July 15, 2025 • 11 mins
KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Rich talks about Samsung’s new foldable phones, Google’s Gemini has a new video feature, and gone.com a new take on junk pick-up.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Rich to morrow, who I'm assuming can dance too.
(00:02):
I have no idea KTLA's tech reporter. You can't. I
can't either. Worth the damn host of Rich on Tech
Saturdays here at kf I eleven to two, his free
newsletter rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
All Right, Rich, good morning to.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You, Good morning to Bill.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Okay, we have a few things to talk about Samsung,
which comes out with it seems like Samsung comes out
with new phones every three minutes, where where the iPhone
comes out what once a year with the new phone.
It seems like all we talk about Samsung with their
new phones, and this.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Is the new foldable phones.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm aware of the flip phone, but the foldable phone,
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's like a book, right, it opens up like a book.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yep, yep, yeah correct. So yeah, so I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
A little confused. Is the screen fill up the entire book?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah? So you know you've got two of these. So
the fold seven is the one that opens up like
a book. And yes, it's got the big screen on
the outside, and then it's got an even bigger screen
on the inside, so it opens up to become like
almost a squared looking tablet and they've made that really nice.
And then you've got the Flip seven that's the one
that is like our old school flip phones, like the
(01:24):
Motorola Razor back in the day, and both of these phones.
So it was in New York for the event. You know,
Samsung did a big event in Brooklyn at some place
like call like the fish hatchery or something. It was
like they where they you know, bring all the fish
in and like ship it out to the restaurants and
stuff in the city. Anyway, they they really improve these
phones this time, like like incredibly so. So the screens
(01:46):
on them are wider and much more usable. The screens
are bigger, they extend to like the entire edges of
these devices. So all the issues that the reviewers had
in the past six years of these devices have pretty
much gone away. Now. Of course, everyone's focusing on battery life.
That's like the main downside on the big fold because
(02:07):
they didn't really improve that. But for everyday use, it's
now to a place where people are going to start
recommending these And you mentioned the A word Apple. They're
expected to make a foldable next year, and you know
when that happens, I imagine that they're going to get
a lot of publicity for that because it's Apple, and
people like their iPhone, they like their iOS operating system,
(02:30):
and so even though Samsung has been doing this for
six years and they've been doing it really good, of
course Apple is really going to command the headlines when
that happens next year.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You forgive my ignorance, where as you know, I'm not
a tech maven at all. You open up the phone
and it's the big screen filling up both sides as
in a book. I'm assuming that down the middle you've
got obviously a line or separation. How do they do
with that or that just happens like a book?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, you do, see, well, the screen does take up
the entire So just imagine on the outside there is
a screen and it's a pretty big screen. It's like
now the standard size of a smartphone on the outside.
So you can just use the outside screen all day long,
things like checking your email, doing text stuff like that.
But then when you open up the screen, that's when
you get that big screen inside and you can use
(03:25):
that to watch videos, look at your emails on a
bigger screen, do multitasking all that kind of stuff. The
crease in the middle is definitely there because it is
one big screen that folds in half. But you really
do not notice it because you're looking at the stuff
going on on the screen. You're not focusing on that crease. Now,
if you look for it, Bill, you'll definitely see it.
(03:46):
And that's the thing that Apple has said, of course
not publicly, but the reports about Apple is that they
really wanted to come out with their foldable saying there's
no crease. You don't even see the crease, and that's
really what they've been trying to do. I don't think
it's a big deal with the crease. It's just not
even something your brain notices when you're using this phone
day to day.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay, fair enough? And how big is the phone? Is
that you said.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's as big as the Ultra. I have the big
Apple phone, and it's big. It's not, you know, and
it's hard putting in my it's hard putting into my pocket,
and it's not all that comfortable talking into it, holding
it up to your ear and talking.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, the way they made this the fold seven, which
is the bigger one, it's pretty much the outside screen
is about the size of an iPhone screen just a
little bit smaller than when you open it up, it's
got an eight inch screen inside. They also added their
top tier camera, so now has a better camera than
ever before. That was one of the big drawbacks of
this device that there was not a good camera on it,
(04:50):
and also has a higher price tag, so they did
raise the price by a dollars. So two thousand dollars
for this phone come.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
On and people lining up to buy it. At some
point is there a price limit? I mean, where do
people stop buying phones? Three thousand dollars, eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Here's the deal. Most people do not walk into the
store and take cash out of their pocket and pay
two thousand dollars. They take that two thousand dollars number one.
They have a trade in. So, for instance, I was
at my kids karate the other day. The guy sitting
next to me has the old model of the fold.
Of course, I'm a nerd, so I go, hey, have
you seen the new one. I've got it right here,
and he's like, no, I just ordered it online and
(05:29):
I've been waiting to see it, you know, because these
don't come out for another ten days, and so you know,
showing them the phone. We are talking about it, and
you know he'll trade in that old phone. He'll get
probably five six hundred dollars for that old phone. That
knocks the price down to fifteen hundred bucks. Then, by
the way, you're dividing up the price of that phone
over the next thirty six months, which is what most
people do in America to buy their phone. So now
(05:50):
you're down to you know, another fifty bucks a month,
whatever it is. That's how people buy their phones. They
don't see two thousand dollars here are the bills, so.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
You don't really get hit or you feel it very much.
All Right, a couple things I'm going to talk about.
Gone dot com, a new take on junk pickup.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Explain that please.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, I thought this was a pretty interesting startup. You know,
I'm always checking out the latest startups seeing what they're doing,
and not all of them make it, but this one
I thought was pretty interesting because we've all heard of
like one Hunter got Junk, all these junk places that
come to your house and it costs a lot of
money to get your stuff picked up. So this gone
dot com is putting a twist on that, and they've
(06:32):
got some investors from one a hunter junk and offer up.
But what you do is you schedule a free pickup.
They come with their trucks and they take away your
items that could be furniture, smart devices, appliances. But basically
this stuff has to be reusable, right, it can't just
be trash. And so what they do is they will
pick this stuff up for free, but then they will
(06:54):
resell it on their own, so that's where they make
their money. So I thought that was a pretty smart idea.
It's started. It's in Seattle right now, and they want
to expand to other cities. Right now, they're averaging twenty
to twenty five pickups a week. So people clearly like
the idea of getting rid of their stuff. Which Bill,
you know you live in La. It's like people just
put stuff on their curb and it's like hopefully someone
(07:18):
just picks it up. This is like cutting out the middleman.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, but here's the question. Who determines if it's reusable
or not?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And if I'm leaving Let's say some piece of electronic
out there, how do they know whether it works or not?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well, it cites AI. So they're using AI to scan
the items and see which ones have some value to
them on the spot. So I'm guessing they leave behind
the stuff that they think is complete garbage and they
don't want to be, you know, tasked with getting rid
of that. I'm sure some stuff gets caught in the middle.
You know, they may take something and then later on
find out nobody wants it. But again, it's kind of
(07:55):
a smart idea for you know, instead there's leaving stuff
out there for someone to or going through the process
of selling it yourself. You know, a lot of times
I'll have something that it's completely good and I just
want to get rid of it, but I don't really
want to deal with the whole offer up thing. You
put something on there. Next thing, you know, you're getting
a million messages from a million different people, Hey can
I come by? Can I come by? Can I come by?
(08:17):
And half of it works out, half of it doesn't.
So the idea that I can take an old couch,
give it to this company and they can figure out
what to do with it, to me, makes a lot
of sense.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Does anybody ask what you've done on the couch?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I'd put a list? Oh okay, disclaimer.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's I find that really interesting in terms of it
is so subjective.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But if it works, I guess it works. Yeah, so
we don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
We will not know if it works until next year,
if we're still talking about it, right, But you know,
it seems like a decent idea. I mean, money Hunter
got Junk and all these other companies they do a
pretty good job. So yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Pick up don't pick up anything. I mean they pick
up everything is junk to them. Uh and uh, I'm
assuming you pay for it. And I don't even know
what they charge for picking up John. It's a law,
it's a lot. It's you know, it's more than you think.
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So a lot of these junk companies they come to
your place and it's it's always more than you think
it is, especially for like the franchises, because you know
you've got the franchise fees to pay. But with that said,
when you're done with this stuff, it does feel really
nice that it's just out of your you know vision.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah and I yeah, well I think if you put
your stuff out there, you can call the city for
couches and stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And I you know, I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
No, no, I do. I do know the answer on that,
and it's incredible. It's called La three to one one
if you live in the city of Los Angeles. I
don't think a lot of people realize this. You download
the app, you take a picture, and you can schedule
it for free. They will take your bulky items and
they do it really well, like they tell you the
exact day and time they're coming, and it's usually either
(10:00):
your garbage day or the day after. And I've used
that for a lot of stuff and they will definitely
take it, believe me. So La it's called my LA
three one one. Download the app, and it's also great
for getting your garbage cans replaced, like if you have
a you know, cracked can or something, they will come
and repair it or replace it for free.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh it's I thought it's Oh, I guess that's where
you go because I thought it was just the authority
that handles your trash and unless you have a private
trash pickup and depends if you're leaving in one of
those communities or not.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I don't do trash.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, this is this is for La City folks, you
know what I mean, Like people that live. And I'm
sure there's Orange County, there's you know, it depends on
your jurisdiction. I know kfive reaches a large swath of
La County, so or you know, southern California. So this
is just for La folks.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
By the way, I do trash.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Unfortunately, I'm I was just wishful thinking. I never did
because I always had family members to do it. Now
I'm stuck with it and it is no fun. It
is absolutely no.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
What taking out the trash?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, Bill, are you really complaining about bringing out the
trash cans?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yes? All right? Rich?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Thank yeah, yeah, Okay, what can I tell you?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Rich? We'll catch you next week and this Saturday, eleven
to two right here on KFI.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Rich, you have a good day.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Thank you, Bill, take care.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, he was shocked, And I'm complaining about taking out
the trash cans. Now, you know I'm joking, don't you?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, Neil shaking his head.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Okay,
All right, Rich to morrow, who I'm assuming can dance too.
(00:02):
I have no idea KTLA's tech reporter. You can't. I
can't either. Worth the damn host of Rich on Tech
Saturdays here at kf I eleven to two, his free
newsletter rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
All Right, Rich, good morning to.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You, Good morning to Bill.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Okay, we have a few things to talk about Samsung,
which comes out with it seems like Samsung comes out
with new phones every three minutes, where where the iPhone
comes out what once a year with the new phone.
It seems like all we talk about Samsung with their
new phones, and this.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Is the new foldable phones.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm aware of the flip phone, but the foldable phone,
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's like a book, right, it opens up like a book.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yep, yep, yeah correct. So yeah, so I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
A little confused. Is the screen fill up the entire book?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah? So you know you've got two of these. So
the fold seven is the one that opens up like
a book. And yes, it's got the big screen on
the outside, and then it's got an even bigger screen
on the inside, so it opens up to become like
almost a squared looking tablet and they've made that really nice.
And then you've got the Flip seven that's the one
that is like our old school flip phones, like the
(01:24):
Motorola Razor back in the day, and both of these phones.
So it was in New York for the event. You know,
Samsung did a big event in Brooklyn at some place
like call like the fish hatchery or something. It was
like they where they you know, bring all the fish
in and like ship it out to the restaurants and
stuff in the city. Anyway, they they really improve these
phones this time, like like incredibly so. So the screens
(01:46):
on them are wider and much more usable. The screens
are bigger, they extend to like the entire edges of
these devices. So all the issues that the reviewers had
in the past six years of these devices have pretty
much gone away. Now. Of course, everyone's focusing on battery life.
That's like the main downside on the big fold because
(02:07):
they didn't really improve that. But for everyday use, it's
now to a place where people are going to start
recommending these And you mentioned the A word Apple. They're
expected to make a foldable next year, and you know
when that happens, I imagine that they're going to get
a lot of publicity for that because it's Apple, and
people like their iPhone, they like their iOS operating system,
(02:30):
and so even though Samsung has been doing this for
six years and they've been doing it really good, of
course Apple is really going to command the headlines when
that happens next year.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You forgive my ignorance, where as you know, I'm not
a tech maven at all. You open up the phone
and it's the big screen filling up both sides as
in a book. I'm assuming that down the middle you've
got obviously a line or separation. How do they do
with that or that just happens like a book?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, you do, see, well, the screen does take up
the entire So just imagine on the outside there is
a screen and it's a pretty big screen. It's like
now the standard size of a smartphone on the outside.
So you can just use the outside screen all day long,
things like checking your email, doing text stuff like that.
But then when you open up the screen, that's when
you get that big screen inside and you can use
(03:25):
that to watch videos, look at your emails on a
bigger screen, do multitasking all that kind of stuff. The
crease in the middle is definitely there because it is
one big screen that folds in half. But you really
do not notice it because you're looking at the stuff
going on on the screen. You're not focusing on that crease. Now,
if you look for it, Bill, you'll definitely see it.
(03:46):
And that's the thing that Apple has said, of course
not publicly, but the reports about Apple is that they
really wanted to come out with their foldable saying there's
no crease. You don't even see the crease, and that's
really what they've been trying to do. I don't think
it's a big deal with the crease. It's just not
even something your brain notices when you're using this phone
day to day.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay, fair enough? And how big is the phone? Is
that you said.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's as big as the Ultra. I have the big
Apple phone, and it's big. It's not, you know, and
it's hard putting in my it's hard putting into my pocket,
and it's not all that comfortable talking into it, holding
it up to your ear and talking.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, the way they made this the fold seven, which
is the bigger one, it's pretty much the outside screen
is about the size of an iPhone screen just a
little bit smaller than when you open it up, it's
got an eight inch screen inside. They also added their
top tier camera, so now has a better camera than
ever before. That was one of the big drawbacks of
this device that there was not a good camera on it,
(04:50):
and also has a higher price tag, so they did
raise the price by a dollars. So two thousand dollars
for this phone come.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
On and people lining up to buy it. At some
point is there a price limit? I mean, where do
people stop buying phones? Three thousand dollars, eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Here's the deal. Most people do not walk into the
store and take cash out of their pocket and pay
two thousand dollars. They take that two thousand dollars number one.
They have a trade in. So, for instance, I was
at my kids karate the other day. The guy sitting
next to me has the old model of the fold.
Of course, I'm a nerd, so I go, hey, have
you seen the new one. I've got it right here,
and he's like, no, I just ordered it online and
(05:29):
I've been waiting to see it, you know, because these
don't come out for another ten days, and so you know,
showing them the phone. We are talking about it, and
you know he'll trade in that old phone. He'll get
probably five six hundred dollars for that old phone. That
knocks the price down to fifteen hundred bucks. Then, by
the way, you're dividing up the price of that phone
over the next thirty six months, which is what most
people do in America to buy their phone. So now
(05:50):
you're down to you know, another fifty bucks a month,
whatever it is. That's how people buy their phones. They
don't see two thousand dollars here are the bills, so.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
You don't really get hit or you feel it very much.
All Right, a couple things I'm going to talk about.
Gone dot com, a new take on junk pickup.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Explain that please.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, I thought this was a pretty interesting startup. You know,
I'm always checking out the latest startups seeing what they're doing,
and not all of them make it, but this one
I thought was pretty interesting because we've all heard of
like one Hunter got Junk, all these junk places that
come to your house and it costs a lot of
money to get your stuff picked up. So this gone
dot com is putting a twist on that, and they've
(06:32):
got some investors from one a hunter junk and offer up.
But what you do is you schedule a free pickup.
They come with their trucks and they take away your
items that could be furniture, smart devices, appliances. But basically
this stuff has to be reusable, right, it can't just
be trash. And so what they do is they will
pick this stuff up for free, but then they will
(06:54):
resell it on their own, so that's where they make
their money. So I thought that was a pretty smart idea.
It's started. It's in Seattle right now, and they want
to expand to other cities. Right now, they're averaging twenty
to twenty five pickups a week. So people clearly like
the idea of getting rid of their stuff. Which Bill,
you know you live in La. It's like people just
put stuff on their curb and it's like hopefully someone
(07:18):
just picks it up. This is like cutting out the middleman.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, but here's the question. Who determines if it's reusable
or not?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And if I'm leaving Let's say some piece of electronic
out there, how do they know whether it works or not?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well, it cites AI. So they're using AI to scan
the items and see which ones have some value to
them on the spot. So I'm guessing they leave behind
the stuff that they think is complete garbage and they
don't want to be, you know, tasked with getting rid
of that. I'm sure some stuff gets caught in the middle.
You know, they may take something and then later on
find out nobody wants it. But again, it's kind of
(07:55):
a smart idea for you know, instead there's leaving stuff
out there for someone to or going through the process
of selling it yourself. You know, a lot of times
I'll have something that it's completely good and I just
want to get rid of it, but I don't really
want to deal with the whole offer up thing. You
put something on there. Next thing, you know, you're getting
a million messages from a million different people, Hey can
I come by? Can I come by? Can I come by?
(08:17):
And half of it works out, half of it doesn't.
So the idea that I can take an old couch,
give it to this company and they can figure out
what to do with it, to me, makes a lot
of sense.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Does anybody ask what you've done on the couch?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I'd put a list? Oh okay, disclaimer.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's I find that really interesting in terms of it
is so subjective.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But if it works, I guess it works. Yeah, so
we don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
We will not know if it works until next year,
if we're still talking about it, right, But you know,
it seems like a decent idea. I mean, money Hunter
got Junk and all these other companies they do a
pretty good job. So yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Pick up don't pick up anything. I mean they pick
up everything is junk to them. Uh and uh, I'm
assuming you pay for it. And I don't even know
what they charge for picking up John. It's a law,
it's a lot. It's you know, it's more than you think.
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So a lot of these junk companies they come to
your place and it's it's always more than you think
it is, especially for like the franchises, because you know
you've got the franchise fees to pay. But with that said,
when you're done with this stuff, it does feel really
nice that it's just out of your you know vision.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah and I yeah, well I think if you put
your stuff out there, you can call the city for
couches and stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And I you know, I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
No, no, I do. I do know the answer on that,
and it's incredible. It's called La three to one one
if you live in the city of Los Angeles. I
don't think a lot of people realize this. You download
the app, you take a picture, and you can schedule
it for free. They will take your bulky items and
they do it really well, like they tell you the
exact day and time they're coming, and it's usually either
(10:00):
your garbage day or the day after. And I've used
that for a lot of stuff and they will definitely
take it, believe me. So La it's called my LA
three one one. Download the app, and it's also great
for getting your garbage cans replaced, like if you have
a you know, cracked can or something, they will come
and repair it or replace it for free.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh it's I thought it's Oh, I guess that's where
you go because I thought it was just the authority
that handles your trash and unless you have a private
trash pickup and depends if you're leaving in one of
those communities or not.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I don't do trash.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, this is this is for La City folks, you
know what I mean, Like people that live. And I'm
sure there's Orange County, there's you know, it depends on
your jurisdiction. I know kfive reaches a large swath of
La County, so or you know, southern California. So this
is just for La folks.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
By the way, I do trash.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Unfortunately, I'm I was just wishful thinking. I never did
because I always had family members to do it. Now
I'm stuck with it and it is no fun. It
is absolutely no.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
What taking out the trash?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, Bill, are you really complaining about bringing out the
trash cans?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yes? All right? Rich?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Thank yeah, yeah, Okay, what can I tell you?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Rich? We'll catch you next week and this Saturday, eleven
to two right here on KFI.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Rich, you have a good day.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Thank you, Bill, take care.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, he was shocked, And I'm complaining about taking out
the trash cans. Now, you know I'm joking, don't you?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, Neil shaking his head.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Okay,
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