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