Gadgetory

hi i'm ty merit editor from cnet.com and welcome to road warrior here in beautiful san francisco this is where we take a look at the hottest gadgets for life on the go coming up a phone that's more camera than thumb some tips for your motorola q and a hard drive car we begin however with the Fujitsu life book II 82 10 it's a lightweight business laptop with some great security features for businesses that want to keep their data secure this machine has pretty much every option you could want on the hard drive there's a trusted platform module to keep your data secure there's also a fingerprint reader for logon and a smart card reader for dual authentication and for those who are nostalgic it comes with a serial and a parallel port glass from the past need to take pictures with your phone Kent Germans got another camera phone that looks and works just like a camera this is a cyber-shot phone so it really is designed for photography just slide down the lens cover here you can see a camera lens along the self-portrait mirror and a flash up here which is pretty bright also when you hold the phone like this and use the display as a viewfinder you can see it almost like a camera from behind with a shutter button here and a zoom lever here the K 800 eye also comes with a memory card slot for your tunes this thing does it all and Kent really likes it now if you've been upset that Google Maps for Mobile does not work with your Motorola Q weep no more go to map for PD a.com and download the software bonnie jaw shows you what to do next after you've downloaded the app press the home button then start and scroll down until you find map for PDA on the menu open the program and you'll be asked to enter your zip code and accept the service terms from there you can get driving directions search for local businesses use satellite maps and even get traffic information if you live in a serviceable city I think it's pretty awesome what's less awesome is you also have to download the dotnet compact framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 and then this trick will work let's finish up with a hard drive car Seagate has gone and tricked out a Scion with some super storage this vehicles been equipped with first of all a win computer from mp3 car comm and that's very underneath the car it's not sticking up like some show car at a show it's just integrated you hardly see it the part you do see is right up here on this touchscreen monitor using the street deck interface software and this ties into storage we have a 40 gig Seagate hard drive in this vehicle as well as another one in the back brian says the car manufacturers are waiting for the hard drives to get just a little sturdier before they make them a regular option in your car 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