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 we focus on the essential tool of the road warrior the katana the samurai sword of technology I speak of course of the cell phone first Nicoli has the verizon wireless p + 300 less is more and on the front here you can see nice bright large fonts on the display sort of a lacklustre a color here but that's fine because it is a pretty basic phone as you can see through the menu it's also pretty basic very large fonts very easy to understand so this would be a good phone for a preteen or a teenager just because it's so easy to use you know what this phone does well it makes calls but getting a little fancier kent german has the motorola sliver l7c it's the first sliver for cdma service that works with sprint unfortunately the new version buries the SD card first of all you have to turn off the phone if you want to get out your card or put one in just take the back cover off take it off like that get into the battery take that out and there's the slot it's actually hard to manipulate as well this comes off the card the card will pop out but actually this silver flap right here can pop all the way off as well we had a little trouble getting it back in so not a fan of that at all you do however get all the fun sprint nextel evdo stuff on this phone so who needs storage next up nicole's back with a music playing phone the sanyo m1 on the front here is the external screen its color so that's really good for us you can use the screen for in a photo color ID you can see I'm currently playing tracks when the music player is playing on the bottom here is the music player controls you can see the play pause fast forward typical music player controls it lacks a microSD card slot but it does have one gigabyte of internal storage so that kind of makes up for it finally Kent takes a look at the new Samsung you 520 which features all tells new cell top service press that button right there to access it and actually consists of two cells on each side of the screen you can program to hold a lot of things Sarah inbox and weather so what happens is you have your message inbox just sits right on top of the display you have a weather for your city or a city or traveling to and just puts the information out there you can have news you can have sports scores you can move out rodeo scores it's kind of an odd one but I'm sure some people will look at it seriously a good friend of mine took third place in calf roping last weekend she'd love this phone 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