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If you’re the type to regard your six month-old handset like a relic from the stone age (and believe us, we are), then you’ve now got another option with EE’s Swap program. UK customers can now trade in their smartphones six months or later into their 18 or 24 month plans starting at £49. That appears to be EE’s attempt to catch up to plans like O2’s Refresh and JUMP from Phones 4u, but there’s a huge catch, of course. You’ll have to start a new 24 month contract from scratch, and the trade up price depends on which you end up choosing. Those opting for the cheapest £36 plan, for instance, will have to pay a much steeper £249. Still, for those of us who can barely stand going out with a mere Samsung Galaxy Note II when the Galaxy Note 3 is now in the zeitgeist, it’s a small price to pay.

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Loyal Engadget readers know that we don’t normally trouble ourselves with promotions, but this one is too wild to ignore. Until June 30th, RadioShack is offering the HTC One to AT&T and Sprint customers with an added bonus — a $100 credit for the Google Play store. Should you elect to sign up with Sprint, you’ll basically get away like a bandit since RadioShack has slashed the price of the handset to $79.99 for new activations — on two-year contracts, of course. After all is said and done, you would basically leave $20 richer than when you started (sort of). So, if you’ve been lusting after the HTC One but have held off on buying it, the universe might be trying to tell you something.

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Via: Phone Arena

Source: Radio Shack

As more publishers make the move to digital publishing, it seems like print publications are dying a slow death. Some magazines have resorted to including a small freebie with every issue, from free posters and coupons to pens and now even Wi-Fi routers. The last one only applies to select issues of Forbes which were sent to various technology and business professionals.

Each of these issues had a special four-page insert that provided the reader with 15 days of free wireless Internet care of T-Mobile. The insert was part of a promotion for Microsoft’s Office 365.

The compact router inside has to be charged up first before usage. After that, users can expect to get up to three hours of access from each charge. Wi-Fi is meant to be shared, so they made sure that the mobile hotspot can provide Internet access for up to five different devices.

This is one of the cooler tech gifts I’ve seen being given away in a magazine, so you might want to grab a copy of the May 6, 2013 issues of Forbes before the Wi-Fi-packed ones run out.

[via C|NET]

In the wake of T-Mobile’s recently unveiled Simple Choice plans, Virgin Mobile is capitalizing on the shakeup by playing a value card of its own. Now through May 31st, the Sprint-owned MVNO is offering $100 credit to all T-Mobile subscribers willing to port their number to Virgin Mobile. Study the numbers for yourself and the deal seems a no-brainer, as Virgin matches T-Mobile’s unlimited scheme with a monthly bill of only $55, which rings in $5 less than the UnCarrier’s $60 (2.5GB) alternative. Naturally, that’s where Virgin Mobile hopes the conversation ends, but we don’t need to tell you that there’s quite a difference in speed between Virgin’s EV-DO / WiMAX service and the speedier HSPA+ / LTE alternative from T-Mobile. That said, if your inner cheapskate is tingling, you’ll now find an extra $100 incentive to make the switch.

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Via: Electronista

Source: Virgin Mobile

While Box likes to hand out large amounts of cloud storage like so much candy, it’s only so useful when the capacity is often linked to new devices. At least for a short while, there’s no strings attached: to coincide with a recent big football event, the company is reviving a promo strategy that gives away 25GB of space to new customers on free plans. As always, there are catches. The account has to be for personal use, and you’ll still deal with the 250MB file size cap from the ordinary free tier. If those aren’t obstacles, we’d hurry — Box doesn’t say when the deal ends, and there’s no guarantee that it’s as fond of sports as some of us.

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Via: Mobile Geeks (translated)

Source: Box