Cricket should plan to upgrade S6 to marshmallow first followed by releasing future S7 models. Just My Opinion....

I saw that several days ago. The GoPhone OLAM says that the $45 plan includes unlimited free calls to Mexico. As far as I know, no one has confirmed that free Mexican calling is actually available.

If you have the GoPhone $45 plan please try calling a non-toll free Mexican number and let us all know whether it works or not. If you don't know anyone in Mexico, +52 55 9138 1800 is the W Hotel in Mexico City.

Here is some Spanish that you may find to be useful when you make a test call to Mexico: "Hola. Lo siento. Yo no hablo español. Por favor me ayude en Inglés", which means "Hello. I'm sorry. I do not speak Spanish. Please help me in English".

https://translate.google.com

@Dennis Bournique:

HoFoer "texan325" has posted the results of a test call that apparently indicates that AT&T's claim in the OLAM ("Includes unlimited calls from the U.S. to Mexico") is false. I encourage you to shine a news media spotlight on that false claim by publishing an article about it.

FreedomPop is very unpredictable, you can't count on any phone passing their MEID checker. Both phones I've activated on FreedomPop had to activated by customer support because they failed the FreedomPop checker even though they passed at RingPlus and Ting.

I got as Sprint Moto-E from BestBuy around Black Friday for $9.99. It worked right away on FreedomPop. I checked the phone's number in the store before buying it.

So in light of what Dennis mentions, I'd bring another phone, and use it to check whatever phone you might want to buy right in the store.

The Black Friday Moto E at Best Buy was a Verizon Prepaid phone. I bought one. I don't think Best Buy sold a Moto E for the Sprint network for $9.99 on BF.

There was no Moto E for Sprint network use in Dennis' 2015 Deal Tracker for Online or Brick and Moto stores last Black Friday. The story above is probably not true.

The US Cellular LG G4 is factory unlock. I did some homework and find out. Just order me one. 190 is a steal.

Just got my LG G4 from US Cellular today and I'am here to confirm that it is factory unlock. I have tested it on T-Mobile and Cricket and both get Talk,Text and data without any problems. What a steal at 190

Have you noticed if the 2G or 3G is working when/if there is no 4GLTE with Cricket?

The Moto E is a real smartphone. The Microsoft 640 in today's world is a glorified dumb-phone: hardly any apps, (on a failed OS that is being deepsixed) by Microsoft, and what it has are usually poor or out of date.

It does have a lot of great hardware specs, but buyers need to be aware that they can hardly do anything with it.

I use the experience of a friend who "upgraded" from a Microsoft 640 to a several years out of date LG Android burner. She misses the great photos, but the experience of having a full smartphone far outweighs the benefits of the 640 to her.

I own both a 640 and a Moto E since Black Friday. The 640 is a much better, more capable smartphone, and the one I reach for most of the time. The app store is much better now, and has every app I need and want. Many if not most of the people trashing Win phone have never even looked in the app store, and are spreading old blog stories. And they have never tried a Win phone.

Lumia 640 is an incredible deal at $29, and while it has a few less fart apps than the competition, it's a fabulous full featured smart phone and kicks the moto e all over the place.

I've looked at the Windows app store. It had inferior and few copies of some things, and absolutely nothing in the categories I require. Not only that, developers are abandoning the platform, and Microsoft is moving away from it. The 640 is available at fire-sale prices for a very good reason.

"and are spreading old blog stories."

The old blog stories had optimism. It's far worse now. Windows Phone is dead.

http://appindex.com/blog/kabam-becomes-latest-developer-abandon-microsofts-windows-phone-os/

The 640 is a far better phone-shaped camera. The Moto-E is a far better smartphone.

They both have advantages depending what a smart phone means to you.

The display on the 640 is better if that's important when you browse the web or watch videos. The legacy maps app works really well even when you don't have an internet connection if that's important to you because of a low data cap or bad coverage from your MVNO.

The Moto E interfaces seamlessly with your Google account if that's important because you use GMail and other Google services. The app store has more flappy bird type games available for the Moto E if that that's important to you.

The app store on the Moto E has extensive offerings in all categories, while app store on the 640 has few or none (or bad out of date versions of apps that are current on real smartphones). It is disingenuous to claim that the only difference is Flappy Birds.

The display on the 640 is better but the app situation isn't ready for prime time.

Moto E 2nd gen 3G has a Snapdragon 200
Moto E 2nd gen LTE has a Snapdragon 410

@RemusRM818

Did you mean $79.99??

I am not seeing it for $70.99?

It's a major bedevilment to have Motorola call two fundamentally different phones "Moto E", but we have to deal with it.

Actually they are called the "Moto E (2nd Gen) 3G" and the "Moto E (2nd gen) 4G LTE". There actually at least 6 different variants of the 2nd gen Moto E for different markets and operators.

It's pretty common practice to use the same name for variations of the same phone. There are 42 Galaxy S5 models, for example.

When buying phones always check the model number an specs to be sure you are getting what you think you're getting.

If unlocked it will work, a Boost 5s supports all bands used by AT&T and all bands used by T-Mobile except band 12.

I'm not sure the Microsoft 640 is what you want in your dumbphone, Krzr-user. It has all the bulk and dialing-stype of a smartphone, even if it doesn't measure up as a smartphone.

Anon2: I don't know where you got Microsoft from Anon1 specifically mentioning a Moto phone. RIF

The Microsoft 640 is a far worse smartphone, if you plan on using apps with it. No amount of shilling can change that. The camera is bad on the Moto-E, but it is a hugely better smartphone.

It's not really possible to say one is far better than the other, it's a matter of choice. The moto e, as most reviewers say, is an excellent inexpensive android phone. The lumia 640 is an excellent inexpensive windows phone. The moto e probably won't get an OS update vs the 640 that can have windows 10 installed. Both are excellent smartphones. I own both and enjoy each one.

I use Hangouts. It works well and is free.

Hangout used a mb per minute in call have read others use less! Anybody got experience knowING data usage vs quality reliability of any other apps?

I use talkatone and whatsapp depending on who im calling.

Can't find it on line on Best Buy site so in store only I guess?? Or am I just failing to see it on line?

Why not just get the AT&T Moto E LTE for $50, get unlock from AT&T before activating? Unlocked AT&T Moto E LTE for $50 & a few days wait for unlock code from AT&T, am I missing something that makes the $70.99 one better other than no AT&T branding/bloat (easily removed for the most part)?

An unlocked, unbranded Moto E direct from Motorola can be rooted and the bootloader can be unlocked. Neither is possible with the GoPhone version.

the lumia 640 is not getting Continuum, you need at least a Snapdragon 808...http://www.windowscentral.com/why-your-old-windows-phone-wont-support-continuum

Also, legacy Windows Apps do not work on Continuum devices.only the new "Universal" apps of which there are currently fewer than 100

List of apps that works with Continuum (Lumia 950 and 950 XL) - Windows Central Forums

According to an article on Windowscentral, phones that support Continuum will soon be able to run legacy Win32 apps indirectly, via emulation and the Azure Cloud. And Microsoft may be developing emulation for Android and iOS that would allow those OS to run legacy Windows apps, perhaps as early as 2017.

Yes, currently you can.

Walmart - Verizon Prepaid Optimus Zone 3 (4G LTE)- $39.88 everyday low price. In stores ONLY not yet @ Walmart.com. That is currently $20 cheaper than Best Buy and $30 cheaper than Big Reds' site.

I saw this and bought the K7. Much nicer than the Tribute or Tribute 2. Very thin. Soft-touch, textured back. Chrome band and curved display look great. Feels and works like a nice, mid-range phone, not entry level. More modern and beautiful comfortable than the HTC 626s I bought for $10 less from HSN.

The LG K7 / Tribute 5 is a phone that you won't want to put down. It feels really good in your hand.
To me, it's a feeling the orig. Moto X, iPhone 6S/6/5S/5, and even the old Blackberry Bold 9900 provide.
A good, basic design makes the difference.

I saw Tribute 5 in boostmobile store.. Its very good looking phone.. Its free for porting number. BUt howz boostmobile service in general? Is it worth to port?

There's a way around the six month rule. AT&T will unlock brand new GoPhones for non-customers provided the phone has never been turned on with an AT&T or AT&T MVNO SIM in it.

Details are all over the web including here: How to unlock your AT&T Lumia 640 Go-Phone

AT&T refuses to unlock a phone if the IMEI was the last one to access the network with an active SIM. This includes MVNO SIMs.
To avoid this, put the active SIM in another compatible phone and connect to the network before applying for the AT&T unlock.

I doubt it. Kroger wants you to shop in their stores, not at the mall. The Kroger page says "Recycle your old phone at an in-store ecoATM and get 50% off any new TracFone® or Net10® Phone at the Mobile Market."

no, sprint and it's partners only

This is why i ask:
http://www.prepaidphonenews.com/2015/07/prepaid-phones-on-sale-this-week-july_19.html?m=1

So, the Verizon version works on some gsm lte, but not the spirit version? ?

Lumia 640 shipped today, early, from Best Buy. $36 with shipping and tax is a bargain.

Dennis is on vacation.. may be..

How do you know that? Are you in contact with Dennis? Why didn't Dennis publish some sort of notice announcing that he was going on vacation and "Prepaid Phones On Sale This Week" would not be published this week. This whole matter is very mysterious. I hope Dennis is OK.

Good for Dennis...

On a side note, Dennis has got lots of SIM cards/active lines. Wonder he doesnt have DATA connection during his vacation?!. Wonder why?

Geez SunRag1, if you are saying you think he should still do his updates to cell phone buys of the week, I have to disagree. I don't do squat for my work when I'm on vacation. Dennis should rest and enjoy!!

Ok well he will be back next week and you can ask him yourself

People, come on! We have no right to ask or knoe about Dennis' personal life. He has the right to vacation without having to tell every Tom, Dick and Harry. Seriously get a life.