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hey I'm Emily Dreyfuss and I'm Kareem levy and welcome to rumor has its special year-end show where we round up the biggest tech rumors of 2012 and then we look forward to the rumors that may come true in 2013 without delay the biggest rumor of this year an apple HDTV though there's little evidence so far that this thing is actually in the works the rumor that it could be released at any moment have persisted all year to recap briefly before his death Steve Jobs told his biographer that he had finally cracked the code to simplifying and reinventing your television since the biography came out last year we've been waiting the most recent rumor from The Wall Street Journal reports that apple its longtime manufacturing partner Foxconn and television maker sharp are all collaborating on this project even this rumor suggests that it's only in the early testing phases but if true 2013 does seem like the earliest that will see Steve Jobs is last product gift to the world the most obvious of the 2013 apple rumors is about the iphone 5s of course it seems like the iphone 5 was barely in people's hands before rumors of the iphone 5s already started swirling according to analysts the next iPhone will launch in june or july with the new super HD camera and screen a better battery and NFC technology finally it also could potentially have up to 128 gigs of flash storage and it could come in different colors there is no doubt in my mind that the iphone 5s will be released next year sometime after q2 that's just what they do agreed people that are on the S track of iphone iterations will be very happy with the improvements and people who just got the iphone 5 like us will just be happy to wait for the iphone 6 and maybe grumbling a little bit too next up android fans like our fiance's have their panties in a twist over the rumors that samsung galaxy s4 is coming out next year on the one hand we have to say of course it is that's how this works bones get better new models come out but knowing that doesn't mean we know when the phone will come out or what it will have recent rumors from a Korean site suggests that we'll have a 5-inch screen and a 1080p HD display benchmarks on Nina mark site suggests it will run android 5.0 but will only be 720p our producer Sarah and I have money that will see it at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of februari which i think is too soon next my favorite of all the rumors next generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony these rumors heat up and then die down almost as fast as we can report them it is obvious there will be new consoles but we just don't know when or what for the Xbox most recent speculations are that it'll be ready for the 2013 holiday season as for features reports include connect to point o a blu-ray drive an enhanced controller and an AV port for watching and recording broadcast TV shows basically it's going to shoot unicorns out of its but rumors were the ps4 have it coming out during the holidays next year as well as for features they range from excellent 3d gaming at 1080p to the games coming out on blu-ray discs or as downloadable content like with the PS Vita what we do know is that the current gen consoles have been around for almost 10 years and although they're excellent perhaps it's time for a refresh our final rumor development next year is uh necessity that the super crisp 4k TVs will be commercially available for a way way lower price current Sony 4k TVs start at $25,000 what else can you get for 25k a car a wedding a home movie theater a down payment on a house 25 MacBook Airs Oh for that matter 25,000 hamburgers from the mcdonalds dollar menu yuck ok young now we saw the first 4k TVs at CES earlier this year and everyone went goo gaga over their life like picture quality that was like looking through a window personally my vision is so imperfect but I was incredibly underwhelmed or maybe you weren't standing at the right distance CNET's Jeff Morris and writes that your eyes have a finite resolution and at the distance that most people sit away from their TVs it's unlikely that you'll even be able to tell the difference huh finally our comment of the week comes from Garf no tea or garfin OD who writes of the rumor that iOS will be getting a Microsoft Office app my biggest problem with office on mobile devices is this description model I do not like paying a monthly fee to use an app give me free or premium not freemium or subscription here here that's our show everybody please share your rumors that rumor has it at cnet com or call us at 1 800 750 cnet and tweet us happy holidays everyone and have a great new year