Speaker 1: Samsung's big summer event is happening in Brooklyn this week,
Speaker 1: where the tech giant is set to unveil its newest
Speaker 1: generation of foldable phones. Rich On Tech host Rich Jamiro
Speaker 1: is on the ground for the big reveal, and he's
Speaker 1: joining us live with the latest from the launch.
Speaker 2: Good morning Rich, Hey, Good morning too, Heather. This event
Speaker 2: starts in just a couple of hours. Here. They're doing
Speaker 2: it in Brooklyn this year at a place called the
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Fish Transfer And yes, they are actual fish that
Speaker 2: are being transferred because I smell that.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know if that's a good thing or not,
Speaker 1: especially this early in the morning. So I was going
Speaker 1: to ask you, I was going to ask you what
Speaker 1: is the vibe there? But apparently the vibe is very fishy.
Speaker 2: It's actually a really cool location that they did this at.
Speaker 2: They you know, these tech companies usually change up the
Speaker 2: locations where they do these big events. Samsung has been
Speaker 2: doing unpacked events for many years. That's when they show
Speaker 2: off their newest phones. They typically do two of these
Speaker 2: big events a year, one for their standard phones like Ultra,
Speaker 2: and then the second is for their unfoldable So today
Speaker 2: we're expecting to see a couple of new foldable devices,
Speaker 2: if you can believe it. Samsung's been making foldable phones
Speaker 2: now since twenty nineteen, and of course they get better
Speaker 2: every year, but they're still not super popular. But of
Speaker 2: course we know that Apple is expected to come out
Speaker 2: with a foldable phone either next year or perhaps the
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what sets this new lineup of foldable phones
Speaker 1: apart from previous generations.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't know just yet what is in store
Speaker 2: with these new phones until they unveil them on stage.
Speaker 2: But if you look at the tea leaves, you know,
Speaker 2: most of the time they are upgrading the cameras. They're
Speaker 2: making these thinner, they're making them lighter. Those are kind
Speaker 2: of the main areas of improvement for these foldable phones.
Speaker 2: So all the previous foldable phones I've tested in the past,
Speaker 2: you know, the cameras were just okay, and they were
Speaker 2: a little bit too big to use as a phone
Speaker 2: every day. And then when you open it up, you know,
Speaker 2: the phone, some of the screens on the outside, we're
Speaker 2: not as big that you wanted to use, you know,
Speaker 2: for the outside screen. So there's a lot of room
Speaker 2: for improvement here. Let's see if Samsung can do it.
Speaker 1: You know, my concern with any kind of foldable or
Speaker 1: flip phones I'm old, so I call we used to
Speaker 1: call them the flip type phones. Any My concern with
Speaker 1: those is that they will break in half because we
Speaker 1: use them so much. I'm have it in my bag,
Speaker 1: i have it in my pocket or my back pocket,
Speaker 1: or I'm giving it to my kid. You know, my
Speaker 1: fear is that it's gonna like just snap in half.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's not realistic.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the durability aspect has gotten a lot
Speaker 2: better in recent years. You know, these things used to
Speaker 2: not be waterproof when the first one came out. If
Speaker 2: you got a speck of dust in the hinge, the
Speaker 2: whole thing would go bad. So they've definitely gotten past
Speaker 2: all of that. I think now they're in this period
Speaker 2: of like just refining what they've done and continuing to
Speaker 2: make it better where people say, Okay, this can actually
Speaker 2: replace the phone that I use on a daily basis,
Speaker 2: and I'm not scared to carry this thing around because,
Speaker 2: by the way, these phones are typically more expensive than
Speaker 2: your standard smartphones as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we will be looking forward to hearing more
Speaker 1: about their new foldable phones. But I want to shift
Speaker 1: gears for a second. Let's talk about Prime Day. How
Speaker 1: can shoppers tell the difference between a true deal and
Speaker 1: just clever pricing. Are there any tools or apps that
Speaker 1: you recommend for us?
Speaker 2: Yeah, now we know Prime Day runs through the eleven,
Speaker 2: so you still have a lot of time. I've actually
Speaker 2: noticed the deals are really good this year, so I
Speaker 2: always say put a bunch of stuff in your car
Speaker 2: or save for later. List that way you can see
Speaker 2: when the prices drop. And I'm seeing really good price drops,
Speaker 2: So definitely check out the deals. You know, get the
Speaker 2: stuff that you need, not the stuff that you want
Speaker 2: per se. But here's the thing. There is a little
Speaker 2: trick this year that it's the first time I've seen
Speaker 2: this on Amazon, but there is a price history tool
Speaker 2: that you can unlock and it's all through Amazon's AI assistance.
Speaker 2: So when you are looking at a price on either
Speaker 2: the website or the mobile phone, there's a little area
Speaker 2: that looks like you know that AI logo. Tap that
Speaker 2: AI logo and on the phone it's in the lower
Speaker 2: right hand corner. On the desktop, it says ask rufus
Speaker 2: and then you tap ask something else, and then it
Speaker 2: brings up this thing that says show price history. So
Speaker 2: if you tap that immediately, Amazon's AI will give you
Speaker 2: a little bar graph of the prices for the past
Speaker 2: thirty to ninety days, so you can actually tell if
Speaker 2: a price drop is legitimate. So, for instance, I'm looking
Speaker 2: at this kindle. It's typically one hundred and ten dollars.
Speaker 2: It's on Prime Day for eighty five dollars. Is that
Speaker 2: a good deal? Yeah, this is the lowest price that's
Speaker 2: been in ninety days. That is actually a good deal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is something that's rolling out widely, so you
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Speaker 2: if you go to Gmail on the left hand side,
Speaker 2: there's now a new option that says manage subscriptions. And
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Speaker 2: making it really easy to unsubscribe and just one click. Oh.
Speaker 1: I think, out of everything, I'm going to use that
Speaker 1: the most, so I have a lot of newsletters to
Speaker 1: unsubscribe run. So thank you so much, rich, We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Richie Miro the tech reporter at KTLA and host of
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