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this week on the scene I tech review CES 2011 has come and gone and we've got the highlights including our pick for best of show plus the iPhone comes to verizon finally it's all coming up right now hi everyone I'm Hollywood and welcome to the cnet tech review where we collect our hottest videos of the week and tell you what's good and what's bad in the world of tech plus offer some unique tech wisdom in the form of the bottom line let's get started with the good we're all still recovering from the consumer electronics show in las vegas this year but i have to say the super bowl of tech was back and bigger than ever and we did it up right here's Bryant on with a behind-the-scenes look at our CES home away from home the cnet stage hey guys Brian song here with cnet com we are here in Las Vegas at CES 2011 as you can see behind me this is our booth it's coming together but what we want to do is give you a sneak peek behind the scenes exclusive pass to how we make the show make the sausage and everything that's happening behind us so lunch you guys come over here and first up you can see you know we've got a lot of boxes everybody's move things diff we come down through this little fishbowl this is our editing Bay now over here these are all of our editors and our producers they're going to be working hard on content all the videos that you see throughout the week they're going to be working on everybody say hi see there they don't even expect that they're so busy all right so I'm going to come down here a lot of the stuff that we're going to do here also is live content coming to you and one of the cool little toys that we have here is these are our live streaming backpacks this is like a satellite truck on your back of course that would be taking behind the scenes on the floor see that when you see cables and a screen like that that means it's important but what we have is I'll be on the floor and we'll be throwing to me anywhere that you guys want to see us we covering some of the biggest boost some of the sweetest products if you guys have something that you want me to go to I'm kind of at your control you can tweet me at Brian underscore tongue and we'll show you what is happening on the cs floor to really give you a real feel live unedited of what's happening out there so this is going to be a big key part of what we do at CES 2011 now we're gonna keep on walking this way through the Edit Bay I'm going to take you kind of to the lounge hangout area so let's just go over here and when we walked through here this is where you don't see it all the time but there will be people sprawled out on these couches this is early everyone this is where you rest your feet kick your feet up and here is the good stuff you know we all need food during CES 2011 we have our granola bars this is one of my favorite little sweet and spicy mix and also orbits gum this is important because you talked a lot of people and those PR reps they get in your face you might need to give them one of these just to help you out all right also check it out over here our little fridge with all of the beverages you can dream up we have gatorade we've got the water we've got the diet coke everything to keep you or D hydro k hydrate all right all right there's my producer Sarah she's going to keep me moving here we go over here now we're going to head into our control room this is where all the magic happens all of our video content is pumped through here here's our directors board up and down see now even I can be a director and then also this is the power of the megaphone and can we get a little tighter on a camel run thank you this is power right here now all of our live content will be pumped through this studio here we talking about buzz out loud our daily podcast with myself in Mollywood the 404 boys will be doing their thing Natali Morris will also be bringing you loaded with all the news recapped from the day before as well as some of the news things in the morning and also all of our first looks we're talking about all the gadgets and gizmos that you came to cnet to see us cover we also have some other big events that we're doing one of them is called the next big thing this is a panel we have a lot of luminaries in the tech world talking about what is the next emerging trend of 2011 this year it's beyond the computer because internet services are everywhere where is that technology taking us moving forward to 2011 and beyond and finally what everyone comes here for is the CES 2011 best of CES winners now the nominees and candidates will be announced on Friday then we're going to take it up all the way to this big stage on saturday with brian cooley he'll be hosting the best of CES award winners that's what everyone is here for but overall we're doing great things bigger brighter things with our huge LED screens and all of our content here at cnet now you can check out all of our life content as cnet com / live we pump in through that 24 7 you can even take a look at our little spy camp yeah late at night if you want to see what we're doing what creepy things are happening in Las Vegas at the cnet stage yeah you'll see them all there so thanks for hanging with us this is our backstage pass of everything that scene that's doing as yes 2011 and we'll see it here I cannot confirm or deny whether any creepy things happened at the scene that stage late at night only that a lot of quality programming did occur and the rest stays in Vegas moving on as Brian mentioned cnet gives out the official best of CES awards every year at the show in a whole slew of categories now here are the winners in design smartphones and gaming hey I'm Josh goldland senior editor with cnet and I'm here at CES 2011 taking a look at the casio tricks now redesigning a camera body is a little tough you know it's been a box design since day one pretty much but casio seems to have done that with the tricks the display flips out and rotates a full 360 degrees and rotates this way and that 270 degrees that rotation allows you to shoot left-handed or right-handed thanks to an orientation sensor built into the camera now to get this really slim cool ultra compact form factor they had to ditch the optical zoom on this so it's just digital but you do get a 21 millimeter ultra ultra wide-angle lens it also shoots in Full HD video and you'll notice there's a pretty much a complete lack of physical controls on this camera that's because it's using a 3 inch high res touchscreen display and because of that swivel display you're able to position it in different ways so you can hang it from things to shoot stick it on a tabletop to shoot so again while it is pretty tough to break away from a traditional camera design it seems like Cassio's done that with the tricks I'm Josh Goldman CES 2011 this is the casio tricks hi I'm Kent German senior editor at cnet com I'm here at CES 2011 in Las Vegas and I want to show you a couple new products from Motorola versus the motorola atrix 4g know this is one of eight ents first 4g phones it's runs on hspa+ so that is a 4g but the 18 c will be coming out with LTE network later in the year but for all intents and purposes it is 4g right now we weren't expecting 18teen announced 4g devices so they took us a little bit by surprise but really glad to see it now this is a dual-core phone so that doesn't mean that it does have two one gigahertz processors now it's interesting because this is motorola first and it's definitely a first for us carrier i'm a little concerned about how this dual-core processors might affect battery life but we'll have to see otherwise features are what you'd expect for an android phone is by megapixel camera plenty of multimedia all those productivity apps personal organizer all those Google applications assisted GPS so pretty basic one thing is really interesting is it coming you can get a motorola laptop dock now this is a brand new product it was just announced today we actually had no idea about it now you might looks like a laptop and that's exactly the point but it doesn't do anything unless you actually take the phone and you plug it into these ports here in the back so i'll go ahead and do that and then we'll take a take just a second what what this is is it basically brings your phone and brings it into a larger screen so everything you do on the phone from watching videos to browsing the web using your email all the sending messages it's just put in put it on this larger screen so you can play games you can get really whatever you want i know a couple people ask well what's really the point it's just the point is is everything you can do on your phone makes it a little more comfortable you have a nice large screen there's not that I strain and looking at a small phone especially for watching movies and videos or a long period it does it is supposed to have an eight hour battery life motorola laptop dock so that means you could use it on a pretty long plane ride load a bunch of movies on the phone and you're good to go full keyboard pretty basic instruction no ports or anything to talk about it's really just about plugging that phone in you can also get an hdmi dog and wettest you can put the phone in run it to an hdmi cable it goes directly to your TV and you can watch any videos you TV or any kind of on the monitor so it's really some interesting products that Motorola's done with this again is a dual-core phone runs on amc's new hspa+ network that is growing network so we don't know much about it yet but will will be out in 2011 probably mid-2011 but this is a pretty astre phone i love these accessories I'm Kim Sherman here at CES 2010 with the motorola atrix 4g and the mobil oil laptop dog hey what's going on everyone i'm jeff bakalar from cnet com we're here live at CES 2011 i'm here with the nintendo 3ds is our first look at the device it comes out in March we don't have a price yet but it is the successor to the Nintendo DS I and the nintendo DS lite it does 3d gaming if you notice the top screen here displays a 3d image without the need for 3d glasses pretty incredible below is a standard touch screen on the back to camera lenses allow you to take 3d photographs which is really cool talking more about the 3d screen it has a 3d slide adjuster so you can customize the 3d effect you can make it more intense or even eliminate it altogether it's backwards compatible with Nintendo DS games which is really cool she can play those old games and it's going to be reducing doing something called streetpass which allows this to communicate with other 3d esas that you pass by on the street or in your home we don't know all the details about that yet but we hope to find out more in mid-january in terms of size the 3ds is similar to what you see on the DS Lite and it has a very nice way to it as well up front is a headphone sport up front also is an analog stick and then a deep head below that and then the conventional for buttons that we're all used to on Nintendo portables that's going to do it for the 3ds here at CES 2011 I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet com thanks for watching now Nintendo was not the only one showing off glasses-free 3d displays at CES this year it's definitely a big trend and we saw glasses-free 3d TVs from LG Sony and Toshiba good news for those of us who like to watch TV without accessories we also let you the people vote in our little awards show and the people's voice award is always a cool look at the thing that grabs your attention this year your attention was rightly grabbed by what could be the smallest coolest gaming PC ever this is one of the most wild looking laptop here it's so tiny it just be razor switch late i'm going to turn around here so you can see it this is also a concept piece it is a tiny intel atom powered laptop from razor designed for playing pc games you can plug a mouse into it it has a keyboard and I'm going to fill it up a little bit so you can see the keyboard each keyboard key is actually a little tiny display there's actually the display under here that gives you a custom keyboard based on what you're doing now I'm going to attempt to very quickly launch a game right here and this is it's a concept piece it's not going to hit the stores anytime soon who knows how much it'll cost who knows what the components will be but showing that you can actually get a kind of gaming PC into a little clamshell design and add cool stuff to it that actually makes it usable like customizable keyboards I think that's we're looking at and everyone has been very excited to check this out in person it's a remarkable idea it's also unusual because usually think of a gaming laptop as being a 17-pound alienware a dell XPS this I mean where people just make very casual games on their simple pcs exactly are having porno I got the Warcraft style keys on here if you look at the keyboard it's actually changed to a warcraft style a font on the keys sorry that's the razor switchblade and i think that's a super cool concept who knows if we'll actually ever see it but I this is a boat is like looking really nice I believe it in not bad for an ultra mobile pc / portable gaming device / thingy we'll see if that ever comes to the real world one thing that is coming to the real world with a bang is our CES best of show winner this is the gadget that wowed our cnet editors the most although it won by the slimmest margin ever it's the go out check it out hi everybody I'm mollywood from cnet com here at CES 2011 with a very special first look this is our CES 2011 best of show winner the Motorola Xoom tablet so I thought I would give it the full best of CES first look treatment now there were a lot of tablets buy some reports as many as 50 tablets announced here at CES and from some big names LG Toshiba and of course Motorola so what makes this one so special well first up I have to say it's partly the design this is absolutely beautiful it's sexy it's lighter than the iPad but it has a slightly bigger display a 10.1 inch display running at 1280 x 800 resolution so really nice hi res glossy bright screen now one of the things that makes this tablet so appealing is that it's running Google's honeycomb operating system that's the version of Android that is specifically optimized for tablets and i have to say we found it very user friendly very tablet friendly really a good touch screen interface that made this frankly just a joy to use it's also running a Tegra 2 dual core processor with one gig of ram so it's got some pretty serious horsepower under the hood here plus there's plenty of on-board storage it has 32 gigs of on-board storage with an SD card slot that's expandable to 32 gigs more so you can get potentially 64 gigs of storage on here pretty much all the movies and music that you're ever going to want speaking out photos this has another ipad killer feature dual cameras there's a 2 megapixel camera in the front a 5 megapixel camera on the back that's another thing that the ipad lacks as you know and of course there is support for flash 10.1 all in all a very powerful very attractive comfortable little tablet we are expecting to see this guy in the first quarter of 2011 there's no pricing information yet but they're saying it'll be competitive so third thing in that's code for five to seven hundred dollars we'll see when it finally comes out and there you have it i'm molly wood from cnet com with a first look at our best of CES show winner the Motorola Xoom tablet congratulations to Motorola on the zoom and congrats to all of our best of CES award recipients you can find that complete list of winners all the finalists and everything else CES related over at cnet com and right now we're going to take a quick break but we will be right back with more tech review in just a minute welcome back to the cnet tech review our weekly digest of all things good and bad we've seen here at cnet TV continuing on in the good before we even had a chance to catch our breath from CES it was time to turn our attention to more verizon iphone rumors except this time the rumors are true well here it is your verizon iphone the ever elusive iphone running on verizon cdma network it was announced today in New York well it's exactly what we thought which isn't necessarily a bad thing there's been a lot of pent up demand for an iphone on verizon and that's exactly what we got today but there are a few little disappointments there's no gsm chip in it so that means it's not a world phone and it's not LTE so it's not on the superfast network but that might mean that the battery life is pretty good or at least the same as what you can get on the iphone 4 on AT&T network a couple of details about it it's going to cost 199 dollars for the 16 gig model 299 for the 32 gig model it will launch on februari 10th for everyone if you're an existing verizon customer however it will launch on februari third for pre-orders so you'll get yours before everyone else does one of the cool things about the verizon version of the iphone is that it allows for tethering of up to five devices that means you can use the iphone to send data to your tablet or your laptop or any other device you want to get on the internet so if you go to the settings menu you see that one of the first setting options is personal hotspot so you click this you turn it on and you can connect to another device using Wi-Fi Bluetooth or USB one possible drawback of this phone is that the cdma network doesn't allow for voice calls at the same time as you're using the data which could be a limitation the hardware of this phone is very similar to the AT&T version although there is this one seam along the top which could be an antenna seam which could prevent the problems at the iphone 4 had with dropped calls because the antenna was along the bottom one other hardware difference is there's no sim card slot one thing we don't know is pricing a plan so that hotspot tethering that we're so excited about could cost more we don't know and they won't say just yet otherwise it looks just like an iphone 4 it's just a new name and a new network iPhone bore on verizon at long last for cnet news I'm Natali Morris what a relief although we do need a new iPhone rumor now while you're working on thinking of one let's check out the bad it's bad news for ATT all the way around not only do they lose the exclusive on the iPhone they're in for at least a year of journalists and consumers gloating about their better verizon network witnessed the first of many fairly unscientific speed tests hey everyone Bonnie top from cnet com here at the verizon iphone launch event and i'm sure one of the big questions on your mind is which network is actually faster AT&T and verizon turns out we've got both phones here so we're going to do a little speed test and let's see who comes out on top so we are going to pull up the full New York Times page and see which one comes out faster ready set go looks like verizon's winning so far here we go New York Times is up on the verizon network 18t just pulled in there that was actually a significant difference between the two webpages verizon it's almost instantaneous whereas 18t just finished loading the page so that was our speed test on the iphone 4 18 t and verizon obviously that's just one test will do more extensive testing once we get the phone in for review and you'll be able to check out the full review at cnet com now yes we know it was a verizon event and there aren't any iphones on that network yet and there were probably verizon femtocells stashed under every desk but still that's got to hurt 18t just a little maybe there's some good news waiting for us in the bottom line turning our attention back to CES the show made a huge comeback this year it was bigger and badder than ever and i have to say even the announcements and the tech delivered especially after some seriously slow years so let's wrap up our best of CES awards as sort of a taste of what's to come in 2011 Brian Chong here with sitcom at CES 2011 and we are here right before the best of CES 2011 award show right behind me this is what they look like we have our editors scouring the floor find out what are the best products we have 13 different award categories the People's Choice winner and the best of show this is what it looks like this is what they're all here for add the winner of the best of CES award in the design category is the casio tricks this is a great great great pleasure in 24 casio because this is a new year and it's a great gift and focus thank you very much thank you the winner in that digital imaging category is the sony handycam ihdr pj series it's so exciting it's kind of solving a problem that you know you never have the cable with you or the TV doesn't have the right inputs you show it on this side of your wall or your t-shirt or the side of your tent it's a perfect application for sharing everything everyone anywhere we're so excited we're just fortunate to be here for another year and we I just can't express how excited we are thank you the winner and the home theater category is the ultra-compact out sundry d7000 our blu-ray player it's beyond just playing this about you know Samsung Apps getting you no access to networking your player to other devices and yeah we're trying to do more and offer more to the consumer let's be honest the way that it execs the disc is kind of yeah their design team really worked on making it very compact putting only the essentials in there and providing you a cool way to put your disc in yeah all right the winner and the software services and apps category is real number five how does it feel to be a festa SI s what it is fabulous we'd worked so hard and we've identified a problem that everybody has a lot of apps a lot of devices a lot of stuff scattered all over the place and we found a way to literally unify it so we're thrilled with the award it's a validation of all of our work thank you the winner the storage and networking category is that iosafe rugged portable drive you want to protect your media yeah this one is just about bulletproof and our editors know because they watched it gets shot with a shotgun this is pretty much indestructible not indestructible but it's a pretty tough drive we we put it through the paces during the demo dog came out and we we dunked it we crushed it we try to shoot it with a shotgun and it just kept kept on going so thanks for having this award and what I really appreciate seeing it and everything you guys do to to help us in technology in general so the winner in the 2011 best of CES people's voice award winner this year is give it to the razor this is the people's choice award this is what everyone watching see us outside of here feels how does it feel to take this memory cry you know we've been trying to do this for five years we were nominated we didn't win didn't win win it's a long walk up and down it's just thank you for everybody thank you amazing just amazing the winner of the 2011 best of CES best of show award is the motorola xoom it's been amazing I mean we took big risks and you know it paid off it paid off we didn't know people would get it but obviously they got it so for these photos for the whole Motorola and for project team so the people the motor are people who've been working so hard on the show and all of those that have been staying in the back actually continuing to work to bring the next level of experiences and bring a 3ds ones to market it's just an immense recognition I am very thankful to the whole thing here it's very encouraging for us it means we are doing the right things so there you have it all our winners of the best of CES award show here at CES 2011 motorola coming out strong not only taking the smartphone category the tablet category and obviously the best of CES in show so there you have it all the winners will see you guys next year at CES the bottom line this week tech is back baby judging from CES the verizon iphone and all the other product related announcements that are coming up in the next couple of weeks it's going to be a fun year in consumer electronics and we will be along for the ride right there with you but that's it for this time folks come back next week for a brand new sina tech review including highlights from the 2011 detroit auto show until then there are tons of great videos available every day at cnet TV com I'll see you next time and thank you for watching