Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfer.
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Speaker 1: A nice warm studio in Houston, Texas, as I do
Speaker 1: the long running a high Tech Texans show. What a
Speaker 1: week this is. I swear I could be the new
Speaker 1: Ted Cruise. And I I say that with respect from
Speaker 1: a man who somehow just happens to leave town during
Speaker 1: inclement weather, be it a freezer or hurricane. I did
Speaker 1: it again unexpectedly in Houston earlier this week there was
Speaker 1: a snowstorm. You talk about hell freezing over on Monday
Speaker 1: evening early Tuesday morning, the Houston area got pelting. If
Speaker 1: you're listening in Houston, if not, if you're around the
Speaker 1: state of Texas, I'm sure you are cold too. And
Speaker 1: if you're around the country on iHeartRadio, you're probably realizing
Speaker 1: it's pretty chilly. But it rarely snows in parts of
Speaker 1: Texas and certainly Southeast Texas. I have been in Houston
Speaker 1: thirty years or so, and maybe in the thirty years
Speaker 1: it has snowed three times, four times of any sort
Speaker 1: of accumulation, and I think every time it snowed over
Speaker 1: those thirty years, I've been out of town. And I
Speaker 1: won't even talk about the hurricanes I've missed too. Monday,
Speaker 1: I had an expected for several weeks trip out of town,
Speaker 1: and they had already said that they're going to close
Speaker 1: The city of Houston said they're going to close both airports,
Speaker 1: Hobby and Intercontinental, and I was worried if I was
Speaker 1: going to get out of there. I get to the
Speaker 1: airport Monday at Hobby, I fly out Southwest, my preferred
Speaker 1: airline of choice. By the way, flight takes off at
Speaker 1: five o'clock, I believe they shut down the airport a
Speaker 1: few hours later. I was one of the final and
Speaker 1: last planes to get out before they shut it down
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and sure enough, the snow came in and
Speaker 1: I was nowhere near the state of Texas. In fact,
Speaker 1: I am still as we do the show this weekend,
Speaker 1: nowhere near the state of Texas ladies and gymen, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you where I am. I am in the state
Speaker 1: of California. Normally I am in socout. I have two
Speaker 1: sons who live in southern California, Los Angeles area. By
Speaker 1: the way, they are fine with the fires. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for asking. A lot of people certainly have.
Speaker 1: But this past week, since Monday evening, I have been
Speaker 1: in no count northern California. I used to love San Francisco.
Speaker 1: San Francisco is just a beautiful city. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of weird. Now it's kind of dangerous. Right now.
Speaker 1: I am just south of San Francisco, about an hour
Speaker 1: south with traffic, of course, because this is my first time,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, the high Tech text in his
Speaker 1: very first time, formerly in Silicon Valley, I have been
Speaker 1: in San Jose, California. Sing it with me. People, If
Speaker 1: you're a Dion Warwick fan, do you know the we
Speaker 1: descend whose a? Actually I was a little b backrack
Speaker 1: there San Jose, California, because I am here for us.
Speaker 1: I've been here quite a bike quite a bit this
Speaker 1: week for the big press conference and the launch of
Speaker 1: Samsung's brand new smartphone line, the Galaxy S twenty five
Speaker 1: three new phones that I am going to spend a
Speaker 1: nice portion of today's program taking your questions going over
Speaker 1: the new phones that I have and played with and
Speaker 1: have one. Actually, I'm sitting here with several phones and
Speaker 1: my laptop connected to the World Wide Web, so I
Speaker 1: can bring you these dulcet tones of my radio show.
Speaker 1: If you hear some buzzing or a phone going off,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take me a few seconds to figure out
Speaker 1: which one is a buzzing, and I'll shut it down.
Speaker 1: But for those of you who are big Android fans
Speaker 1: and who are big Sandsunk fans, and you know, if
Speaker 1: you're a long time listener, I am one of those people,
Speaker 1: guilty as charged, and I was very excited to take
Speaker 1: a first hand look, a first look, and I am
Speaker 1: gonna rub it in because for all you others ayo
Speaker 1: out there that you have not seen it yet, because
Speaker 1: it does not hit the streets until February seventh, you
Speaker 1: can pre order it as of earlier this week. I
Speaker 1: will tell you the difference between the Galaxy S twenty five,
Speaker 1: the S twenty five plus and the Monster S twenty
Speaker 1: five Ultra. What changes have been made, if any, on
Speaker 1: the hardware, and what changes absolutely were made on the software.
Speaker 1: Two big letters that you could probably guess as I'm
Speaker 1: just two weeks removed from cees that were very prevalent
Speaker 1: in the press conference. And the things that I'm playing
Speaker 1: with is AI artificial intelligence. Samsung continues to go all
Speaker 1: in on AI, as many many other tech companies are,
Speaker 1: and some of the features are very cool, I must say.
Speaker 1: And again, I've had the phone in hand for about
Speaker 1: two days right now, and I'm getting more used to it.
Speaker 1: It feels sleek, and particularly the S twenty five Ultra,
Speaker 1: which is the big boy. You know. I'm used to
Speaker 1: Samsung's foldable phones with the flip phones. Now I'm back
Speaker 1: to the big hershey bar, the bar of soap size phone,
Speaker 1: and it is quite large, but it is redesigned with
Speaker 1: the hardware and the software is pretty pretty cool and unique.
Speaker 1: I think you were going to like it. I like
Speaker 1: what they have done with the price, because I'll give
Speaker 1: you the laws leader right here, I'll bury the lead.
Speaker 1: They haven't done anything with the prices. Samsung has kept
Speaker 1: the three phones the exact same prices as the three
Speaker 1: different S twenty four models last year which we will
Speaker 1: go over to. But was able to spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time with a lot of my ilk other people
Speaker 1: technology journalists, reviewers and YouTubers and influencers who are much
Speaker 1: younger than I with their thoughts, and I will kind
Speaker 1: of mix that in with my thoughts. But if you
Speaker 1: are again a longtime listener, you know generally I am
Speaker 1: a big Android guy. I do not own an Apple phone.
Speaker 1: Apple who does not know even though I am so
Speaker 1: close right now to Coopertino. I am very close to Coopertino.
Speaker 1: They Apple has no clue who the high tech textan is,
Speaker 1: which is why I don't really talk about Apple products.
Speaker 1: They don't send me any I don't get them, I
Speaker 1: don't play with them. I'm just not in the Apple ecosystem.
Speaker 1: I'm not a hater. It is just a fact. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of companies who don't send me let
Speaker 1: me test and review, even for a matter of thirty
Speaker 1: days or whatever it is that I'm happy to send
Speaker 1: products back. Apparently they aren't proud of their products, that
Speaker 1: they don't want a big voice and face and TV
Speaker 1: and radio to talk about it. Well, then I won't
Speaker 1: talk about it then, But I do thank Samsung, specifically
Speaker 1: Nicole and Jane and Dale and Michael and a lot
Speaker 1: of the folks on the PR side with the internal
Speaker 1: and the external parts of the company who were kind
Speaker 1: enough to help me get out to the San Jose,
Speaker 1: which by the way, should keep a review. Said, let
Speaker 1: me give I got to get out of here about
Speaker 1: a minute for the first break, San Jose. I like
Speaker 1: the weather. It's certainly not snowing here in San Jose,
Speaker 1: when everybody was buried in the snow in Houston that
Speaker 1: I was got. I can look at the mountains. I'm
Speaker 1: in my hotel room right right now in downtown San Jose.
Speaker 1: The weather is it's crisp, it's cool. I can dig it.
Speaker 1: But I gotta say, this is a sleepy town. Has
Speaker 1: anybody been to San Jose. Let me give you the
Speaker 1: phone number three four six twenty nine texts and that's
Speaker 1: how you can hit me for the next hour and
Speaker 1: forty five minutes or so. Three four six two nine Texan.
Speaker 1: We've got Collum back in studio. He'll put you through
Speaker 1: to me if I want to take some phot calls. Certainly,
Speaker 1: I'm on all the social media channels X and Blue
Speaker 1: Sky and Facebook and Instagram, where I posted a lot
Speaker 1: of videos and photos of these new phones. You can
Speaker 1: hit me high Tech text and Hi g h T
Speaker 1: E C h T e x A M. Not much
Speaker 1: to do in San Jose, I gotta say, just downtown.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a sleepy it's a sleepy hood. But
Speaker 1: we can get into that later. Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 1: It is the High Tech Textan show. Gonna have a
Speaker 1: fun snapping a lot of reviews. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: TikTok made some news. You guys back on TikTok. Well
Speaker 1: it's I guess people are still scrolling because the doomsday
Speaker 1: came and went. So there is a new president. The
Speaker 1: TikTok is still up. Netflick has raised its prices, more
Speaker 1: controversies in Hollywood with AI, I have got it all
Speaker 1: as we do count down to the Super Bowl. With
Speaker 1: no Texas teams in there so much to talk about.
Speaker 1: On this weekend's edition of The High Tech Text and Show.
Speaker 1: You just can't go anywhere.
Speaker 4: Stay right there, Fox twenty nine, Texas.
Speaker 1: That is the only school phone number. But then again,
Speaker 1: this is an old school show. In the new world,
Speaker 1: the new technology consumer lifestyle world. Michael Garfield. It is
Speaker 1: the High Tech Texans Show, and if you want to talk,
Speaker 1: ask questions about everything from the brand news Samsung phones
Speaker 1: that you may have been reading about. I am doing
Speaker 1: the show from San Jose, California. I know the way
Speaker 1: to San Jose, California, thanks to Southwest Airlines and actually
Speaker 1: the nice folks at Samsung for helping me get up here.
Speaker 1: I've been here most all week, missing the snow in
Speaker 1: Houston and the cold weather in Texas. I'll be back soon.
Speaker 1: People don't worry about it. But big Samsung press conference
Speaker 1: was held in San Jose on Wednesday, and we got
Speaker 1: to play with and I still am playing with in reviewing,
Speaker 1: and I'll give you my thoughts on the new Samsung
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty five series, especially the S twenty five Ultra,
Speaker 1: the Monster, the Big Dog, AI enabled everywhere, new hardware,
Speaker 1: rounded edges. It's quite nice. Same price as as last
Speaker 1: year S twenty fours, which we'll get into should I
Speaker 1: I want to hit TikTok here real quick though. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want to make this all Samsung in phone centric,
Speaker 1: even though I'm go yet, You, my dear listeners, you
Speaker 1: do provide me everything that is happening with what is
Speaker 1: going on? So if you want to change the subject,
Speaker 1: I'm your guy. But there was a little bit more
Speaker 1: news earlier this week. We got a new president. How
Speaker 1: about that. We have a new national champion in college football?
Speaker 1: No Ohio State not too happy about that because my
Speaker 1: longhorns were not. There. A lot of things happen. I mean, hell, listen,
Speaker 1: Trump takes Officehio State wins. Hell Freeze is over in Houston.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is what we're living with
Speaker 1: over here. But then again, in the tech world, something
Speaker 1: happened two days before inauguration. It was a week ago,
Speaker 1: last Saturday. Because all of a sudden it happened. You
Speaker 1: know the old adage, where were you when the lights
Speaker 1: went out? Where were you when TikTok went down? And
Speaker 1: true to the administration's words, TikTok went down in the
Speaker 1: United States. Now I didn't know it until I started
Speaker 1: getting barraged with emails and phone calls and screenshots with
Speaker 1: that little pop up saying capcut is no was currently
Speaker 1: not available in the United States because I don't use it.
Speaker 1: I never have used TikTok. I know, I know I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to. I am the high tech textan. But it's
Speaker 1: so I can only handle so many and I want
Speaker 1: to handle only so many social media apps. There's there's
Speaker 1: no one reason why I never downloaded TikTok. To me,
Speaker 1: TikTok was a little late to the party. I mean,
Speaker 1: if I look at Facebook from back of the day
Speaker 1: and then Twitter, those are the two big boys that
Speaker 1: were launched, you know, way back when the first you know,
Speaker 1: big social media is and then I had you know,
Speaker 1: obviously I'm on LinkedIn, and then there's What'sapp even though
Speaker 1: it's not social media, and it's a blue sky that
Speaker 1: I'm playing around. But TikTok when it had launched, maybe
Speaker 1: I assumed and thought it was just for the younger set,
Speaker 1: and I think it kind of was. And now TikTok
Speaker 1: is a major major player when it comes to social media,
Speaker 1: certainly for not only people how to dance and you know,
Speaker 1: get dressed with me, get ready with me, or whatever,
Speaker 1: but also for corporations. Corporates companies use it to great
Speaker 1: marketing opportunities. I totally understand that, But I never downloaded,
Speaker 1: not really because it was owned it is still owned
Speaker 1: to this minute by byte Dance, which is a Chinese
Speaker 1: based company, which is the reason for the potential band
Speaker 1: that it did go down. I just didn't have it.
Speaker 1: So that being said, I didn't know what it went down,
Speaker 1: so it didn't affect me whatsoever. Now I know my
Speaker 1: youngest son was not happy because my youngest son, he's
Speaker 1: twenty four, he is to some extent along with this
Speaker 1: real job, he is a social media influence. There. Gosh,
Speaker 1: I hate that tar, but he's an influencer and he
Speaker 1: makes a good amount of kwan by posting some fun,
Speaker 1: fun videos on Instagram and TikTok and so you know,
Speaker 1: he was texting me and when we had to talk,
Speaker 1: he goes, man, what's he goes, TikTok is down. That's
Speaker 1: that's not good for me. And you know, listen, when
Speaker 1: it now cuts into your livelihood and your business of
Speaker 1: how you make money. I understand that side of the uproar.
Speaker 1: I'm all for everybody making moulah in money, all right,
Speaker 1: And so I felt bad for that, But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I knew something was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You just don't kill and stop an app that has
Speaker 1: what three hundred million users or whatever it is in
Speaker 1: the United States. For so long. But sure enough it
Speaker 1: was down Saturday afternoon, but by Sunday morning ish, less
Speaker 1: than twenty hours or so, it seemed to ah suddenly
Speaker 1: pop back up. And you know who took the credit
Speaker 1: for that. But apparently there is now a seventy five
Speaker 1: day reprieve and while the executive order to allow the
Speaker 1: new administration. And again this is all politics, which I
Speaker 1: just don't get into politics, but in this case it
Speaker 1: is politics. And so the new administration is going to
Speaker 1: give itself an opportunity to determine the appropriate course of
Speaker 1: action for TikTok and hopefully create an American joint venture
Speaker 1: with at least fifty percent of it being controlled by
Speaker 1: US interest. And it goes on and on, and now
Speaker 1: we've got people for like Elon Musk and mister Beast
Speaker 1: and there, you know, just a rumor of that they
Speaker 1: may potentially buy the fifty percent of it. You know what,
Speaker 1: I want some media too. Maybe we could start a
Speaker 1: rumor that the high tech text and wants to buy
Speaker 1: fifty percent of it. Hey, I'll pull my money together
Speaker 1: with anybody. You know, I got a few shekels here
Speaker 1: and there. I'm more than happy to buy one billion
Speaker 1: to one percent of TikTok. That's all I got. So
Speaker 1: TikTok was not what affected me though, And this is
Speaker 1: to prove to you that I'm not really afraid of
Speaker 1: the Chinese steeling my data because I really have zero
Speaker 1: secrets to hide. TikTok or Sorry byt Dance owns a
Speaker 1: number of other companies another a number of other apps,
Speaker 1: one of which is one of my favorite apps that
Speaker 1: I have downloaded that they are quote unquote taking my data.
Speaker 1: And it's a video editing tool and you're probably familiar
Speaker 1: with it, but it's called cap cut. I love cap Cut.
Speaker 1: I'm doing more and more videos on Instagram and YouTube
Speaker 1: and whatever, and cap cut has got to be one of,
Speaker 1: if not the easiest video editing apps out there. I
Speaker 1: have long said that since I've been using that well
Speaker 1: over a year. My kids use it and what have you. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is owned by byt Dance, they have my email,
Speaker 1: they've got all my photos that I've uploaded. But dang,
Speaker 1: it is easy. Sure enough, that went down also on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Now at that point it starts affecting me because I
Speaker 1: can't edit my videos using my favorite editor, and so
Speaker 1: again I even go to my son, my youngest son.
Speaker 1: I said, what are you using to edit your videos?
Speaker 1: And he gave me like two or three other free
Speaker 1: downloadable video editing tools which are not nearly as simple
Speaker 1: as as cap cut. But he goes, this is what
Speaker 1: I used to use before cap cut was around, and
Speaker 1: luckily I didn't need to make any videos. But I'm
Speaker 1: thinking if TikTok was coming up again, cap cut needs
Speaker 1: to come back up again. Well, I will tell you
Speaker 1: cap cut did not come back until like Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: and so it's funny how TikTok came online, but it
Speaker 1: took it two extra days for capcut. As of right now,
Speaker 1: cap cut is back and unluckily I'm gonna use it.
Speaker 1: So I guess the whole point is this is this
Speaker 1: is a government play, and I never liked government plays
Speaker 1: when it came to business. And I want to go
Speaker 1: back to when I used to work at Microsoft. One
Speaker 1: of my first jobs ever was at Microsoft. It was
Speaker 1: what was in the nineteen nineties or well, I guess
Speaker 1: my first job. It was one of my first few
Speaker 1: jobs and it worked in Microsoft. And this is when
Speaker 1: Microsoft Windows was had to go up again in court
Speaker 1: and they were being lawsuits because of Windows and the
Speaker 1: Internet Explorer browser were forcibly being put onto every single
Speaker 1: laptop and desktop paper made and blah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: to me, I mean, it's not like I was trying
Speaker 1: to protect Steve Jobs at Steve Job. Sorry about that,
Speaker 1: Big Bill Gates. But here is a guy, Bill Gates who, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, started a company called Microsoft way back
Speaker 1: in the day. He a brilliant man. He made it
Speaker 1: incredibly incredibly successful company. He was so successful that now
Speaker 1: our own government was coming after him, and that really
Speaker 1: ticked me off. And that turned me as one of
Speaker 1: the reasons. It just kind of I get turned off
Speaker 1: with the government, the politics, and to me, it was
Speaker 1: a message that Americans and again let's talk about Microsoft,
Speaker 1: which is American company. Americans, now what's giving them a
Speaker 1: mode of motivation an entrepreneurship of anybody, of making an
Speaker 1: incredibly incredibly successful company where your own government is coming
Speaker 1: after you. It's a cynical way of looking thing, maybe,
Speaker 1: but also I think it's a realistic way that I
Speaker 1: started seeing things back in the nineteen nineties. Well nowadays
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. Listen, Other than the borders of China,
Speaker 1: United States, which it's again that's above the pay grade
Speaker 1: and whatever. Are they stealing things data from us? I
Speaker 1: don't know whatever, that's not the point. But here's an
Speaker 1: incredibly successful company and now we've got governments going, well,
Speaker 1: you can't do this or you want a piece of this.
Speaker 1: It's like, man, it's just because I'm a pro business guy.
Speaker 1: I really really am. I'm an entrepreneurial pro business guy.
Speaker 1: But here's where we are. As we get to a
Speaker 1: break here at the bottom of the first hour of
Speaker 1: the High Tech Textian show, TikTok is back running. We've
Speaker 1: got about what two and a half three months before
Speaker 1: the administration currently right now, it's going to have to
Speaker 1: take a look of how TikTok is going to continue
Speaker 1: to run. Is an American company going to get fifty
Speaker 1: percent of it or one hundred percent of it? We
Speaker 1: don't know. But I'm going to give you the phone
Speaker 1: number one more time. People three four six twenty nine
Speaker 1: textan Where were you when the lights went out? Did
Speaker 1: it affect you personally if financially or did you didn't?
Speaker 1: Did you take a step back? And I want you
Speaker 1: to think about this. Did you take a step back?
Speaker 1: You know what? I actually talked to somebody. I didn't
Speaker 1: get online. I wasn't doom scrolling. I went out and
Speaker 1: walked my dog. I talked to neighbors because, after all,
Speaker 1: and I want you to remember this, It's just an app.
Speaker 1: It's just an app. For the first eighty percent of
Speaker 1: my life I lived without an app. I live without
Speaker 1: an app, and I was fine with it. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of addicted some app, addicted to some apps right now.
Speaker 1: But where Harway is a society? Do we need this stuff?
Speaker 1: Some people do for businesses and they make money. But
Speaker 1: if all you do is sit there and doom scroll
Speaker 1: to see what somebody had for breakfast, or what lipstick
Speaker 1: somebody's wearing, or a beauty tip or a dance tep man,
Speaker 1: where are we right now that people freak out to
Speaker 1: think of you see more than technology. I'm a think
Speaker 1: and a doer. Michael Bardom It is the Hi Tech
Speaker 1: Texan Show, right the Hi Tech Texan Show coming to
Speaker 1: you from northern California, Silicon Valley. I probably should do
Speaker 1: more Silicon Valley people. I probably need to do more
Speaker 1: shows up here. Actually, believe it or not. My first
Speaker 1: real time spent in Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, maybe
Speaker 1: one of the sleepiest cities I've ever seen. I really
Speaker 1: expected more. I mean, it's a pretty city. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm overlooking the mountains and what have you. But downtowntown,
Speaker 1: hose old people. It's a ghost town. There's no homeless
Speaker 1: people here. There's a few sandwich shops and buildings, a
Speaker 1: lot of hotels, a lot of hotels. God to go
Speaker 1: into the SAP Center where the San Jose Sharks, for
Speaker 1: you hockey folks play. That's where the Samsung Big press
Speaker 1: announcement launch was for the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty
Speaker 1: five series. Just north of here, about about an hour
Speaker 1: forty five minutes an hour, depending on what the traffic is.
Speaker 1: They know, by the way, there is traffic here. There
Speaker 1: is San Francisco. I'm not far from Levi Stadium where
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers play, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I actually passed that a few days what was it
Speaker 1: two nights ago, because I went to the city of
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Thank you again to Samsung. They want us
Speaker 1: to play around with the Galaxy S twenty five Ultra
Speaker 1: and they said, you know, we're going to show you
Speaker 1: some sights and let you do some things. And they said, Michael,
Speaker 1: you are also one of the biggest sports fans that
Speaker 1: we know who also covers technology. We are going to
Speaker 1: take you to a Golden State Warriors game. Steph Curry, me,
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand other friends got to go to the Chase Center.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty new complex, great gorgeous, very technologically advanced
Speaker 1: basketball arena in concert arena right there, not too far
Speaker 1: from the Bay Bridge. And I got to play with
Speaker 1: the phone and I got to see the Warriors play
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bulls. Very fun. It was cool. So it's
Speaker 1: a lot of very sports centric town, sports centric city
Speaker 1: up here. But other than that, you go down to
Speaker 1: San Jose and it was quiet. San Jose was rockin'
Speaker 1: though on Wednesday at the SAP Center in the morning,
Speaker 1: because that is where the I think I say is
Speaker 1: the president of Samsung Mobile. He was there, maybe Apollo
Speaker 1: of Samsung, A lot of the partners and worldwide media
Speaker 1: including Wah We're there and we got to hear all
Speaker 1: the new things about the Samsung Galaxy S twenty five series.
Speaker 1: I am taking your questions three four six twenty nine, Texan,
Speaker 1: t X an Callum Reid he may if he feels
Speaker 1: like it, he may pick up your phone calls and
Speaker 1: put you through, but I will answer them. Is it
Speaker 1: worth it is? What are the prices? Is it easy
Speaker 1: to hold? Should I hold off and get this to
Speaker 1: an iPhone? I'm not going to sit here and compare
Speaker 1: other manufacturers, at least today. I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about a lot of news that I saw and learned
Speaker 1: about the three new phones of the Galaxy S twenty
Speaker 1: five series. As expected, they did announce the trio of
Speaker 1: their flagship smartphones really kind of with a one stop
Speaker 1: shop approach to AI. Shockingly, artificial intelligence. Every single company
Speaker 1: is already hopped on the AI bandwagon. I saw a
Speaker 1: lot of new capabilities and some performance improvement that probably
Speaker 1: are going to entice new buyers, would be buyers, even
Speaker 1: those who aren't even interested in AI, although I probably
Speaker 1: will tell you some features that actually work in pretty well.
Speaker 1: It was last year that Samsung proclaimed everybody did it.
Speaker 1: This is the this is the year of AI. It's
Speaker 1: the year of AI, all right, And not because new
Speaker 1: phones were AI enabled. It's just I think consumers wanted
Speaker 1: to buy new devices because you know, there were new opportunities.
Speaker 1: It was about time it was at the economy, whatever
Speaker 1: was that they needed a new phone, a new upgrade.
Speaker 1: And if you are in the mood of the manner
Speaker 1: right now for an upgrade, you may want to think
Speaker 1: and consider about the things that I see. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: not paid by Samsung. I sure the hell wish I was,
Speaker 1: because I've probably sold more Samsung products than a lot
Speaker 1: of people who also are in media, because I've long
Speaker 1: been a Samsung fan and an Android fan. Now I
Speaker 1: play with a number of other Android phones. I just
Speaker 1: got finished reviewing the one plus thirteen, which I think
Speaker 1: is a really good phone. But I've long been a
Speaker 1: Samsung fan because they have been kind enough to, you know,
Speaker 1: let me play with them, and so I'm getting very
Speaker 1: familiar with them. And I do like, you know, the
Speaker 1: Google operating system or Android opera system from Google and Alphabet.
Speaker 1: But let's start with the fact that these cameras are
Speaker 1: stupid awesome. For the longest well not for the longest time.
Speaker 1: I've had the Galaxy S twenty four Ultra Re. It's
Speaker 1: the big one and it's almost too large for me
Speaker 1: to carry. But for the past year, even though I didn't,
Speaker 1: it wasn't my daily carry phone. It has long been
Speaker 1: probably the best video camera and photo camera that I've
Speaker 1: ever seen, or maybe any company, in my opinion, has
Speaker 1: ever put into a smart phone. For the TV stuff
Speaker 1: that I shoot on Channel eleven KHOU in Houston, it
Speaker 1: is just as powerful, probably as a ten twenty thirty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars television camera. I use that to shoot high
Speaker 1: resolution videos and segments I shoot photos, and it has
Speaker 1: been phenomenal. So I expected everything on the S twenty
Speaker 1: five this year's version to be just as big, and
Speaker 1: they delivered. There are not one not to but there
Speaker 1: are three and four four. There are four rear facing
Speaker 1: lenses on the Ultra twenty five series, and certainly this
Speaker 1: year the twenty five and one of them has been
Speaker 1: upgraded the Ultra Wide format. It was last year twelve megapixels.
Speaker 1: It has now been upgraded to fifty megapixels. And so
Speaker 1: let's take a count. There's a primary camera two hundred megapixels.
Speaker 1: There's a dual photo lenses. There's two of them. There's
Speaker 1: a fifty megapixel and a ten megapixel. But that Ultra
Speaker 1: Wide went from twelve to fifty megapixel and a lot
Speaker 1: and Samsung did a lot of research in whatever they were,
Speaker 1: you know, they were blowing smoke or just you know,
Speaker 1: you know said, this is the fact that more and
Speaker 1: more people are actually using these ultra wide lenses to
Speaker 1: actually take you in a more a larger scenery and family,
Speaker 1: you know, big family, you get togethers or whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do. And I do that too. As I'm
Speaker 1: looking outside my hotel window right now, I'm overlooking these
Speaker 1: mountains up here in San Jose, California, I want this
Speaker 1: big ultra wide photo without you know, using panoramic or something.
Speaker 1: And so it's nice that the lenses are better. So
Speaker 1: from the two it's it's an edge. Really. If you
Speaker 1: look at some of these other phones out there, I
Speaker 1: mean Android competitors, they do bundle maybe one or two
Speaker 1: or maybe tops three fifty megapixel cameras. And I told
Speaker 1: you I want to compare it, but I will give
Speaker 1: you this one. I'm the highest niphone, which is the
Speaker 1: iPhone eighteen Pro Max. I believe there's two forty eight
Speaker 1: megapixel lenses and a twelve megapixel telephoto lens. And so
Speaker 1: now we've got something a little better. Now I'm not
Speaker 1: even getting into the AI et so let me just
Speaker 1: kind of give you the whole everything else is going on.
Speaker 1: There is a new processor. There is a new processor.
Speaker 1: This is exclusive to Samsung, all right. It is called
Speaker 1: the snap Dragon eight Elite for a Galaxy now I know.
Speaker 1: Also the one plus thirteen just came out with a
Speaker 1: new snap Dragon eight. I believe it's a lead, but
Speaker 1: this is four Galaxy. Whether they just slap the name
Speaker 1: on it, I'm not sure. But it's a custom chipset
Speaker 1: that logs performance an efficiency, and so far in the
Speaker 1: two days that I've been played with this film, it
Speaker 1: is fast. And snap Dragon is very very proud of this,
Speaker 1: so much so that I got a press release from
Speaker 1: this thing. Let's see if I can find this for
Speaker 1: the snap There it is. It's a snap Dragon eight Elite,
Speaker 1: it is, and I'm quoting this from a press release
Speaker 1: from Snapdragon, which is nice that they got my name.
Speaker 1: It's the most powerful, world's fastest second generation custom qual
Speaker 1: Come ori ion CPU. It's a game changing GPUs, so
Speaker 1: do I. It has Premium five G WI Fi because
Speaker 1: it's got a Snapdragon x eighty five g modem RF system.
Speaker 1: If anybody kick cares or connects about that. It is
Speaker 1: the first commercial device to feature snap Dragon Satellite and
Speaker 1: that allows customers to send and received messages via satellite natively,
Speaker 1: that is supported an Android operating system and it is
Speaker 1: on device multi modal Gin AI because it has that
Speaker 1: personalized AI assistant that does interact with you, that understands
Speaker 1: your voice and your text and your images and they
Speaker 1: can now see everything through that camera. So there is
Speaker 1: your your processor now again next either the next, next seven,
Speaker 1: next hour, I'm gonna talk about where you can get
Speaker 1: these things. Verizon and T Mobile they're already sending me
Speaker 1: stuff of you know what the prices are. You could
Speaker 1: do this thing. But the processor thing. Don't sleep on
Speaker 1: the fact that you need to have something fast. You
Speaker 1: need to have something that processes. Is because if you're
Speaker 1: if you're gonna have a conversational chat with AI with
Speaker 1: the Gemini AI system, if you will, you're gonna need
Speaker 1: something fast, and they do and a lot of the
Speaker 1: stuff now it's on board. There's a new user intervace too.
Speaker 1: Let me quickly hit about this. The user interface. It's
Speaker 1: called one UI, the O n E UI User Interface
Speaker 1: one UI seven, and that is the agent that is
Speaker 1: the thing that actually does a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: for you. That's the what you see, that's what you touch,
Speaker 1: that's what you tap, and it is a little bit done,
Speaker 1: and it's really designed to be your assistant. It's going
Speaker 1: to figure out which apps to use and what it
Speaker 1: needs to do. You can everythink that you press a
Speaker 1: home button for a second or two and you could
Speaker 1: start talking and ask it a question. And there's something
Speaker 1: called the Personal Data Engine and what it does. It
Speaker 1: does it's going to learn what you're doing. It's going
Speaker 1: to build itself a to do list of what you
Speaker 1: want to do, what time you wake up, how you sleep,
Speaker 1: what your day looks like, what's the weather look like,
Speaker 1: and it's going to do it's it's it's a true,
Speaker 1: true smart assistant. It doesn't know me just yet. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not waiting for commands though. It's going to
Speaker 1: have to use and learn how I use the app.
Speaker 1: When I wake up? Is the first thing that I
Speaker 1: do is look on Facebook? Do I look on Instagram?
Speaker 1: Do I go to X Do I go to my newsfeed?
Speaker 1: Do I do I do I read my email? What
Speaker 1: do I do? It's going to summarize this for me.
Speaker 1: There is a new feature it's called the now button.
Speaker 1: The now button, and it's on the lock screen. It's
Speaker 1: a little small button and it is going to automatically
Speaker 1: build my day for me. He's gonna tell me what's
Speaker 1: going on. It's gonna go through things, and so in
Speaker 1: terms of intelligence, so far, I'm digging what they're doing.
Speaker 1: You may not utilize every single thing of the AI,
Speaker 1: you're going to learn to use it. It is a
Speaker 1: paradigm shift. And we're gonna continue to talk about this
Speaker 1: coming up. I will talk about the price and the
Speaker 1: carriers and answer some of your questions because that I
Speaker 1: see coming in at Michael at high Tech textsan dot com.
Speaker 1: Right now, don't go anywhere. We're gonna talk a lot
Speaker 1: more about the Samsung S twenty five series. It's got
Speaker 1: some TikTok questions too. And oh, by the way, yes,
Speaker 1: Netflix raised its prices. People as a time to kiss
Speaker 1: it goodbye. I will tell you my thoughts on that
Speaker 1: phone number. I'd be lovely your old nasty phone, while
Speaker 1: I'm timp with the two Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Ultra,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure your phone still works. It is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: It's three four six through nine texted three four six
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Speaker 1: you WAI twelve hundred am, the Big Blue Torch, Dallas,
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Speaker 1: where you've got the state of Texas covered. And if
Speaker 1: you're listening on iHeartRadio app or if you're listening to
Speaker 1: the show being podcasted, I guess you can't call in live,
Speaker 1: but feel free to email me. Because I'm a nice guy.
Speaker 1: I don't do anything I If I make a mistake,
Speaker 1: it's totally a mistake. I don't do anything wrong maliciously.
Speaker 1: I do know that, right Samsung, I'm more than happy
Speaker 1: to respond to your emails and give you some the
Speaker 1: best of my advice, which I like to think is good.
Speaker 1: Coming from San Jose, California. This week, just attended these
Speaker 1: Samson sung press conference for the new Galaxy S twenty
Speaker 1: five series, the S twenty five, the S twenty five
Speaker 1: plus and the S twenty five Ultra, and it's and
Speaker 1: I continue to play with the Ultra. I have it
Speaker 1: right here in my hand. If you do see me
Speaker 1: around town, over the next few weeks before I have
Speaker 1: to return this, come up and say, Michael, you mind
Speaker 1: a whip it and excuse me while I went this out,
Speaker 1: Can I see your Galaxy S twenty five Ultra. More
Speaker 1: than happy to show it to you. It has a
Speaker 1: six point nine inch display. And what's really interesting about
Speaker 1: the display. It's almost, if not the exact same size
Speaker 1: as last year's model, but the bezels around the end
Speaker 1: are thinner. They're smaller, which may gives it a little
Speaker 1: bit more display. Six point nine inch display, and when
Speaker 1: you hold it, the first thing I noticed is the
Speaker 1: the edges. Obviously there's four corners, if you will, they're
Speaker 1: not corners anymore. If you look at last year's Galaxy
Speaker 1: S twenty four Ultra, there were corners almost ninety degrees.
Speaker 1: Now they're rounded edges. They're more rounder edges. It kind
Speaker 1: of gives you a little bit more comfy grip. And
Speaker 1: you know, when you're holding it in one hand, you
Speaker 1: know sometimes that edge it's a point, and it sometimes
Speaker 1: it gives you a callous or hurts your thumb no longer.
Speaker 1: Samsung says it is the slimmest, it's the lightest and
Speaker 1: most durable Galaxy Ultra device ever, without a doubt. I mean,
Speaker 1: every time they're gonna come out with a device like that,
Speaker 1: it's always gonna be slimmer and lighter, more durable, and
Speaker 1: it has a titanium body. But then again, don't we all,
Speaker 1: I've been working out a lot. It's got a titanium
Speaker 1: body and to prevent or to have advanced drop protection
Speaker 1: and scratch resistance. It has cornings Gorilla Armor two, not one,
Speaker 1: but two, the second version of it. And so they're
Speaker 1: saying if you drop it, which a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of people do tend to drop their phones,
Speaker 1: it's hopefully going to crack less and have less damage,
Speaker 1: which is nice. Last segment I talked about the phones.
Speaker 1: It's now has the cameras. It's got an ultra wide lens.
Speaker 1: It went from twelve megapixels to fifty megapixels, which is
Speaker 1: pretty good. Talked about the new snap Dragon eight Elite
Speaker 1: processor specifically made for the Samsung Galaxy at least in
Speaker 1: name only. This does continue the tradition of having an
Speaker 1: s pen kind of like the long the old Galaxy note.
Speaker 1: They don't make Galaxy notes anymore. They kind of call
Speaker 1: them Galaxy Ultras. It does have that pin. This no
Speaker 1: longer has a little Bluetooth enabled you remember the old
Speaker 1: and I never really used this feature. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you take there's a pen that there's
Speaker 1: a little pin holder that you can pop out and
Speaker 1: you can use it as a digital pen. You can
Speaker 1: you know, take notes, sign your name, and do anything
Speaker 1: on it, which is a neat feature. I personally never
Speaker 1: use that pin a lot. But it also was it
Speaker 1: was powered. It was a Bluetooth enable thing, and so
Speaker 1: you can take it and use it as a baton
Speaker 1: like a wand as a remote shutter, you know, to
Speaker 1: take take selfies. They took the Bluetooth out of that stuff.
Speaker 1: It's that's no longer anyway. Now it's just an actual
Speaker 1: s pen. And I don't know if I'm going to
Speaker 1: use it. That's me if you use it for business
Speaker 1: and you use your or you take notes as a student,
Speaker 1: or if you use an Excel spreadsheet or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you can draw great drawing and sketching features too.
Speaker 1: Not me. I don't use it for that thing, but
Speaker 1: it's built in if I know it. The twenty five
Speaker 1: Vultra has twelve gig of ram twelve gigs of random
Speaker 1: access memory, and it does come in two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six gigs a five twelve gig And if you
Speaker 1: really want a lot of stuff to hold, like all
Speaker 1: your photos and videos, it's got a one terabyte storage. Two.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about prices right now. One of
Speaker 1: the things that I can appreciate is if a company
Speaker 1: lowers a price year after year on a similar product. E.
Speaker 1: Samsung did not do this, but I will tell you
Speaker 1: they didn't raise the price the S twenty five, the
Speaker 1: S twenty five plus, and the S twenty five Ultra
Speaker 1: compared to the S twenty four line, all three of
Speaker 1: them last year. They kept the price the same. So
Speaker 1: top of the line. If you want that S twenty
Speaker 1: five Ultra, it starts right about thirteen hundred dollars. If
Speaker 1: you want the S twenty five plus smaller, not a
Speaker 1: lot of hardware upgrades on that, that bad boy write
Speaker 1: about one thousand dollars ninety nine. And if you want
Speaker 1: the S twenty five, which is even smaller, again not
Speaker 1: a lot of hardware upgrades, but certainly it has the
Speaker 1: internal processing and the AI features. Starts at eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: We have an eight hundred dollars model, one thousand dollars model,
Speaker 1: and the thirteen hundred dollars dollar model. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: tell you which one to get. It's up to you.
Speaker 1: Do you want a six point two inch smaller one?
Speaker 1: Do you want a six point seven inch display on
Speaker 1: THATS twenty five plus, or do you want the bigger
Speaker 1: one of the S twenty five plus. I'm a form
Speaker 1: factor guy. I like smaller phones. My daily carry is
Speaker 1: a Galaxy Samsung Galaxy Flip phone because the thing flips
Speaker 1: over fits in my pocket. I can flip it out,
Speaker 1: not fold, but I can flip it out and it
Speaker 1: becomes a regular sized phone. I'm going to try to
Speaker 1: use this for the next few weeks. Is my daily phone,
Speaker 1: the S twenty five. It's a big phone. It's I'm
Speaker 1: not going to have a little carrier that's gonna clip
Speaker 1: on my wallet, you know, like a clip of my
Speaker 1: belt like I used to. I generally keep these phones
Speaker 1: in my pocket. I keep them in my front pocket.
Speaker 1: But anyway, this thing's pretty big. I may keep this
Speaker 1: one in my back pocket. I don't like sitting on
Speaker 1: my phones, but I'm gonna try this thing. But It
Speaker 1: is a powerful phone. The AI is some cool stuff
Speaker 1: I talk to about. The new user interface. The Samsung's
Speaker 1: one UI seven, the seventh version of a thing. It's
Speaker 1: they put that on top of the Android fifteen. So
Speaker 1: it's a new AI integrated OS. It's got the Samsung.
Speaker 1: It's got AI because it's got the Samsung Gemini, which
Speaker 1: is now interactive. I can have an actual conversation of
Speaker 1: this thing. One of my favorite features is still there.
Speaker 1: If you want to go see my Instagram, I'll show
Speaker 1: you actually use my Instagram or my YouTube. The circle
Speaker 1: to search one of the neat things out there. All
Speaker 1: you need to do is hold your camera or take
Speaker 1: a picture of something, and you press and freeze the
Speaker 1: press of that bottom part of that front screen and
Speaker 1: it freezes the camera. You take your finger in you circle,
Speaker 1: and as long as you're connect to the internet, it
Speaker 1: searches whatever you're looking at in so you can identify plants.
Speaker 1: It can then it to identify cars. It now can
Speaker 1: even listen and identify songs that are playing. That's why
Speaker 1: no longer do you need SoundHound or Shazai. That's right,
Speaker 1: you can listen to it too. Phones are getting smarter
Speaker 1: and I think, so far, in the forty eight hours
Speaker 1: that I've had this hands on the S twenty five Ultra,
Speaker 1: I am a happy camper.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else I can talk about this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm probably gotta get to it a few more times
Speaker 1: in the second hour, but questions, I am here for you.
Speaker 1: I will be reviewing this more. I'll have it on
Speaker 1: my Channel eleven Great Day Houston Show, and then I
Speaker 1: don't know what. Hopefully in the next week we can
Speaker 1: have two weeks to show it off. But so far,
Speaker 1: Samsung as always very happy. We'll do for Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: It is the High Tech Texting Show. Thank you again
Speaker 1: to Nicole, so Michael, to Dale, to Jane and everybody
Speaker 1: else so for at Samsung, Berg and Rosy for having
Speaker 1: me here in San Jose, Sothing. We live to about
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Speaker 1: That's the beginning of the second hour of the High
Speaker 1: Tech Textan Show, which means we are halfway through the show,
Speaker 1: saying with me, my longtime listeners, we are halfway that
Speaker 1: happy hour. That's a weekend. Come on, man, it's still
Speaker 1: cold outside. It's always happy hour all the time. Just
Speaker 1: listen and drive responsibly. The phone number here at three
Speaker 1: four six twenty nine Texan if you've been listening for
Speaker 1: our number one for just joining in. I'm not in
Speaker 1: my Texas studio. We are traveling this past week. I
Speaker 1: am currently doing the show from San Jose, California. Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley is what they call this place. I've been here
Speaker 1: since Monday night, believe it or not, for Samsung. Samsung
Speaker 1: is hosting or they have hosted a big press announcement
Speaker 1: and launch of their new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S
Speaker 1: twenty five, and I have currently been playing with the
Speaker 1: new S twenty five ultrend. Go back and listen to
Speaker 1: the podcast when we're done. Callum you're gonna put this
Speaker 1: podcast up right when we're done, Yes, sir, you can
Speaker 1: go to iHeartRadio, look for high Tech Texan or one
Speaker 1: of the terrestrial stations you're listening on, and you can
Speaker 1: listen from the beginning. I'll continue to talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more of the features as I continue to play
Speaker 1: with them. But AI is the thing. They're very proud of,
Speaker 1: the AI artificial intelligence features that they're putting in. Interesting
Speaker 1: note that I that the Samsung had said that said
Speaker 1: for at least the next year, all of the AI
Speaker 1: features on the phone are going to be free. Don't
Speaker 1: really know what that means is that like a teaser meeting,
Speaker 1: some of the AI features are not going to be free.
Speaker 1: At some point they're going to start charging. And that's
Speaker 1: where you really have to decide is this feature worth it? Now?
Speaker 1: I don't know which features, and it's it's probably just
Speaker 1: not for Samsung. I mean, let's look at the car industry,
Speaker 1: which I also cover. I mean, you know, the car
Speaker 1: manufacturers now they're trying to charge you know, monthly fees
Speaker 1: for you know, you know, automatic steering or you know,
Speaker 1: certainly we have the serious you know, you know, satellite
Speaker 1: radio that's totally different, but features of the car, and
Speaker 1: I don't think the public really pushed back on that.
Speaker 1: And that's where I as a consumer, a consumer lifestyle
Speaker 1: guy for you. I am out here for you to
Speaker 1: find you cool new products and devices and gadgets and
Speaker 1: processes to hopefully improve your life, your business, your health,
Speaker 1: but also save you some money too. For example, let's
Speaker 1: talk a little Hollywood, Hollywood. See what happened to Netflix?
Speaker 1: Big announcement from Netflix this past week. Netflix just announced
Speaker 1: a record subscriber, record number of subscribers. They added a
Speaker 1: ton of people. Guess who's going to the bank, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Netflix number one. But also you are stand by the
Speaker 1: big streaming giant. The big leader they host last year
Speaker 1: was big. They hosted a record breaking boxing match with
Speaker 1: Jake Paul and Mike Tyson for Good or Bad if
Speaker 1: you saw that thing. They hosted its first ever NFL
Speaker 1: games on Christmas Day, had a massive Beyonce concert from Houston.
Speaker 1: It was it was big. Netflix added nineteen million subscribers
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter alone, and that's a new record
Speaker 1: for the company, and that surpassing even when they had
Speaker 1: COVID era issues where people weren't going on going anywhere
Speaker 1: they were at home. Netflix now has three hundred and
Speaker 1: two million subscribers, three hundred and two Now. Interestingly, they
Speaker 1: reported ten billion dollars in revenue, operating income of two
Speaker 1: point three billion in a margin of twenty two point
Speaker 1: two percent. That's huge. I mean, they surpassing their goals.
Speaker 1: They're expanding its advertising business and it's only going to
Speaker 1: get bigger. They debuted season two of Squid Games and
Speaker 1: I'm just reading some of the things that they'd done,
Speaker 1: and they previously had. They added five million subscriber subscribers
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, three hundred and two million people.
Speaker 1: That is a lot of people around the world. But
Speaker 1: the thing is what they're going to do. They figured
Speaker 1: out they were testing the NFL. They were testing these
Speaker 1: live boxing matches. Netflix is going all in on sports
Speaker 1: because sports is the number one driver when it comes
Speaker 1: to fewing live action. There is nothing like it. The
Speaker 1: NFL college football continue to be number one and number two.
Speaker 1: That's what people want. Look at Christmas and they hit
Speaker 1: a home run. They did a great Netflix really did
Speaker 1: a good job. They hired a lot of the broadcasters
Speaker 1: a on a one game or two game basis. They
Speaker 1: figured out the issues and the buffering issues that they
Speaker 1: screwed up with with the with the boxing match earlier
Speaker 1: in the year, and they did a good job. Now
Speaker 1: they're going to go all in. But it cost a
Speaker 1: lot of money for content. It cost a lot of
Speaker 1: money to broadcast an NFL game. You've got to go
Speaker 1: to Roger Goodell with your pocket and your wallet open.
Speaker 1: So what are they gonna do? Guess what? My when
Speaker 1: Netflix announced such good news that they have more subscribers,
Speaker 1: just this week, they announced it's raising its prices. That's right.
Speaker 1: Netflix just announced they're raising its first major, major price
Speaker 1: hike since twenty twenty three. Let me give you the breakdown,
Speaker 1: and the question is, at what point do you do
Speaker 1: you the consumers say, man, this is just too much,
Speaker 1: it's not worth it. So the cost of a standard
Speaker 1: advertising supported tier went from six dollars ninety nine cents
Speaker 1: to seven dollars ninety nine cents, So a dollar more
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna round everything up here to make it simple.
Speaker 1: So I went from seven bucks to eight bucks, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna get adverts, advertisements in there. If you want
Speaker 1: the premium tier, it went up by two bucks to
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. The standard plan went from eighteen. It
Speaker 1: went from sixteen dollars to eighteen dollars. If you want
Speaker 1: to add an extra member on the plan without ads,
Speaker 1: it's going up from eight dollars to nine dollars. Prices
Speaker 1: are changing US Can to Portugal, Argentina, wherever my radio
Speaker 1: show is heard, and they kick in soon they kick in.
Speaker 1: I think they already kicked in for new customers, and
Speaker 1: they're going to start with the next billing cycle for
Speaker 1: you existing customers. This is the first price hike for
Speaker 1: this ad supported tier. Now, I have no problem personally
Speaker 1: with advertising running in. We're used to that from watching TV.
Speaker 1: We watch TV. How is TV free generally? I mean
Speaker 1: other than cable that TV is free because it is
Speaker 1: advertisers supported. You watch the commercials and you just keep
Speaker 1: on watching the game whatever. This radio station, I'd love
Speaker 1: to thank my advertisers, my partners, US Coins and Jewelries, Cabo,
Speaker 1: Bob's we go on and on and on. This radio
Speaker 1: show is free for you. Why because it's advertiser supported.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. Save you some money,
Speaker 1: but think how much? And I'm gonna leave you with
Speaker 1: this here for the next minute before we take a break,
Speaker 1: how much do you play for Netflix now that it's raised?
Speaker 1: How much do you pay for Amazon?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: I know which pay for Amazon? What is it? What
Speaker 1: about one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty bucks a year?
Speaker 1: All right, but you do get Prime Video, and then
Speaker 1: you have Disney Plus, and then you have Hulu, and
Speaker 1: then you have goes on and on and on. At
Speaker 1: some point your price, now your bundle may be more
Speaker 1: than what you used to pay for just your typical
Speaker 1: cable stations. You have to think about it. Sometimes just
Speaker 1: don't accept it, and then sometimes just go find a
Speaker 1: friend who has Netflix because they did crack down on
Speaker 1: password sharing. We're gonna come back where you're talking a
Speaker 1: little bit more Hollywood. There's a the Oscars were announced.
Speaker 1: I'll go through the annual. How many of the nominated
Speaker 1: movies haven't I seen? But osco Also there's a controversy
Speaker 1: in Hollywood with artificial intelligence. As we continue to talk
Speaker 1: from San Jose, California, Michael Garfield, this is the high
Speaker 1: tech texting slash Californian Show. You got to talk about
Speaker 1: the Netflix cargazine pricing and it just raise their prices.
Speaker 1: They're going to start getting in the game of bidding
Speaker 1: wars when it comes to INFL football. Speaking of NFL football,
Speaker 1: if you watch those two games on NFL Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: they actually did a good job of broadcasting. There really
Speaker 1: was no latency issues like they had with the the
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight earlier this year. But NFL
Speaker 1: we wonder, and I am an NFL I'm a broadcasting
Speaker 1: sports nut. This it's just a hobby that I follow.
Speaker 1: I look at the ratings, I look at you know,
Speaker 1: just the commercials and the rates and things. I've done
Speaker 1: it for years and years and years, and you know,
Speaker 1: at some point we wonder will the Super Bowl be
Speaker 1: on on a streaming app or on a paid platform,
Speaker 1: because we are now coming to the fifty nine This
Speaker 1: is what super Bowl fifty nine, I believe the fifty
Speaker 1: nine years it's been over the air, it has been
Speaker 1: either on CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox. I mean, that's it.
Speaker 1: And actually super Bowl One was on CBS and NBC
Speaker 1: together combined on both of those stations. And there's your
Speaker 1: history little for you right now. And at some point
Speaker 1: they could get a pretty big penny for putting it
Speaker 1: on there. But The thing is though, and this is
Speaker 1: how it works. Broadcast TV over the air, typical networks
Speaker 1: that are not on cable that you can just get
Speaker 1: an antenna and watch your television, which is pretty much
Speaker 1: limited to ABCCBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, Telemundo, and you got
Speaker 1: a lot of the other Spanish Chimp speaking channels. These
Speaker 1: are over the air stations. Over the air stations are
Speaker 1: generally and almost guaranteed they're going to give you higher
Speaker 1: ratings and more eyeballs than anything on cable. So give
Speaker 1: you example college football playoff this past Monday, Ohio State
Speaker 1: versus Notre Dame. It was seen by quote unquote only
Speaker 1: about twenty two million viewers because it was on ESPN only. Well,
Speaker 1: of course it was on ESPN two and a few
Speaker 1: other things. It was not on its sister over the
Speaker 1: air station ABC. It was not in the contract. Now,
Speaker 1: if it was on ABC, which means anybody with an
Speaker 1: antenna more sports bars could just typically turn it on,
Speaker 1: easier to find and access, there would be a lot
Speaker 1: more viewers. No, they decided not to do it. It
Speaker 1: was just ESPN only, and that's why the ratings were
Speaker 1: not as high as they thought. Also, was not a
Speaker 1: great game and the Longhorns won. And there. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can go on and on. I did see next
Speaker 1: year college football. They're putting it on ABC and ESPN,
Speaker 1: so guaranteed that's where the number is going to go up.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about this it's because I do cover
Speaker 1: the streaming industry and what we watch and what we
Speaker 1: listen to and how much you pay. And at some
Speaker 1: point you have to determine is this worth it? What
Speaker 1: are we going to pay? I mean people are already
Speaker 1: up in arms like, oh my goodness, no, we have
Speaker 1: to have Amazon Prime, we have to have Netflix, we
Speaker 1: have to certainly have ESPN. If in we if we
Speaker 1: want to even watch every single NFL football game right now,
Speaker 1: then that's a lot of cash so versus back in
Speaker 1: the day, if we had an over there antenna, we
Speaker 1: can watch every single NFL game. And it's gonna change now,
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. And here's some related news
Speaker 1: when it comes to the when it comes to watching
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, this year's Super Bowl will be televised
Speaker 1: by Fox, which means you are going to get a
Speaker 1: whole three or four hours of you were Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: who is going to be doing the color analysis for
Speaker 1: the game. But it is going to be in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: all right, shout out to New Orleans over there. Fox
Speaker 1: announced last week that this Super Bowl not only will
Speaker 1: be on over the air Fox, they're going to stream
Speaker 1: it live on t B tub I. Now, if you
Speaker 1: don't know what tuob is, that is a free, ad
Speaker 1: supported streaming service. So this coming February ninth, if you
Speaker 1: want to watch it and for some reason, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you want not to watch it on Fox, you can
Speaker 1: go to two B if you have two B and
Speaker 1: you can watch it. You're also going to be able
Speaker 1: to stream the game in four K for free. Now,
Speaker 1: don't take that statement lightly. We heard the turn. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you, let's talk a little TV, little video
Speaker 1: right now, most every single television that you're gonna buy
Speaker 1: is four K capable, if not even more. Oh, I know,
Speaker 1: there's eight K capables everything. The problem the issue is
Speaker 1: very very few shows content are shot and broadcast in
Speaker 1: four K. Odds are you've had a four K TV
Speaker 1: for a while. Odds are you've never seen an actual
Speaker 1: four K broadcast. Just doesn't work that way. It costs
Speaker 1: a lot of money, a lot of camera, a lot
Speaker 1: of compression a lot to look at things in four K.
Speaker 1: Fox is actually doing it. This is going to be
Speaker 1: in four K. If your TV and your you know,
Speaker 1: your two B service can actually pick up four K,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to do some digging to do that.
Speaker 1: This is the first time, actually the Super Bowl is
Speaker 1: gonna be available on to B without a doubt. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be the biggest live sporting event yet on two B.
Speaker 1: Fox owns two B. They bought it at about that
Speaker 1: about five years ago. And this is about ninety seven
Speaker 1: million monthly active users online for this two B thing.
Speaker 1: So it's I'm interested to see and I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: find it because I want to compare the best TV.
Speaker 1: You know, what's the best reception. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you've ever compared a let's just talk about a
Speaker 1: football game. I'm by most everything, but it's a live
Speaker 1: football game of what a cable broadcast looks like. Look
Speaker 1: at the look at the pixels the screen, and then
Speaker 1: you quickly look at an over the air antenna. So
Speaker 1: say you're in Houston, Okay, you're on Fox. You're watching
Speaker 1: Fox twenty six over the air with an over the
Speaker 1: air digital TV antenna, which it's they're broadcasting right now,
Speaker 1: all right, you can Dallas, San Antonio wherever you can
Speaker 1: hear me right now, and then you look at the
Speaker 1: similar thing on cable there. It is unquestionably so much
Speaker 1: better when it's over the air because the video signal
Speaker 1: is not compressed, and it's also not delayed as much
Speaker 1: when you're watching something on cable, Like I'm watching an
Speaker 1: ESPN football game and I'm texting with my boys, and
Speaker 1: sometimes I get things twenty seconds they're commenting before I
Speaker 1: see something like I'm using Exfinity here in Houston, and
Speaker 1: it's just a delay over the air. There's a relatively well,
Speaker 1: there is always a little delay, but it's a shorter delay.
Speaker 1: So I always tell people, listen, if you're sick of
Speaker 1: paying for all your television, if you're picking sick of
Speaker 1: paying for cable, there is a way to continue to
Speaker 1: get your entertainment in your news without paying a freaking scent.
Speaker 1: Cut the cable cut, the satellite cut, the streamers cut, everything,
Speaker 1: the cut the internet. If you have an actual TV,
Speaker 1: you buy a TV, you plug it in, and you
Speaker 1: do have an antenna, you do need to go get
Speaker 1: in and antennas nowaday. You can get an antenna for
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks. You can get a really nice one for
Speaker 1: thirty dollars if you really want to make sure. And
Speaker 1: there are websites, and I think there's something on my
Speaker 1: high Tech text in dot com website of how to
Speaker 1: correctly tune and find the best play in your house
Speaker 1: or just outside of your house. To put an antenna
Speaker 1: so it picks up, you have to aim at you know,
Speaker 1: to where the you know, the the the antennis sticks
Speaker 1: are in your city, and then you are set. Now
Speaker 1: you're gonna watch over the air. You're gonna watch ABC, CBS, NBC,
Speaker 1: Fox and all this other stuff. You're not gonna get ESPN.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get Fox Sports. You're not I mean
Speaker 1: Fox Sports itself. You're not gonna get MSNBC. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna get all all the other stuff. Certainly not at HPO.
Speaker 1: But if you want to save some money, you want
Speaker 1: some you do like live sports, and you want to
Speaker 1: watch the local news and some of the thing, you
Speaker 1: can do it that way, if not literally, just see
Speaker 1: if you can steal somebody's password and go from there.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. People absolutely did not say that,
Speaker 1: what's whatsoever? One more thing about? Uh yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a few minutes over so we're gonna talk. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get it back to tech. But this is something over here.
Speaker 1: The Oscars. The Oscar nominations were out this week. Did
Speaker 1: anybody see it? I used to see so many movies
Speaker 1: as a media member over here. I get invited to
Speaker 1: a lot of movie screenings in a given year. I
Speaker 1: get invited to time. But in a given year, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. And it's not COVID. But
Speaker 1: maybe because things now we could stream them, we can
Speaker 1: watch them on our TVs. But I could probably count
Speaker 1: on one hand the number of times I went into
Speaker 1: a movie theater in twenty twenty four, and that's about it.
Speaker 1: There was a few of them. I don't know. And
Speaker 1: so the movie the nominations come out for Best Pictures,
Speaker 1: and let's just quickly run through them, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you the ant or a thumbs up or
Speaker 1: down of what I've seen. Okay, here's something called Honora.
Speaker 1: Never heard of it. The Brutalist heard of it. I
Speaker 1: heard it's long, didn't see it. A complete unknown. Bingo
Speaker 1: ding ding, that's the Bob Delan epic with Timose shallow May.
Speaker 1: I did see that. Conclave, never heard of it. Dune
Speaker 1: Part two didn't see it. I think shallow May was
Speaker 1: in that too. Emilia Perez never heard of it. I'm
Speaker 1: still here. Never heard of it. Nickel Boys heard of it.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's worth five cents the substance. Never
Speaker 1: heard of it. Wicked, didn't see it too long. What
Speaker 1: I heard I saw a complete unknown. I saw it
Speaker 1: in the movie screening. I saw it three weeks before
Speaker 1: it was released to the public. I'm not a Bob
Speaker 1: Dylan if I gave him a review a month and
Speaker 1: a half ago. I'm not a Dylan fan. I don't
Speaker 1: like his music, but holy crapola, what a great movie.
Speaker 1: Timothy shallow May. Unbelievable for what is he a twenty
Speaker 1: seven to twenty eight year old kid? He is Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1: That is huge, without a doubt. And then a little
Speaker 1: controversy before we get out of here. I talk a
Speaker 1: lot about AI. I'll come back and we're going to
Speaker 1: talk even more about artificial intelligence. But this movie I
Speaker 1: called this I mentioned it's called The Brutalist, all right.
Speaker 1: It stars what's his name, Adrian Brodian over here, there's
Speaker 1: a little drama of AI editing. He's an actor in
Speaker 1: a leading role and I think he got an Oscar
Speaker 1: nomination for that. It's a period drama. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what period they're in. I don't know it's Hungarian
Speaker 1: or something like that. But he speaks an English and
Speaker 1: Hungarian and apparently the director said that they used technology
Speaker 1: for Hungarian language dialogue editing, specifically for certain vowels and
Speaker 1: letters accuracy. And there's a lot of people, a lot
Speaker 1: of centophiles, they really are kind of reproachful about the
Speaker 1: use of AI and film, and they're saying that AI
Speaker 1: is speeding up standard industry industry processes. Does it matter
Speaker 1: to you, Listen, we have seen let's go back to
Speaker 1: Star Wars and more. Listen, we know that imagery and
Speaker 1: computer graphics and things. AI is a little it's a
Speaker 1: little different though, so these when I got back from CES,
Speaker 1: the two biggest letters what I saw, I told you
Speaker 1: were AI. There's gonna be a lot of controversy. It's
Speaker 1: a lot's a little bit of scary, but I'm here
Speaker 1: to talk you down off it. Anybody mind AI? Are
Speaker 1: you turning everything off? Because let me see if we
Speaker 1: get figure thought to turn off AI from some of
Speaker 1: these smart phones too. Michael gar at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, I tech text and show Here in San
Speaker 1: Jose Samsung Unpacked twenty twenty five. We just saw the
Speaker 1: presentation the big launch of the new S twenty five series.
Speaker 1: I have my thoughts, but I actually wanted to get
Speaker 1: the thoughts up. An analyst who covers this industry quite frequently.
Speaker 1: His name is Bob O'Donnell. He is with Technolysis partner, saying,
Speaker 1: you have done this for many, many years, and your perspective,
Speaker 1: my friend, obviously, is a little different than mine, because
Speaker 1: you cover the industry. First of all, initial thoughts of
Speaker 1: the launch, the information that Samsung just threw out us,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought they'd get a great job.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, one of the challenges, you know, I
Speaker 3: go to all these events every year, and it's like
Speaker 3: every year it's kind of they have to rehash the story,
Speaker 3: and some years, you know, they don't really fly. This year,
Speaker 3: I feel like it really did fly because what I
Speaker 3: saw today thanks to the collaboration, the closer collaboration between
Speaker 3: Google and Samsung, was like the first real iteration of
Speaker 3: AI that I think will be meaningful to a lot
Speaker 3: of consumers because all of a sudden, I can do
Speaker 3: things that I used to always hope that I could
Speaker 3: do with previous digital assistants, right, but never really work
Speaker 3: that way. Now we're finally getting at and even beyond
Speaker 3: just asking an inquiry about a strange topic, which of
Speaker 3: course we've been able to do that. The cool thing
Speaker 3: was the ability to integrate things like hey, asking about
Speaker 3: information about you know, a ballgame or something else, and
Speaker 3: then actually put it in my calendar. And that's there's
Speaker 3: been a barrier between my personal data that's on my
Speaker 3: device and this cloud information. And what Google and sam
Speaker 3: Sung did is work together to break that barrier. Plus
Speaker 3: you combine that with the fact that Gemini is a
Speaker 3: very powerful digital assistant and works pretty damn well, and
Speaker 3: then that level of integration they're bringing together. It shows
Speaker 3: me like, Okay, now we're starting to get to that
Speaker 3: promise of what AI I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: hoped would eventually be.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about AI.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I just came from CEAS where those letters work for
Speaker 1: every word. Yeah, and I always tell my audience of
Speaker 1: it AI is it's not a product you can't feel
Speaker 1: or touch out because people want to say, and Michael,
Speaker 1: what's the coolest phone, what's the television like? And so
Speaker 1: AI it's built at We heard a lot about AI
Speaker 1: and over the past year or two, since you know,
Speaker 1: the S twenty or in the flip bones, we've seen
Speaker 1: you know, the gem and I and everything. But they
Speaker 1: are taking this to a different level at the consumer level.
Speaker 1: Are we at the point in time right now where
Speaker 1: the consumers not, I can understand that, but they're going
Speaker 1: to use it on a daily basis because it is
Speaker 1: a paradigm shift, it really is. Are they they're ready
Speaker 1: to hit that paradigm? I think they're.
Speaker 3: Getting really really close because you know, here's the thing,
Speaker 3: like you mentioned, what we've seen up till now, is
Speaker 3: there's been a number of devices that have had AI features,
Speaker 3: but you had to go out and look for them
Speaker 3: and find them, and frankly, the discoverability for the average
Speaker 3: person has been almost impossible, so people aren't really using it.
Speaker 3: What they've really done here is they've brought these capabilities
Speaker 3: to the surface to the main UI. You literally push
Speaker 3: a button on the side and you talk to it
Speaker 3: and it does stuff like it doesn't get any simpler that.
Speaker 3: Even as simple as that is, it's going to take
Speaker 3: a little while for people to change their habits. They're
Speaker 3: used to doing certain things. They go and do a
Speaker 3: Google search and they do it. Now you're going to
Speaker 3: just be able to start to interact with your device,
Speaker 3: change your settings, do all these kinds of different things,
Speaker 3: have conversations on various subjects, all within a very simple experience.
Speaker 3: So the beauty of it is there's enormous complexity underneath,
Speaker 3: but they've hidden that bit behind a simple Hey, push
Speaker 3: a button and talk right, okay to listen. You covered
Speaker 3: the industry, so you see a lot of other mobile
Speaker 3: manufacturers and there's so many other.
Speaker 1: You know, AI agents. So if the chat gbts of
Speaker 1: the other world like this, why has Samsung? What has
Speaker 1: Samsung done with this? And outfit of the S twenty
Speaker 1: five series that really takes it to the next level
Speaker 1: that you're seeing that that stands out a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Well, So they did a couple of things. First of all,
Speaker 3: to their credit, Samsung said, look, you know they originally
Speaker 3: they did Bixby, and Bixby didn't exactly set the world
Speaker 3: on fire, right, and they haven't given up on Bixby,
Speaker 3: but they did do is they said, you know what,
Speaker 3: we can use Gemini as kind of our front layer assistant,
Speaker 3: but we're gonna still use Bixby because Bixby can do
Speaker 3: all this cool stuff on the device, and it can
Speaker 3: and then take advantage of the Knox security all this stuff,
Speaker 3: so I get that personalization that they talked about, which
Speaker 3: is gonna be really powerful, although it won't show up
Speaker 3: until you've used it for a while, but it will
Speaker 3: secure it. So but what they've done is kind of
Speaker 3: again they broker that the world of Internet search data
Speaker 3: with my personal data, and and even though that seems
Speaker 3: like a small gap in terms of how you actually
Speaker 3: do that, it's huge. And we saw the start here
Speaker 3: with some of the integration with Samsung apps. Eventually they're
Speaker 3: going to integrate with other people's apps. So again, my
Speaker 3: whole experience of how I'm going to use the phone
Speaker 3: is going to slowly start to evolve. And I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna think about apps anymore. I'm just gonna think about
Speaker 3: things I want to do with things I want to achieve.
Speaker 3: That's not again, not gonna happen overnight. But what they
Speaker 3: laid the groundwork for is the ability to start thinking
Speaker 3: that way, and that in and of itself is a
Speaker 3: huge change from what we've seen before. You talk a
Speaker 3: lot about AI and some of the other features. I
Speaker 3: think that consumers really, really, what really really use is
Speaker 3: this camera. Yeah, listen, I'll go back and I'll say
Speaker 3: this also I've said it on record. You know, Sam
Speaker 3: sungy S twenty four Ultra, without a doubt, best camera
Speaker 3: on the market, because you know the camera. To me,
Speaker 3: it's the number one most use that on a smart
Speaker 3: phone that shouldn't even came a smart phone that Chicota
Speaker 3: actually a Snart and smart camera. You can feel fair
Speaker 3: to use that over yet, Well, what.
Speaker 1: We've seen from the S twenty five Ultra, what the
Speaker 1: camera is over here with a new fifty Megapitts Ultra Wide.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the camera aspects of these
Speaker 1: new filled The camera aspect is great, and you're right,
Speaker 1: I mean the junk to fifty megapixel on the Macro
Speaker 1: and Ultra Wide is just physically obviously a huge improvement
Speaker 1: over what they had before.
Speaker 3: But more importantly, it's these additional capabilities. It's things like
Speaker 3: you know, I do photography, my wife does a nature
Speaker 3: photography professionally. It's so I understand the value of aperture
Speaker 3: settings and being able to change that dynamically after you've
Speaker 3: taken image, can totally change the picture, adjusting the lighting
Speaker 3: AI capabilities and all of a sudden, you know, when
Speaker 3: there's three people in the picture, of one of them
Speaker 3: blinks and it's smart enough to grab the photo where
Speaker 3: the person has their eyes open and combine it with
Speaker 3: the other eyes open people, so you get the best
Speaker 3: of all, you know, in a single image, whether having
Speaker 3: to edit it or find all these photos, all of
Speaker 3: those little steps just are gonna make the quality of
Speaker 3: the pictures that you take with this phone significantly better.
Speaker 3: And then the video stuff takes it even further. HDR
Speaker 3: support Again, most people don't care about that, but what
Speaker 3: it means is I get more vibrant colors. And even
Speaker 3: for the professional videographers this, you know, love video support,
Speaker 3: you know allows them to do color matching and all
Speaker 3: this kind of really cool stuff. But the net net,
Speaker 3: bottom line is, like you said, S twenty four old
Speaker 3: was great and they kicked it.
Speaker 1: Up a notch. Yeah, no, it it seems because cameras
Speaker 1: are really you know, one of the key things of
Speaker 1: how does this look? You know, every time I hold
Speaker 1: up my Samsung versus everybody else hold their competition is
Speaker 1: like what phone is that? And I'm like, is the Samsung?
Speaker 1: So I think they've actually hit her home run with
Speaker 1: this way. And last question, Listen, we've talked about the AI,
Speaker 1: We've talked to a lot of the camera features. I'm
Speaker 1: really interested. I actually I think kind of people skirtovers
Speaker 1: is the price the price where these three remain the
Speaker 1: exact same from last year? We listen, people are very
Speaker 1: cautious of their spending and what's going on. I gotta
Speaker 1: PLoud and give them a little daft Samsung for not
Speaker 1: raising the price for those different three levels right at
Speaker 1: twelve hundred, one thousand and eight hundred gas on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, and you're absolutely right. I mean, there was
Speaker 3: a big question on whether or not they would raise
Speaker 3: their prices because you're going to presume, you know, given
Speaker 3: some concerns they've been and discussion of tariffs, are they
Speaker 3: gonna have to pre building in price increases, right? So yeah,
Speaker 3: there was a lot of question about that. So the
Speaker 3: fact that they were able to maintain the same price
Speaker 3: I think is going to be important obviously to the
Speaker 3: pocket puts of a lot of potential buyers. All Right,
Speaker 3: his name is Mabo Donde. He is the TECHnalysis, the analysis.
Speaker 3: He covers this industry quite well. I appreciate your thoughts
Speaker 3: over that.
Speaker 1: I know you've got a lot of people on line waiting,
Speaker 1: and I know you're gonna go get your hands on
Speaker 1: these things. Sim that feel good, So I appreciate the time.
Speaker 4: Hi, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, signing off for San Jose It's Unpacked twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. It's Michael Gorefield the high Tech Texit home Stretch,
Speaker 1: final segment from San Jose, California. Again, we appreciate the
Speaker 1: nice folks from Samsung their PR agency for getting me
Speaker 1: and my ilk lot of tech journalists and media out
Speaker 1: here in Silicon Valley this week to go over and
Speaker 1: understand all the features of the new Samsung S twenty
Speaker 1: five series, their new smartphone, and also playing around with
Speaker 1: the S twenty five Ultra. It is a beast by
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Speaker 1: they say, the world fastest second generation custom Qualcom Ryan
Speaker 1: CPU and GPU. That's the chip that is inside specifically
Speaker 1: all of the Samsung Galaxy S twenty fives. For the
Speaker 1: two days I've been playing with it, I've been uploading
Speaker 1: some video and you know, recording some audio and playing
Speaker 1: some games to some extent. Gotta tell you, it's pretty strong,
Speaker 1: no lag whatsoever, and so that's really good. So again,
Speaker 1: in building and producing a phone, you have to have partners,
Speaker 1: internal partners like like when I say internal, like literally
Speaker 1: internally inside the phone itself. You have to have a
Speaker 1: process or something like a Snapdragon eight Elite mobile for
Speaker 1: Galaxy specific and then you also have to have a
Speaker 1: data plant. Now it doesn't matter, you know, you go
Speaker 1: to your current data plant, but it may be time
Speaker 1: to switch. And listen, I gave you some other prices
Speaker 1: from some other carriers. I do know the fact that
Speaker 1: I do use total wireless, and you can't save a
Speaker 1: lot of cash that way. It really does go far.
Speaker 1: Look it through some of the emails over here, Michael,
Speaker 1: hope you're having a good time. Hen San Jose, there
Speaker 1: is a really neat text mex Taco spot. But since
Speaker 1: you're from Texas, you don't need these things. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of good California calimes. Is that what it's
Speaker 1: called here? I guess text Mexus Texas Mexican food and California,
Speaker 1: which does have some pretty good tacos. Taco Tuesday, I
Speaker 1: guess you call it Cali Max. You wouldn't call it
Speaker 1: text max and Cali like that. Well, Anyway, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to get home because I'm heading to Cabo Bob's.
Speaker 1: It's the longest I think I've been. I haven't had
Speaker 1: Cabbo bob since last Saturday. I think four locations in Houston,
Speaker 1: one in San Antonio, and several in Austin where they're from.
Speaker 1: So go check those out. Fresh Tortilla's unbelievable chips. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm getting hungry right now. Man, getting on Southwest airlines,
Speaker 1: you need to start serving some Texas. You're a Texas
Speaker 1: based airline, which I love a less preferred people. How
Speaker 1: about you know, some partnering up with the Texas based
Speaker 1: restaurants or more snacks or something like that. How awesome
Speaker 1: would it be if it's just there's like a build
Speaker 1: your own taco bar on a on a flight, on
Speaker 1: a Southwest flight or something like that. That is so Texas.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful. I would love I would love doing something.
Speaker 1: I know. Way, thank you, thank you for that email
Speaker 1: that we got. Uh gave some super Bowl information of
Speaker 1: how to watch it next week. We actually by the
Speaker 1: end of this weekend, we're going to know who is
Speaker 1: playing in the super Bowl and the super Bowl will
Speaker 1: be in New Orleans. This could be a good time
Speaker 1: for you to be purchasing a television. You're going to
Speaker 1: see some TV deals out there. I will be peruising
Speaker 1: some of those. You know. I always tell you this,
Speaker 1: a lot of people start thinking about a new TV.
Speaker 1: It's like the Friday before the Super Bowl Sunday, and
Speaker 1: I tell people, listen, if you're really proficient in schlepping
Speaker 1: a TV home from a big box store, setting it up,
Speaker 1: hooking up your cable or your antenna pretty quickly, and
Speaker 1: you feel comfortable of having some people over to watch
Speaker 1: as you host a super Bowl party, go ahead. But
Speaker 1: if you're looking at a TV, I would go ahead
Speaker 1: and either order one, get it shipped several days, if
Speaker 1: not a week, at least a week before Super Bowl
Speaker 1: so you could test the thing out, hook it up,
Speaker 1: mount it on the on the wall, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to do. If you need any one on one information
Speaker 1: with that, this is what I'm here for, find me
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com. That is actually one
Speaker 1: of the other, you know ways that you could do
Speaker 1: it too. Oh here's another. Hey, speaking of so I
Speaker 1: just sent me this. You see this, I say it
Speaker 1: on the radio comes out here and you send me
Speaker 1: something over there? Not a jet I don't know. Is
Speaker 1: jet Blue still around? I have never flown jet Blue,
Speaker 1: never flown jet Blue? What is this? Jet Blue is
Speaker 1: now taking Venmo? What is this person trying to say?
Speaker 3: The uh?
Speaker 1: On the jet Blue website, US customers can scan a
Speaker 1: QR code at checkout. It takes you to Venmo, where
Speaker 1: you can buy upgrades like aisle seats and whatever with
Speaker 1: your Venmo ballance. I dig this. I dig that. I
Speaker 1: like it because I have been and this is not
Speaker 1: a commercial for anybody. I'm not I'm definitely not pimping
Speaker 1: jet Blue. But I use PayPal and Venmo and my
Speaker 1: little digital wallet more and more right now. And I've
Speaker 1: got it. I've got a decent PayPal balance. It's just
Speaker 1: it's like an updated It's it's cool. I will tell
Speaker 1: you this. Here's a little tip for me to you.
Speaker 1: You know, on Venmo, sometimes you could see every single
Speaker 1: one of your friends of what they paid. Oh, here's
Speaker 1: four dollars for a slice of pizza. Lost a bet
Speaker 1: to Jennifer. Now I have to pay her one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars whatever. Turn that stuff off. I really don't care.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to. That is almost too much.
Speaker 1: That's hippa, that's too much information. The first time I
Speaker 1: ever downloaded Venmo was my youngest went to college. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. And this is about six
Speaker 1: years ago because Venmo's just came out just around them.
Speaker 1: He didn't want a bank account, he goes Venmo. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I had to download the Venmo app and that's how
Speaker 1: I transferred money to him. And then I figured out,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't want anybody seeing who I pay.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if if I do a door
Speaker 1: dash at two in the morning, or if I you
Speaker 1: don't want to go to Hoggin DAWs, you know and
Speaker 1: get a double triple scoop or something like that. I
Speaker 1: don't need people, you know, giving me, you know, any
Speaker 1: stuff going. You know, what are you eating so late for?
Speaker 1: Michael turn Off? Who can see your Venmo paper? Actually,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to see. I wouldn't mind to tell
Speaker 1: people I'm flying jet anyway again, I'm a Southwest guye
Speaker 1: Jet Blue hasn't posted an annual profit since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I guess it's trying to lure back customers with ease
Speaker 1: of checkout ninety million people in the US, especially the
Speaker 1: young spenders. They used venmo Or. I think more more
Speaker 1: places actually shooting Janio. I was in London and bert
Speaker 1: Lang last year. It's unbelievable how many people use these
Speaker 1: digital waller I mean I credit cards. I just almost
Speaker 1: apen of the past. This is the stuff of the Cubo.
Speaker 1: I talked about this TECHNI page again. If you wrap
Speaker 1: it up here from San Jose, California, thank you Samsung
Speaker 1: great being able to actually to hands on experience like
Speaker 1: a Galaxy has twenty five series. I will have the
Speaker 1: Ultra for the next I don't know month, month and
Speaker 1: a half. If you see me come up, I'll show
Speaker 1: it to you. If you want to buy this through
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Speaker 1: of everybody callam Reid, Brian ericson Eddie Martini and everybody. People.
Speaker 1: As we wind up in the middle of January of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, be safe, stay warm until next week.
Speaker 1: This is the high tech conection. I am Garth and
Speaker 1: right now my show from Cali is over.