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hey I'm Kareem levy and I'm Lynn la this week's guest host and welcome to rumor has it the show where we round up the week's biggest tech rumors and vote on the ones that sound legit and the ones that sound like it's probably a no-go and remember that you can vote on all of the rumors too so keep your eye out for the pole in the interactive player if you're watching on CNN first up my favorite kind of rumor next gen consoles according to leaked Microsoft documents on the site VG leaks the next Xbox will only offer hard drive based gameplay back you won't be able to play a game from the optical drive which will also be blu-ray the doc goes on to say that it'll be big enough quote to hold a large number of games don't panic though because it also says that you'll be able to play the game wallets downloading downloading games could mean faster load times too but as noted by the verge this leaked document is from last year so keep in mind that Microsoft could have made a gajillion changes since then a gajillion yes more or less that's a ballpark figure okay gotcha our next rumor is from the people over at droid life who says that Google play's UI is getting a bunch of new design tweaks these include larger thumbnail and icon images a leaner and more streamline layout and my personal favorite some new menu typefaces you're seriously excited about that aren't you I just I have a lot of time on my hands don't judge me well whatever you're excited about from what we can tell from the alleged preview the stores new look appears to be tidier right and small things like that users also installed window that pops up right after you start download an app has seemed to disappear in general though everything looks to be about the same so you're not going to wake up one day and you see that your google play pulled a facebook on you and timeline dress next up TechCrunch is reporting that amazon has a $99 kindle fire on the horizon citing nobody TechCrunch just heard that the 7-inch device is on the production line with plans to ship sometime this year reportedly the new device would use a TI chip and offer a 1280 by 800 pixel resolution just like the current kindle HD 7-inch tablet amazon recently dropped the prices the 8.9 inch kindle fire this is a techcrunch to believe that much cheaper 7-inch kindle fires are on its way that's a really big leap that a hundred dollar price difference is huge especially when Amazon already loses money on each of its one hundred ninety nine dollar kindle fires so I don't really think that this rumor is true at all ever and hey neither does Amazon apparently it totally refuted a claim and basically called TechCrunch a silly goose then we're all in agreement next a rumor from the Financial Times says that Google may be developing a SmartWatch I have a jawbone up that I'm obsessed with for no reason at all so I'm sure when all of these smartwatches come out I'll buy each one and like wear them on my arms like their sleeves right because that won't look nerdy whatsoever keep in mind smartwatches are nothing new Samsung has been making them for years sony LG and motorola have some and apple is rumored on this show even to be working on that right lee named i watch so that i do that google is throwing its head in the ring may not sound so far-fetched especially now that we've reached a point in tech that we can cram all of these software features into a tiny amount of space true and i think that walking around with this chunk of tech on your wrist doesn't look as unseemly or douche-baggy as say Google glasses what do you guys think will Google jump onto the SmartWatch bandwagon do you care do you think it'll be called the G time don't forget to vote and leave us a comment and we'll check in with the cnet Council the cnet Council is composed of five editors who cast their votes anonymously their opinions are not an endorsement by cnet or CBS interactive obviously because these are rumors folks and the council's verdict is a unanimous yes every one of the editors we asked think that Google is coming out with its own SmartWatch 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 and thanks tool in this week's guest host tune in next week for more tech rumors you