Apple Car is cancelled and I got the S24 Ultra | 274

Why the Apple Car was cancelled and why I upgraded earlier than usual to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra https://www.geektherapyradio.com/

* I meant the MODEL S was introduced in 2012 (Not X)

0:00 Intro
0:28 Apple Car Cancelled
13:10 Current state of EV market
26:41 Z Fold 4 Woes
35:00 S24 Ultra
#samsung #samsungs24ultra #apple #applecar

Episode Transcript

(00:08):
Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You'vegot your mental curator, Johnny Hemburger in
this episode. Today, I hopeto get to talking about my newest phone
upgrade. How I begrudgingly upgraded tothe Samsung Galaxy S twenty four Ultra Awesome
phone. The upgrade path was notwhat I typically like to do, but

(00:31):
I'll explain that later. But firstI want to start with the Apple Car.
Apple has officially canceled its plans tobuild an electric car. That's the
headline. That's the headlines you'll see. I will get into why they actually
canceled it, but I have afeeling in the back of my head that's
part of this canceling of Apple Carwas due to the fact that self driving

(00:57):
autonomous automobiles are very, very hardto do. That's not the official reason
why Apple Car was canceled. I'llget into those in a minute, but
I have to have a feeling.This is just me, just this is
my commentary. Maybe you can seethe commentary elsewhere other people have the same
idea, but this is just partof my commentary. Is that I think
part of the reason, part ofthe reason why Apple got rid of the

(01:19):
canceled the Apple car project is thatautonomous driving is turns out it's very,
very difficult to do. The actualreason that Apple pulled out of the out
of the Apple car game, whythey canceled the whole project and moved a
lot of the engineers, a lotof the employees that we're working on Project
Titan, as it was known internally, They're moving those employees to AI to

(01:45):
put their best efforts in in thatdepartment, and that's that is one of
the reasons why the Apple car projectwas definitely canceled. So, first of
all, there has been a listento my words carefully here, especially if
you're on the radio and on thisradio station. EV car sales have slumped,
but really what's happening is that thegrowth has slowed. So EV car

(02:09):
sales, ev car growth as apart of the automotive market. They haven't
gone down to nothing. That's certainlynot the case. The growth has just
slowed. So they're still selling EV'shandover fist. You're still going to see
electric cars increasing their size of themarket share. You're going to keep seeing

(02:30):
more electric cars on the road.That's not going to change with the technology
that drives the electric motors, whetherit's new battery technology, whether it's hydrogen
power cells, whatever, you aregoing to see more and more electric cars
on the road. The electric carsaren't going anywhere, but currently the rate
of ev adoption growth is slowing.It's still growing, but it has slowed

(02:54):
a little bit. So eb carindustry is still growing, but the growth
has slowed. What has popped offin the recent years. What has absolutely
blown the roof off of the industryright now the tech industry is AI.
An Apple, like any other companyworth its weight in salt, understands that,

(03:16):
Hey, if we're going to beinvesting billions of dollars into something,
let's invest it into the growing industry, not the industry that has slowed its
growth. So it's just it's aneconomic decision above anything else. AI is
popping. AI is having its quoteunquote moment. So if we're going to

(03:36):
be investing billions of dollars into something, let's shift our employee power over to
ailet's let's start trying to make ourmark in the AI space rather than the
slowed growth electric car space. Sothat is, in a nutshell, exactly
what has happened to Project tighten theirElectric Autonomous car division at ap Apple,

(04:00):
and that's why they've they've shifted,that's why they've canceled that that department,
and that's why they've shifted all theresources to AI. AI is hot right
now. Electric car adoption is slowing. It's not going nowhere, it's not
dying, it's just greater growth issload. I've beat that horse. So

(04:20):
I wanted to talk about even thoughI know better, I know, especially
on YouTube, that talking about Appleperiod is you might as well be talking
about politics or religion like it's that. It is that much of a I
don't want to I don't want touse the C word, but there is

(04:43):
that passionate of followers and detractors onboth sides. When you talk about Apple.
You have Apple fanboys and girls justboasting and like, oh, you're
wrong and dah dah, dah dah. And you also have people who hate
Apple saying, oh, you're wrongor whatever, or you're right or you're
on the left. On the otherside of you have Apple supporters saying you're

(05:03):
right about this, and the detractorssaying you're wrong about this and its opinions,
and it's a whole thing and whatever. Apple is generally kind of not
great to talk about unless you're reviewinga product. You know, unless you
have a product in your hand andyou're talking about the latest iPhone, you're
talking about the Vision Pro or it'skind of a review of the product.
But if you just talk about Applein general, it's kind of kryptonite and

(05:28):
you're gonna have a It's very divisivefor some reason. But anyways, one
of I agree with this kind ofnotion that I've seen that I've read around
the internet that Apple just even Appleeven just telling the world that they're getting
into the automotive market. When theytold the world a decade ago that they

(05:51):
were getting into the automotive automotive marketin earnest, it made a lot of
auto manufacturers pop their heads up,kind of like prairie dogs looking around the
horizon for threats and for challenges.And Apple's mere mention that they were getting
into any tech space makes other playersin that tech space peak their heads up

(06:14):
and say, oh crap, wehave to we have to beat Apple to
whatever they've just announced that they aregetting into, because we know when Apple
comes out with their version of whateverthis tech industry is that it's going to
be very popular, that it's goingto be maybe not very very popular,
but it's going to be a bigdirect challenge to their company, to their

(06:36):
product, to whatever they come outwith. So, like I mentioned in
the previous episodes, Metaquest has gottenso much better recently because I feel because
Apple has announced the Vision Pro.Because a while back they announced they're coming
out with their own AR VR spatialcomputing device, so other players in the

(06:59):
VR AR space had no choice butto kind of ramp up their offerings in
anticipation of what Apple was about todo. Same thing in the automotive industry.
Ten years ago, Apple said thatthey were going to get into the
car market. They are going tocome out with their own Apple Car.
That made other auto manufacturers ramp uptheir game, saying, crap, if
Apple's getting into this space, wereally need to be on our tippy toes.

(07:23):
We really need to be ready foranything. We really need to see
what's coming. We really need toramp up our efforts so that we can
compete with the Apple Car whenever itcomes out. Now that the Apple Car
isn't coming out, I say there'sless of a flame being held underneath automotive
manufacturers, but saying, well,well, now Apple is not going to

(07:44):
be a competitor in this space,maybe we don't need to be investing ourselves
into so much ev advancement or selfdriving technology because Apple's not going to be
in the game. They're not goingto be competition. More Geek Therapy Radio
coming up, don't go anywhere.Welcome back to geek Therapy Radio. You've

(08:05):
got your mental curator, Johnny Hemberger. The last segment, I've been talking
about the Apple Car, the canceledproject. Internally within Apple's walls, it
was called Project Titan, and Appleofficially putting the nail in the coffin of
their automotive efforts kind of. Thisis just my speculation. This is something

(08:26):
you're gonna hear me say that thisis my speculation. I'm gonna preface this
in a way that you don't everhear any other talk show host on the
radio preface anything that this is justcommentary. This is just my own personal
speculation. I'm not preaching this asthe gospel truth to you to get you
all fired up and angry about something. I'm telling you right now that this
is just my speculative opinion on thisthat when Apple had Now that Apple is

(08:50):
announced that they're out of the automotiveindustry, the rest of the automotive industry
is doing a sigh of relief.Phew, Apple's not making a car.
We can scale back our efforts andinvestment into whatever we have coming out because
Apple's no longer a looming threat onthe horizon. As I mentioned in the
last segment, just to bringing radiolisteners back up to speed, briefly,

(09:13):
Apple has gotten out of the automotivegame. They're not going to make their
autonomous ev anymore. They have shiftedtheir their efforts, their resources, their
employees, their investment into the currenthot topic, the current emerging tech industry,
which is AI. Artificial intelligence.That has been what's hot right now,

(09:35):
that's been hot for the past fewyears, artificial intelligence. We're not
going to go into the weeds withthis, but it's artificial intelligence has been
around for decades, if not centuries, depending on how you look at it.
You know, an hour glass withthe sand falling through to measure time,
So a person doesn't have to sitthere and count one, two,

(09:56):
three, four and measure the passageof time. They can now just turn
an hour glass us over and letthat machine do the work. Arguably,
you can say that's kind of artificialintelligence. Maybe a scarecrow in a field
is artificial intelligence because it's theoretically supposedto scare away crows and free up the
farmer from not having to do thatjob. You call it autonomy, whatever

(10:18):
you want to call it. Butthere can be arguments made right or wrong
that such primitive quote unquote devices area form of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence
has been around with us, notjust for decades, not just since the
computer chip was invented, but we'vebeen using humans have been finding a way,
have been finding ways to offload humanintelligence into different machines to free up

(10:43):
humans to do other things. We'vebeen doing that since we've become humans.
That's just what we do. It'sone of the things work smarter, not
harder. So anyways, AI isthe big thing right now. Apple has
shifted all has shifted the resources fromits automotive department, from the Apple car
into AI because that's what's making moneyright now, that's the emerging market,
that's the whole thing. EV's honestly, I think Apple getting out of the

(11:09):
automotive market and I know what alot of headlines want to say that it's
getting out of the EV market,but that's not really what it is.
That's not the big, the bigbombshell here. It's that Apple is getting
out of the automotive market period.Not just they're not making an EV,
they're just not making a car.And that's kind of huge as it pertains
to EV's I think it is acatalyst, a catalyst moment right now for

(11:35):
evs, that that the growth hasslowed, sales are currently slow. Growth
is still happening, Like the EVmarket is still growing. It's just where
it was. If you're seeing myhand on YouTube here, where it was
growing like this. Now it's growinglike this. It's still growing, it's
just growing slower, while AI overhere in the background is like boom,

(11:56):
it just shot off the charge.EV is having a moment right now.
Electric vehicles are having a moment rightnow, which I am all in favor
for of every automotive maker stepping backand saying we have we need to reevaluate
this market. We need to reevaluateour relationships with the government, we need

(12:18):
to reevaluate our reevaluate our relationships withinfrastructure, we need to reevaluate our relationships
with customers on how electric cars moveforward from here and again, mark my
words, evs aren't going anywhere.That's the market is still going to grow.
The future is still electric. Butwe're at a moment now a decade
twelve years or so into EV manufacturein earnest I know a lot of your

(12:41):
screening, Well, the Chevy had, the GM had the EV one back
in the nineties, and da dada, I say, I marked the
start of the current EV market asthe release of the Tesla Model X back
in twenty twelve, twenty thirteen aroundthat time, so about ten eleven years.
I think that's when the EV market, and I think we can all

(13:03):
agree on this really just exploded.No pun intended, because EV fires are
actually very very rare. They arethe shark attack headline of the automotive world.
Very rare, but very flamboyant,very eye catching, very terrible.
Actually the EV fires are horrible.But EV market, the entire industry is

(13:24):
having a moment where it's kind ofresetting, reevaluating where do we go from
here? We push this so farlithium mining has caught up the truth about
EV's and how good you know,how well they treat the environment is now
being questioned by everybody, not justit's kind of funny that the alt right
pulls the environmental card when talking aboutEV's. That's that's funny to a lot

(13:48):
of people, but it's it's true. They're The manufacturing of electric vehicles is
horrible for the environment. The endproduct the ev actually driving around, you
know, not polluting, not puttinganything out into the I say not nothing
that it does. There are stillparticulates. You get really pedantic and in

(14:09):
the weeds with it. And I'veseen articles come, you know, being
written that EV's actually they pollute morein this aspect, in that they are
heavier than their or than their counterparts, and that they go through tires faster,
and that when they drive down theroad, they're kicking up more dust
than their lighter cousin cars, andthey're kicking more dust up off the like

(14:31):
it's scratching. It's really scratching anddigging. To kind of be the create
to drag EV's through the mud,if you will, But it is true.
Lithium mining is horrible for the environment. It's usually done in third world
countries at the cost of abysmal humanlabor. It's it's evs. Aren't this

(14:54):
when they were first outed? AndI've said this. If you've listened to
Geek Therapy Radio since twenty seventeen,you've heard me say this a number of
times, or I mean, I'vesaid it so many times in ev that
when you go back to the carslike the Prius, you know, hybrids
when they were first kind of comingout, the whole marketing strategy and this
is what I have disagreed with fromthe beginning, was the whole marketing strategy

(15:16):
was marketing hybrids and marketing evs topart of my friend here, tree huggers,
to people. I don't mean todenigrate whatever you're passionate about, but
they they kind of were marketing priusesin electric cars to hippies and save the
whale bumper stickers and and kiss thetree people and all that, which I'm

(15:37):
not I'm not knocking, y'all.I'm just saying that was the wrong market
to go after it. You know, you're not gonna you're probably not going
to find a whole lot of aninvestment among a drum circle. Uh.
Though they were probably not the mostwell heeled of individuals. Yes, you
have yuppies and people that want towant to lean a certain way politically because

(15:58):
they, you know, like thesmell of their own farts, as we've
seen on South Park so eloquently stated. But there was certainly that element.
There were certainly healed, well healedhippies for lack of a better phrase.
But that wasn't the move. Youbranded this new technology as being this great

(16:18):
thing, but you focused the adsand the placement and the target market on
people that were environmentally conscious, whichwas which was the wrong move. I
think that it's just my opinion thatmarketing hybrids and marketing electric vehicles to quote
unquote greeny weenies set back the greenmovement by decades. Hybrids, electric cars,

(16:42):
whatever you want, they should havebeen marketed to just the general American.
They should have been marketed to CentralAmerica, to the folks you know,
in the Panhandle of Texas and Oklahomaand in Iowa and just kind of
more in the Midwest and and outwest, in California and New York and

(17:03):
Florida and Michigan and Minnesota. Like. You should have marketed towards real people,
and the strategy should have been notto kind of force this you buy
this hybrid, buy this electric carbecause it's good for the environment, buy
it because it's green, buy itbecause you can wear your politics on your
shoulder. That was stupid in myopinion. It should have just been marketed

(17:25):
as this technology. Here's why thistechnology works. It saves you money at
the gas pump. Electric vehicles areinsanely fast, insanely low maintenance, super
duper fun to drive, instant torqueanywhere in the power band. It'll it
breaks your neck with how fast thesethings are, which has actually turned out
to be kind of a problem.It should not have ever been marketed as

(17:48):
something for the just for the greenpeople. More Geek Therapy Radio coming up,
Don't Go Anywhere. Welcome back togeek Therapy Radio. You've got your
mental curator, Johnny Hemberger. I'vebeen talking about in the last segment kind

(18:11):
of how hybrids and evs. Themarketing strategy in this case was horrible.
It's something that I've disagreed with fromthe very beginning, first seeing Toyota Previus
commercials where they're going to like recyclingevents where people are hoisting plastic bottles into
the back of priuses, while wearingtheir tied eye shirts and whatever like that.
Like you marketed it wrong. Thatif a technology is going to stand

(18:34):
on its own two feet, ithas to be marketed in a way that
showcases its actual strengths as a technology, it's actual strengths as a product,
instead of wrapping a product in anidentity. I know that's very popular thing
to do, but as far asthe green movement, as far as environmentalism
is concerned, I think that marketinghybrids and marketing evs at the start to

(19:00):
environmentally conscious people was the wrong move. It kind of forces like, hey,
if you if you like the environment, you need to buy this this
hybrid, and you need to buythis electric vehicle because look how many plastic
water bottles you can put in here. Look how many look you can fit
you can fit a leather back seaturtle into the back and release it back
into the ocean. What in theheck is that all about? It's that

(19:25):
was the wrong move, and maybeit was an initial, an initial,
I don't know. Push wave.Obviously, hybrids and electric vehicles are are
here and they're here to stay,and it's actually turning out The argument now
is that hey and I tend toagree with this that the perfect vehicle,
the perfect commuter Let's just be realhere, like depends on what subcategory of

(19:47):
vehicle you're talking about, what theusage case, because you could say the
perfect vehicle is a plug in hybrid, while somebody living in the Sahara Desert
that has to drive over sand dunesand everything is like, well, that's
not my perfect vehicle. My perfectvehicle is a four wheeler or even a
crazy six wheeler. If you liveoff in the the Arab Emirates and you
can, you're driving your six wheelMercedes over the sand dunes at one hundred

(20:10):
miles an hour. So the perfectcommuter car, let's just say for most
Americans and most probably Europeans in ametropolis, I do agree that it's a
plug in hybrid. My ideal carin my opinion, Like if I could
make my own car, it wouldbe something like a Volkswagen GTI hatchback that
can get one hundred miles on batteriesand then another one hundred miles to two

(20:33):
hundred miles on gas. It's basicallya battery that can run for one hundred
miles before needing recharging, and thenmaybe seven or eight gallon gas tank,
maybe just a five gallon gas tank. That's kind of my perfect car because
that the battery is going to coverninety nine point nine percent of all the
average persons needs getting to and fromwork. You're driving most people. I

(20:55):
know there's people listening to this rightnow who drive a lot more than this,
but most people do not drive onehundred miles in a day. Most
people don't drive hundred miles in aday. I think the at national average
is like twenty miles in a daytypically is what most people drive. Twenty
to thirty. So having a batteryin a car that gets you one hundred
miles, let's say there's extra tripsthat you need to take. Oh I

(21:15):
need to go to the grocery store. Oh I need to go I need
to pivot and go pick up myson from karate and whatever things happen.
One hundred miles is kind of thatperfect like daily uhuite cache buffer that would
cover those kind of extra moments whereyou need to pivot and do other things,
and then you have a gas tankand to take over. So plug

(21:37):
and hybrids do exist, and myminivan is a plug in hybrid. It's
the Chrysler twenty eighteen Chrysler PACIFICA plugin hybrid gets about thirty miles on the
battery, which is perfect for ourtypical daily use case. And then it
has a gas tank that takes overIt's like a fifteen gallon gas tank.
I can drive six hundred miles easy, five hundred and fifty to six hundred
miles easy on a tank, goon a road trip. But when we're

(22:02):
at home and we're just going throughthe daily activities of taking our sun to
school and kind and my wife goingback and forth to her job, that
the thirty miles usually covers all that. And then you have that big gas
tank for driving to Virginia or whereveryou want to go. That's kind of
a perfect vehicle. And I thinka lot of people are realizing this isn't

(22:22):
just my speculation. This is whatI see and what I notice and what
I hear and what I read allover the industry is that plug in hybrids
we've kind of settled into this likekind of consensus for the most part,
that plug and hybrids are as faras a commuter vehicle is going, as
far as just something to get youback and forth to cover your daily routines.
Plug in hybrid, the new ToyotaPrius finally looks cool and it has

(22:48):
a very usable and like the previousPrime, is a very usable plug in
hybrid, So you have x amountof miles that you can get on the
battery before the gasoline kicks in.It's kind of a it's a perfect it's
a perfect blend of both technologies.And going back to what I was saying
earlier, how let me turn offmy air conditioning real quick? How hybrids

(23:10):
and evs were marketed towards greeny weeniesas as I call it sometimes and again,
it's not to denigrate your any passionfor the environment. I like the
environment too. Actually, if Ican get sidetrack just a little bit,
which is what I do here inGeek Therapy Radio, I'm a big fan
of efficiency. I don't you know. I'm not necessarily out there chaining myself
to a tree or walking twenty milesto avoid using gasoline or electricity or what

(23:37):
have you. But I'm just afan of efficiency. What is the least
amount of energy required to perform atask? That's just me being a tinkerer,
That's just me being like super likejust thinking about where every electron is
going, where every bit of hydrocarbonis going. I just like to think
about how what's the most efficient wayto do a task? But within the

(24:00):
same breath, I also like alot of power, you know, I
wish I could drive a Ferrari.I had a V eight muscle car for
a while, still have it,still need to sell it, Like I
have my electric vehicle, but Ialso still have my V eight and I'm
always gonna have my DeLorean six speedmanual V six not very powerful, but

(24:22):
still I'm just a fan of technology. I'm a fan of how things work,
of mechanical things, of energy,But as far as environmentalism is concerned,
I'm just a fan of efficiency.Like, again, how what is
the least amount of energy? Eitherfrom whatever source that energy comes from,
what's the least amount and you needto perform a task. That kind of
thing excites me. And it's liketrying to hyper mile in actual real life.

(24:48):
If you hyper mile on the road, everybody hates you. If you
are in a prius trying to getninety miles a gallon or whatever you got
to do. When you're sitting thereon fifty nine and a sixty five zone
going forty five miles an hour fiftymiles an hour to get his most miles
out of your car as possible.First of all, you're going to cause

(25:10):
an accident. You are, You'rea danger to everybody else on the road.
Second of all, everybody doesn't.Nobody likes you when you're doing that.
It is a very selfish endeavor topursue to Actually, you know,
if you're trying to hyper mile everyday and you're holding up traffic and doing
whatever. So yeah, I've saidmy piece on that. I you know,

(25:32):
hybrid's electric vehicles, all this stuffwas the marketing campaign was terrible.
I think they was very short sighted. It's very short sighted. It's a
better way to put it. Let'slet's market these vehicles. Let's market this
technology to people that care about theenvironment, which was the wrong move.
You should have convinced Bob in Iowawhy he should get an electric car.
And the way you do that isyou don't tout the identity attached to it.

(25:56):
You just tout the technology. Youjust tout the pros of the tech.
Here's why this is super cool,Here's why you'd want this because it's
super fast, it's instant torque.You can plug it into your your wall
outlet and drink beer and watch footballwhile your car gets more fuel quote unquote
in it. That's all the stuffthat should have been played up. It
shouldn't have been, you know,attaching electric cars and attaching hybrids to these

(26:21):
images of polar bears riding around onbroken icebergs. That was that was short
sighted. That it didn't obviously it'snot. It didn't in the long run,
in the long run for the futureof this technology, it wasn't the
best move in my opinion. Let'smove on. So hold on. My

(26:41):
wife got home, let me acknowledgeher existence, and I back wanted to
move on to what I hinted atearlier, assuming anyone's still listening, because
you talk about Apple, you talkabout electric cars, you talk about hybrids
and things, and if you don'ttow the line on those subjects, then
you know, certain certain demographics mightmight kind of fall off. But I'm

(27:06):
moving on to uh my current phoneworld. So I'm sitting here at my
desk. I've got my z foldfour plugged in. I almost knocked over
my coffee. My z fold fourhere plugged in because every day I'll show
you my routine is right now everyday because this plays into why I have
upgraded a phone way sooner than Itypically like to. As I I have

(27:29):
shown you all my password here asI open this up here, every day
on my z fold four, Icheck for and updates. So I go
into my my settings here and Ito click this and checking for software updates,
checking for updates, and there's probablynot gonna be one, because I
haven't read that anyone was announced.Your software is up to date, great.
I'm on one UI version six pointzero, current version F nine thirty

(27:53):
six U t xAd, whatever it's, it's the patch. The most current
patch is from February twenty twenty four. But every day I check for an
update on the z fold four becauseof that issue I explained in the previous
episode where the spen's not really working, where the rotation screen rotation is extremely

(28:15):
finicky and just stops working. Whateverthat chip is is malfunctioning. That controls
the gyroscope and the barometer and themagnometer, magnometer or whatever you call it,
everything that kind of senses the spensenses the orientation of the phone.
That chip is not working correctly.It's getting gummed up. Like it works.

(28:36):
It works for the first few secondsyou first boot up the phone,
and then it kind of spazzes out, and I'm hoping that's a firmware issue.
But in the meantime the phone isbarely usable in its current form.
My Note nine is long in thetooth, which I'll explain in the next
segment. Let's let's talk about theS twenty four Ultra in my current phone
situation. In the next segment,you're listening to geek Therapy Radio. Don't

(28:57):
go anywhere. Welcome back to thefinal segment of Geek Therapy Radio. I'm
your mental curator, Johnny Hemberger.I've been talking about my current phone situation.
My Z fold four is not workingproperly, which basically makes all the

(29:19):
reasons that I got it not functional. I still love the Z I love
the form factor of it. Ilove the folding aspect of it. I
love that opens up into this bigger, kind of small tablet kind of orientation,
and that you can drawl over thescreen with the s pen. But
screen orientation isn't working. The spen isn't working. That chip that controls

(29:41):
all of that is fritzen out ison the is just not working, and
it's making the rest of the phonereally not much usable. All the features
that you bought the phone for arenow kind of moot because that ship is
malfunctioning. The chip seems to workfor the first few seconds after a fresh
reboot, and then it fritzes out. Hoping that it's a firmware update.

(30:02):
No, who know when is thenext you know, Samsung Galaxy firmware update
going to come out for the zFold for probably within the next few months.
I think I've heard March bandied about, but we'll see, And I
don't know if that's going to reallyfix the issue. I have a feeling,
though I'm hopeful the firmware update fixesthe issue, I have a feeling

(30:25):
that I'm gonna have to send thephone back to Samsung for servicing. Either
way. I went back to forthe past for a couple of weeks.
My my Note nine here, whichmy wife still uses her Note nine to
with with no no issues that Iknow of. It's still a good phone,
it's still very usable. When Iwas using here for two weeks as
as a phone, it was itwas very functional. What I was asking

(30:49):
of it was showing its age,you know, video editing and making YouTube
shorts, and constantly on it withare my work. We use Microsoft Teams
to to talk, can send picturesand files and things like that. It
was just my phone was hot allthe time and it had to be constantly
attached to the charger because it wouldjust burn literally burn through the battery very

(31:10):
quickly. So I was not betweenthe z FOL four not working in the
Note nine showing its age. Inmy use case scenario, I was like,
I don't know what to do here. I looked at my looked at
my watch. When is the lasttime I upgraded a phone? I think
it was November of twenty twenty two. We are now in February of twenty

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twenty four, so a year anda half, a little maybe less than
year and a half, more thana year. I don't I can't count
the months right now on the fly. But typically before I even consider upgrading
a phone is at minimum two tothree years is when I usually upgrade a
phone. And it's been longer thanthat even in the past, like I've

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gone five years. What I usedto do was I used to not buy
the latest and greatest phone. Iwould buy one from you know one or
two, maybe even three generations ago. So in the old days where my
Z fold, well, I wouldhave got the Z four four. I
would have gone from Note nine tolike if I was still using the S.
If I was still using the Notenine today in February twenty twenty four,

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if I had gone that long thisthing came out in like twenty eighteen,
if I had gone six years betweenphone upgrades, which is totally fine,
phone used to day to day phoneuse is kind of plateaued. Yes,
batteries get better, Yes the camerasget better, but actually, just
like sending text messages, making phonecalls, getting on YouTube, scrolling social
media, a phone from twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen is still going to be

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just fine. Anybody out there stillrocking a Galaxy S eight is still going
to be having a just a dandyexperience day to day using a smartphone.
So typically typically what I how Iupgraded phones is I would have been on
this Note nine for five years orwhatever, and then I probably would have
upgraded to something like the S twentyone, Samsung X twenty one, something

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like that, but recently I've thepast two times now. When I upgraded
to the z Fold four, itwas the kind of latest and greatest.
I let the folding phone technology marinatea bit. I did not get the
first Z fold, I didn't getthe z Fold two, I did not
get the z Fold three. Isaid, Okay, if I'm gonna jump

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to the folding phone, I thinkfourth generation is probably They probably worked out
a lot of kinks and you canprobably jump on the tech now, which
is what I did with the zFold four. Now, the issue with
the z Fold four is not related, and I don't believe it's related to
the folding screenability because the sensor thatis malfunctioning doesn't It's not the sensor that

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necessarily detects if the screen is openor closed. It might be, but
I don't believe it is. It'sthe sensor that senses the phone's orientation in
space where how is it rotated orwhatever, and is the spen getting close
to the screen or not. It'sthat ship that's malfunctioning. So I don't
think related necessarily too folding to theFold four. I've only heard one other

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person on planet Earth. It wasa comment on my last episode said that
he had the same issue. Hewent back to his S twenty I think
he said his HER's note, whatis it, no twenty S twenty whatever?
It is the twenty something that becauseas z faul four was exhibiting the
exact same issues, He's the onlyother person on planet Earth that I've heard

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mentioned that he's had similar issues towhat I'm having. There's nobody unless I
checked it right now as I'm recordingagain, There's been nobody talking about it
on Reddit. There's been nobody talkingabout it on x or Twitter, whatever
you want to call it, twister. I've not seen this come up.
I've not seen any YouTube videos uploadedabout it. I'm not seeing any YouTube
shorts. I've not seen any tiktoks. I've not seen anybody talking about this

(34:51):
issue other than me and one otherhuman being who just so happens to listen
to geek therapy radio or found geektherapy Radio. So it's not a widespread
I think it's kind of unique tojust a few users, unless it's about
to pop off. Unless this littlechip in here was a time bomb,
Unless this the last firmware update wasa time bomb. For that chip and
then you see more people. Itstart happening to more people. But mine's

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been doing this for well over amonth, and I think if there's more
devices prone to it, that youwould hear a lot more about it.
Either way, Hope a firmware fix. Hope a firm more update fixes the
issue. I don't know either way. I needed a phone that could keep
up with modern workloads, which iswhy I upgraded to the S twenty four

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Ultra, which I'm holding up tothe camera here right now. Excellent phone.
There's a little bar the QR codeon the back here. See if
they need to blur that out whenI edit this video together. But by
the way, this is on YouTube, Geek Therapy radio podcast and YouTube.
Yeah, up to the I upgradedto the S twenty four Ultra, and
I've been putting it through its paces. I said, if I'm gonna if

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I need to upgrade a phone rightnow, I need a new phone that
can keep up. Then I need, you know, one of the best,
if not the best camera systems inany smartphone in the world right now.
I looked at S twenty three's butthe price wasn't that much different from
the S twenty four and the Stwenty four has arguably on paper, slightly

(36:19):
better camera specs. It's negligible tothe S twenty three. There's difference in
telephoto and the telephoto. Sensor sizeis bigger on so you have less telephone,
it less optical telephoto. On theS twenty four and the S twenty
three you have ten x optical zoomon that, but on the S twenty
four you have a bigger sensor.What's forty megapixels? What is it?
It's higher megapixel sensor in the telephotolens, but it's only five x optical.

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In the end, the difference betweenthe ten x you know, digital
on the S twenty four and thetenx optical in the S twenty three is
negligible. I've even seen people saythat the ten x zoom, even though
half of it is digital on theS twenty four, looks better than the
S twenty three because you have morepixel density, more megapixels on that sensor.

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I don't. That's not a modethat I can use very typically.
I use it sometimes. I justknow that it looks great. I know
that, especially when you have enoughlight and you're able to crank that ISO
down to as low as possible,which I think is like fifty ISO.
This on the S twenty four,at least, I don't know what the

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minimum is on the S twenty three. I think it's a minimum ISO on
my Note nine is a minimum offifty. But anyways, if you give
the phone enough light and you crankthat ISO down, you get stunning.
It's too good to be a phone, and it's very usable. I've already
made a video with it that Iput up on YouTube. Short set is
very popular. Did very well withthe S twenty four. It looks great.

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I'm trying to kind of lighten myEDC my everyday carry, and it's
fitting the bill. I do likethe S twenty four Ultra that I had
to upgrade it way sooner than Iusually like to. That's this episode of
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