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hey I'm Kareem leave me and i'm eric franklin your guest host this week and welcome to rumor has it the show where we round up the week's biggest tech rumors and vote on what sounds like it'll actually happen and what's probably BS and remember that you can vote on all of the rumors in the pull in the interactive player if you're watching on Cena first up two of the worst-kept tech secrets get possible release dates according to display search will see a new iPad Mini as early as a third quarter of this year featuring a 2048 x 1536 Retina display not to be completely outdone word from the same source says to expect the nexus 7 follow-up largely rumored to be unveiled at Google i/o in May to feature a 1920 x 1200 resolution screen which equals a crazy PPI for a 7-inch tablet you know what else is really crazy the fact that I've been covering tablets for like two years and have yet to burn out that and the fact that you just got away with saying crazy PP on camera in appropriate next up a couple of days after the insane launch of Samsung's Galaxy s4 some leaked specs popped up for the possible next google phone the LG Nexus 5 seems like really good timing or it seems like a troll but either way the site android and me claims to have received an unverified tip that Google plans to release the Nexus 5 phone around October and is currently evaluating prototypes from multiple manufacturers including one from LG that's code name Megalodon mega mega ladon Megalodon yeah the specs on Megatron read like a fanboys wet dream Snapdragon 800 CPU and a 16 megapixel back camera that wait for it can shoot 4k video yeah if it actually shoots 4k video then megaphone or whatever it's called will cost like five thousand dollars we haven't even seen many prosumer cameras that can shoot 4k let alone a phone yeah even though this is based on a name of a prehistoric shark I wouldn't hold my breath this rumor is going to sink this rumor will sleep with the fishes it smells fishy next Panasonic a name synonymous with quality plasma TVs may be leaving plasma TVs japan-based newspaper Nikkei says that plasma TVs just don't sell as well as lcds and that Panasonic is losing billions as a result the company is apparently thinking of dropping plasma TVs all together because while it's making tons of high-quality plasmas people just aren't buying them it's like when people chose VHS / Betamax or VHS / laserdisc or the Gameboy over the atari lynx or the 2600 over in television or quadraphonic sound or digital audio tapes the list goes on and on but there is an important takeaway here that we're constantly choosing inferior technology throwing into question our own self-worth as a society that and the fact that I just got through a list of underrated tech without once mentioning the apple newton Oh finally Apple seems to be in a bit of a funk but Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty predicts that there will be a comeback according to her the iphone 5s will have a killer feature that will raise the company back into our good graces and we will have a million parade celebrating the wonder that is Apple I mean a really cool and useful feature like Siri or maybe mean a feature that once the novelty of it wears off no one will ever use oh I see what you did there what do you guys think will the iphone 5s have a killer feature will it just be a little better or faster than iphone 5 what do you think this killer feature could be don't forget to vote or leave a comment and then we'll see what the cnet council thinks 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 cnet councils verdict is a very close no three editors said that it won't have a killer feature and two editors are holding out hope 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 to this week's co-host Eric tune in next week for more tech rumors