Speaker 1: Google unveils the Pixel six and the Pixel six Pro.
Speaker 1: Apple on veils new MacBook pros and new AirPods and more.
Speaker 1: Samsung on veils new colors for its flip phone. Plus
Speaker 1: Your tech questions Answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: I Richdemiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast
Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I.
Speaker 2: Think you should know about.
Speaker 1: It's also the place right answer the questions that you
Speaker 1: send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Welcome to the folks watching on Facebook
Speaker 1: Live right now. Sometimes I do it on Facebook Live,
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't. It just depends how I'm feeling that day.
Speaker 1: If I'm inspired to put it on Facebook, I will.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people when they're watching on Facebook
Speaker 1: are like, what's going on here? Like what's this guy
Speaker 1: talking about? Like who's this guy in my feed? So
Speaker 1: it happens. So a couple things this week, Big big
Speaker 1: tech week. Oh my gosh, so many events. We had
Speaker 1: an event on Monday for Apple Virtual of course, and
Speaker 1: we had an event on Tuesday for what was the
Speaker 1: second one? Then it was Google, and then the third
Speaker 1: one was Samsung.
Speaker 2: Not so much. I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: I didn't really have to tune into that one because
Speaker 1: I kind of knew what it was and it's interesting,
Speaker 1: but it's not as groundbreaking as the gadgets we saw
Speaker 1: from the other ones. But I did do something fun
Speaker 1: over the weekend. I went to Irvine, California. If you've
Speaker 1: never been, I highly recommend. It's a totally underrated place.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's like, actually like number eleven best place to live
Speaker 1: in America. And I've been trying to convince my wife
Speaker 1: to move there, but she won't have it. She's from La,
Speaker 1: so she wants to stay in the La proper. But
Speaker 1: it is so nice. It's so clean, everything's so new.
Speaker 1: They actually have a lot of tech companies down there.
Speaker 1: We went to a place near the Irvine Spectrum Mall,
Speaker 1: which is it was like a family reunion kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So we're meeting up with a bunch of people. We
Speaker 1: all stay at the Marriott. It was fantastic. If you've
Speaker 1: listened to me on the show, I don't know I've
Speaker 1: ever talked about this, but I've always been a Hilton
Speaker 1: person and I've always pooh pooed Marriotts. I don't know
Speaker 1: why the Marriotte was so nice and it was like
Speaker 1: just a basic hotel, and so now I think I
Speaker 1: got to switch my allegiances to the Marriott. But I
Speaker 1: try not to play the points game too much. I
Speaker 1: really don't because I don't want to get like suckered
Speaker 1: into like all these different little schemes that these marketers
Speaker 1: do with the points. So I do try to like
Speaker 1: stay I got. I did get suckered in with Hilton.
Speaker 1: But anyway, long story short, Marriott was nice, Irvine was nice.
Speaker 2: And over the.
Speaker 1: Weekend I tested out these ray band stories. These are
Speaker 1: sunglasses from ray Ban and Facebook, and they have little
Speaker 1: cameras in them and they allow you to record things
Speaker 1: as you walk around. You can record video, you can
Speaker 1: take pictures. And I had a blast with these things
Speaker 1: testing them out. I've got some thoughts. I'll put them
Speaker 1: in a future TV segment, But the bottom line is
Speaker 1: these sunglasses have gotten so close to actual just regular
Speaker 1: sunglasses that you can put on and kind of forget
Speaker 1: that there's a camera in there except for battery life
Speaker 1: and transferring all the pictures. That it is a very
Speaker 1: compelling new way to capture video and pictures. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's there just yet, but I will
Speaker 1: say it's pretty phenomenal what they were able to do
Speaker 1: in a form factor that is pretty much typical sunglasses.
Speaker 2: They're just a little bit thicker on the edges. But
Speaker 2: I had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: The one thing I noticed about that is that I
Speaker 1: bounce around a lot, like when I walk, your video
Speaker 1: is going to be very shaky. And you also look
Speaker 1: around a lot in different places. So when you do that,
Speaker 1: your video is just kind of all over the place.
Speaker 1: So it kind of it takes a bit to realize
Speaker 1: that you're taking a video and you should stay in
Speaker 1: one place. But that was really cool. Let's just get
Speaker 1: into the top story of the week. I guess this
Speaker 1: debate what the top story is. It could be the pixel,
Speaker 1: it could be the MacBooks. But because the pixel, well
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna start with with Google because
Speaker 1: I've been talking about this on the podcast for so long.
Speaker 1: How I can't wait to switch to this pixel? And
Speaker 1: I got to say number one, I'm just gonna get
Speaker 1: this out there. Google really just kind of like threw
Speaker 1: me under the bus with this. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I did to Google. I don't
Speaker 1: know what I said, maybe my last review of the
Speaker 1: I need to look at my review of the Pixel
Speaker 1: five and see what I said, because they just exed me.
Speaker 1: They did not communicate with me about this press conference.
Speaker 1: They did not send me anything. They did not send
Speaker 1: me the phones to review. And when I say they
Speaker 1: didn't send me the phones to review, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: They sent a pair of Pixels to every single person
Speaker 1: that has a YouTube account. It seems so every single
Speaker 1: person that I see on my Twitter timeline has a
Speaker 1: gift from Google. Thank you Pixel, Thank you Pixel, Thank
Speaker 1: you Google. I mean, people that don't even review review phones,
Speaker 1: people that have never even used a Pixel are getting these.
Speaker 1: They're given them out like candy. And here me, someone
Speaker 1: who runs a national tech segment, did not get one
Speaker 1: to review for it. Now I had to ask them
Speaker 1: and they are like, well, well, we'll look at your
Speaker 1: request and see what we think and get back to you.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: And this was a phone that I actually wanted to
Speaker 1: purchase for myself to buy as my new phone. But
Speaker 1: now I'm not so sure because I'm like, what's Google
Speaker 1: hiding here? Okay, here's what I said. Google's latest Pixel smartphones,
Speaker 1: excellent camera and a decent price, but not as exciting
Speaker 1: as competitors, So I think that's pretty fair. And then
Speaker 1: I went through and kind of like, you know, talked
Speaker 1: about the rest of this stuff. I mean, I even
Speaker 1: said I would recommend the four A five G for
Speaker 1: most people at five hundred bucks. So I don't know anyway,
Speaker 1: So that's besides the point. Let's talk about what the
Speaker 1: Pixel is all about. You know, the Pixel is all
Speaker 1: about a great camera, great software. But now Google is
Speaker 1: adding their own profit cesser into the mix. They call
Speaker 1: it Tensor, and they're saying it's going to be much
Speaker 1: more powerful this time around. And that was really what
Speaker 1: was lacking in the Pixels of years past, is that
Speaker 1: it never felt like a very powerful phone. In fact,
Speaker 1: they admitted it in their keynote. They said, we always
Speaker 1: built the software around basically not very good hardware, like
Speaker 1: low powered hardware, and now, for the first time, we
Speaker 1: get to build software around high powered hardware, and it
Speaker 1: just opens up a whole bunch of stuff. So Number one,
Speaker 1: the prices on these phones are pretty amazing. Six hundred
Speaker 1: bucks for the standard one and then nine hundred for
Speaker 1: the Pro, which has a bigger screen, faster refresh rate.
Speaker 1: But the camera set up is pretty identical, except the
Speaker 1: Pro has a zoom camera whereas the standard one does not,
Speaker 1: and it's got this weird design They call it a
Speaker 1: camera bar, but it's just as weird, like shelf on
Speaker 1: the back of the phone for the camera.
Speaker 2: I think it's kind of odd.
Speaker 1: I like much more symmetrical phones, and I also don't
Speaker 1: like phones where the edges taper off, so I've gotten
Speaker 1: really used to how the iPhone has a nice blocky
Speaker 1: feel these days, and I think it's like the perfect
Speaker 1: phone design. So I'm not sure that I'll like this
Speaker 1: design even so. There Google, They say the Pixel six
Speaker 1: Pro is inspired by the finishes you see in luxury
Speaker 1: jewelry and watches. They do kind of a fun thing
Speaker 1: with some of the colors, you know, it's got Android
Speaker 1: twelve on it, and this big thing about material you
Speaker 1: where it kind of like matches the whole theme of
Speaker 1: the phone to your wallpaper. That is not a selling
Speaker 1: point to me, but it's cool. They've also extended the
Speaker 1: security support update to five years now. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: big win in my book, because that means if you
Speaker 1: purchase this phone, you can pretty much use this thing
Speaker 1: for five years. If you're a casual, average user that
Speaker 1: just wants a nice phone that takes great pictures. Five years,
Speaker 1: that's do the math. That's a great investment. It says
Speaker 1: they capture one hundred and fifty percent more light compared
Speaker 1: to the Pixel five, four times optical zoom up to
Speaker 1: twenty times zoom with their super res The front camera
Speaker 1: records four K video. It's got this magic eraser feature
Speaker 1: that automatically deletes things from your pictures. It's got various
Speaker 1: modes to like help you take pictures of your kids
Speaker 1: without them, you know, having blurry faces or whatever. They
Speaker 1: also tweak the camera so that it gets appropriate and
Speaker 1: proper skin tones for all skin types, not just one
Speaker 1: group of people.
Speaker 2: So that's nice.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else. Pixel six oh improves speech recognition.
Speaker 2: This is big.
Speaker 1: You know, Google's done a lot of work with AI
Speaker 1: when it comes to speech recognition, Google Translate, so a
Speaker 1: lot of that is built into this. And we know
Speaker 1: that the voice recognition on Android is way better than
Speaker 1: the voice recognition on iPhone. Now, it's gotten a lot
Speaker 1: better on iPhone over the past couple of years. I'll
Speaker 1: give it that but Siri absolutely cannot handle anything very
Speaker 1: complex proper names business names. Google takes a lot of
Speaker 1: different cues from like let's say you say you want
Speaker 1: to call business. It will look at like where you're
Speaker 1: located and know that if you say Al's car shop,
Speaker 1: it knows that you want the Al's car shop near
Speaker 1: you wherever you are, and not just some random place
Speaker 1: like I've asked serious stuff and she'll find stuff like
Speaker 1: thousands of miles away that makes no sense.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's gotten a little better.
Speaker 1: It also has all the Google smarts, like for phone calls,
Speaker 1: like it'll tell you how long to wait or wait
Speaker 1: times are at a big business before you call. It
Speaker 1: will decode phone trees on your phone screen so that
Speaker 1: if it says tap one for this, tap two for that,
Speaker 1: it'll show that on your screen. It's got a lot
Speaker 1: of live translate features which work in I know, Japanese
Speaker 1: and a couple other languages offline, which is really oh, English, French, German, Italian,
Speaker 1: and Japanese. So that's really cool. You can get all
Speaker 1: those language interpretations done even offline, which is really nice
Speaker 1: in some cases, like the first time I ever went
Speaker 1: to Japan, what a nightmare. It was because my phone
Speaker 1: didn't work and everything was just tough. And nowadays everything
Speaker 1: works everywhere that I've seen and been. But anyway, but
Speaker 1: the translation stuff is pretty.
Speaker 2: Nice, all right.
Speaker 1: So six hundred dollars for the standard, nine hundred for
Speaker 1: the pro. They're in stores on October twenty eighth. I'll
Speaker 1: probably just walk over to Target and pick up one
Speaker 1: of these things. Even if I don't end up keeping it,
Speaker 1: I can always give it to my mom because she's
Speaker 1: a Pixel user and I usually get her a pixel anyway,
Speaker 1: So if I hate this thing, I'll just give it
Speaker 1: to her. But I always like to have an Android
Speaker 1: phone to use, and I think that this phone's gonna
Speaker 1: be great. Right now, they have this weird embargo going
Speaker 1: with all the people that they sent the phone to
Speaker 1: that where they can't show pictures from the phone. So
Speaker 1: this is a phone that's known for amazing pictures, and
Speaker 1: Google told all ten thousand people that it sent free
Speaker 1: phones to don't post any pictures from this phone. That's weird.
Speaker 1: Why did they do that, I don't know. So October
Speaker 1: twenty eighth will get it in stores, and we'll probably
Speaker 1: get a better idea once the embargo lifts and people
Speaker 1: can actually post stuff from.
Speaker 2: This phone and about this phone.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the first question of the day.
Speaker 1: Susie says, I recently read an article that the much
Speaker 1: anticipated iPad Mini six has a jelly roll screen issue.
Speaker 2: Sounds delicious to me.
Speaker 1: The article also indicated that Apple has no plans to
Speaker 1: fix the problem, probably because it's not a problem. I
Speaker 1: also really enjoy having a per size iPad that I
Speaker 1: can carry with me. But I'm gonna quandary over purchasing
Speaker 1: this device with a known scrolling problem. My Mini four
Speaker 1: is exhibiting some issues, and I don't know how much
Speaker 1: longer it can perform. What would you suggest making the
Speaker 1: purchase waiting alternative device. Thank you for any help you
Speaker 1: can offer, Susie, And Vice Salia, Vice Salia. I was
Speaker 1: just there in Vice Salia, Susie, I could have said
Speaker 1: hi and answered your question in person. Susie, here's my
Speaker 1: thoughts on this. Just ignore the jelly roll issue. I
Speaker 1: doubt it's a big deal. I just it's one of
Speaker 1: these things where let me see what so I mean,
Speaker 1: it's one of these things where who came.
Speaker 2: Up with it?
Speaker 1: Okay, so, where did the jelly roll, so it can
Speaker 1: it originated. Okay, the issue was not mentioned in any
Speaker 1: iPad reviews, according to Eymore, but it was first reported
Speaker 1: by The Verge, and then Reddit has latched on and
Speaker 1: saying there's a bunch of people who you know, experience
Speaker 1: the same issue. And let me look at the Reddit
Speaker 1: comments real quick, ninety four comments. So I think, Susie,
Speaker 1: this is a whole bunch of don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: It's not a big issue. Now here's my recommendation. Go
Speaker 1: to the Apple Store. You can pick up one of
Speaker 1: these little iPad minis and feel it and go to
Speaker 1: a website that you would typically go to. Go to
Speaker 1: a website with a long article, scroll through.
Speaker 2: The jelly effect.
Speaker 1: The jelly roll effect is like when they said, like
Speaker 1: one side of the screen kind of goes up and
Speaker 1: it looks like it's advancing faster than the other side.
Speaker 1: I don't we've heard about this before with all kinds
Speaker 1: of phones, but I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's maybe people getting used to a new display.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But the reality is you can go into the Apple Store,
Speaker 1: go to a bunch of websites, play with this thing.
Speaker 1: See if you notice anything. If you don't notice anything,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be just fine. I'm sure this. I'm not
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure because sometimes with Apple stuff comes
Speaker 1: out later and later, but I have a feeling that
Speaker 1: it will probably be just fine. So I say, go
Speaker 1: get the iPad Mini. I've got my eyes on one
Speaker 1: of these things. I'd like to get one as well.
Speaker 2: They're so nice.
Speaker 1: I went too the Apple Store at the Irvine Spectrum
Speaker 1: and it was just it's so amazing that it's just
Speaker 1: how lively the Apple Store is. You go into any
Speaker 1: other store in the mall and yeah, there's a couple
Speaker 1: of people here and there or whatever, but you go
Speaker 1: into the Apple Store and it's just like alive. There's
Speaker 1: so many people and they're all doing something, and there's
Speaker 1: so many people there to help you. We went into
Speaker 1: Chipotle last night and for dinner, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: the brisket was delicious, and I've wanted to try that
Speaker 1: for a while. But I'm telling you, the place was
Speaker 1: like it felt like I was on life it was
Speaker 1: on life support. There's like three people working the entire place.
Speaker 1: And I mean, we've seen this over and over with
Speaker 1: a lot of places where it's just tough to get
Speaker 1: help right now, but the Apple store doesn't have that problem.
Speaker 1: There were so many people everywhere I turned, Hey can
Speaker 1: I help you?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 1: Can I help you? Can I help you? Can I
Speaker 1: help you?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, Wow, this is amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about the MacBook pros. These are
Speaker 1: the new highly anticipated computers. I know, just speaking for
Speaker 1: myself because I want to get one. But I was
Speaker 1: waiting for the M one chip to come out on
Speaker 1: when I bought my MacBook Pro, but it didn't. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad I didn't wait, because it was like two
Speaker 1: years ago that I bought this computer. I would have
Speaker 1: been waiting a long time. But now they've got the
Speaker 1: MacBook Pro fourteen and sixteen inch. They've got two new processors,
Speaker 1: the M one Pro and the M one Max. And
Speaker 1: bottom line, I'm not going to spend a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of time on specs, but these are processors that Apple
Speaker 1: has ditched Intel to make their own processors. They started
Speaker 1: with the M one last year and it got great reviews.
Speaker 1: People went nuts over it. Now they're coming out with
Speaker 1: even higher, higher end versions of this processor, the Pro
Speaker 1: and the Max, which supposedly are gonna be even better,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they are, because I don't think there's
Speaker 1: one reviewer that didn't say the M one was amazing.
Speaker 1: So the fourteen and sixteen inch MacBook Pros, they've got
Speaker 1: a new.
Speaker 2: Display with a higher refresh rate.
Speaker 1: They've got a FaceTime HD camera, so now the cameras
Speaker 1: are actually upgraded, or the camera, I should say. Let's
Speaker 1: see what else. It's got a bunch of ports on it.
Speaker 1: So you've got Thunderbolt three, Thunderbolt four ports, an SDXC
Speaker 1: card slot, HDMI port, and mag Safe three and of
Speaker 1: course a headphone jack. And the mag Saf three is
Speaker 1: the old mag Safe coming back. So on these laptops.
Speaker 1: Apple took everything away in the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: and now they've brought it all back, all the features
Speaker 1: that the pros wanted, and so I'm glad they listened
Speaker 1: to people. Let's see what else. I forgot to mention something.
Speaker 1: I've got the ports. Oh yeah, touchbar. Touch bar is gone.
Speaker 1: Now this is a feature that I did not I
Speaker 1: begrudgingly bought my laptop with the touch bar on it,
Speaker 1: and I did not want the touch bar, but to
Speaker 1: get the features that I wanted in my computer. I
Speaker 1: had to get the touch bar, and so I got it.
Speaker 1: I've never used it. It's horrible, and I am so
Speaker 1: glad it's gone with real keys now because there was
Speaker 1: just no use for it. It didn't make sense for
Speaker 1: me to have this thing on my computer. Clearly I
Speaker 1: was not I was with a lot of other people.
Speaker 2: On that one.
Speaker 1: That's basically all you need to know about the MacBook pros.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, if you're gonna get one of these,
Speaker 1: you're gonna look into all the dimensions of it and
Speaker 1: exactly what it can do and.
Speaker 2: All of the specs.
Speaker 1: But it's two thousand dollars starting price for the fourteen inch,
Speaker 1: twenty five hundred for the sixteen inch. And don't forget
Speaker 1: that there are education prices on these things, so if
Speaker 1: you're a student or you're in that world, you can
Speaker 1: get it as low as eighteen fifty for the fourteen
Speaker 1: inch and twenty three hundred for the bigger sixteen inch.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. I don't say this all lightly.
Speaker 1: This is a lot of money, but if you're buying
Speaker 1: a pro computer, I call it the money maker, because
Speaker 1: this computer is what enables me to make a living
Speaker 1: and it's what I use every day.
Speaker 2: I rely on it. It's it's my baby.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I could get a work issued computer if
Speaker 1: I wanted, but I don't want it. I want this.
Speaker 1: I want to spend my money on this computer because
Speaker 1: I can do things my way. I can set it
Speaker 1: up the way I like, and I own it.
Speaker 2: And by the.
Speaker 1: Way, my computer that I bought two years ago for
Speaker 1: probably twenty five hundred bucks or twenty eight hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much it was, I need to
Speaker 1: look up the receipt I can get about fourteen hundred
Speaker 1: dollars for it as a trade in, and so they
Speaker 1: hold their value. Now. If I was going to give
Speaker 1: this to my son, that would be great, but I
Speaker 1: think this is a little bit too powerful for a
Speaker 1: ten year old. I don't think he needs this. I
Speaker 1: was going to hand down my computer to him. He
Speaker 1: can hand down his computer to my littler kid, but
Speaker 1: I feel like we don't need to do that right
Speaker 1: now because it's computer. Plus, I kind of just want
Speaker 1: the fourteen hundred bucks towards the new one because I'm
Speaker 1: looking at spending a lot of money here in the
Speaker 1: next couple weeks, but that's it. Those are coming out
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, October twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: If you've got by the way, the.
Speaker 1: Battery life on these things are amazing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: The one downside is the notch in the display.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I love how Apple spins it. They say the display
Speaker 1: features even thinner borders and extends up around the camera.
Speaker 1: They don't say notch to provide users with even more
Speaker 1: room for their content. Oh Apple, it's a positive thing
Speaker 1: that you added this weird looking notch. So they said
Speaker 1: they work with developers to try to make the top
Speaker 1: area more for like the menu and all your little
Speaker 1: icons and stuff, which they did. But still it's just
Speaker 1: kind of funny. Like people give the notch a hard
Speaker 1: time on the iPhone, now they can give the notch
Speaker 1: a hard time on the on the laptops as well.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Oh, the one thing if you want to know is
Speaker 1: mac os Monterey will be available as a free software
Speaker 1: download on Monday, October twenty fifth, and so I will
Speaker 1: be updating my computer on Monday. And there's a reason
Speaker 1: for that, and I'll get into it later in the podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, uh, Saban says, hey currently using AirPods one.
Speaker 1: Now I want to get the new ones, but the
Speaker 1: third generation doesn't have noise cancelation.
Speaker 2: What do you recommend?
Speaker 1: AirPods three or AirPods Pro? Price doesn't matter which ones
Speaker 1: are better? Sent from my iPhone.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what, I will.
Speaker 1: Actually go into my story about the h the AirPods.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize this question was about the AirPods, So
Speaker 1: let's talk about the new AirPods. This is also what
Speaker 1: Apple introduced. The new AirPods now look just like the
Speaker 1: AirPods Pro, but they don't have those little rubber tips
Speaker 1: on them.
Speaker 2: And they don't seal up your ears.
Speaker 1: And the design is just a little bit different. They
Speaker 1: look like kind of like mini pros, but they're really
Speaker 1: nice looking, and they've got some new features including adaptive VQ,
Speaker 1: spatial audio, and dynamic head tracking. And if you have not,
Speaker 1: if you have not experienced spatial audio or dynamic head tracking,
Speaker 1: it's pretty darn cool. So those are new features that
Speaker 1: are really nice on these. Also, they're sweat and water resistant,
Speaker 1: which is kind of funny because how many people in
Speaker 1: the world have used their AirPods while working out and
Speaker 1: never had a problem or in the rain or something
Speaker 1: maybe in the rain, but working out, I mean sweat.
Speaker 2: Come on, I've so many people use these.
Speaker 1: My wife has the regular AirPods that don't you know,
Speaker 1: and she's never had a problem. But anyway, we've got
Speaker 1: that new feature. And then the case. This is something
Speaker 1: that's interesting. The case is also water resistant. It's ipx four,
Speaker 1: which is not like the biggest in the world, but
Speaker 1: it's good, which means if you drop your case and
Speaker 1: like a puddle, it's not going to totally short out
Speaker 1: your air pods, which is nice. They also have this
Speaker 1: four sensor on the stem, which I'm not a big
Speaker 1: fan of, but it's just how it is.
Speaker 2: That's how the AirPods Pro are. You get a lot of.
Speaker 1: Battery life six hours listening time and then thirty hours
Speaker 1: total with the charging case, which is by the way,
Speaker 1: not only wireless charging compatible, so you can put it
Speaker 1: on any wireless charger, but you can also put it
Speaker 1: on a mag Safe charger, the same one that you
Speaker 1: use on your iPhone and it will charge these things up.
Speaker 1: So these are the third generation AirPods. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: confusing because they look like the AirPods Pro and but
Speaker 1: they're not. And so these are just the standard AirPods
Speaker 1: now and those are kind of like the main features.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I left any features out on
Speaker 1: their AirPods. No. Five minutes of charge will give you
Speaker 1: an hour of use, which is kind of nice if
Speaker 1: you ever like, pick up your AirPods and they're kind
Speaker 1: of dead and you want to, you know, go on
Speaker 1: a run or something. One hundred and seventy nine dollars,
Speaker 1: so not cheap, not cheap at all. One hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty dollars. Now they are cheaper than when AirPods first launched.
Speaker 1: They were one ninety nine, and so you're getting more
Speaker 1: for your money for less. So if you look at
Speaker 1: it that way, look on the bright side, you're you're winning. Tuesday,
Speaker 1: October twenty sixth is when these come out. So to
Speaker 1: answer your question, Saban about AirPods, you want to get
Speaker 1: them now? The new ones, the third generation, they do
Speaker 1: not have noise cancelation, and I would say, actually, my
Speaker 1: preference are the AirPods three because I think the Airpod's
Speaker 1: three will feel better in your ears if you don't
Speaker 1: like that closed out kind of like when you put
Speaker 1: the AirPods pro in, it's like sh you're just like
Speaker 1: sealed up, you know what I mean, your air You're
Speaker 1: there's nothing getting in your ears, nothing getting out. It's
Speaker 1: like a very like underwater feeling that I'm personally not
Speaker 1: a fan of, which is why I don't really wear
Speaker 1: the AirPods like walking through the airport and stuff, because
Speaker 1: it's just not that comfortable for me. But the AirPods three,
Speaker 1: I think will be a lot better because they don't
Speaker 1: do that. They don't seal out your ears. Now you
Speaker 1: do lose the noise cancelation. So if that's important to you,
Speaker 1: I would go with the AirPods pro. But otherwise I
Speaker 1: think that pretty much that's the big differentiator between these
Speaker 1: two devices. And so I think that between those two things,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean not gonna it's let's see, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to see if I have some information on these
Speaker 1: AirPods that are that I can go into a little
Speaker 1: bit more depth here.
Speaker 2: But I don't think I do. Yeah, I don't. Let's see,
Speaker 2: do I have it right here?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: Okay, So let me just see real quick there's anything
Speaker 1: different on these things that would be like a major Okay,
Speaker 1: so AirPods pro versus Okay, so they've got the four
Speaker 1: sensor active noise cancelation on the Pro. They've both got
Speaker 1: the dynamic head tracking and spatial audio. They both have
Speaker 1: Adaptive EQ, they both have automatic switching, they both have
Speaker 1: auto sharing, they both announced notifications, they both have h SERI,
Speaker 1: they both have the Find my Network, the proximity view,
Speaker 1: the separation alerts. They do have the The charging is
Speaker 1: the same, The ip x four is the same, but
Speaker 1: you get the.
Speaker 2: Case on the Pro.
Speaker 1: On the AirPods third generation, and you do get a
Speaker 1: little bit more listening time on the Airpod's third generation.
Speaker 1: So I would say go with AirPods third generation unless
Speaker 1: you need the no cancelation. All right, good question. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to Samsung. This is gonna be real quick,
Speaker 1: but Samsung had an event where they announced the Galaxy
Speaker 1: Z Flip three Bespoke Edition. The Bespoke Edition. This is
Speaker 1: a phone that you can customize the color on. Samsung
Speaker 1: says they tested thousands of color options and identified hues
Speaker 1: that would perfectly complement each other no matter the combination,
Speaker 1: which is handy for a guy like me that cannot
Speaker 1: match if my life depended on it. The result is
Speaker 1: a palette of forty nine possible color combinations for the
Speaker 1: Bespoke edition of the z Flip three, customers can mix
Speaker 1: and match to create their own combination. You've got phone
Speaker 1: frame options of black or silver, and front and back
Speaker 1: colors of blue, yellow, pink, white, or black. You can
Speaker 1: also register to replace your device panel with new colors
Speaker 1: at Samsung dot com. So that means you can keep
Speaker 1: pace with your evolving style. You gotta be really uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a bit much. So. The Bespoke Edition
Speaker 1: is one thousand, ninety nine. It comes with twelve months
Speaker 1: of Samsung Care Plus, which is kind of nice. You're
Speaker 1: covered from accidental damage, including a screen replacement, water damage,
Speaker 1: and back cover replacement. Could also get up to a
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars trading credit. And the regular flip I believe.
Speaker 2: Is nine ninety nine. Oh my gosh. This.
Speaker 1: I know all this stuff like the first day it
Speaker 1: comes out, and then I forget it like later on
Speaker 1: because I just, you know, like I don't have to
Speaker 1: remember it.
Speaker 2: So let's see the full Let's see how much is it?
Speaker 1: The z flip three is yeah, nine ninety nine, So
Speaker 1: I mean you're paying like one hundred bucks more for
Speaker 1: a Bespook edition. All right, let's get to the next
Speaker 1: question of the show. Tracy says, is it true that
Speaker 1: iPhone X and below will no longer be able to
Speaker 1: be used after December twenty twenty one. Now I had
Speaker 1: to look this up because I was a little I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, is there something I didn't hear about iPhone?
Speaker 1: Did I say iPhone X iPhone ten? It's written X,
Speaker 1: but it's iPhone ten. So Tracy, I'm gonna give this
Speaker 1: a big old hold on. Let me put the volume
Speaker 1: up here. Definitely not true. I don't know where you
Speaker 1: saw this rumor, but it's not true. If you go
Speaker 1: to the iOS fifteen web page, this is when it
Speaker 1: tells you all. If you scroll all the way to
Speaker 1: the bottom, it will tell you all the phones that
Speaker 1: iOS fifteen is supported on, which iOS fifteen just came out.
Speaker 1: So if this was true, then the iPhone ten would
Speaker 1: not be listed on this page. And by the way,
Speaker 1: it is, and a whole bunch of phones before the
Speaker 1: iPhone ten are still supported all the way back to
Speaker 1: the iPhone's success. And so you've got success, you've got seven,
Speaker 1: you've got eight, you've got there's no nine. And then
Speaker 1: you've got ten, so you've got, like, I think, at
Speaker 1: least two more years, three more years before this phone
Speaker 1: is not supported, more like three years. So I don't
Speaker 1: think that that's going away anytime soon. But you know,
Speaker 1: this is what happens. We see all these rumors and
Speaker 1: memes and stuff online, and we you know, it's tough.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of misinformation out there. It's just the
Speaker 1: reality of kind of like people being able to share
Speaker 1: whatever they want, which is great, but it leaves us
Speaker 1: to be the fact checkers. And when you scroll through,
Speaker 1: it's like I'm scrolling through social media and I'm reading
Speaker 1: something and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, is that true? Wait, okay, And.
Speaker 1: Then I got to go and search Google and see
Speaker 1: and cross checking. All of a sudden, I'm like a
Speaker 1: mini like Jeopardy fact checker, you know, and I find
Speaker 1: the answer and I'm still not sure sometimes, but the
Speaker 1: answer from me is yes, the phone will be fine.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be no longer used after December
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. And I don't even know where they got
Speaker 1: that date from, because Apple doesn't even do anything in December.
Speaker 1: They don't like, they don't change anything, they don't release
Speaker 1: new software, they don't really do anything, all right. Moving on,
Speaker 1: Apple has a new voice only music plan. This is
Speaker 1: called the Apple Music Voice Plan, and you save a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of money. It's only four ninety nine a month,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. Who doesn't want to say fifty percent
Speaker 1: off of a standard subscription that's more like nine ninety
Speaker 1: nine a month. And by the way, mark my words,
Speaker 1: music services have held steady at nine ninety nine a
Speaker 1: month for a very long time. So I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised if we see them go up in price.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that doesn't happen, but we've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of prices increase lately on all the streaming services, just
Speaker 1: in everyday life, and so I would not be surprised
Speaker 1: if these streaming music services use this sort of inflation
Speaker 1: we're experiencing as a way to sneak in a little
Speaker 1: dollar dollar month the upgrade or a dollar monthly increase.
Speaker 1: I should say, I'm just saying I don't know, I
Speaker 1: have no I've not privy to any information there, but
Speaker 1: I just feel like we've been hovering at that. I mean,
Speaker 1: Spotify has been out now for I mean many years.
Speaker 1: Let's see Spotify launch date July twenty twenty July twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: So July twenty eleven, you're talking ten years at nine
Speaker 1: to ninety nine a month, I think we might be
Speaker 1: seeing a price increase. So I would be careful, just
Speaker 1: you know, put that in your budget, but just budget
Speaker 1: ahead for you know, the twelve extra dollars for the
Speaker 1: year or whatever. If you're like me, you're paying for
Speaker 1: all these various services because they're all don't know.
Speaker 2: I won't get into my problems.
Speaker 1: Uh. Anyway, So this new service plan is called Apple
Speaker 1: Music Voice Plan. You get access to everything. You get
Speaker 1: ninety million songs, tens of thousands of playlists, including hundreds
Speaker 1: of brand new playlists.
Speaker 2: So what they did was they went through and rewrote.
Speaker 1: All these playlists to say, H SERI play music for
Speaker 1: Italian dinner party, or H Siri play some cocktail music,
Speaker 1: or H Siri play some music for drinking Margarite's Oh well,
Speaker 1: where's my mind? H Siri play some music for working
Speaker 1: out there you go, and so she will or Siri
Speaker 1: will play you know, the music that's appropriate. So but
Speaker 1: you can call out a song. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: confusion about this because people thought it was like Pandora
Speaker 1: where you can't necessarily say a specific song. You have
Speaker 1: to play like kind of a mix. But no, you
Speaker 1: can say a specific song you want, but it all
Speaker 1: has to be through your voice and you have to
Speaker 1: use Siri. And this works on all your different devices
Speaker 1: car Play, AirPods, HomePod, whatever, iPhone. But it's five dollars
Speaker 1: a month, four ninety nine, and you can't you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of pressed Apple on this. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: so I open the app, and what happens. I can't
Speaker 1: type in like an artist I want to listen to.
Speaker 1: And I don't think I got a straight answer, honestly,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like that's the case. Like when the
Speaker 1: app will be different, it will be tailored just towards
Speaker 1: this voice plan. So we'll see how this works. I mean,
Speaker 1: if I was a single plan user, like if I
Speaker 1: was just by myself and I just had a music plan,
Speaker 1: i'd probably do this because why not for to say
Speaker 1: fifty percent of well, I don't know, I do like
Speaker 1: browsing playlists, and so that's.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I wouldn't do this, But I mean, and I
Speaker 1: don't actually use a lot of voice commands to play
Speaker 1: music because I don't know what I want to listen to.
Speaker 1: So a lot of times I'll just open up Spotify
Speaker 1: and I will just look through all the different playlists
Speaker 1: and like I'll start at a genre, be like workout. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got workout, workout, whatever that is. I've got workout
Speaker 1: sunny days, whatever that is. I've got workout motivation, I've
Speaker 1: got beast Mode. It took me so long to play
Speaker 1: the beast Mode playlist because I think I talked about
Speaker 1: this before, but they have this big old muscle guy
Speaker 1: on the front, and I was like, well, that's not me.
Speaker 1: So clearly this is for like guys in the gym,
Speaker 1: like doing like hard weights, right, like lifting all that.
Speaker 2: What do they call it? Not metal?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: Pushing?
Speaker 1: Pumping iron, pumping iron? You know guys like pumping iron.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, that's just not me.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm more like an Apple fitness guy and like a
Speaker 1: runner and a peloton guy. You know, I do like
Speaker 1: very easy workouts just to stay in shape, keep the
Speaker 1: heart healthy. But you know, I'm not sitting there like
Speaker 1: you know, mister muscleman.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so I.
Speaker 1: Finally played that playlist and it was awesome, and it's
Speaker 1: a really cool playlist. It's called beast Mode, And what
Speaker 1: I like about it is that they actually played just
Speaker 1: the selects of the songs, like the best parts. So
Speaker 1: if you're listening, you know how song like starts slow, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get to the heart of this song. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: get to the chorus. Let's get to the better part. Well,
Speaker 1: beast Mode kind of like gets right to that part,
Speaker 1: which is really nice.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, Siri Apple Music Voice Plan. I
Speaker 1: think that a lot of people, especially the dare I
Speaker 1: say younger set, will take advantage of this because maybe
Speaker 1: they're used to I mean, my kids, I know that everything,
Speaker 1: everything is voice with them. And so if if you
Speaker 1: want to see where the future is going, hang out
Speaker 1: with some kids, hang out with some teenagers, if you
Speaker 1: want to see where things are right now, because everyone
Speaker 1: is at a different kind of level in their life.
Speaker 1: Like my kids grew up with you know, Google all around,
Speaker 1: and so they just ask it everything, whereas for me,
Speaker 1: like I'd still rather type in my questions unless it's
Speaker 1: something that's like super easy to answer, Like they'll ask
Speaker 1: very complex questions that I'm like, there's no way that
Speaker 1: Google can answer that. And sure enough, if it can't
Speaker 1: answer it, like in a simple way to just read
Speaker 1: a web page with the answer, I mean, it's pretty
Speaker 1: good actually, but there you have it. Did I digress?
Speaker 1: Dare I digress? Uh? Let's see Bab says good morning.
Speaker 1: Everyone says good morning to me on their emails because
Speaker 1: they see me on TV in the early morning, and
Speaker 1: that's when they are like, oh, yeah, I should email
Speaker 1: that guy and ask him a question.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 1: What can I get to attach to my iPhone thirteen
Speaker 1: pro so when I walk and talk and take videos,
Speaker 1: it's smooth.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much?
Speaker 1: Actually, on how much I should be thanking you, because
Speaker 1: every time you review something, I go out and buy it.
Speaker 1: Face plan emoji, crying face happy emoji sent from my iPhone. Babs,
Speaker 1: sorry to hear that, and I honestly, I am aware
Speaker 1: of that that phenomenon that when I mentioned something, people
Speaker 1: purchase it, and so for that reason, I do take
Speaker 1: that into consideration with my segments with my Facebook posts.
Speaker 1: But the reality is people love cool stuff, and honestly,
Speaker 1: it's what resonates the most with people. There's two things
Speaker 1: that resonate with people online. Actually three that I post.
Speaker 1: Number one is things that are like gadgets, Like any
Speaker 1: sort of new gadget that's new and unique. People love
Speaker 1: to see it, and they love to see me go on,
Speaker 1: go into the nuances of that gadget, so you know,
Speaker 1: taking it out of the box, showing you the gadget,
Speaker 1: like just going over like what's different, what's new, what's unique,
Speaker 1: showing you the ports on it.
Speaker 2: All that stuff, because it just helps you.
Speaker 1: Like it's like Home Shopping Network, except like way better
Speaker 1: because I'm actually an impartial person. That's just like telling
Speaker 1: you about this gadget and what I know about it,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to sell it to you. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to show you what's out there so that
Speaker 1: you know when you buy something like, oh, here's the competition,
Speaker 1: here's what's new, here's what's different, Here's what to look
Speaker 1: out for, here's the features that set it apart, here's
Speaker 1: the pitfalls.
Speaker 2: And so that's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two is things that help you, so like tips
Speaker 1: And when I wrote my book, this is the inspiration
Speaker 1: for my book was actually I wrote a book on
Speaker 1: tips for the iPhone. It was actually when I posted
Speaker 1: stuff to Facebook. It went viral whenever I would do
Speaker 1: like an iPhone tip, and I was like, what, people
Speaker 1: don't know how to do this stuff on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: You got to be kidding me. And then I realized, like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a whole world of people out there that don't
Speaker 1: sit there and think of the iPhone tips for their
Speaker 1: entire lives like I do.
Speaker 2: And so I wrote a book about it.
Speaker 1: It was very successful, and that was all based on
Speaker 1: tips on you know, Instagram and Facebook. And then the
Speaker 1: third thing is family. People love to see personal life.
Speaker 1: You know, what I do in my spare time, all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. And you know, we're pretty boring. I
Speaker 1: mean we you know, we're just a family that just
Speaker 1: does normal family stuff. I shouldn't say normal, I should
Speaker 1: say typical family stuff, you know, going to the park,
Speaker 1: going out to places.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You know, we do live in LA so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things available and I do get invited to
Speaker 1: a decent.
Speaker 2: Amount of stuff, So that's fun.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I like sharing that as well because
Speaker 1: I like to inspire people. If they see me go somewhere,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I should go to that place or
Speaker 1: I you know, I'll take my kids on a hike
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I love seeing other people doing stuff
Speaker 1: so that I get inspired to do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I digress, as I often do on this show.
Speaker 1: So Babs asked what can she attach to her iPhone
Speaker 1: thirteen pro to make video smooth? And honestly, my answer
Speaker 1: is really nothing. I don't I don't think you need
Speaker 1: anything now if.
Speaker 2: You were gonna.
Speaker 1: I do video for a living and I've shot entire
Speaker 1: stories on my iPhone and that have aired on television,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I don't really use a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: I will tell you what I've used in the past.
Speaker 1: I've used two things. Number one is a long time ago,
Speaker 1: basically just a little handle. It was called the Olo
Speaker 1: clip pivot grip and it was just a little tiny
Speaker 1: handle that you would attached to your phone and it
Speaker 1: just gave you like a better grip on your phone
Speaker 1: and so but it didn't stabilize it or anything. It
Speaker 1: just helped you, you know, grip your phone better. Now
Speaker 1: I don't have that. I don't really use that anymore,
Speaker 1: but I've I've replaced it with my new favorite, which
Speaker 1: is called the Tentacle, and it's this is kind of
Speaker 1: an octopus looking thing. It's a little mount that has
Speaker 1: suction cups and it's also flexible, and so you put
Speaker 1: your phone in it. You put your phone in there,
Speaker 1: and then you kind of just grip the bottom of
Speaker 1: it and you can easily use it to move your
Speaker 1: phone around and watch stuff or to record stuff, i
Speaker 1: should say, And it works great now.
Speaker 2: It does not stabilize anything.
Speaker 1: But I think the main thing about stableation that I've
Speaker 1: noticed is that number One, people move their phones around
Speaker 1: way too much. People don't remember that you need to
Speaker 1: kind of stay stable when you're when you're recording, like,
Speaker 1: don't move your phone a lot. And if you just
Speaker 1: think about that, ninety nine percent of your videos will
Speaker 1: be way better than they are right now. And I've
Speaker 1: had people when I'm running like Rich, how do you
Speaker 1: keep your phone? Like what's your phone on? What kind
Speaker 1: of a mount? And I'm like nothing, I'm just literally
Speaker 1: holding it out. Just remember to not move. And shaking
Speaker 1: is also a big problem, because you know, people shake
Speaker 1: when they kind of like hold their stuff and they're
Speaker 1: a little bit shaky, and so that's a problem and
Speaker 1: you need to just be cognizant of that and to
Speaker 1: get over that. You can actually brace your arms, don't
Speaker 1: hold your phone. The further out you hold your smartphone,
Speaker 1: the shakier you're going to be with that phone, because
Speaker 1: think about it, you're holding your arms out. It takes
Speaker 1: a lot of energy to hold your arms out and
Speaker 1: to balance into you know, your your your gyroscope, your
Speaker 1: human gyroscope in your body is like working over time
Speaker 1: to stabilize it, which I would guess is your core
Speaker 1: maybe and your arm muscles. But when you when you
Speaker 1: put your arms in, you brace in. It will actually
Speaker 1: hold your phone steadier because you can now use your
Speaker 1: whole body as a way to steady things, and you're
Speaker 1: you're using the force of your whole body and not
Speaker 1: just held out arms. So keep your arms close tight
Speaker 1: to your chest, and that will be a great way
Speaker 1: to do. Uh to do that, And actually learned that
Speaker 1: tip from a friend, uh, Juan Bagnell. He also runs
Speaker 1: a YouTube channel called Some Gadget Guy, and he actually
Speaker 1: taught me that. So I was not aware of that.
Speaker 1: I maybe was vaguely aware of my head of that
Speaker 1: of how to shoot like that, but I'd never had
Speaker 1: someone put it into words until we did a segment
Speaker 1: together about how to take better smartphone pictures. And he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: use your use your arms as a brace, like almost
Speaker 1: like a human tripod. And I was like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: that's a great idea. So thanks Wan for that for
Speaker 1: that tip, and check them out. Some gadget guy he does,
Speaker 1: he's you think I get cranky? I love one for
Speaker 1: his rankiness on his videos. He really he has taken
Speaker 1: on the establishment, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: So check him out. All right.
Speaker 1: Oh and yeah, that's it, So let's get to the
Speaker 1: next story.
Speaker 2: I guess okay.
Speaker 1: So I said earlier that I was going to and
Speaker 1: I promised this whole show is not oh that kind
Speaker 1: of is all Apple. But I said earlier that I
Speaker 1: was gonna upgrade my MacBook Pro to Monterey before I
Speaker 1: traded in.
Speaker 2: And there's a reason for that.
Speaker 1: And this is a really cool feature that they finally
Speaker 1: built into MacBooks. It's been on Windows for a while,
Speaker 1: but now Apple finally has it. And one of the
Speaker 1: listeners told me that this was always on the MacBook,
Speaker 1: but I guess never easily findable. But now you can
Speaker 1: format your MacBook and basically erase it to factory settings
Speaker 1: with a setting, versus going through and having to do
Speaker 1: this all manually. So great example of this is a
Speaker 1: story my boss, my former boss, gave me a computer
Speaker 1: that was his and he said, and this was this
Speaker 1: was pretty big of him. This is this is the
Speaker 1: level of trust. And so he said, Rich, can I
Speaker 1: trust you to erase this computer and recycle it properly?
Speaker 1: And I said, yes, sure. And it was an old
Speaker 1: iMac and I'm not kidding. This thing sat in my
Speaker 1: garage for I don't know a while, a couple months,
Speaker 1: and I was it taxed me every day because it
Speaker 1: wasn't easy. I had no original discs, I had no Internet.
Speaker 1: Everything was like old on this computer. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to do the standard things that I
Speaker 1: do on my computer to factory format it, which involves
Speaker 1: using like like booting up from a USB drive or
Speaker 1: a DVD or a CD back in the day, and
Speaker 1: then getting into like disc utility formatting it.
Speaker 2: And then it was just a whole thing.
Speaker 1: I forget what the actual steps are, but it's a lot.
Speaker 1: And so I this computer every day sat in my garage.
Speaker 1: I said, oh my gosh, if someone steals his computer,
Speaker 1: they have all of his information, Like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: But I made a promise to my boss that I
Speaker 1: would do it, and there's also the temptation and just
Speaker 1: like look through this computer and this is like a
Speaker 1: computer that had, you know, all of his personal information
Speaker 1: on it. Now, this is a reason why I am
Speaker 1: a trusted person and why people often tell me their
Speaker 1: passwords and they do it because I don't. Even with
Speaker 1: like my mom and my dad, even though I have
Speaker 1: access to their accounts, I don't go into their accounts
Speaker 1: without asking them first, because that's a level of trust
Speaker 1: that I'm not just going to go in and you know,
Speaker 1: like if my mom, if she wants me to like
Speaker 1: check her credit card bill or something, I will not
Speaker 1: just go in and look at it. I will say, Mom,
Speaker 1: I'm going in, or I say, can I may I
Speaker 1: go in and access your bill? At this point, sure,
Speaker 1: but I think that's a level of trust that as
Speaker 1: a tech person you have to have with people, because
Speaker 1: I don't just go into people's stuff and I don't
Speaker 1: just like anyway. So this computer sat there for I
Speaker 1: don't know, let's say, six months before I was able
Speaker 1: to kind of figure out how to do it, and
Speaker 1: I did get it. I did finally erase the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I was so proud of myself, and then I was
Speaker 1: calling a recycling company to actually get it taken away
Speaker 1: and properly recycled, and so it all worked out very nicely.
Speaker 2: But I tell you that story because.
Speaker 1: Not to prop up my personal integrity, but to tell
Speaker 1: you that now this process is gonna be a whole
Speaker 1: lot easier in Monterey because all you have to do
Speaker 1: is go into the settings and there's a new erase
Speaker 1: all content in Settings feature, And so all you have
Speaker 1: to do is do this select this in system preferences,
Speaker 1: and it will remove your Apple ID, your fingerprints, all
Speaker 1: your accessories, your Apple pay disabled, find my and it
Speaker 1: says that it actually because storage is encrypted on the
Speaker 1: Mac with newer Mac systems with Apple Silicon or the
Speaker 1: T two chip. My computer, I believe has the T
Speaker 1: two chip, the system is instantly and securely erased by
Speaker 1: destroying the encryption keys, and so is my computer. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of computers are on this T two chip,
Speaker 1: all the way back to the Macmini of twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: Mac Pro twenty nineteen. My computer, MacBook Pro sixteen in
Speaker 1: sh yeah, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Is on there.
Speaker 1: So all I have to do is go in and
Speaker 1: do this little setting and boom, my computer's erased. Ready
Speaker 1: to go for the next person that we'll have to
Speaker 1: deal with a horrible, horrible touch bar okay, I must says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: hopefully you can advise me. I'm interested in buying dual
Speaker 1: TVs from my SUV when we have our granddaughters with us.
Speaker 1: I would like to stream for my phone Hulu, Disney
Speaker 1: plus Netflix to them. Thanks and advanced Dora Dora. I
Speaker 1: would recommend getting a It's funny how a lot of
Speaker 1: times when these questions come up, people go through like
Speaker 1: the most like complex things like just simple easy. I
Speaker 1: would go with a Fire TV tablet.
Speaker 2: Two of them.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you want to get oh yeah, two and
Speaker 1: I would get amount for the back of your your
Speaker 1: headrest and so the tablet the fire I would recommend
Speaker 1: going with the Fire eighth. I know it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more expensive than the eight, but I just think
Speaker 1: it's gonna better. It's kind of have a bigger screen,
Speaker 1: it's a better battery life, just a little bit faster.
Speaker 1: So that's one hundred and fifty dollars each. And if
Speaker 1: you want to save some money on it, just wait
Speaker 1: until Black Friday or close to it, and you will
Speaker 1: get a deal on this thing. I'd say at least
Speaker 1: twenty dollars off. And since you're buying two, you probably
Speaker 1: want to get Yeah, you probably want to get a
Speaker 1: little bit of discount on this so that you're not
Speaker 1: spending a whole lot of money on that. So three
Speaker 1: hundred bucks gets you the tablets, and then after that,
Speaker 1: I would recommend just going on Amazon and searching for
Speaker 1: the magic keywords of headrest mount holder Kindle Fire, and
Speaker 1: the one that I found is twenty one fifty. It's
Speaker 1: got five thousand reviews. It looks pretty straightforward. It straps
Speaker 1: onto the back of your head rest and it holds
Speaker 1: the tablet and the kids can watch their shows. You're
Speaker 1: out three hundred and fifty dollars, the kids are quiet
Speaker 1: in the backseat, and Grandma looks like a major winner.
Speaker 1: So that's what i'd write. Oh, oh, Dora is your name?
Speaker 1: Sorry Dora, not i'ma I don't know where I got
Speaker 1: i'ma Dora. That is what I would recommend. And the
Speaker 1: Fire tablets can easily handle all those places to stream.
Speaker 1: You can set your phone as a hot spot so
Speaker 1: they can watch stuff or better yet, you can just
Speaker 1: download stuff. I mean, Prime Video has a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff for kids. You can download Disney Plus, lets
Speaker 1: you download, Hulu, lets you download, Netflix, lets you download.
Speaker 1: And it's really funny because I remember the days when
Speaker 1: Netflix said we would never let people download our stuff,
Speaker 1: no way, and sure.
Speaker 2: Enough they did. Oh more Apple News. Are you sick
Speaker 2: of it yet? Well?
Speaker 1: Sorry, I told you this was a big week. This
Speaker 1: one's really simple. Apple has introduced the HomePod Mini in
Speaker 1: three new colors. They describe them as bold and expressive.
Speaker 1: I describe them as yellow, orange, and blue. So the
Speaker 1: HomePod Mini is a ninety nine dollars smart speaker. Apple
Speaker 1: says it sold really well this year, and I don't
Speaker 1: see why not. I gave it really high marks in
Speaker 1: my review. I reviewed the white one. They also make
Speaker 1: a space gray version as well. They're great. They're great
Speaker 1: if you use Apple Music. They're great if you use Siri.
Speaker 1: They're great if you have an iPhone. They're great if
Speaker 1: you have a small place and you want a small,
Speaker 1: little speaker to match. They're great if you want to
Speaker 1: put a speaker in every room for cheap. They're great
Speaker 1: if you want an alternative to Sonos. I don't have
Speaker 1: them running in my house just because I've got sons
Speaker 1: and I really like sons. But these speakers are fantastic.
Speaker 1: I bought several of them. I bought one for my
Speaker 1: niece for her college dorm room. I bought one for
Speaker 1: my sister for her gym.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not much more to say about it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really work with the major music services. It
Speaker 1: works great with Apple Music, it works good with Pandora,
Speaker 1: but after that, I believe with Spotify and the other
Speaker 1: ones you have to airplay the stuff, which is not ideal.
Speaker 1: So if you don't mind, if you only use Apple Music,
Speaker 1: then I think this will be a great thing. And
Speaker 1: the colors look great. They're you know, they're just different colors.
Speaker 1: Not much more to say about that ninety nine bucks.
Speaker 1: They'll be available starting in November. Next question from Laura.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a good photo scanning app form my
Speaker 1: iPhone thirteen. Do you have a recommendation? Yes, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: It's called photo scan by Google. This is a an
Speaker 1: app from Google.
Speaker 2: Let's see when the last.
Speaker 1: Time they updated this app. I feel like it's getting
Speaker 1: a little old, but let's see if they've updated it.
Speaker 1: Last time they updated it oh gosh ooh sheesh March tenth,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. So uh yeah, they've given up on this.
Speaker 1: Let's see when the uh android one was was last updated.
Speaker 1: Maybe they've maybe they've given a little more more love
Speaker 1: to the Android one. Let's see tell me when this
Speaker 1: was updated April twenty six, twenty nineteen. So they haven't
Speaker 1: really done much work on it. But I mean, what
Speaker 1: do you need to do on this? I mean, there's
Speaker 1: not much you need to do. So photo scan by
Speaker 1: Google Photos. It it takes four different pictures of your
Speaker 1: photo and it will merge them into one using Google
Speaker 1: Smart Ai and it will save it to your Google
Speaker 1: Photos or you can save it to your camera roll whatever.
Speaker 1: This is a very manual, very slow process.
Speaker 2: So if you're.
Speaker 1: Scanning a whole bunch of pictures, I would recommend taking
Speaker 1: them to someone like scan my photos dot com. Or
Speaker 1: you can have someone come to you like Scantastic here
Speaker 1: in the LA area. Or you can get a photo
Speaker 1: scanner like the epsyn Fast Photo. But I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of ways you can do this. But if
Speaker 1: you're gonna scan a bunch of pictures, This scanner is
Speaker 1: really more for like one, two, three, a couple pictures,
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna do a whole bunch, you probably
Speaker 1: want something a little bit more high powered. But you
Speaker 1: said you wanted a photo scanning app, so that's your
Speaker 1: that's my recommendation. Let's see scan slide it's there is
Speaker 1: a another company that's doing a lot with photo scanning
Speaker 1: and it's let's see what they're It's called photo Mine
Speaker 1: m y n E photo Mine, and so they make
Speaker 1: a photo scanning app that is called photo Mine, and
Speaker 1: this one was let's say, I guarantee this was just
Speaker 1: updated recently.
Speaker 2: It was updated.
Speaker 1: Where's it tell me version history? Yeah, October fourth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. So if you're looking for something that is
Speaker 1: really cutting edge, really up to date, I would check
Speaker 1: out photo scan app by photo Mine p h O
Speaker 1: t O M y n e uh. It's got a
Speaker 1: lot of ratings. I've not tested this Vernon. I tested
Speaker 1: the slide scan version of it, which for slides, and
Speaker 1: it was amazing. The only thing is you are gonna
Speaker 1: have an in app purchase, so they're gonna let you
Speaker 1: do a couple and then you're gonna have to pay
Speaker 1: so I think the payment is just par for the course.
Speaker 1: If you're scanning a bunch of photos, why not pay
Speaker 1: and you can do a yearly for forty bucks. You
Speaker 1: can do it looks like monthly for anywhere from you know.
Speaker 1: Just they've a whole bunch of in app purchases that
Speaker 1: I'm seeing, so you can choose the the subscription that's
Speaker 1: best for you. But yeah, I mean, just check out
Speaker 1: one of those two. If you want something completely free,
Speaker 1: go with Google. If you want something you can try
Speaker 1: and it might be a little bit better, check out
Speaker 1: photo Mine.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Final story is bitcoin. I don't talk about bitcoin too
Speaker 1: much on this show, but I am fascinated by bitcoin
Speaker 1: because I do think that it is it's a fascinating
Speaker 1: or cryptocurrency. I should say, it's just a fascinating topic
Speaker 1: to me because it's like it's tech taking over one
Speaker 1: of the few things that government and banks and big
Speaker 1: business have a real stronghold on and we have not
Speaker 1: seen much change in this industry, and technology has a
Speaker 1: way of kind of disrupting things, and so far, the
Speaker 1: way that I use money has kind of stayed the
Speaker 1: same forever, except for the photo. You know, the Venmos
Speaker 1: of the world and the paypals of the world. But
Speaker 1: realistically those are just layers on top of an already
Speaker 1: archaic system, and the banking system and all that stuff
Speaker 1: is not very good. Credit cards, banks, it's all very
Speaker 1: like old school very much, not digital very much.
Speaker 2: Just kind of weird, right.
Speaker 1: So I find crypto really interesting because it's so futuristic,
Speaker 1: it's so like peer to peer, it's so clean, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I get, you know, all the mining stuff is a
Speaker 1: little tricky, but when I say clean, I mean it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, person a person. There's not like giant fees involved.
Speaker 1: There's you know, you can you can send money to
Speaker 1: anyone in the world, less friction, all that stuff, and
Speaker 1: it's not really controlled by anyone, which is also really interesting. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I say all this because bitcoin reached an all time
Speaker 1: high and a new high, I should say, and it's
Speaker 1: really on a roll. And the reason for this is
Speaker 1: because now Wall Street folks can invest in it, So
Speaker 1: they had this new ETF. If you're familiar with that.
Speaker 1: ETFs are kind of like a fund that you can
Speaker 1: invest in, kind of like a mutual fund, but a
Speaker 1: little bit more current, a little more digital.
Speaker 2: How do I explain it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: All I know about ETFs is that they're like kind
Speaker 1: of like a mutual fund, but they're more nimble. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to explain. I'm not a financial person,
Speaker 1: but this pro shares Bitcoin ETF. It's not investing in bitcoin,
Speaker 1: but it's investing in It's kind of like bitcoin style investing.
Speaker 1: And so this is the first time that regular investors
Speaker 1: can expose themselves sort of to bitcoin style investing. If
Speaker 1: that makes any sense at all, I hope I'm explaining
Speaker 1: that right. But basically, a whole bunch of people bought
Speaker 1: this fund, which makes bitcoin go up because other people
Speaker 1: see it, they're like, oh wow, So people actually think
Speaker 1: this bitcoin thing is around to stay, so they're investing
Speaker 1: in it. And so a whole bunch of people invested
Speaker 1: in this fund on Wall Street, which leads bitcoin to
Speaker 1: go up. And now bitcoin seems like it's well on
Speaker 1: its way to even higher numbers. And this is just
Speaker 1: the first of several different funds. So there's going to
Speaker 1: be at least, according to the Wall Street Journal, two
Speaker 1: more and so two more big funds that let you
Speaker 1: invest in bitcoin without actually buying bitcoin, and so kind
Speaker 1: of neat. Now, apparently the Securities and Exchange Commission does
Speaker 1: not allow direct bitcoin investments buy these funds, so that's
Speaker 1: why they're ETFs, which kind of mimic the fund. So
Speaker 1: hope my explanation somewhat got it. But the point is,
Speaker 1: you know, I would just take a look at this stuff,
Speaker 1: kind of follow it, kind of understand it a little
Speaker 1: bit because it's it's really interesting. I don't really understand
Speaker 1: the whole bitcoin thing to an extent that a lot
Speaker 1: of the bitcoin folks do, but I get the idea
Speaker 1: that it's disrupting things, and it's going to take someone
Speaker 1: like Amazon or someone like, you know, a big company
Speaker 1: to accept bitcoin as a cayman for it to really
Speaker 1: get the ball rolling. We haven't even seen that happen yet,
Speaker 1: so once we do start seeing that happen, it could be,
Speaker 1: you know, a really good thing for this stuff. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the final question of the day. Nora
Speaker 1: writes about the Muama Portable Wireless router Muama Portable Wireless Router.
Speaker 1: I was wondering, if you know anything about this product,
Speaker 1: is it worthwhile? Is it safe to use? Being that
Speaker 1: it's made in Lithuania. I would appreciate any information you
Speaker 1: might have. I'm definitely not a tech savvy person. I
Speaker 1: don't want to mess up my Mac or my iPhone.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Nora. All right, Nora, a quick I've never
Speaker 1: heard of this this router, but a quick Google search.
Speaker 1: Hmm okay, Let's see what the questions are. Which portable
Speaker 1: Wi Fi router is best? Is the Mayuma legit? What's
Speaker 1: the monthly cost? And does it work? And then the
Speaker 1: first the first website is the Muama Ryoku review, does
Speaker 1: it work or cheap portable Wi Fi? And where does
Speaker 1: it come from? It comes from globalnewswire dot com. Let
Speaker 1: me explain something. If you ever see a quote unquote
Speaker 1: review of a tech product on a press release website
Speaker 1: like pr Newswire or Global Newswire or any newswire website,
Speaker 1: that means that the company has put out their own
Speaker 1: review as a press release, hoping to get it to
Speaker 1: percolate through Google so that you see it when you
Speaker 1: search for something like this router. Now, if you search
Speaker 1: for a product that is legitimate, you'll see a review
Speaker 1: from the Verge, You'll see the review from c Net.
Speaker 1: From these reputable tech websites. Now, if you see a
Speaker 1: YouTube review. You can't really know if that's gonna be
Speaker 1: okay because anyone could put a YouTube review up. So
Speaker 1: if you see it from a trusted YouTube reviewer, that's
Speaker 1: a little bit better. But all the reviews that I'm
Speaker 1: seeing from this are basically yeah, nothing that I'm seeing
Speaker 1: that I would trust. And so the bottom line, if
Speaker 1: you actually go to the website, get ryoko. It's just
Speaker 1: a four G router and that's all it is. And
Speaker 1: I would not get this router. If you want a router,
Speaker 1: you can go like a hot spot. You can go
Speaker 1: to your I don't even know why you need a
Speaker 1: hot spot. Your phone should function as this. But you
Speaker 1: can also go to your carrier Verizon, T Mobile, AT
Speaker 1: and T and get a hot spot that works with
Speaker 1: your plan, or if you don't want to get those,
Speaker 1: I like the z zte zmax Connect and that is
Speaker 1: an unlocked hot spot that's about ninety bucks.
Speaker 2: You can get that.
Speaker 1: You can put in any any you know, simcard to
Speaker 1: make it into a hot spot as long as it
Speaker 1: supports a hotspot functionality on that SIM card.
Speaker 2: But that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: I would not deal with this random portable wireless router.
Speaker 1: That you probably saw advertised on some sort of website somewhere.
Speaker 1: That's what I would guess, like a social media site
Speaker 1: or something. You always make these things look so good. Oh,
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