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giving a whole new meaning to preheating this is first well we're back first the verge morning show I'm Josh Topolsky i'm ross miller and it's been a crazy couple of days it's really a disturbing couple of days I know wish it was over already it would be great if the CES just ended right now and we can go home and go to sleep for several thousand hours but let me do that we're here we're here to serve for you this is of course first our morning show where we recap the events of the previous day we talk about what's to come for today and this is the point where CS really begins to slow down a little bit people are walking slower because of injuries and you know I think that this is the point where I think we start to have a lot of fun because we get to go find weird my stories and weird things out on the floor but we're not done with events yet no bill stuff happening we're so there's uh there's a tmobile thing today yeah i think but that is kind of a last controversial t-mobile yes and we'll talk about that later this this is though the show floors and open for one day most the press conference really are done yeah it's now the time we get to look at things last year when we're at this point it's when we found the pebbles where we found the oculus rift like the real big stories that we really enjoy the smaller companies actually had an impact throughout the year this is the time where we'll start finding them yeah i think you know once would you get through that the kind of haze of samsung and LG all these like companies with their curved whatever's you do start to you know it's like you see the little guys are sort of out there and the noises died down you can actually go find them right and and and i think speaking of little guys speaking of you have something here in the studio which i'm pretty excited about i'm very excited about this is well got that we've got the new pebble yeah guess deal new pebble steel we've got a couple options here you have the whole box but i actually have this is this is cool bunch it up we got the retail packaging i don't know if anybody can see that's probably not should I just throw this over to you uh actually you've got you can get an overhead I can't I do want on ball man I've on the show so it's the package once you open that lid give it back to it you got it all right now hand it now hand it back to me that is beautiful that to me anyhow so this is the silver one know i'm i'm more of a fan of the black soap a boat last year was kind of a big story of the show and we were very excited I'm gonna break this this is broken I'm not good at unboxing things it's been a long time no it's been you've been on box works as a professional for many years now but I then there's some other stuff in here which I'm not going i'm gonna i'm not it's a charging cable I need you say it but up I have to say this is I said I've said it a couple times now you know last year pebble was a big story for us because it's this it's this Kickstarter thing that became a real product and it's a real product that actually works I've never been a fan of the design the plastic design right this one is definitely the one you've got here we have the black version of that black on black I think this all of the all metal with the the metal face and metal strap actually a pretty handsome look I mean I could see myself I could see myself wearing this as an as an actual watch which is a big change for me mm-hmm because I would not there's not another I can't think of another SmartWatch that I've looked at and said yeah I could wear that right and we've seen a number of smartwatches this week especially um metawatch which brought in Frank nuovo the rare to designer try to watch which I've eviscerated on several broadcast I have seen that if you mean I mean the weird thing about metawatch is that is that here's a company that brings in this virtue designer and it's supposed to be like oh my god they're gonna create something amazing and they create this which i think is it looks like it's from 1996 you know I was completely dated I will say the staff has somewhat divided because I think it is a very classic looking design not this kind of classic not refined luxurious but it is something that stands up more than say a Fitbit flex or a fuel band and many of those which is what we're seeing as I am I'll what are the help tracking features the meta wash must do like fit well actually I don't know what I'm assuming there are i don't think there are any I don't know but area more there any health tracking features the Fitbit flex it does not signify was the matter wat gotta wash do you know you don't know right exactly Miriam zwar an old friend of ours who's also works is now Pavel PR gone to the dark side switch sides um but you know I gotta say I'm looking at this I'm liking it really surprisingly you know half the staff is already bought one no I know people want to be when a little bit crazy so you actually got it you you you know how some of the new functions work right and why don't we run through some of the features of the pebble I clips sorry I clearly have not had enough sleep you know hi this year that I'd say I know maybe but I feel completely insane right yeah and the first speaking also cut like most of our staff is like critically sick right now and yes I'm recovery to have actually sick for the last three days so but there's nothing to do with this no not one made the delightful pebbles let's go ahead so we've got obviously we've got the old pebble here in the new pebbles what pebbles dice and FLOTUS tears run through a few of the software demos yeah get these out of the way yeah cuz show this off I'm gonna put this box away so the big thing here obviously have all the same watch faces that we had before you go with this notification menu is much closer and only that you can actually look through the old notifications you had so once there that you've had them they don't immediately go away go all the way down here and we start getting some of the apps that are available there's dr sandwich for me mercedes-benz we don't have a car here we can use that with but now that's a one yeah that's a shame pebble can't shame we don't have a Mercedes I know here pelicans got an interesting one let me go ahead and real quick oh yeah pebble cam this is this is a new thing is this is a third-party app this is a third-party app guy small little company actually and what you do is it connects to your phone camera make sure it's working right now seems to be good to go and then it becomes your viewfinder for your camera which is actually really nice like a very slow updating view finite yeah sorry light skin too soon let's connect going down this one time yeah also apologize for that it's going to take us a couple of seconds to get this working that was like it's working it looks like it's working yeah so we faced to you right now great and so we can actually use the watch right here so I'm double handing this real quick there and we got a beautiful picture okay but I have to ask is this is this really more convenient than just taking a picture with it with a smartphone no I mean the night it doesn't feel like it is I will say that it cool it's very impressive tech demo though it's cool but it doesn't actually feel like it's it's an improvement on pulling your phone out of your pocket just snapping a picture no but look I you're putting it's like this is the kind of its own en X lynZ argument we had before where it's like we look at this where we put the lens somewhere here yeah i think that i think that i think what's interesting about that as it shows the potential for um when you've got an open an open system that you can develop for right and it's a watch you know you start to think about what are the different things you might do with it and that's you know it's a weird idea it might not be the perfect idea of it but it's cool to see people trying to do new things and this is the surprising about pebbles like they're very very early on like they have an open API they're very so far very accepting a warm of like people develop for in this this app store is obviously a testament to that yeah and for a small company to kind of come out and like kind of find what the SmartWatch industry is going to be in these housing on days like before Samsung really got a hold of it before Apple yeah obviously has done anything with it yeah it's really impressed to say the least what I wonder is how pebble will fare I mean if Apple does the iWatch or xfer I mean the galaxy gear doesn't seem to have made much of an impact I mean clearly there's some people that are buying it i doesn't seem like too widespread adoption or anything you know they're very different devices in a lot of ways but i am interested to know how something like the pebble or the matter watch are these do any of these smaller companies how that's going to fare when you get into you know somebody like Apple who really knows how to do hardware and really knows how to do interfaces right now Samsung is like struggling a little bit i think with the galaxy gear they wanted to be first I don't know if there's best so they're definitely not best so you know the so it'll be interesting to see how the market reacts to that and how these watches change i mean i will say in the span of a year going from the plastic version of this to the metal version you know it's like a huge leap in design it's a huge leap in in style right in the face wise it's still very similar though right I do function i think they nail like the simplicity part of this and this is a watch that you know you're gonna what have for at least a couple years like it just looks that good it's great well but i but i wonder but i wonder with a SmartWatch you don't need a year the idea it seems to be like in a year's time there's gonna be a new one it's me a better one so you know that's the thing i mean this israel thank you it but these aren't you know these are expensive they're not they're not as wildly expensive as a Rolex you know you're not five thousand dollars but what the one you have right there what how much is that I i I'd rather not say but come on my grandfather's watch it's well i didn't i didn't pay for it so that's the important very nice that's the important thing to remember is that i didn't pay for this and but but the point is nice watches are expensive these are expensive for most people would not spend two hundred fifty dollars on a watch I mean the majority of watches like you go by the fifty-dollar Watchers I mean I have a bunch of psychos that I love that were like eighty dollars right but then it's like hey next year there's an upgrade and the watches you know has a bigger phase it's faster it's whatever I don't know how much we can upgrade every single thing that we write that we buy especially jewelry you don't normally do that you buy a watch and you keep it for 10 years or 15 years you know I mean historically watches her are the kinds of things that you keep it in the family you know that you keep for a really long time and so I think it'll be interesting to see with stuff like the pebble is what's the what's the life span of this watch right you know I think you know it's obviously this is so early with smart watches that we don't know like if there are they gonna hit a plateau technologic where people are really happy with what they have right like it's going to be obviously very early on this is double the ram the are bringing the app store to the old pebble so that does expand its ban I think we're in the I think we're in the very early days of of these devices but I gotta say I think people got a lot of stuff writing them and I'm relatively excited about what they're doing I do okay yeah go on no no what were you say I would say like we did type of the pelvic am the one thing I wouldn't want to shop before that is some of the other apps that they're talking about which are more practical real quick okay yeah it was like on foursquare you can check in without having to like go you still use foursquare are you a Foursquare user I started again really because i was using recommendations oh yeah i don't know i just can't get in the habit of checking in places i feel like i don't know i just can't think of it when i'm at places I never think of it and then I'm like oh I should have checked in their income at the airport then I leave I'm like oh I should have checked in there just doesn't happen right it's to me it's the airport it's the gym and then it's like looking for places to eat and I don't want to auto check in like I don't want to have anything where I'm auto jacketing because that would just be a nightmare beyond description exactly or well within the realm of just being described either wet alright so so so foursquare what else Foursquare and then Yelp of course recommendations yeah now that that I think you'll be very much and the thing here if you shake it a little bit it'll actually give you a nearby recommendation so sushi samba is apparently a good place around here you see sushi samba yes there's a sushi samba in Las Vegas it's point nine miles away and here's the phone number that makes sense yeah let's give them let's all give them a call right now right and we get the reviews from there because it there are currently five several hundred people calling sushisamba all on the local Vegas inside this jacket yeah yeah um all right what else anything else those are big was right now ESPN that one only shows like the day's scores right now so everything looks kinda rozier oh that's great that's those are that sports scores it sports course sports ball okay but you can choose your favorite sports what other kind of scores might you show video game scores i guess if you have a I mean that could be something if you are big into eSports Paul Miller you know it would love that he Paul Miller's scores can check on us dota starcraft yeah all right what's that what else with that there's the big ones right now was it a watch face as a watch face this is a again Miriam our old friend it's a domo watch face I comes with some of the standard watch faces but also we have a couple new ones that you can always download this is probably the nicest one we've got right here at the classic look that's very cool so you guys see the one before that yeah no the other way it's gonna hear yo oh that is awesome that is I mean I wouldn't use the head face but its cool the face exists right basically all right so I think you know that's a little look at the pebble we actually have a more in-depth feature on this we have an interview with the CEO and and all sorts of hands-on photos and stuff you can check that out on the site right but very very very cool to see it in person right a chance to play with it and this is going on sale in a month but he would reduce this is on sale now it's on selling apples website and its shipping january twenty eighth if you bought other so they're like basically sold out down right and so they're chipping in February's what it's telling people right but late january if you have your pebble the app store should be launching right let's feel amazing by the way of your pebble yeah and you're like yeah we wanted to make a SmartWatch we started the kickstarter project and then a year later you introduced a new model and you're selling out like the day it goes on sale right you know that's pretty incredible it's pretty credible story and i think pretty incredible example of how much technology has changed i mean i remember a few years ago talking about hardware startups and everybody was like it's so hard to do a hardware startup it's almost impossible you saw a lot of people fail and now you're starting to see people succeed now let's see if this is chris only in a span 12 months like pebble was a story from last CES actually i think the wednesday of last see is we really got a time like to look at it after the whole kickstarter thing happened with them and it's they had 12 months you've really kind of like changed like how we talk about these small companies right no it's pretty incredible alright so up next there is an event happening when the last events is event happening today jon was here yes we'll see i mean i think that's how his name is pronounced I don't know for a fact i see Legere we have some people say ledger yeah mom st. Lazare english' from t-mobile yes who is a you know wild maniac rather audacious completely insane he actually one of the big stories from CES this year is that he went to an 80 mclemore party right which I by the way Macklemore said it right or so I'm told I don't know if that's actually the right it's not Macklemore it's apparently not Macklemore it's apparently McLemore unless I'm being trolled by Soviet apart I think that somebody would be Laura which is possible down that I think about it so at any rate either Mackel more or McLemore was doing a show here at CES and it was an 18 a TV show John Legere went to it and was promptly ejected yes I eight finalists quite heavy security which was great fodder first fire obviously we were going with my hair I just have to fix this of course ok really driving me crazy it wouldn't be it wouldn't be a broadcast with me if I didn't there i'm a much happy can bring him I care if you want any asset to any how so Legere shows up it's like I just want to jam to macklemore or McLemore whoever he is and then Ralph de la Vega kicked him out personally personally personally threw him to the ground d CEOs are rough threw him out add to the ground right so actually sewed relatives I that's another story that happened just as he I think March was the first big speech that we saw I think Dan see for myself our director John wind yeah not know John was years like a new guy on the seat yes he's not he's not been around for a long time but he is something that we just can't help but talk about now he's made a real impact for better for worse yeah I me a lot of people think this this chick is old I actually don't like it as you then do you enjoy it I mean how often do you see a CEO like this you're him you're hearing people like Intel try to be like that right trying to be a little more open I think it's better than like I is easily he is kind of refreshing yes you know because he's not pulling punches or at least he seems like he's not pulling punches so we actually have a video compilation of lose years greatest hits yes so take a look at this holy I don't have wireless industry experience there's not a goddamn person in the world besides a wireless industry person that would understand why the hell this mess works this way this is the biggest crock of I've ever heard in my life it's everybody's blogging holy crap I can't believe you just said that oh he said that's how I lost the family pool I bet he'd only swear five times look up I feel like I'm the teacher Hey look at me I don't want to hear a single one of you tell me after I announced this next so what are you gonna do if they respond you can't do the next to this because you host chapter one on algebra get ready for another profanity-laden tirade on AT&T I can't resist it's not the g rated version it's like hey kids is it better for your network to be crap or is it better to have a good LTE high-speed network in New York and then this is the one that comes up with a great answer I'm gonna explain how stupid we all are but not make us feel bad holy crap what happened to my phone cut the crap on the prepaid postpaid we can do it just a guy like you hey Billy what's what's better bigger or smaller I mean come on how about not coming a crop as angry here haha if the way you want to respond to this tactic is to say no there's a contract on the device it's not really good go for it it's hi I'm AT&T and my customers hate me what's keeping them up at night is us pig Macklemore fans I've already told you about the spaceship and the aliens coming in please stop the you know how I spend my times tweeting skyping blogging posting googling facetiming go frankly you're just pissed because the little girl sitting next to you has a better phone than you yeah yeah okay if you're typing I didn't say we're going completely into the prepaid business watch out boost so we're gonna make you pay your bill later in a very complicated way with a contract so we can take the out of your pockets for two years it's so beautiful for me because this is just a broken industry with a bunch of arrogant people that don't know how to tell it like it is i call them oh moments oh it's really an abbreviation not necessarily because your phone fell in the toilet it's short for oh i'm tied into an epic contract and I can't get out for two years and I'm gonna hold that toilet written phone to my head for the next two years haha frankly they don't have the balls to say it either to the manufacturers or to the customers you are now you are the first broadcast on television to say balls right there so we're a pair by the way my daughter is here today you young bloggers after the speech today if you find yourself hitting on attractive young girl whose tag says leger you're dead I mean we can track you down with these cellphones don't let them kid you I mean like I have to say I maybe it's an act but it makes me want to be his customer I feel like like just salad first up he doesn't sound insane I mean not saying is right right and they have actually changed t-mobile plans to be somewhat less restrictive and crappy it's not as it's not like what you would expect after you see hearing that it's not like this huge sea change maybe today will be the huge sea change we don't know but he is really likable very lightly funny and he's like the FX network a cos he doesn't mind swearing a lot yeah i'm the same thing in the highways but he's just bringing a much more blunt yes and frankly it's just refreshing to see some buddy who is in so rehearsed trying to work through their script right you know this guy's just kind of he's just riffing ran and it works and like what the weird thing is of you see people's reaction to it you know in kind of the broad market sense people are like i like i know of the CEOs existence and i like him which is something you basically don't hear anywhere right you know i mean nobody's talking about how much they like Mark Zuckerberg no you know and like many long mas people you don't love him but again it's another hot day like flamboyant very fun boy an audacious character right so you know it's it's it's pretty incredible so so John Legere is is as you can see love social media let's agree that there's the two things like the press conference on Legere everyone loves people loves in the speeches that's never been a thing Twitter in this day and age of course is a huge deal very active on Twitter you cannot stop we have some John Legere right some John Legere tweets here and this is this is the one right before he got kicked out here's the me and I said this I said this last night on the verge cast but I think we should be concerned about the fact that he's doing the bunny ears yeah that is problematic here I think in this day and age so um yeah and this is what his reaction to it yeah what happens in Vegas will be on the Internet in seconds is the 18 th challenger especially when you're kicking in the competition kicking out the competition for your party right a tee hee I mean there are a few things you learn from Toddlers error reading his tweets the first thing is he really really does hate 18 really a teensy he hates more than anything I alright what else do we have here right this is him just going to the ball he's went to a mall in New Jersey took a picture of an empty AT&T store and tweeted it that's greatest role what else uh for the breaking bad finale yeah he's suggesting a TT 4 burner phones yes and they don't know what the what is this mr. he's to pay me like a cool jacket looking at so he does a couple selfies there's one hears I'm talking about his turkey changing the phone deals they kinda brine a turkey for the first time changing wireless industry was easier than being the chef yeah I mean I guess it's a little bit i need using this in this is a sign of his hashtag obsession he does a lot of hashtag cover girl katie is that even a real hashtag er to John Legere invented i'm not sure but i think he's like let's start this trend i think so alright what else do we have here we've got oh yes he also a big fan of the Batman yeah Batman he's like obsessive Batman he fashions itself is like the Batman of the care of the mobile carriers but it gets it gets really weird another hashtag example hashtag spinning hashtag power hour what is spinning me that's the that's like this already like soul ii soul spin class I've learned so much about John Legere like the last one what else what else we have here um this is where the Batman obsession gets a little bit weird yeah this is the Batman look at some point DC is gonna take action I you must have cuz here this is his office he's got Batman logos also like a bright pink which is like you know that magenta Batman Batman you know at times Batman's costume gets weird but little weird typically not like a hot pink or magenta now it's like when you're even here when you're uh searching out criminals in the night and attacking them and being them they do a lifeless pulp right feels like magenta might be the wrong color it's not bad I'm not saying it's effeminate I'm saying it's just really bright that's a mission like it you know it's just it's extremely bright color like if you're sneaking around magenta is probably not going to be the tone you're going for not to mention his hatred of a TD he said going to actually beat up ralph de la Vega no he might he might I mean let's put it this way if there was a story today through the story today John Legere punches ralph de la Vega in the face right it's not like we'd be like what I can't believe that happened no it'd be like yeah that was the logical conclusion of what was going on like the early morning we find Ralph de la Vega it's like hanging from a light pole yeah string yeah with a sign for the police yes exactly that's what's going to happen are there any more tweets we've got unfortunately if you were this is his own t-shirt know yet the map is a Batman now this is heaven is his tweet yes ok always a hashtag magnets yes ok I wait yeah that's good stuff what's the next one and then here we go the full transformation is the last one him dressed up as Batman as the mobile with a tmobile shirt on yes I get it he's like um avenging the death of fairness in wireless contracts I guess right they make sense his his his family had anyhow so so clearly the man is a very colorful character and always entertaining variant regardless whether you agree with him or not always entertaining was going on behind me do I I said she was just Hagee down it's just yeah cool did you need this background himself I bet he actually has a little money I do like he's like unless defenders on has been several hours Photoshop either oh you think you did it personally yeah you know personally um so we have the tmobile event what time is it out 1230 today well be well 1230 today we'll be streaming it live we're gonna be live stream the t-mobile event just try to figure out what camera or live stream John Legere is sure to do something completely outrageous and we went capture it so we'll be live-blogging it live streaming it and and that's the only event for today right now it's just we're gonna hit the show now I was gonna go you're gonna be seeing all kinds of crazy news and reports our guys are out doing weird stuff at the moment you've seen the watchmen were beaten des ventes electrocuted oh my god lazier oh well he's being a vigilante but but there's me a lot more news tonight a lot more CS news we have a lot of stuff to do and for the rest of the week actually there's there's much more coming from the verge so stay tuned and then later on tonight will of course have the verge cast after hours last night was one for the for the books probably honestly I say when the best wants to watch I don't know it's true but uh but I'll accept if you like if you like yahoo if you're like trolling yahoo and you love where sony's going i knows a great one to watch yeah and alcohol if you love alcohol fuel of alcohol and and i think that's it for first that is that potato when not only we have anything else to talk about its we got to hit the show floor and find it but we really do so so that's it for us when we back tomorrow yes more first and until then have a wonderful wonderful day