October 27, 2017 • 51 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You are listening to rich on Tech Live. This is
the show where we talk tech, give you the inside
scoop on useful tech news, apps and websites. Plus I
help you get the most out of your gadgets by
answering your tech questions live. Hey, they're Umrich Tomro tech
reporter at KTLA TV in Los Angeles. You can learn
more about me at richontech dot TV. Welcome to everyone
(00:35):
watching on Facebook Live and welcome to you listening no
matter where. You are so happy you joined me today
on the show. Today we are gonna talk iPhone ten
upgrade deals. We're gonna talk about Amazon's new security camera
and the program where they drop off packages in your house.
Are you ready for that? Plus I've got a new
travel website that rewards you for booking with gift cards.
(00:58):
And I'm gonna have some Halloween Easter eggs that you
can use with Alexa. These are gonna be a lot
of fun. Phone lines will be open in just a moment.
You can call them with your questions at three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three. So if
you're watching this live, you know that today is the
(01:19):
big day for the iPhone pre orders. Well I should
say tonight Friday, October twenty seventh, and let's talk about
the iPhone ten. So iPhone ten goes on sale next
Friday in the stores, but you can pre order it
starting Friday, October twenty seven. So some of you will
be listening after that, but some of you are listening
(01:41):
right now. So here's the deal iPhone ten. You know
I played with it. My video on Facebook did twenty
two million views, so man, there are a lot of
people interested in this thing. It'll be available in silver
and gray, in sixty four gigs and two hundred and
fifty six gigs. So that one thousand dollars price, seeing
that's for the sixty four gig model. If you want
(02:03):
to bump up, I don't know what the price is,
but I think it's like eleven and fifty dollars for
the two fifty six gig. WHOA, it's a lot of
money here, folks. Now, Apple would like you to buy
the phone through the Apple Upgrade iPhone Upgrade program. Okay,
this is available at their Apple stores basically and Apple
dot com. That will cost you fifty dollars a month, okay,
(02:26):
and I'm gonna go over all the carriers. I'm gonna
go over eighteen and T, Verizon, T Mobile, and also
Apple's programs as well. So Apple also has a iPhone
trade up program, so you can trade in your eligible
smartphone for up to three hundred and seventy five dollars
in credit to lower the cost of the new phone.
And I you know, I'm kind of I'm kind of
both ways on that because I love using your your
(02:48):
old phone to upgrade, but most people don't have a
paid off old phone, which is part of the problem.
And also it's really nice. The beauty of iPhones is
that they hold their value really well. So it's kind
of nice that you can give your phone to someone
else in your family like I usually do, because iPhones,
even after the generation the new one comes out, the
old ones are still pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So now that's just the phone itself.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Don't think that when you walk out of that don't
think that when you walk out of that Apple store
you're only going to be buying that phone. You're gonna
be getting some accessories as well. So let me tell
you about the new accessories that Apple has for the iPhone.
Ten leather and silicone cases available in various colors. Those
start at forty dollars. Then you've got a brand new
leather case, which is the iPhone ten leather folio. That's
(03:34):
going to be one hundred dollars, so ten percent of
the price of the phone for a case. Then they
also have lightning docs for fifty dollars. So that's from
that is from Apple. Now let's talk about what AT
and T is doing. So as far as I can see,
not much. I don't have anything on them just yet
for what they're doing specifically for the iPhone, but they're
(03:56):
doing the orderings tonight at three am October two, twenty seventh,
so three am Eastern time, October twenty seventh for the
pre orders at AT and T.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Let's see for delivery.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And they say iPhone ten will be amazing for watching
direct TV now and all the entertainment you love. And
I am a subscriber to direct TV Now, so I
can't say it's a good little program for thirty I
pay thirty five bucks a month, some grandfathered in from
like day one, so yeah, their payment is thirty three
dollars and thirty four cents times thirty months. So if
you want to on AT and T, there you go.
(04:32):
Let's talk Verizon. So Verizon, let's see, they're doing the
pre orders again Friday, October twenty seventh. They'll be available
through the my Verizon app. They're really trying to get
you to buy a phone through their app, which is
kind of weird, so you can get up to So
their deal at Verizon is that you can get up
to three hundred dollars back on an iPhone ten with
device payment when you sign up for a Verizon Unlimited
(04:53):
and trade in a select phone for a limited time.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So I always tell people that the best.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Time to buy a phone is when the phone first
goes on sale because that's when the carriers have the
best deals. And it's always like that. So you wait
a couple of weeks and you know, these deals go away.
So I always recommend that if you think you want this,
it really is the best time because right now you're
getting that three hundred dollars trade in promo credit. That's
(05:17):
pretty good. So let me tell you about this with Verizon,
because there's a little bit of a catch and I
figured out something interesting about them. So Verizon has okay,
so it's one thousand dollars minus your three hundred dollars
trade in promo credit, and they apply that over twenty
four months.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So let's actually do the math on that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So if you take three hundred dollars divided by twenty
four so you get twelve dollars and fifty cents off
the price of the phone each month. And if we
know our math, it's fifty dollars minus what I just say.
It was fifty dollars minus twelve fifty, So fifty minus
twelve fifty would be thirty seven dollars and fifty cents.
(05:56):
And that's giving up your old phone. Now here's the
caveat and all this. When you return your old phone,
your old phone is probably worth more than three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Now sometimes they're not, which is the best part of
this deal.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So if you have a super old phone, it's actually
better to get that three hundred dollars promo credit, because
what they're doing is Verizon is taking a little bit
of a hit there. They just want to get you
on that new phone, so they're gonna give you more
than your phone is actually worth. So you got to
kind of weigh the pros and cons. If you have
an iPhone seven, it's probably worth more than three hundred dollars.
So if I go to let's see, if I go
(06:29):
to gazelle dot com, which is kind of a trade
in recycling site, and this one really does not give
you that much for your phone. But it's really easy
to get rid of your phone through this website, gazell
dot com. So if I go iPhone seven plus, let's
say it's on AT and T and it's a standard
thirty two gig phone, they are going to give me
and I'm in good condition, Oh wow, They're gonna give
(06:51):
me two hundred and eighty dollars. So Verizon is actually
a better deal in that scenario. So that is a
pretty good deal one hundred bucks for the old one.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I did talk to Verizon and I asked them about this.
I said, Hey, that twenty four month credit thing, what
if I pay off my phone early? And they said, no, Dice,
you lose the extra credits. So you have to use
your phone over twenty four months and in order to
get those credits. So that's kind of a catch. It's
not a contract, but what they're saying is Basically, if
you pay off your phone early, then they're not going
(07:22):
to give you that money off every month.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So I thought that was kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's basically a way of keeping you on Verizon as
long as you can.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Okay, let's see here.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So T Mobile, Okay, starting Friday, customers who trade in
their qualifying iPhone will get up to three hundred dollars
off their new iPhone ten or eight or eight plus
via twenty four month credits on T Mobile's interest free
installment plan. So again, T Mobile is doing the same thing.
You have to stay on their installment plan for twenty
four months to get that credit every month.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
If you don't, guess what, you lose the rest of
the credit.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So iPhone ten customers can get in on T Mobile's
new iPhone upgrade program. So down the road, let's say
you want to upgrade from the iPhone ten even though
you just got it. Customers can trade in their iPhone
ten when it's fifty percent paid off. So if you
go to twenty four months, basically that'd be twelve months
from now, so another year if you want to get
the new iPhone ten, which maybe it'll be the iPhone eleven.
(08:18):
I guess T Mobile will wipe out your remaining payments
you can upgrade to the next iPhone And yeah, I mean,
let's see, so that'd be worth five hundred. You know,
it's it's so confusing, isn't it so confusing? So here's
the equipment installation plan on T Mobile. If you do
a sixty four gigabyte phone and you put down two
hundred and eighty dollars, you get the phone for thirty
(08:39):
dollars a month. If you do their Jump on Demand,
which is zero down for a sixty four gig that's
going to be forty one dollars and fifty six cents
a month. Now I email T Mobile and I said, hey,
what the heck is the difference between the T Mobile
equipment installation installment plan and the Jump on Demand plan?
And here's the answer I got. So let me get
(09:00):
my friend here. Let's see, here's the answer I got. Okay,
So the difference is T iPhone upgrade program. That's like
the best program they have, Okay, T Mobile, it's the
simplest way basically.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Kay.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So that's it. So you okay, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You get you get the new phone for the price,
plus you get up a three hundred dollars off your
new phone via twenty four monthly installment.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So she mobile.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Okay, So that's the iPhone upgrade program. Then there's the
Equipment Installation Plan, which is interest free for twenty four months.
Then there's a Jump on Demand when you can you
get the option to get a new device every thirty days.
If you're on an eighteen month agreement. That's basically a
lease that is not a purchase of the phone. So
the other plans you can basically purchase the phone. The
(09:47):
Jump on Demand you are leasing the phone.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay. Wow, so complicated.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And I'm not going to go over Sprint because uh,
I'm not really recommending Sprint right now.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I know that's mean, right, let me let me look,
let me see what Sprint's doing. But you know the
other thing about Sprint is they're gonna be uh they're
gonna be merging with T Mobile it sounds like anyway.
So I don't see any special deal on Sprint. All
I know is at Sprint. Okay, So you can save
three hundred and fifty dollars by trading in your old phone,
that's pretty good. So and you can upgrade every twelve months. Okay,
(10:19):
so they're doing a pretty good very it's very competitive.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I have gone into these stores and I don't understand it.
Ninety percent of the time I'm sitting there talking to
the representative and I just like, my eyes are glazing over.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So if I don't understand it, I feel bad for
you guys, because this is my life and that's all
I'm doing is going through these things, and I just like,
I literally don't understand. When I bought my wife's phone
on AT and T, I bought it on one of
those installment plans, and I could not understand what I
was doing. I was like, all right, fine, at the
end of the day, I'm just gonna sign and we'll
see what happens. And I ended up paying it off
(10:54):
and it was fine.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
But it was so confusing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So anyway, there you have it. iPhone ten. A lot
of people waiting for this phone. It's going to be huge.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Next week.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You're gonna hear me talk a lot about it. So
I apologize in advance. Next week's gonna be an iPhone week.
So just so you know, all right, we got a
lot going on on the show, so you guys stick
around both online and on Facebook Live. Man, we got
so much more to talk about. I'm gonna talk about
Amazon's new security camera. Also, we've got Amazon's new service
(11:26):
that lets delivery people open your front door and place
your package inside.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Are you ready for that? I don't know. I'm kind
of torn on that one. We got to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Plus, we'll have your phone calls with your tech questions.
The phone number is three one zero five nine four
three zero zero three three one zero five nine four
three zero zero three. You are listening to Rich on
tech Live. I'm Rich Demiro. I'll be back with you
in just a bit. Welcome back to Rich on tech Live, Demiro.
(12:00):
This is the show where we talk about technology and
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and on the line, we've got a caller from.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Four to four zero four four zero. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Hey, Rich, how are you doing I'm doing fantastic? How
are you doing?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Good?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Nick? Where are you calling from? I don't know where
that four four zero is.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Cleveland, Ohio?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Oh wow, Cleveland. Are you watching on Fox eight? I hope, yes,
awesome the Tech Report? All right, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Nick?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
So I'm gonna prevord to the iPhone ten? Uh actually
tomorrow basically where Yeah, So I'm trying to figure out
should I get the belkan H charging pad or the
mofy one. I wonder which one'll be better for charging
the iPhone ten.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Oh, that's a good question. So I've got the on
let me put over here.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I've got uh, I've got the belt on my desk here,
and I've got the Mophi on my desk at work.
So you know, I I haven't really noticed a huge
difference between them. I mean, I think that the thing
about the phone is that you do have to hit
a sweet spot when you charge it. So, and Nick
is referring to the new wireless charging capability of both
(13:21):
the iPhone eight and the iPhone ten. I don't have
iPhone ten in my hands just yet, yes yet, But
I do have the iPhone eight and it does have
the wireless charging and I love it. So, you know,
how much are the prices any different on them?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I think they're They're pretty much the same, the Dulcan.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And the MOPy, So it really comes down to a
matter of personal preference. And the only thing I will say,
I'm noticing on the on the Belcan there is a
little indicator light, which I kind of like because it
tells me that my phone has hit the sweet spot
and that it's lighting up, so I know, and I
don't remember seeing that on the the other one. So
that might push me forward, because if you don't hit
(13:59):
the sweet spot on the phones and you get it
settled just right on the on the charging pad, it
will sit there and not charge, and you don't want
that to happen. So but but as you know, esthetically,
the Belcan is white and the Mophy is black. As
far as I know, I don't I don't know if
they come in different colors, but those are the colors
I have, so.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And they're both basically the same.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I mean, I'm just thinking back to putting my phone
on my desk and I don't remember seeing it light
up at all in any way. So I mean, your
phone obviously comes to life for a second to know
that it's on, that it's charging. But I like the
indicator light on the Belcon, so that might push me
over to the Belcon for my if I'm going to
choose one. So you know, these companies send these things
(14:41):
to me to try out. So that's kind of how
why I have both of them right now, because they
both wanted me to see how their charging system works.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But I think that's that would be.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
A defining factor for me with the Balcon one is
the little light because the indicator light, you can't really
discount the importance of not having to kind of mess
with your phone every couple of minutes to make sure
that it's still charging.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
So that's what I'd go for. Okay, cool, you you excited.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I am a very excited li iPhones sand. Yeah, I'll
be up pre ordering it online.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So what's the deal with the pre order because I'm
not doing that, So what's the deal with that?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
What's the I.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Mean, hold on, hang on here, what's the what's the
deal with that? So it's it's three am.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I think yeah, it's three am, yeah for the East Coast,
and then West coast I think it's twelve am.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Okay, interesting, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
So so three am forre Its Coast, I'll be up
the reason I want to pre order it because I
don't know if it's going to sell out and then
before I get to like a store, and then I
will be able to get till twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, no, exact it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I agree, you got this thing. I'm not now, I don't.
I don't have any inside knowledge on this. I don't
know anything more than anyone else. But I have a
feeling this is going to be very tough to get,
so I would say, yeah, this is going to be tough.
So and it's weird because I think it's interesting for
people to pre order stuff that they've never seen before,
(16:07):
you know what I mean. But at the same time, yeah,
it's it's you gotta do it, you know what I mean,
if you know you want it.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I've never ordered I've never pre ordered a phone before
until when I saw the iPhone ten because the brand
new you know, pre order a phone.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, well, and and you know a lot of people
order them because they kind of know what they're going
to get with Apple.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's going to be good. It's not you know, it's
going to be high quality.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And believe me, I played with this thing, and you
know I played with it at the Apple event and
it was great, and believe me, it was very nice
and for a first generation phone of this quality and
kind of what they've done here, it's it's pretty darn nice.
And I love the size because it's in between the
eight and the eight plus, so.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
It's a really nice size too.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
See.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I like it too because I have a seven plus
right now, which is like a five point five in
screen display. With the ten you get a regular sized
phone and more screen in the Plus.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yep, like we'll not, yeah exactly, because it's it's takes
up much more of the screen. So I think you're
gonna love it. I'm looking forward to playing with it
next week.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I can't wait.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's weird because you know, I go to these Apple
events and I get to play with this stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
But it's like a whirlwind, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You get it so fast, and it's like they take
it out of your hand and then you're like okay,
and then people are asking me questions like, well, wait,
how is the screen?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Was it brighter? Was it this? I'm like, oh, I
can't remember because it was so fast.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It all happened so fast, But but I do remember
being very impressed with a first generation kind of bezeleless
phone from Apple. So it's gonna take a little getting
used to the new swipe functionality, but I think you're
gonna be okay.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Okay, Well, thank you. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
All right, Nick, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Thanks for watching out there in Cleveland, Ohio. And let's
just go right to our next caller in the two.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Six to two area code. Two six to two. You
are on with Rich.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Please lower your radio behind you so I can hear
you properly. Okay, we can't get that one, so we're
going to go to eight o five eight oh five,
you are on with Rich.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Hey, Rich, do you have a quick question for you?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
This is Jr.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
From cama Rio.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hey, Jr.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Eight, I've got a new Apple eight sixty four gig
and I've been hearing these really strange train sounds coming
from the device, not touching it. Did you just hear
like a train horn? Have you heard anything like that?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
A train? Like a notification sound?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Yeah, like a notification sound. But I've got no applications
open or anything, and I've heard it like three times.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
The only thing I can times The only thing I
can think of is because it's funny because I just
heard a sound like that on my phone the other day,
and I think it's Facebook. I think Facebook might be
serving up that sound because I don't have notifications generally
turned on on my phone, but I think Facebook is
doing that, So I don't know. Maybe the commenters on
Facebook Live will join in, but I've noticed with my
(19:02):
phone now I wear an Apple Watch, so it's kind
of weird sometimes I see notification. Like basically, what I'm
saying is, sometimes I've heard noises coming from my phone
and I look at it and I don't see a
notification associated with it, so I'm kind of confused.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I don't think you were hacked. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
The only thing I would say is go into your
notifications and you know, turn off Facebook notifications fully and
see if that helps. But I think I'm kind of
sure that that's what I've been hearing on Facebook as well,
so hopefully that helps. I mean, unless Apple's playing some
prank on us and giving us the train whoosh.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's strange because, like I said, I checked
on the Apple support the other day on when I
first heard it, and they're saying that it's it's been
told before that people are hearing these sounds.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's weird.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Oh I don't know, maybe some kind of software glitch.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
The only the only glitch I did hear of was
the the glitch that made the the audio crackley from
the speaker or the headset of the phone. You know,
if you have your ear up to the heads that
you know the earpiece, and my phone actually did have
that problem and they did fix it with a software update,
so I don't hear that anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So that could be at JR. But man, what a
weird What a weird thing.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I know, when you hear a notification sound that you're
not familiar with, you're like, wait, what's going on? And
if you don't see it, it's really confusing. So great question.
Thanks for calling from CAMERIOH. So, who is ready to
have Amazon open your front door? Amazon announced two things
this week that are really strange but also kind of interesting.
(20:38):
So the first is a cloud camera, so they're now
competing with the nests of the world, the Logitech Circle Cam.
And this is a one twenty dollars camera that works
with Alexa and it features HD resolution, night vision two
A audio, twenty four to seven live stream, and algorithms
that detect motion. And the cool thing about this is
(21:00):
that you can say, Alexa, show me my blank cam,
you know, whatever you call it, and you'll just see
it right on your if you have an Alexa show
or if you have an Echo spot, or if you
have a fire TV or a fire tablet.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
So that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So you know, this is a competitive place now. These
home security cameras. I've got a couple of them, and
I love them.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
They're just great. They really are nice. They give you
peace of mind.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You can record twenty four to seven, you can go
back and see what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What I like about this one.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Let's take a look at the It basically comes with
the essentials for keeping an eye on your home, including
access to the last twenty four hours of clips. So
that's an advantage right there if you get a Nest camera.
If you get a Nest they do not give you
access to the last twenty four hours. It's literally just
a live stream. So if you wanted to go back
and see something that happened, you couldn't unless you pay.
So with the Amazon one, you're actually getting a free
(21:54):
day worth of going back. Now, if something were to
ever happen in your home, and hopefully it doesn't, this
would come in handy because you would get to see
review what happened with the camera, and so you can
go back for twenty four hours and that's free. So
Basic here, So if you want to get thirty days
or I'm sorry, if you want to get more than
(22:15):
just twenty four hours, you can get seven dollars a
month for Basic that gives you seven days for up
to three cameras. Extended gives you ten dollars a month
for fourteen days, and pro gives you twenty dollars a
month for thirty days for up to ten cameras. So
this is this is very competitive. And yes, I apologize
to the folks in the live stream for saying that
word with the A not Amazon, the other one, because
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I know it activates everything, so sorry, I normally don't
do that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But this is very competitive.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I pay I think seventy five dollars a year for
just one Nest cam for the I think it's ten days.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So this is this is this is big.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Amazon is really trying to get into the space. So
but here's what they really.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Want you to do. Amazon wants you to.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Let their survey people open up your door so they're
delivery people. This is a new service called Amazon Key.
I'm sure you've heard of this because it's been talked
about in the news a lot. But this is going
to be available in thirty seven cities across the US,
including Los Angeles and many others, and it will grant
your access to your house when the delivery person comes.
But not just delivery people, also all the other things
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that Amazon is trying to sell on their service on
their site now, including made service, dog walking service, and
also professional services like you know, hanging a camera or
hanging maybe mounting your camera or mounting your TV. But again,
the camera is called the Amazon Cloud Cam. And here's
the deal. Starting November eighth, when you order on Amazon,
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if you have this new Amazon Key program, literally when
you're checking out, you select in home delivery. So instead
of saying one day, two day, same day, you say
in home and they will come to your house. And
Amazon is not doing this, They don't get access to
your house.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Through a key.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
What you have to do is you have to replace
the lock on your door with a special smart lock
and that this starts at tw hundred and.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Fifty bucks, by the way, not cheap.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So you get a smart lock, and what happens is
when the delivery driver gets near your home, they request access.
Amazon verifies via GPS that they're at your house, and
then the cloud cam which I just told you about,
starts recording, and then your door is unlocked. So no
access codes or keys are ever provided to delivery drivers.
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And you also get Amazon's happiness guarantee. And some folks
on the chat are saying that we don't get twenty
four to seven live stream with the let's see, Yeah,
you get twenty four hours of clips. So I'm not
sure with the camera what that means with clips, So
I guess maybe every time it sees motion it will
make a little it'll trigger a recording, so you might
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not be able to scrub back the whole twenty four hours.
So but yeah, the Amazon key is really fascinating to me.
So the the other thing you could do not just
get your package. So basically they open your door, they
slip your package inside, the camera records it. It sends
you a little notification on your phone that says, hey,
your package was delivered. Here's a video of it, here's proof,
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and then they close your door and they walk away
and this okay, So why does Amazon want to do this? Well,
because a lot of times what happens with Amazon is
people Amazon no longer requires deliveries on like ninety nine
percent of things you buy from them, even if it's
an expensive item, which is crazy. But the problem is
Amazon's numbers. People have crunched the numbers and said, you
(25:33):
know what, it's cheaper for us to send out another
five hundred dollars gadget than to request a signature because
that takes time and energy.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So they just figure it's all built.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Into the price of the products nowadays. And what they're
saying is with this new program, they can cut down
on the shrinkage as they call it, which is basically
theft packages stolen from front doors. And Amazon has done
the numbers. Believe me, their data driven company, they know
that people are going to do this and it's going
to be better for them. So the other thing you
can do once you have this is that you can
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also get a maid service from Merrymaids, pet sitters and
dog walkers from Rover and also twelve hundred services from
other providers across sixty professions. So basically, what I'm saying is,
if you need your toilet unclogged while you're at work.
Let's say you leave for work in the morning, the
toilet's clogged, you literally request a plumber through Amazon. They
will come to your house, open your front door, do
(26:25):
whatever they need to do, and walk out. How crazy
is that? This is the world that we live in today.
Just amazing Amazon, Amazon Key, and Amazon Cloud Cam. Who's
going to be signing up? Tell me how it goes
for you. You're listening to rich on Tech Live. More of
your calls after this. Plus I'm going to talk about
(26:45):
a new travel website that rewards you for booking through
them with gift cards. Plus I've got a great video
editing app for your phone, both iPhone and Android, so
stay around for that and I'll have more of your
calls after this at three one zero five nine four
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after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech Live. I'm
rich Demiro talking tech with you on this wonderful day.
Thanks so much for joining me. I appreciate it and
uh more about me At richontech dot TV. We've got
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a caller now from the nine oh nine area code
nine oh nine you are on with Rich What's on?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
What's on your mind? Today?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It's Sam from pimone. I got another quick question for you. Hey, Sam, Hey,
I just finally got around and hooking up my Xbox
one and I don't have enough hdm my hookups in
the back of my TV. Now. I know they make
these four and five into one deals, but does anybody
make one that's you know, that like switches automatically when
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the unit is on.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Ooh, that's a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I don't think so, because the problem is that would
be expensive. I mean, these these systems you know you're
talking about you're referring to. It's like, I think it's
called CEC, which is like component control or something like that.
But basically all the new gadgets like an Apple TV
will when you press it, you know, when you press
the power button on the Apple TV remote, it will
turn on your TV and tune it to the right
(28:25):
input HDMI input. So that's kind of what you're referring to.
I don't know of one of those that does that.
The best place to look for something like that sam
is monoprice dot com. The only other thing I could
recommend is maybe look for one that has a remote control.
I know a lot of them have little remotes, but
from what I've seen, all these Hdmi switchers are about
fifty bucks and they're all pretty cheap. And you know,
(28:49):
the one that you decide to get, you know, it
could be good, it could be bad. It's just you
got to kind of look at the reviews and see
what people like. But I don't know one that switches
by itself off the top of my head, but I
think that the best place you would go to find
that would be something like Monoprice. The reality is with
the I know, if you have an older TV and
(29:10):
you know the HDMI ports are kind of at a premium,
it could be a challenge. And I it's weird because
I with my old TV, I almost got one of
those switchers, but I ended up.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I didn't want to.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I want to do anything possible to avoid those switchers
because they're not it's not a clean setup. I like
a clean setup. So my father in law he actually
has one, and you know he's got a I think
it's a push button or it could have remote.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I'm not really sure. But he likes it. It's great.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I mean he he wanted it because he was going
from fireTV to Apple TV. He had some shows on one,
some shows on the other. But I think he's uh,
I think he's settled on fireTV. He likes that slightly
better than the Apple TV because it's faster. Good question,
Sam three one zero five nine four three zero zero
three three one zero five to nine four three zero
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zero three.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Phone lines are open.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So let me tell you about this new website called
upside dot com. This is a new travel website and
it's from the guy who founded priceline dot com. Remember
that website, Priceline. I was one of the first people
ever to use Priceline. By the way, I was in
a price line ad back in the day, if you
can believe it, because I heard about this website Priceline
dot com, and I bought tickets to Vegas, two tickets
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via plane for twenty dollars each because I named my
own price, and I thought this was amazing. I told
everyone I knew about it, and no one believed me. Right,
and then they emailed a bunch of people that use
this website first you know, Priceline, and they said, hey,
will you send it a picture?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
We want to use you guys in an ad.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
So I sent him my picture and next thing you know,
I'm in USA today, my little tiny picture. And I
asked Jay I interviewed him recently, and I said, hey,
do you remember those ads?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I was in it?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
And he said, oh, my gosh, I do. Anyway, he's
back with a new website called upside dot com. And
the difference with this website is that they give you
a gift card for booking through them.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So today I looked at a flight.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It was a standard price, same price as it was
on every other website. But with this upside dot com,
if you book through there, you basically get a ten
dollars Amazon gift card. So why not, you know, if
you can get something extra. So here's the deal. They've
got a couple of things that they do differently. They
have this new big data travel engine, so it shows
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you the top six flight choices and the top six
hotel choices that when you buy them together, save you
money and help you on your business trip. So this
is mainly for business travelers. That's kind of what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So they you know, it's like basically when I book
I book my.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Own flights for work, and it's a lot of work.
You're always comparing, you know, this and that. So I
noticed today when I went on Upside and kind of
looked up a sample flight, it kind of picked times
at the like the top flights were like the perfect
times for business travelers, Like they're not gonna give you
a red eye, They're gonna give you like the flight
was at a perfect time in the morning, perfect time
in the afternoon, and I thought it was great and
it was really fast to kind of find my flights.
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So when you purchase a trip, you get a gift
card at Amazon or fifty other retailers, and once you
select your flight in your hotel, they actually show you
another kind of itinerary that might save you some money
or get you a bigger gift card. So I'm guessing
on the back end they've got some deals with certain
hotels where you're like, hey, I want to book a
Weston and you kind of go through the whole flow
(32:17):
of booking, and then at the end, before you press book,
they say Hey, by the way, if you stay at
a Let's see, because Marriott's the same Let's see Weston.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
If you stay at Hyatt, we'll give you an extra
twenty dollars on your gift card because they have a
deal with that Hyatt.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So that's what I'm guessing they're doing. I don't know
that to be true, but that would make sense.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
That's a great business model, by the way, because when
it comes to booking hotel rooms, I mean realistically, they're
kind of all the same. Let's be honest. You're staying
at a standard hotel room like a Hampton In. I mean,
what's the difference between that and a residence in.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Not much. I personally like Hampton In. It's better.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But that's my favorite cheap hotel, by the way, and
it's not even that cheap anymore. It used to be
like one hundred bucks a night. Now it's like I've
seen them for like two three hundred. I'm like, what
for a Hampton. You also get your Frequent Flyer miles
no Worries credit card points. But here's the other thing
they do at upside dot com. They also give you
a twenty four to seven concierge level customer service by phone,
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chat and text, so basically you have the same customer
service that you would get if you were traveling on
a big corporate budget. So I think it's really interesting.
And you can still cancel all your flights and everything,
and you're well, your flights obviously have all these crazy rules,
but the hotel rooms are not sort of prepaid, so
you're good.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
You can still cancel them and change them if you
need to. There it is upside dot com.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
It's meant for kind of entrepreneurs, small businesses, people that
don't have the giant concurs of the world. So that's
what we use at our work is Concur, which is
kind of a big, big corporate travel company. Funny, I
was in Cabo and who is partying like crazy having
a giant party at my hotel? But Concur the big
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company that I have to justify all of my expense
reports too.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
So I'm sitting there.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
In Cabo on vacation and I go up to the
Concur people. I'm like, oh, you guys are having a nice,
big fun party and I gotta justify my three dollars
Starbucks to your software program, thank you very much, And
they laughed, But that's what it is. It's all like algorithmic.
It's like it kind of looks through your expense report
and makes you justify things that it thinks are sort
of out of the norm. Three one zero five nine
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four three zero zero three is the phone number. The
lines are open. You can call in right now. Three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three. Let
me tell you about a cool app that I am
just digging. I was on this panel last week, and
you know, we asked the panelists kind of some of
their tools and tricks and tips and all that good stuff,
and this one was really cool and I never even
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heard of it. It's called video Shop, and this lets
you edit video on your iPhone or your Android. Video
Shop is the is the app, and basically video Shop
is two dollars. I bought it for the iPhone and
it's also for Android, so two bucks. And it does everything.
I mean, from what I've seen, this is really full feature, so.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
It lets you do sound effects, it lets you do music,
you can trim out little parts of the video you
don't want.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
You can do slow motion, combined.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Clips, reverse duplicate subtitles, animated titles, filters, transitions, photos and
it's it's really cool. I used it the other day
to make a little compilation video on Snapchat. I took
like five little pictures and put them together.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It was so easy.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Video Shop is the website. And by the way, I'll
put all this stuff on the on my website. Rich
on tech dot tv, I have show notes for each
podcast and you can see them there. All right, three
one zero, you're on with Rich three one zero? What's
going on? Who am I talking to?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Who's this rock Sandecan? How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Thanks? Rich? I love your week.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
It cool.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I have a qritch. I'm okay, I'm okay. I'm a
little concerned about I have an iPhone Success Plus, which
I love. I actually I edit and I even edit
on the phone.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
It's really great.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Comes with the I movie. But I noticed the latest
OS up up upgrade. I know I'll have to get
a new phone soon. I notice the my phone drains faster,
my battery dreams faster. And I don't know if that's
an because the OS update, or it's just my phone
is aging.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Or well, it's probably a little bit of both.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Now have you done all the updates that have come out,
because there's been like four of them, I think, or three. Okay,
so you've done them all, okay, and and so you've
restarted your phone and it still happens. It drains like faster,
like like significantly faster than you remember.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
It's it's after you know, I particycle like crazy, and
it's still it's still draining. And it's funny because I
just put up five K this, my five K Retina
Apple Apple, my iMac.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Really it seems like it's oh, they're great, and and
it seems like it's even Maybe it's also I don't know,
because it's really changed because the iPhone and the computer,
you know, they sink in like automatically, and maybe that's
it too. I don't know if that's all in my mind.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
It was well, okay, what do you mean they sink automatically?
Are you plugging it into sync or are you doing
wireless sink?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Well? I do, I defin to do both well if.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
You yeah, if you're doing if you're doing wireless sink,
you know through iTunes, that could be draining the battery
if it's sitting next to your computer all day and
it's doing that like over and over.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
It could be a couple things. So here's what I recommend.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
So first off, I think that you have to go
through your phone, and it could be because your phone
is aging.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
You said this was a success or a six success plus. Okay, okay,
success plus. I mean that's really not that old, so
you should not have problems. The only thing, when did
you get this phone? Like, did you buy it when
it first came out, like the first day?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
I bought it last year in Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
So you didn't get one of the first batches because
the first batch of six S devices were definitely recalled
because of battery issues. My wife's was part of that,
and I brought it to the Apple store and they
gave her a new battery. So I would go on
the website, Go on Apple. Okay, let me tell you
what to search. Okay, so go to Apple battery replacement. Okay, sorry,
(38:20):
Apple battery recall. Let me see if that brings it up.
So if you go to Okay, here it is so
iPhone success program for unexpected shutdown issues. Now this just
says six S, but I'm not sure if it means
success and success plus put in your serial number, okay,
and it will tell you if your battery is one
of the recalled batteries. Now I put in my wife's
serial number and boom, it was immediately recalled. I brought
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it into the Apple store two days later. She had
not a brand new phone, but they just replaced the battery.
And what would happen is the telltale sign is that
your battery drains really fast, and it could be that
it could be just something else on your phone after
the upgrade. But what I'd recommend to do Roxand is
look at that first off. And then the second thing
I would do is I would look at what you
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have installed on your phone, So go through, get rid
of all the apps you don't need, reset your phone,
see if that helps. And then the third thing I
would do is go through in your settings and look
at your location services and make sure all the apps
that you think don't need access to your location all
the time set that to only when using this app,
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and hopefully that helps. Otherwise you can go nuclear on it,
and you can wipe the entire phone, and then you
can start over and install everything once again on the phone.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
So hopefully that helps.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I know your success should not be breaking down at
this point. I mean it's not that old so and
the new update, I mean, yeah, you might take a
little battery hit, but it shouldn't be that bad. I
think something's hanging up on this phone. So good question, Roxanne.
Thanks so much for calling in today. I appreciate it.
All right, coming up more of your calls at three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
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It's been a blast. Three one zero five nine four
three zero zero three. Let's go to the nine O
nine area code nine O nine you're on with Rich.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Hello, Hi, who am I speaking with? My Name's are
Vella Arvela. How you doing today?
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Doing good? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (40:48):
I have a question.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
Sure I got a sam Fun fifty inch smart TV
about four years ago and is months ago. All of
a sudden the picture went dark, so I believe if
they have picture tubes whatever nowadays they have must be
(41:10):
burnt out. I still had full audio. Okay, My question
is in that it was only four years old. Do
you have a recommendation on a TV that I actually
I went online and this is apparently a common problem.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Well, okay, let me just tell you one thing real
quick about the common because I see this a lot.
Like basically, anything you search online, you'll find someone that
had the same thing happened. It doesn't necessarily mean it's
a common thing. Like I will look for the most
minute things that are happening with my gadgets, and like
someone will say that this similar thing happened. So it
doesn't mean it's necessarily common. But yes, someone could have
(41:49):
experienced it. But the whole Okay, so the screen is dark,
and but you still hear sound.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
What can I help you with a recommendation? Maybe on
a brand that I thought Samsung's were supposedly good. Also,
I hear sonis are good. But four years for a TV?
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Yeah, no, way fifty yeah, no, that a TV does
not last. No, four years is a lifetime of a
TV is way longer. I had my visio for I
think six years and it was still just perfect exactly.
And now my newer TVs they're going, they're going, you know,
they're a little bit you know, they're a little bit newer,
but they're just fine. No, a TV should last longer.
(42:31):
Was there anything that happened to this TV? Did it
get dropped, did it get water? Anything that could have
been weird about it?
Speaker 6 (42:37):
No, I was just sitting there watching it. It was
actually on, and all of a sudden the screen went dark.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Okay, so now some people in the past have said
that this could be an overheating problem. It could have
you tried spraying some canned air into the back of
it cleaning it out. I have not, Okay, so that
could be one thing. So what I do first is,
I mean, do you like this TV? Or you are
you fine with buying a new TV because new TVs
are not that expensive these days. Although I feel like
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I understand that you feel a little bit burned by
getting a TV that's only four years old and you
got to pay for a new one, so you just
want to get a new one and cut your losses
or do you want to try to make this thing work?
Speaker 6 (43:12):
Well, I don't want to pay for repair because at.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
That point, yeah, exactly, I understand, because if you pay
for repair that's three four hundred bucks. You can get
a new TV for that price. So here's my rankings
of TVs. So if you want the best value in
a TV, I would recommend going with a Viseo.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
So I have a Visio as my main TV. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
I mean the colors when I compare it to my
Sony TV are definitely not as good. It's just not
as good quality. But does that mean that when people
come to my house you're like, oh, this TV is horrendous. No, No,
you don't notice if you're not looking at them faced
to you know, side by side. But once you see
a Sony you will say, oh my gosh, you know
this is this is crazy? How much better it is?
(43:52):
So what I think at the pinnacle at the top
is definitely Sony. And then after that I would say
that LG and Sam's are both really good. Now you
don't want to get another Samsung because you already feel
like you've gotten burned by them.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
So that leaves LG.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
So Sony's going to be really expensive, so you probably
don't want that one. I would probably recommend an LG
or a Visio. I mean, I think Visio. I can't
recommend video enough. I was actually the first person in
the nation to recommend and showcase Viseo on the Today
Show going back ten years now. Can you believe that?
And I'll never never forget. I couldn't believe it because
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I was I was at Senet at the time, and
I remember this guy at Visio emailing me and saying, Hey,
this a forty two inch TV for two thousand bucks.
And at the time, every other TV that I tested
was like closer to three or four thousand dollars, And
I said, how can you do that? And sure enough
that company you've seen him. I mean, they're everywhere. They
have sold so many TVs. Now there's two other TVs
(44:49):
I like that I can recommend. If you want to
get a smart TV with the smarts built in. There's
a really nice TV from Roku and TCL. It's called
the TCL Roku TV, So that one's really nice. And
then another one I really like is from Amazon called
the Amazon Element TV. And if you go on their website,
just search Amazon Element. And the cool thing about those
(45:09):
two TVs is that one has Roku built in, which
is a nice Roku interface, and one has one has
Amazon Fire TV built in. And not only do they
have those built in, you can also attach an antenna
to those TVs and watch your local programming, which is
really nice in.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
This day and age.
Speaker 6 (45:28):
Oh whoa, Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yeah, so and I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Obviously any TV can take an antenna, but not necessarily.
These integrate it into the smart TV screen, so that's
the big difference. Of course, you can always switch an input,
but this makes it on your main TV. So I've
tested both of those TVs.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
They're really cool.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
They're a great price point, so I think that that
would probably be a good good value for you.
Speaker 6 (45:53):
So perfect I wrote it all down.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
Watch your show every day.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Oh well, thank you so much for calling. I appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
All right, wow you guys fast and furious with the
questions here, let me get two questions real quick. Let
me just do one question here real quick. Okay, this
is from is Darro is Isidro?
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Is it ro?
Speaker 2 (46:17):
I don't know, Sorry I totally butchered your name, but
here's the question. Mister Demiro was wondering where my wife
and I can sell are used but an excellent shape,
Galaxy Note fours and Galaxy S fives. We have two
of each and recently opted out for iPhone sevens. Ooh,
your time and help are greatly appreciated. Well, here's the deal.
So what I would say, I would try Facebook first.
(46:40):
That's the first place to sell these things. And I'm
not saying Facebook marketplace. Just put a post on Facebook
and say, hey, anyone want to buy a Galaxy Note
four or a Galaxy S five. You never know, you've
got a lot of friends out there someone might need
a new phone. That's my first place because that's going
to be you cheapest because it doesn't cost you anything
and you can do the transaction with your friends or
your neighbors. Then here's my rankings. If you want the
(47:03):
most money but the most work, go on eBay. So
eBay is going to be the most work to sell
your phone, but you're also going to get the most
return on it. And now both these phones Galaxy S
five Galaxy Note four that you're not gonna get very
much for these they're not worth that much, but you
know you will find someone to buy them, I assume.
But you're not gonna get that much. At least on eBay,
you'll get a fair market price because you know it's
(47:27):
a perfect store. Glide g l yde. This is a
place to buy and sell phones. Now you don't have
to do that much work with Glide, but you also
don't get as much. So I'm going down the list here,
so you're getting less and less everything I mentioned. But
Glide might not support these two models. You can definitely
sell iPhones on there and some of the newer Samsungs,
(47:49):
but not maybe not these devices.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
So that's Glide g l y d E.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
And finally, if you want to just unload these things
as fast as you can, just go to get zel
dot com and Gazelle is fast. That's the name that
will be the fastest way to unload a phone, but
you also get the very least And if you want
to do it locally, there's a service called Eco ATM.
You can look up those in your area. They're owned
by Coinstar, and you literally just deposit your phone in
(48:16):
this thing. It's like a little recycling kind of electronics
recycling bin, but it's digital, so you throw your phone
in there and it gives you like a little gift
card for whatever it's worth. These phones will not be
worth very much, so good question. Thanks for asking that.
All right, before we go, let me just tell you
some Alexa Easter egg So if you haven't, oh gosh,
I said it again. Sorry if you have one of
those Amazon Smart sneakers. If you have an Amazon Smart Speaker,
(48:40):
here's some of the things you can say for Halloween.
You can say, blank, what should I be for Halloween?
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Blank? What's your favorite scary movie? Blank? What are you
being for Halloween? Blank?
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Let's get spooky? Blank, sing a spooky song. Or you
can ask for some Halloween jokes. You can ask for
some Halloween hacks. And if you have kids at home,
you can do Scooby Doo Mystery theater. This is an
interactive storytelling skill for kids and families. So basically all
(49:14):
you have to do is say, oh, you have to
enable the skill and say blank open Scooby Doo. And
I think if you just say that to a it
will say I don't have that skill yet, can you please?
You want me to enable that skill? And then you
can enable the skill. So again blank open Scooby Doo. So,
if you want to have some fun with miss A.
(49:36):
You can say what's your favorite scary movie?
Speaker 1 (49:38):
What are you being for Halloween? Halloween jokes?
Speaker 2 (49:41):
And if you're into Stranger Things, I've got some Halloween
some Stranger Things Easter eggs for you, so you can
say ay yes. And by the way, I see on
the Facebook Live Adam asks can a spit out candy? Yes,
she can because you can order stuff through her, so
you can ask for hey, order me some candy.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Try saying to A for Stranger Things? Are we in
the upside down? Friends? Don't lie? Do you like waffles? Now?
Speaker 2 (50:11):
I only watched the first episode of Stranger Things, so
I guess I need to catch up on that. So
I'm not versed on the whole waffle hack, but I
know that's a recurring theme because Lift is doing some
rides with a Stranger Things mode, and I guess the
waffle is there too.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
That's gonna do it? Wow, thanks so much for joining
me today.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Yeah, well, usually I do a little rapid fire segment here,
but I think I think we're run out of time here,
so I gotta go. You can find me on the
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What is going on?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You are listening to rich on Tech Live. This is
the show where we talk tech, give you the inside
scoop on useful tech news, apps and websites. Plus I
help you get the most out of your gadgets by
answering your tech questions live. Hey, they're Umrich Tomro tech
reporter at KTLA TV in Los Angeles. You can learn
more about me at richontech dot TV. Welcome to everyone
(00:35):
watching on Facebook Live and welcome to you listening no
matter where. You are so happy you joined me today
on the show. Today we are gonna talk iPhone ten
upgrade deals. We're gonna talk about Amazon's new security camera
and the program where they drop off packages in your house.
Are you ready for that? Plus I've got a new
travel website that rewards you for booking with gift cards.
(00:58):
And I'm gonna have some Halloween Easter eggs that you
can use with Alexa. These are gonna be a lot
of fun. Phone lines will be open in just a moment.
You can call them with your questions at three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three. So if
you're watching this live, you know that today is the
(01:19):
big day for the iPhone pre orders. Well I should
say tonight Friday, October twenty seventh, and let's talk about
the iPhone ten. So iPhone ten goes on sale next
Friday in the stores, but you can pre order it
starting Friday, October twenty seven. So some of you will
be listening after that, but some of you are listening
(01:41):
right now. So here's the deal iPhone ten. You know
I played with it. My video on Facebook did twenty
two million views, so man, there are a lot of
people interested in this thing. It'll be available in silver
and gray, in sixty four gigs and two hundred and
fifty six gigs. So that one thousand dollars price, seeing
that's for the sixty four gig model. If you want
(02:03):
to bump up, I don't know what the price is,
but I think it's like eleven and fifty dollars for
the two fifty six gig. WHOA, it's a lot of
money here, folks. Now, Apple would like you to buy
the phone through the Apple Upgrade iPhone Upgrade program. Okay,
this is available at their Apple stores basically and Apple
dot com. That will cost you fifty dollars a month, okay,
(02:26):
and I'm gonna go over all the carriers. I'm gonna
go over eighteen and T, Verizon, T Mobile, and also
Apple's programs as well. So Apple also has a iPhone
trade up program, so you can trade in your eligible
smartphone for up to three hundred and seventy five dollars
in credit to lower the cost of the new phone.
And I you know, I'm kind of I'm kind of
both ways on that because I love using your your
(02:48):
old phone to upgrade, but most people don't have a
paid off old phone, which is part of the problem.
And also it's really nice. The beauty of iPhones is
that they hold their value really well. So it's kind
of nice that you can give your phone to someone
else in your family like I usually do, because iPhones,
even after the generation the new one comes out, the
old ones are still pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So now that's just the phone itself.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Don't think that when you walk out of that don't
think that when you walk out of that Apple store
you're only going to be buying that phone. You're gonna
be getting some accessories as well. So let me tell
you about the new accessories that Apple has for the iPhone.
Ten leather and silicone cases available in various colors. Those
start at forty dollars. Then you've got a brand new
leather case, which is the iPhone ten leather folio. That's
(03:34):
going to be one hundred dollars, so ten percent of
the price of the phone for a case. Then they
also have lightning docs for fifty dollars. So that's from
that is from Apple. Now let's talk about what AT
and T is doing. So as far as I can see,
not much. I don't have anything on them just yet
for what they're doing specifically for the iPhone, but they're
(03:56):
doing the orderings tonight at three am October two, twenty seventh,
so three am Eastern time, October twenty seventh for the
pre orders at AT and T.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Let's see for delivery.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And they say iPhone ten will be amazing for watching
direct TV now and all the entertainment you love. And
I am a subscriber to direct TV Now, so I
can't say it's a good little program for thirty I
pay thirty five bucks a month, some grandfathered in from
like day one, so yeah, their payment is thirty three
dollars and thirty four cents times thirty months. So if
you want to on AT and T, there you go.
(04:32):
Let's talk Verizon. So Verizon, let's see, they're doing the
pre orders again Friday, October twenty seventh. They'll be available
through the my Verizon app. They're really trying to get
you to buy a phone through their app, which is
kind of weird, so you can get up to So
their deal at Verizon is that you can get up
to three hundred dollars back on an iPhone ten with
device payment when you sign up for a Verizon Unlimited
(04:53):
and trade in a select phone for a limited time.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So I always tell people that the best.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Time to buy a phone is when the phone first
goes on sale because that's when the carriers have the
best deals. And it's always like that. So you wait
a couple of weeks and you know, these deals go away.
So I always recommend that if you think you want this,
it really is the best time because right now you're
getting that three hundred dollars trade in promo credit. That's
(05:17):
pretty good. So let me tell you about this with Verizon,
because there's a little bit of a catch and I
figured out something interesting about them. So Verizon has okay,
so it's one thousand dollars minus your three hundred dollars
trade in promo credit, and they apply that over twenty
four months.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So let's actually do the math on that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So if you take three hundred dollars divided by twenty
four so you get twelve dollars and fifty cents off
the price of the phone each month. And if we
know our math, it's fifty dollars minus what I just say.
It was fifty dollars minus twelve fifty, So fifty minus
twelve fifty would be thirty seven dollars and fifty cents.
(05:56):
And that's giving up your old phone. Now here's the
caveat and all this. When you return your old phone,
your old phone is probably worth more than three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Now sometimes they're not, which is the best part of
this deal.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So if you have a super old phone, it's actually
better to get that three hundred dollars promo credit, because
what they're doing is Verizon is taking a little bit
of a hit there. They just want to get you
on that new phone, so they're gonna give you more
than your phone is actually worth. So you got to
kind of weigh the pros and cons. If you have
an iPhone seven, it's probably worth more than three hundred dollars.
So if I go to let's see, if I go
(06:29):
to gazelle dot com, which is kind of a trade
in recycling site, and this one really does not give
you that much for your phone. But it's really easy
to get rid of your phone through this website, gazell
dot com. So if I go iPhone seven plus, let's
say it's on AT and T and it's a standard
thirty two gig phone, they are going to give me
and I'm in good condition, Oh wow, They're gonna give
(06:51):
me two hundred and eighty dollars. So Verizon is actually
a better deal in that scenario. So that is a
pretty good deal one hundred bucks for the old one.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I did talk to Verizon and I asked them about this.
I said, Hey, that twenty four month credit thing, what
if I pay off my phone early? And they said, no, Dice,
you lose the extra credits. So you have to use
your phone over twenty four months and in order to
get those credits. So that's kind of a catch. It's
not a contract, but what they're saying is Basically, if
you pay off your phone early, then they're not going
(07:22):
to give you that money off every month.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So I thought that was kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's basically a way of keeping you on Verizon as
long as you can.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Okay, let's see here.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So T Mobile, Okay, starting Friday, customers who trade in
their qualifying iPhone will get up to three hundred dollars
off their new iPhone ten or eight or eight plus
via twenty four month credits on T Mobile's interest free
installment plan. So again, T Mobile is doing the same thing.
You have to stay on their installment plan for twenty
four months to get that credit every month.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
If you don't, guess what, you lose the rest of
the credit.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So iPhone ten customers can get in on T Mobile's
new iPhone upgrade program. So down the road, let's say
you want to upgrade from the iPhone ten even though
you just got it. Customers can trade in their iPhone
ten when it's fifty percent paid off. So if you
go to twenty four months, basically that'd be twelve months
from now, so another year if you want to get
the new iPhone ten, which maybe it'll be the iPhone eleven.
(08:18):
I guess T Mobile will wipe out your remaining payments
you can upgrade to the next iPhone And yeah, I mean,
let's see, so that'd be worth five hundred. You know,
it's it's so confusing, isn't it so confusing? So here's
the equipment installation plan on T Mobile. If you do
a sixty four gigabyte phone and you put down two
hundred and eighty dollars, you get the phone for thirty
(08:39):
dollars a month. If you do their Jump on Demand,
which is zero down for a sixty four gig that's
going to be forty one dollars and fifty six cents
a month. Now I email T Mobile and I said, hey,
what the heck is the difference between the T Mobile
equipment installation installment plan and the Jump on Demand plan?
And here's the answer I got. So let me get
(09:00):
my friend here. Let's see, here's the answer I got. Okay,
So the difference is T iPhone upgrade program. That's like
the best program they have, Okay, T Mobile, it's the
simplest way basically.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Kay.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So that's it. So you okay, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You get you get the new phone for the price,
plus you get up a three hundred dollars off your
new phone via twenty four monthly installment.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So she mobile.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Okay, So that's the iPhone upgrade program. Then there's the
Equipment Installation Plan, which is interest free for twenty four months.
Then there's a Jump on Demand when you can you
get the option to get a new device every thirty days.
If you're on an eighteen month agreement. That's basically a
lease that is not a purchase of the phone. So
the other plans you can basically purchase the phone. The
(09:47):
Jump on Demand you are leasing the phone.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay. Wow, so complicated.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And I'm not going to go over Sprint because uh,
I'm not really recommending Sprint right now.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I know that's mean, right, let me let me look,
let me see what Sprint's doing. But you know the
other thing about Sprint is they're gonna be uh they're
gonna be merging with T Mobile it sounds like anyway.
So I don't see any special deal on Sprint. All
I know is at Sprint. Okay, So you can save
three hundred and fifty dollars by trading in your old phone,
that's pretty good. So and you can upgrade every twelve months. Okay,
(10:19):
so they're doing a pretty good very it's very competitive.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I have gone into these stores and I don't understand it.
Ninety percent of the time I'm sitting there talking to
the representative and I just like, my eyes are glazing over.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So if I don't understand it, I feel bad for
you guys, because this is my life and that's all
I'm doing is going through these things, and I just like,
I literally don't understand. When I bought my wife's phone
on AT and T, I bought it on one of
those installment plans, and I could not understand what I
was doing. I was like, all right, fine, at the
end of the day, I'm just gonna sign and we'll
see what happens. And I ended up paying it off
(10:54):
and it was fine.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
But it was so confusing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So anyway, there you have it. iPhone ten. A lot
of people waiting for this phone. It's going to be huge.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Next week.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You're gonna hear me talk a lot about it. So
I apologize in advance. Next week's gonna be an iPhone week.
So just so you know, all right, we got a
lot going on on the show, so you guys stick
around both online and on Facebook Live. Man, we got
so much more to talk about. I'm gonna talk about
Amazon's new security camera. Also, we've got Amazon's new service
(11:26):
that lets delivery people open your front door and place
your package inside.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Are you ready for that? I don't know. I'm kind
of torn on that one. We got to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Plus, we'll have your phone calls with your tech questions.
The phone number is three one zero five nine four
three zero zero three three one zero five nine four
three zero zero three. You are listening to Rich on
tech Live. I'm Rich Demiro. I'll be back with you
in just a bit. Welcome back to Rich on tech Live, Demiro.
(12:00):
This is the show where we talk about technology and
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and on the line, we've got a caller from.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Four to four zero four four zero. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Hey, Rich, how are you doing I'm doing fantastic? How
are you doing?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Good?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Nick? Where are you calling from? I don't know where
that four four zero is.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Cleveland, Ohio?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Oh wow, Cleveland. Are you watching on Fox eight? I hope, yes,
awesome the Tech Report? All right, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Nick?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
So I'm gonna prevord to the iPhone ten? Uh actually
tomorrow basically where Yeah, So I'm trying to figure out
should I get the belkan H charging pad or the
mofy one. I wonder which one'll be better for charging
the iPhone ten.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Oh, that's a good question. So I've got the on
let me put over here.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I've got uh, I've got the belt on my desk here,
and I've got the Mophi on my desk at work.
So you know, I I haven't really noticed a huge
difference between them. I mean, I think that the thing
about the phone is that you do have to hit
a sweet spot when you charge it. So, and Nick
is referring to the new wireless charging capability of both
(13:21):
the iPhone eight and the iPhone ten. I don't have
iPhone ten in my hands just yet, yes yet, But
I do have the iPhone eight and it does have
the wireless charging and I love it. So, you know,
how much are the prices any different on them?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I think they're They're pretty much the same, the Dulcan.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And the MOPy, So it really comes down to a
matter of personal preference. And the only thing I will say,
I'm noticing on the on the Belcan there is a
little indicator light, which I kind of like because it
tells me that my phone has hit the sweet spot
and that it's lighting up, so I know, and I
don't remember seeing that on the the other one. So
that might push me forward, because if you don't hit
(13:59):
the sweet spot on the phones and you get it
settled just right on the on the charging pad, it
will sit there and not charge, and you don't want
that to happen. So but but as you know, esthetically,
the Belcan is white and the Mophy is black. As
far as I know, I don't I don't know if
they come in different colors, but those are the colors
I have, so.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And they're both basically the same.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I mean, I'm just thinking back to putting my phone
on my desk and I don't remember seeing it light
up at all in any way. So I mean, your
phone obviously comes to life for a second to know
that it's on, that it's charging. But I like the
indicator light on the Belcon, so that might push me
over to the Belcon for my if I'm going to
choose one. So you know, these companies send these things
(14:41):
to me to try out. So that's kind of how
why I have both of them right now, because they
both wanted me to see how their charging system works.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But I think that's that would be.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
A defining factor for me with the Balcon one is
the little light because the indicator light, you can't really
discount the importance of not having to kind of mess
with your phone every couple of minutes to make sure
that it's still charging.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
So that's what I'd go for. Okay, cool, you you excited.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I am a very excited li iPhones sand. Yeah, I'll
be up pre ordering it online.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So what's the deal with the pre order because I'm
not doing that, So what's the deal with that?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
What's the I.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Mean, hold on, hang on here, what's the what's the
deal with that? So it's it's three am.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I think yeah, it's three am, yeah for the East Coast,
and then West coast I think it's twelve am.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Okay, interesting, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
So so three am forre Its Coast, I'll be up
the reason I want to pre order it because I
don't know if it's going to sell out and then
before I get to like a store, and then I
will be able to get till twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, no, exact it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I agree, you got this thing. I'm not now, I don't.
I don't have any inside knowledge on this. I don't
know anything more than anyone else. But I have a
feeling this is going to be very tough to get,
so I would say, yeah, this is going to be tough.
So and it's weird because I think it's interesting for
people to pre order stuff that they've never seen before,
(16:07):
you know what I mean. But at the same time, yeah,
it's it's you gotta do it, you know what I mean,
if you know you want it.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I've never ordered I've never pre ordered a phone before
until when I saw the iPhone ten because the brand
new you know, pre order a phone.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, well, and and you know a lot of people
order them because they kind of know what they're going
to get with Apple.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's going to be good. It's not you know, it's
going to be high quality.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And believe me, I played with this thing, and you
know I played with it at the Apple event and
it was great, and believe me, it was very nice
and for a first generation phone of this quality and
kind of what they've done here, it's it's pretty darn nice.
And I love the size because it's in between the
eight and the eight plus, so.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
It's a really nice size too.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
See.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I like it too because I have a seven plus
right now, which is like a five point five in
screen display. With the ten you get a regular sized
phone and more screen in the Plus.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yep, like we'll not, yeah exactly, because it's it's takes
up much more of the screen. So I think you're
gonna love it. I'm looking forward to playing with it
next week.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I can't wait.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's weird because you know, I go to these Apple
events and I get to play with this stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
But it's like a whirlwind, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You get it so fast, and it's like they take
it out of your hand and then you're like okay,
and then people are asking me questions like, well, wait,
how is the screen?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Was it brighter? Was it this? I'm like, oh, I
can't remember because it was so fast.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It all happened so fast, But but I do remember
being very impressed with a first generation kind of bezeleless
phone from Apple. So it's gonna take a little getting
used to the new swipe functionality, but I think you're
gonna be okay.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Okay, Well, thank you. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
All right, Nick, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Thanks for watching out there in Cleveland, Ohio. And let's
just go right to our next caller in the two.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Six to two area code. Two six to two. You
are on with Rich.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Please lower your radio behind you so I can hear
you properly. Okay, we can't get that one, so we're
going to go to eight o five eight oh five,
you are on with Rich.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Hey, Rich, do you have a quick question for you?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
This is Jr.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
From cama Rio.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hey, Jr.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Eight, I've got a new Apple eight sixty four gig
and I've been hearing these really strange train sounds coming
from the device, not touching it. Did you just hear
like a train horn? Have you heard anything like that?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
A train? Like a notification sound?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Yeah, like a notification sound. But I've got no applications
open or anything, and I've heard it like three times.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
The only thing I can times The only thing I
can think of is because it's funny because I just
heard a sound like that on my phone the other day,
and I think it's Facebook. I think Facebook might be
serving up that sound because I don't have notifications generally
turned on on my phone, but I think Facebook is
doing that, So I don't know. Maybe the commenters on
Facebook Live will join in, but I've noticed with my
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phone now I wear an Apple Watch, so it's kind
of weird sometimes I see notification. Like basically, what I'm
saying is, sometimes I've heard noises coming from my phone
and I look at it and I don't see a
notification associated with it, so I'm kind of confused.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I don't think you were hacked. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
The only thing I would say is go into your
notifications and you know, turn off Facebook notifications fully and
see if that helps. But I think I'm kind of
sure that that's what I've been hearing on Facebook as well,
so hopefully that helps. I mean, unless Apple's playing some
prank on us and giving us the train whoosh.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's strange because, like I said, I checked
on the Apple support the other day on when I
first heard it, and they're saying that it's it's been
told before that people are hearing these sounds.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's weird.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Oh I don't know, maybe some kind of software glitch.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
The only the only glitch I did hear of was
the the glitch that made the the audio crackley from
the speaker or the headset of the phone. You know,
if you have your ear up to the heads that
you know the earpiece, and my phone actually did have
that problem and they did fix it with a software update,
so I don't hear that anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So that could be at JR. But man, what a
weird What a weird thing.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I know, when you hear a notification sound that you're
not familiar with, you're like, wait, what's going on? And
if you don't see it, it's really confusing. So great question.
Thanks for calling from CAMERIOH. So, who is ready to
have Amazon open your front door? Amazon announced two things
this week that are really strange but also kind of interesting.
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So the first is a cloud camera, so they're now
competing with the nests of the world, the Logitech Circle Cam.
And this is a one twenty dollars camera that works
with Alexa and it features HD resolution, night vision two
A audio, twenty four to seven live stream, and algorithms
that detect motion. And the cool thing about this is
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that you can say, Alexa, show me my blank cam,
you know, whatever you call it, and you'll just see
it right on your if you have an Alexa show
or if you have an Echo spot, or if you
have a fire TV or a fire tablet.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
So that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So you know, this is a competitive place now. These
home security cameras. I've got a couple of them, and
I love them.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
They're just great. They really are nice. They give you
peace of mind.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You can record twenty four to seven, you can go
back and see what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What I like about this one.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Let's take a look at the It basically comes with
the essentials for keeping an eye on your home, including
access to the last twenty four hours of clips. So
that's an advantage right there if you get a Nest camera.
If you get a Nest they do not give you
access to the last twenty four hours. It's literally just
a live stream. So if you wanted to go back
and see something that happened, you couldn't unless you pay.
So with the Amazon one, you're actually getting a free
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day worth of going back. Now, if something were to
ever happen in your home, and hopefully it doesn't, this
would come in handy because you would get to see
review what happened with the camera, and so you can
go back for twenty four hours and that's free. So
Basic here, So if you want to get thirty days
or I'm sorry, if you want to get more than
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just twenty four hours, you can get seven dollars a
month for Basic that gives you seven days for up
to three cameras. Extended gives you ten dollars a month
for fourteen days, and pro gives you twenty dollars a
month for thirty days for up to ten cameras. So
this is this is very competitive. And yes, I apologize
to the folks in the live stream for saying that
word with the A not Amazon, the other one, because
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I know it activates everything, so sorry, I normally don't
do that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But this is very competitive.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I pay I think seventy five dollars a year for
just one Nest cam for the I think it's ten days.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So this is this is this is big.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Amazon is really trying to get into the space. So
but here's what they really.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Want you to do. Amazon wants you to.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Let their survey people open up your door so they're
delivery people. This is a new service called Amazon Key.
I'm sure you've heard of this because it's been talked
about in the news a lot. But this is going
to be available in thirty seven cities across the US,
including Los Angeles and many others, and it will grant
your access to your house when the delivery person comes.
But not just delivery people, also all the other things
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that Amazon is trying to sell on their service on
their site now, including made service, dog walking service, and
also professional services like you know, hanging a camera or
hanging maybe mounting your camera or mounting your TV. But again,
the camera is called the Amazon Cloud Cam. And here's
the deal. Starting November eighth, when you order on Amazon,
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if you have this new Amazon Key program, literally when
you're checking out, you select in home delivery. So instead
of saying one day, two day, same day, you say
in home and they will come to your house. And
Amazon is not doing this, They don't get access to
your house.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Through a key.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
What you have to do is you have to replace
the lock on your door with a special smart lock
and that this starts at tw hundred and.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Fifty bucks, by the way, not cheap.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So you get a smart lock, and what happens is
when the delivery driver gets near your home, they request access.
Amazon verifies via GPS that they're at your house, and
then the cloud cam which I just told you about,
starts recording, and then your door is unlocked. So no
access codes or keys are ever provided to delivery drivers.
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And you also get Amazon's happiness guarantee. And some folks
on the chat are saying that we don't get twenty
four to seven live stream with the let's see, Yeah,
you get twenty four hours of clips. So I'm not
sure with the camera what that means with clips, So
I guess maybe every time it sees motion it will
make a little it'll trigger a recording, so you might
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not be able to scrub back the whole twenty four hours.
So but yeah, the Amazon key is really fascinating to me.
So the the other thing you could do not just
get your package. So basically they open your door, they
slip your package inside, the camera records it. It sends
you a little notification on your phone that says, hey,
your package was delivered. Here's a video of it, here's proof,
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and then they close your door and they walk away
and this okay, So why does Amazon want to do this? Well,
because a lot of times what happens with Amazon is
people Amazon no longer requires deliveries on like ninety nine
percent of things you buy from them, even if it's
an expensive item, which is crazy. But the problem is
Amazon's numbers. People have crunched the numbers and said, you
(25:33):
know what, it's cheaper for us to send out another
five hundred dollars gadget than to request a signature because
that takes time and energy.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So they just figure it's all built.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Into the price of the products nowadays. And what they're
saying is with this new program, they can cut down
on the shrinkage as they call it, which is basically
theft packages stolen from front doors. And Amazon has done
the numbers. Believe me, their data driven company, they know
that people are going to do this and it's going
to be better for them. So the other thing you
can do once you have this is that you can
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also get a maid service from Merrymaids, pet sitters and
dog walkers from Rover and also twelve hundred services from
other providers across sixty professions. So basically, what I'm saying is,
if you need your toilet unclogged while you're at work.
Let's say you leave for work in the morning, the
toilet's clogged, you literally request a plumber through Amazon. They
will come to your house, open your front door, do
(26:25):
whatever they need to do, and walk out. How crazy
is that? This is the world that we live in today.
Just amazing Amazon, Amazon Key, and Amazon Cloud Cam. Who's
going to be signing up? Tell me how it goes
for you. You're listening to rich on Tech Live. More of
your calls after this. Plus I'm going to talk about
(26:45):
a new travel website that rewards you for booking through
them with gift cards. Plus I've got a great video
editing app for your phone, both iPhone and Android, so
stay around for that and I'll have more of your
calls after this at three one zero five nine four
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three zero zero three More of rich on tech Live
after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech Live. I'm
rich Demiro talking tech with you on this wonderful day.
Thanks so much for joining me. I appreciate it and
uh more about me At richontech dot TV. We've got
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a caller now from the nine oh nine area code
nine oh nine you are on with Rich What's on?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
What's on your mind? Today?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It's Sam from pimone. I got another quick question for you. Hey, Sam, Hey,
I just finally got around and hooking up my Xbox
one and I don't have enough hdm my hookups in
the back of my TV. Now. I know they make
these four and five into one deals, but does anybody
make one that's you know, that like switches automatically when
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the unit is on.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Ooh, that's a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I don't think so, because the problem is that would
be expensive. I mean, these these systems you know you're
talking about you're referring to. It's like, I think it's
called CEC, which is like component control or something like that.
But basically all the new gadgets like an Apple TV
will when you press it, you know, when you press
the power button on the Apple TV remote, it will
turn on your TV and tune it to the right
(28:25):
input HDMI input. So that's kind of what you're referring to.
I don't know of one of those that does that.
The best place to look for something like that sam
is monoprice dot com. The only other thing I could
recommend is maybe look for one that has a remote control.
I know a lot of them have little remotes, but
from what I've seen, all these Hdmi switchers are about
fifty bucks and they're all pretty cheap. And you know,
(28:49):
the one that you decide to get, you know, it
could be good, it could be bad. It's just you
got to kind of look at the reviews and see
what people like. But I don't know one that switches
by itself off the top of my head, but I
think that the best place you would go to find
that would be something like Monoprice. The reality is with
the I know, if you have an older TV and
(29:10):
you know the HDMI ports are kind of at a premium,
it could be a challenge. And I it's weird because
I with my old TV, I almost got one of
those switchers, but I ended up.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I didn't want to.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I want to do anything possible to avoid those switchers
because they're not it's not a clean setup. I like
a clean setup. So my father in law he actually
has one, and you know he's got a I think
it's a push button or it could have remote.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I'm not really sure. But he likes it. It's great.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I mean he he wanted it because he was going
from fireTV to Apple TV. He had some shows on one,
some shows on the other. But I think he's uh,
I think he's settled on fireTV. He likes that slightly
better than the Apple TV because it's faster. Good question,
Sam three one zero five nine four three zero zero
three three one zero five to nine four three zero
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zero three.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Phone lines are open.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So let me tell you about this new website called
upside dot com. This is a new travel website and
it's from the guy who founded priceline dot com. Remember
that website, Priceline. I was one of the first people
ever to use Priceline. By the way, I was in
a price line ad back in the day, if you
can believe it, because I heard about this website Priceline
dot com, and I bought tickets to Vegas, two tickets
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via plane for twenty dollars each because I named my
own price, and I thought this was amazing. I told
everyone I knew about it, and no one believed me. Right,
and then they emailed a bunch of people that use
this website first you know, Priceline, and they said, hey,
will you send it a picture?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
We want to use you guys in an ad.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
So I sent him my picture and next thing you know,
I'm in USA today, my little tiny picture. And I
asked Jay I interviewed him recently, and I said, hey,
do you remember those ads?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I was in it?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
And he said, oh, my gosh, I do. Anyway, he's
back with a new website called upside dot com. And
the difference with this website is that they give you
a gift card for booking through them.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So today I looked at a flight.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It was a standard price, same price as it was
on every other website. But with this upside dot com,
if you book through there, you basically get a ten
dollars Amazon gift card. So why not, you know, if
you can get something extra. So here's the deal. They've
got a couple of things that they do differently. They
have this new big data travel engine, so it shows
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you the top six flight choices and the top six
hotel choices that when you buy them together, save you
money and help you on your business trip. So this
is mainly for business travelers. That's kind of what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So they you know, it's like basically when I book
I book my.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Own flights for work, and it's a lot of work.
You're always comparing, you know, this and that. So I
noticed today when I went on Upside and kind of
looked up a sample flight, it kind of picked times
at the like the top flights were like the perfect
times for business travelers, Like they're not gonna give you
a red eye, They're gonna give you like the flight
was at a perfect time in the morning, perfect time
in the afternoon, and I thought it was great and
it was really fast to kind of find my flights.
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So when you purchase a trip, you get a gift
card at Amazon or fifty other retailers, and once you
select your flight in your hotel, they actually show you
another kind of itinerary that might save you some money
or get you a bigger gift card. So I'm guessing
on the back end they've got some deals with certain
hotels where you're like, hey, I want to book a
Weston and you kind of go through the whole flow
(32:17):
of booking, and then at the end, before you press book,
they say Hey, by the way, if you stay at
a Let's see, because Marriott's the same Let's see Weston.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
If you stay at Hyatt, we'll give you an extra
twenty dollars on your gift card because they have a
deal with that Hyatt.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So that's what I'm guessing they're doing. I don't know
that to be true, but that would make sense.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
That's a great business model, by the way, because when
it comes to booking hotel rooms, I mean realistically, they're
kind of all the same. Let's be honest. You're staying
at a standard hotel room like a Hampton In. I mean,
what's the difference between that and a residence in.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Not much. I personally like Hampton In. It's better.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But that's my favorite cheap hotel, by the way, and
it's not even that cheap anymore. It used to be
like one hundred bucks a night. Now it's like I've
seen them for like two three hundred. I'm like, what
for a Hampton. You also get your Frequent Flyer miles
no Worries credit card points. But here's the other thing
they do at upside dot com. They also give you
a twenty four to seven concierge level customer service by phone,
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chat and text, so basically you have the same customer
service that you would get if you were traveling on
a big corporate budget. So I think it's really interesting.
And you can still cancel all your flights and everything,
and you're well, your flights obviously have all these crazy rules,
but the hotel rooms are not sort of prepaid, so
you're good.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
You can still cancel them and change them if you
need to. There it is upside dot com.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
It's meant for kind of entrepreneurs, small businesses, people that
don't have the giant concurs of the world. So that's
what we use at our work is Concur, which is
kind of a big, big corporate travel company. Funny, I
was in Cabo and who is partying like crazy having
a giant party at my hotel? But Concur the big
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company that I have to justify all of my expense
reports too.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
So I'm sitting there.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
In Cabo on vacation and I go up to the
Concur people. I'm like, oh, you guys are having a nice,
big fun party and I gotta justify my three dollars
Starbucks to your software program, thank you very much, And
they laughed, But that's what it is. It's all like algorithmic.
It's like it kind of looks through your expense report
and makes you justify things that it thinks are sort
of out of the norm. Three one zero five nine
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four three zero zero three is the phone number. The
lines are open. You can call in right now. Three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three. Let
me tell you about a cool app that I am
just digging. I was on this panel last week, and
you know, we asked the panelists kind of some of
their tools and tricks and tips and all that good stuff,
and this one was really cool and I never even
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heard of it. It's called video Shop, and this lets
you edit video on your iPhone or your Android. Video
Shop is the is the app, and basically video Shop
is two dollars. I bought it for the iPhone and
it's also for Android, so two bucks. And it does everything.
I mean, from what I've seen, this is really full feature, so.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
It lets you do sound effects, it lets you do music,
you can trim out little parts of the video you
don't want.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
You can do slow motion, combined.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Clips, reverse duplicate subtitles, animated titles, filters, transitions, photos and
it's it's really cool. I used it the other day
to make a little compilation video on Snapchat. I took
like five little pictures and put them together.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It was so easy.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Video Shop is the website. And by the way, I'll
put all this stuff on the on my website. Rich
on tech dot tv, I have show notes for each
podcast and you can see them there. All right, three
one zero, you're on with Rich three one zero? What's
going on? Who am I talking to?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Who's this rock Sandecan? How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Thanks? Rich? I love your week.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
It cool.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I have a qritch. I'm okay, I'm okay. I'm a
little concerned about I have an iPhone Success Plus, which
I love. I actually I edit and I even edit
on the phone.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
It's really great.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Comes with the I movie. But I noticed the latest
OS up up upgrade. I know I'll have to get
a new phone soon. I notice the my phone drains faster,
my battery dreams faster. And I don't know if that's
an because the OS update, or it's just my phone
is aging.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Or well, it's probably a little bit of both.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Now have you done all the updates that have come out,
because there's been like four of them, I think, or three. Okay,
so you've done them all, okay, and and so you've
restarted your phone and it still happens. It drains like faster,
like like significantly faster than you remember.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
It's it's after you know, I particycle like crazy, and
it's still it's still draining. And it's funny because I
just put up five K this, my five K Retina
Apple Apple, my iMac.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Really it seems like it's oh, they're great, and and
it seems like it's even Maybe it's also I don't know,
because it's really changed because the iPhone and the computer,
you know, they sink in like automatically, and maybe that's
it too. I don't know if that's all in my mind.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
It was well, okay, what do you mean they sink automatically?
Are you plugging it into sync or are you doing
wireless sink?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Well? I do, I defin to do both well if.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
You yeah, if you're doing if you're doing wireless sink,
you know through iTunes, that could be draining the battery
if it's sitting next to your computer all day and
it's doing that like over and over.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
It could be a couple things. So here's what I recommend.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
So first off, I think that you have to go
through your phone, and it could be because your phone
is aging.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
You said this was a success or a six success plus. Okay, okay,
success plus. I mean that's really not that old, so
you should not have problems. The only thing, when did
you get this phone? Like, did you buy it when
it first came out, like the first day?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
I bought it last year in Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
So you didn't get one of the first batches because
the first batch of six S devices were definitely recalled
because of battery issues. My wife's was part of that,
and I brought it to the Apple store and they
gave her a new battery. So I would go on
the website, Go on Apple. Okay, let me tell you
what to search. Okay, so go to Apple battery replacement. Okay, sorry,
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Apple battery recall. Let me see if that brings it up.
So if you go to Okay, here it is so
iPhone success program for unexpected shutdown issues. Now this just
says six S, but I'm not sure if it means
success and success plus put in your serial number, okay,
and it will tell you if your battery is one
of the recalled batteries. Now I put in my wife's
serial number and boom, it was immediately recalled. I brought
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it into the Apple store two days later. She had
not a brand new phone, but they just replaced the battery.
And what would happen is the telltale sign is that
your battery drains really fast, and it could be that
it could be just something else on your phone after
the upgrade. But what I'd recommend to do Roxand is
look at that first off. And then the second thing
I would do is I would look at what you
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have installed on your phone, So go through, get rid
of all the apps you don't need, reset your phone,
see if that helps. And then the third thing I
would do is go through in your settings and look
at your location services and make sure all the apps
that you think don't need access to your location all
the time set that to only when using this app,
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and hopefully that helps. Otherwise you can go nuclear on it,
and you can wipe the entire phone, and then you
can start over and install everything once again on the phone.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
So hopefully that helps.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I know your success should not be breaking down at
this point. I mean it's not that old so and
the new update, I mean, yeah, you might take a
little battery hit, but it shouldn't be that bad. I
think something's hanging up on this phone. So good question, Roxanne.
Thanks so much for calling in today. I appreciate it.
All right, coming up more of your calls at three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
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It's been a blast. Three one zero five nine four
three zero zero three. Let's go to the nine O
nine area code nine O nine you're on with Rich.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Hello, Hi, who am I speaking with? My Name's are
Vella Arvela. How you doing today?
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Doing good? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (40:48):
I have a question.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
Sure I got a sam Fun fifty inch smart TV
about four years ago and is months ago. All of
a sudden the picture went dark, so I believe if
they have picture tubes whatever nowadays they have must be
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burnt out. I still had full audio. Okay, My question
is in that it was only four years old. Do
you have a recommendation on a TV that I actually
I went online and this is apparently a common problem.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Well, okay, let me just tell you one thing real
quick about the common because I see this a lot.
Like basically, anything you search online, you'll find someone that
had the same thing happened. It doesn't necessarily mean it's
a common thing. Like I will look for the most
minute things that are happening with my gadgets, and like
someone will say that this similar thing happened. So it
doesn't mean it's necessarily common. But yes, someone could have
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experienced it. But the whole Okay, so the screen is dark,
and but you still hear sound.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
What can I help you with a recommendation? Maybe on
a brand that I thought Samsung's were supposedly good. Also,
I hear sonis are good. But four years for a TV?
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Yeah, no, way fifty yeah, no, that a TV does
not last. No, four years is a lifetime of a
TV is way longer. I had my visio for I
think six years and it was still just perfect exactly.
And now my newer TVs they're going, they're going, you know,
they're a little bit you know, they're a little bit newer,
but they're just fine. No, a TV should last longer.
(42:31):
Was there anything that happened to this TV? Did it
get dropped, did it get water? Anything that could have
been weird about it?
Speaker 6 (42:37):
No, I was just sitting there watching it. It was
actually on, and all of a sudden the screen went dark.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Okay, so now some people in the past have said
that this could be an overheating problem. It could have
you tried spraying some canned air into the back of
it cleaning it out. I have not, Okay, so that
could be one thing. So what I do first is,
I mean, do you like this TV? Or you are
you fine with buying a new TV because new TVs
are not that expensive these days. Although I feel like
(43:03):
I understand that you feel a little bit burned by
getting a TV that's only four years old and you
got to pay for a new one, so you just
want to get a new one and cut your losses
or do you want to try to make this thing work?
Speaker 6 (43:12):
Well, I don't want to pay for repair because at.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
That point, yeah, exactly, I understand, because if you pay
for repair that's three four hundred bucks. You can get
a new TV for that price. So here's my rankings
of TVs. So if you want the best value in
a TV, I would recommend going with a Viseo.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
So I have a Visio as my main TV. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
I mean the colors when I compare it to my
Sony TV are definitely not as good. It's just not
as good quality. But does that mean that when people
come to my house you're like, oh, this TV is horrendous. No, No,
you don't notice if you're not looking at them faced
to you know, side by side. But once you see
a Sony you will say, oh my gosh, you know
this is this is crazy? How much better it is?
(43:52):
So what I think at the pinnacle at the top
is definitely Sony. And then after that I would say
that LG and Sam's are both really good. Now you
don't want to get another Samsung because you already feel
like you've gotten burned by them.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
So that leaves LG.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
So Sony's going to be really expensive, so you probably
don't want that one. I would probably recommend an LG
or a Visio. I mean, I think Visio. I can't
recommend video enough. I was actually the first person in
the nation to recommend and showcase Viseo on the Today
Show going back ten years now. Can you believe that?
And I'll never never forget. I couldn't believe it because
(44:27):
I was I was at Senet at the time, and
I remember this guy at Visio emailing me and saying, Hey,
this a forty two inch TV for two thousand bucks.
And at the time, every other TV that I tested
was like closer to three or four thousand dollars, And
I said, how can you do that? And sure enough
that company you've seen him. I mean, they're everywhere. They
have sold so many TVs. Now there's two other TVs
(44:49):
I like that I can recommend. If you want to
get a smart TV with the smarts built in. There's
a really nice TV from Roku and TCL. It's called
the TCL Roku TV, So that one's really nice. And
then another one I really like is from Amazon called
the Amazon Element TV. And if you go on their website,
just search Amazon Element. And the cool thing about those
(45:09):
two TVs is that one has Roku built in, which
is a nice Roku interface, and one has one has
Amazon Fire TV built in. And not only do they
have those built in, you can also attach an antenna
to those TVs and watch your local programming, which is
really nice in.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
This day and age.
Speaker 6 (45:28):
Oh whoa, Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yeah, so and I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Obviously any TV can take an antenna, but not necessarily.
These integrate it into the smart TV screen, so that's
the big difference. Of course, you can always switch an input,
but this makes it on your main TV. So I've
tested both of those TVs.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
They're really cool.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
They're a great price point, so I think that that
would probably be a good good value for you.
Speaker 6 (45:53):
So perfect I wrote it all down.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
Watch your show every day.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Oh well, thank you so much for calling. I appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
All right, wow you guys fast and furious with the
questions here, let me get two questions real quick. Let
me just do one question here real quick. Okay, this
is from is Darro is Isidro?
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Is it ro?
Speaker 2 (46:17):
I don't know, Sorry I totally butchered your name, but
here's the question. Mister Demiro was wondering where my wife
and I can sell are used but an excellent shape,
Galaxy Note fours and Galaxy S fives. We have two
of each and recently opted out for iPhone sevens. Ooh,
your time and help are greatly appreciated. Well, here's the deal.
So what I would say, I would try Facebook first.
(46:40):
That's the first place to sell these things. And I'm
not saying Facebook marketplace. Just put a post on Facebook
and say, hey, anyone want to buy a Galaxy Note
four or a Galaxy S five. You never know, you've
got a lot of friends out there someone might need
a new phone. That's my first place because that's going
to be you cheapest because it doesn't cost you anything
and you can do the transaction with your friends or
your neighbors. Then here's my rankings. If you want the
(47:03):
most money but the most work, go on eBay. So
eBay is going to be the most work to sell
your phone, but you're also going to get the most
return on it. And now both these phones Galaxy S
five Galaxy Note four that you're not gonna get very
much for these they're not worth that much, but you
know you will find someone to buy them, I assume.
But you're not gonna get that much. At least on eBay,
you'll get a fair market price because you know it's
(47:27):
a perfect store. Glide g l yde. This is a
place to buy and sell phones. Now you don't have
to do that much work with Glide, but you also
don't get as much. So I'm going down the list here,
so you're getting less and less everything I mentioned. But
Glide might not support these two models. You can definitely
sell iPhones on there and some of the newer Samsungs,
(47:49):
but not maybe not these devices.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
So that's Glide g l y d E.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
And finally, if you want to just unload these things
as fast as you can, just go to get zel
dot com and Gazelle is fast. That's the name that
will be the fastest way to unload a phone, but
you also get the very least And if you want
to do it locally, there's a service called Eco ATM.
You can look up those in your area. They're owned
by Coinstar, and you literally just deposit your phone in
(48:16):
this thing. It's like a little recycling kind of electronics
recycling bin, but it's digital, so you throw your phone
in there and it gives you like a little gift
card for whatever it's worth. These phones will not be
worth very much, so good question. Thanks for asking that.
All right, before we go, let me just tell you
some Alexa Easter egg So if you haven't, oh gosh,
I said it again. Sorry if you have one of
those Amazon Smart sneakers. If you have an Amazon Smart Speaker,
(48:40):
here's some of the things you can say for Halloween.
You can say, blank, what should I be for Halloween?
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Blank? What's your favorite scary movie? Blank? What are you
being for Halloween? Blank?
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Let's get spooky? Blank, sing a spooky song. Or you
can ask for some Halloween jokes. You can ask for
some Halloween hacks. And if you have kids at home,
you can do Scooby Doo Mystery theater. This is an
interactive storytelling skill for kids and families. So basically all
(49:14):
you have to do is say, oh, you have to
enable the skill and say blank open Scooby Doo. And
I think if you just say that to a it
will say I don't have that skill yet, can you please?
You want me to enable that skill? And then you
can enable the skill. So again blank open Scooby Doo. So,
if you want to have some fun with miss A.
(49:36):
You can say what's your favorite scary movie?
Speaker 1 (49:38):
What are you being for Halloween? Halloween jokes?
Speaker 2 (49:41):
And if you're into Stranger Things, I've got some Halloween
some Stranger Things Easter eggs for you, so you can
say ay yes. And by the way, I see on
the Facebook Live Adam asks can a spit out candy? Yes,
she can because you can order stuff through her, so
you can ask for hey, order me some candy.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Try saying to A for Stranger Things? Are we in
the upside down? Friends? Don't lie? Do you like waffles? Now?
Speaker 2 (50:11):
I only watched the first episode of Stranger Things, so
I guess I need to catch up on that. So
I'm not versed on the whole waffle hack, but I
know that's a recurring theme because Lift is doing some
rides with a Stranger Things mode, and I guess the
waffle is there too.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
That's gonna do it? Wow, thanks so much for joining
me today.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Yeah, well, usually I do a little rapid fire segment here,
but I think I think we're run out of time here,
so I gotta go. You can find me on the
KTLA five Morning News on weekdays around five point fifteen
seven fifty and nine thirty am. You can also see
me on various stations around the US. Check your local listings. Well,
you can't really check your local listings because you won't
find me on there, but if you see me pop
(50:55):
up on your local news, then just wave at the TV.
Don't forget to check out my website rich on tech
dot tv, where I have links to everything I mentioned
here and on air, And please subscribe to this podcast.
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Speaker 1 (51:15):
It's pocket Casts. And also tell your friends, because come on,
don't keep me a secret.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
We want to get in front of as many people
as possible. That's gonna do it for me. I'm rich Damiro.
I will see you next time. Thanks so much for
listening to rich on Tech Live.
Host
Rich DeMuro
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