Before You Buy 157 (Transcript)
Leo Laporte: Coming up, a new home security camera, Chad Johnson has the review.
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Leo: I love these
headphones. Anyway, time for Before You Buy, the TWiT product review show where we get some of the latest and greatest stuff, give it
to our staff, give them a chance to bang on it, and give us a real world
review. Chad Johnson is here, OMGChad hosted the show OMGCraft on Youtube and you
can support that at patrion.com/omgchad.
Chad
Johnson: Yep.
Leo: Home security
camera, this is the Izon View.
Chad: This is the Izon View that is kind of a little stick camera...
Leo: The form factor is
different.
Chad: Absolutely. This
is for your house, and they call it a room monitor. You could think of it as a
baby monitor but it's just for a whole room as opposed to a single crib.
Leo: So it's sound and
picture.
Chad: Yes, sound and
picture and it sends that back to the app so that you
can view it. I have the app running here on my phone. And this might be the
buggiest app I have ever used in my life.
Leo: Wow.
Chad: I set this up at
home and everything went fairly smoothly but I'm trying to get it set up here
at the brick house and it's just refusing to work. I've been fussing with it for
about thirty minutes now trying to make sure it would work.
Leo: Were you ever able
to get it to work at home?
Chad: At home, it worked
fine.
Leo: I'll be honest, we have a lot of trouble with the wifi network here just because there are so many devices
and so many networks so that's not really a strike against it.
Chad: Well one of the
really frustrating things is that the only way it really has to tell you that
something is wrong is an LED at the front that blinks either green or orange.
So you have to use some sort of Morse Code technology
with the camera as it's trying to set itself up. I'm just going to give up on
setting it up and letting you see a live feed. Just imagine, if you would, once you set it up it would stream back to your phone. The app is
really really slow and you can also see that it's not
well designed. It looks like it was possibly made using PowerPoint or some
other similar product from the 1990's. So once you have it set up, this will be
the camera that you have, because there are multiple cameras, they'll all show
up right here. But this one is inaccessible, but I don't know why.
Leo: So you can have
more than one.
Chad: You can have more
than one.
Leo: Is it unlimited?
Chad: As far as I know
it is. With the camera you can set up motion events and sound events. I have a
few motion events and you can save them by tapping the little lock icon where
you can unlock or lock.
Leo: Is there a central
server that it's saving it to or-
Chad: This is all in the
Cloud.
Leo: Okay so they have their
own Cloud database of the video because otherwise your phone would always have
to be attached.
Chad: You get a certain
amount of these saved, so like if I was to lock one it would tell me how many
more I can lock and save, and it told me I have 95 left. On top of that
whenever there's an event it'll save that clip but it'll only save a certain
number and then after that it will just give you an image of what it was and it
won't save the video. In order to save the video every time you need to sign up
for their pro service. So right out of the box included, this is a free
back-end service when you buy the Izon.
Leo: So someone breaks
into my house, I've got the camera on, it sees the motion and starts recording,
how much am I going to get?
Chad: Here, I'll show
you. It's about 15 seconds. So here's my cat eating.
Leo: Is this in the
dark?
Chad: This is in the
dark in the middle of the night. It has infrared LED's on the front.
Leo: Okay that's pretty
good. It woke up because it saw your cat in the room.5:40
Chad: Absolutely. I wish
that I could have showed you what it was like live because you can set up a
detection area with a little box. So you can say if motion happens- Let's say
you may have a tree next to your front door that ends up moving a lot, you can
exclude that tree so it won't always be setting off the motion sensor. And I
used this when I went to Austin recently for Christmas. I used this to keep
track of my cats and make sure they were moving around and eating their food
and making sure there was nothing happening with them. Because
I worry about the cats. You can hear there's some sound in this file as
well.
Leo: Wouldn't it be
funny if you heard someone say, don't worry Chad won't
be home for a week.
Chad: Right, exactly. I
wasn't too worried about the security of my apartment so I turned off the sound
events.
Leo: So you can have
sound or motion.
Chad: You can do either
or both. You can add your multiple cameras, there's some guides you can have
push notifications-
Leo: Is it iPhone only?
Chad: I was looking for
the other app. Evan Dunn actually also had one of these and he said when he had
it there was no Android app. It says, 'works with functions available on the
iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Leo: Just iOS.
Chad: Oh wait, there it
is.
Leo: There's the
Android version of the app.
Chad: It just doesn't
say it is compatible with Android on the box. I kind of wish I was back on
Android so I could show you- But yeah, on the box it only shows iOS devices all
over. Really quickly let's take a look at the hardware. It's small and has this
base that is magnetic.
Leo: Oh that's neat.
Chad: So you can attach
this and you can point-
Leo: It's easy to aim
it.
Chad: Yes, it's very
easy to aim it whichever way you'd like. This can also be attached to a wall
using these little screw things and it comes with the screws for those holes.
So you can do whatever the heck you want with it to make sure that it gets a
good shot in your house, which I really like. On the back there is a USB port,
it's like the mini USB port and it has it's own specialized cable. They give you quite a bit of cable, I'd say about 5 feet of cable.
Leo: Now, that powers
as well as data.
Chad: That powers but
the data is wireless so you'd have to have wi-fi in
your house for it to work.
Leo: So that's just a
power cord that you plug in.
Chad: Absolutely. It's
just shaped like a mini USB thing. And down the front are the infra red LEDs inside of there and the microphone is on the
front with the webcam as well. In terms of functionality, I feel like it worked
fine. I got so many push notifications when I was away. That was almost a con, that it couldn't group them together and somehow say
hey, there were 50 events that happened.
Leo: Right.
Chad: But it would just
constantly ping you every single time. Especially when the cats were eating, it
only takes 30 second clips. So if they were eating for say, 15 minutes that's
30 push notifications that would happen for a duration of 15 minutes.
Leo: Well consider that
for your application if you're waiting for a burglar to break in, you would
want a push notification. But if you're monitoring babies, cats, dogs, anything
that moves a lot, not so hot.
Chad: Exactly. But it's
like when are you waiting for a burglar to arrive at your apartment?
Leo: Security, that's
the idea of security.
Chad: Sure, right.
Leo: Is that it would
alert me that something's moving in there and you wouldn't expect that.
Chad: I almost wish that
it would say, hey there's movement and then maybe give
me one push notification saying, movement has started and another when it
stopped. That would've been much more enjoyable.
Leo: This is a crowded
field, there's DropCam, which Google owns and there
are a lot of similar devices. How much is the Pro subscription if you're going
to store stuff in the Cloud?
Chad: The Pro
subscription, I forget that right off the top of my head..
Leo: So this is $150
for the camera-
Chad: Well, that's MSRP.
You can find it easily online for less.
Leo: Oh okay. Look at
that, $99 or $79. And the one we have is the View, not the 2.0.
Chad: Right we have the Izon View.
Leo: So that's very
inexpensive. The image looks good, I like it. It has night vision, and I love
the little mounting thing that's nicely done.
Chad: There's a few
features that- And in this field... Like the DropCam that you mentioned is probably the biggest competitor. But I wish that you
could talk back through the device. I reviewed a similar camera recently where
you could hit a button and it would say a little message. So there's a few other features it could have but it's a good price for a security camera
that has a back-end you don't have to pay for, it's pretty good.
Leo: But for more than
just 30 seconds of video you have to pay.
Chad: Well so you get-
I'm upset it wouldn't connect here because if it would have I easily could have
hit the 'Buy Pro' option and figure out the price. But I can't connect so that
was an issue but it will save, let's say ten 30 second
clips a day. But after those ten, it will only take a photo
but you can't get that back. It's not retroactive so let's say there was
a burglary-
Leo: Too late.
Chad: Yeah too late. You
might have the first ten events that happened throughout the day but whatever.
Leo: So, pros and cons.
Chad: So pros are that
the hardware is really well made for the price, it has this really cool
magnetic base and all of the different parts of the hardware that it's small-
Leo: The night vision
looked really good.
Chad: -The night vision
worked well, the microphone isn't necessarily the best quality but it's really
sensitive, which you want in a security camera, and yeah the night vision. So
those are the pros for the product. The cons are that the app was really buggy
and it's a very slow product and I had connection issues.
Leo: Well, again...
Chad: Still, the setup
process is really difficult. I'll give it a pass. In our studio it didn't work
but even at home the setup process was not smooth. I'm having a really
difficult time with this one because the price is competitive and the actual
product is great and I love the hardware. I wish they would get a real
developer, a real UX designer and a real server back-end to fix some of the
annoying issues but that's not the product that I reviewed. That product
doesn't exist so I'm going to have to give it a 'Try'-
Leo: But the software
is the falling-
Chad: The software is
the big fall on the Izon.
Leo: But that could get
better.
Chad: Exactly.
Leo: Very good. There
you go, a 'try' for the Izon View security camera. And as little $100.
Chad: Yes, and also I
saw through a partner of Amazon's it was going for like $88.
Leo: Wow, even less.
Chad: So there are
options around for you.
Leo: I have to say, I
love the looks and that by the way, was OMGChad our
good friend and the host of OMGCraft which you which
you'll find on youtube.com/omgchad. Figure that out.
Well Chad is what you need to remember.
Chad: Yeah,
youtube.com/craft for the show. Youtube.com/omgchad for me. There's a show and there's a
personal account. Just like there's a TWiT and Leo Laporte. Right, so OMGChad is me
and OMGCraft is the show. I should probably just put
it all on omgchad.com and just go there and have links there.
Leo: It'd be easy but
let's not dwell on that.
Chad: Let's not make it
too easy.
Leo: Let's not make it
easy, you want people who care enough to figure it out. I really like the look
of this and the company that makes it, Beyerdynamic,
is one of the best known high-end headphone manufacturers in the world.
Chad: Wow.
Leo: So we gave these-
See these are actually headphones for a cell phone, there's the little
microphone right there. -We gave these to Tonya Hall, the host of our marketing
show Marketing Mavericks, and asked her what she thought of the Beyerdynamic T51i headphones. Tonya.
Tonya Hall: Hi, I'm Tonya Hall, the host of
Marketing Mavericks here on TWiT TV and I'm here to
review the Beyerdynamic T51i over the ear headset. In
fact, they call this their Tesla version. If you've seen the Beyerdynamic T51p, it's very similar to these. In fact,
pretty much the only difference is they did listen to the customer. They
included a mic and external control. So right here you have the mic and here is
the up and down for the volume or maybe to change the set that you're listening
to. I typically like over the ear, but these on ear headphones are really
comfortable. And even though they are not noise cancelling, they actually did
cancel out a lot of what was going on around me and the studio around here is
actually pretty crazy so that's a huge advantage to wearing these. The quality
of these headphones was great. The treble was really sharp, the bass was on
target, and the music itself that I listened to- And I listen to a wide
spectrum of music, I actually have a wide variety of taste of music and
everything I listened to came across really clear. With the headphones you get
a nylon carrying case, really handy when you're spending a lot of money on
headphones, you want to protect them. You get a couple of adapters including one
that is an airplane adapter. Again, I really liked this headset and I listened
to it for quite some time. One of the things I liked the most about it is that
it's so compactible to carry it just about anywhere with or without the case.
Sometimes I travel and I only take my backpack and I might want something
really high-quality, so if that's the case I'm usually stuck with something
kind of bulky in my backpack. This does not take up a lot of room. Pros are
that it's really compact, it's really soft, and the quality of the sound was
great. A con is that it's on ear, versus over ear but like I said these were
actually really comfortable so I actually really like these. I'm going to give
the Beyerdynamic T51i a 'buy'.
Leo: Well the price is
high but you know what, I have to say people's expectation of headphone pricing
is a little skewed by the cheap in ear headphones that you see like the Skull
Candy and the Apple headphones and those really aren't as good. In the
traditional days of audio- headphones $300 for a pair of headphones was not
unusual and this is one of the great names in headphones so I'm not surprised
they sound really great. A definite 'buy' for the T51i, thank you Tonya Hall,
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Shannon
Morse: Hey
everyone, I'm Shannon Morse with Before You Buy and
this week I'm reviewing the Rapoo Wireless Bluetooth
Speaker A600. You can find this online for $99.99 so it's a whole $100 but I
did find it for as low as $60 so keep your eye tuned to that, yay sales. It's available in this nice
aluminum alloy color and on the inside, you get the
option to pick blue, green, red, yellow, or white. So several
different options for all of you stylish people out there. This bluetooth speaker can do either bluetooth 4.0, NFC, and on the back it also has AUX IN capability as well as your regular
micro USB charging and your on/off button. On the
front you'll notice that you have a nice LED that lights up blue every time you
turn it on. It also has the ability to do calls via the microphone that's built
in. The call quality is pretty good, I noticed to drop offs or anything like
that and I was able to walk away from the speaker and hear it very clearly
whenever I was talking to people over the phone. And I was using my Samsung
Galaxy Note 4 for that. It easily connects over bluetooth,
no problems there either, for about 10 hours of play time. The battery life was
excellent and it took almost no time to charge so I was very happy with that as
well. You can also connect two devices simultaneously to this speaker. Other
than fighting over what kind of music you want to listen to, I'm not
necessarily sure why you'd want to do that. Now it measures
5.59"x1.57"x2.64" and it only weighs about 1 1/2lbs. so not very
bad at all. This is definitely something that you could make into a travel
companion. You could just throw it into your backpack and run away if you
wanted to. Now, as far as the music and sound quality goes, I noticed a slight
distortion at highest volumes whenever I was playing all sorts of different
kinds of music and I mostly noticed that whenever playing the larger bass
sounds. Also, on the bass it's kind of non-existant especially with house music or techno electronica, Daft Punk, things like that,
I didn't notice much bass coming out of it at all. On vocals and instrumentals
though, if you're more of a podcast listener, I was listening to Pink Floyd on
this and had no problems listening to that while hearing all of the different
instruments it was very clear. I should mention as well, that there was a
slight feedback whenever I was listening too, there was like white noise in the
background whenever I was listening to very quiet moments in songs or whenever
I was connecting from one device to another device. So it was just kind of a
strange moment whenever I was listening to those quieter songs that I've never
noticed with a speaker before so I definitely felt like I should mention that.
I did want to mention as well that there is a companion app that you can
download on Google Play, however I didn't necessarily
need this because I was using Google Music the entire time. So I didn't use
that. Now, on the pros; It's very stylish, it's well
built, doesn't feel like it would break if you were to accidentally drop it or
anything, and it is NFC capable. And I love speakers that are NFC capable
because it makes it so much easier to connect. Now on the con side, there's
relatively no bass and I had an issue with that because I love my house music.
And there was that white noise feedback, which when you're listening to the
music isn't that noticeable, but when you're switching between one device to
another or switching from one song to another, it can get kind of annoying. So
is this a buy try or a don't buy? I give Rapoo A600 a 'don't buy' and I'm pretty sure you can figure
out why. Again this is Shannon Morse for Before You Buy.
Leo: So a 'do not buy'
for something named Rapoo, what a surprise. Thank you Shannon Morse. Before we get on with the Before
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you. Mike Elgan, he is our news director, the host of
TNT Monday-Friday 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern Time, 1800 UTC. And in his spare
time he likes to review Kindles. Is this the new Kindle Fire?
Mike Elgan: Close, this is the Amazon Fire HD 6, this is
the Amazon Fire HD 7.
Leo: They dropped the
Kindle.
Mike: They dropped the
Kindle because I think they wanted to differentiate from the reader specific
device.
Leo: This is a tablet
that does have reading capability.
Mike: Yes, it's actually
very good for Ebooks and they're very very low cost devices. They're almost identical except for
the size and the screen resolution and what-not.
Leo: So the one I have
is like a giant cell phone.
Mike: Yeah, they have
cell phones that are 6", this one has a 6"
screen plus a huge bezel. It's very thick and heavy. In fact we were noticing
earlier that they're like the same weight.
Leo: Actually I think
the big one might be lighter!
Mike: Exactly that's
what we were thinking. So the Fire HD 6 is extremely thick and extremely heavy.
Leo: I have my Nexus 6
with me, you can compare the screen sizes. It's
exactly the same.
Mike: But this magenta
job here is cheap, it's $99. This one is $139.
Leo: What? Wait a
minute, $99?
Mike: Yes.
Leo: This is my account
you have my books. How do you have my books on here? Wait a minute, I'm
confused.
Mike: I have no idea why
that is. I pulled it out and it was shrink wrapped-
Leo: Did it say, hello leo?
Mike: It did, actually.
Leo: Of course it did,
these are my books. I guess somebody ordered it on my Amazon is what they did.
Alright, so apparently I own these now.
Mike: Okay so they have
2 megapixel cameras it's like going back in time.
Leo: Yeah but dude, it's $99.
Mike: Yeah. You'll notice
that the plastic on the back is not the good kind of plastic. It's like the
kind you get a slurpee in and it's slippery too so
this is not a great surface to have on the back of your tablet. Of course, it's Wi-Fi only, these are basically bare bones- What do you
sacrifice for those prices? You get a pretty good screen...
Leo: I have to say, the
screen is better than I'd expect for $99.
Mike: Yeah when you look
at certain whites, they'll have a sort of different color to them. They all
tend in general to be kind of orangey. Our monitors make them look good but-
Leo: They're high res
though, right?
Mike: They are pretty
high res, yes. And so the sound quality is very low quality. These of course
run a forked version of Android 4.4 KitKat called the Fire S 4, it's codename Sangeria. It's optimized for buying stuff on Amazon, as
you'd imagine.
Leo: Even the app store
is the Amazon app store.
Mike: You have access to
Google Play directly on these devices and they're so-so. You'll notice that if
you scroll through the user interface it's not bad, but when you get into
videos and games or if you do a lot of fast scrolling through, you get some
hiccups with the performance. They really optimize it for looking through the
Amazon related parts. They have the Silk browser which is also from Amazon. One
of the bad things about this is one of the great things about Amazon customer
service is Mayday Instant Customer Service, these don't have it so if you have
a question these don't have the little video head that pop up and tell you the
answer to your questions.
Leo: Look, it's been so
long since I've subscribed to the New York Times it says, Obama and Romney have their first debate. That's exciting, I wonder who won.
Mike: By the way, one of
the funny things that came up whenever I realized this was your account, it said Leo's 10th Kindle.
Leo: Yeah, I have a lot
of them. So clearly, the idea behind these is if you're one of those people who
say I need a tablet, or the kids need a tablet-
Mike: Well that's the
other thing about this, they both have a special kids
version called the Kids Edition. They're a little extra, the 6" Kids
Edition is $149 the 7" Kids Edition is $189, they come with a case that
sort of kid-proofs it and they're also guaranteed for 2 years so if they flush
it or break it completely they'll replace it and that comes with a special plus
free time unlimited subscription. So they get tons of content. That's part of
why you'd want to recommend this because it's really a great offering for kids.
You can turn them loose on the unlimited subscription and it's all tailored for
children.
Leo: I have to say for
this price- There are people for $100 that buy the five and dime polaroid tablet that's running an old version of android at
least Amazon keeps this version of Android up. Give me the pros and cons.
Mike: Okay. The pros are
that it's inexpensive, the performance and screen are okay, they're actually pretty good in direct sunlight if you want to read outside. They come
in an edition of fruity colors in addition to this pink, they also have black, white, cobalt, and citron. I don't know what that is.
They're brightly colored. The cons are they're cheap thick and heavy. The
screen is only good if you look at it directly on. At the edges there's
distortion, and colored distortion. The screen is extremely reflective you can
see that if you're watching the video.
Leo: That's probably
because it's good if you're watching TV and video because this also is designed
to play Amazon video right?
Mike: Yes. And you'll
notice the sound is not good. One of the few differences between these two is
that the 6 has a single speaker at the bottom, the 7 has two speakers on the
side. It still doesn't sound that great.
Leo: Does it come with
headphones?
Mike: It doesn't come
with headphones but another curiousity about this is that- Actually it might, I'm uncertain about that. -But
everything is on the top. You see the headphone jack, the microphone, the USB
where you plug it in, and the power button are all on the top. The only thing
on the bottom-
Leo: The volume control
is on the side..
Mike: So that's kind of
an odd thing.
Leo: But it can play
pin ball.
Mike: It can play pin
ball. Now you may be surprised when I say this is a 'do not buy' at these prices.
The reason is, the Fire HD X also from Amazon is
slightly more expensive and way better performance.
Leo: How much is the HD
X?
Mike: Well for the
7" is $179 so that's just $40 more. For $40 more you can get something
that's not going to frustrate you and will be much better for games and movies
and things like that. Cheap tablets sound great and then you have it for a
couple years at least.
Leo: So it's a 'do not
buy' but if you spend a little more you can get a better thing on the other
hand, if you say you can only afford a $100 tablet, this is so much better than
the cheap cheap android stuff we've seen. I'd say if
you can't spend a penny more this is a much better choice.
Mike: Right. We're not
reviewing the kids edition but I think it is something
to really go for.
Leo: Alright a 'do not
buy' for the Amazon 6 and the 7. You know, one thing I've learned from this
segment is I'd better change my Amazon password pretty quick.
Mike: Yeah but not too
quick, I still have some books I want to download.
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