Backing up your phone is the best decision you can make

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yes, the iPhone twelve will be delayed. Ces goes all
digital people are renting out their backyard pools. Plus your
tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and
this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
about the tech stuff I think you should know about.
It's also where I answer the questions you send me.
And yes, you send a lot of them, and if

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you've ever sent me one, you know I probably do
reply most of the time. My name is Rich Dmiro,
tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Come
in to you today live everywhere on Facebook and the podcast.
If you're listening live, thanks for tuning in. If you're
listening on the podcast, thanks for tuning in. This is

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where I just get a little bit more time to
complete my thoughts. So you know me from TV on
KTLA and other stations nationwide, but this is where I
get to kind of talk about things a little bit longer,
give you the information I think you need to know.
And this week a couple of things happened. Number One,
I upgraded my internet, which was a big deal because

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my internet here was fine at my house. But I
got an offer, not an offer, but they basically wired
my neighborhood for like a thousand, this gigabit internet, and
I said, you know what, I want a thousand. And
the reason why I wanted the faster internet not really
because my download speeds were bad at all. They were
actually fine. It's really the upload speeds that when you're

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with most companies, they give you a fast download and
then the upload is a little bit slower. And so
with this service, my upload and download is the same.
It's a thousand both ways. And yeah, I checked, I'm
getting a thousand. The only problem is my internet totally
was terrible for the first week, and I've been noticing
some quirks with that. I don't know what it is.

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I'm still working through it. Today I'm getting a new
I always recommend EUO, so today I am getting a
new euro so I can put it in my office
and see if that makes things better. The one thing
I've realized that I did not know is that most
of these most of these euro Internet systems, like these
MESH systems, are only rated for about five hundred megabits

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per second, and so mine being a thousand was not
getting through. So what I needed to do is upgrade
to what's called a tryband. I know this is getting
in the weeds here, but anyway, I did so much
research cause I'm like, why am I not getting the
fastest speed possible in my office? And this is what
I came down to. Sounds like I need a new
euro with a higher speed. It's called EUO Pro and

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you know, so anyway, that's arriving today. I'm very excited
and hopefully I'll have perfect internet when that's all done.
The other little tip I want to give you, by
the way, if you ever change your internet or change
your router or whatever, use the same Wi Fi name
and password and all of your products will follow through.
So don't don't change your Wi Fi. I mean, if

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you have a terrible password and terrible you know system
network name, you can change it. I used to change
mine all the time, just for fun. My wife used
to always give me a hard time. Why is the
WiFi always changing? I just thought it was fun to
like change the network. That was back when I had
like three things on the on the network. Now that
you know, we all have so many devices in our homes.
You know, when you change your Wi Fi network, you

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have to reconnect all these things. Chrome cast all this stuff.
Oh my gosh, it's it's a pain. So if you
use the same what they call SSID, your network and
also your password, everything will follow through to the new network.
So a little bit of information for you there. The
other thing I've been testing out this week is the
new wisecam outdoor, which is just fantastic. By the way,

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one screw to put that thing up outside so easy,
and you put the screw in. It's magnetic to the base.
It's you know, yes, someone could pull that off the
base easily, but hopefully people aren't doing that. I don't
really hear too many rings being stolen around town. I
don't think people are walking around to people's houses stealing
digital video cameras, but it could happen because it's just

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magnetically attached to the base. But the magnet is strong.
People were asking about that. I'm still kind of testing it.
It actually took me a little bit to figure out
how the recording worked on the camera, the cloud recording.
I finally found it and you have to actually go
to the main part of the app, not into the
camera part of the app. So I figured that out,

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so now I'm testing it. The image is crystal clear.
I'm gonna measure how far the camera is from my
base because people were asking, since it's wireless, how much
is the range? You have to have this little base
station near your router, and then you put the camera
wherever you want, and I think it's maybe. I don't know.
I gotta check. I'm not even gonna say how far
it is because I'm not really sure. And then at
this point, I can't imagine why I would not buy

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more wise outdoor cameras because each base station works with
four cameras, and the cameras are forty dollars each, So
why sent me the Tester camera and the Tester kit,
which is fifty dollars to start? Each camera after that
is forty So I'm gonna order a bunch of more
cameras and put them everywhere. Why not? I mean at
this price. The one thing I noticed, though, so they

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give you free cloud storage. It's twelve seconds every time
there's a motion. But there's what's called a cooling off period,
and so if your camera records something for twelve seconds
then waits, the default is five minutes until the next recording.
So for some people that may not work I'm gonna
tweak that. I gotta figure out if that's good, if

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that's bad. I mean most of the time that's just fine.
Twelve seconds should be enough to kind of see what's
going on with your camera that's going on. The other
thing is the earthquake. We had a big well it
wasn't big, but we had an earthquake. We had several
earthquakes here in Los Angeles this week, and wow, nothing
like an earthquake to just rattle your bones, rattle your spirit,

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rattle your brain. And I was sitting right here at
this very desk when the earthquake started shaking the house.
And it wasn't a huge earthquake, but you never know
if they're going to be big or not. When they start,
it just starts where you're just like, wait, was did
someone just move something in the house not at four
thirty am? Or is this an earthquake? And yes, it

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was an earthquake. The main thing that is concerning me
about these earthquakes are these apps that people are downloading
with the early warning. They seem to be all over
the place. There are three major ones in Los Angeles,
the one from the city. There's one called Quake Alert,
and then there's one called are there one called my
shake or something like that. I should get these names

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right before I talk about them. And then there is
the one that I use, which is quake Alert. Yeah,
quake Alert, So that's the one I like. I've met
the person who created this. They all use the same
data from the USGS, but they work in slightly different ways.
And the main thing about these apps is that they

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are at the mercy of these cellular networks and the
notifications may not be delivered in a timely manner, so
that's the main thing. But I still think you should
have one on your phone if you live in California. Anyway,
the earthquake just shook everyone up. It was not that
big of a deal, but we did have a bunch
of aftershocks too, which is kind of wild. Anyway. It
just makes you realize you live in Los Angeles and

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I hope twenty twenty is not the year of the
big one, because oh my gosh, it's like we've had
enough here in Los Angeles. All right, let me get
to the first big story of the week. Cees is
going virtual and CS said that they were going to
have the big gadget show in Las Vegas as normal,
and guess what. After a couple of weeks they said, eh,

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you know what, nevermind, we're not going to do that.
So CS twenty twenty one, which is January sixth through ninth,
will be all digital. And I have no idea how
this is going to work. I've been doing a bunch
of digital briefings with various tech companies and it's just
not the same. You can't go hands on with the gadgets,
you can't really get a feel for things, and the

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event itself is like a snoozer. I mean, I'm saying,
and you're checking my email while I'm watching some presentation
on new TVs or a new phone or whatever. Just
not the same. And also CS is about the sites
and sounds of CS. How do you have that in
a virtual conference? So this year is going to be
a dud. I'll just call it right now. The CS
twenty twenty one will just be not very exciting for journalists,

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for people, for the media, for the coverage, for the companies.
And that's kind of sad to me because I always
look forward to that event no matter how much work
it is, and it is a ton of work and
this year. It's just not going to be a very
great experience for anyone all around. I'm sure CS is
losing a ton of money on this, the Consumer Technology Association.
I'm not crying for them, believe me. But it's one

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of these things where it's just it's another sign of
the times. And this also extends this sort of pandemic
into January, and people might say, well, Rich, there might
be a vaccine by then, or it might be over
this by then. We don't know. And the problem is
you have to plan right now for January. So I
tell a company that's coming from Hong Kong, or a
company that's coming from China, or a company that's coming

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from I don't know if Australia comes, but you know
European companies. All these people have to converge to Las
Vegas and they have to plan to come to Vegas.
And if you don't have these things in process, you
can't plan for January. When you don't know if things
are gonna be good by November, you can't start November.
So that's why they did this CS again happening the

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first week of January. They say CS twenty twenty two
will be back to a physical and a digital show.
All right, let's get to the first question question today
from Cindy. Cindy says, Hey, Rich, I have a quick question.
I can't seem to access my old texts I have
saved forever. I have saved forever, toggled on on my iPhone,

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I'm guessing. And I have my iCloud option as well
on messages, and I logged onto my iCloud and the
option for messages is not there. Yes, you have to
discovered something that is really quite annoying. And I don't
know what Apple's deal is with text messages, but they
love to hijack our texts and I don't know if

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it I don't know if it's because we just love
text messaging and they feel like that's a really sticky
area where they can get people locked into their phones.
But for some reason, and this happens on Android too,
not so much. But text messaging is is just one
of these things where you want it, like email, no
matter where you log in, you just want to see

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your text messages. And clearly this is not happening. And
so what you noticed is that you went to iCloud
dot com. You would assume like you saw photos and
you saw contacts that you would just see messages. Nope,
not there. I don't know why. It seems like it
would be very simple for them to just put your
messages into iCloud and say, hey, you can download them

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as you know, some sort of comma separated value file whatever.
Just give me a way to download my messages. Can't
find it. So the way that you access these messages
is there's a couple ways. You can transfer them to
a new iPhone during setup. Okay, you can download them
to your Mac computer with I Messages, but again no
way to export. Or you can use a third party

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program to access the file that Apple puts in a
secret place in your iTunes backup to get your messages.
All three of these options are terrible and I don't
know why our messages are hijacked. I find this to
be very annoying. When you switch phones, you go from
an Android to or sorry iOS to Android. Some of
the manufacturers, like Samsung or Google, they try to extract

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your messages. Doesn't always work. I read these things all
the time. People are like, I can't get access to
my messages. I don't know why the messages has become
such a I don't know, it's just very tough to
get a hold of anyway, Cindy, I don't have a
very good explanation for you, but there's a if you
look at a website called Wondershare dot com doctor Phone,

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they make a lot of software that can help you
recover these things. And Jose is saying in the chat,
not true for Google Voice, and Jose, you are so right.
In fact, I have almost wanted to switch over to
Google Voice again. I used to use Google Voice religiously,
but it got kind of annoying because you know, the
whole like, it's just it's a lot to use Google

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Voice because the way it works. I'm not going to
get into it, but yes, I almost want to switch
back to Google Voice, just so I can finally have
all of my texts in one place without having to
think are they being deleted when I switch phones or
which you know, when did you? How did you text me?
But the problem is people love I Message, and I
Message is sort of the gold standard with messaging. But

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the fact is if you use it, your messages are
hijacked by Apple forever until they figure out away or
they know a way. But they don't want to give
us access. I don't know why. So yes, Jose, I
totally agree. Google Voice is a great solution. In fact,
like I said, I'm thinking of switching back to that
just for the idea of my text messages being in
one place, archived forever. I can search for a text

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that I wrote in twenty fifteen and it's still there,
whereas with I Message every time. I finally set my
messages on I Message to just be a year because
I'm so sick of like, I can't do anything with
these messages. Even though I'm saving them forever, I can't
access them in an easy way, So what's the point
of saving them forever? Not to mention the fact that
they take up like seven gigs of your iCloud. So anyway,

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that's the other solution. Now. The other thing is if
you have an Android, it's much easier. You can use
an app called SMS Backup and Restore. It's fantastic, and
messages on Android are much more open source in nature,
where you can actually download these back them up to
Google Drive. I have this set to back up to
Google Drive automatically. It's so easy SMS backup and restore

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is a super easy pro and it just works. It
just takes your messages and puts them on a new phone.
I used to use an app called Pulse, which was
an app that would save all your messages in the
cloud as well. It was their cloud, but it was
very easy and it worked. And this an independent developer
and he does a really nice job of kind of

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putting all your messages in the cloud. So that's another option.
But here's the other thing. Most people are not like me.
They're not switching phones, not testing new phones. They don't
really need their SMS messages across a whole bunch of devices.
But I do think it would be nice just to
be able to have these things saved forever. All right,
great question, Cindy. You got me really going here at
the first question. Let me, since we're on this topic,

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let me talk about backing up your phone. You have
no idea how many emails I get from people about
losing stuff on their phone. Rich, I lost all my pictures,
I lost all my voicemails, I lost all my texts.
I lost You gotta back up your phone. And I
know now I'm preaching here, but the reality is people

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email me. I have to sit there and read the
sad emails and say, I don't really think there's a
way to get back your stuff. Yeah, you can take
your phone to a repair clinic and see if they
can maybe fish out some of your old emails, your
old text your old pictures. You know, people email me
that I lost all my pictures of my granddaughter, I
lost all my pictures of my newborn. I can't really
help you if you don't back up your phone. You

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have to back up your phone. That is the only
way that your phone will be backed up in case
of a problem. So let me tell you about what
Google's doing to kind of help you out with this.
And they have a new feature called Google One, which
this has been a feature for Google for a while,
but now they're expanding it to make it a little
bit easier to back up your phone whether you're on

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Android or iOS. So it's basically an app called Google One.
You install this on your Android phone and you can
back up stuff. So you can back up various things.
See let's see what can you back up. You can
back up your photos, your videos, your contacts, and your

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calendar and so that is on the iPhone side, again,
not your SMS messages, which would have been really nice
for Google to try to figure out how to do that.
Maybe they can't. So again, at the minimum, if you
have an iPhone and you hate iCloud, at the minimum,
just install this new iOS app called Google One on
your iPhone and let it back up your photos, your videos,

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your contacts, and your calendar. Boom. It's free for fifteen gigabytes.
This is on Android as well. I think Android goes
a little bit further in what they allow you to
back up your on your phone. But to be honest,
I've had this on my phone and I still can't
really figure out like the backups like it shows me.
My backups in Google Drive used to show it there,

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but I guess it doesn't anymore. But it's like anyway,
just the iOS app is not out just yet, but
the Android one is and they're upgrading this over the
next So just be on the lookout for something called
Google One. At the very least, just back up your phone,
use iCloud, use Google Photos for your pictures, use one
Drive for your pictures, use Amazon Photos for your pictures.

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Get your pictures backed up. No matter what, it should
be a priority that you check on your phone on
a daily basis. Because here's the other thing. If you
have an iPhone, especially unless if you're not using iCloud
and using one of these third party apps like Amazon
or Google Photos, they're not necessarily backing up on a
regular basis because iPhone puts them those apps to sleep

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and they're not able to do much in the background.
So unless you're physically opening that app on a regular basis,
your pictures are just sitting there, not backed up. So
remember you have to do that as well, So just
back up your stuff. That's that's my final that's my
final answer today. It's just please be sure you do that.
All right, Let's get to a new question from Angel.

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Angel says, thanks for all you're covering from home these days.
My college age daughter USC viturbe fight On, Fight On.
I did go to USC. I don't mention that often,
but yes I did. My daughter has gotten the green
light for a podcast on her favorite subject in the world,
musical theater. She's got a laptop and learning how to
edit everything on her dad's Mac. But do you have

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mic recommendations that are not going to break the bank?
I know you didn't early piece on the sound in
this pandemic, but everything feels like it was years ago,
even though it was four or five months. Angel in
San Fernando, California, Home of the rude morning wake up
call that we all got today, which yes, we all
got that, and it was I wasn't a wake up
call for me because I had been up for over

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an hour and a half. But it was a rude
wake up call no matter what. Okay, So doing a podcast,
I would say that your daughter should probably look at
a website called Blue Microphones. So let's see Blue Microphones,
and okay, I have a graphic on there. Let's see

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Blue Microphones. And I think that these are easy because
they plug into USB on your computer. They feature great sound.
They've been kind of the standard for mics for you know,
web stuff for a long time. But I would look
at that and you can get Let's see what kinds
they have here. They've got the yetti. Why can't I
go in here? Let's see I'm having trouble actually scrolling

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through the website here, So let's see. You've got the
yetti and the snowball are the two that I like?
And the YETI they have a whole bunch of different
price points. They've got one starting at ninety nine, ninety
nine all the way up to two hundred dollars if
you want one that has kind of an arm. And
then they have a snowball mic. They've got a whole
bunch of snowball mics. They're great. I mean, I think

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that you're gonna be happy with any of these. Let's see.
So for podcasting, they recommend the Yeah, the Snowball, which
you can get one for as low as fifty dollars.
And my opinion, when it comes to podcasting, because everyone
is all over the place with this stuff, you consistency
is key, but it's tough to stay consistent. Maybe not
now since we're all home, but I would start with

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a cheaper microphone and just build your way up. You
don't need to buy all the best stuff at the beginning.
When I first started my podcast, I did it on
my iPhone and I just recorded it into the microphone
on the iPhone, and then I upgraded the microphones over
the years to get to a place where you know it,
where I'm doing it consistently, and the microphone also sounds
the best. So again, just start with a simple one

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and move your way up as you get more into
your podcast, and you know you're not gonna make money
off of it. I don't think most people don't, but
you know, you can just upgrade as you get more
comfortable with doing the podcast. But good luck with it
and fight on. It's gonna be a weird, weird year
for college kids this year because I can't imagine paying

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what USC costs and not getting to go into a
classroom at USC. That is hopefully this is a time
temporary thing where maybe we'll get to go back to
school in January. But as a parent, and I know
how much my parents paid for USC, it is it
is a lot. And if I was like, oh, yeah,
I'm doing these by zoom, I don't think that would
fly with them. I think I would have waited the

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year out. All right, let's move on to a new topic.
Let's talk about the iPhone for a second. Apple released
their whatever they call the quarterly results. I don't really
keep track of that stuff because I do consumer stuff.
I don't really care how much money Apple makes. I
know they make a ton of it, but I do
care about the products that are coming out, and they

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did mention in their earnings release that the iPhone twelve, yes,
is going to be a little bit delayed, not by much.
The words that they used is a few weeks later
than last year. So if we look at when the
iPhone launched last year, iPhone eleven launch date, I believe

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it was September. Here it is September twentieth, So if
you think a few weeks after that, you're thinking October,
and we kind of thought that this might be the
case mid October. So if you're looking to get the
iPhone twelve, if you're thinking about upgrading, it's probably gonna
be a little bit later than you thought. The good
news is they're probably won't be aiding waiting in line

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because no one's going to stores right now. I don't
even know if the Apple stores reopened or not, because
I know they opened and then they closed and they
back opened. But this is the uh, this, this is
the reality of pandemic. I mean, a few weeks later
is not going to make or break anyone. So I
think you're okay. Don't forget a lot of this stuff

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was planned way in advance. I mean, as soon as
they launched the new iPhone, they probably take a week
off they breathe, they go, and then they go all right,
time to work on the new one, the next one.
So I think what's going to happen in twenty twenty
one is it's going to be a little interesting with
the tech stuff because how much stuff can you really
plan while everyone's at home. I don't know, but I
guess we'll find out in twenty twenty one. So again,

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that's about it with Apple. I think that, to be honest,
I'm not sure what they can add to the new
iPhone except for five G that's gonna make it much better.
I think that the I still have my iPhone eleven
promax that I've reviewed every phone that has come out
in twenty since this phone, and this is still the
best phone that I've ever used in my lifetime. And

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believe me, I've tried every single one of them. I
love the one plus eight Pro for certain things. I
love the Samsung Galaxy S twenty Ultra, not for the camera,
but for the screen and some other aspects. It's a powerhouse,
but they just can get the camera right on that thing.
S twenty S twenty plus seem to be better, but
the S twenty plus Ultra is just like the camera

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is just not as good as it could be. And
I'm not saying for every shot. Some shots look amazing,
it's really when it comes down to particular situations where
it just fails miserably. The pixel pixel four XL great camera,
but overall that device just isn't as solid as the iPhone,
and it just to me, I just don't know what

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they could do. The battery life on this thing is
so good that I don't even think about charging it,
except when I was on the beta, which is the
whole nother story. When I was on the beta, it
was pretty bad. I had to go back to the
regular software. So again, don't put beta software on your
daily driver, because it just doesn't work. It just doesn't work.
Find a spare phone if you have one. By the way,

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Apple sold a lot of those iPhone ses, and that's
another great phone that I think a lot of people
went to this year for four hundred dollars to get
that iPhone. So again, lots of I just don't know
what they could do with the new iPhone. I mean,
if it's gonna be incremental five G, I do think
it'll be nice to have five G because at and
T and T Mobile are getting their five G networks

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to a place that looks pretty appealing even to me.
So I have Verizon, and I'm actually thinking, I know
AT and T's five G is is actually pretty good,
and I think that T Mobile is getting there well.
And I just kind of, as a tech guy, I
kind of want the five G because I'm like, well,
I want faster. So Verizon is kind of lagging in

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that area. But the iPhone, I think only the top
of the line iphone' is gonna have five G. Maybe
I'm wrong, but anyway, all right, let's get to a
new question here. Rich been listening for a while now.
I found you through a podcast when you were covering
for Leo. I am from Louisiana, so good tie point
for us. Yes, I worked in Louisiana for three years

(25:30):
KT a l television reporter there consumer I was called
the troubleshooter there gu tigers and he spelled it gu
g e a u x gau. I always see that
as gayu, even though it's go tigers. Louisiana such a
fun state, by the way, one of the most fun states.
I've actually the most fun state I've ever lived in

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Those people know how to party. One quick suggestion you
can make about the wiscam. I know the manufacturer says
not to lee it plugged in, but could but you
could use a Wi Fi plug to power the camera.
Then when you get a low battery, you could charge
it by powering up the plug from the app on
your phone. You could also set the Wi Fi plug
to come on and off periodically to keep the camera charge.

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Not everyone can do that, but in some cases, I
have a camera in an attic window, so plugging it
in just makes sense. This is how I get around
the manufacturer's recommendation not to plug it, not to leave
it plugged in. Bert from Cable Busters LLC. Now, I'm
a little confused here because I think we're talking about
two kind of different things here. When you talk about
the WISE cam, there used to not be an outdoor camera.

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Now there is. And the outdoor camera is not meant
to be plugged in twenty four to seven because it's
weather proof, and at this point Wise does not have
a weather proof way of plugging that camera in. Now
people get around this in all different ways. They will
put a little case around it, a little outdoor weather
proof covering, they'll put it under an awning. We live

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in southern California, so they think, no big deal, it
never rains. But the reality is you are taking a
risk if you put a camera that's an outdoor camera,
it's not meant to be plugged in all the time
plugged in. That's a risk. And you are taking another
risk if you use one of the wisecam indoors and
put it outside and keep it plugged in. But either way,
I get what he's saying. For his camera, it's in

(27:18):
the attic, perfectly good way of keeping it charged. You
just have this thing toggle on every other I don't know,
every other week or something like that. But I'm not
really sure why you can't leave the indoor cam plugged
in all the time. And I didn't think that was
a thing now the outdoor cam, I know, there's kind
of like a little rubber flap on the power area,
which it's there for a reason because it's there to

(27:38):
seal out the outside weather, which is rain, which is dust,
which is you know, all that good stuff here in
La smog. So anyway, it's a good solution. I mean,
it's just one of those things to keep in minds,
like I kind of forget about smart plugs in general.
They can be used to automate a lot of things
that you do around the house, and it's just good.
It's a good reminder, Burt that you're absolutely right. Why

(28:01):
not use that to your advantage. I have a bunch
of stuff around my house that comes on turns off
because of them, because of the smart plugs. Have got
a lot of lights plugged into those that just pop
on at six pm, pop off at six am. So
it's a good idea. It's a good reminder. So thank
you Bert for that little reminder. All right, let's talk
about Roadblocks. If you have kids, they are probably playing Roadblocks,

(28:25):
and Roadblocks just did their big developers conference, probably virtual,
I'm guessing. And if you're not familiar with Roadblocks, it's
a gaming platform where kids play games on it, but
people also build the game. So Roadblocks literally just came
up with the platform and people develop games for this

(28:45):
platform and they're doing it a lot. Because Roadblocks developers
are on track to earn two hundred and fifty million
dollars in twenty twenty, up from one hundred and ten
million dollars in twenty nineteen, so they have more than
doubled their payouts to developers, which shows you that this
is growing at a very fast clip. And I'm going
to tell you why I don't like roadblocks in a moment.

(29:07):
So if you're a parent that's listening, hear me out,
because I'm not a fan of roadblocks. Roadblocks. Monthly average
users active users one hundred and fifty million, and this
is mostly kids from age nine to probably fourteen fifteen.
I'm thinking, but my kids are even younger. My kid
is five and he's playing this, And I'll tell you
again why I don't like this premium payouts. They did that.

(29:32):
Let's see, they launched a music label deal to bring
fifty plus tracks and roadblocks. Developers posted huge milestones in
the first part of the year, with Adopt Me reaching
one point six million concurrence. That means one point six
million kids sitting at home on their iPads and tablets
playing this game all the same time. And my kids

(29:52):
play Adopt Me. I actually think Adopt Me is okay,
but again I will tell you I don't like it.
And then there's a game called Piggy. Oh Piggy sounds
so nice, which was launched in January twenty twenty now
has close to five billion visits. Let me tell you
why I do not like the game Piggy, and why
I don't like a lot of the games on Roadblocks.

(30:12):
And the reason I don't like them is because some
of them are just downright evil if you ask me.
And I don't think most parents realize that when they
see Roadblocks, it looks so cute and innocent and sweet.
And the games these kids are playing on there are horrible.
Some of them, like Piggy, for instance. The goal of
Piggy is to run away from this maniacal pig that

(30:35):
is trying to kill you. And I just watched a
video about it on YouTube, and yeah, like my kid
would tell me, oh, there's blood on the screen. I
get splattered by Piggy. I'm running away. It's like it's
like one of those like fear and horror movies come
to life for your kids. And Jimmy's asking, what about Minecraft?
I love Minecraft? So Minecraft I am a hundred I

(30:57):
will buy Okay, I have a rule in my house.
Most of the time I have broken down, but I
have a rule where I refuse to buy my kids
roebucks roebucks. So That's my other reason why I don't
like my Robock roadblocks is because the entire point of
Roebucks is to get your kids to bug you to
buy them roebucks. And what does Roebucks do It lets

(31:19):
them buy a little InApp digital purchases and these games
could be anything, and I don't like that. And I
know I'm sounding like an old man right now, but
I just hear me out. I'm not sure what the
point of these games they're playing are. To me, the
point of Adopt Me seems like it's only to buy
little critters that you can then trade with other people.

(31:40):
And I get it, it's fun, it's games, it's kids,
it's innocent, it's sweet. But to me, I want my
kids to do a little bit more with their lives,
and the Piggy game especially, I just don't see the
point of Adopt Me. It's cute, but in reality, and
if you have kids that are playing this, they're just
sitting on these things for hours on it, and they
could sit My kid could sit and play Adopt Me

(32:00):
for the entire day, literally without interruption. That's a problem.
So I don't like it for that reason. Minecraft they're
building stuff, I really like what they're doing in Minecraft.
It's cool, it's I'm blown away. And I've said this
on the podcast before. Just ask your kids to show
you what they're doing to Minecraft, and it blows me away.

(32:20):
The stuff that they build, I mean, it's quite amazing. Roadblocks,
I keep getting confused between Roebucks and roadblocks roadblocks. I
just don't get it, Like I'm just watching it and
it just seems like, eh, I don't really care for it.
So anyway, my idea with roadblocks is to kind of
smoke them out, which is to refuse to buy roebucks
because without it, they don't really care to play as

(32:41):
much because they can't really do all the stuff they
want to do. And most parents they sit there it's
like it's ten dollars for a bunch of roebucks. Who cares.
That's not that much money, right, But it just kind
of feeds into this world of like nonsense that I believe.
And I don't want to knock developers out there. I
don't want to knock people that are playing this. And
don't feel bad if you're and your kids playing this.
My kid's played every day, don't get me wrong. I'm

(33:03):
just saying, I don't see the point, and I think
there's better things to do with your life, and Minecraft
is one of them. So I think it's amazing that
Roadblocks has built this platform. I personally just don't get it.
Jonathan asks, what do I think about Lego? I love Lego.
Lego's amazing. Anything that actually has your kids kind of

(33:23):
doing something that's using their brain, I really like. I
just don't understand the Adopt Me stuff, and I especially
don't understand the Piggy stuff and the games of these kids. Oh.
By the way, and here's my advice on Roadblocks if
you're a parent, go into the settings and turn on
restricted mode if your kid is younger, because it will
block out some of these games that are not very

(33:45):
not very good for little kids to be playing, like
the Piggy game. And my kids they got so angry,
they got so annoyed with me. But guess what they
found other games that they've played, like Adopt Me and
this pizza making game and this house game that are
much and much more innocent and not so violent. So anyway,
that's it. That's my thought on Roadblocks. I you know,

(34:07):
I that's my opinion. By the way, so that is
my opinion. I am a parent. Every parent has different opinions,
and I'm just giving you mine. You listen to the
rich on Tech podcast, You're gonna get my opinion on stuff.
I am very open to hearing your opinion. And if
you want to write to me and explain why you
think roadblocks is just fine, let me know. Hello at

(34:28):
richontech dot TV. All right, another question, here we go.
Ruth says, I follow you and enjoy your posts very much.
I read them every day. I've never asked you a
question before, so I wonder if you're up for it.
It's a problem on my LGX Power three. When I

(34:48):
tap Playstore, I get no results found. This might be
because I've removed Google play Services by mistake. I've tried
everything to get it back. I've downloaded a version of
Google Play Services from the web, but that's didn't help.
The result is that I can't download any new apps. Ruth. Okay,
number one, Ruth, why did you delete Google Play Services.

(35:09):
You need that to run anything that's Google on a
Google phone. That is the backbone of all Google So
you gotta you got it. I don't even know how
you deleted it. I don't know. I didn't even know
you could delete Google Play Services. Google Play Services is
the framework that powers the Google Play Store and everything
on your Android phone. Android and iOS are a little

(35:31):
bit different in the way their operating systems work. If
you have an iPhone, you know that you get these
updates all the time from Apple that upgrade and add
new features to your iPhone and also update the built
in apps on the iPhone. Android is very different Android.
Every manufacturer has their own operating system that they update independently.

(35:51):
Google Play Services is sort of a backbone framework that
Google says, hey, we we like some things on your
phone that should be kind of like that help things
work on the back end, but you can do whatever
you want on the front end, and so Apple Google
has now relied more on Google Play Services to sort
of update Android phones in a more timely manner with
certain things like this recent COVID tracing stuff. Again, they

(36:14):
did that through Google Play Services because Google doesn't necessarily
have a way to just add new features to your
phone by themselves. It's usually up to the manufacturer to
do that, and anyway, that's beside the point. But anyway,
since you removed Google Play services, which I'm not sure
how you did it, and I don't even understand how
you downloaded a version of it from the web. I mean,

(36:34):
if you're talking about downloading like an APK, maybe that's
what you found and you tried installing that, like it's
pretty cool, but Ruth, don't do that. You could really
harm your phone by doing that. So my advice is
to format your phone and start over and that should rea.
That should definitely put well it will. It will put
Google Play services back on your phone. So it's an

(36:57):
LGX Power three. I've not heard of this particular model,
but usually go into the settings and you can just
it says factory restart, like factory format, factory refresh, factory
format reset to factory settings, one of those variations on
that term. Do that. It's going to erase everything on
your phone. So let's go back to what I was

(37:18):
talking about in the beginning. Make sure everything's backed up
now an Android, most things are backed up except for
your photos. Make sure that you're rocking Google Photos to
get your photos backed up or something similar. Once everything's
backed up, factory reset, and boom, everything's gonna be back
to the day you bought the phone, reinstall it all,
and you should be up and running. That's that's an
interesting one because I don't hear people doing that too much.

(37:41):
All right, speaking of phones and speaking of Google, I
always say that, I always say, speaking of speaking of
speaking out, Can I think of a better transition than
just speaking of Uh. Google is teasing the Pixel for
a unveil on August third, and that's all the news
I have. So the Pixel four A, which has been

(38:01):
delayed apparently for a long time this year, is Google's
mid range phone, and quite frankly, I think that this
the last one. The three A was a really good
move for Google because Google has the Pixel, which is
the best camera you can get in a smartphone. But
the problem is it's too expensive and it's not good

(38:23):
enough for people to seek it out versus a Samsung,
versus an LG, versus A one plus which to a
lesser extent, and versus an iPhone. And the bottom line is,
just because the camera's great, people see it and they go, wait,
that's nine hundred bucks. I'm not buying that, Like, I'll
get an iPhone. And so they came up with this
idea of having a mid range phone, which isn't as fast,

(38:44):
which isn't as slick, doesn't have the top specs, but
it still has that great camera and so people say, oh,
and by the way, it's only four hundred bucks. Oh well,
now you're talking. So that was pretty successful for Google
last year. This is the follow up to that, the
Pixel four A. I think the problem with this phone
they need to make it cheaper. So if this phone

(39:06):
is not three hundred dollars, they're gonna have a problem.
It's just not gonna sell. And the reason it's not
gonna sell is because you've got the iPhone se at
four hundred dollars. And overall, I will argue that is
a better device than the Pixel four A. Pixel four
A is a one trick pony. It's gonna give you
a great camera. But guess what. That's it. You're not

(39:28):
gonna have one thousand cases to choose from. You're not
gonna have a million accessories to choose from. You're not
gonna have the best app store in the world to
choose apps from. You're not gonna have the Apple Watch
to go along with it. You are getting a good
camera on the Google Pixel four A, and that's it.
And that's a problem. So where do you compete. You
compete on price. They can make this thing one hundred

(39:49):
and ninety nine dollars would be amazing. Oh thank you Google.
I'm glad you found that. But you can't compete on
a three ninety nine to three ninety nine. The iPhone
is just better than the Pixel four A at three
hundred ninety nine dollars. That's the bottom line. So they
need to make this thing one hundred dollars cheaper. I
hope they do, but we will find out on August third.

(40:09):
I'm not gonna say much more than that, because you know,
that's it. That's all. We don't know anything else. Everything
else is speculation at this point. But it's gonna have
the Pixel four features, just in a cheaper price, point
lesser processor, lesser display. Everything's gonna be lesser except the
camera is still gonna be quite good. So that's that
all right. Next question? Okay, oh speaking, I'm saying I

(40:35):
caught myself. Stop it. Rich Sean says, hey, Rich, thanks
for all the tips and email letters that have been
subscribed since the start. By the way, I am doing
my email newsletter again, so if you're not subscribed, go
to Rich on tech dot TV and look for subscribe
to my email newsletter. It's free and you get I'm

(40:58):
I'm trying to do it every other week now because
every week just got to be too much. But I
got so many people asking me Rich, where's your newsletter?
That I finally started it again, and I want to
do the newsletter. It was just a matter of like
working it into my schedule, and every week was just
too much. Every other week, I think I can handle.
It's Friday as I record this. I'm going to get
up tomorrow and do it. And I'm very excited because

(41:18):
the response is amazing. I mean, there's twelve thousand of
you that are subscribed to it, which is great. I
love that and not. Okay, so twelve thousand is great,
but guess how many people actually open it? Which I'll
tell you. So the last newsletter went out on July nineteenth,
and a substack, which is what I used to do.

(41:40):
The newsletter tells me how many people open it, and
the last one, Oh okay, now you don't want to
work substack, Okay, whatever? Over twelve thousand. Wow, Well, anyway,
it gives me a little subscriber like how many people
actually opened it, which I thought was pretty cool. So
I'm trying to find that anyway, while it's loading that
I've been to my super high speed internet. Come on, hey,

(42:03):
Rich My question is are there add on lenses for
the camera on the Android S ten plus that you
would recommend? Thank you again, Sean sent by Blue Mail
for Android. I haven't heard of BlueMail. That's an email app,
I guess, so I would recommend a lens called the
Moment lens mm e NT Moment lens S ten Oh

(42:26):
did you ask for lens or case? What do you
ask for? Uh, let's see add on lenses. Yeah. So
the way moment lens works is remember the So the
number one lens that was out there was the Olo
clip and funny story, I'll go through it real quick,
but it's the first email I ever got as a

(42:47):
tech reporter at KTLA. You're talking ten years ago, and
the email said local boy does good by inventing Should
I look it up oloclip? And this was back. I
still have the email. I will sell here. It is
local Boy invents cool new iPhone four lens system that

(43:09):
Hollywood and soccer moms alike will love. May ninth, twenty eleven,
sent to me by one Patrick O'Neill. Now, when I
saw that, I just kind of I was like, Eh,
what does that mean? Give me a break. I did
not even respond to this email sent May ninth, twenty eleven, Monday,
nine fifty eight am. He said, I'm Patrick O'Neil from

(43:31):
Huntington Beach and we watch you on KTLA. I invented
the oloquip oloclip quick change lens system for the iPhone four.
It has fishy, wide angle and macro all in a
package that easily fits in your pocket. And it's only
forty five dollars. Wow. Why did I not respond to
this email? How naive was I to say, Oh, because
you're a local inventor, this can't be good. And it

(43:53):
was amazing by the way. I interviewed Patrick many years
later when I finally came to my senses, and the
guy is amazing. He did very well with oloclip. They
are the top seller. He has since sold the business,
but he did really well with that little tiny idea
of the local boy who invented the cool new iPhone
four lens. Yeah, he did a pretty good job with that.

(44:15):
Millions of dollars later. Anyway, I don't know if Oloclip
makes one for the Patrick was a very much iPhone guy,
so everything was iPhone. He I think came up His
main thing when I asked him why he didn't come
up with Samsung versions of these lenses is because Samsung
changes their phone design every year in such a big
way that it's too tough to keep up. Whereas the iPhone,

(44:37):
he most of the time had two years to keep
the lens because the way it snapped on had to
be figured out by the iPhone because it was very
slick how it snapped onto the iPhone. But oh wow,
you're actually in luck. They do make a case a
lens for the Galaxy S ten, so I would say
check out the oloclip o Llo Cli Clip or the

(45:00):
other one that makes a lot for Android. I guess
they make them for iPhone as well. Is Moment shopmoment
dot com and just compare see which each one of
those offer, and I think both of them are going
to be great. You have the Android S ten plus,
which I thought had a wide angle lens, so I'm
not sure why you need the add on lens, but
you know, maybe you want Macro, maybe you want whatever.

(45:22):
But it's funny because these add on lenses were such
a big deal and now we're seeing the trend of
the manufacturers just kind of building them into the phones themselves,
and we're just seeing more and more and that's cool.
It's a great, great thing that they're doing. All right,
good question. Let's talk about Swimply. This was a story
we did on Ktla, and this is a website that's

(45:45):
kind of like Airbnb, but for private pools. And of course,
as you might expect, it caused quite the controversy on
my Facebook page because people are debating would they use this,
would they not. Let me tell you the story and
then you can think about whether you would use it
or not. But it's kind of like airbing, except instead
of renting out an entire place, you just rent out
someone's private pool. And this goes both ways. If you
have a pool in your backyard, you can rent it

(46:07):
to random strangers. And if you want a pool you
want to take a dip, find a pool that's nearby,
You drive there, you pay your thirty bucks whatever it is,
forty five bucks for the hour, and you take a
dip in someone else's pool. Sounds interesting. I personally probably
would not do this, but I have access to a pool.
My in laws have a pool. But if you didn't
have access and you just wanted to go somewhere, why

(46:28):
not in La I'd probably go to the beach. But
I don't know. I mean, but the beauty of ideas
is that there are so many people in this world,
and there are lots of people who either want this
or need this, or are willing to use it or
willing to put their pool up. And so the guy
we interviewed, Asher Weinberger, who co founder, said we thought

(46:48):
in the beginning that swimplely would help pay for help
people pay for their pool cost. So that was his ideas, like, hey,
people are maintaining their pools, they're not being used like
hours every day. Why don't we just have other people
use those pools and help pay for the maintenance at least, well,
guess what it's paying for people's entire mortgages. Because the
couple we talked to, they said they made seven thousand
dollars so far renting out their pool, which pretty good money. Now,

(47:14):
the founder said that he made twenty five thousand dollars
in five weeks and I did the math on that,
and that would come out to about two hundred dollars
an hour for twenty four hours a day, seven days
a week for the past five weeks. I don't know
how he came up with that, but he must have
a really nice pool that rents for a lot of money,
and he probably does so, I don't know. I think
it's a cool idea. I think that the liability factor

(47:36):
to me as a homeowner would be a little scary,
But at the same time, I love the sharing economy.
You've got this pool in your backyard that's so expensive,
so costly. It's sitting there unused for twelve hours a day.
I'm not including the night time hours. But you use
it your kids going for an hour or two, okay,
and then that's it. Same thing with a car. This

(47:57):
is why Uber was brilliant. Same thing with uh what else? Airbnb.
You've got a rental house, you use it for one
weekend out of the month. The rest it's just sitting there.
Now you can rent it out, so it's it is
an amazing sharing economy we have. This is taking it
to levels of extreme that are pretty crazy, and I

(48:17):
think it's a great idea, and I think that people
are using it clearly because the website's around. My only
concern with this website is that I'm a little bit
concerned with Airbnb. What keeps them from instantly flipping a
switch and turning this feature on overnight? And now they've
got the whole Airbnb platform, and you've got everyone that's

(48:38):
on Airbnb and saying, hey, just here, rent my pool out.
Now you can make that argument for almost any company
out there, So it's not necessarily just an Airbnb thing.
But you know, I guess it's scary anytime you start
a company and you've got these big tech companies, bohemoths, bohemoths, behemoths,
and you've got these big tech companies that could just
take you over in like a second. And I'm not

(49:00):
saying buy you out. I'm saying, flip on a switch
and start the same feature we saw. It happened with
Instagram Stories. I mean that was basically Snapchat, and more
people are using Instagram Stories in Snapchat. All right, let's
see next question. Okay, this is a good one from Maureen.
I'm a kindergarten teacher about to start the school year online.

(49:22):
Good luck. I currently own an iPad pro and an iPad.
I also have two boys who are going to be online.
That's going to be an interesting household. Huh. Got a
teacher trying to teach with two kids that are going
to be online for school. Yeah, see the problems here.
I am currently looking for something for me to zoom.
I import a lot of videos and interactive activities to
keep my kinders engaged. It also needs to work easily

(49:44):
with Google, Classroom, seesaw and all the other educational websites.
Long story short, I wanted to know which is better. Oh,
I forgot to do this. I wanted to know which
is better an iPad or a surface for what I
need keeping my mind. And I'm a Catholic school teacher
who teaches in a low income school. Needless to say,
the budget is limited. Thank you in advance for your advice. Okay,

(50:11):
so you got a lot of things going on here now.
Because you said I import a lot of videos and
interactive activities, that is leading me to go, oh, what's
better iPad or surface? I would say a surface is
going to be better. You already have two iPads, so
you're covered there. You need something that you can actually
do work on and yes, you can do work on

(50:32):
an iPad, but I still believe you can do more
work and accomplish more things on a laptop, and the
surface is going to do both. It's going to have
a touch screen, it's going to have a keyboard if
you get that, but and it's going to let you
run Windows apps. So I think personally that a surface
is going to be a better solution for you and

(50:53):
low income school limited budget. I don't know what to
say about that. I've gotten so many emails from teachers
and my heart goes out to all of you because
you're scrambling to try to teach kids in a way
that you've never taught them before from your house, on camera,
with equipment, and it is just a recipe for disaster.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but this is

(51:14):
just not the way we've done things in the past.
And every teacher is scrambling. My kids. Teachers were reading
books on their iPhone recording it. You gotta have a tripod,
you gotta have a microphone, you gotta have It's crazy.
It's so much work for you teachers in a job
that is already so tough. And I know It's tough
because I was sitting here with my kids watching them
learn and teaching them as well, and it is not

(51:36):
easy to teach kids. You have to be This is
why they say the heart of a teacher. I love
Dave Ramsey and he always talks about having the heart
of a teacher, and yeah, you have to have a
heart of a teacher, which means patience, understanding, and I
don't have any of those things. So it's really tough
for me when I sit there with my kids and
I'm trying to teach them stuff and I'm just not patient,

(51:57):
and I'm like, it's so anyway, So throw in all
the distance learning stuff, and it's really tricky. So I
would say probably a surface over an iPad. iPad only
runs iPad apps. Surface is much more flexible with what
you can install, and ideally I think the best would
be maybe a MacBook Pro thirteen, which I think would

(52:17):
help you do more with your videos if you're creating
videos and editing videos. But again, that is that's tricky.
That's a tricky situation. And believe me, teachers, if you
know a teachers, give them a hug for me, because
the only thing I feel worse for our parents who
have to have their kids at home while they're trying
to work. But teachers, it's just not the natural way

(52:39):
of teaching kids. They're in a classroom. It's just being
from home is just not the same. All right, I'm
running out of time here on the podcast. Let's see.
I want to get this website in because I thought
this website was pretty cool. It's called now I gotta
find it twice. Come on read Okay, here it is.

(53:02):
The website is called read this twice dot com. If
you follow me on Twitter, you know that I am
always looking for a good book to read. I believe
in consumption of books, and I think that you should
be reading as much as humanly possible. And a lot
of my audience does read. I'm very very clear on

(53:22):
that because I see when I ask for book recommendations
on Twitter that a lot of people responded very quickly.
So kudos to you for reading a lot. I have
put all those book recommendations, by the way, in my
ever note. So I've got the books Just Mercy by
Brian Stevenson Olivia recommended. I've Got Barbarian Days by Craig

(53:47):
nine two eight two one Oh, I'm guessing that's your
zip code. I've got Katherine Graham's autobiography by Stephanie George.
I've got let's see, I've got I'll Be Gone in
the Dark from Monty's recommended that. I've got The Innovators
by Jay He recommended that. So I've got a whole
laundry list of books. Lacey recommended everything by Hugh Howley,

(54:09):
which I can't wait. I think those are those look
really good because they're sci fi and I love sci
fi books. I'm reading right now, I'm reading, so I
settled on one called Dark Matter right now, and I
love that anyway. So the book recommendation site that I
know everyone knows Goodreads and but the book this is
kind of cool because it's called read This Twice. And
what they do is they just scour all the mentions

(54:31):
that famous people put on their social media or in
interviews about books they're reading or books they've liked, and
they organize it. So, for instance, you can go to
let's see Emma Watson. Let's pick someone kind of random,
but she mentioned she's an actress, and she recommended Harry
potter Man search for meaning, let's see what else a

(54:55):
thousand splendid sons which I read. The other one by
this guy, which was the that was a fantastic book,
Tiny Beautiful Things, half of this guy. And they tell
you the book, not only the book, but they also
tell you the source. So where did she mention it?
And if I click this one book, she mentioned this book,
let's say on Twitter, and I love that you can

(55:15):
just see the tweet as she mentioned this book. It's
been less than three weeks and I devoured Tiny Torch,
Tiny Beautiful Things, And while thank you Reese Witherspoon and
Cheryl Straight straight ed. So I just love this idea.
It's just it's a simple thing. But it's just if
you care about what celebrities your favorite personality thinks about books,
you can see what they're recommending, and you know you

(55:38):
can do everyone from Mark Cuban to Anna Kendrick to
Anthony Bourdain, Rest in Peace, Joe Rogan, I don't know
if you want to go there, Jack Dorsey. And it's
just a great way of slicing and dicing books. So again,
read this twice dot com and already I found just
looking through Elon Musk's recommendations, I found about six sci

(55:58):
fi books I want to read all ready, so it's
just a neat way of seeing. You can get recommendation
from friends and family, but sometimes you want something a
little bit different, so check it out. Read this twice
dot com. All right, Do I have time for one
more question before I go? Sure? Rosio Oh? Rosio asks, Hey, rich,

(56:20):
I would like to purchase a portable charger to charge
my phone and my husband's phone for the most part,
preferably twenty k to thirty k mh million hours. Wow.
Good that you knew that whoop's wrong? One Uh? Can
you send us a list of some different brands that
you would recommend, or if you've not tested, can you
review a few portable chargers and then your future We

(56:42):
would like your input before purchasing. And I'm not gonna
tell you a whole bunch. I'm just gonna recommend a
one brand Anchor. Anchor I think makes fantastic portable chargers.
And again, I think that you guys know a little
bit about technology because you said the twenty thousand to
thirty thousand million hours, So good for you for knowing
that term. The higher that number, the more times your

(57:05):
charger is going to recharge your phone. So a lot
of these little tiny um a lot of these little
tiny uh what is it like? You know, portable chargers,
They don't really charge your phone that much, the smaller
they are. So if you want something that's gonna have
a little bit of bulk to it, not bulk, but
a little bit of you know, it's gonna charge your

(57:26):
phone a couple times, you're not gonna be recharging it
all the time. Go with something in the twenty to
thirty thousand, ten thousand is pretty typical. The little ones
you get, the little freeb's they hand out, maybe not
to you, but to me, Like when I go to
like a tech show, they give out little like portable
chargers usually like charge your phone once or maybe half
a time, and then, by the way, they're really slow.
So if you have an Android phone, you want to
look for something that's called USB CPD, which is power delivery.

(57:49):
That's gonna charge your phone way faster than the typical USB.
If you have a newer iPhone, that's also gonna do
your iPhone faster. So look for an iPhone charging cable
that looks like this on the end the podcast, folks,
But it's USB C to lightning and that's going to
charge your phone usually faster than it will if you
have USB regular to the lightning, and then wireless charging

(58:12):
is still pretty slow, but the USB CPD is going
to be the fastest charging at this point for any
of your devices. So just keep that in mind. If
you're just plugging in an old cable into your iPhone
into one of these chargers, it's going to be really slow,
so look for look for that PD. Look for PD
power delivery on these devices. These portable chargers are gonna
be a little bit more expensive, but it's going to

(58:34):
charge your phone and be way less frustrating when you're
trying to get a quick charge in a faster way.
So again, the brand is Anchor a n K er.
I really like their stuff and if you can believe it,
that is going to do it for this episode of
the show. If you're on Facebook, stick around. I will
talk to you for a little bit after this, but
that's going to do it for the podcast. If you'd

(58:55):
like to submit an answer an answer, if you have answers,
definitely given to me. But if you have a question
you'd like me to answer, just go to Rich on
tech dot TV, hit the email button at the bottom
of the page, and I will do my best to
get your question in a show or at least respond
to you. Oh, I'm doing something new, Okay, I'm going
to do a code word. So because I really value

(59:18):
your time as a listener to this show, especially someone
who has listened this far in because let's be honest,
it's been an hour and uh snooze alert. If you've
made it this far, I'm rewarding you. So I'm going
to give you a code word to put in your email.
So if you write me in the next week, put
this code word in your email subject line somehow, and
I will get to your email faster than everyone else's.

(59:40):
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E m ote remote, So put remote in caps. It
doesn't have to be caps, but just put that in
your subject line and I will get to your email
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That is so music to my ears because I do
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people like to see? What useful information can I impart

(01:00:44):
in their brains today? My name is rich dmiro On
behalf of everyone that gets this show to your ears.
Thanks so much for listening. I'll see you on KTLA.
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