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summer can be a slow month for product announcements give your occasional Nexus 7 or galaxy s3 but a lot of companies are saving their big products for the holiday buying season but what can you expect from them and is it worth waiting for miss top 5 we're counting down the most anticipated products for the second half of 2012 and we're starting it off with the Nintendo Wii U this thing has been shown off at e3 for two years in a row now and if they don't ship this in 2012 it's not looking so good for Nintendo they really need to deliver this and show us some compelling reasons to buy it because in 2013 it's going to be all about the next generation of Xbox and Playstation at number four new tablets from amazon and barnes and noble last year these guys basically created the two-hundred-dollar tablet category but with google nexus 7 out now they're gonna have to step things up we're taking a new Kindle Fire possibly one with the tenant screen and a nip tablet they may tie into xbox and windows now that Microsoft has a stake in it these could give the nexus 7 a run for its money unless number three has anything to say about it the ipad mini rumors about a smaller cheaper 7 inch ipad have been floating around since 2010 but they're becoming a lot harder to ignore with all the action around the 7-inch tablet space you just know that alpha would love to dominate that category too typically Apple shows off iPods in the fall but with sales of those on the decline maybe it's time to create a new product if for no other reason than to spoil the party for number two windows 8 the rollout for Windows 8 is going to be like nothing else we've seen from microsoft it touches on laptops desktops tablets and phones we're going to hear about this thing from every angle and Microsoft is going to spend no small amount of money to prevent this thing from going over like Windows Vista before we get to number 1 let's take a look back at seen its most anticipated products of 2011 that number one looks familiar oh that's right because it's back here for another turn Apple threw us a curveball last year and we got an iphone 4s that looked a whole lot like an iPhone 4 but they can't play that trick again Apple will have to show us a new design and some unique new features worth getting excited over whatever they do if the reaction to the last five iphones is any indication then people are going to lose their minds for this thing and that's why we put it at number one now if you can't wait for fall to get your fix you can find all the latest technology reviews over at cnet com and more top five like these check out top five cnet com I'm Donnell bell thanks for watching