Gadgetory

hello 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 the hot new nokia n80 smartphone a map loving compact lexus and we'll start with a couple products from sony summer press announcements in new york city now you may have heard of the sony reader device it's for reading you know ebooks David karna and rich demuro give us a quick insight into how it works now I notice a little bit of ghosting it almost looks like if you remember the etch-a-sketch screens but I don't want to shake it well according to Nick Sonia uses actual capsules of ink that turn either black or white and that so that's sort of the ghost thing you see when it decides it's going to go from black to white and there's a little bit of residue left over but it really doesn't seem to affect it that much in terms of actual reading it also reads word and PDF files and plays back mp3 s Richard David also took a look at the new high def DVD camcorder from Sony so you can take the DVD directly from the camcorder to your DVD player you don't get the HD resolution when you do that but you do get it when you go from the hdmi output directly from the camcorder so it's a little bit deceptive and this is the new ABC HD format which allows you to record up to an hour's worth of HD video at the more compressed setting david says you will be able to play the dvds in high-def in a blu-ray player or the forthcoming playstation 3 let's go to the phones Bonnie Shah has the new nokia n8 a smartphone that has two cameras it's also a smart phone so you can do email and keep calendar appointments and take notes it's got Wi-Fi and Bluetooth so you can surf the web and connect to headset overall pretty awesome device however there's no US carrier supporting it so it's going to be a little expensive so it just be aware of that no carrier so it's not that smart is it finally brian cooley takes the lexus is350 first spin well he would if he could tear himself away from the map there's good crisp response to button inputs you can drag the map rather smoothly with your finger obviously it's a touchscreen as well I love this feature notice these little national there's Mexico Japan here's China those are restaurants by cuisine press on the flag it goes to that particular restaurant and it gives you the restaurant name you can press on that and get information all about it including a phone number if you want to call for reservations and of course because you got bluetooth hit that button and you can make the call on the car that map is part of the Levinson entertainment package only the best for mr. Cooley well 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 dangerously productive