October 7, 2022 • 53 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Google finally unveils its Pixel smart watch and shows off
new Pixel seven phones. We're going hands on plus your
tech questions answered.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What's going on.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
you should know about. It's also the place where I
answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter
at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show.
Do not adjust your dial. This is the way it sounds.
This is the way it's going to be for this show.
Because I am on the road in New York City
(00:33):
looking at a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
View of Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, if I angle my face or my head, I
should say I can see a beautiful view. Otherwise I
just look into someone else's building across the way. But
it's still beautiful. It's still an amazing city. Just walking
around New York is so much fun to me. Even
though I grew up right across the river and I
came here many times as a child, it's just there's
something so like you almost can't imagine and living here,
(01:01):
but yet people do. And it's a really cool place.
It's a very fast paced place to live and there's
just so much going on. I man, I walked to
dinner last night, walked to dinner both nights, actually almost
a mile to the restaurant each time, and it's just there's.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Such an energy.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
There's just people everywhere, and it's just such a cool place.
I mean, to be able to buy anything you need
in the world by walking downstairs is such a cool concept.
On that note, both times, well, no, not that, Okay, yeah,
I guess it was both times. So you know, when
I stay in a hotel, I usually put my stuff
in the safe and with my wallet. I was walking
(01:38):
to the restaurant the first night and I had to
turn around because I was like, oh, forgot my wallet
and this place was a cash only place, so I
knew I couldn't do tap to pay or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
JG.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Mellon, by the way, I heard about it through Bobby
flay On. I don't know if it was his podcast
or something. Maybe it was his podcast where he talked
about it, and it was just such a you know,
he's like saying, it's my favorite burger place. Then I
researched it on YouTube and people love it. So old
school burger joint. You get in there, sit at the bar,
(02:10):
you get a burger. It's just such a great ambiance.
Cash only, so if you go, they serve the burger
by the way with just pickles and onions.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And that was enough. It was one of the best
burgers I had.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Maybe it was just the whole ambiance, the whole everything
adding up together, who knows, but it was.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It was excellent.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Then the person I was sitting next to at the
restaurant recommended I said, you know, he was a food person,
So I said, can you recommend a.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Place for tomorrow night?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And he said, sure, this place called Upland, And so
I know went there last night and I walked there
and this time I made it to the restaurant and
next thing, you know, I reached in my pocket for
something and I said, oh, no, I forgot my wallet
at home.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So long story short. Asked the bartender. I said, hey,
do you accept like tap.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
To pay or anything like that, and she said, no,
no Apple Pay. But well, there is this QR code
on the receipt that apparently, I guess nobody uses. And
I said, oh, QR code, I can scan that and
use my phone to pay.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So I almost said, can you ring me up right
now and just let me do a test. She said, no,
You'll be fine. She's like, it's on there, believe me.
I said, okay, And so we get to the end
of dinner a little little trepidus, but it was fine,
and I get to the end of dinner, which was awesome,
and I scanned the QR code and it was super
odd because I was expecting it to be Apple Pay
or Google Pay, but the three options were Google pay
(03:30):
for a one point five percent I think it was searcharge,
then it was Venmo for a searcharge, or you can
manually type in your credit card number, which is ironically
the least secure way of checking out. But there was
no Searcharge. So I said, all right, well, I'm not
going to pay one point five percent more. So I
typed in my credit card number, which was stored on
my phone. And it wasn't stored in Apple Pay or
(03:53):
Google Pay, by the way, it was just stored on
my device itself, in my password manager. So I don't
recommend that you keep that sort of unencrypted. I guess
it's a credit card number. If someone gets it, you
just get a new card, but it's still a hassle.
But anyway, it all worked out. And note to self,
remember your wallet. And note to restaurants, please please please
(04:14):
start accepting Apple Pay if you go to Europe, if
you go to Japan, if you go to Asia, anywhere
else in the world except America. For some reason, we
have been so hesitant to tap to pay for restaurants.
It's everywhere else now you know all the major stores,
but for restaurants, if you go anywhere else in the world,
they bring you sort of the check which is like
(04:35):
a tablet or an electronic like receipt thing, and you
just tap your card right on there or you push
your card in either way. But for some reason in
America we are so hesitant to this change.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I don't know why. It would have saved me last night.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A lot of hassle, a lot of stress because we
go with our phones everywhere, but our wallets increasingly, it's
like that thing that you check for your phone. Typically
you check for your wallet and keys. I don't care keys.
I barely carry a wallet because I'm all tap and
it's just basically form my ID at this point, so
and a little bit of cash. Anyway, that's my story.
(05:10):
I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It all worked out. But I had two.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Incredible experiences with restaurants here and it was really, really fun.
So all right, let's get to why I'm here. I'm
here in New York City for the Google Pixel event.
They call it a Made by Google event, and this
already happened, so I don't know why I'm talking about
it like I'm here for it already or waiting for it.
But it was yesterday and Google showed off as expected.
(05:36):
It's a highly anticipated smart watch, and then the Google
Pixel seven phones. So let's start with the smart watch
because that's kind of the newest, latest, greatest. So this
has been a long time coming. And the best way
to describe this smart watch is it looks like a
real watch. It's very minimalistic. I love the design. Actually
(05:56):
it's circular. It reminds me a lot of like the
Samsung Galaxy watches, like the early.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Models, and also the Motorola.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Three sixty I think it was called. They both have
that round face, very smooth, very polished, looking almost like
a stone on your wrist. With the you know, they
have a whole bunch of different bands. The bands are
you know a little bit tricky to get on and off,
but I think it'll take some getting used to.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
But they work. Nice little screen.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's forty one millimeters case, so it looks really slim
on your wrist, and I think it's a great looking watch.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's water resistant.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's got nineteen different watch faces and they're all customizable.
I love some of the watch faces on here. You
can get really nitty gritty with how you customize them.
And let's not forget this is Google's version of a
smart watch. So on Apple it has been amazing. It
has been a great experience, but you're very much limited
to what Apple wants you to be able to do
(06:54):
on that smart watch. And we haven't seen a lot
of pick up for third party apps or you know,
a lot of functionality on those apps. Like most of
the stuff I do on the Apple Watch is pretty
much Apple related, right, So Siri very basic, I'm you know,
because it's just not very useful.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Apple Maps I don't really use except when i'm walking
getting walking directions because I'm forced to use it, so
I'll do that. The rest of this stuff is really
just workouts and even music. You know, you have your
choice of Spotify, which never really downloaded my music properly,
so that was kind of a pain.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And then Apple.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Music, of course works flawlessly, so you can go to that,
which is what I ended up doing. So, you know,
the Apple Watch is fantastic and I still think it
is the best smart watch out there, with a caveat
being you have to have an iPhone. A lot of
people have Android phones, and it's been pretty limited to
either a Fitbit or you know, a Samsung device, and
Samsung is is very much in the Samsung ecosystem. So
(07:55):
this watch now gives you access to the number one
thing that I think is awesome, which is Google Maps.
Number two Google Assistant, which is just fantastic. So those
two things alone make this a really compelling device to
me because if you're on Android, you want Google Maps
and you want Google Assistant, so it's got access to
those things. It also has all of your notifications. The
(08:17):
Fitbit smarts are fantastic because they literally built Fitbit into
this watch. Now, fippit is very smart. They've been around
for a very long time, so the stats you're going
to get from that are going to be incredible. They
have a focus on your active heart rate. So the
minutes that I only care about are the active heart
(08:37):
rate minutes each day, which is like I try to
get thirty. But you've also got excellent sleep tracking as
well on this device, so it's so minimalistic and slim
that it's easy to wear to bed because you're not
gonna you know, it just doesn't really make you think
too much about the fact that you have something on
your wrist because it's so lightweight, and obviously you can
do the all the fitness tracking on there as well.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Let's see what else you've got.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Emergency so it can call someone if you feel unsafe.
Fall detection is coming soon. That's kind of a miss
on Google's part, Like what I mean, they took like
so many years to make this watch. Why couldn't they
just do fall detection. I don't know what's the other
things They've got ECG, so that's similar to the Apple Watch.
You can do your ECG, you've got your sleep score,
(09:21):
you've got your breathing rate, heart rate variability, all kinds
of workouts.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They're going to try to get you to subscribe to
fitbit Premium on this watch, which I think is six
six or seven bucks a month, so I don't know
if you're going to need that. They give you six
months free. I have not tested that just yet. I
don't like the idea of paying for another thing, but
I may break down and have to do that, or
I guess I will break down and just sign up
for the free trial for six months.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
They also have an LTE version of this watch. So
the regular version.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Which is GPS, is going to be three hundred and
fifty bucks. The LTE version is going to be four hundred.
If you have Google five, I guess you get the
watch plan for free, which is kind of cool. Battery
life they're saying twenty four hours of battery life. And
here's the other thing that I kind of forgot to
mention with the fitbit tracking is that this watch is
(10:15):
taking a heart rate measurement every second, whereas according to Google,
most smart watches take that reading every five seconds and
only every second when you're actively in a workout. So
they say by taking it every second of every day,
you're gonna get more accurate trends, more accurate stats. And
that's pretty incredible that you're getting that. I think that's
(10:36):
gonna be better for figuring out things like are you
going on a run or are you going on a walk?
I mean, five seconds seems like it would be adequate,
But you know, Google's pumping up this one second thing
twenty four hours of battery life that is to be
seen if that's with the always on display or just
with you know, the display that comes on when you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Flip your wrist up.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Overall, I think they did a fantastic job.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
With their first version of this watch. Hopefully it makes
it to a second version.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
We know how Google likes to kill things mid product cycle,
but hopefully they will make this to a second version.
But I think this first version at this point, just
seeing what I've seen so far, I have no problems
recommending it for a Google phone companion or an Android
phone companion. Is it going to be as full featured
as the Apple Watch? Is this software going to be
(11:27):
a slick? Is it a little more stuttery? Is a
little slower?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
In what I saw yesterday at the event, it seems
like the software could use a little bit of polish,
but that's typical of pixel devices. For some reason, they
put them out and then they polish them up over
the next year and That's one of the good things
about pixel stuff is that it does get better.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And you know, look on the flip side with the iPhone.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I'm seeing a bunch of little quirks here and there
with iOS sixteen and the iPhone fourteen. So these things
aren't perfect. And I think that, you know, as we
get more and more feature.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Rich, it's that's just the way it is, where we're
seeing more and more little.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Kind of bugs on these things. So that's the Google
pixel Watch. It'll be available October thirteenth. Okay, I don't
have my nice clickity clack typing for the first question
of the podcast, but let's get to it. Nancy says, Hey, Rich,
hope all is well with you question. I recently moved
to an area that does not have KTLA on their
cable package. When I first moved here, I was keeping
(12:23):
up with KTLA on my tcl Roku, but I replaced
it with a Visio smart cast that is Google based,
allowing me to download apps from Google Play. But your
streaming app is not available there. What's a video owner
got to do to get your streaming app and the
morning news again? In other words, why is it not
available on Google Play? Any chance it might be added.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I sure do.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Miss your segments. Thanks for your help and input. Cheers Nancy.
All right, Nancy, good question. So I was not aware
that Visio smart cast lets you download Google Play apps.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Which is kind of cool. So Google, we.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Are not on Google Play. We have a Ktla plus
streaming app. It is not available on Google Play. It
is available on the three major streaming TV platforms, which
is Apple TV, let's see what's the other one, fireTV,
and Roku as you knew by having the TCL Roku TV.
So this is where things get a little bit tricky
with all of these different streaming services and platforms and
(13:18):
things like that. So Google Play is big on Android
on TV. You know, they have Sony TVs that have it.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Clearly the video does it. But you know.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And but the thing is, even though Amazon fireTV is
Android based, they don't use the Google Play store for
their apps, which I know is super confusing. So just
because an app is on Android does not mean it's
on fireTV. Just because it's on fireTV does not mean it's.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
On Google Play.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So Amazon sort of has their own app store with
that situation. And then anyway, long story short, you don't
care about any of that. You just want to know
how to watch the news. The bottom line answer. The
easiest way is to probably by a fire TV streaming
stick and pop it in the back of your TV,
and when you want to watch KTLA, you've got to
(14:08):
put that, you know, switch to that input. I know
that's a little bit of work, but you know that's
just kind of the way you have to do it
to get the stream so super cheap. I mean, the
fire TV sticks are very inexpensive.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Your TV.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It sounds like it's pretty new, So your TV should
be smart enough. When you press the home button on
the fire stick, it should switch that input automatically. Just
put ktlas your first app and boom, you can watch us.
And thank you for saying you miss my segments. You
can watch them in a variety of ways. I mean,
you can go to the KTLA website, you can go
to rich on tech dot tv, or you know, like
(14:42):
I said, you can download that KTLA plus app. It's
all free and you can stream all of my segments.
There is a section for my segments on the KTLA
plus app. So thanks for sticking with us, even through
the move and even through the different TV. I really
do like the fact that we've got some dedicated viewers
like that. And I know, this whole streaming thing is
very complicated, the fact that we have to go and
(15:05):
I'm not you know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
This, it's just the way it is, like the fact
that I have.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
To go to Netflix for one movie and you know,
Hulu for another show, and then YouTube for something else
I want to watch.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It is.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The streaming world right now is all brand new, and
it is still evolving. It's still kind of figuring out
how it wants to be what it wants to be.
In some ways, just having a cable package back.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
In the day was so much easier.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know, every night when you watch something on TV,
if it's like a Friday night, you're looking literally I
am scanning so many different like recommendations and services and
things to figure out what to watch. I did find
something that I thought was pretty helpful.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
If you go to.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Rotten Tomatoes, Okay, they've got this thirty most popular movies
right Now guide and it is across all services, whether
it is streaming, whether it is movie theaters. And I
thought that this was pretty handy because Rotten Tomatoes is
pretty much like the Gold standard for like movie ratings,
and you know, so if you go on this list,
(16:07):
you can see what the ratings are of the different
movies that are popular, and you.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Just have to do a little quick search.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
They will even actually if you click the title, tell
you if these things are available on streaming. So I
ended up watching The Monsters, which I had not even
known there was a new Monsters movie on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Probably better that I didn't know, because it wasn't very good.
Sorry spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I mean, look, it was it was fun, it was kitchy,
it was you know, it was sort of a throwback.
It was an origin story of how Lily and Herman
Munster met. It was it was fun. I love the
costumes and the set decorations and the vibe of the
movie was very fun. But you know, the story was
just okay, and it was you know, it was kind
(16:50):
of cheesy and it's not something i'd recommend. But if
you like the Munsters growing up, yeah, you'll probably be disappointed.
But it's still fun to just be in that world
of like, I mean, the set direct the set decoration
was just awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I loved it. So anyway, so.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The Monsters was on there, all these movies were on
there and you can see what sort of the rating is,
but also where they're.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Streaming as well. So that's been really helpful for me because.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I don't watch a lot of TV per se, but
I do like to watch movies, and so it's really
tricky to find like where all these movies are streaming
and which ones are, you know, kind of the buzzy ones.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
But this list helped. But anyway, thanks for the question.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Let's get to the next topic of the podcast, which
is the Pixel seven and Pixel seven pro. So again,
Pixel to me is represents just if you want a
very solid smartphone that takes amazing pictures, has excellent software
Google Smart's built in.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It's really really good.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The problem is I feel like it always leaves something
to be desired. You're in year out For me personally,
I will tell you, if you are a average smartphone user,
the basic pick that they make, like I'm talking the
Pixel six A, the Pixel seven. These are really really
fantastic phones for the price.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
There is not a lot of bloatwear on them.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The software is constantly updated. I think Google says you
get five years of security updates on these phones. I mean,
this phone could really last you five years, if you
played your cards right with it, if you took care
of it and you know, and just did those software updates. Yeah,
it might get a little slow towards the end, but
it's gonna work for you, and it's gonna take fantastic
pictures the entire time, from day one until day year five.
(18:33):
It's gonna take really really good pictures without a lot
of hassle, without a lot of fuss.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now, yeah, you can argue rich the iPhone fourteen takes
great pictures, and the Samsungs take great pictures.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yes, they all take good pictures. But the Pixel takes
really good pictures without.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
A lot of fuss. So does the iPhone. But I
feel like the Pixel. I personally really love the googly.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Smarts that they build into these phones, and so that
is one of the things I really like about them,
is having access to the Google Assistant and just having.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That great camera experience.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The video on last year's Pixel six, you know, left
a little bit desired. We'll see if the Pixel seven's
any better, all right, So what is the Pixel seven
all about? You've got Pixel seven, Pixel seven pro. Pixel
seven fits in your hand way better. Six point three
inch screen. It's got these kind of sand blasted aluminum
sides that I feel like are a little bit easier
(19:25):
to grip. Pixel seven Pro has a six point seven
inch screen, way bigger, way tougher to hold, but it's
got a better camera, and it's got better specs all around,
more ram, a higher quality screen, bigger battery. Obviously, the
thing that they built into both of these phone of
telephoto lens. The new feature that they built in or
(19:45):
they improved, i should say, is this super res zoom.
So now just using the standard lenses on the Pixel seven,
you can get up to eight times zoom on the
Pixel seven and up to thirty times zoom on the
Pixel seven Pro, and these pictures look good no matter what. So,
you know, if you look at how most people use
their smartphone, they literally just pinch to zoom to figure
(20:07):
out how to frame up a picture and then they
take the picture. That is the absolute worst way to
take a picture on an iPhone, And the reason why
is because your phone is constantly snapping between various lenses,
and when you're in between those lenses, you're really just
cropping a photo. Now that's gotten better on the Pixel sorry,
on the iPhone fourteen Pro. It's not so much of
(20:28):
an issue anymore because they have a much larger sensor.
But on the standard iPhones, your pictures are not as
good as they could be if you were snapping or
just really staying in the main size, which is the
one X lens. If you're snapping to that two X
or zooming in even further, you're really not getting a
very good shot, a very high quality shot. So this
(20:51):
is the reason why on my phones, I always use
a little snap to zooms at the bottom, because those
represent sort of the optical zoom levels, and on the
iPhone fourteen Pro that is one X, two x, three.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
X, and I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I can't I'm using my phone to record right now,
so I can't really tell you what that is. But
on the pixels now, what they're doing is they're actually
using the full sensor and they're doing all.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The smarts and crops for you.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
So technically, no matter where you zoom from zero to
eight or zero to thirty, your shot should.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Look just as good and just as high quality. So
that's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So they've they say they've achieved optical quality similar to
a dedicated two x telephoto lens for Pixel seven and
a ten X telephoto lens for Pixel seven Pro, so
Pixel seven Pro also has the Macro mode. Both phones
have this new feature called Photo Unblur, which lets you
unblur old photos. So or even you know a photo
(21:51):
that you took with any other device, or any other
blurry photo. So you take that blurry photo, you tap
photo unblur and Google works its magic and unblurs it.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That feature at this.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Point is exclusive to the Pixel seven and Pixel seven Pro,
even though I'm not sure it requires the new processor
inside the pixel to make that happen. I'm sure they
can do this on the older models, but you know
they've got to set these phones apart in some way.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's how they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Magic eraser still there, still exclusive to the Pixel six
now and the Pixel seven Pro or Pixel seven.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
They also showed off this Guided frame feature, which is
for the visually impaired. It gives you audio guidance for
taking a selfie, which I tried it out yesterday at
the event. Really really nice accessibility feature kind of speaks
to say, raise your phone, move your phone to the left,
and it uses I guess it figures out, you know,
if you're looking at the screen or if you're you know,
(22:46):
you're framed up properly for a selfie and so that's
really neat night Sight was really slow on the old phones.
Now they say it's two times faster.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh, there's also now face online in addition to fingerprint
unlock on the new Pixel seven and seven pro, So
that's going to help you unlock your phone better. Voice
typing will search for the relevant emojis, so that makes
life a little bit easier. You're also going to get
a VPN at no cost included. And this is really
aimed at folks who have you know, they've kind of
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heard about the privacy situation with all of these smartphones
and now that Apple has that whole ask not to track.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Situation on the Google phone.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
If you don't want your activity tracked, you can turn
on the VPN. And even though it's a Google VPN,
they say they're not going to associate your online activity
with your Google account.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I'll be curious to see how.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
This works with Google Chrome, because typically whatever you do
inside Google Chrome is linked to your Google account as well.
I thought, but maybe not, and so if you want
that security of a VPN and the ability to surf
without everything going back to Google, you can now activate
that VPN in a click. And that's kind of a
nice add on feature. And I think really this is
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to keep people from deflecting to browsers like Duck Duck
Go and Brave, because to have this stuff not linked
your Google account, you have to manually activate it. Yes,
some people might leave that on all the time, but
I think majority will just activate it during certain times
and leave it off during other times. And during those
other times they'll be using Chrome, which will still be
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reporting back to Google. So Google kind of wins in
that situation. Pixel seven five ninety nine, Pixel seven Pro
eight ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
That five ninety nine price is a.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Full two hundred dollars cheaper than the cheapest iPhone fourteen
I think for an entry level phone if you don't
mind Android, this is a really, really fantastic device and
I'd highly recommend it, even though I have not played
with it for a long period of time, I'm just
basing it on my previous Pixel experience. I really like
this phone for a basic budget smartphone.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Now, if you are a creator like someone like myself who's.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Doing a lot of video, doing a lot of editing,
doing a lot stuff running sort of like a social
media world from your phone. You may still need the iPhone.
I'm not sure that's what my testing is going to
be all about with the Pixel seven Pro, so I
will keep you posted on that. But otherwise, solid offerings
from Google this year. I think that they are listening
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to their users a little bit more in the features
that they want and the features that need to be
improved and the pain points, and I think they just
continue to evolve these phones.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Let's hope that that pixel watch as well survives. I
already said that.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So all right, Cathy says, hello, is there a watch
or a fitbit that does EKG for your heart I'm
seventy four.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I need something lightweight.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It looks like she has an iPhone, so yeah, I
mean the Apple Watch is going to do that. The
Apple Watch is going to do the heart rate monitoring,
It's going to do ECG.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It's going to give you your highs and your lows alerts.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
If you need something, So I think the Apple Watch
is probably your best bet.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Now if you look at the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Compared so there's there's the Apple Watch se and then
there's the Apple Watch Series A.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I'm not gonna recommend the Ultra to you. I don't
think you need that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So if you look at these two, the s will
give you those high and low heart rate notifications. It's
not going to give you the ECG app. So you
need to get the ECG app to get that feature
that you want. Now, the ECG app, I believe, was
introduced all the way back on the iPhone or the
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Apple Watch Series four. So if you get one of
these Apple Watches on sale somewhere and you're wondering, like, well,
the series four, Series five, Series six, or Series seven
do the same thing, yes they will. Now, I personally
would recommend just getting the Series eight because you want
the latest, greatest, Because this watch can last you a
good four or five years, So why would you go
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with something that's already four or five years old when
you want to get four or five years of use
out of it. So I would say, if you need
something that's going to be like a fall detection, go
with the GPS plus cellular, which is five hundred. If
you need just GPS, go with the four hundred. But
that's gonna be probably your best bet.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
If you were.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Android, I would say to go with the new Google
Pixel Watch because that also does ECG and I think
it's lightweight, it's great you leave it on all day.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So those are two good options for you. Thanks for
the question.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
All right, let's talk about CS twenty twenty three, happening
January fifth through When is it kicking off?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
January fifth?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So? CS says the in person event is on track
to exceed twenty twenty two, and they think it's going
to be the largest in person business event to take
place in the US since early twenty twenty. Also, the
show footprint is on track to be more than forty
percent larger than CS twenty twenty two. I went to
CS twenty twenty two. I was one of the few
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that went, and I thought it was fantastic. I got
a of great content. I thought it was a really
great show, even.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Though, yeah, it was different.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It was in the height of the pandemic and I
think it was omicron at the time, and you know,
it's one of those things where people were a little
hesitant to go. I had no qualms about it. I
figured I'd be fine, and I was and you know, look,
if you're comfortable with these kind of things, you go.
If you're not, you don't go. But at this point,
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the events are definitely coming back.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And is it weird. Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I mean I was at the Google event and the
person sitting next to me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Had a mask. Actually, both the people next.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
To me had n ninety five masks on, and so
I'm like, Okay, are they recovering from COVID?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Do they think they have COVID?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now, we all had to test to get into the event,
but maybe if you tested and you didn't feel comfortable,
still you wore a mask.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But the reality is, you know, I'm on the plane
and I'm feeling like, you know, if someone's coughing, I'm like,
oh gosh, this person's gonna get me sick.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So yeah, is it different? Is it weird? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Sure, because we're so used to these past two and
a half three years of like, you know, no handshakes
and the masks and the coughing and this and that
and the boosters, and so it's definitely a different experience
for me personally, I feel very confident in going to
these things and taking the precautions that I personally feel
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comfortable taking which is, you know, sanitizer, washing my hands,
staying out of situations where I feel very uncomfortable, and
that's it.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
And so far, knock on wood, it's worked for me.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
But everyone's level of comfort with this situation is different,
and so I'm not judging. I am totally good with
whatever people want to do. I personally will be at
CS and it looks like their attendance they think their
tenants goal of one hundred thousand dollars or one hundred
thousand dollars one hundred thousand people they are gonna hit,
and so we'll see. Some of the big companies this
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year include Amazon, AMD, Google, Qualcom, Roku, Samsung, Sony, Verizon,
and some of the key themes this year transportation and mobility,
digital health, metaverse.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I think that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
New, sustainability and human security for all CS happens January
fifth through eighth. Media Days are taking place January third
through fourth, So I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I'm excited. I always love CS and I think it's
going to be a great show. All right.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Next question from Cookie. Cookie says, hey, rich At and
T has a trade in where you can get an
iPhone fourteen for free.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I currently have.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
An iPhone twelve Pro. Would that be a smart move?
Or should I stay where I am? Thank you, cookie, Cookie,
it's not really free number one. What they're doing is
they are taking your old phone, which is your iPhone
twelve Pro, and they are giving you an iPhone fourteen.
They're giving you an inflated trade in value right for
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your iPhone twelve Pro, and then they are going to
take that trade in amount and they're not giving it
to you all at once. What they're gonna do is
they're going to give it to you over twenty four
to thirty six months. So what does that come out to? Okay,
so let's do a little math here, So eight hundred dollars.
Let's say they give you eight hundred dollars right divided
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by twenty four, So they're giving you a credit of
thirty three dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Now, if you sold your iPhone twelve Pro, now I
don't know how much storage you've got. Let's just say
you have the basic iPhone twelve Pro one hundred and
twenty eight. Let's say it's like new, it's whoops, signed
in or signed out, so you would get four hundred
and sixty five dollars for this.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So let's just say you took.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Eight hundred and divided by or took out four to
sixty five, so that'd be three hundred and thirty five
dollars you would be on the hook.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
For divided by thirty three.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
So yeah, so you would have to pay three hundred
and thirty five dollars for the new phone. So if
we divided that by thirty three, which is how much
AT and T is giving you, they're giving you basically
ten months of credit when you should.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Be getting I don't know, I'm you know.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
My math has gotten all convoluted, But the bottom line is, look,
is it a good deal? Probably not?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Is it an easy deal? Yes? And should you go
for it?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
If you want to be on the hook for twenty
four months with AT and T, it's fine. I personally
don't like contracts. I don't like deals like this. I
would not do it. It's not really free. They're really holding
you to twenty four months of paying for AT and
T service, which is probably more expensive than you would
get just buying service that didn't come with this free iPhone.
(32:38):
And there's a lot of plans out there there's you know,
are you using your AT and T plan to its
full maximum potential?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Do you need a full by the way, you have
to be on one of their premium unlimited plans.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I'm guessing to get this, do you need all that?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
So these are the questions that you need to ask yourself.
I don't like these carrier trade in deals because they
sound sexy, they sound great, but when you really do
the math, you're paying a lot for convenience and they
are locking you into a rather large contract when in
this world we live in, there are no more contracts
for cellular service. Now they've got us on these new
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trade in plans that kind of maskraade as a great deal,
but that the bottom line is you're just you're kind
of they're building that thirty three dollars you save quote
unquote save every month into your service. So there are
plenty of inexpensive plans that you can get. You buy
this phone for three hundred.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
And thirty five dollars after you trade in your other.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Phone, and then you can buy a plan that you
activate on this phone that may be cheaper every month
on a month by month basis.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You may save thirty dollars a month, so it's right there.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
But again, you know, this is more getting into financial advice,
and I'm not giving you that financial advice.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I'm giving you just how I see things.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
And I personally get very stressed out when I have
a contract with someone that I need to fulfill for
twenty four to thirty six months.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
That's a lot of stress. I did this once with
AT and T.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I bought my wife's iPhone on the plan and I
just had to pay it off because I couldn't see
it every single month. It was like really stressing me
out to pay whatever I think it was like sixty
five bucks a month for this phone or something.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
And it was just like, h never mind, let me
just pay this thing off. And so that's what I
ended up doing. But you know that's me.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
If your level of comfort is fine, you like this,
it's simple, it's easy. You go into your AT and
T store and they give you the new phone cookie.
I'm not gonna fault you for it. A lot of
people do it, and people feel comfortable doing it, and
so that is your prerogative.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
And you know, if you like it, go for it,
all right.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Speaking of iPhones. The iPhone fourteen Plus is now available.
I did not review this. I told Apple I did
not need a review unit on this because you know, look,
it's kind of like an iPhone fourteen but bigger. And
I'm just gonna read you some of the some of
the review headlines from tech meme and let's see. So
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The Verge says it is a great battery, multi battery,
a bright screen, it's lightweight, it's hard to use one handed.
No promotion which is the better screen size adopting eSIM
may be painful for some.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, it could or could not be.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
And Gadget says iPhone fourteen plus it's a bigger iPhone.
Wall Street Journal says it's a big screen, big battery,
not so big price. Nine to five Max says great
battery life with familiar hardware. CMBC says it wins on
battery life and screen size. CET says it's for people
who love big screens. I Think Different says incredible battery
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life and large screen.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
So are you getting the trend here?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
If you want an iPhone fourteen, which is a little
bit less expensive than the iPhone fourteen Pro Max or
Pro rather, but you want that bigger screen and that
bigger battery. It sounds like the battery is a champ.
It sounds like the big screen is a winner. Sounds
like this phone is a winner for people who want
all those things at a not so increased price. And
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so I personally really like the big screen phone, but
I really don't like the big screen size in my hand.
So I just find that these phones require two hands
to use. They're a little bit trickier if you're trying
to do a lot with your camera and pictures, and
so if you if you know, if big screen is
your number one priority, I think the iPhone fourteen plus
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is going to be a great phone. But if you
know the best camera and ease of use one handed
is your is your top priority, than I think the
iPhone fourteen Pro is going to be a better bet
or the iPhone fourteen just standard size, because I think
that it's just easier to hold in one hand, and
that does go a long way with being creative with
your phone, taking selvies all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
All right, next question, Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Jennifer says, I don't know if you've heard from anyone else,
but my text messages started acting up yesterday. I didn't
get a text until this morning and this uh oh,
she included some photos in the second text from my
iPad shows a text I have not received in my iPhone?
Could this be related to the new iOS upgrade?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Very strange?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Thanks in advance, Jenny, Jenny, you know, I don't know
what this specific issue is, but it's probably related to
I'm guessing it's something to do with I messages in
the cloud. Something is not syncing properly, something is not working.
This happens sometimes. I message is kind of a pain
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because you think it's a text message, but it's really not.
It's really a proprietary messaging system invented by Apple to
you know, really keep you on the iPhone and keep
you in the Apple ecosystem. And it's fantastic. Don't get
me wrong. It's a really good messaging system. People love it.
But it's also very confusing, and so for someone like
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myself who tests various phones with various phone numbers, I've
had every sort of issue imaginable where these messages get
delivered to phones that are different, and you know, they
they're synced up somehow when you disconnect a phone somehow
the messages stop arriving when you send a text. Somehow
it doesn't get to all your devices. The sinking sometimes
may or may not work on all your devices. So
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there's a lot of issues I've observed with I Message.
When it works, it's fantastic, and most people are not
like me. Most people have one device, maybe two.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
And it works just fine.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Now, what I would say with this situation is I
would check number one. Go into iCloud, go into Messages,
and make sure Messages is toggled on with a green toggle.
That will make sure that I Messages in the Cloud
is sinking. Your sink could be off. So you can
go ahead and delete the thread on both of these
devices and see if that kind of gets.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Things to work again.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Or you can toggle off I Messages in the Cloud
on both devices and then toggle it back on and
see if that helps.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Could it be related to the new iOS upgrade. It
could be. There's been some issues.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yesterday, I do a radio hit with WGN in Chicago
every Thursday, and we've used this app to do the
radio hit. It's like a little kind of a mini
mixer for your iPhone and it's worked perfectly since day one,
but it hasn't worked the last couple of weeks, and
I was really sitting there trying to figure out what
has changed.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Nothing has changed, And sure enough yesterday I'm like, oh,
could it be iOS sixteen is the problem?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
And sure enough the engineer on the other end or
the producer said, yeah, you know what, I think other
people have been having these issues.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I think it's all related to iOS sixteen.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
So whenever there's a new iOS update, there could be
growing pains and usually fixes come out, So it could
just be that it's an iOS thing and it will
be fixed automatically. But I would take those steps that
I mentioned. Reset both devices obviously, you know, not factory.
Just just restart them and see if that helps too.
Sometimes you just need to kick these things back into
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sync and it will work again, all right. You might
have gotten an email from Amazon telling you that Amazon
Drive is being what is this word deprecated? Got this
sounds so bad, deprecated. Think it's getting made fun of?
So what does this mean? Google Drive or Amazon Drive
(40:06):
was sort of Amazon's answer to Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive,
but it never really worked out that way, which is
ironic because Amazon runs one of the largest cloud services
in the world, Amazon Web Services AWS, and somehow they
never really figured out Amazon Drive. They could have made
Amazon Drive very competitive with Dropbox and all these other services,
(40:29):
they just never decided to do that. Amazon's a very
consumer facing company on this end.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
So I get it.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
But the reality is you don't need to freak out
about this. If you're using Amazon Photos, that is going
to be just fine. Now, if you had Amazon photos
and videos inside.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Amazon Drive, you might want to get those out of there.
So here's what this. Here's what it says.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
If you have photos and videos saved in Amazon Drive.
Because Amazon Drive and Amazon Photos share the same cloud
storage location, your photos and videos in Amazon Drive access
the same photos and videos and Amazon Photos, So you
are good. Any photo or oh, any photo or video
deleted on Amazon Drive will no longer be available through
Amazon Photos and will be permanently removed.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
From Amazon after thirty days. Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
To access your photos and videos and Amazon Photos, please
visit the Amazon Photos website or download the Amazon Photos app.
Huh Okay, that is a little confusing. So my question
is if I uploaded a video file to Amazon Drive,
does Amazon Photos see that video file? And when this
goes away, will Amazon Photos continue to see that video file?
(41:45):
From what I'm reading here, it doesn't seem like it
would be.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Now. I know you're asking me to.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Answer these questions, so I'm actually kind of confused at
this point.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
So it looks like yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
As of October thirty first, twenty twenty two, Amazon Drive
app will be removed. As of January thirty first, twenty
twenty three, Amazon will no longer support uploading files on
the Amazon Drive website. You'll be able to view and
download your files until December thirty first, twenty twenty three,
so you basically have a full year to do this.
I don't have all the answers right now. I can't
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really specifically tell you if your Amazon Photos inside Amazon
Drive will stay in Amazon.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Photos after drive goes away. I know that sounds very complicated, but.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
It's weird because this same thing happened with Google Photos
and Google Drive. So back in the day, if you
upload it to Google Drive, your photos would be seen
in Google Photos. And then once they got rid of
Google Drive and Google Photos, that link they you know,
all the photos that were in Google Photos carried over
to Photo. Sorry we're in Google Drive, carried over to
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Google Photos, and so it's weird, but I still have
them in my Google Drive. I mean it's really really
complicated and I.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Haven't figured it out after a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
So I don't know if I'm gonna figure this out
in a year. But just something to be aware of,
something to keep track of. Just know that you may
want to start if you rely on Amazon Drive a lot,
which you probably don't, you may want to start just
having a plan for getting those files out of Amazon
Drive and into somewhere a little bit safer, all right,
as Baldough, As Baldo says, Hey, good morning, good afternoon.
(43:30):
Just wants to know if there's something wrong with iOS
sixteen for my iPhone. Ever since the update came out,
my phone is not recognizing some of my apps. My
banking apps tells me I have to register my device,
and it's not doing that. I register every single time,
tells me to reregister. Just trying to see if there's
any problems with it. Please let me know. Thank you,
As Baldough. I think you are seeing a common problem
(43:52):
because I noticed the same issue with my phone and
I can't tell if it's because I switched phones or
because of iOS sixteen. But yeah, I noticed I had
to relog into a bunch of my banking apps. So
when you switch or upgrade operating systems, a lot of
things just work, but sometimes they don't, and sometimes your
phone just kind of resets that kind of identifier that
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told your bank like, oh, this is a safe log in,
and we've logged in from here before, so I assume
this will work itself out. I don't think that it's
a like a hack or anything like that on your phone.
I think that just relog in. Now you're saying it's
telling you to reregister your device every single time, so
I don't know. That seems odd, so that could be
(44:35):
a problem. I would definitely restart your device and just
you know, make sure you do all the iOS updates.
There's been a bunch of them. I think there's another
one that's going to be coming out here any day now.
So I would definitely do that and just keep an
eye on this. But it's kind of a little hassle
if you're just being a password manager and all that stuff.
Hopefully it's not too much of a hassle, but I would,
(44:55):
you know, it seems like it's something that is pretty
common after the update, hopefully it will stop happening.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
But I will tell you it's it's happened to me.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
So feel feel warmth in the knowledge and knowing that
it's not just you, it's your phone.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
All right, let's talk about this story.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Boston Dynamics, along with a bunch of other robotics companies,
according to Axios, says that they are pledging not to.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Support the weaponization.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Of their products, and they're calling for others in their
industry to do the same. According to a letter first
shared with Axios, let's see which companies are in here,
Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, Anybotics, Clear Path Robotics, Open Robotics,
and Unitary Robotics. They all say we are not going
to use our robots for war. Oh wait, hold on, well,
(45:49):
does that mean they're not going to use them for
war or weaponizing? I think they Let's see, okay, so
they say okay. We believe that adding okay doesn't say
not for war, says not for weaponizing. So we believe
that adding weapons to robots that are remotely or autonomously operated,
widely available to the public, and capable of navigating to
previously inaccessible locations where people live in work raise new
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risks of harm and serious ethical issues.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
They said in their letter.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
They pledge not to add weapons, technology, or support others.
When possible, they'll review customers plans and hopes of avoiding
customers that would turn the robots into weapons. So technology,
they say, for robots to be broadly accepted throughout society,
public needs to know they can trust them, and that
prohibits bad actors from misusing them. So, I mean, look,
(46:37):
it's kind of a loosely worded letter. They say that
they're not going to add weapons to them, but that
doesn't prohibit customers from doing that or modifying these things
or using them for war. But kind of interesting, and
it's not just war.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
I guess could be for policing, police.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Departments, all that kind of stuff, public safety, whatever, But
you know it's robots are going to Look, all of
the technology that we have in our world is creating
new challenges for the status quo, and robots are no different.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
And they're just.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
They are just at the beginning. We are just seeing
what robots may be capable of, and as that evolves,
we're gonna have to figure out more and more things
that deal with robots.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
So good for these companies to sort of put their
foot down. But we'll see how it works in the.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Long run, all right, Bob says, Hey, Rich, can you
recommend a good DVR for broadcast TV? Thank you, Bob,
Yes I can, Bob. My favorite is called Tableau, super simple,
super easy tableau over the air DVR. It's what I use.
It's super simple. If you have an antenna on your roof,
it works great there. You don't have to pay the
(47:53):
monthly charges if there isn't like I think it used
to be five or ten bucks, but it's you know, you.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Don't have to do that.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
It's it's very limited in the DVR if you don't
you know, with your recording schedule, if you don't pay,
if you do pay every month, it's just like a TVO.
And so it's for over the air channels, which a
lot of people rely on and like. But Tableau is
super simple. Tablo and let's see how much they are
these days, so they have a whole bunch of different models.
(48:22):
So the simple over the air light which is just
one recording. Oh two tuners actually, so you've got two
tuners in there. That is one hundred and twenty nine bucks,
so super easy, super simple. There's even a sale for
thirty dollars off right now, so you can get that
for ninety nine bucks. Wow, that's pretty good. Let's see
what the next one up gives you. So okay, So
(48:46):
you've got two over the air channels at once, okay,
and then you've got one with more storage. Then you've
got a quad DVR, and then a quad DVR with
a storage included. So the main thing about that light
one I talk about is that storage is not included,
so you would have to plug a hard drive or
(49:06):
a USB stick into the back to get the storage
on that thing. But if you're just streaming live, you
don't really need that. But if you want to record,
yeah you need that.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
So if you.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Want that built in, you can get the one twenty
eight DVR, which is gonna be a little bit more.
Let's see how much that is for the convenience. You
are paying one seventy but again minus at thirty dollars,
so really one forty so forty bucks to not have
to have one more thing plugged into the back of
your TV and the back of your DVR, one more cable.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
I would say, go for that one twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
If that's not gonna be enough, then they also make
a one terabyte or you can just add your own
hard drive and be fine with that.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
So great question there.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
All right, let's get to the next question since I
think I'm done with all the things I want to
talk about in the show. Next question from let's see here.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Oh my god, so many questions. Wow, okay, let's see.
Oh my gosh, so many questions.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
I got a lot of emails about the bedtime situation
that I talked about on the last show. In fact,
I helped my wife because she uses the regular alarm,
and I said, okay, Lynn, you've got to switch to
the I talked about my podcast. You've got to switch
to this whole you know, clock based health, you know,
workout whatever, not workout, but in the in the health app,
(50:29):
you can set up your sleep and bedtime schedule. And
she goes, yeah, I did, and it's fantastic. I can't
believe that I never did that before. And I was
so excited to hear that, because you know, now she's
waking up to a gradual alarm and not the blaring
clock alarm that is typical and so a lot of
you wrote to me and said, wow, Rich, what a
life saver. I love it so much better. You know,
(50:51):
it's just so much greater. Why does an Apple really
advertise this?
Speaker 2 (50:54):
They should? And my wife said the same thing anyway.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
So Neil said, wonderful podcast. You handle some meati questions
for me. I like your description of the bedtime, sleep
time or feature. I use it and really like it,
but I'd like to be able to adjust it via
shortcuts any ideas there. Shortcuts are sort of Apple's answer
to you know, routines on Bixby or tasker on Android.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Or rules on Google Pixel.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
It's kind of just automated things that you can make
your phone do with either a shortcut or a tap
or a voice shortcut. I don't know if you can
adjust voice series shortcuts or shortcuts for the.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Sleep schedule and situation.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yeah, I see what you'd want to do, like, you know,
tap it to adjust your bedtime to nine am one day,
eight am the next day.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
But the person who I'd recommend for this, his name
is Matthew Casanelli, and Matthew Cassanelli is the Serrie shortcut master.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
I believe he.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Sold his shortcuts app to Apple, and that's the basis
of serie shortcuts, so he kind of knows a thing
or two about series shortcuts. But I would search his
website and see if he has a bunch of shortcuts
for sleep. I don't know if he does, or if
that's even possible, or if that's even something that is,
(52:16):
you know, just doing a quick search on his website. Oh,
it definitely looks like there are some things you can
do edit my sleeps cut. Oh yeah, there's a bunch.
Oh yeah, set bedtime by Oh yeah, there's a whole bunch.
So it looks like he's got a whole bunch. I
check him out. Matthewcassanelli dot com. Matthew Cassanelly dot com.
All right, that is gonna do it for this episode
(52:38):
of the show. I think you've heard me speak into
this set up long enough.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
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(53:31):
so many ways you can spend an hour of your time.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
I do appreciate you spending it right here with me
live from New York. I'm Rich Demiro, well pre taped
in your case.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
If you're listening later, which you probably are since it's
a podcast, I'll talk to you real soon.
Google finally unveils its Pixel smart watch and shows off
new Pixel seven phones. We're going hands on plus your
tech questions answered.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What's going on.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
you should know about. It's also the place where I
answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter
at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show.
Do not adjust your dial. This is the way it sounds.
This is the way it's going to be for this show.
Because I am on the road in New York City
(00:33):
looking at a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
View of Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, if I angle my face or my head, I
should say I can see a beautiful view. Otherwise I
just look into someone else's building across the way. But
it's still beautiful. It's still an amazing city. Just walking
around New York is so much fun to me. Even
though I grew up right across the river and I
came here many times as a child, it's just there's
something so like you almost can't imagine and living here,
(01:01):
but yet people do. And it's a really cool place.
It's a very fast paced place to live and there's
just so much going on. I man, I walked to
dinner last night, walked to dinner both nights, actually almost
a mile to the restaurant each time, and it's just there's.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Such an energy.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
There's just people everywhere, and it's just such a cool place.
I mean, to be able to buy anything you need
in the world by walking downstairs is such a cool concept.
On that note, both times, well, no, not that, Okay, yeah,
I guess it was both times. So you know, when
I stay in a hotel, I usually put my stuff
in the safe and with my wallet. I was walking
(01:38):
to the restaurant the first night and I had to
turn around because I was like, oh, forgot my wallet
and this place was a cash only place, so I
knew I couldn't do tap to pay or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
JG.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Mellon, by the way, I heard about it through Bobby
flay On. I don't know if it was his podcast
or something. Maybe it was his podcast where he talked
about it, and it was just such a you know,
he's like saying, it's my favorite burger place. Then I
researched it on YouTube and people love it. So old
school burger joint. You get in there, sit at the bar,
(02:10):
you get a burger. It's just such a great ambiance.
Cash only, so if you go, they serve the burger
by the way with just pickles and onions.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And that was enough. It was one of the best
burgers I had.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Maybe it was just the whole ambiance, the whole everything
adding up together, who knows, but it was.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It was excellent.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Then the person I was sitting next to at the
restaurant recommended I said, you know, he was a food person,
So I said, can you recommend a.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Place for tomorrow night?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And he said, sure, this place called Upland, And so
I know went there last night and I walked there
and this time I made it to the restaurant and
next thing, you know, I reached in my pocket for
something and I said, oh, no, I forgot my wallet
at home.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So long story short. Asked the bartender. I said, hey,
do you accept like tap.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
To pay or anything like that, and she said, no,
no Apple Pay. But well, there is this QR code
on the receipt that apparently, I guess nobody uses. And
I said, oh, QR code, I can scan that and
use my phone to pay.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So I almost said, can you ring me up right
now and just let me do a test. She said, no,
You'll be fine. She's like, it's on there, believe me.
I said, okay, And so we get to the end
of dinner a little little trepidus, but it was fine,
and I get to the end of dinner, which was awesome,
and I scanned the QR code and it was super
odd because I was expecting it to be Apple Pay
or Google Pay, but the three options were Google pay
(03:30):
for a one point five percent I think it was searcharge,
then it was Venmo for a searcharge, or you can
manually type in your credit card number, which is ironically
the least secure way of checking out. But there was
no Searcharge. So I said, all right, well, I'm not
going to pay one point five percent more. So I
typed in my credit card number, which was stored on
my phone. And it wasn't stored in Apple Pay or
(03:53):
Google Pay, by the way, it was just stored on
my device itself, in my password manager. So I don't
recommend that you keep that sort of unencrypted. I guess
it's a credit card number. If someone gets it, you
just get a new card, but it's still a hassle.
But anyway, it all worked out. And note to self,
remember your wallet. And note to restaurants, please please please
(04:14):
start accepting Apple Pay if you go to Europe, if
you go to Japan, if you go to Asia, anywhere
else in the world except America. For some reason, we
have been so hesitant to tap to pay for restaurants.
It's everywhere else now you know all the major stores,
but for restaurants, if you go anywhere else in the world,
they bring you sort of the check which is like
(04:35):
a tablet or an electronic like receipt thing, and you
just tap your card right on there or you push
your card in either way. But for some reason in
America we are so hesitant to this change.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I don't know why. It would have saved me last night.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A lot of hassle, a lot of stress because we
go with our phones everywhere, but our wallets increasingly, it's
like that thing that you check for your phone. Typically
you check for your wallet and keys. I don't care keys.
I barely carry a wallet because I'm all tap and
it's just basically form my ID at this point, so
and a little bit of cash. Anyway, that's my story.
(05:10):
I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It all worked out. But I had two.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Incredible experiences with restaurants here and it was really, really fun.
So all right, let's get to why I'm here. I'm
here in New York City for the Google Pixel event.
They call it a Made by Google event, and this
already happened, so I don't know why I'm talking about
it like I'm here for it already or waiting for it.
But it was yesterday and Google showed off as expected.
(05:36):
It's a highly anticipated smart watch, and then the Google
Pixel seven phones. So let's start with the smart watch
because that's kind of the newest, latest, greatest. So this
has been a long time coming. And the best way
to describe this smart watch is it looks like a
real watch. It's very minimalistic. I love the design. Actually
(05:56):
it's circular. It reminds me a lot of like the
Samsung Galaxy watches, like the early.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Models, and also the Motorola.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Three sixty I think it was called. They both have
that round face, very smooth, very polished, looking almost like
a stone on your wrist. With the you know, they
have a whole bunch of different bands. The bands are
you know a little bit tricky to get on and off,
but I think it'll take some getting used to.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
But they work. Nice little screen.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's forty one millimeters case, so it looks really slim
on your wrist, and I think it's a great looking watch.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's water resistant.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's got nineteen different watch faces and they're all customizable.
I love some of the watch faces on here. You
can get really nitty gritty with how you customize them.
And let's not forget this is Google's version of a
smart watch. So on Apple it has been amazing. It
has been a great experience, but you're very much limited
to what Apple wants you to be able to do
(06:54):
on that smart watch. And we haven't seen a lot
of pick up for third party apps or you know,
a lot of functionality on those apps. Like most of
the stuff I do on the Apple Watch is pretty
much Apple related, right, So Siri very basic, I'm you know,
because it's just not very useful.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Apple Maps I don't really use except when i'm walking
getting walking directions because I'm forced to use it, so
I'll do that. The rest of this stuff is really
just workouts and even music. You know, you have your
choice of Spotify, which never really downloaded my music properly,
so that was kind of a pain.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And then Apple.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Music, of course works flawlessly, so you can go to that,
which is what I ended up doing. So, you know,
the Apple Watch is fantastic and I still think it
is the best smart watch out there, with a caveat
being you have to have an iPhone. A lot of
people have Android phones, and it's been pretty limited to
either a Fitbit or you know, a Samsung device, and
Samsung is is very much in the Samsung ecosystem. So
(07:55):
this watch now gives you access to the number one
thing that I think is awesome, which is Google Maps.
Number two Google Assistant, which is just fantastic. So those
two things alone make this a really compelling device to
me because if you're on Android, you want Google Maps
and you want Google Assistant, so it's got access to
those things. It also has all of your notifications. The
(08:17):
Fitbit smarts are fantastic because they literally built Fitbit into
this watch. Now, fippit is very smart. They've been around
for a very long time, so the stats you're going
to get from that are going to be incredible. They
have a focus on your active heart rate. So the
minutes that I only care about are the active heart
(08:37):
rate minutes each day, which is like I try to
get thirty. But you've also got excellent sleep tracking as
well on this device, so it's so minimalistic and slim
that it's easy to wear to bed because you're not
gonna you know, it just doesn't really make you think
too much about the fact that you have something on
your wrist because it's so lightweight, and obviously you can
do the all the fitness tracking on there as well.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Let's see what else you've got.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Emergency so it can call someone if you feel unsafe.
Fall detection is coming soon. That's kind of a miss
on Google's part, Like what I mean, they took like
so many years to make this watch. Why couldn't they
just do fall detection. I don't know what's the other
things They've got ECG, so that's similar to the Apple Watch.
You can do your ECG, you've got your sleep score,
(09:21):
you've got your breathing rate, heart rate variability, all kinds
of workouts.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They're going to try to get you to subscribe to
fitbit Premium on this watch, which I think is six
six or seven bucks a month, so I don't know
if you're going to need that. They give you six
months free. I have not tested that just yet. I
don't like the idea of paying for another thing, but
I may break down and have to do that, or
I guess I will break down and just sign up
for the free trial for six months.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
They also have an LTE version of this watch. So
the regular version.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Which is GPS, is going to be three hundred and
fifty bucks. The LTE version is going to be four hundred.
If you have Google five, I guess you get the
watch plan for free, which is kind of cool. Battery
life they're saying twenty four hours of battery life. And
here's the other thing that I kind of forgot to
mention with the fitbit tracking is that this watch is
(10:15):
taking a heart rate measurement every second, whereas according to Google,
most smart watches take that reading every five seconds and
only every second when you're actively in a workout. So
they say by taking it every second of every day,
you're gonna get more accurate trends, more accurate stats. And
that's pretty incredible that you're getting that. I think that's
(10:36):
gonna be better for figuring out things like are you
going on a run or are you going on a walk?
I mean, five seconds seems like it would be adequate,
But you know, Google's pumping up this one second thing
twenty four hours of battery life that is to be
seen if that's with the always on display or just
with you know, the display that comes on when you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Flip your wrist up.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Overall, I think they did a fantastic job.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
With their first version of this watch. Hopefully it makes
it to a second version.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
We know how Google likes to kill things mid product cycle,
but hopefully they will make this to a second version.
But I think this first version at this point, just
seeing what I've seen so far, I have no problems
recommending it for a Google phone companion or an Android
phone companion. Is it going to be as full featured
as the Apple Watch? Is this software going to be
(11:27):
a slick? Is it a little more stuttery? Is a
little slower?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
In what I saw yesterday at the event, it seems
like the software could use a little bit of polish,
but that's typical of pixel devices. For some reason, they
put them out and then they polish them up over
the next year and That's one of the good things
about pixel stuff is that it does get better.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And you know, look on the flip side with the iPhone.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I'm seeing a bunch of little quirks here and there
with iOS sixteen and the iPhone fourteen. So these things
aren't perfect. And I think that, you know, as we
get more and more feature.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Rich, it's that's just the way it is, where we're
seeing more and more little.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Kind of bugs on these things. So that's the Google
pixel Watch. It'll be available October thirteenth. Okay, I don't
have my nice clickity clack typing for the first question
of the podcast, but let's get to it. Nancy says, Hey, Rich,
hope all is well with you question. I recently moved
to an area that does not have KTLA on their
cable package. When I first moved here, I was keeping
(12:23):
up with KTLA on my tcl Roku, but I replaced
it with a Visio smart cast that is Google based,
allowing me to download apps from Google Play. But your
streaming app is not available there. What's a video owner
got to do to get your streaming app and the
morning news again? In other words, why is it not
available on Google Play? Any chance it might be added.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I sure do.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Miss your segments. Thanks for your help and input. Cheers Nancy.
All right, Nancy, good question. So I was not aware
that Visio smart cast lets you download Google Play apps.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Which is kind of cool. So Google, we.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Are not on Google Play. We have a Ktla plus
streaming app. It is not available on Google Play. It
is available on the three major streaming TV platforms, which
is Apple TV, let's see what's the other one, fireTV,
and Roku as you knew by having the TCL Roku TV.
So this is where things get a little bit tricky
with all of these different streaming services and platforms and
(13:18):
things like that. So Google Play is big on Android
on TV. You know, they have Sony TVs that have it.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Clearly the video does it. But you know.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
And but the thing is, even though Amazon fireTV is
Android based, they don't use the Google Play store for
their apps, which I know is super confusing. So just
because an app is on Android does not mean it's
on fireTV. Just because it's on fireTV does not mean it's.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
On Google Play.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So Amazon sort of has their own app store with
that situation. And then anyway, long story short, you don't
care about any of that. You just want to know
how to watch the news. The bottom line answer. The
easiest way is to probably by a fire TV streaming
stick and pop it in the back of your TV,
and when you want to watch KTLA, you've got to
(14:08):
put that, you know, switch to that input. I know
that's a little bit of work, but you know that's
just kind of the way you have to do it
to get the stream so super cheap. I mean, the
fire TV sticks are very inexpensive.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Your TV.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It sounds like it's pretty new, So your TV should
be smart enough. When you press the home button on
the fire stick, it should switch that input automatically. Just
put ktlas your first app and boom, you can watch us.
And thank you for saying you miss my segments. You
can watch them in a variety of ways. I mean,
you can go to the KTLA website, you can go
to rich on tech dot tv, or you know, like
(14:42):
I said, you can download that KTLA plus app. It's
all free and you can stream all of my segments.
There is a section for my segments on the KTLA
plus app. So thanks for sticking with us, even through
the move and even through the different TV. I really
do like the fact that we've got some dedicated viewers
like that. And I know, this whole streaming thing is
very complicated, the fact that we have to go and
(15:05):
I'm not you know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
This, it's just the way it is, like the fact
that I have.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
To go to Netflix for one movie and you know,
Hulu for another show, and then YouTube for something else
I want to watch.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It is.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The streaming world right now is all brand new, and
it is still evolving. It's still kind of figuring out
how it wants to be what it wants to be.
In some ways, just having a cable package back.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
In the day was so much easier.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know, every night when you watch something on TV,
if it's like a Friday night, you're looking literally I
am scanning so many different like recommendations and services and
things to figure out what to watch. I did find
something that I thought was pretty helpful.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
If you go to.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Rotten Tomatoes, Okay, they've got this thirty most popular movies
right Now guide and it is across all services, whether
it is streaming, whether it is movie theaters. And I
thought that this was pretty handy because Rotten Tomatoes is
pretty much like the Gold standard for like movie ratings,
and you know, so if you go on this list,
(16:07):
you can see what the ratings are of the different
movies that are popular, and you.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Just have to do a little quick search.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
They will even actually if you click the title, tell
you if these things are available on streaming. So I
ended up watching The Monsters, which I had not even
known there was a new Monsters movie on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Probably better that I didn't know, because it wasn't very good.
Sorry spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I mean, look, it was it was fun, it was kitchy,
it was you know, it was sort of a throwback.
It was an origin story of how Lily and Herman
Munster met. It was it was fun. I love the
costumes and the set decorations and the vibe of the
movie was very fun. But you know, the story was
just okay, and it was you know, it was kind
(16:50):
of cheesy and it's not something i'd recommend. But if
you like the Munsters growing up, yeah, you'll probably be disappointed.
But it's still fun to just be in that world
of like, I mean, the set direct the set decoration
was just awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I loved it. So anyway, so.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The Monsters was on there, all these movies were on
there and you can see what sort of the rating is,
but also where they're.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Streaming as well. So that's been really helpful for me because.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I don't watch a lot of TV per se, but
I do like to watch movies, and so it's really
tricky to find like where all these movies are streaming
and which ones are, you know, kind of the buzzy ones.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
But this list helped. But anyway, thanks for the question.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Let's get to the next topic of the podcast, which
is the Pixel seven and Pixel seven pro. So again,
Pixel to me is represents just if you want a
very solid smartphone that takes amazing pictures, has excellent software
Google Smart's built in.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It's really really good.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The problem is I feel like it always leaves something
to be desired. You're in year out For me personally,
I will tell you, if you are a average smartphone user,
the basic pick that they make, like I'm talking the
Pixel six A, the Pixel seven. These are really really
fantastic phones for the price.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
There is not a lot of bloatwear on them.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The software is constantly updated. I think Google says you
get five years of security updates on these phones. I mean,
this phone could really last you five years, if you
played your cards right with it, if you took care
of it and you know, and just did those software updates. Yeah,
it might get a little slow towards the end, but
it's gonna work for you, and it's gonna take fantastic
pictures the entire time, from day one until day year five.
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It's gonna take really really good pictures without a lot
of hassle, without a lot of fuss.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now, yeah, you can argue rich the iPhone fourteen takes
great pictures, and the Samsungs take great pictures.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yes, they all take good pictures. But the Pixel takes
really good pictures without.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
A lot of fuss. So does the iPhone. But I
feel like the Pixel. I personally really love the googly.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Smarts that they build into these phones, and so that
is one of the things I really like about them,
is having access to the Google Assistant and just having.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That great camera experience.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The video on last year's Pixel six, you know, left
a little bit desired. We'll see if the Pixel seven's
any better, all right, So what is the Pixel seven
all about? You've got Pixel seven, Pixel seven pro. Pixel
seven fits in your hand way better. Six point three
inch screen. It's got these kind of sand blasted aluminum
sides that I feel like are a little bit easier
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to grip. Pixel seven Pro has a six point seven
inch screen, way bigger, way tougher to hold, but it's
got a better camera, and it's got better specs all around,
more ram, a higher quality screen, bigger battery. Obviously, the
thing that they built into both of these phone of
telephoto lens. The new feature that they built in or
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they improved, i should say, is this super res zoom.
So now just using the standard lenses on the Pixel seven,
you can get up to eight times zoom on the
Pixel seven and up to thirty times zoom on the
Pixel seven Pro, and these pictures look good no matter what. So,
you know, if you look at how most people use
their smartphone, they literally just pinch to zoom to figure
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out how to frame up a picture and then they
take the picture. That is the absolute worst way to
take a picture on an iPhone, And the reason why
is because your phone is constantly snapping between various lenses,
and when you're in between those lenses, you're really just
cropping a photo. Now that's gotten better on the Pixel sorry,
on the iPhone fourteen Pro. It's not so much of
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an issue anymore because they have a much larger sensor.
But on the standard iPhones, your pictures are not as
good as they could be if you were snapping or
just really staying in the main size, which is the
one X lens. If you're snapping to that two X
or zooming in even further, you're really not getting a
very good shot, a very high quality shot. So this
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is the reason why on my phones, I always use
a little snap to zooms at the bottom, because those
represent sort of the optical zoom levels, and on the
iPhone fourteen Pro that is one X, two x, three.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
X, and I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I can't I'm using my phone to record right now,
so I can't really tell you what that is. But
on the pixels now, what they're doing is they're actually
using the full sensor and they're doing all.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The smarts and crops for you.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
So technically, no matter where you zoom from zero to
eight or zero to thirty, your shot should.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Look just as good and just as high quality. So
that's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So they've they say they've achieved optical quality similar to
a dedicated two x telephoto lens for Pixel seven and
a ten X telephoto lens for Pixel seven Pro, so
Pixel seven Pro also has the Macro mode. Both phones
have this new feature called Photo Unblur, which lets you
unblur old photos. So or even you know a photo
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that you took with any other device, or any other
blurry photo. So you take that blurry photo, you tap
photo unblur and Google works its magic and unblurs it.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That feature at this.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Point is exclusive to the Pixel seven and Pixel seven Pro,
even though I'm not sure it requires the new processor
inside the pixel to make that happen. I'm sure they
can do this on the older models, but you know
they've got to set these phones apart in some way.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's how they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Magic eraser still there, still exclusive to the Pixel six
now and the Pixel seven Pro or Pixel seven.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
They also showed off this Guided frame feature, which is
for the visually impaired. It gives you audio guidance for
taking a selfie, which I tried it out yesterday at
the event. Really really nice accessibility feature kind of speaks
to say, raise your phone, move your phone to the left,
and it uses I guess it figures out, you know,
if you're looking at the screen or if you're you know,
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you're framed up properly for a selfie and so that's
really neat night Sight was really slow on the old phones.
Now they say it's two times faster.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh, there's also now face online in addition to fingerprint
unlock on the new Pixel seven and seven pro, So
that's going to help you unlock your phone better. Voice
typing will search for the relevant emojis, so that makes
life a little bit easier. You're also going to get
a VPN at no cost included. And this is really
aimed at folks who have you know, they've kind of
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heard about the privacy situation with all of these smartphones
and now that Apple has that whole ask not to track.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Situation on the Google phone.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
If you don't want your activity tracked, you can turn
on the VPN. And even though it's a Google VPN,
they say they're not going to associate your online activity
with your Google account.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I'll be curious to see how.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
This works with Google Chrome, because typically whatever you do
inside Google Chrome is linked to your Google account as well.
I thought, but maybe not, and so if you want
that security of a VPN and the ability to surf
without everything going back to Google, you can now activate
that VPN in a click. And that's kind of a
nice add on feature. And I think really this is
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to keep people from deflecting to browsers like Duck Duck
Go and Brave, because to have this stuff not linked
your Google account, you have to manually activate it. Yes,
some people might leave that on all the time, but
I think majority will just activate it during certain times
and leave it off during other times. And during those
other times they'll be using Chrome, which will still be
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reporting back to Google. So Google kind of wins in
that situation. Pixel seven five ninety nine, Pixel seven Pro
eight ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
That five ninety nine price is a.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Full two hundred dollars cheaper than the cheapest iPhone fourteen
I think for an entry level phone if you don't
mind Android, this is a really, really fantastic device and
I'd highly recommend it, even though I have not played
with it for a long period of time, I'm just
basing it on my previous Pixel experience. I really like
this phone for a basic budget smartphone.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Now, if you are a creator like someone like myself who's.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Doing a lot of video, doing a lot of editing,
doing a lot stuff running sort of like a social
media world from your phone. You may still need the iPhone.
I'm not sure that's what my testing is going to
be all about with the Pixel seven Pro, so I
will keep you posted on that. But otherwise, solid offerings
from Google this year. I think that they are listening
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to their users a little bit more in the features
that they want and the features that need to be
improved and the pain points, and I think they just
continue to evolve these phones.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Let's hope that that pixel watch as well survives. I
already said that.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So all right, Cathy says, hello, is there a watch
or a fitbit that does EKG for your heart I'm
seventy four.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I need something lightweight.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It looks like she has an iPhone, so yeah, I
mean the Apple Watch is going to do that. The
Apple Watch is going to do the heart rate monitoring,
It's going to do ECG.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It's going to give you your highs and your lows alerts.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
If you need something, So I think the Apple Watch
is probably your best bet.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Now if you look at the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Compared so there's there's the Apple Watch se and then
there's the Apple Watch Series A.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I'm not gonna recommend the Ultra to you. I don't
think you need that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So if you look at these two, the s will
give you those high and low heart rate notifications. It's
not going to give you the ECG app. So you
need to get the ECG app to get that feature
that you want. Now, the ECG app, I believe, was
introduced all the way back on the iPhone or the
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Apple Watch Series four. So if you get one of
these Apple Watches on sale somewhere and you're wondering, like, well,
the series four, Series five, Series six, or Series seven
do the same thing, yes they will. Now, I personally
would recommend just getting the Series eight because you want
the latest, greatest, Because this watch can last you a
good four or five years, So why would you go
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with something that's already four or five years old when
you want to get four or five years of use
out of it. So I would say, if you need
something that's going to be like a fall detection, go
with the GPS plus cellular, which is five hundred. If
you need just GPS, go with the four hundred. But
that's gonna be probably your best bet.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
If you were.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Android, I would say to go with the new Google
Pixel Watch because that also does ECG and I think
it's lightweight, it's great you leave it on all day.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So those are two good options for you. Thanks for
the question.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
All right, let's talk about CS twenty twenty three, happening
January fifth through When is it kicking off?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
January fifth?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So? CS says the in person event is on track
to exceed twenty twenty two, and they think it's going
to be the largest in person business event to take
place in the US since early twenty twenty. Also, the
show footprint is on track to be more than forty
percent larger than CS twenty twenty two. I went to
CS twenty twenty two. I was one of the few
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that went, and I thought it was fantastic. I got
a of great content. I thought it was a really
great show, even.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Though, yeah, it was different.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It was in the height of the pandemic and I
think it was omicron at the time, and you know,
it's one of those things where people were a little
hesitant to go. I had no qualms about it. I
figured I'd be fine, and I was and you know, look,
if you're comfortable with these kind of things, you go.
If you're not, you don't go. But at this point,
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the events are definitely coming back.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And is it weird. Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I mean I was at the Google event and the
person sitting next to me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Had a mask. Actually, both the people next.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
To me had n ninety five masks on, and so
I'm like, Okay, are they recovering from COVID?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Do they think they have COVID?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now, we all had to test to get into the event,
but maybe if you tested and you didn't feel comfortable,
still you wore a mask.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But the reality is, you know, I'm on the plane
and I'm feeling like, you know, if someone's coughing, I'm like,
oh gosh, this person's gonna get me sick.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So yeah, is it different? Is it weird? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Sure, because we're so used to these past two and
a half three years of like, you know, no handshakes
and the masks and the coughing and this and that
and the boosters, and so it's definitely a different experience
for me personally, I feel very confident in going to
these things and taking the precautions that I personally feel
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comfortable taking which is, you know, sanitizer, washing my hands,
staying out of situations where I feel very uncomfortable, and
that's it.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
And so far, knock on wood, it's worked for me.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
But everyone's level of comfort with this situation is different,
and so I'm not judging. I am totally good with
whatever people want to do. I personally will be at
CS and it looks like their attendance they think their
tenants goal of one hundred thousand dollars or one hundred
thousand dollars one hundred thousand people they are gonna hit,
and so we'll see. Some of the big companies this
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year include Amazon, AMD, Google, Qualcom, Roku, Samsung, Sony, Verizon,
and some of the key themes this year transportation and mobility,
digital health, metaverse.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I think that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
New, sustainability and human security for all CS happens January
fifth through eighth. Media Days are taking place January third
through fourth, So I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I'm excited. I always love CS and I think it's
going to be a great show. All right.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Next question from Cookie. Cookie says, hey, rich At and
T has a trade in where you can get an
iPhone fourteen for free.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I currently have.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
An iPhone twelve Pro. Would that be a smart move?
Or should I stay where I am? Thank you, cookie, Cookie,
it's not really free number one. What they're doing is
they are taking your old phone, which is your iPhone
twelve Pro, and they are giving you an iPhone fourteen.
They're giving you an inflated trade in value right for
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your iPhone twelve Pro, and then they are going to
take that trade in amount and they're not giving it
to you all at once. What they're gonna do is
they're going to give it to you over twenty four
to thirty six months. So what does that come out to? Okay,
so let's do a little math here, So eight hundred dollars.
Let's say they give you eight hundred dollars right divided
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by twenty four, So they're giving you a credit of
thirty three dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Now, if you sold your iPhone twelve Pro, now I
don't know how much storage you've got. Let's just say
you have the basic iPhone twelve Pro one hundred and
twenty eight. Let's say it's like new, it's whoops, signed
in or signed out, so you would get four hundred
and sixty five dollars for this.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So let's just say you took.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Eight hundred and divided by or took out four to
sixty five, so that'd be three hundred and thirty five
dollars you would be on the hook.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
For divided by thirty three.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
So yeah, so you would have to pay three hundred
and thirty five dollars for the new phone. So if
we divided that by thirty three, which is how much
AT and T is giving you, they're giving you basically
ten months of credit when you should.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Be getting I don't know, I'm you know.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
My math has gotten all convoluted, But the bottom line is, look,
is it a good deal? Probably not?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Is it an easy deal? Yes? And should you go
for it?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
If you want to be on the hook for twenty
four months with AT and T, it's fine. I personally
don't like contracts. I don't like deals like this. I
would not do it. It's not really free. They're really holding
you to twenty four months of paying for AT and
T service, which is probably more expensive than you would
get just buying service that didn't come with this free iPhone.
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And there's a lot of plans out there there's you know,
are you using your AT and T plan to its
full maximum potential?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Do you need a full by the way, you have
to be on one of their premium unlimited plans.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I'm guessing to get this, do you need all that?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
So these are the questions that you need to ask yourself.
I don't like these carrier trade in deals because they
sound sexy, they sound great, but when you really do
the math, you're paying a lot for convenience and they
are locking you into a rather large contract when in
this world we live in, there are no more contracts
for cellular service. Now they've got us on these new
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trade in plans that kind of maskraade as a great deal,
but that the bottom line is you're just you're kind
of they're building that thirty three dollars you save quote
unquote save every month into your service. So there are
plenty of inexpensive plans that you can get. You buy
this phone for three hundred.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
And thirty five dollars after you trade in your other.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Phone, and then you can buy a plan that you
activate on this phone that may be cheaper every month
on a month by month basis.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You may save thirty dollars a month, so it's right there.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
But again, you know, this is more getting into financial advice,
and I'm not giving you that financial advice.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I'm giving you just how I see things.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
And I personally get very stressed out when I have
a contract with someone that I need to fulfill for
twenty four to thirty six months.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
That's a lot of stress. I did this once with
AT and T.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I bought my wife's iPhone on the plan and I
just had to pay it off because I couldn't see
it every single month. It was like really stressing me
out to pay whatever I think it was like sixty
five bucks a month for this phone or something.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
And it was just like, h never mind, let me
just pay this thing off. And so that's what I
ended up doing. But you know that's me.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
If your level of comfort is fine, you like this,
it's simple, it's easy. You go into your AT and
T store and they give you the new phone cookie.
I'm not gonna fault you for it. A lot of
people do it, and people feel comfortable doing it, and
so that is your prerogative.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
And you know, if you like it, go for it,
all right.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Speaking of iPhones. The iPhone fourteen Plus is now available.
I did not review this. I told Apple I did
not need a review unit on this because you know, look,
it's kind of like an iPhone fourteen but bigger. And
I'm just gonna read you some of the some of
the review headlines from tech meme and let's see. So
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The Verge says it is a great battery, multi battery,
a bright screen, it's lightweight, it's hard to use one handed.
No promotion which is the better screen size adopting eSIM
may be painful for some.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, it could or could not be.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
And Gadget says iPhone fourteen plus it's a bigger iPhone.
Wall Street Journal says it's a big screen, big battery,
not so big price. Nine to five Max says great
battery life with familiar hardware. CMBC says it wins on
battery life and screen size. CET says it's for people
who love big screens. I Think Different says incredible battery
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life and large screen.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
So are you getting the trend here?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
If you want an iPhone fourteen, which is a little
bit less expensive than the iPhone fourteen Pro Max or
Pro rather, but you want that bigger screen and that
bigger battery. It sounds like the battery is a champ.
It sounds like the big screen is a winner. Sounds
like this phone is a winner for people who want
all those things at a not so increased price. And
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so I personally really like the big screen phone, but
I really don't like the big screen size in my hand.
So I just find that these phones require two hands
to use. They're a little bit trickier if you're trying
to do a lot with your camera and pictures, and
so if you if you know, if big screen is
your number one priority, I think the iPhone fourteen plus
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is going to be a great phone. But if you
know the best camera and ease of use one handed
is your is your top priority, than I think the
iPhone fourteen Pro is going to be a better bet
or the iPhone fourteen just standard size, because I think
that it's just easier to hold in one hand, and
that does go a long way with being creative with
your phone, taking selvies all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
All right, next question, Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Jennifer says, I don't know if you've heard from anyone else,
but my text messages started acting up yesterday. I didn't
get a text until this morning and this uh oh,
she included some photos in the second text from my
iPad shows a text I have not received in my iPhone?
Could this be related to the new iOS upgrade?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Very strange?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Thanks in advance, Jenny, Jenny, you know, I don't know
what this specific issue is, but it's probably related to
I'm guessing it's something to do with I messages in
the cloud. Something is not syncing properly, something is not working.
This happens sometimes. I message is kind of a pain
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because you think it's a text message, but it's really not.
It's really a proprietary messaging system invented by Apple to
you know, really keep you on the iPhone and keep
you in the Apple ecosystem. And it's fantastic. Don't get
me wrong. It's a really good messaging system. People love it.
But it's also very confusing, and so for someone like
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myself who tests various phones with various phone numbers, I've
had every sort of issue imaginable where these messages get
delivered to phones that are different, and you know, they
they're synced up somehow when you disconnect a phone somehow
the messages stop arriving when you send a text. Somehow
it doesn't get to all your devices. The sinking sometimes
may or may not work on all your devices. So
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there's a lot of issues I've observed with I Message.
When it works, it's fantastic, and most people are not
like me. Most people have one device, maybe two.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
And it works just fine.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Now, what I would say with this situation is I
would check number one. Go into iCloud, go into Messages,
and make sure Messages is toggled on with a green toggle.
That will make sure that I Messages in the Cloud
is sinking. Your sink could be off. So you can
go ahead and delete the thread on both of these
devices and see if that kind of gets.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Things to work again.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Or you can toggle off I Messages in the Cloud
on both devices and then toggle it back on and
see if that helps.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Could it be related to the new iOS upgrade. It
could be. There's been some issues.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yesterday, I do a radio hit with WGN in Chicago
every Thursday, and we've used this app to do the
radio hit. It's like a little kind of a mini
mixer for your iPhone and it's worked perfectly since day one,
but it hasn't worked the last couple of weeks, and
I was really sitting there trying to figure out what
has changed.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Nothing has changed, And sure enough yesterday I'm like, oh,
could it be iOS sixteen is the problem?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
And sure enough the engineer on the other end or
the producer said, yeah, you know what, I think other
people have been having these issues.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I think it's all related to iOS sixteen.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
So whenever there's a new iOS update, there could be
growing pains and usually fixes come out, So it could
just be that it's an iOS thing and it will
be fixed automatically. But I would take those steps that
I mentioned. Reset both devices obviously, you know, not factory.
Just just restart them and see if that helps too.
Sometimes you just need to kick these things back into
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sync and it will work again, all right. You might
have gotten an email from Amazon telling you that Amazon
Drive is being what is this word deprecated? Got this
sounds so bad, deprecated. Think it's getting made fun of?
So what does this mean? Google Drive or Amazon Drive
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was sort of Amazon's answer to Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive,
but it never really worked out that way, which is
ironic because Amazon runs one of the largest cloud services
in the world, Amazon Web Services AWS, and somehow they
never really figured out Amazon Drive. They could have made
Amazon Drive very competitive with Dropbox and all these other services,
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they just never decided to do that. Amazon's a very
consumer facing company on this end.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
So I get it.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
But the reality is you don't need to freak out
about this. If you're using Amazon Photos, that is going
to be just fine. Now, if you had Amazon photos
and videos inside.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Amazon Drive, you might want to get those out of there.
So here's what this. Here's what it says.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
If you have photos and videos saved in Amazon Drive.
Because Amazon Drive and Amazon Photos share the same cloud
storage location, your photos and videos in Amazon Drive access
the same photos and videos and Amazon Photos, So you
are good. Any photo or oh, any photo or video
deleted on Amazon Drive will no longer be available through
Amazon Photos and will be permanently removed.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
From Amazon after thirty days. Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
To access your photos and videos and Amazon Photos, please
visit the Amazon Photos website or download the Amazon Photos app.
Huh Okay, that is a little confusing. So my question
is if I uploaded a video file to Amazon Drive,
does Amazon Photos see that video file? And when this
goes away, will Amazon Photos continue to see that video file?
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From what I'm reading here, it doesn't seem like it
would be.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Now. I know you're asking me to.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Answer these questions, so I'm actually kind of confused at
this point.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
So it looks like yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
As of October thirty first, twenty twenty two, Amazon Drive
app will be removed. As of January thirty first, twenty
twenty three, Amazon will no longer support uploading files on
the Amazon Drive website. You'll be able to view and
download your files until December thirty first, twenty twenty three,
so you basically have a full year to do this.
I don't have all the answers right now. I can't
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really specifically tell you if your Amazon Photos inside Amazon
Drive will stay in Amazon.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Photos after drive goes away. I know that sounds very complicated, but.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
It's weird because this same thing happened with Google Photos
and Google Drive. So back in the day, if you
upload it to Google Drive, your photos would be seen
in Google Photos. And then once they got rid of
Google Drive and Google Photos, that link they you know,
all the photos that were in Google Photos carried over
to Photo. Sorry we're in Google Drive, carried over to
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Google Photos, and so it's weird, but I still have
them in my Google Drive. I mean it's really really
complicated and I.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Haven't figured it out after a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
So I don't know if I'm gonna figure this out
in a year. But just something to be aware of,
something to keep track of. Just know that you may
want to start if you rely on Amazon Drive a lot,
which you probably don't, you may want to start just
having a plan for getting those files out of Amazon
Drive and into somewhere a little bit safer, all right,
as Baldough, As Baldo says, Hey, good morning, good afternoon.
(43:30):
Just wants to know if there's something wrong with iOS
sixteen for my iPhone. Ever since the update came out,
my phone is not recognizing some of my apps. My
banking apps tells me I have to register my device,
and it's not doing that. I register every single time,
tells me to reregister. Just trying to see if there's
any problems with it. Please let me know. Thank you,
As Baldough. I think you are seeing a common problem
(43:52):
because I noticed the same issue with my phone and
I can't tell if it's because I switched phones or
because of iOS sixteen. But yeah, I noticed I had
to relog into a bunch of my banking apps. So
when you switch or upgrade operating systems, a lot of
things just work, but sometimes they don't, and sometimes your
phone just kind of resets that kind of identifier that
(44:14):
told your bank like, oh, this is a safe log in,
and we've logged in from here before, so I assume
this will work itself out. I don't think that it's
a like a hack or anything like that on your phone.
I think that just relog in. Now you're saying it's
telling you to reregister your device every single time, so
I don't know. That seems odd, so that could be
(44:35):
a problem. I would definitely restart your device and just
you know, make sure you do all the iOS updates.
There's been a bunch of them. I think there's another
one that's going to be coming out here any day now.
So I would definitely do that and just keep an
eye on this. But it's kind of a little hassle
if you're just being a password manager and all that stuff.
Hopefully it's not too much of a hassle, but I would,
(44:55):
you know, it seems like it's something that is pretty
common after the update, hopefully it will stop happening.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
But I will tell you it's it's happened to me.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
So feel feel warmth in the knowledge and knowing that
it's not just you, it's your phone.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
All right, let's talk about this story.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Boston Dynamics, along with a bunch of other robotics companies,
according to Axios, says that they are pledging not to.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Support the weaponization.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Of their products, and they're calling for others in their
industry to do the same. According to a letter first
shared with Axios, let's see which companies are in here,
Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, Anybotics, Clear Path Robotics, Open Robotics,
and Unitary Robotics. They all say we are not going
to use our robots for war. Oh wait, hold on, well,
(45:49):
does that mean they're not going to use them for
war or weaponizing? I think they Let's see, okay, so
they say okay. We believe that adding okay doesn't say
not for war, says not for weaponizing. So we believe
that adding weapons to robots that are remotely or autonomously operated,
widely available to the public, and capable of navigating to
previously inaccessible locations where people live in work raise new
(46:10):
risks of harm and serious ethical issues.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
They said in their letter.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
They pledge not to add weapons, technology, or support others.
When possible, they'll review customers plans and hopes of avoiding
customers that would turn the robots into weapons. So technology,
they say, for robots to be broadly accepted throughout society,
public needs to know they can trust them, and that
prohibits bad actors from misusing them. So, I mean, look,
(46:37):
it's kind of a loosely worded letter. They say that
they're not going to add weapons to them, but that
doesn't prohibit customers from doing that or modifying these things
or using them for war. But kind of interesting, and
it's not just war.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
I guess could be for policing, police.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Departments, all that kind of stuff, public safety, whatever, But
you know it's robots are going to Look, all of
the technology that we have in our world is creating
new challenges for the status quo, and robots are no different.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
And they're just.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
They are just at the beginning. We are just seeing
what robots may be capable of, and as that evolves,
we're gonna have to figure out more and more things
that deal with robots.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
So good for these companies to sort of put their
foot down. But we'll see how it works in the.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Long run, all right, Bob says, Hey, Rich, can you
recommend a good DVR for broadcast TV? Thank you, Bob,
Yes I can, Bob. My favorite is called Tableau, super simple,
super easy tableau over the air DVR. It's what I use.
It's super simple. If you have an antenna on your roof,
it works great there. You don't have to pay the
(47:53):
monthly charges if there isn't like I think it used
to be five or ten bucks, but it's you know, you.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Don't have to do that.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
It's it's very limited in the DVR if you don't
you know, with your recording schedule, if you don't pay,
if you do pay every month, it's just like a TVO.
And so it's for over the air channels, which a
lot of people rely on and like. But Tableau is
super simple. Tablo and let's see how much they are
these days, so they have a whole bunch of different models.
(48:22):
So the simple over the air light which is just
one recording. Oh two tuners actually, so you've got two
tuners in there. That is one hundred and twenty nine bucks,
so super easy, super simple. There's even a sale for
thirty dollars off right now, so you can get that
for ninety nine bucks. Wow, that's pretty good. Let's see
what the next one up gives you. So okay, So
(48:46):
you've got two over the air channels at once, okay,
and then you've got one with more storage. Then you've
got a quad DVR, and then a quad DVR with
a storage included. So the main thing about that light
one I talk about is that storage is not included,
so you would have to plug a hard drive or
(49:06):
a USB stick into the back to get the storage
on that thing. But if you're just streaming live, you
don't really need that. But if you want to record,
yeah you need that.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
So if you.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Want that built in, you can get the one twenty
eight DVR, which is gonna be a little bit more.
Let's see how much that is for the convenience. You
are paying one seventy but again minus at thirty dollars,
so really one forty so forty bucks to not have
to have one more thing plugged into the back of
your TV and the back of your DVR, one more cable.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
I would say, go for that one twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
If that's not gonna be enough, then they also make
a one terabyte or you can just add your own
hard drive and be fine with that.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
So great question there.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
All right, let's get to the next question since I
think I'm done with all the things I want to
talk about in the show. Next question from let's see here.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Oh my god, so many questions. Wow, okay, let's see.
Oh my gosh, so many questions.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
I got a lot of emails about the bedtime situation
that I talked about on the last show. In fact,
I helped my wife because she uses the regular alarm,
and I said, okay, Lynn, you've got to switch to
the I talked about my podcast. You've got to switch
to this whole you know, clock based health, you know,
workout whatever, not workout, but in the in the health app,
(50:29):
you can set up your sleep and bedtime schedule. And
she goes, yeah, I did, and it's fantastic. I can't
believe that I never did that before. And I was
so excited to hear that, because you know, now she's
waking up to a gradual alarm and not the blaring
clock alarm that is typical and so a lot of
you wrote to me and said, wow, Rich, what a
life saver. I love it so much better. You know,
(50:51):
it's just so much greater. Why does an Apple really
advertise this?
Speaker 2 (50:54):
They should? And my wife said the same thing anyway.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
So Neil said, wonderful podcast. You handle some meati questions
for me. I like your description of the bedtime, sleep
time or feature. I use it and really like it,
but I'd like to be able to adjust it via
shortcuts any ideas there. Shortcuts are sort of Apple's answer
to you know, routines on Bixby or tasker on Android.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Or rules on Google Pixel.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
It's kind of just automated things that you can make
your phone do with either a shortcut or a tap
or a voice shortcut. I don't know if you can
adjust voice series shortcuts or shortcuts for the.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Sleep schedule and situation.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yeah, I see what you'd want to do, like, you know,
tap it to adjust your bedtime to nine am one day,
eight am the next day.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
But the person who I'd recommend for this, his name
is Matthew Casanelli, and Matthew Cassanelli is the Serrie shortcut master.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
I believe he.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Sold his shortcuts app to Apple, and that's the basis
of serie shortcuts, so he kind of knows a thing
or two about series shortcuts. But I would search his
website and see if he has a bunch of shortcuts
for sleep. I don't know if he does, or if
that's even possible, or if that's even something that is,
(52:16):
you know, just doing a quick search on his website. Oh,
it definitely looks like there are some things you can
do edit my sleeps cut. Oh yeah, there's a bunch.
Oh yeah, set bedtime by Oh yeah, there's a whole bunch.
So it looks like he's got a whole bunch. I
check him out. Matthewcassanelli dot com. Matthew Cassanelly dot com.
All right, that is gonna do it for this episode
(52:38):
of the show. I think you've heard me speak into
this set up long enough.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
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(53:09):
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TV segments on demand. My name is Rich Demiro. Thank
you so much for listening. There are so many times,
(53:31):
so many ways you can spend an hour of your time.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
I do appreciate you spending it right here with me
live from New York. I'm Rich Demiro, well pre taped
in your case.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
If you're listening later, which you probably are since it's
a podcast, I'll talk to you real soon.
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