1 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,990 - [Instructor] Hey, let's talk about smartphones. 2 00:00:09,990 --> 00:00:11,670 Here we have some smartphones. 3 00:00:11,670 --> 00:00:13,680 Smartphones are mobile phones 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,740 that have much more processing power 5 00:00:16,740 --> 00:00:19,470 than, say, a standard feature phone, 6 00:00:19,470 --> 00:00:21,390 like a flip phone like this. 7 00:00:21,390 --> 00:00:24,480 Now, feature phones are just meant to be used 8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:29,340 for basic phone calls, basic texting, very basic stuff. 9 00:00:29,340 --> 00:00:30,840 They don't have much power. 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:32,910 But smartphones have lots of power. 11 00:00:32,910 --> 00:00:36,300 They're kind of like a computer in a palm of your hands. 12 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:39,120 You could do desktop like web browsing, 13 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:43,950 high definition playback of videos, use all kinds of apps. 14 00:00:44,910 --> 00:00:49,380 They have high powered cameras, right? 15 00:00:49,380 --> 00:00:52,260 They can act as recording devices, music players, 16 00:00:52,260 --> 00:00:54,243 personal assistance, you name it. 17 00:00:55,462 --> 00:00:58,020 So the idea with the A+ is, 18 00:00:58,020 --> 00:01:01,260 you're gonna be required to work with, configure, 19 00:01:01,260 --> 00:01:04,650 troubleshoot smartphone, but not really feature phones. 20 00:01:04,650 --> 00:01:07,383 We'll slide those back in way. 21 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:14,040 So there's our devices here, our smartphones, 22 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,330 and we got a couple here. 23 00:01:15,330 --> 00:01:17,100 We'll go back in time a little bit. 24 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:21,153 Here we have an HTC Evo. See if it still works. 25 00:01:22,590 --> 00:01:24,660 Okay, it functions. 26 00:01:24,660 --> 00:01:26,400 And this had the slide out keyboard. 27 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,410 You don't really see these types of things anymore. 28 00:01:28,410 --> 00:01:30,990 But it was a great device. Still works. 29 00:01:30,990 --> 00:01:32,100 Built like a tank. 30 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:35,763 Dropped it off a 30 foot high building, 31 00:01:37,290 --> 00:01:38,970 not on purpose or anything. 32 00:01:38,970 --> 00:01:42,630 But you can see the size progression as time went on. 33 00:01:42,630 --> 00:01:45,420 This smartphone's from about 10 years ago. 34 00:01:45,420 --> 00:01:47,640 So a little bit bigger screen. 35 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,230 This is a Samsung Note 4, 36 00:01:49,230 --> 00:01:51,600 which I got about four years ago. 37 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,730 And you can see much bigger screen. 38 00:01:53,730 --> 00:01:56,730 And at the time, this was considered phablet, 39 00:01:56,730 --> 00:01:59,493 combination of phone and tablet. 40 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,610 But that term has kind of gone away 41 00:02:02,610 --> 00:02:04,920 because this size screen is really normal 42 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,170 for a lot of the smartphones that are out there now. 43 00:02:07,170 --> 00:02:09,180 Six inch screens is very common, 44 00:02:09,180 --> 00:02:11,010 as of the recording of this video, 45 00:02:11,010 --> 00:02:14,250 which is in 2018, by the way. 46 00:02:14,250 --> 00:02:16,530 And here we have a newer one. 47 00:02:16,530 --> 00:02:19,230 And a lot of the devices will look similar to this. 48 00:02:19,230 --> 00:02:23,220 We'll have some volume buttons on the left side. 49 00:02:23,220 --> 00:02:24,543 Nothing on the right side. 50 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,450 On the bottom, we got a speaker 51 00:02:27,450 --> 00:02:31,380 and a microphone and also a USB-C jack 52 00:02:31,380 --> 00:02:33,243 for charging and synchronization. 53 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:39,680 On the top, another microphone and also headphone jack, 54 00:02:41,910 --> 00:02:45,000 which you may or may not see on some smartphones. 55 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,590 On the back, those cameras we mentioned 56 00:02:46,590 --> 00:02:48,753 and the flash and a power button. 57 00:02:50,550 --> 00:02:54,450 Okay. So that's a newer smartphone. 58 00:02:54,450 --> 00:02:58,140 This was made in 2017, and that's my main device now. 59 00:02:58,140 --> 00:02:59,490 This one actually still works. 60 00:02:59,490 --> 00:03:01,740 I use it for video recording and a couple other things. 61 00:03:01,740 --> 00:03:03,420 But it got a little flaky. 62 00:03:03,420 --> 00:03:06,600 And so I finally moved into the new device. 63 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:07,433 So let's talk 64 00:03:07,433 --> 00:03:10,230 about typical smartphone hardware specifications. 65 00:03:10,230 --> 00:03:12,303 So we'll place these to side. 66 00:03:13,711 --> 00:03:15,211 And we'll talk about this guy. 67 00:03:16,710 --> 00:03:18,480 Zoom in on him a little bit. 68 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,970 Okay, let's talk about the hardware specifications 69 00:03:20,970 --> 00:03:22,110 for this particular phone. 70 00:03:22,110 --> 00:03:25,683 This one happens to be an LG V30. 71 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,070 And the specifications for this phone are pretty good, 72 00:03:29,070 --> 00:03:31,560 are pretty typical of a flagship phone, 73 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,800 in or around 2017, 2018. 74 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,800 So this one has a 2.45 gigahertz ARM-based CPU. 75 00:03:41,430 --> 00:03:43,440 So it's a RISC-based CPU. 76 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,030 It's Arm technology. 77 00:03:45,030 --> 00:03:47,583 And this one uses a Snapdragon 835, 78 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,063 that's a 64 bit system-on-a-chip, or SoC. 79 00:03:52,380 --> 00:03:57,380 It has mobile DDR, four gigabytes of that. 80 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:01,743 And the proper title for that is LPDDR4. 81 00:04:02,940 --> 00:04:07,353 This particular one has 64 gigabytes of flash memory. 82 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,370 And that's similar to solid-state drive flash memory. 83 00:04:11,370 --> 00:04:16,080 But you might find phones with 32 gigs, 64, 128, 256, 84 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:18,660 around the recording of this video, around this time. 85 00:04:18,660 --> 00:04:20,520 So that can change. 86 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,833 And it'll vary from one device to the next. 87 00:04:24,108 --> 00:04:26,850 And a lot of these components, like the CPU, 88 00:04:26,850 --> 00:04:28,290 the RAM, and other components, 89 00:04:28,290 --> 00:04:33,290 they're all put onto one single substrate, 90 00:04:33,690 --> 00:04:35,400 one circuit board. 91 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,340 That's the 64 bit system-on-a-chip. 92 00:04:38,340 --> 00:04:41,310 Really, the 64 bit section is the CPU. 93 00:04:41,310 --> 00:04:43,143 So that is the system on a chip. 94 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:46,680 This has a multitouch screen. 95 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,410 Multitouch screen, is capacitive. 96 00:04:49,410 --> 00:04:52,923 And if we tap that button on the back, that'll wake it up. 97 00:04:55,410 --> 00:04:58,320 And we'll see our lock screen here. 98 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,790 I don't have any type of password 99 00:04:59,790 --> 00:05:03,210 or anything on this right now, so I can do this faster. 100 00:05:03,210 --> 00:05:05,850 Okay, so we just swiped to open it up. 101 00:05:05,850 --> 00:05:07,860 And you can see that we have a touch screen. 102 00:05:07,860 --> 00:05:10,050 We can use one, two, multiple fingers. 103 00:05:10,050 --> 00:05:11,673 It's a multitouch touch screen. 104 00:05:13,170 --> 00:05:16,890 These devices, they all use lithium-ion polymer batteries. 105 00:05:16,890 --> 00:05:18,720 And that's known as li-ion. 106 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:23,580 Sometimes you see 'em as li-po, lithium polymer, li-po. 107 00:05:23,580 --> 00:05:28,050 This particular one has 3,300 milliamp hours. 108 00:05:28,050 --> 00:05:29,670 Typically, we're talking about 20 hours 109 00:05:29,670 --> 00:05:31,143 of usage and talk time. 110 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,493 It has a six inch display, which is measured diagonally. 111 00:05:38,580 --> 00:05:43,580 And this one runs at 2880 X 1440 resolution, 112 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,283 which is considered an 18:9 aspect ratio. 113 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,230 This guy is dust and waterproof. 114 00:05:52,230 --> 00:05:54,690 It's IP68 compliant. 115 00:05:54,690 --> 00:05:58,590 And we talked about IP, the IP code in another video, 116 00:05:58,590 --> 00:06:00,450 but this one is IP68. 117 00:06:00,450 --> 00:06:05,100 So the 6 means that it's dustproof, dust tight, 118 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:10,100 and the 8 means that it is somewhat waterproof. 119 00:06:11,070 --> 00:06:13,170 You can never be 100% waterproof. 120 00:06:13,170 --> 00:06:16,710 It's not protected from water jets. 121 00:06:16,710 --> 00:06:18,543 That would be IP65. 122 00:06:19,410 --> 00:06:23,250 This one's IP68, which means that it can be immersed 123 00:06:23,250 --> 00:06:28,250 in around one meter of water for about 30 minutes. 124 00:06:28,260 --> 00:06:31,320 Different manufacturers might go beyond that. 125 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,710 But the IP68, the 8 portion 126 00:06:34,710 --> 00:06:37,143 requires one meter 30 minutes, really. 127 00:06:40,176 --> 00:06:44,940 So here we have the Note 4, about four years older. 128 00:06:44,940 --> 00:06:46,950 2014 it was made. 129 00:06:46,950 --> 00:06:50,190 And we have a micro USB connector. 130 00:06:50,190 --> 00:06:55,190 Whereas, this one has the USB-C power connector 131 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:56,973 for charging and synchronization. 132 00:06:58,020 --> 00:07:00,150 This one also has a stylus, 133 00:07:00,150 --> 00:07:03,693 which is proprietary to the particular device you're using. 134 00:07:06,180 --> 00:07:07,500 This device does not have one. 135 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:08,333 I'm okay with that. 136 00:07:08,333 --> 00:07:10,860 I'm not using a stylus very much anyways. 137 00:07:10,860 --> 00:07:13,830 But you'll notice that this one has the home button here. 138 00:07:13,830 --> 00:07:16,020 It's an actual physical button. 139 00:07:16,020 --> 00:07:19,440 Whereas, this one has the home button as part of the screen 140 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,290 to save space and to have a larger screen. 141 00:07:22,290 --> 00:07:24,963 And they actually hide those buttons, will auto hide. 142 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:30,270 Power buttons here on this device. 143 00:07:30,270 --> 00:07:32,670 Whereas the power buttons on the back. 144 00:07:32,670 --> 00:07:34,890 Saving space, and just making a little easier. 145 00:07:34,890 --> 00:07:35,723 'Cause you might notice 146 00:07:35,723 --> 00:07:37,027 a lot of people might complain to you, 147 00:07:37,027 --> 00:07:38,820 "Hey, when I hit the volumes, 148 00:07:38,820 --> 00:07:41,430 I hit the power button, and it puts the phone to sleep." 149 00:07:41,430 --> 00:07:44,460 'Cause this is the way they hold it. Right? 150 00:07:44,460 --> 00:07:46,230 So that kind of fixes that problem 151 00:07:46,230 --> 00:07:48,120 on a lot of devices out there. 152 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,750 So that's just the specs for this particular smartphone. 153 00:07:51,750 --> 00:07:53,070 It's typical, 154 00:07:53,070 --> 00:07:54,810 and there's plenty of other smartphones out there. 155 00:07:54,810 --> 00:07:57,690 So a good assignment for you is to go out on the internet 156 00:07:57,690 --> 00:08:02,690 and research the specs for your phone, and see what it has, 157 00:08:03,420 --> 00:08:08,343 as far as CPU, RAM, how much flash memory, 158 00:08:09,210 --> 00:08:12,090 all that stuff, the battery life, the type of display, 159 00:08:12,090 --> 00:08:16,440 whether or not it's IP compliant, 68 or 67. 160 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,783 Some of the older devices are 67. 161 00:08:20,130 --> 00:08:21,580 So definitely check that out. 162 00:08:22,830 --> 00:08:25,143 Let's show this guy in action a little bit. 163 00:08:26,190 --> 00:08:27,900 I'll put him to sleep here. 164 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:29,160 And to aid with this, 165 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:33,213 I'm going to hook him up to my video system. 166 00:08:36,330 --> 00:08:38,430 Okay, that wakes up the phone automatically, 167 00:08:38,430 --> 00:08:40,083 whenever you plug it in. 168 00:08:42,690 --> 00:08:45,450 All right, so now we can look at this. 169 00:08:45,450 --> 00:08:46,740 You can see what I'm doing. 170 00:08:46,740 --> 00:08:48,150 And then you can see it on the left side 171 00:08:48,150 --> 00:08:50,343 a little bit bigger, also a little clearer. 172 00:08:52,747 --> 00:08:56,980 So we have our button here that can put the phone to sleep 173 00:08:58,530 --> 00:09:02,040 or wake it up or power it down or power it on. 174 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:03,210 Here's our home screen. 175 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:05,910 And you can have different pages or screens 176 00:09:05,910 --> 00:09:08,250 and different apps on different pages. 177 00:09:08,250 --> 00:09:09,960 If you wanna go back to your home screen, 178 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,610 you tap this button here on the bottom in the middle. 179 00:09:13,470 --> 00:09:14,303 That brings you home. 180 00:09:14,303 --> 00:09:16,260 And quite often, that can act as a button 181 00:09:16,260 --> 00:09:18,630 that'll bring up your assistant also, 182 00:09:18,630 --> 00:09:20,280 your personal assistant. 183 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:21,660 Now, we have some apps on the bottom here. 184 00:09:21,660 --> 00:09:23,409 These are stationary. 185 00:09:23,409 --> 00:09:26,073 They stay regardless of which page you're on. 186 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:29,880 And you can select most of these. 187 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,730 On most devices, you'll have an apps button though, 188 00:09:32,730 --> 00:09:34,740 and that can't change. 189 00:09:34,740 --> 00:09:36,270 And so if we tap on that, 190 00:09:36,270 --> 00:09:38,370 that'll bring up all the apps that we have 191 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:41,643 for this particular device. 192 00:09:43,290 --> 00:09:45,240 And we can add them to our screens from here 193 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,713 by tapping and holding. 194 00:09:49,620 --> 00:09:51,420 Go back to the homepage. 195 00:09:51,420 --> 00:09:55,683 Or, if you're in this screen, you could use the back button. 196 00:09:57,660 --> 00:10:00,720 Tap on that, bring us back to where we were before. 197 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:02,850 And like I say, these buttons are here, 198 00:10:02,850 --> 00:10:05,940 but they're really part of the display. 199 00:10:05,940 --> 00:10:10,053 And they'll disappear when you start using some type of app. 200 00:10:11,130 --> 00:10:13,980 Okay, so for example, we could use the clock here. 201 00:10:13,980 --> 00:10:15,273 We'll tap on that now. 202 00:10:16,260 --> 00:10:17,940 And that brings up the clock, 203 00:10:17,940 --> 00:10:19,350 and I'm on the Stopwatch section, 204 00:10:19,350 --> 00:10:22,530 but you notice that the buttons are gone on the bottom. 205 00:10:22,530 --> 00:10:25,330 We could bring those back up by swiping from the bottom, 206 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,160 and bring them back up temporarily. 207 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:30,840 Or we can bring 'em up permanently 208 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,170 by pressing this little button on the left. 209 00:10:34,170 --> 00:10:37,200 If we tap that, that'll keep those buttons on there, 210 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,030 if you like that feature. 211 00:10:39,030 --> 00:10:41,220 But a lot of times, people like to auto hide them 212 00:10:41,220 --> 00:10:43,420 and that's quite often the default for this. 213 00:10:44,580 --> 00:10:47,103 Okay, and if we want to go back, we can. 214 00:10:48,030 --> 00:10:51,420 If we wanna bring that app back up or another app 215 00:10:51,420 --> 00:10:54,030 and see what apps we're running, we can press the square. 216 00:10:54,030 --> 00:10:56,460 That'll show the all apps that are running. 217 00:10:56,460 --> 00:11:00,510 And you can see here we have Chrome running and the Clock. 218 00:11:00,510 --> 00:11:04,500 And you can close these by tapping on the X, 219 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:09,390 or by swiping them across, or by tapping CLEAR ALL 220 00:11:09,390 --> 00:11:11,640 if you wanna clear them all at the same time. 221 00:11:12,930 --> 00:11:15,330 So a little bit of the basic functionality there 222 00:11:15,330 --> 00:11:17,160 and some of the sections of the phone. 223 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,980 Now at the top here, we have the notification area. 224 00:11:19,980 --> 00:11:22,230 And you get various icons on your left, 225 00:11:22,230 --> 00:11:24,600 depending on what apps you're running. 226 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,010 But the icons on the right 227 00:11:26,010 --> 00:11:28,950 are generally the same for most phones. 228 00:11:28,950 --> 00:11:30,840 Now, if you have an Apple iPhone, 229 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,490 it's gonna be quite different than this. 230 00:11:32,490 --> 00:11:35,760 But the general idea will be the same. 231 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,380 This is Android-based. 232 00:11:37,380 --> 00:11:38,820 And for the different manufacturers, 233 00:11:38,820 --> 00:11:40,980 you'll have slight differences. 234 00:11:40,980 --> 00:11:43,800 But generally, you have these same types of icons. 235 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:48,270 Here we have an icon that shows that we're on vibrate mode. 236 00:11:48,270 --> 00:11:51,720 So the phone won't make noise while I'm recording. 237 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:56,720 We have a clock, looks like alarm clock. 238 00:11:56,790 --> 00:11:59,250 That means we have some alarms that will run, 239 00:11:59,250 --> 00:12:01,830 that will turn on at some point. 240 00:12:01,830 --> 00:12:03,030 Here we have the plane. 241 00:12:03,030 --> 00:12:05,649 The plane means we're an airplane mode, 242 00:12:05,649 --> 00:12:07,500 and we'll show more about that in a second. 243 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:11,733 Here we shows where we have 96% battery power and the time. 244 00:12:13,110 --> 00:12:15,730 But not only that, you can swipe down from the top 245 00:12:16,620 --> 00:12:18,540 to get the notification area, 246 00:12:18,540 --> 00:12:21,390 and to enable or disable various services, 247 00:12:21,390 --> 00:12:23,703 and also see all of your notifications. 248 00:12:24,660 --> 00:12:28,770 And we have a little arrow here, and we can change all this. 249 00:12:28,770 --> 00:12:30,670 So airplane mode is running right now. 250 00:12:31,740 --> 00:12:33,330 Now one of the interesting things is, 251 00:12:33,330 --> 00:12:35,163 even if airplane mode is running, 252 00:12:37,020 --> 00:12:39,963 you may not have all wireless turned off, 253 00:12:41,580 --> 00:12:44,220 and location may be running. 254 00:12:44,220 --> 00:12:46,560 If you wanna fully go off the grid, 255 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:48,483 you'd have to tap that to turn it off. 256 00:12:50,580 --> 00:12:53,130 And some people, sometimes they might be an airplane mode, 257 00:12:53,130 --> 00:12:58,130 but then they'll tap on wifi, which will actually work, 258 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,703 even though we're supposed to be an airplane mode. 259 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:04,380 So if you look here now, 260 00:13:04,380 --> 00:13:06,480 we have the plane, we're on airplane mode, 261 00:13:07,740 --> 00:13:09,960 but we can also run on Wi-Fi. 262 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,770 You turn airplane mode on and it turns off cellular access. 263 00:13:13,770 --> 00:13:17,130 And that's the main reason for airplane mode. 264 00:13:17,130 --> 00:13:19,170 It also turns off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. 265 00:13:19,170 --> 00:13:21,752 But you can turn those on individually, 266 00:13:21,752 --> 00:13:24,603 while keeping cellular access off. 267 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,610 So not only can you see the notifications here 268 00:13:29,610 --> 00:13:30,663 on your screen, 269 00:13:33,030 --> 00:13:36,030 and make lots of changes to these options here, 270 00:13:36,030 --> 00:13:38,430 and we'll be doing some of this in some other videos, 271 00:13:38,430 --> 00:13:40,650 but also we have the settings sprocket. 272 00:13:40,650 --> 00:13:42,510 And if we tap on that, 273 00:13:42,510 --> 00:13:43,860 that'll bring up all of our settings, 274 00:13:43,860 --> 00:13:46,645 Network, Sound, Display, General. 275 00:13:46,645 --> 00:13:49,560 For the most part, we'll be working in the Network settings, 276 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:53,070 working with things like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, tethering, 277 00:13:53,070 --> 00:13:56,550 mobile hotspots, NFC, and so on, screen sharing. 278 00:13:56,550 --> 00:13:57,570 Those are the kinds of things 279 00:13:57,570 --> 00:13:59,550 that you really wanna know for the exam, 280 00:13:59,550 --> 00:14:00,840 but you really should know how to deal 281 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,543 with all these things, Sound, Display, and so on. 282 00:14:04,380 --> 00:14:06,843 So we'll be working in the settings area as well. 283 00:14:08,010 --> 00:14:11,070 Okay, so I just wanna go over a quick tech tip with you. 284 00:14:11,070 --> 00:14:12,423 And that tech tip is, 285 00:14:13,893 --> 00:14:16,233 this watch out for the latest and greatest. 286 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:21,210 Watch out for the brand new, shiny smartphones, 287 00:14:21,210 --> 00:14:23,340 and tablets for that matter, too. 288 00:14:23,340 --> 00:14:24,480 And there's two reasons for that. 289 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,890 One, for yourself and for your organization, 290 00:14:28,890 --> 00:14:30,660 you wanna go with something 291 00:14:30,660 --> 00:14:33,540 that has a little bit of a track record. 292 00:14:33,540 --> 00:14:35,760 The recommendation that I usually give 293 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:40,350 is to go with a device that is one generation old 294 00:14:40,350 --> 00:14:42,840 or, say, one year old. 295 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,840 As I mentioned, this video is recorded in 2018. 296 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,330 This is a 2017 model. 297 00:14:48,330 --> 00:14:51,900 But it's not much different than the 2018 flagships. 298 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:53,730 And that's the idea. 299 00:14:53,730 --> 00:14:56,190 You wanna get something with a track record, 300 00:14:56,190 --> 00:14:58,740 Of course, you wanna test it yourself in your lab, 301 00:14:58,740 --> 00:14:59,670 but you wanna have something 302 00:14:59,670 --> 00:15:01,500 that has a little bit of a track record. 303 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:05,670 And then also, you wanna try to save money, 304 00:15:05,670 --> 00:15:10,670 you as an individual and you as an organization, right? 305 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,370 So for example, I had this device 306 00:15:14,370 --> 00:15:18,150 for four years, great device. 307 00:15:18,150 --> 00:15:20,880 Getting a little flaky so I had to get something new. 308 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,750 This phone was cheaper 309 00:15:24,750 --> 00:15:29,040 than the new flagship phone, the 2018 phone. 310 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,040 2018 phone was about $750. 311 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,800 This one was able to get for 600. 312 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,920 So automatic savings of 150 bucks. 313 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:42,180 And the difference in hardware is not that great. 314 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:46,110 We mentioned, by the way, this is an LG V30, 315 00:15:46,110 --> 00:15:48,420 had it for a little bit, doing pretty well with it, 316 00:15:48,420 --> 00:15:49,520 we'll see how it does, 317 00:15:50,490 --> 00:15:54,033 but we mentioned it has a Snapdragon 835 chip, 318 00:15:55,140 --> 00:15:56,310 that's the CPU. 319 00:15:56,310 --> 00:16:00,060 The newer flagship phone has an 845. 320 00:16:00,060 --> 00:16:01,140 What does that mean? 321 00:16:01,140 --> 00:16:04,500 It's one better, essentially. 322 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:06,390 So if you look at the specs 323 00:16:06,390 --> 00:16:10,417 and compare the 835 to the 845, you might say, 324 00:16:10,417 --> 00:16:12,930 "Hey, that's not really worth 150 bucks to me." 325 00:16:12,930 --> 00:16:17,370 And a lot of the other hardware is very similar, right? 326 00:16:17,370 --> 00:16:20,550 But beyond that, I was able to get a two for one, the BOGO. 327 00:16:20,550 --> 00:16:22,380 So two for one deal, 328 00:16:22,380 --> 00:16:24,380 actually got two of these for 600 bucks. 329 00:16:25,710 --> 00:16:28,620 So that's really the kind of thing you wanna look for. 330 00:16:28,620 --> 00:16:29,790 Save yourself a lot of money. 331 00:16:29,790 --> 00:16:31,503 That could pay for an A+ exam, 332 00:16:32,730 --> 00:16:34,710 if you're in the market for a new phone. 333 00:16:34,710 --> 00:16:37,350 Otherwise, just hold on to your old phone and keep using it, 334 00:16:37,350 --> 00:16:38,820 save the money. 335 00:16:38,820 --> 00:16:41,070 But if you are in the market for a phone, 336 00:16:41,070 --> 00:16:44,790 try and go by that mindset, 337 00:16:44,790 --> 00:16:46,620 one generation old, one year old. 338 00:16:46,620 --> 00:16:48,630 And this is the mindset that I use 339 00:16:48,630 --> 00:16:51,393 with everything hardware and software, pretty much. 340 00:16:52,830 --> 00:16:55,590 As an organization, you can get great deals, 341 00:16:55,590 --> 00:16:57,900 where you can get several phones 342 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:01,080 or a dozen phones at excellent rates, 343 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:02,610 if they're a year older, 344 00:17:02,610 --> 00:17:05,207 and manufacturers are trying to get rid of them, 345 00:17:05,207 --> 00:17:07,950 or its suppliers are trying to get rid of them. 346 00:17:07,950 --> 00:17:09,630 So that's my tech tip for you. 347 00:17:09,630 --> 00:17:11,700 Try to go for something a year old, 348 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:13,833 maybe a generational old, it depends. 349 00:17:14,820 --> 00:17:16,770 Because two things, one, you want something 350 00:17:16,770 --> 00:17:19,680 with a good track record proven, 351 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,863 and two, you want something that you can save money with. 352 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,220 And so, if you're interested 353 00:17:26,220 --> 00:17:29,103 how I'm doing this dual display here, by the way, 354 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:34,800 I just have the phone connected with a adapter. 355 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,530 And this is a USB on one end 356 00:17:37,530 --> 00:17:42,330 on the right side here to HDMI. 357 00:17:42,330 --> 00:17:43,710 This says an HDMI female. 358 00:17:43,710 --> 00:17:45,960 And then I just have an HDMI cable here, 359 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,883 plugged into my video recording unit. 360 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,000 There's lots of other ways to do mirroring, of course. 361 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,300 You could do it wirelessly in various ways also. 362 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:57,060 So there's a little bit about smart phones. 363 00:17:57,060 --> 00:17:59,610 And definitely do some homework on your own phone. 364 00:17:59,610 --> 00:18:01,890 Check out the specs. Know as much as you can. 365 00:18:01,890 --> 00:18:06,890 Understand the terms when it comes to those devices. 366 00:18:06,930 --> 00:18:08,680 And that's about it for this video.