Gadgetory

hi I'm Tom Merritt editor from cnet.com and welcome to road warrior where we take a look at the hottest gadgets for life on the go coming up a super fast cell phone a USB cupid device for mobile gadgets and exploding laptop batteries let's start with the Nokia e6 t1 what's that a sweet productivity cell phone Bonnie Shaw has the rest of the story as you can see it's a pretty slim device it's a smart phone it's got this nice roomy keyboard he's still kind of stiff but they're not too bad it's got this gorgeous screen really sharp and bright colors look great in text as well lots of productivity apps for business users you can edit and view Word documents and Excel documents and PowerPoint presentations the e61 comes with Wi-Fi and bluetooth but it's not fast like this LG see you 500 something looks kind of familiar it looks a lot like the Razer same white bodies in slim silhouette it is the first care offered HSDPA phone which means that you can connect up to 1.8 make up its per second in download speeds which is one of the fastest speeds that cell phones can offer these days the Cu 500 also plays mp3s and streaming video what happens if you want to hook up your digital camera to your iPod or maybe to music players to each other hmm you don't need a computer if you have the cyma hitch USB transfer device really is like a cupid for gadgets because i'm connecting an ipod here on one side and say a digital camera on the other side and it's very easy to navigate the backlit screen is pretty cool it's very lightweight so what I do up here you have the here and then there and I can switch between the two and what I can do is navigate through you know let's say the folder of the digital camera and get the pictures over by pressing send and I'll send it this way the device can connect pretty much anything that uses USB finally exploding laptops you may have heard that dell is recalling millions of laptop batteries but even if your laptop battery isn't being recalled are you safe we got our laptop expert Michelle Thatcher to give us a tip to help keep your laptop battery in good condition number one of course you don't want it to get too hot that's gonna lead to instability so to prevent that you don't want to leave it plugged in so once your battery is done charging unplug it and if you're gonna sit at your desk with your laptop on and work on it for a while and want to leave it plugged in just pull the battery out Michelle has more tips from battery safety in our insider secrets feature at Sina tv.com that's it for this edition of road warrior I'm Tom Merritt check back next time for more gadgets that keep you armed and dangerous leave productive