September 18, 2025 • 8 mins
Larry and Rich talk about the new iPhones that come out on Friday. In addition, Amazon is having a major Prime Day coming soon that is packed with sales!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now let's go to Rich Demiro from rich on Tech.
It's heard Sunday nights right here on WOOR from eight
to eleven pm. Rich is with us every Thursday at
this time. You can also follow him at rich on
tech on Instagram. So, Rich, you know, I'm an Apple guy.
I'm excited about this new iPhone coming out, but I
(00:21):
don't buy every new one unless there's something so spectacular
about the new model that I have to get it.
So is that the case with the new model coming out?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, you know there's four new models, so it really
depends what you're looking for. But I will tell you this,
the headline this year is if you are thinking of
upgrading or you're wanting to upgrade, this is the year
to do it. Really, I think that Apple, Yes, I
think that Apple has hit it out of the park
this year. Every single phone they came out with is
(00:55):
in its own right, really really good, and they fixed
a lot of the stuff that tech reviewers like myself
had issues with. So, for instance, entry level iPhone seventeen,
you're gonna get better battery life, you're gonna get a
better screen, it's glare free. You're gonna get the new
selfie camera that's eighteen megapixels. Take selfies and horizontal vertical
group solo. You don't have to shift your phone around.
(01:17):
It's also gonna get glass that doesn't break as much.
The screen is brighter, it charges faster, and the thing
they change that everyone wanted and this was for nerds only.
Regular people didn't really notice this, but we did. When
you scroll through social media, it's gonna look smoother, and
when you watch movies, they're gonna look better. So that's
just the iPhone seventeen entry level at eight hundred dollars.
(01:38):
I think that is an incredible phone for most people.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
What are the other phones? Is it? Is it unusual
they're putting out four phones? Are they still just the
new model the iPhone seventeen just different variations.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, it's different variations, but typically they've done an iPhone
seventeen and then an iPhone seventeen plus. This year they
ditch the plus. They replace that with a super thin
model called the iPhone Air. This is five point six
millimeters thin, super thin and lightweight. If you are all
about like the latest, greatest, coolest Apple stuff, you want
(02:13):
this one. The downside to that phone is there's only
one camera lens, so you're very limited in the types
of pictures you can take. You know, there's a selfie camera,
but one back lens. I mean. And then the other
thing is the battery life. It's good, but if you
are on your phone twenty four to seven, it's not
going to be the best that Apple offers. That phone
is one thousand dollars. And then if you are all
(02:34):
over social media, not only looking at it, but also
taking pictures, taking videos, and you want the best of
the best. This year, the iPhone seventeen Pro and Promax.
They stay cooler, they have better screens that are glare resistant,
which is really nice. They've got that new selfie camera,
new ultra wide camera. I mean, it's just the battery
life is better. I think that Apple just polished these
(02:57):
phones to a level that they said, you know what,
We're just gonna do everything that people have been asking
for years. And I don't think you can find a
better overall phone at this point.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Wow, you talk me into it. I'm gonna get a
new phone. How about the iOS twenty six they had
to roll out as well.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, so iOS twenty six if you're not getting a
new phone and by all means, if you like what
you got, you don't have to change it. You get
this new software updates called iOS twenty six, now available
for the iPhone eleven and higher, also the iPhone se
two and higher. Yes, they changed the whole naming convention.
It used to be iOS eighteen. They skipped nineteen through
(03:33):
twenty five. They went straight to twenty six, kind of
like the car makers. They call it liquid Glass. There's
a whole bunch of new features. I think the most
important one to turn on is the call screening Assistant.
I posted this to my Instagram at rich on Tech. Basically,
your iPhone will answer your phone in the background to
people that are unknown callers and ask them to say
(03:54):
their name and the reason they're calling you. Then and
only then will it ring your phone with that information
that they just said transcribed on your lock screen. So
if you're getting a call from solar panel installation company,
it will say, Jim from Solar Panel Installation, We've got
a great deal for you. You say, never mind, you
hang up on them, Not that you have to if
you want solar go ahead.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So there's another one.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Of the cool new features.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh it sounds amazing. There's another Amazon Prime Day coming up.
Didn't we just have one?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I know, Larry, I don't even want to talk about
Prime Ed anymore because it's so boring. It's like, Okay,
we get it. You have these like every other third
Thursday of the year. But we do have another one.
It's called Prime Big Deal Days. It runs October seventh
through eighth. You do have to be a Prime member Amazon.
I feel like they've saturated the market with the Prime memberships.
(04:44):
Now you heard we talked about a couple of weeks
ago how they're kind of cutting off the external sharing
with other people that you might know, so they have
to get their own membership. You know, teenagers have to
get their own membership. So Amazon's really pushing Prime Day
to sell more memberships. But also you do save money.
And my advice is the same for every single Prime Day.
(05:04):
Number one, add the stuff that you want to your
cart right now. If you can wait two weeks, that
stuff might go on sale. The second thing is, if
you have your eye on any Amazon products we're talking Kindle, Echo,
ring Fire, those typically go on discount, so wait to
buy those products until October seventh and eighth. The other
(05:24):
thing is Amazon Services, whether you want Kindle on limited
audible Amazon Music, all those things typically have some sort
of good introductory deal or just a deal in general.
So again a lot of Amazon stuff on sale, but
other products as well.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm embarrassed to say this, but I had no idea
and still have no idea what Google's nano Banana AI is,
and now they held an update.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's not a big deal that you don't know what
this is. I just think that well number one Google
pushed out this update to their AI. Know Google's AI
is called Gemini. That's their big competitor to chat Gibt. Right,
they are locked in an all out war because chatchbt
is changing the way that Google does business. And so
basically Gemini has reached number one in the App Store
(06:15):
on the iPhone because of this Nano Banana AI photo
editing update. Here's what you can do with it. Not
only can you edit photos now if you upload something
and just say change the background, take a take away
that tree, make me a clown, whatever you want to do.
It takes that photo and makes those edits in a
very realistic way. That's something you used to have to
(06:35):
know Photoshop to do. Here's the two cool things you
should try with this number. One, you've got an old
photo that's damaged or it's black and white. You want
to make it color. Upload it to Gemini AI say
restore this old photo. Boom. It will do it perfectly,
something that used to take a lot of skill. Second thing,
you got a picture of your kid playing baseball through
(06:56):
a fence. Ask it to remove the fence. It will
remove the fence and make the picture look perfect. It's
really quite incredible. They call it nano banana. That's just
fancy speaker. It's really fancy and high tech.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Here's a real important one. And I have a couple
of people in my family with autism, and there's a
new screening test out.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, this is wild. So it's a test called clear strand.
And you know, if you have a child with autism
and you've talked to a doctor, they say it can
take years to get a diagnosis. Well, this test uses
just a couple of strands of hair. You send them
into a lab and it will tell you, even if
the kid is as little as one month old, if
(07:38):
they don't have autism. So it doesn't say yes, your
child has autism, but it's ninety five percent accurate in
saying your child does not have autism. So it's a
really interesting new way to screen for this. If you
suspect your child has this, and that way you can
get them the help they need sooner, and we know
that that makes a big difference in the quality of
(07:59):
life later on. The test is expensive, it's seven hundred
and fifty dollars. They're hoping to get more insurance on board.
But again it's called clearstrand. And by the way, Larry,
they say in the future they can apply this same
technology to tests for other things like adhd als, even
pancreatic cancer. This is just an incredible breakdown.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's amazing. Rich Demiro rich on Tech has heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven PM on wr Rich is
with us every Thursday at nine to thirty five. Make
sure to sign up for his newsletter at richontech dot TV.
Thanks so much, Rich,
Now let's go to Rich Demiro from rich on Tech.
It's heard Sunday nights right here on WOOR from eight
to eleven pm. Rich is with us every Thursday at
this time. You can also follow him at rich on
tech on Instagram. So, Rich, you know, I'm an Apple guy.
I'm excited about this new iPhone coming out, but I
(00:21):
don't buy every new one unless there's something so spectacular
about the new model that I have to get it.
So is that the case with the new model coming out?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, you know there's four new models, so it really
depends what you're looking for. But I will tell you this,
the headline this year is if you are thinking of
upgrading or you're wanting to upgrade, this is the year
to do it. Really, I think that Apple, Yes, I
think that Apple has hit it out of the park
this year. Every single phone they came out with is
(00:55):
in its own right, really really good, and they fixed
a lot of the stuff that tech reviewers like myself
had issues with. So, for instance, entry level iPhone seventeen,
you're gonna get better battery life, you're gonna get a
better screen, it's glare free. You're gonna get the new
selfie camera that's eighteen megapixels. Take selfies and horizontal vertical
group solo. You don't have to shift your phone around.
(01:17):
It's also gonna get glass that doesn't break as much.
The screen is brighter, it charges faster, and the thing
they change that everyone wanted and this was for nerds only.
Regular people didn't really notice this, but we did. When
you scroll through social media, it's gonna look smoother, and
when you watch movies, they're gonna look better. So that's
just the iPhone seventeen entry level at eight hundred dollars.
(01:38):
I think that is an incredible phone for most people.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
What are the other phones? Is it? Is it unusual
they're putting out four phones? Are they still just the
new model the iPhone seventeen just different variations.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, it's different variations, but typically they've done an iPhone
seventeen and then an iPhone seventeen plus. This year they
ditch the plus. They replace that with a super thin
model called the iPhone Air. This is five point six
millimeters thin, super thin and lightweight. If you are all
about like the latest, greatest, coolest Apple stuff, you want
(02:13):
this one. The downside to that phone is there's only
one camera lens, so you're very limited in the types
of pictures you can take. You know, there's a selfie camera,
but one back lens. I mean. And then the other
thing is the battery life. It's good, but if you
are on your phone twenty four to seven, it's not
going to be the best that Apple offers. That phone
is one thousand dollars. And then if you are all
(02:34):
over social media, not only looking at it, but also
taking pictures, taking videos, and you want the best of
the best. This year, the iPhone seventeen Pro and Promax.
They stay cooler, they have better screens that are glare resistant,
which is really nice. They've got that new selfie camera,
new ultra wide camera. I mean, it's just the battery
life is better. I think that Apple just polished these
(02:57):
phones to a level that they said, you know what,
We're just gonna do everything that people have been asking
for years. And I don't think you can find a
better overall phone at this point.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Wow, you talk me into it. I'm gonna get a
new phone. How about the iOS twenty six they had
to roll out as well.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, so iOS twenty six if you're not getting a
new phone and by all means, if you like what
you got, you don't have to change it. You get
this new software updates called iOS twenty six, now available
for the iPhone eleven and higher, also the iPhone se
two and higher. Yes, they changed the whole naming convention.
It used to be iOS eighteen. They skipped nineteen through
(03:33):
twenty five. They went straight to twenty six, kind of
like the car makers. They call it liquid Glass. There's
a whole bunch of new features. I think the most
important one to turn on is the call screening Assistant.
I posted this to my Instagram at rich on Tech. Basically,
your iPhone will answer your phone in the background to
people that are unknown callers and ask them to say
(03:54):
their name and the reason they're calling you. Then and
only then will it ring your phone with that information
that they just said transcribed on your lock screen. So
if you're getting a call from solar panel installation company,
it will say, Jim from Solar Panel Installation, We've got
a great deal for you. You say, never mind, you
hang up on them, Not that you have to if
you want solar go ahead.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So there's another one.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Of the cool new features.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh it sounds amazing. There's another Amazon Prime Day coming up.
Didn't we just have one?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I know, Larry, I don't even want to talk about
Prime Ed anymore because it's so boring. It's like, Okay,
we get it. You have these like every other third
Thursday of the year. But we do have another one.
It's called Prime Big Deal Days. It runs October seventh
through eighth. You do have to be a Prime member Amazon.
I feel like they've saturated the market with the Prime memberships.
(04:44):
Now you heard we talked about a couple of weeks
ago how they're kind of cutting off the external sharing
with other people that you might know, so they have
to get their own membership. You know, teenagers have to
get their own membership. So Amazon's really pushing Prime Day
to sell more memberships. But also you do save money.
And my advice is the same for every single Prime Day.
(05:04):
Number one, add the stuff that you want to your
cart right now. If you can wait two weeks, that
stuff might go on sale. The second thing is, if
you have your eye on any Amazon products we're talking Kindle, Echo,
ring Fire, those typically go on discount, so wait to
buy those products until October seventh and eighth. The other
(05:24):
thing is Amazon Services, whether you want Kindle on limited
audible Amazon Music, all those things typically have some sort
of good introductory deal or just a deal in general.
So again a lot of Amazon stuff on sale, but
other products as well.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm embarrassed to say this, but I had no idea
and still have no idea what Google's nano Banana AI is,
and now they held an update.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's not a big deal that you don't know what
this is. I just think that well number one Google
pushed out this update to their AI. Know Google's AI
is called Gemini. That's their big competitor to chat Gibt. Right,
they are locked in an all out war because chatchbt
is changing the way that Google does business. And so
basically Gemini has reached number one in the App Store
(06:15):
on the iPhone because of this Nano Banana AI photo
editing update. Here's what you can do with it. Not
only can you edit photos now if you upload something
and just say change the background, take a take away
that tree, make me a clown, whatever you want to do.
It takes that photo and makes those edits in a
very realistic way. That's something you used to have to
(06:35):
know Photoshop to do. Here's the two cool things you
should try with this number. One, you've got an old
photo that's damaged or it's black and white. You want
to make it color. Upload it to Gemini AI say
restore this old photo. Boom. It will do it perfectly,
something that used to take a lot of skill. Second thing,
you got a picture of your kid playing baseball through
(06:56):
a fence. Ask it to remove the fence. It will
remove the fence and make the picture look perfect. It's
really quite incredible. They call it nano banana. That's just
fancy speaker. It's really fancy and high tech.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Here's a real important one. And I have a couple
of people in my family with autism, and there's a
new screening test out.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, this is wild. So it's a test called clear strand.
And you know, if you have a child with autism
and you've talked to a doctor, they say it can
take years to get a diagnosis. Well, this test uses
just a couple of strands of hair. You send them
into a lab and it will tell you, even if
the kid is as little as one month old, if
(07:38):
they don't have autism. So it doesn't say yes, your
child has autism, but it's ninety five percent accurate in
saying your child does not have autism. So it's a
really interesting new way to screen for this. If you
suspect your child has this, and that way you can
get them the help they need sooner, and we know
that that makes a big difference in the quality of
(07:59):
life later on. The test is expensive, it's seven hundred
and fifty dollars. They're hoping to get more insurance on board.
But again it's called clearstrand. And by the way, Larry,
they say in the future they can apply this same
technology to tests for other things like adhd als, even
pancreatic cancer. This is just an incredible breakdown.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's amazing. Rich Demiro rich on Tech has heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven PM on wr Rich is
with us every Thursday at nine to thirty five. Make
sure to sign up for his newsletter at richontech dot TV.
Thanks so much, Rich,
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