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hey I'm Kareem Levy and I'm Emily Dreyfuss and welcome to rumor has it this week rumors abound about a new nook iphone of course and windows 8 and we'll vote on which of those sounds legit and which one is a pipe dream the best part is that you guys can vote to our first rumor is that Barnes & Noble is prepping a 7-inch tablet with a revolutionary screen according to trusted sources speaking to our very own tablet editor David Carly so this next-gen nook would be barnes and nobles way of competing with the Nexus 7 and the kindle fire which the nook tablet really failed at exactly when a little jab at Apple in there all other revolutionary screen the source tells seen it that the screen technology was developed in-house by Barnes and Noble and that we haven't seen in any product ever before we've been predicting that barnes and noble would release a new tablet he'll everybody has it's like they have to exactly and i think that we both agree that there's a new tablet coming but i don't think it's going to be revolutionary I think the nukes are already great for reading books but they need to be great for watching media as well if they want to compete and in order to do that the screen needs to be crisper and higher res I think that's all this will be C i disagree i think barnes & noble has shown innovation in the past with the new color screen and they could have something really different up their sleeve hey if it'll be 3d or oulad PR right if you're watching on Cena you can vote along to using the thumbs up thumbs down right next to my head in the interactive player you have the next 30 seconds to vote in the meantime we went to the streets of San Francisco to ask people what they thought so there is a new rumor going around that Barnes & Noble is coming out with a new tablet and that the screen is going to be revolutionary so what do you guys think a revolutionary screen man's or maybe one that won't crack is easy just something that you can probably also read in the sunlight be easy to read in the sunlight with less reflection maybe it has touch you could feel something it would have it would have it would be a responsive tablet that would give you haptic feedback 3d I guess an easy our keyboard to use or something like that like one on the touchscreen perhaps it can compared with with cinema with a 3d cinema so looks like 3d seems to be a popular answer I don't know about that let's go inside and see some more rumors our necks rumor is about Fancy Pants windows 8 Microsoft is going to do away with the full retail version of the OS and will instead only sell upgrade licenses at a promotional price of 40 bucks this is actually really cool it basically means that Microsoft doesn't want to price couch anymore they figure that if you want windows 8 it means you're either upgrading or you've built your own pc and either way you shouldn't have to pay with your firstborn child or 250 bucks right why is it so expensive sorry to bring this up to all you Apple haters out there but OSX upgrades are usually only thirty dollars way to join the rest of universe Microsoft okay we want to catch up on iphone rumors real fast there have been a ton as we're speaking more probably piling up behind us first supposedly screen prototypes leak showing a longer taller iphone screen case then the japanese blog Macotakara believes that the iphone is already in production sources third any who need sources then the wall street journal with no sources chimes in insisting that the next phone will actually be even thinner do we believe any of that who knows another person says it won't even be called the iphone wait what listen all's fair and iphone rumor land okay so let's get back to the barnes and noble room on the scenic council is composed of five Cena experts who cast their votes anonymously opinions org estimates expressed by the cnet council are not an endorsement by cnet or CBS interactive obviously because these are rumors folks so we asked them will screen in the rumored new Barnes & Noble tablet be revolutionary and the cnet verdict is nay it was four to one that the term revolutionary is too broad and too sweeping and no great our comment of the week last week goes to fly guy 29 who writes regarding the possibility of an Amazon phone it would do well if it was one subsidized to the point of free and no contract to six months of free media 35 hundred and ninety-nine dollars in free amazon credit to make you feel better about using a shopping cart as a phone instead of a real phone from samsung HTC or motorola five hundred ninety-nine dollars in free amazon credits that's pretty specific and he probably never going to happen but we would take a free phone from amazon sure yeah that's our show everybody share your rumors that rumor has it at cnet com or call us at 1 800 750 Cena and tune in next week for more tech rumors you