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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by carbonite welcome back to the episode of rumor roundup is the show where I take a rumor from here take a rumor from there and make rumor sandwich for you up this week we're going to talk about the iphone 5s supposedly offering not only NFC key but fingerprint scanning playstation 4 and x generation xbox games might be getting a bit more expensive Sprint is allegedly going to offer a pure touchscreen blackberry 2013 it's just not the z10 i were to talk about Motorola's rumored x phone getting a new name and some new specs this is rumor roundup I'm her host jon rettinger so I didn't get started so let's begin with the iphone 5s rumor we are hearing that it's going to offer NFC and a fingerprint scanner KGI securities analyst ming-chi kuo said last week that Apple's iPhone 5s will pack a fingerprint scanner directly under the home button for added security and now a fresher mer from China is totally backing up that claim a bit dubious though about the home button having a fingerprint scanner I can imagine that's going to cause crazy software delays or what if you're wearing gloves what if your fingers are greasy your dirty are all kinds of other things I could see it being something you enable or not enable we just have some sort of face track you might be a good way to but we should see this possibly relatively soon a China x backing up those claims saying that Apple will deploy fingerprint scanner technology provided by authentic a company that provides module sensors and other hardware security associated with fingerprint scanning the news outlet also claims that Apple's granddad NFC support from mobile wall capabilities unfortunately mobile wallets haven't been too successful United States so far Google Wallet relied on NFC but sprint was the only carrier to support it also AT&T t-mobile and Verizon working on a totally separate initiative called Isis that is currently still in testing when just a few US markets still though NFC could be pretty useful for sharing data between iOS devices like photos videos and music and then technology had already widely used by Android and Windows Phone 8 smartphones so be kind of cool to see something standardized although it's not as quick as you might believe NFC really is in standardized yet though across all devices so be interesting to see if Apple comes in with straight Han FC there may be some weird type of apple product or technology the rumors though or just that hopefully we'll see in a few months when apple unveils the iphone 5s what do you guys think fingerprint scanner you want that or do you want NFC what's more important to you what do you most want the iphone 5s to have for me i want to redesign iOS but you take their fingerprint scanner that you take the NFC and keep it I just want a fresh new OS love to hear your thoughts leave your comments down below alright so let's go from phones on over to gaming rumor has it that the PlayStation 4 in next Xbox 360 console games are going to cost 70 smackeroos industry analyst Michael Pachter held a presentation to recent South by Southwest gaming conference Jeff Healey who is reporting therefore gametrailers.com was live-tweeting the lecture keeley reports that pachter put out a prediction regarding the price of games next generation here's what Keeley's tweet was he said at South by Southwest panel at Michael Pachter says ps4 next Xbox games likely will cost seventy dollars about ten dollars more in the current gen so granted before we get all worried this is pure conjecture on practice part I'm not totally convinced though it's legitimates dance either 59 99 or about 60 bucks needs to be the sweet spot for sowing game it's worked well for this generation I don't see either Sony or Microsoft making the first move to raise the prices if 60 bucks wasn't working it would have changed over the course the past 7 plus years of a console lifecycle it didn't clearly it's worth mentioning no prediction does hold true tin Tendo will once again offer the cheapest option for gaming software the wii's catalog generally sold for about 50 bucks and then we use is typically listing at around sixty dollars so definitely see I'm hoping that sixty dollars already ten dollars more in generation before that I would seem like that's probably is a sweet spot you don't want to gouge the customers more people to buy obviously more you're going to make to print the disc doesn't cost that much money hopefully they'll sell more at 60 bucks then they would at seventy dollars will keep our game prices at the same level but more rumors that i want to know aside from gaming prices what is the next Xbox going to have hopefully we're only a few weeks away from finding out all that information alright so let's jump back to phones Sprint will allegedly offer a peer touchscreen blackberry 2013 just not the z10 that's already out which kind of weird spreads already said it's not going to sell the z10 smartphone instead offer the full qwerty keyboard q10 later this year which I'm super excited about the q10 looks like an awesome phone but no one's had a chance to really play with it or touch it I'll we had a chance to see it at blackberry world but they wouldn't let us use the screen or turn it on so we really don't know how it's going to perform that doesn't necessarily mean though that Sprint's not going to provide a blackberry that offers a full screen touch screen however all things D learned on Monday that Sprint will offer another device still and unannounced bye blackbird later this year with a full touchscreen and without a qwerty keyboard it's possible the phone's launch will serve than exclusive because we can't imagine why they would simply hold off on the z10 which is already a pretty decent phone that's just our own speculation the phone will allegedly launch the second half of the year although all things D could provide any insight whatsoever is what sort of specs going off for how will differentiate we already on the market z10 our guests though will probably hear a bit more during blackberry live sometime in May so if you're on sprint's and you want some full screen action you can have to wait a few months we step back for the rumors for a minute thank our friends and sponsors at carbonite Carbonite business online backup is automatic backup for all computers servers external hard drives at your home office or a small business just ended up once and carbonate will protect your computer files that you can say focus on running your business no hardware required for a low flat annual fee Carbonite keeps your business protecting the matter how many computers you have or where they're located start your free trial no credit card required at carbonite.com but it's your offer code techno today and you get two free months if we decided to buy again it's carbonite.com offer code techno for two free months back to the room alright so let's stick with phones and talk about the motorola x super phone is now reportedly being dubbed a motorola NXT or just next I guess motorola and google are allegedly working on a secret project together develop the motorola x a next-generation super foam alpaca apparently features unlike any we've ever seen any smartphone before and specifically will target apple and Samsung's efforts if I had a nickel for every time somebody said well have a smartphone unlike anything you've ever seen I would be a very very rich man this X device however is now being reportedly called the NXT probably pronounced just simply next apparently we can expect in 4.7 inches bleh which we've seen full HD resolution which we've seen 16 megapixel camera we seem pretty close 5-megapixel front-facing camera so that's something new nvidia is new quad-core Tegra 4i processor that's new and latest version of Android what you're expecting to be unveiled during Google's annual developers conference coming up in May we've seen most of the hardware and other phones before save for the 5 megapixel front-facing camera and Tegrity 4i processor so we're guessing they're real groundbreaking work it's gonna be done on the software services side of things there's no surprise there especially as smartphone makers begin to rely more and more on features instead of raw hardware specs the phone will be the first that's built entirely by Google and Motorola but we're not quite sure yet this will be the next Nexus phone or for be an entirely separate device from Motorola all together I'm thinking though we're probably looking at the next Nexus in the first phone we're gonna see launch with key lime pie so what do you guys think you want to wait for the X phone do you want to pick up the galaxy s4 the HTC One or you just sick of waiting for phones you just want to freaking buy something leave your comments down below so thank you guys for watching an episode of rumor roundup I'm your host Jon branch I hope you enjoyed we are 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