August 7, 2019 • 42 mins
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Note 10, a new smartwatch and a lightweight laptop with LTE; Disney teases a compelling streaming plan; Amazon has a music deal for students; Verizon's confusing new Unlimited plans and robot deliveries begin in Irvine. Listeners ask about a streaming TV deal that sounds too good to be true, a good note taking app, iPhone camera alternative and whether personal finance apps are safe.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Note ten, plus a watch, a laptop,
and more. Disney teases a killer bundle, Amazon has a
music deal for students, and new Verizon plans guaranteed to
confuse you. Plus I'm answering your pressing tech questions. What's
going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech,
the podcast where I talk about the stuff I think
(00:26):
you should know about happening in the tech world. It's
also the place where I answer the tech questions you
send me, whether it's through email, my website, Facebook, Instagram,
DM however you get in touch with me, I answer
your questions right here in the show. I'm coming to
you now from Brooklyn, where I just got out of
the Samsung event. It's a rainy day here in Brooklyn,
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but it was a good show and fun to see
what the company unveiled. Producer Megan meanwhile is on vacation
in Hawaii. She will be joining us on the next show.
So the show must go on here from New York.
And let's just start with samsung big event here at
the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, where the company unveiled the
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Galaxy Note ten. There's been lots of leaks about the phone,
but now we know officially.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
What the device is all about.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Plus I had a chance to go hands on with
the device last week up in San Francisco, and it's
a good looking.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Device, it really is.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
They did a very nice job on the design of
the Note ten, and for the first time ever, there
are actually two sizes of the Note ten, and if
you're counting for reels, there's kind of like three of
these devices because there's a Note ten, there's a Note
ten Plus, which has a bigger screen, and then there's
a Note ten plus five G say all that three
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times fast, so quickly breaking it down, the Note ten
is the standard model, which has a six point three
inch screen. The Note ten Plus has a six point
eight inch screen. It just seems like if you add
up all these devices that Samsung has, between the S
ten and the Note ten and all of their lower phones,
they have a lot to choose from, and it just
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seems like they are making something for everyone, no matter
what your price range is or what features you want.
Spoiler alert, there is one feature that is gone from
the Note ten lineup, and that is the headphone jack.
So there is no more headphone jack on both the
Note ten or the Note ten plus. Some of you
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will be sad about that, and I'm kind of mixed.
I use Bluetooth headphones ninety nine percent of the time,
but there are those random times when it would be
nice to just be able to plug in something to
your phone. But we're not here to debate whether that's
coming back or going away forever. But I think it's
pretty much gone forever. If you look at the front
of these devices, they are just beautiful, and the back
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they have this great display that just goes truly edge
to edge. They really push the boundaries of just how
far these screens can go to the edges. And the
only thing that's really interrupting the front screen on the
Notes is a tiny selfie cam on the front. So
you've got that ten megapixel camera on the front, and
then on the back you've got a three camera array,
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which is a wide angle lens, a standard lens, and
then a telephoto lens. And it's gotten to the point
where nobody even mentions the megapixels on these things because
we're no longer interested in that. It either takes a
good picture or it doesn't take a good picture. And
these phones are taking really nice pictures. I think it's
pretty much the same cameras that are on the S
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ten and the S ten Plus, but the big difference
here on the Note ten plus, you're kind of getting
everything the best. So it used to be that the
Note in general was always the best that Samsung had
to offer, but now it's the Note ten Plus that
has the best. So on the back you get an
extra depth camera and you also get more memory, so
eight gigabytes RAM on the Note ten with two fifty
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six storage, and on the Note ten Plus there's twelve
gigabytes a RAM along with two fifty six gigs of
storage or five hundred and twelve. And on the Note
ten plus, if you want a memory card, it's there.
It is not there on the Note ten. So again
they're really dividing these two devices. So some of the
main features they showed off this is more of an
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evolution than a revolution. So they have handwriting on there.
They've got the stylist. Now the handwriting converts the text
really quickly and you can export it to Microsoft Word.
They do these weird things with the spen, which are
actions which you can wave it around in the air
and control things on your phone, kind of like before,
except way more. I don't think anyone's gonna use that,
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to be honest. The video stuff is really cool, so
if you're a video editor you're creating videos. They did
some nice stuff there. They put a screen recorder built in,
You've got a video editing app that's built in the
microphone zooms in to the audio when you zoom in
on the camera. And then they have this cool thing
called live focus video, which is kind of like the
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live effect in a picture where you get that blurry background,
but now they're doing that with video and that's pretty
impressive as well. There's also some cool things where you
can doodle on someone in three D and it shows
up on them.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And you can also charge this The Note ten plus
at least faster than ever and now supports up to
forty five watts of charging, which just means that it's
really fast. The thing I'm most impressed with is the color.
They have this cool aura glow color which is just
so cool. It reminds me of when I was a kid,
we had these stickers that were they kind of reflected
the light in like a rainbow. They were like silver,
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and they reflected the light iridescent kind of thing. So
they've got that color, which is really cool. They've got white,
they've got black, and it's gonna be on all the
major carriers on August twenty third is when it's in stores.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Of course, pre orders start.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Now and pricing is nine p fifty for the Note
ten ten ninety nine ninety nine for the Galaxy Note
ten Plus. And I love this. Whenever I'm at these events,
I always round this up, so ten ninety nine becomes
eleven hundred, and one of the Samsung people as I'm
talking for TV is like you missed. You said eleven hundred,
and I said, what do you mean, what I do wrong?
(06:05):
He said, well, it's ten ninety nine ninety nine. I mean,
come on, it's a penny more. I'm just rounding it up.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
As always.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The best way to buy these things is really through
the pre order, which you will get the best deal
if you go to Samsung dot com and trade in
your old phone. Of course, I'm sure the carriers will
have some good deals as well. The other weird thing
that Samsung's doing with these devices is they're not putting
any in the hands of reviewers like myself until a
week later, so we're not going to get our hands
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on these things for another week or so, which is
kind of different because generally you get them and you
start giving impressions of them immediately, but they're not doing that.
So it'll be interesting to see if that theory works
to sell more phones. I guess in the time that
you don't really hear much about them, or I guess
you don't really have much solid hands on time. All right,
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let's get to our first question. This comes from Janet McKinnon.
Janet says, can you do a review on Anytime tv
dot us? Is this better than a monthly cable bill?
I understand it's just one seventy five a year, and
could you do a review and email it? Can you
recommend it or not? And also how to use it?
Thank you, Janet. So I looked up Anytime TV dot
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us and I can tell you this number one. Do
not even go near this thing. There are so many
of these gray websites that are purporting to give free
TV and thousands of channels and every premium movie channel
reminds me of the just Scrambler boxes back in the day,
the black boxes people still get those things now they're
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just using Amazon fireTV. I have not checked these things out.
I looked at the list of channels that they offer
on Anytime TV dot us and it's just it's every
channel in the world and every movie in the world.
How do you offer all that for one seventy five
a year. Well, it's bogus. So stay away from these things,
do not use them. They get shut down all the time.
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So you may pay your one to seventy five for
the year and it may go under in the first week.
So definitely don't do this. And also these are a
lot of these things are either outright scams or all
they're doing is linking to the public websites that you
can stream stuff on anyway, and at the worst, they're
linking to movies that are on BitTorrent sites, So you're
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getting stuff that is not official. It's not good, it's illegal,
it's operating in a gray area. So I would stay
away from these things. And I'm not just picking on
this one. There's so many of them. As people are
cutting the cord and they're looking for alternatives, they're looking
into anything they can get that's cheaper than cable and
you remember that old adage, if it sounds too good
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to be true, it probably is. Well, if you're paying
one hundred and seventy five dollars a year, and when
I used to have cable, it was one hundred and
seventy five a month, something's wrong, especially when you're getting
or promised every channel in the entire world world.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So don't do it. Stay away.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And it's not just because it's in a gray zone.
It's just not good, not good at all. Let's talk
more about Samsung. They also unveiled several other things at
their event, including the galaxy Watch Active two. This is
a new version of their smart watch that they sort
of just released, I feel like very recently. But the
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galaxy Watch Active two is further refined, as they say,
and this is the closest competitor, I'd say to the
Apple Watch. There's not many smart watches that are really
approaching the functionality of the Apple Watch. But the galaxy
Watch Active two looks really nice and it has a
lot of the features that you need. So it tracks
your sleep, attracks your fitness, it even tells you when
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you're stressed. Out comes in two different sizes, a forty
four milimeter and a forty millimeter And the main thing
that's different on this is the signature rotating bezel that
they have. It is now digital, so it doesn't actually
physically rotate. You just kind of spin your finger around
the screen to navigate on the watch, and by the way,
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you can navigate forward or backwards. The screen is really beautiful.
I still think that the Apple Watch. The physical look
of the Galaxy Watch is very nice. I think that
the look on the screen is not as polished as
the Apple Watch. But at the same time, if you
have an Android device, especially a Samsung phone, this is
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going to complement it very nicely. There's also this interesting
feature called my Style. You take a picture of your
outfit that you're wearing, and your watch face will change
to sort of match it up, which is kind of fun.
It manually tracks more than thirty nine different workouts, with
seven of them automatically activate it, so if you're running, walking, cycling, swimming,
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rowing on the elliptical, or doing a workout, dynamic workout,
whatever that is, it will automatically start to track those.
The rest you have to manually track, and it also
tracks your real time stress levels and the one thing
it has that the Apple Watch does not is sleep analysis,
So the Apple Watch does not do anything with sleep
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right now, but the Galaxy Watch Active two does. Man,
that's such a mouthful for that name. It also has
LTE connectivity, a version of it with LTE, so you
can get that, and apparently you're gonna be able to
watch YouTube on here, so I can't wait to see
how that works.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm reading through the release here and it says you
can watch a short video clip right from your wrist,
so I'm not sure if it's full YouTube or just
certain YouTube videos that are supported. This watch will start
at two seventy nine two eighty for the forty millimeter
and three hundred for the forty four milimeter beginning September
twenty seventh. If you want the LTE version, it's a
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little bit more. I believe it was for something. I
have a picture I got to look at, but don't
quote me on that. But it's gonna be a little
bit more expensive, all right. Next question comes from Scott
Hey Rich, I'm looking at the cord with my cable
service spectrum, but that leads me dependent on internet service,
of which mine is very unreliable.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Spectrum.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Can you recommend any Internet services that are reliable and
constant in the Huntington.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Beach, California area?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Scott so Scott most of the time, and I'm sure
you figured this out by now. There are not many
options for cable, or i should say, for internet.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Where you'll live.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Usually there are best case scenario two options. Sometimes you
have a combination of something like the standard cable company
along with the phone company, depending on how much they've
wired your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So you can have Spectrum.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And you might have AT and T and you can
compare those against each other. So there's a website that
you can look at called high Speed Internet dot Com
and they will you pop in your zip code and
they will tell.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You if.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Let me see what Huntington Beach hun tang two. I'm
seeing what your zip code is in Huntington Beach, and
I'll pop it in here and we'll see if there's
anything in your area with respect to these providers. So
high Speed Internet dot Com has So you have Frontier
and Spectrum, so that's pretty good. Those are two different
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choices that you do have, and one's fib or one's cable.
So that's what you have and this will tell you
the plans that they have and what's available in your
area high speed Internet dot com. And so I would
check that and see what you got, and I would
go with the lesser of the two evils, because right
now most of the time it's a lesser of two evils.
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I'm perfectly happy with my spectrum coverage. I think my
spectrum is fine. I've got one hundred down. I don't
like the price I pay like sixty five dollars a month.
It used to be forty five, and it used to
be like thirty back in the day. But now that
the price for Internet is going up because all these
internet providers know that you're cutting the cord, and so
they raise the price on the internet to make up
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for the price that they're losing on the cable service.
But again, high speed in com is the place to
look to see what's available in your area and compare them.
And I think that a lot of this is going
to change when five G comes out in a big
way because now the wireless companies like the AT and
T's of the world and the Verizons will be able
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to deliver home high speed internet through wireless, which means
they can blanket the entire nation in high speed internet,
which is going to drive competition with the wired company.
So suddenly you're going to see a premium for the
wireless or you're going to see lower prices for the
wireless perhaps. But then of course as time goes on
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and more people switch, things will level out. But when
five G comes out, we will see some good competition,
which will be good for all of our pocketbooks and
wallets because the prices will drive down just a little
bit before they level out later on. Speaking of cable,
Disney has unveiled a bundle which includes it's Disney Plus,
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which is their upcoming Disney streaming service, along with Hulu
and ESPN Plus. That is all going to be bundled
for twelve ninety nine a month starting on November twelfth,
thirteen dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
For a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You're talking Disney Plus, which is going to have all
kinds of Disney content for your kids, family programming. Then
you've got Hulu, which this is the kind of the standard,
low end ad supported Hulu, so not the expensive plan
has no commercials, or the Hulu with live TV. This
is the cheaper version, or I should say, the cheapest
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version of Hulu. So it's not fantastic, but it's a start,
and it's there, and it gives you a lot of
the primetime TV shows. Then you also get ESPN Plus.
I'm not a sports guy, so I don't really know
what that's what they have on there, but I'm sure
they have a lot of games and things like that
on there, and a lot of documentaries and stuff. I
don't think ESPN Plus will have all of the best games,
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like you're not gonna just survive if you love sports
on ESPN Plus. But for thirteen dollars a month, this
is very compelling, and my theory is that they are
starting out very aggressively to compete with all the other
offerings out there. So, for instance, you have Netflix, You've
got Direct TV now, all these other things that people
cobble together for their cable nowadays. But this is a
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This covers a lot of bases. You've got Disney for
the family, You've got Hulu for mom and dad. When
the kids go to sleep, they can watch the primetime shows.
Then you've got ESPN Plus for the weekends when you
want to watch some of the sporting events. So for
thirteen dollars. That's not a bad deal. My thought is
that that price will go up as time goes on,
But for now, I see a lot of people kind
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of ditching Netflix if they can go to something like
Disney Plus or this bundle, which gives them a lot
of options for cheaper than when I'm paying for Netflix.
I pay sixteen dollars for Netflix. This is thirteen for
what's seen.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
To be more.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Unless you're really into some of the Netflix original shows,
then you're not gonna drop it. I know in my
house it's a debate. I want to drop Netflix, my
wife will not. Angel asks a question, do you what
do you know about the app Clarity Money? Is it
safe to sink financial info to it? The short of
it is, it's only as safe as the encryption we
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have and as good as the password that you use,
so you have to do your homework with these things.
There are a lot of apps like Mint and Clarity
Money that will connect to your bank account and slice
and dice all of your information. I've used Clarity Money.
I think that it's really nice. It is it's sort
of aimed towards millennials, and it's really clean looking, so
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it looks really good.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
They do a nice job of If you.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Type in Starbucks, it'll tell you exactly how much you've
spent at Starbucks over the years. It organizes all kinds
of stuff. It gives you a little hint system how
you could save more money. I really like I don't
use it very much. I kind of tested it out,
but I found that I got bored with it. The
thing that I'm really liking right now is called Personal Capital,
and Personal Capital does a lot of these same things,
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but it you know, you put all your accounts in there,
so you put your four O one k's, your investment accounts,
checking account, your credit cards, any assets that you have.
And this is much more powerful. This this kind of
gives you a real snapshot of just how much you owe,
how much you have, where your money is, how you're
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doing compared to the stock market. So it's it's geared
a little bit more towards the investor. But it is
a fantastic product. And that's called Personal Capital. And again,
all these products, including Clarity Money, personal Capital, they all
use the same kind of encryption. They all connect your
bank account. A lot of them use a service called
Stripe to connect your bank account so it's it's all
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very similar. So is it safe? I mean, is anything
safe that's online. We are only as safe as the
precautions we take and the things that we do. But
is the app a scam? No, So if you trust
the app, you can sink your information to it and
go from there. But check out Personal Capital, Clarity Money, Mint.
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I don't recommend anymore because I feel like I just
I don't see the value in Mint anymore. I feel
like they've really switched from being interesting and helpful to
just trying to sell me credit cards and stuff I
don't need, and I just find that I just don't
get the value out of Mint. In fact, I think
I deleted my account with Mint, but I was one
of the first to signed up. I remember I was
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working at cakew when I signed up, and I thought
it was so cool to see everything on one page.
And now there are so many services that offer this
financial snapshot, including like your own bank. A lot of
banks will let you do this right through their website.
But check it out Clarity Money, Personal Capital, and there
are others out there. If you have one, let me
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know if you like it. All right, So back to
the Samsung event, one more thing, and that's it. I'll
just talk about one more thing. If they announced this
is the Galaxy Book S, and I actually kind of
like this. This is a laptop that it's very powerful.
Well it's not as powerful as your standard laptop, but
it's got everything you need if you just need kind
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of a in between things. So maybe you don't want
to buy a tablet, but you want your smartphone and
maybe a nice laptop that you can type on.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
There's a trackpad, it's got a nice.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Thirteen inch touchscreen, it runs Windows ten. But the neat
thing about the Galaxy Book S is that there is
LTE built in. I've always wanted LTE built into my laptop.
It would just make so much sense when you travel
to not have to deal with all these Wi Fi
hotspots and you just are connected. And if you if
you have a good Wi Fi hot spot in your
hotel room, that's fine. But LTE is inherently more secure
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because you're not connecting to some sketchy network. And I'm
not saying all Wi Fi networks are sketchy, but sometimes
you're desperate and you just find one that works and
you're willing to connect to it. So having that LTE
connection is nice and it's funny because as I saw this,
it just makes so much sense that all these cellular
companies love the trend of LTE in everything. You've got
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LTE in your phone, You've got LTE in your car,
You've got LTE on your watch, You've got LTE on
your laptop. Now you've got lt on your tablet. Theoretically,
you could be walking around with your phone, your watch,
and your laptop all connected to LTE. That's three devices
that you're paying for now for an LTE connection versus
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the old days when it was just one and you
could have more. You could have your car, you could
have your tablet. It gets a little crazy. You could
have your kid's phone. So it really is a little
nutty at this point. But you do have a thirteen
point three inch display, Like I said, that is a
touch screen. They say you get twenty three hours of
continuous video playback with one charge.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
When I was looking at them in the demo area,
it was saying between seven and nine hours.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
When I was actually.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Using it to do stuff, So I would take the
twenty three hours to the grain of salt. It's up
to a terabyte of expandable storage. And the way that
you charge it is through the same connector MICROUS or
USB C that you would use on your phone, So
that's kind of nice. If you're traveling with this thing,
you can just literally use the same USB C connector
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that you used to charge your phone to charge the laptop.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
And it's really nice.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It comes in two colors, gold and gray, and it's
a beautiful laptop. It's very slim, very sleek, very lightweight.
It's got eight gigs a RAM. Let's see, okay, two
fifty six looks like the bottom of the storage five
twelve built in and then microSD slot up to a terabyte,
and of course that's going to be, you know, something
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that you'd have to expand later. But it's got everything
you need. It's got a fingerprint sensor, it's got Star speakers,
and it has a selfie camera as well. So this
is nice. I mean for nine to ninety nine starting price.
It's kind of aimed towards the person that just wants
something that works, like a laptop has Windows, does everything
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they need, but doesn't have to be the most powerful
laptop out there. This is running a qualcom mobile chip inside,
so it's not not the standard chips that you might
find like in an Apple laptop or a Windows laptop.
All right, let's get to another question from Debbie. She says,
I have an iPhone six S and I'll be traveling
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to Europe and don't want to carry along a camera.
Can you tell me the best app that is going
to provide a better picture quality. I don't think that
any camera app is going to provide better picture quality
than the built in app on the iPhone. There are
apps that take advantage of what they call the iPhone
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camera APIs, so they can be built specifically to take
advantage of the photography built into the iPhone. The app
that I would recommend if I had to is called
Halied Hlid, and the only reason I recommend it is
because it gives you more control over your pictures. You
can do a lot with this camera. There's a million
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cameras for the iPhone out there. I wouldn't recommend any
of them, but the Halied one is pretty decent. It
was invented by a couple of guys that know a
thing or two about cameras because they were movie makers,
or they still are. I'm not sure, but there's a
lot of different features built into this camera that works.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So it also shoots in.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Raw and it just you know it. Let's see what
do you have here? Smart auto, so you've got an
auto feature, You've got focus parking or focus peaking. Rather,
you've got a histogram, grid and level raw plus JPEG.
I don't think you're going to need any of these.
I think you just take your phone. I mean, I've
been around the world and I've never taken a phone
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out side of my camera. I mean, I've taken some
like go pros and stuff like that, but I've been
everywhere and I just think that the phone you have
in your pocket is going to be the best one.
I know people that want to bring DSLRs and SLRs,
but if you're a true photographer, you're gonna have one
of those. But if you're telling me you have an
iPhone success you're going to Europe, you don't want to
carry a camera, Just carry your iPhone.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You're gonna be just fine.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Now, when it comes to editing pictures, you can do
a lot after you take them, And the app I
recommend for that is called snapseed.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It's owned by Google. It is so smart, it is
so cool.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You will be amazed what you can do in post
processing with that app, with the pictures that you already
take right on the iPhone. So those are the two
things I recommend. Good luck and have a great trip.
I'm jealous. Where are you going in Europe?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I want to know. I want to go to Europe.
Let's see what else do we have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Amazon introducing a new prime benefit for students, Amazon Music
Unlimited for justinety nine cents a month. This is a
direct war against Spotify, which has a student plan for
five dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But here's the catch.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You have to have a Prime student membership, which I
think is fifty percent off the normal prime so I
think it's about six dollars a month. But here's the thing.
When I was a college student, I was broke. I
didn't have money for a subscription to anything. And I
guess maybe a lot of students have a subscription to Amazon,
(26:31):
but I mean, really, I don't know if you need
a subscription to Amazon when you're a college student. I mean,
how much stuff can can you buy through there? I
wasn't doing a lot of online shopping. I wasn't doing
a lot of shopping at all, and I feel like
a lot of these students probably just latch onto mom
and Dad's Amazon Prime account. I know it used to
(26:53):
be easy to share your Prime account with other people,
especially those outside your household. Maybe Amazon has clamped down
on that just a little bit and made it tougher
and also made it more interesting that you can get
this Prime Student benefit. So the Prime Student membership plan
is I think it's free for six months. So you
(27:13):
can get a six month trial of Amazon Duck at
Amazon dot com slash Prime Student, and then you can
get the or hold on this. I'm trying to figure out,
is it. Yeah, college students can sign up for a
six month trial of Prime Student and enjoy fast free
delivery from Prime Plus movies, TV shows, and then the
(27:35):
music for a dollar extra per month, and this gives
you access to fifty million songs and the latest releases,
so sort of like Spotify. I don't know, I mean,
if you're paying for Spotify, I don't see a lot
of college students switching, but maybe if they are on
that Spotify subscription for five dollars a month, they would
rather have the ninety nine cents a month, and it's
(27:57):
definitely a savings but I feel like there's also a
cachet that comes along with having Spotify. It's sort of
the gold standard of music services, and I think a
lot of students, I don't know, maybe maybe they don't care.
But personally, I'm using Apple Music because it's free with
my Verizon account. So I switched from from the Spotify
plan when that came out to be free, and I
(28:19):
haven't really looked back because you know, to me, they're
all the same as long as you've got the playlist
that you like, I don't really see a difference. And
to me that the playlists on Apple Music are just fine.
They're not as far reaching as the ones that you
can get on Spotify. Spotify has a playlist for everything,
(28:40):
whereas Apple Music is a little simpler.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
But it doesn't bother me. I'm just fine.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I've got my country playlist, I've got my pop playlist,
I've got my workout playlist, and I'm just trying to
back get back into the indie playlist as well. That's
not working too well. I'm kind of forgetting all the
bands I used to like. My wife got me into
country music, and so I've been listening to a lot
of country, and on Spotify they had a pop and
(29:04):
country mix that I really liked. And then when I
switched to the Apple Music there is no mix of
those two genres, but to me, a lot of the country,
the new country, I should say, is very poppy. So
but I used to only listen to indie music and
you know, like Lumineers and all that stuff and Cage
the Elephant, But now I don't really listen to that
(29:26):
anymore because I got into the country stuff. So do
you care? Do you care what I listened to? I
don't know, but I'll tell you what I don't listen to,
and that's hard rock, heavy metal, or I should say
heavy metal. I don't really listen to that stuff. But
the rest of it, I'm pretty open to a lot
of music. I like the coffee house on the weekends.
I like, you know, some classical. If I'm trying to work,
(29:47):
I like study beats. I like some of the chill music.
I'm kind of a fan of all music except for
the head banging stuff. Question from Darlene. Darlene says, I
I like to check things. I like to check off
things on a list. Currently, I use a notes app
to make my list, but there's no way to check them.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Off as I do it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Does one exist that you can recommend? There are many
apps that will let you do this, but a very
simple one that's free and not a lot of fuss.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Is called Google Keep.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
This is Google's note taking app. It works on both
iPhone and Android, and you can make a list like
my wife and I do. We make a list for
the grocery store, and you can check it off, and
you can. I believe there's an option to keep things
there when you check it off, and I believe there's
an option to also let it disappear, so I think
(30:42):
you can see it however you want. So if you
want to keep everything xed out, you can do that,
or if you're shopping, I find that it's really easy
to let them disappear. So you make your list and
then as you buy the things on your list, you
just check them off and they disappear. So instead of
having to keep going through your list one hundred times
your head mentally remembering what you've gotten, already, everything's gone
(31:03):
that you've gotten, and I believe there's a way to
take it back. But why would you need to? So
I would just check out Google Keep. It's a great app,
it's free. There are a lot of other apps that
can do this, but most of them are a freemium app,
which means it's going to be free for the basic use,
but they're going to be nagging you to switch to
a paid version of that app at every step of
(31:25):
the way. So anything you want to do with this app,
all of a sudden, they're gonna be like, well, can
you pay three dollars a month? Can you pay six
bucks for the year? Can you pay ten dollars for
the year? Whereas Google Keep is totally free and they
don't try to upsell you on anything. Verizon Verizon, Verizon, Man,
I don't even know where to start with this. Verizon
(31:46):
has new plans. It's so funny because unlimited does not
mean unlimited in today's world, and they have four new
unlimited plans through Verizon. How do you have four unlimited plants?
Unlimited should be unlimited, but no, it's unlimited with the
craziest names that make no sense. Let me go through
(32:07):
these names. Start Unlimited, play more unlimited, do more unlimited,
Get more unlimited, The start unlimited starts at thirty five
dollars a month. Hold on, let's go down to just
to Oh my gosh, let's just go to the single
plan because the other thing that these plans do is
(32:29):
they say one hundred and sixty dollars for four lines,
but not everyone needs four lines. I just need two.
But let's just go with one line. Start Unlimited is
seventy dollars a month. Play More Unlimited is eighty dollars
a month. Then it gets really confusing because Do More
Unlimited is also eighty dollars a month, and then Get
(32:50):
More Unlimited is ninety a month.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
What do you get with these various plans?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
The Start Unlimited is seventy dollars a month for unlimited
four GLTE data and DVD quality streaming, which is for
eighty p So I don't like that, and you get
Apple Music free for six months. Then play More Unlimited
gives you five G access for ten dollars a month,
(33:17):
which is free for a limited time. Unlimited four g
lt E plus twenty five gigs of premium data. What
does that mean if it's unlimited? What does that mean exactly?
So maybe it's unlimited up until twenty five gigs and
then it might slow down after that. Then you have
unlimited hot Spot, which is actually not unlimited because it's
(33:37):
only up to fifteen gigs of four g LTE. So yes,
it's unlimited, but not at high speeds. This is so crazy.
Then you get seven to twenty HD streaming and Apple
Music is included. Then you jump up and do more
Unlimited its eighty dollars a month. That gives you five
g axs for ten dollars a month extra unlimited four
g lt E plus fifty gigs of premium data. So again,
(34:01):
I think you get fifty gigs before it might throttle
and slow down. Unlimited Mobile hot Spot up to fifteen
gigs of four GLTE. Now you're going back down to
DVD quality streaming, and then you have free music for
six months. I just don't understand why this plan would
(34:22):
be more. And then you get five hundred gigs of
Verizon Cloud storage. Now that's actually interesting because I've not
used the Verizon storage, but that's not a bad amount
of Verizon storage. If you're trying to put all your
pictures or something in the Verizon cloud, I wouldn't recommend that,
but I'm sure some people do that, then you have
the top of the top, get more unlimited. This is
(34:43):
ninety dollars a month. Five g access is ten dollars
extra a month free for a limited time, unlimited four
g LTE, but you get seventy five gigs of premium data.
So again I think this will give you seventy five
gigs a full throttle, and then after that they might
slow you down. Then you get unlimited mobile hotspot up
to thirty gigs at four GLTE and you get back
(35:05):
up to seven twenty HD streaming and Apple Music is
included again, plus the five hundred gigs of Verizon Cloud storage.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
And I believe that all of these.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Plans include a ten dollars a month discount if you
sign up for paper free billing and auto pay, So
if you didn't, you're actually looking at prices from eighty
dollars a month to one hundred dollars a month if
you don't, if you want to see your bill before
they charge you. And this is my favorite thing. Every
month I get my little thank you from Verizon, thank
you for submitting your payment, and there's no thank you.
(35:39):
You took my checking card number because I have to
give my debit card number, and you just took the
payment out of my debit card. I didn't have any
option because am I really going to give up ten
dollars a month over a year. That's one hundred and
twenty dollars a year to pay just to see my
bill before you take it, or for me to pay
my bill at my leisure. No, that would seem silly.
(36:00):
So you're not thanking me for anything. You kind of
forced me into it. Then there's one other plan called
the Just Kids, which is fifty dollars a month, which
seems insane for a kid's plan. You would think a
kid's plan would be twenty dollars a month. By the way,
the Kid's plan is terrible. It includes five gigs of
four GLTE data, DVD quality streaming, unlimited talk and text
(36:23):
to twenty contacts, and parental controls. That to me sounds
like a twenty dollars a month plan. I don't know
how they're getting fifty dollars a month for just five
measly gigs of data and calls to only twenty people
and DVD quality streaming. That is a terrible deal. This
makes me want to switch from Verizon immediately. But I
(36:44):
don't know where i'd go. I guess visible maybe, But
I kind of use I use my Plan a lot,
so I shouldn't be talking so much garbage about them,
because I actually do use a significant amount of my
Plan when I'm using it a lot. I've used up
to like seventy five gigs a month. So anyway, that's
the new Verizon plans, which are overly complicated. I don't
(37:07):
know what's going on, but I will tell you this,
the four G LTE plans will take a nose dive
once five G comes out and everyone's promoting that four
G networks will be a dime a dozen. And I
hope prices will go down a little bit in the
future because everyone's going to be so fixated on five
G and charging us more for those plans. You're already
seeing that these are going up ten dollars a month
(37:29):
additional for five G, so hopefully the four G plans
will get just a little bit cheaper. Amazon is starting
autonomous robot deliveries in Irvine, California. I reported about this
on KTLA and on my social media a while back.
This Amazon Scout device, which looks like a little robot
(37:51):
kind of like a little Amazon Prime box on wheels.
It rolls around the neighborhood and it delivers packages to houses.
So originally they were doing this up in the Seattle area,
and I believe it was a city north of Seattle.
Now they're doing Irvine, California. So I have to get
out to Irvine to test this out because I want
to see how this thing delivers. I'm so curious to
(38:12):
see it in action. The video that they show you
online was recorded at Wisteria Lane at Universal Studios on
a backlot, which is highly controlled and clearly not real life.
So in real life in Irvine, it's going to let's see,
what do they say. It's going to occur Monday through
Friday during daylight hours, and there's going to be an
(38:34):
Amazon Scout ambassador to make sure that deliveries go okay,
at least initially. But I can't wait to see this
thing in action because it just sounds so cool and
so futuristic to have a little autonomous robot dropping off
a package at your front door. I saw this thing
at CS called the Animal, which is very similar to this,
(38:55):
except it looks more like a dog with a what
would you say, a basket on its back and it
takes the package out of the truck. The idea is
that the delivery truck pulls up at the end of
your street, package is loaded onto this little robot. Robot
walks down your street, goes up to your front door.
In this case, it can walk up the steps with
this animal, and then it rings the doorbell with one
(39:17):
of its arms and it falls over to the side
to drop your package. So it sort of leans over
and drops your package on the ground and then walks away.
That's the demo I saw. It was really cool. It's
on my Instagram if you want to see it. This
is a little bit different because I haven't really seen
how this drops off the package if it rings your
(39:37):
doorbell and then pops open. But at this point the
Amazon delivery drivers are just leaving all the packages on
the front step. Anyway, I would say for ninety nine
percent of them, unless it's a super high value item.
I think they've ring your doorbell and then wait for
a signature. But remember the day when you had to
sign for everything. Now, I think the way Amazon does
it is they have a value li so if something
(40:01):
is under a certain value, they don't care they're gonna
eat it if they're going to eat the cost if
it gets stolen, or if someone claims it was stolen,
because they may say that they leave it on your doorstep,
and you may say, oh, I didn't get it, and
I know that the delivery drivers are also taking pictures,
but that still doesn't really hold up. If you say
didn't get it, you didn't get it, if you didn't
sign for it. There's no proof even if you're lying.
(40:23):
And I'm not saying you should do that, but I
think that Amazon just used an algorithm to kind of
figure out whether this thing is high value and whether
they can leave it there or if they really need
to get a signature. And I'm not even sure they
get signatures for it. I can't remember the last time
they required a signature on anything that they've delivered.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
To my house.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
All right, final email from Shannon. I want to tell
you how much I love, love, love your podcast and
when you are on TV in Chicago. Thanks for all
you have helped me with just by listening to you.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Well, Thank you, Shannon.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
That is a great way to end the show. And
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(41:17):
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to you real soon.
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Note ten, plus a watch, a laptop,
and more. Disney teases a killer bundle, Amazon has a
music deal for students, and new Verizon plans guaranteed to
confuse you. Plus I'm answering your pressing tech questions. What's
going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech,
the podcast where I talk about the stuff I think
(00:26):
you should know about happening in the tech world. It's
also the place where I answer the tech questions you
send me, whether it's through email, my website, Facebook, Instagram,
DM however you get in touch with me, I answer
your questions right here in the show. I'm coming to
you now from Brooklyn, where I just got out of
the Samsung event. It's a rainy day here in Brooklyn,
(00:47):
but it was a good show and fun to see
what the company unveiled. Producer Megan meanwhile is on vacation
in Hawaii. She will be joining us on the next show.
So the show must go on here from New York.
And let's just start with samsung big event here at
the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, where the company unveiled the
(01:08):
Galaxy Note ten. There's been lots of leaks about the phone,
but now we know officially.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
What the device is all about.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Plus I had a chance to go hands on with
the device last week up in San Francisco, and it's
a good looking.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Device, it really is.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
They did a very nice job on the design of
the Note ten, and for the first time ever, there
are actually two sizes of the Note ten, and if
you're counting for reels, there's kind of like three of
these devices because there's a Note ten, there's a Note
ten Plus, which has a bigger screen, and then there's
a Note ten plus five G say all that three
(01:44):
times fast, so quickly breaking it down, the Note ten
is the standard model, which has a six point three
inch screen. The Note ten Plus has a six point
eight inch screen. It just seems like if you add
up all these devices that Samsung has, between the S
ten and the Note ten and all of their lower phones,
they have a lot to choose from, and it just
(02:04):
seems like they are making something for everyone, no matter
what your price range is or what features you want.
Spoiler alert, there is one feature that is gone from
the Note ten lineup, and that is the headphone jack.
So there is no more headphone jack on both the
Note ten or the Note ten plus. Some of you
(02:26):
will be sad about that, and I'm kind of mixed.
I use Bluetooth headphones ninety nine percent of the time,
but there are those random times when it would be
nice to just be able to plug in something to
your phone. But we're not here to debate whether that's
coming back or going away forever. But I think it's
pretty much gone forever. If you look at the front
of these devices, they are just beautiful, and the back
(02:46):
they have this great display that just goes truly edge
to edge. They really push the boundaries of just how
far these screens can go to the edges. And the
only thing that's really interrupting the front screen on the
Notes is a tiny selfie cam on the front. So
you've got that ten megapixel camera on the front, and
then on the back you've got a three camera array,
(03:08):
which is a wide angle lens, a standard lens, and
then a telephoto lens. And it's gotten to the point
where nobody even mentions the megapixels on these things because
we're no longer interested in that. It either takes a
good picture or it doesn't take a good picture. And
these phones are taking really nice pictures. I think it's
pretty much the same cameras that are on the S
(03:29):
ten and the S ten Plus, but the big difference
here on the Note ten plus, you're kind of getting
everything the best. So it used to be that the
Note in general was always the best that Samsung had
to offer, but now it's the Note ten Plus that
has the best. So on the back you get an
extra depth camera and you also get more memory, so
eight gigabytes RAM on the Note ten with two fifty
(03:53):
six storage, and on the Note ten Plus there's twelve
gigabytes a RAM along with two fifty six gigs of
storage or five hundred and twelve. And on the Note
ten plus, if you want a memory card, it's there.
It is not there on the Note ten. So again
they're really dividing these two devices. So some of the
main features they showed off this is more of an
(04:13):
evolution than a revolution. So they have handwriting on there.
They've got the stylist. Now the handwriting converts the text
really quickly and you can export it to Microsoft Word.
They do these weird things with the spen, which are
actions which you can wave it around in the air
and control things on your phone, kind of like before,
except way more. I don't think anyone's gonna use that,
(04:34):
to be honest. The video stuff is really cool, so
if you're a video editor you're creating videos. They did
some nice stuff there. They put a screen recorder built in,
You've got a video editing app that's built in the
microphone zooms in to the audio when you zoom in
on the camera. And then they have this cool thing
called live focus video, which is kind of like the
(04:55):
live effect in a picture where you get that blurry background,
but now they're doing that with video and that's pretty
impressive as well. There's also some cool things where you
can doodle on someone in three D and it shows
up on them.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And you can also charge this The Note ten plus
at least faster than ever and now supports up to
forty five watts of charging, which just means that it's
really fast. The thing I'm most impressed with is the color.
They have this cool aura glow color which is just
so cool. It reminds me of when I was a kid,
we had these stickers that were they kind of reflected
the light in like a rainbow. They were like silver,
(05:31):
and they reflected the light iridescent kind of thing. So
they've got that color, which is really cool. They've got white,
they've got black, and it's gonna be on all the
major carriers on August twenty third is when it's in stores.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Of course, pre orders start.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Now and pricing is nine p fifty for the Note
ten ten ninety nine ninety nine for the Galaxy Note
ten Plus. And I love this. Whenever I'm at these events,
I always round this up, so ten ninety nine becomes
eleven hundred, and one of the Samsung people as I'm
talking for TV is like you missed. You said eleven hundred,
and I said, what do you mean, what I do wrong?
(06:05):
He said, well, it's ten ninety nine ninety nine. I mean,
come on, it's a penny more. I'm just rounding it up.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
As always.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The best way to buy these things is really through
the pre order, which you will get the best deal
if you go to Samsung dot com and trade in
your old phone. Of course, I'm sure the carriers will
have some good deals as well. The other weird thing
that Samsung's doing with these devices is they're not putting
any in the hands of reviewers like myself until a
week later, so we're not going to get our hands
(06:34):
on these things for another week or so, which is
kind of different because generally you get them and you
start giving impressions of them immediately, but they're not doing that.
So it'll be interesting to see if that theory works
to sell more phones. I guess in the time that
you don't really hear much about them, or I guess
you don't really have much solid hands on time. All right,
(06:55):
let's get to our first question. This comes from Janet McKinnon.
Janet says, can you do a review on Anytime tv
dot us? Is this better than a monthly cable bill?
I understand it's just one seventy five a year, and
could you do a review and email it? Can you
recommend it or not? And also how to use it?
Thank you, Janet. So I looked up Anytime TV dot
(07:20):
us and I can tell you this number one. Do
not even go near this thing. There are so many
of these gray websites that are purporting to give free
TV and thousands of channels and every premium movie channel
reminds me of the just Scrambler boxes back in the day,
the black boxes people still get those things now they're
(07:41):
just using Amazon fireTV. I have not checked these things out.
I looked at the list of channels that they offer
on Anytime TV dot us and it's just it's every
channel in the world and every movie in the world.
How do you offer all that for one seventy five
a year. Well, it's bogus. So stay away from these things,
do not use them. They get shut down all the time.
(08:02):
So you may pay your one to seventy five for
the year and it may go under in the first week.
So definitely don't do this. And also these are a
lot of these things are either outright scams or all
they're doing is linking to the public websites that you
can stream stuff on anyway, and at the worst, they're
linking to movies that are on BitTorrent sites, So you're
(08:25):
getting stuff that is not official. It's not good, it's illegal,
it's operating in a gray area. So I would stay
away from these things. And I'm not just picking on
this one. There's so many of them. As people are
cutting the cord and they're looking for alternatives, they're looking
into anything they can get that's cheaper than cable and
you remember that old adage, if it sounds too good
(08:47):
to be true, it probably is. Well, if you're paying
one hundred and seventy five dollars a year, and when
I used to have cable, it was one hundred and
seventy five a month, something's wrong, especially when you're getting
or promised every channel in the entire world world.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So don't do it. Stay away.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And it's not just because it's in a gray zone.
It's just not good, not good at all. Let's talk
more about Samsung. They also unveiled several other things at
their event, including the galaxy Watch Active two. This is
a new version of their smart watch that they sort
of just released, I feel like very recently. But the
(09:23):
galaxy Watch Active two is further refined, as they say,
and this is the closest competitor, I'd say to the
Apple Watch. There's not many smart watches that are really
approaching the functionality of the Apple Watch. But the galaxy
Watch Active two looks really nice and it has a
lot of the features that you need. So it tracks
your sleep, attracks your fitness, it even tells you when
(09:45):
you're stressed. Out comes in two different sizes, a forty
four milimeter and a forty millimeter And the main thing
that's different on this is the signature rotating bezel that
they have. It is now digital, so it doesn't actually
physically rotate. You just kind of spin your finger around
the screen to navigate on the watch, and by the way,
(10:06):
you can navigate forward or backwards. The screen is really beautiful.
I still think that the Apple Watch. The physical look
of the Galaxy Watch is very nice. I think that
the look on the screen is not as polished as
the Apple Watch. But at the same time, if you
have an Android device, especially a Samsung phone, this is
(10:26):
going to complement it very nicely. There's also this interesting
feature called my Style. You take a picture of your
outfit that you're wearing, and your watch face will change
to sort of match it up, which is kind of fun.
It manually tracks more than thirty nine different workouts, with
seven of them automatically activate it, so if you're running, walking, cycling, swimming,
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rowing on the elliptical, or doing a workout, dynamic workout,
whatever that is, it will automatically start to track those.
The rest you have to manually track, and it also
tracks your real time stress levels and the one thing
it has that the Apple Watch does not is sleep analysis,
So the Apple Watch does not do anything with sleep
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right now, but the Galaxy Watch Active two does. Man,
that's such a mouthful for that name. It also has
LTE connectivity, a version of it with LTE, so you
can get that, and apparently you're gonna be able to
watch YouTube on here, so I can't wait to see
how that works.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm reading through the release here and it says you
can watch a short video clip right from your wrist,
so I'm not sure if it's full YouTube or just
certain YouTube videos that are supported. This watch will start
at two seventy nine two eighty for the forty millimeter
and three hundred for the forty four milimeter beginning September
twenty seventh. If you want the LTE version, it's a
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little bit more. I believe it was for something. I
have a picture I got to look at, but don't
quote me on that. But it's gonna be a little
bit more expensive, all right. Next question comes from Scott
Hey Rich, I'm looking at the cord with my cable
service spectrum, but that leads me dependent on internet service,
of which mine is very unreliable.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Spectrum.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Can you recommend any Internet services that are reliable and
constant in the Huntington.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Beach, California area?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Scott so Scott most of the time, and I'm sure
you figured this out by now. There are not many
options for cable, or i should say, for internet.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Where you'll live.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Usually there are best case scenario two options. Sometimes you
have a combination of something like the standard cable company
along with the phone company, depending on how much they've
wired your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So you can have Spectrum.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And you might have AT and T and you can
compare those against each other. So there's a website that
you can look at called high Speed Internet dot Com
and they will you pop in your zip code and
they will tell.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You if.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Let me see what Huntington Beach hun tang two. I'm
seeing what your zip code is in Huntington Beach, and
I'll pop it in here and we'll see if there's
anything in your area with respect to these providers. So
high Speed Internet dot Com has So you have Frontier
and Spectrum, so that's pretty good. Those are two different
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choices that you do have, and one's fib or one's cable.
So that's what you have and this will tell you
the plans that they have and what's available in your
area high speed Internet dot com. And so I would
check that and see what you got, and I would
go with the lesser of the two evils, because right
now most of the time it's a lesser of two evils.
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I'm perfectly happy with my spectrum coverage. I think my
spectrum is fine. I've got one hundred down. I don't
like the price I pay like sixty five dollars a month.
It used to be forty five, and it used to
be like thirty back in the day. But now that
the price for Internet is going up because all these
internet providers know that you're cutting the cord, and so
they raise the price on the internet to make up
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for the price that they're losing on the cable service.
But again, high speed in com is the place to
look to see what's available in your area and compare them.
And I think that a lot of this is going
to change when five G comes out in a big
way because now the wireless companies like the AT and
T's of the world and the Verizons will be able
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to deliver home high speed internet through wireless, which means
they can blanket the entire nation in high speed internet,
which is going to drive competition with the wired company.
So suddenly you're going to see a premium for the
wireless or you're going to see lower prices for the
wireless perhaps. But then of course as time goes on
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and more people switch, things will level out. But when
five G comes out, we will see some good competition,
which will be good for all of our pocketbooks and
wallets because the prices will drive down just a little
bit before they level out later on. Speaking of cable,
Disney has unveiled a bundle which includes it's Disney Plus,
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which is their upcoming Disney streaming service, along with Hulu
and ESPN Plus. That is all going to be bundled
for twelve ninety nine a month starting on November twelfth,
thirteen dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
For a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You're talking Disney Plus, which is going to have all
kinds of Disney content for your kids, family programming. Then
you've got Hulu, which this is the kind of the standard,
low end ad supported Hulu, so not the expensive plan
has no commercials, or the Hulu with live TV. This
is the cheaper version, or I should say, the cheapest
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version of Hulu. So it's not fantastic, but it's a start,
and it's there, and it gives you a lot of
the primetime TV shows. Then you also get ESPN Plus.
I'm not a sports guy, so I don't really know
what that's what they have on there, but I'm sure
they have a lot of games and things like that
on there, and a lot of documentaries and stuff. I
don't think ESPN Plus will have all of the best games,
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like you're not gonna just survive if you love sports
on ESPN Plus. But for thirteen dollars a month, this
is very compelling, and my theory is that they are
starting out very aggressively to compete with all the other
offerings out there. So, for instance, you have Netflix, You've
got Direct TV now, all these other things that people
cobble together for their cable nowadays. But this is a
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This covers a lot of bases. You've got Disney for
the family, You've got Hulu for mom and dad. When
the kids go to sleep, they can watch the primetime shows.
Then you've got ESPN Plus for the weekends when you
want to watch some of the sporting events. So for
thirteen dollars. That's not a bad deal. My thought is
that that price will go up as time goes on,
But for now, I see a lot of people kind
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of ditching Netflix if they can go to something like
Disney Plus or this bundle, which gives them a lot
of options for cheaper than when I'm paying for Netflix.
I pay sixteen dollars for Netflix. This is thirteen for
what's seen.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
To be more.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Unless you're really into some of the Netflix original shows,
then you're not gonna drop it. I know in my
house it's a debate. I want to drop Netflix, my
wife will not. Angel asks a question, do you what
do you know about the app Clarity Money? Is it
safe to sink financial info to it? The short of
it is, it's only as safe as the encryption we
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have and as good as the password that you use,
so you have to do your homework with these things.
There are a lot of apps like Mint and Clarity
Money that will connect to your bank account and slice
and dice all of your information. I've used Clarity Money.
I think that it's really nice. It is it's sort
of aimed towards millennials, and it's really clean looking, so
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it looks really good.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
They do a nice job of If you.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Type in Starbucks, it'll tell you exactly how much you've
spent at Starbucks over the years. It organizes all kinds
of stuff. It gives you a little hint system how
you could save more money. I really like I don't
use it very much. I kind of tested it out,
but I found that I got bored with it. The
thing that I'm really liking right now is called Personal Capital,
and Personal Capital does a lot of these same things,
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but it you know, you put all your accounts in there,
so you put your four O one k's, your investment accounts,
checking account, your credit cards, any assets that you have.
And this is much more powerful. This this kind of
gives you a real snapshot of just how much you owe,
how much you have, where your money is, how you're
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doing compared to the stock market. So it's it's geared
a little bit more towards the investor. But it is
a fantastic product. And that's called Personal Capital. And again,
all these products, including Clarity Money, personal Capital, they all
use the same kind of encryption. They all connect your
bank account. A lot of them use a service called
Stripe to connect your bank account so it's it's all
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very similar. So is it safe? I mean, is anything
safe that's online. We are only as safe as the
precautions we take and the things that we do. But
is the app a scam? No, So if you trust
the app, you can sink your information to it and
go from there. But check out Personal Capital, Clarity Money, Mint.
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I don't recommend anymore because I feel like I just
I don't see the value in Mint anymore. I feel
like they've really switched from being interesting and helpful to
just trying to sell me credit cards and stuff I
don't need, and I just find that I just don't
get the value out of Mint. In fact, I think
I deleted my account with Mint, but I was one
of the first to signed up. I remember I was
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working at cakew when I signed up, and I thought
it was so cool to see everything on one page.
And now there are so many services that offer this
financial snapshot, including like your own bank. A lot of
banks will let you do this right through their website.
But check it out Clarity Money, Personal Capital, and there
are others out there. If you have one, let me
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know if you like it. All right, So back to
the Samsung event, one more thing, and that's it. I'll
just talk about one more thing. If they announced this
is the Galaxy Book S, and I actually kind of
like this. This is a laptop that it's very powerful.
Well it's not as powerful as your standard laptop, but
it's got everything you need if you just need kind
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of a in between things. So maybe you don't want
to buy a tablet, but you want your smartphone and
maybe a nice laptop that you can type on.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
There's a trackpad, it's got a nice.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Thirteen inch touchscreen, it runs Windows ten. But the neat
thing about the Galaxy Book S is that there is
LTE built in. I've always wanted LTE built into my laptop.
It would just make so much sense when you travel
to not have to deal with all these Wi Fi
hotspots and you just are connected. And if you if
you have a good Wi Fi hot spot in your
hotel room, that's fine. But LTE is inherently more secure
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because you're not connecting to some sketchy network. And I'm
not saying all Wi Fi networks are sketchy, but sometimes
you're desperate and you just find one that works and
you're willing to connect to it. So having that LTE
connection is nice and it's funny because as I saw this,
it just makes so much sense that all these cellular
companies love the trend of LTE in everything. You've got
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LTE in your phone, You've got LTE in your car,
You've got LTE on your watch, You've got LTE on
your laptop. Now you've got lt on your tablet. Theoretically,
you could be walking around with your phone, your watch,
and your laptop all connected to LTE. That's three devices
that you're paying for now for an LTE connection versus
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the old days when it was just one and you
could have more. You could have your car, you could
have your tablet. It gets a little crazy. You could
have your kid's phone. So it really is a little
nutty at this point. But you do have a thirteen
point three inch display, Like I said, that is a
touch screen. They say you get twenty three hours of
continuous video playback with one charge.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
When I was looking at them in the demo area,
it was saying between seven and nine hours.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
When I was actually.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Using it to do stuff, So I would take the
twenty three hours to the grain of salt. It's up
to a terabyte of expandable storage. And the way that
you charge it is through the same connector MICROUS or
USB C that you would use on your phone, So
that's kind of nice. If you're traveling with this thing,
you can just literally use the same USB C connector
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that you used to charge your phone to charge the laptop.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
And it's really nice.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It comes in two colors, gold and gray, and it's
a beautiful laptop. It's very slim, very sleek, very lightweight.
It's got eight gigs a RAM. Let's see, okay, two
fifty six looks like the bottom of the storage five
twelve built in and then microSD slot up to a terabyte,
and of course that's going to be, you know, something
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that you'd have to expand later. But it's got everything
you need. It's got a fingerprint sensor, it's got Star speakers,
and it has a selfie camera as well. So this
is nice. I mean for nine to ninety nine starting price.
It's kind of aimed towards the person that just wants
something that works, like a laptop has Windows, does everything
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they need, but doesn't have to be the most powerful
laptop out there. This is running a qualcom mobile chip inside,
so it's not not the standard chips that you might
find like in an Apple laptop or a Windows laptop.
All right, let's get to another question from Debbie. She says,
I have an iPhone six S and I'll be traveling
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to Europe and don't want to carry along a camera.
Can you tell me the best app that is going
to provide a better picture quality. I don't think that
any camera app is going to provide better picture quality
than the built in app on the iPhone. There are
apps that take advantage of what they call the iPhone
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camera APIs, so they can be built specifically to take
advantage of the photography built into the iPhone. The app
that I would recommend if I had to is called
Halied Hlid, and the only reason I recommend it is
because it gives you more control over your pictures. You
can do a lot with this camera. There's a million
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cameras for the iPhone out there. I wouldn't recommend any
of them, but the Halied one is pretty decent. It
was invented by a couple of guys that know a
thing or two about cameras because they were movie makers,
or they still are. I'm not sure, but there's a
lot of different features built into this camera that works.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So it also shoots in.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Raw and it just you know it. Let's see what
do you have here? Smart auto, so you've got an
auto feature, You've got focus parking or focus peaking. Rather,
you've got a histogram, grid and level raw plus JPEG.
I don't think you're going to need any of these.
I think you just take your phone. I mean, I've
been around the world and I've never taken a phone
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out side of my camera. I mean, I've taken some
like go pros and stuff like that, but I've been
everywhere and I just think that the phone you have
in your pocket is going to be the best one.
I know people that want to bring DSLRs and SLRs,
but if you're a true photographer, you're gonna have one
of those. But if you're telling me you have an
iPhone success you're going to Europe, you don't want to
carry a camera, Just carry your iPhone.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You're gonna be just fine.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Now, when it comes to editing pictures, you can do
a lot after you take them, And the app I
recommend for that is called snapseed.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It's owned by Google. It is so smart, it is
so cool.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You will be amazed what you can do in post
processing with that app, with the pictures that you already
take right on the iPhone. So those are the two
things I recommend. Good luck and have a great trip.
I'm jealous. Where are you going in Europe?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I want to know. I want to go to Europe.
Let's see what else do we have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Amazon introducing a new prime benefit for students, Amazon Music
Unlimited for justinety nine cents a month. This is a
direct war against Spotify, which has a student plan for
five dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But here's the catch.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You have to have a Prime student membership, which I
think is fifty percent off the normal prime so I
think it's about six dollars a month. But here's the thing.
When I was a college student, I was broke. I
didn't have money for a subscription to anything. And I
guess maybe a lot of students have a subscription to Amazon,
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but I mean, really, I don't know if you need
a subscription to Amazon when you're a college student. I mean,
how much stuff can can you buy through there? I
wasn't doing a lot of online shopping. I wasn't doing
a lot of shopping at all, and I feel like
a lot of these students probably just latch onto mom
and Dad's Amazon Prime account. I know it used to
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be easy to share your Prime account with other people,
especially those outside your household. Maybe Amazon has clamped down
on that just a little bit and made it tougher
and also made it more interesting that you can get
this Prime Student benefit. So the Prime Student membership plan
is I think it's free for six months. So you
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can get a six month trial of Amazon Duck at
Amazon dot com slash Prime Student, and then you can
get the or hold on this. I'm trying to figure out,
is it. Yeah, college students can sign up for a
six month trial of Prime Student and enjoy fast free
delivery from Prime Plus movies, TV shows, and then the
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music for a dollar extra per month, and this gives
you access to fifty million songs and the latest releases,
so sort of like Spotify. I don't know, I mean,
if you're paying for Spotify, I don't see a lot
of college students switching, but maybe if they are on
that Spotify subscription for five dollars a month, they would
rather have the ninety nine cents a month, and it's
(27:57):
definitely a savings but I feel like there's also a
cachet that comes along with having Spotify. It's sort of
the gold standard of music services, and I think a
lot of students, I don't know, maybe maybe they don't care.
But personally, I'm using Apple Music because it's free with
my Verizon account. So I switched from from the Spotify
plan when that came out to be free, and I
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haven't really looked back because you know, to me, they're
all the same as long as you've got the playlist
that you like, I don't really see a difference. And
to me that the playlists on Apple Music are just fine.
They're not as far reaching as the ones that you
can get on Spotify. Spotify has a playlist for everything,
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whereas Apple Music is a little simpler.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
But it doesn't bother me. I'm just fine.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I've got my country playlist, I've got my pop playlist,
I've got my workout playlist, and I'm just trying to
back get back into the indie playlist as well. That's
not working too well. I'm kind of forgetting all the
bands I used to like. My wife got me into
country music, and so I've been listening to a lot
of country, and on Spotify they had a pop and
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country mix that I really liked. And then when I
switched to the Apple Music there is no mix of
those two genres, but to me, a lot of the country,
the new country, I should say, is very poppy. So
but I used to only listen to indie music and
you know, like Lumineers and all that stuff and Cage
the Elephant, But now I don't really listen to that
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anymore because I got into the country stuff. So do
you care? Do you care what I listened to? I
don't know, but I'll tell you what I don't listen to,
and that's hard rock, heavy metal, or I should say
heavy metal. I don't really listen to that stuff. But
the rest of it, I'm pretty open to a lot
of music. I like the coffee house on the weekends.
I like, you know, some classical. If I'm trying to work,
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I like study beats. I like some of the chill music.
I'm kind of a fan of all music except for
the head banging stuff. Question from Darlene. Darlene says, I
I like to check things. I like to check off
things on a list. Currently, I use a notes app
to make my list, but there's no way to check them.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Off as I do it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Does one exist that you can recommend? There are many
apps that will let you do this, but a very
simple one that's free and not a lot of fuss.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Is called Google Keep.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
This is Google's note taking app. It works on both
iPhone and Android, and you can make a list like
my wife and I do. We make a list for
the grocery store, and you can check it off, and
you can. I believe there's an option to keep things
there when you check it off, and I believe there's
an option to also let it disappear, so I think
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you can see it however you want. So if you
want to keep everything xed out, you can do that,
or if you're shopping, I find that it's really easy
to let them disappear. So you make your list and
then as you buy the things on your list, you
just check them off and they disappear. So instead of
having to keep going through your list one hundred times
your head mentally remembering what you've gotten, already, everything's gone
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that you've gotten, and I believe there's a way to
take it back. But why would you need to? So
I would just check out Google Keep. It's a great app,
it's free. There are a lot of other apps that
can do this, but most of them are a freemium app,
which means it's going to be free for the basic use,
but they're going to be nagging you to switch to
a paid version of that app at every step of
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the way. So anything you want to do with this app,
all of a sudden, they're gonna be like, well, can
you pay three dollars a month? Can you pay six
bucks for the year? Can you pay ten dollars for
the year? Whereas Google Keep is totally free and they
don't try to upsell you on anything. Verizon Verizon, Verizon, Man,
I don't even know where to start with this. Verizon
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has new plans. It's so funny because unlimited does not
mean unlimited in today's world, and they have four new
unlimited plans through Verizon. How do you have four unlimited plants?
Unlimited should be unlimited, but no, it's unlimited with the
craziest names that make no sense. Let me go through
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these names. Start Unlimited, play more unlimited, do more unlimited,
Get more unlimited, The start unlimited starts at thirty five
dollars a month. Hold on, let's go down to just
to Oh my gosh, let's just go to the single
plan because the other thing that these plans do is
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they say one hundred and sixty dollars for four lines,
but not everyone needs four lines. I just need two.
But let's just go with one line. Start Unlimited is
seventy dollars a month. Play More Unlimited is eighty dollars
a month. Then it gets really confusing because Do More
Unlimited is also eighty dollars a month, and then Get
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More Unlimited is ninety a month.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
What do you get with these various plans?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
The Start Unlimited is seventy dollars a month for unlimited
four GLTE data and DVD quality streaming, which is for
eighty p So I don't like that, and you get
Apple Music free for six months. Then play More Unlimited
gives you five G access for ten dollars a month,
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which is free for a limited time. Unlimited four g
lt E plus twenty five gigs of premium data. What
does that mean if it's unlimited? What does that mean exactly?
So maybe it's unlimited up until twenty five gigs and
then it might slow down after that. Then you have
unlimited hot Spot, which is actually not unlimited because it's
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only up to fifteen gigs of four g LTE. So yes,
it's unlimited, but not at high speeds. This is so crazy.
Then you get seven to twenty HD streaming and Apple
Music is included. Then you jump up and do more
Unlimited its eighty dollars a month. That gives you five
g axs for ten dollars a month extra unlimited four
g lt E plus fifty gigs of premium data. So again,
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I think you get fifty gigs before it might throttle
and slow down. Unlimited Mobile hot Spot up to fifteen
gigs of four GLTE. Now you're going back down to
DVD quality streaming, and then you have free music for
six months. I just don't understand why this plan would
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be more. And then you get five hundred gigs of
Verizon Cloud storage. Now that's actually interesting because I've not
used the Verizon storage, but that's not a bad amount
of Verizon storage. If you're trying to put all your
pictures or something in the Verizon cloud, I wouldn't recommend that,
but I'm sure some people do that, then you have
the top of the top, get more unlimited. This is
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ninety dollars a month. Five g access is ten dollars
extra a month free for a limited time, unlimited four
g LTE, but you get seventy five gigs of premium data.
So again I think this will give you seventy five
gigs a full throttle, and then after that they might
slow you down. Then you get unlimited mobile hotspot up
to thirty gigs at four GLTE and you get back
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up to seven twenty HD streaming and Apple Music is
included again, plus the five hundred gigs of Verizon Cloud storage.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
And I believe that all of these.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Plans include a ten dollars a month discount if you
sign up for paper free billing and auto pay, So
if you didn't, you're actually looking at prices from eighty
dollars a month to one hundred dollars a month if
you don't, if you want to see your bill before
they charge you. And this is my favorite thing. Every
month I get my little thank you from Verizon, thank
you for submitting your payment, and there's no thank you.
(35:39):
You took my checking card number because I have to
give my debit card number, and you just took the
payment out of my debit card. I didn't have any
option because am I really going to give up ten
dollars a month over a year. That's one hundred and
twenty dollars a year to pay just to see my
bill before you take it, or for me to pay
my bill at my leisure. No, that would seem silly.
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So you're not thanking me for anything. You kind of
forced me into it. Then there's one other plan called
the Just Kids, which is fifty dollars a month, which
seems insane for a kid's plan. You would think a
kid's plan would be twenty dollars a month. By the way,
the Kid's plan is terrible. It includes five gigs of
four GLTE data, DVD quality streaming, unlimited talk and text
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to twenty contacts, and parental controls. That to me sounds
like a twenty dollars a month plan. I don't know
how they're getting fifty dollars a month for just five
measly gigs of data and calls to only twenty people
and DVD quality streaming. That is a terrible deal. This
makes me want to switch from Verizon immediately. But I
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don't know where i'd go. I guess visible maybe, But
I kind of use I use my Plan a lot,
so I shouldn't be talking so much garbage about them,
because I actually do use a significant amount of my
Plan when I'm using it a lot. I've used up
to like seventy five gigs a month. So anyway, that's
the new Verizon plans, which are overly complicated. I don't
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know what's going on, but I will tell you this,
the four G LTE plans will take a nose dive
once five G comes out and everyone's promoting that four
G networks will be a dime a dozen. And I
hope prices will go down a little bit in the
future because everyone's going to be so fixated on five
G and charging us more for those plans. You're already
seeing that these are going up ten dollars a month
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additional for five G, so hopefully the four G plans
will get just a little bit cheaper. Amazon is starting
autonomous robot deliveries in Irvine, California. I reported about this
on KTLA and on my social media a while back.
This Amazon Scout device, which looks like a little robot
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kind of like a little Amazon Prime box on wheels.
It rolls around the neighborhood and it delivers packages to houses.
So originally they were doing this up in the Seattle area,
and I believe it was a city north of Seattle.
Now they're doing Irvine, California. So I have to get
out to Irvine to test this out because I want
to see how this thing delivers. I'm so curious to
(38:12):
see it in action. The video that they show you
online was recorded at Wisteria Lane at Universal Studios on
a backlot, which is highly controlled and clearly not real life.
So in real life in Irvine, it's going to let's see,
what do they say. It's going to occur Monday through
Friday during daylight hours, and there's going to be an
(38:34):
Amazon Scout ambassador to make sure that deliveries go okay,
at least initially. But I can't wait to see this
thing in action because it just sounds so cool and
so futuristic to have a little autonomous robot dropping off
a package at your front door. I saw this thing
at CS called the Animal, which is very similar to this,
(38:55):
except it looks more like a dog with a what
would you say, a basket on its back and it
takes the package out of the truck. The idea is
that the delivery truck pulls up at the end of
your street, package is loaded onto this little robot. Robot
walks down your street, goes up to your front door.
In this case, it can walk up the steps with
this animal, and then it rings the doorbell with one
(39:17):
of its arms and it falls over to the side
to drop your package. So it sort of leans over
and drops your package on the ground and then walks away.
That's the demo I saw. It was really cool. It's
on my Instagram if you want to see it. This
is a little bit different because I haven't really seen
how this drops off the package if it rings your
(39:37):
doorbell and then pops open. But at this point the
Amazon delivery drivers are just leaving all the packages on
the front step. Anyway, I would say for ninety nine
percent of them, unless it's a super high value item.
I think they've ring your doorbell and then wait for
a signature. But remember the day when you had to
sign for everything. Now, I think the way Amazon does
it is they have a value li so if something
(40:01):
is under a certain value, they don't care they're gonna
eat it if they're going to eat the cost if
it gets stolen, or if someone claims it was stolen,
because they may say that they leave it on your doorstep,
and you may say, oh, I didn't get it, and
I know that the delivery drivers are also taking pictures,
but that still doesn't really hold up. If you say
didn't get it, you didn't get it, if you didn't
sign for it. There's no proof even if you're lying.
(40:23):
And I'm not saying you should do that, but I
think that Amazon just used an algorithm to kind of
figure out whether this thing is high value and whether
they can leave it there or if they really need
to get a signature. And I'm not even sure they
get signatures for it. I can't remember the last time
they required a signature on anything that they've delivered.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
To my house.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
All right, final email from Shannon. I want to tell
you how much I love, love, love your podcast and
when you are on TV in Chicago. Thanks for all
you have helped me with just by listening to you.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Well, Thank you, Shannon.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
That is a great way to end the show. And
yes I'm on TV in Chicago. W A lot of
the stations that are Tribune Company, which is the company
I work for. KTLA is owned by them, soon to
be a company called Nextstar, which I used to work for.
By the way, they run our stuff that we do,
so often you'll see me clarify where something is in California.
(41:17):
I'll say something like Irvine, California, because people in other
areas need to know that it's not just a local
news kind of thing. So yes, WGN runs. Thank you
so much for watching out there. WGN, I would say,
is probably number two after KTLA for the most viewers
of my tech segment, But we're on in different places
like San Diego and Indianapolis and all kinds of places,
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and who knows what's gonna happen when nextar see where
it goes. Thanks so much for listening to the show.
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