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 1 XM tuner to rule them all a headset for your jawbone and the hot new blackberry 8800 we'll start with the garmin streetpilot see 580 it's a gps device you can have a conversation with yet text-to-speech functionality so it'll actually speak street names to you turn right onto visa Darrow street you also get multimedia capabilities only plays mp3's though so that's a bit limited the sea 580 also has integrated bluetooth so you can connect your bluetooth enabled phone and make hands-free calls with the device Bonnie also found that the points of interest were outdated but the device gave accurate directions to the outdated points of interest I guess next up John Falcone has the XM mini tuner one satellite radio tuner for all your devices pretty cool showed up John this is backwards compatible with anything that's XM ready and in order to do that you need the XM mini tuner home doc kit which we have here just pop the mini tuner in there plug this into your XM ready receiver and you're good to go you still need the 13 dollar a month subscription but you only need one instead of one for every device next up the a lift jawbone bluetooth headset don't laugh there's a good reason for the word jawbone and the idea behind the voice sensor nub is that you can rest it against side of your cheek and actually senses the vibration of your jaw hence the name jawbone because actually senses the vibration of your jaw and that way you can sort of amplify your voice to the listener it also has something called voice shield enhancement that blocks out loud background noise like traffic and stuff finally Bonnie cha has this much-hyped blackberry 8800 how does it compare to older models got the 8700 see here so you can kind of compare a little bit taller by definitely thinner and just sexier all around I am still getting used to the trackball I feel like it's a little loose and just a navigations a little harder I kind of miss the jog dial that was found on the older of blackberries once again manufacturer buries the SD card back here behind the battery why do they do that 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 dangerously productive