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and welcome to the 30th episode of the TechnoBuffalo show I am unfortunately one of your to us for today Sean ani editor-in-chief of the site and I'm unfortunately joined by the executive editor mobile Todd Hazleton everybody for those that don't know why I keep saying unfortunately a fan of the site made a two-and-a-half minute video of all the times we've said the word unfortunately in videos and it was pretty impressive it's incredible looks like a long time it might tip of my hat to him for I think that's the same guy i'm not sure but i was looking through i think it might be the same guy that counted 200,000 on youtube I don't know it was like in that list so i don't know but okay this is just as wacky takes a long time yeah buddy look uh oh we're just gonna go ahead and get one question out of the way real quick from sasha Mahal is this the last TV show for 2014 No we'll have probably two more I think and then will we will skip see this week there's right that's just no way but no not the last show the area so yes we are back Todd his back from Sweden i am back from England we were just you know jet-setting all over the place that's right all over the world and i really i have not had time to talk to you since we both got back how was Sweden it was amazing um probably one of my favorite European countries I've ever been to we were in Gothenburg that's the English pronunciation I'm not sure hey satan swedish but uh oh so pretty i sent you a couple pictures i think and then uh but I was there with Volvo checking out their testing facility they have a 12 year contract with a place called astha 0 which is really really cool were there testing autonomous driving and we also saw a crash test of the new xc90 and they were talking about the t8 twin-engine to which is the hybrid model so it has like a 40-kilometer I think like 25 miles range on a lecture Rick and then gasps and then hybrid votes you so that was really cool but we went all over the city with Volvo it was just a really really pretty place a good time nice yeah I'm fascinated by the idea of self-driving cars because I hate driving so see that's what they were saying though they were saying look you know a lot of people like to drive obviously you know it's a sport and we don't want to take that away but for people that don't want to drive I mean here the futures but really they were highlighting what they write like I don't like driving either um but really they were highlighting what they call vision 2020 and that is by the year twenty twenty Volvo says no he's going to get seriously injured or died in a Volvo car which is pretty insane promise and so this is like the xc90 is sort of like a you know like a mile marker along the way getting there and it has a lot of autonomous features i guess so like auto breaking for example you're coming up on a car or taking a left or right hand turn and it's a blind spot and you look but somebody comes out of the blue your car will automatically stop so lot of cool features like that I was really impressed so and I know other people are getting into but ya know it's fascinating to me and yeah having driven the night before Thanksgiving on a road that's generally quiet and I saw more traffic on it than I think I've ever seen on it you know i'm all for anything you know that could possibly a yo cut down on accent syed when i was leaving Kansas City last weekend after I had flown back in you know I had some guys if between me and another car and you know massively cut me off and you know anything that would cut down on that sort of stuff I'm all for yeah hey Dad yeah so here's hoping it works now I would love to see it work via the only tech thing that I did I finally got like 30 seconds to play with one of Tesco's huddle tablets oh did you do what did you do one right yeah yeah the hustle to neither and I can see why it's as cheap as it is oh really it was sluggish oh it was sluggish oh I liked all the colors when they announced it oh yeah but I for the second year running they've sold out so hmm i could buy covers for the huddle to i could not buy a huddle too interesting yeah i wasn't it was it retailing for it was like 70 bucks or something like that it's like 99 pounds i think okay so yeah it's yeah it's just under that you know the magic which and US dollars works out to like 140 yeah so a dozen still has to be I thought for some reason this was like one of the cheapest out there it's it's pretty cheap but it man was it sluggish well you hey you know at first your average consumer it might be fine but you know as someone that works with tablets all the time I was like you're moving a little slow your tiny bit slow but yeah otherwise I I kind of turned off her we can loved it yeah except we are some football matches in right yeah I guess who manages a I call soccer yep got two matches in United Manchester you and I had won both of them so it was well worth it and made some friends of MMA fighters boats tree yeah that was good friends to have uh yeah they were interesting but no it was a good time and but no I take that back i didn't completely turn off because you and i were discussing that i introduced myself to the world of cereal oh that's right we can talk about cereal a little bit right let us not go into our theories on yeah actual case but man is that show riveting yeah it's really if you haven't listened to it's really good it for those of you that may not have heard about it yet it's a new show from the same people that do this american life on NPR and it's a we just discovered it's only going to be 12 episodes which i'm completely bummed about yeah so next week's the last one but it is an in-depth study of a murder case in 1999 in baltimore is unbelievably riveting I I couldn't stop listening I started taking longer routes back to my hotel just so I can finish episodes yeah i binge listens you have one weekend yeah i ah so awesome so if you haven't listened to serial listen to it after listening to the TechnoBuffalo show but and you will quickly find yourself just totally enraptured but moving along at one update for everyone just today the nexus 7 got the funk pop up today we're going to talk about that and then Sean got the update this morning so yeah I thought okay well yeah I had to check it this morning since we were going to discuss it and yes I finally got you know for those of you watching on video yes you can see the the new buttons down there so yes I am running lollipop but uh yeah Ives man that took forever but you know what so we can still talk about it I'm blown away that the nexus 6 is still so hard to find um you know not only just from google or motorola but even carrier stores i was calling around yesterday cuz i have an upgrade on ATT but i was also as i was telling you i'm thinking about t-mobile for the international trip so i can do the free roaming with the data which is wonderful by the way yeah cuz i just had to long story but I just had to pay for data with AT&T when I went abroad um and so anyway I'm calling around all the stores t-mobile AT&T best buys like nobody has the Nexus 6 in stock in New York City or like around me in New Jersey it's insane and and you know I've reached out to google to and it doesn't seem to be like any news on when that's coming out so I mean you know fresh bulk and I thought it was going to be like every Wednesday right but I didn't see any in stock yesterday they're just things about UK orders yeah they had said every Wednesday so I'm not sure what's going on yeah I agree it's really weird that that phone still so hard to find yeah it's not I mean typically you know the phones are hard to find and or it's like two to three weeks you know for your delivery but this is just like out of stock nothing I don't know why it's coming to you I I don't know it's very odd and you know you and I have said on the show before if Apple have these sort of supply problems with an iphone release there would be bloody murder yeah yeah so I I mean yes the Nexus line is supposedly more for the developers and all that but you know now like you know this week we got the notice that US cellular was gonna start carrying the Nexus 6 this is no longer just a developer phone yeah now it's totally consumer when you have every exactly right pretty much yeah so I I don't know I'm very confused by it very confused by it frustrating speaking of lollipop though the Android wear update yesterday it's rolling out now and I don't have it yet on my Moto 360 which is kind of a bummer but looks good there's a bunch of custom watch faces already in google play now so i think it's starting to pick up steam where I in the past you know we both said that inferred where it's not boring and no fun yeah yeah I I need to update my LG G watch and give it another go which as a boo this one will show battery life and stuff like that in on your phone and like what's eating away at the battery a lot more management features so like you can see your storage because now you can use the local storage with google play music and then all the watch faces and obviously i guess if you have gps like on the Sony SmartWatch 3 that's taken advantage of but that was the last update anyway it's getting there at finally yeah I it's certainly taken long enough but I iona ID I would like to have seen Android wear a little bit more polished before they released it but in the 0 for whatever reason they decided to release it when they when they did but I I don't know i'll give it another shot now that they've updated it i I said I would do that in there yeah I'll keep giving it a try until I finally go okay now I finally like it might take some new hardware she'd watch isn't very good sorry everybody on so I spent money on it too yeah but uh moving along we also our course are approaching rapidly see yes yes I cannot believe how quickly CES is coming up on us and we actually have a question from Sasha and the hall about that what can we expect from CES 2015 will it just be smart watches upon sperm arches and what are you hoping to see it the show I think it embodies upon TVs sees you it you really have no clue how many TVs are released in a year until you see them all on display at CES it's just unbelievable I think you and I discussed after CES 2014 that last year was just really about iteration there was nothing that really leapt out and grabbed us except for maybe like PlayStation now yeah you're right last year was kind of boring in terms of like big new announcements and something from like we saw huge tvs the curved TVs i mean that i think that blew us all away oh yeah I mean we thought like the toshiba chromebook because that was like one of the best Chromebooks at the time I think so yeah but you know yeah I me like the 8k television that I saw and I was for me I was blown away by it you know wasn't ready for consumer release but yeah that's the thing CES is a very odd show in some ways it's a lot of times it's talking about stuff that we won't see for 8 to 12 months it's talking about stuff that we may not see for a couple years but it compared to previous years last year was just very yeah but as for this year yeah I do think we are I think we're gonna say a ton of wearables yeah probably a lot of fitness trackers from brands we've never heard of 21 HTC's even said that they're going to introduce their wearable yeah right it's not gonna be a watch apparently gingers but it will still have something to do with your wrist right yeah so I don't know what's going on there but I I'm hoping for some more excitement this year I mean I it's always fun being there but you just you hope for something that really knocks your socks off yeah and it's tough to because we're coming off the heels sort of the heels i mean ii foolishness in September where we had man a boatload of announcements right and then January and then come March it's usually late februari but March this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona so the mobile people have sort of I mean they save it free either nwca I've already announced it Eva you know but there's companies like Samsung that are always going to now something I think there's rumors we might see something new from Sony like Xperia z4 at CES and you know for some of these companies it's a good place to do that too because when you're at Mobile World Congress or Eva it's easy one used to be a little smaller but now it's easy to get lost in the shuffle and if you're a mobile guy making an announcement at CES now I mean you're gonna get noticed like what a was tmobile last year was at Z one of the Xperia z3 s now that's new that's from verizon this year huh there's III I figured it was e to something it was t mobile's iterations of the experience I think was the ZTA compact if i remember correctly yeah but like so that made a huge splash there because there wasn't much else to like see and in terms of like the mobile news i mean there was tons of stuff to see book yeah so yeah energy comes into play yeah and just so everyone knows our plans we're actually taking the largest crew we've ever taken to this year's show we're taking ten people altogether we're even taking Joey D this year which is the first time we've ever taken lily and because and I'm not going to reveal yet what he's covering we we have a master plan for what Joey would it's something we've never really had time to cover before at CES but uh Joey will be in attendance this year but yeah there's gonna be 10 of us at which I hope we have a slightly larger workroom than we did last year but that thing was great about yes yeah yeah it's awesome when yo you're able to secure a work crew but with eight of us it was crap it was gonna be 10 of us shoulder to shoulder I'll be sitting a lot of people out on assignments yeah that's right get out of here yeah opening I'll be rotating you guys a lot more than sugar that's the other thing for those of you that if you're curious about how CES works I actually hardly ever see the show yep controller I am an air traffic controller I sit in our command center and I send everyone where they need to go on Thursday of last year I got out for one hour on the show for one hour secure i remember it yep Ashley and I went it luckily she'd seen most of this show so she's like okay now come here I'll show you this okay come here I'll show you this usually need to see now exactly which it was mostly televisions and that's good to you I mean later because finally everything's unveiled you know because earlier in the week some stuffs like just not right fully out there until yeah so like monday is pressed day which is nothing but press conferences and then on Tuesday the show floor opens and more announcements are made that day and then like Wednesday Thursday and Friday it's more everything's been announced now you can just get around see the stuff you've missed right but it will be a will be a fun week and I'm keeping you in town till Saturday that's right I'm there for a week yeah you're stuck with me but but not yeah CES should be a good show where is see everybody to we don't get to see him you know each other in personal all your most of us exactly exactly well this will be actually my first time in person meeting Jacob it'll be my first time in person meeting Joey yeah I'm not the alien person yeah it's in I've been working with Joey for like three and a half years and we've never met a person that's funny yeah I it's going to be kind of an odd experience to finally see him in person like oh that's you okay oh you look like I'm yeah we see each other on died yeah yeah yeah but yeah so moving along we have a lot of questions coming in uh this is kind of a follow-up to the last episode from Sean the man 34 what tech do you travel with and we kind of covered that in the last episode but was there anything you know honestly when I I got to the UK this time most of our devices the plugins as long as you yo can plug them into a UK outlet built they'll take the wattage there right without any problem nintendo 3ds will not really i could not charge it all week huh and I I travel with mine as well yeah obvious it though yeah well and I'm not gonna travel with the converter just for that because the converters are so bulky and heavy yeah you know and the by otherwise everything you know I used my power strip you know plugged it into an adapter and all that everything else charged with no problems but yeah my 3ds when charged at all ha I did discover I took too many adapters this time I i love yellen's yeah I took like five adapters I ended up using like to the entire week I was like okay I next year you know if I ever come back you know I which I probably will cut down on the number of adapters yeah but I guess definitely the answer though the tech we travel with I think we were both saying is that power strip is like the must-have so yeah but we have so many things to charge a lot of people each day see it well we even travel with the power strips at CES you know because we get in those press rooms where there's a limited number of outlets and I can't remember the very first year we ever did CES it was just John and myself and I'd already started traveling with my power strip we found one outlet in a hotel hallway and we both needed to charge things amber oh and I pulled out that power stripping's like that is the greatest thing anyone could ever travel so funny CES to you see people just camped by the power outlets everywhere yeah owns tablets their laptops and charger everything yeah cuz press day is held in a hotel so yo you will see you'll walk down the hallway I like to go the restroom or whatever and there's people at every outlet along the hallway you know charging up laptops or cameras or what I have you so yeah it's the Paris trip really it's such a simple idea but it's definitely the most important piece of equipment I devil what agreed how sad is that very exciting no no it's not very exciting but moving along here from another question from Sean the man 34 what college did you guys go to and what degree well I'll start off I went to Truman State University because it's here in my town I lasted two semesters before I went no I'm done and and I was going for a business degree which is a long sordid story about why that was not the best idea for me but uh yeah I I did not finish college now Todd you did where did you go what degree I went to Lehigh University in Pennsylvania originally for computer science and I graduated as an English major which is funny change of change of things that I loved computer science i was i was taking c++ and all that in high school so i knew it i was getting into um but then I'm like as I was spending like the late nights doing the coding homework and stuff I was like you know what like I love technology and I and I was always gonna minor in English um but I love like writing and reading what if I wrote about technology and that was sort of my strategy back then I mean I went right into freelance then for some tech magazines and stuff and that's just what got me here yay yeah actually I tried business for a little bit too but that was now that was not for me new no I i I'll quickly fill everyone and I already had a business at the point I went to college and I couldn't deal with the theoretical scenarios where nothing ever went wrong no supplier ever shipped you late no supplier be shorted you you know and if you've ever seen the running Dangerfield movie back to school there's a scene where he takes a business class any trips arguing at the professor about you know you didn't cover the kickbacks you didn't cover those who think that was me in business class and yeah it just it didn't work out follow-up question from Dominique Weber about ces how do you choose what crew covers what the crew covers at CES that's that's an excellent question in the past it has been a matter of limited resources each year we've increased the number of people that go with us and so you know we we try to focus technobuffalo is mainly known for its mobile coverage so phones and tablets are always the first priority last year we added wearables to that as a first priority and then after we cover phones tablets and wearables then we go see okay what do we have time for what's the most interesting is it innovative in its pace so on and so forth hmm now this year with two extra writers going you know and and I'm keeping a secret what joey is going to be covering um yeah I know Joey knows Oh Joe easy thank you but but in case things change for some reason I don't want everyone to expect that coverage limits then it's not there I thought you're just not joking no no Joey and I actually pedal Joe and I have had a long conversation about what he's covering he's actually started reaching out to those relevant press I know you're gonna just be like and now no Jojo is actually very excited about covering what we've discussed but so for this year you know I'm going to have more writers at my disposal than I've ever had so so do our first line stuff will do the phones to tablets the wearables but due to the number of writers we have we should get through that coverage farm more quickly and then I'll be able to tell them go out Explorer find me things and that's that to me is a lot of the fun of CES because there are small companies there that no one's heard of yet or they're just you know they've been around for a year or two you know let's see what they're doing you know like there's a great accessories maker that I love cut named blue lounge and it's my company you hear about very often but they make some great products we all love the anchor company for your power devices you know so we'll check out anchor so it's definitely you know phones tablets wearables first and then whatever really we think is intriguing anyway a lot you know if the guys come back in they go hey I just saw this i'm like five if you've got your other stuff done right it up go i think last year brandon i saw like a children's potty with an ipad stand built in her maybe it's too here to get work I think that kind of stuff yeah I especially we good over into the ieee lounge area yeah which is all the stuff related to like iOS devices there are some weird stuff over there there's some stuff that you're like really you bought a booth it's yes to show us this and all the companies that like you haven't heard of that are just like complete I'm not saying like oh that's a knockoff of the ipad I'm saying like complete iPad knockoffs and stuff like that you see like what but running Android there's a lot of that too yeah uh from sasha bus the hall how would you describe CES um that's a really good question tiring a tiring definitely controlled chaos yes you know and that's one thing that always amazes I don't think you and I have ever discussed his dad you know yeah its course he s is not about the press it's about the industry right if you ever wondered who all these buyers are I think I'm full now yakin question I mean a lot of my thinker it's like best buy right Graham's honor but but I guess you're right like there's not that many retail stores anymore every time I see a buyer badge I'm like who are you yeah you know because you just you there are not that many mom-and-pop electrics attract stores anymore right so you know likes a Walmart Walmart does not attend any trade show if you want to sell walmart you have to come to them right yeah you know I would assume it's like amazon and best buy yeah so maybe let's make a game of that this year if you see some with a buyer bad you trying to have can get back in the fourth because I really want to know who I mean yes there are mom and pop electronic stores there are smaller retailers online and all that but concerning the mass of humanity that's at CES you really go are there this many electronics retailers love ya and these days like you they need to be here to see it I don't know four press it makes sense I guess I just don't understand that side the industry but I guess you do from your comic days right yeah yeah and so that's what puzzles me even more is I just I know what the electronics industry is like retail wise and I just cannot yeah I do here yo foreign languages as I walk around so you know I'm sure there's people there from South America and Europe and all that right but still it just it boggles me that there's that many buyers still right yeah so but it's it's a massive humanity traveling down very narrow aisles and lots of loud noises sometimes not traveling either people just like to stand in the aisles which is the worst yeah meeting to get sued yeah very crowded New York City yeah yeah oh no I love it when they stand in the aisle to have a conversation yeah Oh or is particularly when they you're at intersection and they've all congregated in the intersection yep yeah so there's they're blocking you know for directions at once yeah I know if we have time this year we'll see if we can't shoot some video of like walking down an aisle or something it's it's an experience well this year actually with all of our social network accounts if you follow us on Instagram and everything Facebook will put little video clips up to that should be fun we'll have to make any other yeah we can try to do that job from area aerial palette Nick I hope what can we expect to be announced in the CEOs ah that's a good question i wait they've been kind of quiet about what we're going to see yeah like I said I think part of the trouble is too with Eva in September and Mobile World Congress and in March I'm not sure we're going to be mobile heavy samsung typically does have announcements I'm sure LG will have some and Sony i think is rumored to have some as well so you know we'll see but i think in general it's going to be a lot of it mean for a little while there was mobile heavy and then we kind of went back into the name you know consumer electronics so i think we'll see a lot of things for the house connected car stuff i think we'll see a lot of tvs obviously you know not really blu-ray players and stuff anymore not really home stereos were big last year you know and that's one thing like the area where our work area is we have to walk through the car parts right you know and we see all sorts of things you know like car lighting systems and you know so the CES is not just about phones and tablets and televisions and all that there's all these odd little areas there are pavilions as they call them and yeah so there's a lot of stuff there that is very niche as well so they're always fun to walk through it just you know we don't always have time to cover all of it I really don't know if our readers want to know about car lighting systems sure why not but if we find a cool refrigerator what you know that's always we say that every year interesting question here from shashwat Punjabi how did you become so successful I have a web site known as droid fanboy calm and I have a little views it's there's no one thing it's a mixture of your search engine optimization it's the amount of content you do publish is a quality content are you social promoting there are so many aspects to how you get big it's it's really unbelievable but there's a lot of websites out there that will give you some good advice just search geo growing your blog advice to grow your blog there's a ton of great websites out there and you know while you may never get up to the size of TechnoBuffalo there there's a lot of space out there yeah so I just do some homework and and but definitely look into your search engine optimization make sure your writing qualities up to snuff and how often you can publish those would be my three big things yeah I was just gonna say content to cuz if people come back and don't see anything yeah I guess there's nothing new here exactly one coming back yep from Sasha and behold hey Sean you have the nexus player right how is it and how does it compare to the Amazon fire TV Roku and Apple TV and you have them off I have them all um I'm now I'm trying to be polite see I'm still excited for it but I guess I don't want to be I've tried the nexus player it's probably my least favorite player Wow yeah even under the fire TV which I was not ecstatic over hi I'm i'm going to revisit it in a month or two once it get some more apps you know just as a barometer for everyone the Roku is my favorite player hands down followed by the apple TV and then i would say the fire TV all the fire TV is definitely improving and the nexus player just at once again it felt like it wasn't quite ready for release I think that's the big thing see I saw it in a demo with google and it was with google so it worked really well on everything i was like wow this is really good but no i actually use connected I mean I own a roku I own an apple TV I had a chromecast but the little thingy broke off on the back of my TV hdmi port actually and I usually just use my playstation 4 like if I'm going for videos now now I it just it felt very half-baked yeah well it is supposed to be I think also a reference design for other people that want to build Android TV products so yeah exactly exactly so now not a huge fan of the the Nexus three up uh here's one for you Todd I'd I don't know if you've actually played with this handset from a CID hot Gotama your views on galaxy grand three have we gotten to play with the galaxy grand three I don't know is that even out I don't know I haven't played with it it's not a u.s. handset so the soonest I'd be able to see it's probably Mobile World Congress yeah which and yeah Mobile World Congress is an early March this year isn't it yeah and great confuse it nothing like confusing us in general I think my favorite product from Samsung right now is the note for its great phone and I do like big phones but I don't know that I want to go as huge as you know I like big phones that I cannot from brazen Franco how do all the media players r-okla fire TV etc compared to an old laptop plugged and screwed to the TV is actually this well this is a legitimate question allows a lot of people have slept Mac minis onto the backs of their televisions with a computer you're going to get absolutely everything but my big problem with a computer setup is that it's a lot more power drain its can be conservatively noisier it's also a lot more cumbersome you know so if you really want to watch a lot of other file formats if you want to you know do more like screen sharing and all that sort of stuff then yeah that's a fine solution but for your average consumer that I always recommend a media streamer even over the built-in apps and televisions because I've yet the television company get that right those are bed other units he is exactly what my brother I I've not gotten a chance to play really with LG's webos integration I really want to try that out and see how that works I forget who i was talking to you and they said it was terrible but I don't know really yeah but I mean I maybe I dreamt adore I don't know but we'll see you drum something else this week that we had to get it haha that's hey we'll just leave that there Mercury's oh no comment from Dominique Weber do you have a favorite app of 2014 Oh um well I let's first say that what why don't we do this I well I think Dominique probably means released in 2014 I I I say let what app have you not been able to live without this year uh no I gotta say like feedly cuz i use it for work dark sky i think on the iphone it's really great weather out never go pretty here I've not usually oh it's really good it's premium I think it's like two bucks but uh two or three dollars but it shows you the weather in a really nice format and then I'm trying to get it right here there you go uh and then like so there's a world map to then it shows all the wetter weather patterns is really good oh that's cool it's probably 10 hearing about here's the world map oh that's not really nazia and it interplays you can this is everybody that can't see it's an animated world map it shows the weather patterns moving it's really nice not on android yet but I hope so soon I I will have to look into that way I love a good weather amp yeah I'm really boring I love a lot of travel apps I I would say and yes i know some people have problems with them but we're just going to talk about as a service uber was just the best thing ever when I was in Manchester this year while there are taxis available you know like when you're leaving a football match of 76,000 people and you can't find a cab you know being able to just hit a button on my phone and of car shows up amazing well I love the fact that I could see where the car was and I know Uber's not a new thing but I live in a small town I don't get to use uber that often it was just it was amazing that there was one instance where i went to a museum and i knew it was not taxi heavy area as i walked to a side street so i'd be easier to spot by the uber driver pulled it up some in the BIR turned he was like 30 seconds down the street I was like score didn't have to hardly wait yeah and none of the times i summon a new bride i took an uber from the hotel back to the airport when i was leaving way cheaper than a cab I've done that run before and with the Cabot's like 25 pounds with uber it was I think 1750 or something like that it way cheaper so I found a cheaper too everywhere I am yeah yeah it's just it's amazing uh oh good question here from Sean the man 34 from something we haven't thought about for weeks amazon echo why is it still available yet I requested an invite to order one on day one and yet to receive an invitation to order see I request a day one no invite yet yep I saw somebody at cnet reviewed it and had tweeted that ZDNet I'm sorry that he had bought it you know through the invite system which is interesting so I guess some people are getting him but the you know that comes back to our theory I was saying I think you know it could have been testing the waters before you know releasing this major product that's a bomb which you know the fire phone was which by the way is now a 1 99 unlocked at about one did you ever hear yeah i got it at 199 with a free year of amazon prime i was like done yeah that's right so it's really 99 bucks sorry it's really 99 bucks and my galaxy mega was acting up my beloved galaxy mega was acting up in the UK it kept rebooting every day like three to four times per day so yeah I was like a hundred nine bucks with a free year of amazon prime that's a little too good to pass up for you like it is 200 our phone I've unboxed it I have not even just in case yeah I I'm going to try it out soon I just haven't had a chance yeah but uh ya know it's interesting another good question from Sean the man 34g you guys cover connected home products for CES really want things in my house like Hugh and nest but for less money every single year I say guys if we have the time let's get to connected home products we've not had the manpower in years past I am really really hopeful that this year we're going to get two connected home products I've got two extra writers this year or so I'm cross at every body part that we're going to get two connected home products this year so it's definitely on the table it's just a matter of time and resources and hopefully there's some new brands there it's I think it would be nice for them to be and in the past they've been there especially ones that like you know would monitor your whole power consumption stuff like that before this is way back before nest so I mean it's it's the place where they could make debuts and Honeywell's over he's always there so yeah I you know as we hear the term more and more the you know the Internet of Things you know I I think that's that probably is one trend we're going to see a lot of this year I I expect to see it i was joking with somebody their day i would give a body part for a washing machine that could ping my phone and tell me the loads done I think LG makes that don't they they do it's it's horribly expensive right now the I I know this is a first world problem hashtag first world problem folks my washer and dryer in the basement I'm hardly ever in the basement so I try to figure out you know okay the cycle should take this long so I don't go down I hate it when I go down the base when I'm like great you know yep stand there for three minutes for the cycle so much so a washing machine that could go ping my iphone and go hey I'm done done and also somebody to finally come up with a washer and dryer that have the exact same length of cycle yeah seriously depending i think i know i know it's always like the dryers like 23 minutes longer than the washer you're like I can't get this coordinated you know it would be a really easy invention some kind of like beacon that he just put on your washer did like senses vibration and then when it's done it would ping your phone and you don't have to buy a whole new watch a guy did that he hacked his his washer to tweet him on it stopped but it was way above my experience yeah like how you do that yeah exactly well I cannot believe it but has been 45 minutes already I'm looking real quick to see if there's anything that we absolutely must address will we pick a favorite smartphone of the year yes we are we just started working on that yesterday will be an apple keynote before the apple watcher will it just be released I would say there probably will be a keynote hopefully I mean I don't know they get it shows that easy right again yeah exactly all right folks well that will do it for this week thank you all for joining us thank you all for so many questions as always you can find us on the itunes store by searching for the TechnoBuffalo show and we do 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