Sick of committing to annual contracts? Enjoy the flexibility of a prepaid wireless plan.

The days of being locked into a lengthy wireless contract are over, as there are a plethora of prepaid options that allow you to pay for your phone service on a month-to-month basis. We’ve taken the liberty of breaking down the top prepaid wireless options for you in this handy guide.

Check your coverage

One of the first things you should consider when deciding on a prepaid carrier is the coverage provided in your area. Prepaid carriers often have a smaller coverage map than postpaid carriers because of their limited roaming agreements, so it’s good to re-check your area, even if you’ve used the carrier before. Here are the coverage maps for the carriers we will be looking at:

Metro by T-Mobile
AT&T Prepaid
Boost Mobile
T-Mobile Prepaid
Mint Mobile
Republic Wireless
Consumer Cellular
Straight Talk
Cricket Wireless
US Mobile
Verizon Prepaid
Visible
Simple Mobile

Metro by T-Mobile

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Looking for the best of the best screen protectors for your iPad mini 5 (2019)? Well, look no further! These are the toughest and highest-rated screen protectors out there that’ll be sure to save your screen in one way or another. Here are the best screen protectors for iPad mini 5.

Tempered glass trophy

amFilm Glass Screen Protector

Staff Pick

Make sure your iPad mini’s screen is safe and secure with help from the amFilm Glass Screen Protector. This ultra-clear and highly durable screen protector is designed to protect against scrapes and scratches while still being super responsive to touch. The amFilm Glass Screen Protector is incredibly easy to install.

$7 at Amazon

2 for the price of 1

Supershieldz Tempered Glass Screen Protector

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Looking for your accounts and passwords on your iPhone or iPad? Here’s where to find them!

Apple has made some excellent improvements to password and account management in iOS and iPadOS, including the ability to access stored accounts and passwords when you’re logging in on the web and in apps. In apps and on websites that use username and password fields, your iPhone or iPad will display a key icon above the keyboard. Tapping on the key will give you access to your stored accounts and passwords, letting you log in to your account with a few quick taps. If you’re looking for your accounts and passwords — either to edit them or add to them — here’s where you find them!

How to find your accounts and passwords on iPhone or iPad
How to add accounts and passwords on iPhone or iPad
How to delete accounts and passwords on iPhone or iPad

How to find your accounts and passwords on iPhone or iPad

Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad.
Tap Passwords & Accounts.
Tap Website & …

Buzzing, beeping, and ringing — here’s what to do when WhatsApp is telling you what’s up.

Your phone is probably constantly buzzing, beeping, and vibrating because of various alerts that pop up from other apps on your phone. It can be hard to know which alerts are coming from which apps. WhatsApp allows you to customize the notifications and alerts you receive, so it’s easy to know who is contacting you without even having to look at their name. You can change the notifications and alerts for individual contacts, all messages, all group messages, and more that come through WhatsApp.

How to customize individual contact notifications
How to customize all message notifications in WhatsApp for iPhone
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How to customize individual contact notifications

If you have a couple of people that you talk to all the time, or you are waiting for important information from …

The Galaxy S20 is here and with the iPhone 12 on its way this fall, here are a few things I’d like to see from Samsung’s latest implemented on Apple’s next greatest.

Zoom

Back in the stone ages of smartphones, I used to joke that Nokia didn’t have any silicon or machine learning, so they just hung big glass on the back of everything and captured it all optically. Apple didn’t have glass or servers so they used big silicon on everything, doing it all in the image signal processor. And Google, well, Google had no idea what phone you were using so it just sucked everything up into the cloud and auto awesomed everything on big servers.

We’ve come a long way since then and most phones now use a combination of better optics, better image signal processors, and better machine learning, but some companies still do some of them way better than others.

Google still just crushes the algorithms. Everything from segmentation masking to super res zoom, which works similarly to Google’s HDR+ …

Earlier this month, some code was found in the iOS 13.4 beta for a CarKey API, or application programming interface. CarKey seems to be a system that will allow your iPhone or Apple Watch to lock, unlock, even start your car… if your car has NFC and the manufacturer partners with Apple to make it all just work.

And… it sounds great. Terrific even. But it also still sounds so limited compared to the Apple Watch future I’ve been dreaming about for over half a decade: The everything key.

CarKey

So, the CarKey gist from the first beta was that you’d take out your iPhone, put iton your car’s NFC reader, open the Wallet app, and tap to initiate a new pairing. Then, like with Apple Pay, it would have to authorize you, most likely through another app on your iPhone supplied by your car maker. So, like, a Toyota app.

That would make the pairing process pretty secure, both in terms of proximity and ownership. This means you not only have to authenticate through the app, you have to b…