BlackBerry Q30

If BlackBerry doesn't stop selling phones, its next two major phones may be the Z50—a yet-larger touch screen phone—and the QWERTY keyboarded Q30, according to CrackBerry. Just as I was more excited for the Q10 than for the Z10, the Q30 looks interesting because it keeps that niche, hardware keyboard flavor alive. The current rumor is that the Q30 will come out in the second quarter of 2014, likely at BlackBerry's annual developer conference in May.

The very existence of the Q30 is in question, though, because these new phones were creations of the previous Thorsten Heins regime at BlackBerry. With the new CEO, John Chen, all bets are off and all options are open. He could continue to release phones—or he could scrap the whole line and turn BlackBerry into a software company. We'll know that by May, for sure.

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Teche Lady

All the major manufacturers have put their best devices forward, hoping for big sales between now and the end of the year. In early January, the rumor mill will kick into high gear once again at the CES trade show, followed by the second whammy of the even-more mobile-focused Mobile World Congress (MWC) in late February. 

Now that we have the iPhone 5S, Moto X, Samsung Galaxy S4, LG G2, Nokia Lumia 1020, andBlackBerry Z30, what's there left to wait for? Rumors and mysteries, my phone-loving friend, rumors and mysteries. I've thought of seven potential phones which I'm going to be keeping my eye out for over the next few months, and you can guarantee that this list will grow and change after the two big trade shows of early 2014.

There are two kinds of phones you won't find on this list...yet. I'm very excited about hearing Windows Phone announcements at MWC, but I haven't seen any Windows Phone rumors that are solid enough to hang my hat on—just some really predictable guesses at upscaled Nokia Lumias. Also, there's no Apple phone here; we don't expect to see any new iPhones until September.