In this week’s Wired Gadget Lab Audio Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Priya Ganapati and I review the fall season’s first cellphone aimed at female users, the LG Lotus. We’ll go over the reasons why its makeup compact appearance seems more desperate than savvy and why companies should concentrate on real hardware problems (like a bunched-in keyboard) as opposed to cosmetic changes. Basically, we’re just not that into it.
In addition, we’ll talk about the $585 million price-fixing judgement just leveled against three LCD panel makers and explain why it could be the beginning of a larger scandal.
Finally, we’ll discuss the new CPUs from AMD and Intel and go over the reasons why the next couple of years will be a critical time in the industry.
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