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Happy The Engadget Podcast New Year's, everybody!

You know what to do. Don't forget to date your checks right.

Host: Brian Heater
Guests: Richard Lawler, Terrence O'Brien
Producer: Trent Wolbe

It's that weird week between Christmas and New Year's, and what have we got for you, dear listener?

A completely normal international Engadget Mobile Podcast, of course! Settle in around the media player dock and make all your 2012 dreams come true with us, won't you?

Rants.

You want 'em, we got em...by the dozen, this week. But they're not rants for ranting's sake: we just want the best for you, dear mobile technology consumer, and we're just doing our jobs by taking the flaws in the industry to task.

Don't worry, we've got raves too, as well as the usual boatload of product announcements.

This week, we're iterating, not innovating: Google's core services change shape and move in with uncomfortable bedfellows, the Galaxy S II grows up a little and finds a friend in a spen, AT&T slow-rolls its fastness into a few more markets...and Motorola brings its 2.0'd tablet to the Carphone Warehouse.

The future of the Zune as a standalone media player is still a little in doubt, but its future of being able to send

Humans, allow us to present the latest episode of The Engadget Show -- you won't want to miss it.

Gentlemen and ladies, it's that time again -- that's right, the Engadget Show is back next Thursday, February 17th!

What are you doing tonight?

How about..................listening to all 100 minutes of the 2010 wrap-up edition of the Engadget Podcast?

The Engadget Podcasters reminisce and predict as we peer into the void of yet another year of exciting and flawed technology.

They just keep coming, and rest assured -- we'll just keep podcasting.

Have you ever heard that Aaliyah song where Timbaland's all "it's been a long time (time), we shouldn'ta left you (left you) without a dope beat to step to (step to)?" That's how we feel now, or it's how we felt yesterday, and now this is a new beat to step to, but it's a whole entire Engadget Podcast to step to.