Hands on iPhone 13 and new gadgets from Facebook, Wyze & Amazon

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hands on with the new iPhone, thirteen models, iOS, fifteen
features to try out, Kindle gets a big upgrade, plus
your tech questions answered.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is the.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
you should know about. It's also the place where I
answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter
at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, Hollywood, California.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, we are literally in the middle of.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Hollywood, one of the last TV stations sets in Hollywood.
In fact, used to be a couple of them, and
I think, yeah, at least one more, but I don't know. Yeah,
I guess they were all in the same area. What
a great start to the show. Anyway, I digress. So
this is the time of the year when and tech

(01:00):
companies just roll out more gadgets than any human tech
reviewer can handle. I mean, just alone with Apple last
week we had all kinds of iPhones and iPads and
this and that, and they're still not done apparently, still
some things perhaps in the works by the end of
the year, we don't know. But now next week we

(01:21):
have Amazon. Even though this week Amazon revealed like three,
let's see three new gadgets, plus another like an echo
that has the face of Billie Eilish on it. So
you've got to be a true fan to get that speaker.
And then we have the Pixel still coming. We had
Facebook with new devices. I mean, just so many devices.

(01:42):
I'm trying to keep up, and I'll talk about some
of them in this show. But just to kind of
follow up on last week's show, so I told you
about the whole is selling my car and getting a
new one. So I will say that I absolutely love
the new Tesla. It is far a seeded my expectations
and it's just such.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
A pleasure to drive.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's the first time I think I've ever driven a
car that I actually really really like, and it's it's
just really been a nice experience. And I think the
reason why I like it even more so than just
the fact that it's a cool, high tech car, is
because it feels like I'm on the verge of something new,
Like I remember when I got the first iPhone and
I just kind of could not get enough of diving

(02:27):
into the features and seeing what it can do and
discussing it with people. And by the way, thirteen years later,
it's still like that. But the Tesla is a whole
nother beast. I mean, it's like I've been on YouTube
watching all the videos and just every day I kind
of find something new that the car can do. And
also it's given me a new kind of perspective on

(02:47):
just electric cars and the whole entire ecosystem of cars
in general.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
And I think that the Tesla is just the beginning.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
We are going to see a lot of disruption coming
our way, and the Tesla is literally just at the
forefront of it. And kind of like with phones, I
mean with iPhone, it spawned an entire new category of
phone and device, and that's kind of the way I
see the Tesla. But it's also a challenge for these
companies to stay ahead, and I think Tesla is pretty

(03:20):
far ahead with the whole supercharger network and the way
that they do things and the fact that they built
a company from the ground up. So anyway, I will
continue to talk about it on the podcast because it's
just fascinating to me, the whole idea that I leave
work every day with a full tank of gas, so
to say, it's just such a new thing to me,
and like last weekend we drove around. We didn't use

(03:41):
a sip of gas because my wife's car, we just
you shelved it for the weekend because we wanted to
take mine. By the way, I want to follow up
on I talked about how I sold my old car
using Shift dot Com and I will say that it
all worked out.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was amazing.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
So I couldn't believe it because Shift was willing to
pay a little bit more than Carvana, so I went
with Shift. But the difference is when my friend sold
his car with Carvana, he had his money by the
time they left the driveway, and Shift said, well, we
take your car, we do a final inspection at the headquarters,
and then you should have your money within a week.
And I said, I'm like handing over this slip, you know,

(04:22):
this DMV pink slip. And I just felt worried. But
I will tell you that I by the time I
woke up in the morning, well maybe not I wake
up pretty early, but I would say the next morning,
after the guy drove my car off, I had an
email that said, hey, your car passed final inspection. This
was like eight am, nine am. The next day, your
car passed final inspection and payment will be sent and

(04:46):
then I would say either the next day or the
next day payment was in my account, like cleared my
bank account. So I was very impressed with Shift. I'll
put a link in the show notes. I can put
a referral. I think you get an extra hundred bucks.
I'm not just saying this because of that, but if
you want, you know, like every little dollar counts, Like
if you're thinking of selling your car, it's a really

(05:07):
good time. Like they gave me more for my car
than I expected, because cars are so hard to come by,
and I keep, I keep take good care of my stuff.
So whoever gets my car next will will really get
a nice deal because they have a car that has
low mileage and it's.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
A nice you know. I mean, I don't think it's
a nice car, but it's it's a I mean, it's
a nice car.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's a car that gets you around, so anyway, I
can't I very very impressed with the fact that we
live in a world where you can sell your car.
Someone will come to your place, pay you more than
you think, and take it away and your money is
in there. You don't have to deal with people coming
to your house for you know, test drives and you know,
asking questions about it. I mean, these companies are so

(05:50):
far advanced. They do all the research. I had a
little fender bender on my car and it was in
the car fax, no problem. It even said when I
got my last oil change, I was so impressed with
the whole thing. So these companies know that's how they
can value your car so quickly. They're not like a
regular person that has to like figure this stuff out.
They have data behind them.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
So let's get to the big story of the week.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
The iPhone thirteen releases this week, and already a bunch
of reviewers got them early. I got mine probably a
week after the you know, I always say I'm on
the B or C team with the reviewers, and so
I'd say with Apple, probably a solid B. Because the
A listers got theirs, they must have gotten them the

(06:33):
day of the event or the day after, because already
the reviews are out less than a week later. I
get mine, you know, like a week after. So that's fine.
You know, how do you do a review in the week.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know. I mean, that's really tough. But here
is the bottom line.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
The early reviews say that the cameras are great on
the iPhone thirteen. The battery life is great, there's double
the base storage, which is nice.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
The front camera no different.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Refresh rate on the iPhone thirteen is still the same
sixty hurtz And as I confirm with Apple, the iPhone
twelve cases do not fit, so there's always a slight
difference in your case. Even though the phone looks the same,
there's always a slight difference where your case does not fit.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Funny how that works.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
So even after you spend another eight hundred dollars, you
still got a spring for another fifty bucks for a case.
But I don't buy the expensive cases most of the time.
Most of the time I'll buy like a thirty. It
just depends. It depends on if I had a mag
Safe case. Yes, those are going to be a little
bit more expensive. But there are some good cases out
there that are not as expensive. Like I got my
wife the Smartish case, which is really good and it's

(07:42):
like thirteen bucks and it's got a great grip on it.
I like the Spegan cases, it's like a standard case. Okay,
iPhone thirteen Pro this is the one that I'm most
interested in because the cameras are much more improved. The
battery of course is improved as well. It's got that
high refresh rate for the display, so it's one hundred

(08:03):
and twenty hurts and it adjusts.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
And then the.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Front camera I still think it's the same, and that
cinematic mode. This is the big new thing that people
are talking about now. I have the phones and I've
been playing with them, and I'll do I'll tell you
a couple things. Number one, the iPhone thirteen is kind
of like a standard phone. So to me, if you
are upgrading from last year, you don't need to go

(08:28):
with the iPhone thirteen. But if you're upgrading from a
couple of years ago, yeah, you gonna you're gonna love
the iPhone thirteen. The cameras are gonna be improved, it's
gonna be better. The battery life is gonna be better
than last year. Last year, I think, and I mentioned
this in my review last year, that the battery life
was just not very good on the iPhone twelve or
twelve pro. And Apple definitely figured that out. They went

(08:50):
back to the drawing board, they put bigger batteries in,
They tweaked the software so that it helps, you know,
keep the battery going longer. And I just know in
my use of the iPhone twelve Pro that by the
end of the day, like I'm talking, you know, three
o'clock whatever, my phone is, actually even halfway through the day,

(09:10):
my phone's just hurting. And I never noticed that on
an iPhone before. Like my wife was telling her that
last night, how annoying that is. And she's like, oh,
that must be so annoying because she's got the iPhone
eleven Pro Max and the battery on that thing is
a champ. Now there's no five G and I think
that's the main differentiator here.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
But hopefully Apple has figured out the battery.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I've not had the phone, like using it long enough
in a day to figure out the battery situation, but
hopefully it's better now. The thing I did test out,
I took the iPhone thirteen Pro and I took it
out outside and I compared it against the iPhone twelve
Pro and then the Samsung S twenty one Ultra. And

(09:52):
so I will tell you that I thought that the
I thought that it was just gonna be kind of
blown away. The which one am I talking about here? Sorry,
I got off track here. I thought I was gonna
be blown away by the iPhone thirteen Pro because of
all this talk about the cameras, and I'll be honest,

(10:15):
I'm not as blown away as I thought. Now I
need more time with these things, and yes, it'll take
a while to figure it all out, but I do.
I will say that I just think like it should
have been better like it seems. And here's the thing,
I'm not knocking it. I think that when it comes
to phones, out of all the phones I test, the
phone that will give you the most reliable, every day

(10:36):
great pictures.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Is always the iPhone.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Samsung has a lot more going on with their camera,
and yes you can flex it in different ways that
lets you have more fun with it. But the iPhone
is just kind of this standard thing that just always works,
and the apps are optimized for it, so that's always nice.
But I will tell you, and you can look at
these results. I have them on the website ktla dot com,
slash or just go to my website rich on Tech

(10:59):
dot ta and look for the link that says iPhone
thirteen Pro photo comparison. And if you look at these pictures,
you would not sit there and say Oh wow, clear winner.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
I mean, look at.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
All the pictures and they're all nearly identical except for
the picture I took of the moon, which is really
where the iPhone are the S twenty one Ultra Excels.
But who's taking pictures of the moon every day? I mean,
you take one picture of the moon you've got doesn't change.
So you've got a picture of the moon.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
You're good. You don't really need to take more of those.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
So you can see a couple of things you've got
my hands on with all four of the new devices
on my Instagram at rich on Tech, I've got pictures
on the website rich on Tech dot tv for you
to compare. I will continue to compare these devices and
kind of form my opinions on them. But the reality is,
the way I see things is that most people are
wondering if they need a reason to upgrade, and so

(11:53):
if you're a camera enthusiast, of course you always want
the absolute.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Best that's out there.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Otherwise, I mean, it's one of those things where the
iterations at this point, unless they're adding a big new feature,
is just kind of like it's there and it will
be there when you're ready to upgrade the phone will
be great, and of course the latest and the latest
phone will always be pretty darn good. So one thing
I will say is that the camera bumps on the
new Pro models are significantly bigger than last year's. Apple

(12:22):
just continues to push the envelope with these camera bumps.
They're just they get bigger and bigger, and you know,
it's like, I get it because they want to make
this thing as good as possible, but it's a big bump.
The other thing is that cinematic mode real quick and
just I need to test it more, but it's definitely
not a feature that you would buy a phone for.
It's cool, it's portrait mode for your video, but it's

(12:44):
not something that you need to like rush out and
upgrade for. All right, let's get to the first question
of the day. Michael says, Hey, Rich, I have an
old cell phone, an old Samsung tablet, and two old
laptop computers. Do you have any suggestions on how to
dispose of them safely and perhaps be useful to someone
who guts who uses the guts from these items. Please

(13:06):
let me know when you have a moment. Thanks for
doing such a great job on Katla I've been watching
you for years and glad to see that you are
back in the studio. Thanks again, Michael. All right, Michael,
A couple of things you can do with this. If
you just want to get rid of these and recycle them,
you can take them somewhere like a Staples. And Staples
has a pretty robust recycling program, and they stopped it

(13:29):
for a while, but they might have started it again.
They stopped it during COVID, but let me see if
they started accepting it again. It looks like they have
started accepting it again, so I would go there and
it looks yeah, it looks like they're there, So I
would go there and let me just see one more

(13:50):
thing real quick.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh hold on, Nope. Sorry.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
In an effort to keep our customers and associates safe,
our tech recycling program has been temporarily spend it. So
I guess they don't want to accept electronics that are
from people's homes right now. So with that said, I
would just go to my second choice, which is a
gizmo go And this is a website that I did
a story with. They have, you know, proven themselves to

(14:17):
be pretty worthy of this. They will either give you
money for these devices. You can type them in the website,
or you can just send them in and they will
properly dispose of them. Now you say you have two
old laptop computers. If you're if you're watching me on KTLA,
that leads me to believe you're in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
So I would lead you to someone called.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
The Laptop Elf and they will he will will take
your stuff and basically refactory format it and kind of
fix it up and then give it to someone in need.
So that's a cool that's a cool little program. David Lombard.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
So he runs something called the Laptop Elf Project. So
check that out.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
And I think you bring laptops there, you send the
other stuff to gizmo Go, and you're good. Now if
you just want to bring it locally, Best Buy does recycling,
but again you have to check with these companies to
see exactly what they'll accept. I was recycling some batteries
and you know, I thought, I can bring them into
this store, this battery store, and they said, now we

(15:19):
don't accept those, so but you can go to the library.
And I went to the library. They had a little
drop box outside, dump the batteries in and boom, felt
a little better about myself because I used to throw
out batteries all the time until I did a story
about recycling batteries, and I had no idea that you
should not throw your double a's and triple as in
the trash. And so I felt really bad the fact

(15:40):
that I've been doing that, and I vowed to never
do it again. And so now I keep a Mason jar,
and I go through a lot of batteries in this
house with all the electronics and the kids and all
that stuff. So when the batteries go dead, you throw
them in the jar, and then when the jar fills up,
you put them in a plastic bag, bring them somewhere.
And as some people pointed out on my Twitter, Rich,
you're not supposed to put the plastic bag.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
In the bin, And I said, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
I dumped the batteries out of the plastic bag, and
then I put the plastic bag in another recycling bin.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
So yeah, I got you.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
But Michael, that's what I would recommend. I'll put all
the links in the show notes. Okay, let's talk about
iOS fifteen. Since you've probably downloaded it and installed it
on your phone. I'll just talk about some of the
features that are new that you're aware of so you
can check them out. The number one biggest feature is
this thing called Focus Mode, which I think is a
lot of busy work, but it has the potential to

(16:33):
be useful, but it seems like a lot. So Focus
Mode helps you create different profiles for your phone, kind
of like do not Disturb, but amped to the max.
So you can now have focus modes for fitness, for reading,
for wellness, for friends and family, for your weekend, for
your morning, for your afternoon, for your commute. And it's

(16:54):
just like the idea is that you would set up
all these modes and only the apps that you want
would send you notifications. Only the people that you want
could call you and text you. But it's a lot
to set up. In fact, I was worried that when
I was testing the iPhone thirteen that my phone would
you know, when I upgrade, sorry, when I upgraded to

(17:15):
iOS fifteen and I was, you know, going to sleep
for the first time, I was like, is my phone
gonna ring this alarm in the morning because I have
no idea what sort of mode I'm on? Because they
do not Disturb has been replaced with this focus, and
it's kind of like a it's a whole big thing now,
and so I'm not convinced that this is what I
want to do is sit there and set this all up.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
But if you want to, you can.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
You go into control, Center, Focus, and then are sorry,
go into settings and then focus, and then you can
choose all your different focuses to get started.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
With FaceTime, they've got spatial audio, so voices sound like
they're coming from the direction that they're on the screen.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Okay, that's cool, that's small.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
You can also use face Time with friends and family
who are on Windows devices, like if you're going through
that much trouble to send them a link from FaceTime.
I mean, yeah, it'll work in a pinch if you
don't really want to install a different program. But by
this point aren't we all on zoom? Like, do you
really need to use FaceTime with like a friend that's
not on Android or not on on iPhone? I mean,

(18:13):
use something like Google Duo. I don't think that the
FaceTime link. I think that's kind of like a last
ditch effort if the person is like, I'm not downloading
anything new on my phone or actually, hold on, let
me think about this. If your FaceTime, Oh yeah, you
would be the one that doesn't want to download anything new.
Your friend that's on Android is using Duo or something else,

(18:33):
but you're the one that's on iPhone. You're like, I'm
not I'm not game. I already have FaceTime. What do
I need another video chat app for? Oh, it'd be
nice to have one that's crossed platform, like natively. I mean, yes,
you can send a device a link to another device,
but and it looks fine. I tried it. It's fine,
it's just not my preferred way of chatting. Uh, let's
see shared with Oh this is kind of cool. They've

(18:56):
got this little section called shared with You. And so
now when you you know how people like text you
something like an article and you look at it, but
you're at work and you kind of forget about it
until like two weeks later when you go back to
their text and you're like, oh, totally forgot about that
article they sent me and I never even commented on it. Well,
Apple knows that this must happen a lot, and so
now they have this thing called Shared with You. So

(19:18):
inside Apple News, Safari Photos, Apple TV podcasts, and Apple Music,
notice they are all Apple programs. Whenever someone sends you something,
it will sort of go in this little section, so
that when you open up Apple News, Oh there's that
article someone sent me on Apple News.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
You open up.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Safari, Oh there's that link that Jim sent me last
week that I never opened. Oh there's that photo that
I never commented on. There's that podcast that never listened to, And.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
I opened up my podcast.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
I had a podcast from my friend John that he
sent me like months ago that.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
I never listened to.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
And because I just forgot about it, what do you
How do you bookmark it? I mean, you just forget
about it as soon as someone texts you. And then
of course with music, that's pretty handy too. That would
actually be probably the most useful because people can send
you songs. But again, if you notice, this is all
from native apps, so if you're not using all these
native apps, then it doesn't really help you.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
So I still think it's a cool feature though.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's nice to have, And definitely all your old links,
by the way, are indexed and they're now available. So
if someone sent you something previously, if you go into
any of these apps, you will see the stuff that
people sent you previously. Now, the other big new feature
on iOS fifteen is called live text, and this is
big and I got a hand it to Apple. They
did a really really fantastic job of this. So you

(20:34):
can now aim your camera at something and the text
will light up and you can highlight it and copy.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
And paste and whatever.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Or you can take a picture and then press this
little text button in the right hand lower right hand
corner and it will highlight all the things that you
can do with this picture, which is copy and paste text.
You can tap a phone number to call it, you
can tap a website to go to it. You can
tap an email address to send an email. And they
nailed it. They did really really good and so I'm

(21:03):
very impressed. And Google's had this forever, but I would
say that Apple, I think, might have done a better
job at implementing this than Google.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
And it's so.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Funny because Google is so scared to like ever build
anything into like the core functionality of Android because they're
worried about like anti trust and all this stuff. So
they always dance around like putting these features in places
that like make it, you know, a little bit tougher
for you to find because they want to make sure
that they're not like pushing their own products. But Apple
they could care less. They just push all their own stuff.

(21:33):
So they put this this feature front and center. It's
right on the native camera and it works phenomenally, and honestly,
Google should build this right into their native camera. They
do in certain ways, but you still kind of have
to press this lens button. And they just finally put
Google Lens on the search bar on Android phones, which
took forever too. So hopefully now that Apple has put

(21:58):
this front and center, they will I'll also put this
front and center on the Google phones.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Because it is very handy.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Apple Maps, you know, all the headlines are like Apple
Maps is now on par with Google Maps. That is
not true in any way, shape or form. Google Maps
has information on pretty much the whole world. Apple Maps
has been upgraded for LA, New York, San Francisco, and London.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
So I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
I live in LA, which is great, and the maps
look amazing here, but you go anywhere outside LA and
they're not.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Going to be as good.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
And honestly, I just I can tell you from personal experience,
I like the look of Apple Maps better, but the
raw data that they have is just not there. Google
has so much data about businesses and up to the
minute data about everything that Apple just doesn't really compete with.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Now.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't think that that's gonna happen forever, but I
think at this point, Google Maps is still kind of
like a gold standard when it comes to mapping, and
I really just trust that, and I can't bring myself
to trust Apple Maps. I just can't because there's just
too many times when I've typed in something and it
just doesn't figure it out right, and I'm like, all right, sorry,
going back to Apple, I mean, going back to Google.

(23:12):
The weather app totally redesigned. It looks pretty cool, and
now it'll tell you when it's gonna rain or snow.
It also has new big maps that show you how
hot or cold it is. The notes app now is
pretty good. I mean, I would love you, No, I
would love to use the notes app. I switched back
to every Note because I just can't get my brain

(23:33):
around apps that are only on one platform. And Notes
is really nice, but if I'm using an Android phone,
I can't access any of my notes, and I just
don't like that. If I'm on the web somewhere and
I need to like somehow get a note. I can't
do that with Notes, and maybe you can. I don't
think it's an iCloud, but maybe it is. It might be,
you know what, Notes might be an iCloud. But my

(23:54):
point is it's one of these things where it's very
much written for the Mac, it's written for the iPhone,
it's written for the iPad, which is great if you
only use Apple stuff, but I like to I'd like
to try to remain platform agnostic as much as possible
because that allows me to choose the best product for
the job and not just something that's convenient.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
And Notes is very convenient.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's built in and it does a lot of stuff,
and it's free and it's nice, but I just can't
bring myself to use it in a big way. The
thing that they added to Notes is you can now
use hashtags, which is really cool because that helps you
automatically organize notes. So when you're typing a note in
just type of hashtag, and now you can see that
hashtag along with other notes that have that hashtag. The

(24:36):
email I got the most was from a bunch of
people saying, Rich, what's up with this iCloud. I've been
Apple sent out an email it said you've been upgraded
for free to iCloud plus.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
It sounds so fancy, but I mean, come on, it's
like you're already. This is only for paying members of iCloud.
So if you're paying for iCloud, you now get a
couple of new features. Which is the most notable to
me is hide my Email, which it allows you to
generate disposable email addresses, and that's kind of cool. So
you can go into your settings iCloud password I think

(25:08):
it's or I forget it's one of those, and you
can generate a one time it's not really a one
time use. It's just an email address that stays good
until you delete it, and then it forwards that whatever
email comes into that email to your real email. So
the way that you'd use that is if you sign
up for you know, like let's say you want to
buy something on wayfair dot com and you just can't

(25:31):
stand getting emails from them for the rest of your life.
You can use one of these private email addresses and
make your order, do all your stuff, and then once
your order is gotten to your place safely, you turn
off that email address and you don't really ever have
to hear from Wayfair again, I guess on the side note,
if you need a quick email address to sign up
for like a new coupon or a promo code, that

(25:51):
would be an easy way to do it. So if
you need to, you know, get a ten percent off
or something, and you need a new email address like
a new sign up, that could be a way to
do it.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
The other thing they do.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Is private relay, and this is kind of like a VPN,
but they're not calling it a VPN, so clearly it's
not a VPN, But the way that Apple describes it,
it says, when private relay is enabled, your requests are
sent through two separate secure Internet relays. Your IP address
is visible to your network provider. So I think that's
the difference between the VPN, because I don't think it

(26:25):
is immediately and to the first relay, which is operated
by Apple, which aka they can see your IP address
as well, but your DNS records are encrypted, so neither
party can see the address of the website you're trying
to visit.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh okay.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
The second relay, which is operated by a third party
content provider, generates a temporary IP address decrypts the name
of the website you requested, and connects you. All this
is done to maintain high performance browsing and protect your privacy.
So it's kind of like a VPN, but a little
bit less secure because Apple can theoretically see your IP address,

(27:01):
and so can your network provider, which you know is fine. Well,
I guess it depends what you're doing. So if you're
a real privacy fiend, you won't want to do that,
But if you're just kind of like casually trying to
protect your tracks, you know, this will be a nice
thing to enable.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
I'll have to check that out.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
I'm not sure if I need that on my phone,
but it's kind of I guess it's one more way
to just kind of keep things private on there, right,
all right. Next question from Maricarr. Hey, Rich, I hope
this email finds you well. I wanted to ask what
a good Wi Fi extender would be for me to use.

(27:42):
I live in a two bedroom apartment. There are literally
dead zones in my dining area and in one of
the bedrooms. I'd like for my Wi Fi to reach
throughout my place, but honestly, it's driving me crazy how
slow it is. In some areas, can you recommend a
good one. I have Spectrum for my internet service, if
that makes a difference. Thanks so much, Maricar. Okay, So
I did a story on this. It's a Villo Vlo

(28:05):
and it is a sixty dollars mesh Wi Fi network, and.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
I did the review on this.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
I found it to be great, especially for standard Wi Fi.
If you need something that's if you told me you
had like gigabit internet or like a huge house or something,
I'd probably recommend euro But this is perfect for your
two bedroom apartment.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
And there's three.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Units that you get for sixty dollars, and what you
do is you put the first one by your modem,
then you put the other two in the other far
reaches of your house and this will create a mesh network.
So these things all communicate with each other to blanket
your house in a nice network of Wi Fi that
works the same.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Pretty much everywhere.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
And the reviews I got on this are pretty good,
like the people that like I test this stuff, but
I'm just one person, and so when people get this
in their houses and they write me emails, so far,
I think with the ex option of one person, everyone
said they really like how this works.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
So for sixty.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Dollars, you can't really go wrong because that is a
pretty good price on a better Wi Fi for your
whole house. So that's what I recommend. Check it out
and once you get it installed, let me know what you.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Think of it.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
New kindles are out first time since twenty eighteen. These
kindles got a big new update, the Kindle paper White.
I'll just go over this quickly what the new features are,
because in fact, my wife scratched the heck out of
the screen on her Kindle, so I've got to get
her a new one. And it's funny because I have
a case for my Kindle, which I get it. It
makes it heavier and not as nice. But I've had

(29:39):
this case on it since I've got it, and it's
kept this thing pristine. I mean, it's my Kindle is perfect,
and it's like a couple of years old, and it's like,
I want an excuse to buy a new one, but
I don't need it. But my wife she scratched hers,
and I said, I told you to get the case,
and she didn't want it because she said I don't
need it. I don't bring my kindle anywhere it's fine.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Well, sure enough, a huge scratch across the screen. So
get a case.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
The one I bought is really inexpensive. It was like
had like eleven thousand reviews or something, and it was
super cheap. It was like ten bucks. It's not the
Amazon official but it was like ten bucks in.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
It really did a great job.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
And of course I know I'm gonna get a million
emails from people saying, rich, which kindle case did you get?

Speaker 2 (30:20):
So I will go ahead.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
And look inside my Kindle order and see what the
name of this case is if I can find it.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
But I'm gonna have to go. I'm gonna have to
go way back.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Moco case fits Kindle paper white, eleven dollars and ninety
nine cents, so perfect, perfect, perfect, Get it and protect
your kindle. But anyway, let me go over the new
Kindle features. Okay, so the number one new feature is
that these Kindles have USB C on them, which is
long time coming. Everyone else in the world has switched
to USBC, except the Kindles were still shipping with micro USB.

(30:54):
And that's fine because the Kindle battery lasts so long
you don't really need to charge it very often. But
for me, that is pretty much the last thing that
I have that uses micro USB, so I when I
finally get a new Kindle, we'll retire that and go
to USBC. And the other flip side is that I
would always charge my Kindle before I went out of
trip or vacation. And yes, the battery lasts so long,

(31:16):
I didn't really have to worry about it much, but
I didn't want to bring an extra cable. So you know,
now that I can have USBC, I don't really have
to worry about making sure that it's super charged up
right before I go on a trip. So the Kindle
Paper White is going to have twenty percent faster page turns,
up to ten weeks of battery life up from six weeks.
It's waterproof, It has everything you need for one hundred
and forty dollars. And my warning to you is don't

(31:38):
pay full price. These things go on sale all the time,
so set a price drop alert on Honey or Camel
Camel Camel, and buy it when this thing goes on
sale sometime over the holidays. They always go on sale.
Next up, if you want to step up, is the
Kindle Paper White Signature Edition, and this has the they
both have the front light, but this one has the sensor,

(32:00):
and so the front light adjusts automatically and it will
adjust depending on how dark or light the room you're
in is. And then it also has wireless charging, which
I guess that's cool. I don't really see that as
a big feature on the Kindle because you're not the
battery lasts so long. Like wireless charging is good when
you're trying to keep your phone charged all day, but

(32:21):
for a Kindle, I don't really see the point of that.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
And then you get more storage thirty two gigs.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
But again, who has more than one book on their
kindle at any given time? Do you really need to
store more than one.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Book on there?

Speaker 1 (32:32):
I don't think so, So that's one ninety So really
the only thing you need there is the auto adjusting
front light sensor, which quite honestly, my Kindle has that,
and I still adjust the light manually because I find
that the censor is not all that great. The other
thing they came out with is the Kindle Paper White Kids.
This is the first ever waterproof kindle for kids, no distractions,

(32:54):
not like an iPad where it's got games and all
these other things.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
I want to buy all the time.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
It includes a one year subscription to Amazon Kids Plus,
which has thousands of books.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Personally, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
I mean, some of those books are probably good, some
of them probably are not very good. And then this
is one hundred and sixty dollars, which sounds expensive for
a kid's kindle. But again, find these things on sale.
That's my advice. With the kindles, they go on sale
late October. By the way, you can pre order them now.
They'll be available before the holidays.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Next question from Lisa hey Rich.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
You did a segment a few months ago about being
able to download unlimited amounts of digital photos for ten
dollars a year. Can you send me that information if
it's still available. Sure, the website is called I drive.
Now it's not downloading. I mean, I guess you could download,
but it's really about uploading the unlimited photos.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
So.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
I drive is a company based here in the Los
Angeles area, and they're known for their backups for like
enterprise computers and also desktop computers. But they saw a
need to do something when Google raised all their prices
to introduce full resolution backup that's unlimited for ten dollars
a year, and I got to say, I'm impressed it

(34:11):
looks the app is very simple, but it does exactly
what you need. So if you download this app to
your iPhone or your Android, it will take in all
the pictures on your phone, upload them to the cloud
in full resolution and videos by the way, And it's
ten dollars a year. And when you get a new phone,
the other little party trick it has built in is

(34:33):
that it can download all those photos to your camera
role on your new phone. Now, I don't know why
you'd want to do that necessarily unless you like all
your pictures on your physical device, but I mean maybe
you do. I don't know, but I think that them
being in the cloud is a better place for them.
But this is a great thing. It's ten dollars a year.
I recommend it, and I of course, because you know,

(34:55):
no matter what, if you have your photos somewhere, I
recommend a second place where you have them. And I'll
be quite a honest with you, I don't right now
I need to get this set up because I've got
my photos in one place, Google Photos, and I'm really
really concerned about that because I have some old backups here,
but I don't have a current backup that's like every day,
and I need to do that very soon. I need

(35:15):
to set that up, so don't be like me get
your photos in two different places. I just happen to
have a large, large, large amount of photos. So my
solution just takes a little bit longer because it's kind
of expensive and I just don't feel like spending the
money to.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Set it up.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
But I don't want to lose my picture, So you
know what, I need to set that up very soon.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
So that's what it's called.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
I drive Photos and I will put the link, of
course in the show notes. Facebook this week came out
with two new devices. They're portal devices. So if you
remember last week or the week before, Facebook came out
with sunglasses, now they've got two new.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Video chat devices. These are called portals. Now.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
I was there for the launch of the first generation
of devices, and honestly, the reception was chilli at best.
I mean, I've never seen the media knock down a company,
and Facebook cannot catch a break at this point. The
company has I don't know what they're gonna do to

(36:15):
get on the positive side of things with people, but
it's interesting because people I look at face, I look
at people's phones all the time when I'm out and about.
People are on Facebook all the time. People are on
Instagram all the time. Instagram's owned by Facebook. But yet
somehow people always say, like I see in the media
how much people hate Facebook. So do you hate it

(36:36):
or do you like it? Because a lot of people
are using it. This platform has two point seven billion
people on it. I think it's amazing because it connects
people and it allows you to do things like I
personally have a Facebook page that has a lot of
followers on it, and I love the fact that I
can reach people around the world because of this free product,
and it's amazing. I've had videos go viral on there

(36:58):
that do so many views, it's like mind boggling.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
It is. It is a huge platform.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
And if you're discounting it and saying that they're you know, oh,
they're just in it for your you know, data, and they're.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
In it, yes they are.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
But at the same time, they do provide a service
to people, and that is connecting people and now keeping
people informed is a little bit different. Yes, people get
a lot of stuff from Facebook, but it's not always
the best stuff, and that's a problem. Yes, and I
but I But at the same time, the fact that
I can disseminate a story on Facebook just as well
as anyone else in the world is pretty cool. It's

(37:34):
just I don't know what the solution is to the
fact that people get their news nowadays from Facebook, Instagram
and TikTok I mean, no joke people and YouTube, and
the problem is there's just no editor. I'm nothing against
all this information out there, it's amazing, but when you
get your information from a company like the company I

(37:56):
work for, like KTLA, we have systems, we have processes
for getting information on TV and writing information on the web,
and what we're allowed to do and what we're not
allowed to do, and what we are comfortable with doing.
But if you're just some random Joe Schmoe on Instagram,
TikTok or Facebook or Twitter, you can do whatever you want.

(38:17):
You can say the sky is green and that's because
there are you know, particles that the government sprays into
the sky every day to make it blue, but it's
actually green. I mean, you can say that it's free
speech whatever. Well free speech doesn't really apply to social media,
but you know what I mean, My point is it's
not fact checked necessarily, and these social media networks are

(38:39):
trying to do that, but it is an uphill battle.
It's the stuff that I hear people say to me
that is so un grounded or grounded in nothing is
just wild. I mean, look at the Apple rumors alone
that we see that are published on big blogs and
this and that, and half of them turn out to
not be true. So I used to never cover Apple

(39:01):
rumors for a long time, in fact, probably the first
like eight years of my job at KTLA, because I
was like, this is a rumor. I don't cover rumors.
I am a journalist that covers actual stories. And the
problem became so many people are interested in the rumors
and it's being reported everywhere. You look like you don't
know what you're talking about because you're not talking about
the rumors. And so I'm very clear when I talk

(39:23):
about the fact that these are rumors or analysts, you know,
analyst predictions or whatever.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I mean, that's really what the rumors are.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Now they're analysts and analyst says Okay, portal Go, Let's
talk about these two new devices from Facebook. So portal
Go is a ten inch screen, it's portable. So this
means that this little device can be taken from room
to room, so when it's not being used, it sits
on a wireless charger or some sort of charger. Maybe

(39:51):
it's a contact charger. I'm not really sure. I haven't
seen this in person yet, but you take it from
room to room. So if your kids want a video
chat with Grandma in their bedroom, read them a book
at night, whatever you can. It's got a twelve megapixel
smart camera which has an ultra wide field of view,
which means it follows you around the room. Like so
you got that video that kind of like moves around,
it zooms into like where the person is on the screen.

(40:13):
And this is a cool little touch. This doubles as
a portable speaker. So pretty smart because it is wireless
and you can take it anywhere. That is a nice
I think that's a brilliant side use of this thing.
This is one hundred and ninety nine dollars and available soon.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
The Portal Plus.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Is a fourteen inch screen and it's stationary, but the
screen does tilt up and down, and that's three hundred
and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
This is really for the This is like Portal Go.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
I think would be for most people. This is kind
of like high end. Three fifty is a lot, and
this can let you zoom with twenty five people at
once on the screen. And so this is for someone
who might want to keep this on their desk. Maybe
we're talking like a work at home situation. You want
they use it for zoom. It's a little bit I
hope it's a little bit higher powered than the portal Go.

(41:04):
When I played with the devices when they first launched,
I think this was pre pandemic. Oh my gosh, was
it really that long ago. They were not well received,
and honestly, when I played with them, they seem to
be a little bit underpowered. And I feel like that's
kind of a theme I've seen with all of these
like little devices that you put around your house, like

(41:26):
the smart screens. They all seem to be just have
a little bit less horsepower than you'd like. And I
think they do that because they're using cheap chips inside,
because they're mass producing these things. But and we're also
spoiled from our iPhones and androids that are so fast
and snappy these days that these screens don't look like
they're as fast.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
But those are the portal devices.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
I think they're really cool because everyone has a Facebook account,
it's easy to get someone on board. But honestly, I
don't think they've sold as well as Facebook wants. But
they're going to continue to make them because I do
think it's a bedrock of what they do do. They
want to have this thing in the house, easy to chat,
easy to connect, show your pictures, it can show your status, updates, whatever,

(42:08):
and I think that it's a cool product. I just
think it's the problem of getting over that whole we
don't trust Facebook kind of thing with these subject line
is printers high rich. I moved across country and the
printer I've had for years didn't quite make it.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Lol.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
My HP eighty six twenty has worked great over the years,
but for some reason only prints some items. A friend
said it might be a quote unquote chrome issue. I
tried to update it, but my computer won't even recognize it.
Needless to say, I need a new printer now on
the East Coast. Not knowing anyone, you're the only one
I can think of that might be able to help.
Do you have any suggestions for a good all in one?

(42:45):
Thanks for the time, Sincerely, Jamie Jamie, your question couldn't
have come at a better time. I just purchased a
new printer, and I got mine at Costco, and it's
a highlight rated printer, and it might be overkill for
what you need. But I got the HP. It's hold on,

(43:08):
I got to look up what I got here because
I have it written down.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Let's see here, printers, Let's see. Okay, where is it?
Well I thought I had it. There we go.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Okay, so I got the HP nine zero one eight.
Now this might be a little overkill. It's only like
two hundred bucks at Costco, and so a couple things here.
Number one, you kind of have to decide do you
want to go. There's a couple of major manufacturers. Well,
there's a couple types of printers. Do you want to
go with a laser jet or do you want to
go with a ink jet? Now I had laser jet

(43:42):
for many years. I had a brother printer that lasted me.
I think it was twelve years and.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
All right, wait when did I get it twenty thirteen?

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Anyway, I got a long time ago, and it was
great and it's it's lasted me forever. But the kids
really wanted a color printer so they can print all
they want. And so I was like, all right, fine,
color laser is cool, but I figured the ink jet
was better because.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
I wanted to print pictures at home.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
So with that in mind, you really have a choice
of like you have Canon, you have HP, and you
have epsin. Canon I haven't really heard much from lately,
so really it comes down to Epsen and HP for me.
HP to me is synonymous with really expensive printer cartridges,
but they've been around forever and they kind of know
what they're doing, whereas epsin is really pushing this whole

(44:28):
freefillable ink well kind of concept where you just squeeze
new ink into the well. And I like that because
it appeals to my frugal side and I like when
companies are kind of like in the number two position
where they, you know, will do things a little bit
different to try to make it better. But at the
end of the day, I did go with HP because
I just figured, you know, HP has been around forever

(44:49):
and this was highly rated and let me do it.
So that's what I got, and I think that you
can look for one along that line. I got the
kind of the Pro series, but maybe you don't need
the pro depends what you're doing with this thing.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
But I would go to Costco if you can.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
I know you're on the East Coast at Costco. What
I love about them, and I talk about them on
the show a lot, is that when it comes to electronics,
they don't have a huge selection, but the selection they
do have is really good, and so whatever you get
there is going to be a little bit better than
say another place, now best Buy. You'll notice this is

(45:24):
what I don't want you to do. Don't just find
the cheapest printer that's on sale for sixty sixty seven
ninety dollars at best Buy on an end cap, because
what happens there is that you're going to get subpar
quality and you're going to be using the ink on
that that's a razor blade, you know what I mean.
Or that's a razor handle, and the blades are where

(45:45):
they make a lot of the money. Now on my printer,
same thing, but it is a very nice printer and
it has a lot of great features and it's high end.
So these cheap O printers, they're cutting corners somewhere, and
that's probably in the quality of the print or the
cartridges that are going to be a little bit more
expensive whatever, So I would be just don't get that one.

(46:07):
The other thing that I did, which I this is
news to me, But HP has this subscription service called
like HP Instant Inc. I think it's called HP Instant Inc.
And it's so wild because it's basically a subscription. So
my my printer, I'm getting this free for six months,
by the way, and again I'll put a referral link
if you want to try it with your printer. But

(46:28):
in the show notes, but it's I am. My printer
is not my own. It's connected to the internet. And
once you sign up for this program, you pay a
monthly fee, and for that monthly fee, you get to
print a certain amount of pages. They don't care how
much ink it takes, so for instance, you can pay
I think on mine, I'm doing five dollars a month
for one hundred pages, and so I can print one

(46:50):
hundred pages of pictures. I can print one hundred pages
of whatever I want as long as I'm you know,
paying that five dollars a month. Now, they send you
unlimited ink to do that, so they don't go buy
the ink cartridge price. You're just they just send you
a bunch of ink and you pop it in your machine,
and your machine talks back to the internet and reports

(47:12):
every time you print a page. So as of right now,
I can tell you how many pages I have printed
on my printer and if I'm getting up against my limit,
and so I don't know if.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
This is going to last. I don't know if I'm
gonna do this forever. But I don't know. I'm trying
to figure out if it's cheaper.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
It seems like it might be cheaper than you know,
buying ink all the time. So it says you're saving
up to fifty percent on ink and toner, and you
can also print from anywhere, which is kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
And I've printed thirty nine pages this month.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
So it's just such a weird kind of it's such
a weird system, Like it's I'm kind of like, I
feel like I work in an office where someone else,
like a third party's like managing my printer, even though
I purchase this printer.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
But I hope I answered your question.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
I've got thirty six out of one hundred pages this month,
and oh yeah, four ninety nine, So four ninety nine
for one hundred pages a month. So if the kids
end up printing more than that, Now, to me, that's
sixty dollars a year. Five times twelve is sixty. That
sounds like it's the price of an inkjet cartridge. And
I don't know how much inkjet cartridge cartridges are.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
For my computer. It might be more, might be less.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
But I think that this is a cool little a
cool little system to go with. All right, let's see,
let's go to the next question or not that we're
going to next story here. Wisecam has come out with
a new version, the wise Campan two.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
This is the wisecam I did.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
A story on many many years ago before this company
was a big thing and people could not believe that
you can get a camera for twenty bucks. Then they
came out with some other products. I think the Wisecampan
was their second product, and this was a little bit
more expensive, but it was a camera that would move
like on its base. It would you know, move left, right, up, down, whatever.
So now they have a new version of that and
this I'll tell you about the feature. So number one,

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you could see the whole room in three seconds. It's
got a three hundred and sixty degree horizontal coverage and
ninety three degrees vertical coverage, so it goes up, down, left, right,
you can just kind of pan see everything. There's this
pan scan mode which patrols your room, so you can
set up to four custom waypoints and kind of like

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those security cameras of the mall that just rotate left, right, up, down,
you can have that in your house.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
So this thing just does that by itself.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Color night vision, so they use this starlight sensor which
illuminates details in full color even in the dark. So
you know, most cameras at night are black and white,
but this one you can see things in color. Those
infrared lights are not visible to the naked eye.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
So I know my kids when.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
They were little with a little camera in their room,
the kids cam, they were like, Dad, I don't like
those little lights on the thing.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
And I'd be like, oh, they're okay, don't worry about it.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
But really I'm like, oh my god, that's like the
scariest thing I've ever seen for a little tiny kid.
But somehow my kids made it through. And Wi Pan
V two does not have those lights on them, so
it's invisible or I guess the infrared lights are not
visible to the naked eye for night vision motion tracking.
It'll track things so if something's detected, it will pan

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across as a as an object moves across, So if
you have like bigfoot spoted in your yard, it will
follow it until it goes out of the frame. And
then two way audio and a little siren so you
can chat two way audio. If you've got like a
pet at home you want to chat with, you can
talk two ways with them and hear them bark back.
And then there's also a siren button and they call

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it a mini siren. So clearly it's not gonna be
that loud, but at least it's I haven't tested this,
but at least it's going to be loud enough where
you have a nice little siren if you need to
ring the alarm.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
As we say, this.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Camera is forty dollars plus shipping, so it'll be available soon.
But wise cam Pan V two. I love why stuff.
They do a really nice job.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
I gotta say, Okay, Earl Gee, good day, Hello Rich.
I hope you're doing well. I'm Earl Gee.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
I hope I'm saying that right From Philippines. I work
on the I Store Service center. I Store is an
authorized service provider of Apple. I always watch your videos
because I've learned a lot of things for additional learning.
Thanks Earl. Gee ah, well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
It's funny.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
I do have a lot of followers in various countries
because some of the videos I've done have gone viral,
and you know, people, I mean, if someone is good,
like you care if they live in the US or
you know, wherever they live. I follow some you know,
YouTube ers are in different countries, and so I love
the fact that people watch in different countries. That's pretty cool.
So thank you for watching, and I'm glad you like

(51:41):
the videos. I always I always keep if you notice,
with my videos, I always keep in mind that not
everyone watching is in Los Angeles. I mean, even though
I'm based in Los Angeles. You know, with the web,
things are everywhere and not just in the US. It's
like international, and so I try to keep that in mind,
and it doesn't always work, but I try to do that.

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Speaking of a US centric story, starting November first T
Mobile will now have in store device repairs at five
hundred stores across the country. This is the first time
they've done this and service locations are coming to nearly
every major city across the country, so chances are this
will be coming to you starting November first. Customers with

(52:23):
Protection three sixty can find the authorized location use the
online appointment tool to make a same.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Day repair schedule.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
It's the repairs are coming from Assurant, which I'm assuming
is the backers of this insurance. And honestly, I don't
really typically recommend getting the protection plans on gadgets, but
you know, if you can get them repaired in store
at T Mobile and you're with T Mobile, that's a
pretty good deal because nobody wants to be without their phone.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
And I did the math.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
This is about seven dollars a month, which is pretty
inexpensive when you think about it. I mean, you buy,
like I bought a Starbucks yesterday, it was five dollars.
So clearly I can afford the seven dollars a month
for this protection. And the fact that they will now
repair these things in store, I think is really cool.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
You also get up.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
To five claims per year, so that's good, So you
can for that seven dollars a month. Now, I don't
know what it depends on. You know, the seven dollars.
I don't know what that How if there's like a
deductible if you have to pay stuff, you know, every
time you break something, but says you get accidental damage,
loss and theft coverage, including next business day replacements.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
So that's cool.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
You get Apple Care for eligible Apple devices, You get
unlimited screen protector replacements and they will put it on
for you. They get hardware service coverage like a mechanical
breakdown included jump upgrades, which lets you get the atest,
the latest and greatest device sooner tech support, and you
can add the protection three sixty when you buy a

(53:53):
new device, you complete a repair lease or finance up
to thirty days later.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
So I think this is cool.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
I'm glad they're doing this because a lot of times,
you know, authorized service centers are kind of limited to
either an individual shop or you break eye fixed. But
this is just one more way of getting your device fixed.
And the fact that you know people will probably roll
this protection three sixty. It's on their monthly bill, so
it's just simpler that it's like one one stop shop

(54:20):
for everything and you get your phone fixed. And I
really like that, so good good job TEA Mobile, Like
I hope. I don't know if all the carriers are
doing that. June, why or June says, hey, Rich, my
wife bought a Tesla Model.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Oh, my wife.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Bought a Tesla Model three Standard range plus. We're currently
looking for car insurance. Maybe you have a recommendation for us.
We don't drive that much since we are currently teleworking.
Thank you have a great day, best June. Jun Well, June,
I would check out metro mile and this is the
company that does insurance by the mile, and so you
put like you used to be, you put this little

(54:58):
like thing in your car, but maybe they do it
with your cell phone now. I don't know how it
works at this point, but I was an early tester
of this, and it was like they sent me this
little gadget that you would plug into your like I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
I think it was called like an ODB.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
Port or something like that. I can't remember what it's called,
but it's a port on your car that you know
has all the let me see car port ob ob
D Okay, maybe it's ob D yeah, ob D. And
so you put this little thing in this let me see?
Is that really what it's called. I think that's what

(55:34):
it's called.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Anyway you put it, you put this little thing in there,
but I don't think that Tesla has that. But I
know metro mile works with Tesla, but I would look
at that. And so it says you pay twenty nine
dollars monthly rate. Oh, we base your rates on age,
credit score, and zip code and then we consider real
time data like the miles you drive. So you pay
like a certain monthly rate and then you pay per

(56:01):
the mile. I mean, it's really pretty straightforward. And those
prices I think depend on you know, what you're like,
I said, your credit rate and all that stuff. But anyway,
I would look at Metrobile. The other thing I like
is called gabby Gabi dot com. You can compare insurance
from various places and as you found out, as I
found out, ensuring a Tesla three is quite expensive because

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they're safe, but the repairs are expensive because you have
to have Tesla do it, and a lot of the
repairs are very technical because of all of the gadgets involved.
All right, one more question from Mark. Hey, Rich, I
love following you for all your updates and tips. Do
you know is there a way to clean out duplicate
photos on my main album Thank You sent for my iPhone. Yes,

(56:45):
I've gotten this question a lot because so many people
are upgrading to iPhones. But I like the app called
Gemini Photos. G E M I NI Gemini Photos, and
it's I don't know how much does it cost.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
It's a one time fee, I believe in app purchases.
It's probably not.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
It probably changed it because everything is now a subscription. Yeah,
monthly okay, one time purchase is thirty five dollars annual
twenty monthly five so it removes similar pictures.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
But I would just be.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Very careful anytime that you are deleting pictures off your phone,
just be very careful because I don't want you to
delete anything that might not be a duplicate or it's
something that you can't get back. So when you're doing
something like a batch delete, just be very very careful.
Make sure you have a backup there. Oh wow, look
at that. That sound means it is the end of

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Speaker 2 (59:00):
Then