Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech Saturdays from eleven to two right here on KFI.
Speaker 1: It's Katla tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2: Morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we got the iPad and we've got something
Speaker 1: that they finally have on the iPad and something that
Speaker 1: they still don't have on the iPad.
Speaker 2: Well, it's only taken about fifteen years to get this application,
Speaker 2: but it is finally there. And that app is WhatsApp.
Speaker 2: That is the app. That's basically the entire story. People
Speaker 2: love WhatsApp all over the world. They use it to communicate.
Speaker 2: It is fully encrypted end to end, which people really like.
Speaker 2: It is owned by Meta, but it's on the iPad now,
Speaker 2: so you can have it on multiple devices. Your phone,
Speaker 2: your Mac, your iPad. Messages do stay in sync and
Speaker 2: the end to end encryption stays intact across all devices.
Speaker 1: Okay, so go get it. I have a question, and
Speaker 1: that is that WhatsApp has been available on the iPhone
Speaker 1: but not on the iPad. Is there a reason for that?
Speaker 2: You know? I think part of it was the encryption situation,
Speaker 2: because when WhatsApp was first available, the reason I didn't
Speaker 2: use it is because you can only use it on
Speaker 2: one device. At the time, it had to be linked
Speaker 2: to a phone number on a phone, and then they
Speaker 2: sort of expanded that over the years. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the reason for the iPad lag was, but it's
Speaker 2: there now. The only other app that Meta needs to
Speaker 2: make for the iPad is Instagram, which people are baffled
Speaker 2: why there's not an official Instagram app. You know, you
Speaker 2: can put the phone app on there, but there's no
Speaker 2: official sort of like big screen Instagram app for some reason.
Speaker 2: So maybe that will be next.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't even know that because I have an iPad.
Speaker 1: I rarely use it because I just use my phone
Speaker 1: so often. But that's just crazy that the IG isn't
Speaker 1: on the iPad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would think there would be. But you know,
Speaker 2: I think at some point Instagram had like a reason
Speaker 2: for it, like, oh, we want to keep it, you know,
Speaker 2: more intimate with your phone versus like your iPad. But
Speaker 2: you know, it's like, come on, give us options.
Speaker 1: Okay. So I think that we've talked about this before
Speaker 1: about how you can turn your when you take notes
Speaker 1: and stuff, you can turn it into a podcast, And
Speaker 1: now that's available in more places.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we talked about this a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Notebook LM is the tool, So this sort of was
Speaker 2: an experiment at Google, just like a small thing. It
Speaker 2: went viral because of this audio overview feature, which basically
Speaker 2: allows you to toss any information you want into this
Speaker 2: notebook LM app and it will convert it into a
Speaker 2: podcast basically with two hosts kind of talking about the information.
Speaker 2: But you can put anything in there, so you can
Speaker 2: you can, you know, put PDFs in there, you can
Speaker 2: put a website, YouTube, video, anything you want to learn
Speaker 2: more about. And what's neat about this is that it's
Speaker 2: only using that information, so it's kind of like a
Speaker 2: little bit cleaner than it would be if you just
Speaker 2: use like straight up AI because it's trying to pull
Speaker 2: just from your info. But the other thing is amy
Speaker 2: you can also ask questions. You know, you can sit
Speaker 2: there and like type in questions about things that you
Speaker 2: want to ask about the information you put in there.
Speaker 2: So anyway, it's a really cool learning feature available through Google.
Speaker 2: And now they finally came out with an app on
Speaker 2: iPhone and Android. This only took them like two years,
Speaker 2: so that's not too yep. But the cool thing is
Speaker 2: you can listen to those audio overviews anywhere basically.
Speaker 1: Okay, So my question is if it's taking your information,
Speaker 1: it's not going out searching the web. It's taking your
Speaker 1: information and making the podcast. Is this for like your
Speaker 1: own edification or to share with like, is it to
Speaker 1: help you study or is it excited to share?
Speaker 2: No? I think it's I mean, you could share it.
Speaker 2: You could download the podcasts and share it out, but
Speaker 2: it's not meant to like make podcasts for you that
Speaker 2: you can like share with friends and family. Like, that's
Speaker 2: not really the idea. The idea is that you're going
Speaker 2: to a foreign country. You want to learn everything you
Speaker 2: could possibly learn about it, and so you drop that
Speaker 2: information into notebook LM. It generates a podcast. I'm doing
Speaker 2: a panel discussion today, so they gave me a whole
Speaker 2: briefing book. I dropped that into notebook LM. I listened
Speaker 2: to that in my car, and now I'm briefed on
Speaker 2: all the things that everyone wants to talk about, the panelists,
Speaker 2: the background whatever. But it's only that information. So it's
Speaker 2: really just you know, you want to learn a new law,
Speaker 2: you know, throw it in there, that take it down act,
Speaker 2: that they passed a couple weeks ago. You can throw
Speaker 2: that in there and you can learn about that. So
Speaker 2: it's just a different way to learn. A lot of
Speaker 2: college students use it, a lot of lifelong learners. It's
Speaker 2: just a really different and convenient way to learn thanks
Speaker 2: to AI.
Speaker 1: Okay, and let's talk phones, because you have been playing
Speaker 1: with the brand new S twenty five Edge for the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks and you said you we talked
Speaker 1: to you about it, or we talked to you when
Speaker 1: you first got it and you said, I'm going to
Speaker 1: play with it for a while. Well now you have yes, So.
Speaker 2: It's been about three weeks. I've been using it on
Speaker 2: a daily basis. This is Samsung's thinnest phone yet it
Speaker 2: goes on sale on Friday. It's super thin, it's super light.
Speaker 2: I do love that aspect of it. I don't love
Speaker 2: the fact that there's no dedicated zoom lens. It has
Speaker 2: become not an issue, but it's definitely not ideal if
Speaker 2: you're coming from like a phone that has that. But
Speaker 2: if you don't really care the phone, the camera is
Speaker 2: excellent on this device, like really really impressive. I've used
Speaker 2: it in all kinds of different situations, and it's a
Speaker 2: great phone. The battery life was my other question. I
Speaker 2: would say that the battery life is fine. If you
Speaker 2: have a charger, you're going to be fine. I would
Speaker 2: say it's not going to have as good battery life
Speaker 2: towards the end of the day as some of the
Speaker 2: main other phones, but still overall, I really like this device.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Edge available in
Speaker 1: stores now right Friday, Available in stores Friday. And how
Speaker 1: much does it cost?
Speaker 2: It starts at eleven hundred dollars, but there are many
Speaker 2: many deals out there, so be on the lookout. If
Speaker 2: you pay full price for that thing, you're doing something wrong.
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Rich, we'll talk to you next week.
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