Apple Event: New Apple Watches & iPhones, Buying Recommendations

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There was a whole event called Wunderlust, after which I wondered what I was supposed to be lusting after.

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And just like that we're back.

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Yep, here we are.

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How'd we get us it's?

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another episode of Basic AF.

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It is.

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It's another episode of Basic AF.

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Tom A, that is Jeff B.

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Yeah, and thank you for being here with us.

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We do appreciate you joining us, as always, if you're new Welcome.

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If you're old like us, well, yeah.

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I think that would be young, but I guess we could start there.

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You're fairly new.

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So let's, jeff, get this thing started, shall we?

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Let's kick it off.

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Let's start with this, tom, and then we'll get into the event recap.

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We'll kick this one from the bottom of the list to the top of the list.

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There was a, basically a quiz on the Washington Post that I took and sent you the results of as to whether or not you need a watch, a, you know, one of these fancy pants, watches like we have.

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And guess what, tom, I don't need one.

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According to the results, I could do without an Apple Watch, which you know.

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What's funny about this is I took it twice once with my, with my pre you know, pre-watch, pre-new Apple Watch point of view, and once with my post Apple Watch point of view, and in both cases I don't need an Apple Watch or anything else.

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I don't need a digital anything to do what I'm doing.

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We will, by the way, post a gift linked to that quiz from the Washington Post if you want to take it yourselves and see what's up.

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But I thought it was kind of interesting, not surprising, and guess what?

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I'm still wearing an Apple Watch because I do like the things.

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How long have you?

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had yours now It'll be a year in November, wow, I'm dead.

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Yeah right and time is flying by.

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Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping.

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Don't get us copyrighted to the.

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It's not 15 seconds and plus it's me singing, so good, all right.

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Well, don't get people tuning out there with your singing.

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Steve Miller band's not listening to us at this point.

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They'd be grateful.

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Although, man, they're making bank still off of that.

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They are.

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They're still playing.

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The royalty is whoever owns the royalty rights to it.

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I suppose Steve Miller.

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He's not dead, is he?

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Oh, I don't know.

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I mean, I'm sure a lot of the modern stars are selling off their rights for like 200, 250 mil.

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They're like give me the cash while I can get it.

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Yeah, well, I wonder what they know yeah.

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Well, that is better to have money in your hand than to wait for residuals.

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Especially these days with.

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Ask any actor who's on strike or any writer who's on strike right now how much their residual checks are for streaming services.

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Yup Bupkiss, baby Bupkiss.

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That's it Found.

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As much as we get for this podcast.

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Oh yeah, well, we're not on strikes, friends.

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We're here performing because we are performers, no matter what.

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Correct, yeah, correct.

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We're here for the pleasure.

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Yup, and so I did the quiz.

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Yup, and, not surprisingly, it was like oh, you seem to like health and fitness, it'd be great for you.

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I was like you know what a surprise Health and fitness for the guy who's building a gym in this garage yes, but you know what's funny, the first go around with that it's like do you have a smart watch now?

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And I was like, yes, I do, do you like it?

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Yes, I do.

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And then it immediately went to you do not need a smart watch.

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I was like well, wait, we're not done.

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Yeah, wait, I don't need one, because I have one, I get it, I get it.

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I get it Because initially I thought oh, maybe it's like a gag quiz and it just tells everybody like nope, don't need it.

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No, it was.

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I mean, it was interesting because if I really look at what the you know, I answered all those questions honestly, both pre-watch and post-watch, and I really don't need one Need is a you know the things that they say that you really, you know might want it for, which is not just the fitness stuff.

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So and that's really kind of what I'm using.

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I think they mentioned like notifications and not using your phone as much and stuff like that, which.

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I selected yes for all that because, like I don't know if you've done this like well, you know where I know, when you first got it, you weren't wearing it all the time.

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Like you were wearing it a lot, but not all the time, I think.

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Yeah, I don't wear it to bed, so I'm not using any of the sleep features, and I do wear it pretty much every day.

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You know, even when I'm lounging around the house reading a book or doing something like that.

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I'll tell you what books I'm reading, because those might be getting my heart rate up.

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Well, maybe it's magazines.

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I don't.

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Anyway the you know I sometimes will forget to put it on immediately when I get up in the morning, but it's not.

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It's not a huge deal for me.

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I am happy to have it, but it needed and I think that's a fair point about that particular.

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That particular quiz is do you need a smartwatch?

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I probably don't need one, and could I like if somebody said you have to take it off your wrist, you know, as they used to say, when I was in you know church school camp, somebody came with a gun and said you didn't go to church camp, did you?

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You're not, you're not.

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There's not that picture of recognition.

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They always used to say to us, if you come in, if somebody came in with a gun and said you need to either give up Jesus, or give up, you know, or or lose your life.

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What would you do?

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You know it's like dang dude.

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That was serious for kids.

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Right, yeah, it was like.

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Bible school and we made crafts and stuff.

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It was.

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It was much more chill than that.

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Right Now.

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For me it wasn't so chill.

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You see the old, yeah, it was like middle school.

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Anyway, if somebody came in with a gun and said you need to get rid of your Apple watch, or get shot in the head and hear you can have my.

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Apple watch.

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Well, there were a couple of days this week I've probably been like, well, give me a second, but it's Friday, we're through all that.

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But the reason I asked if you were the biggest thing for me with the watch is like I've gotten so used to the phone being quiet all day, like not from the notifications and things, and obviously I could have just tuned that up on the phone and and taken care of a lot of that stuff.

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But but I have, you know, I've had it a long time and now I've just kind of I'm very accustomed to it.

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And Tim Apple said in the intro to the to the event there the other day they were going to talk about it in a minute, but he said that you know they're key components over lives, and I'm paraphrasing a bit.

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But he was like and I bet if you left one at home you'd go back and get it.

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And he's right, cause I've done that.

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Have you?

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Oh yeah, If I left it at home.

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I would not go and get it, and I went back and got it.

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I did it one day and I didn't go back and get it, and then the next time I did go back and get it cause I couldn't take it.

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I was like this this, this phone is driving me nuts.

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Really yeah, so I have all my notifications turned off anyway.

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So except for me and for the most part of my watch.

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So it's, you know it's a watch that collects data on me.

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So great it does.

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Yeah, I did.

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That's a whole other thing.

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Yes, yes so all right.

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So, anyway, that's that.

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So we'll have that.

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But just so everybody knows, there'll be a gift, a Wapo link in the, in the, in the show notes, that you can go and see if you really need an Apple watch as well.

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And speaking of Apple watches, tom, there was a new one released.

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There was Want to talk about it.

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Sure, the whole event.

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There was a whole event called Wonderlust, after which I wondered what I was supposed to be lusting after.

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You know me both, my friend.

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No, it's good job.

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It.

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Yeah, it it wasn't the best Apple event we've had, but, like we said the other day, that Not all of them are super hype train and.

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Nor, nor should they be.

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And To be frank, in our last show, you know, you asked me what I'm looking forward to and you know I said I'm not much and I'm not expecting much.

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And guess what?

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I got what I expected.

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Yeah it was disappointed.

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It's usual.

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No, it was.

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It was you know Cool phone.

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I ordered mine.

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I told you I was gonna.

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Anyway, that wasn't a thing, I ordered mine today Um you were still 13, right.

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I want a 13 in you know time.

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It's pristine.

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By the way, everybody wants by 13.

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It's brand frigging spanking new.

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But I I ordered a new one and I, you know I knew that I was gonna do that and my son's gonna do the same thing.

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You know he's gonna hop off and he's gonna pick his up, I think on Friday, because he's now in LA, so he'll go and and grab one day of but the.

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I Wasn't expecting too much.

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Cool titanium, great colors, you know.

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All right, you said the yellow would look like it had been sitting in some smokers.

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Jason Snell posted pictures, yeah, and it's right up for his hands-on stuff that he did and and he had a picture of the yellow one from.

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You know, looking at the back and, Like most of the phone, look fine, but it was that bump out around the camera and, like the yellow it did, it looked like it had been sitting in the, the smokers lounge or at the bowling alley in 1976 for about three weeks.

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That's when the aliens brought the tech here originally could be.

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But, yeah, so, yeah, so go ahead.

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Anyway, they're back to, back to watch land.

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Since we started with watches, there are two, yeah, two, new watches that have been released.

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There's a Apple series, a watch series nine in the ultra to, apple watch ultra to, and not anything particularly significant in terms of Advancement, if you will, I think there are a couple of nice things.

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You've got sirion device for all of them, so, rather than the usual, you know, hold on while I get the answer, hold having trouble connecting to the answer.

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Yeah, that a lot of that's gonna get get handled locally on the device itself, which is great.

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You know that.

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Actually, speaking of privacy concerns, is is something that you know.

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Apple's decent with privacy, but God knows what they'll be in the future In in you know what may or may not be sold off, but at present you know they're decent.

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But the fact that that, siri, your questions are gonna be handled on board the device that you're using is Significant.

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That means, first of all, processing time should be faster.

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We'll say it would be more reliable, because it's not Well for the queries that it can perform on device without needing to go across the internet to Figure out they said what's my name?

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I'm liable, yeah.

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Yeah, notice, they didn't say accurate, they just said reliable.

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Whatever that means, yeah, but also gets access to health data so you can have Siri log workouts, or do I think they Chose someone logging their body weight like or was in one of the slides?

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Maybe it was like Siri.

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My body weight is 125 and it puts it into the health app.

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I mean, all those little conveniences are nice, yeah.

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I, you know it's kind of interesting to maybe, maybe you can I don't track any of this stuff in health presently, but nor will I be doing it on my watch but you should be able to then, I would presume, say you know, I had a bowl oatmeal with walnuts and milk and In a banana for breakfast or something like that, and it should be able to add that.

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I would think as well, if it has access, you know, to that and I don't know whether that's true or not, you know?

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if it wasn't Siri, I'd say I probably could.

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Did you see the Story that they're spending a ton of money for, like the next gen Siri that's supposed to come out next year?

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Oh no, I didn't.

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Yeah, thank you, I don't know when was that that was on.

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I can't remember who reported it.

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I saw it on one of the rumor site, mac rumors 95.

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But yes, it looks.

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The rumor mill says big security, security chase, big Siri update is is out there sometime in the next year or two.

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Yeah, we'll see them.

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You know which?

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I've kind of felt that that Makes sense because they're doing nothing with it now.

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No, and so it's like okay, they've got to know it's not great.

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We've talked about that a bunch.

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So, you know, maybe this is like the next gen and then at the developer conference next year, which should probably still heavily focused on an Apple vision pro, because that's coming out.

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They did give an update on that too.

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Tim Apple said they're still on track to ship that early next year.

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Yes, so that'll be Still on its way.

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So keep saving up your pennies, everybody, and I'm gonna come over to your house, tom.

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I'm Got a gym to build.

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Maybe this is about half price and research purpose.

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Well, we are planning to get one, at least sounds coming down.

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I'll let you know.

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Come on by, I'll take a drive, we'll do a show from the office or something.

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I can stand in the middle of a field somewhere and play, you know.

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And let's see.

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So what else did they do with the series 9?

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They Brighten the screen, so it's 2000 nits, which I believe is what the ultra one is that we have, which?

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is great, so that should be a nice nice little bump.

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And let's talk about that new gesture.

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They showed the double tap.

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Yeah, tap, tap with your little fingers to make it to magic which, by the way, is already available on your watch if you have that with negligibly good.

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So this apparently is gonna be tracking that better.

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But the nice thing about it, if it works as advertised, is In, and I find this actually all the time when I'm cooking, you know I'll set a timer or two.

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I mean it's beauty of the watch, you know, get the get serious to set a couple of timers so you have a couple of things going at a that are kicking off at different times.

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But half the time I get my fingers full of stuff when a timer goes off and then it's wash my hands and go, reach and grab it or goop up my watch and handle it.

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That way this new feature allows you to tape.

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Here's a tip, okay.

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Use the tip of your nose.

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Oh God Works great, I'm sure it does it does, you don't have to wash your hands on.

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Just look at my nose in profile here and you're just giving me crap because, bro, I got the same thing.

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Man, I'm telling you it works.

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So that's why you know it works.

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This is what I do for you, jeff.

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I do all these weird random tests and report back to enhance your life.

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Great, excellent.

00:16:41.590 --> 00:16:43.052
I don't need the two fingers, all right.

00:16:43.052 --> 00:16:44.802
I'm just describing that gesture.

00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:53.807
You can tap two fingers together, and tapping those two fingers together will actually do a couple of things.

00:16:53.807 --> 00:16:55.424
Some it will walk you through.

00:16:55.424 --> 00:17:05.665
Can potentially walk you through the various fields on whatever's on your screen, but it will stop a timer or answer a phone or do a number of other things.

00:17:05.665 --> 00:17:11.925
So hands full and you need to be able to answer the phone or do something like that.

00:17:11.925 --> 00:17:14.347
That little double finger tap Pretty cool.

00:17:14.347 --> 00:17:19.392
So we'll see a new gesture for Apple Watch that is built in.

00:17:19.392 --> 00:17:21.086
It is not backwards compatible.

00:17:21.086 --> 00:17:27.007
This is only going to be in the new Apple Watch Ultra 2 and in the Apple Watch Series 9.

00:17:27.808 --> 00:17:46.613
Right, and we were talking about that the other day because when we were messaging back and forth when the event was going on, I was like, well, you said that's very interesting and then I was like I feel like that was a thing Like in one of the dot updates for WatchOS 8, maybe that they put that in there and they did.

00:17:46.613 --> 00:18:03.086
But I think, like you alluded to there a couple of minutes ago, that the S9 chip and I think some of that stuff they've got built in there will make it more reliable, because you can go into accessibility in the watch settings now and they've got those gestures that you can go in and there's a double tap in there.

00:18:03.086 --> 00:18:03.602
You can do it.

00:18:04.980 --> 00:18:08.246
Like you said, it's hit or miss and so I suspect yeah, you said, your son turned it on.

00:18:08.246 --> 00:18:10.233
He did it was junk.

00:18:10.940 --> 00:18:12.443
Well, it's one of the.

00:18:12.443 --> 00:18:22.324
I think it's great that they've put it in there before now and because, for the people that need that, I think that's fantastic.

00:18:22.324 --> 00:18:23.628
Yeah, absolutely.

00:18:23.628 --> 00:18:33.670
But I think it's one of those that needs some tuning, and it sounds like they're tuning the sensors and processors and things like that to make it more reliable, more usable.

00:18:33.670 --> 00:18:37.584
So they're pushing all that stuff in the right direction and, if I remember, correctly.

00:18:37.604 --> 00:18:50.869
It is paying attention now to blood pressure changes and changes in what's going on, to detect the actual risk when you're doing it, as opposed to maybe it wasn't, as I don't know.

00:18:50.869 --> 00:19:00.853
I don't know how it worked previously, but this is something new, so we'll see how it works.

00:19:00.853 --> 00:19:04.704
I'm not going to see, because I'm not going to get an S9, nor am I going to get an Ultra II.

00:19:04.704 --> 00:19:07.759
That's not happening to me.

00:19:07.859 --> 00:19:09.185
Yeah, my son wants to get a new watch.

00:19:09.185 --> 00:19:10.664
He's been using my series four.

00:19:11.207 --> 00:19:11.749
Yeah, OK.

00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:16.290
And so he may get one come Christmas time or something.

00:19:16.290 --> 00:19:17.031
So I'll have him try it.

00:19:17.031 --> 00:19:17.782
We'll see what it looks like.

00:19:17.782 --> 00:19:22.230
I'm sure we'll see tons of YouTube videos next week, before right, before too long.

00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:25.305
So yeah, that's interesting, so that's a nice little feature.

00:19:25.305 --> 00:19:37.410
So we talked about 2000 NITs, so a brighter Apple Watch series S9, the Apple Watch Ultra II, also S9 chip.

00:19:37.410 --> 00:19:41.724
3000 NITs, so super D-Duper bright in daylight.

00:19:41.724 --> 00:19:49.586
And then there is a new watch face which I'm very happy to point out.

00:19:49.586 --> 00:20:02.839
If you're on any of the betas or when the new release of iOS comes out probably next week sometime, maybe the week after that, that, if you have an Apple Watch Ultra, that's available to you.

00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:03.865
It's really nice watch face.

00:20:03.865 --> 00:20:17.593
It's again very, very complicated in terms of what's on here and I haven't updated a lot of things, but it's a pretty nice look as far as new watch faces go.

00:20:17.593 --> 00:20:36.185
So my complaint last episode about the fact that after I was playing around with betas for a little bit that I didn't need Charlie Brown and Snoopy or the other I can't remember what the other name of the other one was, but this is kind of a nice addition.

00:20:36.185 --> 00:20:39.449
I like this, but, again, only available for Apple Watch Ultra.

00:20:39.750 --> 00:20:40.553
So not going to be.

00:20:40.553 --> 00:20:48.550
And they said in the event, I kind of had my ire a little bit they said it's an exclusive, yes, modular Ultra.

00:20:48.550 --> 00:20:50.346
And I was like you've got to be kidding.

00:20:50.579 --> 00:20:51.625
Yeah, that would have been kind of a bonus.

00:20:51.625 --> 00:20:52.584
It's a horrible salty about that.

00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:53.903
I complained to you about it.

00:20:53.903 --> 00:20:55.307
Yes, you did, I did.

00:20:55.307 --> 00:20:57.502
I complained a lot this week and I'm trying to stop.

00:20:57.502 --> 00:21:07.663
No, you're not, but people were quick to show on Reddit and other places that if you were running the latest phone beta, latest watch beta, that it was in fact there's.

00:21:07.663 --> 00:21:08.287
Hopefully it'll stay.

00:21:08.287 --> 00:21:10.826
Maybe they made a mistake and they're going to take it out?

00:21:10.885 --> 00:21:11.909
I hope not, because I like it.

00:21:11.909 --> 00:21:14.227
I'm using it and I mean, why would they do that?

00:21:14.227 --> 00:21:16.067
You know, why would they knock it out?

00:21:16.067 --> 00:21:45.833
I will say that the other thing that's nice about this is it's hard to show you here, but on the old version of the modular watch face that they had originally for the Apple Watch Ultra, you could change it so it was red at night and colorful during the day, but to do that you had to turn the dial to make it change.

00:21:45.833 --> 00:21:52.643
Well, in this case it's using the ambient light sensor that's already in the watch and it is actually.

00:21:52.643 --> 00:21:54.048
It changes when it gets dark.

00:21:54.048 --> 00:21:55.325
So it's a really nice feature.

00:21:55.325 --> 00:21:56.228
I kind of like it.

00:21:56.228 --> 00:21:59.486
I didn't like to have it on all the time because then you have to think about turning it off.

00:21:59.486 --> 00:22:02.548
The fact that it kind of does it on its own is brilliant.

00:22:02.548 --> 00:22:12.549
It works really well and when I have my hand down in the Jeffrey Dahmer's basement it does go to that reddish color.

00:22:12.549 --> 00:22:13.786
So that's a really nice feature.

00:22:13.786 --> 00:22:14.984
I like that about that.

00:22:15.180 --> 00:22:20.188
I'm kind of surprised that some feature like that doesn't show up on other watch faces.

00:22:20.188 --> 00:22:35.964
It doesn't feel like it needs to be just a yeah, as we've said before, it doesn't seem like we know, tim Apple, that you're listening to us.

00:22:35.964 --> 00:22:45.451
One of the things that there's no reason that Apple can't pop out a couple of watch faces a quarter, just for giggles.

00:22:45.451 --> 00:22:49.002
I mean it would just be as like here's part of the update Get a new watch face.

00:22:49.002 --> 00:22:53.049
It seems such a simple crowd pleaser.

00:22:53.049 --> 00:22:54.182
I do get you.

00:22:54.182 --> 00:22:57.287
Don't want to complicate everything with a million complicate Notice I use complications.

00:22:57.287 --> 00:23:04.869
Yeah, well done Convocations, but yeah, I'm a hot mess, but it I don't know.

00:23:04.869 --> 00:23:12.125
It makes sense just to add a little joy in that way throughout the year a couple of times.

00:23:12.125 --> 00:23:19.605
But I guess the other side of it is they've never really done that with wallpapers and things like that you get the wallpaper that comes with the.

00:23:19.786 --> 00:23:25.440
you know the OS that you're working with and have a nice year and so that's kind of where we're at.

00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:35.064
Yeah, it's kind of funny for a company that makes such I don't know kind of cool and fun products and they're kind of boring.

00:23:35.925 --> 00:23:36.346
Sometimes.

00:23:36.346 --> 00:23:39.354
The colors will get to the colors on the phones here in a few minutes.

00:23:39.354 --> 00:23:40.276
But what colors?

00:23:40.276 --> 00:23:43.050
Yeah, yeah, spoiler.

00:23:43.050 --> 00:23:47.277
So yeah, I wish they would do more with the faces too.

00:23:47.277 --> 00:23:49.125
But the way it is what it is right.

00:23:49.125 --> 00:23:53.005
We did get some new bands as part of the new watches.

00:23:53.005 --> 00:23:57.817
Of course, you can also get the bands separately some new band colors for the ultra.

00:23:57.817 --> 00:24:02.494
So I think that's what I was looking forward to Last show when we talked about it.

00:24:02.494 --> 00:24:03.924
As it's a little preview, we did.

00:24:03.924 --> 00:24:08.931
I'm Going to try not to buy one.

00:24:10.326 --> 00:24:10.926
I've got another.

00:24:11.087 --> 00:24:17.672
I've got another project that I could put $100 towards, and maybe after that's done, To buy a barbell.

00:24:17.672 --> 00:24:23.297
Barbell yeah, barbell is about 240 so.

00:24:23.297 --> 00:24:27.874
So let's see watch band half barbell.

00:24:29.746 --> 00:24:37.869
Anyhow, anything else on the watch is no yeah, there I think important to note no new watch colors.

00:24:37.869 --> 00:24:40.038
A lot of people gonna be not too happy about that.

00:24:40.038 --> 00:24:41.644
I think they wanted some darker versions.

00:24:42.405 --> 00:24:45.731
Yeah, we're pink on the s9 on right.

00:24:45.731 --> 00:24:55.825
I'm sorry on the other two people were that space, gray or black or the darker color, yeah, which will probably look really nice on the ultra watch three yeah, that's coming.

00:24:55.825 --> 00:25:04.576
I mean I can't imagine and they won't eventually do it, but when they need to go sales they'll do it Right and, who knows, they might already have one of those up their sleeve.

00:25:04.717 --> 00:25:06.260
I mean, these are titanium, right?

00:25:06.260 --> 00:25:16.917
Yeah, so yeah, and it's holding you've seen that there are some colors Titanium, wise, yeah, when it comes to and I will say the titanium is holding up very well.

00:25:16.917 --> 00:25:18.852
Yeah, I you know what.

00:25:18.852 --> 00:25:21.625
Now I'm gonna keep my mouth shut, but no scratches, no anything.

00:25:22.145 --> 00:25:26.198
Yeah, and I've clunked it good a couple of times and I'm like, but nothing.

00:25:26.337 --> 00:25:28.484
So I think part of it being flat.

00:25:28.885 --> 00:25:37.362
Yeah, it makes a huge difference, yeah and I think it looks great when it's flat, because you don't get all the light Refractions and stuff from the you know the lights in the sun and all that stuff.

00:25:37.362 --> 00:25:38.144
I think it looks really great.

00:25:38.144 --> 00:25:54.505
So maybe the rumors for the series 10 Watch next year that it's gonna have like a big redesign, so maybe they'll bring the flat face down to it at that point yeah, we'll see, yeah, so anyway, it's a couple apple watches buying recommendations Jeff.

00:25:56.578 --> 00:26:00.974
I Don't need watch, not for you.

00:26:03.125 --> 00:26:05.653
Wapo said you don't need to watch man right, that's what I'm saying.

00:26:05.732 --> 00:26:07.057
If you need to buy one, jeff has it.

00:26:07.057 --> 00:26:07.586
He doesn't need it.

00:26:07.586 --> 00:26:08.650
He'll sell you on cheap.

00:26:08.650 --> 00:26:13.893
Yeah, no, I you know I'm happy with the, with the ultra.

00:26:13.893 --> 00:26:15.678
Whether or not anybody else needs that, I don't know.

00:26:15.678 --> 00:26:19.356
They're both gonna be nice watches.

00:26:19.356 --> 00:26:20.704
If you need to watch, take the quiz.

00:26:21.205 --> 00:26:23.010
Yeah, take the quiz and we'll have it in the notes.

00:26:23.010 --> 00:26:36.549
I think if you are coming from a Series five or older and we're just looking to get a new watch, you know, figure out if you want series nine or the ultra.

00:26:36.549 --> 00:26:41.567
That's partly style, is partly what you do partly and whatever, and it's personal, think mm-hmm.

00:26:41.567 --> 00:26:45.224
I think it's a great update to go from a five.

00:26:46.607 --> 00:26:51.898
To a nine mm-hmm if you're on a six, maybe maybe you want just a bigger screen or something.

00:26:51.898 --> 00:26:54.914
Maybe you had like a 38 and you want to go up to a 45 or something like that.

00:26:54.914 --> 00:27:03.376
If you're seven or eight, I would wait, because with that rumored big update coming next year, I would just limp along with that.

00:27:03.376 --> 00:27:10.287
Now, challenge there sometimes gets to be battery life starts to suck after three or four years and so.

00:27:11.445 --> 00:27:11.866
Can you get?

00:27:11.866 --> 00:27:13.490
You can get batteries changed on the watch.

00:27:13.711 --> 00:27:14.653
I think so.

00:27:14.653 --> 00:27:16.337
Yeah, I think they just give you another one.

00:27:16.337 --> 00:27:21.750
Yeah, but yeah but if you're already.

00:27:21.750 --> 00:27:34.666
Like you already have the ultra, I'd see no reason to get the ultra oh no, there's no way, I've seen people say they're doing it just because they want to and that's fine, like if that's your thing, like you don't, you know, for whatever reason, you just like to buy the new stuff, do it, I don't care.

00:27:34.928 --> 00:27:41.538
Yeah, doesn't, but for the common person is just wondering if it's time to upgrade and they're on kind of in that middle section.

00:27:41.538 --> 00:27:42.508
I would say wait.

00:27:42.508 --> 00:27:44.134
Yeah, I think that.

00:27:44.173 --> 00:27:47.729
That's a that's very fair.

00:27:48.451 --> 00:27:50.155
All right, so the watches are done.

00:27:50.155 --> 00:27:52.450
We're done with watches, tom.

00:27:52.450 --> 00:27:53.615
Where to next?

00:27:54.786 --> 00:27:56.512
Well, let's talk about the iPhone.

00:27:56.512 --> 00:27:58.327
Let's do it.

00:27:58.548 --> 00:28:02.280
Iphone 15 and 15 pro woohoo, what a surprise.

00:28:02.280 --> 00:28:03.464
More from 14 to 15.

00:28:03.464 --> 00:28:05.311
Even I can count that.

00:28:05.311 --> 00:28:12.767
So we've got the regular 15 gets the Dynamic Island.

00:28:12.767 --> 00:28:23.173
Yeah it has 4k 60 HDR video, a 16 bionic chip.

00:28:23.173 --> 00:28:26.750
Yes 2x telephoto.

00:28:27.786 --> 00:28:27.946
Yeah.

00:28:30.227 --> 00:28:30.807
You USB-C?

00:28:30.807 --> 00:28:31.910
How about?

00:28:31.950 --> 00:28:32.632
that, thank you.

00:28:32.632 --> 00:28:34.375
It has USB-C right.

00:28:34.375 --> 00:28:57.157
And, and what was interesting to note and I don't think that I knew this before the, before the Wunderlust kicked out, I don't, I don't think I knew that that there was no USB bus on these things that they needed, that they needed to add that to the chip.

00:28:57.157 --> 00:29:01.851
So that Clarifies some things for me, if you will.

00:29:01.851 --> 00:29:12.644
It makes it a little clearer that that it did need something special in order to be able to go from lightning to to USB-C.

00:29:12.644 --> 00:29:23.958
So it wasn't merely you know they're dorky and didn't want to, didn't want to use the cable, or they really they really did need to do something, and so there's data transfer capabilities possible.

00:29:24.118 --> 00:29:29.554
Yes, yes, I think it's USB 3 speeds, at least on the pro.

00:29:29.554 --> 00:29:39.785
I'm not sure about the 15 camera call, so, but if you're doing video, they kind of focused on that too, that you can more on the problem.

00:29:39.785 --> 00:29:46.294
We'll get to that in a minute, but yeah that you can use the USB-C for the data transfer.

00:29:46.294 --> 00:29:50.614
Yeah, they've got Five colors of the 15.

00:29:51.396 --> 00:29:53.605
Yeah, they're interesting colors.

00:29:53.605 --> 00:29:59.557
They're very, very soft palette pastels other than the yeah, the black one.

00:29:59.557 --> 00:30:05.576
So we've got pink, yellow, green, blue and some new finish technique.

00:30:05.596 --> 00:30:11.684
They Went on about for a minute or so about how the color is fused into the glass and it doesn't look like it's painted on.

00:30:11.684 --> 00:30:12.646
It's actually in the glass.

00:30:12.707 --> 00:30:13.690
I'm like well it's kind of cool.

00:30:13.690 --> 00:30:18.919
It makes it look like you've been smoking for 20 years with you have the other one.

00:30:19.586 --> 00:30:20.528
We'll see some more pictures.

00:30:20.528 --> 00:30:22.556
Maybe that was just a weird lighting or something might.

00:30:23.665 --> 00:30:27.496
It might have been under fluorescent light, which never does anything good, no, no.

00:30:28.345 --> 00:30:31.171
It's got a 48 pixel mega mega camera.

00:30:31.171 --> 00:30:33.656
Yeah, 48 mega pixel main cameras on.

00:30:33.656 --> 00:30:39.730
I'm trying to say so that's good that 2000 nits came up again.

00:30:39.730 --> 00:30:42.817

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