Dec 16, 2019
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Good morning, everybody. The Christmas Holiday season is underway, and it comes with a warning. Today I discussed some great gifts you might want to consider and some advice about getting that 5G phone right now. Here we go.
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Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on Mr.
Jackie this morning. And I had some ideas I think some great ideas
for gifts for the tech people in your life and a little bit of a
warning although there are companies with 5g phones out there. Hey,
it isn't to what you might think it is. At least not yet. So here
we go with Mr. Heath. Out in a moment but on the Tech Talk side our
own Craig Peterson ways in this Monday morning. Good morning,
Craig. Hey, good morning, jack. What a great time of year I'm just
so excited. We got all of our shopping done before December even
showed its face. The first time, I'm usually one of those guys like
Justin, and I was just conversing about it. But bottom line, you
know, it's December 24, 3 pm is time to start the shopping. But
this year, I'm all ready for it.
Jack Heath
Well, you have a football team to buy stuff for how many?
Craig Peterson
Yeah, but we only have eight kids and five, and I began to like,
one little gift per and say, you're lucky you get it. No, I'm
kidding. I'm kidding. Well, I got a little bit of gift advice here,
jack for people. We keep hearing about the 5g networks. Of course,
you and I've talked about a little bit as well, and these are the
new data networks for our smart devices are smartphones, even
frankly, laptops going to be coming with 5g, and it's going to be
just a whole world changer. But I want people to kind of stop just
for a second. When you are looking to buy some more than upgraded
phone a smartphone this year. And you're thinking about 5g. There
are companies out there like, for instance, T-Mobile has its
nationwide 5g that just launched on Friday. And it's going to be
the most significant network at least right now. None of these 5g
networks are really in place yet. They're not working well.
T-mobile's is starting, and at at&t and Verizon are beginning,
but it's only going to work in the real big cities. So a little
quick word of caution. Don't go out buying a new smartphone that
has five g in it. For instance, right now, Samsung is taking orders
for two new phones and the latest Samsung Galaxy Note 10 plus and
the one plus 70. Those phones Yeah, they'll be good enough. But 5g
isn't going to hit until next Christmas. Apple's going to have
their new 5g phone out next September. All of the major carriers
will have some decent rollout by then. But frankly, I would not
look at 5g quite yet. When I was getting if I was getting a phone,
I still have an iPhone eight. I have not upgraded, and I don't plan
on upgrading until the iPhone 12 comes out. If you've got a friend
or family member who's and you're still looking for that cool toy
for that tech person. Well, I got something that isn't a toy. It is
kind of the replacement for those thumb drives that we've carried
around for so long. The company that's made a lot of this portable
storage like thumb drives is called SanDisk, S-A-N D-I-S-K. SanDisk
has their new extreme portable SS D. This thing is fantastic. It
can hold up to two terabytes depending on which version you get.
You can clip it onto a backpack, you can put it, even in a pocket
or in your purse, and it allows you to keep everything with you. So
I'm the kind of guy who likes to back up my backups. So when I'm
out shooting pictures at a family event, I was just at a wedding
last week, a family wedding. I like to have multiple copies of
them. Look at this Portable SSD. It's an excellent option for a
gift. And if you have somebody that is totally into tech, really
likes to make things and design things. There's something called a
Raspberry Pi. Now I've been playing with these things for years,
and the Raspberry Pi four is out. It is a computer that will fit
in. To call it that. Exactly. It doesn't sound appetizing, and it
fits in the palm of your hand jack, it is a computer, and USB-C
cable powers it. And for those people in your life who are real
techies who like to make and design things that are
computer-controlled. It is an extraordinary gift, and you can get
these starter kits for less than 100 bucks. And it comes with
everything that you'd want. So those are the two big things I'd
look at anything and if you got somebody wants to take things
apart, jack, look at that. I fix it. That's the name of the
company. I set it pro tech tool kit. I love this thing, and I use
them all the time because when I go to a wedding Or I go to a
family event. The first thing they do jack is they pull out the
computer and say, Hey, Craig, can you fix this for me? So have a
look at those gift ideas I think for the tech people in your
life.
Jack Heath
All right. All right. Quickly to Sonic course Justin still looking
for those last-minute video games, right? He's a gamer.
Craig Peterson
Yeah, there's some cool on, sir. Yeah. All right. The Video Game
process is kind of year-round, jack. It's not. There's no last
minute.
Jack Heath
All right, great. Thank you.
Craig Peterson
Thanks so much. All right.
Craig Peterson
Hey, everybody, hope you're having a great week and getting ready
for all of the celebrations here at the end of the year. Of course,
we have Christmas coming up Hanukkah and Festivus. So I'm not sure
those are all on par with each other. But anyway, I just hope you
have a great, great end of the year. I had a wonderful time out at
my sister in law's wedding last week. It was one Wonderful, and
it's kind of cool to see another culture and all of the things
involved with her marriage, and we're glad to be able to
participate. Everybody have a great day. I will be back on the
morrow. I'm going to be doing a little traveling here over the next
couple of weeks business, you know, you're in a way that stuff
sometimes plays out until I might be a little spotty here with some
of these podcasts. But yeah, I'll be back full force at the
beginning of the year. Take care, everybody. Talk to you later.
Bye-bye.
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