WEBVTT - How hackers get your password 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.400 Verizon plans get more expensive. Google unveils a new watch 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:17.079 and a cheaper pixel, How hackers get your password? Plus 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.400 your tech questions answered? What's going on on rich Demiro 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:22.680 And this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.760 talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.800 It's also the place where I answer the questions you 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.400 send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA, Channel five 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:36.400 in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. Hope you are 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:42.159 having a fantastic day. So clearly today's segment really hit 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.760 a nerve. We talked on KTLA about how to free 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.000 up storage on your smartphone. Now I think that this 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.519 is less of a problem than it was before, but 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.320 it's still a pretty big problem. And the number one 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.480 thing that I see is that people do not back 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.360 up their pictures. I don't understand why. I mean, I 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.000 guess I do. It could be complicated, but you just 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.040 have to. And the main two things that are going 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.520 on here is that you've got a combination of storage 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.080 on your phone which is limited, and then you've got 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.080 storage in the cloud, which costs money. And so people 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.360 don't want to pay for that storage in the cloud 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.320 because it becomes expensive. But yet they're running out of 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.160 storage on their phone, and so what they do is 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.480 they just basically delete stuff and say, I guess I 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.040 don't need that. You shouldn't do that, there's no need 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.120 to do that. Pay a couple extra bucks a month 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.960 to get the storage online. Pare down your photos or 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.320 your video you're really it's the videos that take up 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.720 the most storage. So if you're in a place where 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.200 you're like where I was a couple probably a year ago, 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.360 where I was looking at my Google Drive and I 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.520 was really close to the next tier where I'd have 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.600 to pay much more per month, it's really the videos 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.520 that put you over the edge there. So go through 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.080 and delete the videos. You'd be surprised how many trash 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.480 videos are on your phone, like stuff that you took 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.120 that you don't really need anymore, or videos that you 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.680 started and then like let's say your kid plays baseball 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.000 like mine, there's a lot of scenarios where you start 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.440 taking a video because they're up at bat and then 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.560 they stop or they strike out, and you don't really 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.440 need that video anymore. So just go through and delete 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.160 videos on your phone. The easiest way is really to 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.480 delete some big videos on your phone and iPhone. I 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.520 was a little bit surprised doesn't have a real easy 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.040 way to do that. And so if you want an 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.760 easy way to delete the big files on your phone, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.959 there's an app called Gemini Photos, which is really nice 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.440 and it's a couple bucks. It's like three days for free, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.840 five dollars a month, twenty dollars a year, or like 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.280 thirty five for lifetime access or actually unlimited access, because 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.079 sometimes they change the program. They come out with Gemini too, 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:46.960 and then they're like, oh, never mind, that's not included. 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.920 So I would pay like the five dollars to use 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.160 it for a month and you know, there you go. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.600 You can save it get rid of all the big files. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.640 It also helps you get rid of the blurry photos. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.680 There's also this major confusion about iCloud with the iPhone, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.200 and the major confusion is that people don't realize that 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.799 when you delete stuff off your phone if you have 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.760 an iPhone using iCloud, they don't realize that when you 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.040 delete a picture off your phone, it also deletes out 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.000 of iCloud. iCloud is not a one way backup, it's 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.000 a two way sink between your phone and iCloud. So 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.959 anything you do on your phone is reflected in iCloud. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.120 Now that's the reason why I like Google Photos better 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.079 than iCloud is because it's a one way sink. When 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.240 a picture goes up to iCloud or sorry, when a 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.960 picture goes up to Google Photos, it sticks there. It 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.680 stays there even if I delete it off my phone 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.360 outside of the Google Photos app. So that's a little 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.600 confusing as well that on my iPhone, I basically have 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.680 two apps on the home screen. I've got Photos and 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.760 I've got Google Photos. And this is the other thing 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.200 that I recommend that you do almost on a daily basis. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.000 I go through at the end of the day and 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.240 I just go through and delete pictures out of my 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.520 Google Photos. I just it's almost like maintenance. So I'll 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.880 just spend ten to fifteen minutes a day just going 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.040 through my Google Photos and just deleting stuff. And that 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.160 could be old photos. Sometimes you just go in and 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.360 pick a category like fireworks, and I'll just scroll through 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.880 all my old pictures and videos and just just kind 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.480 of clean it up, pare it down a little bit, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.200 look through receipts, do that, and there's a lot of 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.960 different ways you can just spend time kind of paring 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.960 down your your cloud accounts so that you don't have 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.719 you're not faced with this giant, you know, plethora of 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.440 pictures at some point that you're never going to get through. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.640 I'm always hoping too, that Google will apply some sort 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.200 of AI to making our photos easier to manage in 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.280 a like, in a cleanup way, and they do. They 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.760 definitely have ways, It's just not one hundred percent one click. 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.799 So anyway, I've got a great article on the website 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.080 rich on tech dot tv about cleaning up your photos 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.720 and freeing up storage because it is a summer and 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.239 you are going to be taking a lot of photos 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.320 and videos, so definitely get that storage cleaned up on 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.280 your phone before or you take a vacation, because you 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.279 don't want it to be when you're on vacation you 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.440 run out of storage. All right, let's get to the 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.800 first big story of the week. Verizon plans are getting 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.400 a little bit more expensive. This is not a huge 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.520 price increase, but honestly, I'm kind of sick of all 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.120 the price increases. Every single service that I subscribe to 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:25.039 use do whatever in real life online has gotten expensive 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.880 over the past six months. More expensive. And that's including Netflix, 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.040 which went up by two bucks a month. My alarm 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.839 system went up by a couple bucks a month. Haircuts. 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.840 I brought the kids for haircuts that went up by 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.919 another three dollars for the two of them. You know, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.560 so three dollars times to another six bucks. What else 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.159 went up? Amazon went up, Amazon Prime went up. So 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.560 basically everything has gone up in price. And if you've 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.159 been to the grocery store, you know that all those 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.120 prices have gone up. So, yeah, inflation is real at 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.839 this point. It is happening, and big companies are saying, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.560 you know, I feel like there's two things happening. Yeah, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.760 everything's becoming more expensive. But also I think a lot 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.200 of companies are sort of what I always refer to 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.880 as klingons, where they're like, oh, we notice everyone else 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.080 is raising prices, Let's raise prices too. And a lot 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.920 of this is reality, Like I'm sure it does cost 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.160 Verizon more to do business because everything is costing them more, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.159 like fuel and labor and all these other things. And 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.839 so now they're adding what's called an economic adjustment charge 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.160 of a dollar thirty five per voice line for consumers. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.560 If you have a business line it's gonna go up 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.279 by ninety eight cents a month and then two dollars 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.680 and twenty cents per data line. So bottom line for 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.560 the average consumer, you're gonna be paying a couple bucks 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.640 more for your Verizon bill next month. This starts in June, 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.919 and it's just one of those things where it's not 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.120 a huge amount where you're sitting there going, oh, I'm 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.920 gonna cancel Verizon, but it's just enough when you add 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.920 it up to all the other things that prices are 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.680 just going up, and it's just the reality of what's 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.080 happening right now with the econ me. I don't know 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.760 what's causing it precisely, but it's happening in a big way. 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.320 And again I think some of it is is chalked 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.040 up to kind of like higher cost of doing business, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.080 but other things other people are just like, you know what, 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.520 it's just kind of like the time to raise prices, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.040 and that definitely seems like what's happening in a big way. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.680 So just don't be surprised next month and you get 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.640 your Verizon bill, it is going to be higher. Now 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.960 if you're looking to switch. There are a couple of 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.840 companies that I do recommend that I think are pretty good. Now, 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.320 here's the thing. When you have a big unlimited plan 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.400 from Verizon, it gives you everything. So if you're traveling internationally, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.440 you need that hot spot, you need the international data. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.600 You have an Apple Watch, you need that. So it 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.240 becomes very intertwined. You've got a couple of kids on 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.400 your plan, you don't really want to change anything. And 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.800 that's where these big companies really make out with millions 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.000 and millions of people overpaying every month for services that 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.320 they just don't need. You know, an unlimited plan is 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.880 a good ninety dollars a month, sixty to ninety a month, 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.600 And do you use all those features? Probably not now 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.120 I do personally, and I can't switch out of one 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.880 of these big all on one plans, but someone like 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.360 my wife definitely. If you look at her Verizon data usage, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.679 it's literally a gigabyte a month, two gigabytes a month. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.920 It's a joke. But we're sort of intertwined on this plan, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.720 so I'm not gonna I thought about switching her off, 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.800 but it's just too much, and it's kind of nice 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.880 to have everyone together. Especially my son has a plan 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.520 as well, so it's just one of these things where 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.160 I got to stick to it. Now, if you are single, 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.920 if you have just two people on your plan, maybe 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.319 no kids, maybe no Apple Watch. Definitely some alternatives to 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.880 look into. Number one Mint Mobile fantastic. I've got a 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.040 family member with it. They pay three hundred bucks for 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.680 the whole year. It's not unlimited data, but it's like 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.840 eight gigs a month and it works just fine. I've 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.800 got a test Mint Mobile plan that it is unlimited 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.120 for thirty dollars a month and it's fantastic. It works great, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.480 it does what I need. Obviously, it's on a secondary phone, 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.960 so it's not my primary line. But it's been fantastic 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.280 and you only have to think about it once a 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.920 year when you pay that bill. The other one that's 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.480 really good is Visible. Now. The thing about Visible is 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.439 that it's owned by Verizons, so you get Verizon quality network. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.280 The problem is you're not going to get Verizon quality support, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.439 and so when you need help, in the case of 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.880 another family member that I have on Visible, help is 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.200 not very good. It's mostly by chat. It's you know, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.120 you either have to chat or call. I don't even 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.720 know if they offer a phone call, but you know, 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.680 you can't go into a store, which at the end 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.880 of the day, when you're having trouble, the ability to 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.080 go into a store is really nice. So you can't 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:36.960 do that. But at the end of the day, you 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.040 get an unlimited Verizon plan for twenty for as low 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.600 as twenty five dollars a month. Now it is typically 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.000 forty dollars a month, and they do they do limit 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.079 things like your speed and you know, your hotspot data 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.200 and all that stuff, but a lot of people again 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.960 don't need all that stuff. So you can get what's 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.000 called a party plan for twenty five dollars a month. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.880 And it sounds like you have to join with a 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.280 bunch of people like in your family. You don't. You 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.800 can actually just link up with any random party plan. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.800 They've got links to these things on Reddit and online 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.679 where you can just find a random Visible party plan, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.000 and they don't they don't frown against it, like it's fine. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.200 I'd ask Visible this and they said, yeah, it's fine, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.280 you can just join whatever. So if you join a 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.079 random party plan, you can pay twenty five dollars a 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.840 month unlimited Visible. They just added e SIM support for 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.880 a lot of Android phone Samsung and pixel, so you 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.920 don't even have to get a SIM card sent to 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.960 you. You can just activate your phone with this right from 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.320 your device. So that's something to look into. The other 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.400 plan that I really like, and I have not tested 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.320 this one but I want to, is an AT and 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.839 T plan that's only available at Walmart, and it's forty 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.120 five dollars a month for unlimited. It's really good. Now 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:49.920 I don't know what the downside is to that plan. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.160 A friend was telling me that, you know, they'll throttle 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.720 you really quickly if you go over the data. But 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.720 it's like unlimited, but still, you know, they give you 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.199 like thirty five forty five gigs of data whatever it is, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.480 and then after that they have the right to throttle 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.040 you and slow down your speeds. But it does come 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.200 with hotspot, it comes with online storage. It's five g 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.240 So if you are a single person with one line, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.840 you like the idea of prepaid, you pay your bill. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.840 You know, you can do automatic payments, but it's forty 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.840 five dollars a month. You have to sign up or 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.200 buy the SIM, at least inside Walmart. I think you 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.560 have to sign up in Walmart, but look into that. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.000 I think it's called the AT and T Max Walmart plan. 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.280 But those are some good alternatives if you're looking to 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.600 save some money, like we all are at this point. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.080 Oh that's that sound means it's time for the first question. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.400 Oh my gosh, Paul says, Hey, Rich, I speaking of 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.840 what we just talked about. I just called Spectrum Mobile. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.440 Was thinking of changing over from Verizon. They told me 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.480 I have a They told me I have to have 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.000 a five G compatible phone. My eight plus has been 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.000 paid off two years ago. I'm not buying a new 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.480 iPhone again. My mind is the last with the home button. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.800 I think this is a form of bait and switch 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.800 is their way around it. They would send me a 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:06.240 five G only simcard, Paul. So, Paul sounds like I 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:11.080 think Spectrum is heavily advertising Spectrum Mobile, which is you know, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.560 it's another option. If you have Spectrum, it does probably 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.360 save you some money. I'm a little bit torn on 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.360 them because I don't like the idea of giving a 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.680 big cable conglomerate even more of my money per se. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.880 But if you can save money every month by going 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.040 with it, and you're not going to really switch, because 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.280 I think with Spectrum Mobile you have to have Spectrum 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.880 Internet or some sort of Spectrum service to get the 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.959 cheapest price. I could be wrong on that because it's 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.760 been a while since I looked into this, But with 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.480 regards to the five G I'm not sure that their 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.200 SIM card is only five G compatible. I would be 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.800 a little bit. I don't think that's totally true. But 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.360 if this is their rule, you have to go buy it, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.160 because what they're doing is they're not going to send 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.199 you a SIM card unless you send them what's called 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.959 the IMEI off your phone and it's compatible with their 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.360 with their rules and their network. So what they're going 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.959 to do is say, okay, send us this number from 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.080 your phone, which is you can find it in settings 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.079 called the IMEI, and that tells you if your phone 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.199 is compatible with their network. Now, it may be compatible 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.600 with the Spectrum Mobile service, but since they're not allowing 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.280 anyone with just four G phones to get on anymore, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.200 they may say no, you can't do that. And it's 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.320 not bait and switch, it's just that's their rule. That's 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.280 what they want to do, and they want to prevent 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.719 people from having a bad quality of service when they 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.319 get on that network, because not like the the cell 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.680 phone carriers are not retiring four G anytime soon, Like 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.240 it's not going away this year or next year or 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.680 even in probably a couple of years. But I think 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.280 that the emphasis is definitely on five G. And so 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.480 if that's their rule, it's not bait and switch. It's 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.600 just hey, you know, this is what we want to do, 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.640 this is our priority, and we make the rules and 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.000 you can either live by them or you know, find 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.679 some other service. So what I would recommend Paul is 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.800 maybe look into some of the other services that I mentioned. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.120 If you want Verizon, I would definitely check into Visible, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.320 and I believe you'd be able to activate that eight 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:08.680 plus right from your handset there. All right, So Google, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.880 I was off last week. I had to go down 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.400 to San Diego for a Lego Land shoot, so I 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.440 did not was not able to do the podcast. So 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.040 I did see Google Io, I did follow it, but 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.560 I was not able to talk about it in a 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.840 big way on the podcast. I'll be quite honest, I 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.200 was underwhelmed. I think that Google is still doing amazing 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.520 things with AI and machine learning. I think that Apple 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.040 is catching up to a lot of it, except for specifically, 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.840 voice transcription is really horrible on Apple. Still if you 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:43.200 use Siri, it's amazing on Google. But I think a 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.480 lot of these things, I mean, Google just their secret 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.480 sauce is really just really flexing their software smarts. But 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.240 I'll be honest on the flip side, I think that 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.760 Google had lens for a very long time, which reads 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.600 things in pictures, which is identifying what's in the pictures 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:06.520 and also the text. But I think that Apple's implementation 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.200 of live text on their phones is just phenomenal. So 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:15.960 good example, I'm going on vacation later and or soon, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.600 i should say, and I was looking up some recommendations 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.000 and this social influencer had posted a whole bunch of 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:27.080 recommendations for this area on an Instagram story and it 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.280 was just a ton of tiny text. So I screenshotted 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.560 that Instagram story I put into my photos and I 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.480 just started copying and pasting all the recommendations from that 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:42.040 using live text into my Google Maps, which I use 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.400 what's called lists, and I just bookmark little things that 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.720 I want to go to in different cities. And so 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.840 it was such an easy process. It was such a 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.600 smooth process. And that was something that I'd have to 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.160 look over see what the name of the restaurant is, 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.800 and then remember it and then type it into Google Maps. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.160 This way you literally just copy and paste the text 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.000 even though it's a picture. It can still recognize that 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.320 text and copy and paste it really easily, and it 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.960 was right on. So kudos to Apple for doing something 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.600 so smooth. Which Google has had that feature for years, 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.240 it's just never been any good. But I did notice 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.760 that Google has definitely stepped up their kind of use 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.400 of Google Lends ever since Apple kind of integrated it 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.880 into their phones in such a big way. So it's 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:31.680 you know, look, it's a it's a it's competition, and 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.960 Apple and Google our neck and neck in this competition 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.920 of what they can do for you and the products 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.320 and services that they have. Anyway, all that's to say, 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.600 not too many things to talk about from Google. Iow 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.200 a couple of notable items. Pixel six a's coming out 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.880 in July. This is going to be a cheaper pixel 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.560 phone at four hundred and fifty dollars. It's going to 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.920 have dual cameras on the back, a main lens and 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.960 an ultra wide so no telephoto. But Magic Eraser has 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.160 also gotten a little bit better. It can now change 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.680 the color of just acting objects in your picture, which 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.160 is kind of cool. In addition to deleting things out 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.320 of your pictures, it also comes with the same highly 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:12.639 accurate speech recognition, cool features like recorder, live caption, Live Translate. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.040 It's going to receive five years of security update, and 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.360 it's also the first Pixel that can go seventy two 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.520 hours in extreme battery mode. So this is going to 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.920 be available July twenty first, for pre order July twenty eighth. 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.679 I say that the Pixel six A is going to 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.879 be an excellent phone for the average phone user that 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.200 wants a really good phone that's going to last five years. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.320 These Pixels just keep on going if you're not a 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.560 power user. I think that these lower priced Pixels are 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.000 really the perfect smartphone because they have great software, they 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:49.160 have an excellent camera. They're not I mean, the iPhone 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.520 now has options that are the cheapest option of the 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.440 iPhone is four thirty. I think for the iPhone se, 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:01.080 which is okay, the Pixel six say, well, we'll offer 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:02.960 that ultra wide. I think it's gonna have a better 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.760 kind of a better camera maybe and also some some 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.680 cooler features. But the I would say, if you're looking 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.359 at those you know, budget phones. I would say that 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.560 the the options to look at are the Samsung I 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.960 think it's the fifty three, and then the the Pixel 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:24.280 six A and also the iPhone S. All Right, the 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.000 other thing they mentioned, I'll just go over this since 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.480 I've got it here is the Pixel Watch, which is, 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.600 you know, the big smart watch to rival the Apple Watch. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.560 And the Apple Watch has just been amazing. It's been 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.600 out for seven seven years now and it just is 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:41.960 the best wearable on the market. There's nothing even close 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.560 to what the Apple Watch does, and quite honestly, it's 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:51.280 basically the thing that keeps me in the Apple ecosystem. Now, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.280 if they let if they set the Apple Watch free, 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.120 and Apple knows this, this is why they don't set 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.760 I message free. If they set the Apple Watch free 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:00.639 and let you activate it as a its own device 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.760 without going through a lot of hoops like they do 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.760 right now, I think that they would lose some people 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.639 to the Android because people would have more options. You 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.560 can wear an Apple Watch and have Android. But they 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:12.919 know that that keeps you in the ecosystem, so they 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.760 don't do that. But if they did, it would it 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:16.480 would get a lot of not a lot of people. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.000 But definitely people would think twice. They go, oh cool, 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:20.760 I can get the Apple Watch, which is really amazing, 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.080 but I can also get a pixel phone or something 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.080 else like that. Not too much to say about the 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.840 Pixel Watch except it's gonna have things like Google Maps 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.120 built in. It's gonna have fitbit tools built in, it's 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.200 gonna have Google Wallet built in. But this thing does 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.000 not come out for a long time. It's not coming 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.280 out until the fall. And you know, it's one of 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.520 these things that it's gonna be first generation. There's definitely 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.439 gonna be some downsides to it. It's not gonna be 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.960 as full featured as the Apple Watch. People are gonna 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.760 be disappointed. Will it be fine? Probably, But I think 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:57.040 for that we're gonna I hopefully. I'm pleasantly surprised. I 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.920 just don't see it as being amazing out of the gate. 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.320