Gadgetory

hello I'm Tom Merritt editor from cnn.com and welcome to road warrior where we take a look at the hottest gadgets for life on the go coming up expensive cellphones and hot cars now the old saying let's start with the priciest the Bang & Olufsen serene cellphone and it is the most expensive phone I've ever held in my hands it is a thousand two hundred and seventy five dollars as you can see is like a it's like a piece of art it's like a piece of a sculptural work of Modern Art here it doesn't look like a phone if you push it open like so it opens with a internal power assist motor which in of it in and of itself is a little bit insane and on top here is the rotary style keypad as you can see they're all numbers in a circle well I guess if you can drop $1,200 on a cell phone that looks like a compact case you must be pretty serene make that's ridiculous wait till you see this Mustang concept car with DeLorean like doors you can see that this concept Mustang is very voluptuous it's got very large bulging fenders but they aren't tacked on there very much fared into the body of course the gullwing doors probably are not a production likely item inside some interesting technology we see three LCD display monitors those are tied into both the bullet cameras on each door as well as the camera mounted inside the gas cap on the very rear Janerio the designer of the DeLorean and the original Scirocco is responsible for this Mustang concept all right open your wallet if you can afford it you might like this next cell phone from Samsung the so called black carbon it is a slider phone like a lot of Samsung phones are these days as you can see it's very nice and thin the first thing you may notice this is beautiful 2.2 inch diagonal QVGA display here it's simply gorgeous and the colors look amazing on it on the bottom it says slippery navigation controls pretty flush the surface and the keypad is for it pretty flat as well how many phones have white balance ISO settings and an mp3 player oh and you can use it as a USB storage device you cannot however use v2 seven Nissan Altima Hybrid as a USB storage device but it has a nice tech in the cabinet so they're showing this car really well-equipped nice leather appointments a nice big LCD on screen navigation and media center right here Bose branded the Bluetooth logo is called out down here's a six-disc changer with mp3 also an auxilary input jack next to that is the only transmission we understand will be available on the Altima hybrid that's a CVT a continuously variable transmission the fuel efficiency rating will be around 40 miles per gallon it hits the showrooms in early 2007 that's it for this edition of Road Warrior on summer and check back next time for more gadgets that keep you armed and dangerously productive