Hasta La Gadget!

This week’s episode of the Gadget Lab podcast packs a healthy mix of mobile goodies.

We take a quick look at Sony’s new version of the PlayStation Portable, dubbed the Next-Generation Portable. It’s equipped with an OLED display, two touch panels and a cartridge reader, similar to the Nintendo DS. Most interestingly, it features a quad-core Cortex A9 processor — a hell of a lot of power for a portable gaming device, which makes me wonder about the battery life.

I segue into the upcoming Verizon iPhone and just how much it will cost compared with the AT&T iPhone. The monthly prices aren’t very different, though AT&T’s tethering plan is a bit worse in terms of value.

Nothing is quite worse in value, however, than an accessory I saw at Macworld Expo that converts your iPhone into a pseudo landline. That’s just kind of a sad invention.

We close the podcast goofing off with Bebot, a music-synthesizer robot app for iPhone and a cutesy iPad game called Max Adventure.

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