I dropped my iPhone 4 and now it won't sync to iTunes

Last night I dropped my iPhone 4 pretty severely and smashed the front glass. It's been working fine, with the occasional freak out (podcasts stop playing after ten seconds or so, but that righted itself), but this morning (after turning it on & off) I went to sync it with iTunes and it has been stalling at Preparing To Sync with an error message that says "An internal device error occurred." This sounds pretty scary.
Is there anything I can do for it or should I take it to the Apple Store? I was planning to get an iPhone 5 in Februrary, so I don't want to have to pay for costly repairs (it's out of warranty).
If there's nothing I can do for the internal device error, how do I get my podcasts onto my phone? The new app doesn't download the episodes for some reason. This is the only part of the data I can't do without syncing.

Your device is broken. If you want a device that works better than the one you have now, then you'll either need to bring your phone into Apple for out of warranty exchange ($149), or find a 3rd party repair shop in your area and see what they can do, if anything at all.

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