Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator, Johnny Hemburger in
this episode. Today, I hope to get to talking about my newest phone
upgrade. How I begrudgingly upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy S twenty four Ultra Awesome
phone. The upgrade path was not what I typically like to do, but
I'll explain that later. But first I want to start with the Apple Car.
Apple has officially canceled its plans to build an electric car. That's the
headline. That's the headlines you'll see. I will get into why they actually
canceled it, but I have a feeling in the back of my head that's
part of this canceling of Apple Car was due to the fact that self driving
autonomous automobiles are very, very hard to do. That's not the official reason
why Apple Car was canceled. I'll get into those in a minute, but
I have to have a feeling. This is just me, just this is
my commentary. Maybe you can see the commentary elsewhere other people have the same
idea, but this is just part of my commentary. Is that I think
part of the reason, part of the reason why Apple got rid of the
canceled the Apple car project is that autonomous driving is turns out it's very,
very difficult to do. The actual reason that Apple pulled out of the out
of the Apple car game, why they canceled the whole project and moved a
lot of the engineers, a lot of the employees that we're working on Project
Titan, as it was known internally, They're moving those employees to AI to
put their best efforts in in that department, and that's that is one of
the reasons why the Apple car project was definitely canceled. So, first of
all, there has been a listen to my words carefully here, especially if
you're on the radio and on this radio station. EV car sales have slumped,
but really what's happening is that the growth has slowed. So EV car
sales, ev car growth as a part of the automotive market. They haven't
gone down to nothing. That's certainly not the case. The growth has just
slowed. So they're still selling EV's handover fist. You're still going to see
electric cars increasing their size of the market share. You're going to keep seeing
more electric cars on the road. That's not going to change with the technology
that drives the electric motors, whether it's new battery technology, whether it's hydrogen
power cells, whatever, you are going to see more and more electric cars
on the road. The electric cars aren't going anywhere, but currently the rate
of ev adoption growth is slowing. It's still growing, but it has slowed
a little bit. So eb car industry is still growing, but the growth
has slowed. What has popped off in the recent years. What has absolutely
blown the roof off of the industry right now the tech industry is AI.
An Apple, like any other company worth its weight in salt, understands that,
Hey, if we're going to be investing billions of dollars into something,
let's invest it into the growing industry, not the industry that has slowed its
growth. So it's just it's an economic decision above anything else. AI is
popping. AI is having its quote unquote moment. So if we're going to
be investing billions of dollars into something, let's shift our employee power over to
ailet's let's start trying to make our mark in the AI space rather than the
slowed growth electric car space. So that is, in a nutshell, exactly
what has happened to Project tighten their Electric Autonomous car division at ap Apple,
and that's why they've they've shifted, that's why they've canceled that that department,
and that's why they've shifted all the resources to AI. AI is hot right
now. Electric car adoption is slowing. It's not going nowhere, it's not
dying, it's just greater growth is sload. I've beat that horse. So
I wanted to talk about even though I know better, I know, especially
on YouTube, that talking about Apple period is you might as well be talking
about politics or religion like it's that. It is that much of a I
don't want to I don't want to use the C word, but there is
that passionate of followers and detractors on both sides. When you talk about Apple.
You have Apple fanboys and girls just boasting and like, oh, you're
wrong and dah dah, dah dah. And you also have people who hate
Apple saying, oh, you're wrong or whatever, or you're right or you're
on the left. On the other side of you have Apple supporters saying you're
right about this, and the detractors saying you're wrong about this and its opinions,
and it's a whole thing and whatever. Apple is generally kind of not
great to talk about unless you're reviewing a product. You know, unless you
have a product in your hand and you're talking about the latest iPhone, you're
talking about the Vision Pro or it's kind of a review of the product.
But if you just talk about Apple in general, it's kind of kryptonite and
you're gonna have a It's very divisive for some reason. But anyways, one
of I agree with this kind of notion that I've seen that I've read around
the internet that Apple just even Apple even just telling the world that they're getting
into the automotive market. When they told the world a decade ago that they
were getting into the automotive automotive market in earnest, it made a lot of
auto manufacturers pop their heads up, kind of like prairie dogs looking around the
horizon for threats and for challenges. And Apple's mere mention that they were getting
into any tech space makes other players in that tech space peak their heads up
and say, oh crap, we have to we have to beat Apple to
whatever they've just announced that they are getting into, because we know when Apple
comes out with their version of whatever this tech industry is that it's going to
be very popular, that it's going to be maybe not very very popular,
but it's going to be a big direct challenge to their company, to their
product, to whatever they come out with. So, like I mentioned in
the previous episodes, Metaquest has gotten so much better recently because I feel because
Apple has announced the Vision Pro. Because a while back they announced they're coming
out with their own AR VR spatial computing device, so other players in the
VR AR space had no choice but to kind of ramp up their offerings in
anticipation of what Apple was about to do. Same thing in the automotive industry.
Ten years ago, Apple said that they were going to get into the
car market. They are going to come out with their own Apple Car.
That made other auto manufacturers ramp up their game, saying, crap, if
Apple's getting into this space, we really need to be on our tippy toes.
We really need to be ready for anything. We really need to see
what's coming. We really need to ramp up our efforts so that we can
compete with the Apple Car whenever it comes out. Now that the Apple Car
isn't coming out, I say there's less of a flame being held underneath automotive
manufacturers, but saying, well, well, now Apple is not going to
be a competitor in this space, maybe we don't need to be investing ourselves
into so much ev advancement or self driving technology because Apple's not going to be
in the game. They're not going to be competition. More Geek Therapy Radio
coming up, don't go anywhere. Welcome back to geek Therapy Radio. You've
got your mental curator, Johnny Hemberger. The last segment, I've been talking
about the Apple Car, the canceled project. Internally within Apple's walls, it
was called Project Titan, and Apple officially putting the nail in the coffin of
their automotive efforts kind of. This is just my speculation. This is something
you're gonna hear me say that this is my speculation. I'm gonna preface this
in a way that you don't ever hear any other talk show host on the
radio preface anything that this is just commentary. This is just my own personal
speculation. I'm not preaching this as the gospel truth to you to get you
all fired up and angry about something. I'm telling you right now that this
is just my speculative opinion on this that when Apple had Now that Apple is
announced that they're out of the automotive industry, the rest of the automotive industry
is doing a sigh of relief. Phew, Apple's not making a car.
We can scale back our efforts and investment into whatever we have coming out because
Apple's no longer a looming threat on the horizon. As I mentioned in the
last segment, just to bringing radio listeners back up to speed, briefly,
Apple has gotten out of the automotive game. They're not going to make their
autonomous ev anymore. They have shifted their their efforts, their resources, their
employees, their investment into the current hot topic, the current emerging tech industry,
which is AI. Artificial intelligence. That has been what's hot right now,
that's been hot for the past few years, artificial intelligence. We're not
going to go into the weeds with this, but it's artificial intelligence has been
around for decades, if not centuries, depending on how you look at it.
You know, an hour glass with the sand falling through to measure time,
So a person doesn't have to sit there and count one, two,
three, four and measure the passage of time. They can now just turn
an hour glass us over and let that machine do the work. Arguably,
you can say that's kind of artificial intelligence. Maybe a scarecrow in a field
is artificial intelligence because it's theoretically supposed to scare away crows and free up the
farmer from not having to do that job. You call it autonomy, whatever
you want to call it. But there can be arguments made right or wrong
that such primitive quote unquote devices are a form of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence
has been around with us, not just for decades, not just since the
computer chip was invented, but we've been using humans have been finding a way,
have been finding ways to offload human intelligence into different machines to free up
humans to do other things. We've been doing that since we've become humans.
That's just what we do. It's one of the things work smarter, not
harder. So anyways, AI is the big thing right now. Apple has
shifted all has shifted the resources from its automotive department, from the Apple car
into AI because that's what's making money right now, that's the emerging market,
that's the whole thing. EV's honestly, I think Apple getting out of the
automotive market and I know what a lot of headlines want to say that it's
getting out of the EV market, but that's not really what it is.
That's not the big, the big bombshell here. It's that Apple is getting
out of the automotive market period. Not just they're not making an EV,
they're just not making a car. And that's kind of huge as it pertains
to EV's I think it is a catalyst, a catalyst moment right now for
evs, that that the growth has slowed, sales are currently slow. Growth
is still happening, Like the EV market is still growing. It's just where
it was. If you're seeing my hand on YouTube here, where it was
growing like this. Now it's growing like this. It's still growing, it's
just growing slower, while AI over here in the background is like boom,
it just shot off the charge. EV is having a moment right now.
Electric vehicles are having a moment right now, which I am all in favor
for of every automotive maker stepping back and saying we have we need to reevaluate
this market. We need to reevaluate our relationships with the government, we need
to reevaluate our reevaluate our relationships with infrastructure, we need to reevaluate our relationships
with customers on how electric cars move forward from here and again, mark my
words, evs aren't going anywhere. That's the market is still going to grow.
The future is still electric. But we're at a moment now a decade
twelve years or so into EV manufacture in earnest I know a lot of your
screening, Well, the Chevy had, the GM had the EV one back
in the nineties, and da da da, I say, I marked the
start of the current EV market as the release of the Tesla Model X back
in twenty twelve, twenty thirteen around that time, so about ten eleven years.
I think that's when the EV market, and I think we can all
agree on this really just exploded. No pun intended, because EV fires are
actually very very rare. They are the shark attack headline of the automotive world.
Very rare, but very flamboyant, very eye catching, very terrible.
Actually the EV fires are horrible. But EV market, the entire industry is
having a moment where it's kind of resetting, reevaluating where do we go from
here? We push this so far lithium mining has caught up the truth about
EV's and how good you know, how well they treat the environment is now
being questioned by everybody, not just it's kind of funny that the alt right
pulls the environmental card when talking about EV's. That's that's funny to a lot
of people, but it's it's true. They're The manufacturing of electric vehicles is
horrible for the environment. The end product the ev actually driving around, you
know, not polluting, not putting anything out into the I say not nothing
that it does. There are still particulates. You get really pedantic and in
the weeds with it. And I've seen articles come, you know, being
written that EV's actually they pollute more in this aspect, in that they are
heavier than their or than their counterparts, and that they go through tires faster,
and that when they drive down the road, they're kicking up more dust
than their lighter cousin cars, and they're kicking more dust up off the like
it's scratching. It's really scratching and digging. To kind of be the create
to drag EV's through the mud, if you will, But it is true.
Lithium mining is horrible for the environment. It's usually done in third world
countries at the cost of abysmal human labor. It's it's evs. Aren't this
when they were first outed? And I've said this. If you've listened to
Geek Therapy Radio since twenty seventeen, you've heard me say this a number of
times, or I mean, I've said it so many times in ev that
when you go back to the cars like the Prius, you know, hybrids
when they were first kind of coming out, the whole marketing strategy and this
is what I have disagreed with from the beginning, was the whole marketing strategy
was marketing hybrids and marketing evs to part of my friend here, tree huggers,
to people. I don't mean to denigrate whatever you're passionate about, but
they they kind of were marketing priuses in electric cars to hippies and save the
whale bumper stickers and and kiss the tree people and all that, which I'm
not I'm not knocking, y'all. I'm just saying that was the wrong market
to go after it. You know, you're not gonna you're probably not going
to find a whole lot of an investment among a drum circle. Uh.
Though they were probably not the most well heeled of individuals. Yes, you
have yuppies and people that want to want to lean a certain way politically because
they, you know, like the smell of their own farts, as we've
seen on South Park so eloquently stated. But there was certainly that element.
There were certainly healed, well healed hippies for lack of a better phrase.
But that wasn't the move. You branded this new technology as being this great
thing, but you focused the ads and the placement and the target market on
people that were environmentally conscious, which was which was the wrong move. I
think that it's just my opinion that marketing hybrids and marketing electric vehicles to quote
unquote greeny weenies set back the green movement by decades. Hybrids, electric cars,
whatever you want, they should have been marketed to just the general American.
They should have been marketed to Central America, to the folks you know,
in the Panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma and in Iowa and just kind of
more in the Midwest and and out west, in California and New York and
Florida and Michigan and Minnesota. Like. You should have marketed towards real people,
and the strategy should have been not to kind of force this you buy
this hybrid, buy this electric car because it's good for the environment, buy
it because it's green, buy it because you can wear your politics on your
shoulder. That was stupid in my opinion. It should have just been marketed
as this technology. Here's why this technology works. It saves you money at
the gas pump. Electric vehicles are insanely fast, insanely low maintenance, super
duper fun to drive, instant torque anywhere in the power band. It'll it
breaks your neck with how fast these things are, which has actually turned out
to be kind of a problem. It should not have ever been marketed as
something for the just for the green people. More Geek Therapy Radio coming up,
Don't Go Anywhere. Welcome back to geek Therapy Radio. You've got your
mental curator, Johnny Hemberger. I've been talking about in the last segment kind
of how hybrids and evs. The marketing strategy in this case was horrible.
It's something that I've disagreed with from the very beginning, first seeing Toyota Previus
commercials where they're going to like recycling events where people are hoisting plastic bottles into
the back of priuses, while wearing their tied eye shirts and whatever like that.
Like you marketed it wrong. That if a technology is going to stand
on its own two feet, it has to be marketed in a way that
showcases its actual strengths as a technology, it's actual strengths as a product,
instead of wrapping a product in an identity. I know that's very popular thing
to do, but as far as the green movement, as far as environmentalism
is concerned, I think that marketing hybrids and marketing evs at the start to
environmentally conscious people was the wrong move. It kind of forces like, hey,
if you if you like the environment, you need to buy this this
hybrid, and you need to buy this electric vehicle because look how many plastic
water bottles you can put in here. Look how many look you can fit
you can fit a leather back sea turtle into the back and release it back
into the ocean. What in the heck is that all about? It's that
was the wrong move, and maybe it was an initial, an initial,
I don't know. Push wave. Obviously, hybrids and electric vehicles are are
here and they're here to stay, and it's actually turning out The argument now
is that hey and I tend to agree with this that the perfect vehicle,
the perfect commuter Let's just be real here, like depends on what subcategory of
vehicle you're talking about, what the usage case, because you could say the
perfect vehicle is a plug in hybrid, while somebody living in the Sahara Desert
that has to drive over sand dunes and everything is like, well, that's
not my perfect vehicle. My perfect vehicle is a four wheeler or even a
crazy six wheeler. If you live off in the the Arab Emirates and you
can, you're driving your six wheel Mercedes over the sand dunes at one hundred
miles an hour. So the perfect commuter car, let's just say for most
Americans and most probably Europeans in a metropolis, I do agree that it's a
plug in hybrid. My ideal car in my opinion, Like if I could
make my own car, it would be something like a Volkswagen GTI hatchback that
can get one hundred miles on batteries and then another one hundred miles to two
hundred miles on gas. It's basically a battery that can run for one hundred
miles before needing recharging, and then maybe seven or eight gallon gas tank,
maybe just a five gallon gas tank. That's kind of my perfect car because
that the battery is going to cover ninety nine point nine percent of all the
average persons needs getting to and from work. You're driving most people. I
know there's people listening to this right now who drive a lot more than this,
but most people do not drive one hundred miles in a day. Most
people don't drive hundred miles in a day. I think the at national average
is like twenty miles in a day typically is what most people drive. Twenty
to thirty. So having a battery in a car that gets you one hundred
miles, let's say there's extra trips that you need to take. Oh I
need to go to the grocery store. Oh I need to go I need
to pivot and go pick up my son from karate and whatever things happen.
One hundred miles is kind of that perfect like daily uhuite cache buffer that would
cover those kind of extra moments where you need to pivot and do other things,
and then you have a gas tank and to take over. So plug
and hybrids do exist, and my minivan is a plug in hybrid. It's
the Chrysler twenty eighteen Chrysler PACIFICA plug in hybrid gets about thirty miles on the
battery, which is perfect for our typical daily use case. And then it
has a gas tank that takes over It's like a fifteen gallon gas tank.
I can drive six hundred miles easy, five hundred and fifty to six hundred
miles easy on a tank, go on a road trip. But when we're
at home and we're just going through the daily activities of taking our sun to
school and kind and my wife going back and forth to her job, that
the thirty miles usually covers all that. And then you have that big gas
tank for driving to Virginia or wherever you want to go. That's kind of
a perfect vehicle. And I think a lot of people are realizing this isn't
just my speculation. This is what I see and what I notice and what
I hear and what I read all over the industry is that plug in hybrids
we've kind of settled into this like kind of consensus for the most part,
that plug and hybrids are as far as a commuter vehicle is going, as
far as just something to get you back and forth to cover your daily routines.
Plug in hybrid, the new Toyota Prius finally looks cool and it has
a very usable and like the previous Prime, is a very usable plug in
hybrid, So you have x amount of miles that you can get on the
battery before the gasoline kicks in. It's kind of a it's a perfect it's
a perfect blend of both technologies. And going back to what I was saying
earlier, how let me turn off my air conditioning real quick? How hybrids
and evs were marketed towards greeny weenies as as I call it sometimes and again,
it's not to denigrate your any passion for the environment. I like the
environment too. Actually, if I can get sidetrack just a little bit,
which is what I do here in Geek Therapy Radio, I'm a big fan
of efficiency. I don't you know. I'm not necessarily out there chaining myself
to a tree or walking twenty miles to avoid using gasoline or electricity or what
have you. But I'm just a fan of efficiency. What is the least
amount of energy required to perform a task? That's just me being a tinkerer,
That's just me being like super like just thinking about where every electron is
going, where every bit of hydrocarbon is going. I just like to think
about how what's the most efficient way to do a task? But within the
same breath, I also like a lot of power, you know, I
wish I could drive a Ferrari. I had a V eight muscle car for
a while, still have it, still need to sell it, Like I
have my electric vehicle, but I also still have my V eight and I'm
always gonna have my DeLorean six speed manual V six not very powerful, but
still I'm just a fan of technology. I'm a fan of how things work,
of mechanical things, of energy, But as far as environmentalism is concerned,
I'm just a fan of efficiency. Like, again, how what is
the least amount of energy? Either from whatever source that energy comes from,
what's the least amount and you need to perform a task. That kind of
thing excites me. And it's like trying to hyper mile in actual real life.
If you hyper mile on the road, everybody hates you. If you
are in a prius trying to get ninety miles a gallon or whatever you got
to do. When you're sitting there on fifty nine and a sixty five zone
going forty five miles an hour fifty miles an hour to get his most miles
out of your car as possible. First of all, you're going to cause
an accident. You are, You're a danger to everybody else on the road.
Second of all, everybody doesn't. Nobody likes you when you're doing that.
It is a very selfish endeavor to pursue to Actually, you know,
if you're trying to hyper mile every day and you're holding up traffic and doing
whatever. So yeah, I've said my piece on that. I you know,
hybrid's electric vehicles, all this stuff was the marketing campaign was terrible.
I think they was very short sighted. It's very short sighted. It's a
better way to put it. Let's let's market these vehicles. Let's market this
technology to people that care about the environment, which was the wrong move.
You should have convinced Bob in Iowa why he should get an electric car.
And the way you do that is you don't tout the identity attached to it.
You just tout the technology. You just tout the pros of the tech.
Here's why this is super cool, Here's why you'd want this because it's
super fast, it's instant torque. You can plug it into your your wall
outlet and drink beer and watch football while your car gets more fuel quote unquote
in it. That's all the stuff that should have been played up. It
shouldn't have been, you know, attaching electric cars and attaching hybrids to these
images of polar bears riding around on broken icebergs. That was that was short
sighted. That it didn't obviously it's not. It didn't in the long run,
in the long run for the future of this technology, it wasn't the
best move in my opinion. Let's move on. So hold on. My
wife got home, let me acknowledge her existence, and I back wanted to
move on to what I hinted at earlier, assuming anyone's still listening, because
you talk about Apple, you talk about electric cars, you talk about hybrids
and things, and if you don't tow the line on those subjects, then
you know, certain certain demographics might might kind of fall off. But I'm
moving on to uh my current phone world. So I'm sitting here at my
desk. I've got my z fold four plugged in. I almost knocked over
my coffee. My z fold four here plugged in because every day I'll show
you my routine is right now every day because this plays into why I have
upgraded a phone way sooner than I typically like to. As I I have
shown you all my password here as I open this up here, every day
on my z fold four, I check for and updates. So I go
into my my settings here and I to click this and checking for software updates,
checking for updates, and there's probably not gonna be one, because I
haven't read that anyone was announced. Your software is up to date, great.
I'm on one UI version six point zero, current version F nine thirty
six U t xAd, whatever it's, it's the patch. The most current
patch is from February twenty twenty four. But every day I check for an
update on the z fold four because of that issue I explained in the previous
episode where the spen's not really working, where the rotation screen rotation is extremely
finicky and just stops working. Whatever that chip is is malfunctioning. That controls
the gyroscope and the barometer and the magnometer, magnometer or whatever you call it,
everything that kind of senses the spen senses the orientation of the phone.
That chip is not working correctly. It's getting gummed up. Like it works.
It works for the first few seconds you first boot up the phone,
and then it kind of spazzes out, and I'm hoping that's a firmware issue.
But in the meantime the phone is barely usable in its current form.
My Note nine is long in the tooth, which I'll explain in the next
segment. Let's let's talk about the S twenty four Ultra in my current phone
situation. In the next segment, you're listening to geek Therapy Radio. Don't
go anywhere. Welcome back to the final segment of Geek Therapy Radio. I'm
your mental curator, Johnny Hemberger. I've been talking about my current phone situation.
My Z fold four is not working properly, which basically makes all the
reasons that I got it not functional. I still love the Z I love
the form factor of it. I love the folding aspect of it. I
love that opens up into this bigger, kind of small tablet kind of orientation,
and that you can drawl over the screen with the s pen. But
screen orientation isn't working. The s pen isn't working. That chip that controls
all of that is fritzen out is on the is just not working, and
it's making the rest of the phone really not much usable. All the features
that you bought the phone for are now kind of moot because that ship is
malfunctioning. The chip seems to work for the first few seconds after a fresh
reboot, and then it fritzes out. Hoping that it's a firmware update.
No, who know when is the next you know, Samsung Galaxy firmware update
going to come out for the z Fold for probably within the next few months.
I think I've heard March bandied about, but we'll see, And I
don't know if that's going to really fix the issue. I have a feeling,
though I'm hopeful the firmware update fixes the issue, I have a feeling
that I'm gonna have to send the phone back to Samsung for servicing. Either
way. I went back to for the past for a couple of weeks.
My my Note nine here, which my wife still uses her Note nine to
with with no no issues that I know of. It's still a good phone,
it's still very usable. When I was using here for two weeks as
as a phone, it was it was very functional. What I was asking
of it was showing its age, you know, video editing and making YouTube
shorts, and constantly on it with are my work. We use Microsoft Teams
to to talk, can send pictures and files and things like that. It
was just my phone was hot all the time and it had to be constantly
attached to the charger because it would just burn literally burn through the battery very
quickly. So I was not between the z FOL four not working in the
Note nine showing its age. In my use case scenario, I was like,
I don't know what to do here. I looked at my looked at
my watch. When is the last time I upgraded a phone? I think
it was November of twenty twenty two. We are now in February of twenty
twenty four, so a year and a half, a little maybe less than
year and a half, more than a year. I don't I can't count
the months right now on the fly. But typically before I even consider upgrading
a phone is at minimum two to three years is when I usually upgrade a
phone. And it's been longer than that even in the past, like I've
gone five years. What I used to do was I used to not buy
the latest and greatest phone. I would buy one from you know one or
two, maybe even three generations ago. So in the old days where my
Z fold, well, I would have got the Z four four. I
would have gone from Note nine to like if I was still using the S.
If I was still using the Note nine today in February twenty twenty four,
if I had gone that long this thing came out in like twenty eighteen,
if I had gone six years between phone upgrades, which is totally fine,
phone used to day to day phone use is kind of plateaued. Yes,
batteries get better, Yes the cameras get better, but actually, just
like sending text messages, making phone calls, getting on YouTube, scrolling social
media, a phone from twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen is still going to be
just fine. Anybody out there still rocking a Galaxy S eight is still going
to be having a just a dandy experience day to day using a smartphone.
So typically typically what I how I upgraded phones is I would have been on
this Note nine for five years or whatever, and then I probably would have
upgraded to something like the S twenty one, Samsung X twenty one, something
like that, but recently I've the past two times now. When I upgraded
to the z Fold four, it was the kind of latest and greatest.
I let the folding phone technology marinate a bit. I did not get the
first Z fold, I didn't get the z Fold two, I did not
get the z Fold three. I said, Okay, if I'm gonna jump
to the folding phone, I think fourth generation is probably They probably worked out
a lot of kinks and you can probably jump on the tech now, which
is what I did with the z Fold four. Now, the issue with
the z Fold four is not related, and I don't believe it's related to
the folding screenability because the sensor that is malfunctioning doesn't It's not the sensor that
necessarily detects if the screen is open or closed. It might be, but
I don't believe it is. It's the sensor that senses the phone's orientation in
space where how is it rotated or whatever, and is the spen getting close
to the screen or not. It's that ship that's malfunctioning. So I don't
think related necessarily too folding to the Fold four. I've only heard one other
person on planet Earth. It was a comment on my last episode said that
he had the same issue. He went back to his S twenty I think
he said his HER's note, what is it, no twenty S twenty whatever?
It is the twenty something that because as z faul four was exhibiting the
exact same issues, He's the only other person on planet Earth that I've heard
mentioned that he's had similar issues to what I'm having. There's nobody unless I
checked it right now as I'm recording again, There's been nobody talking about it
on Reddit. There's been nobody talking about it on x or Twitter, whatever
you want to call it, twister. I've not seen this come up.
I've not seen any YouTube videos uploaded about it. I'm not seeing any YouTube
shorts. I've not seen any tiktoks. I've not seen anybody talking about this
issue other than me and one other human being who just so happens to listen
to geek therapy radio or found geek therapy Radio. So it's not a widespread
I think it's kind of unique to just a few users, unless it's about
to pop off. Unless this little chip in here was a time bomb,
Unless this the last firmware update was a time bomb. For that chip and
then you see more people. It start happening to more people. But mine's
been doing this for well over a month, and I think if there's more
devices prone to it, that you would hear a lot more about it.
Either way, Hope a firmware fix. Hope a firm more update fixes the
issue. I don't know either way. I needed a phone that could keep
up with modern workloads, which is why I upgraded to the S twenty four
Ultra, which I'm holding up to the camera here right now. Excellent phone.
There's a little bar the QR code on the back here. See if
they need to blur that out when I edit this video together. But by
the way, this is on YouTube, Geek Therapy radio podcast and YouTube.
Yeah, up to the I upgraded to the S twenty four Ultra, and
I've been putting it through its paces. I said, if I'm gonna if
I need to upgrade a phone right now, I need a new phone that
can keep up. Then I need, you know, one of the best,
if not the best camera systems in any smartphone in the world right now.
I looked at S twenty three's but the price wasn't that much different from
the S twenty four and the S twenty four has arguably on paper, slightly
better camera specs. It's negligible to the S twenty three. There's difference in
telephoto and the telephoto. Sensor size is bigger on so you have less telephone,
it less optical telephoto. On the S twenty four and the S twenty
three you have ten x optical zoom on that, but on the S twenty
four you have a bigger sensor. What's forty megapixels? What is it?
It's higher megapixel sensor in the telephoto lens, but it's only five x optical.
In the end, the difference between the ten x you know, digital
on the S twenty four and the tenx optical in the S twenty three is
negligible. I've even seen people say that the ten x zoom, even though
half of it is digital on the S twenty four, looks better than the
S twenty three because you have more pixel density, more megapixels on that sensor.
I don't. That's not a mode that I can use very typically.
I use it sometimes. I just know that it looks great. I know
that, especially when you have enough light and you're able to crank that ISO
down to as low as possible, which I think is like fifty ISO.
This on the S twenty four, at least, I don't know what the
minimum is on the S twenty three. I think it's a minimum ISO on
my Note nine is a minimum of fifty. But anyways, if you give
the phone enough light and you crank that ISO down, you get stunning.
It's too good to be a phone, and it's very usable. I've already
made a video with it that I put up on YouTube. Short set is
very popular. Did very well with the S twenty four. It looks great.
I'm trying to kind of lighten my EDC my everyday carry, and it's
fitting the bill. I do like the S twenty four Ultra that I had
to upgrade it way sooner than I usually like to. That's this episode of
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