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Summary: Join Karyne Levy on Rumor Has It to catch the week's hottest tech rumors, from suspected gadget release dates and leaked specs to concept prototypes showing up where they don't belong. Play along with the hosts as they vote on whether the most hyped-up rumor is likely to happen, or if it's pure fantasy. Tech rumors are the Internet's favorite indulgence. And Rumor Has It says: give in to temptation.
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On this week's Rumor Has It, we ask, "If you were a color, what color would you be?" Metallic blue? Or iPod Shuffle purple? Also, Sony might be making a Google Nexus phone and Apple might have a few computers on display next week.
Facebook might finally release a native Android app for everyone's stalking needs. Also this week, Sony's next flagship phone could be made out of lightning, and Boxee is rumored to be working on a cable-cutter's dream come true.
On this week's show, the PS4 is probably coming to a home theater near you in 2014, Amazon wants to get you drunk, and the iPad Mini will shed its unicorn horn and become a full-fledged pony.
Nintendo's Wii U is probably going to be region-locked, to nobody's surprise. Soon you may be able to wake your phone up by yelling at it, and Apple Mapgate 2012 has an effect on someone very near and dear to our hearts.
In the wake of the iPhone 5 release, we tally up the rumor scorecard. Who should be very, very ashamed? You? All of us? Also, new rumors about Samsung and a Pandora-killer.
Rumor Has It meets Pam Dore, whose hopes for the Wii U match up remarkably well with what Nintendo just announced.
How much will the Wii U cost? Will Spotify live in the cloud? Who wants an HTC tablet? How about two? Nobody? Shucks.
This is the last show before September 12, the day we expect Apple to announce its new phone -- and maybe an iPad Mini. Will the phone be bigger? Have NFC? Will Apple kill off Siri? We round up all the most credible predictions about the new devices. Place your last bets!
This week in tech rumorland, we wonder what Motorola plans to unveil on Sept. 5, RadioShack might try to sell you a no-contract phone, and is Apple ready to dip its toes into cable TV?
The next Xbox may hit soon, and a swirl of colors shows us that the Kinect 2 might be awesome. Also, IBM could save RIM, iOS 6 could save us some trouble, and if the Microsoft Surface tablet is really priced at $199, we'll happily buy one -- or two.
The 7-inch unicorn rears its mini head again, as we wonder whether August production means fall release. Also this week, sightings of an HP mystery tablet, a nano-SIM card might be in the new iPhone, and HTC may get into the phablet game.
We take a look at iPhone 5 release date rumors, Samsung's possible Retina Display, a new tablet from Sony, and is Apple really planning to buy a stake in Twitter?
The middle child in the MacBook Pro line may get some love from Apple soon; Nokia's mathematicians may have figured out a novel way to save the company; The BlackBerry PlayBook isn't dead, and may receive a poorly conceived update; and we're on high alert on the iPhone 5 rumor front, but the latest likely change to the new phone is upsetting.
Barnes & Noble may be prepping a new 7-inch Nook that has a "revolutionary screen." What does that even mean? Also, an iPhone rumor is born every minute, and Microsoft finally realizes that nobody wants to pay $1 million for Windows 8.
Word is that Amazon just might be confident enough to compete directly with Android and iOS. Also, is a new superslim PS3 in the works? And will the humongous Samsung Galaxy Note get even more humongous?