November 14, 2019 • 46 mins
The Razr flip phone comes back as an Android smartphone; Google enables an iMessage-style solution to all Android phones; A look at the Disney+ streaming service; Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro; Google Maps gets a handy feature for international travel; the Libby app for downloading free library books to your Kindle.Listeners ask about getting free cloud storage, the best digital picture frame, how to edit their address book on a computer, whether AirPods Pro are still worth it and a phone to replace a Samsung device.Follow Rich:https://www.instagram.com/richontech/Follow Meghan:https://twitter.com/producermeghanRich's Book:https://www.amazon.com/101-Handy-Tech-Tips-iPhone/dp/1731457944Razr is backhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SLVoNwglNoGoogle's answer to iMessagehttps://www.blog.google/products/rcs/upgrading-messaging-android-us-rcs/Disney+https://dtcimedia.disney.com/news/dtci-disney-plus-launchApple 16 inch MacBook Prohttp://earny.link/apple/AP7jFAGoogle Maps Translate Featurehttps://www.blog.google/products/maps/speak-easy-while-traveling/Digital picture framehttps://store.google.com/us/product/google_nest_hubSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Motorola brings back the Razor, Android finally gets its I message.
Disney Plus is here and your tech questions answered. What's
going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech,
the podcast where I talk about the stuff that I
think you should know about happening in the tech world.
Plus it's the place where I answer the questions that
(00:25):
you send me, and believe me, you send them to me.
Thanks and welcome to the show, especially if you're listening
for the first time. Maybe it found me through Leo
Laporte's show. Let me bring on Megan producer.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Megan, what's up, my.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Trustee sidekick here for loaded with questions.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Today, right, Yeah, We've got a lot of good questions,
lots of good questions I've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
They come in fast and furious, that's for sure. And
it's almost a full time job to just answer all
these questions, but I do. And you know, if you
write me, most of the time you will get a response,
as long as you're not crazy, and maybe if you're
crazy you might get one sometimes. So you know, I
was out late last night, yeah, because Megan had to
do a little extra time this morning to make sure
(01:11):
our segment was ready for the air at five am,
but I didn't stay out too late, probably like ten o'clock,
but still you still have to wake up at like yeah,
like three.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So but I was at the for a good reason.
I went to the Motorola launch party for the Razor.
And so the way it worked is we had Motorola
in the studio in the morning and then at night.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know, like twelve hours later basically.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I mean they came in at eight am, no, nine am, yeah,
and the party started at seven pm, so you're talking
almost eleven hours later.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I went, you know, to the party, and the party
was held in downtown Los Angeles at like you know
this new like arts district where a lot of stuff
is seemingly to start there. Now it's like growing.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, and it is really cool.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The place was, I forget, it's called like the Container Yard,
and it was you walk so when you got into
this party, you walk in through this design that this
art designer had made. It was like an installation and
it was all these refrigerators filled with ice, but like
sculptures of like old Moto Razor phones and like just
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general Motorola stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It was really odd.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It was almost like a haunted house kind of walking through.
So you get through there scared. It was a little apprehensive.
We have to wait outline for like outside in line
for like half an hour, and everyone's like, why do
they have to wait this part?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's not like an open party.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, and that was the reason why, because they only
let like ten or fifteen people in this little area
at once to like look at these art exhibits.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
They didn't want it to melt.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, well it was in refrigerators. And then you go
outside and the party was actually outside in the middle
of this thing. Diplo was there playing tunes.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Diplow was there.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, I listened to his songs. I don't really know Diplo.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I know Diplo does a lot of no Diplo.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But he does a lot of like you know, collaborations. Yeah,
he's not like his own like you know justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I knew that song. He does a lot of collaps, he.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Does clap, but he's also a DJA. He has his
own It.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Was great DJ, great DJ.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
But the way they launched this phone is kind of
ironic because it was all of a sudden Diplo came
on and they introduced him or whatever, and then there's
like this whole thing, this garage that opened up to
all these smoke and mirrors, and that's what they showed
the phones on, which is kind of ironic for a phone.
You don't usually want to associate smoke and mirrors with
your product. But it worked and it was very impressive.
(03:25):
I will say that the early reaction to this product
and we went hands on with it, now a lot
of people have seen it, is that it's very cool.
They did a great job with the foldable design on
the screen, unlike some other phones we've seen out there
that just kind of were almost a proof of concept.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
But let me go through some.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Of the specs here, so it's a you know, they
kept kind of the phone the same way as you
remember back when you had it in like two thousand
and five or whatever. But now when you open it up,
the entire thing is a screen that is a foldable screen.
So it's a six point two inch foldable plastic o
lead panel. It is running Android nine, which I was
a little disappointed at because you would want Android ten.
(04:06):
I think Android just needs to do away with the
versions and just focus on like if it has the
current software updates, because realistically, the difference between nine and
ten for most people is not a big deal, but
it's still just it's a way for tech reporters to
just be like, oh, this phone is already outdated.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Exactly, They're already a year behind.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Right, But the way that Android works versus iPhone is
just not the same.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
So let's just.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Drop the version numbers for Android and just focus on
does this phone get current software updates?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Because most of what you can.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Accomplish on an Android versus iPhone is done through app updates,
not the main software update.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That makes sense?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Like you can add like.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Any feature you want basically to an Android phone by
just downloading an app, and it'll change kind of how
that phone works now certain core features. Maybe you need
the new operating system anyway. So the design is really cool.
It's got a fingerprint sensor, which is nice. It's got
USBC on the bottom. Again, the screen inside is really cool.
There's also a screen on the outside which is two
point seven inches, And they said that they made sure
(05:06):
they worked on this screen a lot so that it's
not going to fail.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And nothing can get behind it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Like little specks of dust that will take down the
entire phone. I will say that the open and closed
mechanism is definitely not as simple as the original.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So my wife went me to the party last night.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And by the way, she does a great job with
like holding things in her hand, like she was a
little hand model.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
She was like, oh, shoot a quick video of me.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
She wanted to take a video.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
For her dad.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
No, for her dad, she wanted to send him a video.
And so I watched her do this and like she
actually did a great job of like showing off the
phone whatever. She maybe featured in a future segment. Yeah,
so she but she did notice when she picked up
she said, wow, this is actually very impressive. But she
did notice that it is a little bit tougher to
open and close with one hand than the original.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's heavier and it's just different.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's a great point, good observation. Yeah, I didn't actually
get told it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
See.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh and I told her this too. I said, I
actually mentioned you and Luis. I said, it's funny because
she didn't touch it either. And I was like, Lynn,
get in there, like go touch the phone, like pick
it up, feel it. And I said, so many times
you go to these tech events where I have my
producer and my photographer. We're so busy collecting everything and
getting it.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
We need to touch it. You actually don't touch the product. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
My sister asked me about the iPhone when we went
to the event. She was like, did you hold it?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And I was like, no, So always remember, like just
get in there, like just just you know, grab it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I feel like I'm working. I can't which give me,
give me twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
But it happens to me too, like sometimes I will forget.
I will go through my motions of what I want
to do for air and I'll forget to like actually
just kind of play for a little bit and just
see how this thing works.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
So it's one of those things you just have to remember.
And she was like, oh my gosh, you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So did she like it?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
She loved it. She thought it was really great.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
She said it's gonna be tough to compete with the iPhone,
right obviously, but she was very impressed. And I think
that's the I haven't read any of the reviews, the
early reviews, but it seems like people are impressed with
what Motorol has done, and I think that's a good thing.
That's cool. It's not a phone for specs. This thing
has an older processor. It's not as fast as the
flagship's Snapdragon. It also doesn't have the best camera. It's
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it's just an average camera.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
What else.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's exclusive to Verizon. It's going to be fifteen hundred dollars,
so it's super expensive. The one question she asked, which
I thought was pretty good, was is it going to
come in colors? And right now the party line is that.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's just black. Whatever color we saw yesterday that black guy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I have a feeling that coming.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But I think they elluded last night that there's going
to be some fun colors and I think that would
make a lot of sense. Again, and you can close
the phone to end a call, which is really neat.
So is this a major win for Motorola. Probably too
early to tell, but I do think that they did
a nice job with this. They did their homework. Is
it the phone for everyone? Probably not. Is it going
(07:47):
to make people switch from iPhone? Probably not? But is
it something that when people walk into Verizon and if
they do some sort of special on it, maybe get
the price down or I also see it as kind
of like rich executives that want like a phone that
fits in there their soup pocket. Like it's a little
bit more comfortable. It's heavy, but it's it's a nice feel,
and so I think it's gonna appeal to those types
(08:08):
of people and anyone who wants to make like a statement,
like someone who doesn't need the craziest, flashiest phone or
even an iPhone, This is going to appeal to.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's why I already ordered it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I know you love your iPhone, so I know you're
not going to get it. Okay, that's the story with
the Motorola Razor.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Okay, let's start the first question of the day from Alexander.
He asks, I was wondering what are your thoughts? Oh sorry,
I watched your review on AirPods Pro when they were released,
and I was wondering, what are your thoughts on them
now that you've had you've owned them for a few weeks,
are you still using them or is there something you
(08:47):
prefer better for Jim slash travel.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Great question, and I like to follow up what's his
name again?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Alexander?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Alexander, So, here is the thing about the AirPods. They
are great, but you have to be comfortable with two things.
And my original review kind of stands. And I've been
using them for a while, like I've taken them on
four flights now, I have taken them to the gym
several times. They actually have fallen out of my ears
at the gym. The original air pods have never fallen
out of my ears once.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Actually that's not true.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
They did once on a treadmill and it almost went
into the groove and I had to pull it out. Yeah,
it actually did go into the groove. These fell out
of my ears a couple times, especially when you get sweaty,
they definitely start to want to fall out, and when
you're kind of bending over doing a stretch something like that,
like on the treadmill. Not really an issue, but I
do notice myself pushing them into my ears more so.
My overall recommendation is go with the regular AirPods unless
(09:39):
you need the noise canceling and you want to consolidate
your packing. When I pack for a flight, I take
a big pair of noise canceling headphones and my AirPods.
I like the idea of the AirPods pro because it's
just one thing, but I will say there's a lot
of pressure in your ears no matter what when you
have these things in noise canceling mode. That's just the reality.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Apple says they did all this work on them and
try to to make that not happen, and I feel
like it is less.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But it's still there, Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So it's one of these things that it's And this
is the tough part about earbuds is that how do
you really try these things on? I mean, the best
you can do is buy them and like return them
if they don't work for you. Yeah, I mean they
don't let you try them on at the store, Like
I don't even think Apple lets you do that. So
you can't see how these things are until you take
them home. You put them in and you use them
for a week or two, and you got to see
(10:25):
what the return pulse he is. Yeah, and it's not
bad if your return them, because they're just gonna replace
the little tip on them.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
They should make like dummies that you can put on
in the store. They're just like lasting.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They should still like see the field with the little
tips that pop off, so you.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Just you don't know, pay two fifty. Yeah, yeah, I
am curious about the return.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Post expensive thing.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'm sure you can return them, and you know, I
mean you can return like a computer to Apple store.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So they might charge your restocking fee.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't know, and they might be like hesitant when
you try to return them. You know, they're like, oh, okay,
you know how to deal with that.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
They like give you a little wink, They're like, did
you just try this on?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah? Okay, did you yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But hey, you know, I mean it's at the end
of the day. I don't think Apple is hurting for cash.
So I think you'll be okay if you if you
truly get them and you don't like them. I mean,
it's they're two hundred and fifty dollars, so return them
if you don't like them, go with the regular AirPods.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So we talk about I message all the time, and
I message is one of the primary reasons why people
love the iPhone. It's not the only reason, but it's
definitely one of those contributing factors. And it's funny because
our car wash guy here, Manny, you know, I get
my car washed all the time, and he texted me
this morning, hey, do you need to wash? And I
(11:40):
noticed it showed up blue. Yeah, and so I was like, Manny,
I'm like, did you get the phone? Did you get
an iPhone? He's like oh, And he explained to me
that he used to have an iPhone, but then his
daughter would use his tablet the iPad, and all of
his I messages would come through. So he turned off
I Message and he actually got her a tablet, her
own tablet, and so now.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He's back to the I message.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So but it's just one of those conversations that you
would never normally have except in iPhone world, you know. Well, anyway,
I mentioned this because Google is saying, you know what, carriers,
we are sick and tired of waiting for you to
make a solution that is equivalent to I Message for Android,
and we're just going to do it ourselves. So now
Google is turning on what's called rcs on their Messages
(12:25):
app on Android, which means all Android users are now
getting their version of I Message as of today.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Wow, which is huge for the Android world. So what
does this mean.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
This means that you can now send and receive text
over Wi Fi or mobile data, which is huge. You
can send and receive high resolution photos and videos, so
no longer. When you send a video from one Android
to another, is it going to come up totally pixelated
and weird and tiny and crazy and useless. And people
can now see when you've read your messages and when
(12:59):
you've received your message again, all like I Message huge,
better group chats. You can name your groups, you can
add to remove people from groups, and see if people
have seen the latest messages. So this is all rolling
out starting today in the United States. If you have
the Messages app on your Android, which is sometimes pre installed,
but if you don't, if you have a Samsung I
(13:20):
don't think it's pre installed. So you go into the
Google Play and download Android Messages and yes, this is
a ploy to get you to use Google's messaging app,
but it's basically their standard SMS app. But now you
have RCS and if you want, you can go into
your settings on this app and it says enable chat.
They call it chat And it's not working on my
(13:42):
phone just yet, but this is a rollout, so it's
gonna be by the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Everyone's gonna have it. They can't do everything overnight.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I wish they chose like a fun name Chat.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
RCS is well it's because that's a standard. So this
is a standard that all the carriers are supposedly adhering
to worldwide. Okay, so it's not like I Message, you know,
they can't call it something fun like Google Message.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So the other thing to know.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
About this is now it actually makes the divide between
iPhone and Android even bigger. Yep, because Android to Android
will be fine, iPhone to iPhone will be fine. Android
to iPhone is still going to be a mess because
guess what, the iPhone does not support RCS, nor will
it anytime soon ever in the history of mankind.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I don't think they ever will. So it's now full
on war.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's a full on But anyway, if you're on Android
and you have Android friends, you can finally, like let's
say you're a couple and you have Android Android, finally
you get to experience life kind of the way iPhone
gets to your experience, and which is huge.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It just always makes me think of BBM and I
never had a BlackBerry, and I remember all my friends
could BEBM each other and I was like, I'm not
part of that party.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
BBM was I message before I message came along? Totally
all right, Megan, what do you got okay?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
So this next question is from Lisa, and she's very
unhappy with her Galaxy Note ten. She said she always
has problems with screen pressure when she's typing. She's had
to replace it twice under insurance, so she's done. She says,
I mostly used for word processing, accessing drive, no gaming,
(15:15):
some videos, very little actual phone calls. I don't like
Apple phone. So what would be the best replacement for
my Note eight? In your opinion? How about the Pixel
four or is there a phone I'm not familiar with.
I'm with rizin Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I would recommend the Pixel four XL or she didn't
mention pictures in there at all?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Huh uh huh. So if she's not mentioning.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Photos, because Pixel four XL is great for a couple
of reasons. It's got fantastic software, it's a great overall phone.
It has okay battery life, it's not the best, but
it'll be fine, and it's got a lot of nice
little features, and it's kind of pure Google. So it's
just overall a very nice device. If you want some
think a little bit less expensive, I would check out
(16:02):
the one plus seventy.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
But I do.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Believe that phone is exclusive to T Mobile in the stores,
but I think if you buy it online it can
be on mock. She said she's on Verison Eisen. Yeah,
so I think you have to go online to buy
that phone. And the advantage of the sevent is you're
still gonna get great software, You're gonna get a battery
that lasts very long, and the camera is just not
going to be as good as the Pixel. So if
(16:26):
but she's gonna save a lot of money. That phone
I think is five ninety nine versus the Pixel, which
I think is like seven ninety nine, but the Pixel
is gonna be discounted over Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
What about the Pixel three?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I would not recommend the Pixel three.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Okay, no, because it's too old at this point, Like
pixels don't really have a long I mean they do,
but they at this point, Like it's what phone does
she have? She is a Galaxy Note ten, which is
weird because it seems like she is giving up on
that and she that's a brand new phone, so it must.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Be it's confusing. She goes, I'm happy with my Galaxy
Note ten, and then she all so calls it her
Note eight later on, So.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Maybe it's Okay, So I think it's a No. Eight.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Okay, So I think those are the two phones that
I would recommend for her. I think that she'll be
happy with either one of them. I prefer the Pixel
just for the pictures. But again, she didn't mention pictures
like some people when they email me, they say pictures
are most important. Yeah, she didn't say that, So that
means she's morched in games and all the other little
things you can do.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
On your phone.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Pictures are not necessarily, like, you know, if pictures are
your number one priority, like if I was saying, I
want what I want out of a phone. I want
the best pictures, the best video, and the best apps
and the best video of content creation possibilities. So I
think those two phones will be great, So look into
those for sure. You know, Megan, this week was a
big week.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You are a Disney fan. Yeah, and there are a
lot of them out there.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
There are so many.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Disney Plus you're a fan launched this week. No, I've
never been a Disney like fanatic.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Okay, no, never.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I do appreciate what Disney does. Yeah, I've been to
the parks, I have seen the movies. Yeah, but I'm
not what you would call a I don't have one
of those like ap things in the back of my car.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh you know, I'm talking.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
About annual pass. Yeah. Yeah, I did not want to
put that on my car when.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I have But do you have one? You have one?
I do feel like.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
From like three years ago, but then they changed the
past to be like so much more expensive, so I stopped.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Okay, do they give you that when you Yeah, they do,
so that's why people have it, Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So anyway, Disney Plus launched this week in the US, Canada,
the Netherlands, and it has about five hundred movies, seventy
five hundred episodes of TV shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel,
Star Wars, National Geographic, and more. It's got some new stuff,
but mostly the old catalog, and they're gonna they're gonna
slowly but surely bring in a lot more new stuff.
(18:45):
You can watch all of the Simpsons. There is For
the first time, Star Wars first seven Star Wars movies
are available in four K Ultra HD for the first
time that they're all available in this format.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
That's kind of cool. Who framed Roger Rabbit? Toy?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Story one, two and three are also available in four KHD,
so it works on pretty much every device. But I've
been getting a lot of emails about this because there
are some exceptions.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
The notable one is Visio.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
There is no Visio, there's no Disney Plus app for
Visio TVs. And also people said, oh, well, no big deal,
I'll just chrome cast it to my TV because Visio
TVs have chrome casts built in. It didn't work, and
the reason why is because the version of chrome cast
that video is using is not high enough to authenticate
for what Disney wants. Oh so that's kind of a bummer.
(19:35):
So there is a workaround. You can use airplay, but
you have to have an iPhone or an iPad to
do that. So if you had an Android Plus video
and you wanted a chrome cast to your TV, wouldn't work.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
About a fire TV stick, Well.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Okay, so but that's different. That's not built into your TV.
When people buy a smart TV, they get used to
kind of using the apps on screen. And this is
why I never recommend using the smart of your smart
TV now unless you're on a major platform like Roku,
right tcls and you're safe most of the time. Sometimes
there are some distinctions but most of the time you're okay.
But this is why generally I recommend a third party
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device like an Apple TV or a Fire TV stick
because or a Roku player, because that way you always
get the latest and greatest no matter what happens. So
sometimes these TVs are not as updated as the separate
streaming devices. So anyway, the other thing to know about
Disney Plus is you can get it for free if
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you have a Verizon Unlimited plan. A lot of people
have been emailing me about that.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
It's pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You just go into the Verizon app, you look under
your entertainment under add ons, and you add it. And
the trick there, it's not like Verizon's just being kind
to you and giving this. They are, but the trick
is that once you're set up there, next year when
it renews, it will be on your Verizon bill and
so that's kind of like and Verizon gets recurring subscription.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
They get a cut of that.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So the more people that they can get on their
plan that also say, oh, I'm not going to cancel
Verizon because look at they give me. I get free
Apple Music, I get free Disney so I'm not going
to cancel. But after the next year when that starts
to kick in that six ninety nine, Verizon gets a
tiny portion.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
And then Apple Music is that.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
That's unlimited forever forever. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Wow, Verizon really has a bunch.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Of Like well, AT and T does something similar, so
does TEA Mobile. Team Mobile gives you Netflix. At and
T has Spotify for free. Depends on your plan. It
all depends on your plan. Yeah, it's obviously on the
higher end plans as well. But anyway, my kids have
been is Disney plus for you. My kids have been
watching They watched Aladdin the first two nights. I feel
like for six ninety nine a month, it really pays
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for itself. You rent one movie a month on Apple
TV and that's five ninety nine. So yeah, six ninety nine,
you're getting the whole back catalog as long as there's
enough to keep you interested.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And I think Disney will.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I'm worried because they put that whole catalog out there,
like at the beginning. Oh so it's kind of like
you get you get kind of like spoiled totally.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But I'm excited. I feel like your kids now can
watch like the really classic TV shows of like the
two thousands that aren't on Disney Channel anymore, like stuff
like that's a raven, like that was what I grew
up with, and now like if you don't really I
sometimes I've seen Disney Channel now and I'm like, the
shows are just now very advanced. Yeah, so it's cool that,
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you know. I mean, I don't, I don't even know.
I mean, it's just it's just different. It's just different.
But it's it's cool. There's a lot out there, and yeah,
I mean you can kind of get spoiled.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
With it, but I think for families it's gonna be
for six ninety nine a month.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It's it's such a no brainer.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I think for adults who are into Star Wars that
signed up for Mandalorian and then when that's over, they
may find that they're kind of over it because you know,
there's only so much there for adults.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But I'm assuming they're going to keep cranking out new series,
but it's not really like centered towards you know, an
adult crowd.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Well, I think they're trying to do that with the
Mandalorian and the Star Wars and the Marvel.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Stuff and the National Geography.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, which yawner.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
For me, it's my favorite Channel next.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I'm sure people love that stuff, so I, you know, yeah,
but yeah, we'll see and people some people might wonder
if you have cable and you've got Disney Now, which
is their companion app for a cable subscription, you can
sign in and using your you know, streaming or cable
log in. I did look, and it seems like a
lot of the shows like Vamporina and Puppy Dog Pals
and all these little shows that are currently on TV,
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seems like the new episodes are going to the Disney
Now app and then kind of like last season and
before are going to Disney Plus.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Got it? So it depends how much you Wantflix exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Will your kids notice? Who knows? So?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But the reality is how many of these subscriptions can
you sustain? I know that I'm going to cancel my
EIGHTE and T TV now, which is now going up
to sixty dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It started out as thirty five when I first subscribe.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Now it's up to sixty and you know, I just
don't use it, and so that's going away.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So what will you have?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Then? You'll all have Netflix?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Okay, Time Now, which is or prime video from Amazon
Netflix I'll have Disney Plus. And I am still subscriber
to YouTube Premium, which is twelve ninety nine a month, huh,
which also gives me YouTube music, but I may drop
that as well. I just hate seeing ads on YouTube,
so I don't know if that's worth twelve ninety nine
a month though or not, because I don't watch that
much YouTube.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I just always when I get those ads, I always click,
like the like if it's like an age ad, I
just always click it and then it's done. Oh you
do yeah, Like I just want to.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, but I feel like they're collecting so much data
on you. You know what, I make it up? Oh,
if you make it up, yeah, then.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
That's yeah, between sixteen and seventy five, like whatever, Okay, okay.
This next question comes from Gina. How do you upload
Android contacts to a computer for editing?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It's funny how many people ask about contacts. And my
recommendation is always to keep your contacts in the cloud,
whether that's iCloud or you know, Google Cloud. But I've
gotten a lot of people when they switch phones, they
realize their contacts are stored on the phone itself, and
the main thing you want to do is go into
your contacts on any platform, whether it's Android or iOS,
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and make sure that your contacts are being saved, either
iCloud or Google. That's what I recommend. And to find
your contacts that she uploaded on an Android phone, generally
those go right into Google. So just go to contacts
dot Google dot com from a desktop computer and you
should see all of your contacts right there. If you don't,
they may be stored. If she has a Samsung, did
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she say what kind of phone?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
She just said she is an Android.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Okay, she might have a Samsung, and in some cases
they are stored in kind of your Samsung account, so
you can also sign in there and see if they're
in there. But either way, I would say on like
a majority of the Android phones, they're generally stored in
some sort of cloud storage. You just need to figure
out which cloud storage they're in.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Cool and Apple.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
This week in used the elusive sixteen inch MacBook Pro.
This computer has been rumored and speculated for so long.
I'm glad they finally got it out there, and it's
the computer that I want.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I know you were going to get it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I was going to get it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I think I didn't remember I was going to get
a new computer a while back. Yeah, and I was
just going to settle for the fifteen.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Now you have a Christmas present from yourself.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
It's going to be tough because I just spent all
this money on the iPhone, so I don't think I'm
in a position right now to purchase this, but.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You never know, maybe, I mean, okay, ever know.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The spoiler alert is that it starts at twenty four
hundred dollars, and of course I want to get more
hard drive or more SSD whatever you call them at
this point, and that's going to make it even more
expensive because I want at least a terrorbyte.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
This can go up to eight terabytes of storage the
first time or sorry, I think it's six terribytes. Eight terabytes. Yeah,
eight terabytes of storage. Wow, that is unheard of for
a laptop.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I guess if you're making like movies.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, you need that.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You need it.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
And that's exactly who this is.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Apple says it's for developers, photographers, filmmakers, scientists, music producers,
and anyone who relies on a Mac to create their
life's best work.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
AKA. What I would say is this the creator's device.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
This is not the device if you're flying to Omaha
and watching Netflix, that's not what this is for.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
No, No, this is not for checking email iPad. This
is for creating content, and that's really who this is for. Now.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The main thing that they've changed on this is the keyboard.
Everyone complained about the keyboard, including myself. My MacBook keyboard
MacBook Pro is just terrible. It's there literally.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
When I'm doing my emails. It's so bad that I
make more mistakes typing than I do.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Love my MacBook Error keyboard oh so much better. When
I use it, I'm like, oh, this is your keyboard.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Is a little bit better because you have a newer
MacBook Pro. But mine is the one where they didn't
improve anything. It's like the first generation of this mechanism
and it was terrible. So now they say it's totally redesigned.
It's got more travel, which travel means how far the
keypresses down. Yeah, and old keyboard now had a ton
of travel that travel.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And it's got better speaker system, it's got touch bar,
touch ID and the track pad. It also has longer
battery life and you can really spec this thing out
with oh my gosh, eight terabytes of storage, sixty four
gigs of memory. I mean, you can really make this
thing awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It also says that the keyboard is quieter, which was
a huge deal because when I'm in meetings and stuff,
my keyboard is so loud it's almost borderline.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Like sound aggressive when you're typing early, I'm just typing.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Starts at twenty three ninety nine. You can spec it
all the way up to I think six thousand dollars. Wow,
you might want to get the Apple Care on that
one if you do that. Now, that's the good of
this computer. Here's the bad. It still has a boring,
terrible webcam seven to twenty people.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I mean, come on, yeah, can.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
You believe that?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
So the iPhone webcam or front facing camera is now
four K this thing has.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You're spending all this money, you get a terrible webcam.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
It doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
And it also has last year's WiFi, so it doesn't
have the new Wi Fi six. It still has the
old style Wi Fi, which.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know, it's like those aren't deal breakers, but it's
just like, come on, Apple.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, Okay. The next question is from Jason. I have
Microsoft one Drive and I had some storage that expired.
Is there a way to add storage without paying a
monthly subscription for it?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I mean this is I mean, I think it used
to be back in the day when you got all
these cloud services, like it was Dropbox and one drive,
they were giving you storage like it was yeah, not.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
All that, not forever.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Oh so they three years they would give.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You storage, and then I think they slowly but surely
pulled it back and it used to be one drive.
I believe when it first came out, you got a
terabyte of storage.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, I think that was the case.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm gonna go to mine and see what I have,
because I was an early sign up for this thing,
and I remember it was like one of these things
where you just got a ton of storage.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So I now have five gigs.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I'm pretty sure at one point in my life with
one Drive, I had a terabyte.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
But that's gone.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Same thing with Dropbox back in the day, used to
get I think it was a lot, and used to
be able to earn by referring friends, and of course
that's all been pulled back now, so now basically they
all wanted to get you in there because the more
stuff that you dump into these online drives.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah, then you're stuck.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You become attached to it, and then of course the
storage goes like okay, well your promotional one terabyte has
run out.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Now you got to pay us that.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's like forty dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, and so for Google Drive, I paid ten bucks
a month for a terabyte, which or maybe I've get
two terabytes at this point, I can't remember. But it's
it's enough where it's like, okay, it's kind of annoying,
but it's also what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, I mean a hard drive is really cheap compared
to that. Oh, I have a lot of pictures in
one drive.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
But a hard drive you can lose.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Hard drive you can lose. I mean, theoretically you could
lose cloud, but chances are.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's on them though, right, and then it's gone. Then
it's really gone. Do you back up to the cloud
and to a hard drive?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I actually right now know because I don't have my
NASS set up, so I need to do that. It's
I have a little bit of sprinkling that's a network
attached storage. It's basically a hard drive in my house.
That's a mini server. But ever since I moved my
office around, I disconnected it and it's all it's all
complicated because it's I just need to clean up everything,
like it's just got like fragments of stuff and like
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I need I need a text.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
And when you eventually get a new.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Computer, yeah, that's when I'm gonna do it, which I know,
it's really it's one of those things that like you
just put on the back burner every weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You do it for like your half birthday.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah much, I'm celebrating my half birthday.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, like you're you know, well i'd say Christmas, but no,
that's coming up soon.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So cool new feature in Google Maps that helps you
speak where you need to go to someone that is
in a foreign language. So let's say you're in Japan
and you want to go to a restaurant. Well, have
you ever seen the names of some of these restaurants
and some of the streets in Japan? How would you
say that to someone?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
And I've been on the corner where I say to
the person like, oh, this is where I want to go,
and I point and they look at me like I
don't know, Like you know, I don't know. They just
look at me like I'm crazy, right, I'm like, you
can't read what's on my street? Right here?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Help me out.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
So here's the new feature.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Google Maps is kind of merging, not merging, but they're
they're mixing in a little bit of Google Translate. So
now your phone will speak out a place's name and
address in the local language.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
All you have to do is tap the new speaker button,
which will show up next to the name of a
place or address, and Google Maps will say it out loud.
So I can go up to you. If you're in
Japan and you spoke or let's say.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
France and you spoke French, not English and not English,
and I would go up to you, even though I
speak English. I would hold my phone up and I
would press a little speaker button next to the restaurant
I want to go to in France and I'd be
like and it would be like Parley Voo franceis yeah, yeah,
is the restaurant and it's on the.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
You know, the Peach Street and Peach and you'd.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Be like, oh, yeah, that's right, and you'd speak to
me yeah, and I'd be like, wait, I don't understand
what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So, how does that? But you would basically point me
in the right druck?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
That's really funny.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So the speech to text technology automatically detects what language
your phone is using. So for instance, if you're in
if your phone is set to English, but you're in Tokyo,
it knows like, hey, let's read.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
This out in Japanese. Okay, because it's doing that.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
So anyway, it's rolling out this month on Android and
iOS in Google Maps, and it will have support for
fifty languages.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
So I think it's a cool little feature. I think
it's right.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
It is funny though. I went to a wedding once
in France and it was like French people and then
a bunch of American people. It was like split in
two and the American people. I mean, I was with
my aunt, so she was French, so I was good.
But all of these American people who were walking around
the wedding with their translator things, and all the French
people were saying to each other like in French, like
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oh the American like kind of making fun of it,
but you know, hey, like if it helps you like communicate,
do it if you don't know French, like it'll save you.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Or if you don't know French, you know nothing.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yeah, you know nothing. I don't know French, so I
shouldn't be talking. Okay. So this next question comes from Karen.
My triplet grandkids are gamers, and Grandpa thinks VR is
the next step for them. Will this be okay? And
if so, which one do you suggest for them? One
of our grandkids has autism. Are there any problems there
(34:33):
with VR? Have your She also said she has your books, uh,
which she's not gonna buy anything without checking your so
she wants your opinion obviously before they buy.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Did she say how old the grandkids are? No?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Okay, so ten year old? Okay, because that's that's what
I thought was interesting about this. Yeah, the VR thing, Like,
my kid begs me every day to do VR. He's
eight and from everything I've seen, and you should not
do VR unless you're thirteen and up.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So I don't recommend all these parents that email me
about VR. I always say, don't do it. So when
you're under a certain age, your brain is still forming,
things are still happening, and I just there's a reason
why these big companies don't recommend VR for kids under thirteen.
I'm not sure what that exact reason is, but I'm
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gonna kind of stand by that. And I don't know
if kids necessarily need to be in VR at that
young age. And you know, I know that kids want
to do it, and of course it is the cool
thing and it's very awesome, and you can go to
places like these VR setups in the mall and stuff,
and they will allow younger.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Kids to do it, and it's at the end of
the day, it's your choice, like Dreamscape, I believe, so
I think you can be ten and.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Up for that oh weird that you do have to do.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I think there's a certain age. I don't quote me
on that, but there are I believe there are certain
ages for these things.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And I'm not sure if there's.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Any physical proof or whatever or like research that they've
done that says like this is the but I think
it probably has to do something with the eyes.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
And the brain.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I don't know, I've never heard this.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
But that's generally my consensus is everything I've seen is thirteen,
So just wait till they're thirteen. And these kids have
enough screens in front of their face, so do they
really need one that's right like at the eye level,
like burning into their retina's like probably not so just well,
you know what I mean, screen's right.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
There, it's right there.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
It's good, it's kind of so that's that's my recommendation.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
And all these cheap little VR things that you see, yeah,
these VR things that you see at the mall that
you put your iPhone in stuff, there's no good iPhone.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
VR by the way, so just don't just don't bother.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
It's a waste when you sick your phone inside of.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
And even on Android they have that, and even on
Android they've gotten out of that because Apple are sorry,
Google and Samsung used to make a big deal out
of their VR headsets when they launched their phones. Last
two launches, they didn't say a word. So clearly it's
not right now. It's not a growth place. I think
I do believe in VR. I think it's amazing and
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I think it's going to change the fabric of our
world once again, like Facebook did and like Internet did.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
But it's just not there right now.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
It's not the time.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
But I think that companies like Oculus and stuff, they're
trying to make it better.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
What did I do. I did that hollow.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I mean it's still almost like made me sick to
my stomach for hours. Yeah, and so I just it's
getting there.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It's not there.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, And I do go out there and try it
because it's awesome, but it's like Dreamscape is the best
that I've seen.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
There's one called The Void, which I haven't tried.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
And there's another one they're trying to get me to
try it at the mall and I haven't tried that
one either. You know, you have to go with like
a bunch of people and like it takes like some
time to set it.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
You can go by yourself, but it's kind of more
fun to go with a little group. Yeah. All right.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Let me tell you about something that is really cool
because I talked about this on the Leo Laporte radio show,
but I just want to talk about it here too
because I am just obsessed with this. It's an app
called libby l ibb Y, and I thought this was
too good to be true. I saw an article in
nine to five Mac and the writer was talking about
how Apple Books needs integration with the US Public Library
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just like the Kindle has, and I'm like, wait, what
so I download this app called Libby, and I was like,
I don't have a library card, so I gotta go
sign up and I gotta get one. Maybe I'll just
use my kid's library card. Well, it turns out you
can just pop in your phone number and somehow it
signed me up for the LA Public Library. And it
seems like they have these deals with public libraries all
across the US, So wherever you're listening, you can try
(38:27):
this out. Download the app, you get a library card
through the app, and next thing you know, you can
search for books like you would have the library. But
the brilliant part is that not only can you read
these books on the app or listen to their audiobook
on the app, you can send the book to your Kindle.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Which do you have a Kindle? No? Well, have you
ever used one?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You gave me a one, but I gave it to
my dad. You never have used it, but I can
try to use.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
It on You should try linking it up.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I sho We're going to do a story on this
for Ktle because I was telling my wife last night.
I was telling her she came over to watch the kids. Yeah,
and she's an avid reader. And I was like, do
you know you can get like books for free from
the library. She's like I know, of course I know that.
I'm like no, no, for like free to your kindle.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I was telling my mom about it too, and I
was like.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Her reaction, she was like, wait, that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
You have to set it up on my phone and
I'm like, and.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I'm telling you, it's one click once you set up.
And by the way, this Libby app Usually when you
think of apps like this, you're like, they're clunky, they're terrible.
The way this app is set up, it's a really
cool app. You search in like good terms, it like
kind of talks to you almost in chat style anyway.
So the main downside of this is that you don't
get the book immediately, especially if it's a popular book.
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You have to wait, just like you would at the
public library for it to be in stock. So even
though it's digital, they don't just give out unlimited copies.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
So with the.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Public library, you have to keep going back.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
No, I think nowadays nowadays you just put yourself on
a wait list and they email you when it's ready.
So it's the same thing here, except you'll get an
alert on your phone. So I've put a bunch of
books on my wait list. So I guess the trick
here is that you just have to build your catalog
up of what you want to read, and as they
come available, get them, put them to your kindle. You
get them for twenty one days like a normal library loan,
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and then I'm assuming there's some way to renew for
a certain amount of time. Okay, So again, I just
bought a lot of books this month for you know,
twenty five dollars that both books are available on there.
One was available instantly and I could have saved twelve
ninety nine. The other one is a little bit longer.
It's called The Body, which, by the way, fantastic book.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Oh, I need to read it. If you I.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Actually available, it's probably.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
It's not available. It's it's probably one of the most
popular books right now. But I was reading my kids
and my wife all the highlights because it goes through
every body part and explains the like how it works
and what all this stuff and the history of it,
not the history of the part, but like how doctors
discovered how things work in the body, And so I
was reading all the highlights that I've made in this
book to my kids and my wife and we were
all just like loving it, so like there's it's just
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such a good book. So anyway, Libby, l Ibby, check
it out, especially if you have a kindle. Link them
up and you can thank me later when you're reading
your first book.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yeah, I'm literally trying to find a book that's available.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Okay, do we have time for one more quick question? Megan?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Okay, so this is from Zereda.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Oh no more time we right now? Kidding? All right,
quick question.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
So, basically, she's looking for a digital frame where she
can send pictures directly to the frame without using a
flash drive. I thought you mentioned one on your show,
but I cannot find this story. I have seen one
on my feed called Skylight. Not sure if it's the same,
Please let me know.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
On her feed.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
So she clearly was searching for things, and then all
of a sudden, Facebook is like we got someone. She's
looking at picture frames. So I don't know anything about Skylight.
I've never heard of it, but I and this one.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
I'm looking it up right now.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
It's one that it's a touchscreen photos frame that you
can update by email from anywhere and it looks fine,
but I think that the one you want is from
the company I last tried. It's called nicks Play, and
it used to be there are so many of these frames,
but now it's kind of like they're a dying breed.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
The thing I like the best.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
If you this, this is a specific ask for something
that is USB right. She wants a flash drive, but
the one that I recommend is just get a Google Home.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
No, she said, without using a flash drive. She wants
to send pictures directly to the frame, without using a
flash drive, so from like a phone.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Oh my gosh, oh gosh, I totally misread this. I
thought she wanted a flash drive so she can pop
it in the back of the frame and bypass the cloud.
So if she just wants a frame, the best one
out there is from Google. It's called the Google Home.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Now now it's called the Google Nest Google Nest Hub.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
So that's what I have.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I actually don't show pictures on it.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Wait do you yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:48):
I got it from cs Oh.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
You don't show your pictures on it?
Speaker 3 (42:52):
No, it's also this small like the streams. Okay, I'm
gonna oh my god, you have to set up your
pictures on it.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
It's the best.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
My sister just got one and she loves it. And
she actually got the Max, which means we can video chats.
I actually meant to do that last night with her anyway.
So get the Google nest Hub. The best part about
it it's one twenty nine. It's going to be cheaper
over Black Friday, So just wait until Black Friday to
purchase this. It'll be on sale everywhere. It's one hundred
and twenty nine dollars. I expected to be ninety nine
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bucks for the holidays. Wow, ninety nine dollars. You download
the Google Photos app on your phone and the best
part is that you can select the photos you want,
or you can have Google Photos curate the best pictures
that you take and put them on the frame automatically.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
It's so great. It's my favorite feature.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
When it was my kid's birthday and we had a
birthday party, I just made a automatic album of Tanner.
So every picture that showed up on all the screens
throughout my house were all of my kid through the
ages and so, and it was super simple to set
up and Google picks the best.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
They try to pick the best pictures that people are
smiling in they're well lit.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Not always perfect, but yeah, you can easily try and
it's great.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
I'm trying to find the name of the Body book the.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Body it's called. I think it's called the Body.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Let me say, okay, I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Let's see kindle. I'll go to my kindle and see
what it's called. I think it's just called Body by
the Body by Body Bill Bryson, cover by Bill Bryson.
And it's a best selling author of the short history
of nearly everything.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
It's so great.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
The Body a guide for occupants if you're into like
you have to be a little bit into science and
like kind of like doctor stuff.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Like it's just fascinating to hear nine weeks nine weeks
to get it.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Yeah, but also can I put in different libraries? Are
you not supposed to do that? Well?
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I think it's all LAPD or LA Public Library. Oh,
since it's digital, it's not like your local branch. Got
it all right, that's going to do it for the
show today. Thanks so much for listening. My book is
called one hundred and one iPhone Tips and Tricks. It's
available in paperback and on the kindle through Amazon. I
just got a whole bunch of these yesterday delivered to
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my house, the latest version. Because I did revise a
few things. I told you about this, so I surprised me.
They came a week early. So I've got a whole
bunch of these. We're gonna do a segment on KTLA
featuring some of the best features in the new book.
I'm gonna be promoting it in a couple different places.
But it's great. It's ready for the holiday, super easy
gift again. It's called one hundred and one iPhone Tips
and Tricks. You can actually read it for free using
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Kindle Unlimited, so if you sign up for a free
trial of that, you can read my book one hundred
percent for free. So if you're thinking about giving it
for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
Read it yourself for free.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Preview every single page, read the whole thing, and then
be like, oh, this is good enough to give to
my family. And give it to someone that you love
that uses an iPhone, and believe me, they'll thank you
for it. You can subscribe to our show if you
are listening for the first time. Just all you have
to do is press subscribe in your favorite audio app,
and if you love the show, Please rate and review it.
That really goes a long way. Producer Megan, where can
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people find you?
Speaker 3 (45:57):
I'm on Twitter at producer.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Again and she's always tweeting a bunch of good stuff,
always always tweeting. You can find me at richon tech
dot tv. I'm on Instagram at rich on tech and
that's gonna do it for today show. Thanks so much
for listening, Have a fantastic day.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
We'll talk to you real soon
Motorola brings back the Razor, Android finally gets its I message.
Disney Plus is here and your tech questions answered. What's
going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech,
the podcast where I talk about the stuff that I
think you should know about happening in the tech world.
Plus it's the place where I answer the questions that
(00:25):
you send me, and believe me, you send them to me.
Thanks and welcome to the show, especially if you're listening
for the first time. Maybe it found me through Leo
Laporte's show. Let me bring on Megan producer.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Megan, what's up, my.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Trustee sidekick here for loaded with questions.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Today, right, Yeah, We've got a lot of good questions,
lots of good questions I've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
They come in fast and furious, that's for sure. And
it's almost a full time job to just answer all
these questions, but I do. And you know, if you
write me, most of the time you will get a response,
as long as you're not crazy, and maybe if you're
crazy you might get one sometimes. So you know, I
was out late last night, yeah, because Megan had to
do a little extra time this morning to make sure
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our segment was ready for the air at five am,
but I didn't stay out too late, probably like ten o'clock,
but still you still have to wake up at like yeah,
like three.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So but I was at the for a good reason.
I went to the Motorola launch party for the Razor.
And so the way it worked is we had Motorola
in the studio in the morning and then at night.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You know, like twelve hours later basically.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I mean they came in at eight am, no, nine am, yeah,
and the party started at seven pm, so you're talking
almost eleven hours later.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I went, you know, to the party, and the party
was held in downtown Los Angeles at like you know
this new like arts district where a lot of stuff
is seemingly to start there. Now it's like growing.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, and it is really cool.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The place was, I forget, it's called like the Container Yard,
and it was you walk so when you got into
this party, you walk in through this design that this
art designer had made. It was like an installation and
it was all these refrigerators filled with ice, but like
sculptures of like old Moto Razor phones and like just
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general Motorola stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It was really odd.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It was almost like a haunted house kind of walking through.
So you get through there scared. It was a little apprehensive.
We have to wait outline for like outside in line
for like half an hour, and everyone's like, why do
they have to wait this part?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's not like an open party.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, and that was the reason why, because they only
let like ten or fifteen people in this little area
at once to like look at these art exhibits.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
They didn't want it to melt.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, well it was in refrigerators. And then you go
outside and the party was actually outside in the middle
of this thing. Diplo was there playing tunes.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Diplow was there.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, I listened to his songs. I don't really know Diplo.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I know Diplo does a lot of no Diplo.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But he does a lot of like you know, collaborations. Yeah,
he's not like his own like you know justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I knew that song. He does a lot of collaps, he.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Does clap, but he's also a DJA. He has his
own It.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Was great DJ, great DJ.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
But the way they launched this phone is kind of
ironic because it was all of a sudden Diplo came
on and they introduced him or whatever, and then there's
like this whole thing, this garage that opened up to
all these smoke and mirrors, and that's what they showed
the phones on, which is kind of ironic for a phone.
You don't usually want to associate smoke and mirrors with
your product. But it worked and it was very impressive.
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I will say that the early reaction to this product
and we went hands on with it, now a lot
of people have seen it, is that it's very cool.
They did a great job with the foldable design on
the screen, unlike some other phones we've seen out there
that just kind of were almost a proof of concept.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
But let me go through some.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Of the specs here, so it's a you know, they
kept kind of the phone the same way as you
remember back when you had it in like two thousand
and five or whatever. But now when you open it up,
the entire thing is a screen that is a foldable screen.
So it's a six point two inch foldable plastic o
lead panel. It is running Android nine, which I was
a little disappointed at because you would want Android ten.
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I think Android just needs to do away with the
versions and just focus on like if it has the
current software updates, because realistically, the difference between nine and
ten for most people is not a big deal, but
it's still just it's a way for tech reporters to
just be like, oh, this phone is already outdated.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Exactly, They're already a year behind.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Right, But the way that Android works versus iPhone is
just not the same.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
So let's just.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Drop the version numbers for Android and just focus on
does this phone get current software updates?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Because most of what you can.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Accomplish on an Android versus iPhone is done through app updates,
not the main software update.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That makes sense?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Like you can add like.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Any feature you want basically to an Android phone by
just downloading an app, and it'll change kind of how
that phone works now certain core features. Maybe you need
the new operating system anyway. So the design is really cool.
It's got a fingerprint sensor, which is nice. It's got
USBC on the bottom. Again, the screen inside is really cool.
There's also a screen on the outside which is two
point seven inches, And they said that they made sure
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they worked on this screen a lot so that it's
not going to fail.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And nothing can get behind it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Like little specks of dust that will take down the
entire phone. I will say that the open and closed
mechanism is definitely not as simple as the original.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So my wife went me to the party last night.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And by the way, she does a great job with
like holding things in her hand, like she was a
little hand model.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
She was like, oh, shoot a quick video of me.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
She wanted to take a video.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
For her dad.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
No, for her dad, she wanted to send him a video.
And so I watched her do this and like she
actually did a great job of like showing off the
phone whatever. She maybe featured in a future segment. Yeah,
so she but she did notice when she picked up
she said, wow, this is actually very impressive. But she
did notice that it is a little bit tougher to
open and close with one hand than the original.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's heavier and it's just different.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's a great point, good observation. Yeah, I didn't actually
get told it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
See.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh and I told her this too. I said, I
actually mentioned you and Luis. I said, it's funny because
she didn't touch it either. And I was like, Lynn,
get in there, like go touch the phone, like pick
it up, feel it. And I said, so many times
you go to these tech events where I have my
producer and my photographer. We're so busy collecting everything and
getting it.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
We need to touch it. You actually don't touch the product. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
My sister asked me about the iPhone when we went
to the event. She was like, did you hold it?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And I was like, no, So always remember, like just
get in there, like just just you know, grab it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I feel like I'm working. I can't which give me,
give me twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
But it happens to me too, like sometimes I will forget.
I will go through my motions of what I want
to do for air and I'll forget to like actually
just kind of play for a little bit and just
see how this thing works.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
So it's one of those things you just have to remember.
And she was like, oh my gosh, you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So did she like it?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
She loved it. She thought it was really great.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
She said it's gonna be tough to compete with the iPhone,
right obviously, but she was very impressed. And I think
that's the I haven't read any of the reviews, the
early reviews, but it seems like people are impressed with
what Motorol has done, and I think that's a good thing.
That's cool. It's not a phone for specs. This thing
has an older processor. It's not as fast as the
flagship's Snapdragon. It also doesn't have the best camera. It's
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it's just an average camera.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
What else.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's exclusive to Verizon. It's going to be fifteen hundred dollars,
so it's super expensive. The one question she asked, which
I thought was pretty good, was is it going to
come in colors? And right now the party line is that.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's just black. Whatever color we saw yesterday that black guy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I have a feeling that coming.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But I think they elluded last night that there's going
to be some fun colors and I think that would
make a lot of sense. Again, and you can close
the phone to end a call, which is really neat.
So is this a major win for Motorola. Probably too
early to tell, but I do think that they did
a nice job with this. They did their homework. Is
it the phone for everyone? Probably not. Is it going
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to make people switch from iPhone? Probably not? But is
it something that when people walk into Verizon and if
they do some sort of special on it, maybe get
the price down or I also see it as kind
of like rich executives that want like a phone that
fits in there their soup pocket. Like it's a little
bit more comfortable. It's heavy, but it's it's a nice feel,
and so I think it's gonna appeal to those types
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of people and anyone who wants to make like a statement,
like someone who doesn't need the craziest, flashiest phone or
even an iPhone, This is going to appeal to.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's why I already ordered it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I know you love your iPhone, so I know you're
not going to get it. Okay, that's the story with
the Motorola Razor.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Okay, let's start the first question of the day from Alexander.
He asks, I was wondering what are your thoughts? Oh sorry,
I watched your review on AirPods Pro when they were released,
and I was wondering, what are your thoughts on them
now that you've had you've owned them for a few weeks,
are you still using them or is there something you
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prefer better for Jim slash travel.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Great question, and I like to follow up what's his
name again?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Alexander?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Alexander, So, here is the thing about the AirPods. They
are great, but you have to be comfortable with two things.
And my original review kind of stands. And I've been
using them for a while, like I've taken them on
four flights now, I have taken them to the gym
several times. They actually have fallen out of my ears
at the gym. The original air pods have never fallen
out of my ears once.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Actually that's not true.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
They did once on a treadmill and it almost went
into the groove and I had to pull it out. Yeah,
it actually did go into the groove. These fell out
of my ears a couple times, especially when you get sweaty,
they definitely start to want to fall out, and when
you're kind of bending over doing a stretch something like that,
like on the treadmill. Not really an issue, but I
do notice myself pushing them into my ears more so.
My overall recommendation is go with the regular AirPods unless
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you need the noise canceling and you want to consolidate
your packing. When I pack for a flight, I take
a big pair of noise canceling headphones and my AirPods.
I like the idea of the AirPods pro because it's
just one thing, but I will say there's a lot
of pressure in your ears no matter what when you
have these things in noise canceling mode. That's just the reality.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Apple says they did all this work on them and
try to to make that not happen, and I feel
like it is less.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But it's still there, Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So it's one of these things that it's And this
is the tough part about earbuds is that how do
you really try these things on? I mean, the best
you can do is buy them and like return them
if they don't work for you. Yeah, I mean they
don't let you try them on at the store, Like
I don't even think Apple lets you do that. So
you can't see how these things are until you take
them home. You put them in and you use them
for a week or two, and you got to see
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what the return pulse he is. Yeah, and it's not
bad if your return them, because they're just gonna replace
the little tip on them.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
They should make like dummies that you can put on
in the store. They're just like lasting.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They should still like see the field with the little
tips that pop off, so you.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Just you don't know, pay two fifty. Yeah, yeah, I
am curious about the return.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Post expensive thing.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'm sure you can return them, and you know, I
mean you can return like a computer to Apple store.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So they might charge your restocking fee.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't know, and they might be like hesitant when
you try to return them. You know, they're like, oh, okay,
you know how to deal with that.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
They like give you a little wink, They're like, did
you just try this on?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah? Okay, did you yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But hey, you know, I mean it's at the end
of the day. I don't think Apple is hurting for cash.
So I think you'll be okay if you if you
truly get them and you don't like them. I mean,
it's they're two hundred and fifty dollars, so return them
if you don't like them, go with the regular AirPods.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So we talk about I message all the time, and
I message is one of the primary reasons why people
love the iPhone. It's not the only reason, but it's
definitely one of those contributing factors. And it's funny because
our car wash guy here, Manny, you know, I get
my car washed all the time, and he texted me
this morning, hey, do you need to wash? And I
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noticed it showed up blue. Yeah, and so I was like, Manny,
I'm like, did you get the phone? Did you get
an iPhone? He's like oh, And he explained to me
that he used to have an iPhone, but then his
daughter would use his tablet the iPad, and all of
his I messages would come through. So he turned off
I Message and he actually got her a tablet, her
own tablet, and so now.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He's back to the I message.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So but it's just one of those conversations that you
would never normally have except in iPhone world, you know. Well, anyway,
I mentioned this because Google is saying, you know what, carriers,
we are sick and tired of waiting for you to
make a solution that is equivalent to I Message for Android,
and we're just going to do it ourselves. So now
Google is turning on what's called rcs on their Messages
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app on Android, which means all Android users are now
getting their version of I Message as of today.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Wow, which is huge for the Android world. So what
does this mean.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
This means that you can now send and receive text
over Wi Fi or mobile data, which is huge. You
can send and receive high resolution photos and videos, so
no longer. When you send a video from one Android
to another, is it going to come up totally pixelated
and weird and tiny and crazy and useless. And people
can now see when you've read your messages and when
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you've received your message again, all like I Message huge,
better group chats. You can name your groups, you can
add to remove people from groups, and see if people
have seen the latest messages. So this is all rolling
out starting today in the United States. If you have
the Messages app on your Android, which is sometimes pre installed,
but if you don't, if you have a Samsung I
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don't think it's pre installed. So you go into the
Google Play and download Android Messages and yes, this is
a ploy to get you to use Google's messaging app,
but it's basically their standard SMS app. But now you
have RCS and if you want, you can go into
your settings on this app and it says enable chat.
They call it chat And it's not working on my
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phone just yet, but this is a rollout, so it's
gonna be by the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Everyone's gonna have it. They can't do everything overnight.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I wish they chose like a fun name Chat.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
RCS is well it's because that's a standard. So this
is a standard that all the carriers are supposedly adhering
to worldwide. Okay, so it's not like I Message, you know,
they can't call it something fun like Google Message.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So the other thing to know.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
About this is now it actually makes the divide between
iPhone and Android even bigger. Yep, because Android to Android
will be fine, iPhone to iPhone will be fine. Android
to iPhone is still going to be a mess because
guess what, the iPhone does not support RCS, nor will
it anytime soon ever in the history of mankind.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I don't think they ever will. So it's now full
on war.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's a full on But anyway, if you're on Android
and you have Android friends, you can finally, like let's
say you're a couple and you have Android Android, finally
you get to experience life kind of the way iPhone
gets to your experience, and which is huge.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It just always makes me think of BBM and I
never had a BlackBerry, and I remember all my friends
could BEBM each other and I was like, I'm not
part of that party.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
BBM was I message before I message came along? Totally
all right, Megan, what do you got okay?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
So this next question is from Lisa, and she's very
unhappy with her Galaxy Note ten. She said she always
has problems with screen pressure when she's typing. She's had
to replace it twice under insurance, so she's done. She says,
I mostly used for word processing, accessing drive, no gaming,
(15:15):
some videos, very little actual phone calls. I don't like
Apple phone. So what would be the best replacement for
my Note eight? In your opinion? How about the Pixel
four or is there a phone I'm not familiar with.
I'm with rizin Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I would recommend the Pixel four XL or she didn't
mention pictures in there at all?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Huh uh huh. So if she's not mentioning.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Photos, because Pixel four XL is great for a couple
of reasons. It's got fantastic software, it's a great overall phone.
It has okay battery life, it's not the best, but
it'll be fine, and it's got a lot of nice
little features, and it's kind of pure Google. So it's
just overall a very nice device. If you want some
think a little bit less expensive, I would check out
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the one plus seventy.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
But I do.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Believe that phone is exclusive to T Mobile in the stores,
but I think if you buy it online it can
be on mock. She said she's on Verison Eisen. Yeah,
so I think you have to go online to buy
that phone. And the advantage of the sevent is you're
still gonna get great software, You're gonna get a battery
that lasts very long, and the camera is just not
going to be as good as the Pixel. So if
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but she's gonna save a lot of money. That phone
I think is five ninety nine versus the Pixel, which
I think is like seven ninety nine, but the Pixel
is gonna be discounted over Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
What about the Pixel three?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I would not recommend the Pixel three.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Okay, no, because it's too old at this point, Like
pixels don't really have a long I mean they do,
but they at this point, Like it's what phone does
she have? She is a Galaxy Note ten, which is
weird because it seems like she is giving up on
that and she that's a brand new phone, so it must.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Be it's confusing. She goes, I'm happy with my Galaxy
Note ten, and then she all so calls it her
Note eight later on, So.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Maybe it's Okay, So I think it's a No. Eight.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Okay, So I think those are the two phones that
I would recommend for her. I think that she'll be
happy with either one of them. I prefer the Pixel
just for the pictures. But again, she didn't mention pictures
like some people when they email me, they say pictures
are most important. Yeah, she didn't say that, So that
means she's morched in games and all the other little
things you can do.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
On your phone.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Pictures are not necessarily, like, you know, if pictures are
your number one priority, like if I was saying, I
want what I want out of a phone. I want
the best pictures, the best video, and the best apps
and the best video of content creation possibilities. So I
think those two phones will be great, So look into
those for sure. You know, Megan, this week was a
big week.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You are a Disney fan. Yeah, and there are a
lot of them out there.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
There are so many.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Disney Plus you're a fan launched this week. No, I've
never been a Disney like fanatic.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Okay, no, never.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I do appreciate what Disney does. Yeah, I've been to
the parks, I have seen the movies. Yeah, but I'm
not what you would call a I don't have one
of those like ap things in the back of my car.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh you know, I'm talking.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
About annual pass. Yeah. Yeah, I did not want to
put that on my car when.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I have But do you have one? You have one?
I do feel like.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
From like three years ago, but then they changed the
past to be like so much more expensive, so I stopped.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Okay, do they give you that when you Yeah, they do,
so that's why people have it, Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So anyway, Disney Plus launched this week in the US, Canada,
the Netherlands, and it has about five hundred movies, seventy
five hundred episodes of TV shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel,
Star Wars, National Geographic, and more. It's got some new stuff,
but mostly the old catalog, and they're gonna they're gonna
slowly but surely bring in a lot more new stuff.
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You can watch all of the Simpsons. There is For
the first time, Star Wars first seven Star Wars movies
are available in four K Ultra HD for the first
time that they're all available in this format.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
That's kind of cool. Who framed Roger Rabbit? Toy?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Story one, two and three are also available in four KHD,
so it works on pretty much every device. But I've
been getting a lot of emails about this because there
are some exceptions.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
The notable one is Visio.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
There is no Visio, there's no Disney Plus app for
Visio TVs. And also people said, oh, well, no big deal,
I'll just chrome cast it to my TV because Visio
TVs have chrome casts built in. It didn't work, and
the reason why is because the version of chrome cast
that video is using is not high enough to authenticate
for what Disney wants. Oh so that's kind of a bummer.
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So there is a workaround. You can use airplay, but
you have to have an iPhone or an iPad to
do that. So if you had an Android Plus video
and you wanted a chrome cast to your TV, wouldn't work.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
About a fire TV stick, Well.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Okay, so but that's different. That's not built into your TV.
When people buy a smart TV, they get used to
kind of using the apps on screen. And this is
why I never recommend using the smart of your smart
TV now unless you're on a major platform like Roku,
right tcls and you're safe most of the time. Sometimes
there are some distinctions but most of the time you're okay.
But this is why generally I recommend a third party
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device like an Apple TV or a Fire TV stick
because or a Roku player, because that way you always
get the latest and greatest no matter what happens. So
sometimes these TVs are not as updated as the separate
streaming devices. So anyway, the other thing to know about
Disney Plus is you can get it for free if
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you have a Verizon Unlimited plan. A lot of people
have been emailing me about that.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
It's pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You just go into the Verizon app, you look under
your entertainment under add ons, and you add it. And
the trick there, it's not like Verizon's just being kind
to you and giving this. They are, but the trick
is that once you're set up there, next year when
it renews, it will be on your Verizon bill and
so that's kind of like and Verizon gets recurring subscription.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
They get a cut of that.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So the more people that they can get on their
plan that also say, oh, I'm not going to cancel
Verizon because look at they give me. I get free
Apple Music, I get free Disney so I'm not going
to cancel. But after the next year when that starts
to kick in that six ninety nine, Verizon gets a
tiny portion.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
And then Apple Music is that.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
That's unlimited forever forever. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Wow, Verizon really has a bunch.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Of Like well, AT and T does something similar, so
does TEA Mobile. Team Mobile gives you Netflix. At and
T has Spotify for free. Depends on your plan. It
all depends on your plan. Yeah, it's obviously on the
higher end plans as well. But anyway, my kids have
been is Disney plus for you. My kids have been
watching They watched Aladdin the first two nights. I feel
like for six ninety nine a month, it really pays
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for itself. You rent one movie a month on Apple
TV and that's five ninety nine. So yeah, six ninety nine,
you're getting the whole back catalog as long as there's
enough to keep you interested.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And I think Disney will.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I'm worried because they put that whole catalog out there,
like at the beginning. Oh so it's kind of like
you get you get kind of like spoiled totally.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But I'm excited. I feel like your kids now can
watch like the really classic TV shows of like the
two thousands that aren't on Disney Channel anymore, like stuff
like that's a raven, like that was what I grew
up with, and now like if you don't really I
sometimes I've seen Disney Channel now and I'm like, the
shows are just now very advanced. Yeah, so it's cool that,
(22:21):
you know. I mean, I don't, I don't even know.
I mean, it's just it's just different. It's just different.
But it's it's cool. There's a lot out there, and yeah,
I mean you can kind of get spoiled.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
With it, but I think for families it's gonna be
for six ninety nine a month.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It's it's such a no brainer.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I think for adults who are into Star Wars that
signed up for Mandalorian and then when that's over, they
may find that they're kind of over it because you know,
there's only so much there for adults.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But I'm assuming they're going to keep cranking out new series,
but it's not really like centered towards you know, an
adult crowd.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Well, I think they're trying to do that with the
Mandalorian and the Star Wars and the Marvel.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Stuff and the National Geography.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, which yawner.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
For me, it's my favorite Channel next.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I'm sure people love that stuff, so I, you know, yeah,
but yeah, we'll see and people some people might wonder
if you have cable and you've got Disney Now, which
is their companion app for a cable subscription, you can
sign in and using your you know, streaming or cable
log in. I did look, and it seems like a
lot of the shows like Vamporina and Puppy Dog Pals
and all these little shows that are currently on TV,
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seems like the new episodes are going to the Disney
Now app and then kind of like last season and
before are going to Disney Plus.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Got it? So it depends how much you Wantflix exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Will your kids notice? Who knows? So?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But the reality is how many of these subscriptions can
you sustain? I know that I'm going to cancel my
EIGHTE and T TV now, which is now going up
to sixty dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It started out as thirty five when I first subscribe.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Now it's up to sixty and you know, I just
don't use it, and so that's going away.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So what will you have?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Then? You'll all have Netflix?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Okay, Time Now, which is or prime video from Amazon
Netflix I'll have Disney Plus. And I am still subscriber
to YouTube Premium, which is twelve ninety nine a month, huh,
which also gives me YouTube music, but I may drop
that as well. I just hate seeing ads on YouTube,
so I don't know if that's worth twelve ninety nine
a month though or not, because I don't watch that
much YouTube.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I just always when I get those ads, I always click,
like the like if it's like an age ad, I
just always click it and then it's done. Oh you
do yeah, Like I just want to.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, but I feel like they're collecting so much data
on you. You know what, I make it up? Oh,
if you make it up, yeah, then.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
That's yeah, between sixteen and seventy five, like whatever, Okay, okay.
This next question comes from Gina. How do you upload
Android contacts to a computer for editing?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It's funny how many people ask about contacts. And my
recommendation is always to keep your contacts in the cloud,
whether that's iCloud or you know, Google Cloud. But I've
gotten a lot of people when they switch phones, they
realize their contacts are stored on the phone itself, and
the main thing you want to do is go into
your contacts on any platform, whether it's Android or iOS,
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and make sure that your contacts are being saved, either
iCloud or Google. That's what I recommend. And to find
your contacts that she uploaded on an Android phone, generally
those go right into Google. So just go to contacts
dot Google dot com from a desktop computer and you
should see all of your contacts right there. If you don't,
they may be stored. If she has a Samsung, did
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she say what kind of phone?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
She just said she is an Android.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Okay, she might have a Samsung, and in some cases
they are stored in kind of your Samsung account, so
you can also sign in there and see if they're
in there. But either way, I would say on like
a majority of the Android phones, they're generally stored in
some sort of cloud storage. You just need to figure
out which cloud storage they're in.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Cool and Apple.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
This week in used the elusive sixteen inch MacBook Pro.
This computer has been rumored and speculated for so long.
I'm glad they finally got it out there, and it's
the computer that I want.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I know you were going to get it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I was going to get it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I think I didn't remember I was going to get
a new computer a while back. Yeah, and I was
just going to settle for the fifteen.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Now you have a Christmas present from yourself.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
It's going to be tough because I just spent all
this money on the iPhone, so I don't think I'm
in a position right now to purchase this, but.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You never know, maybe, I mean, okay, ever know.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The spoiler alert is that it starts at twenty four
hundred dollars, and of course I want to get more
hard drive or more SSD whatever you call them at
this point, and that's going to make it even more
expensive because I want at least a terrorbyte.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
This can go up to eight terabytes of storage the
first time or sorry, I think it's six terribytes. Eight terabytes. Yeah,
eight terabytes of storage. Wow, that is unheard of for
a laptop.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I guess if you're making like movies.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, you need that.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You need it.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
And that's exactly who this is.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Apple says it's for developers, photographers, filmmakers, scientists, music producers,
and anyone who relies on a Mac to create their
life's best work.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
AKA. What I would say is this the creator's device.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
This is not the device if you're flying to Omaha
and watching Netflix, that's not what this is for.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
No, No, this is not for checking email iPad. This
is for creating content, and that's really who this is for. Now.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The main thing that they've changed on this is the keyboard.
Everyone complained about the keyboard, including myself. My MacBook keyboard
MacBook Pro is just terrible. It's there literally.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
When I'm doing my emails. It's so bad that I
make more mistakes typing than I do.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Love my MacBook Error keyboard oh so much better. When
I use it, I'm like, oh, this is your keyboard.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Is a little bit better because you have a newer
MacBook Pro. But mine is the one where they didn't
improve anything. It's like the first generation of this mechanism
and it was terrible. So now they say it's totally redesigned.
It's got more travel, which travel means how far the
keypresses down. Yeah, and old keyboard now had a ton
of travel that travel.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And it's got better speaker system, it's got touch bar,
touch ID and the track pad. It also has longer
battery life and you can really spec this thing out
with oh my gosh, eight terabytes of storage, sixty four
gigs of memory. I mean, you can really make this
thing awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It also says that the keyboard is quieter, which was
a huge deal because when I'm in meetings and stuff,
my keyboard is so loud it's almost borderline.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Like sound aggressive when you're typing early, I'm just typing.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Starts at twenty three ninety nine. You can spec it
all the way up to I think six thousand dollars. Wow,
you might want to get the Apple Care on that
one if you do that. Now, that's the good of
this computer. Here's the bad. It still has a boring,
terrible webcam seven to twenty people.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I mean, come on, yeah, can.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
You believe that?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
So the iPhone webcam or front facing camera is now
four K this thing has.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You're spending all this money, you get a terrible webcam.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
It doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
And it also has last year's WiFi, so it doesn't
have the new Wi Fi six. It still has the
old style Wi Fi, which.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know, it's like those aren't deal breakers, but it's
just like, come on, Apple.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, Okay. The next question is from Jason. I have
Microsoft one Drive and I had some storage that expired.
Is there a way to add storage without paying a
monthly subscription for it?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I mean this is I mean, I think it used
to be back in the day when you got all
these cloud services, like it was Dropbox and one drive,
they were giving you storage like it was yeah, not.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
All that, not forever.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Oh so they three years they would give.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You storage, and then I think they slowly but surely
pulled it back and it used to be one drive.
I believe when it first came out, you got a
terabyte of storage.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, I think that was the case.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm gonna go to mine and see what I have,
because I was an early sign up for this thing,
and I remember it was like one of these things
where you just got a ton of storage.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So I now have five gigs.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I'm pretty sure at one point in my life with
one Drive, I had a terabyte.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
But that's gone.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Same thing with Dropbox back in the day, used to
get I think it was a lot, and used to
be able to earn by referring friends, and of course
that's all been pulled back now, so now basically they
all wanted to get you in there because the more
stuff that you dump into these online drives.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah, then you're stuck.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You become attached to it, and then of course the
storage goes like okay, well your promotional one terabyte has
run out.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Now you got to pay us that.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's like forty dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, and so for Google Drive, I paid ten bucks
a month for a terabyte, which or maybe I've get
two terabytes at this point, I can't remember. But it's
it's enough where it's like, okay, it's kind of annoying,
but it's also what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, I mean a hard drive is really cheap compared
to that. Oh, I have a lot of pictures in
one drive.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
But a hard drive you can lose.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Hard drive you can lose. I mean, theoretically you could
lose cloud, but chances are.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's on them though, right, and then it's gone. Then
it's really gone. Do you back up to the cloud
and to a hard drive?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I actually right now know because I don't have my
NASS set up, so I need to do that. It's
I have a little bit of sprinkling that's a network
attached storage. It's basically a hard drive in my house.
That's a mini server. But ever since I moved my
office around, I disconnected it and it's all it's all
complicated because it's I just need to clean up everything,
like it's just got like fragments of stuff and like
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I need I need a text.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
And when you eventually get a new.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Computer, yeah, that's when I'm gonna do it, which I know,
it's really it's one of those things that like you
just put on the back burner every weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You do it for like your half birthday.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah much, I'm celebrating my half birthday.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, like you're you know, well i'd say Christmas, but no,
that's coming up soon.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So cool new feature in Google Maps that helps you
speak where you need to go to someone that is
in a foreign language. So let's say you're in Japan
and you want to go to a restaurant. Well, have
you ever seen the names of some of these restaurants
and some of the streets in Japan? How would you
say that to someone?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
And I've been on the corner where I say to
the person like, oh, this is where I want to go,
and I point and they look at me like I
don't know, Like you know, I don't know. They just
look at me like I'm crazy, right, I'm like, you
can't read what's on my street? Right here?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Help me out.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
So here's the new feature.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Google Maps is kind of merging, not merging, but they're
they're mixing in a little bit of Google Translate. So
now your phone will speak out a place's name and
address in the local language.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
All you have to do is tap the new speaker button,
which will show up next to the name of a
place or address, and Google Maps will say it out loud.
So I can go up to you. If you're in
Japan and you spoke or let's say.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
France and you spoke French, not English and not English,
and I would go up to you, even though I
speak English. I would hold my phone up and I
would press a little speaker button next to the restaurant
I want to go to in France and I'd be
like and it would be like Parley Voo franceis yeah, yeah,
is the restaurant and it's on the.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
You know, the Peach Street and Peach and you'd.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Be like, oh, yeah, that's right, and you'd speak to
me yeah, and I'd be like, wait, I don't understand
what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So, how does that? But you would basically point me
in the right druck?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
That's really funny.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So the speech to text technology automatically detects what language
your phone is using. So for instance, if you're in
if your phone is set to English, but you're in Tokyo,
it knows like, hey, let's read.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
This out in Japanese. Okay, because it's doing that.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
So anyway, it's rolling out this month on Android and
iOS in Google Maps, and it will have support for
fifty languages.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
So I think it's a cool little feature. I think
it's right.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
It is funny though. I went to a wedding once
in France and it was like French people and then
a bunch of American people. It was like split in
two and the American people. I mean, I was with
my aunt, so she was French, so I was good.
But all of these American people who were walking around
the wedding with their translator things, and all the French
people were saying to each other like in French, like
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oh the American like kind of making fun of it,
but you know, hey, like if it helps you like communicate,
do it if you don't know French, like it'll save you.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Or if you don't know French, you know nothing.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yeah, you know nothing. I don't know French, so I
shouldn't be talking. Okay. So this next question comes from Karen.
My triplet grandkids are gamers, and Grandpa thinks VR is
the next step for them. Will this be okay? And
if so, which one do you suggest for them? One
of our grandkids has autism. Are there any problems there
(34:33):
with VR? Have your She also said she has your books, uh,
which she's not gonna buy anything without checking your so
she wants your opinion obviously before they buy.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Did she say how old the grandkids are? No?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Okay, so ten year old? Okay, because that's that's what
I thought was interesting about this. Yeah, the VR thing, Like,
my kid begs me every day to do VR. He's
eight and from everything I've seen, and you should not
do VR unless you're thirteen and up.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So I don't recommend all these parents that email me
about VR. I always say, don't do it. So when
you're under a certain age, your brain is still forming,
things are still happening, and I just there's a reason
why these big companies don't recommend VR for kids under thirteen.
I'm not sure what that exact reason is, but I'm
(35:24):
gonna kind of stand by that. And I don't know
if kids necessarily need to be in VR at that
young age. And you know, I know that kids want
to do it, and of course it is the cool
thing and it's very awesome, and you can go to
places like these VR setups in the mall and stuff,
and they will allow younger.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Kids to do it, and it's at the end of
the day, it's your choice, like Dreamscape, I believe, so
I think you can be ten and.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Up for that oh weird that you do have to do.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I think there's a certain age. I don't quote me
on that, but there are I believe there are certain
ages for these things.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And I'm not sure if there's.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Any physical proof or whatever or like research that they've
done that says like this is the but I think
it probably has to do something with the eyes.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
And the brain.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I don't know, I've never heard this.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
But that's generally my consensus is everything I've seen is thirteen,
So just wait till they're thirteen. And these kids have
enough screens in front of their face, so do they
really need one that's right like at the eye level,
like burning into their retina's like probably not so just well,
you know what I mean, screen's right.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
There, it's right there.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
It's good, it's kind of so that's that's my recommendation.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
And all these cheap little VR things that you see, yeah,
these VR things that you see at the mall that
you put your iPhone in stuff, there's no good iPhone.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
VR by the way, so just don't just don't bother.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
It's a waste when you sick your phone inside of.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
And even on Android they have that, and even on
Android they've gotten out of that because Apple are sorry,
Google and Samsung used to make a big deal out
of their VR headsets when they launched their phones. Last
two launches, they didn't say a word. So clearly it's
not right now. It's not a growth place. I think
I do believe in VR. I think it's amazing and
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I think it's going to change the fabric of our
world once again, like Facebook did and like Internet did.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
But it's just not there right now.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
It's not the time.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
But I think that companies like Oculus and stuff, they're
trying to make it better.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
What did I do. I did that hollow.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I mean it's still almost like made me sick to
my stomach for hours. Yeah, and so I just it's
getting there.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It's not there.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, And I do go out there and try it
because it's awesome, but it's like Dreamscape is the best
that I've seen.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
There's one called The Void, which I haven't tried.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
And there's another one they're trying to get me to
try it at the mall and I haven't tried that
one either. You know, you have to go with like
a bunch of people and like it takes like some
time to set it.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
You can go by yourself, but it's kind of more
fun to go with a little group. Yeah. All right.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Let me tell you about something that is really cool
because I talked about this on the Leo Laporte radio show,
but I just want to talk about it here too
because I am just obsessed with this. It's an app
called libby l ibb Y, and I thought this was
too good to be true. I saw an article in
nine to five Mac and the writer was talking about
how Apple Books needs integration with the US Public Library
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just like the Kindle has, and I'm like, wait, what
so I download this app called Libby, and I was like,
I don't have a library card, so I gotta go
sign up and I gotta get one. Maybe I'll just
use my kid's library card. Well, it turns out you
can just pop in your phone number and somehow it
signed me up for the LA Public Library. And it
seems like they have these deals with public libraries all
across the US, So wherever you're listening, you can try
(38:27):
this out. Download the app, you get a library card
through the app, and next thing you know, you can
search for books like you would have the library. But
the brilliant part is that not only can you read
these books on the app or listen to their audiobook
on the app, you can send the book to your Kindle.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Which do you have a Kindle? No? Well, have you
ever used one?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You gave me a one, but I gave it to
my dad. You never have used it, but I can
try to use.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
It on You should try linking it up.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I sho We're going to do a story on this
for Ktle because I was telling my wife last night.
I was telling her she came over to watch the kids. Yeah,
and she's an avid reader. And I was like, do
you know you can get like books for free from
the library. She's like I know, of course I know that.
I'm like no, no, for like free to your kindle.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I was telling my mom about it too, and I
was like.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Her reaction, she was like, wait, that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
You have to set it up on my phone and
I'm like, and.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I'm telling you, it's one click once you set up.
And by the way, this Libby app Usually when you
think of apps like this, you're like, they're clunky, they're terrible.
The way this app is set up, it's a really
cool app. You search in like good terms, it like
kind of talks to you almost in chat style anyway.
So the main downside of this is that you don't
get the book immediately, especially if it's a popular book.
(39:36):
You have to wait, just like you would at the
public library for it to be in stock. So even
though it's digital, they don't just give out unlimited copies.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
So with the.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Public library, you have to keep going back.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
No, I think nowadays nowadays you just put yourself on
a wait list and they email you when it's ready.
So it's the same thing here, except you'll get an
alert on your phone. So I've put a bunch of
books on my wait list. So I guess the trick
here is that you just have to build your catalog
up of what you want to read, and as they
come available, get them, put them to your kindle. You
get them for twenty one days like a normal library loan,
(40:07):
and then I'm assuming there's some way to renew for
a certain amount of time. Okay, So again, I just
bought a lot of books this month for you know,
twenty five dollars that both books are available on there.
One was available instantly and I could have saved twelve
ninety nine. The other one is a little bit longer.
It's called The Body, which, by the way, fantastic book.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Oh, I need to read it. If you I.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Actually available, it's probably.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
It's not available. It's it's probably one of the most
popular books right now. But I was reading my kids
and my wife all the highlights because it goes through
every body part and explains the like how it works
and what all this stuff and the history of it,
not the history of the part, but like how doctors
discovered how things work in the body, And so I
was reading all the highlights that I've made in this
book to my kids and my wife and we were
all just like loving it, so like there's it's just
(40:50):
such a good book. So anyway, Libby, l Ibby, check
it out, especially if you have a kindle. Link them
up and you can thank me later when you're reading
your first book.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yeah, I'm literally trying to find a book that's available.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Okay, do we have time for one more quick question? Megan?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Okay, so this is from Zereda.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Oh no more time we right now? Kidding? All right,
quick question.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
So, basically, she's looking for a digital frame where she
can send pictures directly to the frame without using a
flash drive. I thought you mentioned one on your show,
but I cannot find this story. I have seen one
on my feed called Skylight. Not sure if it's the same,
Please let me know.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
On her feed.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
So she clearly was searching for things, and then all
of a sudden, Facebook is like we got someone. She's
looking at picture frames. So I don't know anything about Skylight.
I've never heard of it, but I and this one.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
I'm looking it up right now.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
It's one that it's a touchscreen photos frame that you
can update by email from anywhere and it looks fine,
but I think that the one you want is from
the company I last tried. It's called nicks Play, and
it used to be there are so many of these frames,
but now it's kind of like they're a dying breed.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
The thing I like the best.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
If you this, this is a specific ask for something
that is USB right. She wants a flash drive, but
the one that I recommend is just get a Google Home.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
No, she said, without using a flash drive. She wants
to send pictures directly to the frame, without using a
flash drive, so from like a phone.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Oh my gosh, oh gosh, I totally misread this. I
thought she wanted a flash drive so she can pop
it in the back of the frame and bypass the cloud.
So if she just wants a frame, the best one
out there is from Google. It's called the Google Home.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Now now it's called the Google Nest Google Nest Hub.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
So that's what I have.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I actually don't show pictures on it.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Wait do you yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:48):
I got it from cs Oh.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
You don't show your pictures on it?
Speaker 3 (42:52):
No, it's also this small like the streams. Okay, I'm
gonna oh my god, you have to set up your
pictures on it.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
It's the best.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
My sister just got one and she loves it. And
she actually got the Max, which means we can video chats.
I actually meant to do that last night with her anyway.
So get the Google nest Hub. The best part about
it it's one twenty nine. It's going to be cheaper
over Black Friday, So just wait until Black Friday to
purchase this. It'll be on sale everywhere. It's one hundred
and twenty nine dollars. I expected to be ninety nine
(43:22):
bucks for the holidays. Wow, ninety nine dollars. You download
the Google Photos app on your phone and the best
part is that you can select the photos you want,
or you can have Google Photos curate the best pictures
that you take and put them on the frame automatically.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
It's so great. It's my favorite feature.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
When it was my kid's birthday and we had a
birthday party, I just made a automatic album of Tanner.
So every picture that showed up on all the screens
throughout my house were all of my kid through the
ages and so, and it was super simple to set
up and Google picks the best.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
They try to pick the best pictures that people are
smiling in they're well lit.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Not always perfect, but yeah, you can easily try and
it's great.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
I'm trying to find the name of the Body book the.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Body it's called. I think it's called the Body.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Let me say, okay, I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Let's see kindle. I'll go to my kindle and see
what it's called. I think it's just called Body by
the Body by Body Bill Bryson, cover by Bill Bryson.
And it's a best selling author of the short history
of nearly everything.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
It's so great.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
The Body a guide for occupants if you're into like
you have to be a little bit into science and
like kind of like doctor stuff.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Like it's just fascinating to hear nine weeks nine weeks
to get it.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Yeah, but also can I put in different libraries? Are
you not supposed to do that? Well?
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I think it's all LAPD or LA Public Library. Oh,
since it's digital, it's not like your local branch. Got
it all right, that's going to do it for the
show today. Thanks so much for listening. My book is
called one hundred and one iPhone Tips and Tricks. It's
available in paperback and on the kindle through Amazon. I
just got a whole bunch of these yesterday delivered to
(45:04):
my house, the latest version. Because I did revise a
few things. I told you about this, so I surprised me.
They came a week early. So I've got a whole
bunch of these. We're gonna do a segment on KTLA
featuring some of the best features in the new book.
I'm gonna be promoting it in a couple different places.
But it's great. It's ready for the holiday, super easy
gift again. It's called one hundred and one iPhone Tips
and Tricks. You can actually read it for free using
(45:25):
Kindle Unlimited, so if you sign up for a free
trial of that, you can read my book one hundred
percent for free. So if you're thinking about giving it
for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
Read it yourself for free.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Preview every single page, read the whole thing, and then
be like, oh, this is good enough to give to
my family. And give it to someone that you love
that uses an iPhone, and believe me, they'll thank you
for it. You can subscribe to our show if you
are listening for the first time. Just all you have
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and if you love the show, Please rate and review it.
That really goes a long way. Producer Megan, where can
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people find you?
Speaker 3 (45:57):
I'm on Twitter at producer.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Again and she's always tweeting a bunch of good stuff,
always always tweeting. You can find me at richon tech
dot tv. I'm on Instagram at rich on tech and
that's gonna do it for today show. Thanks so much
for listening, Have a fantastic day.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
We'll talk to you real soon
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