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 - hot cellphones and a high-tech convertible but let's start off with a couple of high megapixel cameras the canon powershot a 630 and a 640 the only major difference between these two cameras is that the power shot a 630 is 8 megapixels and the a 640 is 10 megapixels basically just depends if you want to spend a little bit more on a little higher resolution these cameras both have full PASM shooting modes that's program mode manual mode aperture priority and shutter priority you can even purchase additional accessory lenses for it pretty nice for a point-and-shoot next up a phone that's better than the chocolate it's the flip phone version of the chocolate the new LG VX 8600 on top here is the 1.3 megapixel camera lens and on the side here are the dedicated camera button any voice recorder button and I suppose a micro SD card slot on the other side of the volume rocker in the charger jack also on the front here you can't really see it unless I activate it are the touch sensitive touch sensitive glowing red music player controls it also gives you access to Verizon's v-cast service as well as web email and text messaging Motorola has given us the Razer the Krays or the pebble and the sliver so of course continuing in their valid efficient ways we introduced the riser no II some I've been wondering why they call it the riser I didn't think the Krays are made any sense for that name but it looks like called the riser cuz it just rises up like that it is a slider phone one of Motorola's first entry into that space slider phones are very trendy right now as our thin phones and motorola does a good job of combining the two really liked the overall design also comes with a thumb grip right here you'd see right there which lets you grab it just like that and like that so you don't have to go all the way up with your finger to the top of the phone Ken also notes it has 260 mm color display he says it's the best-looking Motorola slim phone he's seen and finally Brian Cooley shows off the Volkswagen Eos and its unique ability to transform first of all you hit one button here in the console and you open up what is one of the widest glass sunroofs in the business but that's just the beginning hit the big button near it and we start to lower the top full metal hardtop coupe or sunroof coupe or as you're about to see a full drop top convertible it's entirely automatic one button does it all the whole rear trunk section lifts up and away the top drops down including its integrated sunroof mechanism and it seals away underneath hard surfaces that's fully finished no nasty cloth sticking up and when it's done it's one of the most open little cars that is also a full weather hardtops the eos also memorizes different heating and cooling settings depending on whether the top is up or down smart 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 ly productive