040 it just goes everywhere. I mean, it's pretty wild to watch, 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.320 and she is always working. She's very smart, and it 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.200 was interesting when she said to me that she sees 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.800 herself as a mini startup, and I thought that was 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.520 so interesting because I always wondered how, you know, these 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.560 entrepreneurs think of themselves, and she is right on the money. 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.360 So Justine, thank you. She probably doesn't listen to this podcast, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.920 but anyway, it was really fun to work with her. 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.960 And we also had Brian Tong, who obviously is a 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.760 good friend of mine, and Naomi Kyle, who I did 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.360 not know, but I got to know a little bit, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.040 not much because we you know, with COVID, they tried 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.480 to keep us as separate as possible, so they had 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.680 to follow all these precautions and it was very very 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.600 buttoned up production. I was I was super duper impressed. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.320 I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I have 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.599 to say everyone from the Consumer Technology Association that puts 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.679 on CES, you know, they had a bunch of people 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.839 up there, to the actual folks that produced the show, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.320 to the Microsoft Studios folks. I mean, it was really, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.520 really an amazing experience. I am so glad that I 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.600 was a part of it. And we're going to talk 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.479 about some of the things in CES. I'm gonna start 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:38.400 with the Samsung Galaxy S twenty one. Then I'll go 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.640 back to CES. But real quick, I just, you know, 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.760 want to talk about because it was my first time 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.680 flying and traveling in nine months since last March. I 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.640 mean that was the last basically, February was the end 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.599 of February. It was the last time I traveled last year. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.000 So was it weird? Yes? Did it feel really cool? Yes? 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.640 Was I very excited? Yes? Everything felt great. I did 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.800 not feel I was at risk for COVID at any 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:07.720 point in the trip. The airport, not not on the 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:12.680 La end, but on the Seattle end, was quite busy, 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.360 but again I was not close to people, and on 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.240 my flights I was not really close to people. I 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:18.760 did have to sit next to someone on the way 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.160 out there. On the way back, the plane was totally empty. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.680 And overall, I mean, you know, I wore my N 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.719 ninety five mask on the plane, and you know, you 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.159 it was great. I mean it really It's sad that 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.840 the state of the you know what state of the 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.760 world we're in right now when it comes to that, 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.080 but I think that it made me realize that, no, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.200 I don't want to do this a lot, but of 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.880 course I will do it for work, and you know, 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:48.960 you just have to remain you know, vigilant about protecting yourself, 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.760 you know, just just taking the proper precautions and just 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.040 being aware of your surroundings and what you're doing, and 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.400 especially touching your face and all that stuff. And you know, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.279 when I was taking the car from the you know, 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:02.960 the studio to the the the hotel, you know, I 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:04.680 told the guys said, look, I'm opening the window because 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.320 that's what I'm supposed to do and get some fresh 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.680 air in here. And the driver they understand, everyone's in 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.400 this together. So it was great experience. I had a blast. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.000 I hope they do something similar for twenty twenty two, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.000 and I hope that I'm on the short list for 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.760 someone that might be considered to help out again. So 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:25.440 thank you CS and CTA. You guys were fantastic. All right, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.359 let's start with the device that I came home to, 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.320 and I was very, very much excited for this, the 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:37.800 Samsung Galaxy S twenty one. Samsung sent over the S 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.880 twenty one and the S twenty one Ultra, so the 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.599 lowest end and the highest end, and I've been playing 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.920 with these. I'm not at liberty to give my full 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.279 review just yet, because well, let's be honest, it's only 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.039 been like a couple hours, but it's a you know, 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.880 I can give you my first impressions kind of the unboxing, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.880 and from what I've seen, this is is kind of 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:02.160 a nice device. I mean, it reminds me of the Note. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:03.960 I love the Note twenty. It was just too big 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.400 for me. This one is a little bit easier to 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.080 manage in my hand, even though it's still a nice 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.640 big screen six point eight inch screen. I'm talking about 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.360 the Ultra here. It's got four cameras on the back. 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.120 It's got an ultra it's got a wide It's got 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:22.440 a ten times optical telephoto lens, which is just amazing. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.920 I mean, ten times on a smartphone is for optical 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.280 is just phenomenal. I love that. Then it also has 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.920 a three times telephoto lens, so four lenses on this 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:38.840 along with laser autofocus and the things that it ditches 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.680 this year, which I was surprised. There's no charger in 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.880 the box, which is fine. I have plenty of chargers. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.800 I don't need to get another charger just sitting around 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.239 my house. And I think that a majority of people 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.640 feel the same way. The other thing though that did 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.360 surprise me is that they got rid of the the 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.080 SD card slot, so there's no more micro SD cards 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.720 expandable storage on any of these devices, which you know 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.120 some people that was a big differentiator with the Samsungs 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.480 and the fact that you could just buy the standard 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.960 model and just pump up the memory with a card 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.320 was really cool. You can no longer do that. The 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.800 other thing that they got rid of is the little 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:21.040 antenna that enabled Samsung Pay to work in places that 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.040 the other phones didn't work, the other Androids and the 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.960 Apple iPhone. They had a special antenna inside the Samsung 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.720 devices called MST and this antenna would basically recreate the 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.880 magnetic field from the stripe on the back of your 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.720 credit card and sort of emit that out to any 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.920 card reader anywhere. So this is why you could use 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.440 tap to pay at Walmart even though they don't accept it, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.400 because the Samsung would actually emit it kind of mimicked 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.200 what a credit card would do, and it kind of 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.440 faked out the machines. Well, they got rid of that, 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.960 so the competitive edge for Samsung Pay is now gone, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.360 and that's kind of a big deal. But otherwise this 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.920 phone is one hundred percent loaded. It's you can just 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.200 feel the quality of this device. It feels really nice 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.400 in your hand. The screen looks amazing. It's got all 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.320 the things that you need, minus those two little things 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.280 that they took a step back on. One thing that 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.160 I really liked that they did was they added the 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.440 Google Discover feed to the left of my home screen, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.640 which is just amazing for the launcher. So now when 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.120 I swipe to the right, it all right, sorry, let's see. Wait, yeah, 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.120 swipe to the right. It brings up all that Google 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.920 Discover stuff, which I've loved forever, all the stories that 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.600 wants you to read and all that stuff. So that's 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.360 a huge, huge plus for me because I did not 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.480 like the Bixby stuff, so would just turn it off 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:47.120 and you know, otherwise. There's other improvements that are small 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:48.839 things that are really cool. It's got a five thousand 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.400 million battery. Of course I had wireless charging. It's got 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.560 the you know IP sixty eight water resistance. The price 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.920 it starts at twelve hundred dollars, which is two hundred 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.559 dollars less than last year. So that's a pro right 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.200 now during this economy where you know, it's been rough 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.360 on a lot of folks. Let's see, they all have 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.439 eight K video recording, and because you're recording eight K, 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.439 they say you can pull a full resolution picture out 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.199 of your video. So you know, sometimes you take a 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:17.880 video and it's like it doesn't look very good if 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.360 you try to get a screenshot out of that, But 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.560 this will look just as good as a regular picture. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.440 I haven't tried that yet, but I can't wait to 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.640 try that. You know. Of course they always say that 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.160 night mode is better, and all these pictures are better, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:29.840 but I'll be the judge of that, and I will 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.120 be testing this out over the next couple of weeks 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.560 to see just how much better. You can also use 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.440 a stylust now with the S twenty one Ultra only 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.800 the other two models you cannot use a stylist, but 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.680 the S twenty one Ultra you can use a stylist. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.280 Whether you buy a new one or you buy or 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.240 maybe you have a stylist from an old note that 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.800 will work as well, So that's kind of cool. The 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.880 other thing that's neat is that when you share a 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:58.040 picture through their gallery, it will ask you if you 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.440 want to get rid of the the location data. Oh 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.720 it's off by default, which is really nice. So that 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.120 is a huge, huge thing for privacy. I love that. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.320 Let's see what else? Eight K video. Oh, the it 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.720 still does one hundred times zoom with with you know, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.880 their hybrid zoom system, but they've steadied it out so 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.720 when you zoom in really far, it stays steady. And 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.199 I will again. I've got a little bit of hands 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.760 on time with that last night and it looks promising. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.000 It looks way better than the first model, but I'll 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.599 have to see what the deal is with that. And 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.000 then they have another cool feature called Director's View, which 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.360 I personally really love. I'll be shooting a lot of 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.560 videos like that where you can see you can choose 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.400 the two camera angles that you want, so you can 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.600 choose to have, you know, like you can see yourself 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.840 in the selfie camera, but also be shooting the other 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.880 cameras as well, and can you change them live? Oh 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.600 yes you can. Oh wow, that's pretty cool. So that's 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.240 a neat little feature as well. And oh you can 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.200 change it to split view. So it's it's kind of 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.960 the picture or the it's kind of the feature that 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.760 they have on the iPhone with the double Take app. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.160 But now that's built into the latest Samsung devices. So overall, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.320 if you want the Samsung S twenty one or S 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.760 twenty one plus, those start at let's see how much 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.360 do those start at? Those start at seven ninety nine 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.199 and then so the S twenty one is eight hundred, 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.000 the S twenty one plus is one thousand, and then 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.800 the S twenty one Ultra is twelve hundred, and the 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.720 memory is silver. Comes in twelve gigs a RAM plus 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.240 one twenty eight gigs of storage, which you're gonna eat 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.400 through that with EIGHTK video in minutes, Phantom Black twelve 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.040 gigs of RAM, one twenty eight gigs of storage, or 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.160 two fifty six twelve gigs of RAM, or you can 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.040 get a five twelve gigabyte model with sixteen gigs a RAM. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.800 They also have exclusive colors on Samsung dot Com, including 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.679 Phantom Titanium, Phantom Navy, and Phantom Brown. That's for the 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.600 S twenty one Ultra, the S twenty one and S 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.720 twenty one plus, they come in a couple of different 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:08.440 colors more fun colors Phantom Violet, gray, pink, white, and 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.520 silver and black for the S twenty one plus. So anyway, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.640 and then Golden Platinum. So there's a lot of different 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.760 there's a whole matrix of colors and things. But these 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.679 companies are really funny about how they only give you 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.000 certain offerings with there's only certain combinations available. You can't 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.360 just say, oh, I want gold in twelve fifty six. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.520 You can't do that. You have to kind of pick 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.800 and choose based on the model number you're getting and 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.040 the color you're getting. But I would recommend if you 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.560 are going to purchase one of these to get the 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:41.360 highest the highest storage you can because you cannot expand it. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.360 And that is kind of like the big thing that 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.679 you need to know about these right now. All right, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.400 So if you want to see some videos on those, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.400 I posted one to my Facebook, I did a live. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.360 I did a live on boxing there, and then on 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.199 my Instagram I did a just a video kind of 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.040 running through the features and the look of the phone. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.319 That's that rich on tech on both of those platforms. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.880 So I'm digging this phone so far. I have high 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.800 hopes for it. I don't know. I told you I 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.640 might switch, and I might be tempted if the camera 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.280 is good. I might be tempted because I'm ready for 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.079 a little Google in my life again. I you know, 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.439 when you're on the iPhone, you get way away from 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.960 Google products and services because they try to, you know, 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.840 kind of fight those at all at all turns. But 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.680 I'm kind of ready for that integrated experience of like 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.720 everything kind of working together with Google on the iPhone. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.200 I haven't had that in a while, sorry, on the Samsung, 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.200 because I've been using iPhone for so long now that 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.320 I'm kind of ready to go back and just see 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.440 what the other side is like, just for a little bit, 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.720 because you know, it helps me as as a tech 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.160 person to get to understand both sides, and I've done 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.880 that historically. So we'll see. Stay tuned. I'll have my 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.680 full roundup and review of the s twenty one line 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:56.760 up very very soon. All right, let's get to our 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.200 first question. As you can see, I have all my 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.600 stuff back up running. Last week was a you know, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.600 from the hotel room kind of podcast, which was great. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.200 I use the Tula microphone, which I'm not sure if 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.520 I said or not, but I've been testing that out 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.280 and I thought it sounded pretty darn good for being 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.760 in a hotel room. But we're back this week all right, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.320 Kathleen says, I'm trying to find a password generator for 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.040 personal use. Any suggestions. What is your opinion on Keeper? 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.360 Heard it was top rated, thought I would ask you 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.040 you haven't steered me wrong in the past. Keep up 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.120 the great work. You are my go to tech guy. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:36.720 Thanks Kathleen. So Keeper, Hm, who is Keeper? I don't 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.440 know Keeper. I mean I have seen them, but I 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.360 don't know what their deal is. When I think of 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:47.280 the password managers, the number one, the number three, three 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.120 come to mind. I'll tell you what they are, dash Lane, 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.680 last pass and one password and that's one password with 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.640 a one and then password. Those are the three that 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.080 I would I would use and I would just you 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.800 have to get into a groove with these things. There's 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.480 no way around it. You just have to get into 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.960 a groove. So pick one, stick to it, put all 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.440 your passwords in there, start using it to generate passwords, 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.280 and do not stray. The problem when you stray is 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.520 you when you use it half the time, it doesn't work. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.760 You need to use this one hundred percent of the time. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.960 You need to install it on all your devices. And 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.160 the way that most of these password managers work is 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.640 they all say oh we're free, free, free, free, free, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.200 and you go, oh cool, I'll use you for free. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.400 And then when you really get down to the nitty 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.640 gritty of them, here's how they're free. They're free to 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.200 use on one device, and then when you start using 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.240 them on other devices, it can get very expensive. So, 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.560 for instance, last Pass seems to be free across all 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.560 the devices, but there's got to be a catch to that. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:54.760 You know, it doesn't seem like there is a catch. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.840 So last Pass, if you want totally totally free and 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:03.000 across all your devices, is you know, go last pass. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.520 One password. Let's see what's going on there. One password 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:11.000 used to be primarily iPhone, now it's Android and iPhone, 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.119 but it is personal. A personal account is three dollars 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.520 a month, build annually annually, so that's twelve times threes 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.439 thirty six dollars for the year. And the family account, 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.199 which you probably want because you want your you know, 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.320 significant other to be using this as well, that is 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.479 five dollars a month for a family of five, and 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.560 you can get that build annually or it has to 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.040 be builled annually, so that's sixty dollars a year. Then 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.760 dash Lane, dash Lane is a little trickier to find 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:42.960 the pricing. Let me see plans individual they have. Okay, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:47.800 they've got free, but here's a thing. On free, you 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.560 only get up to fifty passwords and one device. So 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.760 if you want to be able to easily, you know, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.680 use these passwords on your on your laptop, you want 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.280 to pay. And they're the most expensive, it seems, because 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.160 it's six fifty a month times twelve for the premium, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.439 So six point fifty times twelve is seventy eight dollars, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.440 So that's seventy eight for the year. Family is nine 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.399 dollars a month, so I mean, and you get a 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.760 VPN as well with with dash Lane. I'm not sure 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.600 if the other one's offer a VPN included. But you know, 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.680 just look at these different devices or these different software 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.399 solutions and see which one works for you. If you 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.680 are one hundred percent Apple or one hundred percent Android 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.119 and Google, you can use what they have built in 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.959 password management in those two operating systems. So with Apple 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.480 it's a keychain and it works pretty well, but again 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.640 you're locked into the Apple ecosystem if you only use 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.320 Apple products. I'd go with that, and then on on 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.040 the Android or Google Slash side of things, you would 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:51.199 have to use Chrome along with Android. Great question. All right, 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.760 let's get back to CES. So CS twenty twenty one 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.840 again all digital show. We did the show out of 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.440 the studios in Edmond, and it was different this year 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.199 because it was all digital and so you had to 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.480 sort of go off of, you know, the videos that 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.160 they released, which they did a great job of organizing things. 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.520 In fact, I mean, I don't want to say that 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.440 this was easier to cover this year than in previous years, 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.200 but it kind of was the difference. The biggest difference 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.439 is that you just didn't get to go hands on 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.919 with these gadgets, and let's be honest, that is the 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.280 beauty of CS is actually getting to see these things 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.439 in the flesh in person and getting to play with 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.280 them before anyone else. So with that said, here are 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.959 some of the highlights of the show. My takeaway is 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:46.720 that a lot of this stuff was COVID related, It 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:52.359 was touchless, it was big picture autonomous cars, TVs. I 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.560 would say actually TV's took a back seat this year 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.480 because usually the TV's wow us because you can see them, 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.160 but you know, without being there and seeing these giant screens. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.280 You know, the TVs did not steal the show this year. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.120 But with that said, let me go through a couple 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.200 of things that caught my I. TCL they showed off 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.040 like a concept phone screen that you kind of stretch 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.040 out that becomes bigger, which I thought was kind of cool. 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.800 Obviously prototype E. They also showed off a seventeen inch 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.120 screen that rolls out like a scroll, which is kind 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:23.960 of cool. Samsung showed off these things, these bots. There's 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:28.080 a bot Care and then handy Bot, and these are 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.240 robots for your house. The handybot was kind of you know, 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.040 the robot that you want in your home, you know, 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.359 cleaning up after you, getting you a glass of wine, 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.080 pouring a glass of water, picking up your clothes. But again, 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.160 these are things that we're probably not going to see 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:45.280 anytime soon their self. Their vacuum, their robotic vacuum that 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:49.200 that Samsung unveiled was pretty cool because it uses AI 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.720