You’re probably used to seeing free phone offers all the time from wireless carriers, and by now you know how it works. You have to sign a contract with a mobile operator for a certain period of time, during which the cost of the phone will be baked into your wireless service plan.

But what if that wasn’t the case anymore? What if free phones were also offered alongside prepaid service plans? It looks like this intriguing plan might end up being T-Mobile’s next “uncarrier” initiative.

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Ditch the strip for a powerful, sleek upgrade—the Kinkoo high-speed charger is $35 today at the BGR Store.

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Ever since the launch of the iPhone 5, consumers have been waiting patiently for an official dock from Apple. Two and a half years later, we can finally buy one. Apple quietly put the iPhone Lightning Dock up for sale on the Apple Store website on Tuesday morning for $39.00 with an expected shipping time of 1-3 business days.

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The Apple Watch received its first major software update on Tuesday and it’s promising a big number of improvements to Siri functionality, calorie counting capabilities for both indoor cycling and rowing workouts, pace tracking for outdoor runs and walks, and third-party app integration. This last fix is particularly important because poor third-party app performance has been one of the biggest early criticisms of the Apple Watch overall.

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“Netflix for Pirates,” aka Popcorn Time, is a very popular movie streaming app that’s available on a bunch of platforms, including iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. The streaming service offers users quick access to pirated movies in a simple, sleek interface – hence the Netflix for Pirates nickname. And now, you can do all that streaming directly in a web browser.

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In the age of smartphones, it seems odd that text messages would be sent to wrong numbers as often as they are. There are some instances where wrong number texts make sense. For example, when someone changes phones and gets a new number, it stands to reason that whoever ends up with their old number might get a few messages intended for the number’s original owner.

But wrong number texts happen much more frequently than that, and thankfully for us, they’re often hilarious.

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There have been many comparisons between the Galaxy S6 and the iPhone 6, including processing speed, camera tests and drop tests, so you won’t be surprised to see one more battle between the top two smartphones you can buy today. But this time around, Wi-Fi Internet performance is being judged.

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Ed Fries in recent days took a trip from Seattle down to New Mexico Tech, his college alma mater that had decided to bestow on him one of those distinguished career awards that tend to cap a long, eventful professional existence.

At one point, as a speaker read through the Microsoft veteran’s biography for the crowd, the audience broke out in cheers.

Even though Fries, one of the early developers of Microsoft offerings like Excel and Word, has worked on a variety of products over the years that many consumers still use every day, it was a one specific item from his time with Microsoft that got the crowd going. Fries is also a co-founder of the Xbox, a console that celebrates its 15^th birthday next year and remains a cornerstone of the Microsoft empire.

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There’s no question that we had some great paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free in Monday’s list. In fact, if you hurry back to that post, you can still download a few of them without paying a dime. Today, however, we have a fresh new list of seven paid iOS apps that are all on sale for a limited time.

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