Cricket Wireless is now offering the Microsoft Lumia 640 for $29.99 with a new activation. That number changes to a nominal $9.99 if you bring your number from another carrier.

If you go for the more recent Lumia 650, you’ll need to pay $119.99 and there’s no number transfer benefits.

Microsoft Lumia 640

The offer is valid with any of the carrier’s available plans, except the basic Talk and Text plan. The plans range from $40 to $70 a month with $5 off of that each month if you enable the Auto Pay option.

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Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is on an official visit in India, meeting up with the government and carriers to talk about the company’s future in the country. Amidst those talks he went for an exclusive interview on NDTV, where he shared Apple’s plans for making a move on the Indian market.

For one, Apple sees India as having an “enormously bright future” and it’s one Apple wants to be a part of. “We’re here for a thousand years” were the exact words. Tim Cook sees the rollout of 4G as key to both India’s future and Apple’s part of it.

Tim Cook was clear that he sees talent in India, and…

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Samsung has partnered up with Ant Financial Services Group, the Chinese company behind the Alipay online payment service. The collaboration will now allow payments with users’ Alipay accounts on select Samsung smartphones.

Users need to register their Alipay accounts into Samsung Pay and simply swipe upward from the locksreen, homescreen or even standby to bring up an Alipay QR code for the merchant to scan.

Samsung Pay was launched in China in the end of March and the service has gotten positive reception since. Supported handsets include the current flagships Galaxy S7, S7…

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Apple may be going to LG as a primary supplier of dual-camera modules for initial batches of the iPhone 7, Japanese analysts from Nomura Securities have been quoted as saying. Sony, which was originally meant to be the main vendor, is facing lower-than-expected yield, as well as having to deal with the aftermath of the Kumamoto earthquakes in April, which affected the company’s production facilities in the region.

Additionally, Nomura Securities predicts that Apple will opt for an optically stabilized camera on the regular-sized 4.7-inch iPhone 7, and not just the 7 Plus model. Both…

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Just a few hours ago AT&T announced a big expansion of its Buy One, Get One free (BOGO) offer, which is now available for a whopping 12 smartphones. Notably absent from that list, however, are any Apple devices.

Not to worry, though. If you don’t mind having Sprint as your carrier, there’s a new BOGO deal to be had for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus too.

Here’s how it works. If you’re a Sprint customer you need to have a line that’s eligible for an upgrade, and you’ll also have to add a new line. New customers will be required to add two lines, as you’d expect. You can take advantage of the…

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ZTE’s nubia sub-brand has already announced the Z11 mini, the first member in its Z11 family. And earlier this month we’ve seen the other two devices in the line getting certified for sale in China by TENAA. So both the Z11 and the Z11 Max should become official soon.

In the meantime, Ni Fei, nubia’s general manager and co-founder, has decided to start teasing the Z11 Max. He’s done so on Weibo by posting the image you can see below.

The render of the upcoming Z11 Max is accompanied by a claim that should bring very good news to people who love big displays on phones but hate…

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Xiaomi is officially getting into the drone business. The Chinese company has announced an event for May 25, which is next Wednesday. At this event it will present its first ever drone, which we assume will be called something along the lines of Mi Drone.

The event invite has the picture you can see below on it, helpfully revealing some of the drone’s design elements. Recent rumors have mentioned that this device won’t be as cheap as Xiaomi’s other wares, in fact it could cost as much as CNY 3,999 (that’s about $610 or €543 at the current exchange rates).

The drone may in fact be…

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After a few delays, it looks like Google’s much-hyped Project Ara modular smartphone is almost ready to ship. The device will be out for developers to try sometime this fall, while consumers will be able to get their hands on it at some point next year.

To celebrate the news, the search giant has created a new promo video for Project Ara. It obviously plays on the Ara’s modular strengths, though it looks like some of those small modules are actually going to be pretty easy to lose.

According to a report, around 30 people inside Google are already using Ara prototypes as their…

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AT&T’s had quite a few Buy One, Get One free (BOGO) deals this year – be they for the Galaxy S7 or LG G5, for example. But today the carrier has announced an unprecedented expansion of its BOGO deal, which now covers a whopping dozen smartphone models.

Here’s the full list – you can buy either one of these and get another one for free: Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung Galaxy S6, Samsung Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+, Samsung Galaxy S6 active, Samsung Galaxy Note5, LG G5, LG V10, Microsoft Lumia 950, HTC One A9 (pictured below), and Kyocera DuraForce.

The…

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That Pro 6 or Pro 7 with a double curved touchscreen isn’t the only device that Meizu is going to launch at some point in the second half of this year. It will be joined in the Chinese company’s portfolio by the MX6, obviously the successor to the MX5 from last year.

Although we’ve already heard a few mumblings about the MX6’s specs, today a new report from China comes to shed some light on the two hardware versions it will allegedly have. Accompanying the info is the image you can see below. It’s not clear if this is supposed to depict the upcoming MX6 or not, though. If it is, then…

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