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it's time to taste the ice on rainbow I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update people are always hungry for news about the next iPhone and we have a fresh batch of rumors on the plastic models that are said to be coming out in the fall a chinese tech blog says the factory Foxconn has begun making an entry-level iphone in multiple colors a french website posted photos of what could be the colorful back plates they are bright lime green yellow and red reminds me of skittles but these are not the same shades of colors that you'll find in the existing ipod nano lineup also from china it said that these cheaper iphones won't be really super cheap they could be the same cost as an older iPhone 4 or 4s model the pebble smartwatch has been a popular Kickstarter project but now it's coming to best buy the SmartWatch syncs with iPhones and Android phones to show alerts when you're getting a text message or a call and also lets you control music and some apps like RunKeeper it lasts a week on one charge it will be sold at best buy stores and online starting on Sunday for a hundred and fifty dollars but it'll only carry the black version at first the red model arrives in August and you'll have to go to the pebble website to get the orange grey and white colors if you're a college student shopping for laptops keep an eye out for different promotions going on Apple has an early jump on the back to school rush and it discounts the price of computers for college students it also throws in a hundred dollar app store gift card for buying a mac students can also get a fifty dollar gift card for buying an ipad or iphone now that Google Reader is a goner it's time to set up an alternative app to keep up on the latest post from your favorite news sites and blogs check out feedly pulse or also the new digg app on iOS google reader users have until July fifteenth to download a copy of their favorite feeds before the data is permanently deleted and also on July fifteenth Sony's new 4k TV media player will be hitting stores it plays ultra high resolution video but you're probably not going to buy it that's because it only works with the new Sony 4k TVs which start at five grand for the 55 inch model and then you have to buy the 4k player for another five hundred dollars and that's the discounted price it includes 10 films and video shorts with 4k resolution in the fall Sony will launch a video service so you can rent 4k movies for eight dollars a pop there's just not that much 4k content available right now so it's worth waiting for the price to go down but if you like spending money because you just have to be the first to have this new resolution well more power to you that your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm preacher Carrie