Speaker 1: Samsung ready to launch a new phone, and it's not
Speaker 1: the Fold, the new app that lets you stream all
Speaker 1: of your local channels for free. Walmart has a sixty
Speaker 1: four dollars tablet, and my opinion of it might surprise you.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a trip.
Speaker 1: Down memory lane with the Walkman and answer your pressing
Speaker 1: tech questions.
Speaker 2: What's going on. I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about this stuff I think you should know about happening
Speaker 1: in the tech world. Plus, as you know, I answer
Speaker 1: your tech questions. Producer Megan is on vacation this week,
Speaker 1: so I will be handling the entire show solo this
Speaker 1: time around, and I say, we just jump right into things.
Speaker 1: We've got Samsung with their announcement that their next event
Speaker 1: will be happening August seventh in New York City. They
Speaker 1: call these Unpacked events. I got the invitation. It's happening
Speaker 1: at the same place it happened last year. I feel
Speaker 1: like I was just in New York shown off the
Speaker 1: Note nine, but now we're going to see the Note ten. Well,
Speaker 1: we think we're going to see the Note ten. They
Speaker 1: don't necessarily say what they're going to unveil at these things, but.
Speaker 2: We're pretty sure it's the Note ten.
Speaker 1: The invitation was a stylust that was animated showing a
Speaker 1: stylus kind of touching what looks to be a camera
Speaker 1: that was centered on a white background. So this of
Speaker 1: course made people speculate what that could mean. Is there
Speaker 1: a centered selfie cam? Are there four cameras? Is there
Speaker 1: a camera on the stylus?
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 1: But what we do know about the Note ten and
Speaker 1: the Note in general, is that this is where Samsung
Speaker 1: unveils all of their latest and greatest technology. All the
Speaker 1: innovations happen on the Note ten or the Note and
Speaker 1: then they trickle down into the Samsung Galaxy S line.
Speaker 2: Now this is a little.
Speaker 1: Bit different, and this is kind of an awkward situation
Speaker 1: for Samsung because they've got the Galaxy Fold, which is
Speaker 1: kind of a failure to launch. So they launched, They
Speaker 1: tried to launch that a couple months back.
Speaker 2: That didn't work.
Speaker 1: They recalled it from reporters that they sent it out to,
Speaker 1: and they kind of did some more work on it,
Speaker 1: and I'm seeing reports that say they've figured out the problem.
Speaker 1: They've made this hinge work better. They've made it so
Speaker 1: the hinge does not impact the screen on that device,
Speaker 1: so they're ready to relaunch it. But are they going
Speaker 1: to do that now right before the August seventh event?
Speaker 1: I mean, they only have four weeks to do that,
Speaker 1: So this is kind of an awkward situation for Samsung.
Speaker 1: Not sure what they're going to do or how they're
Speaker 1: going to handle this. Maybe they'll launch both devices at
Speaker 1: the same time at the event, so they'll tell us
Speaker 1: what happened with the fold and explain that and apologize,
Speaker 1: and then of course launched the Note ten as well.
Speaker 1: But last year's Note nine was an expensive device, over
Speaker 1: one thousand bucks, and I think we're going to see
Speaker 1: that same thing happen here. But what can they add
Speaker 1: to the Note ten to make it crazier, to make
Speaker 1: it better? I mean, the cameras have gotten so good
Speaker 1: on these devices. I mean, clearly there's always room for
Speaker 1: improvement with the cameras, though, to make them even better
Speaker 1: at full proof pictures. The screens are just phenomenal at
Speaker 1: this point. Battery life, I mean, if you have a
Speaker 1: Note you've got such a large battery in there, the
Speaker 1: battery life isn't even an issue, so what could they
Speaker 1: do to really make this thing better?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Could they make the stylists better, could they make software better?
Speaker 1: Could they make the camera lenses even crazier? So maybe
Speaker 1: get four or five holographic screens and longer batteries. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying we need on these new devices, But
Speaker 1: who knows. So we'll see Samsung again Unpacked event happening
Speaker 1: August seventh in New York City Barclay Center in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: And I get excited over these things, even though these
Speaker 1: launches have not gotten The excitement of these launches has
Speaker 1: sort of toned down over the years because people know
Speaker 1: it's another phone. There's a lot of leaks before it
Speaker 1: is unveiled. But I still get excited because it's still
Speaker 1: fun to actually see the device that these companies have
Speaker 1: been working on for a while and actually see it
Speaker 1: in reality.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to that one. All right.
Speaker 1: So let's take a quest question. This is from Nelly.
Speaker 1: This is from Nelly on Let's see. She just emailed me.
Speaker 1: She says, Hey, Rich, can you tell me about WhatsApp
Speaker 1: taking out of service people with old phones? I have
Speaker 1: a Samsung S five and this took me. I had
Speaker 1: to do a little research on this because I didn't
Speaker 1: see anything about this. I haven't heard of WhatsApp, but
Speaker 1: I guess if you're using WhatsApp, maybe you've got a
Speaker 1: notification or something. But here's the deal. So I did
Speaker 1: some research and here's what I found. WhatsApp is apparently
Speaker 1: dropping support for older phone models and anytime that you
Speaker 1: have a headline like this and a napp like WhatsApp,
Speaker 1: which a lot of people use. Not so much in
Speaker 1: the US. I mean, if you have an international friend,
Speaker 1: you probably use it. But in the US I messages
Speaker 1: king when it comes to messaging, but internationally WhatsApp is very,
Speaker 1: very strong and very prevalent. So clearly this is happening,
Speaker 1: and it's happening. Let's see it's happening February first, twenty two,
Speaker 1: so you have some time, but you've got the recommended
Speaker 1: requirements for WhatsApp is Android four point zero, which is
Speaker 1: super old, iOS eight plus which is super old, and
Speaker 1: Windows Phone eight one, so WhatsApp will no longer support
Speaker 1: phones running Android two, Windows Phone eight, iPhone three GS
Speaker 1: and iOS six and BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry ten. So
Speaker 1: the reality is especially for you, Nelly, you said, you
Speaker 1: have a Samsung S five, You are going to be
Speaker 1: just fine. They're not taking away support for the S
Speaker 1: five anytime soon. I think the reality is with this
Speaker 1: update is that they just want WhatsApp to run and
Speaker 1: be able to do everything and can do smoothly on
Speaker 1: a variety of phones, and some of these older phones
Speaker 1: with the especially with the security and stuff, they're just
Speaker 1: not supporting the newer features. But you're talking really old
Speaker 1: phones here, I mean Android two, I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I mean, when did that launch? I mean that had
Speaker 1: to be a long long time ago. I mean I
Speaker 1: don't even know what that was. But yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: a while ago. So you're gonna be just okay.
Speaker 2: All right. So what happened? Man?
Speaker 1: This was This was wild if you were following things
Speaker 1: or tried to access social media, depending on when you
Speaker 1: listen to this, this happened yesterday, but you know you
Speaker 1: probably have it in recent memory. But Facebook, Instagram and
Speaker 1: other social networks all went down, including WhatsApp and also
Speaker 1: Facebook Messenger, and they all went down. This was on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: July third. They went down for a really long time.
Speaker 1: And I know how I figured this out. I was
Speaker 1: trying to upload a story to Instagram and it was
Speaker 1: from my niece, whose birthday it was, and I kept,
Speaker 1: you know, uploading the story, and it just would not work.
Speaker 1: I was uploading a picture and I was convinced it
Speaker 1: was the phone I was. I was using an Android device,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you gotta be kidding me this.
Speaker 1: I can't believe this doesn't work. Watch how easy this
Speaker 1: is on the iPhone. And I switched to my iPhone
Speaker 1: and the same thing happens. I got an upload failed,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, well, clearly it's not these things.
Speaker 1: Then I checked my WiFi and I said, okay, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm on corporate Wi Fi. Maybe that's not working.
Speaker 1: Turn that off. Nope, still didn't load. Okay, well, maybe
Speaker 1: Verizon's having a problem. Maybe the Verizon network's not working.
Speaker 2: All these things.
Speaker 1: Until I do a quick little search on Twitter and
Speaker 1: find out that yes, a lot of people were having
Speaker 1: problem with Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 2: Again, this was early in the morning.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm on the early news, So I discovered
Speaker 1: this early, and then clearly throughout the day it just
Speaker 1: kept going and going and going. And so what did
Speaker 1: people see? They saw blank pictures? You couldn't scroll your
Speaker 1: likes and all that stuff wasn't being updated. Now, this
Speaker 1: wasn't something where it was totally out one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Some things and some aspects still worked, and they worked intermittently,
Speaker 1: but overall a lot of people had trouble accessing these
Speaker 1: social networks. So the Next Web did a great little
Speaker 1: article about how to know if this is happening. So
Speaker 1: if I was smart, I would have gone right to
Speaker 1: Facebook's Developer dashboard, which is what they recommend, And if
Speaker 1: you want to get that, you can just google Facebook
Speaker 1: Developer Dashboard and it gives you a status update of
Speaker 1: everything that's going on.
Speaker 2: And the reason why they have this not.
Speaker 1: Really for regular people, but regular people can use it. It's
Speaker 1: for app developers. So if you have an app and
Speaker 1: something's a little wonky with the app, you can go
Speaker 1: to the app dashboard and see or sorry, the developer,
Speaker 1: let's see first. You can head to Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: can go to the developer dashboard and kind of see, hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on here, like what's going on? Platform status
Speaker 1: it's called and so Facebook platform is healthy since ten
Speaker 1: hours ago, so clearly things were messed up, and it
Speaker 1: gives you a history of the downtime and what happened,
Speaker 1: and it said degraded performance across platform resolved, and so
Speaker 1: that was the big issue there. Twitter has a developer
Speaker 1: status board for its APIs. Then there's a website called
Speaker 1: down Detector. You probably see this quoted in the news
Speaker 1: a lot. Down Detector kind of just sees what people
Speaker 1: are doing with various websites and if it's working. And
Speaker 1: I guess pings the websites regularly and just figures out
Speaker 1: if people are having problems with them. But you can
Speaker 1: go on there and see a little line of if
Speaker 1: people are having trouble with accessing some of these services,
Speaker 1: and they give some of the big services Spectrum, Verizon, Comcast,
Speaker 1: T Mobile, Sprint, COS, Snapchat, Google, YouTube, everything is pretty
Speaker 1: much represented on there, so you can figure out if
Speaker 1: it's me and not you, or if it's them and
Speaker 1: not you.
Speaker 2: I should say, by the way, there's also Apple dot com.
Speaker 2: This is a good one.
Speaker 1: If your I message isn't working or something's a little
Speaker 1: crazy on your iPhone, you can go to Apple dot
Speaker 1: com slash support slash system status and that's a good
Speaker 1: one because it tells you what's going on with all
Speaker 1: of your stuff on your iPhone, so system status and
Speaker 1: so you can see if I Message is working. I
Speaker 1: mean it has everything, so there's a green dot if
Speaker 1: things are working properly. But it's everything from Apple TV
Speaker 1: to Beats one to I Message to Siri to map
Speaker 1: search to Maps traffic. So again, these are good little
Speaker 1: tools to know about in case you have a problem
Speaker 1: with something and you can actually.
Speaker 2: See if it's you there. Used to be I used
Speaker 2: to use.
Speaker 1: This thing called like down for okay, here it is
Speaker 1: down for everyone or just me. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: Down for everyone or just me. And now you go
Speaker 1: to that website and you type in something like snapchat
Speaker 1: and then it says, is Snapchat.
Speaker 2: Down right now? Nope, it's just you. Snapchat is up.
Speaker 1: So it actually checks the website for you to see
Speaker 1: if it's down for everyone or.
Speaker 2: If it's just you. So if it's just you, you
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 1: There's something wrong with your internet connection or your setup
Speaker 1: and not the setup of the servers on their end.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, wrong one doing the show myself today. This
Speaker 1: is what happens folks. All right, this message comes in
Speaker 1: from not a David she said, mentioned on KFI this morning.
Speaker 1: So you guys know, I do a segment on KFI
Speaker 1: on twoesday morning and Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, I'm on with.
Speaker 1: Bill Handle at eight let's see it's eight am. And
Speaker 1: then on Wednesday I'm on with Jennifer Jones Lee at
Speaker 1: five twenty am, right before I go on KTLA. So
Speaker 1: I talk about, you know, all the stuff in the
Speaker 1: news happening in the tech world there as well. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. So if you're listening to KFI,
Speaker 1: you hear me there. I get a lot of people
Speaker 1: that come up to me and say, oh, I hear
Speaker 1: you on KFI. So a lot of people listen to that. Okay,
Speaker 1: so not a David said, Hello, I cannot find this
Speaker 1: on your website, but this morning you mentioned an app
Speaker 1: that can be downloaded to watch local TV channels for free.
Speaker 1: Would you please send me the name of that app.
Speaker 1: The app is called low cast, and I discovered this
Speaker 1: I saw an article in I think it was TV
Speaker 1: news Check, one of the TV industry websites that I
Speaker 1: read on a daily basis, and it just had a
Speaker 1: small mention for this low cast dot org. But it
Speaker 1: mentioned that you can stream your local channels and that
Speaker 1: it launched in La. I was like, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: So I went and I checked it out, and sure
Speaker 1: enough ktla is on there, which is really rare because
Speaker 1: ktla is not on any of the streaming services. So
Speaker 1: did a little research and found out that this operates
Speaker 1: kind of how this other service used to operate called
Speaker 1: hos it Areo, and this was a service that they
Speaker 1: were They were oh gosh, I forget what the what
Speaker 1: it was called exactly areo antenna. Yeah, areo, and so
Speaker 1: what they did this is really interesting.
Speaker 2: So this was a company.
Speaker 1: Back in the day that would set up like a
Speaker 1: farm of tiny little antennas on a roof and then
Speaker 1: stream and then take each one of the feeds from
Speaker 1: those antennas and stream it to people and sell them
Speaker 1: service so they can get all their local channels.
Speaker 2: For whatever it was, five six, seven, eight bucks a month.
Speaker 1: Well, the cable companies and the TV companies were like,
Speaker 1: uh uh uh, not so fast, that's not really how
Speaker 1: this works, and so they actually shut down that company.
Speaker 1: So now low Cast is taking a different approach. This
Speaker 1: is a nonprofit and they're doing this as quote a
Speaker 1: public service so that people who cut the cord and
Speaker 1: don't have an antenna, can still watch the local channels.
Speaker 1: How long is this gonna last? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it seems legit. The guy who's running it is a
Speaker 1: former executive with some TV companies and cable companies, so
Speaker 1: it seems legitimate. Will it last, I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: at this point it works, and it works really well.
Speaker 1: So you can download the low cast app for fireTV,
Speaker 1: Apple TV, the iPad, the iPhone, Android. It works across
Speaker 1: pretty much everything, and you log in, you create a
Speaker 1: sign up, They beg you and beg you and beg
Speaker 1: you to donate five bucks a month or more to
Speaker 1: help the service run. And after a little fifteen second
Speaker 1: spot to help you, you know, to ask you to donate,
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, you are watching the local channel.
Speaker 1: So again, this works for all the local channels in LA,
Speaker 1: including like the dot the dot channels which I call
Speaker 1: like you know, like like five, dot one, four, dot two, eleven,
Speaker 1: dot three whatever they have. Those are there as well,
Speaker 1: and so it works. It's nice the pictures in HD.
Speaker 1: It seems legitimate, and I mean I don't have a
Speaker 1: use for it because I've got an antenna along with
Speaker 1: Amazon TV, fire Recast TV, but it is a great
Speaker 1: thing to have and it's really simple. So again, you
Speaker 1: do have to sign up though, and some people said that,
Speaker 1: you know, I was getting some feedback because I put
Speaker 1: this video on my Instagram at rich On Tech, and
Speaker 1: I got some feedback from folks and they were saying that, oh,
Speaker 1: it only.
Speaker 2: Works for fifteen minutes and then they bug you again.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm not watching this thing for
Speaker 1: a long period of time. So I have no idea
Speaker 1: how if they limit you to, say, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple hours a week before you have to pay or donate.
Speaker 1: But again, check it out if you want. It's low cast.
Speaker 1: Lcast dot org is the website. If you have one
Speaker 1: of those Amazon Echo devices, you might be wondering just
Speaker 1: how long that Amazon keeps the things that you say.
Speaker 2: To you know who. I'm not going to say her name.
Speaker 1: I don't want to activate her in all of your houses.
Speaker 1: But a congress person, let's see a Democrat Senator Chris
Speaker 1: Coons sent a letter to Amazon asking how long voice
Speaker 1: recordings and transcripts are kept when you talk to this device?
Speaker 1: And guess what the answer was. They keep them forever
Speaker 1: unless you delete them. So the thing is a lot
Speaker 1: of us now that we have these microphones in our homes.
Speaker 1: We've got these phones that are tracking us.
Speaker 2: Everywhere we go.
Speaker 1: America and the world at large is sort of having
Speaker 1: a better understanding. We're just Privacy is at the forefront now.
Speaker 1: In Europe, they've got these crazy laws that are very
Speaker 1: strict about privacy, and a lot of that is trickling
Speaker 1: down into America because they're shining the light on these
Speaker 1: tech companies over there because they have to. But then
Speaker 1: Americans are saying, oh, interesting, I didn't know that was happening.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was going on. And so we
Speaker 1: may not have the same types of laws here, but
Speaker 1: people have a heightened awaywareness here because of the fact
Speaker 1: that things are happening over there regulation wise. So we understand,
Speaker 1: you know, we just have a better understanding over here.
Speaker 1: So the thing about Amazon, so if you do delete
Speaker 1: the recordings, the other thing is that the transcripts are
Speaker 1: still kept, which is kind of odd. So even if
Speaker 1: you let's say, you know, you said something to your
Speaker 1: echo and you say, okay, I want to get that
Speaker 1: out of the system, and you delete that using Amazon's website,
Speaker 1: the transcript of that is still kept seemingly indefinitely, and
Speaker 1: so why do they keep that, Well, they use that
Speaker 1: for training purposes to see when you asked, you know,
Speaker 1: your echo a certain thing, did they respond in the
Speaker 1: right way. And so they have people that go through
Speaker 1: these transcripts to see what you said and how the
Speaker 1: device responded. And apparently a lot of those transcripts are
Speaker 1: they're not anonymous, fully, but they do have some identifying
Speaker 1: information on them, which again makes people a little bit weary.
Speaker 2: So if you do want to.
Speaker 1: Check out your Alexa privacy settings, there's a separate website
Speaker 1: that Amazon set up. It's called Amazon dot com Slash
Speaker 1: Alexa Privacy Settings, And if you go to Amazon dot
Speaker 1: com Slash Alexa Privacy Settings, that will take you to
Speaker 1: all of the privacy settings and most importantly where you
Speaker 1: can see a list of all of your recordings, all
Speaker 1: the things you've said to her, and then you can
Speaker 1: go through and delete those as well. So really interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, I personally, I find this fascinating because while
Speaker 1: you may not think, you know, I'm not doing anything
Speaker 1: wrong in my house, whatever, the reality is it's kind
Speaker 1: of weird to think that someone has access to what
Speaker 1: you're saying in your private residence. And I get that
Speaker 1: for transcription, I get for like making these products better.
Speaker 1: At some point, some people do have to listen to
Speaker 1: these recordings. But I do like the idea of having
Speaker 1: the ability to delete things and have them gone. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure at this point if that's ever truly
Speaker 1: the case. So you just have to be aware that
Speaker 1: this this thing is not this system is not foolproof,
Speaker 1: and it's very new, so it's it's still evolving. Got
Speaker 1: a message from Sue Vance who wrote me on my
Speaker 1: website rich on tech dot TV. She said, is there
Speaker 1: a lens you can connect to a phone to have
Speaker 1: better quality and zoom in pictures? My phone is an Android,
Speaker 1: a Moto five. First time on your site, some really
Speaker 1: great info. Hoping to get the time to check it out.
Speaker 1: Thanks Sue. So we did a story with a company
Speaker 1: that makes they made the first lens, the first snap
Speaker 1: on lens for the iPhone called Oloclip.
Speaker 2: They are a O L L O clip. So Oloclip
Speaker 2: made the first snap on lens.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, this was a while ago. I think it
Speaker 1: was for the iPhone like five. And we did a
Speaker 1: story and the guy just hography guy and just wanted
Speaker 1: to make a you know, he loves the iPhone, big
Speaker 1: Apple fan, and just wanted to make it better and
Speaker 1: easier to have wide angle, macro, all kinds of different lenses.
Speaker 1: I mean it started out I think with just like
Speaker 1: a sort of fish fish eye, and it's expanded way
Speaker 1: way way past that. So that's the biggest company is Oloclip.
Speaker 1: You snap these things on. They used to start at
Speaker 1: fifty bucks. I think now they're like, you know, some
Speaker 1: of the nicer ones are one hundred dollars, but you
Speaker 1: snap this onto your phone and this one. They have
Speaker 1: support right now for the iPhone ten R ten, s
Speaker 1: iPhone ten eight seven, and se. So they do not
Speaker 1: have they were going to have interesting, they still don't have. Samsung.
Speaker 1: They were, oh, multi device, here we go. They do
Speaker 1: have a multi device, so there is a device that
Speaker 1: works with multi a clip that works with multiple devices
Speaker 1: and over many thin cases. So they do have that,
Speaker 1: and I think this would work on your device, So Sue,
Speaker 1: I think that would work.
Speaker 2: It depends. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It all depends on where the lens is located on
Speaker 1: your phone. And here's the thing I figured out about
Speaker 1: these clip on because I was gonna say. You can
Speaker 1: also go to Amazon and just search for something like
Speaker 1: clip on phone lens. But the problem is what I
Speaker 1: found with these clip on lenses, You're gonna use it
Speaker 1: once and you're never gonna use it again because the
Speaker 1: problem is, and I'm not talking oloclip the ones that
Speaker 1: are made specifically for device, but the multi device clips
Speaker 1: are very tricky because you have to see these things
Speaker 1: on your camera lens just right, and you don't want
Speaker 1: them to move. If they move, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: black ring on the side of your photos, or you're
Speaker 1: gonna have just some of the photo might be there
Speaker 1: might be a blockage of the lens because this thing
Speaker 1: moves ever so slightly, and then it's not perfectly centered
Speaker 1: on your lens. So I think these things are great.
Speaker 1: When I did the story with oloclip, I had used
Speaker 1: it in the past, and I used it for a
Speaker 1: while after that, and I think if you're a creator
Speaker 1: and you're trying to get different angles and you're trying
Speaker 1: to get you know, your your stuff to look different
Speaker 1: than everyone else's stuff, I think that these are fantastic.
Speaker 2: But for the average person that's.
Speaker 1: Just taking pictures and posting to Instagram and is not
Speaker 1: trying to stand out, you know, in front of the world,
Speaker 1: in front of everyone. Then you know these things are
Speaker 1: they've kind of become unnecessary and they kind of end
Speaker 1: up in a drawer. So that's just kind of my
Speaker 1: overall advice. But look at the types of lenses they
Speaker 1: have with oloclip now they have fish eye, Macro, Macro
Speaker 1: seven times, Macro, ten times, Macro, fourteen, fifteen, and twenty
Speaker 1: one times, Telephoto, two times telephoto, two times, Pro Wide Angle,
Speaker 1: Wide Angle, Intro, super Wide, super Wide, Pro, and Ultra wide.
Speaker 1: So they have a lot to choose from if you
Speaker 1: want your pictures to look different. And again, if you're
Speaker 1: a creator, you're making videos and you want to create
Speaker 1: everything right through your iPhone, these are going to be fantastic.
Speaker 2: Something like a Moto five, it's going to.
Speaker 1: Be a little bit tougher because you need one of
Speaker 1: these clip on lenses and they just might not work
Speaker 1: as well with your phone. With that said, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of companies that make these things. Moment is another one,
Speaker 1: and they have lenses, and the secret with a lot
Speaker 1: of these companies is they're making cases that let you
Speaker 1: screw on the lens or clip the lens in a
Speaker 1: way that it does not move, so it's very fixed
Speaker 1: and in that case's going to work fine. Then you
Speaker 1: have something else happening, which is the makers of the
Speaker 1: cell phones. The manufacturers like Samsung and Huawei and all
Speaker 1: these other companies and Apple, they're all making two, three
Speaker 1: four lenses on phones now, so there's less of a
Speaker 1: need for separate lenses that you clip on because, for instance,
Speaker 1: on the Samsung Galaxy S ten plus, you've got a
Speaker 1: wide angle, you've got your standard, and you've got a
Speaker 1: two time zoom. On the one plus you've got a
Speaker 1: three time zoom plus a wide angle plus the standard.
Speaker 1: So again, a lot of times you don't need these
Speaker 1: with the new devices, which puts these makers in an
Speaker 1: interest position. They're becoming more creator devices and more expensive
Speaker 1: because they're making them more premium and kind of giving
Speaker 1: you an advantage that you wouldn't get if you just
Speaker 1: used one of these cheap things or the included lens
Speaker 1: on the phone. Walmart has a new tablet that's just
Speaker 1: sixty four dollars, and they sent me two of these
Speaker 1: tablets to check out, and one was an eight inch
Speaker 1: tablet that's sixty four dollars. These are Android tablets, obviously.
Speaker 1: Another one is a ten point one inch tablet, which
Speaker 1: is just seventy nine dollars. So compare that to the
Speaker 1: price of the entry level iPad, which is three hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine dollars, you're talking a deal now. In general,
Speaker 1: I do not recommend Android tablets at all. I just
Speaker 1: don't even recommend them because they're so terrible, they're so cheap,
Speaker 1: and they just are not very good.
Speaker 2: When you look at the iPad.
Speaker 1: The beauty of the iPad is not just the design,
Speaker 1: but it's also the apps that you can get on
Speaker 1: the iPad. And because there's not a huge market for
Speaker 1: Android tablets, I'll get outside of the Amazon Fire tablets
Speaker 1: and I'll get to that in a second. There's not
Speaker 1: that many good Android apps for tablets, and yes, you'll
Speaker 1: find some of the basic ones covered, but after that
Speaker 1: it really goes downhill. Whereas with the iPad, you're getting
Speaker 1: really really good apps that were developed for the iPad
Speaker 1: from a wide range of app developers, and so I
Speaker 1: generally recommend and three hundred and twenty nine dollars, I
Speaker 1: know sounds like a lot, but when you really do
Speaker 1: the math on an iPad, they can last four, maybe
Speaker 1: even longer years, And so when you do the math,
Speaker 1: divide it up, it's really not a bad deal and
Speaker 1: you're getting a far superior product.
Speaker 2: Now at all. With all that said, the Walmart tablet is.
Speaker 1: Actually pretty good because it's an Android tablet that does
Speaker 1: the trick. It's just a simple tablet that lets you
Speaker 1: surf the web, it lets you watch videos, it lets
Speaker 1: you look at social media, and that's about it. You
Speaker 1: don't want to do much more on this device. Someone
Speaker 1: asked me, can you play Candy Crush? I downloaded Candy
Speaker 1: Crush to it. It works just fine. It wasn't hesitating,
Speaker 1: so you can play simple games on it as well.
Speaker 1: But again that's where it ends. But for sixty four dollars,
Speaker 1: not a bad deal. Now what's the lifetime on this tablet?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, it might last two years, three years, who knows,
Speaker 1: depending on how.
Speaker 2: You use it. I will tell you that it's super
Speaker 2: slow right out of the box.
Speaker 1: So you're getting a pretty bad processor one point three
Speaker 1: gigahertz quad core processor. You're getting a screen that has
Speaker 1: eight hundred by twelve eighty ips. You're getting a cameras
Speaker 1: that are just a joke. A third of a megapixel
Speaker 1: on the front and two megapixels on the back. That's
Speaker 1: what I had, I think on my Motorola queue back
Speaker 1: in I think like two thousand and five or two
Speaker 1: thousand and three or two thousand and six, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: You're getting a phone that or a camera that's just terrible.
Speaker 1: So don't buy this thing for the camera. Two gigs
Speaker 1: a RAM, but also sixteen gigs of storage. Now, the
Speaker 1: sixteen gigs of storage I can look past because you
Speaker 1: are getting expandable memory on this device. You can just
Speaker 1: add an SD card and you'll be fine.
Speaker 2: But here's the beauty.
Speaker 1: They're running Android nine point zero PI, which is the
Speaker 1: latest version of that operating system. The other thing I
Speaker 1: liked about this is that there's an FM tuner inside,
Speaker 1: so you can plug in headphones and just listen to
Speaker 1: the radio. There's not a lot of bloatwear, so a
Speaker 1: lot of these cheap. What happens during the holidays. You
Speaker 1: see fifty dollars tablets, twenty five dollars tablets. All these
Speaker 1: stores have tablets. Every store in America is selling an
Speaker 1: Android tablet for fifty bucks. They're all crap, and they
Speaker 1: have a lot of bloatwear on them as well. This
Speaker 1: has almost no bloatwear, but it does have a bunch
Speaker 1: of Walmart apps preinstalled Walmart, Walmart Grocery, Walmart Ebooks, Sam's Club,
Speaker 1: and Voodoo. And there's even an extra little button at
Speaker 1: the bottom that brings you to those apps immediately, which
Speaker 1: I don't like. But again, the advantage of this tablet
Speaker 1: over Amazon's Fire tablet, which I would argue is probably
Speaker 1: slightly better, is that this has full access to the
Speaker 1: Google Play Store, which Amazon's tablets do not. Now because
Speaker 1: they're Android, you can still sideload, which means you can
Speaker 1: put any app you want on there, but you have
Speaker 1: to go outside of the App store, which is not
Speaker 1: an easy thing for most average people to do. So
Speaker 1: on the Walmart tablet, you get Google Play, you search
Speaker 1: for an app, any app that Google has available on
Speaker 1: Google Play you can install on the Walmart tablet very
Speaker 1: quickly and very easily.
Speaker 2: So for that reason, I do like.
Speaker 1: These tablets, and for sixty four dollars, I think that
Speaker 1: is not too bad of a deal. Question again through email.
Speaker 1: This comes in through my website, rich on tech dot
Speaker 1: TV with a subject line, I can't send a fax.
Speaker 2: This is from Dori.
Speaker 1: She says, Hey, Rich, I will I watch you on
Speaker 1: KTLA and I look forward to what new tech items
Speaker 1: you introduce us to.
Speaker 2: But I have a problem.
Speaker 1: I have an all in one HP I can ePrint
Speaker 1: from my cell and laptop. But since I switched my
Speaker 1: phone to Spectrum, I have not been able to send
Speaker 1: a fax. I've spoken with HP for remote help. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've had Spectrum over twice to check the setup. I
Speaker 1: haven't gotten any help. And each one points fingers at
Speaker 1: each other. The bottom line is no dial tone is detected.
Speaker 1: If Google trying to find a solution, I've encountered numerous
Speaker 1: queries of frustrating folks just like me in search of help,
Speaker 1: Can you help me? And others that struggle to do
Speaker 1: something simple like sending a FAXT please. So I have
Speaker 1: not sent a fact through a machine like this in
Speaker 1: a very long time. So my immediate thought is that
Speaker 1: because with Spectrum phone, you say you switched over, they're
Speaker 1: delivering phone service voiceover IP. And the way that a
Speaker 1: fax machine works is over analog. So a fax machine
Speaker 1: takes an image, converts it into an analog waveform, and
Speaker 1: sends that waveform out over the regular phone line. The
Speaker 1: other FACTS machine listens to that waveform and then converts
Speaker 1: that back into something that is visible and printable, and
Speaker 1: they print out the image. So the thing that I
Speaker 1: see happening here is that Spectrum is doing voiceover IP,
Speaker 1: which means there's no I think at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, if your machine detected the dial tone, it
Speaker 1: would probably work. But because it's not detecting a dial tone,
Speaker 1: it's not going to work.
Speaker 2: So my thing, what my.
Speaker 1: Theory is here is that your hp printer is probably
Speaker 1: older and not equipped to handle VOIPE faxing. And I
Speaker 1: did a quick little search about voipe faxing, and it
Speaker 1: seems like it's hit or miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes
Speaker 1: it doesn't work, depending on the setup of the machine
Speaker 1: and also the VOIPE line.
Speaker 2: So I'll tell you what I use. I use something
Speaker 2: called Hello Facts.
Speaker 1: And if you already have a cell phone and your
Speaker 1: eprinting from there, what I would recommend is just scan
Speaker 1: whatever you need to fax through your smartphone, which do
Speaker 1: you have an iPhone? Yeah, you have an iPhone, So
Speaker 1: just scan on your iPhone, go into notes, compose a
Speaker 1: new note, or you know it, just go ahead and
Speaker 1: get the app called Scannable, which is a great little app.
Speaker 1: You scan it through there and make PDF out of it,
Speaker 1: do whatever you need to do, sign it, fill it out, whatever,
Speaker 1: and then you can send that through Hello Facts and
Speaker 1: just download the PDF there and it's it's very easy.
Speaker 1: That's what I use, and it's it's super simple. I
Speaker 1: looked up another one. There's let's see, there's facts Burner,
Speaker 1: which that also that's free. So factx burner is free
Speaker 1: to send and receive faxes and basically you get twenty
Speaker 1: five pages inbound per month and five pages outbound and
Speaker 1: they just give you a disposable phone number you send
Speaker 1: your facts. It's on its way and that's it. If
Speaker 1: you want to upgrade, if you need to do more,
Speaker 1: it's ten dollars a month. I know you probably don't
Speaker 1: want to pay that, so I wouldn't recommend that. And
Speaker 1: then e facts is the other one that was man
Speaker 1: remember when e fax came out was.
Speaker 2: Like such a big deal.
Speaker 1: That of course is still around but clearly not as popular.
Speaker 1: But it's even more expensive. Epax Plus is sixteen ninety
Speaker 1: five a month or twenty dollars a month.
Speaker 2: Do they have have.
Speaker 1: Efacts for free anymore. I don't even think they have
Speaker 1: a free they might not even have a free service anymore.
Speaker 1: So if they don't, you might be able to sign
Speaker 1: up for a free trial and see if that works.
Speaker 2: But this was crazy. So I was at a doctor's.
Speaker 1: Office one time, getting like a I think it was
Speaker 1: an X ray or something, whatever it was. I needed
Speaker 1: the either a prescription or whatever something that my doctor
Speaker 1: gave me I needed to give to this X ray
Speaker 1: clinic right, And I didn't have it on me, but
Speaker 1: I scan everything into my phone and so I said, well,
Speaker 1: can you accept a fax? And she said sure. And
Speaker 1: I'd never done this before, but I actually downloaded an
Speaker 1: app on my Android phone and it was called tiny Facts,
Speaker 1: and I just found the document in Google Drive and
Speaker 1: I said, okay, what's your number. I popped it into
Speaker 1: tiny facts and it worked. It sent her to the
Speaker 1: facts and I said, can I just see it? I
Speaker 1: want to see what it looks like. I was so
Speaker 1: impressed with myself, and she was actually very nice, the receptionist,
Speaker 1: so she was playing along and she was sharing my enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: She was like, that's pretty cool that you were just
Speaker 1: able to that. I'm like Oh, nobody sends faxes from
Speaker 1: their phone. She's like, no, that's the first time I've
Speaker 1: seen that. But you know, I'm the tech guy, so
Speaker 1: I love doing stuff like that. But I like having options,
Speaker 1: and so I get it. There are times when you
Speaker 1: still need to send a fax. There are definitely those
Speaker 1: little companies and transactions that require a fax machine. So again,
Speaker 1: check out Hello Facts. That's one of my favorites. Hello Facts.
Speaker 1: Hellofax dot com is their website. Then you've got faxburner
Speaker 1: dot com. And the app I used on Android was
Speaker 1: called tiny Facts. I don't know. Do they have a
Speaker 1: tiny fax for iPhone. I don't know. Let's see if
Speaker 1: they do. I'm looking to see productivity. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they have one for it, but I'm sure I'm
Speaker 1: sure you can find one for iPhone. There's so many
Speaker 1: of these types of things for iPhone.
Speaker 2: So there you have it. Good question.
Speaker 1: I know faxes are going out, but there are still
Speaker 1: times when you need them. Speaking of the iPhone, there
Speaker 1: is a this is creepy new feature in iOS thirteen.
Speaker 1: So do you ever notice when you are facetiming and
Speaker 1: you're not really looking at the person on the screen
Speaker 1: like you can't really make eye contact with them because
Speaker 1: you're looking at yourself or you're looking in the corner
Speaker 1: at their picture. So Apple is gonna correct this with
Speaker 1: a feature called FaceTime Eye Contact Correction. And what this
Speaker 1: does is it uses augmented reality to literally lift your
Speaker 1: eyeballs up and make them look like you are looking
Speaker 1: at the other person. How creepy is that? So according
Speaker 1: to nine to five Mac who tested it out, what
Speaker 1: this does or they I guess they looked at a
Speaker 1: report of it. I don't know if they've actually tried it,
Speaker 1: but it makes real time adjustments the image of your
Speaker 1: eyes so that you appear to be looking at the
Speaker 1: camera rather than the screen. This means you'll appear to
Speaker 1: be making eye contact. I mean, it's so weird. And
Speaker 1: the guy who this guy named Will Sigmund tweeted and
Speaker 1: he raised and lowered a pair of frames like eyeglass
Speaker 1: frames over his eyes and you could see the frame
Speaker 1: kind of bending up a little bit through augmented reality.
Speaker 2: So I just I find this super weird.
Speaker 1: I actually downloaded the beta of iOS thirteen, so I
Speaker 1: need to try this out.
Speaker 2: But it's super weird. Oh.
Speaker 1: Dave Shulkin, Dave Shuken was the guy who tried it out,
Speaker 1: and it's just you gotta look at his little demo.
Speaker 1: Took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Speaker 1: One of the developer notes that it might be limited
Speaker 1: to the iPhone ten S and Max and ten are
Speaker 1: and it might not work on the iPhone ten because
Speaker 1: it uses ar Kit three, which is the latest version
Speaker 1: of Apple's augmented reality tools.
Speaker 2: But it's a weird thing, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like this is a problem with
Speaker 1: I feel like, in general, I'm just not a fan
Speaker 1: of FaceTime and all these video chats because I feel
Speaker 1: like people are just not You're not trained to look
Speaker 1: through a screen at someone else. It gets boring when
Speaker 1: you're talking on the phone. You can talk on the
Speaker 1: phone for an hour. When I'm on a video call,
Speaker 1: I just feel the need to like get off the
Speaker 1: phone or you know, just stop the call, because I
Speaker 1: just don't I just don't feel like I can go
Speaker 1: as long as I can on a phone call on
Speaker 1: a video call. And maybe I'm the only one that
Speaker 1: feels that way, but I just that's just the feeling
Speaker 1: I get when I'm doing this.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's because I'm not making it eye contact with
Speaker 1: the person, and so maybe my body is thinking, well,
Speaker 1: this is not a face to face thing, so let's
Speaker 1: just finish this up.
Speaker 2: But maybe this will help. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Got a note from Kevin through my website. Kevin said
Speaker 1: the subject line was dji Osmo action please update your segment.
Speaker 1: The dji Osmo action does let you change screens with
Speaker 1: a verbal command, along with other functions. Frank Buckley even
Speaker 1: suggested this option, and you still have an update dated
Speaker 1: the info on subsequent segments. Okay, I will take the
Speaker 1: good and take the bad, and Kevin, you have a
Speaker 1: good point. So I did miss this in my review
Speaker 1: of the dji Osmo cam. I reviewed this this week,
Speaker 1: and the dji Osmo Action Cam is basically a go
Speaker 1: pro with a front facing screen as well. So you've
Speaker 1: got two screens on the front and the back. And
Speaker 1: what that means is that if you want a vlog
Speaker 1: or just in general get yourself into the shot, you
Speaker 1: can just spin the camera around and then you have
Speaker 1: the front facing screen and you can see yourself and
Speaker 1: you can frame yourself up perfectly, which.
Speaker 2: Is a huge deal, especially if you're vlogging.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to vlog, or even if you're out
Speaker 1: with a family, you're on a ski trip or something
Speaker 1: and you're using this action cam and you just want
Speaker 1: to be in the shot. You can be in the
Speaker 1: shot now because you can spin this thing around and
Speaker 1: see yourself. Well, my big problem with this feature was
Speaker 1: that it was clunky to actually see the front facing
Speaker 1: screen because you'd start out recording on the back screen,
Speaker 1: you know, holding the camera your typical way, and then
Speaker 1: you flip it around to the front. You have to
Speaker 1: either tap on the back screen twice with two fingers fast,
Speaker 1: and it took me a while to get the hang
Speaker 1: of that one. Or you have to press this little
Speaker 1: side button for two seconds, press and hold that and
Speaker 1: that flips around to the front screen.
Speaker 2: Or you can use your voice. Now.
Speaker 1: I did not include the voice in there because I
Speaker 1: hate voice commands on these things and I think they're
Speaker 1: very clunky, so I didn't even include it in there.
Speaker 2: But yes, you can use your voice.
Speaker 1: And it became this whole thing with Frank Buckley, our
Speaker 1: anchor here at Katla, saying Rich they should just make
Speaker 1: it voice activated, and I should have said yes, but
Speaker 1: I said no. I said they should just make it
Speaker 1: so that the camera senses when you flip it around
Speaker 1: and aim it towards yourself. There's a little sensor inside
Speaker 1: that notices that and actually just flips the screen to
Speaker 1: the front screen. There's a lot of ways to tackle
Speaker 1: this one, but Kevin, you're right. I did make a
Speaker 1: mistake on that one, and I did miss that in
Speaker 1: my report. But I didn't think that a lot of
Speaker 1: people would use that feature. Maybe they would, but you're right.
Speaker 1: It is good to list all of the options, especially
Speaker 1: when I'm critiquing it. So I get that and duly noted.
Speaker 1: But overall, the Dji Osmo Action Cam, I'll give it
Speaker 1: the same review I give all these things that that
Speaker 1: mimic your cell phone. Your cell phone is easier, all
Speaker 1: these little gadgets and doodads that you add to your
Speaker 1: phone or that you use, you know, in addition to
Speaker 1: your phone. At the end of the day, I find
Speaker 1: that it's just easier to use your phone. And that's
Speaker 1: what I found with the Dji Osmo Action Cam. If
Speaker 1: you're a snowboarder, skateboarder, surfer, action sports guy, gal, whatever,
Speaker 1: you're gonna love this thing. And it's fantastic But if
Speaker 1: you're just a regular person that is thinking they're going
Speaker 1: to use this on their vacation once a year, you're not,
Speaker 1: because when you go to Hawaii, you're gonna use this
Speaker 1: thing once and then you're gonna realize that everything else
Speaker 1: your your you know, your batteries out, whatever, Your phone
Speaker 1: is always charged, it works, it's always with you. And
Speaker 1: guess what, it's way easier to share videos from your
Speaker 1: phone than it is from one of these little cameras
Speaker 1: because you have to transfer them somehow, so I always
Speaker 1: end up just defaulting to my phone. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of like I feel like a lot of people are
Speaker 1: like that these things.
Speaker 2: Do you buy them?
Speaker 1: The cameras three hundred and fifty dollars and next thing know,
Speaker 1: it sits in a drawer, just like I talked about
Speaker 1: those clips for the camera lens. So just keep that
Speaker 1: in mind when you're thinking about buying some of these things,
Speaker 1: even something as simple as a Bluetooth speaker. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: when I'm out by the pool, I love having a
Speaker 1: Bluetooth speaker, but like ninety nine percent of the time,
Speaker 1: it's just easier to just put your phone really loud
Speaker 1: wherever you are and you know, if you're not having
Speaker 1: a giant party, it's really not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2: Use your phone.
Speaker 1: So again, it's like all these little things like microphones
Speaker 1: and stuff. It's like, sometimes I just find it's easier
Speaker 1: just to use what's built into the phone. And I'm
Speaker 1: just giving you that advice because it might save you
Speaker 1: some money. All right, let's take a trip down memory
Speaker 1: lane real quick. The Walkman turned forty this month, and
Speaker 1: I have very fun memories of the Walkman. My first
Speaker 1: one from Sony was a CD player. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: purchasing this from my friends. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was his uncle or something. I was in Florida on
Speaker 1: a family trip with them, and his uncle had a
Speaker 1: CD player from Sony and he said, I'll sell it
Speaker 1: to you for twenty bucks.
Speaker 2: And I said done, And I bought this thing.
Speaker 1: And you couldn't walk around with this thing not skipping
Speaker 1: for five seconds. I mean you just just the way
Speaker 1: they were back then, you would.
Speaker 2: I put it in my car. I had to like mount.
Speaker 1: It perfectly so that it wouldn't skip, and it just
Speaker 1: just skipped all the time. You couldn't run with it.
Speaker 1: You can do anything. Then, I'm trying to remember what
Speaker 1: I did between that. That was high school and college.
Speaker 1: I don't really remember college too much with with music,
Speaker 1: but I do remember out of college. As soon as
Speaker 1: I got out, I did have the Rio, which was
Speaker 1: that it was like Diamond Multimedia.
Speaker 2: I think it was this little red player and I.
Speaker 1: Thought it was so cool because you could add a
Speaker 1: memory card to it and have unlimited storage and MP
Speaker 1: three's and this and that.
Speaker 2: It was so great. Of course, transferring music to it
Speaker 2: was a pain. All that could stuff.
Speaker 1: Then, of course I I had newer CD players that
Speaker 1: didn't skip as much. I tried running with those that
Speaker 1: didn't work. Then I got the mini disc player from Sony,
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, oh my gosh, this is the
Speaker 1: future because you knew how a mini disc that didn't
Speaker 1: skip as much. And I ran with that thing, and
Speaker 1: that was a pain. And I went through a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of iterations until I saw the iPad. A girl
Speaker 1: in the airplane next to me was using the brand
Speaker 1: new iPod. It was like one of those little iPod
Speaker 1: minis that they had in different colors. I think she
Speaker 1: had a pink one and I saw that and I said,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what is that? And she explained it
Speaker 1: was an iPod and I said, oh my gosh, I've
Speaker 1: seen commercials for it, and you know what, I'm buying
Speaker 1: this thing. And so I went out the next day
Speaker 1: and I totally bought an iPod Mini for myself and
Speaker 1: my wife. I think they were two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars each at Best Buy.
Speaker 2: And that was it.
Speaker 1: That was the That was all I needed to say
Speaker 1: goodbye to the whole Walkman and all my issues with
Speaker 1: running and you know now, I mean, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: if you keep going. Now I've got the Apple I mean,
Speaker 1: for a while I had my phone, which i'd run
Speaker 1: in a band, you know, around my waist. And now
Speaker 1: I literally walk out of my house with my AirPods
Speaker 1: in and my Apple Watch and that's it. And I've
Speaker 1: got Apple Music on the watch, cull other on the watch,
Speaker 1: and the air pods and it's totally magical. And I
Speaker 1: think back twenty years to when I was using the
Speaker 1: CD player and the Rio and all the frustrations of
Speaker 1: these music devices and how easy it is now. We
Speaker 1: have come a long way since the Walkman launched forty
Speaker 1: years ago, and it had its point in life. It
Speaker 1: had its place in life, but it just didn't. Sony
Speaker 1: just didn't get it right. I remember when Sony's Music
Speaker 1: store came out compared to Apple's and it.
Speaker 2: Was just a joke.
Speaker 1: You couldn't even do anything on it. It was such
Speaker 1: a pain to buy the music and a pain to
Speaker 1: transfer the music. And it was just one of those
Speaker 1: things where Apple did it right and it just worked
Speaker 1: all right. One more question real quick before we go.
Speaker 1: MS Jean says, have you done the Apple Beta update?
Speaker 1: It's actually really good and on my Apple TV too. Yes,
Speaker 1: I did the beta update on my iPhone because I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out from going to write my new
Speaker 1: book or not. I did start it a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I went through all the new features on the
Speaker 1: iOS thirteen and I found sixty eight so far new
Speaker 1: features that are pretty compelling. And they did a nice job.
Speaker 1: They did a lot of stuff. Some of them are
Speaker 1: bigger than others. Like share your ETA with people. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could do that in Google Maps forever. Let's see
Speaker 1: what I'll search in messages? You can, it's easier now,
Speaker 1: remember and messages. In my first book, one hundred and
Speaker 1: one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone. I talked about
Speaker 1: how you could search your messages, but you really can
Speaker 1: only search like one word at a time. So now
Speaker 1: Messages is making it a lot easier to search. You've
Speaker 1: got quick path, which means you can swipe along the keyboard.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of stuff. But yes, I have
Speaker 1: not installed it on the iPad. That's another project. And
Speaker 1: Apple TV. I don't know if I'll do it on
Speaker 1: Apple TV, but maybe I will, just to see what
Speaker 1: that's all about. Well, thanks so much for listening. That's
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Speaker 2: What Rich was talking about. Okay, perfect.
Speaker 1: This is usually the point in the show where I
Speaker 1: asked producer Meghan how she liked it. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: speak for her and say that she did not like
Speaker 1: it because she was not in the show. So it
Speaker 1: definitely is a little bit tougher to do it myself.
Speaker 1: But I you know, I think I survived, all right,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. I think that's going to
Speaker 1: do it. I'm Richdimiro. Have a fantastic day. I'll talk
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