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it's time for new iPhones Kindles and android kitkat I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it's official a new iphone will be announced on Tuesday September 10th Apple sent out a colorful event invitation to press with the words this should brighten everyone's day looks like a clue that we will be getting a plastic iPhone 5c in several colors but Windows Phone will have a huge update of its own so to speak Microsoft has bought the mobile side of Nokia and it'll license nokia's mapping services in a deal worth 7.2 billion dollars by bringing in nokia smartphone muscle it could help Windows Phone better compete against Apple and Android and if that wasn't enough mobile news Google takes the cake or should I say candy because its latest operating system will be called KitKat yes as a Nestle's KitKat give me a break Google always names versions of Android after sweet starting with each letter of the alphabet and the next one up being the letter K the plan was to call it key lime pie google says Nestle isn't paying Google for the brand name so did google also consider Krispy Kreme or how about kool-aid oh yeah moving on there's more big news amazon announced a new and improved version of its ink reader the kindle paperwhite it will have a better display technology twenty-five percent faster processor a more responsive touchscreen along with new features including kindle page flip it lets readers scan or skip pages without losing their place amazon is taking pre-orders now for the new paperwhite which cost the same as the last model starting at one hundred and twenty dollars and it'll ship September 30th and that's not all from Amazon if you've ever bought a book on Amazon even if it was 18 years ago amazon will let you buy the digital version of that book for cheap the digital price could be three dollars two dollars one dollar or even free depending on the books age or popularity the program is called kindle matchbook and it will launch in october with 10,000 book titles even if you don't own a kindle e-reader tablet you can still get these prices when downloading on the kindle app and reports are coming in about samsung's new SmartWatch galaxy year they're having some fuzzy images posted by ventureBeat of a chunky 3-inch screen strapped to a wrist but the design could change for the final version it's also said to have a camera and a microphone along with tiny speakers are we finally getting a Dick Tracy watch stay tuned to cnet.com for the latest details as Samsung shows it off at a tech conference going on now in Germany that's your jam packed tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey