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 super portable sirius satellite radio receiver the ultimate road warrior phone and will you ditch your pc laptop for the new macbook pro with the core 2 duo first dope james kim finally explains how the Wi-Fi in the microsoft zune music player works i send this i will send it to any of the zooms that are nearby and i've got three of them here and it's actually searching for and i just found two zooms i'm going to send this song to the brown zune what it's going to do is send a message to the brown soon it will pop up a prompt that matt white that's the white version wants to send me music and i'm going to accept that you don't get to keep the music you receive forever and you can only send to other zunes now we know james also got his hands on the serious stiletto 100 it's a satellite radio packed with extras we have here satellite radio internet radio your library there's two gigabytes inside of this thing overall so far it looks like a pretty nice piece serious hasn't had a device like this one that was totally portable and this thing does a lot of different things the Wi-Fi element is really cool i don't know how useful it will be but we'll check that in our review james said the battery will give four hours for satellite eight hours for internet radio and 20 hours for mp3 playback next up Bonnie Shaw has singulars first 3g smartphone the 8520 5 in terms of design I really like it pocketpc phones tend to be able big and bulky but this is pretty manageable and fits nicely in the palm it is a little bit heavy so just be aware of that got a nice 2.8 touchscreen bright colors and shrimp text the navigation rate here's a little bit small for me so I imagine users with larger hands will have even more problems however if you do flip up the device like that you got a nice full qwerty keyboard it's really spacious and it's comfortable to hold while you're messaging it also has Wi-Fi Bluetooth and push email capabilities finally dan ackerman has the macbook Pro with the core 2 duo cpu besides the souped-up processor here's what else you get other groovy extras include a firewire 800 port the old models only have 400 so you can hook up your external DVD drive or a DV camera pretty easily and of course it comes with Apple's front row remote take this little guy right here aiming at the screen press the button and front row comes up and then you can navigate through your music through your photos you can watch a DVD movie or watch video files on your computer will it be cheaper than a PC laptop no but it is prettier 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