Gadgetory

hi I'm Tom Merritt editor from cnet.com and welcome to Rogue Warrior where we take a look at the hottest gadgets for life on the go should you go crazy for the motorola krzr gaga for the giga bv or mad for the mazda mx5 will tell you right after we take a look at the archos 504 comes in forty sixty or a hundred gigabytes of storage James Kim gives you the tour on the right side here you have the tactile controllers these are very easy to use especially once you figure out the sophisticated menu system I'm going to take this battery pack off this is a removable battery like the 604 takes the entire back and you can actually see the 2.5 inch hard drive in there the bottom here you have the proprietary dock connector which you can buy this optional dock that like we've seen with the other devices and it fits in there like this and you can actually record line in video or audio with this James says it's a little bit bulky I can see that but it gives you 5.5 hours of video playback on a single charge however the toshiba gigabyte vee gives you eight hours of video playback on a single charge still James thinks it's missing something notably this is missing FM radio but it does play photos music including WMA and then of course video.wmv V being the only video formats supported the controller buttons are separated up top here I kind of like that in some ways for music playback for example but otherwise you have to sort of get up there and get back down that James never satisfied next up the motorola krzr krzr k1m ken german says it's really very similar to the motorola razr overall though it is very slim as you can see kind of continuing that slim design it is actually a little thicker than the razor it's also a little heavier so it makes for a little more solid feel actually glass is used on the front of this phones kind of unusual motorola says will stand up to cracking or scratches I haven't had a chance to try that theory does attract a lot of fingerprints since it is reflective but it does make for a very sleek look and that's the rub on the krzr it does look better than the razor but not that many new features let's finish up with a car from the 2006 paris auto show brian cooley shows off the Mazda mx-5 miata with a retractable hardtop it takes just twelve seconds for this new power hardtop to retract behind the seats not into the trunk which is more than I can say for the saturn sky and pontiac solstice so on the mazda miata retractable you actually have a trunk left when the top is down and it looks just plain good with the top up which we could never quite bring ourselves to say about any previous Miata you can find complete coverage of the 2006 paris auto show at car cnet com that's it for this edition of road warrior I'm Tom Merritt check back next time for more gadgets to keep you armed and dangerous ly productive razor