Now that Apple has announced its new iTunes phone and teeny tiny iPod Nano (<<i>Adopt Monty Python French accent>"but sir, it's wafer thin"), gadget show-offs around the country are facing a conundrum of considerable proportions. With PSP, DS, Sony's Walkman phone, Gizmondo and Game Boy Micro also out there or on the way, exactly which desirable piece of kit should we be nonchalantly, but oh so deliberately, slapping down on the pub table when meeting friends?*
Does the universally understood cool of the iPod brand win out? Or is it the all-round entertainment possibilities of the PSP? Or the loveable charm of the DS? Or could it be... could it really be the offbeat, apparently hopeless Gizmondo - the Northern Ireland of portable technology?
What will your choice say about you? Especially if you accidentally set it down in a big puddle of Fosters...
*Please do not pretend you don't do this.
