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hey I'm Kareem levy and I'm Emily Dreyfuss and welcome to rumor has it the show where we round up the week's hottest tech rumor and vote on which ones we think will come true and which ones are pure fantasy but the best part is that you yes you can vote too so pay attention will explain how in a minute let's check out our first rumor citing well-placed sources the register is reporting that Microsoft considered acquiring nokia before seeing its books and running away if this is true then seeing the books was like the blood test before the wedding turns out unfortunately nokia has syphilis which sucks not just for nokia but also microsoft who'd be super psyched to suddenly own a major phone maker to crank out windows phones microsoft and was like I still love you so let's just live together bummer on to our second rumor Google's senior vice president of mobile and android Andy Rubin may be jumping ship to go to a small start-up called cloud car clown car cloud car it's a fancy-pants taxi for rich people then Rubin quickly took to Google+ to deny it you never know when people start abandoning ship nobody wants anybody to know anything luckily by running to Google+ to dispel the rumors people still don't know anything because who's even using google plus exactly even Rubens boss isn't on google+ it's like a tree falling in the forest our third rumor is from our friends at Wired who are reporting that Japanese newspaper nication boom decided to start a rumor that the wii u will cost around 400 bucks nintendo spotted that report and was like um no that article is based on nothing more than sake and lies but here's the thing nintendo just tell us the price already you are seriously asking for this gross speculation by being so tight-lipped what's the deal gross is right excuse me four hundred dollars that seems super overpriced maybe that's why nintendo so tight-lipped they're embarrassed yes now for our big rumor since iOS 6 is confirmed for the fall we can assume when the next iPhone is coming out but we don't know what it will look like The Wall Street Journal sites asian suppliers who say iphone 5 will have a bigger four-inch screen because Apple is already buying up the parts maybe to accommodate the new 3d maps so now it's voting time for you and for us will the next iPhone have a bigger 4-inch screen I say nay a bigger screen could mean a hit to battery life and now that I'm going to be facetiming over a cellular network my battery life is going to be struggling enough I don't think this will happen and plus I just like to be a contrarian oh man I say yay yay yay the iphone 4s looks tiny compared with big android phones and though Apple will never in a million years make a phablet gag they do need to enlarge that baby a bit to keep up so obviously yay if you're watching on cnet cast your vote right now using the thumbs up thumbs down right next to Emily's head in the cnet interactive player see it it's right there you have the next 30 seconds to vote so go and in the meantime we take the questions to the streets of San Francisco do you guys think that the new iphone is going to be bigger um I wouldn't have thought so no no no no and do you agree yeah do you think it's gonna be bigger may be slimmer a bigger in size yes um no I think it's gonna be bigger probably wayna no I don't think so I prefer to be larger because I'm I'm a big person well it seems like the people on the street really don't think so so let's go back inside and see what the cnet council thinks the cnet 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 and the cnet verdict is yay the iphone will have a bigger screen the cnet council was unanimous five out of five Cena editors said that the next iPhone will have a bigger screen whoa how did you guys do hopefully better than I did okay that's our show everybody tune in next week for more rumors in the meantime if you've got a comment a rumor or just want to go sup email us at rumor has it at cnet com or call one eight hundred 750 cnet we might even feature it on next week's show so be clever and don't forget to follow us on Twitter Facebook and to even Google Plus okay see you next time on room or as it