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Speaker 1: Reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. This was a really exciting
Speaker 1: fighting week in technology because I got to travel. It
Speaker 1: was a big event. Samsung held its first in person
Speaker 1: event in three years. This happened up in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: It was on Wednesday, And you know, I told you
Speaker 1: I was in San Francisco last week, so that was now,
Speaker 1: I guess I can tell you that was to get
Speaker 1: a little sneak peek at the new phones. So not
Speaker 1: every company, I don't even know if I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: tell you this, but not every company does this. But
Speaker 1: some companies will give tech folks sort of a hands
Speaker 1: on preview of gadgets before they launched them. And every
Speaker 1: company is different. So for instance, Apple, as far as
Speaker 1: I know, nobody gets hands on with stuff before it's
Speaker 1: unveiled to the world, Like unless I'm not on some
Speaker 1: list somewhere, that is just not happening. Like they used
Speaker 1: to have back in the day. There was a couple
Speaker 1: of really big time mainstream journalists that Apple would give
Speaker 1: early access to their gadgets, but not before they were
Speaker 1: announced as far as I knowed know, like it was
Speaker 1: maybe right after they were announced, and nowadays, you know,
Speaker 1: it might be a day after or the same day
Speaker 1: that they announced them. During the pandemic, everything changed, of course,
Speaker 1: because used to have to go to these companies to
Speaker 1: pick these things up in person and talk to them
Speaker 1: and you know, do what's called a briefing. And then
Speaker 1: they just kind of changed it where they would ship
Speaker 1: you the stuff, but of course, you know, then they
Speaker 1: don't get to talk to you as much about it
Speaker 1: and explain the features, and go through it. So ideally,
Speaker 1: these companies want to want to kind of talk to
Speaker 1: you in person so they can explain the different features
Speaker 1: on these gadgets. Because I know that I've never read
Speaker 1: a manual or an instruction book, so there's there's things
Speaker 1: that I miss sometimes and I'm checking these things out.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so the week before I went up, I
Speaker 1: saw the phones. Of course, you're under sort of what's
Speaker 1: called an NDA where you can't really talk about this
Speaker 1: stuff until a certain time. But it helps you as
Speaker 1: a journalist because you understand what's coming out, what's going
Speaker 1: to be announced, what's there, and you can start to
Speaker 1: form kind of the questions in your head about these
Speaker 1: products and also talk to people immediately about them. So anyway,
Speaker 1: so that was the week before. Then on Wednesday we
Speaker 1: went up for the actual event, and so I went
Speaker 1: up early in the morning. The event started at ten.
Speaker 1: It was in San Francisco, and of course I asked
Speaker 1: Twitter the best way to get into San Francisco. I
Speaker 1: was there the week before, but I wanted to try
Speaker 1: a different way this time, and so I flew into Oakland.
Speaker 1: I took public transit because if you know, me. You
Speaker 1: know that I love to take public transit whenever possible,
Speaker 1: much to the people around me not liking that very much,
Speaker 1: namely my wife and my photographer and anyone else I
Speaker 1: travel with on a regular basis. I'm always like, the train,
Speaker 1: it goes right there, it's right here, let's go. And
Speaker 1: they're like, can't we just take like an uber or
Speaker 1: like a lyft it's like direct. I'm like, it's kind
Speaker 1: of fun to be on the train. I mean, the
Speaker 1: train's going to go anyway, you just have to hop on.
Speaker 1: So I took the train to San Francisco, took it
Speaker 1: to this event center which had not been there before.
Speaker 1: I'm going to mess up the name. I think it's gosh,
Speaker 1: Masonic Temple. I think that was it our Masonic lodge
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, or let's see temple, and so it
Speaker 1: was in Masonic Temple. Masonic Temple. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to say that. But anyway, so that was where
Speaker 1: it was, and it was a smaller venue than in
Speaker 1: year's past. So in years past these events would be
Speaker 1: really really big. And the last one that Samsung did
Speaker 1: was actually right before everything closed down for COVID. It
Speaker 1: was like February nineteenth or something like twenty nineteen, and
Speaker 1: so that was like the last event. And at that event,
Speaker 1: people were like, oh, you might want to wear a mask,
Speaker 1: might want to sanitize your hands. We'll take your temperature,
Speaker 1: and then everything shut down right after that. So this
Speaker 1: was kind of a big deal for Samsung to have
Speaker 1: an in person event one more time, and it was small.
Speaker 1: It was very, very small, and I think that just
Speaker 1: reflects the fact that a lot of people aren't traveling anymore.
Speaker 1: They don't you know, they don't see the need to
Speaker 1: go to these in person things anymore. But I love it.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's the best time to see people,
Speaker 1: to meet with people in person, to talk with people
Speaker 1: that you see online. And I mean every tech person
Speaker 1: that's either on YouTube or a journalist that covers Samsung
Speaker 1: or just tech in general, most of them are there,
Speaker 1: or many of them are there, i should say. And
Speaker 1: so it's kind of fun because you get to see
Speaker 1: these people in person that you see online all the
Speaker 1: time and just chat and actually talk to them in
Speaker 1: person about you know, what'd you think about this, what'd
Speaker 1: you think about that? For me, with the new radio show,
Speaker 1: I'm always like, hey, will you come on the radio
Speaker 1: show and talk about these different products, And so a
Speaker 1: couple of people were talking to today were some of
Speaker 1: the people at this show as well.
Speaker 2: So the show was smaller.
Speaker 1: And it you know, they announced their new S twenty
Speaker 1: three Ultra, the S twenty three Plus and the S
Speaker 1: twenty three, and the upgrades were really in the camera system.
Speaker 1: And I actually find a little fault with what Samsung
Speaker 1: did because I don't know if I really like it.
Speaker 1: So they had these like big time directors that used
Speaker 1: the Samsung phones, the new ones to shoot like everything
Speaker 1: in the presentation, which is great and it just goes
Speaker 1: to show like how high quality these cares are. But
Speaker 1: the reality is, no average person is going to be
Speaker 1: shooting stuff with these cameras the way that Samsung showed
Speaker 1: them off. So most people are going to be using
Speaker 1: these cameras at their kid's birthday parties, or their kids
Speaker 1: play and or you know, just somewhere at a restaurant
Speaker 1: that's darkly lit and it's going to be all handheld.
Speaker 1: The way that they showed them off was these directors
Speaker 1: using like super big time Hollywood rigs, lighting stabilizers, all
Speaker 1: kinds of filters and lenses, and it's like, nobody's going
Speaker 1: to use these phones like that. That's an average person
Speaker 1: that's trying to buy these things. The average person just
Speaker 1: wants to know, Hey, is this S twenty three Ultra
Speaker 1: worth an upgrade for my S twenty two Ultra or
Speaker 1: is it worth an upgrade from my Samsung S nine
Speaker 1: or S ten or whatever you've got, And of course
Speaker 1: that answer is yes. So so anyway, it was neat
Speaker 1: to see the fact that these cameras can be used
Speaker 1: in a big time way, and Apple has done similar
Speaker 1: things in the past. But the reality is, show me
Speaker 1: how this camera performs at a birthday party with just
Speaker 1: candles in a dimly lit area. Show me how it
Speaker 1: works at my kids play where I'm sitting in the
Speaker 1: back row and I want to get a closer shot
Speaker 1: to the front.
Speaker 2: Show me how it works.
Speaker 1: And I'm on a boat and it's shaky and it's
Speaker 1: moving and I'm trying to, you know, record some video.
Speaker 1: And those are the circumstances where you know, reporters like
Speaker 1: myself come into play, because that's where I'm going to
Speaker 1: go and test these things out. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: use this as a regular person. I've got the phone
Speaker 1: in my hand right now. I've been using it for
Speaker 1: the past week, and I've got to say I'm impressed.
Speaker 1: It is a good camera. Is it infinitely better than before?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: But is it generating some really nice pictures?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is the two hundred megapixels something that I need? Probably not.
Speaker 1: Unless you're blowing up pictures to be billboard sized, you
Speaker 1: probably don't really need that. But the way that Samsung
Speaker 1: is taking those two hundred megapixels, they're taking them and
Speaker 1: they're kind of collecting them into little groups to make
Speaker 1: this a standard. It's kind of sixteen megapixel picture at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. So you're not going to
Speaker 1: get a full two hundred many a pixel picture every
Speaker 1: time you snap a shot unless you want that. And
Speaker 1: if you want that, they have the option. And honestly,
Speaker 1: after using this phone for a week or a couple
Speaker 1: of days, now, was it Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?
Speaker 2: A couple of days.
Speaker 1: The biggest difference between the Androids and the iPhone is
Speaker 1: just it's kind of refreshing to be on Android for
Speaker 1: a little bit because it is just a different way
Speaker 1: of doing things, you know, it just kind of has
Speaker 1: a lot of options. I mean, this Samsung phone just
Speaker 1: has so many options built in, like so many different
Speaker 1: ways of doing things where I'm just like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of forgot that that takes like six or
Speaker 1: seven steps on an iPhone, but it takes two steps
Speaker 1: on an Android. So they've got their pros and cons.
Speaker 1: And believe me, whenever I switch phones and I start
Speaker 1: texting my friends when I'm on a test device, I
Speaker 1: get the hate.
Speaker 2: I get the hate. Believe me.
Speaker 1: My friend this morning he said, when are you gonna
Speaker 1: get off this this? I can't say what you said,
Speaker 1: Android phone, I said, dude, like fifty percent of America
Speaker 1: or the world, you know, half the people are using
Speaker 1: an Android, half the people are using iPhone. Everyone has
Speaker 1: a different preference, you know. And so anyway, I will
Speaker 1: continue to test out the S twenty three Ultra. If
Speaker 1: you want to see some of the pictures, I've posted
Speaker 1: them to my Twitter and my Facebook and my Instagram
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: But save the hate, you know.
Speaker 1: It's just like, enjoy the fact that we all have
Speaker 1: different preferences. Some people are gonna like the Android, some
Speaker 1: people are gonna like iPhone. It doesn't make you a
Speaker 1: bad person, you see that green or blue Bubble pop up.
Speaker 2: Don't judge, just enjoy.
Speaker 1: All Right, we got a great show for you this week.
Speaker 1: I've got so many great guests. We're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: Jacqueline Dallas, YouTuber extraordinaire. She is from Nothing but Tech.
Speaker 1: She's gonna discuss the S twenty three, the new Samsung
Speaker 1: phones with me. Brian Tong is back. He's going to
Speaker 1: talk about the HomePod. We've been testing that this week,
Speaker 1: and later in the show, we're gonna talk to the
Speaker 1: makers of an app called True. If you're looking for
Speaker 1: an alternative to Facebook that has no ads and no tracking,
Speaker 1: this might be the app for you. Plus, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have your calls coming up next at triple eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. My name is Rich Shamiro.
Speaker 1: You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech. My name is Rich Damiro. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining me here on the show where we are talking
Speaker 1: about technology. Phone lines are open at triple eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two.
Speaker 2: Four to one zero one.
Speaker 1: We've got Mark in Monrovia, California. Mark, You're on with rich.
Speaker 4: Hi, you're rich. So I've got this problem with video.
Speaker 4: Let's see make sure I from.
Speaker 5: My radio DWN here sorry okay, And I'm on a
Speaker 5: Windows ten Dell laptop and you know, of course i's
Speaker 5: the video is just don't start, whether it's YouTube or
Speaker 5: coming out of Twitter or I don't know, various seasons.
Speaker 5: But and I've got good download speed. I've got something
Speaker 5: like damn in twenty five up. And I just don't
Speaker 5: understand it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll start a video and the first thing
Speaker 4: it showed me is like the volume is muted, and
Speaker 4: so I'll go ahead and unmus the volume, but then
Speaker 4: the video wants to start over, and that's when it
Speaker 4: started doing so the long buffering and it goes on
Speaker 4: and then said, you know, if you have any problem,
Speaker 4: try restarting your device. But that doesn't do. But it's
Speaker 4: it's really strange. I'm not sure. It's only about two.
Speaker 2: Year old machine did this?
Speaker 1: So did it ever work? Has it ever worked?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: I mean the the videos so like YouTube, like you've
Speaker 1: had this machine for two years? Has the has it
Speaker 1: ever worked before? Like the videos have they played you
Speaker 1: know like normally?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, it was it was great everything would launch
Speaker 4: just immediately. That's just the way I expected it. Of course,
Speaker 4: you know, brand new machine. But in about the last
Speaker 4: six months, maybe it's when it's been just really acting up.
Speaker 4: Of course I've got that. I was thinking of turning
Speaker 4: that off and going with Windows Defender or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think it sounds like you may have
Speaker 1: what what browser? Does it happen with every video on
Speaker 1: all different sites?
Speaker 4: Yes, like even coming out of like.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so it's it sounds like it is
Speaker 1: a browser issue. So here's how I would troubleshoot something
Speaker 1: like this. So first off, I would I would disable
Speaker 1: any extensions I have on my browser. So uh well, actually,
Speaker 1: before I even do that, I would probably go through
Speaker 1: in my list of software on this Windows computer and
Speaker 1: I would uninstall. And I always say to do this,
Speaker 1: uninstall any program that you no longer need, want, or
Speaker 1: programs that you don't really recognize.
Speaker 2: You're like, wait a second, why is this on my computer?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: There may be some like system stuff you don't have
Speaker 1: to get rid of those, but you know, stuff that
Speaker 1: you just don't need or use, Like you may have
Speaker 1: installed something that interfering with your browser. And then once
Speaker 1: you do that, restart your computer, obviously, make sure your
Speaker 1: computer's up to date with all the latest software updates.
Speaker 1: And then I would go to my browser and I
Speaker 1: would go on the browser and look at all the
Speaker 1: extensions you've got installed, and I would uninstall or at
Speaker 1: least pause the extensions. And you can do that on
Speaker 1: Chrome by clicking extensions and then manage extensions, and you
Speaker 1: can just turn them all off, you know, and you
Speaker 1: can just toggle them off and on. And if you're
Speaker 1: not familiar with what extensions are, these are little pieces
Speaker 1: of helper software that you can install on your web browser.
Speaker 1: Whether it's Chrome, whether it's Firefox, whether it's Safari. They
Speaker 1: all support extensions in some way. But sometimes these extensions
Speaker 1: can interfere with how our machine operates. And it sounds
Speaker 1: like there's an extension that's interfering with the video streaming
Speaker 1: on your entire browser. Now it could also be malware
Speaker 1: that's interfering as well. So I've often gone to folks
Speaker 1: computers that are having trouble and they're like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: And sometimes their homepage has been hijacked or their search
Speaker 1: has been hijacked, And a lot of times it's because
Speaker 1: you've installed some sort of helper app that is not helping.
Speaker 2: It's hurting.
Speaker 1: And so what I do whenever I'm troubleshooting something is
Speaker 1: just turn everything off. Like let's say I go to
Speaker 1: a website and it's just not functioning the way I
Speaker 1: think it should. I'll turn off some of the extensions.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that could be an AD blocker that's messing it up,
Speaker 1: and you can turn that off and then the website
Speaker 1: will work again. So once you toggle all those extensions off,
Speaker 1: obviously close out the browser, open it again, try the
Speaker 1: videos on YouTube. I mean, YouTube is a pretty universal website,
Speaker 1: so I think that it should work pretty much flawlessly
Speaker 1: across the board. So if it's not, there's definitely something interfering.
Speaker 1: Now once you do all the extensions, if that's still
Speaker 1: not working, if the videos are just not playing, then
Speaker 1: I would download or try a different browser. And so
Speaker 1: if you're using Chrome, let's say I would open up
Speaker 1: Edge or Firefox on your Windows computer and then try
Speaker 1: YouTube or the news website or whatever you're looking for
Speaker 1: inside those browsers. And if it's not working there, then
Speaker 1: you might have a bigger problem on your hands. But
Speaker 1: I think that those solutions are going.
Speaker 2: To solve it.
Speaker 1: Also, make sure that your browser is up to date.
Speaker 1: So if you're using Chrome, you can click into the
Speaker 1: settings on Chrome and if you go to about Chrome,
Speaker 1: it will check for updates. And right now, mind saying
Speaker 1: up to date. And so that could be another issue,
Speaker 1: is whether this browser is up to date, because sometimes
Speaker 1: if it's not running the latest software, it just may
Speaker 1: not play nicely with the websites that you're trying to
Speaker 1: watch stuff on. But that's the way I would do it, Mark,
Speaker 1: and hopefully it will work. I mean, this laptop's only
Speaker 1: two years old. There is no reason why this thing
Speaker 1: should not be working properly. So try out those things
Speaker 1: and then let me know if that's going to work.
Speaker 1: All right, Speaking of watching stuff, Netflix sent the Internet
Speaker 1: into a tizzy this week over its proposed passwords sharing rules.
Speaker 1: So we've been hearing over and over that Netflix is
Speaker 1: really going to start enforcing some sort of rules for
Speaker 1: sharing your account and.
Speaker 2: You know who you are.
Speaker 1: There's, by one estimate, one hundred million people are leeching
Speaker 1: off of other people's Netflix accounts.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
Speaker 1: Look, Netflix has let this happen for many, many years,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of arguments why people share their accounts,
Speaker 1: whether it's a kid off to college, whether it's a
Speaker 1: friend that you're helping out, whether it's a family member.
Speaker 1: They didn't really have steadfast rules, like they didn't say, like,
Speaker 1: you can't do this, because, believe me, Netflix can detect
Speaker 1: when people outside your household are using your account. It's
Speaker 1: not that tough. I mean, there's IP addresses, there's you know,
Speaker 1: you're streaming at the same time as one of your
Speaker 1: family members two different shows. I mean, they have ways
Speaker 1: of detecting this stuff. But anyway, one of the things
Speaker 1: they posted was some new rules that were suppose going
Speaker 1: to be enforced in their help center, and one of
Speaker 1: them was that you would have to log in with
Speaker 1: the device every thirty one days for it to continue working.
Speaker 1: And so of course people that are maybe using your
Speaker 1: account in other states and things that would be tough
Speaker 1: and then they would have to be pushed to their
Speaker 1: own Netflix account. Well, Netflix came out and said, look,
Speaker 1: we pushed those rules to the website just a little early,
Speaker 1: so we don't really have any rules to say just yet.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, yes, these are coming, so
Speaker 1: don't worry about it just yet if you're sharing or
Speaker 1: you're a sharer, but yes, just keep in mind that
Speaker 1: you may want to put a little line on in
Speaker 1: your budget that may include Netflix in the next couple
Speaker 1: of months, because these companies are not fooling around anymore.
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up, we've got an interview with Jacqueline
Speaker 1: Dallas from Nothing But Tech. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty three lineup and get
Speaker 1: her impressions about the new camera. You're listening to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name
Speaker 1: is rich Jamiro. Listening to the show where we talk
Speaker 1: about technology and take your questions about all things gadgets, electronics,
Speaker 1: cell phones.
Speaker 2: Whatever you got.
Speaker 1: I mean, everything's electronic these days, right all right on
Speaker 1: the line. I've got a great guest, Jacqueline Dallas is
Speaker 1: a YouTuber extraordinaire. She also does a podcast, and she
Speaker 1: is going to talk to me about the new Samsung
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty three lineup.
Speaker 2: Jacqueline, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Genuinely so honored to be on and I was listening
Speaker 7: to it before I came on, and you're an incredible host.
Speaker 7: I'm so blown to it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you. Now tell me this. Did you
Speaker 1: just turn twenty one?
Speaker 7: I did just turn twenty one.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday.
Speaker 1: I saw the picture on your Instagram in the in
Speaker 1: the liquor store, so yeah, but you were just camera testing.
Speaker 7: Just camera testing, completely sober.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 7: I was doing a the S twenty three Ultra, like
Speaker 7: a day life review. And one of the new features
Speaker 7: of this phone is like improved performance. And I feel
Speaker 7: like liquor stores never have good like lighting quality. It's
Speaker 7: always like the dimmest of lighting. So we went in
Speaker 7: there to test out the new camera. But cold Brew
Speaker 7: has my heart. That's like my diversi of choice.
Speaker 2: Oh, we know.
Speaker 1: If you follow Jacqueline on her YouTube channel, there's lots
Speaker 1: of pictures of coffee and cold brew. So, Jacqueline, you
Speaker 1: were at the event at the at Samsung. I missed
Speaker 1: you somehow, but it was a sad smaller event than typical.
Speaker 1: But what are your impressions of this phone? You did
Speaker 1: a video on your YouTube channel where you kind of
Speaker 1: did your initial testing in San Francisco, and a couple
Speaker 1: of things stood out. The camera, battery life you didn't
Speaker 1: think was as good as you thought it might be,
Speaker 1: and the camera the shutter lag in low light was
Speaker 1: a little bit surprising, So tell me about those two things.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you so much for watching the video. Your
Speaker 7: genuinely invest I was loking you out at the events.
Speaker 7: I'm so sad that we miss each other. But yeah,
Speaker 7: So basically I put the phone in like a real
Speaker 7: day in a live scenario where I I was taking
Speaker 7: a lot of photos videos, also just using it throughout
Speaker 7: the day, and the battery life was not incredible. But
Speaker 7: one of the things that people in the comments were
Speaker 7: mentioning that igroue with is that it does have something
Speaker 7: called adaptive batteries, which basically means after like the two
Speaker 7: week mark of using the phone, it kind of understands
Speaker 7: what your usage habits are like and then it supposedly
Speaker 7: can get better. So the journey still out on that
Speaker 7: not positive yet, but in my initial testing it wasn't amazing.
Speaker 7: I was doing a lot of four K video and
Speaker 7: that drained it a lot. So I think like the
Speaker 7: average user, battery life will be decent. Definitely a one
Speaker 7: day phone, but not like a two day phone because
Speaker 7: also the million powers is not increased over last year.
Speaker 7: Ye Sampsling was saying that batteries could be better because
Speaker 7: they just optimized it more. But since it's still the
Speaker 7: same actual battery size, I didn't notice the staffic of
Speaker 7: an improvement.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Here's the thing about the battery
Speaker 1: life on the Samsung. So I would agree that I
Speaker 1: think that Samsung is kind of chewed through the battery
Speaker 1: a lot faster than the iPhone. I think that's part
Speaker 1: of the architecture of Android in general versus iOS, like
Speaker 1: nothing gets to run in the background on iOS, whereas
Speaker 1: on Android things can and so. But here's the difference.
Speaker 1: So I was at the airport flying back from San
Speaker 1: Francisco and I plugged in the Android and also the iPhone.
Speaker 1: The iPhone charges a lot slower than the Samsung. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Samsung is like super super speedy charging. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: to me, I don't think it's that big of a deal.
Speaker 1: As long as you have access to a charger at
Speaker 1: some point during the day, you'll be fine, and you'll
Speaker 1: be at like one hundred percent quickly or close to it,
Speaker 1: faster than you would on an iPhone.
Speaker 7: That's a really good point. Yeah, that's very true. I
Speaker 7: think battery life is one of those things where it's
Speaker 7: like you either need super fast charging or really big battery.
Speaker 7: You don't necessarily need both. But also there are like
Speaker 7: some reports that if you do fast charging all the time,
Speaker 7: you can kind of like degrade the battery cycle or
Speaker 7: like make it faster, meaning like the battery would become
Speaker 7: less good over time. Yeah, I feel like that's important
Speaker 7: to know too, Like fast charging isn't.
Speaker 1: Always what you want to do, that is true, And
Speaker 1: most of the time I'm trickle charging on a on
Speaker 1: a you know, wireless anyway. All right, so let's talk
Speaker 1: about the camp So two hundred megapixel camera. Are we
Speaker 1: seeing this thing? Just blowing away the iPhone right out
Speaker 1: of the gate?
Speaker 7: Who Honestly, it was really good. The thing that was
Speaker 7: most impressive to me was the zoom quality, and I
Speaker 7: think it's because it had like this dedicated optical zoom lens.
Speaker 7: The tours of megapixels is more so there for either
Speaker 7: really really high right shots if you want to print something,
Speaker 7: or more likely, I think most people will use it
Speaker 7: in the pixel binning mode, which is basically it takes
Speaker 7: the tours or megapixels and it combines either sixteen pixels
Speaker 7: into one or four pixels into one depending on the
Speaker 7: in lighting environment, and the idea there is that by
Speaker 7: combining the pixels you're able to get better dynamic range
Speaker 7: and exposure throughout the shots. I thought the images looked
Speaker 7: really good in a lot of fers scenarios, and the
Speaker 7: video quality was also excellent. The one area that you
Speaker 7: mentioned earlier that I noticed a little bit was like
Speaker 7: the shutter lag issue where I'd like hit the button
Speaker 7: and then the photo would be a little bit delayed,
Speaker 7: so it would look maybe a little bit blurry. But
Speaker 7: I would say that in general, in like normal lighting
Speaker 7: environment mid lighting environment, images are genuinely incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I do think I okay, So first off
Speaker 1: on the zoom situation, So this phone, the Ultra, has
Speaker 1: a ten times optical zoom. It can zoom up to
Speaker 1: one hundred times, but the ten times is incredible because again,
Speaker 1: like I was saying earlier in the show, if you're
Speaker 1: a parent that's sitting in the you know, in a
Speaker 1: back row at your kids play, that ten times zoom
Speaker 1: really comes into handy, and not just for that, but
Speaker 1: so many scenarios where you're not close up and you
Speaker 1: can get a lot closer and optical is always going
Speaker 1: to look better than digital zoom for the most part. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just for reference, the iPhone, like the latest iPhone has
Speaker 1: what like a three time zoom right optical?
Speaker 7: Yeah, three times? Oh, actually, maybe I'm the it could
Speaker 7: be five times. It's somewhere between three or five times.
Speaker 7: I think it's three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's three on the pro phone, So
Speaker 1: I mean the regular one is even less than that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now last night I took my phone out. My
Speaker 1: wife is is a good companion for me because she's
Speaker 1: always like testing of this stuff. And so we went
Speaker 1: out to dinner at like a dimly lit restaurant and
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I got to take pictures
Speaker 1: of all this stuff. And I will say she noticed
Speaker 1: when we took a selfie, she was like, why is
Speaker 1: it taking so long? And it's like, you know, in
Speaker 1: that moment that's when you get the blur is if
Speaker 1: it takes too long and you're trying to hold the phone.
Speaker 1: I think that these are things that Samsung will tweak
Speaker 1: with software because this is such a new sensor. I
Speaker 1: always think the Samsung phones get better six months in.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I totally agree. I think charlag has been something
Speaker 7: that people have kind of complained about for a couple
Speaker 7: of years of the phones, and I think in the
Speaker 7: past years it may have been more of a hardware
Speaker 7: issue where they had to have the shutter open for
Speaker 7: a long time to get like that lighting environment. But
Speaker 7: now since the center is updated, I think that you're right, like,
Speaker 7: they definitely could just push out a software update to
Speaker 7: lower the amount of time that it takes to take
Speaker 7: a picture.
Speaker 1: All right, we're talking to Jacqueline Dallas. She is a
Speaker 1: YouTuber and she has a YouTube channel called nothing but
Speaker 1: Tech with a lot of subscribers and a lot of
Speaker 1: enthusiasm and a lot of creativity. So thanks for joining
Speaker 1: me today. We're talking about the Galaxy S twenty three lineup.
Speaker 1: So S twenty three starts at eight hundred dollars, the
Speaker 1: S twenty three Plus, which is the mid middle of
Speaker 1: the line phone with a was six point six inch
Speaker 1: screen that is one thousand dollars, and then the top
Speaker 1: of the line, Galaxy S twenty three Ultra, starts at
Speaker 1: twelve hundred dollars. You get two hundred and fifty six
Speaker 1: gigs of storage, you get a six point eight inch screen,
Speaker 1: you get the sty list, you get it all with
Speaker 1: this phone. So and the phones are out on February seventeenth,
Speaker 1: Go ahead, No, it's like a kitchen thing phone.
Speaker 7: I feel like it's like you want all the features,
Speaker 7: and this is like the epitomy of that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And that's what I think really gets me about
Speaker 1: this phone. Like I've kind of fallen in love with
Speaker 1: it over the past couple of days. Because while you
Speaker 1: use an iPhone quite regularly, every time I use like
Speaker 1: a Samsung, I just remember how many cool things it does.
Speaker 1: And this is a small thing that like, I know
Speaker 1: nobody else may care about this, but I love the
Speaker 1: fact that when I take a picture, it goes up
Speaker 1: into the cloud immediately, like it backs up on Google Photos.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's if you use iCloud on the iPhone that happens.
Speaker 1: But I use Google Photos on the iPhone, and so
Speaker 1: it just bugs me that I have to like open
Speaker 1: Google Photos and like wait for it to upload. So
Speaker 1: it's little things like that. What else do you think?
Speaker 7: It's like a neat quality of life dings? What else
Speaker 7: do I think people should know? Hm, I would say
Speaker 7: one of the big ones that is important to know
Speaker 7: is that software updates are going to be a more regular,
Speaker 7: longer supported thing. I think one of the issues that
Speaker 7: I've noticed with a lot of Android for them that
Speaker 7: Island doesn't have is that over time they kind of
Speaker 7: struggle to keep up with performance. Like I think Pixel
Speaker 7: is a great example, where it starts out so fast
Speaker 7: and then like a year in there are more glitches
Speaker 7: and feature issues even though software is supportive for a
Speaker 7: long time. But I think Stampling has a pretty good
Speaker 7: track record of having good lungevity with their phones in general,
Speaker 7: and so with this one it's the same. I think
Speaker 7: it's four years of software updates, definitely on the security end, yeah,
Speaker 7: and I think other features ahead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're promising four generations of operating system updates and
Speaker 1: five years of security updates. So that's a you know,
Speaker 1: do the math. That's a long time. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I mentioned the prices for these phones, I should also
Speaker 1: say that, like, don't pay full price for a Samsung,
Speaker 1: Like there's always some sort of deal out there or
Speaker 1: like a trade in deal. So like if you're don't
Speaker 1: you know, the twelve hundred dollars, I know it sounds
Speaker 1: like a lot, and it is, but you have to
Speaker 1: somehow get that down with either a carrier deal or
Speaker 1: you know, some sort of rebate or trade in or
Speaker 1: just wait for a sale, because these do happen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what do you think the S twenty two Ultra
Speaker 7: users should consider? Like, do you think that there's any
Speaker 7: scenario where S twenty two Ultra users should upgrade it?
Speaker 7: Or do you think that this is like for pass generation.
Speaker 2: That is a great question.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I come from the side of things where
Speaker 1: I always want an upgrade, and I always want the latest, greatest,
Speaker 1: So I would say, and I know that Samsung's not
Speaker 1: doing as good of a trade in this year, but
Speaker 1: just see how much it is. If it's like a
Speaker 1: couple hundred bucks, Like if you can get into a
Speaker 1: new S twenty three Ultra for like three hundred bucks,
Speaker 1: if you're coming from the S twenty two, I think
Speaker 1: it's worth it because you do get the newer phone,
Speaker 1: you do get the newer camera tech, and I'm telling
Speaker 1: you this thing is going to continue to get better
Speaker 1: over the next six months to a year with software updates.
Speaker 1: All right, Jaqueline, I got a run, So tell folks
Speaker 1: how to find you online.
Speaker 7: Ooh, you're the best. Thanks much for having me on YouTube.
Speaker 7: It's nothing but tech and if you want to hear
Speaker 7: like a tech conversation podcast, it's called The Digital Dive.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, True, thank you, thank you for
Speaker 1: being so positive. And by the way, Jacqueline started her
Speaker 1: channel when she was just thirteen, so she's been doing
Speaker 1: tech for ten years. I'm bad at math, but however
Speaker 1: many years that is. It's been a bit and she's
Speaker 1: been grown her channel. So awesome to see that. Thanks
Speaker 1: Jaqueline for joining me. You're listening to rich DeMuro here.
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech is the show? Give me a call
Speaker 1: at Triple eight rich one oh one. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. My name is rich Damuro here, tech
Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, hanging out
Speaker 1: with you, talking about technology, talking about life. You know,
Speaker 1: I have a mantra on life. What do people say?
Speaker 1: It's like abt That's what I say. Always be testing.
Speaker 1: I'm always trying something out. And it's kind of funny
Speaker 1: because if you're around me, you know this, Like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm always pulling some random phone out of my pocket
Speaker 1: or I'm like, hey, can you come with me to
Speaker 1: this event or go with me to this thing, or
Speaker 1: can you try this computer or try this gadget, or
Speaker 1: let me do this. It's really it's kind of funny
Speaker 1: because if I didn't like this stuff, it would be
Speaker 1: really tough to do this because it's I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: let me give me an example. So I go to
Speaker 1: the airport for the San Francisco trip, and you know,
Speaker 1: I drive an electric car, okay, And so I get
Speaker 1: to the airport and I'm like, ah, they just installed
Speaker 1: all these new electric charging stations at the airport. Now,
Speaker 1: just like any other person, I want to get to
Speaker 1: my flight. I want to get there to the terminal,
Speaker 1: I want to get through security, but I also want
Speaker 1: to try out the new charging stations at the airport
Speaker 1: because that way I can talk about them and I
Speaker 1: can tell people like should you use it, should you
Speaker 1: not use it? How does it work? How much does
Speaker 1: it cost? And so I took the extra you know,
Speaker 1: ten minutes to try this out. So I find a
Speaker 1: spot and they've got a ton of these charging stations now,
Speaker 1: I think they built a couple hundred at the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Airport, and so you know, it was easy to
Speaker 1: find a spot. A lot of people don't even know
Speaker 1: about this yet, but I get there, I pull in
Speaker 1: my car and it's like, okay, you got to scan
Speaker 1: a QR code on the charger. I'm like, okay, By
Speaker 1: the way, I've used so many different chargers. If you're
Speaker 1: not using like a Tesla branded charger, like it's anything
Speaker 1: goes right. And so half some of the chargers are free,
Speaker 1: which are amazing. Then some of the chargers are just
Speaker 1: you got to activate them somehow, that's easy. And then
Speaker 1: some of the chargers want you to like sign up
Speaker 1: for like this whole app and like load it up
Speaker 1: with money. And that's what I had to do here.
Speaker 1: So not only did I have to like download an app,
Speaker 1: I had to sign up for the app, and then
Speaker 1: I couldn't use like Apple pay or Google Pay to
Speaker 1: pay for it. I had to like put a credit card in.
Speaker 1: Then I had to buy time, like which I'm not
Speaker 1: typically you know, I don't like pre paying for stuff
Speaker 1: before I use it. But I had to buy like
Speaker 1: a block of I guess credit on this app, and
Speaker 1: so I did that and then I and then I
Speaker 1: had to like set how long I wanted to charge for.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a it was a process, and
Speaker 1: you know, if you're a person that's just trying to
Speaker 1: get to your flight. It's like, who wants to go
Speaker 1: through all this stuff?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: The first time you set it up, it takes the
Speaker 1: longest the next couple times you do it.
Speaker 2: But by the way, it's also expensive.
Speaker 1: It's like forty five cents a kilowatt hour, which is
Speaker 1: quite pricey. And then you know, you got to pay
Speaker 1: two dollars just for the connection in addition, by the way,
Speaker 1: to the parking price at the airport, which has now
Speaker 1: gone up to sixty dollars for the day. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was very expensive to test this out. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you, it was kind of cool to come back
Speaker 1: to a fully charged car, and so that was nice
Speaker 1: throughout the whole situation. Once I came back to the
Speaker 1: car and it was charged, that was nice. But the price,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought they could kind of throw people
Speaker 1: a bone at the airport, like you're already paying sixty
Speaker 1: bucks to park your car there for the day, Like
Speaker 1: why not just keep people free charging? I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just I know it costs money to
Speaker 1: put in all these chargers, but I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it costs sixty bucks to have
Speaker 1: that parking spot there. Anyway, let's go to Bonnie. Bonnie
Speaker 1: is in Charleston, South Carolina. A beautiful city, Bonnie. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 3: And they're right where they're taking down the balloon. Do
Speaker 3: you want me to say the piece if it falls
Speaker 3: in my yard?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you have the Chinese spy balloon is
Speaker 1: in your backyard.
Speaker 3: Well, they're taking it down. They've just canceled all flights
Speaker 3: in North Carolina and South Carolina. Nobody can fly in
Speaker 3: our air. Oh my, right now, because they're going to
Speaker 3: take down the balloon right here.
Speaker 1: How weird is that story? Like I came home last
Speaker 1: night from dinner and I see this story and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is happening here?
Speaker 2: Like what is going on? Okay?
Speaker 1: Well, if you get a piece of that balloon, I
Speaker 1: would save it, and you know it's probably you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna have some people come to your front door and like,
Speaker 1: you know, like the men in black you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: And they're going to erase your mind a bit. Oh
Speaker 2: thank you, you never saw this. We're taking this from that.
Speaker 1: I called you rich, Okay, Well what'd you call me about?
Speaker 3: Okay? So I'm a pet portrait artist and I do
Speaker 3: a lot of pets that have crossed over to the
Speaker 3: Rainbow Bridge already. So people send me the photos of
Speaker 3: their pets, and some of these photos are in pretty
Speaker 3: bad shape because these dogs have been gone a long time.
Speaker 3: And so I tried to download an app that claims
Speaker 3: that it can, you know, perk up these photos a
Speaker 3: little so I can get a little more detail to
Speaker 3: do the pet portrait because I'm a watercolor artist and
Speaker 3: I do very detailed work. Well, these these apps don't work.
Speaker 3: This app didn't work. Definitely, it didn't do anything. And
Speaker 3: I wonder if you know a better app.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well what app did you get? And what platform
Speaker 1: are you using.
Speaker 2: This app on?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm using it on my high pad.
Speaker 2: Okay, so an iPad me.
Speaker 3: Through Facebook or email send me the photos. So I
Speaker 3: get the photos that way, and then I copy them
Speaker 3: and keep them in my files. And so I don't
Speaker 3: you want me to say the name of the apps
Speaker 3: that I work? I didd okay. They actually gave me
Speaker 3: a ten day free day trial, a ten day free trial,
Speaker 3: and I put a pet portrait in there and it
Speaker 3: did nothing.
Speaker 1: Mmmm, Okay, Well, pet portraits. I mean, so I think
Speaker 1: a couple of things are happening here. So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, pet portraits could be unique because a lot
Speaker 1: of these programs are built like if you're using I
Speaker 1: mean number one, I would recommend something that's sort of
Speaker 1: using AI to restore these things. But I think that
Speaker 1: you know, this is still a growing area, and so
Speaker 1: you know, the AI may not be trained. I know
Speaker 1: that that that animals can trick some of these systems
Speaker 1: sometimes because they're built for humans most of the time.
Speaker 1: So if you're trying to restore old pictures, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes that can be a thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, So a couple of apps.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many great apps for video edit
Speaker 1: or for photo editing on the iPad. I mean, one
Speaker 1: of them that comes to mind is pixel Mater. That's
Speaker 1: like a number one kind of big app that a
Speaker 1: lot of people use that lets you do a lot
Speaker 1: of things.
Speaker 2: Obviously, Adobe light.
Speaker 1: Room is very popular, which you know is very very
Speaker 1: popular there. And then you have a lot of these
Speaker 1: newer apps that are sort of like these AI enhanced apps.
Speaker 1: One that I like to use onmine is called Prisma
Speaker 1: or sorry not Prisma. Pixart is one that I really
Speaker 1: like at p I C s ar T and I've
Speaker 1: I've thrown a lot at that app and it does
Speaker 1: pretty well. And another one that I really like is
Speaker 1: called snap seed, and so snap seed will let you
Speaker 1: do a lot. Now, it depends what you're trying to do.
Speaker 1: If you're really trying to, you know, restore an old picture,
Speaker 1: there are some specialty AI programs I can do that,
Speaker 1: so I would look for something like that. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's an animal picture, so it could
Speaker 1: be a little bit tricky for these AI trained things
Speaker 1: that are trained mostly for humans. But those apps will
Speaker 1: get you started, I think, and you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of these apps you don't have to pay for if
Speaker 1: you want it the extra features. But I'm not familiar
Speaker 1: with the app that you mentioned. But I would also
Speaker 1: just peruse on the iPad the list of the top
Speaker 1: photo apps and just kind of try them. I think
Speaker 1: the best, you know, the best way to do this
Speaker 1: is really trial and error. Just pop one of these
Speaker 1: pictures into these apps, try it, see if it does
Speaker 1: what you need, and if it does, stick with the app.
Speaker 1: That's really the best way I find of you know,
Speaker 1: identifying things that work.
Speaker 2: The best for me.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks Bonnie, watch out for that spy balloon.
Speaker 1: You're listening to rich on Tech. We'll have more right
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. This is
Speaker 1: the show where we talk about technology, answer your questions,
Speaker 1: and just have a lot fun. Technology can be fun,
Speaker 1: Yes it can.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: We're very far from the days of the blinking twelve
Speaker 1: o'clock on the VCR. Now our problems are a lot harder.
Speaker 1: That was easy back in the day. Now we've got
Speaker 1: you know, why's my phone doing this? Why is my
Speaker 1: computer doing this? Why am I doing this?
Speaker 2: There's a lot to answer.
Speaker 1: My name is Richard Miro and the check reporter at
Speaker 1: KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. I cover this stuff
Speaker 1: for a living, live breathe. I haven't eaten tech, I
Speaker 1: don't think.
Speaker 2: I guess I have.
Speaker 1: I've eaten three D printed candy, So does that count
Speaker 1: as eating tech? I guess I have. So there we go.
Speaker 1: I've eaten this stuff. I don't recommend you eating technology though, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, unless it's edible. Don't don't take a bite
Speaker 1: out of your phone. Oh man, you can find me
Speaker 1: on social media. I am at rich on Tech every week.
Speaker 1: I like to talk about the stuff that I upload
Speaker 1: to my social media channels this week. On my Instagram,
Speaker 1: Let's see, I like to just look at this.
Speaker 2: And see what I Let's see.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think I uploaded a video of me taking
Speaker 1: a ride in the way most self driving car up
Speaker 1: in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Let's see, I uploaded a.
Speaker 1: Video explaining the new Galaxy S twenty three lineup of smartphones. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's a cool new feature on the S twenty three
Speaker 1: lineup called Bixby Text Call. And this is this is
Speaker 1: a feature that telemarketers and robo callers are gonna hate.
Speaker 1: It basically lets you answer the phone with a digital assistant.
Speaker 1: So when someone's calling your phone, you just tap a
Speaker 1: button and it says, hey.
Speaker 2: I'm Bixby.
Speaker 1: You know this caller, this, this phone user is using
Speaker 1: me to answer the call. Can you please tell them
Speaker 1: why you're calling? And then whatever they say is transcribed
Speaker 1: on your phone screen. So if it's like a robo
Speaker 1: caller or you know, someone trying to sell you something,
Speaker 1: you know, you can just go ahead and hang up
Speaker 1: on them, which is sad, but you know whatever, and
Speaker 1: then you can type things back. So if you say, hey,
Speaker 1: can you explain further. It will speak whatever you say
Speaker 1: to the caller, and whatever the caller is says is transcribe.
Speaker 1: So it's also equally handy, like if you're in a
Speaker 1: meeting or in a quiet place and you just want
Speaker 1: to answer the phone you can't talk at that moment.
Speaker 1: Instead of just those sort of canned responses where you're
Speaker 1: just responding with the text, this actually says whatever you
Speaker 1: type out to the caller. So I've got a video
Speaker 1: demoing that, which I think is really cool. I could
Speaker 1: use that all the time. People call me and you
Speaker 1: kind of get caught and you're just like, ah, I'm
Speaker 1: a nice person, but I really don't want to talk
Speaker 1: to you right now, and I'm trying to get you
Speaker 1: off the phone as soon as possible, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to hear your spiel for like a minute, but I
Speaker 1: just yeah, it's like, come on, Especially with us switching
Speaker 1: like cable riders and all that stuff, it happens all
Speaker 1: the time. Then I've got a video of me inside
Speaker 1: the Samsung Experience up in San Francisco. Can you see
Speaker 1: the theme this week? Because Samsung had their big event,
Speaker 1: They've got this cool Samsung It's not really a store.
Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of a pop up store, but
Speaker 1: it's in San Francisco this month only. It's called the
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy Experience Space, and it's got a giant wall
Speaker 1: of Galaxy smartphones. You can see all the Samsung phones
Speaker 1: back to like the first Galaxy s back in twenty ten.
Speaker 1: They've got this gaming center set up. They've got this
Speaker 1: cool like capsule you can stand in, then you put
Speaker 1: your phone in this little spinny thing and you take
Speaker 1: a recording and you spin the thing and it looks
Speaker 1: like you're floating in outer space. That's really cool. They've
Speaker 1: got this whole setup of a planet with an astronaut
Speaker 1: which you can take pictures.
Speaker 2: Of and with.
Speaker 1: It's really cool too. But the coolest thing was two
Speaker 1: cool things that are really really neat is this alleyway
Speaker 1: that's inspired by the streets of Soul, Korea, which is
Speaker 1: where you know Samsung's headquartered, and it just literally looks
Speaker 1: like you're there and you can take you know, pictures
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 2: Have fun.
Speaker 1: But there's also a video game in there. I think
Speaker 1: it was a pac Man game. And then they also
Speaker 1: have you know, it's kind of a place to test
Speaker 1: low light photography. That's the reason for it, but it
Speaker 1: just looks really cool. You'll take cool pictures. And then
Speaker 1: the other really neat thing is this immersive gallery. So
Speaker 1: they sit you down in this little room, they take
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of headshots using the S twenty three Ultra,
Speaker 1: and then you walk into this room next door. It's
Speaker 1: filled with like, I don't know, thirty or forty different
Speaker 1: video screens. They look like picture frames, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, all your photos come up on those frames
Speaker 1: and it's all mirrored in there too, so you get
Speaker 1: really cool pictures inside there, and it's just a fun
Speaker 1: thing to see it.
Speaker 2: It'll put a smile on your face.
Speaker 1: So if you happen to be in San Francisco in
Speaker 1: the next month, definitely check out the Galaxy Experience Space.
Speaker 1: It's at one to eleven Powell Street.
Speaker 2: I thought it was pretty.
Speaker 1: Cool, So I love stuff like that, just like different
Speaker 1: unique I know, these like pop up things are kind
Speaker 1: of cheesy sometimes, like the little like nineties restaurants and
Speaker 1: stuff that they put up in town for a little bit,
Speaker 1: but this one was pretty cool. What else, What else
Speaker 1: do I want to talk about? I guess let's go
Speaker 1: to a call right now, Why don't we go to
Speaker 1: a call. We've got Carla. Carla is in the Los Angeles. Carla, welcome.
Speaker 9: Oh, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Hell, thanks for listening. I'm doing fantastic. How are you good?
Speaker 9: Okay? So, I know you guys already were talking about
Speaker 9: the phones before with the girl and then she left,
Speaker 9: so I caught the tell into that. But I have
Speaker 9: a friend who has the brand new iPhone fourteen, so
Speaker 9: and I finally upgraded from my Note eight to this
Speaker 9: Samsung Galaxy Ultra point two. Okay, So the colors are
Speaker 9: different in the iPhone. Like we were testing out his videos,
Speaker 9: the colors were more vibrant, and I think there's probably
Speaker 9: something in the Samsung that you can switch to make
Speaker 9: the colors, you know, match what I saw on his phone.
Speaker 10: But what I was more.
Speaker 9: Interested in is blur the blurr in the background, because
Speaker 9: his head automatically did it, and I don't know where
Speaker 9: to find that in my phone or if it even
Speaker 9: does it.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, there's it, definitely does it.
Speaker 1: So the situation with color is, you know, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be sort of a product of the color tuning of
Speaker 1: the phone. So it's gonna be tough. Now, the iPhone
Speaker 1: has this thing called like photographic styles, and he may
Speaker 1: have chosen one of those that enhances kind of the
Speaker 1: way things look. You can choose that in the settings
Speaker 1: of your iPhone and it will change pretty much the
Speaker 1: way every picture looks. It'll apply like a bunch of
Speaker 1: filters and tuning to every single picture depending on what
Speaker 1: you like. Some people like brighter, some people like more natural,
Speaker 1: some people like more vibrant. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: the Samsung, I mean, I think you can get some
Speaker 1: really good pictures out of that phone if you want
Speaker 1: the blurry background. I mean a couple things. First off,
Speaker 1: if you're just taking like a regular picture, depending on
Speaker 1: how you're taking it, the background should be somewhat blurred
Speaker 1: on the Samsung as long as it's not using what's
Speaker 1: called focus enhancer. So if you see that pop up,
Speaker 1: that means that it's using sort of the wide angle
Speaker 1: lens to take the picture, and so it's gonna make
Speaker 1: it more flat and not sort of a blurry background.
Speaker 1: So that could be nonumber one number two. There's also
Speaker 1: a portrait mode on the phone, and some people I
Speaker 1: know just love to take pictures in portrait mode, and
Speaker 1: if you take it in portrait mode, that's actually applying
Speaker 1: sort of an artificial blur to your picture. And so
Speaker 1: that will definitely apply a blur as well, but you
Speaker 1: have to you know, that's a little bit trickier to
Speaker 1: do that. Also, I would take a look in your settings.
Speaker 1: So if you go into your settings on your Samsung,
Speaker 1: I would take a look at the different things inside there.
Speaker 1: So they have all kinds of stuff. A scene optimizer.
Speaker 1: You can turn that on and off, and you can decide,
Speaker 1: you know, if you want that to. You know, it'll
Speaker 1: notice if you're taking a picture of food, and it'll
Speaker 1: make food look a certain way. But there's also a
Speaker 1: way that you can go. Let's see, there's a way
Speaker 1: that you can go into your picture after you take
Speaker 1: it and add a blur. So I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: picture on the Samsung right now. If you go into
Speaker 1: the Samsung Gallery and you press the little menu, you'll
Speaker 1: see where it says add portrait effect, and you tap that,
Speaker 1: and it's using sensor data. So it's using depth sensor
Speaker 1: data from your phone to separate the foreground from the background,
Speaker 1: and then it's blurring the background and you can adjust
Speaker 1: the level of blur that you want on the background
Speaker 1: and that I'm looking at this in real time and
Speaker 1: it looks pretty good. It's not going to get everything
Speaker 1: just perfect, but it's doing a pretty good job. Now,
Speaker 1: one other thing you can do if you want to
Speaker 1: get that blurry background is in Google Photos. It has
Speaker 1: an option to give you a blurry background as well,
Speaker 1: and you can do this on pretty much any photo
Speaker 1: editing app. But just go into the edit function on
Speaker 1: Google Photos and then just go into your tools and
Speaker 1: you know, you can just tap blur and it will
Speaker 1: give you, you know, a blur if you want to
Speaker 1: do a depth blur or whatever you want. So but
Speaker 1: basically the feature you want is called portrait mode. So
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of the thing that you want to do.
Speaker 1: I think that with a little bit of practice and
Speaker 1: a little bit of you know, using this phone a
Speaker 1: little bit, I think you're gonna take some pretty good
Speaker 1: pictures at rival your friend with the iPhone. But look,
Speaker 1: I mean, iPhone fourteen takes fantastic photos. So believe me,
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, their neck and neck, let's put
Speaker 1: it that way. But I think some of it is
Speaker 1: just getting used to the way that the Samsung works.
Speaker 2: So Carla, good question.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for calling, and enjoy the new phone
Speaker 1: and I think you'll like it all right, phone lines
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Speaker 6: How are you wonderful?
Speaker 2: What can I help?
Speaker 8: I want to see if you can an Apple wash
Speaker 8: into an Android like this?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Good question. Uh, the short answer is not really what
Speaker 1: are you trying to do? You have an Android phone,
Speaker 1: but you want to use an Apple Watch? Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: So the only way I know that you could do this?
Speaker 1: Do you have an Apple ID?
Speaker 2: I'm not going to one, okay. Do you have a.
Speaker 1: Friend or a family member that has an iPhone?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 8: At home?
Speaker 2: Oh you do?
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's here's the best way to do it.
Speaker 1: That it's not going to be perfect. Like let's just
Speaker 1: let's just be clear. Android does not interface with Apple
Speaker 1: Watch in any way, shape or form. So it's not
Speaker 1: you're not going to get your notifications, uh that you know,
Speaker 1: like let's say, you know, your text messages and stuff
Speaker 1: like that are not going to come through to this
Speaker 1: watch or you're uh some notifications will depending on how
Speaker 1: you set it up. But the only way that you
Speaker 1: can kind of hack this together is to set up
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch using your iPhone and then just using
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch on your wrist and then the Android
Speaker 1: as your phone. But the Apple Watches, once you take
Speaker 1: it out of range of that I phone, it's going
Speaker 1: to be very limited in what it can do. And
Speaker 1: so what does that mean. It means that you can
Speaker 1: if you have a cellular connection on the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to use things like you know, streaming
Speaker 1: music stuff like that, get some notifications on the go,
Speaker 1: maybe use Apple Maps.
Speaker 2: But if you just want to use the.
Speaker 1: Apple Watch to sort of track your steps or track
Speaker 1: your fitness on the go, it'll work for that. Or
Speaker 1: use it just as a time piece, it'll work for
Speaker 1: that as well, but it's not going to interface with
Speaker 1: the Android in a meaningful way. The other thing you
Speaker 1: can do is, you know, if you you can set
Speaker 1: it up what's called family setup, and so this is
Speaker 1: this is if you have a cellular Apple Watch and
Speaker 1: you want to use it on the go without an
Speaker 1: iPhone at all, you can do what's called the family setup.
Speaker 1: And so this is a little bit more probably a
Speaker 1: little bit better of a setup if you're trying to
Speaker 1: use it with an Android phone, could because it'll work
Speaker 1: on its own without having the need for the iPhone nearby.
Speaker 1: And this is meant for family members setting up an
Speaker 1: Apple Watch for their kid, or maybe for an elderly adult,
Speaker 1: or for someone that just doesn't have an iPhone but
Speaker 1: wants an Apple Watch that's in the family and so
Speaker 1: you can set this thing up that way as well.
Speaker 1: And that's the way my kid's Apple Watch is set up.
Speaker 1: It's called family set up, and he has cellular and
Speaker 1: he basically has a phone on there. He can text message,
Speaker 1: he can use limited apps. You know, not every app
Speaker 1: works on that sort of setup. But if you just
Speaker 1: want this thing to track your steps and just you know,
Speaker 1: do basic stuff on there, listen to music, you'll be
Speaker 1: able to do that. So that's the only way I
Speaker 1: know of doing it. But it's it's definitely not ideal
Speaker 1: because it could be frustrating if you're trying to sync
Speaker 1: up the actual Android notifications to this watch. It's just
Speaker 1: not built that way. And you know, it's the same
Speaker 1: thing on the other side it used to be. I
Speaker 1: kind of remember that there was there used to be
Speaker 1: a way to use an Android watch with an iPhone
Speaker 1: for a certain period of time, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that's the case anymore either. It was very limited, but nowadays,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the name of the game nowadays is silos.
Speaker 1: Every tech company wants to silo you into their stuff,
Speaker 1: and Apple is pretty much the best at this. They
Speaker 1: have a couple of tricks up their sleeve when it
Speaker 1: comes to I Message, when it comes to FaceTime, when
Speaker 1: it comes to the Apple Watch. They give you these
Speaker 1: things that work really well together, but they don't work
Speaker 1: with anything else dimensioned I message. That's probably the biggest
Speaker 1: one that gets people walked into the Apple ecosystem. And
Speaker 1: once they're on that blue bubble, they just don't want
Speaker 1: to ever get out of that blue bubble world. And
Speaker 1: when someone texts them with a green bubble, they get
Speaker 1: all annoyed. And Apple did that on purpose too. They
Speaker 1: made the bubbles different colors. Why they do that so
Speaker 1: that you knew, oh, this person's coming from an Android phone,
Speaker 1: this person's coming from an iPhone. I am not a
Speaker 1: fan of that. I think that that's you know, it's
Speaker 1: just sad that people are judging each other based on
Speaker 1: the color of bubble coming through on their messaging stone purse.
Speaker 2: And believe me, if you don't think it's a thing,
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: People get on these group texts and you know, one
Speaker 1: person's on Android and they get all bent out of
Speaker 1: shape in the group text saying, Ah, who's the person
Speaker 1: on Android here? That's that's messing up this group text.
Speaker 1: So it's a thing, and I think it puts a
Speaker 1: little undue pressure on folks, you know, maybe even teenagers
Speaker 1: that are getting their first phone. But that was the
Speaker 1: whole point, I guess, brilliant marketing by Apple. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up next, we're gonna talk about the home Pod.
Speaker 1: This is a speaker made for Apple products. I've got
Speaker 1: my friend Brian Tongue coming on the show to talk
Speaker 1: about how the new HomePod sounds compared to the old
Speaker 1: home Pod.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll talk about that, plus we'll.
Speaker 1: Take more of your questions at triple eight Rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. My name is Rich Dmiro.
Speaker 1: We've got so much more in the show to talk about.
Speaker 1: You can find me on social media. I am at
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. We'll have more of the show right
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to to Rich on Tech. My
Speaker 1: name is Rich Demiro.
Speaker 2: Joining me now.
Speaker 1: Is Brian Tongue, fellow tech friend and YouTuber.
Speaker 2: Brian. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: What's up? Rich?
Speaker 10: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Man, Hey, you're.
Speaker 1: The first guest to be on twice woo.
Speaker 10: I feel very honored and I'll do it as as
Speaker 10: long as you ask me back and hopefully your listeners like, yeah,
Speaker 10: bring them back please, Otherwise I may not ever talk.
Speaker 1: To you again, right I think, well that will never happen.
Speaker 1: But welcome to the show. Brian is a YouTuber. He
Speaker 1: was up in San Francisco with me at the Samsung event.
Speaker 1: But we're not going to talk about that. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about the home Pod because you've been testing
Speaker 1: these out in your home, brand new from Apple.
Speaker 2: So just to give you the rundown on the home Pod.
Speaker 1: We talked about it, I think last week, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's a two hundred and ninety nine dollars speaker that
Speaker 1: is a smart home speaker. It's got some new features,
Speaker 1: including a removable cable, which I think is actually I
Speaker 1: know it sounds like I'm making fun of it, but
Speaker 1: that's actually a good thing, so you can pull out
Speaker 1: the power cord and pop it back in. It's got
Speaker 1: spatial audio, it sounds good, it looks good, and it's
Speaker 1: a great companion for.
Speaker 2: The Apple ecosystem.
Speaker 1: Right, So, Brian, you tested this thing out. We texted
Speaker 1: each other. We had the same sort of reaction to this.
Speaker 1: We both think that the old home pod sounds better
Speaker 1: than the new pod.
Speaker 2: How could that be possible?
Speaker 10: You know, it could be possible in a few ways.
Speaker 10: Right from a technical standpoint, this new home Pod has
Speaker 10: two less tweeters than the original, but at the same time,
Speaker 10: because Apple is redesigned it, it leverages what's called computational audio,
Speaker 10: which basically means it can analyze the room and the
Speaker 10: best sound to deliver to you. It does not. For
Speaker 10: the record, it does.
Speaker 11: Not sound bad.
Speaker 10: It sounds really good. But when you and I, you know,
Speaker 10: you texted me right out of the gates and I
Speaker 10: had already gone through extensive I mean, I match it
Speaker 10: up against I think four different speaker sets, and it
Speaker 10: just didn't feels as full. When I say that, I
Speaker 10: just mean there, if you listen to music, you'll hear,
Speaker 10: you know, voices, but you also hear these things called
Speaker 10: mids which kind of round out the sound. You'll hear
Speaker 10: loads which give you some of that basin ump, and
Speaker 10: the original HomePod just sounds better in that regard. But
Speaker 10: this is more than just the speaker. I think a
Speaker 10: lot of people have purchased this with the intention of
Speaker 10: I want a good sounding home smart speaker, so it
Speaker 10: goes beyond that, but from just the very basic level
Speaker 10: of how does the speaker sound, because I think that's
Speaker 10: what everyone wants to know. It sounds great, but the
Speaker 10: original HomePod just sounds better.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: In your YouTube video, which was very in depth, you
Speaker 1: even enlisted the help of your fiance. She did like
Speaker 1: a sort of a blind, blindfolded listening test. And she's
Speaker 1: not necessarily a techie, she you know, she just was
Speaker 1: enlisted to help and you said, hey, which one of
Speaker 1: these sounds better? And she was kind of surprised because
Speaker 1: you compared it against the original HomePod, then the Amazon
Speaker 1: Echo speaker, and then the Google Nest speaker, which is
Speaker 1: like the bigger one. And in all cases, did she
Speaker 1: not think that the other speaker sounded better.
Speaker 10: Than the than than the new HomePod?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Uh? The in Yeah, actually the nets, the Google Nest
Speaker 10: speaker did not is honestly the to sound the worst out.
Speaker 5: Of all of them.
Speaker 10: It was in a completely like lower tier. Okay, but surprisingly,
Speaker 10: the Amazon Echo sounded very good. And you know, when
Speaker 10: you listen to any speaker, it comes down to how
Speaker 10: you hear things. We all actually hear things differently, we
Speaker 10: all have different preferences to.
Speaker 4: The type of sound we like.
Speaker 10: But the Amazon Echo, in both my opinion and her
Speaker 10: opinion in these tests, actually sounded slightly better than the
Speaker 10: new home.
Speaker 1: Pod as well, which is just so wild. I mean,
Speaker 1: this thing is, you know, no matter which one you're
Speaker 1: looking at. I mean, the Echo fourth generation is a
Speaker 1: hunter Bucks. This speaker is is three hundred, which is
Speaker 1: fifty dollars less than the original home Pod that was
Speaker 1: discontinued back a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't really think any of this matters to the
Speaker 1: Apple ecosystem user that wants a good speaker for their
Speaker 1: home that looks really nice, plays really nice with all
Speaker 1: of their Apple stuff, and it's going to sound good.
Speaker 1: And do you think that Apple can improve the audio
Speaker 1: on this speaker with software updates?
Speaker 2: Is that even a thing?
Speaker 10: I mean, because it is like you're alluding to computational audio.
Speaker 10: They can tweak it. I think that it will. A
Speaker 10: lot of people say, hey, you need to listen to
Speaker 10: a speaker for a long period of time to break
Speaker 10: it in to kind of help the base come in.
Speaker 10: And so, you know what, I'm going to give them
Speaker 10: the benefit of doubt, and I'm going to do another
Speaker 10: speaker test. Let's give them like three or four months
Speaker 10: and revisit it and see if anything's changed, match them
Speaker 10: up with maybe some other speakers, like the Sono's one
Speaker 10: setup that is kind of in that tier when we
Speaker 10: talk about price point, the Echo Studio, which is kind
Speaker 10: of their larger speakers in that price point, but from
Speaker 10: just a basic level, when you turn it on and
Speaker 10: when you hear music, if you've owned the original home
Speaker 10: it sounds different. But people there's a lot of people
Speaker 10: that do not own a HomePod. It never owned the
Speaker 10: original HomePod. There's a lot of people that own home pod.
Speaker 10: Minis that really that was their introduction to get involved
Speaker 10: with Apple's smart speakers and home smart speakers. So I
Speaker 10: think there's a lot of Mini owners that are like,
Speaker 10: I do want better sound now, and this HomePod is
Speaker 10: gonna be perfect for them.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Let's it sounds good, It's just it's different. Like okay,
Speaker 1: so the way I can describe it, and I'm not
Speaker 1: an audio file, but when I turned it on and
Speaker 1: played the first song, which I think was like Harry
Speaker 1: Styles as it was, I was a little bit surprised
Speaker 1: at the room filling nature was just not as apparent
Speaker 1: as it was on the first home Pod. Like the
Speaker 1: first HomePod, when I turned it on, I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is incredible, Like it just felt like the whole
Speaker 1: room was filled with sound. With this new HomePod. I
Speaker 1: felt like I can pinpoint exactly where the HomePod was
Speaker 1: in the room and I can see where the audio
Speaker 1: was coming from. That's the best way I can describe it.
Speaker 1: And so it's not doesn't sound bad. It almost sounded
Speaker 1: like a less full than the original HomePod.
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: You know if for people that are really into I
Speaker 10: would say the different genres of music perform differently depending
Speaker 10: on how a speaker sounds, and the new HomePod does
Speaker 10: really emphasize the highs, which are like the voices, So
Speaker 10: the voices are really clear, they feel upfront. But the
Speaker 10: word that I used to describe how it's missing the
Speaker 10: aspect of when you're saying that it kind of feels
Speaker 10: like it's missing something is I use the word presence
Speaker 10: because when you're listening to the original HomePods, you feel
Speaker 10: like the music is like surrounding you. You feel like
Speaker 10: you're right in the middle of the heart of it.
Speaker 10: And with the new HomePods, it doesn't establish that at all,
Speaker 10: and so you only know what you know. But you
Speaker 10: and I know, like, man, it just doesn't sound as good.
Speaker 10: But hopefully with some sort of tuning and over time
Speaker 10: maybe the speaker's breaking a little bit, maybe we start
Speaker 10: hearing a little some of those deeper tones. It helps
Speaker 10: the audio quality. But if it's hard for I could
Speaker 10: never you know, looking at someone straight in the eye,
Speaker 10: I would never tell them that the new HomePod sounds
Speaker 10: as good as.
Speaker 4: The original one.
Speaker 1: That's that's really that's hurtful. Them are fighting words right there.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Briantongue YouTube dot com slash at Briantongue
Speaker 1: if you want to find his U tech videos there.
Speaker 1: Brian typically covers Apple in a big way, but also
Speaker 1: other tech as well, so definitely check out his videos.
Speaker 1: A couple other features real quick, I've got a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes here, uh, Enhanced audio return channel.
Speaker 2: I thought this was kind of cool. So if you
Speaker 2: have an.
Speaker 1: Apple TV four K, you can pair up the home
Speaker 1: pod with this and it's got this e ARC support,
Speaker 1: which means anything that's connected to that TV will actually
Speaker 1: run through the home pod. I thought that was kind
Speaker 1: of a cool feature. I don't know if you played with.
Speaker 10: That, you know what. I think that's imost forget that
Speaker 10: the Apple user, the general apper things to work and
Speaker 10: they don't even like they don't even care about ARC.
Speaker 10: But the fact that if you have an Apple TV
Speaker 10: and everything that kind of flows through that TV is
Speaker 10: played on your Apple speatures and you're and you might
Speaker 10: be going like, oh wow, I didn't have to plug
Speaker 10: anything and it's just work. That's what Apple wants you
Speaker 10: to feel, right, And so that that's true to how
Speaker 10: they build their products for the general consumers.
Speaker 1: So I think feature the way I understand it, If
Speaker 1: I have my cable box plugged into the TV through
Speaker 1: HDMI and that cable box supports ARC, basically that audio
Speaker 1: will flow through the Apple TV and through the speakers
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: That's correct Okay, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And like I think there are people that won't
Speaker 10: even realize that's what's happening, but they'll be like, wow,
Speaker 10: this works everything right.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, And finally we only have a minute here.
Speaker 1: But Matter is also built into this speaker, and you
Speaker 1: think that's going to be a pretty pretty good thing
Speaker 1: for the smart home ecosystem, huh.
Speaker 10: I think this is the biggest thing about Apple's Home
Speaker 10: home platform is that they really have been very lacking
Speaker 10: with smart devices that are compatible. When we're talking about
Speaker 10: doorbell cameras, thermostats, lights, wall plugs. Matter is going to
Speaker 10: allow all a lot of these devices that have never
Speaker 10: been compatible with Apple's Smart Home to finally be compatible
Speaker 10: without you even listening to fingers. So I think as
Speaker 10: time goes on, this the actual home pod and this
Speaker 10: Matter smart home platform is going to really elevate it
Speaker 10: and make it just so much easier use. And this
Speaker 10: is Apple really getting serious about getting the smart home finally.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 1: Brian tong thanks so much for joining me at Twitter
Speaker 1: dot com slash Briantongue. We used to be pals at
Speaker 1: c nets, so we've got a long history. Are you
Speaker 1: still in San Francisco, Like, are you on the cable
Speaker 1: car right now? That's what it sounds like.
Speaker 10: I'm not on the cable car, but I am in
Speaker 10: a car with my nephew. We are we are driving
Speaker 10: to get lunch right now?
Speaker 2: What kind of lunch are we talking? You're making me hungry?
Speaker 10: A little bit of country in a little breakfast for lunch.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm a breakfast.
Speaker 2: Guy, Rich, Oh, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: So am all right, Brian, thanks so much for joining me,
Speaker 1: and definitely check out Brian's videos and safe travels back
Speaker 1: here to Los Angeles. You are listening to Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dmiro. The phone lines are open
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Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. Let's go to Jay in
Speaker 1: Woodland Hills, California. Jay, you're on with Wretch.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Rich.
Speaker 2: How's going good?
Speaker 8: Thank you? I uh, this is a question regarding generated
Speaker 8: passwords on bit warten.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 8: So I went to my bank and I changed the password.
Speaker 8: And normally when you change the password, you know, you
Speaker 8: get that flag on the top of the screen.
Speaker 2: Sure updated youah updated. That didn't happen.
Speaker 8: And that didn't happen. So I'm out of my bank.
Speaker 8: So I googled how do retriees generated passwords? And I
Speaker 8: got this. It says, yes, you can view the history
Speaker 8: of the password generator from client applications generate a.
Speaker 2: Scream and it's not there.
Speaker 8: So how do I access the client applications generator screen?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So if you go now, do you have bitwarden installed
Speaker 1: as a Chrome extension?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So, and just to give you know, give a little
Speaker 1: perspective on this, Bitwarden is a very popular, free and
Speaker 1: open source password management system. And I recommend if you're
Speaker 1: listening to this, that you use a password generating app.
Speaker 2: And I know that it sounds like rich.
Speaker 1: I don't really want to get into that because, you know,
Speaker 1: like Jay is saying, there can be some problems with
Speaker 1: this situation. You know, like these passwords that they generate
Speaker 1: are twelve fourteen characters, they're long. I can't remember them.
Speaker 1: But it's better believe me. So yes. What happens is
Speaker 1: most of the time when you are generating a password,
Speaker 1: these systems will once you put that password in, it'll say, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want us to save it? Like the Well,
Speaker 1: notice that you've tried a new password or you've generated
Speaker 1: a new password, and the system will pop up a
Speaker 1: little notification that will say do you want to either
Speaker 1: right over the old password or save the new password
Speaker 1: or whatever. And sometimes that doesn't happen, just depending on
Speaker 1: the architecture of the website that you're on, it just
Speaker 1: may block that notification or whatever. Well, these password generators
Speaker 1: have gotten pretty good over the years and they've realized
Speaker 1: that when you generate a password, it should probably save
Speaker 1: that password.
Speaker 2: In some way.
Speaker 1: So on the extension, click the extension and there's a
Speaker 1: little section called generator and that can be used to
Speaker 1: generate a password.
Speaker 2: But there should also be an area that.
Speaker 1: Says password history, and if you click that password history,
Speaker 1: that should give you a list of all the different
Speaker 1: passwords that have been generated recently. Now this may not
Speaker 1: be perfect. They may not all be there. In fact,
Speaker 1: the one that was generated with your bank may not
Speaker 1: be there. But that's the first place to look. And
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my password management system and it's given
Speaker 1: me all the different passwords that I've generated all the
Speaker 1: way back to December nineteenth, So that's my last twenty
Speaker 1: generated passwords. If it's before that, it may not be
Speaker 1: on there, but Jay, that's the place to look. If
Speaker 1: you can't find it in that Bitwarden password generator history,
Speaker 1: then you're going to have to do a password reset
Speaker 1: on your you know, your bank password, and then do
Speaker 1: a new password. And I know that's not ideal, but
Speaker 1: sometimes these things do get lost in the system and
Speaker 1: the shuffle whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2: And for that.
Speaker 1: Reason, and you know, I passwords are very tricky because
Speaker 1: you don't you want to be very careful about these
Speaker 1: generated passwords.
Speaker 2: But what I'll do is.
Speaker 1: Sometimes even I'm a little hesitant to give out this advice,
Speaker 1: but sometimes if I really want to make sure that
Speaker 1: the password I just generated is going to be saved,
Speaker 1: I will copy and paste it into sort of my
Speaker 1: notes app, and then I'll make sure it's saved in
Speaker 1: my password management software and then I will delete it
Speaker 1: out of my notes app. Now that can cause some
Speaker 1: issues because your notes app or wherever you paste this thing.
Speaker 1: Just being on the clipboard of your computer could not
Speaker 1: be as secure as I'd like, but it's, you know,
Speaker 1: in some ways easier just to have that peace of
Speaker 1: mind that you have that password somewhere, especially if it's
Speaker 1: for a big account like a Google or a Twitter
Speaker 1: or an Instagram or a Facebook like you don't want
Speaker 1: to lose that password because resetting can sometimes be a
Speaker 1: pain with those websites. So that's the place to look, Jay.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you're using a password manager, and Bitwarden
Speaker 1: is a good one because it's free, it works across
Speaker 1: multiple devices, it's relatively easy to use. It's open source,
Speaker 1: which means a lot of people have looked into the
Speaker 1: security of that password generating software, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people like it. Other password management software includes dash Lane,
Speaker 1: which is good, but it is a little pricey. I
Speaker 1: think they've introduced some new plans that are a little
Speaker 1: bit easier to manage because they're monthly. Let's see, one
Speaker 1: password is also a very popular one. So one password
Speaker 1: used to be primarily for just Apple products. Now they've
Speaker 1: sort of gone across all different platforms, so one Password
Speaker 1: is a really good one as well. And if you're
Speaker 1: just on if you're just using Apple products, just use
Speaker 1: iCloud keychain. I mean, you know, if you've ever used
Speaker 1: the iPhone, it popped up where it says, hey, do
Speaker 1: you want us to generate a password or save a password?
Speaker 1: That's iCloud keychain, and you could just use that. If
Speaker 1: you're only using Apple products, that's fine. I'm totally fine
Speaker 1: with that. But if you're using a combination of Apple
Speaker 1: and Android, or Apple and Chrome, or iOS and Chrome,
Speaker 1: then I would recommend one of these cross platform password
Speaker 1: managers like I just mentioned the other.
Speaker 2: One you can use.
Speaker 1: Google also has their own, so they have Google Password
Speaker 1: Manager and that realy got an update, and so that
Speaker 1: used to be really good. I would recommend it if
Speaker 1: you only used Chrome, but now they actually made it
Speaker 1: so that it integrates nicely into iOS. And so if
Speaker 1: you use a lot of Google products, you can use
Speaker 1: Google's password manager. And where you want to look on
Speaker 1: this is on your iPhone. If you go into your
Speaker 1: settings and you go to type in autofill and then passwords,
Speaker 1: and then you can look at your password options and
Speaker 1: you can see auto fill passwords. You can turn that
Speaker 1: on or off, and it gives you the options. It says,
Speaker 1: where do you want to allow filling from? And it'll
Speaker 1: give you all the different options. And one of them,
Speaker 1: if you have Chrome installed on your phone, is from
Speaker 1: Chrome and it's it's kind of a sleeper kind of
Speaker 1: feature because they introduced it, i think late last year
Speaker 1: and they didn't really publicize it too much. But if
Speaker 1: you want a free option that works and you're you're
Speaker 1: using let's just give you a scenario. You're primarily a
Speaker 1: Chrome user on your desktop computer and then you use
Speaker 1: Chrome on your iPhone. That's a great system where you
Speaker 1: can just use Chrome's password manager and it will work
Speaker 1: on your computer, it will work on your iPhone. It
Speaker 1: will automatically fill things on your iPhone, and it's totally free. Now,
Speaker 1: you may not like Google that much to trust it
Speaker 1: with that stuff, but you know it's gonna work, and
Speaker 1: it's you know, like I said, it's cross platform. It's
Speaker 1: totally free. And some of these other ones, like the
Speaker 1: one Passwords of the World and the dash lanes, you know,
Speaker 1: they can cost fifty sixty bucks a year, So if
Speaker 1: you're not prepared to pay that, and once you get
Speaker 1: into these systems, you know it's tough to get out.
Speaker 2: Yes, you can.
Speaker 1: Export all your passwords, but you know it takes a
Speaker 1: little bit to switch. And so my recommendation is to
Speaker 1: really think about the products that you use, and these
Speaker 1: password managers are sort of a long term thing that
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 2: To Once you get into it, it's tough to get out.
Speaker 1: So Jay, anyway, thanks for bringing up the password manager,
Speaker 1: because I'm always ready to talk about that because password
Speaker 1: manager two factor authentication, two things that every iPhone user,
Speaker 1: Android user, and computer user should absolutely be thinking about
Speaker 1: how to keep their data private and their their accounts safe.
Speaker 1: All Right, we've got much more of the show, so
Speaker 1: much more to talk about. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: malvertizing in the next hour. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: how to stay safe from that. Open ai is going
Speaker 1: to launch a paid version of their popular chat GPT.
Speaker 1: Do you need to pay twenty bucks a month for
Speaker 1: chat GPT?
Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll talk about that. Plus, I've got.
Speaker 1: A great interview coming up with the founders of an
Speaker 1: app that is billing itself as an alternative to Facebook.
Speaker 1: If you want to protect your privacy, you are listening
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Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. All right, let's talk about malvertizing.
Speaker 1: This is a pretty serious thing. I haven't seen it
Speaker 1: in a while, but it definitely happens. And this is
Speaker 1: when you search something on Google and one of the
Speaker 1: ads at the top of the screen looks like it's
Speaker 1: what you're trying to find. And mostly this happens with
Speaker 1: software that you're trying to download, but it delivers malware
Speaker 1: to your computer system. And this is an article out
Speaker 1: of Space House Haus Dot com talking about how they're
Speaker 1: seeing a whole bunch of malvertizing happening right now across
Speaker 1: Google Ads. Now, Google Ads is pretty smart. Google is
Speaker 1: pretty smart, but there are people that are trying to
Speaker 1: evade their systems at all times. And so as smart
Speaker 1: as Google can be, they can't find everything, you know, instantly,
Speaker 1: and so these you know, bad actors, so to say,
Speaker 1: find ways of exploiting the Google system, and you know
Speaker 1: they do. So here's how it happens. Let's say you search.
Speaker 1: Let's say you want to download a piece of software.
Speaker 1: And some of the software examples they give our Adobe Reader,
Speaker 1: Microsoft Teams, let's see what else, Slack and Thunderbird. And
Speaker 1: so you search for that software on Google and the
Speaker 1: top thing right at the top, let's just.
Speaker 2: Try it Thunderbird, And that's like a.
Speaker 1: You search for that and the first result is from
Speaker 1: an advertisment. And so a lot of times two things
Speaker 1: are happening here. A lot of times companies like Mozilla
Speaker 1: or whatever, they'll take out ads so that when you're
Speaker 1: looking for their software, you'll find it right at the top.
Speaker 1: And you'll see this is typically ads are marked at
Speaker 1: the top of Google. You know, they say ad let's
Speaker 1: see what do they say.
Speaker 2: I think they just changed it recently. I mean, trying
Speaker 2: to search for something that'll bring up an AD. There
Speaker 2: we go. Yeah, they're marked AD.
Speaker 1: And so if you look at Google, and this is
Speaker 1: just general, you know, if you just look at Google
Speaker 1: at the top of your search results, just you're going
Speaker 1: to see AD right now. I just search for mattresses,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing AD, AD, AD AD, then places and then
Speaker 1: the first result comes up way after that for mattress warehouse.
Speaker 2: So you're talking.
Speaker 1: If you're just looking at Google and clicking the top
Speaker 1: thing every time, you're probably clicking an AD most of
Speaker 1: the time. And that's why Google makes billions of dollars
Speaker 1: by the way. They've come up with this brilliant system
Speaker 1: that most people are just clicking the top link, like
Speaker 1: you know, a large percent of searches result and the
Speaker 1: first link is what gets clicked. And that's why SEO
Speaker 1: search engine optimization. That's why it's such a big business,
Speaker 1: because people just want to be that first result. Because
Speaker 1: people go to Google and they just click the first
Speaker 1: result they see, whether it's an AD or not. And
Speaker 1: that's what's so brilliant about their their system is that
Speaker 1: you just see an AD, and you know, most people
Speaker 1: don't distinguish between ads and actual results. We call them
Speaker 1: organic search results. Those are a little bit further down.
Speaker 1: So now if we scroll further down, we can see
Speaker 1: the first organic search result is, you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: Mattress warehouse. So just in general, be aware of what
Speaker 1: you're clicking on Google. So don't always just click the
Speaker 1: first thing that you see, especially on your phone. Google
Speaker 1: is a little tricky about this because they want they
Speaker 1: want you to click that that's how they make their money.
Speaker 1: So they will make it so that the AD results
Speaker 1: look the same as what we call organics search results.
Speaker 1: Organic search results are the results that companies have earned
Speaker 1: right they have made their way to the top because
Speaker 1: they're trusted because a lot of other websites link to them.
Speaker 1: Google doesn't exactly tell us the special sauce that goes
Speaker 1: into this whole. You know, what makes a link the
Speaker 1: number one, but we know there's certain factors that contribute
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 2: So anyway, so I'm telling.
Speaker 1: You all this stuff so that you understand when you
Speaker 1: click that first link, it's not always the link of
Speaker 1: the organic website. It could be an AD. And so
Speaker 1: what these bad actors are doing is they are buying
Speaker 1: ads that look like they are going to bring you
Speaker 1: that software, whether it's Adobe Reader, whether it's Microsoft Teams,
Speaker 1: whether it's Slack, whether it's Thunderbird, and you click it
Speaker 1: and then it loads. In one example, I saw it's
Speaker 1: actually a dropbox link and it'll load software onto your system.
Speaker 1: It will actually download software. And this is what they
Speaker 1: call malvertizing. And I've seen this happen. It's actually happened
Speaker 1: to me before. I've actually witnessed it on my own computer.
Speaker 1: It's been a couple of years. But this is something
Speaker 1: to just look out for. And so if you're clicking,
Speaker 1: you know, software links, just be aware of this and
Speaker 1: really just look at the URL that you're downloading. A
Speaker 1: lot of times these companies, these you know, malvertizing, they
Speaker 1: will they will buy domains that look very similar to
Speaker 1: the domain that you're trying to find, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's software or whatever, and so they'll they'll try to
Speaker 1: trick you even further. So just really be aware of
Speaker 1: what you're clicking, what you're downloading. Anytime you're downloading something
Speaker 1: into your system, you really got to be aware of
Speaker 1: that download because that's that's when the problems start. If
Speaker 1: you're just surfing the web, like most of the time,
Speaker 1: it's going to be fine. But if you're downloading something
Speaker 1: and running that on your computer, that's when the problems
Speaker 1: can start.
Speaker 2: So just be aware. All right. Now, let's talk about
Speaker 2: chat GPT, And this is kind of.
Speaker 1: An upfront to Google because Google, we've gotten so used
Speaker 1: to Google being a place where we go and let's
Speaker 1: say you're searching for something and you click links, and
Speaker 1: you click links and you look for results. Well, chat
Speaker 1: GPT sort of turns that upside down. Chat GPT makes
Speaker 1: it so that you don't really have to click any links.
Speaker 1: And people have really gotten excited about this because instead
Speaker 1: of having to click a whole bunch of links, chat
Speaker 1: gpt just does all the work for you and says, like,
Speaker 1: if you ask what's the best mattress, it will look
Speaker 1: out on the web to see all the different resources
Speaker 1: that talk about good mattresses, and it will concisely give
Speaker 1: you the answer of okay, based on all of our
Speaker 1: observations of the web, here's what we think are the
Speaker 1: top mattresses. And I'm not even sure that chatchipt can
Speaker 1: do this. What I'll just ask it. Let's just ask
Speaker 1: what are the top mattress brands? Now, remember chat GPT
Speaker 1: was they kind of stopped the research in twenty Let's
Speaker 1: see it's I think it was in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: So it's not like up to date per se with
Speaker 1: the results because this is still a research project. Don't
Speaker 1: forget they're still seeing how this works. But I just
Speaker 1: asked it. Here are some of the what are the
Speaker 1: top mattress brands? That says, here are some of the
Speaker 1: top mattress brands Casper, Purple, Nectar, Tufted Needle, Lisa, Temperpedick,
Speaker 1: and brook Linnen. And there's a little warning on my
Speaker 1: chat GPT that's I don't know what that warning is,
Speaker 1: but it's but again, it's not giving me a website
Speaker 1: result that is telling me these top brands. It went
Speaker 1: out and it said, Okay, we see a lot of
Speaker 1: people mention Casper, we see a lot of people mentioned Purple.
Speaker 1: We see a lot of good reviews for Nectar. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if these are the best brands in
Speaker 1: that order, but I mean again, it's coming up with
Speaker 1: that on the fly, whereas Google would make me kind
Speaker 1: of go to these different websites and look and see like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what does this person say about Casper? What does this
Speaker 1: person say about Purple? So it's a totally different way
Speaker 1: of thinking about search. Well, anyway, chat GPT has really
Speaker 1: taken the world by storm because people are finding so
Speaker 1: many things they can do with it, creating essays, poems,
Speaker 1: you can write an email to say, hey, can you
Speaker 1: apply for this job? Write me a cover letter and
Speaker 1: it'll do that, lyrics to songs. So now they already
Speaker 1: have their first product, Chat GPT plus. If you've used
Speaker 1: chat GPT, you know that sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's slow, sometimes it's not very good, and so
Speaker 1: you may be thinking, Gosh, I would really like a
Speaker 1: much more reliable version of chat GPT, and I'm willing
Speaker 1: to pay for that, because if you're a salesperson or
Speaker 1: I don't know anything practically, some of these things that
Speaker 1: chat GPT can do can really help you out in
Speaker 1: your job. And so for twenty bucks a month, that
Speaker 1: is the new product, chat GPT plus.
Speaker 2: Now it depends if.
Speaker 1: This is worth it for you, because if you're using
Speaker 1: chat GPT, a lot of people are using the free
Speaker 1: version and it's working just fine, but some people have
Speaker 1: really kind of honed in on that and they're saying,
Speaker 1: I'm using this on a daily basis. Like let's say
Speaker 1: you're a salesperson and you're writing like custom emails to
Speaker 1: sell people on stuff, or you know, custom cover letters
Speaker 1: or custom whatever. This may be worth it for twenty
Speaker 1: books a month. So what do you get for chat
Speaker 1: GBT Plus. Well, you get better access even during peak times.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of times when chat GPT says, ah,
Speaker 1: we just can't work right now. Faster responses and priority
Speaker 1: access to new features and improvements. So chat GPT says,
Speaker 1: the free tier is here to stay. But now you've
Speaker 1: got Chat GPT Plus, which, by the way, you can't
Speaker 1: sign up for immediately.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a wait list.
Speaker 1: But twenty bucks a month for full access to chat
Speaker 1: GBT and all that power is pretty incredible. It's also
Speaker 1: incredible that we've been using Google for free for so
Speaker 1: long and here's this newcomer and they're already saying, hey, look,
Speaker 1: we're going to give you priority access to us for
Speaker 1: twenty bucks a month, And the fact that people are
Speaker 1: going to pay for that is pretty incredible as well.
Speaker 1: You're listening to rich on Tech is Rich Demiro. We're
Speaker 1: talking technology. We've got more of your calls coming up
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Speaker 1: Uh In the show, I've got a guest who's going
Speaker 1: to talk about the alternative to Facebook that they've built.
Speaker 1: It's an app that protects your privacy even when you post.
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Speaker 1: Yogi is in Belmont Shore, California. Yogi, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Hi there, Rich Hi, Hi?
Speaker 4: Hey you hear me?
Speaker 2: Good? Right, I hear you great?
Speaker 5: Okay, what's going on here?
Speaker 6: My question is simple. I'm a T Mobile customer and
Speaker 6: my wife is yeah, my daughter's Verizon and all that stuff.
Speaker 6: But I hear about Consumer Cellular and Pure Talk and
Speaker 6: all these other phone you know, arrangements. I guess we'll
Speaker 6: call them. So can you easily explain or just come
Speaker 6: kind of tell me what would be? Why would I
Speaker 6: do that, why would I change to that? And what's
Speaker 6: the advantage. I know they're supposed to be cheap of
Speaker 6: well no, why is that they exist? And kind of
Speaker 6: like what's the whole story around them.
Speaker 1: Okay, great question. This is uh, this is a really
Speaker 1: good question. So these are called mv and os and
Speaker 1: that means mobile virtual network operator. And so in the US,
Speaker 1: for example, we pretty much have three networks. We have
Speaker 1: T Mobile, we have AT and T, and we have Verizon,
Speaker 1: and I believe Dish is building their own network as well,
Speaker 1: so that will be up and coming. But the reality
Speaker 1: is all of the cell phone service that we have
Speaker 1: in America is pretty much these three companies. And so
Speaker 1: when you see all these advertisements about Visible and Cricket
Speaker 1: and US Mobile and like you said, Consumer Cellular, they
Speaker 1: are all running on one of these networks. And so
Speaker 1: what's the difference. Okay, think about it this way. Let's
Speaker 1: say that you know, you get a hamburger and you've
Speaker 1: got three friends. They all season that burger differently and
Speaker 1: grill it differently and serve it to you differently. One
Speaker 1: of those might be better to you, might taste better,
Speaker 1: it might look better, it might be more appealing. So
Speaker 1: that's really the big difference. So I think it comes
Speaker 1: down to two things. Number One, you want to figure
Speaker 1: out which network do you like, and whether you know
Speaker 1: you can you can figure out online which of these
Speaker 1: networks these mv and o's run off of. So for instance,
Speaker 1: if you look up Visible, you'll find that that's actually
Speaker 1: owned by Verizon. If you look up Cricket, you'll find
Speaker 1: that that's owned by AT and T. T Mobile probably
Speaker 1: has the most mv and os running off of their network.
Speaker 1: It's just I don't know why, it's just the way
Speaker 1: it is, but they just have a lot of these
Speaker 1: different companies that run off a T Mobile. I guess
Speaker 1: T Mobile resells their network a lot, so I would figure,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just looking up a list of some
Speaker 1: of these things. Mint Mobile, that's another big one. Ultra
Speaker 1: Boost Mobile Boost I believe is now owned by Dish Network.
Speaker 1: You've got Google five, You've got Red Pocket. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are so many different mv and os out there.
Speaker 1: So again, what it comes down.
Speaker 2: To is what's best for you.
Speaker 1: So what these companies do is the service of the
Speaker 1: line and also the features of the line. So for instance,
Speaker 1: there's an mv and O called US Mobile, and what
Speaker 1: they specialize in is that you can pretty much customize
Speaker 1: your plan with exactly the features that you need.
Speaker 2: So let's say you.
Speaker 1: Want, you know, just texting and calling and just a
Speaker 1: tiny bit of data. You can configure a line like that.
Speaker 1: Let's say you want unlimited everything. There are systems like that.
Speaker 1: Let's say you want unlimited everything for a very cheap
Speaker 1: price every month. Visible might be something that appeals to you.
Speaker 1: So it all comes down to the network that you
Speaker 1: want and also the features that you want, and which
Speaker 1: one of these companies packages it in a way that
Speaker 1: appeals to you most. Now there is another side, and
Speaker 1: I was actually talking to the folks at one of
Speaker 1: the major cellular companies about this, the idea of do
Speaker 1: these third party companies have the same sort of access
Speaker 1: and priority to the line that you would have if
Speaker 1: you were a you know, a subscriber directly. So let's
Speaker 1: say you're on T Mobile and the person next to
Speaker 1: you is on Mint and you're both trying to access
Speaker 1: the network in a crowded place. So there are some
Speaker 1: people that think that maybe these mv and o's don't
Speaker 1: have as much priority on the network as the you know,
Speaker 1: first party customers. And I don't know that to be
Speaker 1: true or not, Like I didn't really get that sense
Speaker 1: from the mobile carrier that I was talking to, Like
Speaker 1: they said, no, everyone pretty much has the same act access.
Speaker 1: So but there could be a way like your if
Speaker 1: your network is way cheaper, that could be another place
Speaker 1: where they kind of save, like the priority is just
Speaker 1: not there. So what it really comes down to again
Speaker 1: to me, when it comes to, you know, choosing a
Speaker 1: cellular carrier, it's where does it work? Does it work
Speaker 1: where you live, does it work where you work? And
Speaker 1: does it work where you play? Those are the kind
Speaker 1: of things that I think is the most important. So
Speaker 1: if you want to go with one of these third
Speaker 1: party carriers, you know, see if T Mobile works where you,
Speaker 1: you know, use your phone the most. See if AT
Speaker 1: and T works where your phone is the most, see
Speaker 1: if Verizon works where your phone is the most, and
Speaker 1: also travel. Some of these third party mv and os
Speaker 1: they may not have international data, or it may be
Speaker 1: really expensive, or they may not have perks like free
Speaker 1: Netflix and stuff like that, so you might not need
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But that's really how I size up
Speaker 1: these networks. So for instance, I've got a family member
Speaker 1: who has been on Mint Mobile for a very long time,
Speaker 1: and every time she tells people about mint Mobile and
Speaker 1: how much she pays, I think it's like fifteen bucks
Speaker 1: a month. They're always like, wait, how do you pay
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks a month when I'm paying, you know, forty
Speaker 1: fifty sixty seventy eighty dollars a month for my phone line.
Speaker 1: And it's quite simple. The person who's on that line
Speaker 1: just doesn't use a lot of data. She doesn't need
Speaker 1: a ton of data. So why pay for an unlimited
Speaker 1: data plan at sixty to eighty dollars a month when
Speaker 1: you're not using a lot of data. You're not streaming music,
Speaker 1: you're not streaming YouTube, you're not you know whatever, So
Speaker 1: why pay all that extra? So it really the main
Speaker 1: carriers have specialized in these unlimited plans that are very
Speaker 1: very pricey. They're very expensive, they're very premium, and they
Speaker 1: come with a lot of stuff. You may not need
Speaker 1: all of that stuff, but it's just been the default
Speaker 1: forever to go to one of these big plans, and
Speaker 1: so that's that's what a lot of people kind of
Speaker 1: gravitate to, and they don't really understand, like, I can
Speaker 1: get the same level of cellular service from a different
Speaker 1: company that's may not be as well known or may
Speaker 1: not be as big of an advertiser on network TV.
Speaker 2: So anyway, look.
Speaker 1: Into them, see which company does what you need, and
Speaker 1: you know, try them out.
Speaker 2: You can always switch back. It's very easy to switch.
Speaker 2: You're listening to rich on Tech. My name is rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: We're talking technology, we're talking gadgets, and coming up, I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you how to enable Gmail's new package
Speaker 1: tracking features, so if you use Gmail, it can now
Speaker 1: track your packages right inside your app. We're also going
Speaker 1: to talk to the CEO of an app named True.
Speaker 1: True bills itself as an alternative to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
Speaker 1: It's an app that lets you share with your friends,
Speaker 1: but it does not collect your personal information. It does
Speaker 1: not sell you ads, it does not track you. I
Speaker 1: am on there, should you be on there? We'll talk
Speaker 1: to the CEO of True. Coming up next, you're listening
Speaker 1: to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: My name is Tomiro.
Speaker 1: If you follow me on social media, you know that
Speaker 1: I've been testing out a new social media app called True.
Speaker 1: This is the anti Facebook. No tracking, no ads, doesn't
Speaker 1: collect a whole bunch of personal information, and.
Speaker 2: It's kind of slick. Let's bring on.
Speaker 1: Brett Coxy is the CEO of True, the San Francisco
Speaker 1: based app.
Speaker 2: Brett welcome to the show.
Speaker 11: Rich thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, So True, can you explain what it is exactly?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 11: So kind of you know, over covid, I got so
Speaker 11: fed up with Facebook that I decided to build a replacement,
Speaker 11: if you can believe that. It may sound crazy, but
Speaker 11: you know, the thinking was, Wow. You know, we never
Speaker 11: agreed to allow these large companies to be in the
Speaker 11: middle of our friendships, to be in the middle of
Speaker 11: our relationships. Yet there they are. You know, they're watching
Speaker 11: every move that we and they're selling all that information
Speaker 11: through the highest bidder and making money through selling us
Speaker 11: targeted advertising, our information through targeted advertising. And I thought
Speaker 11: that we could build something that respected user privacy and
Speaker 11: got back to those things that matter, which we felt
Speaker 11: were you know, real friends in real life without monetizing
Speaker 11: your personal information.
Speaker 1: Now I get a lot of pitches for new apps,
Speaker 1: especially apps that want to replace Facebook or social media whatever,
Speaker 1: and quite honestly, I don't do a lot of stories
Speaker 1: on them because I'm like, I take the let's wait
Speaker 1: and see kind of approach. But when I checked out
Speaker 1: True and you can go to the website try True
Speaker 1: dot com, slash rich on Tech. To see what we're
Speaker 1: talking about here, try true dot com slash rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: What drew me to doing a story with you for
Speaker 1: ktla is the fact that this app is well designed.
Speaker 1: It works equally well on iOS and Android. It looks slick,
Speaker 1: and it seems like it has a chance of taking
Speaker 1: off in a big way because all the good boxes
Speaker 1: are checked like it's not tracking you. It really works nicely.
Speaker 1: It allows me to do what I want to do,
Speaker 1: which is create a group thread. You can have several
Speaker 1: of these, whether it's with your family members, whether it's
Speaker 1: with your friends, whether it's with your kids basketball team,
Speaker 1: and it lets you share again privately. So tell me
Speaker 1: how has it been. What's been the reception of this
Speaker 1: app brand?
Speaker 11: Well, you know, it's funny. We lost it around in
Speaker 11: the summer last year and we were watching it grow
Speaker 11: and grow and grow over the holidays. It doubled and
Speaker 11: tripled and quadrupled in terms of the number of people
Speaker 11: using it, and recently it's just kind of exploded. You know.
Speaker 11: We said from the very very beginning that we thought
Speaker 11: we could build this product. Gone are the days where
Speaker 11: two guys in a garage can build the next big
Speaker 11: thing in social These products are very complicated. You mentioned
Speaker 11: that it's a beautiful, functional product, and it's because we
Speaker 11: spent a lot of time and effort to make it
Speaker 11: that way. We realized that we had to make a
Speaker 11: social network that was on par in quality with the
Speaker 11: Facebook family of apps, but make it private, and so
Speaker 11: that's what True is. It's a very high quality product.
Speaker 11: As you mentioned on both iOS and androids. It allows
Speaker 11: you to be as private or as public as you
Speaker 11: want to be, and a lot of thought and time
Speaker 11: has gone into it and we're pleased with the growth
Speaker 11: so far this year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So the app is private by default, so
Speaker 1: when you set up a thread, it's private, and you
Speaker 1: can make it public if you want. Like I have
Speaker 1: a thread called rich on Techi's which I've been experimenting with.
Speaker 1: I've got a couple hundred people hanging out in there,
Speaker 1: and I can make a post and anyone can join
Speaker 1: this thread without me approving them.
Speaker 2: But if you.
Speaker 1: Want, let's say one with just your family members, you
Speaker 1: would invite them by sending them a link. They would
Speaker 1: you know, you would approve them, and then you would
Speaker 1: all be in this group together where you can chat.
Speaker 1: You can exchange pictures, you can exchange videos, you can
Speaker 1: comment on things. And you might be saying, well, rich,
Speaker 1: can I just use group messaging for that? Well, group
Speaker 1: messaging is fine, but cross platform if you're just using SMS,
Speaker 1: is not very good because pictures and videos will not
Speaker 1: come through it a good resolution. You know, if everyone
Speaker 1: has an iPhone, sure you're using I message, but you
Speaker 1: know it can get messy because people text at different
Speaker 1: hours of the day. And so this is much more
Speaker 1: like a way where you can post something and people
Speaker 1: can comment and exchange ideas and thoughts at any time
Speaker 1: of the day, and you can come to when you
Speaker 1: have the chance to kind of look at this stuff.
Speaker 1: My next question, Brett, is really about if you're not
Speaker 1: doing ads, if you're not tracking people, I mean, Facebook
Speaker 1: makes a lot of money on us, how are you
Speaker 1: going to keep this thing going right?
Speaker 11: So we have a plan to use keyword based advertising
Speaker 11: in public threads only. So if you think about it.
Speaker 11: When you start with truth, you sign up, you tell
Speaker 11: us you know what. The creator creates a thread on Truth,
Speaker 11: they decide exactly what keywords apply to it. So a
Speaker 11: running thread might have running keywords, a family something that
Speaker 11: has to do with hiking. Might have hiking keywords, and
Speaker 11: then whenever you look for threads to consume untrue that
Speaker 11: are public, you also enter keywords. We're doing a system
Speaker 11: it's very similar tout got if you're familiar with this,
Speaker 11: which is a keyword based advertising system that people can
Speaker 11: see ads only in creator threads. The creator has to
Speaker 11: publish that thread to us, otherwise we have to approve
Speaker 11: it more to be released on the platform, but allows
Speaker 11: us to monetize through public content, but still keep private
Speaker 11: content private and an ad free experience. So we've been
Speaker 11: saying for a while we can make enough money with
Speaker 11: this model to be wildly successful and you'll never see
Speaker 11: another advertisement in a private thread as long as you're
Speaker 11: on True, so all of your family, everything that you
Speaker 11: share with that group remains the same, that experience will
Speaker 11: remain the same, and then you can consume public content
Speaker 11: if you decide to.
Speaker 1: My guest right now is Brett Cox. He is the
Speaker 1: CEO of San Francisco based True, the website try True
Speaker 1: dot com, slash rich on tech. If you want to
Speaker 1: join my rich on techies group, you can also download
Speaker 1: the app there or become Brett's friend as well. So Brett,
Speaker 1: how are people using this.
Speaker 11: App right now? You know what we notice? Rich And
Speaker 11: by the way, congratulations on having one of the fastest
Speaker 11: growing threats I think we've ever seen on True. You
Speaker 11: went from zero to I think you're over three hundred
Speaker 11: and fifty getting closer to four hundred members, you know,
Speaker 11: in no time. But you know, what we're seeing is
Speaker 11: we saw people begin to get off the big social
Speaker 11: networks like Facebook, and they started moving to private messaging products,
Speaker 11: specifically with their families. In other words, they did want
Speaker 11: to share their personal lives on blasts in a public form.
Speaker 11: They wanted to share pictures of their kids and their
Speaker 11: pets with smaller groups of families in a private way.
Speaker 11: And so I like to explain that True is a
Speaker 11: social platform that's organized like a private messaging platform. So
Speaker 11: this makes it id you'l for sharing privately, you know,
Speaker 11: if you kind of think about it, We don't broadcast
Speaker 11: our authentic lives and public. We kind of share discreetly
Speaker 11: with groups of people we already know. And we also
Speaker 11: belong to different communities where we share different parts of ourselves.
Speaker 11: And so what we're seeing is people coming onto the product.
Speaker 11: They'll typically start with families and then they'll start to
Speaker 11: consume other contents they find interesting. And right now it's
Speaker 11: taking off. We couldn't be happier.
Speaker 1: So when you create a post on the app, once
Speaker 1: you sign up, you can post a picture or video,
Speaker 1: you can post a jiff, you can post a let's see.
Speaker 1: You can make your post public or private. And then
Speaker 1: you also have this little lifespan option, so you can
Speaker 1: say pick how long your post lives forever, a week
Speaker 1: or a day. So that's kind of a cool feature.
Speaker 1: Tell me about some of the options for posts.
Speaker 11: Sure, you know, if you think about it, all the
Speaker 11: larger companies they make money by mining all this information,
Speaker 11: keeping it for a long period of time, and then
Speaker 11: deciding how to sell things to you. Right, we don't
Speaker 11: have that. We don't keep any information. We don't monetize
Speaker 11: personal information. We don't we don't watch it, we don't
Speaker 11: mind it, we don't analyze it, we don't look at it,
Speaker 11: and certainly we don't share it with any third parties.
Speaker 11: So in the example that you just gave, you can
Speaker 11: set a live span for your information and you can
Speaker 11: live in a bubble as you move through time with
Speaker 11: your post deleating themselves behind you, and no one will
Speaker 11: see the content forever, if you like. We have a
Speaker 11: variety of new things coming. We have the ability to
Speaker 11: do things like leave the easter eggs, and we have
Speaker 11: some interesting things coming around around them, attacking locations and
Speaker 11: building interactive stories with your friends. One of the things
Speaker 11: I'm most excited about that we have coming up rich
Speaker 11: is a product called days which allows you to build
Speaker 11: an interactive story over a vacation or a period of
Speaker 11: time or a weekend collaboratively with friends, and then share
Speaker 11: that into a threat either privately, privately or publicly. It's
Speaker 11: things like this that I think will set us apart
Speaker 11: really strongly from other other big social networks.
Speaker 1: Okay, finally, how do you convince someone to try this,
Speaker 1: to download it? I mean, there's so many apps out there,
Speaker 1: it's another sign up, it's another thing to check. How
Speaker 1: do you convince someone to actually give this a chance?
Speaker 11: You know, what we've seen is that there's actually a
Speaker 11: built in cohort of people that have had enough. Right,
Speaker 11: They're fed up with this surveillance capitalism. They're fed up
Speaker 11: with being watched all the time. They're fed up with
Speaker 11: these companies knowing what they do before they do, and
Speaker 11: so they want there's a gap in the market right
Speaker 11: now that we think we can fill that that's caters
Speaker 11: to those kinds of people we see over and over
Speaker 11: again when people come on to the product, they say,
Speaker 11: thank you, thank you, thank you. This is great. Please
Speaker 11: give us more of it. And what we're trying to
Speaker 11: do is explain to people like, look, there's great choices
Speaker 11: for sharing things publicly on Blast, Instagram, Facebook, they do
Speaker 11: that really, really well. But if you want to have
Speaker 11: a place that feels like home where you share your
Speaker 11: most intimate and genuine memories, True is that product for you.
Speaker 11: It allows you to do that with a smaller group
Speaker 11: of people. We like to say that we're making social
Speaker 11: a safe place again without monetizing your personal information.
Speaker 1: All right, Brett, we're gonna leave it there. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining me today. I do appreciate it. Brett Coox,
Speaker 1: CEO of San Francisco based True. If you want to
Speaker 1: check out the app we were talking about, it is,
Speaker 1: try True dot com slash rich on tech. You can
Speaker 1: join my rich on Techies group there. I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out exactly what to share inside my True app,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of a cool place you're listening to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Coming up, we're going to close out
Speaker 1: the show. We're going to talk about gmails, new package tracking,
Speaker 1: and Apple adds another streaming service. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: when we come back. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Dmiro hanging out with you here talking technology. One
Speaker 1: of the things we should talk about is Gmail. They've
Speaker 1: got this. If you order as many packages as I do,
Speaker 1: you're always looking like when they're getting delivered, You're always
Speaker 1: tracking them, seeing if they've been delivered or seeing what
Speaker 1: day they're supposed to arrive. And so now Gmail can
Speaker 1: do this all for you. So new feature inside Gmail.
Speaker 1: This was announced back in November, but now it's rolling
Speaker 1: out inside the Gmail app. So Google basically scans your
Speaker 1: emails for package tracking information like a UPS or a
Speaker 1: FedEx number, and then it will display that information right
Speaker 1: inside your inbox.
Speaker 2: And so this could be really helpful.
Speaker 1: Instead of, you know, if you're like me, you get
Speaker 1: these tracking emails, you archive them, and then maybe you'll
Speaker 1: look for them when you're.
Speaker 2: Like, wait, when's that thing coming again?
Speaker 1: So now this would just show it right in the
Speaker 1: inbox view, so you can just glance at your inbox
Speaker 1: and see, you know, okay, is it arriving, is it late?
Speaker 2: Is it delayed?
Speaker 1: And so Gmail sort of pings these little tracking numbers
Speaker 1: and will update the information in real time so that
Speaker 1: you don't have to click every single time you want
Speaker 1: to check the status of this package. So the feature
Speaker 1: is here, and you may see an option at the
Speaker 1: top of your inbox to activate it. If you want
Speaker 1: to activate this manually, you can do it. And I
Speaker 1: looked on my both on Android and iPhone and it
Speaker 1: wasn't active, which and I never saw any sort of like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to activate this? So if you have
Speaker 1: an iPhone, you can open up your Gmail app, go
Speaker 1: into the menu on the left hand side and then
Speaker 1: click settings and then scroll all the way down to
Speaker 1: data Privacy, which they kind of put it in a
Speaker 1: scary place because who wants to like go into like
Speaker 1: data privacy and see something that's like inherently not that private,
Speaker 1: Like Google's going to look at your tracking numbers, but
Speaker 1: they've got your email, so I think it's probably fine.
Speaker 1: And then once you go into data privacy, you'll see
Speaker 1: an option for package tracking. You can toggle that on
Speaker 1: now on Android it's very similar. You go to the
Speaker 1: Gmail settings, you go to general and then package tracking,
Speaker 1: and it says Gmail will share tracking numbers for your
Speaker 1: package with shipping carrier, and that's giving them the permission
Speaker 1: to look up these various tracking numbers. And so once
Speaker 1: you do that, Google will do it and put it
Speaker 1: in your inbox. You can always turn this off if
Speaker 1: you don't like it. But I have yet to see
Speaker 1: a package show up with this information. I just ordered
Speaker 1: something today, so I'm embarrassed to say what it is,
Speaker 1: but i will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's soaps. It's these soaps that I really like.
Speaker 1: It's it's a burly soap brand, like it has a
Speaker 1: let's put a sasquatch as their mascot.
Speaker 2: So if you know what I'm talking about, I just
Speaker 2: I you know, these.
Speaker 1: Soaps are They're more expensive than they should be, but
Speaker 1: I've grown to just kind of like them. And so
Speaker 1: now I'm ordering soap online and you know, ordering a
Speaker 1: bunch of bars at the same time, and they get
Speaker 1: shipped out. And the first time I did this, it
Speaker 1: was actually during the pandemic, and it took so long
Speaker 1: to get my delivery that.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I've always said that. I always think
Speaker 2: this is funny.
Speaker 1: If you ever want a toiletry that you have, whether
Speaker 1: it is toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, some sort of face wash,
Speaker 1: if you ever want it to last a really long time,
Speaker 1: just go out and buy a new item, And for
Speaker 1: some reason, when you do that, your old item will
Speaker 1: last forever because you're excited to use the new one,
Speaker 1: whether it has a new scent, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: something that hasn't improved formula, whatever it is, different brand,
Speaker 1: you're so excited to break into that new toothpaste or whatever,
Speaker 1: that the old one just will last forever. Just to
Speaker 1: mess with you, And so just try it. I've tried
Speaker 1: this so many times. It is a theory that I
Speaker 1: have that just seems to work. You want your old
Speaker 1: thing to last, just buy the new one.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: So that's what happened with this soap, is that I
Speaker 1: was running out of my old soap and the new
Speaker 1: one just would not arrive, and I kept checking and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is going on. It turns out that
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, I guess this business just had a
Speaker 1: lot of business and they couldn't keep up and so
Speaker 1: now when I order it come in like a couple
Speaker 1: of days. Like the last time I ordered it, I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe how fast it came like next day practically,
Speaker 1: But that will be the first probably use when I
Speaker 1: get this tracking number in my Gmail, it'll it'll be
Speaker 1: my first use of this new feature, so I can
Speaker 1: see where my where my soap is in the world. Okay, uh,
Speaker 1: and then let's talk about this Apple. Apple is just
Speaker 1: wild with their Their business just sees no end at
Speaker 1: this point. And so they've got they just purchased Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer. Uh, they purchased the streaming rights to Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer. I think for like how many years it
Speaker 1: might be, is it ten years?
Speaker 2: So ten years?
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer is now going to be on Apple TV.
Speaker 1: And Apple TV is a little confusing because Apple TV
Speaker 1: is a box. But then you have Apple TV, which
Speaker 1: is a service now, and then you have Apple TV Plus,
Speaker 1: which is like the Apple you know, original programming. So
Speaker 1: this is now now inside the Apple TV app. You
Speaker 1: can get MLS season pass. Season kicks off February twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: And I'm not telling you this because I'm a big
Speaker 1: soccer fan or anything like that, although I do think
Speaker 1: soccer is fun. But I'm telling you this because we
Speaker 1: are seeing the first shift in the sports world when
Speaker 1: it comes to streaming of sports. Now, sports are streaming
Speaker 1: in a lot of different places. We've seen Amazon purchase
Speaker 1: the rights to Thursday Night Football, We've seen NBA League Pass.
Speaker 1: There's a whole bunch of different ways to watch stuff.
Speaker 1: The Clippers here in Los Angeles, they've got their own
Speaker 1: streaming service that they started this year. But there's one
Speaker 1: thing that Apple is doing very differently, and they are
Speaker 1: letting you watch every single game without any sort of exclusions.
Speaker 1: So typically when these companies negotiate rights, the games that
Speaker 1: are local to your area are still sort of kept
Speaker 1: on a service that is like a local channel or
Speaker 1: you know, it's not on them like not anyone can
Speaker 1: access that if you're in that area. So if you're
Speaker 1: a sports fan, you know what I'm talking about. So
Speaker 1: what Apple did and they tried to buy I forget
Speaker 1: whatever what else it was, but they tried to buy
Speaker 1: another sports package, and the sports teams were just like, now,
Speaker 1: we're not giving you that because sports is evolving and
Speaker 1: they make a lot of money on these games, and
Speaker 1: so I guess with MLS. They saw an opportunity and
Speaker 1: so every single game will be aired. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to access them as a subscriber with consistent match times
Speaker 1: and no blackouts. This is a first in live sports broadcasting.
Speaker 1: So you'll be able to see a couple of games
Speaker 1: for free. Actually, so you can go to a MLS
Speaker 1: Soccer dot com slash schedule to see the full schedule
Speaker 1: and which games are free on Apple TV the app
Speaker 1: during the first month. And Apple is also doing a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of other things where they've got stuff inside
Speaker 1: Apple Map where you can see different bars to watch
Speaker 1: the games a and to like enjoy. They've got a
Speaker 1: new MySports section on the Apple tv app, and then
Speaker 1: they've got where you can.
Speaker 2: Ask Siri for information about MLS.
Speaker 1: So the first season is going to be fourteen ninety
Speaker 1: nine a month or ninety nine bucks for the whole season,
Speaker 1: or if you're an Apple TV Plus subscriber, you can
Speaker 1: subscribe for twelve ninety nine a month or seventy nine
Speaker 1: dollars for the whole season. All right, that is gonna
Speaker 1: do it for today's show if you can believe it, Wow,
Speaker 1: show number five in the can. Next week we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to the inventor of an app that lets
Speaker 1: you scan your sports cards and your Pokemon cards to
Speaker 1: find out their value.
Speaker 2: That is a really cool app. Once again, you can.
Speaker 1: Find me on social media at rich on tech across
Speaker 1: all the different platforms. I meant to tell you I
Speaker 1: did post something silly on Instagram today. I posted my
Speaker 1: chocolate sou fla from last night and all the name
Speaker 1: of testing the S twenty three Ultra. So if you
Speaker 1: want to see that video, go to my Instagram, my
Speaker 1: website rich on tech dot tv. There you can watch
Speaker 1: my TV segments. My name is rich Demiro. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for listening. There are so many ways you can
Speaker 1: spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right
Speaker 1: here with me. I'll talk to you real soon.