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Now playing: Watch this: Ranking the best wireless carriers by the numbers 3:00 Finding the right carrier matters. Sarah Tew/CNET Editors’ note: For a more current version of this advice, please check out Switching Cell Phone Carriers in 2022: What to Know Before You Switch Carriers. The original story continues below. Researching all those carrier websites to find the right cell …

For Verizon, it’s time to get competitive on prepaid. The carrier announced changes to its prepaid plans on Thursday in an effort to keep up with competing carrier offerings. The upshot: Verizon customers on these plans get more data for their money than they did before. As customers seek better and lower-priced rate plans, prepaid service providers are becoming increasingly …

Virgin Mobile shook up pricing on its rate plans on Tuesday, offering $30, $40 and $50 per month plans that give you 500MB, 4GB and 6GB of high-speed data respectively, as well as unlimited talk and text. The prepaid service space is an increasingly competitive market often characterized by high customer turnover. In an attempt to keep subscribers, prepaid carriers …

Samsung may be about to announce its next flagship phone, the Galaxy S7, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to turn its back on the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. The pair of phones is set to get the Android 6.01 Marshmallow software update, according to SamMobile, starting with those in South Korea. Introduced back in October, Android 6.0 Marshmallow …

Chinese startup Xiaomi, the largest phone seller in China, has some of the hottest products you’ve probably never heard about. That may change thanks to wireless reseller US Mobile. The Stamford, Connecticut, company, which runs on the T-Mobile network, briefly listed a few of Xiaomi’s phones on its site. It would mark the first time a carrier offered one of …

The ZTE Grand X 3 went on sale at Cricket Wireless on Friday. First introduced at CES earlier this month, the handset is a big screen, budget-friendly affair with a $130 retail price. On paper, the ZTE Grand X 3 is not all that extraordinary. Indeed, it runs an older version of Android, 5.1 Lollipop, and features run-of-the-mill internal hardware. …

HTC’s upcoming flagship handset could finally get a 2,560×1,440-pixel resolution, according to an unnamed source close to tech blog VentureBeat. If true, the unannounced One M10 would be the first HTC phone to get the sharp display, one that the Samsung Galaxy line has had for a year. The handset is also tapped to have a 12-megapixel camera (HTC calls …

New Years goals stalling? Not to worry. There are tons of apps designed to help you lose weight, travel more and spend more time with the family. Better yet, many of these Android and iOS apps are completely free. 1. Lose It: You can track your calories and activities to watch yourself visually approach your weigh loss goal. The included …

Sprint’s prepaid brand Boost Mobile wants to pay you to watch ads — and that’s not all. The wireless carrier came out swinging on Tuesday with a bundle of announcements that include two new family plans, free phones and roaming in Mexico. $5 ad-watching credit Boost will give customers using Android phones a $5 monthly bill credit for installing the …