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extra crunchy episode 73 from an undisclosed location somewhere in California I'm Brian Tom your host Steven Beecham my main man he is still on a break I'm here remotely so we will get back on track as you're used to with our video and our audio together because come on two voices are better than one but this is what we have here it's me and you together in your car at home maybe on the toilet because I know some of y'all listen to it like that again this show is all about you and not all about us you can call us at 1-800-669-9133 the computer industry then we have the iPod people don't talk about the iPod because guess what the iPod is kind of dead now but it completely changed how we consume music there were plenty of mp3 players out there before I mean I still have my original iPod it still works today the original four gig iPod it still works with iTunes it used a FireWire 400 connection so I basically have this adapter that goes from firewire 400 to firewire 800 to Thunderbolt and it still works with iTunes today I that is crazy to me also the biggest thing the iPhone in 2007 and I think the timing of this was obviously meant to be on purpose Apple announced this past week the official name of their spaceship UFO campus they're going to call it Apple park and the new headquarters is in Cupertino it's literally I don't like ten minutes away from where I was born and where I grew up in Cupertino off of a wolf off of wolf and you're nearby Wolf and Lawrence on 280 if you knew that northern Northern California area for a longest time it's been referred to as Apple Campus 2 but it is now going to be called Apple Park it also will have a one thousand seat auditorium that will be named the Steve Jobs theater this is a 175 acre campus it will be ready for employees to start occupying it in April this is according to Apple the process of moving more than 12,000 people into the mothership will take over six months and then they'll continue construction of the buildings and park lands throughout the summer now Apple began hiring staff for the campus back in November and again it's fitting that this announcement comes during the same week and today Friday as of this recording is the day that Steve Jobs would have turned 62 years old so a happy birthday shout out to SJ just some of the things that make this a structure a building unlike other it has a 2.8 million square foot main building entirely clad in the world's largest panels of curved glass like this is s J's legacy here that we're talking about seventeen megawatts of rooftop solar Apple Park will run one of the largest on-site solar energy installations in the world it's also one of the world's the site of the world's largest naturally ventilated building and is projected to require no heating or no air-conditioning for nine months of the year so this is just this this is unlike any structure we've seen and it looks amazing you guys can all see that and check out some of the pictures that Apple has posted you can always see the drone footage that people are flying have done over the campus I'm kind of showcase its construction but there we go we just wanted to shout out to SJ and give him you know just the credit that he deserves for building one of the most amazing companies and his legacy lives in the iPhone so let's talk about it let's talk about iPhone 8 or iPhone 7s really I think this is all kind of ramping up towards the iPhone 8 or at least let's talk about the premium OLED rumored five-point image iPhone now we talked about wireless charging last week Apple joined recently officially joined the wireless power consortium there's over 200 companies in there there they support a single standard for wireless charging it's called Qi and everyone thought oh maybe Apple is gonna jump on the jump onboard and instead of this long-range idea of wireless charging which Apple has put out patents for maybe they're gonna go with Qi and just be able just put it on a plate and some people aren't too stoked about that we have to also remember again the Apple watch is a tweaked version of the Qi wireless charging standard it's not the official you know adopted protocol across the board that's why you can't use other charging pads with the Apple watch you have to use Apple's charger of course you do if they did something like this for the iPhone we'd expect the same but according to Reuters five different group or at least five different groups are working on wireless charging ahead of the iPhone 8 now they haven't necessarily settled on the one yet according to the report there's still the coin of people with knowledge of the matter they're still looking at potentially doing this long ranged wireless charging patents have shown something like the IMAX or if he doesn't base for that but we don't we don't know the one thing we do know though is that the iPhone 8 production is expected to start relatively soon so if they haven't nailed that down and there have been no reports that have said oh yeah it's definitely coming you know the long-range wireless you're probably gonna expect to see some type of wireless charging drop it on a pad but let's be honest if you want to take this the next level you've doing long-range wireless charging beam it'll have a charge while you're even just say like 10 15 feet away from from the actual charging base in a room that has a clear line of sight I'm not expecting it to go through walls but if there's a way to put some sort of station and as long as it has a line of sight to charge it let's let's let's say 10 to 15 feet somewhere around there that that would be something worth squawking about for sure so we'll see how that shakes out but again there's it's not it's not a done deal where that goes um in other in other news just surrounding the iPhone whether this is the iPhone 7s or the iPhone 8 we don't know exactly you know which product but according to Ling cheek whoa this dropped a little while ago kji securities analysts has said that the iPhone 8 and this is in quotations will have a stacked logic board design that allows for a larger 2700 milliampere our l-shaped battery that would fit in a 4.7 inch form factor right so that is the smaller screen iPhone which I would I would love and the goal here would be to have the same battery power that people are currently getting out of the larger iPhone 7 plus sorry yeah the iPhone 7 plus with their with its 2900 milli ampere our battery you got about like what a little about maybe an hour and a half or two with the real world you should get more juice that that is what they're trying to bring base on this new logic board design and an l-shaped battery most of time the batteries are just a single rectangle but that L is gonna give you a little extra boost a little extra juice that is the rumor that the new design will support that which is which is nice I think though look if you want to talk about what is the phone with the best bet what are we really looking for like what battery life do we want just just go look around and go hunt for the Lenovo p2 all right now this is not a phone that everyone's going to buy right off the bat but this guy has battery that basically will last you a solid two days it has a 5100 milliamp per hour battery inside okay it has a battery saver mode but two days of battery life without charging I'm telling you like that is what we want to see and I know why we get larger screens these phones do so much more but if someone could get me guaranteed even not even let's let's get a day and a half I'd be impressed but you give me two days of battery life that that is that is what we're talking about so right now if the benchmark is the Lenovo p2 for the best battery life I'm not gonna expect it to get all the way there but get me get me at least through the next morning that then we're talking all right so we'll see but again that is the rumor new design for the iPod iPhone 7 with its support now another thing is we've talked about how look this might be a complete slate glass design at least if we're talking about the iPhone premium edition what is gonna have to happen to the touch ID button because most likely if it's going to be a flat surface kind of the dream that Johnny I've always had it's going to lose a button so Apple Insider found a recent patent application that was published just on Thursday that might give us an idea of where they're thinking with you know different biometric sensors we've heard rumors there'll be a 3d imaging sensor to potentially use your face to unlock your phone we've obviously seen that in other products being able to face unlock your phone from Samsung they do have acquisitions from primeSense a long time ago the company that built and made the Kinect camera for Microsoft Apple acquired that company so obviously they're gonna be using some of their technology with depth sensors and 3d sensors again this has not been confirmed that this is going to the case but a root of a patent report here from that has been applied for by Apple focuses on acoustic imaging technology that might replace touch ID in the future so this is what this is a it's a finally for acoustic image sis imaging system architecture so this is what happens they put down an array of acoustic transducers beneath the display all right so what these do is these transducers they generate acoustic waves pretty much think of like pulses that move through the surface of the screen let's say you have your finger on the screen and what it does is it then senses if there's any imperfections or things in the way so when an acoustic wave hits something it's going to just be stopped right so think about the ridges of your finger something that detailed it can monitor reflections attenuations diffractions and these acoustic waves basically now see that fingerprint or that finger on that screen they know what it is and that can be used as the next gen version of the touch ID sensor to completely remove the touch ID button that's the that's the whole goal here using sound waves and this acoustic imaging system that can lay again directly underneath the screen as a fingerprint unlocked this is not something that has been to confirm to even be anywhere close to being implemented into any iPhone yet this is just a patent application of the amplified filed for recently but Apple Insider uncovered this and it just shows you what they're thinking and that always is kind of like a peak in the they may or may not do it but again it's just what Apple is thinking and they're going to if they do remove the touch ID they're going to have to come up with new biometric sensors or new ways to get us that responsiveness to confirm our purchases to couldn't you know to unlock our phones and and lock our phones down as well and let's be honest keep our information private from everybody and I mean everybody every entity out there also Apple addressing the iPhone 6's shutdown issues I don't know how many of you have had this I've heard it over and over a billion times it happened to my phone specifically when I would be like driving where around 30 percent your battery completely completely just shuts down well according to Apple they have they feel that they have eliminated a majority of the iPhone 6s issues in iOS 10 point two point one this is the thing where probably for the past year everyone was talking about it but no one was addressing it example told you TechCrunch that after letting the fixed Cimarron customer devices the statistics show that has improved the issue citing an 80% reduction on iPhone 6s and 70% reduction on iPhone 6 devices for experiencing random shutdowns maybe an actual reason to update your older phone but there you go that that is according to Apple here's the official full statement they made of Apple made improvements to reduce occurrences of unexpected shutdowns that a smaller number of users were experiencing with their iPhones iOS 10 point two point one already has over 50 percent of active iOS devices upgraded and the diagnostic data we've received from upgraders shows that for this small percentage percentage of users experiencing the issue we're seeing a more than eighty percent reduction in iPhone success and over 70 percent reduction on iPhone six of devices unexpectedly shutting down so there you go that's the statement from Apple maybe you guys can chime in to me just tweet me at Bryant on or just let me know if if indeed you have felt that this is this has been resolved um in other news the iPad we know that Apple typically does a march kind of early spring announcement also all all signs point to they still but the latest report here from digit time says that the ten point five inch this is kind of that new iPad that we're expecting to see with thin thinner bezels on the side a larger screen but it are starting a ten point five inch screen kind of the the middle tier screen the report is that the ten point five inch and the twelve point nine inch iPads that are expected to debut at a March event aren't expected to ship until May or June according to supply chain sources that would leave an entry level nine point seven inch iPad as the only one to ship within close proximity of the March event so we know we right now we have an iPad pro nine point seven inch and an iPad pro twelve point nine inch which is my favorite iPad of all time it yes is not the most featured most feature packed tablet compared to what is out there and I will always admit that the surface pro better surface pro 4 does so many more things but look I'm an iPad guy from a standpoint of I love I'm in the ecosystem but I just love reading comics and watching movies on the go that's that's what I do during my free time on my commute so um I'm always been the biggest I've had the biggest boner for the iPad twelve point nine inch but digit times reports that based on the supply chain that right now twelve point nine inch iPad shipments have been really just drying up around the world in many retail checks shipping estimates of two to three weeks in the US Canada Australia France Germany Japan so even though we will get some type of announcement if they still stick to the March event we may not see the new iPads until later in the spring more like mid 2017 according to this reports and kind of a just fun little follow-up story before we wrap up we know the iPod it's all the controversy of the iPads I'm sorry I bear pods lookit I can't talk sometimes my brain is filled with so much stuff I can't talk the air pods we know about the air pods right I'm not wearing iPods I'm not wearing air pods as we speak I can't even do this right now color wear is now selling air pods in 58 colors if you've heard of color where they're the ones that put this you can buy directly from them they will coat your actual products make them look fancy smancy nice and polished it's not a sticker this is literally a coating on them if you want air pods in 58 colors you can pay two hundred eighty nine dollars on ear pods through color wear but you could get black you could get purple you could get red you get turquoise you get any color you want you just got to drop the cash for 289 so I'm just saying there's options out there and Apple they need to get on they they need to get on first of all air pods are still pretty much not in stock anywhere it's like you go there sometimes they get a few shipments but for the most part if you're trying to buy one online it's what about five this has been about four or five months and you still can't just walk in the store and get our air pods off the shelf I didn't gonna cut it Apple like this is this was your best product for 2016 and it's it's hard to get not because everyone wants them I think a lot of people want them but you didn't make enough like you just didn't make enough so we will see again air pods very good very good very good not I'm not gonna say they are like gotta have but they're really good and if you're an apple over here in the custom you're gonna love them but I I like to use different headphones for different things and I want once they get that full functionality I'll be all on board once they get full functionality air pods you hear me Apple I will be all on board for them so we will wait for that alright ladies and gentleman boys and girls that's gonna wrap it up for this week's Apple byte extra crunchy again call us one six two six or eight that's the place to call leave your name where you're from your comments we will get back into the flow me and Beach beach and Tong will be back so until then be safe have a great time have a great week and we'll see you guys next