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 a blackberry a blackjack and brian cooley redesigns an Audi by mistake first up the Oakley thump pro sunglasses with an mp3 player built in you're skeptical I see that Jasmine France explains up to you so you may be asking yourself what are you going to use these for these are actually extremely handy for athletes and outdoor enthusiasts so any time you're doing something outdoors that priority to be active such as cycling snowboarding golfing really handy for that actually and the buttons are easy to press there's no LCD or screen and the earbuds let in plenty of extraneous noise which is a good thing because whenever you're doing something active outdoors you want to be aware of your surroundings that's right so don't drive with them on it's distracting you know it's illegal to have headphones in your ear when you drive even if they are in sunglasses next up the samsung blackjack it's a 3g smartphone on the singular network and it's taken on the motorola q so how does it compare terms of design it's really nice and flick it has this nice sexy black casing that i like also has a kind of soft touch finish makes it easy to grip compared to the motorola q you can see it's slimmer you do get a smaller screen but it's still gorgeous and the keyboards a little cramped and i actually had some problems with the navigation controls there really cramped and i kept pressing the wrong button so that was really frustrating Bonnie points out that it's running the Windows Mobile 5 smartphone edition so you won't have the ability to edit Office documents onto the evdo seen Bonnie also got her hands on the blackberry 8703e I didn't 8700 series so you got this more traditional form factor with the full chorded keyboard which we really like keys are a little bit slippery but still large and really tactile so easy to message on really nice screen it's sharp and colorful so shouldn't have any problems viewing images or your email and text documents on here do you sprint customers get a version of the 8703 for your service to doesn't that make you feel special finally we take a ride in the audi a4 2.0 t quattro as brian cooley caused a redesign in the a4 got this motorized double oh seven ish button and that rotates the LCD down and away and there you find to SD slots the problem is in the last car we tried these were treacherous they were mounted lower down so you could barely get to them and she tried to stick your SD card in there well I dropped mine it fell into the guts of the radio we couldn't get it out after an hour of struggling he went to the dealer they couldn't get it out my card is still floating around in some press vehicle somewhere in the country it was very annoying what they've done now though is they've moved the slots up higher so they're easier to access and if you look down in there they've kind of blocked off and sealed that gap where cards used to fall inside the guts of the radio so that's now a feature I actually think is livable good thing there's those SD card slots because there's not an iPod adapter not even an auxiliary port 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