Speaker 1: Hands on with the new iPhone, thirteen models, iOS, fifteen
Speaker 1: features to try out, Kindle gets a big upgrade, plus
Speaker 1: your tech questions answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: This is the.
Speaker 1: Podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also the place where I
Speaker 1: answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter
Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, Hollywood, California.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are literally in the middle of.
Speaker 1: Hollywood, one of the last TV stations sets in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: In fact, used to be a couple of them, and
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, at least one more, but I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess they were all in the same area. What
Speaker 1: a great start to the show. Anyway, I digress. So
Speaker 1: this is the time of the year when and tech
Speaker 1: companies just roll out more gadgets than any human tech
Speaker 1: reviewer can handle. I mean, just alone with Apple last
Speaker 1: week we had all kinds of iPhones and iPads and
Speaker 1: this and that, and they're still not done apparently, still
Speaker 1: some things perhaps in the works by the end of
Speaker 1: the year, we don't know. But now next week we
Speaker 1: have Amazon. Even though this week Amazon revealed like three,
Speaker 1: let's see three new gadgets, plus another like an echo
Speaker 1: that has the face of Billie Eilish on it. So
Speaker 1: you've got to be a true fan to get that speaker.
Speaker 1: And then we have the Pixel still coming. We had
Speaker 1: Facebook with new devices. I mean, just so many devices.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep up, and I'll talk about some
Speaker 1: of them in this show. But just to kind of
Speaker 1: follow up on last week's show, so I told you
Speaker 1: about the whole is selling my car and getting a
Speaker 1: new one. So I will say that I absolutely love
Speaker 1: the new Tesla. It is far a seeded my expectations
Speaker 1: and it's just such.
Speaker 2: A pleasure to drive.
Speaker 1: It's the first time I think I've ever driven a
Speaker 1: car that I actually really really like, and it's it's
Speaker 1: just really been a nice experience. And I think the
Speaker 1: reason why I like it even more so than just
Speaker 1: the fact that it's a cool, high tech car, is
Speaker 1: because it feels like I'm on the verge of something new,
Speaker 1: Like I remember when I got the first iPhone and
Speaker 1: I just kind of could not get enough of diving
Speaker 1: into the features and seeing what it can do and
Speaker 1: discussing it with people. And by the way, thirteen years later,
Speaker 1: it's still like that. But the Tesla is a whole
Speaker 1: nother beast. I mean, it's like I've been on YouTube
Speaker 1: watching all the videos and just every day I kind
Speaker 1: of find something new that the car can do. And
Speaker 1: also it's given me a new kind of perspective on
Speaker 1: just electric cars and the whole entire ecosystem of cars
Speaker 1: in general.
Speaker 2: And I think that the Tesla is just the beginning.
Speaker 1: We are going to see a lot of disruption coming
Speaker 1: our way, and the Tesla is literally just at the
Speaker 1: forefront of it. And kind of like with phones, I
Speaker 1: mean with iPhone, it spawned an entire new category of
Speaker 1: phone and device, and that's kind of the way I
Speaker 1: see the Tesla. But it's also a challenge for these
Speaker 1: companies to stay ahead, and I think Tesla is pretty
Speaker 1: far ahead with the whole supercharger network and the way
Speaker 1: that they do things and the fact that they built
Speaker 1: a company from the ground up. So anyway, I will
Speaker 1: continue to talk about it on the podcast because it's
Speaker 1: just fascinating to me, the whole idea that I leave
Speaker 1: work every day with a full tank of gas, so
Speaker 1: to say, it's just such a new thing to me,
Speaker 1: and like last weekend we drove around. We didn't use
Speaker 1: a sip of gas because my wife's car, we just
Speaker 1: you shelved it for the weekend because we wanted to
Speaker 1: take mine. By the way, I want to follow up
Speaker 1: on I talked about how I sold my old car
Speaker 1: using Shift dot Com and I will say that it
Speaker 1: all worked out.
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: So I couldn't believe it because Shift was willing to
Speaker 1: pay a little bit more than Carvana, so I went
Speaker 1: with Shift. But the difference is when my friend sold
Speaker 1: his car with Carvana, he had his money by the
Speaker 1: time they left the driveway, and Shift said, well, we
Speaker 1: take your car, we do a final inspection at the headquarters,
Speaker 1: and then you should have your money within a week.
Speaker 1: And I said, I'm like handing over this slip, you know,
Speaker 1: this DMV pink slip. And I just felt worried. But
Speaker 1: I will tell you that I by the time I
Speaker 1: woke up in the morning, well maybe not I wake
Speaker 1: up pretty early, but I would say the next morning,
Speaker 1: after the guy drove my car off, I had an
Speaker 1: email that said, hey, your car passed final inspection. This
Speaker 1: was like eight am, nine am. The next day, your
Speaker 1: car passed final inspection and payment will be sent and
Speaker 1: then I would say either the next day or the
Speaker 1: next day payment was in my account, like cleared my
Speaker 1: bank account. So I was very impressed with Shift. I'll
Speaker 1: put a link in the show notes. I can put
Speaker 1: a referral. I think you get an extra hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying this because of that, but if
Speaker 1: you want, you know, like every little dollar counts, Like
Speaker 1: if you're thinking of selling your car, it's a really
Speaker 1: good time. Like they gave me more for my car
Speaker 1: than I expected, because cars are so hard to come by,
Speaker 1: and I keep, I keep take good care of my stuff.
Speaker 1: So whoever gets my car next will will really get
Speaker 1: a nice deal because they have a car that has
Speaker 1: low mileage and it's.
Speaker 2: A nice you know. I mean, I don't think it's
Speaker 2: a nice car, but it's it's a I mean, it's
Speaker 2: a nice car.
Speaker 1: It's a car that gets you around, so anyway, I
Speaker 1: can't I very very impressed with the fact that we
Speaker 1: live in a world where you can sell your car.
Speaker 1: Someone will come to your place, pay you more than
Speaker 1: you think, and take it away and your money is
Speaker 1: in there. You don't have to deal with people coming
Speaker 1: to your house for you know, test drives and you know,
Speaker 1: asking questions about it. I mean, these companies are so
Speaker 1: far advanced. They do all the research. I had a
Speaker 1: little fender bender on my car and it was in
Speaker 1: the car fax, no problem. It even said when I
Speaker 1: got my last oil change, I was so impressed with
Speaker 1: the whole thing. So these companies know that's how they
Speaker 1: can value your car so quickly. They're not like a
Speaker 1: regular person that has to like figure this stuff out.
Speaker 1: They have data behind them.
Speaker 2: So let's get to the big story of the week.
Speaker 1: The iPhone thirteen releases this week, and already a bunch
Speaker 1: of reviewers got them early. I got mine probably a
Speaker 1: week after the you know, I always say I'm on
Speaker 1: the B or C team with the reviewers, and so
Speaker 1: I'd say with Apple, probably a solid B. Because the
Speaker 1: A listers got theirs, they must have gotten them the
Speaker 1: day of the event or the day after, because already
Speaker 1: the reviews are out less than a week later. I
Speaker 1: get mine, you know, like a week after. So that's fine.
Speaker 1: You know, how do you do a review in the week.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, that's really tough. But here
Speaker 2: is the bottom line.
Speaker 1: The early reviews say that the cameras are great on
Speaker 1: the iPhone thirteen. The battery life is great, there's double
Speaker 1: the base storage, which is nice.
Speaker 2: The front camera no different.
Speaker 1: Refresh rate on the iPhone thirteen is still the same
Speaker 1: sixty hurtz And as I confirm with Apple, the iPhone
Speaker 1: twelve cases do not fit, so there's always a slight
Speaker 1: difference in your case. Even though the phone looks the same,
Speaker 1: there's always a slight difference where your case does not fit.
Speaker 2: Funny how that works.
Speaker 1: So even after you spend another eight hundred dollars, you
Speaker 1: still got a spring for another fifty bucks for a case.
Speaker 1: But I don't buy the expensive cases most of the time.
Speaker 1: Most of the time I'll buy like a thirty. It
Speaker 1: just depends. It depends on if I had a mag
Speaker 1: Safe case. Yes, those are going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more expensive. But there are some good cases out
Speaker 1: there that are not as expensive. Like I got my
Speaker 1: wife the Smartish case, which is really good and it's
Speaker 1: like thirteen bucks and it's got a great grip on it.
Speaker 1: I like the Spegan cases, it's like a standard case. Okay,
Speaker 1: iPhone thirteen Pro this is the one that I'm most
Speaker 1: interested in because the cameras are much more improved. The
Speaker 1: battery of course is improved as well. It's got that
Speaker 1: high refresh rate for the display, so it's one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty hurts and it adjusts.
Speaker 2: And then the.
Speaker 1: Front camera I still think it's the same, and that
Speaker 1: cinematic mode. This is the big new thing that people
Speaker 1: are talking about now. I have the phones and I've
Speaker 1: been playing with them, and I'll do I'll tell you
Speaker 1: a couple things. Number one, the iPhone thirteen is kind
Speaker 1: of like a standard phone. So to me, if you
Speaker 1: are upgrading from last year, you don't need to go
Speaker 1: with the iPhone thirteen. But if you're upgrading from a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, yeah, you gonna you're gonna love
Speaker 1: the iPhone thirteen. The cameras are gonna be improved, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be better. The battery life is gonna be better
Speaker 1: than last year. Last year, I think, and I mentioned
Speaker 1: this in my review last year, that the battery life
Speaker 1: was just not very good on the iPhone twelve or
Speaker 1: twelve pro. And Apple definitely figured that out. They went
Speaker 1: back to the drawing board, they put bigger batteries in,
Speaker 1: They tweaked the software so that it helps, you know,
Speaker 1: keep the battery going longer. And I just know in
Speaker 1: my use of the iPhone twelve Pro that by the
Speaker 1: end of the day, like I'm talking, you know, three
Speaker 1: o'clock whatever, my phone is, actually even halfway through the day,
Speaker 1: my phone's just hurting. And I never noticed that on
Speaker 1: an iPhone before. Like my wife was telling her that
Speaker 1: last night, how annoying that is. And she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that must be so annoying because she's got the iPhone
Speaker 1: eleven Pro Max and the battery on that thing is
Speaker 1: a champ. Now there's no five G and I think
Speaker 1: that's the main differentiator here.
Speaker 2: But hopefully Apple has figured out the battery.
Speaker 1: I've not had the phone, like using it long enough
Speaker 1: in a day to figure out the battery situation, but
Speaker 1: hopefully it's better now. The thing I did test out,
Speaker 1: I took the iPhone thirteen Pro and I took it
Speaker 1: out outside and I compared it against the iPhone twelve
Speaker 1: Pro and then the Samsung S twenty one Ultra. And
Speaker 1: so I will tell you that I thought that the
Speaker 1: I thought that it was just gonna be kind of
Speaker 1: blown away. The which one am I talking about here? Sorry,
Speaker 1: I got off track here. I thought I was gonna
Speaker 1: be blown away by the iPhone thirteen Pro because of
Speaker 1: all this talk about the cameras, and I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I'm not as blown away as I thought. Now I
Speaker 1: need more time with these things, and yes, it'll take
Speaker 1: a while to figure it all out, but I do.
Speaker 1: I will say that I just think like it should
Speaker 1: have been better like it seems. And here's the thing,
Speaker 1: I'm not knocking it. I think that when it comes
Speaker 1: to phones, out of all the phones I test, the
Speaker 1: phone that will give you the most reliable, every day
Speaker 1: great pictures.
Speaker 2: Is always the iPhone.
Speaker 1: Samsung has a lot more going on with their camera,
Speaker 1: and yes you can flex it in different ways that
Speaker 1: lets you have more fun with it. But the iPhone
Speaker 1: is just kind of this standard thing that just always works,
Speaker 1: and the apps are optimized for it, so that's always nice.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you, and you can look at
Speaker 1: these results. I have them on the website ktla dot com,
Speaker 1: slash or just go to my website rich on Tech
Speaker 1: dot ta and look for the link that says iPhone
Speaker 1: thirteen Pro photo comparison. And if you look at these pictures,
Speaker 1: you would not sit there and say Oh wow, clear winner.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at.
Speaker 1: All the pictures and they're all nearly identical except for
Speaker 1: the picture I took of the moon, which is really
Speaker 1: where the iPhone are the S twenty one Ultra Excels.
Speaker 1: But who's taking pictures of the moon every day? I mean,
Speaker 1: you take one picture of the moon you've got doesn't change.
Speaker 1: So you've got a picture of the moon.
Speaker 2: You're good. You don't really need to take more of those.
Speaker 1: So you can see a couple of things you've got
Speaker 1: my hands on with all four of the new devices
Speaker 1: on my Instagram at rich on Tech, I've got pictures
Speaker 1: on the website rich on Tech dot tv for you
Speaker 1: to compare. I will continue to compare these devices and
Speaker 1: kind of form my opinions on them. But the reality is,
Speaker 1: the way I see things is that most people are
Speaker 1: wondering if they need a reason to upgrade, and so
Speaker 1: if you're a camera enthusiast, of course you always want
Speaker 1: the absolute.
Speaker 2: Best that's out there.
Speaker 1: Otherwise, I mean, it's one of those things where the
Speaker 1: iterations at this point, unless they're adding a big new feature,
Speaker 1: is just kind of like it's there and it will
Speaker 1: be there when you're ready to upgrade the phone will
Speaker 1: be great, and of course the latest and the latest
Speaker 1: phone will always be pretty darn good. So one thing
Speaker 1: I will say is that the camera bumps on the
Speaker 1: new Pro models are significantly bigger than last year's. Apple
Speaker 1: just continues to push the envelope with these camera bumps.
Speaker 1: They're just they get bigger and bigger, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, I get it because they want to make
Speaker 1: this thing as good as possible, but it's a big bump.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that cinematic mode real quick and
Speaker 1: just I need to test it more, but it's definitely
Speaker 1: not a feature that you would buy a phone for.
Speaker 1: It's cool, it's portrait mode for your video, but it's
Speaker 1: not something that you need to like rush out and
Speaker 1: upgrade for. All right, let's get to the first question
Speaker 1: of the day. Michael says, Hey, Rich, I have an
Speaker 1: old cell phone, an old Samsung tablet, and two old
Speaker 1: laptop computers. Do you have any suggestions on how to
Speaker 1: dispose of them safely and perhaps be useful to someone
Speaker 1: who guts who uses the guts from these items. Please
Speaker 1: let me know when you have a moment. Thanks for
Speaker 1: doing such a great job on Katla I've been watching
Speaker 1: you for years and glad to see that you are
Speaker 1: back in the studio. Thanks again, Michael. All right, Michael,
Speaker 1: A couple of things you can do with this. If
Speaker 1: you just want to get rid of these and recycle them,
Speaker 1: you can take them somewhere like a Staples. And Staples
Speaker 1: has a pretty robust recycling program, and they stopped it
Speaker 1: for a while, but they might have started it again.
Speaker 1: They stopped it during COVID, but let me see if
Speaker 1: they started accepting it again. It looks like they have
Speaker 1: started accepting it again, so I would go there and
Speaker 1: it looks yeah, it looks like they're there, So I
Speaker 1: would go there and let me just see one more
Speaker 1: thing real quick.
Speaker 2: Oh hold on, Nope. Sorry.
Speaker 1: In an effort to keep our customers and associates safe,
Speaker 1: our tech recycling program has been temporarily spend it. So
Speaker 1: I guess they don't want to accept electronics that are
Speaker 1: from people's homes right now. So with that said, I
Speaker 1: would just go to my second choice, which is a
Speaker 1: gizmo go And this is a website that I did
Speaker 1: a story with. They have, you know, proven themselves to
Speaker 1: be pretty worthy of this. They will either give you
Speaker 1: money for these devices. You can type them in the website,
Speaker 1: or you can just send them in and they will
Speaker 1: properly dispose of them. Now you say you have two
Speaker 1: old laptop computers. If you're if you're watching me on KTLA,
Speaker 1: that leads me to believe you're in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: So I would lead you to someone called.
Speaker 1: The Laptop Elf and they will he will will take
Speaker 1: your stuff and basically refactory format it and kind of
Speaker 1: fix it up and then give it to someone in need.
Speaker 1: So that's a cool that's a cool little program. David Lombard.
Speaker 2: So he runs something called the Laptop Elf Project. So
Speaker 2: check that out.
Speaker 1: And I think you bring laptops there, you send the
Speaker 1: other stuff to gizmo Go, and you're good. Now if
Speaker 1: you just want to bring it locally, Best Buy does recycling,
Speaker 1: but again you have to check with these companies to
Speaker 1: see exactly what they'll accept. I was recycling some batteries
Speaker 1: and you know, I thought, I can bring them into
Speaker 1: this store, this battery store, and they said, now we
Speaker 1: don't accept those, so but you can go to the library.
Speaker 1: And I went to the library. They had a little
Speaker 1: drop box outside, dump the batteries in and boom, felt
Speaker 1: a little better about myself because I used to throw
Speaker 1: out batteries all the time until I did a story
Speaker 1: about recycling batteries, and I had no idea that you
Speaker 1: should not throw your double a's and triple as in
Speaker 1: the trash. And so I felt really bad the fact
Speaker 1: that I've been doing that, and I vowed to never
Speaker 1: do it again. And so now I keep a Mason jar,
Speaker 1: and I go through a lot of batteries in this
Speaker 1: house with all the electronics and the kids and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So when the batteries go dead, you throw
Speaker 1: them in the jar, and then when the jar fills up,
Speaker 1: you put them in a plastic bag, bring them somewhere.
Speaker 1: And as some people pointed out on my Twitter, Rich,
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to put the plastic bag.
Speaker 2: In the bin, And I said, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I dumped the batteries out of the plastic bag, and
Speaker 1: then I put the plastic bag in another recycling bin.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1: But Michael, that's what I would recommend. I'll put all
Speaker 1: the links in the show notes. Okay, let's talk about
Speaker 1: iOS fifteen. Since you've probably downloaded it and installed it
Speaker 1: on your phone. I'll just talk about some of the
Speaker 1: features that are new that you're aware of so you
Speaker 1: can check them out. The number one biggest feature is
Speaker 1: this thing called Focus Mode, which I think is a
Speaker 1: lot of busy work, but it has the potential to
Speaker 1: be useful, but it seems like a lot. So Focus
Speaker 1: Mode helps you create different profiles for your phone, kind
Speaker 1: of like do not Disturb, but amped to the max.
Speaker 1: So you can now have focus modes for fitness, for reading,
Speaker 1: for wellness, for friends and family, for your weekend, for
Speaker 1: your morning, for your afternoon, for your commute. And it's
Speaker 1: just like the idea is that you would set up
Speaker 1: all these modes and only the apps that you want
Speaker 1: would send you notifications. Only the people that you want
Speaker 1: could call you and text you. But it's a lot
Speaker 1: to set up. In fact, I was worried that when
Speaker 1: I was testing the iPhone thirteen that my phone would
Speaker 1: you know, when I upgrade, sorry, when I upgraded to
Speaker 1: iOS fifteen and I was, you know, going to sleep
Speaker 1: for the first time, I was like, is my phone
Speaker 1: gonna ring this alarm in the morning because I have
Speaker 1: no idea what sort of mode I'm on? Because they
Speaker 1: do not Disturb has been replaced with this focus, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a it's a whole big thing now,
Speaker 1: and so I'm not convinced that this is what I
Speaker 1: want to do is sit there and set this all up.
Speaker 2: But if you want to, you can.
Speaker 1: You go into control, Center, Focus, and then are sorry,
Speaker 1: go into settings and then focus, and then you can
Speaker 1: choose all your different focuses to get started.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: With FaceTime, they've got spatial audio, so voices sound like
Speaker 1: they're coming from the direction that they're on the screen.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's cool, that's small.
Speaker 1: You can also use face Time with friends and family
Speaker 1: who are on Windows devices, like if you're going through
Speaker 1: that much trouble to send them a link from FaceTime.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it'll work in a pinch if you
Speaker 1: don't really want to install a different program. But by
Speaker 1: this point aren't we all on zoom? Like, do you
Speaker 1: really need to use FaceTime with like a friend that's
Speaker 1: not on Android or not on on iPhone? I mean,
Speaker 1: use something like Google Duo. I don't think that the
Speaker 1: FaceTime link. I think that's kind of like a last
Speaker 1: ditch effort if the person is like, I'm not downloading
Speaker 1: anything new on my phone or actually, hold on, let
Speaker 1: me think about this. If your FaceTime, Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: would be the one that doesn't want to download anything new.
Speaker 1: Your friend that's on Android is using Duo or something else,
Speaker 1: but you're the one that's on iPhone. You're like, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not game. I already have FaceTime. What do
Speaker 1: I need another video chat app for? Oh, it'd be
Speaker 1: nice to have one that's crossed platform, like natively. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: you can send a device a link to another device,
Speaker 1: but and it looks fine. I tried it. It's fine,
Speaker 1: it's just not my preferred way of chatting. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: see shared with Oh this is kind of cool. They've
Speaker 1: got this little section called shared with You. And so
Speaker 1: now when you you know how people like text you
Speaker 1: something like an article and you look at it, but
Speaker 1: you're at work and you kind of forget about it
Speaker 1: until like two weeks later when you go back to
Speaker 1: their text and you're like, oh, totally forgot about that
Speaker 1: article they sent me and I never even commented on it. Well,
Speaker 1: Apple knows that this must happen a lot, and so
Speaker 1: now they have this thing called Shared with You. So
Speaker 1: inside Apple News, Safari Photos, Apple TV podcasts, and Apple Music,
Speaker 1: notice they are all Apple programs. Whenever someone sends you something,
Speaker 1: it will sort of go in this little section, so
Speaker 1: that when you open up Apple News, Oh there's that
Speaker 1: article someone sent me on Apple News.
Speaker 2: You open up.
Speaker 1: Safari, Oh there's that link that Jim sent me last
Speaker 1: week that I never opened. Oh there's that photo that
Speaker 1: I never commented on. There's that podcast that never listened to, And.
Speaker 2: I opened up my podcast.
Speaker 1: I had a podcast from my friend John that he
Speaker 1: sent me like months ago that.
Speaker 2: I never listened to.
Speaker 1: And because I just forgot about it, what do you
Speaker 1: How do you bookmark it? I mean, you just forget
Speaker 1: about it as soon as someone texts you. And then
Speaker 1: of course with music, that's pretty handy too. That would
Speaker 1: actually be probably the most useful because people can send
Speaker 1: you songs. But again, if you notice, this is all
Speaker 1: from native apps, so if you're not using all these
Speaker 1: native apps, then it doesn't really help you.
Speaker 2: So I still think it's a cool feature though.
Speaker 1: It's nice to have, And definitely all your old links,
Speaker 1: by the way, are indexed and they're now available. So
Speaker 1: if someone sent you something previously, if you go into
Speaker 1: any of these apps, you will see the stuff that
Speaker 1: people sent you previously. Now, the other big new feature
Speaker 1: on iOS fifteen is called live text, and this is
Speaker 1: big and I got a hand it to Apple. They
Speaker 1: did a really really fantastic job of this. So you
Speaker 1: can now aim your camera at something and the text
Speaker 1: will light up and you can highlight it and copy.
Speaker 2: And paste and whatever.
Speaker 1: Or you can take a picture and then press this
Speaker 1: little text button in the right hand lower right hand
Speaker 1: corner and it will highlight all the things that you
Speaker 1: can do with this picture, which is copy and paste text.
Speaker 1: You can tap a phone number to call it, you
Speaker 1: can tap a website to go to it. You can
Speaker 1: tap an email address to send an email. And they
Speaker 1: nailed it. They did really really good and so I'm
Speaker 1: very impressed. And Google's had this forever, but I would
Speaker 1: say that Apple, I think, might have done a better
Speaker 1: job at implementing this than Google.
Speaker 2: And it's so.
Speaker 1: Funny because Google is so scared to like ever build
Speaker 1: anything into like the core functionality of Android because they're
Speaker 1: worried about like anti trust and all this stuff. So
Speaker 1: they always dance around like putting these features in places
Speaker 1: that like make it, you know, a little bit tougher
Speaker 1: for you to find because they want to make sure
Speaker 1: that they're not like pushing their own products. But Apple
Speaker 1: they could care less. They just push all their own stuff.
Speaker 1: So they put this this feature front and center. It's
Speaker 1: right on the native camera and it works phenomenally, and honestly,
Speaker 1: Google should build this right into their native camera. They
Speaker 1: do in certain ways, but you still kind of have
Speaker 1: to press this lens button. And they just finally put
Speaker 1: Google Lens on the search bar on Android phones, which
Speaker 1: took forever too. So hopefully now that Apple has put
Speaker 1: this front and center, they will I'll also put this
Speaker 1: front and center on the Google phones.
Speaker 2: Because it is very handy.
Speaker 1: Apple Maps, you know, all the headlines are like Apple
Speaker 1: Maps is now on par with Google Maps. That is
Speaker 1: not true in any way, shape or form. Google Maps
Speaker 1: has information on pretty much the whole world. Apple Maps
Speaker 1: has been upgraded for LA, New York, San Francisco, and London.
Speaker 2: So I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I live in LA, which is great, and the maps
Speaker 1: look amazing here, but you go anywhere outside LA and
Speaker 1: they're not.
Speaker 2: Going to be as good.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I just I can tell you from personal experience,
Speaker 1: I like the look of Apple Maps better, but the
Speaker 1: raw data that they have is just not there. Google
Speaker 1: has so much data about businesses and up to the
Speaker 1: minute data about everything that Apple just doesn't really compete with.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's gonna happen forever, but I
Speaker 1: think at this point, Google Maps is still kind of
Speaker 1: like a gold standard when it comes to mapping, and
Speaker 1: I really just trust that, and I can't bring myself
Speaker 1: to trust Apple Maps. I just can't because there's just
Speaker 1: too many times when I've typed in something and it
Speaker 1: just doesn't figure it out right, and I'm like, all right, sorry,
Speaker 1: going back to Apple, I mean, going back to Google.
Speaker 1: The weather app totally redesigned. It looks pretty cool, and
Speaker 1: now it'll tell you when it's gonna rain or snow.
Speaker 1: It also has new big maps that show you how
Speaker 1: hot or cold it is. The notes app now is
Speaker 1: pretty good. I mean, I would love you, No, I
Speaker 1: would love to use the notes app. I switched back
Speaker 1: to every Note because I just can't get my brain
Speaker 1: around apps that are only on one platform. And Notes
Speaker 1: is really nice, but if I'm using an Android phone,
Speaker 1: I can't access any of my notes, and I just
Speaker 1: don't like that. If I'm on the web somewhere and
Speaker 1: I need to like somehow get a note. I can't
Speaker 1: do that with Notes, and maybe you can. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's an iCloud, but maybe it is. It might be,
Speaker 1: you know what, Notes might be an iCloud. But my
Speaker 1: point is it's one of these things where it's very
Speaker 1: much written for the Mac, it's written for the iPhone,
Speaker 1: it's written for the iPad, which is great if you
Speaker 1: only use Apple stuff, but I like to I'd like
Speaker 1: to try to remain platform agnostic as much as possible
Speaker 1: because that allows me to choose the best product for
Speaker 1: the job and not just something that's convenient.
Speaker 2: And Notes is very convenient.
Speaker 1: It's built in and it does a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's free and it's nice, but I just can't
Speaker 1: bring myself to use it in a big way. The
Speaker 1: thing that they added to Notes is you can now
Speaker 1: use hashtags, which is really cool because that helps you
Speaker 1: automatically organize notes. So when you're typing a note in
Speaker 1: just type of hashtag, and now you can see that
Speaker 1: hashtag along with other notes that have that hashtag. The
Speaker 1: email I got the most was from a bunch of
Speaker 1: people saying, Rich, what's up with this iCloud. I've been
Speaker 1: Apple sent out an email it said you've been upgraded
Speaker 1: for free to iCloud plus.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: It sounds so fancy, but I mean, come on, it's
Speaker 1: like you're already. This is only for paying members of iCloud.
Speaker 1: So if you're paying for iCloud, you now get a
Speaker 1: couple of new features. Which is the most notable to
Speaker 1: me is hide my Email, which it allows you to
Speaker 1: generate disposable email addresses, and that's kind of cool. So
Speaker 1: you can go into your settings iCloud password I think
Speaker 1: it's or I forget it's one of those, and you
Speaker 1: can generate a one time it's not really a one
Speaker 1: time use. It's just an email address that stays good
Speaker 1: until you delete it, and then it forwards that whatever
Speaker 1: email comes into that email to your real email. So
Speaker 1: the way that you'd use that is if you sign
Speaker 1: up for you know, like let's say you want to
Speaker 1: buy something on wayfair dot com and you just can't
Speaker 1: stand getting emails from them for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: You can use one of these private email addresses and
Speaker 1: make your order, do all your stuff, and then once
Speaker 1: your order is gotten to your place safely, you turn
Speaker 1: off that email address and you don't really ever have
Speaker 1: to hear from Wayfair again, I guess on the side note,
Speaker 1: if you need a quick email address to sign up
Speaker 1: for like a new coupon or a promo code, that
Speaker 1: would be an easy way to do it. So if
Speaker 1: you need to, you know, get a ten percent off
Speaker 1: or something, and you need a new email address like
Speaker 1: a new sign up, that could be a way to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: The other thing they do.
Speaker 1: Is private relay, and this is kind of like a VPN,
Speaker 1: but they're not calling it a VPN, so clearly it's
Speaker 1: not a VPN, But the way that Apple describes it,
Speaker 1: it says, when private relay is enabled, your requests are
Speaker 1: sent through two separate secure Internet relays. Your IP address
Speaker 1: is visible to your network provider. So I think that's
Speaker 1: the difference between the VPN, because I don't think it
Speaker 1: is immediately and to the first relay, which is operated
Speaker 1: by Apple, which aka they can see your IP address
Speaker 1: as well, but your DNS records are encrypted, so neither
Speaker 1: party can see the address of the website you're trying
Speaker 1: to visit.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: The second relay, which is operated by a third party
Speaker 1: content provider, generates a temporary IP address decrypts the name
Speaker 1: of the website you requested, and connects you. All this
Speaker 1: is done to maintain high performance browsing and protect your privacy.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like a VPN, but a little
Speaker 1: bit less secure because Apple can theoretically see your IP address,
Speaker 1: and so can your network provider, which you know is fine. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess it depends what you're doing. So if you're
Speaker 1: a real privacy fiend, you won't want to do that,
Speaker 1: But if you're just kind of like casually trying to
Speaker 1: protect your tracks, you know, this will be a nice
Speaker 1: thing to enable.
Speaker 2: I'll have to check that out.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I need that on my phone,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of I guess it's one more way
Speaker 1: to just kind of keep things private on there, right,
Speaker 1: all right. Next question from Maricarr. Hey, Rich, I hope
Speaker 1: this email finds you well. I wanted to ask what
Speaker 1: a good Wi Fi extender would be for me to use.
Speaker 1: I live in a two bedroom apartment. There are literally
Speaker 1: dead zones in my dining area and in one of
Speaker 1: the bedrooms. I'd like for my Wi Fi to reach
Speaker 1: throughout my place, but honestly, it's driving me crazy how
Speaker 1: slow it is. In some areas, can you recommend a
Speaker 1: good one. I have Spectrum for my internet service, if
Speaker 1: that makes a difference. Thanks so much, Maricar. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I did a story on this. It's a Villo Vlo
Speaker 1: and it is a sixty dollars mesh Wi Fi network, and.
Speaker 2: I did the review on this.
Speaker 1: I found it to be great, especially for standard Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: If you need something that's if you told me you
Speaker 1: had like gigabit internet or like a huge house or something,
Speaker 1: I'd probably recommend euro But this is perfect for your
Speaker 1: two bedroom apartment.
Speaker 2: And there's three.
Speaker 1: Units that you get for sixty dollars, and what you
Speaker 1: do is you put the first one by your modem,
Speaker 1: then you put the other two in the other far
Speaker 1: reaches of your house and this will create a mesh network.
Speaker 1: So these things all communicate with each other to blanket
Speaker 1: your house in a nice network of Wi Fi that
Speaker 1: works the same.
Speaker 2: Pretty much everywhere.
Speaker 1: And the reviews I got on this are pretty good,
Speaker 1: like the people that like I test this stuff, but
Speaker 1: I'm just one person, and so when people get this
Speaker 1: in their houses and they write me emails, so far,
Speaker 1: I think with the ex option of one person, everyone
Speaker 1: said they really like how this works.
Speaker 2: So for sixty.
Speaker 1: Dollars, you can't really go wrong because that is a
Speaker 1: pretty good price on a better Wi Fi for your
Speaker 1: whole house. So that's what I recommend. Check it out
Speaker 1: and once you get it installed, let me know what you.
Speaker 2: Think of it.
Speaker 1: New kindles are out first time since twenty eighteen. These
Speaker 1: kindles got a big new update, the Kindle paper White.
Speaker 1: I'll just go over this quickly what the new features are,
Speaker 1: because in fact, my wife scratched the heck out of
Speaker 1: the screen on her Kindle, so I've got to get
Speaker 1: her a new one. And it's funny because I have
Speaker 1: a case for my Kindle, which I get it. It
Speaker 1: makes it heavier and not as nice. But I've had
Speaker 1: this case on it since I've got it, and it's
Speaker 1: kept this thing pristine. I mean, it's my Kindle is perfect,
Speaker 1: and it's like a couple of years old, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I want an excuse to buy a new one, but
Speaker 1: I don't need it. But my wife she scratched hers,
Speaker 1: and I said, I told you to get the case,
Speaker 1: and she didn't want it because she said I don't
Speaker 1: need it. I don't bring my kindle anywhere it's fine.
Speaker 2: Well, sure enough, a huge scratch across the screen. So
Speaker 2: get a case.
Speaker 1: The one I bought is really inexpensive. It was like
Speaker 1: had like eleven thousand reviews or something, and it was
Speaker 1: super cheap. It was like ten bucks. It's not the
Speaker 1: Amazon official but it was like ten bucks in.
Speaker 2: It really did a great job.
Speaker 1: And of course I know I'm gonna get a million
Speaker 1: emails from people saying, rich, which kindle case did you get?
Speaker 2: So I will go ahead.
Speaker 1: And look inside my Kindle order and see what the
Speaker 1: name of this case is if I can find it.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna have to go. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: go way back.
Speaker 1: Moco case fits Kindle paper white, eleven dollars and ninety
Speaker 1: nine cents, so perfect, perfect, perfect, Get it and protect
Speaker 1: your kindle. But anyway, let me go over the new
Speaker 1: Kindle features. Okay, so the number one new feature is
Speaker 1: that these Kindles have USB C on them, which is
Speaker 1: long time coming. Everyone else in the world has switched
Speaker 1: to USBC, except the Kindles were still shipping with micro USB.
Speaker 1: And that's fine because the Kindle battery lasts so long
Speaker 1: you don't really need to charge it very often. But
Speaker 1: for me, that is pretty much the last thing that
Speaker 1: I have that uses micro USB, so I when I
Speaker 1: finally get a new Kindle, we'll retire that and go
Speaker 1: to USBC. And the other flip side is that I
Speaker 1: would always charge my Kindle before I went out of
Speaker 1: trip or vacation. And yes, the battery lasts so long,
Speaker 1: I didn't really have to worry about it much, but
Speaker 1: I didn't want to bring an extra cable. So you know,
Speaker 1: now that I can have USBC, I don't really have
Speaker 1: to worry about making sure that it's super charged up
Speaker 1: right before I go on a trip. So the Kindle
Speaker 1: Paper White is going to have twenty percent faster page turns,
Speaker 1: up to ten weeks of battery life up from six weeks.
Speaker 1: It's waterproof, It has everything you need for one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty dollars. And my warning to you is don't
Speaker 1: pay full price. These things go on sale all the time,
Speaker 1: so set a price drop alert on Honey or Camel
Speaker 1: Camel Camel, and buy it when this thing goes on
Speaker 1: sale sometime over the holidays. They always go on sale.
Speaker 1: Next up, if you want to step up, is the
Speaker 1: Kindle Paper White Signature Edition, and this has the they
Speaker 1: both have the front light, but this one has the sensor,
Speaker 1: and so the front light adjusts automatically and it will
Speaker 1: adjust depending on how dark or light the room you're
Speaker 1: in is. And then it also has wireless charging, which
Speaker 1: I guess that's cool. I don't really see that as
Speaker 1: a big feature on the Kindle because you're not the
Speaker 1: battery lasts so long. Like wireless charging is good when
Speaker 1: you're trying to keep your phone charged all day, but
Speaker 1: for a Kindle, I don't really see the point of that.
Speaker 2: And then you get more storage thirty two gigs.
Speaker 1: But again, who has more than one book on their
Speaker 1: kindle at any given time? Do you really need to
Speaker 1: store more than one.
Speaker 2: Book on there?
Speaker 1: I don't think so, So that's one ninety So really
Speaker 1: the only thing you need there is the auto adjusting
Speaker 1: front light sensor, which quite honestly, my Kindle has that,
Speaker 1: and I still adjust the light manually because I find
Speaker 1: that the censor is not all that great. The other
Speaker 1: thing they came out with is the Kindle Paper White Kids.
Speaker 1: This is the first ever waterproof kindle for kids, no distractions,
Speaker 1: not like an iPad where it's got games and all
Speaker 1: these other things.
Speaker 2: I want to buy all the time.
Speaker 1: It includes a one year subscription to Amazon Kids Plus,
Speaker 1: which has thousands of books.
Speaker 2: Personally, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of those books are probably good, some
Speaker 1: of them probably are not very good. And then this
Speaker 1: is one hundred and sixty dollars, which sounds expensive for
Speaker 1: a kid's kindle. But again, find these things on sale.
Speaker 1: That's my advice. With the kindles, they go on sale
Speaker 1: late October. By the way, you can pre order them now.
Speaker 1: They'll be available before the holidays.
Speaker 2: Next question from Lisa hey Rich.
Speaker 1: You did a segment a few months ago about being
Speaker 1: able to download unlimited amounts of digital photos for ten
Speaker 1: dollars a year. Can you send me that information if
Speaker 1: it's still available. Sure, the website is called I drive.
Speaker 1: Now it's not downloading. I mean, I guess you could download,
Speaker 1: but it's really about uploading the unlimited photos.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: I drive is a company based here in the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles area, and they're known for their backups for like
Speaker 1: enterprise computers and also desktop computers. But they saw a
Speaker 1: need to do something when Google raised all their prices
Speaker 1: to introduce full resolution backup that's unlimited for ten dollars
Speaker 1: a year, and I got to say, I'm impressed it
Speaker 1: looks the app is very simple, but it does exactly
Speaker 1: what you need. So if you download this app to
Speaker 1: your iPhone or your Android, it will take in all
Speaker 1: the pictures on your phone, upload them to the cloud
Speaker 1: in full resolution and videos by the way, And it's
Speaker 1: ten dollars a year. And when you get a new phone,
Speaker 1: the other little party trick it has built in is
Speaker 1: that it can download all those photos to your camera
Speaker 1: role on your new phone. Now, I don't know why
Speaker 1: you'd want to do that necessarily unless you like all
Speaker 1: your pictures on your physical device, but I mean maybe
Speaker 1: you do. I don't know, but I think that them
Speaker 1: being in the cloud is a better place for them.
Speaker 1: But this is a great thing. It's ten dollars a year.
Speaker 1: I recommend it, and I of course, because you know,
Speaker 1: no matter what, if you have your photos somewhere, I
Speaker 1: recommend a second place where you have them. And I'll
Speaker 1: be quite a honest with you, I don't right now
Speaker 1: I need to get this set up because I've got
Speaker 1: my photos in one place, Google Photos, and I'm really
Speaker 1: really concerned about that because I have some old backups here,
Speaker 1: but I don't have a current backup that's like every day,
Speaker 1: and I need to do that very soon. I need
Speaker 1: to set that up, so don't be like me get
Speaker 1: your photos in two different places. I just happen to
Speaker 1: have a large, large, large amount of photos. So my
Speaker 1: solution just takes a little bit longer because it's kind
Speaker 1: of expensive and I just don't feel like spending the
Speaker 1: money to.
Speaker 2: Set it up.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to lose my picture, So you
Speaker 1: know what, I need to set that up very soon.
Speaker 2: So that's what it's called.
Speaker 1: I drive Photos and I will put the link, of
Speaker 1: course in the show notes. Facebook this week came out
Speaker 1: with two new devices. They're portal devices. So if you
Speaker 1: remember last week or the week before, Facebook came out
Speaker 1: with sunglasses, now they've got two new.
Speaker 2: Video chat devices. These are called portals. Now.
Speaker 1: I was there for the launch of the first generation
Speaker 1: of devices, and honestly, the reception was chilli at best.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never seen the media knock down a company,
Speaker 1: and Facebook cannot catch a break at this point. The
Speaker 1: company has I don't know what they're gonna do to
Speaker 1: get on the positive side of things with people, but
Speaker 1: it's interesting because people I look at face, I look
Speaker 1: at people's phones all the time when I'm out and about.
Speaker 1: People are on Facebook all the time. People are on
Speaker 1: Instagram all the time. Instagram's owned by Facebook. But yet
Speaker 1: somehow people always say, like I see in the media
Speaker 1: how much people hate Facebook. So do you hate it
Speaker 1: or do you like it? Because a lot of people
Speaker 1: are using it. This platform has two point seven billion
Speaker 1: people on it. I think it's amazing because it connects
Speaker 1: people and it allows you to do things like I
Speaker 1: personally have a Facebook page that has a lot of
Speaker 1: followers on it, and I love the fact that I
Speaker 1: can reach people around the world because of this free product,
Speaker 1: and it's amazing. I've had videos go viral on there
Speaker 1: that do so many views, it's like mind boggling.
Speaker 2: It is. It is a huge platform.
Speaker 1: And if you're discounting it and saying that they're you know, oh,
Speaker 1: they're just in it for your you know, data, and they're.
Speaker 2: In it, yes they are.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, they do provide a service
Speaker 1: to people, and that is connecting people and now keeping
Speaker 1: people informed is a little bit different. Yes, people get
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff from Facebook, but it's not always
Speaker 1: the best stuff, and that's a problem. Yes, and I
Speaker 1: but I But at the same time, the fact that
Speaker 1: I can disseminate a story on Facebook just as well
Speaker 1: as anyone else in the world is pretty cool. It's
Speaker 1: just I don't know what the solution is to the
Speaker 1: fact that people get their news nowadays from Facebook, Instagram
Speaker 1: and TikTok I mean, no joke people and YouTube, and
Speaker 1: the problem is there's just no editor. I'm nothing against
Speaker 1: all this information out there, it's amazing, but when you
Speaker 1: get your information from a company like the company I
Speaker 1: work for, like KTLA, we have systems, we have processes
Speaker 1: for getting information on TV and writing information on the web,
Speaker 1: and what we're allowed to do and what we're not
Speaker 1: allowed to do, and what we are comfortable with doing.
Speaker 1: But if you're just some random Joe Schmoe on Instagram,
Speaker 1: TikTok or Facebook or Twitter, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: You can say the sky is green and that's because
Speaker 1: there are you know, particles that the government sprays into
Speaker 1: the sky every day to make it blue, but it's
Speaker 1: actually green. I mean, you can say that it's free
Speaker 1: speech whatever. Well free speech doesn't really apply to social media,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, My point is it's
Speaker 1: not fact checked necessarily, and these social media networks are
Speaker 1: trying to do that, but it is an uphill battle.
Speaker 1: It's the stuff that I hear people say to me
Speaker 1: that is so un grounded or grounded in nothing is
Speaker 1: just wild. I mean, look at the Apple rumors alone
Speaker 1: that we see that are published on big blogs and
Speaker 1: this and that, and half of them turn out to
Speaker 1: not be true. So I used to never cover Apple
Speaker 1: rumors for a long time, in fact, probably the first
Speaker 1: like eight years of my job at KTLA, because I
Speaker 1: was like, this is a rumor. I don't cover rumors.
Speaker 1: I am a journalist that covers actual stories. And the
Speaker 1: problem became so many people are interested in the rumors
Speaker 1: and it's being reported everywhere. You look like you don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about because you're not talking about
Speaker 1: the rumors. And so I'm very clear when I talk
Speaker 1: about the fact that these are rumors or analysts, you know,
Speaker 1: analyst predictions or whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's really what the rumors are.
Speaker 1: Now they're analysts and analyst says Okay, portal Go, Let's
Speaker 1: talk about these two new devices from Facebook. So portal
Speaker 1: Go is a ten inch screen, it's portable. So this
Speaker 1: means that this little device can be taken from room
Speaker 1: to room, so when it's not being used, it sits
Speaker 1: on a wireless charger or some sort of charger. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a contact charger. I'm not really sure. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen this in person yet, but you take it from
Speaker 1: room to room. So if your kids want a video
Speaker 1: chat with Grandma in their bedroom, read them a book
Speaker 1: at night, whatever you can. It's got a twelve megapixel
Speaker 1: smart camera which has an ultra wide field of view,
Speaker 1: which means it follows you around the room. Like so
Speaker 1: you got that video that kind of like moves around,
Speaker 1: it zooms into like where the person is on the screen.
Speaker 1: And this is a cool little touch. This doubles as
Speaker 1: a portable speaker. So pretty smart because it is wireless
Speaker 1: and you can take it anywhere. That is a nice
Speaker 1: I think that's a brilliant side use of this thing.
Speaker 1: This is one hundred and ninety nine dollars and available soon.
Speaker 2: The Portal Plus.
Speaker 1: Is a fourteen inch screen and it's stationary, but the
Speaker 1: screen does tilt up and down, and that's three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: This is really for the This is like Portal Go.
Speaker 1: I think would be for most people. This is kind
Speaker 1: of like high end. Three fifty is a lot, and
Speaker 1: this can let you zoom with twenty five people at
Speaker 1: once on the screen. And so this is for someone
Speaker 1: who might want to keep this on their desk. Maybe
Speaker 1: we're talking like a work at home situation. You want
Speaker 1: they use it for zoom. It's a little bit I
Speaker 1: hope it's a little bit higher powered than the portal Go.
Speaker 1: When I played with the devices when they first launched,
Speaker 1: I think this was pre pandemic. Oh my gosh, was
Speaker 1: it really that long ago. They were not well received,
Speaker 1: and honestly, when I played with them, they seem to
Speaker 1: be a little bit underpowered. And I feel like that's
Speaker 1: kind of a theme I've seen with all of these
Speaker 1: like little devices that you put around your house, like
Speaker 1: the smart screens. They all seem to be just have
Speaker 1: a little bit less horsepower than you'd like. And I
Speaker 1: think they do that because they're using cheap chips inside,
Speaker 1: because they're mass producing these things. But and we're also
Speaker 1: spoiled from our iPhones and androids that are so fast
Speaker 1: and snappy these days that these screens don't look like
Speaker 1: they're as fast.
Speaker 2: But those are the portal devices.
Speaker 1: I think they're really cool because everyone has a Facebook account,
Speaker 1: it's easy to get someone on board. But honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't think they've sold as well as Facebook wants. But
Speaker 1: they're going to continue to make them because I do
Speaker 1: think it's a bedrock of what they do do. They
Speaker 1: want to have this thing in the house, easy to chat,
Speaker 1: easy to connect, show your pictures, it can show your status, updates, whatever,
Speaker 1: and I think that it's a cool product. I just
Speaker 1: think it's the problem of getting over that whole we
Speaker 1: don't trust Facebook kind of thing with these subject line
Speaker 1: is printers high rich. I moved across country and the
Speaker 1: printer I've had for years didn't quite make it.
Speaker 2: Lol.
Speaker 1: My HP eighty six twenty has worked great over the years,
Speaker 1: but for some reason only prints some items. A friend
Speaker 1: said it might be a quote unquote chrome issue. I
Speaker 1: tried to update it, but my computer won't even recognize it.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, I need a new printer now on
Speaker 1: the East Coast. Not knowing anyone, you're the only one
Speaker 1: I can think of that might be able to help.
Speaker 1: Do you have any suggestions for a good all in one?
Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, Sincerely, Jamie Jamie, your question couldn't
Speaker 1: have come at a better time. I just purchased a
Speaker 1: new printer, and I got mine at Costco, and it's
Speaker 1: a highlight rated printer, and it might be overkill for
Speaker 1: what you need. But I got the HP. It's hold on,
Speaker 1: I got to look up what I got here because
Speaker 1: I have it written down.
Speaker 2: Let's see here, printers, Let's see. Okay, where is it?
Speaker 2: Well I thought I had it. There we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I got the HP nine zero one eight.
Speaker 1: Now this might be a little overkill. It's only like
Speaker 1: two hundred bucks at Costco, and so a couple things here.
Speaker 1: Number one, you kind of have to decide do you
Speaker 1: want to go. There's a couple of major manufacturers. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a couple types of printers. Do you want to
Speaker 1: go with a laser jet or do you want to
Speaker 1: go with a ink jet? Now I had laser jet
Speaker 1: for many years. I had a brother printer that lasted me.
Speaker 1: I think it was twelve years and.
Speaker 2: All right, wait when did I get it twenty thirteen?
Speaker 1: Anyway, I got a long time ago, and it was
Speaker 1: great and it's it's lasted me forever. But the kids
Speaker 1: really wanted a color printer so they can print all
Speaker 1: they want. And so I was like, all right, fine,
Speaker 1: color laser is cool, but I figured the ink jet
Speaker 1: was better because.
Speaker 2: I wanted to print pictures at home.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, you really have a choice
Speaker 1: of like you have Canon, you have HP, and you
Speaker 1: have epsin. Canon I haven't really heard much from lately,
Speaker 1: so really it comes down to Epsen and HP for me.
Speaker 1: HP to me is synonymous with really expensive printer cartridges,
Speaker 1: but they've been around forever and they kind of know
Speaker 1: what they're doing, whereas epsin is really pushing this whole
Speaker 1: freefillable ink well kind of concept where you just squeeze
Speaker 1: new ink into the well. And I like that because
Speaker 1: it appeals to my frugal side and I like when
Speaker 1: companies are kind of like in the number two position
Speaker 1: where they, you know, will do things a little bit
Speaker 1: different to try to make it better. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I did go with HP because
Speaker 1: I just figured, you know, HP has been around forever
Speaker 1: and this was highly rated and let me do it.
Speaker 1: So that's what I got, and I think that you
Speaker 1: can look for one along that line. I got the
Speaker 1: kind of the Pro series, but maybe you don't need
Speaker 1: the pro depends what you're doing with this thing.
Speaker 2: But I would go to Costco if you can.
Speaker 1: I know you're on the East Coast at Costco. What
Speaker 1: I love about them, and I talk about them on
Speaker 1: the show a lot, is that when it comes to electronics,
Speaker 1: they don't have a huge selection, but the selection they
Speaker 1: do have is really good, and so whatever you get
Speaker 1: there is going to be a little bit better than
Speaker 1: say another place, now best Buy. You'll notice this is
Speaker 1: what I don't want you to do. Don't just find
Speaker 1: the cheapest printer that's on sale for sixty sixty seven
Speaker 1: ninety dollars at best Buy on an end cap, because
Speaker 1: what happens there is that you're going to get subpar
Speaker 1: quality and you're going to be using the ink on
Speaker 1: that that's a razor blade, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Or that's a razor handle, and the blades are where
Speaker 1: they make a lot of the money. Now on my printer,
Speaker 1: same thing, but it is a very nice printer and
Speaker 1: it has a lot of great features and it's high end.
Speaker 1: So these cheap O printers, they're cutting corners somewhere, and
Speaker 1: that's probably in the quality of the print or the
Speaker 1: cartridges that are going to be a little bit more
Speaker 1: expensive whatever, So I would be just don't get that one.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I did, which I this is
Speaker 1: news to me, But HP has this subscription service called
Speaker 1: like HP Instant Inc. I think it's called HP Instant Inc.
Speaker 1: And it's so wild because it's basically a subscription. So
Speaker 1: my my printer, I'm getting this free for six months,
Speaker 1: by the way, and again I'll put a referral link
Speaker 1: if you want to try it with your printer. But
Speaker 1: in the show notes, but it's I am. My printer
Speaker 1: is not my own. It's connected to the internet. And
Speaker 1: once you sign up for this program, you pay a
Speaker 1: monthly fee, and for that monthly fee, you get to
Speaker 1: print a certain amount of pages. They don't care how
Speaker 1: much ink it takes, so for instance, you can pay
Speaker 1: I think on mine, I'm doing five dollars a month
Speaker 1: for one hundred pages, and so I can print one
Speaker 1: hundred pages of pictures. I can print one hundred pages
Speaker 1: of whatever I want as long as I'm you know,
Speaker 1: paying that five dollars a month. Now, they send you
Speaker 1: unlimited ink to do that, so they don't go buy
Speaker 1: the ink cartridge price. You're just they just send you
Speaker 1: a bunch of ink and you pop it in your machine,
Speaker 1: and your machine talks back to the internet and reports
Speaker 1: every time you print a page. So as of right now,
Speaker 1: I can tell you how many pages I have printed
Speaker 1: on my printer and if I'm getting up against my limit,
Speaker 1: and so I don't know if.
Speaker 2: This is going to last. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do this forever. But I don't know. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to figure out if it's cheaper.
Speaker 1: It seems like it might be cheaper than you know,
Speaker 1: buying ink all the time. So it says you're saving
Speaker 1: up to fifty percent on ink and toner, and you
Speaker 1: can also print from anywhere, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 2: And I've printed thirty nine pages this month.
Speaker 1: So it's just such a weird kind of it's such
Speaker 1: a weird system, Like it's I'm kind of like, I
Speaker 1: feel like I work in an office where someone else,
Speaker 1: like a third party's like managing my printer, even though
Speaker 1: I purchase this printer.
Speaker 2: But I hope I answered your question.
Speaker 1: I've got thirty six out of one hundred pages this month,
Speaker 1: and oh yeah, four ninety nine, So four ninety nine
Speaker 1: for one hundred pages a month. So if the kids
Speaker 1: end up printing more than that, Now, to me, that's
Speaker 1: sixty dollars a year. Five times twelve is sixty. That
Speaker 1: sounds like it's the price of an inkjet cartridge. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how much inkjet cartridge cartridges are.
Speaker 2: For my computer. It might be more, might be less.
Speaker 1: But I think that this is a cool little a
Speaker 1: cool little system to go with. All right, let's see,
Speaker 1: let's go to the next question or not that we're
Speaker 1: going to next story here. Wisecam has come out with
Speaker 1: a new version, the wise Campan two.
Speaker 2: This is the wisecam I did.
Speaker 1: A story on many many years ago before this company
Speaker 1: was a big thing and people could not believe that
Speaker 1: you can get a camera for twenty bucks. Then they
Speaker 1: came out with some other products. I think the Wisecampan
Speaker 1: was their second product, and this was a little bit
Speaker 1: more expensive, but it was a camera that would move
Speaker 1: like on its base. It would you know, move left, right, up, down, whatever.
Speaker 1: So now they have a new version of that and
Speaker 1: this I'll tell you about the feature. So number one,
Speaker 1: you could see the whole room in three seconds. It's
Speaker 1: got a three hundred and sixty degree horizontal coverage and
Speaker 1: ninety three degrees vertical coverage, so it goes up, down, left, right,
Speaker 1: you can just kind of pan see everything. There's this
Speaker 1: pan scan mode which patrols your room, so you can
Speaker 1: set up to four custom waypoints and kind of like
Speaker 1: those security cameras of the mall that just rotate left, right, up, down,
Speaker 1: you can have that in your house.
Speaker 2: So this thing just does that by itself.
Speaker 1: Color night vision, so they use this starlight sensor which
Speaker 1: illuminates details in full color even in the dark. So
Speaker 1: you know, most cameras at night are black and white,
Speaker 1: but this one you can see things in color. Those
Speaker 1: infrared lights are not visible to the naked eye.
Speaker 2: So I know my kids when.
Speaker 1: They were little with a little camera in their room,
Speaker 1: the kids cam, they were like, Dad, I don't like
Speaker 1: those little lights on the thing.
Speaker 2: And I'd be like, oh, they're okay, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: But really I'm like, oh my god, that's like the
Speaker 1: scariest thing I've ever seen for a little tiny kid.
Speaker 1: But somehow my kids made it through. And Wi Pan
Speaker 1: V two does not have those lights on them, so
Speaker 1: it's invisible or I guess the infrared lights are not
Speaker 1: visible to the naked eye for night vision motion tracking.
Speaker 1: It'll track things so if something's detected, it will pan
Speaker 1: across as a as an object moves across, So if
Speaker 1: you have like bigfoot spoted in your yard, it will
Speaker 1: follow it until it goes out of the frame. And
Speaker 1: then two way audio and a little siren so you
Speaker 1: can chat two way audio. If you've got like a
Speaker 1: pet at home you want to chat with, you can
Speaker 1: talk two ways with them and hear them bark back.
Speaker 1: And then there's also a siren button and they call
Speaker 1: it a mini siren. So clearly it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: that loud, but at least it's I haven't tested this,
Speaker 1: but at least it's going to be loud enough where
Speaker 1: you have a nice little siren if you need to
Speaker 1: ring the alarm.
Speaker 2: As we say, this.
Speaker 1: Camera is forty dollars plus shipping, so it'll be available soon.
Speaker 1: But wise cam Pan V two. I love why stuff.
Speaker 1: They do a really nice job.
Speaker 2: I gotta say, Okay, Earl Gee, good day, Hello Rich.
Speaker 2: I hope you're doing well. I'm Earl Gee.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm saying that right From Philippines. I work
Speaker 1: on the I Store Service center. I Store is an
Speaker 1: authorized service provider of Apple. I always watch your videos
Speaker 1: because I've learned a lot of things for additional learning.
Speaker 1: Thanks Earl. Gee ah, well, thank you.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 1: I do have a lot of followers in various countries
Speaker 1: because some of the videos I've done have gone viral,
Speaker 1: and you know, people, I mean, if someone is good,
Speaker 1: like you care if they live in the US or
Speaker 1: you know, wherever they live. I follow some you know,
Speaker 1: YouTube ers are in different countries, and so I love
Speaker 1: the fact that people watch in different countries. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So thank you for watching, and I'm glad you like
Speaker 1: the videos. I always I always keep if you notice,
Speaker 1: with my videos, I always keep in mind that not
Speaker 1: everyone watching is in Los Angeles. I mean, even though
Speaker 1: I'm based in Los Angeles. You know, with the web,
Speaker 1: things are everywhere and not just in the US. It's
Speaker 1: like international, and so I try to keep that in mind,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't always work, but I try to do that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of a US centric story, starting November first T
Speaker 1: Mobile will now have in store device repairs at five
Speaker 1: hundred stores across the country. This is the first time
Speaker 1: they've done this and service locations are coming to nearly
Speaker 1: every major city across the country, so chances are this
Speaker 1: will be coming to you starting November first. Customers with
Speaker 1: Protection three sixty can find the authorized location use the
Speaker 1: online appointment tool to make a same.
Speaker 2: Day repair schedule.
Speaker 1: It's the repairs are coming from Assurant, which I'm assuming
Speaker 1: is the backers of this insurance. And honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: really typically recommend getting the protection plans on gadgets, but
Speaker 1: you know, if you can get them repaired in store
Speaker 1: at T Mobile and you're with T Mobile, that's a
Speaker 1: pretty good deal because nobody wants to be without their phone.
Speaker 2: And I did the math.
Speaker 1: This is about seven dollars a month, which is pretty
Speaker 1: inexpensive when you think about it. I mean, you buy,
Speaker 1: like I bought a Starbucks yesterday, it was five dollars.
Speaker 1: So clearly I can afford the seven dollars a month
Speaker 1: for this protection. And the fact that they will now
Speaker 1: repair these things in store, I think is really cool.
Speaker 2: You also get up.
Speaker 1: To five claims per year, so that's good, So you
Speaker 1: can for that seven dollars a month. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it depends on. You know, the seven dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that How if there's like a
Speaker 1: deductible if you have to pay stuff, you know, every
Speaker 1: time you break something, but says you get accidental damage,
Speaker 1: loss and theft coverage, including next business day replacements.
Speaker 2: So that's cool.
Speaker 1: You get Apple Care for eligible Apple devices, You get
Speaker 1: unlimited screen protector replacements and they will put it on
Speaker 1: for you. They get hardware service coverage like a mechanical
Speaker 1: breakdown included jump upgrades, which lets you get the atest,
Speaker 1: the latest and greatest device sooner tech support, and you
Speaker 1: can add the protection three sixty when you buy a
Speaker 1: new device, you complete a repair lease or finance up
Speaker 1: to thirty days later.
Speaker 2: So I think this is cool.
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're doing this because a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, authorized service centers are kind of limited to
Speaker 1: either an individual shop or you break eye fixed. But
Speaker 1: this is just one more way of getting your device fixed.
Speaker 1: And the fact that you know people will probably roll
Speaker 1: this protection three sixty. It's on their monthly bill, so
Speaker 1: it's just simpler that it's like one one stop shop
Speaker 1: for everything and you get your phone fixed. And I
Speaker 1: really like that, so good good job TEA Mobile, Like
Speaker 1: I hope. I don't know if all the carriers are
Speaker 1: doing that. June, why or June says, hey, Rich, my
Speaker 1: wife bought a Tesla Model.
Speaker 2: Oh, my wife.
Speaker 1: Bought a Tesla Model three Standard range plus. We're currently
Speaker 1: looking for car insurance. Maybe you have a recommendation for us.
Speaker 1: We don't drive that much since we are currently teleworking.
Speaker 1: Thank you have a great day, best June. Jun Well, June,
Speaker 1: I would check out metro mile and this is the
Speaker 1: company that does insurance by the mile, and so you
Speaker 1: put like you used to be, you put this little
Speaker 1: like thing in your car, but maybe they do it
Speaker 1: with your cell phone now. I don't know how it
Speaker 1: works at this point, but I was an early tester
Speaker 1: of this, and it was like they sent me this
Speaker 1: little gadget that you would plug into your like I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it was called like an ODB.
Speaker 1: Port or something like that. I can't remember what it's called,
Speaker 1: but it's a port on your car that you know
Speaker 1: has all the let me see car port ob ob
Speaker 1: D Okay, maybe it's ob D yeah, ob D. And
Speaker 1: so you put this little thing in this let me see?
Speaker 1: Is that really what it's called. I think that's what
Speaker 1: it's called.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Anyway you put it, you put this little thing in there,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that Tesla has that. But I
Speaker 1: know metro mile works with Tesla, but I would look
Speaker 1: at that. And so it says you pay twenty nine
Speaker 1: dollars monthly rate. Oh, we base your rates on age,
Speaker 1: credit score, and zip code and then we consider real
Speaker 1: time data like the miles you drive. So you pay
Speaker 1: like a certain monthly rate and then you pay per
Speaker 1: the mile. I mean, it's really pretty straightforward. And those
Speaker 1: prices I think depend on you know, what you're like,
Speaker 1: I said, your credit rate and all that stuff. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I would look at Metrobile. The other thing I like
Speaker 1: is called gabby Gabi dot com. You can compare insurance
Speaker 1: from various places and as you found out, as I
Speaker 1: found out, ensuring a Tesla three is quite expensive because
Speaker 1: they're safe, but the repairs are expensive because you have
Speaker 1: to have Tesla do it, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: repairs are very technical because of all of the gadgets involved.
Speaker 1: All right, one more question from Mark. Hey, Rich, I
Speaker 1: love following you for all your updates and tips. Do
Speaker 1: you know is there a way to clean out duplicate
Speaker 1: photos on my main album Thank You sent for my iPhone. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've gotten this question a lot because so many people
Speaker 1: are upgrading to iPhones. But I like the app called
Speaker 1: Gemini Photos. G E M I NI Gemini Photos, and
Speaker 1: it's I don't know how much does it cost.
Speaker 2: It's a one time fee, I believe in app purchases.
Speaker 2: It's probably not.
Speaker 1: It probably changed it because everything is now a subscription. Yeah,
Speaker 1: monthly okay, one time purchase is thirty five dollars annual
Speaker 1: twenty monthly five so it removes similar pictures.
Speaker 2: But I would just be.
Speaker 1: Very careful anytime that you are deleting pictures off your phone,
Speaker 1: just be very careful because I don't want you to
Speaker 1: delete anything that might not be a duplicate or it's
Speaker 1: something that you can't get back. So when you're doing
Speaker 1: something like a batch delete, just be very very careful.
Speaker 1: Make sure you have a backup there. Oh wow, look
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