September 25, 2020 • 42 mins
Amazon updates Fire TV and Echo devices; Samsung has a new "Fan Edition" S20 smartphone at a great price; Ring Always Home Cam flies around your house and a way to backup photos on iPhone without using the cloud.Listeners ask about a smartwatch for kids, COVID information on Google Maps, setting time limits on iPad games, blocking YouTube from kids during school time and whether to get a new iPad Pro.Follow Rich:https://twitter.com/richontechLinks:Amazon Fire TV deviceshttps://amzn.to/3j49MyhEcho deviceshttps://amzn.to/2S1r97iSamsung Fan Edition S20https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-s20-5g/s20-fe-5g/Ring Always Home Camhttps://blog.ring.com/2020/09/24/introducing-ring-always-home-cam-an-innovative-new-approach-to-always-being-home/SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive Gohttps://amzn.to/2S1nZAuSmartwatch for kidshttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211768COVID info on Google Mapshttps://blog.google/products/maps/navigate-safely-new-covid-data-google-maps/iPad game time limitshttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982Blocking YouTubehttps://ktla.com/morning-news/technology/set-screentime-limits-filters-kids-circle-nextdns-opendns-familyshield/
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Amazon revamps its Fire TV lineup, Ring has a new
indoor drone, backing up iPhone pictures without the cloud, plus
your tech questions answered.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff
I think you should know about, and it's where I
answer the questions that you send me. My name is
Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Thanks so much for joining me today. Lots and lots
of tech news. It is quite remarkable how many gadgets
(00:46):
are coming out from now. It started, you know, back
in August, and now we've got September, we have.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
October and November.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well, probably everything will be done by October end of
October with the iPhone. But man, there are so many gadgets.
It seems like it seems like a lot. But this
is typically what happens during this time of the year.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But it just seems.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Super odd right now because we're in this pandemic. Everyone's
home and I feel like these tech companies have been
sort of capitalizing on the fact that we do want
entertainment from home. We are you know, we want Zoom,
we want computers. We want work from home stuff. Smartphones
not so much. That's been a little bit of a
challenge because who really wants to spend all that money
(01:29):
on a new phone right now? But again, there have
been a lot of announcements, and these things are planned
for a long time, so it's not like these are
a surprise. This is something that generally happens. It just
seems odd right now for this time of the year.
But I've been wearing the new Apple Watch Series six.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I also have the.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Se handy to kind of check out and I'm putting
them through their paces. The Series six, I mean, I'll
be honest, it's great. The loop band is cool. Took
me a little bit to figure out the sizing on
that because I put the first band on and I
was like, oh, this thing is way too big, and
I didn't realize that there were other sizes. So now
I've got pretty much the right size. And you know,
(02:09):
have I noticed anything different than the Series five?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Not really.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I mean it's definitely brighter, and the apps are a
little bit faster, but you need to rush out an upgrade.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The oxygen stuff is interesting, but it's not enough for
me to sort of think that you have to upgrade
unless you have some sort of health issue that you
want to you know, address with that. But the problem
is Apple says that's not for health anyway. It's just
for sort of awareness and fitness, and it's not a
medical device. So and I think a lot of the
features you get you get with the software update. Anyway,
(02:45):
The se is much more compelling to me for the
average person because it gives you pretty much everything you
need for two hundred and seventy nine dollars. And the
fact that they have that new family plan where you
can put the you know, your kid on an Apple Watch,
that's pretty cool too. Two seventy nine for an Apple Watch,
I think is a fantastic deal. I think I last
week talked about how you don't get certain things like,
(03:09):
you know, the new blood oxygen level, and you also
don't get the uh oh, what's the other one, the ECG,
and you don't get the always on display. But if
you don't need those things and who cares, what's the
big deal. Let's get to the first topic of the show,
and that is Amazon. Amazon had a big event this week.
This is the second time in a row they did
(03:29):
not invite me to this event, and this one was virtual.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Last year on this.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Very show, I talked about how Amazon did not invite
me to the event in Seattle. This year, they didn't
even invite me to the virtual event. So I don't
know what Amazon has against me. But here we go
with some of their announcements. So they kind of revamped
the Firestick lineup and the Echo lineup, and they had
a bunch of ring announcements. I will be peppering them
in throughout the show. But the main thing you need
(03:54):
to know is that the fire TV stick is more powerful.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It also has.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
HDR and Dolby at most support, and it's forty bucks
and it also has new Wi Fi five gigahertz, which
is great. It's got the Alexa Voice remote, which I think,
I mean, that's what I have on the four K.
Maybe the other one didn't have that, but I mean,
I don't know. I think it's kind of weird that
they have two now. They also did a fire Stick
(04:20):
light and this one's even cheaper at thirty dollars. But
the thing I don't understand is why are they selling
such cheap room like they have a thirty dollars model
and a forty dollars model. They did not upgrade the
Fire TV stick four K. What I don't understand that
at all. Four K is where all the growth is,
(04:41):
That's where all the TVs are. Why is Amazon still
putting out a ten EIGHTYP device?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Why so it doesn't doesn't make any sense. I'm I'm told,
I get the pricing thing they want to make. Oh,
thirty bucks you can get into streaming. You can get
into streaming, but fifty bucks. I mean, just split the difference,
make it forty five and give everyone four K as
the entry level. Why do we have to have three
different levels? It's confusing for the average person, and quite frankly,
(05:13):
if you know, most a lot of people are upgrading
four K TVs, so why are we getting them stuck
with these ten ADP devices?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
fireTV experience is more personalized, blah blah blah. I mean
it's already pretty good. I think that fireTV when I
compare it to the Apple TV interface, which I get
a lot more people use Roku and a lot more
people use fire it's just very cluttered and it's like,
sometimes all I want to see on the fireTV is
like a list of the top movies, and I can't
(05:42):
find them because it's so cluttered with like all the
stuff that they want to promote.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
This is cool.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
They're gonna do user profiles now, so you have six
six members of your household, all have personalized experiences. And
the best part is you say, ay, switch to my
profile and after an initition, she'll set up the A
rhymes with MAMESA will automatically recognize your voice and switch.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
To your profile. So that's really cool right there. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The fire TV Cube is their most expensive device. I
doubt many people are buying this. That's one hundred and
twenty dollars. Tough sell there when they're entry levels thirty.
But the cool thing about that one is that you
will be able to add a Logitech webcam to the
fire TV Cube and call with Alexa over video. Oh
I just said the word. But they're also going to
(06:32):
add Zoom later on. So anyway, if you're interested in
these things. The fire TV Stick, the new one starts
at forty bucks. It'll be available next week, and the
fire TV Stick Light is thirty dollars, begins shipping in
the US next week as well. All right, let's get
to our first question. I am trying something new. These
(06:55):
are new digitized question. You just out of here, let
me just here we go.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Do you know when or if the new iPad pro
will be released? I'm having trouble with my iPad Air
and want to upgrade. Not sure if it's worth waiting
for an iPad Pro. I keep getting messages that I
don't have access to websites like Corner Bakery and QVC,
to name two, and I can't open a lot of websites.
(07:22):
I get a message that Safari has lost connection to
the server or the page doesn't open. I'm very frustrated.
Thank you for any help you can give me. Mary Very,
senior citizen.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Mary Very, senior citizen.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
All right now, In case you can't tell, that is
a digitized voice.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It is so cool. I heard about this.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't know if I heard it in another podcast
or I listened to the technme ride home and the
host there, Brian McCullough, was he did a whole segment
on his podcast with a digitized voice. Because the idea is,
you know, this guy has to spend every day reading
his podcast after he writes it, and it's a whole
big thing, and he's like, what if I one day
could like synthesize my own voice, And so we did
(08:07):
a whole segment. Anyway, this is not that, but these
are special voices that they have synthesized in a program
called Descript that you can use in your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And so, I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
They're not perfect, but they're pretty interesting anyway, So you'll
hear more of them throughout the show. But that's Mary's question,
and it's an interesting question. So it sounds like Mary
wants a new iPad Pro. And to answer your question,
when the new iPad Pro is going to be released,
I mean it's going to be released next month. They
(08:40):
just announced it at the last event. And the new
iPad Pro is great. It's got a lot of nice features.
But I don't understand why. I mean, I'm having trouble
with my iPad Air. So you have an iPad Air,
I don't know. Number One, you say you're a very
senior citizen. I don't think you need the iPad Pro.
So I think you just need a regular iPad And
(09:02):
I'm not convinced your iPad Air is necessarily needing an upgrade.
I mean, these iPads last for a long long time.
So and you're saying that you have like these lost
connections to the server. So I think it sounds like
some sort of network issue and that could be the
Wi Fi that you're on, So I guess it would
really depend on does this happen everywhere or just at
(09:24):
your house. So that's the first thing I'd look at
as your Wi Fi settings. And the second thing I
do is do a reset network settings. So if you
go into your iPad into your settings general reset reset
network settings. This will clear out all the different things
on your iPad, like any Wi Fi settings, passwords for
(09:44):
your Wi Fi cellular settings, any VPNs you have, any apns,
So that will help kind of get this thing back
to normal. And if it's still happening after that, I
would do a complete factory reset, and that means erasing
everything off your iPad, starting it over from fresh, and
then seeing if it works. If it still doesn't work,
(10:06):
then I would go for the new iPad. And I
don't think you need the iPad Pro. I think you
just need the regular iPad. For three hundred and something bucks,
I just bought one for my niece, so it's a
shipping time.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Is a while.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It was like a month, so you know, you have
to keep that in mind. You're not gonna get this
thing overnight. I thought it was gonna be like, Oh,
she gets it the next day. New not so not
so fast. It's it's like four weeks out. And I'm
not sure why there's such a delay. But when I
was looking on Amazon, it was like, oh, next day delivery.
But I like to buy direct from Apple because it's
(10:38):
just uh, I'm then you don't have to If she
needs help, like getting it fixed or whatever, she can
go right into the Apple Store, no worries. I think
Amazon's probably the same way, but I just don't know.
But anyway, Mary, thanks for the question. Appreciate it, and
try to breathe some new life into the iPad air
before you spend that money on an upgrade. All right,
let's talk about the all new Echo family. So again,
(11:01):
this was at Amazon's event, and this was a digital event,
so they did the all new echos. So now the
Echo has these spherical designs, So let's talk about the
new Echo. The next generation Echo has a bright led
(11:21):
ring light at the base of it so that you
can it reflexed off your surface. So you can tell,
kind of like when Alexa is oh gosh, I keep
saying that, so you can tell when A is saying things.
It also comes for the first time with a built
in smart home hub with support for Zigbie, Bluetooth Low Energy,
and Amazon Sidewalk. And out of those three with the
(11:42):
funny names, Amazon Sidewalk is the most interesting. I haven't
really talked about it on this podcast, but I was
discussing it with a Bill Handle on KFI on the
radio the other day, and it's just brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
from Amazon, very dystopian at the same time, because how
it works is that anyone who wants to be part
(12:04):
of this network puts their device like a It basically
comes from the ring devices. So if you have like
a link a ring floodlight cam, and it's basically the
ring devices that are always connected to the Internet and
they're outside, and so they say, you say, hey, I'll
donate a little bit of my Internet to this sidewalk network,
and so a whole bunch of you do that, and
Amazon aggregates that network and then creates their own network
(12:29):
through these devices that then have a direct connection to
the Internet through a bunch of people's home Wi Fi.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So does that make any sense? It's really weird.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But so imagine you have a Wi Fi connection at
home with one of these Ring devices. You say, sure,
I'll be kind of a spoke or a hub for
this network, and you take a little bit of your
Internet and you give it to that device all the time.
Your neighbor is not part of the network. They're just
a spoke. They have like an Echo. That Echo can
tap into your your Ring device on the sidewalk network
(13:00):
use a little bit of your Internet if their Internet
goes out. That's kind of the idea here, is that
they're creating a secondary network that kind of is alive
at all times because chances are someone's device is up
and running on their Internet connection. So if your whole
neighborhood goes out, your Ring camera on your front door
will still continue to work because you're tapping into this
(13:21):
new sidewalk network and not just your Wi Fi. I mean,
it's really really brilliant, kind of scary, but I think
it's really cool. So that's the Echo and then you
have the Echo Dot Kids edition. This comes in a
colorful panda or tiger print and it's what is that?
That one's sixty bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And they also have.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
This feature on it called Reading Sidekick, where Alexa can
help kids build fluency and foster a love for reading.
Alexa will take turns reading with your child, providing encouragement
when they're reading well and offering support when they struggle.
So I don't know how that's gonna work. I gotta
see a demo of that, because does it read along
with any book or just the books that they program
(14:03):
for that. Then you've got the Echo Show ten and
this is really interesting too. Imagine an Echo device. You know,
these are the ones with the display that's sort of
on a swivel mount. This is two hundred and fifty dollars,
so very expensive. But it's got a ten inch HD
display and it rotates as you walk around the room,
so when you're on a video call, you can just
(14:25):
kind of walk around naturally it will follow you not
you know, it won't move, but it will just rotate
left and right. I don't know if it goes up
and down. But they say it's a brushless motor. So
it's nice and quiet. But that's really cool because we're
all getting into this whole you know, video chat thing,
and it's you know, these smart displays are going to
(14:45):
become more and more valuable because people have gotten so
used to kind of chatting with people on them. You
can also watch other things on them like Hulu plus
Prime Video, Netflix, and that's cool. There's also a feature
called Alexa gar so the Echo Show ten can pan
the room and send you an alert if it detects
(15:05):
someone in its field of view. So again, these things
are getting really smart and just we are covering our
homes in all kinds of ways that we never thought possible.
And there is a camera shutter on this thing, so
you can turn that off. You can also turn off
the motion if you don't like it. So the Echo
is a hundred bucks, the Echo Dot is fifty, the
(15:26):
kids edition is sixty, and the Echo Show ten is
two fifty that will ship in time for the holidays.
And again, you know, it's nice that these things are
all working with Zoom. It seems like it's gonna take
a little bit, but it is pretty cool that Zoom
is getting a lot of play on these new devices.
(15:46):
All right, let's go to another question. This one comes
from Javier.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
My kid always seems to go to YouTube because he
finished his assignment early. He then gets carried away and
forgets to check back to his classroom. Is there a
way to block YouTube or at least just temporarily using
a laptop running Windows ten. Thank you, Javier.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Okay, good question, Javier. This happens to me as well,
because my kids are obsessed with YouTube, well especially my
little kid. My gosh, when I say obsessed, it is
it's unbelievable the amount of influence these YouTubers have on
small kids. And as a parent, it's kind of scary
(16:29):
because I noticed my kids started talking about Chick fil
A and you know, a couple other little things that
this YouTuber loves.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And it's like, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Hot Pockets was another one, and it's it's really I mean,
I see the whole thing with like you know, whether
these are sponsored opportunities or not, because not that kids care,
but for parents, like I want to know, like is
this guy talking about uh, Chick fil A because he
loves it?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Or is he being paid to do that? But I digress.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So, yeah, there is a way to block YouTube, at
least temporarily using a laptop running Windows ten. I would
look at a website called next dns dot io, next
dns dot io. And what this does is that it's
basically a it changes the DNS on your or I
(17:20):
guess you use it to change how your router looks
up things. And so you can put in all kinds
of you know, restrictions, so you can do all kinds
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Let me just go through some of these things. So
let's see security, privacy.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Hold on, it's saying it's saying that I'm I got
to sign up because I've already set this thing up.
Let me go into a different window here and try
it this way. Let's see next dns try it now
for free, and it's it's pretty much free. You just
have to change a couple of settings on your router
and this is it. But you can go in and
put on Google Safe browsing, crypto jacking protection, let's see
(17:59):
type squadting.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Wow, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Privacy, you can block ads, you can block trackers, let's
see parental controls. You can restrict access to a specific website,
app or game or categories. You can turn on safe search,
YouTube restricted mode. And the only thing that's kind of
tricky about this is that it's coming from the router,
(18:22):
and there's not really a timed way of doing this.
You can't say, oh, I just want this website to
be restricted from nine am to one pm while my
kid is in school. But another thing you could do,
and I'm sure there's a whole bunch of like Chrome
extensions that you can get to help on that Windows laptop.
But I would also look into, if you want kind
of a heavy duty situation, something called Circle and Circle
(18:45):
is really good. You plug it into your router, and
it's like you can control everything your kids do. You
can control from the time they're able to access their
devices how much time they're allowed. So, for instance, my
kid gets a certain amount of time on YouTube every
day on Minecraft and blocks, and believe me, they fight
it every day. They When that times up, I get
a little notification on my watch and it's like, oh,
(19:06):
here comes my kid marching in asking for more time.
So that's another way of doing it. The other thing
is if you're on you know, and I know you're
on Windows, but if you're on an Apple device, you
can use screen time and that's super simple to set up.
But Windows ten, I think they have something called the
family filter, because I have this on my kid's laptop
(19:27):
as well. Let's see Windows Family Filter and yeah, so
you got to go into Family.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Let's see what's it called. I think it's.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Microsoft Family dot Microsoft dot com. And then that way
you can set up all the filters on your child's device.
So you can do it. It's in you know, you believe me,
you can. You can do this stuff. It takes a
little bit of time to set it up, but again,
once it's set up, it is you know, it's a
little easier. It's on autopilot. But there are some things
(20:03):
here and there. Like the other night, I was trying
to watch something on I think it was, I don't know,
was it Netflix in my bedroom and I was like,
what is going on here?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It will not work?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And I remembered that everything gets cut off at seven
pm because that's my kid's bedtime and the devices are
on there, or at least the device in my bedroom,
the firestick is linked to my kid's profile. So I
had to go in and like extend his bedtime, and
you know, it was fine. They do have provisions for
that and circle, by the way, it's super easy. You
(20:32):
can say, oh, give my kid an extra half an
hour tonight as a reward for bedtime, or give my
kid an extra hour on YouTube. Whatever. But it takes
a little bit. It takes a little setting up. But
that is the way to do it. And there are
plenty of ways to do this stuff. Believe me, there's
lots of smart people at these smart companies that have
helped parents. It just takes a little time to set
(20:52):
it up and sometimes it does cost a little bit.
All right, now, let's talk about Ring.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
This is probably the most.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Dramatic thing that was announced at the Amazon event. You know,
Ring is owned by Amazon, and this is a Ring
always on cam otherwise known as the Ring drone for
your house. So the way they describe it is the
autonomous indoor security camera that flies your chosen personalized paths
so you can easily check in on your home for
(21:23):
peace of mind. So it's a drone that sits in
a cradle until it needs to go to work, and
it flies around your house and gives you a view
of what's going on your house.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
How cool is that?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I can't wait to get this, and yes I will
be getting this. I mean you got to give it
to James simonov over at Ring. The inventor general there
he I mean, I'm pretty sure he came up with
this himself, and I love it. This goes back to
kind of like the idea of this guy just being
He's on the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
(21:58):
I mean, he's just that smart coming up with these
smart smart things.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Steve Jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
This is this guy who is a young guy is
on that level. He came up with the video door bell,
he came up with this drone. How smart is this?
Let me give you a real world example.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So I was. I flew to New Jersey one time.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
This was a couple of years ago, and next thing,
no we land, we get to my dad's house. I
get the alarm on my phone saying, you know, there
is a fire in your house. Your fire alarm. Sorry,
your fire alarm is going off. And I get the
call from the alarm company. You know, we're sending the
fire department. Wait, what what do you mean my house
on fire? What?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I got a check?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
At that point, I had no cameras in my house.
I had no way of knowing if this was just
a false alarm or a real fire.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So what I do?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I called my friend in the neighborhood, and I said,
can you please go.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Over to my house.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
He's like, I'm there. I'm dropping everything. I'm going right now.
He runs over to my house just in time to
see the fire truck and the firefighters ready to break
in the back door to see what the deal is.
There's no smoke, thank god. And he said, there's no smoke,
but you know the firefighters are heard you want them
to break open the door. I said, if there's no smoke,
I mean, I don't know. And so long story short,
(23:12):
Now I have cameras and this exactly plays into that world.
So if my fire alarm went off again, what would
I do? I'd send up the drone. Hey, take a
look around my house and tell me if my house
is on fire or not.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
And hopefully it never is. But this is just I
love it, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Now. There are a lot of privacy kind of factors
built into this thing. And by the way, this drone
flies automatically when you're away out of your house and
the alarm is triggered in a way mode, so it
automatically will fly a path to see what's happening. So
even if you don't Let's say you're on a plane
and something happens. This drone will capture video inside your
(23:52):
house that you can watch later. The device rests in
a base, The camera is physically blocked when it's docked,
and it only starts recording when the device leaves the
base and starts flying one of the preset paths. The
camera also hums at a certain volume, so you know
that it's recording. They say it's privacy that you can hear.
Apparently this thing, I think it was two hundred and
(24:13):
fifty dollars if I remember. Let's see do they even
say Ring always on cam price?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Two hundred fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Oh, I can't wait to buy this. I cannot wait
to get this. Can you pre order it?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It says at the bottom of the thing I have.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
That's it's not been authorized by the FCC yet. It's
not offered for sale until then. But I can't wait. Brilliant, brillion, brilliant.
And this is when I say in previous podcasts, I've
said that a lot of the momentum is behind Ring
when you compare it to other companies that are doing
home security. Ring is just there. And in fact, I
(24:49):
have a couple of the Ring devices. I think it's
time for some more because they really are putting a
lot into their devices and into their R and D
and into kind of having something that works with all
different aspects of your home.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
So I love it. That's the Ring. What is it called?
Let me.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
The ring always on cam? Everyone's calling it the drone?
But yeah, the ring always on cam?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
How cool is that? Love it? Love it? Love it?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Oh, time for another question, this question. Let's see, let's
see who it's from.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Hi, Rich, I saw your report this morning about Google
Maps now showing COVID information, but when I checked my
Google Map nothing was on there. Do I need to
turn on that layer somehow? Or is this feature coming soon?
Thanks for your help. I always love your reports. Thanks Tanya.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
All right, this was a report that I did on
KTLA about Google Maps now showing COVID information. And this
is always kind of the issue that I run into
with being early on a lot of things, is that
a lot of these tech companies announce stuff but it's
not necessary available immediately, and so you ride that line.
(26:03):
Do I want to be late and tell people when
this actually shows up on my phone? Or do I
want to tell you at the moment that it happens,
and it's announced because I want you to be on
the lookout for it, I.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Err on the side of telling you as it happens.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And this is the result sometimes where you probably went
to Google Maps and you looked at the little layers
functionality and where is it rich? Well, first let me
explain what the story is. So on Google Maps, Google
is now showing COVID information, which is just brilliant. And
the way to see it is to open up Google Maps.
If you look in the upper right hand corner, there's
(26:37):
a little layers area where you can switch between satellite
terrain and some of the map details like street view
or bicycling or traffic, and eventually there will be a
little map type called COVID or I guess map details
called COVID. And this is great. Google is aggregating a
whole bunch of COVID information from various databases and putting
(26:58):
it right on the maps. So let's say you're visiting
an area you want to see, hmm, is how's Bakersfield
doing with COVID. You just zoom in and you'll be
able to see how it's doing with cases, whether they're up,
whether they're down, whether you know how many there are
per one hundred thousand people. And you'll see it in
different ways. There's some numbers, there's some color coding, there's
(27:19):
some arrows trending up and down. But again, it's not
there just yet on my phone.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
But it should be there. So just check.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And I keep checking every day. Whenever I see a
new feature that's really cool, I always want to. I
always check for it on like a daily basis to
see if it's there. And with Google, what they normally do,
since they have so many people and so many devices,
they don't send it out to everyone all at once
because that would be bad. They don't want everyone's phone
to crash if there is some sort of problem, so
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they send it out in waves. And that's what happened
with this COVID one. And so all you have to
do is just wait for it to hit your device.
All right, let's move on to Samsung. I told you
there's a lot of stuff this week with gadgets, but
this phone. I told you I fell in love with
the Samsung Galaxy Note twenty, right, And I really did.
(28:08):
I mean, there's no doubt about it. I love that phone.
I sit here every day and I miss it, and
I love my iPhone, but honestly, I'm a little bored
by it. Even with iOS fourteen, I'm just like, Eh,
it's great. It does everything I want, but it's.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Kind of a boring phone.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And I say that because it just does everything so
perfectly that it's like, oh, come on, Whereas something like
the Note twenty. There, you know, there's things I loved
and didn't like about it, but it just had so
many little things going on and I was always discovering
new stuff. Wasn't enough to make me switch and buy it, no,
because it was too big. But the Galaxy S twenty
(28:43):
Fan Edition, I'm trying to find out what's wrong with
this because it seems like it would be a great
phone for me. This is the it's kind of like
a culmination of the S twenty series, or a mix,
i should say, of the S.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Twenty and the Note.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So it's a premium flagship at a great price point
six ninety nine already, it's on sale for five ninety
nine on Amazon, and it has a lot of the
features that people like about both of these devices, so
super smooth display one hundred and twenty hrtz display AI
powered camera. The best chipset that they have right now,
which is the Snapdragon eight sixty five.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Is that the plus? It is the let's say snap Dragon.
How come they don't list that in an easy to
find place.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Shouldn't that be first on the spec sheet?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Let's see? Oh yeah, Qualcom Snapdragon eight sixty five.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
So it's got that, it's got expandable storage, it's got
a battery that lasts all day. The weird thing is
it's got this thirty two megapixel front camera, which okay,
I mean they never had that on the other ones,
but now it's there. And if you remember, the big
problem with the S twenty Ultra was that it had
the focus issues. And so it's like, you know, I
(29:58):
feel bad for people that bought that phone, and I
in my review, I said it needs.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
To work out.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Let's see what did I say? I will tell you
exactly what I said. Let me look up KTLAS twenty Ultra.
I said, Samsung Galaxy S twenty review. Amazing phone, but
camera focus.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Issues need to be solved.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And I'm not sure that you know they were solved
for a big part of it, but I still think
it was a little disappointing for that phone. Let's see
what else U thirty times space soom, which means it's
three times optical. The rest is being done digitally. They've
got these great colors cloud, red, cloud, orange, cloud, lavender, cloud, mint, navy.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And white. I mean, what more could you want?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
The haze effect, so it's not gonna hold all your fingerprints,
It's got five g it's got a six point five
inch screen for forty five hundred million hours, water and
dust resistant. I think this is the perfect phone Samsung.
On paper, this looks perfect. One hundred and twenty eight
gigs of storage, six gigs of RAM, even expandable up
(31:01):
to one terabyte with a microSD card.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
What more could you want?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Starting availability October second, So Samsung is sending me one
of these to test out. If I fall in love
with it, I will let you know. But at this point,
I can't imagine what I would not like about this phone.
I mean, it seems like they just said, hey, what's
good about our two devices? But maybe people don't want
the Ultra. Maybe they don't need all that craziness. One
hundred time zoom, fifty times zoom, all these little features
(31:28):
that you know you might not use a stylist that
Let's make a phone that's a little bit easier to
handle and a little bit more accessible price point. So
hopefully this is a winner, and I will keep you
updated as I usually do here in the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Let's get to another question.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Hi, Rich, thank you for trying to keep people informed
on the ever changing technology. I am a technology challenged
grammar and was thinking about getting my seven year old
grandson a watch for Can you recommend some that might
be suitable but not with too many games and gadgets?
Thank you for your time, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh wow, I was abrupt cut off there. Thank you
for your time, Jamie, Jamie, great question, and I think
the answer to your question is drum roll please, I
don't think.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I have a drum roll, but let's see what's this one? Oh? Nothing,
what's this one? No, that's not it?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
All right, I think the answer to your question is
the Apple Watch se two hundred and seventy nine dollars.
It is perfect for a child because it has all
the features you need and it's Apple. It's gonna work great.
Hopefully you or someone in your family has or someone
in your let's see it granddaughter grandson has an iPhone
(32:49):
to set it up because now they have this new
feature called family set Up, and so you can set
up an Apple Watch for your child. Now you need
an Apple Watch cellular. So it's it's not gonna be
just the two seventy nine. I believe you're gonna have
to spend a little bit more. I think it's in
three twenty nine, maybe so. But now here's the thing.
(33:10):
You do not have to activate the cellular. They strongly
recommend it, but you do not have to. Now, what
are you gonna lose in that situation? If you're using
this to keep track of your child or to communicate
with them, It's only gonna work during Wi Fi. You
know where they're in a Wi Fi network, and that's
not gonna be everywhere. So I would highly recommend that
you would get the cellular service if you truly want
(33:33):
this child to be connected. Uh, That's what I'd recommend.
But I'm not gonna recommend any of these other smart
watches for kids because they're all pretty pretty much garbage.
And Apple does have the best one. So if you
want the best, and you want your child to be connected,
and you want them, I don't know what. You didn't
really give me a reason for their watch. But if
(33:53):
it's connection, which is probably the only reason a seven
or eight year old should have a watch, you know,
you need to have them on cellular. But I think
this is brilliant. The other ones I've seen out there,
like the Gizmo and all these things are giant.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
It's like this giant.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Apparatus on the tiny child's wrist. So go with the
Apple Watch. See, it's a little bit more expensive, but
I think it will deliver what you need. And if
it's not, you know, the right time for it, save
up and you know, maybe just get it, you know,
next year or something like that. But that's a good question,
and I'm so happy Apple did that because there are
people out there that could benefit from their child having
(34:28):
a smart watch to stay connected. All Right, we did
this story on KTLA this week, and I knew it
was gonna be popular, but I didn't realize just how
popular it was gonna be. But Wow, this was popular.
So I'm just gonna go through what we talked about,
and the story was. I get so many emails people
want to know how they can transfer photos off their
(34:49):
iPhone to like sort of a flash drive without using iCloud.
And to me, I personally don't see the point of
this because the cloud is so easy. You've got Google Photos,
you've got iCloud, But why would you want to make
life tougher for yourself. Well, there's various people out there,
and not one solution is for everyone, and so that's
why I looked into the solution for this, and it's
(35:10):
called the sand disc I Expand Flash Drive. They've been
making these for many years now. This is not the
first time I've heard of this, not the first time
I've featured it on KTLA. But when I saw how
many questions I was getting about people wanting to avoid
the cloud and backup photos from their iPhone, I said, okay,
well let's feature this thing. And so the one that
they sent along is called the sand disc I Expand
(35:31):
Flash Drive GO. It's their newest, latest, greatest. The device
has a lightning jack on one side and then the
other side is USB. And to me, it would be
perfect if it was USBC, but it's not. It's just
regular USBA, and so you need a converter for something
like my computer. But it's a flash drive that plugs
into your iPhone and it has special software from SanDisk
(35:54):
and when you activate it, when you plug this little
drive in, it says, hey, do you want us to
open the software? It opens the software and it starts
backing up your pictures from your camera roll immediately.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah, it's that cool. Now, when I tested it, it
was a little bit buggy.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
But it seems like there's been two software updates since
I started testing it, and it seems to be a
little bit more smoothed out, and so it's great. I mean,
I can't recommend this thing enough if you want to
manually back up your photos on your iPhone. Now, people
were asking me, when you back them up, can I
delete them off my phone? No, just because you have
(36:29):
them on this flash drive does not mean you can
get rid of the originals on your phone. So if
you're trying to free up storage on your iPhone, you
need to actually transfer these off or actually copy them
from this little flask drive to another place. You always
have to have your pictures in two places. You cannot
just have your pictures on one place. What happens to
(36:51):
this flash drive? You drop it in water? Boom, goodbye,
see ya? You misplace it?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Goodbye? See you.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
So pick two places, and that's where you need.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
To back up your photos. So I am okay with this.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
If you want to have your photos on your iPhone
and then back them up to this little device, and
that's fine. That's fine. That's two places. They're on your phone,
they're on your device. If your phone goes missing, oh
I've got all the pictures on this little flash drive.
If the flash drive goes missing, oh I've got all
the pictures on my phone.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
You see how that works.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
If you're going to delete them off your phone, you
need to find another hard drive and transfer the photos
or sorry, copy the photos from the flash drive onto
that other hard drive. So now you have them in
two places you can safely delete them from your phone. Personally,
I would copy them to a cloud service. I know
you don't want it there, but that's what I do.
(37:42):
And right now I'm a little bit not taking my
own advice because right now I only have my pictures
in Google Photos and on my phone. Actually right now
they're only in Google Photos. But I'm in the process
of consolidating everything and then what I'm gonna do is
download my Google Photos library once every month or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But it's big.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
It's like a terabyte, so it's kind of a process.
But that's what I would say. And then of course
I get all the questions from the Android folks, Rich
is there something similar for Android? Well, there is a
sand Disk also makes something called the sand Disk Ultra
Dual Drive LUX. And the question is do they make
the same software, because you can plug any USBC drive
(38:23):
into an Android phone and it will copy files back
and forth for ninety nine percent of Android phones. Rather,
but the software is the magic, because the software enables
the automatic backup of your photos, and that's what you
really want.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
So let's see.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Sand disk I expand Android. Or let's just do Google
Play and let's see if they have a Google Play
app and see I don't know if they do. Oh wait,
do they see I don't think they do. Let's see
sand disk I expand Android. Let's see if oh gosh,
(39:00):
I don't know if they do. This is let's see
for Android. H is there an app? I see a
lot of flash drives. I'm looking for an app on
their website, and so far I do not see one.
I'll go all the way down to the bottom. Yeah,
I don't know, So I'm not really sure, but they
(39:24):
do have a sand disc connect wireless stick and that
might work.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Here's a USB USB. Gosh, they have so many different models.
But let's see.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Do they have an app free up? Oh, sand disk
Memory Zone app that looks like the app that you
need sand Disc Memory Zone. Let me see when this
was last updated, and it was last updated on September second,
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Boom.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You are good to go. So now you know sand
disc check it out. Just look for a and disca
drive that works with your Android phone, whether you have
Micro USB or if you have the newer phones which
have USBC. All right, finally, one more question here we go, Hi.
Speaker 6 (40:14):
Rich, how do I put a time limit on my
grandson's iPhone and iPad and not online? I play one
of the games when he's not with me on my iPad.
He has my old iPhone and iPad. They're all connected
to my Apple account.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Midge.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
All right, super super easy set up screen time, and
Midge screen time will enable you to put a time
limit on that iPad. You say that you share the
iPad with your grandson, so all you need to do
is that when you're playing.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
It's super easy.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
It will just say, oh, time limit, And well, there's
a couple things you can do. You can set just
time limits for his apps and leave your app alone,
or you can set time limits for all the gaming
on there, and then when you go on there to play,
you can you can just type in a code it
says like, oh sorry, screen time, and you can just
go in there and type it says more time, and
(41:06):
you can just authorize it with your pin codes. You
can make a little pin and that's it. That's why
I do my kids with screen time as well. Super
duper easy. So set up screen time. Go on the
Apple support website search screen time, set it up on
the iPhone and iPad and set up for your child
or your grandson rather. And then when you go on
there to play the game, it'll say, oh sorry, time limit.
(41:28):
It's already been played for two hours. Games have been
played on here. You just say, oh, give me, you know,
another half an hour or I think it. I think
they give you options, whether it's fifteen minutes or an hour.
You just select one of those options and that's it.
The child, you know, you can bypass the child because
you are the adult.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Midge.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
You know that, right, You are the adult, even though
on this show your synthesized voice, So yes, that is going.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
To do it for this episode of the show.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
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Amazon revamps its Fire TV lineup, Ring has a new
indoor drone, backing up iPhone pictures without the cloud, plus
your tech questions answered.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff
I think you should know about, and it's where I
answer the questions that you send me. My name is
Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Thanks so much for joining me today. Lots and lots
of tech news. It is quite remarkable how many gadgets
(00:46):
are coming out from now. It started, you know, back
in August, and now we've got September, we have.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
October and November.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well, probably everything will be done by October end of
October with the iPhone. But man, there are so many gadgets.
It seems like it seems like a lot. But this
is typically what happens during this time of the year.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But it just seems.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Super odd right now because we're in this pandemic. Everyone's
home and I feel like these tech companies have been
sort of capitalizing on the fact that we do want
entertainment from home. We are you know, we want Zoom,
we want computers. We want work from home stuff. Smartphones
not so much. That's been a little bit of a
challenge because who really wants to spend all that money
(01:29):
on a new phone right now? But again, there have
been a lot of announcements, and these things are planned
for a long time, so it's not like these are
a surprise. This is something that generally happens. It just
seems odd right now for this time of the year.
But I've been wearing the new Apple Watch Series six.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I also have the.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Se handy to kind of check out and I'm putting
them through their paces. The Series six, I mean, I'll
be honest, it's great. The loop band is cool. Took
me a little bit to figure out the sizing on
that because I put the first band on and I
was like, oh, this thing is way too big, and
I didn't realize that there were other sizes. So now
I've got pretty much the right size. And you know,
(02:09):
have I noticed anything different than the Series five?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Not really.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I mean it's definitely brighter, and the apps are a
little bit faster, but you need to rush out an upgrade.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The oxygen stuff is interesting, but it's not enough for
me to sort of think that you have to upgrade
unless you have some sort of health issue that you
want to you know, address with that. But the problem
is Apple says that's not for health anyway. It's just
for sort of awareness and fitness, and it's not a
medical device. So and I think a lot of the
features you get you get with the software update. Anyway,
(02:45):
The se is much more compelling to me for the
average person because it gives you pretty much everything you
need for two hundred and seventy nine dollars. And the
fact that they have that new family plan where you
can put the you know, your kid on an Apple Watch,
that's pretty cool too. Two seventy nine for an Apple Watch,
I think is a fantastic deal. I think I last
week talked about how you don't get certain things like,
(03:09):
you know, the new blood oxygen level, and you also
don't get the uh oh, what's the other one, the ECG,
and you don't get the always on display. But if
you don't need those things and who cares, what's the
big deal. Let's get to the first topic of the show,
and that is Amazon. Amazon had a big event this week.
This is the second time in a row they did
(03:29):
not invite me to this event, and this one was virtual.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Last year on this.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Very show, I talked about how Amazon did not invite
me to the event in Seattle. This year, they didn't
even invite me to the virtual event. So I don't
know what Amazon has against me. But here we go
with some of their announcements. So they kind of revamped
the Firestick lineup and the Echo lineup, and they had
a bunch of ring announcements. I will be peppering them
in throughout the show. But the main thing you need
(03:54):
to know is that the fire TV stick is more powerful.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It also has.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
HDR and Dolby at most support, and it's forty bucks
and it also has new Wi Fi five gigahertz, which
is great. It's got the Alexa Voice remote, which I think,
I mean, that's what I have on the four K.
Maybe the other one didn't have that, but I mean,
I don't know. I think it's kind of weird that
they have two now. They also did a fire Stick
(04:20):
light and this one's even cheaper at thirty dollars. But
the thing I don't understand is why are they selling
such cheap room like they have a thirty dollars model
and a forty dollars model. They did not upgrade the
Fire TV stick four K. What I don't understand that
at all. Four K is where all the growth is,
(04:41):
That's where all the TVs are. Why is Amazon still
putting out a ten EIGHTYP device?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Why so it doesn't doesn't make any sense. I'm I'm told,
I get the pricing thing they want to make. Oh,
thirty bucks you can get into streaming. You can get
into streaming, but fifty bucks. I mean, just split the difference,
make it forty five and give everyone four K as
the entry level. Why do we have to have three
different levels? It's confusing for the average person, and quite frankly,
(05:13):
if you know, most a lot of people are upgrading
four K TVs, so why are we getting them stuck
with these ten ADP devices?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
fireTV experience is more personalized, blah blah blah. I mean
it's already pretty good. I think that fireTV when I
compare it to the Apple TV interface, which I get
a lot more people use Roku and a lot more
people use fire it's just very cluttered and it's like,
sometimes all I want to see on the fireTV is
like a list of the top movies, and I can't
(05:42):
find them because it's so cluttered with like all the
stuff that they want to promote.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
This is cool.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
They're gonna do user profiles now, so you have six
six members of your household, all have personalized experiences. And
the best part is you say, ay, switch to my
profile and after an initition, she'll set up the A
rhymes with MAMESA will automatically recognize your voice and switch.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
To your profile. So that's really cool right there. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The fire TV Cube is their most expensive device. I
doubt many people are buying this. That's one hundred and
twenty dollars. Tough sell there when they're entry levels thirty.
But the cool thing about that one is that you
will be able to add a Logitech webcam to the
fire TV Cube and call with Alexa over video. Oh
I just said the word. But they're also going to
(06:32):
add Zoom later on. So anyway, if you're interested in
these things. The fire TV Stick, the new one starts
at forty bucks. It'll be available next week, and the
fire TV Stick Light is thirty dollars, begins shipping in
the US next week as well. All right, let's get
to our first question. I am trying something new. These
(06:55):
are new digitized question. You just out of here, let
me just here we go.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Do you know when or if the new iPad pro
will be released? I'm having trouble with my iPad Air
and want to upgrade. Not sure if it's worth waiting
for an iPad Pro. I keep getting messages that I
don't have access to websites like Corner Bakery and QVC,
to name two, and I can't open a lot of websites.
(07:22):
I get a message that Safari has lost connection to
the server or the page doesn't open. I'm very frustrated.
Thank you for any help you can give me. Mary Very,
senior citizen.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Mary Very, senior citizen.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
All right now, In case you can't tell, that is
a digitized voice.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It is so cool. I heard about this.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't know if I heard it in another podcast
or I listened to the technme ride home and the
host there, Brian McCullough, was he did a whole segment
on his podcast with a digitized voice. Because the idea is,
you know, this guy has to spend every day reading
his podcast after he writes it, and it's a whole
big thing, and he's like, what if I one day
could like synthesize my own voice, And so we did
(08:07):
a whole segment. Anyway, this is not that, but these
are special voices that they have synthesized in a program
called Descript that you can use in your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And so, I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
They're not perfect, but they're pretty interesting anyway, So you'll
hear more of them throughout the show. But that's Mary's question,
and it's an interesting question. So it sounds like Mary
wants a new iPad Pro. And to answer your question,
when the new iPad Pro is going to be released,
I mean it's going to be released next month. They
(08:40):
just announced it at the last event. And the new
iPad Pro is great. It's got a lot of nice features.
But I don't understand why. I mean, I'm having trouble
with my iPad Air. So you have an iPad Air,
I don't know. Number One, you say you're a very
senior citizen. I don't think you need the iPad Pro.
So I think you just need a regular iPad And
(09:02):
I'm not convinced your iPad Air is necessarily needing an upgrade.
I mean, these iPads last for a long long time.
So and you're saying that you have like these lost
connections to the server. So I think it sounds like
some sort of network issue and that could be the
Wi Fi that you're on, So I guess it would
really depend on does this happen everywhere or just at
(09:24):
your house. So that's the first thing I'd look at
as your Wi Fi settings. And the second thing I
do is do a reset network settings. So if you
go into your iPad into your settings general reset reset
network settings. This will clear out all the different things
on your iPad, like any Wi Fi settings, passwords for
(09:44):
your Wi Fi cellular settings, any VPNs you have, any apns,
So that will help kind of get this thing back
to normal. And if it's still happening after that, I
would do a complete factory reset, and that means erasing
everything off your iPad, starting it over from fresh, and
then seeing if it works. If it still doesn't work,
(10:06):
then I would go for the new iPad. And I
don't think you need the iPad Pro. I think you
just need the regular iPad. For three hundred and something bucks,
I just bought one for my niece, so it's a
shipping time.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Is a while.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It was like a month, so you know, you have
to keep that in mind. You're not gonna get this
thing overnight. I thought it was gonna be like, Oh,
she gets it the next day. New not so not
so fast. It's it's like four weeks out. And I'm
not sure why there's such a delay. But when I
was looking on Amazon, it was like, oh, next day delivery.
But I like to buy direct from Apple because it's
(10:38):
just uh, I'm then you don't have to If she
needs help, like getting it fixed or whatever, she can
go right into the Apple Store, no worries. I think
Amazon's probably the same way, but I just don't know.
But anyway, Mary, thanks for the question. Appreciate it, and
try to breathe some new life into the iPad air
before you spend that money on an upgrade. All right,
let's talk about the all new Echo family. So again,
(11:01):
this was at Amazon's event, and this was a digital event,
so they did the all new echos. So now the
Echo has these spherical designs, So let's talk about the
new Echo. The next generation Echo has a bright led
(11:21):
ring light at the base of it so that you
can it reflexed off your surface. So you can tell,
kind of like when Alexa is oh gosh, I keep
saying that, so you can tell when A is saying things.
It also comes for the first time with a built
in smart home hub with support for Zigbie, Bluetooth Low Energy,
and Amazon Sidewalk. And out of those three with the
(11:42):
funny names, Amazon Sidewalk is the most interesting. I haven't
really talked about it on this podcast, but I was
discussing it with a Bill Handle on KFI on the
radio the other day, and it's just brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
from Amazon, very dystopian at the same time, because how
it works is that anyone who wants to be part
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of this network puts their device like a It basically
comes from the ring devices. So if you have like
a link a ring floodlight cam, and it's basically the
ring devices that are always connected to the Internet and
they're outside, and so they say, you say, hey, I'll
donate a little bit of my Internet to this sidewalk network,
and so a whole bunch of you do that, and
Amazon aggregates that network and then creates their own network
(12:29):
through these devices that then have a direct connection to
the Internet through a bunch of people's home Wi Fi.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So does that make any sense? It's really weird.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But so imagine you have a Wi Fi connection at
home with one of these Ring devices. You say, sure,
I'll be kind of a spoke or a hub for
this network, and you take a little bit of your
Internet and you give it to that device all the time.
Your neighbor is not part of the network. They're just
a spoke. They have like an Echo. That Echo can
tap into your your Ring device on the sidewalk network
(13:00):
use a little bit of your Internet if their Internet
goes out. That's kind of the idea here, is that
they're creating a secondary network that kind of is alive
at all times because chances are someone's device is up
and running on their Internet connection. So if your whole
neighborhood goes out, your Ring camera on your front door
will still continue to work because you're tapping into this
(13:21):
new sidewalk network and not just your Wi Fi. I mean,
it's really really brilliant, kind of scary, but I think
it's really cool. So that's the Echo and then you
have the Echo Dot Kids edition. This comes in a
colorful panda or tiger print and it's what is that?
That one's sixty bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And they also have.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
This feature on it called Reading Sidekick, where Alexa can
help kids build fluency and foster a love for reading.
Alexa will take turns reading with your child, providing encouragement
when they're reading well and offering support when they struggle.
So I don't know how that's gonna work. I gotta
see a demo of that, because does it read along
with any book or just the books that they program
(14:03):
for that. Then you've got the Echo Show ten and
this is really interesting too. Imagine an Echo device. You know,
these are the ones with the display that's sort of
on a swivel mount. This is two hundred and fifty dollars,
so very expensive. But it's got a ten inch HD
display and it rotates as you walk around the room,
so when you're on a video call, you can just
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kind of walk around naturally it will follow you not
you know, it won't move, but it will just rotate
left and right. I don't know if it goes up
and down. But they say it's a brushless motor. So
it's nice and quiet. But that's really cool because we're
all getting into this whole you know, video chat thing,
and it's you know, these smart displays are going to
(14:45):
become more and more valuable because people have gotten so
used to kind of chatting with people on them. You
can also watch other things on them like Hulu plus
Prime Video, Netflix, and that's cool. There's also a feature
called Alexa gar so the Echo Show ten can pan
the room and send you an alert if it detects
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someone in its field of view. So again, these things
are getting really smart and just we are covering our
homes in all kinds of ways that we never thought possible.
And there is a camera shutter on this thing, so
you can turn that off. You can also turn off
the motion if you don't like it. So the Echo
is a hundred bucks, the Echo Dot is fifty, the
(15:26):
kids edition is sixty, and the Echo Show ten is
two fifty that will ship in time for the holidays.
And again, you know, it's nice that these things are
all working with Zoom. It seems like it's gonna take
a little bit, but it is pretty cool that Zoom
is getting a lot of play on these new devices.
(15:46):
All right, let's go to another question. This one comes
from Javier.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
My kid always seems to go to YouTube because he
finished his assignment early. He then gets carried away and
forgets to check back to his classroom. Is there a
way to block YouTube or at least just temporarily using
a laptop running Windows ten. Thank you, Javier.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Okay, good question, Javier. This happens to me as well,
because my kids are obsessed with YouTube, well especially my
little kid. My gosh, when I say obsessed, it is
it's unbelievable the amount of influence these YouTubers have on
small kids. And as a parent, it's kind of scary
(16:29):
because I noticed my kids started talking about Chick fil
A and you know, a couple other little things that
this YouTuber loves.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And it's like, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Hot Pockets was another one, and it's it's really I mean,
I see the whole thing with like you know, whether
these are sponsored opportunities or not, because not that kids care,
but for parents, like I want to know, like is
this guy talking about uh, Chick fil A because he
loves it?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Or is he being paid to do that? But I digress.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So, yeah, there is a way to block YouTube, at
least temporarily using a laptop running Windows ten. I would
look at a website called next dns dot io, next
dns dot io. And what this does is that it's
basically a it changes the DNS on your or I
(17:20):
guess you use it to change how your router looks
up things. And so you can put in all kinds
of you know, restrictions, so you can do all kinds
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Let me just go through some of these things. So
let's see security, privacy.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Hold on, it's saying it's saying that I'm I got
to sign up because I've already set this thing up.
Let me go into a different window here and try
it this way. Let's see next dns try it now
for free, and it's it's pretty much free. You just
have to change a couple of settings on your router
and this is it. But you can go in and
put on Google Safe browsing, crypto jacking protection, let's see
(17:59):
type squadting.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Wow, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Privacy, you can block ads, you can block trackers, let's
see parental controls. You can restrict access to a specific website,
app or game or categories. You can turn on safe search,
YouTube restricted mode. And the only thing that's kind of
tricky about this is that it's coming from the router,
(18:22):
and there's not really a timed way of doing this.
You can't say, oh, I just want this website to
be restricted from nine am to one pm while my
kid is in school. But another thing you could do,
and I'm sure there's a whole bunch of like Chrome
extensions that you can get to help on that Windows laptop.
But I would also look into, if you want kind
of a heavy duty situation, something called Circle and Circle
(18:45):
is really good. You plug it into your router, and
it's like you can control everything your kids do. You
can control from the time they're able to access their
devices how much time they're allowed. So, for instance, my
kid gets a certain amount of time on YouTube every
day on Minecraft and blocks, and believe me, they fight
it every day. They When that times up, I get
a little notification on my watch and it's like, oh,
(19:06):
here comes my kid marching in asking for more time.
So that's another way of doing it. The other thing
is if you're on you know, and I know you're
on Windows, but if you're on an Apple device, you
can use screen time and that's super simple to set up.
But Windows ten, I think they have something called the
family filter, because I have this on my kid's laptop
(19:27):
as well. Let's see Windows Family Filter and yeah, so
you got to go into Family.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Let's see what's it called. I think it's.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Microsoft Family dot Microsoft dot com. And then that way
you can set up all the filters on your child's device.
So you can do it. It's in you know, you believe me,
you can. You can do this stuff. It takes a
little bit of time to set it up, but again,
once it's set up, it is you know, it's a
little easier. It's on autopilot. But there are some things
(20:03):
here and there. Like the other night, I was trying
to watch something on I think it was, I don't know,
was it Netflix in my bedroom and I was like,
what is going on here?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It will not work?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And I remembered that everything gets cut off at seven
pm because that's my kid's bedtime and the devices are
on there, or at least the device in my bedroom,
the firestick is linked to my kid's profile. So I
had to go in and like extend his bedtime, and
you know, it was fine. They do have provisions for
that and circle, by the way, it's super easy. You
(20:32):
can say, oh, give my kid an extra half an
hour tonight as a reward for bedtime, or give my
kid an extra hour on YouTube. Whatever. But it takes
a little bit. It takes a little setting up. But
that is the way to do it. And there are
plenty of ways to do this stuff. Believe me, there's
lots of smart people at these smart companies that have
helped parents. It just takes a little time to set
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it up and sometimes it does cost a little bit.
All right, now, let's talk about Ring.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
This is probably the most.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Dramatic thing that was announced at the Amazon event. You know,
Ring is owned by Amazon, and this is a Ring
always on cam otherwise known as the Ring drone for
your house. So the way they describe it is the
autonomous indoor security camera that flies your chosen personalized paths
so you can easily check in on your home for
(21:23):
peace of mind. So it's a drone that sits in
a cradle until it needs to go to work, and
it flies around your house and gives you a view
of what's going on your house.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
How cool is that?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I can't wait to get this, and yes I will
be getting this. I mean you got to give it
to James simonov over at Ring. The inventor general there
he I mean, I'm pretty sure he came up with
this himself, and I love it. This goes back to
kind of like the idea of this guy just being
He's on the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
(21:58):
I mean, he's just that smart coming up with these
smart smart things.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Steve Jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
This is this guy who is a young guy is
on that level. He came up with the video door bell,
he came up with this drone. How smart is this?
Let me give you a real world example.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So I was. I flew to New Jersey one time.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
This was a couple of years ago, and next thing,
no we land, we get to my dad's house. I
get the alarm on my phone saying, you know, there
is a fire in your house. Your fire alarm. Sorry,
your fire alarm is going off. And I get the
call from the alarm company. You know, we're sending the
fire department. Wait, what what do you mean my house
on fire? What?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I got a check?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
At that point, I had no cameras in my house.
I had no way of knowing if this was just
a false alarm or a real fire.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So what I do?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I called my friend in the neighborhood, and I said,
can you please go.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Over to my house.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
He's like, I'm there. I'm dropping everything. I'm going right now.
He runs over to my house just in time to
see the fire truck and the firefighters ready to break
in the back door to see what the deal is.
There's no smoke, thank god. And he said, there's no smoke,
but you know the firefighters are heard you want them
to break open the door. I said, if there's no smoke,
I mean, I don't know. And so long story short,
(23:12):
Now I have cameras and this exactly plays into that world.
So if my fire alarm went off again, what would
I do? I'd send up the drone. Hey, take a
look around my house and tell me if my house
is on fire or not.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
And hopefully it never is. But this is just I
love it, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Now. There are a lot of privacy kind of factors
built into this thing. And by the way, this drone
flies automatically when you're away out of your house and
the alarm is triggered in a way mode, so it
automatically will fly a path to see what's happening. So
even if you don't Let's say you're on a plane
and something happens. This drone will capture video inside your
(23:52):
house that you can watch later. The device rests in
a base, The camera is physically blocked when it's docked,
and it only starts recording when the device leaves the
base and starts flying one of the preset paths. The
camera also hums at a certain volume, so you know
that it's recording. They say it's privacy that you can hear.
Apparently this thing, I think it was two hundred and
(24:13):
fifty dollars if I remember. Let's see do they even
say Ring always on cam price?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Two hundred fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Oh, I can't wait to buy this. I cannot wait
to get this. Can you pre order it?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It says at the bottom of the thing I have.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
That's it's not been authorized by the FCC yet. It's
not offered for sale until then. But I can't wait. Brilliant, brillion, brilliant.
And this is when I say in previous podcasts, I've
said that a lot of the momentum is behind Ring
when you compare it to other companies that are doing
home security. Ring is just there. And in fact, I
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have a couple of the Ring devices. I think it's
time for some more because they really are putting a
lot into their devices and into their R and D
and into kind of having something that works with all
different aspects of your home.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
So I love it. That's the Ring. What is it called?
Let me.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
The ring always on cam? Everyone's calling it the drone?
But yeah, the ring always on cam?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
How cool is that? Love it? Love it? Love it?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Oh, time for another question, this question. Let's see, let's
see who it's from.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Hi, Rich, I saw your report this morning about Google
Maps now showing COVID information, but when I checked my
Google Map nothing was on there. Do I need to
turn on that layer somehow? Or is this feature coming soon?
Thanks for your help. I always love your reports. Thanks Tanya.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
All right, this was a report that I did on
KTLA about Google Maps now showing COVID information. And this
is always kind of the issue that I run into
with being early on a lot of things, is that
a lot of these tech companies announce stuff but it's
not necessary available immediately, and so you ride that line.
(26:03):
Do I want to be late and tell people when
this actually shows up on my phone? Or do I
want to tell you at the moment that it happens,
and it's announced because I want you to be on
the lookout for it, I.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Err on the side of telling you as it happens.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And this is the result sometimes where you probably went
to Google Maps and you looked at the little layers
functionality and where is it rich? Well, first let me
explain what the story is. So on Google Maps, Google
is now showing COVID information, which is just brilliant. And
the way to see it is to open up Google Maps.
If you look in the upper right hand corner, there's
(26:37):
a little layers area where you can switch between satellite
terrain and some of the map details like street view
or bicycling or traffic, and eventually there will be a
little map type called COVID or I guess map details
called COVID. And this is great. Google is aggregating a
whole bunch of COVID information from various databases and putting
(26:58):
it right on the maps. So let's say you're visiting
an area you want to see, hmm, is how's Bakersfield
doing with COVID. You just zoom in and you'll be
able to see how it's doing with cases, whether they're up,
whether they're down, whether you know how many there are
per one hundred thousand people. And you'll see it in
different ways. There's some numbers, there's some color coding, there's
(27:19):
some arrows trending up and down. But again, it's not
there just yet on my phone.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
But it should be there. So just check.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And I keep checking every day. Whenever I see a
new feature that's really cool, I always want to. I
always check for it on like a daily basis to
see if it's there. And with Google, what they normally do,
since they have so many people and so many devices,
they don't send it out to everyone all at once
because that would be bad. They don't want everyone's phone
to crash if there is some sort of problem, so
(27:47):
they send it out in waves. And that's what happened
with this COVID one. And so all you have to
do is just wait for it to hit your device.
All right, let's move on to Samsung. I told you
there's a lot of stuff this week with gadgets, but
this phone. I told you I fell in love with
the Samsung Galaxy Note twenty, right, And I really did.
(28:08):
I mean, there's no doubt about it. I love that phone.
I sit here every day and I miss it, and
I love my iPhone, but honestly, I'm a little bored
by it. Even with iOS fourteen, I'm just like, Eh,
it's great. It does everything I want, but it's.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Kind of a boring phone.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And I say that because it just does everything so
perfectly that it's like, oh, come on, Whereas something like
the Note twenty. There, you know, there's things I loved
and didn't like about it, but it just had so
many little things going on and I was always discovering
new stuff. Wasn't enough to make me switch and buy it, no,
because it was too big. But the Galaxy S twenty
(28:43):
Fan Edition, I'm trying to find out what's wrong with
this because it seems like it would be a great
phone for me. This is the it's kind of like
a culmination of the S twenty series, or a mix,
i should say, of the S.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Twenty and the Note.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So it's a premium flagship at a great price point
six ninety nine already, it's on sale for five ninety
nine on Amazon, and it has a lot of the
features that people like about both of these devices, so
super smooth display one hundred and twenty hrtz display AI
powered camera. The best chipset that they have right now,
which is the Snapdragon eight sixty five.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Is that the plus? It is the let's say snap Dragon.
How come they don't list that in an easy to
find place.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Shouldn't that be first on the spec sheet?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Let's see? Oh yeah, Qualcom Snapdragon eight sixty five.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
So it's got that, it's got expandable storage, it's got
a battery that lasts all day. The weird thing is
it's got this thirty two megapixel front camera, which okay,
I mean they never had that on the other ones,
but now it's there. And if you remember, the big
problem with the S twenty Ultra was that it had
the focus issues. And so it's like, you know, I
(29:58):
feel bad for people that bought that phone, and I
in my review, I said it needs.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
To work out.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Let's see what did I say? I will tell you
exactly what I said. Let me look up KTLAS twenty Ultra.
I said, Samsung Galaxy S twenty review. Amazing phone, but
camera focus.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Issues need to be solved.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And I'm not sure that you know they were solved
for a big part of it, but I still think
it was a little disappointing for that phone. Let's see
what else U thirty times space soom, which means it's
three times optical. The rest is being done digitally. They've
got these great colors cloud, red, cloud, orange, cloud, lavender, cloud, mint, navy.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And white. I mean, what more could you want?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
The haze effect, so it's not gonna hold all your fingerprints,
It's got five g it's got a six point five
inch screen for forty five hundred million hours, water and
dust resistant. I think this is the perfect phone Samsung.
On paper, this looks perfect. One hundred and twenty eight
gigs of storage, six gigs of RAM, even expandable up
(31:01):
to one terabyte with a microSD card.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
What more could you want?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Starting availability October second, So Samsung is sending me one
of these to test out. If I fall in love
with it, I will let you know. But at this point,
I can't imagine what I would not like about this phone.
I mean, it seems like they just said, hey, what's
good about our two devices? But maybe people don't want
the Ultra. Maybe they don't need all that craziness. One
hundred time zoom, fifty times zoom, all these little features
(31:28):
that you know you might not use a stylist that
Let's make a phone that's a little bit easier to
handle and a little bit more accessible price point. So
hopefully this is a winner, and I will keep you
updated as I usually do here in the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Let's get to another question.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Hi, Rich, thank you for trying to keep people informed
on the ever changing technology. I am a technology challenged
grammar and was thinking about getting my seven year old
grandson a watch for Can you recommend some that might
be suitable but not with too many games and gadgets?
Thank you for your time, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh wow, I was abrupt cut off there. Thank you
for your time, Jamie, Jamie, great question, and I think
the answer to your question is drum roll please, I
don't think.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I have a drum roll, but let's see what's this one? Oh? Nothing,
what's this one? No, that's not it?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
All right, I think the answer to your question is
the Apple Watch se two hundred and seventy nine dollars.
It is perfect for a child because it has all
the features you need and it's Apple. It's gonna work great.
Hopefully you or someone in your family has or someone
in your let's see it granddaughter grandson has an iPhone
(32:49):
to set it up because now they have this new
feature called family set Up, and so you can set
up an Apple Watch for your child. Now you need
an Apple Watch cellular. So it's it's not gonna be
just the two seventy nine. I believe you're gonna have
to spend a little bit more. I think it's in
three twenty nine, maybe so. But now here's the thing.
(33:10):
You do not have to activate the cellular. They strongly
recommend it, but you do not have to. Now, what
are you gonna lose in that situation? If you're using
this to keep track of your child or to communicate
with them, It's only gonna work during Wi Fi. You
know where they're in a Wi Fi network, and that's
not gonna be everywhere. So I would highly recommend that
you would get the cellular service if you truly want
(33:33):
this child to be connected. Uh, That's what I'd recommend.
But I'm not gonna recommend any of these other smart
watches for kids because they're all pretty pretty much garbage.
And Apple does have the best one. So if you
want the best, and you want your child to be connected,
and you want them, I don't know what. You didn't
really give me a reason for their watch. But if
(33:53):
it's connection, which is probably the only reason a seven
or eight year old should have a watch, you know,
you need to have them on cellular. But I think
this is brilliant. The other ones I've seen out there,
like the Gizmo and all these things are giant.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
It's like this giant.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Apparatus on the tiny child's wrist. So go with the
Apple Watch. See, it's a little bit more expensive, but
I think it will deliver what you need. And if
it's not, you know, the right time for it, save
up and you know, maybe just get it, you know,
next year or something like that. But that's a good question,
and I'm so happy Apple did that because there are
people out there that could benefit from their child having
(34:28):
a smart watch to stay connected. All Right, we did
this story on KTLA this week, and I knew it
was gonna be popular, but I didn't realize just how
popular it was gonna be. But Wow, this was popular.
So I'm just gonna go through what we talked about,
and the story was. I get so many emails people
want to know how they can transfer photos off their
(34:49):
iPhone to like sort of a flash drive without using iCloud.
And to me, I personally don't see the point of
this because the cloud is so easy. You've got Google Photos,
you've got iCloud, But why would you want to make
life tougher for yourself. Well, there's various people out there,
and not one solution is for everyone, and so that's
why I looked into the solution for this, and it's
(35:10):
called the sand disc I Expand Flash Drive. They've been
making these for many years now. This is not the
first time I've heard of this, not the first time
I've featured it on KTLA. But when I saw how
many questions I was getting about people wanting to avoid
the cloud and backup photos from their iPhone, I said, okay,
well let's feature this thing. And so the one that
they sent along is called the sand disc I Expand
(35:31):
Flash Drive GO. It's their newest, latest, greatest. The device
has a lightning jack on one side and then the
other side is USB. And to me, it would be
perfect if it was USBC, but it's not. It's just
regular USBA, and so you need a converter for something
like my computer. But it's a flash drive that plugs
into your iPhone and it has special software from SanDisk
(35:54):
and when you activate it, when you plug this little
drive in, it says, hey, do you want us to
open the software? It opens the software and it starts
backing up your pictures from your camera roll immediately.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah, it's that cool. Now, when I tested it, it
was a little bit buggy.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
But it seems like there's been two software updates since
I started testing it, and it seems to be a
little bit more smoothed out, and so it's great. I mean,
I can't recommend this thing enough if you want to
manually back up your photos on your iPhone. Now, people
were asking me, when you back them up, can I
delete them off my phone? No, just because you have
(36:29):
them on this flash drive does not mean you can
get rid of the originals on your phone. So if
you're trying to free up storage on your iPhone, you
need to actually transfer these off or actually copy them
from this little flask drive to another place. You always
have to have your pictures in two places. You cannot
just have your pictures on one place. What happens to
(36:51):
this flash drive? You drop it in water? Boom, goodbye,
see ya? You misplace it?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Goodbye? See you.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
So pick two places, and that's where you need.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
To back up your photos. So I am okay with this.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
If you want to have your photos on your iPhone
and then back them up to this little device, and
that's fine. That's fine. That's two places. They're on your phone,
they're on your device. If your phone goes missing, oh
I've got all the pictures on this little flash drive.
If the flash drive goes missing, oh I've got all
the pictures on my phone.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
You see how that works.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
If you're going to delete them off your phone, you
need to find another hard drive and transfer the photos
or sorry, copy the photos from the flash drive onto
that other hard drive. So now you have them in
two places you can safely delete them from your phone. Personally,
I would copy them to a cloud service. I know
you don't want it there, but that's what I do.
(37:42):
And right now I'm a little bit not taking my
own advice because right now I only have my pictures
in Google Photos and on my phone. Actually right now
they're only in Google Photos. But I'm in the process
of consolidating everything and then what I'm gonna do is
download my Google Photos library once every month or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
But it's big.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
It's like a terabyte, so it's kind of a process.
But that's what I would say. And then of course
I get all the questions from the Android folks, Rich
is there something similar for Android? Well, there is a
sand Disk also makes something called the sand Disk Ultra
Dual Drive LUX. And the question is do they make
the same software, because you can plug any USBC drive
(38:23):
into an Android phone and it will copy files back
and forth for ninety nine percent of Android phones. Rather,
but the software is the magic, because the software enables
the automatic backup of your photos, and that's what you
really want.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
So let's see.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Sand disk I expand Android. Or let's just do Google
Play and let's see if they have a Google Play
app and see I don't know if they do. Oh wait,
do they see I don't think they do. Let's see
sand disk I expand Android. Let's see if oh gosh,
(39:00):
I don't know if they do. This is let's see
for Android. H is there an app? I see a
lot of flash drives. I'm looking for an app on
their website, and so far I do not see one.
I'll go all the way down to the bottom. Yeah,
I don't know, So I'm not really sure, but they
(39:24):
do have a sand disc connect wireless stick and that
might work.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Here's a USB USB. Gosh, they have so many different models.
But let's see.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Do they have an app free up? Oh, sand disk
Memory Zone app that looks like the app that you
need sand Disc Memory Zone. Let me see when this
was last updated, and it was last updated on September second,
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Boom.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You are good to go. So now you know sand
disc check it out. Just look for a and disca
drive that works with your Android phone, whether you have
Micro USB or if you have the newer phones which
have USBC. All right, finally, one more question here we go, Hi.
Speaker 6 (40:14):
Rich, how do I put a time limit on my
grandson's iPhone and iPad and not online? I play one
of the games when he's not with me on my iPad.
He has my old iPhone and iPad. They're all connected
to my Apple account.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Midge.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
All right, super super easy set up screen time, and
Midge screen time will enable you to put a time
limit on that iPad. You say that you share the
iPad with your grandson, so all you need to do
is that when you're playing.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
It's super easy.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
It will just say, oh, time limit, And well, there's
a couple things you can do. You can set just
time limits for his apps and leave your app alone,
or you can set time limits for all the gaming
on there, and then when you go on there to play,
you can you can just type in a code it
says like, oh sorry, screen time, and you can just
go in there and type it says more time, and
(41:06):
you can just authorize it with your pin codes. You
can make a little pin and that's it. That's why
I do my kids with screen time as well. Super
duper easy. So set up screen time. Go on the
Apple support website search screen time, set it up on
the iPhone and iPad and set up for your child
or your grandson rather. And then when you go on
there to play the game, it'll say, oh sorry, time limit.
(41:28):
It's already been played for two hours. Games have been
played on here. You just say, oh, give me, you know,
another half an hour or I think it. I think
they give you options, whether it's fifteen minutes or an hour.
You just select one of those options and that's it.
The child, you know, you can bypass the child because
you are the adult.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Midge.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
You know that, right, You are the adult, even though
on this show your synthesized voice, So yes, that is going.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
To do it for this episode of the show.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
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(42:18):
I haven't decided what I'm gonna do about the questions,
but you know, I'm just trying new things and seeing
what works what doesn't work. If you like me reading them,
let me know. If you like someone else reading them,
let me know. If you like the computer reading them,
let me know. I thought it's kind of fun to
have the computer because you know, this is a tech
show and I just like the idea of it.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
But let me know.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
You can find me on social media at rich on Tech.
I'm rich Timiro. Thank you so much for listening. Stay safe,
I'll talk to you real soon.
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